Paula Phillips Burger ‘63
Paula Phillips Burger earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science at Duke University in 1967 and 1974, respectively. She received her doctorate in political science at Johns Hopkins in 1984 and then returned to Duke where she rose to executive vice provost before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1993.
Dr. Burger is vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and previously was vice provost for academic affairs and international programs. From 1986 to 1993, she worked for Duke University, initially as vice provost for academic services, and later as executive vice provost. From the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, she held positions with the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, ultimately becoming assistant secretary for policy coordination. She began her university administrative career in 1970 as dean of women at Duke’s Woman’s College, one of the youngest women in the country to hold that position. She later served as assistant dean of Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences from 1972-1974. She returned to Duke in 1986, joining the provost’s office and also Duke’s political science department as an adjunct faculty member, teaching such topics as the federal bureaucracy and the politics of regulation. Dr. Burger has been honored with the Duke University Award for Merit in 1989, has served the university as a board member of the Alumni Association and the Women’s Center, on the executive committee of the Duke Annual Fund, and on the Council on Women’s Studies. She has also served on the boards of American Schools of Oriental Research, Baltimore Collegetown, and the Maryland Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education. Dr. Burger was elected to the Duke University Board of Trustees in 2000. Dr. Burger and her husband, Dr. Peter Burger, have one daughter and make their home in Baltimore, Maryland.
Patrick M. McLaughlin ’64
A former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Patrick McLaughlin is a founding partner of the Cleveland litigation firm of McLaughlin & McCaffrey, LLP. Mr. McLaughlin served as an Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Ohio, from 1978-82 and as Chief of the Civil Division from 1982-84. In October 1984, he was appointed the interim United States Attorney by the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and in 1985 received President Ronald Reagan’s appointment, with US Senate confirmation, as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. He served I that post until December 1988 when he departed government service for the private practice of law. As United States Attorney, Mr. McLaughlin was the chief federal law enforcement official responsible for federal criminal and civil litigation in the district which encompasses Ohio’s northernmost 40 counties.
In 1966, Mr. McLaughlin volunteered for the draft and served on active duty with the United States Army from 1966-68. He served in Vietnam from January 1967 to January 1968, as an infantryman assigned to “C” Company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry, First Infantry Division (“The Big Red One”). Advancing rapidly in rank, Mr. McLaughlin served as a point man, team leader, squad leader, platoon sergeant, and acting platoon leader. He was promoted to Staff Sergeant (E-6) in only fifteen months, which was unprecedented.
In a Plain Dealer article (Dec. 30, 1984), his former battalion commander in Vietnam, retired 4-Star General Richard Cavazos, remembered Mr. McLaughlin “as the man who volunteered to walk the point more than any of the other 1,000 members of the battalion.” General Cavazos also described Mr. McLaughlin as “one of the top combat soldiers he ever met in his 34-year Army career.” Among many combat decorations, Mr. McLaughlin was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Mr. McLaughlin is one of only nine Ohio veterans inducted into both the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame (2003) and the Ohio Military Hall of Fame for Valor (2004).
As a trial lawyer, Mr. McLaughlin has received many honors, awards and appointments. He has also devoted himself to community service by serving as President of the Greater Cleveland Veterans Memorial, Inc., and spearheaded the effort to rededicate the Center Fountain Memorial surrounding the ‘Cleveland War Memorial: Fountain of Eternal Life.’
After his military service, Mr. McLaughlin completed his undergraduate work at Ohio University and his law degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Mr. McLaughlin and his wife Christine are the parents of three sons and grandparents of one grandson.
While in the 11th grade, Dick lettered in baseball, basketball and football. He started on both the offensive and defensive teams in football, and played shortstop on the Lake Erie League championship baseball team. He led the baseball team in home runs and runs batted in and posted a .375 batting average while being listed among the top 15 batters in the Greater Cleveland area. As a senior, Dick was named All Lake Erie League in football and baseball and also All Scholastic in baseball. Dick was Ranger of The Year for football and voted football king. He was a two-time varsity letterman in both football and baseball, and earned a varsity letter in Basketball. Dick played under coaches Bob Duncan, Tony DiBiasio, Don Harwood, and Jim Scullion.
His football skills earned him a full scholarship to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he was both a starting running back and cornerback for the Freshman team. While a sophomore, Dick was a defensive starter at cornerback and caught 2 touchdown passes on offense. A serious hip injury ended his Miami career after two years.
Dick played Class “A” sandlot baseball from 1964-1966. In 1965, the team won the American Baseball Congress state championship and Dick, with a .352 batting average, was selected to the Plain Dealer’s “A” League All Start Team.
Dick met his wife Sande at Miami and they have been married for 42 years. They live in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. They have two daughters, Susan and Stephanie and four grandchildren. Dick spent 43 years in the lighting industry, the last 20 years as Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for Hanover Lantern. He retired in January of this year.
Joyce E. Peters ‘64
Colonel Joyce Peters illustrious military career was highlighted when she became the first female Staff Judge Advocate at Corps Level. Col. Peters was initially commissioned in the Women’s Army Corps in 1972 and detailed as a lawyer to the legal branch, The Judge Advocate General’s Corps. She was commissioned as a Regular Army officer in the JAGC in 1978. She served on active duty over 22 years as a Judge Advocate officer.
Col. Peters is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan Law School. Her military career was marked by many firsts for the JAGC and the Army. Her first assignment was with V Corps in Frankfurt, Germany, where she served as trial counsel, defense counsel, and Chief of Administrative Law. She then attended The Judge Advocate Advance Course graduating in 1977 as the Distinguished Graduate, the first female Army Judge Advocate to attend the resident course and to achieve that honor.
In 1980 Joyce was promoted to Major and reassigned to 2d Infantry Division in Korea where she served first as Chief of Military Justice and then as Deputy Staff Judge Advocate. She was the first woman to serve in that position in a forward-deployed Army combat division. In 1981, she became the first female Branch Chief in Defense Appellate Division and in 1982 moved to Military Personnel Branch of Litigation Division in the Office of The Judge Advocate General. Upon promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, she became the first female Branch Chief in Litigation Division. Col. Peters attended the Armed Forces Staff College in 1986 and was the first female Judge Advocate selected for intermediate service school. Graduating as a Distinguished Graduate, she then moved to Fort Lee, Virginia, where she became the first female Staff Judge Advocate for a major U.S. Installation. While there, she obtained a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Richmond with honors.
In 1989, she was reassigned to the Office of Legislative Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of the Army to serve as the Army’s first Environmental Legislative Counsel. In 1990, upon promotion to Colonel, she became the first female Chief Legislative Counsel with responsibility for the Army’s response to congressional investigations and action on legislative initiatives. She traveled with congressional staff reviewing the Army’s response and National Guard preparedness for Operation Just Cause in Panama in 1989. In 1991, Col. Peters was the first female Judge Advocate selected to attend senior service school. She attended the National War College and upon graduation in 1992 was assigned as Staff Judge Advocate of I Corps at Fort Lewis, Washington, the first female Corps Staff Judge Advocate responsible for legal services to then the largest corps in the Army, as well as to Madigan Army Medical Center.
In 1994, the Secretary of the Army selected Col. Peters to be his Senior Military Assistant, an honor never before held by a Judge Advocate or a woman. In 1994 Col. Peters retired. Among the many honors she has received, Col. Peters has been awarded: Distinguished Service Medal, one of the highest military awards not involving combat service, based primarily on her service as a mentor and leader of women in the legal branch; a Legion of Merit with an oak leaf cluster (2 awards), a Meritorious Service Medal with 3 oak leaf clusters (4 awards), an Army Commendation Medal, an Army Achievement Medal, a National Defense Service Medal with an oak leaf cluster (2 awards), two Overseas Service Ribbons, an Army Staff Badge and a Korea Defense Service Medal.
After retiring from the Army, she served for almost 5 years at the Department of Justice in the Office of Legislative Affairs and worked daily with the Attorney General Janet Reno and other senior leadership in the Department. She left there in January 2000 when she became Bar Counsel for the District of Columbia Bar where she was responsible for investigating and prosecuting attorney ethical misconduct and supervised a staff of about 30, including about 12-15 lawyers and support staff. Col. Peters retired from the Bar Counsel in March 2005, applied for and was admitted on motion to the Virginia Bar in February 2006, and began work with Arquilla & Associates, PLC in Alexandria, Virginia.
Col. Peters and her husband Clifford F. Broome (“Frank”), a retired Army armor officer and a retired Dept. of Defense executive, make their home in Arlington, Virginia. They have two Portuguese Water Dogs: Nemo (after Captain Nemo) and Chanel, who keep them very busy.