Loyno Magazine Winter 2020

WINTER 2020

Faith in the Finish

The impact of the historic Faith in the Future campaign

Tracking Jazz Rachel Lyons ‘98

runs the Jazz & Heritage Festival Archives from a French Quarter cottage.

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Loyola engages in formal reflection on its Jesuit, Catholic mission with the Mission Examen process.

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President’s Message Women’s Leadership Academy Know & Tell News Roundup Alumni Events The Loyola Effect In Memoriam Class Notes College Roundup

Drama graduate and philanthropist S. Derby Gisclair ‘73 was honored with the 2019 Integritas Vitae Award for his work leading the Faith in the Future campaign.

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Winter 2020 Editor Tonya Jordan-Loht Designer Hillary Lovinggood Photographer Kyle Encar Contributing Writers Colleen Dulle '17 Angelique Dyer '11 Chief Communications Officer Rachel Hoormann '94 Executive Director of Development Stephanie Hotard '04, M.B.A. '10 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Engagement Laurie Eichelberger Leiva '03

Dear Alumni and Friends, Loyola New Orleans is on a roll. This fall, U.S. News and World Report ranked Loyola New Orleans in the category of “national university” for the first time, where we tied at 197th out of more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States.

I am even more pleased to say that we were ranked 76th for the quality of our undergraduate teaching, tied with Columbia and NYU. Given how much the alumni rave to me about the quality of the faculty who taught them, I know that none of you will be surprised by that.

Vice President for University Advancement Chris Wiseman '88, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Enrollment Management and Student Affairs Sarah Kelly University President Tania Tetlow, J.D.

We welcomed one of the largest and most diverse classes of students in our 107-year history—and were ranked the 15th most inclusive and welcoming campus in America by the Princeton Review.

We also successfully completed Loyola’s largest fundraising campaign ever, raising $101 million. Thanks to so many of you, in gifts ranging from $10 to $10 million, we have transformed our campus and created critical scholarship support for our students.

Loyola is now healthy and financially strong, with a $215 million endowment and more than $300 million in net assets. For three straight years, we have sustained enrollment success, culminating in a budget surplus in fiscal year 2019. This was an extraordinary accomplishment, achieved through the hard work of every single member of our community.

Loyola’s outlook is bright and our model of education is what our world needs now more than ever. As always, we are grateful for your continued support and partnership. We ask that you take the time to spread the word about Loyola’s success in your communities; that you’ll share our wins with your alumni colleagues; and that you’ll remain steadfast in helping us show the world what Loyola is capable of. We’re ready to set the world on fire in 2020.

Yours always,

LOYNO Magazine is published twice per year.

View online at loyno.edu/magazine Send address changes and correspondences to: Loyola University New Orleans Department of Alumni Engagement 7214 St. Charles Avenue, Box 909 New Orleans, LA 70118 phone (504) 861-5454 email magazine@loyno.edu Submissions of stories and photographs are welcome.

Tania Tetlow, J.D. University President

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Loyola University New Orleans admits students of any race, creed, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability status, marital status, and citizenship status and doesn't discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, or athletic and other school-administered programs.

WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY March 26 - December 10, 2020 TAKE THE LEAD

The Women's Leadership Academy (WLA) at Loyola University New Orleans is designed to enable women in the region to achieve their greatest professional potential through leadership training, personal development, and one-on-one mentorships. WLA consists of ten on-campus sessions, including keynote speakers, microlearning seminars, case studies, and an individual development plan. Each participant has the opportunity to grow and network with thought leaders in the region.

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One of the unique aspects of this opportunity, in addition to creating such a women-positive professional space, is the exposure to such a variety of experts in their field."

LIZ MARCELL WILLIAMS, FOUNDING CEO CENTER FOR RESILIENCE

WLA has been life-changing. It has allowed for self reflection and personal and professional adjustments to assist with my success."

OCTOBER AMBROSE, CLINIC OPERATIONS MANAGER OCHSNER HEALTH SYSTEM

GROWTH TOPICS INCLUDE: Project Management Public Speaking Critical Thinking Emotional Intelligence Conflict Resolution Negotiation Strategic Planning Networking Business Acumen

IMPORTANT DATES

Priority application deadline: January 16 Final application deadline: March 2 Tuition due: March 6 To learn more about the WLA, visit loyno.edu/wla.

TO APPLY

An online application must be submitted at loyno.edu/wla to be considered for the Women's Leadership Academy.

For additional inquiries, email PACS@loyno.edu or call us at 504-865-3530.

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know&tell Loyno news worth howling about

President Tania Tetlow was honored in September with the Fellow of the Year award from the Norman C. Francis Leadership Institute.

Inspired by the esteemed former president of Xavier University Norman C. Francis, the Institute provides leadership training to the region's most promising leaders. President Tetlow received the award alongside Dean Baquet, H '13, executive editor and chief of the New York Times; Walter Isaacson, renowned writer and thinker; and Monty Williams, former head coach of the New Orleans Hornets/Pelicans.

Established in 2019 under the leadership of College of Nursing and Health Chair Dr. John Dewell, the new Loyola Center for Counseling and Education (LCCE) helps fill a gap in the city's mental healthcare services by providing mental health counseling on a sliding scale. The LCCE serves families, couples, groups, and individuals at all stages of life, and also supervises training for graduate students in the Department of Counseling. The LCCE will be featured in the 2020 GiveNOLA Day campaign on May 5.

Andrea Armstrong

Loyola law professor is one of the nation’s leading experts on prison and jail conditions. She spends her days teaching and studying issues affecting incarcerated citizens– particularly incarcerated residents of Louisiana.

Armstrong will now be able to continue this work with a $350,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Armstrong and colleagues from Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) and LSU Health Sciences Center will examine the effects of incarceration on health service use in Louisiana, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.

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Loyola was ranked 15th in the nation as one of the most inclusive universities by The Princeton Review.

Loyola was also honored with a Top 20 ranking in four areas, and was recognized as one of the nation’s “Best Southeastern Green Colleges” as well. The Review ranked Loyola 8th in the nation for “Town-Gown Relations” for its positive relationship with the local community, and awarded the university a “Quality of Life” score of 92 on a scale

Students surveyed singled Loyola out for its “size,” which translates into “a lot of one-on-one attention.” They noted personalized of 100.

attention from mentors, personalized success coaching offered to all firstyear students, opportunities to perform professional research alongside professors, unique programs, a caring environment, and a high level of engagement and discussion in the classroom.

Loyola was highlighted in The Princeton Review’s 2020 college guide for the following rankings:

No. 7

BEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER

Best 385 Colleges

No. 15

LOTS OF RACE/CLASS INTERACTION (diversity and cultural inclusiveness)

No. 8

TOWN-GOWN RELATIONS ARE GREAT

Best Southeastern GREEN COLLEGES

Object Lessons, the internationally renowned series edited by Dr. Chris Schaberg and housed in the new Center for Editing and Publishing, recently received renewal support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Launched by Dr. Schaberg and Ian Bogost in 2015, Object Lessons is an award-winning essay and book series that explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and can be found in some of the hippest book shops and museums around the world. Under the leadership of Dr. Mark Yakich, the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J. Distinguished Professor of English, the Center for Editing and Publishing has also received a gift from the Clein-Lemann Esperanza Fund to support student editorial assistants.

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Albums, mixtapes, and now - podcasts!

From Loyola’s new podcast studio in the College of Music and Media, students have the opportunity to record, produce, and distribute their own podcasts. Students Vanessa Alvarado and Rhon Ridgeway have launched “Being Boss Babes,” a podcast that explores the lives of women in leadership.

The College of Music and Media welcomes new faculty members to the School of Music Industry and the School of Communication and Design.

Mia X, the legendary Southern rap star, chef, and activist, now teaches courses on hip-hop in the School of Music Industry. Veteran journalist and Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reporter Will Sutton has joined the School of Communication and Design, and renowned WDSU reporter Gina Swanson is the new Visiting Professional in Residence in journalism. Sutton and Swanson joined the school to lend their expertise in media and diversity in the newsroom.

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Madeleine Landrieu, J.D.,

Dean of the College of Law and Judge Adrian G. Duplantier Distinguished Professor of Law, received the 2019

Hannah G. Solomon Award

from the Greater New Orleans chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women in October.

This prestigious award is given to a community leader who exemplifies the qualities of Hannah G. Solomon, founder of the National Council of Jewish Women.

Dean Landrieu has spent a large part of her career advocating for improvements in laws and policies that impact children who come before the courts as a result of abuse or neglect. She is a founding board member of the Louisiana Institute for Children in Families, and was instrumental in the launch of Louisiana’s Quality Parenting Initiative and Louisiana Fosters– efforts to raise awareness about the needs of abused and neglected children and their families.

The College of Business has named

Michael Eckert

executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development (CECD).

Current CEO of Pathfire, Eckert is a seasoned early-stage business executive. He served as president and CEO of The Weather Channel for 14 years and is the chairman of the NO/LA Angel Network of investors. An active mentor, Eckert has served on the board of the national Angel Capital Association, Start-Up Atlanta, the New Orleans Start-Up Fund, and the Propeller Accelerator.

With $150,000 in new grants from Entergy, AT&T, and others, Loyola students and professors are partnering with local schools, industry leaders, and community organizations to create a new learning laboratory at

Mirabeau Water Garden, a FEMA-funded environmental showcase located in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood.

The water garden — part of the city’s resiliency plan — is an innovative stormwater management system that demonstrates how water gardens can help reduce neighborhood flooding and subsidence. At “Loyola Academy,” Loyola students and scientists, together with industry and community professionals, will mentor local high school students and teachers, introducing them to new ways of handling water in our city. The Mirabeau Water Garden project was recently featured in an article from The Hill titled, "Nuns are turning a convent into a wetland to fight flooding in New Orleans.

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Jesuit education is preparation for active life commitment.

It serves the faith that does justice. – The Characteristics of Jesuit Education The Jesuit Institute

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Launched in 2011 with the ambitious goal of raising $100 million, the historic Faith in the Future campaign for Loyola University New Orleans will be felt across campus for generations to come.

These funds were needed in service of the university’s larger goals—to serve students’ development through authentic inquiry in the Jesuit tradition on an enterprising campus engaged with New Orleans. The campaign's mission ensures the university's ability to provide holistic Jesuit education for the next generation.

Faith in the Future raised $101 million and created more than 100 new endowments which will fund programs, scholarships, and faculty positions year after year. Loyola now has more scholarship dollars to award than

ever before, and the campus has benefited from $22 million in renovations and enhancements—with more to come.

The university called on alumni, friends, and supporters to have faith in Loyola’s future. And they did. Nearly 20,000 individual donors gave over 70,000 single gifts to Loyola over the course of eight years. And campaign volunteers worked over 20,000 hours. Because of their faith and support, Loyola students receive an exemplary education and graduate from the university transformed and ready.

AN ENTERPRISING CAMPUS ENGAGED WITH NEW ORLEANS The campaign capitalized on the campus’ existing strengths and used renovation and new construction to create spaces ideal for learning and collaboration. Donors gave over $22 million to remake major parts of Loyola’s physical campus and upgrade infrastructure with first-rate equipment and facilities.

MONROE HALL RENOVATIONS Monroe Hall is Loyola’s largest and most multifaceted academic facility. Its classrooms, laboratories, studios, and workshops are home to 40% of all of Loyola’s undergraduate classes. Faith in the Future raised over $6 million for Monroe Hall renovations. Improvements include three new design studios, new laboratories, and two teaching studios with updated projection technology and surround sound. Nunemaker Auditorium has undergone technical and aesthetic enhancements that create an environment worthy of visiting scholars, leaders, and artists who enliven the intellectual discourse of the university and city.

RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAM Campaign gifts established a new Resident Artist program to attract worldrenowned artists to spend an academic year at Loyola working with students and faculty. Internationally acclaimed violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg began an artistic residence at Loyola in 2016. She established the Loyola Strings conductorless chamber orchestra, leads master classes, gives concerts, participates in Loyola’s Music Industry Studies forums, and works with local high school musicians. After serving as resident artist for two seasons, Salerno-Sonnenberg joined the faculty of the College of Music and Media.

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CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

J. MICHAEL EARLY STUDIO

The Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development (CECD) helps students from all backgrounds explore entrepreneurship and business as a potential career path. Started with $1.8 million in campaign funding, the center and its programs position the College of Business as an integral part of the local entrepreneurial community, training students through experience to launch their own businesses, support other founders with their startups, and create innovation from within large companies.

Available to all freshman, the CECD's First Year Experience course introduces students to the fundamentals of starting a business-- guiding them from idea to soft launch-- and gives them opportunities to consult for working entrepreneurs from the community. Undergraduates from all colleges can also compete for $1,500 in business capital in the annual Pitch Competition. The CECD places College of Business students in Startup Internships with new local companies so they can experience entrepreneurship first-hand and learn how to drive collaborative innovation.

Campaign donors have given almost $600,000 to create a state-of-the-art professional news studio where Loyola students train to become news and public relations professionals. The Early Studio functions as a “communications hub” where content from experts on campus can be streamed to local, regional, and network television outlets using IP technology. High quality audio connection to radio stations across the world is made possible through the studio’s comrex audio interface, and the facility also features Bonded Cellular technology which allows students to do live, high-definition shots in the field. Other key features include 4K laser projection, a 23foot cinema-grade screen, 5.1 surround sound, conference-style seating for 60, a podcasting room, and a production area.

Students enrolled in journalism, public relations, visual communication, advertising, and digital filmmaking classes will use the studio as part of their coursework. The space is also rented to outside professional organizations. “The Early Studio is one of the premier educational multimedia facilities in the country,” says Sonya Duhé, the A. Louis Read Distinguished Professor of Communication and Director of Loyola’s School of Communication and Design.

CECD programming available to M.B.A. students includes the Ignatian Consulting Group, where graduate students serve as operational consultants for local startups and businesses to gain professional experience and increase capacity for those businesses. The center also offers a Lean Launchpad graduate course and a week-long intensive IDEAcorps MBA Consulting Challenge, wherein teams of M.B.A. students are assigned to local companies and compete against one another in developing their assigned business.

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AUTHENTIC INQUIRY IN THE JESUIT TRADITION Loyola is, above all else, a Catholic and Jesuit university, and reinvigorating all aspects of mission, ministry, and service were central to Faith in the Future. In service of the Jesuit ideals of academic excellence and concern for others, over $46 million was raised for endowed scholarships, programs, and professorships. And donors have given over $11 million for the new Chapel of St. Ignatius.

CHAPEL OF ST. IGNATIUS The campaign has ushered in a new era of faith-based education, ministry, and service guided by a profound reaffirmation of Loyola’s Catholic, Jesuit roots. Thanks to a leadership gift from the Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation, the Chapel of St. Ignatius will serve the spiritual formation of Loyola students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others by providing a welcoming place of worship in a vibrant Catholic ministerial and serviceoriented community. The Tom Benson Jesuit Center will ensure Jesuit spirituality remains central to Loyola’s identity. The Chapel of St. Ignatius will be a home for Masses and services, individual prayer and meditation, and public events that increase Loyola’s prominence as a venue for interaction within the regional Catholic community.

PROGRAM ENDOWMENTS Opportunities for experiential learning transcend disciplines. Endowed university programs provide annual funding for innovative educational equipment and experiences.

The campaign increased Loyola’s program endowments by $5.7 million and students are already benefitting from the expanded guest-lecture series and access to new technology these funds provide. Program endowments also provide real world professional experience by allowing students to attend conferences and present undergraduate research. All of these enhancements allow students to compete nationally with graduates from other top universities. Key programs funded by recent endowments include play therapy training, an undergraduate archaeological dig, and an ongoing citywide study of local bat species.

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS The campaign created over 20 new endowed professorships. The campus community now benefits greatly from newly endowed professors including Thomas Ryan, the Marjorie R. Morvant Distinguished Professor of Theology and Ministry, who coordinates the FaithActs Summer Youth Theology Institute and provides programming for students, staff, and alumni. Todd Bacile, the Clifton A. Morvant Distinguished Professor of Business, is an award-winning instructor whose teaching methods have been highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher Education and U.S. News and World Report. The $4.5 million raised for new endowed professorships and chairs also includes the Reverend Emmett M. Bienvenu, S.J., Distinguished Professorship in Classical Studies currently held by Karen Rosenbecker; and the Augustus Elmer, Jr. Endowed Professorship in Chemistry, currently held by Clifton Stephenson.

EXTENDING OPPORTUNITY Being men and women for others lies at the heart of Jesuit teachings, and Loyola University New Orleans’ mission statement reflects this. The university “welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others.” Extending the opportunity of a transformative education to students from all backgrounds was a critical campaign focus, and donors gave over $36 million in scholarship funding.

The largest single gift in Loyola’s history came as a bequest from Maedell Hoover Braud, who gave $10.5 million for endowed scholarships. Mrs. Braud worked in the College of Arts and Sciences for over 30 years and was a strong believer in the value of a Jesuit education. Her generosity will transform the lives of many individual students for generations to come.

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LOYOLA GRADUATES TRANSFORMED AND READY Experiential learning, student-centered support, and academic programs that challenge students, all delivered according to the Jesuit value of cura personalis, create talented professionals who think critically, act justly, and live meaningfully. This final result—Loyola graduates transformed and ready—was the guiding goal behind every dollar raised by Faith in the Future.

LAW ADVOCACY CENTER Launched in 2018 with $1 million in campaign funding, the Advocacy Center reinforces the ongoing and comprehensive nature of advocacy, from the early stages of negotiation and litigation, through mediation or arbitration, pre-trial and trial practice, and finally with appellate practice. The Center builds on the law school’s rich tradition of advocacy within the Center’s five programs by offering an expanded, cohesive, and seamless vehicle for advocacy education yielding stronger and more complete advocates.

• The Becnel Trial Advocacy program prepares students for pre-trial and trial practice.

• The Moot Court program focuses on the legal and factual arguments presented on appeal.

PAN-AMERICAN LIFE STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER The mission of the Student Success Center is to help undergraduates meet their personal, academic, and professional goals by offering resources and support that ensure graduation and a bright future after Loyola. Thanks to $1.2 million in funding from the Pan-American Life Insurance Group and other donors, Loyola students now have easy access to individualized tutoring, study groups, academic development programs, career services, and other support programs.

WOLF PACK ATHLETICS Educating the whole person is a fundamental tenet of Jesuit education.

Vibrant on-campus athletics programs are important ways for Loyola to build both character and community among students. The Faith in the Future campaign secured $1.5 million in funding for the renovation of the basketball court in the university Sports Complex.

This gift provided new flooring, new bleachers, and a host of additional facility improvements. This support greatly benefits the entire Loyola community, enriches student life, and improves the fan experience.

• The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program explores negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and settlement discussions to provide for the swift resolution of issues.

• International Advocacy focuses on international tribunals available for disputes that cross oceans and borders.

• The Legal Research and Writing program develops students’ skills in the foundation for all advocacy— the written word.

The Advocacy Center houses a broad array of resources for law students, including core courses, skills courses, and online content to build knowledge and skills. Students can practice their skills in mock trial, appellate, and negotiation competitions, and in their third year, represent clients in one of our eight Clinic programs.

Each competition team within the Advocacy Center partners with experienced practitioners with expertise in the subject matter and style of the competition to serve as Adjunct Professors of Advocacy. Each year, in coordination with Loyola’s CLE Department, the Advocacy Center will host the Fedoroff Lecture to be given by a nationally-renowned speaker on oral or written advocacy.

For over 100 years, the College of Law has educated students in the Jesuit tradition of academic rigor, pursuit of justice, and a commitment to service. These core values continue to guide the law school in preparing attorneys for the modern legal profession. The Advocacy Center is a key component of the College of Law’s strategy to provide a comprehensive education yielding practice-ready attorneys who are well-equipped to succeed in the highly competitive job market for new attorneys.

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This academic year, Loyola University New Orleans is engaging in a formal, comprehensive Mission Examen to reflect on its Jesuit, Catholic mission.

Every day, sometimes twice a day, Jesuits pause to consider the joys and challenges the past few hours have brought. They evaluate the choices they’ve made, ask forgiveness for the places they’ve fallen short, and pray for God’s help to do better.

This reflection, called the examen, dates back 500 years to St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, and it keeps today's Jesuits grounded in the kind of thoughtful discernment that has characterized the religious order for centuries.

Loyola University New Orleans is now undertaking its own community-wide examen to reflect on the ways in which the university is already living its Jesuit, Catholic mission and envisioning ways in which it could do that better.

Fr. Justin Daffron, S.J., Loyola’s Vice President for Mission and Ministry and co-chair of Loyola’s Mission Priority Examen steering committee, explained it this way: “With reflection being at the heart of Jesuit education, really the Mission Priority Examen is a process that allows us to engage in that deep reflection, deeper thought, and hopefully come up with some findings that would allow us to deepen our commitments towards mission.”

Fr. Daffron recently led St. Louis University through its own Mission Priority Examen, which every Jesuit institution has been invited to do emerging from two questions that Very Reverend Adolfo Nicolás, previous Jesuit Superior General, said that universities should ask themselves when undertaking this process: “Do you want to continue to be a Jesuit, Catholic University? If so, what are the two to four mission goals (and accompanying strategies) that you will prioritize for the next few years?”

The process of asking these questions looks different for each institution. In the United States, each Jesuit school designs

a process to reflect and solicit input on how well the school is living its mission and where it needs to improve. At the end of that period, the university draws up a report outlining its findings and the two to four areas of improvement it will focus on. That report receives comments from a peer review team that visits the campus, then is passed onto the regional Jesuit leader, called the Provincial, and on up to Fr. Sosa in Rome. Once the report and goals are approved, the university gets down to business implementing its plan.

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For Loyola, a university that prides itself on its boundless creativity and intimate, inclusive community, the open-endedness of the Mission Priority Examen’s reflection stage presented an exciting challenge.

While other universities undertaking this process might quietly ask for input from the typical groups of involved students and faculty like the Student Government Association or Faculty Senate,

Loyola decided to launch a campus-wide campaign to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard.

The steering committee planned listening sessions with students from every corner of the school, along with groups of faculty, staff members, the Jesuit community, alumni, donors, and trustees. They advertised these listening sessions all over campus. (“Oh yeah, dude, everybody knows about it,” my sister, Loyola senior Claire Dulle, told me when I asked if she’d heard about the Mission Priority Examen.) Signs attributed to a “secret society” called 1540 encouraging people to participate in the listening sessions even appeared in the Loyola bathrooms.

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It seems that the wide-ranging awareness campaign has paid off: As of December 2019, roughly 450 people had participated in 35 listening sessions, and around 600 more—mainly alumni living outside of New Orleans—had responded to the online Mission Priority Examen survey.

Like the classic Ignatian examen, Loyola’s Mission Priority Examen includes elements

of looking back on past actions, looking inward at where we are living our mission well and where we could improve, and looking ahead with resolve to do better in the future. Each of these elements were brought up in the listening sessions and the alumni survey, providing a comprehensive view of Loyola’s mission efforts.

Begin with Gratitude When explaining how to do an examen, every Jesuit spiritual director will say, "begin with gratitude"—or, in the words of Ignatius of Loyola, “render thanks to God for the favors we have received.” The idea is that by recalling the gifts we’ve been given, we will remember that even as we prepare to take a hard look at the places where we’ve fallen short, we are still deeply loved and blessed.

Gratitude has been a key theme of the “looking back” portion of Loyola’s Mission Priority Examen, Fr. Daffron said. “People have spoken about that in different ways: students’ gratitude for the rich experiences that they’ve had working with faculty and staff on campus, gratitude for their friendships, gratitude for the opportunity to be in New Orleans to study, gratitude for retreats, and gratitude for classes that have challenged them intellectually and helped them grow.”

Faculty and staff, Fr. Daffron said, have expressed gratitude for their colleagues, students, and the sense of purpose their work and scholarship at Loyola gives them.

Alumni have expressed gratitude for the education they received. “It definitely is something that's emerged across all stakeholder groups and is an important part of what I've been hearing,” Fr. Daffron said.

After expressing gratitude, Ignatius says to ask for God’s help to prepare us to look at ourselves and our actions with honesty and humility. For Loyola, a crucial part of ensuring the university was adequately prepared to begin its own self-examination was completing last year’s search for a new university president. Now that Tania Tetlow has been inaugurated, says Dr. Carol Ann MacGregor, vice provost and co-chair of the Mission Priority Examen steering committee, it is the perfect time for the university to evaluate its mission activities.

The self-evaluation will conclude just in time for President Tetlow to include its resolutions in her strategic plan.

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“People really see walking with the poor and marginalized as being central to Loyola’s identity.”

Looking In

In addition to her responsibilities as Loyola’s vice provost and co-chair of the Mission Priority Examen steering committee, Dr. MacGregor is a sociology professor and has researched Catholic education, religious non-affiliation, and the ways religion intersects with civic engagement. With this background, Dr. MacGregor was able to lead the mission examen team to look at how each constituent group at Loyola understands the university’s mission, where it believes the university is doing well, and what it seeks to improve.

The team summed up its findings in a few categories: First, it found that Loyola’s leadership and board of trustees hold that the university’s Jesuit, Catholic identity distinguishes it from other universities and

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are willing to make incremental financial investments to strengthen that mission.

The leadership hopes in particular to offer more opportunities for students, faculty and staff to learn about the Ignatian spiritual tradition. Specifically, they hope to offer more opportunities for participation in the Spiritual Exercises, the set of meditations and prayers that St. Ignatius created for the first Jesuits, which less than half of the respondents said they were familiar with.

In terms of academics and campus culture, the survey and listening sessions revealed commitment across the institution to the university’s liberal arts tradition, small class sizes, large number of first-generation students, and diverse student body, but noted that the faculty and staff did not always reflect the same diversity. Alumni expressed appreciation for the Catholic theology courses they had taken, and students and faculty requested that there be more opportunities to study theology and the Catholic intellectual tradition in the future. In addition to making more explicit links between the school’s diversity and mission and strengthening the theology course offerings, university leaders are considering how to introduce Jesuit values in first year seminars in order to expose new students to the Jesuit tradition.

Students consistently pointed to service trips and service learning courses as strong points in Loyola’s mission work and hope to increase both the number and accessibility of service opportunities.

“People really see walking with the poor and marginalized as being central to Loyola’s identity,” Dr. MacGregor said. One challenge facing students, she explained, is transportation to New Orleans’ vulnerable neighborhoods where students want to serve, so her team is considering ways the university can support transportation to service sites.

The university also evaluated its relationship with the Archdiocese of New Orleans. The local Catholic community, respondents said, benefits from ministers educated by the Loyola Institute for Ministry and from justice initiatives headed by the Jesuit Social Research Institute and the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic & Center for Social Justice which advocate for and serve marginalized communities in the area. Despite the good these institutes do, they have little name recognition among students, so the university hopes to increase awareness of these mission-focused organizations.

Perhaps most obviously, Loyola’s mission is supported by the Jesuits on campus, so the university hopes to find ways to increase their presence, even as the number of Jesuits in the United States declines. Some ideas the university is considering include a speaker series or assembling a pool of potential spiritual directors to lead community members in the Spiritual Exercises. The Jesuit community has requested that Loyola support its vocation efforts, encouraging young men to think about becoming Jesuits themselves.

Next Steps

In the next few months, Loyola will consider the many suggestions that were raised in the listening sessions and mold them into a set of priorities and action points for the school, which will then be reviewed by AJCU and Jesuit leadership.

Despite this focus on resolutions, Dr. MacGregor said, the Mission Priority Examen is not a problem-solving exercise; it is a self-evaluation undertaken in the spirit of Jesuit discernment, which begins with an understanding of who each person was created to be.

“It’s not like, ‘Oh, we have a problem with our Jesuit Catholic identity, let’s get together and brainstorm ways to solve it,’ ” Dr. MacGregor said. “It’s more about, ‘What do we do really, really well? What do we love about ourselves? What are we trying

to do for students? What do we hope for alumni? Who do we want to be?’ ” The end of Ignatian examen invites each person to “resolve to amend my life with the help of God’s grace.” These resolutions are sometimes very specific and sometimes more general, according to what the retreatant needs, but always with the understanding that growth is incremental and that they will evaluate their actions and re-evaluate their resolutions the next day, or at the next examen.

In spring 2020, Loyola will work to develop its own resolutions, deciding on general focus areas and specific action points. The university will not attempt to meet every need at once, but will commit to incremental progress that will be evaluated in a few

years, when the peer review team returns to see how the university has done. In the meantime, the question to guide the university’s discernment process will be the same question Loyola, following the Jesuit tradition, guides its own students to ask:

“Who do we want to be?”

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Crawfish Boils

Loyola alumni chapters across the country take great pride in their crawfish boil recipes.

Olives can be found in the Miami boil mix. The Houston Chapter always includes carrots in the boil. Chicago alumni come back year after year for the special boil mixed up by Andy Steigleder '97. And the mushrooms in the mix in the Atlanta Boil are always a big hit. Send in your unique crawfish boil ingredients to alumni@loyno.edu.

1. Chicago Sarah '06 and Ian Roche '05, '11; and Evan Heigert enjoy boiled crawfish and fixings at the Chicago Alumni Chapter crawfish boil held at McGee's Tavern and Grille.

2. Miami Ellie Diaz '17, Cat Busot '09, Ryan Holmes '01, and Mari Novo '98 show their Wolf Pack pride at the Miami Crawfish Boil at the Busot home.

3. Houston Houston Alumni Chapter members enjoy crawfish at their annual boil at the Houston Heights Women's Club.

4. Atlanta Zinzela Sebunya '16, Anja Sebyunya, Lyonnette Davis, Leta Davis '13, and Dan O'Byrne '90 gather at the home of Michael Blackstock '98 for the Atlanta Alumni Chapter crawfish boil.

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1. Carreen Reso, Earl '56 and Carolyn Weiser, and Jerome Reso, Jr. '58, J.D. '61 (seated) at the Heritage Society Reception.

2. Sandra '66 and Charlie Young '64, and Mary Jane '61 and John Becker '61 enjoy the Heritage Society Reception.

The Heritage Society recognizes supporters who have made a planned gift to Loyola. For information about planned giving, please contact Director of Estate & Planned Giving Monqiue Gardner at mgardner@loyno.edu.

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Sandestin Law Reception

Ben Saunders, J.D. '69, pictured here with Dean Madeleine Landrieu, was recognized as the 2019 Glass Honoree at the Loyola Law party during the Louisiana State Bar Association Annual Meeting in Sandestin on June 4.

Law Class of 1999 Reunion

The College of Law Class of 1999 celebrates their 20th reunion at Pat O'Brien's in the French Quarter.

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Wolf Pack Weekend 2019

1. Golden Wolves Dinner Ann Forcier Lichtenstein '69, Randy Randall Kelly '69, Carmela Matassa Van Hook '69, Judith Degiuli Harris '69, Mary Henderson Meyers '69, and Jennifer Caire Wein '69 celebrate the 50th reunion of the Class of 1969 at the Golden Wolves Society Dinner & Induction Ceremony.

2. Class of 1999 Reunion Members of the Class of 1999 celebrate their 20th reunion at Acme Oyster House.

3. College of Business Luncheon Brett Simpson '96, M.B.A. '03; Robert LeBlanc '00; Michie McHardy Bissell '64; John F. Young '79, J.D. '82; and Marc Dedman '80 gather during Wolf Pack Weekend for the annual College of Business Luncheon at the Sheraton Hotel New Orleans.

4. Adjutor Hominum Judy Caswell Moore '64; Kathryn Aultman-Moore; Dee Parham Moore '68; Dr. David Moore '67, recipient of the 2019 Adjutor Hominum Award; President Tania Tetlow; and Elizabeth Moore '70. Given at the Annual Alumni Association Brunch, the Adjutor Hominum Award honors an outstanding alumna or alumnus whose life exemplifies those characteristics that Loyola seeks to form in its graduates--namely moral character, service to humanity, and unquestionable integrity.

5. Alumni Jazz Brunch Bethany Paulsen '04; Danielle Dayries '90; Jamar Pierre; Darrinisha Gray, J.D. '19; Delaney Gordon Vollmer '04, J.D. '19; Pierre Mouledoux; and Alyse Mouledoux close out Wolf Pack Weekend at the Annual Alumni Jazz Brunch and the Audubon Tea Room.

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6. Audubon Park Tour Biology professor Dr. AimĂŠe Thomas leads students, families, and alumni on an in-depth walking tour of Audubon Park.

7. Class of 2009 Reunion Catherine Dorrough '09; Rose Anzel '10; Anne Watkins '09, M.B.A. '12; Juan Danzilo '09; Katherine Beck; Peter Winfrey '09; and Mary Nicholson '09 enjoy the Class of 2009 reunion happy hour at Oak. 8. Tales of Adventure Wolf Pack Weekend guests listen to Tales of Adventure, a performance by award-winning storyteller Connie ReganBlake '69.

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1. Celeste Gauthier, J.D. '95, Anne Gauthier, Henry MuĂąoz '81, and Dean Kern Maass at the Faith in the Future Campaign Victory Celebration.

2. Patrick Jackson, Daneeta Jackson '88, and Tanisha Wilson '00 join the festivities during the Campaign Victory Celebration.

3. The Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., President Tania Tetlow, Ileana Suquet, and Anne Milling celebrate the victory of the historic Faith in the Future campaign.

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1912 Society

1. Bernard Panetta, President Tania Tetlow, and The Rev. Fred Kammer, S.J., following the induction ceremony at the 1912 Society Dinner.

2. Tom and Michie '64 Bissell, and Carole and Morton Katz, J.D. '69, attend the 1912 Society Dinner and Auction at the Audubon Tea Room.

3. Alumni Association President Leigh Thorpe '03, Sharonda Williams, J.D. '01, and Chief of Staff Lesli Harris enjoy the 1912 Society festivities.

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HARRY BRUNS '84

BY TONYA JORDAN-LOHT

Striving to be men and women for others is a key tenet of Jesuit education, and

43 years of Jesuit education and instruction have directly shaped Harry Bruns’ life and personal philosophy. Harry attended

Jesuit High School and Loyola, and he travels each December to Convent, Louisiana, to participate in a three-day retreat at the Jesuit Manresa House of Retreats. At Manresa, men engage in silent reflection and prayer guided by Ignatian religious instruction, and Harry has attended every year since the age of 20. Harry has heeded the Ignatian call to develop one’s talents and use them in service of justice and the marginalized.

Harry enrolled in Loyola’s College of Arts and Sciences as an English major in 1980—the era

of feathered hair, cassette tapes, aerobics, and the advent of music videos. As an undergraduate, he formed a life-long friendship with Dr. Marcus Smith from the Department of English. Smith taught at Loyola from 1970 until his retirement in 2009, and he conducted Harry’s senior thesis on the work of Flannery O’Connor. According to Smith, his greatest delight as an instructor was challenging and engaging his students in debate, and in turn being challenged by them. Harry still speaks with Dr. Smith weekly and says this friendship has endured for over 30 years due to a “shared mix of healthy cynicism and hopefulness.”

Harry’s friendship with Tom Greene is another hallmark of his time at Loyola. The two attended high school together and remained close at Loyola. They both attended law school after graduation, but Tom then chose a different path. He attended the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, became an ordained Jesuit priest, and co-founded the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans in 2007. Fr. Greene is the incoming Provincial Superior for the Central and Southern Jesuit Province in 2020, and he and Harry are still good friends today.

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After graduating from Loyola, Harry attended Duke University School of Law and then worked in the cellular technology industry for 14 years, serving as President of Alltell Communications retail services nationwide. In 2007, he co-founded Chocolates for Good with his wife. The company is a gourmet chocolatier which donates a portion of all profits to selected charities.

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Harry now considers himself “retired,” but he actually works full-time as part of his personal mission to give back to his native city. New Orleans Habitat for Humanity named Harry

Director of Retail Operations in spring 2019. He chose Habitat for Humanity as his main vehicle for service because of its unique non-profit model. “It offers a hand up, not a hand out,“ says Harry.

“This is consistent with the discipline I learned from the Jesuits. We don’t just build houses at Habitat for Humanity. We also help our partner families build financial literacy, self-reliance and community.” Partner families invest 350 hours of sweat equity—either as volunteers at Habitat’s ReStore retail outlets or on house builds. They also receive training in financial literacy, saving, budgeting, and rebuilding credit. With these skills, they are able to re-pay the zero-percent house mortgage

secured by Habitat for Humanity. Harry delights in witnessing the increased self-

confidence that self-sufficiency imparts to Habitat family members.

Harry runs New Orleans Habitat’s two ReStore retail outlets. ReStore receives furniture, décor, and artwork from commercial renovations, and surplus building materials from construction vendors. Armchairs, sofas, loveseats, artwork, and more are sold at a discount, with all profits going toward the construction of new homes. Harry describes ReStore’s work as a “virtuous cycle,” wherein furniture is saved from landfills, lowincome families have access to quality affordable furniture, and revenue is raised for new homes. ReStore also provides meaningful employment opportunities to members of marginalized communities.

In retirement, Harry has strengthened his ties to Loyola.

He served on the College of Business Visiting Committee for six years and organized the Class of 1984’s 30th reunion. His daughter attended Loyola as well. Harry has formed ties with Loyola students from the streaming and social media generation in recent years by bringing his business experience into the classroom. He is passionate about helping students in the College of Business understand that they can be competitive capitalists without compromising Jesuit values, and this work is particularly rewarding for him on a personal level.

Harry taught the College of Business Senior Capstone Course two years ago. His students applied their business education in service of local business Bellegarde Bakery, the only bakery in the Deep South that mills its own flour. It also sources its grains sustainably. The bakery was successful, but transitioning to higher capacity while retaining the authenticity of its brand proved to be a challenge. Harry divided his students into work teams to address all major areas of the business, including marketing, accounting, finance, and management. The students developed plans for each area which, when implemented as a unified strategy, helped Bellegarde Bakery expand in a way that didn’t compromise the company’s core values. Bellegarde was eventually able to expand its workforce and open a larger production facility that features a small retail space.

Harry currently co-teaches a business ethics honors course with Dr. Nicholas Capaldi, the Legendre-Soule’ Distinguished Chair for Business Ethics. The class focuses on ethical leadership using the structure of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. “The goal,” says Harry, “is to teach students how to make thoughtful, collaborative, and mission-driven decisions in the business world.” He credits his eight years of Jesuit education, along with the annual retreats at the Manresa for his firm commitment to “capitalism with a conscience.”

1. Harry, outside one of New Orleans Habitat’s ReStore retail outlets. 2. Harry with College of Buisness students.

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In Memoriam We acknowledge the passing of the following alumni. This list reflects notifications received at the Office of Alumni Engagement between October 1, 2018 and November 30, 2019.

Sr. Marie McCloskey, O.S.U '36 Daniel J. Barrett, Jr. '38 Randle L. Vulliet '41 Octavia Benintende DiLeo '43 Elve Newman Ireland, P.D '43 Mary Anna Rivet Miranne '43 Dr. Richard C. Oster, D.D.S. '43 Betty Aschenbach Bomar '44 Hazel Holthaus LeBlanc '44 Mary Cain Leftwich '45 Madeline Miller Comar '46 Dr. Harcourt M. Stebbins, D.D.S. '46 Camille C. Grefer '47 Eugene J. Blanke '49 Stanley L. Bridges P.D. '49 The Hon. Pascal F. Calogero, Jr. '49, J.D. '54, H '91 Charles J. Canepa '49 Frank A. France '49, M.Ed. '56 Elroy F. Perrien, Ph.D. '49 Joaquin Velasquez, Jr., P.D. '49 Mildred Duffy Bossetta '50 Salvador Cinquigranno '50 Patricia Finney Daniels '50 Antoinette Minardi Giovinco '50 Dorothy M. Hatrel '50 John D. Lambert, Jr. '50, J.D '53 Leonard V. Lassalle, Jr. '50 Dr. Bryce LeBlanc, Sr., D.D.S. '50 Elizabeth Ayers Armstrong '51 Gwendolyn Betpouey Dwyer '51 John J. Englert, D.Pharm. '51 William J. Farrell, Jr. '51 John F. Fox, Jr., J.D. '51 Robert H. Fray, J.D. '51 June Marquer Harrold '51 Thomas N. Lennox, J.D. '51 Donald A. Lindquist, J.D. '51 Dr. Charles E. Myler, Jr. '51 The Hon. Patrick M. Schott, Sr. '51, J.D. '53 William J. Sommers, P.D. '51 Frank G. Stewart, Jr. '51 Thomas Stone, Jr., P.D. '51 Wilson O. Toups, Jr. '51 Robert B. Anderson, Jr. '52 Dr. John H. Douglas, D.D.S. '52 Yvonne Huhn Groetsch '52 Dr. David G. Keiffer, Jr. '52 William G. Madary II '52 Luke W. Reine, P.D. '52 Adrian B. Cordes '53 John P. Dolan '53 Dr. Warren J. Ferrand, D.D.S. '53 Ann Escousse Griffin '53 Richard J. Hebert, Sr., P.D. '53 Alice Fox Hymel '53 Dr. James B. Weyman, D.D.S. '53 Ola Morgan Becnel, P.D. '54 John A. Bessolo '54 Gertrude Braden Bischoff '54 Henry J. Burch '54 Dr. Gaston A. De La Bretonne, Jr., P.D. '54 Dr. Joseph F. Guenther '54

Claire Favrot Killeen '54, M.Ed. '74 James H. Kussmaul '54 Louis J. Lavedan, Jr. '54 Howard P. Mendelson '54 John F. Prieur, Sr. '54 Thomas Wallbillich, Jr. '54 Harold M. Westholz, Jr. '54, J.D. '69 Charles M. Gremillion, J.D. '55 Don A. Hamlin '55 Robert J. Landry, Sr. '55, J.D. '60 John A. Stewart, M.E. '55 Richard E. Treuting '55 Sr. Joseph Louise Brandner '56 John T. Browne '56 Eugene Kaufman P.D. '56 Kay Page Mese '56 Sr. Mary M. Prenger, O.S.U., M.A. '56 Robert J. Abadie, Sr. '57 Sr. Jane R. Aucoin, C.S.J. '57 Dr. Norman J. Berger, D.D.S. '57 Noreen H. Faulds '57, M.E. '60 Sr. Mary Mildred Gelis, O.S.B. '57 Joan Arnold Keller '57 Betty Hippler Laurent '57 Sam J. Mattina, J.D. '57 Edward P. Puyau, Jr., M.A. '57 Christel Reuther Robbins, M.Ed. '57 Emile J. Buhler III, J.D. '58 Mary Wetzel Collins '58 Armand B. Cox '58 Peter E. Duffy, J.D. '58 Eugene O. Lockhart '58 The Hon. H. C. Gaudin, J.D. '58 Richard X. Patin '58, J.D. '65 Charles R. Sicard, D.D.S. '58 Dr. Joseph A. Almerico, D.D.S. '59 William H. Cahill, Jr. '59 Chester J. Doll '59, M.E. '63 The Hon. Thomas A. Early, Jr., J.D. '59 Patrick C. McGinity '59, J.D. '69 Dr. Marcel J. Remson, D.D.S. '59 Carol Schroeder Schutzmann '59 Joseph P. Briuglio, Jr., P.D. '60 Ronald A. Chevis, J.D. '60 Dominic A. LaNasa '60 John S. Sciambra, J.D. '60 James W. Schwing, Sr., J.D. '60 The Hon. William M. Detweiler '61, J.D. '63 Dr. Jackson T. Devine, D.D.S. '61 Dr. Paul R. Lucker, D.D.S. '62 James F. McCune, Sr., P.D. '61 Estelle Poirrier Papania '61 Dr. Charles E. Smith, D.D.S. '61 Edward H. Booker '62 Sr. Carolyn Brady, C.S.J. '62 Richard J. Cook, Jr., P.D. '62 William L. Crull III, J.D. '62 James L. Hingle, Jr. '62 Sr. Mary Bertrand Lieux, C.S.J. '62 Sr. Mary S. Safford, O.C. '62 Thomas J. Bevans '63, J.D. '64 Benjamin J. Birdsall, Jr., J.D. '63

Clifford J. Francois III '63 John V. Marsiglia '63, J.D. '65 Maria Rabalais '63 Dr. Jordon N. Steele, D.D.S. '63 Dr. Daniel E. Haro, Jr., P.D. '64 Leon K. Hebert, Jr. '64 Lois A. Owens '64 Judith Diamond Poche '64 Philippi P. St. Pé, J.D. '64 Catherine Lund Vaughn '64, M.E. '70 Pat F. Vulcano, M.E. '64 Shirley Porter Washington M.Ed. '64 Glenn D. Whiteman, M.B.A. '64 Dr. John H. Gallaher, D.D.S. '65 Dr. Howard H. McGregor, Jr. '65 Gregory N. Nolte, Jr. '65 Vera Rogachenko Nuschler, M.S. '65 Donald A. Smith '65 Ronald E. Virgets '65 Paul F. Vitrano, M.Ed. '65 Joan Tipery Akin '66 Robert H. Belou, D.D.S. '66 Edward V. Grace, M.B.A. '66 Ardley R. Hanemann, Jr. '66 Michael G. Songy '66 Morris A. Stephens '66 Dr. Robert F. Tarpy, M.D., '66 Philip O. Wilson '66 Deborah A. Bertinot '67 Michael P. Curry '67 Barbara Clay Dallam '67, M.Ed. '69 Cornelius R. Heusel, Sr. '67, J.D. '67 Daniel P. Kenny '67 William J. Murphy '67 James R. Sutterfield, J.D. '67 Stephen V. Vallot, M.B.A. ’67, J.D. '74 Bette Meyer Adam '68 Daniel A. Bell '68 Joan Ruiz Harper '68 Lawrence J. Springer, J.D. '68 Richard P. Terrebonne '68 Dr. Lloyd G. Van Geffen, Jr., D.D.S. '68 Raymond J. Brandt ’69, M.B.A. ’72, J.D. '79 Robert R. Brehm '69 Patricia A. Garland '69 Mary Rapp Ince '69 Laine Spangler Seiler '69, M.E. '70 Stephen G. Scully '69 Frank G. Sullwold, M.B.A. '69 Jon B. Wimbish, M.B.A. ' 69 Michael Bosworth '70, J.D. '73 Katherine J. Blake, M.E. '70 Edward F. Butler '70 Gustave A. Callery, Jr. '70 Marion Johnson, M.Ed. '70 Marie Villere Mattingly '70 Edward D. McInnis '70 Nicolette Hunter Prevost '70 Nancy Lowe Prieur '70

Henry J. Watermeier, Jr. '70 John D. Demarest '71 C. P. Marshall '71 Edward J. McNamara, Jr. '71 Sr. Elizabeth Merkel, O.C., M.A. '71 Catherine Banos Schneider '71 Salvador J. Barcelona, Sr., J.D. '72 Earl J. Falgoust '72 Dorothy C. Leonards '72 Sara F. Merritt, M.B.A. '72 William H. Berger, Sr. '73 James W. Brodtmann, J.D. '73 Pamela Ciko '73 Tara Quinn Derbes '73 Leonard J. Fine, M.Ed. '73 Gwen Bagneris Janssen, M.Ed. '73 Ann Kowis Pope '73 Dr. William L. Rosenbaum, M.E. '73 Ronnie D. Sheffield '73 Sidney A. Usner III '73, M.B.A. '77 Richard A. Lafargue '74 Cynthia A. Littlefield '74 Leon G. Merchant '74, M.P.S. '02 Joseph L. Porter '74 Barbara Davis Robertson, M.Ed. '74 Michael J. Tarantino '74 Ellis Williams '74, M.C.J. '81 Patricia A. Woodley M.Ed. '74 George L. Carmouche, J.D. '75 Joya Smith Ellow '75 John C. Keating '75 Jules H. Killelea '75 Michael S. Mathews '75, M.P.S. '01 Toney F. Pumilia '75 Tanya F. Williams '75 Gregory J. Ciolino '76 David P. Dumestre, M.A. '76 Anne G. Garland '76 Philip G. Lombardo '76 Bruce J. McConduit, J.D. '76 Joseph E. Fick, Jr., J.D. '77 Noel E. Vargas II, J.D. '77 Glenn C. Viau '77, M.S. '80, M.P.S. '97 Arthur W. Bancroft '78 Patrick F. Lee, J.D. '78 Robyn M. Reso '78 Susan Rose Reynolds '78 Wayne J. Troyer '78 Benjamin F. Welman, J.D. '78 Antoine H. Williams '78 Stephen P. Bartlett '79 Mary E. Beck '79 Frank A. Flynn, J.D. '79 James R. Bickford, M.S. '80 Claude A. Levet '81 Jack A. Ricci, J.D. '81 Margaret Stulb Ruli '81 Harold J. White, Sr. '81 Joseph E. Dugas III '82, J.D. '85 Daniel S. Junot, M.M. '84 Marian Porterie, J.D. '84 The Hon. Angelique A. Reed, J.D. '85 Beverly Guyton Rhymes, M.R.S. '84

Roger F. Emrich '85 Elise P. Medrano, M.E. '85 Matthew C. Dabadie '86 Helen B. Guillot '86 Fr. Lee S. Mc Colloster, J.D. '86 Robert J. Mykoff '87 Judith C. Chassaignac '88 Sr. Grace Flowers, O.P., M.P.S '88 Anne Guillot, M.R.E. '88 Gregory T. Discon '89 Julien F. Jurgens, J.D. '89 William G. Stowe, J.D. '89 Debra M. Brent, J.D '90 Verna B. Clouatre, M.R.E. '90 Joseph B. Roy III '90 Jane B. Johnson, J.D. '91 Alice L. Lewis, M.S. '91 The Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, Sr., J.D. '91 Norval F. Elliot, Jr. '92 Jennifer N. Fennell '92 Stacy T. Snow '92 Samuel Beardsley, Jr., J.D. '93 Beverly C. Mire, M.P.S. '93 Christopher J. Bellone, Jr., M.S.T. '94 Randal J. Ferrara, M.B.A. '94 Charlotte Harris Zamjahn, M.B.A. '94 Karen Cooney Duncan, J.D. '95 Paul P. Tusa, J.D. '95 Gerald P. Dwyer, M.R.E '98 Sharon A. Curtis, M.R.E. '99 Sarah Murray Keith 99, M.S. '02 King Solomon Wells, M.Q.M '99 Frances E. Rohrer, M.R.E. '01 Michael P. Atkinson '02 Cheryl A. Pawlowski, M.P.S. '02 Adrienne Lenz Steuer '02 Kathleen A. Lammay, M.P.S. '03 Renaud L. Holcombe '04 Carol Barton Huffard M.R.E. '05 Paul L. Palma, M.P.S. '05 Veronica P. Archambault, M.P.S. '07 Keri L. Burke, M.P.S. '07 Douglas B. Eckert '10 Nicole M. Candiff, M.S.N. '11 Alexander K. Tan '11 Gayden W. Robert '11 Steven J. Matt, J.D. '15

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” + Psalm 34:18

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S. Derby Gisclair '73, graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2019 Integritas Vitae Award at Loyola’s annual 1912 Society Dinner in December.

Meaning “life of integrity,” the Integritas Vitae award is one of the university’s highest honors and is given annually to a leader whose life’s work powerfully demonstrates the values of Jesuit education. Gisclair received the 2019 Integritas Vitae Award in recognition of his leadership during Loyola’s recently completed Faith in the Future fundraising campaign, the most successful in university history.

The son of Loyola alumni, Gisclair grew up in New Orleans and served early in life as an altar boy at Holy Name of Jesus Church. He graduated from De La Salle High School, then Loyola, where he received a B.A. in drama and speech and was honored as a University Fellow. Gisclair showed his entrepreneurial spirit as an undergraduate by partnering with Tulane students to share feature films for movie nights at the respective universities. His time in Loyola’s drama department exposed him to the business of theater-- from building stages and sets, to marketing, to tallying ticket sales.

Encouraged by the Rev. Ernie Ferlita, S.J., and other Loyola faculty, Gisclair expanded his undergraduate education to include studies at Santa Clara University and the American Academy in Rome.

For graduate school, Gisclair studied at the University of New Orleans and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, earning the designation of Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA). He then began his career with Paine Webber in 1982 and worked for Drexel, Burnham, Lambert and Prudential Securities before heading out with three partners in 2002

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to establish one of the largest independent investment management consulting firms in Louisiana, where Gisclair served as chief operating officer. In 2010, he then established Crescent Capital Consulting, LLC and retired in 2016 after nearly 35 years in the investment management consulting industry.

Fourteen years ago, Gisclair met with representatives from his alma mater in a fundraising capacity for the first time, says Vice President of University Advancement Chris Wiseman. At this meeting with thenLoyola athletic director Mike Giorlando, Gisclair’s giving and forthright character was on clear display. “Coach Giorlando didn't have time to ask Derby for anything, because Derby beat him to the punch,” says Wiseman. “Early in the lunch, Derby simply asked, ‘What do you need, and how can I help?’ Within months, Loyola had a newly renovated locker room in the University Sports Complex, thanks to Derby’s generosity.”

Since then, he hasn’t stopped helping Loyola, Wiseman says. Gisclair spearheaded the Faith in the Future campaign, which resulted in $101 million in new resources for Loyola, co-leading the campaign with Anne Gauthier from 2011 until October 2019. He generously helps organizations throughout the city, from De La Salle High School to Tulane baseball. And he rallies others to do the same, whether he’s helping to preserve New Orleans history or improve resources for academic institutions.

“In his personal life and professional life, his scholarly endeavors, his volunteer work and his philanthropy, and as a proud citizen of his city and his country, Derby has lived

out the values and philosophy of a Jesuit education – strong moral character, service to others, and unquestionable integrity,” says Wiseman.

A keen fan of baseball, Gisclair has turned his love of sports and history into “a real service to his city and to fans of baseball and other sports,” Wiseman says. Known for his wit and love of language, Gisclair wrote Baseball in New Orleans (2004), Baseball at Tulane University (2007), and published two books this year: Early Baseball in New Orleans: A History of 19th Century Play and The Olympic Club of New Orleans: Epicenter of Professional Boxing, 1883-1897. Gisclair has written articles on baseball history for New Orleans Magazine and Louisiana Cultural Vistas and created several websites on the history of baseball. He is a member of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and sustaining member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and also serves on nominating and selection committees for the Greater New Orleans Professional Baseball Hall of Fame.

Gisclair has served in various professional organizations and as a board member of the Louisiana ‘Committee of 100’ for Economic Development. But his greatest gifts are to Loyola, where he is now serving his second term as a leader on the Board of Trustees. He and his wife, Claire, are active benefactors of Loyola and members of the university’s Society of St. Ignatius. The couple established the Derby and Claire Gisclair Athletics Scholarship for First Generation Students in 2012 and the Derby and Claire Gisclair Distinguished Professorship in

Theatre Arts in 2013. The couple frequently attends Loyola events and has hosted events for the university as well.

“Derby epitomizes the values of a Jesuit education. He has lived a life of utter integrity, both personally and professionally.

Through volunteer work and philanthropy, he has served others. And he lives the Jesuit value of lifelong curiosity, teaching us all the history of New Orleans in his books,” says

University President Tania Tetlow. “He serves as a wonderful and inspiring example to Loyola students, alumni, and community.”

The Faith in the Future campaign generated an unprecedented amount of support for Loyola and required a tremendous amount of sustained effort and optimism. But Gisclair’s acceptance remarks at the 1912 Society Dinner were as simple and hopeful as ever:

The good times are coming.

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Class Notes 1950s 1980s 1990s Dr. Eugene Ashby '51 (chemistry) is a distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech and was named Chaplain of American Legion Post 109 in Hartwell, Georgia.

Lisa Trapani Shumate '80 (communication) released her books Always and Never: 20 Truths for a Happy Heart and Always and Never: The Companion Journal from Lucid Books.

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Ann Maloney '84 (communication) is recipes editor of The Post.

Michie McHardy Bissell '64 (dental hygiene) has been honored for volunteer service by the Southern Dominicans.

Dr. Herbert Marks, Jr. '64 (biology) was inducted into the Louisiana State Medical Society Hall of Fame.

The Rev. Thomas Greene, S.J. '86 (finance), J.D. '89 has been named the next provincial of the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province by the Society of Jesus.

Paul Guarisco, J.D. '92 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

Edward Francis '95 (communication) is director of communications and marketing at Dillard University.

Evans Martin McLeod, J.D. '96 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

George Mentz, J.D. '96, M.B.A. '98 has been named to the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.

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Philip Greene J.D. '86 received the Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits at the 2019 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards.

Keith T. Vernon, J.D. '96 is a partner in the firm Timoney Knox, LLP and was named director of the firm's Washington D.C. office.

Jay P. Telotte '71 (secondary education) released his latest book Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps from Oxford University Press.

The Rev. Eric Zimmer, S.J. '87 (philosophy) has been appointed as President of the University of Saint Francis.

Dr. Alison Cernich '97 (psychology) was selected as deputy director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Robert J. Barbier, J.D. '72 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

Richard Dicharry '72 (political science), J.D. '75 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

Mike Yenni '73 (marketing) has joined the firm Phelps Dunbar.

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M. Nan Alessandra, J.D. '85 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

Barbara Fleischer, M.P.S. '90 has received an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Anne Pizziferri Benoit '88 (English) co-edited the book Leaps of Faith: Stories of Working-Class Scholars from Information Age Publishing.

Yvette Canoura '88 (communications) released her romantic suspense novel Mediterranean Sunset from HOLA Publications.

Royd Anderson '98 (english) has produced a documentary about the 1999 Mother's Day bus crash in New Orleans.

Stephen Stuart '98 (accounting) is vice president and research director of the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR). BGR earned the 2019 Most Distinguished Research Award and a Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Policy Achievement

from the Governmental Research Association.

Erin Bolles '99 (English) is chief development officer for Catholic Charities of Baltimore.

Dr. John DePaula '99 (biology) was named the 2018 Physician of the Year at East Jefferson General Hospital.

Amy Lamarca Lyon '99 (history) was appointed associate director of the Department of Social Work at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

2000s Robert LeBlanc, Jr. '00 (economics & finance) has been named the 2019 Restaurateur of the Year, Associate Member of the Year, Advocate of the Year, and Hall of Fame Inductee by the Louisiana Restaurant Association.

Gregory Ferrara '02 (political science) was appointed president and CEO of the National Grocers Association.

Melissa Sallinger '02 (mathematics) was named principal of Young Audiences Charter High School in Gretna, Louisiana.

Jeremy Ancalade (drama/ theatre) '04 is chief financial officer of Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, California.

Philip Claverie, Jr., J.D. '04 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

Pablo Gonzalez, J.D. '04 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

Stuart Coleman '05 (economics), J.D./M.B.A. '08 is a partner in Lathan & Coleman, the Senior Living Development firm behind the recent renovation of a National Historic Landmark building in Heflin, Alabama, into a state-of-the-art elder care facility.

Christian Weiler, J.D. '05 has been appointed to the United States Federal Tax Court.

Bart Bacigalupi, J.D. '07 is a Recognized Lawyer in the 2020 edition of Best Lawyers.

Stephanie Hilferty '07 (English & psychology) was re-elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 94.

Emily Fransen '08 (music industry studies), M.M. '13 recently published the article "Are We Producing Anxious Students?," on the Music Education Works website.

Gregory Agid '09 (music industry studies) has joined the orchestra for Grammyaward-winning singer and songwriter Michael Buble’s 20192020 international tour.

Alexandra Kleinschmidt '09 (international business) leads the customs brokerage and trade advisory team at Crane Worldwide Logistics.

Camille Bryant, J.D. '13 was named 2019 Outstanding Young Lawyer by the National Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Division. She also received the 2019 A.P. Tureaud Award from the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Society.

Kimberly McMillian '14 (music industry studies) performed at the 2019 BET Awards.

Alexandria Gwyn, J.D. '16 has joined The Skillern Firm’s family law office.

Michele Pena, M.S.N. '14 is chief nursing officer at Mercy Health Saint Mary's in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Claudia Carrizales, J.D. '17 has joined the law firm of Kean Miller LLP in their New Orleans office.

Alexandra Cobb Hains, J.D. '13 has joined the Baton Rouge office of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson LLP.

Raven Richard '14 (communication) was a guest on Redwood's WRED-TV’s “What's Good from the Wood.”

Aaron N. Maples, J.D. '13 has joined the law firm of Cunningham Bounds, LLC in Mobile, Alabama.

Rachel Scarafia, J.D. '15 has joined the law firm of Kean Miller LLP in their New Orleans office.

Dr. Sophia L. Thomas, D.N.P. '17 was elected president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Evan Cuccia, J.D. '19 has joined the firm of Phelps Dunbar.

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Tracking Jazz HOW LOYOLA SHAPED ME

Rachel Lyons '98 (history)

For nearly twenty years, Lyons has maintained and grown the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive. Under her leadership, the Archive has grown from a room with a pile of boxes to a standalone facility with an extensive collection, online database, and hit boxset. Lyons recently sat down to share her experiences with Loyola, professional development, and tracking jazz.

“For the past 19 years I’ve been the Archivist for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation. The job has changed over the years – responding to various needs of the collection and the organization. When I started I was in an unremarkable building with a pile of boxes. No desk, no shelves, no computer. In the intervening years we created an online catalog and greatly expanded the collection. This past year the Foundation produced a box set with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and that took up a lot of my time. It is five CDs with 53 tracks and a 140-page book with three essays and extensive liner notes.

I worked on every aspect of the book and am credited as a writer and producer.

“My track at Loyola was different from most undergraduate students. I enrolled to finish my degree when I was 29. My father was a Seton Hall University and Boston College graduate, and so in many ways I was familiar with the Jesuit tradition. My advisor was Dr. David Moore and he was great in working with me as a nontraditional student. His background in American Studies created a welcoming environment for my interest in cultural history.

“Much of my job these days is related to running the Archive and less about processing the collection. I still dip into a collection or part of a collection, but more and more I work to acquire collections, develop priorities, and reach out to the public. The analytical skills you learn as a history major have served me well. What’s different today is that my office is in the French Quarter, so I guess you’d say the Quarter is my campus.

“When I started at Loyola, I knew exactly what I wanted to study. I knew it was going to be history. In my first attempt at college, I always liked history but thought it was impractical. I didn’t want to teach and I didn’t want to go to law school. So I didn’t have a sense of what I would do. It took some time, but

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I eventually stumbled across the museum and archive field. I don’t know why this took so long for me because I had basically grown up going to museums.

“I’m the kind of person who needs to be OK with today – so, I would say that now is my favorite time of my career. I work in a small organization (there are only ten fulltime employees at the Foundation), and I’m lucky to have the trust of my boss and a fairly creative mind. My time at Loyola helped me understand challenges and accept outcomes, not just academically but personally as well. In the academic process you learn about systems, what you need to do as a person, and what you can accept. Individual agency and discovering your limits is professionally very important.

“The best opportunity I’ve had working at the Foundation is producing Jazz Fest: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. We were on a very tight timeline and this required me to approach the project with vigor, patience, and confidence.

Normally a project of this scope requires 18 to 24 months to complete, but we did it in under a year. We have enough materials to do many more box sets, and I’d love to do another one with the full two-year timeframe! The good news is the boxset went to #3 on Billboard Jazz charts and we started a second printing the week after Jazz Fest ended.

“I moved to New Orleans long before I ever thought about going back to college. I grew up in New England, and I remember buying The Wild Sounds of Allen Toussaint on LP when I was 20 years old. I am lucky that I came to Loyola already integrated into New Orleans culture. I was able to fuse my personal experience and academic training into a career here in the city.

I’m very lucky to have had this experience.”

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Forty-four books into the internationally renowned Object Lessons book series, English professor Chris Schaberg has received additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue his great work. The NEH funding helps support internships in Loyola’s new Center for Editing & Publishing, where the Object Lessons series is a key experiential learning component.

Launched in 2015, the series can be found in exclusive book shops and museums around the world, from SF MOMA, The Strand, and Harvard and MIT Bookstores to The National Gallery of Art, The Tate Modern Bookshop and Blackwell’s Oxford. Every day, Loyola students gain excellent experience in the editing and publishing process.

Environmental biology professor Paul Barnes is lead author on a recent paper in Nature Sustainability that analyzes how the Montreal Protocol is helping countries curb rapid climate change and avoid catastrophic ozone depletion, making a more sustainable future possible. The landmark agreement designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozonedepleting substances is the first multinational environmental agreement to be ratified by all 197 countries of the United Nations. Barnes, who serves with the paper’s co-authors on a U.N. advisory panel, says the Montreal Protocol is proof of how international cooperation can address, alleviate, and in certain cases, eliminate, some of the world’s most pressing environmental problems.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Studying in New Orleans, Paris, and Munich– doesn’t that sound grand? Loyola University New Orleans joins with two top European universities to launch a triple degree program that will allow enrolled students to attain simultaneously a U.S. Master of Business Administration (MBA), the French Diplôme Grande École, and the German Master of Science in Management.

President Tetlow and the presidents of SKEMA Business School in Paris and LudwigMaximilians-Universität in Munich have signed a memorandum agreement to launch the Global MBA program. The joint program will expose students to the best of each university while teaching them to deal with a changing global environment.

Loyola University New Orleans is the latest university to be welcomed into the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program. This program positions students to obtain the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation, the most respected and recognized investment credential in the world. Entry signals to potential students, employers, and the marketplace that Loyola’s finance curriculum is closely tied to professional practice and wellsuited to preparing students to sit for the CFA examinations. Participation also means Loyola is eligible to receive six student scholarships for the CFA Program each year.

COLLEGE OF LAW In an exciting learning opportunity for law students, the Louisiana Supreme Court held oral arguments at the College of Law in October. The Court heard arguments on three cases, including one involving use of a non-unanimous jury in a criminal case in which the crime occurred before Louisiana law was changed to require unanimous juries and the constitutionality of the court’s actions. For more than 20 years this honored tradition of holding oral arguments away from the Court, known as “riding the circuit,” is a means of ensuring citizens statewide have access to justice.

The Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women presented Dean Madeleine M. Landrieu with the 2019 Hannah G. Solomon Award in October, honoring her as “a woman whose actions have made a positive impact in the community.” The award is given annually to a community leader who exemplifies the qualities of Hannah G. Solomon, founder of the National Council of Jewish Women. These leaders have brought about important community programs and services through their leadership in a volunteer capacity.

Each has been a catalyst for social change.

COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND MEDIA Loyola’s acclaimed School of Music Industry unveiled new leadership as students returned to campus this fall. Director Jeff Albert and Associate Director Kate Duncan are prepared to continue the legacy of their predecessor-- renowned producer and professor John Snyder, a devoted champion of the intellectual rights of musicians and the cultural economy. Snyder, who propelled the program for more than 15 years, retired from Loyola in May.

Music Professor Valerie Goertzen will spend the 2019-20 academic year studying Brahms, courtesy of an ATLAS grant provided by the Louisiana Board of Regents to Louisiana artists and scholars. Professor Goertzen will spend her sabbatical writing a book entitled View from the Piano Bench: The Arrangements of Johannes Brahms.

COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH NURSING Three School of Nursing faculty members serve this year as Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing Practitioners: Interim Dean and Professor Laurie Ferguson, who also serves as a member of the executive board; Associate Professor Debra Friedrich; and Associate Professor Janet DuBois. Assistant Professor Warren Hebert, Jr. serves as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

COUNSELING The Loyola University Center for Counseling and Education (LCCE), a community health clinic which opened in spring 2019 to offer sliding scale individual, couples, and family therapy, has expanded its repertoire. In partnership with the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic & Assistance Foundation and Preservation Hall Foundation, the LCCE now offers a therapeutic support group for service industry professionals aged 18 and older. The clinic also offers “Play it Out! A Playful Way to a Closer Relationship,” which allows parents of children up to age 11 to take part in psychoeducational support groups.

LOYOLA INSTITUTE FOR MINISTRY High school students from across Southeast Louisiana converged on campus last summer to participate in Faith Acts Summer Youth Theology Institute run by the Loyola Institute for Ministry. Launched in 2016 with a $600,000 grant from the Lilly Endowment Fund, the weeklong residency is designed to help participants develop their Catholic faith, explore contemporary world issues through a moral construct, and serve their communities.

Through field trips, prayer sessions, and study, the program encourages young people to explore theological traditions, ask questions about the moral dimensions of contemporary issues, and examine how their faith calls them to lives of service.

ONLINE Loyola now offers more than 20 online degree programs at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels in subjects ranging from nursing to finance, psychology, theology, and criminology. We also offer summer courses!

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