Rev. Mousin received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University (1973), J.D. from Illinois College of Law (1978) and his M. Div. from Chicago Theological Seminary (1987). After practicing law for several years with a large management labor law firm in Chicago, he founded and directed the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center in 1984, a provider of legal assistance to refugees which has since become the National Immigrant Justice Center. He also directed legal services for Travelers & Immigrant Aid between 1986 and 1990. He joined the DePaul College of Law faculty in 1990 and co-founded its Law's Asylum and Immigration Legal Clinic. He has also taught Immigration Law and Policy as an adjunct professor at the University Of Illinois College Of Law. He has been the University Ombudsperson at De Paul University since 2001. He was ordained by the United Church of Christ in 1989 and has served as an associate pastor at a local church. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the National Immigrant Justice Center and a former President and Board member of the Immigration Project of downstate Illinois. He has served on the Illinois Equal Justice Project of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Association and was the recipient of the Chicago Bar Foundation’s Maurice Weigle Award.
31 members were present and three guests of Peter Skalski, Bridget Murphy & Jessica Rutstein. Brooke Peppey had Thought of the Day and John Thomas gave the Dig 'n Grin.
Rich Lalley reported on the Rotary book donation of 50 books to Julie Ahern's classroom in the Andrew Cooke Magnet School in Waukegan which was a great success. Rotarians Rich Lalley, Wes Bauman, Mark Kotz, Tom Nash, Ned Meisner and Barb Tubekis delivered the books to the class as part of our Random Acts of Kindness Day Friday, Feburary 17. The students loved the books and played their musical instruments and Barb read aloud the book by B.J. Novak, The Book Without Pictures. Rotarians shared the good deeds they also did in the community on the 17th. Dirk Tussing introduced the speaker, Douglas Stewart. He spoke of integrating people who differ from each other.
