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6/2/95              Mitch Emmons

** GRADUATION FEATURE **

AUBURN CIVIL ENGINEERING GRAD TO ATTEND HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

     AUBURN -- Alan Warfield, who won the President's Award as the
top student in engineering, will graduate from Auburn University on
Wednesday  with a 3.92 grade point average in civil engineering.
     One would assume that a promising career in engineering awaits 
the Auburn native.
     But the 22-year-old Warfield will return to the books this
fall  -- at the Harvard University School of Law.
     "I'll be studying international law," he says. "I want to work 
for an international consulting engineering firm."
     Warfield in 1994 participated in the Study Abroad Program, 
spending six months in an internship with a civil engineering and 
construction firm in Stuttgart, Germany. Although he said the
experience  did not influence his decision to pursue a law career,
it did confirm his  desire to practice international law.
     "I became interested in law during high school," he said. "I 
thought I'd gotten over it when I enrolled in the engineering
program at  Auburn, but I didn't."
     Well into his second year as an engineering major, Warfield
said  he knew he didn't want to be a practicing engineer.
     "So I started taking pre-law classes along with my engineering 
courses," he said.
     All the while, Warfield also held down a 20-30-hour-per week
job and remained active in campus organizations and intramural
sports.
     "If possible, I'd like for my law work to be related to 
engineering," he added. "What's more important to me, though, is to
have  a job where I can travel."
     Warfield is the son of Carol Warfield, professor and head of
the  Department of Consumer Affairs at AU's School of Human
Sciences.
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