contributions to the community and to the bureau, Uffman was responsible for many of the advancements in the credit reporting industry and for the establishment of the Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation.
Houston Chapter The 600-member Houston Chapter boasts a long history of alumni participation and its longstanding events – the Greater Houston Crawfish Boil, football kick-off party, and holiday party as well as other events such as the golf tournament and gumbo cook-off attract hundreds of Tigers and generate significant funds for the chapter and for Association programs. The Houston Chapter partnered with the Dallas Chapter to “show their colors” with personalized LSU license plates, and the group is planning the inaugural LSU Houston Sport Clay Tournament to support its scholarship program. The chapter sponsors two professorships, a Top 100 Scholarship, a Chancellor’s Alumni Scholarship, and a “Foundation of Champions” Athletic Scholarship through TAF – which will be fully funded this year. Chapter volunteers regularly assist the Office of Admissions in recruiting efforts at fairs and events in the Greater Houston area.
Elizabeth H. Ronn Elizabeth Ronn, of Palo Alto, Calif., former vice president of marketing at Procter & Gamble, earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from LSU in 1976 and holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She retired from P&G in 2009 and is now a partner in Innovation Portfolio Partners, LLC. Over the years, Ronn has been active in community affairs, volunteering with numerous philanthropic and civic organizations. She is currently a volunteer teacher in the Future Profits Program at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, Calif., and is an interviewer, fundraiser, and guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of business, on whose
Rachel Jenny, Tip Jenny, Julie Klibert, Craig Ceccanti, and Angel Ardoin.
management board she serves. Ronn and her husband, Karl, a retired vice president of research and development at Proctor & Gamble, are generous donors to the LSU Alumni Association Alumni Fund.
Van and Gail Whitfield Van Whitfield, of Houston, a 1973 petroleum engineering graduate and COO of Cobalt International Energy, Inc., has more than thirty-six years of experience leading oil and gas production operations and marketing activities around the world. Prior to joining Cobalt, he served in leadership positions with CDX Gas, BP, ExxonMobil, and Amoco. He is also a graduate of the Stanford University Executive Program. Van and Gail Whitfield are longtime members of and generous donors to the LSU Alumni Association. They have a named room at The Cook Hotel and are major donors to the Alumni Fund. Van is a member of the Tiger Athletic Foundation and Petro-Tigers of Houston and also supports the College of Engineering and the LSU Foundation. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, API Upstream Committee, and Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and is an executive board member of Helix Well Containment Group.
Van and Gail Whitfield.
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