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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE SPRING 2013

Work in Progress INSIDE: ••••• Monroe Library Update ••••• University Honors Program ••••• Yoga for Prisoners

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Message from the Editor Ray Willhoft ’00

Four Walls and a Ceiling How would you describe a typical classroom? Four walls and a ceiling is a good start, but today’s university students are anything but typical and require so much more in order to meet the challenges they will face upon graduating. While nothing is more important than the instruction and dialogue that takes place within the classroom, it is crucial that students have access to modern facilities in which to learn, work, and live as well.

And Loyola University New Orleans is committed to giving those facilities to our students. With recent completed projects such as The Carlos M. Ayala Stock Trading Room in Miller Hall, along with the ongoing renovation of Monroe Hall, as well as Cabra Hall on the Broadway campus, Loyola is diving headfirst into its plans for its second century. These new aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced facilities will enable the university to continue bringing learning out of the textbook and into the real world.

The next projects to get underway will be the Tom Benson Jesuit Center and the School of Mass Communication Multimedia Facility, both of which will enhance our students’ experience and education.

Plans are in the works for even more future projects and renovations, including The Den sports complex and Roussel Hall, so you can expect to see many more new walls and ceilings down the road.

Welcome to Loyola’s next 100 years.

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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 2013 Editor Ray Willhoft ’00 Designer Craig Bloodworth Photographer Harold Baquet Photo Contributor Kyle Encar Intern Shelby Schultheis ’14 Director of Creative Services

Allee Parker Director of Marketing

Francie Davenport ’92 Director of Public Affairs and External Relations

Meredith Hartley Director of Alumni Relations

Monique Gaudin Gardner Director of Advancement Records

Martha Bodker Director of Annual Giving

Stephanie Hotard ’04, M.B.A. ’10 Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications

Terry Fulghum Fisher ’76 Associate Vice President for Development

Chris Wiseman ’88 Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Bill Bishop University President

The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. LOYNO Magazine is published three times per year.

Send address changes to Loyola University New Orleans, Office of Marketing and Communications, 7214 St. Charles Ave., Box 909, New Orleans, LA 70118.

Loyola University New Orleans has fully supported and fostered in its educational programs, admissions, employment practices, and in the activities it operates the policy of not discriminating on the basis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex/gender, or sexual orientation. This policy is in compliance with all applicable federal regulations and guidelines.

Correspondence can be sent to: Editor, LOYNO Magazine 7214 St. Charles Ave., Box 909 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 861-5859 Fax: (504) 861-5784 E-mail: magazine@loyno.edu Submissions of stories and photographs are accepted.

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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE FROM THE DEN

6..................President’s Reflection 6..................News HOWLING and PROWLING

10................Community Engagement 11................Local Flavor 12................Ask Iggy 13................Media Shelf page 16 14................Institutional Advancement

38................Alumni Events 40................Wolftracks 41................Alumni Milestones 50................Memorials

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FEATURES

16 .............Work in Progress Heavy construction on Monroe Hall today will lead to a modern marvel tomorrow.

20 .............A Library for a New Century ON THE COVER Stay updated on the progress of major facilities projects taking place on campus with Construction Notes (blogs.loyno.edu/progress).

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Dean of Libraries Michael P. Olson, Ph.D., discusses the Monroe Library’s role for Loyola’s second century.

22 .............Exceptional Experiences for Exceptional Students The Honors Program provides opportunities for academic and co-curricular achievement.

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Student Keely Cashen’s internship with NBC allowed her to experience the 2012 Summer Olympics up close and personal.

Sharing Lessons Learned What started as important life lessons in the form of letters to his daughter has turned into an inspirational new book for alumnus Brad Fortier ’96.

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26 .............Open Wide A History of the School of Dentistry

28 .............Captains of Communication How Loyola propelled four 1976 mass communication graduates to success.

32 .............Yoga with a Purpose Colleen McEvoy ’92, M.B.A. ’92, brings the benefits of yoga to prisoners.

Recognized Research Associate Professor Rosalie Anderson, Ph.D., and her students are receiving national recognition for their chicken limb joint regeneration research.

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FROM THE DEN

News

CAMPUS The College of Social Sciences’ School of Nursing was awarded a new federal grant from the Health Research and Services Administration for $700,000 over two years to support doctoral (DNP) students pursuing the credential of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in primary care.

This award will pay for tuition, fees, stipends, and books for primary care students who commit to work in health professions in underserved communities and rural areas.

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Loyola is ranked 32 among the top 40 master’s institutions in the nation for undergraduate participation in study abroad programs with 35.5 percent of its undergraduate students studying abroad, according to a report released by the Institute of International Education.

Loyola increased its study abroad participation this year, jumping from 34 to 32 in this year’s rankings.

Loyola acquired the property known as Veritas Hall located at 7300 St. Charles Avenue, formerly owned by St. Mary’s Dominican Sisters of Peace. The historic mansion was originally constructed in 1906 for the Fabacher family and was later used as a library for St. Mary’s Dominican College. This acquisition of property was made possible through the use of Loyola’s capital budget funds.

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Loyola students and staff received several awards from the Public Relations Society of America

New Orleans chapter. Loyola’s 2012 Bateman team won an award of excellence for its “Choose Dat, Not Dis” campaign to fight childhood obesity. Loyola’s

overall Centennial Celebration, Founder’s Day Celebration, Centennial Media Kit, and 2011 – 2012 Montage calendar all received awards of merit.

President’s Reflection

The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.

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As we look at the world around us, it is quite obvious that many of the issues facing American higher education are not simply issues within the academy. The developments of Internet technologies are affecting how we understand information, knowledge, and education (Nicholas Carr). With the development of so many new technologies, we have also seen the evolution of the idea of a university (e.g., online universities, for-profit universities).

What are we to make of this challenging context of higher education for Loyola? We in New Orleans know, all too well, that challenges present real opportunities. I think the most basic conclusion for us is that we need to keep focused on our identity and mission as a university. Loyola needs to be clear about

who we are, what we do, and why we do what we do.

However, as part of our identity, Jesuits have always been known for their adaptability.

So, in this age of information explosion, we will need to adapt to the opportunities presented by the new technologies while living out our mission and identity. We know that technology can aid in the development of knowledge and learning. However, technology is not a substitute for disciplined human thought. Technology is a tool to be used as we develop thoughts and ideas. In this information age, we must help students learn ways to distinguish information from knowledge.

These are challenging times for higher education. But, I believe, Loyola is well positioned for the challenges we face.

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EVENTS

The Montage Fine and Performing Arts Series presented world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a masterclass on Oct. 27. The event is part of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Masterclass Series at Loyola, which features a wide range of world-renowned musicians, including Christopher Martin on trumpet, Jay Friedman on trombone, Stephen Hough on piano, Jose Franch-Ballester on clarinet, and Roberto Diaz on viola.

The Biever Guest Lectures Series featured leading mathematician Aihua Li, Ph.D., in his lecture, “What Mathematics Can Do in Biology,” on Oct. 11. The lecture introduced several topics in mathematics that are heavily used in bioinformatics research.

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The Office of the President and the Department of Criminal Justice

ident for Academic Affairs at Loyola. Loyola’s William E. Thornton, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and professor of sociology, and Dee Wood Harper, Ph.D., emeritus professor of sociology, served as moderators.

a specialty of Loyola Professor Patricia Dorn, Ph.D. The conference represented a global approach to combating infectious disease and was chaired by Michel Tibayrenc, M.D., Ph.D., from France.

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David Henry Hwang, the awardwinning playwright best known as the author of M. Butterfly, participated on Nov. 5 in an on-stage interview about his experiences working with some of the most talented composers and conductors of the 21st century; led a multidisciplinary panel lecture; and led a workshop for students in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.

Loyola hosted the 11th annual MEEGID conference, or Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases, an international science conference, Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, where scientists from around the world gathered to present ground-breaking research on some of the globe’s most devastating diseases, including HIV, malaria, flu, and Chagas disease—

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presented a national symposium aimed at ending the cycle of violence in New Orleans and restoring community peace. “Preventing Lethal Violence in New Orleans: A Public Symposium on Effective Community Based Solutions,” was held on Oct. 26 and featured opening remarks by New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas, Ph.D., and Marc Manganaro, Ph.D., provost and vice pres-

Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences and resident Chagas disease expert, was awarded the university’s top faculty honor, the 2012 Dux Academicus Award, at the Spring 2013 Faculty and Staff Convocation. The award is the highest honor a professor can receive for excellence in research, teaching, and scholarship.

The Jesuit Center presented “A Night of Hope,” a concert by inspirational Catholic musician and speaker Tony Melendez, a Nicaraguan guitarist and vocalist born without arms and with a club foot, on Nov. 7.

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FROM THE DEN

News

Philippe Entremont, internationally renowned pianist and conductor, on Dec. 7, returned to New Orleans to perform the “Triple Concerto,” one of Beethoven’s most celebrated concertos, at Loyola. The performance also featured the Loyola Symphony Orchestra, with Loyola faculty members Amy Thiaville on violin and Allen Nisbet on cello.

Sr. Imelda Moriarty, C.C.V.I., former principal of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic School in Metairie, La., received the Loyola 2012 Integritas Vitae Award, the university’s highest honor, at the 1912 Society Dinner on Dec. 6.

FACULTY/STAFF S.L. Alexander, Ph.D., associate professor of mass communication, had an excerpt from her in-progress memoirs published in the book Homegrown in Florida.

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Nancy Bernardo, M.F.A., assistant professor of graphic design, was honored by Design Observer in the 2011 “50 Books/50 Covers Competition” for her work on Checking In/Checking Out, a two-sided, passport-sized book written by Loyola English professors Mark Yakich, Ph.D., and Chris Schaberg, Ph.D. ••••••

Christian Bolden, Ph.D., assistant professor of criminal justice, was selected as the FBI’s “Futurist in Residence” for its Behavioral Science Unit to pursue his research to study the future of crime. He also received the Love of Learning Award from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

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Peter Burns, Ph.D., professor of political science, published Shock the World: UConn Basketball in the Calhoun Era. ••••••

Anthony Decuir, Ph.D., associate dean and professor of music therapy, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions from the American Music Therapy Association.

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Donald P. Hauber, Ph.D., professor and associate chair of biological sciences, had his coauthored paper reviewing the latest research on invasive wetlands plants featured in the online journal Annals of Botany Plants.

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Nathan Henne, Ph.D., assistant professor of languages and cultures, completed the first-ever English translation of Time Commences in Xibalbá, a novel

by Luis de Lión.

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John Biguenet, M.F.A., Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor, received the top literary award in the state—the Louisiana Writer Award.

John Mahoney, professor of music and coordinator of jazz studies, performed at the Eastman School of Music Reunion and Tribute for conductor and trombonist Rayburn Wright in Rochester, N.Y.

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Nathan C. Martin, marketing copywriter, published Wallpaper City Guide: New Orleans and directs Room 220, a website and reading series.

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Liz Buchta, instructor, and Daniela Marx, M.F.A., associate professor of graphic design, collaborated on a project for the exhibition Reminders at the Jamjuree Art Gallery at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Laura Murphy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature with Ohio University Press.

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Mikel Pak joined Loyola as the associate director of the Office of Public Affairs and External Relations.

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Jessica Peterson R.N., Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing, received a nearly $50,000 grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study the best strategies to teach undergraduate nursing students and new graduates clinical skills.

Christopher Schaberg, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, published an essay on airport seating in the media and cultural studies journal Transformations and another essay on drone aircraft in The New Inquiry and Salon.

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Karoline Schleh, M.F.A., extraordinary professor and director of the Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, along with her creative partner, Christopher Deris, launched the new exhibit, Bobbery, on Oct. 6 at Sibley Gallery.

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Edward Vacek, S.J., Ph.D., was named as The Rev. Stephen J. Duffy Chair in Roman Catholic Systematic Theology at Loyola.

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Tom Varisco, instructor of graphic design, published Jackson Squared with Chin Music Press from Seattle.

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Catherine Wessinger, Ph.D., the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J., Professor of the History of Religions, published A Journey to Waco: Autobiography of a Branch Davidian with Clive Doyle and Matthew D. Wittmer.

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STUDENTS

A team of 15 biology students shared with children at Holy Ghost Elementary School on Nov. 15 and 29 caterpillars and animals ranging from scorpions and tarantulas to Madagascar hissing cockroaches and millipedes as real-life teaching aids for the elementary students.

Two Honors Program students— Mara Steven and Evan LaBranche—along with the University Honors Program Director Naomi Yavneh, Ph.D., and library liaison Teri Gallaway, presented at the National Collegiate Honors Council in Boston. The presentations highlighted the Louisiana Bicentennial Exhibit and the Loyola Centennial Exhibit their teams created in the Rediscovering 1912 Honors course last spring.

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Music students gave back to the community this holiday season with a series of live performances at the Poydras Retirement Home on Magazine Street in New Orleans. The first recital featured three undergraduate voice students—Stephanie Rocca, Amanda McCarthy, and Alexandra Sharp—in a program of songs and arias in collaboration with pianist Jesse Reeks ’10 (jazz).

The group plans to present recitals each semester following the regular Sunday church service at the home.

ATHLETICS

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Student Molly Portier spearheaded the second annual NOLA Polar Express benefit concert Dec. 7. The event, put on by Loyola students, presented a night of music and collected Christmas toys for child patients at Ochsner Medical Center and Children’s Hospital who could not be home for the holidays.

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Doctor of Nursing Practice student Monica Alleman won a $4,000 grant Jan. 1 from the American Nurse Practitioner Foundation to teach health care providers at John Ehret High School health center in Marrero, La., counseling skills to help reduce the causes and effects of childhood obesity at a local level.

The 2013 Loyola University New Orleans Hall of Fame inducted Peter Finney, Sr. ’49 (basketball, 1948 – 1949, basketball coach, 1949 – 1950, sports information director, 1950 – 1960); Kelly Fridge ’06 (volleyball, 2002 – 2006); and Michael Gulotta ’04 (cross-country, 2000 – 2004) on Jan. 19.

Erwin Caswell, Jr. ’56, J.D. ’70, received the prestigious St. Sebastian Award. magazine.loyno.edu

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HOWLING and PROWLING Community Engagement

Wolf Pack gives back

By James Shields, Communications Coordinator

Loyola volunteers worked with NOLA Green Roots on readying the Wise Words Community Garden in Mid-City for the harvest season.

oyola alumni, family, friends, staff, and students demonstrated their Pack pride on October 20 during the 13th annual Wolves on the Prowl national day of service. Wolves on the Prowl, planned and led by the Alumni Association, Office of Mission and Ministry, and Student Government Associa“As students and alumni of tion, pairs volunteers from the Loyola community with programs a Jesuit university, it is throughout the country that need important that we all make help.

“It’s a tradition of which we an effort in our daily lives to are proud,” said Leigh Thorpe ’03, co-chair of the 2012 Wolves pause and remember our on the Prowl Committee. “Stucommitment to service.” dent leaders from prominent organizations and programs on campus were paired with alumni who were involved in the same organizations and programs as students, providing an opportunity for students to network with alumni while engaging in community service around the New Orleans area.”

Nick Poché ’03, also a co-chair of the committee, shared Thorpe’s enthusiasm. “As students and alumni of a Jesuit university, it is important that we all make an effort in our daily lives to pause and remember our commitment to service,” Poché said.

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Projects this year included: Field Day for Good Shepherd School—60 children from GSS descended on the Residential Quad, where volunteers hosted a series of friendly athletic competitions among the students; NOLA Green Roots—volunteers worked on readying the Wise Words Community Garden in Mid-City for the harvest season; Green Light New Orleans—volunteers assisted with GLNO’s “Tip the Block” initiative in the Leonidas neighborhood by distributing and installing free compact fluorescent light bulbs to residents; and Common Ground Relief Nursery—volunteers helped transplant young wetlands grasses and prepared them for planting in the Gulf.

Alumni across the country also took part in volunteer activities on October 20, as well as other dates. On October 27, alumni in the Nashville, Tenn., area participated in “Hands on Nashville,” a home energy savings project to help improve the energy efficiency of low-income homes. On November 3, alumni in Las Vegas, Nev., served dinner to the homeless, and in Denver, Colo., they packaged medical supplies for distribution in developing countries. Other chapter cities that participated in days of service included Atlanta, Boston, Central Florida, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Lafayette, La., New York City, Phoenix, Raleigh, N.C., San Diego, and Shreveport, La.

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Local Flavor

Don’t call them donuts!

By Ray Willhoft ’00

Locals and visitors alike can enjoy beignets and café au lait at Café Du Monde.

s there anything better on a cold day in New Orleans (yes, they do sometimes happen) than indulging with a steaming cup of café au lait (coffee mixed with hot milk) and a plate full of hot beignets loaded with powdered sugar? Few pleasures in life can match that first sip and everso-careful bite as you try to keep from blasting yourself and your friends with sticky white powder.

Though that can be half the fun.

Originally brought to Louisiana by the Acadians, beignets have become a true New Orleans staple, but locals are quick to correct you if you call them donuts. Yes, they are deep fried pieces of dough, but with their light airy texture and healthy dose of powdered sugar, beignets are so much more.

The most well-known spot for bingeing on beignets is Café Du Monde, located at 800 Decatur Street, which was established in 1862 in the New Orleans French Market. It is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. According to its website (cafe-

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dumonde.com), “it closes only on Christmas Day and on the day an occasional hurricane passes too close to New Orleans.”

And if you cannot make it down to the French Quarter, there are seven other Café Du Monde Coffee Stands in the New Orleans metro area.

They are located in the Esplanade Mall, Riverwalk Mall, Lakeside Mall, Oakwood Mall, Mandeville, Covington, and Metairie. You can even order Café Du Monde beignet mix online (cafedumonde.com), making this scrumptious treat available any time you get a craving, wherever you are.

So, call beignets delicious, delectable, or even devilish—just don’t call them donuts!

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HOWLING and PROWLING

Ask Iggy

Dear Iggy,

Dear Iggy,

What are the words to the Loyola Alma Mater?

What role did Loyola play in the creation of WWL radio and TV?

Hail Alma Mater Loyola. All Hail tower of strength and a beacon of truth.

Thine is the courage that never shall fail. Courage imparted to men and to youth.

Bearing thy standard of maroon and gold, we shall be true to our heritage old.

Loyal to God, to country, and thee, loyal Loyola with thy loyalty.

Youthful in years, in traditions, and fame thou, as descendant of shield without taint.

Reach through the centuries blessed by thy name of a student, a soldier and saint.

Bearing thy standard of maroon and gold, we shall be true to our heritage old.

Loyal to God, to country, and thee, loyal Loyola with thy loyalty.

Loyola’s pioneering radio station, WWL, which was referred to as “World Wide Loyola,” was born of an experiment in an early laboratory for wireless technology. Fr. Anton (Anthony) Kunkel, the future head of Loyola’s physics program, set up a wireless receiver on the St. Charles property in 1909, before the chartering of the university, and he and Fr. Albert Biever bought a transmitter for $150. WWL developed into a licensed radio station and was used in 1922 as a publicity stunt to launch Loyola’s first capital campaign. Fr. Orie Abell, an irrepressible visionary who came to Loyola in 1924, transformed a barely viable station into a powerful and profitable commercial venture. In 1929, WWL went on the air with 5,000 watts. In 1957, WWL expanded to television. The income of WWL, with the exception of operating expenses and capital improvements, went entirely to Loyola. When the university sold WWL in 1989, the proceeds provided the greater part of Loyola’s impressive endowment.

For more information, visit www.loyno.edu/2012/albums

The WWL-TV sign-on broadcast.

The “Dawnbusters” radio show, featuring Margie O’Dair, Pinky Vidacovich, and Henry Dupre.

Got a question for Iggy?

Send it to magazine@loyno.edu or: Ask Iggy, c/o LOYNO Magazine Loyola University New Orleans 7214 St. Charles Ave., Box 909 New Orleans, LA 70118

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Media Shelf

The Gift of Past Relationships Through her book, Kristen Crockett ’98 (communication) enables you to explore who you are and what you need by examining the factors and characteristics that are important to you in a relationship. www.midlovecrisis.com

Dear Kate: Reflections on Risk and Rewards After the Storm

To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion

Brad Fortier ’96 (sociology) uses heartfelt letters to his young daughter to help the reader understand what living, giving, and wealth truly mean. His reflections put true prosperity in perspective—expanding the definition of wealth beyond quantitative assets and emphasizing the value of relationships, charity, and compassion.

With this Hemingway cocktail companion, Hemingway enthusiast and cocktail connoisseur Philip Greene, J.D. ’86, delves deep into the author’s drinking habits, offering recipes for drinks directly connected with the novels and the author as well as anecdotes about the man himself. www.kingcocktail.com/Tohave.html

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UBUNTU Advent to Pentecost: Comparing the Seasons in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite In his book, the Rev. Patrick Regan ’62 (education), OSB, compares the prayers and prefaces, readings and rubrics, and calendar and chants of the 1962 Missal with those of the Missal as it was revised following the Second Vatican Council, now in its third edition.

On his new CD, Matt Lemmler ’90 (piano) enlists the help of his New Orleans Jazz Revival Band, including musicians Brian Blade, Evan Christopher, John Ellis, Sean Jones, Jason Marsalis, Mark Mullins, Kim Prevost, Bill Summers, Shane Theriot, and the Ubuntu gospel choir, featuring George French and George Porter, Jr.

Promised Land On her new CD, Gina Forsyth ’87 (violin) reflects on American history and direction, blending compassion and irony with forthright lyrics and lines from the gospel church. ginaforsyth.com

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INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

Community Engagement

Benson Foundation gifts $5 million to Loyola to provide student scholarships

By Meredith Hartley, Director of Public Affairs and External Relations

Tom, H’87, and Gayle Benson

tudents with financial need at Loyola will soon have more scholarship dollars available to them thanks to the philanthropy of Tom, H’87, and Gayle Benson. The Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation recently pledged $5 million in financial aid to the university to be used for scholarship support for academically talented students with demonstrated financial need.

The $5 million gift will be distributed over five years and is divided into two parts—$4 million to establish the Tom and Gayle Benson Endowed Scholarship Fund and $1 for support of immediate“One of our goals, as a million use scholarships. The Benson EnJesuit university, is to make a dowed Scholarship Fund will be invested and utilized to support Loyola Loyola education accessible sophomore or higher grade students who have a minimum GPA of 3.0 to all talented and and who are in financial need.

“One of our goals, as a Jesuit hardworking students.” university, is to make a Loyola education accessible to all talented and hardworking students. This gift helps us educate students who have financial need and who would not be able to attend Loyola without the support of generous benefactors like the Bensons,” said Loyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D. Tom Benson’s history with Loyola goes back to his days on campus in 1944 when he enrolled as a student.

Since that time, Benson has risen to become one of New Orleans’ most successful businessmen, amassing wealth through ownership of several automobile dealerships and small banks, not to mention his purchase of the

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New Orleans Saints in 1985. His and his wife’s devotion to the Catholic Church and commitment to Catholic education have made them one of Loyola’s staunchest supporters.

“Gayle and I are proud to make this gift available to Loyola University. It speaks to the dedication of this great university to prepare students for life ahead, not only through the classroom, but also through their Catholic faith and community service,” said Benson.

“Loyola University has always held a special place in my heart, and providing a gift that will be used for scholarships for needy students will be one that Gayle and I can look on and know with confidence will make a positive difference in someone’s life.”

Benson, who received an honorary degree from Loyola in 1987, has been a long-time benefactor of the university. Since Hurricane Katrina, he has pledged more than $15 million to Loyola. He gifted $8 million in 2011 toward the establishment of the Tom Benson Jesuit Center. In 2007, Benson also contributed $2 million to create the Jesuit Social Research Institute, a collaboration of the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus and Loyola University that promotes research, social analysis, and practical strategies for improving the social and economic conditions in the southern U.S., focusing on issues of race, poverty, and migration. In 1999, Benson helped fund the first phase of construction of the Gregory R. Choppin Chemistry Wing in Monroe Hall, which was completed in fall 2008.

In 2010, the university awarded Benson its highest honor—the Integritas Vitae Award—for his continued support and for exemplifying the qualities Loyola seeks to instill in its students.

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The Taylor Foundation’s pledge for scholarships

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he Patrick F. Taylor Foundation recently pledged $1.26 million in scholarship support to Loyola University New Orleans for academically talented, first-generation college students who reside in Louisiana and demonstrate financial need. The Foundation’s grant will provide seven $15,000 scholarships per year over the next 12 years for deserving students. The first seven scholarships will be awarded in August 2013.

“We are very pleased to be able to offer scholarship assistance to Loyola University New Orleans. This outstanding educational institution with its 100 years of experience has much to offer its students. These scholarships will signif-

icantly benefit Louisiana students who are the very first in their family to have an opportunity to attend a university. It will also assist in helping to provide an educated work force to face the needs of tomorrow,” said Phyllis M. Taylor, president and chairwoman of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

“In the face of rising tuition costs nationwide, Loyola has renewed its commitment to increasing need-based scholarships, and private donor support such as this generous gift from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation enables us to enroll the best students regardless of their economic standing,” said Loyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.

Will you leave a legacy?

The best way to ensure the gift of education for generations of students is through a legacy gift.

Did you know that planned giving is one of the most significant philanthropic activities a donor can undertake and represents the highest ideal of charitable giving? Planned gifts, either by will, as designated beneficiary of life insurance, retirement funds or charitable trusts, or through charitable gift annuities, provide the long-term security that assures Loyola University New Orleans will be around to inspire and educate tomorrow’s leaders.

For more than 18 years, Robert Gross has worked with university supporters and their financial and legal advisors in structuring long-term gifts to maximize benefits to both donors and Loyola. Whatever your financial goals and circumstances, Bob is available to assist you to find ways to give that are beneficial and right for you, all in the strictest of confidence.

Robert S. Gross, J.D. , Director of Planned Giving • (504) 861-5565 • rgross@loyno.edu

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Work in Progress

By Autumn Cafiero Giusti ’00

HEAVY CONSTRUCTION ON MONROE HALL TODAY WILL LEAD TO A MODERN MARVEL TOMORROW. It’s one of the quirkier buildings on campus. Students refer to it as the “boat building” because of its infamous porthole windows. The bathrooms are located in the stairwells—between floors. And the building’s Post-Modern design sticks out among the more traditional, red brick buildings that have come to define Loyola University New Orleans’ architecture.

But with a $93 million renovation under way, the J. Edgar Monroe Memorial Science Building, known to most as Monroe Hall, is about to go from quirky to campus showpiece. The portholes will give way to sleek floorto-ceiling windows. Red brick will replace the building’s beige, fiberglass façade. And decades-old wiring and dated systems will yield to energy-efficient upgrades upon the building’s completion in 2015.

“Everything we know about Monroe Hall will change. Each floor will be renovated from slab to ceiling,” says Bret Jacobs, vice provost for Information Technology and chief information officer for the university.

There will be room for some new occupants, too. Two departments—theatre arts and visual arts—will move in, while the science departments that already occupy the building will get room to grow. The renovation will add a sixth floor and 114,000 square feet to the five-story building.

“The Monroe Hall renovation will not only provide state-of-the-art facilities for the departments housed in the building, but will foster the development of cross-discipline opportunities for instruction between the sciences and the arts,” Jacobs says.

Technology updates, improved classrooms, and new and upgraded meeting spaces are all part of the package. All of the building’s mechanical systems will be replaced, and the building will incorporate energy-efficient systems wherever possible.

Classrooms will be resized and equipped with modern presentation systems. The building will have wireless network access throughout and new science labs. The general and organic chemistry labs on the first floor will be retained and refreshed.

Holabird & Root of Chicago is the lead architect. The firm formed a joint venture with Holly & Smith, L.L.C., of New Orleans for the project.

A SYMBOL OF THE TIMES Compared to newer structures on campus, the 43-year-old Monroe Hall is showing its age inside and out. But that wasn’t always the case. When the building debuted on campus in 1969, it was a symbol of progress—a cuttingedge science complex with an avant-garde appearance reflective of scientific

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advances being made at the time.

Campus legends abound about the original construction of Monroe Hall and its unusual appearance.

One legend has it that the building was intentionally designed to look like a boat, with the windows resembling portholes. Coincidentally, the building’s namesake, J. Edgar Monroe, made his fortune in the shipbuilding industry and helped fund the project.

Another legend says that the bathrooms were omitted from the original designs, “The Monroe Hall renovation which is why they ended up in the stairwells.

Little information exists to will not only provide state-ofconfirm or deny these accounts, the-art facilities for the but campus archives suggest that departments housed in the the building’s peculiar design was merely a product of that era. The building, but will foster the university described plans for the building as “modern but very funcdevelopment of cross- tional,” according to an October discipline opportunities for 1966 story in The Maroon.

In the mid-1960s, interest in instruction between the the sciences was sweeping the country. The Soviet Union had sciences and the arts.” launched the Sputnik satellite, and the Vietnam War had created a demand for scientific innovations that could be used on the battlefield, such as napalm.

At the same time, Loyola was undergoing a building boom. Biever Hall and the Danna Center were completed in 1963, and Buddig Hall came along two years later.

University administrators believed the time had come for Loyola to build its own science complex. The university brought on modernist architect Ismay Mary Mykolyk to design a state-of-the-art science complex.

Bernard Cook, Ph.D., Provost Distinguished Professor of History, recently chronicled Loyola’s history, including the 1960s building boom, in his book, Founded on Faith: A History of Loyola University New Orleans.

“They were trying to be different from the other buildings,” he says. “I think maybe they were trying to make a statement about the changing character of Loyola, shifting from a commuter college to a more comprehensive American university.”

The result was the J. Edgar Monroe Memorial Science Building, built for $6.7 million. At 180,000 square feet, the building was the largest academic structure in Loyola’s history and doubled the university’s classroom space.

Over time, as newer buildings sprung up that blended better with the campus architecture, Monroe’s distinct appearance became more notice-

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able. The building wore down with age, and its maintenance needs piled up.

Chris Wiseman ’88, Ph.D., associate vice president for development and political science instructor, was a student at Loyola in the 1980s and has watched Monroe Hall evolve over the years.

“It’s been a useful building for so many years, but I think it’s also one of the buildings students like the least,” he says. “It’s so fundamental to Loyola’s work, but people really see the need for change there.”

ARTS AND SCIENCES UNDER ONE ROOF Chemistry Department Chair Thom Spence, Ph.D., is among those ready for change. He has found himself having to do amateur plumbing on nitrogen and gas lines while doing lab work in Monroe Hall.

And it’s not unusual for water to leak from the outside and through walls.

“We’re talking about a renovated building that is so much higher in sophistication than what we have now,” says Spence.

The chemistry faculty has spent a great deal of time in the past two years designing spaces that are forward thinking and flexible, Spence says. Until now, the department has been split among three different floors. After the renovation, the department plans to consolidate onto the first and second floors.

The recently renovated Choppin Chemistry Wing and the Keck Collaborative Learning Center will remain in place, but there will be new, centralized facilities for equipment.

While the renovation will create some muchneeded breathing room for departments that already occupy the building, it will create new space for theatre arts and visual arts. Many of theatre arts’ current spaces are converted classrooms and too small for the purpose they are intended to serve. The faculty and staff have gotten used to doing the “printer dance” inside the department’s cramped office in room 312 of Marquette Hall, says Georgia Gresham, M.F.A., chair for the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.

“It’s so tight to get to the printer that if you don’t counter block, you can’t get through,” she jokes.

Right now, theatre arts is spread out among three different buildings on campus. With the renovation, the department can consolidate its offices, classrooms, and studios to Monroe Hall. The department will continue to use the Lower Depths Theater in the Communications/Music Complex, the scene shop on the Broadway campus, and Marquette Theater in Marquette Hall.

“We will go into spaces that are actually purposedesigned labs, studios, and classrooms, and we have never had that before,” Gresham says.

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The move to Monroe Hall will be a game changer for visual arts, says Bill Kitchens, M.F.A., department chair. “We have a lot of changes to our degree programs that we want to institute, and they are tied right in with our move into this new facility,” he says.

The department’s space in St. Mary’s Hall on the Broadway campus is short on square footage, and areas such as printmaking, drawing, and painting are crammed into tiny spaces. “We are three pounds in a one-pound box,” Kitchens says.

With the move, visual arts will be able to increase its space in every area and will have bigger offices and classrooms. “It’s a far better facility,” he says.

DONORS PLAY KEY ROLE Marquette Hall has long served as the iconic image of Loyola, flanked by the horseshoe and “touchdown” Jesus statue. “We never send out pictures of Monroe Hall, and yet it’s so important to the campus,” Wiseman says.

The building’s importance is what Loyola is working to drive home to alumni and prospective donors who can help pay for the building’s construction.

Loyola took advantage of favorable market rates to offer $80 million in bonds for the $93 million project, says Wiseman. The $13 million balance will come from philanthropic donations.

So far, Loyola has received two leadership gifts from the Edward G. Schlieder Foundation and the J. Edgar Monroe Foundation. “Those two gifts together are more than 10 percent of the $13 million,” Wiseman says. “Just two donors taking that much of a lead is significant.”

The university is seeking out interest from other major donors and will look to its broader base of alumni and others who can help complete the funding as a group.

For those who make a sizeable donation, there will be naming opportunities in new spaces such as labs, a new lecture hall, and the building’s made-over lobby.

Fundraising will be a complex undertaking, but Wiseman believes the Loyola community will be pleased with the end result. “The outside of the new building is going to blend much more beautifully with the campus, and also with the neighborhood,” he says.

“A SHORT-TERM SACRIFICE” These days, a massive crane towers over Monroe Hall, and workers are banging away daily. But classes must go on. Given that Monroe Hall provides 40 percent of the classroom space at Loyola, there’s some logistical maneuvering involved with keeping con-

struction and academics going simultaneously.

Renovation of the fifth floor began in January, and the project is taking place in phases so construction can progress while classes are in session, Jacobs says.

MONROE HALL TRIVIA “The intent is to sys• Light switches were almost left out of tematically move down Monroe Hall. Electricity was cheap in the the building in phases and 1960s, and some buildings around the relocate departments as country were being constructed with the infrequently as possible,” idea that the lights would be on all the he says. time.

Dr. David Keiffer, retired chairman of In the first round of the physics department, recalls that the moves, some departarchitect tried convincing the university to ments will move out of go without light switches. “We asked, the building permaWhat if we needed to do a slideshow? nently. These include: And she said, you could have strings Information Technology, hanging down from the lights,” he says. the Academic Resource Center, Internal Audit, • Monroe Hall was the brainchild of the Professional and Rev. Francis Benedetto, who helped Continuing Studies, the develop WWL radio and television.

University Honors Benedetto was physics department chair Program, and Upward until 1966 and decided that because of Bound. the proliferation of nuclear weapons and The math, sociolthe physics boom, that the time was right ogy, and political science for a new sciences complex. Carl Brans ’57 departments have temPh.D., J.C. Carter Professor Emeritus of porarily moved to moduTheoretical Physics, recalls working with lar offices in the Mercy Benedetto. “He was a great businessman.

Hall parking lot. This He was a Jesuit, but he was a CEO of a will allow for construcmultimillion-dollar corporation (WWL).” tion until December • Modernist architect Ismay Mary 2013, when Loyola will Mykolyk, who designed Monroe Hall occupy the renovated in the 1960s, served as chief associate fifth floor and the north architect on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, wing of the fourth floor Vietnam, according to Tulane University’s of Monroe Hall, Jacobs Southeastern Architectural Archive. Before says. Another round of starting her own firm and designing moves will take place Monroe, Mykolyk earned her chops around this time. working for Curtis & Davis Architects & Wiseman has been Associated Engineers, the firm that went teaching a political scion to design the Louisiana Superdome. ence class in Monroe Hall amidst the construction.

And though it can get noisy at times, he says he’s looking ahead to the final product. “It’s a short-term sacrifice for a long-term gain.”

Watch a video about the Monroe Hall construction at www.loyno.edu/2012/albums

Autumn Cafiero Giusti ’00, a communication alumna, is a freelance writer and editor. magazine.loyno.edu

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A Library for a New C

By Michael P. Olson, Ph.D., Dean of Libraries

Michael P. Olson, Ph.D.

As Loyola University New Orleans celebrates its centennial during the current academic year, it is fitting to ask how the J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library will evolve as it enters the university’s second century. As one of six colleges and principal academic units at Loyola, the Monroe Library aligns its goals with those of the university: enhance Jesuit values; improve student retention; and enhance our reputation and stature. Since the opening of the new library building in 1999, the library and its remarkable team have won several national awards, while the library ranks perennially among the top 10 university libraries in the United States by The Princeton Review.

Loyola’s students and faculty in 2013 succeed whenever the library can provide useful—and highly used—resources, services, and spaces. Gabrielle Gatto, the February “Monroe Library Friend of the Month,” states: “You guys are doing a great job!” Gabrielle, a sophomore, is a film writing major from Long Island, N.Y. She calls the library her second dorm because she is always in the library, especially during midterms and finals, and enjoys the camaraderie among students studying for exams. Gabrielle checks out many movies in support

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of her coursework and says that the library’s Learning Commons—a collaborative, multi-purpose area centrally located on the first floor—is a good place to focus. Gabrielle is also a big fan of the library’s use of social media to connect to the students on campus. Last but not least, she believes that the library’s staff is “always so friendly and eager to help.”

Student experiences such as Gabrielle’s become valuable catalysts for life-long personal and professional development.

Several semesters ago, I read a first-year student’s reply to an essay question, “What did you pack up as you prepared for college?”

The student’s reply: “I feel as I prepare to embrace college and all its attributes that it is appropriate to accept the task with full responsibility. Being the first person in my entire family to attend a university, there is no room for failure. I have many people behind me, pulling for me, and I cannot let them down. So, I packed my try-hard pants and came ready to go. Hopefully I will succeed.”

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w Century met us. To this end, every student and faculty member has a personal librarian: a library faculty member who adds value to class-related research, connects students and faculty to innovative products and services, and more.

Today’s university students use mobile devices and social media capable of retrieving and transmitting vast stores of digital content from a place far and distant, even in a “cloud.” They desire speed, options, and convenience. The Monroe Library responds by offering choices: digital, print, or archival content; quiet or collaborative spaces; the ability to study in the library, in a dorm, or elsewhere with a Wi-Fi or 4G/3G connection to the Internet… the list goes on.

The library is pleased to add recently key information resources at the request of Loyola’s faculty, e.g. Cambridge Companions Online, subject- or theme-based collections of content superbly suited for many undergraduate courses (the collections are, in many cases, also available at the library as physical books); and L’Année philologique on the Internet, the digital version of a standard bibliographic reference work devoted to the Classics. The library’s media and music collections are particularly strong, and items are added regularly in support of the curriculum. If the library does not actually own certain materials, then our reciprocal-borrowing agreements generally provide users with broad and timely access to those materials.

The library embraces technology as it facilitates learning, instruction, the discovery and use of scholarship, online and hybrid education, and the use of media in classrooms. The Special Collections and Archives unit digitizes a wealth of materials—including the student newspaper The Maroon, the university yearbook The Wolf, and historical photographs documenting Loyola’s first century—to enable “anywhere, anytime” access. Other library faculty and staff collaborate with Loyola’s instructors to improve and increase the latter’s use of Blackboard in online and hybrid course development, or deploy computers, software, and ancillary equipment that support the academic work of students and faculty in the library and across campus.

As a new New Orleanian, let me state: Let the good times roll! Since Gabrielle Gatto, the arriving last August, I’ve become increasingly impressed with the library’s February “Monroe Library team of faculty, staff, and student employees. They achieve tremendous Friend of the Month” feats by combining skill, creativity, and good cheer. While I’m very proud of my colleagues, the best arbiters of our effectiveness are, I believe, the Loyola community—alumni, faculty, students, parents, and friends. A recently completed standardized survey indicates that, among all institutional priorities and student satisfaction items listed, Loyola’s 2012 undergraduates are most greatly satisfied with “library resources and services.”

As Loyola enters its second century, the Monroe Library will continue to demonstrate and promote its value—throughout the university, in New Orleans, and beyond. My team and I wish to stimulate interest and traffic, thereby positioning the library anew as a center of intellectual, social, and spiritual life.

We welcome your feedback and appreciate your support.

Michael P. Olson, Ph.D., became dean of libraries and professor at Loyola on August 1, 2012. He had been a senior-level library administrator for more than 20 years at Harvard, UCLA, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Clark University; has written two books and produced more than 100 articles or conference presentations; and has raised more than $3 million for libraries.

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Exceptional Experiences for Exceptional

By Shelby Schultheis ’14 THE HONORS PROGRAM PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACADEMIC AND CO-CURRICULAR ACHIEVMENT. For Alan Pham, an English major, the greatest benefit he derives from being in the Honors Program comes from the specialized courses that offer in-depth study on a multitude of subjects. “For me, that provides the opportunity to find something that really interests me and offers a lot of knowledge,” Pham says. Currently, he is taking a philosophy course about Nietzsche and evolutionary ethics that he is really enjoying.

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Students

While participation in the Honors Program looks amazing on résumés, the pursuit of knowledge is what drives Loyola’s Honors students to continue this level of education after their high school years.

THE HONORS PROGRAM THROUGH THE YEARS The Honors Program at Loyola has seen many changes over the years since its origin nearly three decades ago. The program was originally designed for students who received the full Presidential scholarship and included a specialized Honors curriculum of 48 credit hours, which replaced their Common Curriculum requirements. This lasted until nearly 2004.

The program began undergoing significant revisions post-Katrina. Now, a senior thesis is required and 28 Honors credits replace Common Curriculum credits. In 2009, the program was moved out of the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, which made it easier for non-humanities majors to join the program.

For many years, the Honors Program was run by part-time directors, but after the program went under an external review by the National Collegiate Honors Council in 2010, a full-time director was sought. The council also recommended that the director report directly to the provost and that the Honors Program should feature certain core courses, among other things.

A national search was conducted for the first fulltime director, and Naomi Yavneh Klos, Ph.D., was hired.

Yavneh states that one of her duties is to make sure that the Honors Program serves students in every college and major and also to ensure that their college experience The Rediscovering 1912 is enhanced, not hindered, by their participation in the Honors Program course program. provided students with Biology and Latin American studies senior Jordan hands-on access to Harbaugh has been in the Honors Program during some original historical of its significant structural changes. documents related to “It’s been great,” Harbaugh says. “Some of these centennials that took courses really integrate the course subject into the modern place in 2012. world and apply it to people’s lives, and that’s been an effective educational experience for me, and for other people.”

Harbaugh has taken classes on Catholic Perspectives on Immigration, the Bible and the Media, and Medical Ethics. The Bible and the Media course looked at how passages from the Bible have been misused and misinterpreted by the media and have led to the development of false concepts about the Bible’s teachings.

Harbaugh is also involved in the Community Engagement Portfolio, which is now being offered by the Honors Program. The portfolio involves 20 recorded service hours, as well as reflection meetings with guest speakers and the Honors director throughout the semester. The goal is to make community engagement an integral part of Honors, as well as to help students be more mindful about their experiences, according to Yavneh.

“I’ve been involved with other service learning and volunteer opportunities, and I think it’s a great thing to have the Honors students be involved in the community,” Harbaugh says.

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Ann Stauder, who joined the Girl Scouts in 1928, shared her experiences with students in the Rediscovering 1912 Honors Program course.

STUDENT QUALIFICATIONS Being accepted into the Honors Program is no small feat. For incoming students to be considered for the program, they must have at least a 3.5 GPA on the 4-point scale and a combined reading and math score of 1300 or higher on the SAT, or a composite score of 29 or above on the ACT. Also required are an Honors-specific statement of interest and two letters of recommendation. In addition, extra-curricular programs and volunteer work are taken into consideration.

For regular students who have taken all of their introductory courses and decide that they want to be in Honors starting their sophomore year, problems arise because the required Common Curriculum classes they have taken are not equivalent in subject matter to the Honors required classes. This stems from how the classes for regular students and Honors students are structured. Regular students in an Introduction to World Religions class, for example, would learn their material in a broad manner, spending two weeks on one religion before moving to the next one. Honors classes are generally more interdisciplinary and focused on a special topic such as The Bible and the Media or International Human Rights.

When students decide to transfer into the program, decisions must be made as to whether the regular Common Curriculum classes that they’ve taken will have to be replaced with Honors courses and if re-taking these classes will affect the students’ graduation times.

“There are ways to solve that; it’s just a question of sitting down and working it out,” Yavneh says. “We want to be sure that every qualified and motivated student is able to participate in Honors.”

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recruited regular students who showed Honors potential during their first semester at Loyola. According to Yavneh, 16 students from Loyola joined the Honors Program for the spring semester.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND THESIS PROJECTS Honors students are self-motivated, which is essential for their senior thesis projects, as well as the extracurricular activities they undertake during their time at Loyola. Pedro Benitez, economics sophomore, resurrected Loyola’s Quiz Bowl team, which had been dormant for nearly 16 years. A Quiz Bowl competition consists of two teams being asked trivia questions and buzzing in with the correct answer to get points.

“Our director, Professor Yavneh, got an e-mail saying ‘Would you like to participate in this Honors Quiz Bowl competition?’ so I jumped at it,” Benitez says. “We played on a regional competition last year and we got third place.

We already played Tulane last semester and we crushed them, so that was a great success. The team is my little baby to Honors, and I’m proud of it.”

The Honors Program is also active in helping the surrounding community. Several Honors students provide ACT tutoring in the Elevate program, which helps athletically gifted high school students from underprivileged backgrounds prepare for college. Other students volunteer at Anna’s Arts for Kids or participate in the monthly freerice.com gatherings where they help end world hunger.

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also majoring in history pre-law and psychology, with a minor in business.

“All of the projects not only help our local and global communities, but also they provide a great opportunity to foster friendships with fellow Honors students,” Steven says.

The University Honors Association is open to all Honors students and advises the program director on academic matters, organizes co-curricular programs, and coordinates the mentoring program.

Other service projects organized by the University Honors Association are the St. Bernard Project and a collaborative project with a local farming initiative.

Psychology and pre-med major Monica Ohakwe participated in both of these projects. “For the St. Bernard Project, my group helped rebuild the house of the Breaux family which was severely affected by Katrina. My job was to help put insulation under the house,” Ohakwe says. During Wolves on the Prowl, we were helping a group of people prepare a field to become a local community garden. We dug through the soil, removing large rocks, grubs, and pieces of trash so that the soil could be used to grow crops and keep chickens.”

Most first-year Honors students get to live on the 11th floor of Buddig residence hall, which fosters friendships among like-minded students.

“Immediately you get to meet all these people who share this love of knowledge, so to speak,” Benitez says, “So instantaneously I found four or five friends who have been with me through this whole college experience.”

Sam Winstrom, the current resident assistant for the Honors floor and an Honors student himself majoring in mass communication on the journalism track and minoring in film studies, states that organizing activities for his students is vastly different than being a resident assistant for other floors.

“It’s a really different experience than you get working for and living on other floors because everybody’s been so independent and just self-driven.”

Being self-driven and independent is crucial for Honors students when they’re developing their senior theses.

“The goal of the senior thesis is for the student to engage in some kind of original research, scholarship, or creative activity,” Yavneh says. “Ideally, it’s something that is original and is genuinely making a contribution to the discipline.”

One such contribution was created by an Honors horn player who researched repetitive motion injuries in horn players and developed a preventative measures handbook and then presented her work to other brass instrument musicians at Loyola.

Although many students pursue a thesis in line with their major, those with a proficiency in another subject can choose to follow their muse there. According to Yavneh, last year a student who double majored in psychology and Spanish chose to do her thesis in creative writing since she had proficiency in that subject, although she did not pursue the subject formally. For her thesis project, she used the poetry of both her grandmother and of her mother and wrote her own poems in dialogue with these. She framed the work with a memoir.

Garrett Fonteneau ’12, a history and sociology major now applying to graduate school, did his thesis on currency under the Articles of Confederation and used primary sources such as the journals of Congress and newspapers from that time period. He won awards from Honors, the history department, and the Monroe Library for his research.

Working with primary sources is another attribute of being an Honors student at Loyola. Since the Honors Program has taken up residency in the Monroe Library, Yavneh is looking forward to more research collaborations.

Rediscovering 1912, which Yavneh co-taught with associate research librarian Teri Oaks Gallaway, interim “Some of these courses director of public services at Loyola’s J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library, really integrate the course provided Honors students hands-on access to original historical documents subject into the modern related to the State of Louisiana’s biworld and apply it to centennial, the centennial of the Girl Scouts of America, and the centennial people’s lives, and that’s of Loyola University New Orleans, all of which took place in 2012. The pub- been an effective lic exhibitions they created were diseducational experience for played at the capitol in Baton Rouge during the state’s bicentennial celebra- me, and for other people.” tions, the Girl Scout Centennial Extravaganza in Gonzalez, La., and on Loyola’s campus during its centennial celebrations. Yavneh, Gallaway, and students from the class later attended the 2012 National Collegiate Honors Council conference, at which they presented their work and the methods of the class, receiving high marks from national jurors.

“Our students have some pretty amazing academic and intellectual gifts of curiosity,” Yavneh says, “and I think being in the library will really give us a chance to be able to display that more. We now have our own display cases for exhibiting documents, so come by Honors and learn something new!”

Shelby Schultheis ’14 (English) is the publications intern for the Office of Marketing and Communications during the spring 2013 semester.

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Open Wide

By Bernard A. Cook, Ph.D.

A HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY The final project of Fr. Albert Biever and Fr. Patrick Ryan, Loyola University’s first president and vice president, respectively, was the dental school. They asked Victor Vignes, D.D.S., to organize a dental department for Loyola. According to Ryan, “Tulane’s Dental Department had at this time so deteriorated that its two best professors—Dr. [Samuel H.] McAfee and Dr. Fuller (sic) [Charles S. Tuller]—were planning to resign from the faculty and Dr. Vignes, who had his ear close to the ground and was familiar with all of the gossip, hastened their decision.” Though a number of the top dentists in New Orleans, among them Jules J. Sarrazin, J.A. Gorman, and E.A. Gamard, were willing to work without pay until Loyola was in a position to remunerate them, McAfee and Tuller would need to be compensated. Loyola had to come up with $5,000.

Ryan found a ready solution. Many lay people had been distressed by the reassignment of Biever, but Ryan counseled them that protest would be useless. Instead, he suggested they establish a “Father Biever Chair of Science at Loyola.” Ryan sought contributions, and there was enthusiasm, but his hoped-for goal of $30,000 was not realized. Nevertheless, $8,000 had been contributed and Ryan suggested this be used 26

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to launch the Father Biever Memorial Dental School. This suggestion carried the day, but not without a hitch.

In what Biever called “a recurrence of the old malady,” Moynihan was convinced that the dental school would be a financial failure. An “estrangement with unpleasant consequences took place between the Provincial Father Moynihan and Dr. Vignes, Dean of Loyola Dental,” Ryan wrote. Though Marquette Hall was “virtually empty and waiting for a student body,” the provincial would not let the dental school hold classes there during its first year. He suggested an off-campus site. “Dr. Vignes ‘hit the ceiling’ at this suggestion and for two months would not come near Father Moynihan.” Despite Moynihan’s misgivings, the dental school moved to Marquette Hall in September 1915, and with it “quite a few” former Tulane dental students, who followed their professors to Loyola.

The Loyola dental school was the only school of dentistry in Louisiana at the time, and a number of other Southern states did not have dental schools. This gave importance and prominence to the Loyola program. The initial faculty of the dental school consisted of 26 doctors of medicine and doctors of dental surgery. When the school opened on October 6,

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1914, the course of study was three years; in 1917, it was expanded to four years. Eventually the requirement for entry into the program was increased to two years of pre-professional academic work. To provide clinical experience for the students, an outpatient dental-surgery clinic was eventually set up in Bobet Hall. The clinic was staffed by students, who practiced under the supervision of their teachers. The Loyola dental students also received experience in hospital practice at the Louisiana State Charity Hospital.

In 1915, the first class graduated from Loyola’s School of Dentistry.

It was composed of three students who had transferred to the new school, and all were male: J.L. Boyd, W.J. Healey, and Conrad L. O’Niell.

However, women attended Loyola’s dental school almost from its inception. In 1918, Mary Jane Howard, the first woman to graduate from Loyola’s dental school, received her D.D.S. The importance of the professional schools to Loyola’s growth and survival is clear in the student roster in Loyola’s 1914 – 1915 bulletin, which listed 197 students. Only 23 were enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences. Pharmacy had 85 students, Law had 55, and Dentistry had 27 students. The success of the three schools encouraged the Jesuits to think of establishing additional professional schools, but Loyola’s subsequent attempts to launch schools of medicine, architecture, and engineering were not successful.

In 1912, the science program, which included courses in modern languages, science, English, mathematics, history, and philosophy, had been transformed into a four-year program leading to a B.S. degree. A one-year pre-medical program was also introduced; it was expanded to two years in 1917.

C. Victor Vignes, the founding dean of Loyola’s School of Dentistry, held that post until 1937, with the exception of 1918 – 1919 when he handed it over to Jules J. Sarrazin. The dental program, which required three years when it opened in September 1914, had been extended to four years in 1917 – 1918. Initially, it accepted high school graduates, but beginning in 1926, candidates for admission had to have The Loyola dental school completed a year in an accredited college. The dental school and its was the only school of clinic were located in Marquette Hall until the completion of Bobet Hall, dentistry in Louisiana at where they were located until the the time, and a number of dental school closed in 1971.

In 1936, there were 25 dentistry other Southern states did graduates, two of whom were women.

The 1940 graduating class was ex- not have dental schools. ceptionally large—there were 46 grad- This gave importance and uates, including two women. Vignes continued to serve as dean of Loyola’s prominence to the Loyola School of Dentistry until 1937. Sidney L. Tiblier, D.D.S., then became dean, program. a post he held until February 1945.

Tiblier received his A.B. from Loyola in 1917. While working on an M.A. at Loyola, he taught chemistry in the dental school, then became a student there, receiving his D.D.S. Tiblier began teaching dentistry at Loyola in 1930.

As early as 1947, Loyola’s board had considered the possibility of closing the School of Dentistry and shifting its operation to the state system. It had not been self-sustaining, and the university was forced to supplement the school’s income from tuition and the dental clinics with a yearly subsidy of approximately $50,000. In the early 1960s, Loyola had contemplated moving its dental school to a downtown location near Charity Hospital and hoped that some sort of cooperative arrangement could be worked out with the state.

But when the state of Louisiana announced it would build a dental school in New Orleans, Loyola decided it could not compete with a state-run school. Ultimately Loyola decided that the dental school was not essential to its mission and the university could not afford it.

In May 1966, Loyola announced its decision to phase out the dental school one year at a time by not enrolling a new freshman class after 1967 – 1968, and the school closed with the graduation of its last class in 1971.

Taken from Founded on Faith: A History of Loyola University New Orleans by Bernard A. Cook, Ph.D., Provost Distinguished Professor of History. Available for purchase at www.bkstr.com magazine.loyno.edu

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Captains of Communication

By Mikel Pak HOW LOYOLA PROPELLED FOUR 1976 MASS COMMUNICATION GRADUATES TO SUCCESS. In the mid-1970s, the first portable TV cameras—minicams—were invented. With the new invention, television was catapulted into its next glory phase. For four students back then, the Loyola University New Orleans Department of Communications—the predecessor to the School of Mass Communication—propelled them into a lifetime of successes on and off the TV set. At Loyola, they were given opportunities to combine theory and practicality with the latest technologies at the time.

“We were at Loyola when truly portable TV cameras were invented, at a time when television was in its golden age. There was no Internet and no cell phones, but there was television and we were making it,” says Vinnie Grosso ’76, founder of VinnieVision, a consulting and development firm for small companies merging into the television space.

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taught you how to figure out what you want to do when it comes across your path,” says Joseph E. Mahoney ’76, financial services veteran and president of Lifetime Strategies Group.

“The professors we had were not only extraordinary, but they were very engaged in our education,” says Russell Myerson ’76, executive vice president of the CW Television Network, a joint venture of the CBS Corporation and Warner Bros.

“These people encouraged you to think in a traditional way, but also think in an abstract way. We were given enormous latitude in creating projects and value for the university.”

“The skills that I picked up at Loyola—that I was encouraged to pursue at Loyola—have actually played a key role in the direction that my career has gone,” says Mike Skehan ’76, founder of Washington, D.C.-based Skehan Communications, L.L.C. Here are their stories of success.

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“Think about what you’re trying to change.

Be a change agent. Change the world by going with your passion. Keep experimenting.”

MIXING INNOVATION WITH TV The Monday after graduation from Loyola, Vinnie Grosso ’76 went to work. He was running KLFY Channel 10 in Lafayette, La., as the daytime director, meaning he “signed on” the station, ran master control, and directed three live shows including the news—all for minimum wage.

After KLFY, Grosso snagged an opportunity with a Sony distributor, Louisiana Sound, to run a video production company from 1978 to 1979. He did hundreds of commercials and loved every minute, but AT&T recruited him away in the 1980s for its internal industrial television unit with a television budget bigger than CBS at the time. It served more than one million employees and had 200 studios.

At AT&T, he worked his way up until he was running the show. He left the company as president of AT&T Interactive Television—a success he credits to his educational foundation at Loyola.

“That was because of the combination of strategic thinking and strategic doing we learned at Loyola,” Grosso says.

The successes didn’t stop there. Grosso went on to become vice president and general manager at NBC, at 30 Rock, putting NBC affiliates on the Internet in the late 1990s and 2000s. After that, he

followed expanding technologies to become CEO of Intel-backed company Into Networks that streamed software and video on the Internet.

His winning formula? He was mixing TV with the most innovative thing at the time—a passion born from his days in the basement of the Danna Student Center in Loyola’s old TV studio. In fact, he’s got some advice to that effect for current Loyola students: “Don’t be afraid to mix. Mix television and computers. Think about what you’re trying to change. Be a change agent. Change the world by going with your passion,” he says. “Keep experimenting.”

Grosso now helps other comVinnie Grosso ’76 panies experiment in the realm of interactive television.

He founded his own consulting company, VinnieVision, to help emerging media and entertainment companies launch their video and interactive services. magazine.loyno.edu

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Joseph E. Mahoney ’76

“Staying in touch with people on a meaningful level is so powerful, especially when so many interactions tend to be so shallow.”

FINDING THE PATH TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP At the Wolf Pub in the 1970s—the pizza and beer hangout at Loyola—Joseph E. Mahoney ’76 was perhaps unknowingly honing his spirit of entrepreneurship. As the part-time night manager there during college, he saw an opportunity for a product: Wolf Pub beer mugs and glasses. He bought 20 cases of his self-made products and sold them at a profit.

“My history at Loyola says I was pretty good at running my own thing,” Mahoney says of his earliest entrepreneurial memories.

After a brief stint after college with one of the largest advertising agencies in the country, Leo Burnett Worldwide in Chicago, Ill., he eventually found his way back to his true passion. Mahoney, a Chartered Financial Consultant, went headfirst into the financial services industry—starting in life insurance and spending more than two decades with Northwestern Mutual.

His entrepreneurial spirit prevailed and he established his own financial services company, Lifetime Strategies Group (lifetimestrategiesgroup.com) in Dallas, Texas.

“It’s a breath of fresh air—it’s allowed me to build something a little bit different,” he says of starting his own company.

Even though he changed his life’s direction from advertising to financial services, he feels Loyola prepared him to seize his true passions when they crossed his path.

“I was committed to being successful, and in hindsight, it didn’t really matter what that was necessarily,” he says. “And Loyola taught me how to think about that. I wanted to build something of value.”

Part of that is also building valuable relationships, he says. “One of the things I’m most proud of is the ability to maintain long-term relationships.”

He offers this advice to current Loyola students: “Make sure you maintain these relationships,” the former Loyola Board of Trustees member says.

“Staying in touch with people on a meaningful level is so powerful, especially when so many interactions tend to be so shallow.”

REMEMBERING THE GAME SHOWS Russell Myerson ’76 is at heart a game show man. His fascination dates back to his teenage years when he’d make trips with his family to New York City, N.Y. Instead of countless visits to the Statue of Liberty, he would troll Rockefeller Center and audience hop from game show to game show.

Though his expansive TV career has taken him from the small KPLC-TV in Lake Charles, La., to executive positions at companies such as Media General Broadcast Group, The WB Television Network, and The CW Television Network, it’s his time building the Game Show Network that brings up the most

colorful memories.

Besides rubbing elbows with folks like Bob Eubanks of the Newlywed Game, Peter Tomarken of Press Your Luck, and perennial game show contestant Betty White, at the Game Show Network, Myerson helped create a “winner’s tour” segment where the crew and game show host would surprise at-home contestants with deliveries of prizes.

They would show up to the door to award everything from big screen TVs and refrigerators to freezers and jewelry.

During one segment, they showed up at 3 p.m. to surprise a woman inside her mobile home located in a rural, agricultural area. The woman just happened to be watching the live program on her own TV and caught the crew walking up to her house.

There was another time when the crew delivered a prize to a contestant who lived on a huge

“Live television, there’s nothing like it. Being live makes a huge Russell Myerson ’76

difference in the spontaneity of the contestants. When you’re able to add that element to it, it makes for a better show.”

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lake. He was so thrilled with the experience, he put the entire crew on a speedboat for a personal tour of the lake.

“They were so overwhelmed and touched. They were great moments,” Myerson says. “Live television, there’s nothing like it. Being live makes a huge difference in the spontaneity of the contestants. When you’re able to add that element to it, it makes for a better show.”

He credits his time at Loyola for giving him a step-up to television success. “We were given enormous latitude in creating projects and value for the university,” Myerson says. “(The professors) so

wanted their students to excel. If you had your heart behind it, they weren’t afraid to take chances—they gave you the runway to succeed.”

And that freedom to think big paid off. At the Game Show Network, Myerson oversaw (with fellow alumnus Vinnie Grosso ’76, who was president of AT&T Interactive at the time) the original online launch of television’s most iconic game show, Wheel of Fortune. He introduced game show fans to four decades of rarely seen game show episodes with 50,000 episodes at his disposal. Most of them had been aired only once originally and had never been repeated again on TV.

CAPTURING MOMENTS IN HISTORY From behind the camera, Mike Skehan ’76 has captured the leader of the free world and the leader of the communist world… together. He was there shooting video for Independent Television News, or ITN, of London when President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet Union Premier Mikhail Gorbachev participated in historic summits in Iceland, Geneva, Tokyo, and again in Venice.

His company, Skehan Communications, L.L.C., provided live coverage for NASA TV when the space shuttle Discovery made its final voyage to its resting place at the Smithsonian Institution in Virginia. He was even on the crew as they shot an interview with Mohamed Ali as the sports legend announced one of his several retirements from boxing. He spent three days last summer, six cameras in tow, with 250,000 Girl Scouts on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as they celebrated their 100th anniversary.

As a youngster, he always had a camera in hand.

While at Loyola, he gravitated to anything to do with images and technology. Loyola provided him the tools to work as a news and documentary cameraman in the real industry, he says. During his junior year, he interned in the newsroom at WDSU TV. Before graduation day came, he was already working for WWL TV in New Orleans.

While his career started as a cameraman for WWL—where he met is broadcast journalist wife, Andrea Roane—he quickly moved up to the NBC station in Washington, D.C. After two years there, he started his own company with a contract to provide camera crews and technical services to the UK’s Independent Television News, best-known as the BBC’s main competitor. For 12 years, he and his brother were the North American crew of ITN, based in Washington.

Meanwhile, business grew beyond ITN. Skehan Communications also had the distinction of serving the White House as the first civilian contractor for the White House Communications Agency, among many other clients.

In 2005, faced with the very expensive choice of revamping his operation to accommodate High Definition technology, Skehan decided to go in another direction—joining a God TV-owned new company, East Coast Television. Skehan became the divisional head of broadcast and engineering for God TV while still running East Coast Television as general manager.

In 2012, God TV reorganized and downsized its operations, eventually shutting down East Coast Television. Skehan came full circle to once again working for himself. Now with the latest in HDTV production gear, Skehan Communications is back at the top of the Washington, D.C., remote production market.

“The six years that I spent working for someone else, running their company and managing an international division, was a terrific experience,” Skehan says. “At Loyola, as an RA and head resident of Biever Hall, I learned problem-solving skills and how to deal with difficult situations (and people). I really believe that the professional and interpersonal development that I received as a Loyola student is at the core of my success.”

Mike Skehan ’76

“I really believe that the professional and interpersonal development that I received as a Loyola student is at the core of my success.”

Mikel Pak is the associate director of Public Affairs for Loyola. magazine.loyno.edu

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Yoga with a Purpose

By Stuart Glascock

COLLEEN MCEVOY ’92, M.B.A. ’92, BRINGS THE BENEFITS OF YOGA TO PRISONERS. At a home celebration for volunteers, both the fire and enthusiasm of Colleen McEvoy ’92 (finance), M.B.A. ’92, warm the room. But she isn’t kicking up her heels. She checks to-do lists, puts labels on pot luck dishes, greets each guest kindly, and makes everyone feel welcome.

It’s not a hypothetical scene. The gathering honors volunteers who teach yoga in prisons. The cheerful house is McEvoy’s. Detail oriented and upbeat, she is president of the board of Yoga Behind Bars (www.yogabehindbars.org), a growing non-profit providing free yoga classes inside prisons and jails.

In her critical leadership role, McEvoy helps bring yoga to locked up men, women, and teenagers. She believes yoga fosters physical, mental, and spiritual growth for individuals, including those inside America’s vast penitentiaries.

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Seattle-based Yoga Behind Bars delivers classes at seven prisons and jails in Washington state. The yoga classes cover basic balancing, grounding, and relaxing exercise methods.

Waiting lists are a clear measure of success; demand for yoga in prison far exceeds space. Inside prison walls, the word is getting out: yoga brings results.

“This is something that can really give people the tools to help themselves,” McEvoy says.

In her professional life, McEvoy excels in an active career in business and finance. A chartered financial analyst, she has been an executive with U.S. Bank for 15 years, currently serving as vice president for media and communications. In her work, she handles loans for large media and telecom clients nationwide. Prior to U.S. Bank, she was vice president at Hibernia National Bank.

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McEvoy’s parents taught her from an early age that “we definitely are our brothers’ keepers.” Sixteen years of Jesuit-inspired education, including both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Loyola, sealed the point.

As a busy young professional and parent, McEvoy gave generously to charities. Then something extraordinary happened. That something resonated profoundly when Natalie, the second of McEvoy’s six kids, started teaching yoga to prison inmates. In a twist, the younger generation’s social activism strongly influenced the parent.

It began when Natalie jumped in with both feet. In fairly short order, the determined young woman taught more than 250 classes on the inside, trained dozens of teachers to go into prisons, and helped triple the number of classes. Natalie, who is 29, then took the reigns, becoming executive director of Yoga Behind Bars in 2010.

McEvoy says her daughter’s work touched her deeply. Serendipitously, at 56, Colleen was beginning to have more freedom to give not only money, but also time. She joined the board in 2010 and became president in January 2013.

“She’s one of the most organized and positive people I’ve ever met,” Natalie says of her mom. “She encourages everybody. She is incredibly positive. It’s so important to have that positive energy.”

McEvoy says she loves working with her daughter, stating, “I’m her biggest fan.”

Yoga Behind Bars aims high. It intends to bring deep and effective healing into the culture of corrections. To that end, it furnished 477 hours of classes in 2010 and 584 hours in 2011. It carried out 12 weekly classes for men, women, and teenagers. An average of 10 inmates in each class climbed onto mats to stretch, bend, and sweat.

Founded in 2007, it didn’t take long for Yoga Behind Bars to catch the eye of criminal justice reformers. In 2011, the RiverStyx Foundation gave Yoga Behind Bars a $100,000 grant to expand.

Yoga Behind Bars hopes to start a program in a federal prison. It’s an especially meaningful prospect for one board member, a former federal prison inmate who began attending yoga classes in prison. The small yoga class, he says, helped create an atmosphere of self-rehabilitation, relaxation, and compassion behind bars.

Overall, the idea is to reach inside as many prisons as possible, McEvoy says, “to give the tools to anyone who wants them.” In India, some inmates shave time off sentences

by learning yoga. Meanwhile, the U.S. imprisoned 1.6 million people in 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, making the U.S. No. 1 worldwide in incarceration.

McEvoy practices yoga but does not teach it. She brings financial savvy and analytical prowess to the board, navigating it through a startling array of issues for the small nonprofit.

Clearly, the committed little organization is doing something right. Wardens, guards, and prison-based mental health and recreation officials welcome Yoga Behind Bars with open arms. The chief psychologist at the state’s largest men’s penitentiary insists the yoga helps prisoners in many ways. Inmates give it rave reviews.

“Yoga gave me a quiet place—a space away from all the craziness—a safe place to go,” says one former inmate who discovered yoga while incarcerated.

An active yoga community in the Puget Sound buoys up the grassroots volunteers. Passionate yoga enthusiasts from regional yoga studios provide services, give money, and donate time to Yoga Behind Bars. Last Thanksgiving week, for example, 36 studios held benefit classes for Yoga Behind Bars through an event dubbed Gratitude in Motion. One of those small businesses is Seattle’s popular 8 Limbs Yoga Centers, which is owned by New Orleans native Anne Phyfe Palmer.

Like many other studio owners, she supports Yoga Behind Bars and its calling.

“On a basic level, yoga immediately helps people get at the roots of stress,” Palmer says. “Yoga has physiological aspects that help our “Our students have all nervous system. Even a few minutes helps. Our bodies are not made to be made mistakes and under constant stress and fear.” exercised poor judgment, While some might view prisoners as less-than-deserving of the tools yoga for which they are offers, McEvoy takes a more global imprisoned and serving view.

“It’s a misperception to think that their time. This does not a person in jail is any different or less deserving than the rest of us,” she says. mean they should be “Our students have all made mistakes and exercised poor judgment, for which treated with any less they are imprisoned and serving their respect and dignity than time. This does not mean they should be treated with any less respect and any other human.” dignity than any other human.”

Scriptures tell many stories about suffering, prison life, and jails. One Old Testament verse, for instance, says: “Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them.” In The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, as translated by Sri Swami Satchidananda, the yoga master advises inmates to see jail as an opportunity “to change your attitude in life, to reform and purify yourself.”

Theology aside: prophets, sages, and saints agree that volunteers who serve prisoners sometimes deserve a break.

Don’t be too surprised to find Colleen McEvoy hosting the shindig.

Stuart Glascock is a freelance journalist based in Seattle, Wash. magazine.loyno.edu

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CENTENNIAL CELEBRAT I PRESIDENTIAL CENTENNIAL GUEST SERIES

The Most Rev. Gregory Michael Aymond, Archbishop of New Orleans, presented “Catholic Education: Gifts and Challenges in 2012 and Beyond,” on September 20, with commentary from Loyola University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis, J.D. ’55, H’82, and Our Lady of Holy Cross College President Ronald Ambrosetti, Ph.D.

New Orleans native and nine-time Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis performed an outstanding concert on October 22.

The Rev. James Heft, S.M., president of the Institute of Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California, presented “The Church, Bishops and Theologians: A Dynamic Tension” on January 16, in which he explored the sometimes difficult relationships, both in the past and the present, among three crucial sources for the life of the Church.

The Rev. Michael Garanzini, S.J., president of Loyola University Chicago, presented “Making the Most of Every Crisis,” in which he discussed issues trending in higher education today, on February 19.

Join us April 17 for “The Mind in the Net” with Nicholas Carr, 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author.

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T IONS CONTINUE! Loyola University’s centennial festivities continued last fall and this spring with an array of events. For more photos and a list of upcoming events, visit www.loyno.edu/2012

REGIONAL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS

The Washington, D.C., Centennial Celebration was held on The Cherry Blossom, an authentic re-creation of a 19thcentury Victorian riverboat, on October 13. Pictured: Suzanne Toppino Colligan ’74, M.S. ’79, and J. Kevin Colligan.

The Chicago Centennial Celebration was held at The Library Club on November 17. Pictured: Matt Meyers, Janie M. Sheedy ’09, Ryan and Rachel Hicks Brooks ’03.

The New York Centennial Celebration was held at The Lotos Club on January 19. Pictured: Mary Rose Murray and Kevin Carey ’08. Photo by Kristy May ’02, with Kristy May Photography.

The Texas Centennial Celebration was held at The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa on February 16. Pictured: Conrad DeBaillon ’07, Joe ’76 and Mary Lou ’76 Mahoney, and David Pels ’76, J.D. ’79.

Join us April 13 for The Florida Centennial Celebration. alumni.loyno.edu/florida100

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A YEAR O OF ECONOMIC CO O C IMPACT C 256 FTE* Jobs created by student spending

170

Part-time staff

343

Full-time faculty

1,952

Graduate/ Professional

12

FTE jobs by service learning students

175

Part-time faculty

3,226

Undergraduates

TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT: $160.4 MILLION

TOTAL JOBS: 1,471 * Full-time equivalent

TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT: 5,178

T The he IImpact mpact o off L Loyola oyola University University N New ew O Orleans rleans During the 2011 – 2012 fiscal year, Loyola’ss economic impact amounted to $160.4 million, the majority of which went directly into the Greater New Orleans and Louisiana economies. But the university continues to impact its home in many other ways as well.

EMPLOYMENT IMPACT

ENROLLMENT IMPACT

COMMUNIT TY Y ENGAGEMENT IMPACT

In 2011 – 2012, Loyola directly employed 1,203 faculty and staff in full- and part-time positions, paying out $65.2 million in after-taxes salaries, benefit disbursements, and state income tax revenue. The university’s 518 faculty members and 685 staff members spent an estimated $40 million of their earnings, much of it in the local economy, and saved an estimated $11.8 million, adding to the region’s total accrued wealth.

In 2011 – 2012, Loyola enrolled 3,226 undergraduate students and 1,952 graduate students, continuing a trend post-Katrina of significantly higher enrollment than at any other point in the university’s history.

The Office of Service Learning connects Loyola to partner agencies throughout New Orleans and staffs them with students who supplement their academic work with related service. In 2011 – 2012, a record 754 Loyola students completed 920 service lear ning experiences at 56 partner agencies. These students documented 23,253 hours of service, which amounts to 31 hours per student and roughly 12 full-time jobs—a major assistance to organizations that operate with only a handful of paid staff members. This work amounted to an estimated in-kind value of $443,202 to agencies that serve crucial functions for many in New Orleans.

Students who come to Loyola from out of state also contribute a considerable amount to the local economy. Out-of-state students spent an estimated $24.6 million last year, with $6.3 million going toward housing. Given average expenditures by local businesses, this spending by out-ofstate students supported an additional 256 full-time jobs in the New Orleans area.

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ALUMNI

COLLEGE

JUNE J NE 7 JUN 7-9 -9 Experience Loyola Lo y ola Again!

As part of the Loyola Alumni Enrichment Series ~ Growing in Knowledge and Deepening our Faith, the Alumni Association is pleased to invite all alumni, spouses, parents, and friends to the second Alumni College: Experience Loyola Again!

Over a three-day weekend, you will have the opportunity to attend classes taught

by Loyola’s outstanding current and retired faculty and alumni. When you are not in class, you will have a chance to mingle at meals and social events with fellow alumni, Loyola faculty, and administrators.

The classes offered will be grouped into tracks that will help you to identify topics of particular interest. There will be four tracks, six sessions per track, and a joint session on Sunday, taught by University President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.

TRACKS Global Issues The social, political, economic, and environmental issues that affect us all.

Louisiana A glimpse of our history and culture.

Spirituality An extraordinary blend of theological insight and historical perspective.

101 Refresh Introductory courses you may have missed, were not available at the time, or are so interesting that you might want to take again.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES - Tour of Campus - History and Tour of the Irish Channel Catholic Churches: St. Alphonsus, St. Mary’s Assumption, and the Blessed Francis Seelos Shrine - Hands-on Visual Arts Class by Professor Mark Grote, M.F.A. - Private Piano Lessons with Donald Boomgaarden, Ph.D., Dean, College of Music and Fine Arts and David P. Swanzy Distinguished Professor of Music - Friday Evening Cocktails and Dinner at Redemption Orleans Revival Cuisine - More to come.

For your convenience, a block of hotel rooms are reserved. For those of you who would like to re-live dorm life, a small number of rooms in one of Loyola’s residence halls will be available.

For more information or to register for classes, visit alumni.loyno.edu/alumni-college call (504) 861-5454, or e-mail alumni@loyno.edu

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Alumni Events

Freshman Baseball player Cameron Retif stands with his uncle, Earl Retif ’64, J.D. ’66 (left), and his father, Stan Retif, J.D. ’81(right), at the Wolf Pack Baseball Kick-Off Party held at Rock-n-Bowl on Jan. 24, 2013.

Scott Thompson ’96, Brad Duplechain ’96, and Brian Lumar ’96 enjoyed Men’s Basketball Alumni Day on Jan. 5, 2013.

Denver WOTP 2012, Project Cure, Oct. 20: Clara, volunteer for Project Cure, Debbie W. Ahern ’90, Kate Fowler Wilkes ’01, Emma Ahern, Christopher Fields ’05, Sara Guerra Rooney ’79, Donald Rooney ’77, Moira Newman, future LU student Class of 2022, Marlow Felton ’89, and Marla Jones-Newman ’93.

LU/TU Pep Rally, Nov. 27: Jordan Deshotels ’10, Mike Leiva ’02, Robert Sheesley ’02, and William Fleischer ’12.

Kansas City WOTP 2012 volunteers met at Harvesters, Oct. 20: Andrea Ganier ’06, Kurt Nelson, Natalie Nelson ’08, and Caitlin Diamond.

UPCOMING EVENTS 4.11.13

ATHLETIC REUNION St. Charles Room, Danna Student Center alumni.loyno.edu

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Basketball Young Alumni event at Acme Oyster House: Steve McGovern ’07, Brian Bowers ’02, and Peter Barnitz ’04.

CoB Twelfth Night Reception, Jan. 6, 2013: Gayl and Mike Pearson, and Lee Lynch.

NYC Centennial: Jan. 19, 2013: Ana ’94, M.B.A. ’95, and David Ferris, J.D. ’96.

Photo by Kristy May ’02, with Kristy May Photography.

Singing with Santa, Dec. 2.

Michael Gulotta ’04, Peter Finney ’49, and Kelly Fridge ’06 were inducted into the Hall of Fame on Jan. 19, 2013.

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5.10.13 – 5.12.13

GOLF TOURNAMENT Audubon Golf Course, New Orleans alumni.loyno.edu

FLORIDA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Save the Date! alumni.loyno.edu/florida100

ALUMNI WEEKEND Attend the Senior Crawfish Boil, Commencement, Cocktail Reception, and the Alumni Jazz Bruch! alumni.loyno.edu/reunion-weekend

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Tampa Chapter Cocktail Reception at the Vinoy, Nov. 28: John Simmons ’76, Bill Ferlita, Jr. ’76, Pauline Rolley Ferlita ’76, and Terri Constantini Naylor ’72.

Lafayette Law Alumni Holiday Reception, Dec. 12: Judge James Doherty J.D. ’71, Barry Heinen, J.D. ’75, Sharla Doherty, and in the Santa suit, Federal Judge Richard T. Haik, Sr., J.D. ’75.

Young Alumni Pack Winter Cocktail, Dec. 6: Keelia O’Malley ’07, Emily Carlson ’09, and Alexandra Sparr ’09

Panama Alumni Reception and Centennial Celebration, Nov. 15: Edgar Kinkead ’72, Johnny Canavaggio ’71, Ivette Sanchez ’74, and Jaime Martin, M.B.A. ’94.

College of Business Evening of Networking at Ralph’s on the Park, Oct. 4.

Washington, D.C., Centennial Celebration aboard the Cherry Blossom, Oct. 13: Kara Hannan-McGinn ’01, Michael McGinn, Joseph Jones ’01, Kathleen Goodrich ’05, and Heather Graves.

Annual Houston Alumni Brunch, Oct. 7: Jason Murphy ’95, M.B.A. ’98, and wife Sheridan.

Houston Centennial: Stephanie Hotard ’04, M.B.A. ’10, John ’61 and Judy ’63 Henneberger, Richard Spicer ’06, and Jennifer Leyendecker.

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The late William “Buck” Seeber, Jr. ’34 (economics), who coached Nicholls, Fortier, and De La Salle to city football championships from 1940 – 1961, was inducted into Ye Olde College Inn’s New Orleans High School Sports Hall of Fame.

Edgar “Dooky” Chase III ’71 (management), J.D. ’83, New Orleans, La., was named Jesuit High School’s 2012 Alumnus of the Year.

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Dena Olivier ’78 (accounting), New Orleans, La., was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ “Women of the Year 2012” list.

John J. “Jack” Dardis, Sr. ’63 (business administration), New Orleans, La., chairman and owner of Dardis, Couvillon, and Associates, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Money Makers Class of 2012, which recognizes the area’s leading fiscal professionals based on their professional and community achievements.

Albert S. Pappalardo ’64 (business), CRE®, president, Pappalardo Consultants, Inc., New Orleans, La., was awarded the 2012 James D. Landauer/John R. White Award by The Counselors of Real Estate® in recognition of his outstanding professionalism and commitment to service both within the real estate industry and the world at large.

The honor recognizes Albert’s 46year record of achievement as a real estate professional, philanthropist, and community leader

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Jim LaPorte ’71 (accounting), Metairie, La., was chosen as a 2012 Volunteer Activist by the St. Elizabeth’s Guild.

Aristide C. “Jimmy” Eagan III ’79 (business), Kenner, La., vice chancellor for business and administrative affairs with Delgado Community College, is retiring from his position effective June 30, 2013. In almost 37 years at Delgado, Jimmy has managed the business affairs of the college in a succession of administrative positions, culminating with his current position, which he has held for almost 12 years.

Michael K. Schroering ’79 (finance/management), Prospect, Ky., was appointed to the Board of Directors of General Employment Enterprises, Inc. Michael is the president of The Schroering Company (www.schroering.com), a Louisville-based commercial real estate firm specializing in consulting services, site procurement, and owner and tenant representation for the sale and leasing of office and industrial

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS space. He is also managing member of Global Port United, L.L.C., and the managing director and owner of Leed HR, L.L.C.

1980s Tom Cortazzo ’84 (management), J.D. ’87, Metairie, La., Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer partner, was nominated as the president-elect of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Alumni Association (2013).

Tod A. Smith ’84 (management), New Orleans, La., president and general manager of WWL-TV, Inc., was named to New Orleans Magazine’s “People to Watch” list.

Paula Shields, M.B.A. ’85, Jacksonville, Fla., was elected to Marywood University’s Board of Trustees. She is a certified senior professional in human resources with more than 20 years of experience in the field.

Stephen E. Wessel ’85 (finance) was named regional president of Investar Bank’s new franchise serving the New Orleans-area market, including the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

With 27 years of banking experience, Stephen will be responsible for the development, expansion, and management of all branching, commercial, consumer, and mortgage banking activity for the New Orleans area. Stephen most recently served as senior vice president and New Orleans market president for Home Bank and previously was president, chief executive officer, and a director at Guaranty Savings Bank in Metairie. In addition, his career in the New Orleans market includes senior leadership positions at Whitney National Bank, AmSouth Bank, Hibernia National Bank, and other area financial institutions. He also was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Money Makers Class

of 2012, which recognizes the area’s leading fiscal professionals based on their professional and community achievements.

Bradley J. Chauvin ’87 (marketing), J.D. ’90, was named partner with Couch, Conville & Blitt, L.L.C., a multi-state law firm based in New Orleans, La. Jennifer Cooke ’88 (marketing), Metairie, La., was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ “Women of the Year 2012” list.

1990s Jerry Hingle ’90 (marketing), CEO and executive director of the Southern United States Trade Association (SUSTA), for the past six years, has worked with small companies throughout Louisiana, introducing them to the possibility of expanding their business by exporting homemade products to a foreign market.

Nicki M. Candies, M.B.A. ’91, New Orleans, La., was chosen as a 2012 Volunteer Activist by the St. Elizabeth’s Guild.

Ben Marmande, M.B.A. ’92, Baton Rouge, La., serves as executive vice president and senior credit officer for IberiaBank.

Robert L. Hand, M.B.A. ’94, New Orleans, La., registered investment advisor for FSC Securities Corp., was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Money Makers Class of 2012, which recognizes the area’s leading fiscal professionals based on their professional and community achievements.

R. Seth Bullock ’95 (finance) was appointed chief financial officer for Par Petroleum in Houston, Texas, and named to its Board of Directors.

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ALUMNI MILESTONES 2000s David Sparacio, M.B.A. ’01, was hired by IBERIABANK as a senior vice president in the corporate accounting group. Additionally, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, where he is currently assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff Office in The Pentagon. He currently resides in Birmingham, Ala., with his wife, Danielle, and their four children.

Brothers John Shirley ’07 (marketing), Joe Shirley ’10 (music composition), and David Shirley ’11 (music business) formed the band Cardinal Sons. You can check out their debut video on YouTube and also download their four-song EP, Make an EP, (and one bonus) at www.cardinalsons.com Alexander McConduit ’08 (marketing), following the success of his books, The Little Who Dat Who Didn’t and Snowballs for All, founded a children’s publishing program called Write, Read & Illustrate to Educate (W.R.I.T.E.), which he operated at SciTech Academy with 80 secondgraders. Through W.R.I.T.E., Alexander helps children foster their creativity by teaching them the basics of writing, illustrating, and publishing over a three-week period, and inviting guest presenters to speak. Alexander is still involved in freelance social media marketing, and he used fundraising site IndieGoGo to raise almost enough money to cover the cost of publishing all the students’ books using Amazon.com and CreateSpace. He currently is working on his third book, Buddy Goes to the Bowl, a sequel to The Little Who Dat Who Didn’t and the second in a series Alexander plans to continue. In addition, he was named to Gambit’s “40 Under 40” for 2012.

2010s Hillary Barnett, J.D. ’12, M.B.A. ’12, joined the New Orleans, La., office of McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., as an associate in the real estate section of the firm.

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Births 1 Karen Brazuk Cornwell ’08 (criminal justice) and her husband welcomed their first child, John Joseph Cornwell V, on August 21, 2012.

2 Kara Hannan McGinn ’01 (political science) and husband Michael welcomed a baby boy, Patrick Francis McGinn, into the family on May 19, 2012. Big sis Maura is two years old. Everyone is looking forward to visiting New Orleans and the campus soon!

3 Meredith ’03 (economics/finance) and Nick Smythe ’02 (English) welcomed a baby boy on January 23. He’s named after Osa James “Jack” Smythe ’39 (philosophy) and is a fourth generation Loyola Legacy along with big sister Mallory, 4.

• Caitlin Craig Brewster, M.B.A. ’09, and G. Hyder Brewster ’07 (social sciences), M.B.A. ’09, welcomed Mary Catherine Brewster on Dec. 2, 2010, and William “Wills” Craig Brewster on June 24, 2012. Caitlin is the district marketing manager for Sodexo Campus Services.

• Catherine Comiskey Marsh ’94 (communication) and husband, Andrew, are happy to announce the birth of their third child, James Comiskey Marsh. James joins sister Mathilde Mouledoux Marsh and brother William Harrison Marsh.

He was born on June 17, 2011.

Weddings 4 Christine Rose Minero ’10 (communication, English) married David Christopher Rigamer ’10 (economics) on September 8, 2012 at Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church in New Orleans, La. The reception was held at City Park’s Pavilion of the Two Sisters.

• Andrea Ganier ’06 (communication) and Dr. Nathan Wilson were married in a private ceremony on December 26, 2012, in Santa Rosa, Calif. Andrea is a senior account manager for iModules Software in Overland Park, Kan. Nathan is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Mass Media at Northwest Missouri State University.

• Karen Hope Ressue ’08 (graphic design, marketing) and Kevin Andrew Jacobsen were married in the presence of their close family and friends at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., on October 7, 2012. Karen and Kevin currently live in Washington, D.C., where Karen works for a litigation law firm and Kevin is the assistant dean of students at Gonzaga College High School.

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Wolftracks COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND NATURAL SCIENCES 1930s The late James “Pel” Hughes ’37 (English), four-sport letterman for Jesuit High School during the early 1930s, was inducted into Ye Olde College Inn’s New Orleans High School Sports Hall of Fame.

1960s John R. Kemp ’68 (history), Diamondhead, Miss., is the associate editor and co-author of the new book, A Unique Slant of Light: A Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana, published by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the University Press of Mississippi. John has written numerous books and magazine articles on art in the South.

1970s John Biguenet ’71 (English), M.F.A., New Orleans, La., Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, was named to New Orleans Magazine’s “People to Watch” list.

Dr. William Gissy ’75 (religious studies), who was serving as dean of Bang College of Business, was promoted to vice president of planning and development at KIMEP University, a private American-style university located in Almaty, Kazkaahstan.

The Hon. James “Jim” Lamz ’76 (arts in commerce), J.D. ’79, Slidell, La., Slidell City Court, received the Crystal Gavel Award from the Louisiana State Bar Association for performing

services out of a sense of duty, responsibility, and professionalism, and for having made a difference in his local community and organizations.

Eddie Bravo ’78 (physical education), Metairie, La., St. Aloysius football and basketball standout and longtime high school and NFL official, was inducted into Ye Olde College Inn’s New Orleans High School Sports Hall of Fame.

Mary Lee “Missie” McGuire ’78 (physical education), New Orleans, La., was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ “Women of the Year 2012” list.

Zoo and five years as general curator, was named director of The Wilds, nonprofit safari park and wildlife conservation center, located two hours east of Columbus, Ohio, and operated by the Columbus Zoo. The Wilds has a staff of 200, covers nearly 10,000 acres, includes more than 100 lakes, and features rare and endangered species from Asia and Africa that roam in large herds on the property.

Andrea Bourgeois-Calvin ’97 (biology), Metairie, La., waterquality program director for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, was named to Gambit’s “40 Under 40” for 2012.

1980s Rebecca MacPherson ’86 (history), the Federal Aviation Administration’s assistant chief counsel for international law, legislation, and regulations, joined the Washington, D.C., office of the global law firm Jones Day as of counsel in the Airlines & Aviation Practice. Prior to joining the FAA in 2004 as assistant chief counsel for regulations, Rebecca served for eight years as associate chief counsel of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

1990s Kathleen Gasparian ’95 (English), J.D. ’02, New Orleans, La., immigration attorney and partner with Ware|Gasparian, was named to Gambit’s “40 Under 40” for 2012.

Rick Dietz ’96 (biology), after more than 16 years at the Audubon

2000s Dr. Kellie Axelrad ’00 (biology), New Orleans, La., dentist, was named to Gambit’s “40 Under 40” for 2012.

Shannon A. Shelton ’02 (psychology/sociology), J.D. ’12, joined the law firm of Kean Miller in New Orleans, La., as an associate attorney.

Nicolas Nevares ’04 (religious studies), New Orleans, La., event experiences director for the Solomon Group, was named to Gambit’s “40 Under 40” for 2012.

Michael Barnhart ’08 (English) (mandolin, guitar, vocals), Lee Berg ’08 (music industry studies) (bass, vocals), and Rob Josephs ’08 (music industry studies) (lead vocals, guitar), along with Paul Brandon (guitar, lap steel, dobro), Marvin Moate (drums), and Graham Terban (violin), formed

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The Quaildogs, based in Atlanta, Ga. Available on iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp, the band delivered their Extended Play in February 2012, and were excited to release their second EP, The Fall, in September. (www.thequaildogs.com) Laura Marie Fluke ’08 (biological sciences) received her doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences on May 18, 2012. She was accepted to the General Surgery Residency Program at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia.

Samuel Sotolongo ’09 (history) is currently serving in the U.S. Army as a 1LT. He returned from his deployment to Afghanistan to serve as the platoon leader for the escort to the president of the U.S. His missions include marching and presenting at ceremonies for the president and anyone connected to him, such as secretaries of defense or foreign prime ministers.

John Chris Bauer ’12 (religious studies) answered the call to serve with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps by working with the Mental Health Advocacy Project in San Jose, Calif. He is among the 323 JVs living in 38 cities in the U.S. and six other countries across the globe who work at schools, health clinics, legal clinics, parishes, and nonprofit organizations to provide essential services, saving them a combined estimate of $6 million each year, in comparison to the cost of a salaried employee. (www.jesuitvolunteers.org)

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COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND FINE ARTS 1970s Carlos “Chuck” Sabadie, Jr. ’77 (instrumental music) was sworn in as a new member of the Northshore Harbor Center board of commissioners on Oct. 9, 2012. He has been in the financial services industry for more than 32 years. He and his associates have produced more than $1 billion in insurance sales while handling millions in investments. He is a specialist in opening up new territories and is a developer of specialized systems for agents and clients who want to increase their success. In addition to his executive role as president and chief executive officer of the Sabadie Group in Slidell, La., he is a partner at Eldercare La, L.L.C..

1980s Givonna Joseph ’80 (music therapy/voice), founder and director of OperaCréole (www.operacreole.com, www.givonnajoseph.com), was interviewed for “Music Inside Out” on WWNO Radio 89.9 FM on October 4 and 6, 2012 (http://wwno.org/post/musicinside-out-givonna-joseph-and-oper acr-ole).

Charles Pillow ’82 (saxophone), a top New York session player who has appeared on a variety of albums by artists ranging from Van Morrison and Ray Charles to Amy Winehouse and Joss Stone, has written a new big-band arrangement transforming Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky’s 1870s piece, Pictures at an Exhibition, into Miles Davis’ 1970s style jazz for the Roberts Wesleyan College Jazz Ensemble.

Dr. Darlene Brooks ’69 (music therapy), M.M.T. ’84, Philadelphia, Penn., a boardcertified music therapist (MT-BC), a fellow in guided imagery and music (GIM), a licensed professional counselor (LPC), a

licensed creative arts therapist (LCAT), and a Reiki master, has been the director of the music therapy department at Temple University for six years. She also is the coordinator of the master’s program in music therapy, teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, and serves as director of undergraduate studies for Boyer College of Music & Dance, on the Boyer Executive Council, and other committees in the college.

John Gros ’89 (piano), New Orleans, La., and his band, Papa Grows Funk, will go on indefinite hiatus in early summer. Over its 13 years, Papa Grows Funk has toured extensively (even as far as Japan) and recorded a total of five live and studio albums. The band’s most recent studio effort, Needle in the Groove, was released nationally in early 2012. Allen Toussaint produced several songs, and Better Than Ezra bassist Tom Drummond produced the remainder. In addition to future solo gigs, John will be playing with Dave Malone’s Raw Oyster Cult project.

1990s Eric John Ladwig ’98 (drama), Dallas, Texas, published book six in his fantasy series. The Last Heir of Doren is the 11th book published by Eric, including The Last Dark Weapon, Space Station Apocalypse, and Amongst the Shadows. He also maintains a small blog of short stories called Half Dressed Alien Worlds.

Larry Graham ’99 (music) was named executive sports editor at UT-San Diego, formerly The San Diego Union-Tribune. And in an effort to expand the size and scope of the staff, he added several new members to the staff, including Craig Malveaux ’12 as a preps writer and Michelle Gingras ’12 (communication) as a multimedia journalist.

2000s Bryan Hymel ’01 (performance), Metairie, La., made his debut with the Met on Dec. 26 as a last-minute replacement, singing the daunting role of Aeneas in Berlioz’ epic opera, Les Troyens. His performance earned rave reviews from New York critics and accolades from his colleagues.

Bryan had just completed a wellreceived run in Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable at London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and arrived in New York to step into the role.

Analia Saban ’01 (visual arts), Santa Monica, Calif., had her exhibition, Gag, selected as a critic’s choice in the international contemporary art magazine ArtForum. In her New York solo debut at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, one of the city’s premier galleries, Analia cast items from her studio—a sheet, a towel, and a toilet brush, among others—in acrylic. Each object was hung or draped from raw canvases to create a collection of threedimensional works John Paul Castillo ’02 (visual arts), M.F.A., joined the law firm of Adams and Reese’s New Orleans, La., marketing team as graphic designer.

Amanda Wuerstlin ’06 (music education), New Orleans, La., plays violin and sings harmonies in Big History, a band that layers sultry, southern vocals on top of tinkling-pop noises and forceful backbeats. (www.facebook.com/BigHistoryMusic) Andrew Campanelli ’09 (music industry studies) and George Gekas ’09 (marketing) formed The Revivalists, a New Orleans, La., band known for their brand of soulful blues-rock, in 2007. In 2011, the band was named Best Emerging Artist at Gambit Magazine’s Big Easy

Awards, and they were nominated for Best Rock Act in 2012. The band’s latest album, City of Sound, released in March 2012, was produced by Ben Ellman, whose credits include Galactic, Gypsyphonic Dysko, and Trombone Shorty. (www.therevivalists.com)

2010s Monty Goulet ’11 (music industry studies), Austin, Texas, after having worked on “AAA” titles such as Donkey Kong Country Returns and casino titles, as well as developing an application for Jimmie “JJ” Walker of the hit 80s show Good Times, has formed his own development studio, Maestro Interactive Games.

They have been featured in The Austin-American Statesman as well as various online sites for their already released projects. They are currently developing a title that is planned for the Playstation Vita. (maestrointeractivegames.com) Gretchen Hirt ’12 (theatre/communication) was named communications coordinator for New Orleansbased public relations firm Gambel Communications.

Gretchen joined Gambel Communications as an intern in June 2012, and previously served as the communications and marketing intern for the American Cancer Society of New Orleans.

Valerie Richmond ’12 (music industry studies) joined the marketing department at the Houston Symphony. She joined fellow alumni Glenn Taylor ’03 (music industry studies), Georgia McBride ’06 (music industry studies), M.B.A. ’11, and Holly Cassard ’06 (drama/ communication).

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nonprofit causes during the past year.

Sr. Carla Dolce ’60 (education), O.S.U., New Orleans, La., during her 56-year career as an Ursuline nun, has worked with ecumenical groups in the Parkchester neighborhood and as a classroom teacher, principal, and president of Ursuline schools in St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, Springfield, and Alton, Ill. She has worked on mission teams with Jesuits and Dominicans. In her current job as prioress of the New Orleans Ursuline nuns, she has taken on the task to make ready the National Votive Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, next door to the convent on State Street, for the 2015 bicentennial celebration of the Battle of New Orleans.

(ShrineOfOurLadyOfPromptSuccor. com) Joan Coulter ’60 (sociology), New Orleans, La., was named to Family Service of Greater New Orleans’ list of the city’s most outstanding individuals who gave of their time to support local, nonprofit causes during the past year.

Charlie Young ’64 (journalism), New Orleans, La., was named to Family Service of Greater New Orleans’ list of the city’s most outstanding individuals who gave of their time to support local,

Paul O. Dicharry ’69 (political science), J.D. ’81, Baton Rouge, La., of Taylor Porter, was named Baton Rouge Litigation – Environmental “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers.

J. Ferrel Guillory ’69 (journalism), Raleigh, N.C., UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor of the practice, received the Edward Kidder Graham Award for outstanding service during Carolina’s University Day celebration on Oct. 12, 2012.

Ferrel, an expert on Southern politics and demographics, founded UNC’s Program on Public Life in 1997 to build bridges between the academic resources at Carolina and the governmental, journalism, and civic leaders of North Carolina and the South. He has served state committees and boards. In the lead-up to the 2012 Democratic National Convention held in Charlotte, N.C., Guillory organized a panel of six UNC scholars from various disciplines to provide journalists covering the 2012 elections with data and analysis of issues and trends influencing the region’s politics and future.

1970s August Palumbo ’70 (criminology), Spanish Fort, Ala., a former New Orleans, La., homicide detective and a retired special agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), published Assassin Hunter, which has been on several best seller’s lists on amazon.com since its release and has been #1 in True Crime in the United Kingdom in Kindle version.

Greg Rose ’76 (communication) was promoted to the position of director of online operations for Park University in Parkville, Mo. Greg joined Park in 2010 as coordinator of online operations for Park Distance Learning, managing the daily operations and processes for Park’s online learning. He has more than 30 years of experience working in both the field of higher education and information technology, often combining the two. He previously worked as assistant dean for faculty online and program chair for the online/visual arts department for Kaplan University.

Karen Coaxum ’77 (journalism), New Orleans, La., was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ “Women of the Year 2012” list.

Jeanmarie Nicholson ’78 (communication), J.D. ’81, Arlington, Va., received an OECA International Mission award for outstanding teamwork, perseverance, and commitment between EPA and the Coast Guard to jointly enforce U.S. and International air pollution requirements.

Lt. Col. Kathy Beauford ’69 (secondary education), M.Ed. ’79 (educational media), CAP, won the prestigious Frank G. Brewer Lifetime Achievement Award for the Southwest Region of the Civil Air Patrol, naming her as one of the top eight aerospace educators in the nation. She has been a member of the Civil Air Patrol for 23 years. She is robotics project manager and director of external aerospace education for Louisiana Wing, and a navigator for Search and Rescue both on aircrew and ground teams.

1980s Elizabeth Jamie Katz ’82 (communication), Mandeville, La., released The Princess, The Pearls and The Pekingese, a Christian children’s book that is the first in a series of stories about Princess Isabella and her darling pekingese, Lizzie. Elizabeth and Slidell, La., illustrator Dominick

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Setting World Records for a Cause

By Mikel Pak, Associate Director of Public Affairs In 2011, Edwin Escobar ’97 (finance/marketing) embarked on a motorcycle ride mission to Central America’s capital cities. Twenty-nine hours after his journey began, he finished with a world record and raised $52,000 for children’s nutritional programs in El Salvador. Edwin’s journey to San José, Costa Rica; Managua, Nicaragua; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; San Salvador, El Salvador; and Guatemala City, Guatemala, holds the Guinness World Record for the most country capitals traveled to continuously on a motorcycle.

The funds raised for the epic motorcycle ride benefitted 260 families in dire conditions in El Salvador. Each family received one rooster, nine hens, and nutrition coaching and training to help manage and grow a small farm. The program typically lasts nine months, after which each family should have eggs and meat to eat and sell. Those families were then encouraged to pay it forward and give another family a set of roosters and hens.

According to Edwin, his world record-breaking ride was both physically and mentally challenging. When Edwin arrived in San Salvador, his second-to-last capital city stop, he was cheered on by his wife, family, and friends before heading to the last stop in Guatemala City.

“Even though mentally I knew that I hadn’t accomplished my goal yet, emotionally I got the charge that I needed for the last 224 kilometers left to ride,” Edwin says.

But the most challenging part of the journey wasn’t even during the event itself.

“Yes, I was very tired at times, and at least three times I al-

most fell asleep on the motorcycle on tough roads,” Edwin says, adding that the most challenging part was the preparation. In addition to preparing physically for the endurance ride, he had to coordinate the event and fundraise all while working a fulltime job.

Edwin attributes his time at Loyola helping him prepare for the unique challenge.

“The knowledge obtained through my degree in business administration was definitely helpful and instrumental in coordinating and structuring the different areas of this world record attempt. However, more valuable than this knowledge was the exposure to different extracurricular activities and the diverse environment that I was exposed to during my years at Loyola.”

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, continued Blanda teamed up to share this story of God’s love for His daughters. (princesspearlsandpekingese.com)

1986, she became principal of St. Pius V School, where she continues to minister.

Sr. Mary Elise Kennedy, M.P.S. ’88, celebrated her 50year Jubilee with her fellow sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine with a con celebrated liturgy at the St. Augustine Cathedral-Basilica on October 13. In 1962, she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph. In 1965, she began teaching third grade at St. Theresa’s in Coral Gables. She spent the next 18 years teaching first grade at Sacred Heart School in Lake Worth, St. Agnes School in St. Augustine, and St. Pius V School in Jacksonville, Fla. In

1990s Thomas J. Meyer ’90 (communication), Mandeville, La., vice president of Benefit Planning Group, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ Money Makers Class of 2012, which recognizes the area’s leading fiscal professionals based on their professional and community achievements.

Shawn M. Donnelley ’91 (communication), Chicago, Ill., president of Strategic Giving and

past chairman of the Goodman Theatre, was named a Life Trustee of the Goodman, the highest honor bestowed for extraordinary dedication to the Goodman and visionary leadership in Chicago’s artistic, philanthropic, and corporate communities. When Shawn was elected chairman in 2007, she became the youngest trustee ever selected to lead the board of the Goodman—and one of the youngest chairmen of a major arts organization in the city.

Daniel Moure ’92 (communication), was appointed CMO for PureFormulas.com, an online health supplement e-retailer.

Prior to joining PureFormulas, Daniel spent the last decade at

Univision Communications as VP of account management and interactive strategies, where he led the development of a multitude of award-winning interactive strategies, from concept to completion, for some of the biggest advertisers in the space.

He lives in South Miami, Fla., with his wife and two sons.

Maurice A. Brungardt ’94 (political science), J.D. ’97, is currently assigned as a supervisory special agent to the Washington Field Office of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), the law enforcement and security branch of the U.S. Department of State. Maurice supervises 16 special agents who perform

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Wolftracks COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, continued criminal investigations, provide protective security for U.S. government officials and visiting foreign dignitaries, and support the security programs at various U.S. diplomatic missions overseas.

Maurice resides in the Northern Virginia area with his wife and three children.

Delini M. Fernando, M.S. ’98 (counseling), Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, received promotion and tenure at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. She teaches courses in group counseling, group seminar, and internship.

Amy Sins ’98 (communication), New Orleans, La., started Langlois Culinary Crossroads, where guests are treated to an entertaining and interactive culinary experience that ends with a restaurant quality meal they can easily recreate at home. (www.langloisnola.com) Karla Redditte ’99 (communication) is a reporter and anchor of NBC 12 News Today Saturday at 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. in Richmond, Va. During the week, she reports on education issues in the Commonwealth. She began working at NBC12 in September 2012. She previously worked in

Biloxi, Miss., Savannah, Ga., and Huntsville, Ala.

2000s Jamie Peckenpaugh ’00 (communication), New Orleans, La., executive director for the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience, was named to New Orleans Magazine’s “People to Watch” list.

Shondra Williams, M.S.N. ’01, Harvey, La., became the chief executive officer for Jefferson Community Health Care Centers in

September 2012. She spent 12 years at the state Department of Health and Hospitals, managing a program that oversaw 65 clinics.

Kurt Amacker ’02 (communication) is the author of the comic book miniseries Dead Souls, the urban fantasy mini-epic Immortal: 60, and Tad Caldwell and the Monster Kid—an original graphic novel that hearkens back to the family adventure films of the 1980s. Most recently, he co-wrote the official comic book miniseries for the Finnish Gothic rock band, The 69 Eyes, after meeting the band in 2009. Titled The 69 Eyes:

Classes of 1977–1979 Reunion

A group of Loyola alumnae who shared the same freshman floor in Buddig Hall in 1974, and who were graduates between 1977 – 1979, gather every few years in each other’s home towns. There are anywhere from eight to 20 of them who meet depending on the availability. In 2012, they gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

From left to right: Elise Finch (niece of beloved deceased

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Loyola priest the Rev. David Boileau), Jamie Reynolds (Tulane law grad married to Susie Rose), Peggy Gunkel, Debbie Gomes, Susie Rose, Patty Moran, Mary Pat Cormack, Diane Falck, Kelly Mazurek (daughter of Janice Green and alumnus Bobby Mazurek), Janice Green, Joni Genthert, and Marcia Cronin.

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Wolftracks COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, continued Helsinki Vampires, the series will run as three prestige format graphic novels. Kurt lives in New Orleans, La., with his wife, Sabrina, and their two cats. When not writing comics, he coordinates the yearly Fangtasia vampire ball in New Orleans, with Jyrki 69 of The 69 Eyes. (www.facebook.com/kurtamackercomics and www.seraphemera.org) Bettina Durant, M.C.M. ’02, Lawrenceville, Ga., was appointed to serve as a secondary advisor to the award winning Collegian newspaper of Georgia Perimeter College (GPC). Bettina assists Advisor Cynthia Stevens in advising students as to journalistic style and writing. She began as an adjunct with GPC in August 2007 and presently teaches Communication and Journalism.

Her professional experience

includes chief legislative aide, freelance columnist/freelance writer, public information officer, and instructional designer.

Nicole Haase ’03 (communication/Spanish) completed a certificate in baking/pastry at WCTC near Milwaukee, Wis. She was hired as a food administrator in the Culinary Institute at Goodwill Industries of Southeast Wisconsin.

While in culinary school, she won a bronze medal at the American Culinary Federation Central Region Conference Knowledge Bowl competition.

Laura Vinson ’05 (communication), Chattanooga, Tenn., was hired as the new external affairs/major accounts specialist for Tennessee American Water. She is responsible for developing, managing, and

directing the company’s strategic communications and community involvement efforts and strengthening relationships with large customer accounts.

Kelly Williams Brown ’06 (communication), blogger-turnedauthor, is having her upcoming book, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 387 Easy(ish) Steps, which is billed as a hilarious guide to all the things that young adults think they should know already— but don’t, turned into a single-camera, half-hour comedy pilot called Adulting by J.J. Abrams. Among the steps on Kelly’s companion blog (adultingblog.com) is “Facebook is Not a Good Place to Say Serious Things.”

Andrew Lopez ’08 (communication) joined The TimesPicayune and NOLA.com as a

high school sports reporter.

Andrew, who previously taught at Holy Cross High School, has covered high school sports as a contract writer for The TimesPicayune for the past five years.

Linda Ann Wainright, M.S. ’09 (counseling), M.P.S. ’09, joined St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minn., in February 2010 as a postulant. She became “Sister Ann Marie” in August 2010 when she became a novice.

On August 29, 2011, Sr. Ann Marie Wainright, OSB, made her first monastic profession. While continuing initial formation as a Benedictine sister, she serves in various ministries within the monastery and also is completing an extended unit of clinical pastoral education at St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee, Minn.

Phi Kappa Alpha 1974 –1977 Reunion

A group of guys from Phi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Loyola, graduating Classes of 1974 – 1977, meet yearly for golf, fishing, and fun. In 2012, they met in Montana.

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From left to right: Frank DeFino, Bob Spence, Bill Fehlig, and Larry Hummel. Not pictured: Conrad “Duke” Williams and John Sondag.

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Dancing for a Cause Morgan Paige Martin ’08 (English), currently a high school English teacher in Nashville, Tenn., has accomplished quite a lot the past few years. In 2011, she graduated with her master’s degree in education from Belmont University.

Following that, she joined the Peace Corps, where she was then stationed in Kocani, Macedonia. While there, she not only taught English to her local school in a small town of about 18,000 people, but she also successfully constructed a dance studio in the basement of the school, after obtaining a grant through USAID. It was a huge success.

“I wanted to take the classes a step further, so I created a five-day intensive camp! The classes were each about an hour and a half long and consisted of tap, ballet, Zumba, hip-hop, modern, ‘classics,’ break dancing, jazz, swing, pop, and a ‘student teacher’ class. With the help of fellow volunteers, the camp could not have been better,” Martin says.

The fifth day of camp included a day-long rehearsal, followed by a recital.

“It is no exaggeration in saying that half of the city came out to support the recital that night, and the reviews of the show were beyond phenomenal,” says Martin.

In leaving Macedonia, Martin promised to return again this year to implement another dance camp, and she intends to do so, even bigger than last year.

“As a local teacher who has taught abroad, I understand the luxuries we offer our children here in America,” says Martin. “The high school I currently teach at is an inner-city

school where children are bussed in each morning. Although my current students may not be the most fortunate group, they still have access to many opportunities children in the rest of the world cannot imagine. I still think it is important to be able to provide similar opportunities for teenagers who are less fortunate. As an educator who follows the Jesuit beliefs, this is one of my main goals for this summer.”

Travel Around the World with Fellow Wolf Pack Alumni Loyola University New Orleans Alumni Travel provides travel opportunities for our alumni and the entire Loyola community, reinforcing the university’s traditions and values with emphasis on the educational, as well as Ignatian spirituality that is unique to a Jesuit education.

River Life Along the Waterways of Holland AND Belgium Gohagen Travel—Aboard a Deluxe AMA Waterways Vessel The Netherlands/Belgium April 22 – 30, 2013

A Spiritual Journey to Spain: Following the Steps of Ignatius Catholic Travel Centre June 16 – 27, 2013

Alaskan Adventures GoNext Travel—Oceania Cruises August 5 – 12, 2013 (Regatta)

Italian Inspiratio GoNext Travel—Oceania Cruises October 17 – 25, 2013 (Riviera) For more information, visit alumni.loyno.edu, call (504) 861-5454, or e-mail alumni@loyno.edu

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In Memoriam

The Rev. Rudolph J. Schmidt, Jr. ’72 (secondary

ALUMNI

Lawrence B. Fitzmorris ’56 (chemistry)

Samuel S. McNeely, Jr. ’35 (English)

Otto A. Goessl ’56 (business)

Nancy Pecoraro Donahue ’38 (arts and sciences)

James F. Pittman, Jr. ’57 (business)

Gerald D. Smith ’72 (commercial science)

Ruth Brummerhof Yenni ’38 (Latin American

Dr. Timothy A. Calamari, Jr. ’58 (chemistry)

Marjorie Samuels Haynes, M.A. ’73 (education)

Raymond S. Bonanno, M.E. ’59 (administration)

Lynne Sandoz Peneguy ’73 (English)

Verne W. Tripp ’40 (chemistry)

Hillar C. Moore, Jr. ’59 (commercial science)

Wendell L. Fenner ’61 (secondary education),

Adelaide Moulin Bassich ’43 (philosophy)

Davis E. Chandler, D.D.S. ’60

Numa V. Bertel, Jr. ’43 (arts and sciences),

Louis J. Demarest ’60 (business)

studies)

J.D. ’45

Patrick D. Breeden ’54 (business), J.D. ’61

education)

M.E. ’74 (administration) Dr. Kerry P. Grundmeyer ’74 (biological sciences)

Mary Boone Madere ’47 (medical technology)

Emile J. Fourcade, Jr. M.Ed. ’61 (administration)

Sr. Fidelis M. Hart ’74 (philosophy)

Lawrence D. Roubion, Jr. ’47 (economics)

Clyde D. Merritt, J.D. ’62

James L. Simpson ’75 (business)

Marion Simmons Hultberg ’48 (medical

Fred C. Arto, J.D. ’63

Robert E. Doran, Jr. ’76 (accounting)

Bonnie McGinley Coleman ’64 (journalism)

Mary Jane Capella Silva, M.E. ’76

technology) Sr. Beverly Lartigue, C.S.J., ’48 (arts and sciences)

Otto V. Thames, D.D.S. ’64

(guidance/counseling)

Daniel T. McKearan, Jr. ’56 (business), J.D. ’66

Gregory C. Meissner, J.D. ’77

Walter J. Collins ’49 (arts and sciences)

Leroy R. Nolan ’66 (music therapy)

Deborah Davidson Kingrea, J.D. ’79

Thomas M. Grote ’49 (business)

Hal Le Blanc, D.D.S. ’67

Elizabeth Morrison Fearn, J.D. ’80

J.E. Martin, Sr. ’49 (business)

Mary Anne Sterck O’Neil ’67 (secondary

Craig M. Kronlage ’82 (business)

Dr. Daniel H. Walsh ’49 (physics) Theora Olivieri Fitzmorris ’50 (medical technology) Paul J. Stoulig ’50 (business) Jean Williams Charbonnet ’51 (medical technology)

education)

Michael Boudreaux ’85 (computer science)

Sherman W. Arnold, M.E. ’68 (administration)

Joseph C. Bampton, M.P.S. ’90

Mary E. Fiser ’68 (arts and sciences)

Margaret La Grange Ney ’90 (nursing)

(passed away in 1983) J. Thomas Wright ’68 (arts and sciences) (passed away in 2000)

Charles E. Ruckstuhl, Sr. ’90 (social sciences) Marion Guerriero Welborn, J.D. ’91 Erin Psarellis ’87 (philosophy), J.D. ’92

Walter F. Garvey ’51 (business)

Louis W. Ivon ’69 (criminology)

John A. Hernandez III, J.D. ’94

George E. Marzloff ’51 (education)

Jacob J. Amato, Jr., J.D. ’70

Judith A. Wild ’96 (marketing)

James E. Steckel ’51 (education)

Clarence B. Folse, Jr. ’70 (commercial science)

Jacqueline Noveh Rose ’99 (nursing)

Mildred Theriot Stewart ’51 (arts and sciences)

Paul R. Pasquier, J.D. ’70

Joseph I. Giarrusso, Jr., M.P.S. ’85, C.S.S. ’07

Dorothy V. Duett ’52 (education)

The Rev. William G. Gaines, M.Ed. ’71

Robert J. Bruno, Jr. ’09 (history)

Clyde C. Richardson ’52 (elementary education) James W. Ryall ’52 (chemistry) George Lebeuf ’54 (theory + composition) John M. Foley ’55 (history)

(education) The Rev. Lawrence M. McGarrell, S.J., ’72 (theory + composition)

FACULTY Dorothy H. Brown, Ph.D.

Gerald C. Mocklin ’72 (administration)

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CELEBRATING OUR PAST, EMBRACING THE FUTURE MAY 10 –12, 2013 Come celebrate our past with Alumni Weekend, featuring: • Reunions for the Classes of 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 2003 • Centennial Finale and Alumni Cocktail Reception • Alumni Mass • Annual Alumni Association Jazz Brunch And help us embrace our future with the Class of 2013 Commencement Ceremonies, featuring commencement speaker Tom Brokaw.

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