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Tureaud Chapter Baranco, LaVergne Named LSU Legends
By Rachel Emanuel Photos by Pam Blackwell
2016 LSU Legend Luke LaVergne; Shaun Mena, Legends Forum committee chair; and 2010 LSU Legend Mamye L. Hall, standing in for 2016 LSU Legend Juanita Powell Baranco.
Event sponsors, from left, Dereck Rovaris, vice provost for diversity; Maurice Kirksey, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity; Gary Huntley, Entergy; Kenya Messer, chief diversity officer; Blaine Grimes, Campus Federal Credit Union; Terrell Carter, adviser, Phi Beta Sigma; Shaun Mena, LSU Legends forum committee chair; and Todd Schexnayder, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, retired. Not pictured, James Williams, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, and Franklin & Associates.
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Leo C Hamilton, chair-elect of the LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors; scholarship winner Tayler B. Pierre; Todd Schexnayder, Tureaud Chapter treasurer; scholarship recipient Emaye M. Moss; Gary Huntley, president; Carolyn Collins, scholarship committee chair; and James Williams and Valencia Sarpy Jones, members of the LSU Board of Supervisors.
For the eighth year the A.P. Tureaud, Sr. Black Alumni Chapter hosted its annual LSU Legends Forum in September to honor achievements of black alumni, present chapter scholarships, and hear from alumni leaders on topics of the day. Juanita Powell Baranco (1973 BACH H&SS, 1977 JD), executive vice president and chief operating officer of Baran Company in Atlanta, Ga., and Luke A. LaVergne (1982 JD), retired East Baton Rouge Parish family court judge, were honored at 2016 LSU Legends. Baranco is a corporate executive noted for breaking race and gender barriers in Georgia, an entrepreneurial legend in Atlanta, and an avid supporter of education. She attended the first reunion of LSU black alumni in 1988, was a charter board member of the original Tureaud Chapter in 1990, and regularly attends chapter events. LaVergne is a distinguished U.S. military achiever, former member of the LSU faculty, and a Baton Rouge civic leader. He helped start LSU’s Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, serves on the Tureaud Chapter board, and was on the executive planning committee for the chapter’s 2013 reunion. Tayler B. Pierre, of Ama, La., a freshman mass communication-pre-law major, received the LSU A.P. Tureaud, Sr. Chapter 1964 Scholarship, and Emaye M. Moss, of Haymarket, Va., a freshman biochemistry major, was awarded the A.P. Tureaud, Sr. Endowed Scholarship. LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors Chair-elect Leo C. Hamilton and LSU Board of Supervisors members James Williams and Valencia Sarpy Jones shared their views about how the chapter can best serve LSU.