My task is simple: I seek out interesting people on campus, get to know them, and then report back to the world via the blogosphere. This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of several reports. Feel free to comment on my attempt at witty and poignant bylines.

For a girl who attended Space Camp with dreams of being an astronaut, second-year student Hanna Wason, has taken a decisively different direction in life.

Born and raised in Hampton, NH, population 14,500, she can recall being mesmerized by the universe and all its mysteries from an early age. But as she grew into adolescence her interests began to shift. It was the influence of her parents, both educators in New Hampshire, that fostered her desire to work to improve the lives of children.

Wason graduated from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA with a degree in English and Early Childhood Education. Her experiences at Mount Holyoke solidified her desire to attend law school. Hanna's junior and senior years at Mount Holyoke were spent student teaching in an urban school district. She witnessed firsthand the plight of children from low-income families struggling in education systems inadequately equipped to meet their needs. Coming to Pierce Law meant being a short drive from her friends and family while giving back to the community that helped to raise her.

From the moment she set foot in Franklin Pierce Law Center Wason hasn't hesitated to ask questions and seek out opportunities. She got involved with the Public Interest Coalition (PIC), the Social Justice Institute, and was selected to participate in the Daniel Webster Scholars Program (DWSP). More recently, Hanna was named a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. Schweitzer Fellows are tasked with performing community service and developing actionable strategies to benefit under served communities in health care.

During her 1L summer, Hanna landed a position with the Youth Law Project (YLP) which is administered by New Hampshire Legal Assistance. YLP charged her with acting as an advocate for juvenile offenders in areas outside the criminal justice system. For example, Hanna took responsibility for securing special education for her clients with special needs and ensured that they received adequate medical care.

As Hanna begins her second year at Pierce Law, she already has a full plate in front her: in addition to the demands of the DWSP and the Schweitzer Fellowship, she is a teaching assistant for Professor Budd's fall Civil Procedure class and Professor Scherr's spring Constitutional Law class and a co-chair of PIC. Despite doing all this, Hanna still finds time to read English literature and play with her dogs.

Hanna's insatiable drive to help others is part of the very core of her being. Next up for Ms. Wason is a summer internship with the New Hampshire Public Defender's office.

The New Hampshire Bar Association covers Friday's swearing-in ceremony in which this year's Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program graduates were admitted to the state bar, enabling them to immediately practice law in New Hampshire.

New Hampshire’s trailblazing legal education program, the Daniel Webster Scholars, graduated its first class of 13 law students, who were sworn in as members of the New Hampshire Bar on May 16, 2008, in a special session of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

These new attorneys, selected in the beginning of their second year of law school, have undergone rigorous training and evaluation to ensure, in the words of Program Director John Garvey, that they will be “client-ready” lawyers upon completion of the program.