“You make a living by what you get but you make a life by what you give.”
At a reception on November 4, 2004 to celebrate the establishment of the Bogoroch & Associates Renewable Entrance Scholarship, lawyer Richard Bogoroch paraphrased the words of Winston Churchill to explain the inspiration behind his firm’s gift of $50,000 (Cdn) to Osgoode Hall Law School.
“Personally, and as a firm, we believe in giving back to the community,” said Bogoroch, whose firm specializes in civil litigation with a focus on personal injury claims. “It’s an honour for us to be able to give and we hope that our gift – modest though it is – will act as a spur to other law firms to make similar donations.”
Back in the 1970s when Bogoroch was a law student at McGill University in Montreal, he recalls tuition being about $800. Today, with tuition more than 12 times that amount at many Canadian law schools including Osgoode, Bogoroch wanted to help exceptional students who might not otherwise be able to afford a legal education. His scholarship will provide an Osgoode student with $8,325 a year for three years of study.
The first recipient of the Bogoroch & Associates Renewable Entrance Scholarship is 24-year-old Giuseppe (Joe) Agostino, who enrolled in Osgoode last September after obtaining an Honors BA degree in sociology from York. The Bogoroch award is a boon for the Vaughan, Ontario resident who was planning to pay his tuition with “a credit line plus whatever the government would give me.”
Declared Agostino: “The greatest part of receiving this scholarship is that I get to experience law school to the fullest extent without having to worry about a substantial portion of the funding.”
This article appears in the Winter, 2005 issue of Continuum, the Alumni Magazine of Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. To download a copy of the entire newsletter in PDF format, click here.
See also: Bogoroch & Associates Makes $50,000 Gift to Osgoode Hall Law School for Entrance Award
