Geraldine Ferraro to Be Remembered at Fordham With Law Center Michael M. Martin remembers the first time he met Geraldine A. Ferraro, a distinguished alumna of the Fordham University Law School. It was in the mid-1990s, after her three terms in Congress and her campaign for vice president. She was on the law school's board of visitors. He was an associate dean. The military's "don't ask don't tell" policy was in the headlines, and the board of visitors was discussing whether military recruiters should interview students on campus. "She was very understanding of all the points of view," he said, adding, "I think with her experience as a woman in what in many contexts was very much a male world, she was quite understanding and concerned about fair and equal treatment." Mr. Martin is now the dean, and he reminisced this week about Ms. Ferraro during a conversation about her family's decision to help underwrite a center where law clinic students can meet with clients. The center will be on the ninth floor of a building that is under construction on Fordham's campus at Lincoln Center. Fordham will name that floor for Ms. Ferraro, who was one of two women in the law school class of 1960. She died last March of multiple myeloma at the age of 75. Her son, John Zaccaro Jr., said, "The conversations I had with my mother, she credited law school with giving her the skill set that she used later on to be successful." Neither he nor Mr. Martin would divulge the amount of the family's donation. Mr. Zaccaro said his father, John A. Zaccaro Sr., wanted the new Geraldine A. Ferraro Clinical Education Center to focus on "legal interaction in the community" because that had been an important element of her career as a lawyer before she turned to politics. Mr. Martin said that after law school, she led the unit in the Queens district attorney's office that prosecuted sex crimes and child and elder abuse. "We believe, as Geraldine did, that clinics are an integral part of a complete legal education," Mr. Martin said, "and it's appropriate because we are running a prosecution clinic in the Queens D.A."s office."