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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE
SUMMER 2011
The Science of Research Students Put Classroom Learning into Laboratory Practice
TOP UNIVERSITY HONORS AWARDED ALUMNI WELCOMED BACK TO CAMPUS CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES ENJOYS SUCCESS NEW GRADUATES CELEBRATED
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS Loyola University New Orleans President
The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Bill Bishop Associate Vice President for Development
Chris Wiseman ’88 Associate Vice President for Marketing
Terrell F. Fisher ’76 Editor
Ray Willhoft ’00 Director of Publications and Marketing
Jennifer Schlotbom ’00 Director of Creative Services
Allee Parker Designer
Craig Bloodworth Photographer
Harold Baquet Director of Alumni Relations
Monique Gaudin Gardner Associate Director of Alumni Relations
David Robinson-Morris ’06 Assistant Director of Alumni Relations
Lisa Adams ’82 Assistant Director of Alumni Relations
Allison Waldron Director of Public Affairs and External Relations
Meredith M. Hartley Associate Director of Public Affairs
Matt Lambert ’92 Communications Coordinator
James Shields Communications Manager
Sean Snyder Contributors
Jessica Kinnison ’08 Nathan C. Martin Photo Contributors
Dan Helfers
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS M A G A Z I N E SUMMER 2011 • VOL.21 • NO.2 • WWW.LOYNO.EDU
COVER FOCUS 16
The Science of Research
FEATURES 24
The Many Sides of “El Centro”
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Awarding the Best!
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We Are Loyola
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Loyola in Print
DEPARTMENTS 06 On the Avenue 06 News 14 Students 15 Athletics
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Tracking the Pack
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Wolftracks 43 Wolf Pups 49 Calendar of Events 50 Memorials
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From the President The summer months serve as a time of reflection as we look back on our achievements and prepare for the start of a new academic year. In May, we held our Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement Ceremony and our College of Law Commencement Ceremony, in which we celebrated the successes of our graduating students while welcoming them as new alumni. The road our students traveled from first-year students to graduates was filled with hard work and gratifying accomplishments, and I know they will continue to serve as ambassadors of Loyola as they make their marks on the world. One accomplishment several of our graduating students were able to achieve was undergraduate research. Every day, students majoring in biological sciences, chemistry, and physics are doing impressive work assisting faculty with their groundbreaking research. One point of pride for the university is the success of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, which brings together students, staff, and faculty with the Latino community and the New Orleans community at large. Also, great success deserves to be rewarded, so I would like to congratulate our top Loyola award recipients this year—Mark F. Fernandez, Ph.D., Dux Academicus Award recipient; Frank A. France ’49, M.Ed. ’56, Integritas Vitae Award recipient; Mary Sue Oehlke and Kelly Brotzman, Coadjutor Optimus Award recipients; and John D’Arcy Becker ’61, Adjutor Hominum Award recipient. These individuals demonstrate in their lives the values that we hold dear. Finally, our alumni continue to be a source of great pride as they put the Jesuit ideal of service to others into action through their work with their local communities. As our new graduates will soon find out, the lessons and values they learned while attending Loyola will continue to be a part of them for the rest of their lives. I am also pleased that we provide the opportunity for our alumni to return to campus each year during our Alumni Weekend, allowing them to reconnect with their alma mater. We value the relationship that we maintain with our alumni, and we hope they will continue participating in events held on campus and in alumni chapters around the country. The entire Loyola community—faculty, staff, students, alumni, parents, donors, and friends—continues to be our greatest strength, and I ask you all for your continued support as we prepare for another exciting academic year and move closer to our centennial celebrations next year.
With prayers and best wishes,
Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., President
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In preparation for Loyola’s
Centennial in 2012, we invite all alumni to share your memories with us for inclusion in the celebration via print and on the web. You can: • Tell us about your favorite professor or class • Recount your best Loyola experience • Express how your education has influenced your life • Post a photo from your time as a student
Be a part of this memorable time in Loyola’s history! Please visit www.loyno.edu/2012 to post your photos and stories, or e-mail them to centennial@loyno.edu Or, you can mail your photos and stories to: CENTENNIAL MEMORIES c/o Ray Willhoft 7214 St. Charles Avenue, Box 909 New Orleans, LA 70118
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Loyola University Jazz Ensemble performs at JEN conference with alumnus Victor Goines ’84 In January, the Loyola University Jazz Ensemble performed at the 2011 Jazz Educators Network (JEN) conference held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. This year’s conference, which attracted more than 2,000 jazz artists and educators from around the world, focused on important trends in jazz education and performance. The Loyola ensemble, under the direction of Professor of Music John Mahoney, performed alongside jazz great, educator, and Loyola alumnus Victor Goines ’84. Highlights included “Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans,” arranged by Mahoney, and “Red Snapper,” by Don Menza. The John Mahoney Big Band, which includes numerous Loyola alumni and College of Music and Fine Arts faculty, also performed at the conference. Goines is currently the director of jazz studies at the prestigious School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. As a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist,
he has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. One of Loyola’s most distinguished graduates, Goines is the former artistic director of jazz programs and a faculty member in jazz clarinet and saxophone at the Juilliard School in New York City.
Victor Goines ’84 and John Mahoney
Loyola loses a beloved philosophy professor and a former trustee The Rev. David A. Boileau, Ph.D., professor emeritus and former chair of the philosophy department, passed away on January 24 following a long illness. He was 80 years old. Boileau joined Loyola’s philosophy department in 1970. Over the next 38 years, he would make a significant impact on his new home and on the lives of thousands of Loyola students. A longtime supporter of Wolfpack Athletics, Boileau served as the department’s faculty representative for many years. He was also an instrumental figure in the return of intercollegiate sports to campus in 1991 after a 20-year hiatus. Boileau was also known as an outspoken supporter of worker’s rights and for years was involved in local and national labor union issues. In addition to lecturing throughout the U.S., Boileau was the editor and author of several books. Former Board of Trustees The Rev. David A. Boileau, Ph.D.n Wolves, Class of 1960 6
Member Dr. Alton Frederick Doody, Jr. passed away on March 3 at the age of 76 after a battle with cancer. Doody served on Loyola’s Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2008. Prior to becoming a trustee, he was a member of the College of Music Visiting Committee. He was the founder and president of The Alton F. Doody Co., a private investment management company in New Orleans. He began his worldwide consulting practice in 1964, and his clients have included international consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, and service companies. He is the founder of Retail Planning Associates and co-founder of Applied Retail Systems, both with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. If you would like to make a gift in memory of the Rev. David A. Boileau or Dr. Alton Frederick Doody, Jr., please visit giving.loyno.edu Dr. Alton Frederick Doody, Jr. Wolves, Class of 1960 Loyola University New Orleans Magazine
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George Winston concert benefits Catholic Charities oil spill relief Renowned pianist George Winston performed a benefit concert at Loyola on February 19 to help families affected by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Non-perishable food items for Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, an affiliated ministry of Catholic
Charities, also were accepted at the event. Since the oil spill, Loyola’s Small Business Development Center has assisted more than 2,095 affected businesses through its Business Recovery Centers. Additionally, the university has hosted numerous spill-related fundraisers, workshops, and lectures, and Loyola faculty and staff have been featured in more than 2,000 news stories providing expert commentary about the spill. George Winston plays more than 100 solo piano concerts a year in America and beyond, inspired by the seasons. These concerts feature a variety of styles, including his melodic folk piano, stride piano, New Orleans R&B piano, Vince Guaraldi’s Peanuts pieces, songs by The Doors, and more. His new CD is titled Love Will Come—The Music of Vince Guaraldi, Vol. 2.
George Winston Wolves, Class of 1960
Roussel Hall receives sound and stage upgrades During the past year, Roussel Hall, an important center for the cultural life of Loyola and the city of New Orleans, received several important upgrades, including the installation of a new stage floor and the installation of a state-ofthe-art digital playback and sound-level system. The new flooring, engineered by Mathes-Brierre, replaces the original stage and represents a major aesthetic and acoustical improvement to the hall. “It’s an incredible improvement and has greatly improved the quality of our productions in opera and ballet in particular,” noted College of Music and Fine Arts Dean Donald R. Boomgaarden, Ph.D. The new sound system was installed by Loyola’s own technical staff. According to Jay Crutti, the college’s coordinator of technology and instructor in the Music Industry Studies program, and Stewart Becnel, director of the college’s facilities, the new 64 channel Yamaha M7CL-48E digital sound system has made a huge difference in sound quality. “This upgrade also makes us more compatible with artists who are performing in Roussel…we can upload their pre-set levels into our system making sound checks more productive,” said Becnel. With this equipment, the production staff can be completely mobile, setting sound levels from anywhere with-
in the hall with an Apple iPad or a personal computer. “Most importantly, this new system allows our students who are learning about music technology to have the latest equipment to learn with,” said Crutti. And this is just the beginning. The college, with the help of generous donor and supporter Adelaide Benjamin, has recently entered into a feasibility study exploring the possibility of expanding the hall from its current 586-seat capacity. With the study’s findings, the college is beginning to plan an extensive renovation and modernization of Roussel Hall, one which will be in keeping with the important role the college’s programs play in the life of the university, New Orleans, and the Gulf Coast region.
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Honoring Loyola’s benefactors As a way of saying thank you for their continued support, Loyola honored its top benefactors at the annual Benefactors Dinner on March 17. At the dinner, Baptist Community Ministries and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Benson, H’87 were inducted into the University Founders of the Society of St. Ignatius for their lifetime giving to Loyola. Mr. J. Kerry Clayton and Ms. Paige Royer; Mr. and Mrs. Miles D. Colley, Sr.; Mr. and Mrs. Scott B. Jacobs; Mrs. Rosemarie Kaskell; McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C.; Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Messmer, Jr. ’67; Kell Muñoz Architects; Dr. Charles E. Myler, Jr. ’51; Mr. and Mrs. William F. O’Toole ’38; Dr. Sherif K., J.D. ’96, and Stephanie ’93, J.D. ’96, Sakla; and the late Hon. John D. Wessel, J.D. ’68, were inducted into the Society of St. Ignatius. In addition, Frank A. France ’49, M.Ed. ’56, founder of Kehoe-France School, received the Integritas Vitae Award for exemplifying the qualities Loyola seeks to instill in its students (see page 29).
Irma Stiegler ’50, Board of Trustees Member Barry, M.B.A. ’82, and Teresa, M.B.A. ’82, LeBlanc
Vice President for Institutional Advancement Bill Bishop and former V.P. Charlie Young ’64. Young accepted the Founders Medallion for Baptist Community Ministries.
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Lenten Series offers music, words to reflect on the season of Lent The Loyola Jesuit Center and the Alumni Association presented “Sacred Music, Sacred Words,” a series of concerts and lectures in March and April to observe the season of Lent. Every Wednesday night, a speaker or musical group helped attendees reflect on the goodness of God. The 2011 Lenten Series included: performance by Shades of Praise; “Music for Mass: 2,000 Years of Catholic Sung Prayer,” by Loyola’s Ken Weber, associate chaplain of liturgy and music; Shades of Praise “Music and Meditation
Meets Cura Personalis,” presentation by David Thies ’06; and “Blocked, Restricted, Unavailable: Is God On Your Contact List?,” presentation by the Rev. Mark Mossa, S.J.
Politicians Breaux, Livingston, Tauzin headline Ed Renwick Lecture Series Three of the most effective politicians in Louisiana history, former Senator John Breaux and former Congressmen Bob Livingston and Billy Tauzin, converged on campus to take part in the Institute of Politics’ (IOP) Ed Renwick Lecture Series on March 14. “From the Bayou to the Beltway: Tales from Capitol Hill” was a three-man panel discussion moderated by Fox 8 journalist Lee Zurik. The lecture offered attendees a rare opportunity to hear three men with more than 90 years of combined political experience discuss the legislative and political process, both at the state and national level. The event also marked the celebration of the 2010 – 2011 IOP graduating class. With 37 graduating fellows, it marked one
of the largest classes in the history of the institute. Entering its 43rd year, the IOP provides a comprehensive political education to New Orleans’ future elected officials, journalists, and civic activists. The mission of IOP is to locate men and women with outstanding leadership potential and bring them together for a series of lectures and discussions on practical politics and government by prominent, experienced guest speakers. In an attempt to accomplish this goal, fellows are exposed to the history of politics in New Orleans and Louisiana, and begin to understand how that history influences voters’ and politicians’ decision making. For more information on the Institute of Politics, visit www.loyno.edu/iop
Former Congressman Billy Tauzin, Senator John Breaux, former Congressman Bob Livingston, and Fox 8 journalist Lee Zurik Summer 2011 www.loyno.edu
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U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan speaks at Loyola Loyola partnered with the U.S. Department of Education to host a TEACH town hall meeting on April 8, featuring U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Joining Secretary Duncan were Loyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.; New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, J.D ’85, H ’08; U.S. Congressman Cedric Richmond; NBA All-Star and New Orleans Hornet Chris Paul III; Michelle Jones, Orleans Parish Middle School Teacher of the Year, Edward Hynes Charter School; and Desmond Morris, assistant principal of L.B. Landry High School, Recovery School District. The purpose of the event was to highlight and honor excellent teachers from the New Orleans area and use their voices to help recruit the next generation of teachers. The program is part of a nationwide series of events held at colleges, universities, and high schools through the U.S. Department of Education’s national TEACH Campaign, which aims to help increase awareness of teaching nationwide as a valuable and important profession. The campaign’s goal is to increase the number, quality, and diversity of candidates seeking to become teachers. The discussion focused on why the teachers on the panel chose to enter education, and why it is important to recruit the best and brightest into the teaching profession. Panelists for the TEACH town hall meeting
“Rags” Scheuermann Scholarship Fundraiser a rousing success 234 games from 1958 to 1972. “Rags” was inducted into The Coach Louis “Rags” Scheuermann Scholarship the Loyola Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993. The 1960, Fundraiser was held at the Harrah’s Theatre in New 1961, and 1971 baseball teams have joined their mentor Orleans on April 14 to benefit the Coach Louis “Rags” in the Hall of Fame over the last decade. Those players, Scheuermann Scholarship. The scholarship will soon along with other players and athletic supporters, have become the first endowed scholarship for the athletic worked to raise nearly $60,000 for the scholarship, which department at the university. More than $16,000 was will be awarded to student-athletes on the Wolfpack raised at the event, which was organized by former Loyola baseball team and continue the long tradition of “Rags” baseball players who played under Coach “Rags” Scheuermann at Loyola. Scheuermann during the 15 seasons that he led the Wolfpack. Two hundred and fifty former athletes, friends, and family members were on hand to celebrate the legacy of the longest tenured baseball coach in the university’s history. Harrah’s New Orleans provided a delicious buffet for the evening. Guests were also treated to music by the Wise Guys as well as a video presentation of Wolfpack baseball photos of the past and game footage from the late 1960s. Under “Rags’” guidance, the Maroon and Gold became one of the finest programs in the nation, winning Family and friends of Coach Louis “Rags” Scheuermann
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Professors invested with new endowed professorship and chair Loyola invested E. Letitia Beard, Ph.D., with the E.L. Beard Distinguished Professorship in Biology and Jeffrey A. Krug, Ph.D., with the Jack and Vada Reynolds Chair in International Business on March 15. The E.L. Beard Distinguished Professorship in Biology was established through lead gifts by several of Beard’s former students. These students’ gifts, totaling $60,000, received a $40,000 matching gift from the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund Endowed Professorship Program to permanently endow this professorship in Beard’s name. The Jack and Vada Reynolds Chair in International Business was established with $600,000 in gifts from the Reynolds family, Vada Reynolds, Bill and Pam Ryan (Jack and Vada’s daughter), and the Starr Foundation. The Louisiana Board of Regents Eminent Scholar Chair Program matched the family’s gift with a $400,000 grant to permanently endow this chair.
University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., Jo Ann Moran Cruz, Ph.D., E. Letitia Beard, Ph.D., Jeffrey A. Krug, Ph.D., Bill Locander, Ph.D.
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Faculty Successes Donald R. Boomgaarden, Ph.D., dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts, completed a performance tour of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” in November which included appearances at Texas State University, Del Mar College, Loyola University Maryland, and Loyola University New Orleans. He also published his review of Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music, edited by Danuta Mirka and Kofi Agawu, in the most recent edition of Ad Parnassum: A Journal of 18th and 19th Century Instrumental Music.
Bernard Cook, Ph.D., Provost Distinguished Professor of History, co-wrote a book with Dumitru Preda, Ph.D., titled The United States of America and Romania: Diplomatic Relations 1912-1919. The volume was published by Cavalliotti Press, based in Bucharest, Romania. In October, Cook gave a presentation at the 30th anniversary of the Congress of Solidarity on “The U.S. Catholic Church and the Solidarity Movement” in Wroclaw, Poland. Melanie McKay, Ph.D., vice provost for faculty affairs, and Roberta Kaskel, director of the Career Development Center, were named to the honor roll of Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates by the National Resource Center for the The Loyola Orleans Class of 2010 has First-Year Experience andUniversity Students New in Transition. dedicated a sculpture to the J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Jean Montès, , associate professor music and Library asD.M.A. a remembrance of their time atofthe university. director of orchestras, received special recognition fromhangs Gambit The sculpture, “Reference Boat,” which in the Weekly and the Big Easy Foundation’s Tribute to the Classical library’s Learning Commons, was installed on Aug. 27. Arts for his work supporting music students who were victims Designed by Raine Bedsole, College of Music and Fine of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Arts Visiting Committee member, the sculpture adopted theme ofPh.D. the library and wasofcreated usingand library Josefa the Salmón, , professor languages cul-refertures, received Fulbright The grantwork to conduct ence amaterials. of art research resemblesinaBolivia boat from for the 2010-2011 academic year. Salmón’s proposed research which hang numerous quotes submitted by the graduating consists ofseniors. a book project (tentatively titled Becoming Indian Again: Cultural Political Transformation in the Bolivian The and quotes, describing students’ warm feelings and fond Andes) tomemories study theofroots of Indian thought that led to the by Loyola, include “Finish Strong,” inspired emergence of the Indianista movement in Bolivia, making it New Orleans Saints quarterback, Super Bowl MVP, and possible to elect the first “Indian” president. Loyola 2010 unified commencement speaker, Drew Brees. More than 120 seniors, Martin alumni,Eminent parents and Robert Verchick, J.D.Loyola , Gauthier-St. friends donated to this year’s Senior Class Gift Campaign, Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law, joined President Barack Obama February 16 to celebrate the launching of his the raisingonmore than $1,400. In an overwhelming decision, conservation initiative, Great the Outdoors,” a cereClass of 2010 “America’s voted to dedicate gift to theinlibrary. mony held in the East Room of the White House. Verchick served on an inter-agency AGO workgroup and was a contributing author of the report submitted to the president.
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Members of Loyola’s Class of 2011 became alumni during the Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement Ceremony and the College of Law Commencement Ceremony on May 14 in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Award-winning actor Wendell Pierce, the star of HBO’s Treme series, was the commencement speaker for the Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement Ceremony and also received an honorary doctorate of
humane letters. Loyola’s other honorary degree recipients included National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., legendary music producer Cosimo Matassa, and New Orleans businessman and Loyola Trustee Emeritus John B. Levert, Jr. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, J.D. ’85, H’05, delivered the address at the College of Law Commencement Ceremony.
College of Law Commencement Speaker New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, J.D. ’85, H’05
Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient Wendell Pierce, Honorary Degree Recipient Cosimo Matassa, Michael Matassa, Hilton/Baldridge Distinguished Chair in Music Industry Studies Jerry Goolsby, Board of Trustees Member John J. Finan, Jr., M.B.A. ’70, Honorary Degree Recipient Jane Lubchenco, Honorary Degree Recipient and Trustee Emeritus John B. Levert, Jr. Loyola University New Orleans Magazine
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Alumni come “Back to the Pack” for Alumni Weekend Alumni Weekend, held in conjunction with the commencement events May 13 – 15, allowed alumni to celebrate their Wolfpack pride alongside graduating seniors. The annual Senior Crawfish Boil kicked off the weekend lineup, offering the graduating class a chance to rub elbows with visiting alumni as they reconnected with Loyola. The weekend of events also included College Welcome Receptions; the induction of Loyola’s 50-year graduates, who processed in the commencement ceremonies; Reunion Class Dinners for the Classes of 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, and 2001;
Cocktail Reception for the Class of 2006; Alumni Mass; and the Annual Alumni Association Jazz Brunch, where John D’Arcy Becker ’61 received the 2010 Adjutor Hominum Award (see page 31). Also honored were: Susan C. Hanemann ’73 (College of Music and Fine Arts Alumna of the Year); Gary G. Hymel ’54 (College of Social Sciences Alumnus of the Year); Jennifer C. Bordes ’84 (College of Business Alumna of the Year); Sean C. O’Keefe ’77 (College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Alumnus of the Year); and Sharonda R. Williams, J.D. ’01 (Young Alumna of the Year).
Reunion Class of 1976
Reunion Classes of 1981, 1986, and 1996
Annual Alumni Association Jazz Brunch
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Loyola pianist upsets rivals at national competition Adam Mayon, piano junior in the College of Music and Fine Arts, can now add national champion to his résumé. He claimed first place in the piano division of the Music Teachers National Association’s (MTNA) Young Artist Competition on March 28 in Milwaukee, Wis. Mayon was one of seven collegiate competitors from across the United States that consisted of both undergraduate- and graduate-level students. In addition to bragging rights, Mayon claimed a $25,000 Steinway upright piano and upcoming concert appearances in Chicago and New York City. Most recently, Mayon was featured on the classical stage at St. Mary’s Church at the Ursuline Convent as part of French Quarter Fest. For the win, Mayon performed “Sonata in A-flat major, Hob. XVI/46,” by Franz Joseph Haydn; “Sonata in b-flat minor Op. 36, No. 2,” by Sergei Rachmaninoff; “Une barque sur l’ocean” from “Miroirs,” by Maurice Ravel; and “Islamey,” by Mily Balakirev. “This competition has been an eye-opener for me,” said Mayon. “Since all of the competitors were great, I have realized that the older I get, the tougher competition gets for me. Nonetheless, it is always a great expe-
rience to participate in a competition because I receive helpful comments from the judges to better my performances.” The purposes of the MTNA performance competitions are to provide educational experiences for students and teachers and to recognize exceptionally talented young artists and their teachers in their pursuit of musical excellence.
Adam Mayon
Student Successes Political science major Andrew Vo and psychology and criminal justice double major Brittany Chavez were honored with the 2011 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, specifically awarded to undergraduate students interested in expanding their educational horizons by studying abroad. History major Keaton Postler received a prestigious SHEAR/Mellon Fellowship to work on his thesis this summer at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Computational mathematics major Leah Michelle Birch was awarded The 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program. Birch will participate in the 2011 Research in Industrial Projects for Students (RIPS) program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA. Physics major, mathematics minor, and computational science minor Holly Marisa Gardner was awarded George Mason University’s prestigious Presidential Scholarship, which includes tuition remission, stipend, and healthcare to pursue a computational science and informatics Ph.D. Gardner will participate in the 2011 Program for Women in Mathematics at the Institute for Advances Studies, School of Mathematics, Princeton University.
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Wolfpack Hall of Fame gains three new members Wolfpack Athletics and the Loyola University New Orleans Alumni Association welcomed three new members to the Wolfpack Hall of Fame during a ceremony on February 5. The 2011 inductees are John J. “Rags” Casteix, Jr. ’48 (basketball 1944 – 1948); Jaime M. Richard ’99 (volleyball 1995 – 1998); and J. Fred Woessner, Jr. ’65 (baseball and golf 1960 – 1963).
Roland J. Hymel Jr. ’53 was honored with the St. Sebastian Award for his outstanding efforts on behalf of Loyola athletes off the field of play. WGNO-TV Sports Director Ed Daniels ’79 emceed the induction ceremony. Attendees also were invited to watch the Loyola men’s and women’s basketball teams take on Spring Hill in the Den.
Roland J. Hymel, Jr. ’53, the Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.
Frank France ’49, M.Ed. ’56, Kylin Casteix Ajuvita ’75, the Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.
Former Volleyball Coach Greg Castillo, Jaime M. Richard ’99, the Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.
The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., Fred Woessner, Jr. ’65, Will T. Jordon ’55
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By Ray Willhoft ’00 While the typical undergraduate student has the opportunity to achieve many great things during his or her academic career, stating on your resume that you assisted in the recovery of an endangered species, contributed to an article published in a peer-reviewed journal, or performed a theoretical investigation into general relativity and cosmology is anything but typical. Yet, Loyola University New Orleans students have been doing just that, as well as performing many other impressive feats, thanks to the undergraduate research opportunities offered to them through the Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences. And not only are they making headlines as students, but Loyola graduates are going on to impressive careers in the sciences as well.
The Department of Biological Sciences The Department of Biological Sciences provides students with a wide choice of experiences and opportunities in the life sciences—from medicine, to the environment, to basic and applied research in botany, ecology and evolutionary biology, marine biology, microbiology, and molecular biology. A central focus of the department is to engage students in the study of life through active learning in the classroom and through collaborative research in the laboratory and field. The department states that “perhaps the most necessary skills of a biologist are an inquisitive outlook and enthusiastic curiosity,” and those skills are indeed utilized by the students when they decide to pursue research opportunities with the faculty. Summer 2011 www.loyno.edu
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Creating Outstanding Faculty/Student Partnerships Biological sciences faculty’s research programs address basic and applied questions and range from understanding the molecular basis of disease to detecting effects of climate change on entire ecosystems. While faculty often collaborate with scientists at other universities and in other disciplines, one of their most important research collaborations is between students and themselves, which has been ongoing since the 1950s. Faculty members have long been committed to engaging undergraduate students in conducting original, independent research. “All faculty members are research active,” says Department of Biological Sciences Chair Craig Hood, Ph.D. “Our primary mission is teaching, but the benefits of undergraduate research are that it provides incredible learning experiences for the students and allows them to develop skills about research as a process and become engaged in it.” Working for academic credit, and sometimes a stipend obtained through faculty grants, students are able to pursue a variety of interests and obtain impressive credentials for their future careers. Undergraduate research has flourished after Hurricane Katrina in
part because of the Summer Collaborative Outreach and Research Experience (SCORE) directed by Frank Jordan, Ph.D., and the Public Health Scholars Program directed by Patricia Dorn, Ph.D. Both of these programs are supported by the Louisiana Board of Regents. “Undergraduate research has opened up a wide range of opportunities for me,” says biological sciences major Jihan Shami, who performed research with Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., studying Chagas disease. Chagas disease is endemic to rural areas in Latin America, where it remains a leading cause of heart disease and the most serious parasitic disease, surpassing even that of malaria. “I was given the opportunity to do field work in Guatemala, which provided me with a far greater understanding of the diseases endemic to rural, impoverished areas in Latin America. Research has not only allowed me to ascertain my interests in research and public health, but it has helped me grow as a student by allowing me to work on my own independent research project and answer my own research inquiries.” This fall, Shami will be pursuing a master of public health degree in epidemiology. Performing research can lead to some amazing results, as biological sciences major David Reeves discovered from working with Frank Jordan, Ph.D., monitoring the response of imperiled Okaloosa darters (Etheostoma okaloosae) to restoration of stream habitat. “The best part of this particular project has been the opportunity to be involved with the downlisting of an endangered species,” Reeves explains. “Species downlisting is one of the few things that is rarer than a wild salmon in its natural habitat, so I consider myself as being extremely fortunate to have been given this opportunity to work with such a special fish. Overall, this has
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been an extremely uplifting project, and it has driven my passion for conservation along with my respect for the natural world.” After graduation, Reeves plans on attending graduate school to further his studies in stream fish conservation. Promoting Research Findings Promoting Research Findings Promoting one’s research is almost as important as doing the research itself. The students’ research culminates with the Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate Symposium, the biggest event of the year for the department. Faculty, staff, alumni, and current and prospective students are invited to the symposium, where students present their research. In true New Orleans fashion, the event concludes with a crawfish boil. Students’ research covers a wide variety of topics, Student Milad El Hajj and this year’s participants presents his research at the Annual Biological Sciences included: Mariana Zapata, Undergraduate Symposium. “Characterization of Fibroblast Growth Factors in the Embryonic Chicken: A Path to Regeneration?”; Milad El Hajj, “Identification and Characterization of Neurosensory Structures in Intact and Regenerating Sea Urchins”; Jihan Shami, “Taxonomic Subdivision of a Chagas Disease Insect Vector Inferred by Ribosomal DNA”; Sarah Burst, “Effect of Solar UV-B on Standing Dead Litter Decomposition in Southern
Marshes”; and David Reeves, “Response of Endangered Okaloosa Darters to Restoration of Stream Habitat.” Often, students who present at the symposium go on to gain recognition on a national scale. Milad El Hajj’s research paper, Identification and Characterization of Neurosensory Structures in Intact and Regenerating Sea Urchins, was selected to compete in a student award program at Experimental Biology 2011, one of the world’s largest and most important biological science research conferences, held in Washington, D.C. Enjoying Success after Graduation Enjoying Success after Graduation Many alumni credit their undergraduate research with aiding them in their current job success. “My undergraduate research project was instrumental in preparing me for graduate school and for a career in the biological sciences,” notes biological sciences alumna Melissa Kaintz ’03, who works for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries as the inland fisheries operations manager. “As an undergraduate research student, I was given the opportunity to design and conduct biological research, perform statistical analyses on my data, and write an undergraduate thesis. I was able to learn from these experiences, and it gave me an advantage while I was designing and conducting my research and analyzing and writing my master’s thesis. Currently, I use the skills that I developed at Loyola on a daily basis. Experimental design, project implementation, and written communication play an integral role in my daily activities.” For more information on the Department of Biological Sciences and the faculty’s research, visit chn.loyno.edu/biology
The Department of Chemistry T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f C h e m i s t r y offers degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, and forensic chemistry, with faculty and staff dedicated to the mission of providing both a nationally competitive curriculum and a variety of exciting undergraduate research opportunities. The department prides itself on its commitment to its students and their success, and
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undergraduate research plays a vital role in the chemistry curriculum. All majors are encouraged to join a research group early in their academic studies––it is in the research lab where they have the opportunity to apply ideas learned in the classroom to real-world problems for which there are no solutions in the back of a book.
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their problem-solving skills and examine the big questions,” says Joelle Underwood, Hiring Expert Faculty Hiring Expert Faculty Ph.D. “My goal is for students to function as chemists in Providing great research opportunities begins with any environment. The skills they learn are applicable to great faculty members. any field of study or career path they choose.” “We try to hire faculty members who are research Because projects can often take two or three years active,” says Department of Chemistry Chair Thomas to complete, faculty members stress the importance Spence, Ph.D. “All of our faculty members have research of performing research to the students early on. But labs, and together, the department has raised one million students usually recognize the skills and the valuable dollars for instruments since Hurricane Katrina.” experience they can gain by doing research and are eager to get started. “The best part about doing research is that I can actually get a hands-on experience of real-life chemistry research, and it’s not just all theory-based like what we have in lecture classes,” says chemistry major Paula Dizon. “Doing research gives me a greater understanding of what we are actually studying in class.” Working with Kurt Birdwhistell, Ph.D., last summer for Loyola’s SCORE, Dizon performed research that involved the greener synthesis of metal carbonyl complexes from Group VI Student Sue Celestin works with a laser as part of her research with metals with the use of a microwave that uses atmospheric components. less voltage than your average household Since there is little use in having labs and equipment microwave. She synthesized compounds using if students aren’t allowed to use them, every instrument Molybdenum and Tungsten before moving on to in the department is utilized by the students, according working on Chromium complexes. to Spence. Dizon does not have a definite plan after graduaSpence also points out that “our country needs sciention, but she hopes to eventually enter graduate tists, so we prepare our students to go out into the world school for forensics or work in a crime lab. and accomplish great things. Research allows students Publishing Success to engage in the creative process of science.” Harnessing that creativity, throughout the year, the department hosts seminars in which both Loyola faculty and faculty from other universities are invited to present their research. Students are also encouraged to present their research, and throughout the years, many have presented at American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meetings. Though they may focus on different areas of research, the entire chemistry faculty agrees that any research experience students undertake, regardless of their course of study, can play a vital role in their future success. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joelle Underwood, Ph.D., mentors “Performing research allows students to develop students Helena Harb and Kris Celestin with their research.
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Publishing Success Often, the research students do with faculty results in publication in peer-reviewed journals, which is quite an achievement for undergraduates. “The most rewarding part of the research experience was in knowing the data gathered by the instruments that I constructed and maintained would be included in an article in a peer-reviewed journal,” says chemistry alumnus Alexander L. Girau ’10, who currently is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University. “As an undergraduate, my adviser, Dr. Joelle Underwood, and I investigated the physical chemistry of atmospheric aerosols phenomena using analytical chemistry. Specifically, we attempted to elucidate the water uptake process of different molecules such as salts and acids through computer analysis. These processes are very relevant in phenomena such as cloud formation and air pollution travel. Dr. Underwood designed the experiments and the apparatus, and I was responsible for
constructing and repairing the instruments and running the experiments. However, running experiments included computer programming, data analysis, and computerinstrument communication technologies.” Girau’s research experience not only got his name out into the scientific world, but it also prepared him for graduate school. “My research experience was invaluable in understanding what it was like to perform research under the direction of a supervisor. Graduate school has many requirements, but the one requirement that can make you stand out in the application pool is research experience and papers; top graduate programs like to see research experience in an applicant to judge if they can produce research in a lab setting. Luckily, I was able to leave Loyola with an Honor’s thesis, three poster presentations, and three great recommendations.” For more information on the Department of Chemistry and the faculty’s research, visit chn.loyno.edu/chemistry
The Department of Physics The Department of Physics has a twofold mission: to increase understanding of the physical universe through fundamental research involving faculty and students, and to offer students insights into their understanding of, and modes of thought about, the physical universe by offering a challenging curriculum taught in small classes by a dedicated faculty readily accessible to students and interested in their scholarly welfare.
Establishing the Research/ Teaching Balance Though experts in their respective fields of research, physics faculty members must also be able to mentor students in order to bring them on board with their research. “We look for the right balance of teaching and research,” says Department of Physics Chair Armin Kargol, Ph.D. “Research is part of the teaching process.” That process is aided in part by Loyola’s smaller class sizes, giving faculty members the opportunity to get to
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know their students. “At Loyola, personal contact with students is very important. We are able to get the students involved because we know them, giving the students a fundamental understanding of science and helping them overcome their fear of science,” notes Kargol. As with the other departments, teaching students how to analyze and solve problems is crucial for their future success, and performing research allows students to do just that. “Through research, students are taught to think and analyze problems. They define the problem, look for the solution, and execute the solution,” explains Kargol.
Researching Across Department Lines Often, the science departments work together, especially when students express an interest in several fields of study.
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Physics major Michael Kammer worked on four different research projects, beginning with a class project for his Chemistry of Global Climate Change course. Each student was asked to make a presentation or demonstration of some type of renewable energy. Many students in the class made a poster or a PowerPoint presentation, but Kammer and his classmate decided to make a working model of a solar cell. Their class instructor, Lynn Koplitz, Ph.D., allowed them to use her laboratory to construct the cell. After successfully making a working model of a Graetzel cell, Koplitz encouraged them to continue, so they did additional experiments with the Graetzel cell, trying various dyes and electrolyte concentrations, with her guidance. During the next academic year, Koplitz implemented a Graetzel Cell Construction lab into the general chemistry curriculum, and Kammer was involved in the preparations for that experiment. Subsequently, Koplitz asked Kammer and his research partner to join her in one of her research projects involving the synthesis and crystal structure determinations of several isomeric forms of cyano-N-methylpyridinium halides. Kammer also worked with Armin Kargol, Ph.D., doing research in the area of biophysics. They cultured
cells in a magnetic field to determine its effects on cell growth and development. They used the PatchClamp technique to study voltage-gated ion channels. Lastly, Kammer worked on an independent research project, also overseen by Kargol, to study graviosmosis and to apply the gravitational potential energy created by this phenomenon to create a double membrane system that turns Brownian motion into work. “The best part to me is the freedom in the creative process,” says Kammer. “When I ask questions or need help, my advisers have always been available, but for the most part they let me figure things out on my own, acting as a mentor more than a boss. This really allows me to own my research experience—I feel like I am an integral part of the research, not simply a lab assistant present only to do the dirty work. Because of this, I feel that my successes are very much my own, but more importantly, my failures are as well. I have failed in a few major ways, and doing this has taught me more than succeeding ever could.” Thanks to his involvement in undergraduate research, Kammer plans on earning a Ph.D. and continuing into research. “The research that I have done has given me invaluable tools to succeed in the next level, in terms of experience with many laboratory techniques and equipment, as well as problem-solving skills. Participating in research at Loyola has not only inspired me to a future in research, but given me the tools I need to accomplish it.” Holly Gardner, a physics major, also crossed over departmental lines, having done research in both the mathematics and chemistry departments. She started doing research in mathematics with her Students Michael Kammer and David Vumbaco work with Department of Physics Chair adviser, Maria Calzada, Armin Kargol, Ph.D., in the area of biophysics. 22
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Ph.D., in the 2009 SCORE at Loyola. They conducted a simulation study to compare the students’ confidence interval to three different bootstrap confidence intervals. From this research, Gardner and Calzada went on to develop the Bootstrap Ratio Test for Normality, and the project became her Honors thesis. In addition, Gardner worked with Thomas Spence, Ph.D., and a first-year chemistry major, Lukas Gilevicius, on two different projects—a simulation study comparing the precision and accuracy of different forms of analyzing cavity ring-down spectroscopy data, and improving a peak finding method for analyzing fourier transform infrared spectroscopy data. “The best part about doing research is the independence offered,” notes Gardner. “The professor and I develop the ideas together, and I implement the programming of the methods on my own. Research has increased my confidence in my programming knowledge and abilities. While completing these projects, I continued to take a full class schedule and learned the importance of time management and organization.” This fall, Gardner will begin a computational science and informatics Ph.D. at George Mason University, for which she has been prepared thanks to her research experiences. “My undergraduate research has ensured that I have the programming skills necessary to remain competitive in such a program,” she says. “It also allows me to know that I can balance the rigorous course load and research schedule of a graduate student.”
Implementing Skills As with the other departments, physics alumni credit much of their success to their Loyola research experience. Physics alumna Emily Drabek ’09 is a Ph.D. student at the University of Exeter in the School of Physics (Exeter, England) studying observational astrophysics. Her research is in early star formation, specifically low-mass and isolated star formation. “Personally, my undergraduate research helped me to decide that graduate study was right for me,” explains Drabek. “I enjoy asking questions and solving problems, and I learned very quickly as an undergraduate that research allows me to do this as a career. Also, on a more practical note, undergraduate research gave me the necessary tools I would need for graduate study, like understanding how to
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write a research or scientific paper, how to manage my time, and independently focus on my studies.” As an undergraduate, Drabek worked with Carl Brans, Ph.D., looking at Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. Brans helped lead Drabek’s independent study to look more in depth at the subject. This work ended up leading to her senior thesis, which was a theoretical investigation into general relativity and cosmology. Specifically, she was looking at the predictions from general relativity on the shape and size of the universe. “What can I say, I thought research with Dr. Brans was fun!,” says Drabek. “He always encouraged me to ask questions and express my research ideas. Due to his encouragement, I became more confident in my abilities as a student, and I began to focus my research in the direction that I wanted to go.” For Drabek, the faculty at Loyola will always stand out. “The great thing about the professors in the physics department is that they really listen to the students, and they want us to do well.” For more information on the Department of Physics and the faculty’s research, visit chn.loyno.edu/physics
Continuing the Success of the Sciences Though the Loyola science departments in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences are doing an outstanding job with undergraduate research, plans are underway to do even more, especially with the proposed future renovation of Monroe Hall. Plans are being discussed to completely renovate the building, which was originally constructed as a state-of-the-art science complex in the 1960s, and outfit it with new labs and equipment. But in the meantime, the science departments, through their dedicated faculty and hands-on research opportunities, will continue to provide students with the solid foundation needed to achieve success in the vast world of science. 23
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The Many Sides of The Center for Latin By Nathan C. Martin Look at any point in Latin American history since the 16th century and you are bound to find a Jesuit somewhere in the mix. In 1549, a mere nine years after Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, Jesuits arrived on the coast of what is now Brazil along with the new country’s first governor-general. As recently as 20 – 30 years ago, Jesuit priests played pivotal roles in the civil unrest that engulfed the region, standing up to dictators throughout Latin America, sometimes paying with their lives. Today, the Jesuits’ influence impacts communities primarily in the forms of education and community outreach. There are dozens of Jesuit universities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and there is a Jesuit high school in every major Latin American city. New Orleanians sometimes joke that theirs is not really a southernmost city of the United States—it is actually the northernmost city of the Caribbean. Whatever connotations this quip might have, it contains a degree of undeniable truth. The influences of Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, and the surrounding islands—as well as countries in Central America that are considered Caribbean, like Honduras and Guatemala—is abundant in New Orleans’ musical, culinary, religious, and artistic heritages. As a port city, New Orleans has received centuries of regular shipments of goods like coffee, rum, and bananas from Latin America and the Caribbean, establishing deep economic links and making New Orleans a hub of hemispheric relations. 22
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“El Centro” American and Caribbean Studies Given the deep ties between New Orleans, the Jesuits, and Latin America and the Caribbean, the establishment of an active and innovative Latin American Studies (LAS) program at Loyola University New Orleans was inevitable. The LAS program launched in 2002, and in 2009, a group of its faculty members founded a “center of excellence” dedicated to enhancing the Loyola community’s interactions with Latino communities in New Orleans and throughout the hemisphere. The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies—or, “El Centro,” for short—is an evolving and vibrant entity involved in community outreach, event programming, curriculum development, project management, and other endeavors that engage Loyola with the Latino world.
urb roughly 12 miles west of New Orleans, contains the third largest population of Hondurans in the world, after Honduras’ two largest cities. The primary markets from which Loyola attracts outof-state students—Florida, Texas, California, and New York—are the states with the largest Latino populations in the country. Although the university’s efforts to internationalize undoubtedly consider regions and cultures around the globe, our neighbors in Latin America and the Caribbean might prove our most vital connections, and an obvious place to start.
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El Centro pursues its mission in large part through community outreach, immersing students and faculty in “We need to move with the times,” says Blanca the surrounding Latino populations, as well as bringing Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor of languages the community to campus for events. and cultures and the original driving force behind “Each event aims to fulfill some need of our students El Centro’s incepor faculty, but we’re tion. “One of the also trying to do events goals of the universithat are appealing for ty is internationalizathe local community,” tion, and this is a part says Uriel Quesada, of that.” Ph.D., El Centro’s The Latino populadirector. tion of the Greater The center has organNew Orleans Area ized 10 events so far, has roughly doubled both on Loyola’s campus in the past five years, and elsewhere in the largely as a result of community. Its inaugural immigrants initially event, “Everybody Award-winning journalist Alma Guillermoprieto attracted by postRunnin’ to the Carnival: discusses the ongoing issue of drug trafficking in Katrina rebuilding Calypso Music, the Mexico for her lecture “The New Narco-Culture.” work. Kenner, a subCaribbean and its
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New Orleans Connection,” brought renowned Costa Rican musician and ethnographer Manuel Monestel to campus for a masterclass and performance with Loyola music students. Last fall, the center hosted Alma Guillermoprieto, who is arguably the world’s foremost English-language journalist covering Latin America. Quesada says Guillermoprieto is precisely the type of person the center wants to bring because of her ability to move between cultures. “She represents a kind of bridge, because she knows how to address an American audience on foreign topics,” Quesada says. Along with events, El Centro’s community outreach manifests in the form of service learning coordination. Quesada and his staff seek out and form relationships with nonprofit organizations in the Greater New Orleans Area that serve Latino communities. The center works with Loyola’s Office of Service Learning to pair students with appropriate organizations in order to provide real, meaningful assistance. For instance, Loyola service learning students were integral in designing a survey about Latino youth and community/leadership for Puentes, which the community development organization implemented this past spring.
issues, and El Centro has been instrumental in developing classes that address topics related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Each semester, the center coordinates between five and eight Latin American Studies classes—some in English, some in Spanish—that are housed in various academic departments, such as history, sociology, and political science. Quesada recently taught the inaugural LAS first-year seminar called Becoming American, Becoming Latino. El Centro also collaborates with the Center for International Education (CIE) to offer exchange opportunities for Loyola students and faculty with universities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Though this aspect of El Centro is still in its infancy, it has already brought one professor from Bolivia to teach a course at Loyola in political science. El Centro and CIE are currently working with the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) to exchange students beginning in spring 2012. PUCE is a leading school for biology in Latin America, and Loyola biology students involved in the exchange would have access to PUCE’s laboratories in the Amazon jungle and in the Galapagos Islands.
Identidad y las historias orales de New Orleansy las historias orales de New Orleans Identidad Nathan Henne, Ph.D., assistant professor of Spanish, says one distinctive aspect of El Centro
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identities away from their country of origin.” Estrada located and interviewed 10 immigrant participants for her project, asking them to define terms like “Latino,” “American,” and “culture,” and having them describe their own identity in the context of where they and their families are from. Her interviews and transcripts will be housed at Loyola, the first installment of what will eventually be a rich and expansive archive.
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compared to similar centers at other universities is its regard for the language and cultural diversities that exist within Latin America. “People tend to think of Latin America as homogenous, language-wise—just Spanish and Portuguese—and actually there are hundreds of languages in Latin America that give us different ways of seeing the world, of imagining it,” he says. Henne studies how the simultaneous influences of various heritages shape people’s identities and worldviews. Like indigenous people in Latin America who grapple with both indigenous and Spanish heritages, Latinos in the United States are forced to mesh together multiple cultures, which can be a difficult and confusing process. “You might have a militant soccer fan dad for the Mexican team,” Henne says, “so he’s militantly Mexican in that sense. Does that mean he has to be militantly Mexican in other ways? That’s the kind of terrain that kids have to navigate—they want to be Mexican in many ways, and yet they want to be in the U.S. in many ways.” With the support of El Centro, Henne and Quesada have recently launched an oral history project that addresses these issues of Latino identity, provides Loyola students immersive and rigorous academic opportunities, and provides a great resource for researchers and Latino community development groups. Henne says conducting interviews about the ways in which Latinos have dealt with the process of identity building is integral to building understanding and creating more inclusive and supportive communities. Gicel Estrada, who graduated in spring 2011 with degrees in Latin American studies and environmental science, undertook the first oral history project on El Centro’s behalf as her graduation capstone project. Her project deals with identity formation among Latinos in New Orleans who immigrated to the U.S. before they were 15 years old. “I was talking with a classmate and she mentioned she’s Venezuelan,” Estrada says. “But she said her dad is from New Orleans, her mom is from Colombia, and she was married in Spain. So how is she Venezuelan? That was the question I wanted to figure out, how people form their own
PorAlultimo fin As impressive as the array of projects and programs currently under El Centro’s umbrella seems, it is instructive to remember that the center is only two years old, and that it will only grow greater with time. Quesada says among his many plans are more events held off campus, an increased Loyola presence in Jefferson Parish, where most Latinos in the Greater New Orleans Area live, and an increase in faculty exchanges with Latin American and Caribbean universities. These, among other initiatives, ensure that as the Americas increasingly blend and the idea of a “Latin America” that begins at the Rio Grande becomes more dubious, Loyola will be actively involved in the evolution of our culture along with it. Viva! For more information on the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, visit www.loyno.edu/clacs 27
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Loyola Bestows its Four Top Honors on Outstanding Recipients The Dux Academicus Award The Dux Academicus Award is the highest honor a professor can receive for excellence in teaching and scholarship. It recognizes a faculty member who “is able to impart the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities, sciences, or the professions to students in a manner consistent with the unique philosophy of Loyola University New Orleans as a Jesuit institution of higher education.”
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College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Professor of History Mark F. Fernandez, Ph.D., was awarded the 2010 Dux Academicus Award on January 21 at the President’s Conovation. Fernandez, who has been a member of the faculty since 1992, was nominated by colleagues, students, and former students who submitted letters describing his teaching style and his contributions to his field. His colleagues wrote of his service to Loyola, his commitment as a teacher, and his contributions as an active historian who has helped to redefine scholarship in the field of history. A native New Orleanian, Fernandez received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of New Orleans and his doctorate from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. His recent scholarly activities include A Law unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History and From Chaos to Continuity: Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System, 1712 – 1862, which won the Louisiana Literary Award from the Louisiana Library Association in 2002. He also served as guest editor for the Journal of the West’s 2004 Louisiana Purchase edition. In 1993 and 1997, Fernandez received grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to direct summer institutes for teachers. He received a commendation from the American Association for State and Local History for his 1997 summer institute, “New Orleans through Its Sources.” In 1999, Fernandez received one of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Special Humanities Awards for his work with the summer institutes. He is a past president of the Louisiana Historical Association and a board member of the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival. Loyola University New Orleans Magazine
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Created under the direction of President Emeritus James C. Carter, S.J., in the 1970s, these four annual awards honor the outstanding accomplishments of Loyola alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the university.
The Integritas Vitae Award The Integritas Vitae Award is presented by Loyola University New Orleans to an individual who exemplifies the qualities Loyola seeks to instill in its students. The recipient is chosen for displaying high moral character and selfless service without expectation of material reward or public recognition, and adhering to the principles of honesty, integrity, justice, and the preservation of human dignity. Frank A. France ’49, M.Ed. ’56, founder of Kehoe-France in Metairie, La., was the recipient of this year’s Integritas Vitae Award on March 17 at the Benefactors Dinner. France came to Loyola as a first-generation college student on an athletic scholarship, earned two degrees, and went on to an outstanding career in education—first as a teacher and then as the co-founder of Kehoe-France, along with his late wife, Patricia Kehoe, in 1949. In its early days, it operated as a camp in Audubon Park and at various rented facilities until 1958, when it moved to its present location in Metairie, La. Four years later, Kehoe-France officially began operations as a school. In 1996, it expanded to include an equally successful Northshore location. Today, more than 1,100 students comprise the Kehoe-France student bodies at both locations. At age 85, France is still a vigorous participant in the daily life of his schools. As a volunteer and benefactor, France’s involvement with Loyola has been longstanding. He has been a donor and advocate for Loyola. He served on the President’s Council during the presidential tenure of the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., Ph.D. He is also a regular attendee at Wolfpack basketball games and continues to donate to Coach Mike Giorlando’s outstanding program. France has been a longtime volunteer and donor for Catholic and educational projects around New Orleans. He has served on numerous boards, including Archbishop Hannan High School, The Catholic Foundation of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Greater New Orleans Association for Retarded Citizens, Crescent Academy, and Holy Cross High School. France was named Man of the Year in 1990 by Holy Cross High School and received the Alumni Service Award from the school as well in 1984. Summer 2011 www.loyno.edu
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The Coadjutor Optimus Award The Coadjutor Optimus Award is presented to administrators or staff members who demonstrate the university’s commitment to its Jesuit values. Criteria for selection include: effectiveness in promoting the values contained in the University Goals Statement and the Statement of the Jesuit Character and commitment of Loyola; superior performance over and above that required of one’s job; the application of individual judgment to more effectively achieve university goals; success in making the employee’s office or service unit one that is considered friendly to the rest of the university community; exhibited desire to know more about one’s own job, improve technically and professionally, and a desire to learn the total operation of the department; and supportiveness toward fellow employees. Mary Sue Oehlke and Kelly Brotzman were the recipients of the 2010 Coadjutor Optimus Award at the Staff Luncheon on April 20. Oehlke has served as an administrative assistant The Rev. Kevin Wm. in the College of Business for more than 20 years. She has an active spiritual life Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., and Mary Sue Oehlke and her Christian values are apparent in her work. Her sense of humor, unique style, and grace are exceptional. She volunteers for extra activities whenever needed, and she has supported the college’s participation in the Relay for Life, the Crescent City Classic, and the Alzheimer’s Memory Walk. Brotzman, in just three years as director of service learning, has transformed the program into one that is nationally recognized. Last year, Brotzman spearheaded the process to prepare Loyola’s application for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification and showed remarkable persistence in ensuring that Loyola would Kelly Brotzman and the reach this goal. Hallmarks of Brotzman’s work are tenacity, vision, collaboration, Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, and mission-driven excellence. S.J., Ph.D.
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The Adjutor Hominum Award The Adjutor Hominum Award is the highest award bestowed by the Alumni Association. Each year, the association recognizes an outstanding graduate whose life demonstrates the values and philosophy of a Jesuit education which Loyola exemplifies— namely moral character, service to humanity, and unquestionable integrity. John D’Arcy Becker ’61 was the 2010 recipient of the Adjutor Hominum Award on May 15 at the Alumni Jazz Brunch. Becker graduated from Loyola with a physics degree in 1961, the same year he founded his first business and served as CEO of John D. Becker & Associates, Inc., an insurance firm specializing in acquisition of coverage for business, professional, and estate owners. In 1970, he founded and served as CEO of Business and Professional Consulting Services, Inc., an executive benefit planning firm with an emphasis on the design and servicing of qualified and nonqualified incentive plans. He is also a member and stockholder in M Financial Group, a national network of offices specializing in the design and servicing of executive compensation, estate, and wealth transfer plans. Becker’s service to Loyola has been extensive and consistent. After graduating, he spent many years supporting and bolstering Wolfpack Athletics. Becker is also the past chairman of the President’s Council and past chairman of the Planned Gifts Committee at Loyola. For 16 years, he has coordinated the Annual Estate Planning Symposium, sponsored by Loyola and several other local nonprofit organizations. He brought some of the country’s foremost experts to New Orleans to share their knowledge with trustees and volunteers of those organizations as well as local attorneys, accountants, financial planners, and insurance professionals. He was recognized for his outstanding service to Loyola when he received the College of Business Administration Jacques E. Yenni, S.J., Award for Community Service. Becker is the devoted husband to Loyola classmate Mary Jane Wherritt ’61 and loving father to John, Jr., Brian, and Elizabeth Becker Laborde. The couple lives on the Northshore, and they are members of Mary Queen of Peace Parish in Mandeville, La.
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The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., and John D’Arcy Becker ’61
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Spotlighting young alumni who We Are Loyola. It’s a simple statement that conveys a powerful message. Here are just a few of the many young alumni who are putting the Jesuit values into action with their service to their communities.
NOLA Green Roots: Harvesting Ideas at Dawn Two Loyola grads facilitate visible growth in an urban setting By Jessica Kinnison ’08 It’s no fluke that, for centuries, poets have been writing about gardens and blooms and the heart of the harvest as the central metaphors for being alive. Have you ever seen a sunflower turned in the direction of the sun, asleep and hunched over after nightfall, then facing up and out again with the dawn? In New Orleans, our aesthetic world is sprawling oaks, magnolias in bloom, and citrus trees contrasted by collapsed roofs, peeling pant, and three hundred years of waterlines. Local nonprofit NOLA Green Roots aims to help change the aesthetics of our urban environment while working on critical food and education disparities in our city. After Hurricane Katrina, Joseph Brock, a 2005 Loyola graduate, began growing fruit and vegetables
in his backyard on Baudin Street in Mid City. He had an orange tree and some tomatoes. He left bags of fruit and vegetables on his neighbor’s doorsteps before dawn, during “gardener’s hours.” “The true gardener works from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.,” he says, sitting behind his desk at the NOLA Green Roots office on 3101 Tulane Avenue. Brock, then a web designer working from home, kept being interrupted by passersby who were fascinated by his garden. He began to think there might be something to it. NOLA Green Roots was born from that first garden. Fast-forward to the fall of 2010—Jessica Kinnison, a 2008 Loyola graduate, is circling the block between South Salcedo and Tulane Avenues, searching for the NOLA Green Roots office. She has recently returned from a 558-mile trek across northern Spain, the Camino de Santiago. She has to find a job but she can’t shake the spirit of community she learned in Spanish pilgrim’s hostels along that medieval route to Saint James’ tomb. She wanted to do something that made positive use of those contradictions between beauty and blight in her city. She wanted to mimic the Spanish sunflower’s connection to place. Kinnison and Brock’s first employment interview lasted two hours. That night, he asked her to proofread the website and bring her corrections the next morning. She arrived just after the dawn with her notes in hand. The second interview lasted all day. By Monday morning, she was up with the dawn, trying to do anything that could help the progress of the organization,
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o are making a difference from feeding chickens to getting to know members to writing letters to raise awareness. Now, by the time the light is reflecting off the traffic lights on Jefferson Highway, Brock’s making a list of the products they need to put together a new hydroponics system, or string up the cucumbers and tomatoes in innovative lines held up by walls of wood. He’s an idea man, a student of science. Kinnison, who studied writing, synthesizes the ideas into concrete information that can be duplicated and perfected, then added to the NOLA Green Roots system. While Brock, executive director, and Kinnison, associate director, use their Loyola training to facilitate the process, the organization is a cooperative effort. “No one can do it alone,” says Brock. “NOLA Green Roots is a moving wheel. We just work here.” The organization is run by and for the members. It is a membership-based network that converts blighted property into vibrant, well-maintained community gardens in the city of New Orleans. Every member contributes to the building and maintenance of the organization, and every member gets a basket of fresh fruit, eggs, and vegetables delivered to his or her doorstep at least twice a month.
and 2007—that is about two and a half times faster than job growth in the economy as a whole. NOLA Green Roots focuses on career exploration by exposing students to a myriad of green jobs such as planting, growing and harvesting, animal care, composting, building complex irrigation systems, implementing solar paneling, and painting, historic preservation, and green construction. In addition, the organization hosts thousands of people from all over the country for service learning and volunteer days in the gardens each year. The volunteers learn everything from how to build a chicken coop to PH Testing to the methodology behind composting restaurant food waste. NOLA Green Roots is expanding rapidly and plans to build four new gardens in 2011, including a garden for children, pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. This garden will give New Orleans youth an opportunity to hone their gross motor skills while learning sustainable food practices. NOLA Green Roots recently participated in a panel at Harvard Business School’s Social Enterprise Conference, presenting the NOLA Green Roots business model that they hope to bring to cities all over the country.
NOLA Green Roots Initiative
For more information on NOLA Green Roots, visit www.nolagreenroots.com
There are three major initiatives built into the NOLA Green Roots system. First, provide affordable, naturally grown food sources for neighborhoods that do not have regular access to fresh produce. Second, operate a citywide compost service that currently works with restaurants in Mid City and Uptown—Dante’s Kitchen, Patois, Eco Café, and Ralph’s on the Park to name a few—and the New Orleans fire department. Third, provide job training and service learning opportunities for youth in the area including science classes with Warren Easton High School, service learning Saturdays with Tulane and Loyola students, and the compost carrier’s job training program. A 2009 study conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts indicates that the number of green jobs in the United States grew 9.1 percent between 1998 Jessica Kinnison ’08, NOLA Green Roots Summer 2011 www.loyno.edu
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Building Meaningful Relationships Jennifer M. La Rocca ’05 is putting her relationship-building skills to good use for both the citizens of Florida and Panama. La Rocca was born in New Orleans and grew up in Panama City, Panama, where she graduated high school from The International School of Panama. She later received a bachelor of science degree in communications, with a minor in psychology, from Loyola. As a pharmaceutical sales specialist with Pfizer in Miami, she has successfully launched and marketed two one-of-a-kind products for both acute pain and chronic pain prescribed by surgeons and physicians. She also analyzes product and market trends, develops and executes territory business plans, and coordinates efforts with territory partners in team environments. Previously, La Rocca was a pediatric sales specialist Photo courtesy of Selecta Magazine
with Sciele Pharmaceuticals in Orlando, where she increased market share for the Central Florida territory with a product portfolio that included ADHD medications and asthma and allergy products prescribed by pediatricians, primary care physicians, allergists, and psychiatrists. In July 2009, the president of the Republic of Panama recognized La Rocca by naming her the Honorary Consul of Panama in the city of Miami. Since her appointment, she has been assisting Miami-based companies in establishing ties with Panamanian Companies. In addition, through her ties with the Miami medical community, she is organizing goodwill trips by U.S. doctors to less-privileged areas of Panama. La Rocca also served as the vice president of The Panamanian American Chamber of Commerce, which she helped establish in 2009, and currently serves as an adviser to the chamber. La Rocca also had an article published in América Economía, one of Latin America’s largest publications, published in seven countries, on the topic of women in leadership roles around the world. Her article received attention from other organizations and publications, such as Revista Selecta, who recently published an article on La Rocca’s success. In addition, La Rocca is director and co-founder of Opinión Actual, an organization of young future leaders in business and government in the U.S. and Latin American regions, and the director of development for the Lauren’s Light Foundation of Miami, a nonprofit organization that helps families with young children where a parent has been diagnosed with cancer.
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Sporting Appeal for Others Michael Smith ’01, recognized throughout the sports industry as one of the finest journalists and reporters in the business, has not only achieved success, but also has continued to show a commitment to his hometown of New Orleans. Smith joined ESPN in July 2004 as a National Football League senior writer for ESPN.com, covering league news and major events such as the NFL Draft, NFL Playoffs, and the Super Bowl, and continues to write breaking news stories. He is also a correspondent for E:60, ESPN’s first multi-themed prime-time newsmagazine program, which debuted October 2007. Smith regularly appears on ESPN studio programs as an NFL reporter and insider, including SportsCenter and NFL Live. He is also a panelist on Around the Horn and The Sports Reporters, periodic host of College Football Live and NFL Live, and co-host of First Take and Sports Nation. Prior to joining ESPN on a fulltime basis, Smith was a reporter for the Boston Globe (2001 – 2004), where he served as the paper’s NFL and New England Patriots beat writer. He covered the Patriots in their first two of three Super Bowl victories – 2002 (XXXVI) and 2004 (XXXVIII). Smith began his career as a sports reporter and copy editor for The Times-Picayune. Following Hurricane Katrina, Smith used his success at ESPN to communicate to the nation that
the city of New Orleans needed support in its rebuilding efforts. As the future of the New Orleans Saints franchise was uncertain, Smith, through an impassioned article, detailed the importance of the Saints to the city, stating that, “The Saints bring families together. Hopefully, having an NFL franchise here will help bring New Orleans’ families home.”
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LOYOLA IN PRINT
Faculty / Staff / Alumni Books
These Thy Gifts
An Easy Place / To Die
The Book: In his book, the Rev. Mark G. Boyer introduces a new collection of mealtime prayers grouped around the liturgical cycle. He includes prayers designed specifically for the Advent and Christmas season, Lent, Holy Week, and the Easter season, as well as the weeks of Ordinary Time. The meal prayers are designed to simply open our eyes to new ways of thanking God for the food set before us.
The Book: An Easy Place / To Die, the debut book by poet Vincent A. Cellucci, is a journey through New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but ventures beyond the situational from which most post-Katrina art has sprung. Cellucci crafts a causeway between Katrina and mortal flood myths of legend.
The Author: The Rev. Mark G. Boyer, M.R.E. ’00, a priest of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., for 35 years, is the author of 30 books on biblical and liturgical spirituality. He is a monthly columnist for The Priest magazine and a part-time member of the Religious Studies Department of Missouri State University.
The Anxious Hipster and Other Barflies I’ve Known The Book: Beginning with the hilarious urban legend of the persimmon-haired anxious Hipster, Brian Clarey takes the reader on a fearless, freewheeling bar crawl from his native Garden City, Long Island, to his old stomping grounds in the Garden District of New Orleans, finessing his way in the door.
The Author: Vincent A. Cellucci ’05 received his M.F.A. from Louisiana State University. He has been published in Exquisite Corpse, moira, New Delta Review, The Pedestal, and Presa, and he teaches in LSU’s College of Art + Design.
The Author: Brian Clarey ’93 is the award-winning editor of YES! Weekly in Greensboro, N.C., where he lives with his wife and three children. In 2007, he had his short film JoBeth screened at Cannes, after sneaking in.
Available through www.citylitproject.org and www.amazon.com
Available through www.brianclarey.com
Available through www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com
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The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook
Roux Memories
The Book: Difficult and traumatic life experiences affect our lives in unexpected ways and can even change the way we sleep. This workbook is based in cognitive behavioral therapy, a powerful approach that has proven to be more effective over the long run than sleeping pills. Included are easy tips and techniques you can start doing right away to help you sleep better.
The Book: Roux Memories offers anyone with a love for Cajun and Creole fare more than 250 home-tested recipes along with snippets of life from a Cajun family with four decades of roots in New Orleans. Accompanying the recipes are vintage family and food photographs as well as information about the roots of Cajun and Creole cooking.
The Author: C. Laurel Franklin ’93, Ph.D., is a clinical assistant professor at Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and a clinical psychologist at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans. Available through www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com
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The Author: Belinda Hulin ’75 has long written about food for newspapers and magazines, and she is the author of four cookbooks. She divides her time between New Orleans and Atlantic Beach, Fla. Available through www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com
The Westminster Handbook to Martin Luther The Book: This volume in the Westminster Handbooks to Christian Theology series provides a compact and lucid treatment of the main elements of the theology of Martin Luther (1483 – 1546). Denis R. Janz, a top Luther expert, discusses the theological understandings that made Luther a leading figure in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. The Author: Denis R. Janz, Ph.D., is Provost Distinguished Professor of the History of Christianity at Loyola. He is the author of a number of books and the general editor of the seven-volume work A People’s History of Christianity. Available through www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com
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A Night at the New York Philharmonic
Lenten Series
Dean Donald Boomgaarden, Ph.D., Frances, J.D. ’04, and Frank Hopson
Mark Morice, J.D. ’98 introducing Shades of Praise to alumni and friends.
The New York Alumni hosted “A Night at the New York Philharmonic” on February 16, which featured Branford Marsalis, saxophone, and Andrey Boreyko, conductor, at the Lincoln Center Plaza in New York, NY. A Wine and Cheese Reception followed the concert at Arpeggio’s Food and Wine. The special university guest was Donald Boomgaarden, Ph.D., dean, College of Music and Fine Arts.
The Loyola University New Orleans Alumni Association and the Jesuit Center co-sponsored the Lenten Series on March 23—Shades of Praise: The New Orleans Interracial Gospel Choir. Shades of Praise entertained alumni and friends with their joyous, high-energy contemporary gospel groove. Guests were happy to see this local phenomenon that performs yearly at New Orleans’ Jazzfest.
Annual School of Nursing Brunch The Annual School of Nursing Brunch was celebrated on March 27 at Ralph’s on the Park in New Orleans. Ann Cary, Ph.D., director of the School of Nursing, provided nursing updates to 38 attendees. She was pleased to announce the formation of a Loyola Alumni Nursing Chapter.
Chicago Presidential Cocktail Reception This spring, the Chicago Chapter enjoyed a Presidential Cocktail Reception on March 31 at Smith and Wollensky Restaurant. The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., was the special university guest. The 35 guests were pleased to hear progress updates about Loyola from the president.
Director Ann Cary, Ph.D., Debbie Smith ’98, Deannie Stoulig ’98, Debbie Applebaum ’99
The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., John and Carol Senter (parents of junior Sam Senter)
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Young Alumni Happy Hour
20 Years of Alumni Baseball Players
Alumni baseball players are honored at a Wolfpack baseball game.
Members of the Young Alumni Pack enjoyed a relaxed happy hour at the Bulldog Bar & Grill.
The Young Alumni Pack hosted a Young Alumni Happy Hour at the Bulldog Bar & Grill in New Orleans on April 14. Nearly 40 alumni gathered on the private patio area of the Bulldog for a fun-filled evening.
College of Business Happy Hour The College of Business Alumni Board hosted a Happy Hour on April 27 at Oak Wine Bar & Bistro in New Orleans. The event was attended by business alumni, faculty, and staff. This casual event offered complimentary hors d’oeuvres and specially priced beverages, and gave the guests the opportunity to swap business cards and ideas.
Samantha Ladd ’09, Karolina Stachniuk ’09, Michael Scripps ’00
On April 16, the Alumni Association, in conjunction with Wolfpack Athletics, welcomed 20 years of alumni baseball players. Pre-game tailgate attendees enjoyed hamburgers, hotdogs, all the fixings, soft drinks, and chips before the current Wolfpack baseball team played Faulkner University. Alumni players were recognized before the game and presented with an award by Head Baseball Coach Gerard Cassard. The pregame tailgate and game were held at Turchin Stadium at Tulane University.
Women in Law Tea The Women in Law Tea was held on April 27 at the home of Cheri Grodsky, J.D. ’82. Sharonda Williams, J.D. ’01, chaired a committee of Loyola law alumnae. Sharonda gave brief remarks, recognized Interim Dean Kathy Lorio, J.D. ’73, as our first female dean, and presented her with a gift on behalf of the committee.
Cheri Grodsky, J.D. ’82, Sharonda Williams, J.D. ’01, Kathy Lorio, J.D. ’73, interim dean of the College of Law
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College of Business 1980s Helaina B. Jolly-Triche ’87, was promoted to vice president, national accounts, with Chartis Insurance in Atlanta, Ga.
1990s Blake Escudier ’87, M.B.A. ’93, was selected as Loyola University New Orleans’ Acadiana Alumni Chapter president. Blake is a professor, teaching graduate studies with Kaplan
University and the University of Fredericton in New Brunswick, Canada. Bernie Dana, M.Q.M. ’97, Springfield, Mo., was named chair of the Department of Business at Evangel University. He assumed the duties of the position on March 1. Bernie has been a member of the Evangel faculty since 2001 and currently holds the rank of associate professor of business
2000s Katie Hoffmann Ladomerszky ’01 competed in the Mrs. United States pageant as Mrs. Nevada United States 2010 last summer. She placed in the Top 10 among 53 talented married women. The competition consisted of panel interview, swimsuit, evening gown, and on-stage interview. Katie is currently living in Las Vegas, Nev., with her husband, and they welcomed their first baby in May. Katie
is the leisure sales manager for the new Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and a member of the March of Dimes Nevada Southern Division Board. Ross Barbour ’04 is an associate with the New York City office of the law firm of Wilson Elser. Sisters Trenell Smith ’10 and Trenese Smith ’10, LaPlace, La., are basketball coaches at Riverside Academy in Reserve, La.
College of Humanities and Natural Sciences 1980s Dr. John F. Murray ’83, Palm Beach, Fla., clinical and sports psychologist, released a new book, The Mental Performance Index: Ranking the Best Teams in Super Bowl History, which pits all teams that have ever appeared in the Super Bowl against one another to determine
which team is best. (www.johnfmurray.com)
1990s Heather Piper Graham ’97 married Nolan S. Wadland on January 1, 2011, in Eastsound, Wash., on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands. The couple will reside in Seattle, Wash.
Carolina LorenzoRomeu ’97, Plantation, Fla., married Joshua Simon in August 2010 and began her new teaching position at Florida Memorial University. She has had a very busy yet rewarding year as fulltime faculty at FMU.
2000s Tabitha M. Quebedeaux ’02, Marrero, La., completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience at LSUHSC. Ashley Genz-Foster ’07, now Ashley Everett, was hired as the marketing and sales assistant for Unique Group NYC, a sales and marketing consulting agency that focuses on eyewear geared toward the Y generation.
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Alumni Legacy Scholarship and Graduation Award Announcement Each year, the Alumni Association presents the Alumni Legacy Scholarship and the Graduation Award to outstanding Loyola students who meet the required criteria for each award. The scholarship committee, chaired by Cheryl Prestenback Buchert ’71, J.D. ’93, reviews current scholarship application criteria and processes, identifies, and interviews scholarship candidates, and makes their selections. The selection process was completed by the scholarship committee earlier this spring. This year, the committee awarded scholarships to 24 outstanding Loyola students and future alumni. It is important to note that both of these scholarships are supported by revenue generated from your use of the Loyola University New Orleans Bank of America Platinum Plus MasterCard and generous gifts from members of the Alumni Association.
This year’s Legacy Scholarship and Graduation Award recipients are: 1 • Roland Bonin ’12 - (Alumni Legacy); Law • Joseph Landry ’13 - (Alumni Legacy); Law • James Trinchard ’12 - (Alumni Legacy); Business • Taylor Duhe ’13 - (Alumni Legacy); Social Sciences • Emilee Potter ’12 - (Alumni Legacy); Business • Rachel Guillot ’13 - (Alumni Legacy); Music and Fine Arts • Kathryn Lambeth ’12 - (Alumni Legacy); Humanities and Natural Sciences • Madeline Guillot ’13 - (Alumni Legacy); Law • Sarah Wellman ’13 - (Alumni Legacy); Law • Kortney Cleveland ’14 - (Alumni Legacy); Music and Fine Arts • Carlos Mantica ’14 - (Alumni Legacy); Business • Kelsey Pabst ’12 - (Alumni Legacy); Social Sciences
• Allegra Tartaglia ’13 - (Alumni Legacy); Humanities and Natural Sciences • Alex White ’12 - (Alumni Legacy); Business • Lauren Fontana ’13 - (Alumni Legacy); Business • Kateri McBride ’14 - (Alumni Legacy); Humanities and Natural Sciences • Mallory Flynn ’11 - (Alumni Legacy); Humanities and Natural Sciences • Andrew Legrand ’11 - (Alumni Legacy); Law • Gavin Rush ’11 - (Graduation Award); Law • Kayla Cox ’12 - (Graduation Award); Social Sciences • Dylan Kremer ’12 - (Graduation Award); Business • Amye Green ’12 - (Graduation Award); Law • Grace Ledford ’12 - (Graduation Award); Humanities and Natural Sciences
The Graduation Award is offered to Loyola University New Orleans graduating seniors. A $1,000 award is granted to one graduating senior from each of Loyola’s five colleges and graduate programs— College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, College of Social Sciences, College of Business, College of Music and Fine Arts, College of Law, and one graduate student. The award is applied towards the recipient’s student loan account upon graduation certification.
Congratulations to all of our outstanding award recipients and a special 1thank you to all of those involved in the selection process! For more information, please contact the Office of Alumni Relations at (800) 798-ALUM, (504) 861-5454, or alumni@loyno.edu
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College of Law 1970s Matthew J. Hill, Jr., J.D. ’71, Lafayette, La., reigned as King Lacassine XLIII, Noble Chieftain of the Attakapas, for the Krewe of Attakapas. Harry T. Widmann, J.D. ’77, of the New Orleans, La., law firm of Harry T. Widmann and Associates, was sworn in as national president of the American Board of Trial Advocates at the association’s National Board Meeting in New Orleans on Jan. 15.
1980s Edward F. Downing III, J.D. ’82, Metairie, La., of Gauthier, Houghtaling & Williams, was honored by New Orleans CityBusiness as one of 50 attorneys recognized for Leadership in Law.
The Hon. Andrea Price Janzen, J.D. ’82, New Orleans, La., was elected chief judge of the Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court for a two-year term. Louis LaCour, J.D. ’84, Adams and Reese partner in the firm’s New Orleans, La., office, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Boy Scouts of America Southeast Louisiana Council. A former Eagle Scout, Louis has served in several positions with the Boy Scouts of America before joining the local board. Leslie Lanusse, J.D. ’84, Adams and Reese Labor and Employment partner in the firm’s New Orleans, La., office, was named a “BTI Client Service All-Star” for 2011, an elite group of attorneys nominated solely and exclusively by clients in
BTI’s independent study as delivering the absolute best in client service.
1990s Joseph S. Exnicios, J.D. ’90, New Orleans, La., will serve as president of Whitney Bank in Louisiana and Texas once its acquisition by Hancock Holding Co. is complete. Joseph has served as Whitney Bank’s chief risk officer since 2008 and has been employed by Whitney since 1978. W. Evan Plauché, J.D. ’91, Metairie, La., managing partner at Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale, L.L.P., was selected for inclusion in the 2011 Louisiana Super Lawyers magazine. Super Lawyers names only five percent of the lawyers in the state. Awarded in 2007 also, this is
Evan’s second inclusion into the Louisiana Super Lawyers selections. Keith B. Hall, J.D. ’96, Gretna, La., launched a blog, the Oil & Gas Law Brief, to discuss news, trends, and legal developments relating to the oil and gas industry. www.oilgaslawbrief.com Shawn O’Brien, J.D. ’97, Houston, Texas, of Jackson Walker, L.L.P., was selected as one of the 2011 “Rising Stars” by Thomson Reuters. The list was published in the April 2011 issue of Texas Monthly.
2000s Marrick Armstrong, J.D. ’01, Houston, Texas, was named to partner with Adams and Reese, L.L.P. He joined the firm in 2001 and practices in the areas of prod-
A Musical Retrospective Dr. John Berthelot ’65, Metairie, La., has had a retrospective CD, titled Compositions, Arrangements and Productions of a New Orleans Musician — A Retrospective, released on Great South Records (GS11028). He is married to Carolyn Engler Berthelot ’64 . The CD is available through www.louisianamusicfactory.com
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College of Law (continued) ucts liability, casualty and coverage, and governmental relations. Brian Mills, J.D. ’01, Laguna Niguel, Calif., was named a partner with Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P. Christine M. White, J.D. ’03, Metairie, La., of Coats Rose Yale Ryman & Lee, was promoted to director within the firm’s labor and employment practice. Chris Kane, J.D. ’04, New Orleans, La., was named to partner with Adams and Reese, L.L.P. He joined the firm in 2004 and practices in the areas of transportation and economic
development, engaging regularly in the international and trade community of New Orleans. Courtney Miller, J.D. ’04, Metairie, La., was named to partner with Adams and Reese, L.L.P. She joined the firm in 2006, and as a member of the tax team, focuses primarily on estate and gift planning and succession law, but also provides counsel in corporate, matrimonial, and charitable transactions. Jaimmé Collins, J.D. ’05, New Orleans, La., Adams and Reese attorney, received the Karl Connor Award from
the A.P. Tureaud Chapter of the Black Law Students Association at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law for her continued support as an alumna to Loyola and the BLSA chapter. Elisa Tanner, J.D. ’06, Knoxville, Tenn., joined the Knox County State’s Attorney’s office, where she is responsible for prosecuting juveniles in abuse/neglect and delinquency cases. She also works in civil law, which includes representing the county landfill and nursing home. Kimberly Farabough Mouledoux ’03, J.D. ’08,
joined Pasley and Farabough of Ardmore, Okla., as an associate. Her practice will focus on workers’ compensation defense, insurance defense, and general civil litigation. Michael S. Donovan, J.D. ’09, has started The Donovan Law Firm, L.L.C., in Mandeville, La., to provide legal representation to clients in family law, personal injury, and DWI cases. The Donovan Law Firm, L.L.C., is located at 331 Girod Street, Mandeville, LA 70448. Michael can be contacted via phone at (985) 285-0240 or e-mail at mdonovan@donovanlawfirmllc.com
Wolf Pups Jude ’00 and Karen Boudreaux are pleased to announce the arrival of their daughter and newest member of Wolfpack family, Lucy Boudreaux. Jessie Scott Haynes, J.D. ’04, associate at Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, and David Haynes, Jr., J.D. ’04, in-house for Ochsner Health System, had a baby boy in February.
Lucy Boudreaux
Kerri Thomas Kane, J.D. ’04, associate at Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore, L.L.C., and Chris Kane, J.D. ’04, partner with Adams and Reese, L.L.P., had a baby girl, Emery Ella Kane, in February. Taylor Mouledoux, J.D. ’08, and his wife, Erin, had a baby boy, Taylor Paul Mouledoux, Jr., in March.
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College of Music and Fine Arts 1990s Kathryn E. Jones ’97 became a partner of Kutak Rock, L.L.P., a national law firm based in Omaha, Neb. She conducts a litigation and appellate practice with emphasis on employment law and ERISA. Before joining Kutak Rock in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Judge William J. Riley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Judge Linda R. Reade of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
2000s Holly Armstrong ’01, Willow Park, Texas, pub-
lished a book titled More of His Presence: Understanding the “More” that God has for Your Everyday Life. She also released two Christian music CDs, which are available on her website www.hollyarmstrong.org, as well as amazon.com, cdbaby.com, and itunes.com
and community leading into the National Anthem of the Super Bowl during Fox’s television coverage. An mp3 of the music is available for purchase for $.99 from Amazon and iTunes, with all proceeds going to the Wounded Warriors Foundation.
Chuck Arnold ’08, Athens, Ga., was the trumpet voice on “Declaration Anthem,” the score behind a video of Gen. Colin Powell, Drew Brees, and other athletes reciting the Declaration of Independence along with members of the military
Michelle Pontiff ’10, Marrero, La., and Rebecca Parker ’10, New Orleans, La., painted a mural in the CVS Pharmacy located in Jackson Brewery in New Orleans.
Project 3 ~ A Short Experiment, which is a brief compilation video that spotlights some of his more personal experiences volunteering at various monasteries all across India. He returned from Nepal’s Annapurna Conservation Area, where he scaled Thorung La Pass and Tilicho Lake, both of which tower at 17,000 plus feet. His video is posted on YouTube, and he could not be more excited to have the opportunity to share his 30-day excursion with the majestic Nepalese Himalayas.
Nick Sherman ’10, Addison, Texas, created
College of Social Sciences 1970s Sandra Cordray ’78, M.J., M.A., Mandeville, La., and Denise Danna, D.N.S., R.N., received a 2010 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and a Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) for their book, Nursing in the Storm: Voices from Hurricane Katrina. Lt. Colonel Kathleen Etta Beauford ’69,
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M.S. ’79, Metairie, La., was awarded the Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol “Aerospace Education Master Educator Award,” with its Scott Crossfield Medal. Kathleen has won nine Educator Awards, 14 Aerospace Education Awards, and 13 Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol Award Medals. Kathleen is a Solar System Ambassador, chosen by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology to serve as a
guest speaker. Kathleen is retired after teaching at Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary, Grace E. King High School, and Loyola University (as a guest lecturer).
1990s Gwendolyn M. Clement ’93, Slidell, La., was appointed to serve on the Slidell Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. She has coordinated Road Home grants with various companies since 2006— most recently with man-
agement consulting firm Hammerman & Gainer Inc.—and is working toward an advanced degree in emergency management from Tulane University. Frances Rios ’94 wrote a book titled The Glue Factor, which she describes as a “short story written especially for everyone that could use help with presentation techniques that lead to real results.” Frances operates an allpurpose communication agency in San Juan,
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Receiving Top Honors College of Law alumnus and Loyola Trustee Emeritus Theodore (Ted) Frois, J.D. ’69, received the 2011 St. Ives Award, the highest honor awarded by the College of Law Alumni Association, at the College of Law Alumni Luncheon on February 4. The St. Ives Award, named for the patron saint of lawyers, is presented annually to alumni who have volunteered services to the College of Law or the university, maintained the highest standards of the profession, and furthered the mission of the alumni association. Ted, a 1969 graduate of the College of Law, retired last year from the Upstream Companies of Exxon Mobil Corporation, where he served as the general counsel, responsible for worldwide legal activities in the exploration, development, production, and gas and power marketing business of the company. He graduated in the top 10 of his class at Loyola and served as associate editor of the Loyola Law Review. He is an emeritus member of the College of Law Visiting Committee. His wife, Louana Frois, J.D. ’88, is also a graduate of the College of Law. In August of 2009, Ted was named trustee emeritus. Ted’s term with Loyola’s Board of Trustees began in 1999, and from Aug. 2005 to May 2008, he served as chair of the board. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Exxon Scholars Minority Scholarship program for the College of Law. In 2001, he and his wife endowed the Ted and Louana Frois Distinguished Professorship of International Law Studies. In 2006, they endowed the Major Theodore C. Frois (MIA Dec. 6, 1950, Korean War) Military Scholarship. Ted, a New Orleans native, now resides in Houston.
Law Alumni Association President Dan Tadros, J.D. ’92 (left), and Ben Saunders, J.D. ’69 (center), presented Theodore (Ted) Frois, J.D. ’69 (right), with the 2011 St. Ives Award.
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College of Social Sciences (continued) Puerto Rico. The agency does everything from PR and advertising to executive coaching and ghostwriting. Jena H. Casbon ’99 was married to Sarah Castro last fall in Marshfield, Mass. They have moved back to New Orleans, and Jena
is working as a speechlanguage pathologist. Jason Casellas ’99, Austin, Texas, published Latino Representation in State Houses and Congress, available t h r o u g h www.amazon.com.
2000s Fatima Harris Felton ’01, opened The Harris Law Firm, L.L.C., specializing in collections and insurance disputes. This entrance into entrepreneurship comes after working as a law clerk at the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court and King and Spalding,
L.L.P., in Atlanta, Ga. The firm is based in Riverdale, Ga., just outside of Atlanta. (www.TheHarrisLawFirmLLC.com) Brenda Campos ’03, Kenner, La., was named purchasing director for Jefferson Parish.
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Carmen at the renowned Royal Opera House in London. The special performance was filmed in 3-D and was shown in cinemas worldwide beginning March 5. Bryan and his fiancé, soprano Irini Kyriakidou, visited Loyola to perform in a masterclass and had an informal question and answer session on March 1. Arguably one of the world’s most popular operas, Carmen is an exciting story of love, jealousy, and betrayal. The story’s action takes place in Seville, Spain, in the mid-19th century. Don José, who was training for the priesthood, killed a man in a quarrel and has had to enlist in the army in Seville. Originally from Metairie, La., Bryan studied at Loyola with Dreux Montegut and Philip Frohnmayer and at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Pa. His awards include first prizes in the 2009 Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, 2008 Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation Competition, the 2008 Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition, and the 2008 Giulio Gari Foundation Competition. He also won the George London Award in 2008.
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Putting Service into Practice Giving back is important to Sharonda R. Williams J.D. ’01, Young Alumna of the Year. She has volunteered with the Truancy Intervention Project and the Domestic Violence Victims/Assistance as a volunteer attorney. She is co-founder of the Louisiana Association of Black Women Attorneys, which provides a mentorship program for underprivileged high school girls. Sharonda was instrumental in bringing the 85th Annual National Bar Association Convention to New Orleans. She also has volunteered with the Feminist Women’s Health Care Center. In 2010, Sharonda was recognized as one of Gambit’s “Top 40 Under 40” New Orleanians. Within the Loyola community, Sharonda is a member of the Loyola University Law Alumni Board of Directors. She is a also delegate to the University-Wide Alumni Board and chair of the Loyola Women in Law Tea. Sharonda is employed by Sher, Garner, Cahill, Richter, Klein & Hilbert, L.L.C., and she practices in litigation, intellectual property, and entertainment law. In 2009, she became the first African-American to become partner of the firm. She is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association— Intellectual Property Section, the New Orleans Bar Association—Young Lawyers Section, American Bar Association—Intellectual Section, Association of Women Attorneys, Louis A. Martinet Society—Martinet Society Legislative Committee, and the Louisiana State Bar— Minority Involvement Section.
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College of Social Sciences (continued) Ashley Huck ’03, Coronado, Calif., joined Stone & Youngberg’s Private Client Group as an investment executive. Ashley joined the firm in 2007 and was previously an analyst for both S&Y Capital Group and Stone & Youngbergs Municipal Credit Group, where she specialized in the research and analysis of Summer 2011 www.loyno.edu
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Amanda Richmond ’04 was named Teacher of the Year for her school in Volusia County, Fla. Amanda was chosen to represent her school to compete in the district-wide Teacher of the Year.
Lori Daigle ’05 married Todd Barker on October 9, 2010, in New Orleans, La. Alumnae Christi (Amedee) LeBlanc ’04, Veronica Filos ’05, Robin Myers, J.D. ’09, and Tabitha Olivard ’06 served as bridesmaids. Lori and her husband currently reside in Metairie, La., where
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For the Love of Writing Holly Iglesias ’71 is poet, translator, and lecturer. She began writing poetry in 1995 and won the John Guyon Creative Nonfiction Award in 1997. Her first poems launched her into a love of writing poetry about historical events, such as the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Her first book, All That Echoes Her Large, was published in 1995, and she has published four other books titled Angles of Approach (White Wine Press, 2010), Souvenirs of a Shrunken World: the 1904 World’s Fair (Kore Press, 2008), Boxing Inside the Box: Women’s Prose Poetry (Quale Press, 2004), and Good Long Enough (chapbook, Thorngate Road Press, 2000). Souvenirs of a Shrunken World won the Kore Press First Book Award in 2008. Holly is also the author of two chapbooks, Hands-on Saint and Good Long Enough, and has translated several books. Holly teaches in the master of liberal arts program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville and has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She also has received the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Holly has lived in Zaragoza, Spain, Staten Island, Detroit, Wilmington, Houston, Providence, Miami, Tallahassee, Washington, D.C., and western Massachusetts. Her children and grandchildren live in Miami. Holly Iglesias ’71
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17. Contemplating going to the Rec Plex but hitting the Fly instead. 18. Taking the Safe Ride shuttle to Maple Street and being thankful not to have to drive home.
25. Having margaritas at Superior Grill. 26. Falling down the stairs at the Columns. 27. Getting hypnotized at the beginning of the school year.
19. Swooning over the rugby players as they run laps in the Res Quad. 20. Making hangover jokes to a friend who had a rough night at the Boot. 21. Asking Fr. Wildes for his seat in Tom Benson’s box at the Saints games. 22. Waiting to start a 10-page paper until the night before it’s due. 23. Playing in the “sneaux” every December. 24. Baking cookies and watching movies in the Buddig kitchens.
28. Applying to be a Resident Assistant. 29. Fighting tooth-and-nail for a parking spot every day. 30. Rolling out of bed 15 minutes before class and being amazed when I arrived on time. 31. Standing in the mile-long line at CC’s every morning for a super-grande soy, no foam, extrahot, 1 Splenda, extra-shot latte. 32. Wondering why some people don’t wear shoes to class. 33. Chasing the elusive cat, Tom, around campus.
34. Sweating in one classroom and freezing in the one next door. 35. Taking the elevator to the second floor of Monroe hall. 36. Finding out that Marquette Hall used to have a morgue. 37. Writing an In My Opinion that ruffled some tail feathers. 38. Buying organic, fresh produce in the Peace Quad. 39. Buying the same over-priced Bob Marley poster at the poster sale that I accidentally threw out at the end of last semester. 40. Drinking daiquiris at the Fly. 41. Wearing flip flops and shorts to school in January. 42. “Wolfbucks, baby?” 43. Making friends with the UPD officers. 44. Posing for one of Mr. Harold’s pictures. 45. Spending way too many Wolfbucks at the C-Store because Flambeaux’s was closed. 46. Cracking jokes with the women working at Smoothie King. 47. Playing soccer in the Res Quad. 48. Trading off cafeterias with Tulane students every once in a while. 49. Sweating your butt off at a group class at the Rec Plex. 50. Catching beads thrown by Drew Brees at the Saints Super Bowl parade.
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1. Watching the sun rise on the fifth floor balcony of Monroe Hall. 2. Getting punched in the Orleans Room by a psycho ex-girlfriend. 3. Applying twice to a student position in SGA before getting it. 4. Sliding through the “O” of the Loyola statue in the front of school. 5. Skipping out on work study to go to the park. 6. Getting hit with a slushie from the top of the West Road Garage by a jilted lover while walking through the Peace Quad. 7. Throwing water balloons at people from the sixth floor of Biever. 8. Spending an entire afternoon people watching in the Res Quad. 9. Walking home from Lee Circle, on more than one occasion. 10. Partying on Bourbon the night the Saints won the Superbowl. 11. Sneaking up on to the Iggy statue to take a picture. 12. Getting a tan in the Res Quad. 13. Napping in the library. 14. Convincing a teacher to hold class outside on a beautiful day. 15. Partying with the Harlem Globe Trotters in Dublin while studying abroad. 16. Chowing down on fried catfish every Friday, and red beans and rice every Monday.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS JULY Combining the Worlds of Design and Music
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Mitchell Paone ’05 began his career as a freelance 27 Dallas Alumni Night at the designer at world-renowned motion graphics and design studio Logan in Los Angeles. After his tenure Rangers at Logan, which included working with a team of 29 Fall Classes Begin designers, directors, and animators to create the television spots for the launch of Apple’s video iPod, he moved to New York City. In New York, Mitch quick15 Mass of the Holy Spirit ly began one of the most in-demand freelance creatives designing and directing projects for clients such 30 Family Weekend as Nissan, Mitsubishi, MTV, VH1, Discovery Channel, AT&T, and Guinness at the top studios in the U.S., including Brand New School, Psyop, 1-2 Family Weekend Prologue Films, Motion Theory, Shilo, and Stardust. 14-16 Walker Percy Center During this time, Mitch created the brand identity and art direction for Centric TV; he led the design Conference and typography for Cartoon Network’s Elijah, which won the Best Typography Award at INSPIRE08; and he designed and directed the promos for Discovery 5 Wolves on the Prowl Channel’s Project Earth. In 2008, Mitch founded the creative production studio Dreamers Ink Aesthetics (DIA), located in NYC’s SoHo neighborhood. In the same way that Mitch’s studies were a mix of design and music, DIA’s work is characterized by a synthesis of graphic design, typography, animation, film, and music. Since DIA’s inception, they have produced work for companies such as Nokia, Nike, Nissan, DIRECTV, and Microsoft. Nissan and advertising agency TBWA worldwide commissioned a short film about zero emissions and climate change. The film was directed by Mitch, co-directed by Loyola alumnus Nessim Higson ’97, and included music performed and composed by alumnus Joseph Johnson, M.M. ’09. The film has been featured in a variety of film festivals and design exhibitions, and was awarded a finalist spot in the One Show Design Awards in the broadcast category. Moving forward, Mitch plans to expand DIA into a stronger force in the New York design and commercial production community, pursuing a wide range projects both directly with brands and advertising agencies. Beyond Mitch’s professional career, he is a recording artist and pianist with his jazz funk collective Non-Static. When he is not practicing or playing live music, he is either working on fine art for gallery exhibitions or pursuing his track to become a certified sommelier and a master of wine.
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Memorials Alumni Sr. Claire B. Saizan, SC ’30 Joseph S. Becnel, Jr. ’35 Alberta L. Farrell ’36 J.L. Dalferes, Jr. ’38 Ernest L. Salatich ’42, J.D. ’43 Miriam S. Abele ’44 Lawrence E. Bazzell, D.D.S. ’45 Theodore D. Forshag ’45 Francis J. Treuting, Jr. ’45 Delio D. Delgado, D.D.S. ’47 William J. Wegmann, J.D. ’48 Marian A. Tonglet ’49 Alfred P. Manint, Jr. ’50 George H. Van Geffen, J.D. ’50 Corwin B. Reed, J.D. ’51 Joan W. Buttigig ’52 Manuel A. Papania ’52 Richard S. Waguespack ’52 Ralph C. Redmann ’53 Sr. Rose M. Foret, RSM ’54 Fred H. Shiel, Jr. ’54 Donald L. Bonnet ’55 Col. Joseph A. Lemaire ’55 August M. Hofmann, Jr. ’56
Kent Satterlee, Jr. ’52, J.D. ’56 William H. Donner, Jr. ’49, M.A. ’57 David J. Seibert, Jr. ’53, M.Ed. ’57 Orlando G. Bendana ’56, J.D. ’58 Louis R. Raymond ’58 Joseph E. Meyer, Jr. ’59 Janice M. Clark ’60 Joseph F. Trosclair ’60 Sr. Michael Dufrene, CIC ’61 Henry C. Perret ’61 James A. Jones, D.D.S. ’62 Barbara Collins ’64 Carl J. Giffin ’64 George W. Yeend, Jr. ’64 Dr. John M. Berthelot, Jr. ’65 Thelma G. Amedee, M.E. ’66 Dorothy L. Wright ’66 Frank Oliveri, Jr. ’68 Raymond J. Cuccio, Sr. ’69 Ralph C. Grimaldi, Jr. ’69 Maurice L. Lagarde, Jr., M.E. ’69 Richard D. Lind ’69 Edward A. Armstrong, Jr., J.D. ’71 Ralph F. DeBlanc ’71 Lawrence Robert, Jr. ’71
Judith O. Ruch ’71 Col. Roger A. Bacon, Sr. ’72 Richard F. Lusky ’72 Richard C. Myers ’72 John L. Diasselliss III, J.D. ’73 Elizabeth Fellows ’71, M.E. ’73 James W. Jarvis ’75 Joseph K. Ehrensing ’76 Paul Galuszka, J.D. ’76 Louis Stierwald, Jr., J.D. ’76 Merle F. Shoughrue, J.D. ’77 Michael R. Toussaint ’78 Leon W. Desselle ’79 Lt. Col. John J. Trader III, M.S. ’79 Sr. Isabel Geldreich, M.S. ’80 Barbara A. Paulissen ’83 Eileen C. Sullivan, M.E. ’83 Carol A. Weaver, M.R.E. ’84 Robert S. Masakowski, J.D. ’88 John D. Butler ’91 Michelle Johnson ’96 Mario Torres ’97 Marla A. Sottarelli, M.C.J. ’03
Friends Dr. Alton F. Doody, Jr.
Alumni Chapter Presidents Acadiana, La. Blake Escudier ’87, M.B.A. ’93 Atlanta Mike Blackstock ’98 Austin Erin Osman ’06 Baton Rouge Cindy Hallam ’97 Bryan Jeansonne, J.D. ’06 Boston Courtney Fisher ’07 Eric Pengel ’07 Central Florida Susan McEvoy ’88 Chicago Stacey O’Malley ’89
Dallas Conrad DeBaillon ’07 Julia Mungioli ’96 Denver Marlow Felton ’89 Houston Parker Bigley ’95 Las Vegas Elly Hanks ’99 Los Angeles Jeremey Ancalade ’04 Miami Mildred Morgado, J.D. ’98 Mississippi Gulf Coast Volunteers Needed
We Want To Hear From You! The Loyola University New Orleans Office of Alumni Relations is interested in alumni accomplishments and community service, so please tell us about yourself. You can also update a new business or home address, e-mail, and phone number.
Nashville Allison Cooley ’07 New York City Tim Marsek ’04 Northshore, La. Elizabeth Cigali Manshel ’89 Nursing Chapter Dawn Kregel, M.S.N. ’08 Philadelphia Molly Gatto ’80 Phoenix Anastaja Hatton ’07 Puerto Rico Ramon Gonzalez ’82
Raleigh Volunteers Needed Shreveport Aimee Pote ’08 San Diego Muriel Croom ’02 St. Louis Matt Bruns ’98 Tampa Anne Smith ’92 Washington, D.C. S. Gina Trippi, J.D. ’80
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“I am grateful to the alumni who helped support my time here. As a recipient of financial aid, I am eager to give back to the academic community that has provided such wonderful encouragement and inspiration.” —Sarah Cooper, Class of 2011
Thanks to the generous support of our Loyola Loyal donors, Sarah is one of the many students Loyola graduated this May. Annual gifts from alumni, parents, and friends are crucial to the university and help us attract, retain, and graduate great young men and women educated in the Jesuit tradition. However, there are many more students like Sarah who can still benefit from your Annual Gift to Loyola. If you have not done so this year or you would like to make another gift, please use the enclosed postage-paid envelope to make your best gift possible before the end of our fiscal year, July 31.
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