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Cornerstone EDITORS Lauren Brown Sara Crow ART DIRECTOR Virginia Otto-Hayes LSU Senior, Graphic Design CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Christy Kayser Arrazattee Adrienne Gale Ginger Guttner Mimi LaValle Zac Lemoine Aaron Looney Tim Rodrigue CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Andrea Laborde Barbier Harry Cowgill Ray Dry Lauren Duhon Ginger Guttner Aaron Hogan Elma Sue McCallum Eddy Perez James Ross Rachel Saltzberg Bruce Sharky Jim Zietz PRINTING TriStar Graphics Group, Inc To share feedback, please contact Sara Crow at scrow@lsufoundation.org or 225-578-8164. www.lsufoundation.org
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Kay and Danny Williamson at a tailgate reception for LSU Foundation members
Opportunity for Growth Dr. Danny and Kay Williamson were each destined for LSU. She, a Baton Rouge native, attended LSU Laboratory School (“U-High”) on LSU’s campus. He was raised on Tiger football on a farm south of Krotz Springs, La. “I never thought about it,” Danny shared, “never considered any place else.” Danny initially studied to become a special education teacher. During his junior year, he decided to become a doctor. He took an extra year to complete his medical school requirements, graduated from the College of Human Sciences & Education, and headed east to New Orleans to study at LSU Health Sciences Center’s School of Medicine. Now Texas residents, Danny said he and Kay routinely see how donors help universities grow. Watching prominent colleges receive “tremendous foundation support” from graduates after the institutions experience budget cuts led Danny to realize, “That’s how they’ve been able to not only survive, but to grow.” Danny said that, because Louisiana struggles to provide adequate funding for education, donations are especially valuable. “It’s imperative that people who love Louisiana and who love the university have got to be on board in supporting the university through the foundation.” The Williamsons primarily give back to the College of Science, through the Dean’s Circle Fund and the GeauxTeach program. “The Foundation, to me, is the most critical part of giving because it touches so many different parts of the university in so many ways,” Danny said. “It’s doing an excellent job. It just needs to continue to grow.” science.lsu.edu
(On the Cover) Over the span of its 153 years, LSU has experienced many changes. One of the more notable changes was its relocation from downtown Baton Rouge to the current campus in 1925. This black and white photo depicts the gates to campus circa 1920, before the move. The building pictured is Alumni Hall, parts of which were reused to build the current Journalism Building. Thank you to Barry Cowan, assistant archivist in Hill Memorial Library, and Jackie Bartkiewicz, editor of the LSU Alumni magazine, for sharing historical background on this image.
Cornerstone | Winter 2013 and Spring 2014 | LSU Foundation