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Rebecca Stahl
May 2006
Rebecca Stahl, a
first year law
student, has been selected
as May’s
Outstanding Law
Student Volunteer.
Rebecca
volunteered with the VLP’s
Child Support
Project during the spring
of 2006.
Q: Why did you choose to become
involved in the VLP Advocates?
A: I became
involved because it is important to give back to the Community.
VLP gave me the
opportunity to help families, an area of law that greatly
interests me. I
enjoy being able to see law in action. As students, we spend
a lot of time
learning about the law and never seeing it practiced. Through
VLP
I saw law in a new context. Finally, lawyers have a duty to give
back
to the community,
and VLP makes that possible. I am honored that I was
given the
opportunity to give back to the community through the work done
by VLP.
Q: What is your favorite vacation destination?
A: My favorite
place to go on vacation is Europe. I have lived in France on
two different
occasions and I absolutely love traveling the continent and
seeing what it has
to offer. Although the trains and hostels of Europe can
be gross and
smelly, I have met some great people, been exposed to new
cultures, and seen
sites I would not otherwise have had the opportunity to
see. Traveling
through foreign countries also gives me a chance to grow. It
is a lot harder to
catch a bus in Poland than it is in Tucson, but that is all
part of the fun.
Q: How do you spend your free time?
A: Uh…free time?
Q: What has been the most important thing you have learned from
volunteering with the VLP?
A: We are all in
this together. Clients have come in from all walks of life,
yet we help all of
them no matter what their circumstances. At the Child
Support Clinic, we
help people because they are going through a divorce,
and child support
is not easy to calculate. I have learned that no matter
how much people
think they don’t want or need the help, they appreciate
it in the end.
Q: What famous person would you most like to meet?
A: Ok, there is a
tie here between Billy Joel and Dave Winfield. I would love
to meet Billy Joel
because I am a musician, and his music has always inspired
me, both as a
person and as a musician. It would be an honor to shake his
hand and hear how
he learned to play the way he does. The Dave Winfield
story is a little
better, and I have tried to tell it as often as I can. I have
actually
met him once when
I was about eight years old. My dad and I went to a hotel
to get autographs
of the Angels baseball team, and Dave Winfield was the
first person we
saw. He was dressed in a tuxedo and getting into a van with
a group of people
who were probably his family. My dad kept telling me to
ask him for his
autograph, but I was paralyzed. He kept saying, “Go on
Becca, ask him.”
Eventually, Dave Winfield looked at me and said, “Come
on Becca, ask me.”
I have no idea where that baseball glove is with his
signature, but I
remember the kindness of him doing that. I want to meet
him one of these
days to thank him.
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