The Paul Tulane Society Investiture 2020

SOCIETY INVESTITURE

THE PAUL TULANE SOCIETY, established in 1983, is an esteemed community of men and women whose exceptional support and leadership have contributed to making Tulane University one of the premier teaching, research, and service universities in the nation. Membership in The Paul Tulane Society is awarded to those individuals and organizations who have made gifts of $1 million or more to the university.

Members of The Paul Tulane Society have made possible superior educational opportunities by providing strategic program support, by helping us meet our capital goals, and by contributing to the growth and sustainability of the university’s endowment. In short, they have provided the means to strengthen the university’s commitment to excellence.

The forerunner to Tulane University – the Medical College of Louisiana - was founded in 1834. By 1847, the public University of Louisiana was established, and the Medical College was joined by a law department and a collegiate department. Tulane was established as a private university in 1884 when the University of Louisiana was reorganized and named in honor of benefactor Paul Tulane, a wealthy merchant who gave $1 million to establish a private university for the city where he had earned his fortune. This newly-formed institution included schools of liberal arts and sciences, law, medicine, and graduate studies.

Paul Tulane understood that the greater New Orleans region deserved a great university to educate its youth and to provide a gathering place for the best minds to grapple with the problems of the day. He knew that the progress of a region, indeed, the progress of a nation, depended upon the development of the human intellect, both in applied technology and in the furtherance of the humanities. Those honored with membership in The Paul Tulane Society share Paul Tulane’s vision and, through their outstanding commitment, are following in the footsteps of Paul Tulane, whose generosity set Tulane University on the course it follows today.

2020 PAUL TULANE SOCIETY INDUCTEES

LAURA L. BEINNER JONATHAN A. BEINNER

STUART M. GRANT SUZANNE B. GRANT

ARTHUR L. JUNG III

THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY M. KINCAID

CHERYL LEVINE LEONE, MD PHILIP LEONE, MD

MARCELA VILLAREAL DE PANETTA

RICHARDSON K. POWELL

SHER GARNER CAHILL RICHTER KLEIN & HILBERT, L.L.C. TRACIE AND JAMES GARNER KAREN AND LEOPOLD SHER

IRWIN AND DARYL SIMON FOUNDATION

ANN G. TENENBAUM THOMAS H. LEE

DIANA TIPTON MARK TIPTON

WILLIAM W. WARING, MD

LAURA AND JONATHAN BEINNER

Laura Beinner worked in the film industry as a post-production supervisor and was an adjunct professor in the Film and Television Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is on the board of an Off-Broadway theater in New York City called WP Theater. Laura graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.

She is the vice chairman of the board of her children’s school, The Birch Wathen Lenox School in New York.

Jonathan Beinner is an advisory director of Goldman Sachs. He was previously chief investment officer and co-head of the Global Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions team in Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), where he oversaw traditional, alternative and money market assets. Jonathan joined GSAM in 1990 and has over 30 years of industry experience. He was named managing director in 1997 and partner in 2004. While at Goldman Sachs, Jonathan had $800 billion under management.

Jonathan has been enjoying an annual pilgrimage to New Orleans for Jazz Fest since he was in college in the 1980s, when he earned dual BS degrees, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. He loves everything New Orleans and is thrilled to be able to visit more often now that his son is at Tulane.

Laura and Jonathan recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary and have four children, the oldest of whom is now a freshman at Tulane. They are both on the Tulane Parents Council, and Jonathan is on the A. B. Freeman Business School Council.

The Beinners made a gift to establish the Beinner Family Goldman Sachs Scholarship Fund, a non-endowed fund to be used for scholarship support of students in the A. B. Freeman School of Business.

SUZANNE AND STUART GRANT

Suzanne Grant, who holds a BA in economics from Brandeis University and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School, has been the chair of the board of the Delaware State Pension Fund since 2011 and a trustee since 2009. Over the past 35 years, Suzanne has held numerous positions in the investment world, including at Smith Barney, Morgan Stanley and Jefferies & Company.

Suzanne is an active leader within the Jewish community. She is the immediate past National Campaign Chair of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and was the co-chair of the 2014 International Lion of Judah Conference.

Suzanne is also a Broadway producer and is a passionate supporter of theater and the arts. Her current Broadway hits are To Kill A Mockingbird and Moulin Rouge.

Stuart M. Grant graduated cum laude from Brandeis with a BA in economics and received his JD from New York University School of Law. He is an acclaimed attorney, entrepreneur, investor, sportsman, and philanthropist. He runs Bench Walk Advisors, a litigation finance company. Prior to starting Bench Walk, Stuart founded Grant & Eisenhofer (G&E), a law firm focused on representing institutional investors in high stakes litigation.

Stuart is a former trustee of the University of Delaware and previously served on the boards of the Weinberg Center, the Delaware Art Museum and Congregation Beth Shalom.

Stuart is an avid soccer fan and former referee. For the past 20 years, he has been an active participant in the horse racing industry both as a breeder and an owner, and his horses have won multiple Breeder’s Cups.

Stuart and Suzanne have three children: Niki, Jake and Sam. Sam graduated from Tulane in 2019.

The Grants have been generous to Tulane, especially in the area of Jewish Studies. Their “I Could Do Great Things Foundation” established the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Chair in the American Jewish Experience Endowed Fund, provided current-use support for a junior faculty member in Jewish Studies and provided operating support for the Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience.

ARTHUR

LOUIS JUNG III

New Orleans native Arthur Louis Jung III’s relationship with Tulane began long before he became a student. Louis was introduced to the campus at a young age. He attended Tulane Day Camp, a summer camp for elementary school children held on campus. He attended Tulane basketball games in the Tulane gym and football games as a child with his parents.

His father and mother both attended Tulane. His father Arthur L. Jung,Jr. graduated in 1938 and served on the Board of Tulane for over 25 years, serving on the board while Louis attended Tulane. Louis’ father also established the Cornelia and Arthur Jung Chair in Materials Engineering to honor Louis’ grandparents. Louis’ mother, Harriet Tolar Jung, attended Newcomb College, showing a great interest in art. His sister, Carroll Williamson, graduated from Newcomb College in 1973.

Louis went to high school out of state—the Sewanee Military Academy— before attending Tulane and graduating in 1968. When he graduated, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant through Tulane ROTC. He was called to active duty in the U.S. Army two months after graduation, spending one year in the United States and one year in Vietnam before returning to New Orleans, where he has lived ever since.

Louis’ generosity to Tulane has reached almost every corner of the university. He has supported a music recording studio for the School of Liberal Arts and a professorship in honor of his mother at the Newcomb Art Department. Both his mother and father are members of the Paul Tulane Society, making him the second generation of the family to enter the prestigious society.

THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY M. KINCAID

Dorothy Meyer Kincaid was born in Corsicana, Texas in 1924 to parents, Otto Henry Meyer and Mabel Malone Meyer and spent her childhood with her parents in various East Texas oil fields. After graduating from Longview High School, Dorothy began her college career at Dodd College in Shreveport, Louisiana, subsequently transferring to Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman’s University) and graduating with a degree in biology. As an undergraduate, Dorothy began her lifelong enthusiasm for collegiate sports.

Upon graduation, Dorothy decided to train as a medical laboratory technician at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. After training and becoming a Registered Medical Technician, Dorothy was employed by Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

During her time in New Orleans, she maintained an active membership at First Baptist Church where she served as a Sunday School Attendance Clerk. There she met another Attendance Clerk, Hansel Kincaid, who was then working toward his business degree at Tulane University. The two developed a tennis competition and then a courtship. They were married in 1947. Hansel became a proud Tulane graduate in 1949. The couple moved to Midland in 1951 and became active members of First Baptist Church. At First Baptist, Dorothy had a central role in building a significant church library that, in 1985, contained over 9,000 volumes.

After her husband’s passing, Dorothy established the Hansel O. Kincaid Graduate Accounting Fellowship at the A. B. Freeman School of Business. The fellowship honors Hansel’s memory by supporting Tulane students who continue to follow in his footsteps.

CHERYL LEVINE LEONE, MD AND PHILIP LEONE, MD

Cheryl Levine Leone and Philip Leone, both graduates of the Tulane University School of Medicine, met during the summer of 1964 in a special gross anatomy program run by Edward Peebles PhD, chairman of the anatomy department. They met over a dead body.

Cheryl developed Crohn’s disease that summer and had to drop out of the 1968 class and started the next year. She was hospitalized at Touro and cared for by Harris Hyman, MD, and Elmo Cerise, MD, both Tulane faculty members.

Charles Sprague, MD, dean of Tulane School of Medicine, told Cheryl she was guaranteed a place in the 1969 class when she recovered. “The physicians were extraordinarily supportive. They saw me twice a day and encouraged me to keep reading and using my brain. These doctors wanted me on track to pursue medicine.”

Cheryl went into private practice at Baptist Hospital in St. Louis and then became chief of clinical labs at St. Louis University Hospitals. Phil entered the Air Force from 1973 to 1975 and returned to St. Louis University as head of pathology at St. Louis County Hospital. They left St. Louis in 1978 for Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, North Carolina, where they practiced for 33 years.

Their children, Abigail and Seth, grew up in Gastonia. Cheryl and Phil retired in 2012, moving to Naples, Florida, and Lake Toxaway, North Carolina. They have always been active in the communities in which they have resided. Cheryl has been on boards of Planned Parenthood, the Red Cross and the Gaston Arts Council. Phil has been on the Gaston Hospice Board, the National AIDS Council, Gaston Community Foundation, and now in Naples, the Naples Botanical Garden, and the Founders Scholarship Fund.

For Cheryl and Phil, Tulane made a huge impact on their lives. They are a Tulane family. Cheryl’s brother, Peter Levine, MD, sister Bonny, and their son Seth all graduated from Tulane. They feel strongly that their success in their private and personal lives has been shaped by their Tulane experience and believe strongly in giving back. They endowed a medical school scholarship program, and recently made a major gift to the School of Medicine, creating the Leone Learning Center which will have a major impact in the education of incoming freshman students.

MARCELA VILLAREAL DE PANETTA

Marcela Villareal de Panetta helped create the Fondo Guadalupano, a fund to support Mexican citizens studying at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Marcela and her husband, fellow Tulane graduate, Bernard J. Panetta II, believe strongly in the importance of giving back and established the Panetta Family Presidential Chair and research fund at the Tulane Brain Institute.

Marcela is a member of the Board of Tulane and also a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Newcomb College in 1967. Bernard is also a member of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Dean’s Advisory Council and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane’s College of Arts and Sciences in 1968.

Marcela Panetta is involved in the Children’s Opera Workshop in El Paso, Texas, and Sacred Heart Church, whose classes, food program and pastoral center she supports. In Juarez, she built a high school at the Yermo Parres Multicultural Education Center, located in one of the poorest and most dangerous parts of the city. She also volunteers at a Sisters of Charity clinic in Juarez, bathing and feeding severely disabled children.

She has served on the boards of various companies and cultural institutions in the United States and Mexico.

Bernard practices law in El Paso, Texas. Their daughter, Victoria E. Panetta, graduated from Tulane’s School of Science and Engineering in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Marcela Panetta’s father, Leopoldo Villareal, graduated from the Tulane School of Medicine in 1934. Her brother Leopoldo M. Villareal, Jr. also attended Tulane.

Richardson K. “Rick” Powell, who received his master’s degree in architecture from Tulane in 1977, is a pioneer in historic preservation and urban redevelopment in Kansas City, Missouri.

He is best known for redeveloping, through his company Athena Corporation, a downtown section of Kansas City into a mixed-use office complex known as Baltimore Place. Rick’s work has garnered several awards including the Economic Development Corporation Cornerstone Award, the City of Kansas City, MO-AIA/KC Urban Design Award, Building Owners and Managers Historic Building of the Year Award and the Jackson County Historic Society Preservation Award.

Rick is a longstanding member of the Architecture Dean’s Advisory Council as well as a current member of the South Florida National Campaign Council. In the past, he chaired his 35th Reunion and was a member of the President’s Council and later the Board of Tulane.

Rick served as the president of the Tulane Club of Kansas City from 1995 to 2002 and also served as a member of the Alumni Admissions Committee for many years. He was an advisor on the Associates Board from 1996 to 2002 and served as Bequest Chair for Tulane’s School of Architecture.

He has chaired numerous committees and held every office of the Tulane Alumni Association, including president.

In addition to his sterling service to Tulane, Rick has also been active in the Boys and Girls Club of Kansas City, the Kansas City Museum/Science City and the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance. He is active with the Kuehn Foundation, the Powell Family Foundation and Kansas City’s Botanic Garden, where he is an advisor.

His generosity has reached across Tulane, with his dedication to his home field of the School of Architecture and the many home fields of the Green Wave student-athletes meriting particular note.

CAHILL RICHTER KLEIN & HILBERT LLC

Proud Tulane University alumni Leopold Z. “Lee” Sher and James M. Garner founded Sher Garner Cahill Richter Klein & Hilbert, LLC in January 1999. The firm is composed of more than 40 talented attorneys and has developed into a nationally recognized full-service law firm delivering sophisticated legal representation in both litigation and transactional matters.

Lee Sher and James Garner, along with their wives Karen and Tracie, are longtime supporters of Tulane University. They recently endowed the Sher Garner Professorship in Sports Law, the largest gift to Tulane’s Sports Law program since its founding more than 25 years ago. In 2017, to help faculty members bring their research before public audiences, the Sher and Garner families endowed the Sher Garner Faculty Scholar Endowed Fund. Prior to those major gifts, the Sher and Garner families endowed the Sher Garner Fund for the Advancement of Commercial Law in 2015, supporting Tulane Law’s expanding emphasis on business law, which enabled Tulane to host conferences, lectures and other scholarly events emphasizing business and commercial law. The firm also established the Sher Garner Scholarship in 2012, which is awarded to a first-year student committed to studying civil law.

Karen, Lee, Tracie and James are members of the Louisiana National Campaign Council.

KAREN AND LEOPOLD SHER

Karen Baumgarten Sher graduated from Newcomb in 1974 and Tulane Law School in 1977. Leopold Sher received his Tulane undergraduate degree in Arts and Sciences in 1974 and his law degree from Tulane in 1976. Karen, a Florida native, and Lee, a New Orleans native, first met in 1973 as students on Tulane’s campus at the then “Ratskeller.” They courted in law school and were married on June 7, 1975, when Karen was entering her second year at Tulane Law and Lee his third year. Karen has been an active graduate, regularly serving as a Newcomb and Tulane “Town Mom” to many students over the years. She has also played substantial roles in her Newcomb 40th and 45th class reunions and her 40th law school class reunion.

Lee serves on the Tulane Law School Dean’s Advisory Board. He also is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law for Tulane Law School where he teaches a course called “Contract Drafting.” In addition, Leopold participates annually in the Tulane Law School Intersession “Transactional Boot Camp” program.

Karen and Lee’s oldest daughter, Rose, graduated from Tulane Law School in 2010 and practices in New Orleans, too. She, along with her husband, Jeremy Soso, who is a 2008 Tulane Law graduate, recently had their first children, twins, Rachel and Jonathan. Samantha Sher, who is Karen and Lee’s younger daughter, lives in Philadelphia, and from childhood has always been a cheerleader for her family’s school.

TRACIE

AND JAMES GARNER

Both native New Orleanians, Tracie and James Garner met at 11 and 14 years old respectively. After attending Holy Cross High School in New Orleans, James received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University in 1986, graduating as only the third person in the history of the school with a perfect grade point average.

Crossing Freret Street the following year, James attended Tulane Law School and graduated in 1989 as managing editor of the Tulane Law Review and Order of the Coif, the highest academic honor awarded. After graduating from Dominican High School in New Orleans and the University of New Orleans, Tracie attended Tulane University for sociology in the mid-1990s. Shortly thereafter, in 1996, Tracie and James married, and since that time have supported all aspects of Tulane University. Most recently, James served as co-chair of the law school’s Class of 1989 30th Reunion Committee.

They are the proud parents of Margaret, a junior at Isidore Newman High School, Caitlin, a junior at the University of Miami, and Ethan who continues the Tulane tradition as a current first year law student at Tulane Law School. All are die-hard Green Wave fans.

In addition, James is an adjunct associate professor of law at Tulane Law School and teaches two classes each year: “Advanced Appellate Advocacy” in the fall semester and “Contemporary Issues in Legal Ethics” in the spring semester.

IRWIN AND DARYL SIMON FOUNDATION

Irwin D. and Daryl G. Simon have been generous to Tulane through consistent support of Tulane Athletics, Yulman Stadium and the A. B. Freeman School of Business. They named the Simon Family Career Management Center suite in the Goldring-Woldenberg Business Complex.

Irwin is a business executive, who in 1993 founded The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., which he built into a leading, global organic and natural products company with over $3 billion in net sales and served as president, chief executive officer and chairman through 2018.

Irwin has more than 30 years of business experience spanning many domestic and international leadership and operating roles. Prior to Hain Celestial, he was employed in various marketing and sales positions at The Häagen-Dazs Company, a frozen dessert company, then a division of Grand Metropolitan, a multi-national luxury brands company.

Irwin currently serves as chairman of the board and interim chief executive officer of Aphria Inc., a leading global cannabis company and is presiding director at MDC Partners Inc., a provider of marketing, activation and communications solutions and services. He also served as a director of Barnes & Noble, Inc., the largest retail bookseller in the United States.

Most recently, Irwin was appointed executive chairman of Act II Global Acquisition Corp., a blank check company he co-founded in the “betterfor-you” sector. He also serves on the Board of Tulane and on the Board of Trustees at Poly Prep Country Day School. He is the majority owner of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team and co-owner of St. John’s Edge of the National Basketball League of Canada.

He and his wife Daryl reside in New York City. Their daughter, Nicolette, graduated from Tulane in 2017. One of their sons, Garrett, is a current Tulane student. They have two other sons, Trevor and Lucas.

ANN TENENBAUM AND THOMAS H.

LEE

Ann Tenenbaum became a member of the Board of Tulane in January of 2019. She is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Ann has served on the Board of Directors of Film at Lincoln Center for 23 years and served as chairman from 2005-2019.

Ann was a board member of Channel 13/WNET beginning in 2002 and served as vice-chair from 2005 through 2014. She was vice-chair of the board of the Dia Art Foundation and a board member of Second Stage Theatre. She has served on the board of Trinity School New York, as well as on the boards of her alma maters, Northfield-Mount Hermon School and Sarah Lawrence College. Ann is also an active venture capital investor.

Tom Lee serves as chairman of Thomas H. Lee Capital, Lee Equity Partners and AGL Credit Management. After nearly a ten-year stint on Wall Street, Tom began his career as a pioneer in the private equity world in 1974. He has held controlling investments in hundreds of companies and has served as a director of numerous public and private companies. A graduate of Harvard University, Tom has served as a trustee of Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller University, NYU Medical Center and many other civic, charitable and educational organizations.

Ann and Tom reside in New York City with their three children. Their sons Jesse and Nathan are currents students at Tulane, classes of 2020 and 2022 respectively. Their daughter Rosie attends the Spence School in New York City, and their nephew Isaac Tenenbaum also attends Tulane, class of 2021.

Ann and Tom are co-chairs of Tulane’s National Campaign Council. They have a special interest in facilitating deeper conversations between faculty and students by supporting diversity, career and academic initiatives at the university.

Mark Tipton earned his Bachelor of Science from the College of Arts & Sciences in 1978 and was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He earned his MBA from Baylor University in 1981.

Mark has been actively involved in the banking industry for approximately 40 years, having served in senior positions with regional banks in Texas and Georgia. In 2003, he co-founded Georgia Commerce Bank, where he was chairman and chief executive officer until it was acquired by IBERIABANK in 2015. He currently serves as the Georgia Regional President for IBERIABANK.

Mark is a past member of the President’s Council as well as an emeritus member of the Tulane Fund Advisory Board where he was board chair. He is a past member of the Tulane Athletics Advisory Council, Alumni Admissions Committee, Alumni Council Careers Committee, TAA Board of Directors and his 30-, 35- and 40-year Reunion Committees. Mark is the co-chair of the Atlanta National Campaign Council.

In the community, Mark serves on the board of directors of Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, where he is a three-time past board chair. Additionally, he is a member of the Georgia Tennis Foundation Board, the Skyland Trail Board, the Carter Center Board of Councilors and the Constantine Housing Initiative (CHI) Board of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

Diana Tipton received her undergraduate degree from Georgia State University in 1986, majoring in English. After a career in the airline industry, she has been an active leader in the Atlanta philanthropic community.

Diana and Mark reside in Atlanta, Georgia.

In addition to supporting key initiatives across the university, the Tiptons’ shared belief in the importance of attracting and retaining world-class faculty and students at Tulane led the couple to establish the Mark and Diana Tipton Endowed Professorship and the Mark and Diana Tipton Endowed Scholarship Fund at the School of Science and Engineering.

WILLIAM W. WARING, MD

William W. Waring, MD graduated from Yale University in 1943 before earning his medical degree from Harvard University in 1947. He went on to practice pediatric pulmonology and was appointed to the Jane B. Aron Chair as a professor of pediatrics at Tulane University School of Medicine.

William met Dr. Nell Pape in 1951 at Johns Hopkins, where he was Chief Resident and she was an intern. Nell, a New Orleans native, was a graduate of Tulane School of Medicine and one of the city’s earliest female physicians. They married in 1952 and raised five sons - Antonio, Peter, Patrick, William and Benjamin, four of whom are Tulane alumni. Nell then re-enrolled at Tulane School of Medicine to complete her residency in pediatrics in 1978 and her fellowship in allergy and immunology at Charity Hospital in 1980.

William established the Dr. Nell Pape Waring Scholarship Fund at the Tulane School of Medicine in his wife’s honor.

In 2001, William set an extraordinary example of the meaning of “lifetime learning” by completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement. Shortly thereafter in 2003, William completed his next project in academia when he co-authored a book, Pro Parvulis: On Behalf of the Little Ones, about the history of Tulane’s Department of Pediatrics and the Pulmonary Disease Section.

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1331 Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Libby Connolly Alexander Robert L. Alexander Rye, New York

Jeffrey A. Altman Foundation, Incorporated New York, New York

Henry F. Anderson William G. Anderson Shreveport, Louisiana

Akira Arimura Foundation Belle Chasse, Louisiana

The Aron Family Interests New York, New York

The Azby Fund New Orleans, Louisiana

Baptist Community Ministries New Orleans, Louisiana

James L. Barksdale Aspen, Colorado

J. David Barksdale New Orleans, Louisiana

George Bechtel* Alpine, Texas

Julia T. Beecherl

Louis A. Beecherl, Jr.* Dallas, Texas

Kylene Beers, EdD

Bradley B. Beers The Woodlands, Texas

Barr Conover Belden* Mountain Brook, Alabama

BELFOR USA Birmingham, Michigan

Calvin K. Benedict* New Orleans, Louisiana Clem Benenson Hamilton, Massachusetts

Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin Edward B. Benjamin, Jr.* New Orleans, Louisiana

Gayle Marie Benson Tom Benson* New Orleans, Louisiana

Louellen Berger Darryl Berger New Orleans, Louisiana

Irene Dauper Black* Robert Jacob Black* Thomasville, Georgia

The Boh Family Interests New Orleans, Louisiana

Ann P. Boh Robert S. Boh New Orleans, Louisiana

David Boies Armonk, New York

The Booth-Bricker Fund New Orleans, Louisiana

Carole B. and Kenneth J. Boudreaux Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Gwynn Collins Akin Bowers

El Dorado Hills, California

Joseph A. Breaux* Bayou Goula, Louisiana

The Brinton Family Fund San Francisco, California

James M. Brock, MD* McComb, Mississippi

The Brown Foundation Houston, Texas

The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Metairie, Louisiana

Rosa Cottam Burthe* New Orleans, Louisiana

Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund Washington, D. C.

Judith M. Camp Samuel M. Camp Covington, Louisiana

C. T. Carden Oil Properties New Orleans, Louisiana

Carnegie Corporation of New York New York, New York

Amon G. Carter Foundation Fort Worth, Texas

Logan Wickliffe Cary* Carriere, Mississippi

Dorothy Cason* Miami, Florida

Dorothea M. Chastain*

Joseph B. Chastain, MD* Columbus, Georgia

The Children’s Health Fund New York, New York

Victor P. Chisesi, Jr.* New Orleans, Louisiana

James H. Clark Palm Beach, Florida Mathilda Cochran Michael D. Cochran* Houston, Texas

Jayne Cohen* Albert H. Cohen* West Palm Beach, Florida

The Commonwealth Fund New York, New York

Valerie Z. Corasaniti Michael A. Corasaniti New York, New York

Marjorie Cowen* Scott S. Cowen New Orleans, Louisiana

The Coypu Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Carol Downes Cudd Robert C. Cudd III El Prado, New Mexico

Glenn M. Darden Fort Worth, Texas

Joseph Andrews Davenport III* Mer Rouge, Louisiana

Dana Leigh Day Stanley R. Day, Jr. Chicago, Illinois

Gerald L. DeBlois West Tisbury, Massachusetts

Bertie M. Deming Smith

John W. Deming, MD* Alexandria, Louisiana

Katharine B. Devlin Robert M. Devlin Southport, Connecticut

Dialysis Clinic, Inc. Nashville, Tennessee

Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

The Discovery Fund Fort Worth, Texas

Virginia Butler Dixon* Natchez, Mississippi

James R. Doty, MD Los Altos Hills, California

Mabel A. Dresser* New Orleans, Louisiana

Nancy Reeves Dreux* Metairie, Louisiana

Everett L. Drewes, MD* New Orleans, Louisiana

The Libby-Dufour Fund New Orleans, Louisiana

Mary Sellars East* Metairie, Louisiana

Newton C. Ebaugh* Gainesville, Florida

Dean Baker Ellithorpe, MD* New Orleans, Louisiana

Entergy Corporation New Orleans, Louisiana

Exxon Education Foundation New York, New York

ExxonMobil Foundation Irving, Texas

Kathleen Gibbons Favrot H. Mortimer Favrot, Jr.* New Orleans, Louisiana

Feil Family Foundation New York, New York

Flora H. Fenner* New Orleans, Louisiana

Hanson D. Ferrell* Jacksonville, Florida

David R. Filo Sunnyvale, California

Donna Diboll Flower Paul H. Flower New Orleans, Louisiana

Elaine D. Flowerree* Robert E. Flowerree, Jr.* Portland, Oregon

Wendy M. Fogelman Avron B. Fogelman Boca Raton, Florida

The Ford Foundation New York, New York

Forest City Enterprises Charitable Foundation, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio

Irwin Frankel DChE* Fairfax, Virginia

The Ella West Freeman Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

The Freeman Family Interests New Orleans, Louisiana

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Phoenix, Arizona

Robert E. Friedman* Metairie, Louisiana

G. Shelby Friedrichs* New Orleans, Louisiana

The Frost Foundation Santa Fe, New Mexico

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, Washington

Grace Elizabeth Gebelin Gause* Metairie, Louisiana

Anne Barrios Gauthier Metairie, Louisiana

John A. Gebelin* Kenner, Louisiana

Jill Henkin Glazer Avram A. Glazer Palm Beach, Florida

Goldring Family Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Grace A. Goldsmith, MD* New Orleans, Louisiana

Kathryn B. Gore* New Orleans, Louisiana

Matthew B. Gorson Miami, Florida

Shirley Kurzweg Gouaux* Tryon, North Carolina

Barbara Axelrod Greenbaum Jerry M. Greenbaum Atlanta, Georgia

JoAnn Flom Greenberg* New Orleans, Louisiana

Nancy Stone Greer Philip Greer San Francisco, California

Beatrice Tomvlin Grivi* Los Angeles, California

William M. Haile, Jr.* Charlotte, North Carolina

Elias S. Hanna, MD San Francisco, California

Jill Marten Hanna, MD San Francisco, California

The Irving Harris Foundation Chicago, Illinois

The Hayward Foundation Clearwater, Florida

HCA – Delta Division New Orleans, Louisiana

The Hearst Foundations New York, New York

Lila Loewenthal Hertz Douglas J. Hertz Atlanta, Georgia

Hibernia National Bank New Orleans, Louisiana

Joseph M. Humphries, MD* Birmingham, Alabama

IBM Corporation New York, New York

Ingrid R. Ingram

Frederic B. Ingram Santa Barbara, California

Institute of Mental Hygiene of the City of New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana

James Family Foundation San Francisco, California

Johnson Controls, Inc. Milwaukee, Minnesota

The Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Mina I. Jones* Metairie, Louisiana

J. Erik Jonsson* Dallas, Texas

Harriett Tolar Jung* Arthur L. Jung, Jr.* Metairie, Louisiana

Jessie Katz* Sigmund J. Katz* New Orleans, Louisiana

Constance Samuel Kaufman* New Orleans, Louisiana

W. M. Keck Foundation Los Angeles, California

Rosa Freeman Keller* Charles Keller, Jr.* New Orleans, Louisiana

W. K. Kellogg Foundation Battle Creek, Michigan

Ann Parker Koerner

John E. Koerner III New Orleans, Louisiana

Jennifer Juge Kottler Robert M. Kottler Annapolis, Maryland

The Kresge Foundation Troy, Michigan

Alden J. Laborde* New Orleans, Louisiana

Sally Huger Lapeyre James M. Lapeyre, Jr. New Orleans, Louisiana

Marilyn Sizeler Lassen Sidney W. Lassen Palm Beach, Florida

Lavin Family Foundation River Forest, Illinois

Rolanette Lawrence C. Berdon Lawrence Houston, Texas

Sherry and Alan Leventhal Family Foundation Boston, Massachusetts

The Louisiana Board of Regents Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company New Orleans, Louisiana

Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust New York, New York

Marcia Lutz Laurent C. Lutz, Jr. Wilmington, Delaware

Lydian Asset Management, L.P. Westport, Connecticut

Meredith Mallory Jr., MD* San Antonio, Texas

Marta Robidoux Marko

William A. Marko Houston, Texas

E. Pierce Marshall Marshall Heritage Foundation Dallas, Texas

Robert H. Marshall Houston, Texas

Marsh & McLennan Inc. of Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana

Fontaine Martin* New Orleans, Louisiana

Francis Martin* New Orleans, Louisiana

Lawrence W. Martin* New Orleans, Louisiana

Rudolph Matas, MD* New Orleans, Louisiana

Cordelia S. May* Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Katherine Deichler Mayer Northbrook, Illinois

Leonie Mayer* Gus Mayer* New Orleans, Louisiana

William E. Mayer New York, New York

Susan A. McCulloch James L. McCulloch Houston, Texas

McCune Charitable Foundation Sante Fe, New Mexico

Perrine Dixon McCune* Sante Fe, New Mexico

Katherine L. McFetridge* New Orleans, Louisiana

The McKnight Foundation Minneapolis, Minnesota

Elleonora P. McWilliams* W. Kennon McWilliams, Jr.* New Orleans, Louisiana

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York, New York

Joyce Frank Menschel New York, New York

Merck and Company, Inc. West Point, Pennsylvania

Virginia Miceli* Augusto P. Miceli* New Orleans, Louisiana

Lois C. Miller* Eugene J. Miller, Jr, PhD San Miguel, California

Jean Strauss Mintz Saul A. Mintz* Monroe, Louisiana

Penny C. Morrill McLean, Virginia

Johnie W. Murphy* Charles Haywood Murphy, Jr.* El Dorado, Arkansas

Martha W. Murphy New Orleans, Louisiana

R. Madison Murphy El Dorado, Arkansas

Murphy Oil USA, Inc. El Dorado, Arkansas

Music Rising Nashville, Tennessee

Marion Magill Mussafer

David M. Mussafer Weston, Massachusetts

New Orleans Public Service Inc. New Orleans, Louisiana

Vera L. Olds Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Frank G. Otis* Madisonville, Louisiana

Bernard Osher

The Bernard Osher Foundation San Francisco, California

Elizabeth Parks* Franklin Parks* Albuquerque, New Mexico

Doris Greenberg Payson Martin D. Payson New York, New York

Sue W. Pellerin* Norvin L. Pellerin* New Orleans, Louisiana

Lora J. Peters Donald J. Peters, Jr. Baltimore, Maryland

Catherine Deming Pierson R. Hunter Pierson, Jr. New Orleans, Louisiana

Rainer Nicholls Pinkoson * Charles Pinkoson, MD Gainesville, Florida

Althea Plauche* A. Lane Plauché* Lake Charles, Louisiana

The People of Qatar Doha, Qatar

The Stanley W. Ray, Jr. Philanthropic and Civic Trust New Orleans, Louisiana

Debra Rees Rick S. Rees New Orleans, Louisiana

Doris B. Reggie Edmund M. Reggie* Lafayette, Louisiana

The Reily Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Priscilla E. Reiss James J. Reiss, Jr. New Orleans, Louisiana

Vada Odom Reynolds* Metairie, Louisiana

E. V. Richards, Jr.* Covington, Louisiana

J. Karlem Riess* New Orleans, Louisiana

River Park Partnership New Orleans, Louisiana

Martha B. Robertson* New Orleans, Louisiana

Merle Greene Robertson* San Francisco, California Rockefeller Foundation New York, New York

Ruth C. Roe* Mobile, Alabama

RosaMary Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Milton I. Rosenson* Metairie, Louisiana

Seymour F. Rosenwasser, MD* Los Angeles, California

Yvonne A. Ryan* New Orleans, Louisiana

Dorothy E. Ryder* New Orleans, Louisiana

The Sacks Family Foundation Highland Park, Illinois

Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation New York, New York

Mabel Saunders* Paul H. Saunders* Winston Salem, North Carolina

Maridel Saunders, MD* Francestown, New Hampshire

Coralie V. Schaefer* New Orleans, Louisiana

Elsie Schaefer* New Orleans, Louisiana

Didi Fenton-Schafer Oscar S. Schafer New York, New York

Edward G. Schlieder Educational Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Laurie Klayman Schloss Lawrence M. v. D. Schloss New York, New York

Martin F. Schmidt* Louisville, Kentucky

J. F. Seinsheimer, Jr.* Galveston, Texas

Peggy B. Selber* Aaron Selber, Jr.* Shreveport, Louisiana

Elizabeth D. Selley* Paul P. Selley* New Orleans, Louisiana

L. J. Sevin Family Foundation Dallas, Texas

Shell Oil Company Shell Oil Company Foundation Houston, Texas

Brenda B. Sheridan Howard M. Sheridan Fort Myers, Florida

Sara Lockhart Simmonds* Alexandria, Louisiana

Mary A. Read Hume Simms* Lexington, Kentucky

Jane Meyers Simon* Edward H. Simon* San Antonio, Texas

Cecilia Bisso Slatten* New Orleans, Louisiana

Alma Slatten Pettit William A. Slatten, Sr.* New Orleans, Louisiana

Tina B. Small Albert H. Small, Jr. Bethesda, Maryland

Barbara M. Sobin Lester A. Sobin* New Orleans, Louisiana

Catherine Spaar* William H. Spaar* San Antonio, Texas

Steel Partners Foundation

New York, New York

The Percival Stern Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Mattie Stewart* Andrew Stewart* New Orleans, Louisiana

Paulette D. Stewart Frank B. Stewart, Jr. New Orleans, Louisiana

Beryl Whiteman Stiles* Washington, D. C.

Edward L. Streiffer* Moraga, California

Walter E. Sullivan* Pearl River, Louisiana

William H. Talbot* New Orleans, Louisiana

Phyllis M. Taylor New Orleans, Louisiana

Teagle Foundation, Inc. New York, New York

Gladys Gauche Thomson* Austin, Texas

Tidewater, Inc. New Orleans, Louisiana

The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana

Thelma D. Toole* New Orleans, Louisiana

Lillian A. Turchin

Robert L. Turchin* Miami Beach, Florida

Dolly H. Turman* Solon B. Turman* New Orleans, Louisiana

M. Dreux Van Horn II* New Orleans, Louisiana

Marcelle S. Vergara* New Orleans, Louisiana

The Vesper Foundation Brecksville, Ohio

Lallage Feazel Wall* West Monroe, Louisiana

Dr. and Mrs. J.E. Watkins Scholarship Trust Tyler, Texas

The Weatherhead Foundation Cleveland, Ohio

Ben Weiner* New Orleans, Louisiana

Ben Weiner Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Virginia Eason Weinmann John Giffen Weinmann* New Orleans, Louisiana

Suzanne R. Weiss Stephen H. Weiss* Greenwich, Connecticut

Martha McCarty Wells Dallas, Texas

Josephine Wander Westlake* Lafayette, California

Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Atlanta, Georgia

Whitney National Bank of New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana

The Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. and Sandra M. Feingerts Family Fund Shreveport, Louisiana

Anna Louise Stille Williams* Many, Louisiana

Jack A. Williamson* Chicago, Illinois

Kate Yulman Williamson New York, New York

George A. Wilson* Dallas, Texas

Wynona W. Wilson James W. Wilson, Jr.* Montgomery, Alabama

The Edward Wisner Donation New Orleans, Louisiana

The Woldenberg Foundation New Orleans, Louisiana

Hannah B. Woody, MD* New Orleans, Louisiana

Janet K. Yulman* E. Richard Yulman Coral Gables, Florida

The Zemurray Foundation Madisonville, Louisiana * Deceased