This year’s John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Barbara H. Fried, William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law, at the law school’s 2006 graduation ceremony. “I want to thank the graduating class for this honor,” said Fried. “Few things in our job could mean as much as this.” Fried delivered this year’s graduation keynote address, which interwove responses from graduates and their family members to questions she had sent them ahead of time. She concluded her speech with the poem “Sometimes” by Sheenagh Pugh, which ends with the following lines: “Sometimes our best intentions do not go/ amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to./ The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow/ that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.”