ELECTIVE CLASSES BOYS STATE

The Government Course deals with a number of questions of current interest as well as political historical value. The instructor, Lawrence S. DiCara, Esq., attended Boys’ State and Boys’ Nation in 1966, and has been a counselor with the program ever since. Mr. DiCara is a partner with the firm of Nixon Peabody with offices in Boston, New York and Washington. He is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Harvard College, Suffolk University Law School, and the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Massachusetts. For ten years he served as a member of the Boston City Council and has taught at numerous colleges. He is a frequently published author and serves on the Board of Directors of numerous corporations and organizations.

The Economics Course will have different lecturers and topics. Doug Gordon is a consultant in the Boston office of Bain & Co., where he has worked in technology, financial services and consumer goods industry. He holds an AB in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Prior to business school, Doug was an early employee of a venture capitalbacked telecom startup and a product manager at Internap Network Services Corp. Doug attended Boys’ State in 1992. Andrew Cancellieri is a recent graduate of the College of the Holy Cross where he attained a BA in Economics.
His research interests include corporate governance reform, game theory and sports economics. In 2003, he completed his thesis entitled “United States Securities & Exchange Commission Rule S7-14-03: Corporate Governance ReformAndy attended Boys’ State in 2000.

The Law Course deals with general topics in the fields of criminal, constitutional, tort and contract law, and coordinates with the judicial branch of the Boys State government. Students of the law class are bar admitted to practice before the courts of Massachusetts Boys State district court. The instructor, Thomas J. Recupero, Esq., is a practicing attorney in Stoughton, Mass. in the law firm of Recupero Law Office P.C., and has been on staff since 1985. Attorney Recupero is assisted by Attorneys Eric Christoffersonwith the firm of Ropes & Gray, and Robert Ryan with the firm of Bove & Langa. Also assisting is Timothy Smith, a law student at The College of William and Mary.