Night Schooler Vince Treacy ’71 Funds Scholarship to Help Others

Vincent E. Treacy, J.D. ’71, attended night school at The George Washington University Law School while the Army veteran worked full-time during the day as a security officer for defense contractors. In gratitude for his education and long career as a lawyer with the Library of Congress, Vince and his wife Judy Mansfield have established The Vincent Edward Treacy Scholarship Fund for students with financial need.

The scholarship for law students with financial need is being funded with annual gifts from Vince’s IRA (the IRA charitable rollover), with additional endowment to come from a future bequest. GW Law will begin awarding the scholarship once the school’s endowment level is reached.

“I realized I wasn’t going to have any money to go away to a residential school, and here was GW Law with a fine night school right where I was working,” says Vince, who has been a strong proponent of the night school ever since. “I could take a three-quarter load by going five nights a week, and with the summers I was able to graduate in three years on the GI Bill.”

He even made time to serve on the Law Review, was a member of the Order of the Coif, and graduated with honors. For most of his career he served as a legislative attorney specializing in labor and employment law for the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, where his future wife also worked.

Vince has made annual gifts to GW Law every year since his graduation–and attended a reunion a few years ago. “When I needed a law school, GW was there for me,” he says. “Now GW needs me a little bit, and I am more than willing to reciprocate.”