Oasis Winter 2016

Winter 2016

Oasis The ESA Experience

Painting by Brittany Chen, ‘16

It’s All Good

We continue to count our blessings as life at ESA keeps getting better and better! This year we’re enjoying our largest enrollment in the school’s history with 547 students in PreK-3 through 12th grade, and we expect to welcome even more students into our talented and creative community next fall.

ESA’s current students continue to shine. Ninety-one percent of ESA students scored 3 or higher on AP exams last year. Our ACT average, 29, is the highest ESA has ever seen. And two members of the Class of 2016, Brittany Chen and Henry Schneider, (left), have been named National Merit Semi-Finalists. Brittany has also been nominated as a Presidential Scholar, the seventh ESA nominee since 1993, and one of only 4,000 students in the nation to receive the honor. (Yes, that’s her work on the cover!)

With your help, we are incredibly close to our 2015-2016 Annual Fund goal of $300,000. As of this printing, we’ve raised more than $285,000. (If you’d like to help us get all the way there, please visit ESAcadiana.com/Donate.) By nearing our goal so early in the school year, we can ensure that all of our programs and departments are fully funded through June. Thank you!

A group of parents is leading the charge to complete the front building on the Lafayette campus, and many current families, past parents, grandparents and alumni have jumped on board. We hope to expand into our new Enrichment Center some time next fall, and we can’t wait to take advantage of the space it will provide for our students to imagine, experiment and grow. Fundraising continues for this game-changing project. To find out how you can be involved, please contact me (pbaker@esacadiana.com) or Development Director Linda Dautreuil (ldautreuil@esacadiana.com. 337-365-1416).

Plans are underway for improvements in Cade as well. We’re evaluating the campus as a whole and planning upgrades that will impact academics, athletics, the arts and student life. It’s an exciting time to be a part of the ESA community. If you haven’t visited in a while, we invite you to come and take a look!

The Enrichment Center

In designing the Lafayette Campus Enrishment Center, we envisioned a space filled with the resources to explore science, technology, art, music, drama, and languages through experience and imagination. A place where students’ questions drive the learning and their curiosity shapes the ever-changing curriculum. A real-world lab in which to explore how today’s leaders develop ideas and to use that knowledge to test their own ideas. A space to think big! To learn more, visit STEMtoStern.org.

The jurors were unable to select just one student to receive top honors in the exhibit. They chose Carter Broussard (whose photographs are on the cover and on page 5) and Tana Gauthier, who works in both 2D and in large-scale ceramics (above). Of Carter and Tana, the judges wrote: What really stood out with these two is their individual vision and their ability to recognize ‘mistakes’ and turn them into great successes. What also appealed to us was the sophisticated manner in which they addressed their work and the concepts underlying it, and the professional manner in which they made choices and articulated them as they presented their work.” Read more about ESA’s artists at ESAcadiana.com/VisualArts.

An ESA Journey

Clarke Patrone, ‘17 building on Dr. Tate’s carport

Through a Boat Building Project, two ESA juniors found themselves connected to ESA Past Parents, Faculty and alumni across time and Louisiana’s waterways.

ESA past and present came together this summer and fall as juniors Davis Curry and Clarke Patrone collaborated with Dr. David Tate to build two cypress pirogues. The project began as a simple plan between the

two boys to build a boat and paddle from Le Triomphe subdivision in Broussard to the ESA campus in Cade. The result, a Huck Finnstyle raft built out of plywood and oil drums, didn’t make the trip. Davis shared the story with Dr. Tate, and a new project was born.

ESA past parent (Lyle, ’88, Matthew, ’91, and A’Dair, ‘00) and current grandparent Dr. David Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in wood science and operates Cypress Wood & Lumber in Maringouin, spent several months looking for clear 12-inch planks that would be perfect for the project.

He generously donated the planks to the boys for their boats. Past parent Don Montie (Lacie, ’00), a cabinet maker, has experience building his own canoes. He drew out plans and instructions for the boys to follow.

My first thought was, ‘we can’t actually do this,’ and even when I decided it could be done, I still couldn’t imagine making the trip. I learned you just have to go for it!

Davis Curry, ‘17 Throughout the summer, Davis and Clarke spent about 60 hours constructing the vessels at Dr. and Mrs. Tate’s home.

In November, Davis, joined by Dr. and Mrs. Tate and Mr. Cabell Tutwiler, journeyed in his pirogue from ESA’s Cade campus to the Camellia Street bridge in Lafayette. The group launched at the bridge over Coulee LaSalle, took Bayou Tortue to Coulee Crow, which flows through the Cypress Island Swamp, and into the Vermilion River near the Lafayette airport. The 22-mile trip started at 7:00 am on a Saturday morning, and the travelers arrived at their destination just before 5:00 pm on Sunday. The small party of adventurers spent Saturday night in the flooded Cypress Island Swamp, where they ate well, according to Dr. Tate.

Although this trip has been attempted several times by the ESA outing club, Cypress Island Swamp has caused most paddlers to turn back. Mr. Tutwiler and a crew made it to the Vermilion River once many years ago, but more recently, Davis is the first ESA student to make it – and uniquely, in a solo water craft he built himself. He has since made the original trip from Le Triomphe to ESA. The next adventure – crossing the Atchafalaya Basin.

Davis Curry, ‘17 on Bayou Tortue

Save the Dates ESA’s 2016 musical productions are coming!

April 28, 6pm Bishop Henton Chapel in Cade “Music has invisible strings that come into every part of my body. They all connect to my heart, which sends a signal to my brain that says, ‘You are so happy right now.’”

Roan Menard, ’26, below with music teacher Rusty Roden

Inspiration for Young Artists, Scientists, Advocates...

Kindergarten teacher Sandra Thompson Photo by Danny Izzo, Nouveau Photeau

Lafayette Education Foundation representatives visited the Lafayette campus last fall to pin kindergarten teacher Sandra Thompson and fifth grade teacher Claire Alvarado as nominees for their annual Teacher Awards. A couple of weeks later, the representatives returned to surprise Mrs. Sandy with balloons and an announcement that she had been named a finalist in the Inspiration category. In January, Mrs. Sandy and the other 15 finalists were honored at the Teacher Awards ceremony at the Heymann Center.

An ESA teacher since 2004, Mrs. Sandy has provided inspiration for eleven classes of ESA kindergarteners. Along with nine years as a preschool teacher, she benefits from a BS in education from Baylor University and a master’s in gifted education from UL Lafayette. She is married to ESA math department chair and tennis coach Dr. Stuart Cornwell, and is the mother of ESA alumni Camden Cornwell, ’09, and Kaitlyn Cornwell, ’11.

In September, former Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel honored Mrs. Sandy with an award for the Best Overall Project Front Yard Effort for inspiring student Amelie Gomez to pursue her interest in making a difference by cleaning up the community. The project resulted in a 20-minute documentary on how trash ends up in local waterways and affects the local ecosystem. Read more about the project and view the video at ESAcadiana.com/Amelie.

“The ‘light bulb’ moments are by far my favorite part of being a teacher. Watching a student’s face when they begin to understand something; listening to their excitement when they realize that they have read their first book; and seeing a student develop a passion for a cause and independently taking over a project. These are the things that I love.”

Avery Island ‑ ESA’s Outdoor Classroom For Herbert Leavitt, ’16, last year’s Environmental Science course was just one step in a journey to study the Earth’s ecosystems. During his sophomore year, Herbert spent a semester at sea conducting research and has logged more than 100 dives in his quest to explore. Currently, he is undertaking an independent study with teacher Christina Hidalgo, and he’s bringing this year’s Environmental Science class along with him.

In August, the group traveled to Avery Island, where they met up with Randy Moertle, the land management consultant for the McIlhenny Company, and Heath Romero, the onsite marsh manager. An expert ecologist, Moertle led the installation of a system of weirs that control the water flow in the marsh. Each year, Moertle files reports with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Louisiana Department of Fish and Wildlife, National Resource Conservation Services, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies to provide data on water depth, salinity and the overall health of the marsh. This year, Herbert and his classmates will be the ones monitoring the marsh, collecting the data and producing the reports.

Last summer we reported on an environmental service project that teamed ESA eighth graders with LSU’s Coastal Roots program to create a native plant nursery on the Cade campus. With the help of the LSU professors and students on the Coastal Roots staff, the Class of 2019 cleared a site near Camelot, dug trenches, put together an irrigation system and built a fence to protect the nursery. They planted bald cypress and pumpkin ash seedlings that they nurtured throughout the spring and summer.

To gain permission for the project, Herbert worked with Took Osborne, Vice-President of McIlhenny Company, to create a proposal and approach McIlhenny board members for approval to work with Moertle.

In the class’ initial visit, Moertle and Romero led the students through the process of installing depth gauges, determining the true elevation of the sites, using a digital salinity probe and reading marsh maps. Along the way, he described the extensive legal process for obtaining permits to install structures in the marsh and the political aspects of marsh conservation and wildlife management.

In January, this year’s eighth graders joined the ninth graders to relocate the plants to a bottomland hardwood habitat restoration project at Avery Island. The tiny trees have been planted in a marshy area that serves as a corridor between the marsh and the island. Louisiana black bears use the corridor to travel back and forth in search of food. This spring, the eighth graders will plant another crop of seedlings and ensure their growth until time to plant again next year.

The trip included a botany lesson too, as students used guides to identify different marsh plants. Later this year, they will take an airboat ride through the marsh to record the percentage of coverage of different plant species. Moertle donated several plant identification guides to add to ESA’s resources and to help the group prepare for the task. He also taught the students how to use Google Earth Pro satellite imagery to determine land mass, locations of alligator nests and the volume of the water in an area of marsh, and expained the interconnectedness of science, history, governmental policy and economics in managing the marsh.

“We’re learning why marsh management is so profitable and at the same time so beneficial for the marsh.”

Herbert Leavitt, ‘16, above, with Environmental Science students and Randy Moertle, Avery Island’s land management consultant Thank you to the McIlhenny Company and the families of Avery Island for welcoming ESA’s students and teachers.

ESA Cross Country Boys and Girls State Champs!

ESA swept the Class B Cross Country State Championships in Natchitoches, with team wins in both the boys’ and girls’ races. Coach Laura Magann led the boys’ team to a repeat and the girls’ team to their first state championship since 2007.

With team totals based on the places of the top five runners, ESA boys scored just 23 points. All five runners finished in the top ten: Henry Schneider, 1st, Daniel Magann, 3rd, Ellis Hernandez, 4th, Riley Nickel, 8th, and Oliver Vreeland, 9th. Rounding out the team were Matthew Pisani, 12th, and Oliver Nickel, 13th.

Scoring 48 points, the girls’ team edged out second place Pitkin by four. Running for the Falcons were Samantha Withers, 1st, Aline Malek, 2nd, Abby Langford, 6th, Cassie Beyers, 18th, Arden Frantzen, 26th, Simone Plauché, 49th, and Jess Tetnowski, 51st.

Congratulations, ESA Cross Country!

Leading with Quiet Confidence Cross Country Coach Laura Magann arrived at ESA in 2012, and quickly began creating the foundation for success. A native of Jamaica, she was one of the founders of the Tri-City Track Club in Morgan City, and served as president and coach until her move to Lafayette. Coach Laura was nominated Road Runner’s Club of America (RRCA) Female Runner of the Year in 2008. An RRCA Certified Distance Coach, she lives by the mantra “Keep Moving!” which has gotten her to the finish line of seven marathons. At the Louisiana Track and Field Coaches Association Conference in Baton Rouge this year, Coach Laura was recognized for leading the top Class B boys and girls cross country teams in the state. Left: Coach Laura and Assistant Coach Jennifer Graycheck, ’01, with the State trophy. Center: Coach Laura high fives son Daniel Magann, ’18, after his third place finish at State. Laura’s twins Heather and Sebastian graduated from ESA in 2015. Her son Richard is a sixth grader. Right: Coach Laura with Arden Frantzen, ’21, before the race.

Middle School Sports Success!

Congratulations to the Middle School Girls’ Soccer team - undefeated and league champions!

The 7th grade volleyball team won the league tournament and the league championship last fall.

Boys’ 5-6th grade soccer went undefeated, and the 7-8th grade team dropped only one game.

ESA Athletics - a bright future!

Falcon Club ESA’s Falcon Club, a booster club for arts and athletics, was kicked off last January with an inaugural dinner at Mr. Lester’s Steakhouse. With the money raised at the dinner, as well as through memberships and donations, the Falcon Club funded a new backstop for the baseball field and improvements to the bullpen and batting cages, a new kiln for upper school pottery, digital cameras for the visual arts, back-up microphone cables and extra dual-ear headsets for lower, middle and upper school performing arts, new speakers for the lower school music program and tetherball poles and balls for the Lafayette campus.

AN EVENING FOR ARTS & ATHLETICS

This year, the Falcon Club turned to Katie Frayard Culbert, ’99, for help with a dinner under the oaks in Cade. The February dinner included a special menu prepared by parent and award-winning chef Justin Girouard. For more information about the club, visit ESAcadiana.com/FalconClub. Left: 2015 collaborative painting by Visual Arts students. Read the story at ESAcadiana.com/Collaborate.

She’s Back!

Last fall, ESA welcomed the return of Ursula Quoyeser as Head Volleyball Coach and P.E. teacher. In her 11 years at ESA from 1994 to 2005, she coached nine of ESA’s 17 State Volleyball Championship teams and was named Coach of the Year eight times.

Coach Quoyeser spent the last ten years at St. John’s School in Houston serving as Head of Lower School Physical Education, as well as coaching at the middle school and varsity levels in volleyball, soccer and softball. Now that she’s back in Cade, she has taken up the cause of connecting with ESA alumni. Follow ESA Alumni on facebook and check out ESAcadiana on Instagram to see what she’s up to.

The jurors were unable to select just one student to receive top honors in the exhibit. They chose Carter Broussard (whose photographs are on the cover and on page 5) and Tana Gauthier, who works in both 2D and in large-scale ceramics (above). Of Carter and Tana, the judges wrote: What really stood out with these two is their individual vision and their ability to recognize ‘mistakes’ and turn them into great successes. What also appealed to us was the sophisticated manner in which they addressed their work and the concepts underlying it, and the professional manner in which they made choices and articulated them as they presented their work.” Read more about ESA’s artists at ESAcadiana.com/VisualArts.

All-Star Athletes

Sarah Pierre, ’16, (right) was selected to play in the Louisiana High School Coaches Association East-West All-Star Volleyball match in November. As captain, Sarah led the Falcons to the State Tournament quarterfinals this year. She will compete in Track & Field this spring.

Other ESA athletes in the news: ESA swimmers Michael dela Rosa, ’20, and Isabella Buttaci, ’18, have been named to the 2015-2016 Southwest Louisiana All League Team. At the State meet, Isabella placed 1st in the 200 breast, while Michael placed 2nd in the 200 IM and 1st in the 200 breast, a race in which he broke the school record!

An ESA Legend Brenda LeBlanc, ESA volleyball coach and P.E. teacher from 1982 to 1994, will be inducted into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame in April. Coach LeBlanc led the Falcons to the school’s first seven volleyball state championships before moving to Baton Rouge to coach at St. Joseph’s Academy, where she led the team to five state titles. The induction ceremony will be held in Baton Rouge on April 12th. Congratulations, Coach!

Alumni Notes 1990

Patrick Wadsworth earned a Master of Education Administration degree from Northwestern State University in 2014.

He teaches technical and creative writing and coaches soccer at Gulfport High School in Mississippi. Patrick has three children: Megan, 18, Madeline, 16, and Merrick, 10.

1993

Joshua Mammen, MD Ph.D., is a Surgical Oncologist at the University of Kansas, as well as Vice-Chair and Division Chief of Surgical Oncology, and Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency.

2002

Dr. Eugene Achi has joined the team of healthcare professionals at Iberia Medical Center. Eugene received a BS in Biomedical/Medical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 2006, and received his training in neurology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He completed a Clinical Neu-

rophysiology fellowship at Vanderbillt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Alix Gonsoulin is Creative Design Director at Stuller, Inc. Dr. Ethan Guagliardo teaches in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Ethan holds a BA (2006) and an MA (2008) from Louisiana State University, and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame (2015).

Nathan Jacobson is a software engineer for Square and lives in Atlanta with his wife Becca.

Caroline Guidry Albano and her husband Al welcomed daughter Charlie Ann on Sept. 17, 2015.

Caroline Landry Farouki, husband Sabri Farouki and son Remy moved to New Orleans this fall. The couple opened the architecture and interior design firm Farouki and Farouki.

Austin – Dallas – Baton Rouge The ESA Alumni Road Crew – The Tates, Mr. Tutwiler, Dr. Baker, Linda Dautreuil and Angie Delcambre Broussard, ’90 – visited ESA alumni in Austin, Dallas and Baton Rouge last October. We had a great time with all of the alumni from 1985 to 2014 who joined us to celebrate ESA. Thanks to Jeanne Broussard Ballinger, ’90, for helping with the arrangements in Austin, and to Emile Guirard, ’85, and his wife Kelly for hosting a fantastic ESA Alumni gathering in Baton Rouge. More photos from the gatherings on the ESA Alumni facebook page. We’re in year three of the Tates/Tutwiler Alumni Matching Gift Challenge. Help us meet our goal at ESAcadiana.com/Donate. Thanks!

From the top: Mr. Tutwiler with Betsy Capps, ’85; Jeanne Broussard Balinger, ’90, with Camille and Calvin; Dr. Baker with Andy Langford, ’97, and Carolyn Dupuy Langford, ’97

2003

David Ducrest is lead software engineer for Cogent Education, a company that creates interactive software experiences for science education. David earned a master’s in computer science and virtual reality from UL Lafayette. He and his wife Amanda live in Athens, GA. Jennings Goza and his wife Elinor (Nell) live in Chicago, where he works as a financial services-advisory consultant

Stephanie LaPointe Wingert earned a BS in Biology from Emory University in 2008, and an MS in Social Work from Columbia University in 2011. She is a social worker for low income teenagers at an alternative school program in Manhattan.

Lauren Nelson married Jimmy Zuercher on May 15, 2015, in New Orleans.

Megan Hudson married Nathan Sinkula last fall.

Sara Dale attended Savannah College of Art and Design, where she earned a BFA in fashion design and a minor in fibers in 2011. She currently works as a fashion designer in New York.

Tim Rinaldi has written a novel, Mission from the Depths, that is available on Amazon. Ten percent of sales of the book go toward building a new school in the mountain villages featured in the novel.

Charlie Fitzgerald, ’92, an ESA parent and recently elected District Judge of the 15th Judicial District Court, welcomed second graders to his office and courtroom last fall. The students had been studying government and economics.

On their visit, they conducted mock trials over whether they should keep or do away with Reflex math homework, asked Judge Fitzgerald questions about his work, and witnessed him in action in court. Thank you, Judge Fitzgerald!

with PwC and specializes in credit risk management within the Banking and Capital Markets, Risk and Regulatory Team.

2004

Dr. Nupur Dalal earned a BA from Emory University in 2008, and an MD from LSUHSC-New Orleans in 2013.

When he last checked in, Nupur was completing a pediatrics residency.

2005

Logan Henagan is coaching ESA middle school baseball this spring. He married Jordan John, ’06, on January 10, 2015.

2006

Zack Autin is a structural engineer for CB&I in Baton Rouge. Zack earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from LSU. He works primarily on flood protection structures and sites.

Caitlin Montgomery lives in Moscow, Russia. After earning a degree from Georgetown in 2010, she finished a master’s in Russian/Eastern European/ Eurasian Studies at Stanford in 2011. She now serves as a Russian-to-English translator for the financial section of InterFax, a Russian news agency.

Katie LaSalle married Ryan Krail on October 10, 2015.

2007

Sydni Jo Guillot Fouquier and her husband Michael live in New Orleans, where they are active in the music community. Sydni holds a BS in environmental engineering from LSU. She is a chemical process engineer with global environmental consulting firm CH2M.

2008

Benjamin Bullock married Anne Clare D’Amico, ’11, on January 30, 2016. Ben graduated from Tulane in 2012, and is a senior medical student at Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans.

2009

Alyse Poppa visited the Cade campus last fall to complete teacher-observation hours in French classrooms. She double-majored in French and English at Georgetown University and is now working on a master’s in art & teaching in CODOFIL’s

Escadrille Louisiane program for aspiring French immersion teachers. Alyse plans to head to Rennes in France’s Brittany region to teach high school students.

2011

Chris Beyer earned a biomedical engineering degree at Washington University in St. Louis and is now working in management consulting for Sense Corp in Missouri.

Maddie Duhon graduated from LSU last May with a bachelor’s in mass communication and is now working on a master’s in strategic communication.

Steffan Mouton earned a psychology degree from LSU and is starting graduate school in biology at UL Lafayette. He plans to pursue a career as a teacher.

Walker Gates attended Colorado School of Mines and earned a petroleum engineering degree. He currently works in North

Dakota as a field operator for Enerplus, a North American energy producer.

Mimi Smith graduated magna cum laude from Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing in Texas.

Taylor Waddle earned a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in French from Loyola University in New Orleans She headed to England in September to begin work toward a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Sheffield and plans to pursue a PhD afterwards.

Anne Clare D’Amico married Benjamin Bullock, ’08, on January, 30, 2016. Anne Clare graduated from LSU in 2015. She works at Audubon Charter School in New Orleans as an elementary school teacher.

2013

Kennedy Kirby and Emily Miller stopped by the Cade campus recently. They are

Changing Education Scott Ardoin, ’92, professor of school psychology in the University of Georgia College of Education’s department of educational psychology, has been making news for his work on a method that helps students and teachers reclaim the time they lose transitioning between activities.

Scott and former doctoral student Jeffrey Hine developed software called Keep Busy and Carry On that gives students cues that a transition time is coming so they can start to make the switch to a new task. The cues are projected on a screen, along with a timer. Soon after they are introduced to the system, the students begin trying to beat the buzzer by getting ready for the next activity quickly. The software has helped students gain an average of 39 additional minutes of instruction time per week. Scott has also been recognized for his research involving methods for improving reading fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

both juniors at LSU, and both accounting majors. Emily will complete an internship with Price Waterhouse in Houston this summer.

2014

Elasha Williams was nominated as an Outstanding First-Year Biology Student at Rhodes College.

Thanks to our alumni guests - EB Brooks, ‘00, Lex Pierre, ‘09, and Omar Munshi, ‘15 - who joined us in chapel the Monday of Homecoming Week to share adventures since leaving ESA, lessons learned and encouragement for current ESA students! Watch the video at vimeo.com/esacadiana.

After co-founding the grassroots effort Save the Horse Farm a decade ago, EB is now Executive Director of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit overseeing fundraising, development and management of the new park. Lex is in his third year of dental school at LSU, and Omar is in his second semester at Columbia University.

View photos of the alumni who came home for Homecoming on the ESA Alumni facebook page.

Carly Hebert, ’15, recently posed for the cover of a book about a young gymnast. The YA title will be released on June 7th. Congratulations to Carly, who is majoring in dance at Marymount Manhattan College in New York!

Savannah DesOrmeaux, ’10, will tour with the 2016 Shakespeare LIVE! Touring Ensemble of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. The six-month tour, which starts in March, will take her through the tri-state area of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Savannah will play Juliet in Romeo & Juliet and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as other minor characters.

Ciera Dawn Washington, ’11, booked a role on episode 416 of NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” to air in April!

Remembering Mrs. Fugler ESA legend Pat Fugler, who served as math department chair and taught math and from 1980 to 2006, passed away on January 19th. So many alumni were touched by Mrs. Fugler’s dedication to teaching, both in the classroom and on the tennis court, where she coached ESA Tennis and led the Falcons to several State championships. Along with giving students the skills and confidence to succeed in math-related fields, Mrs. Fugler shared her love and enthusiasm for ESA with both students and colleagues.

Dr. Josh Caffery, ’93, has crafted a collection of Louisiana folklore-inspired poems and songs.

The book, In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore, published by the Louisiana State University Press, includes pen-and-ink illustrations by his wife, Claire.

Josh’s previous book, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana, led to a compilation of modern interpretations of folk songs originally recorded throughout south Louisiana by John and Alan Lomax in 1934. The album was produced by Josh and Joel Savoy. Savoy, along with Kelli Jones of Feufollet and Tiff Lamson of GIVERS, visited the Cade campus this January to play music, share methods of songwriting and bring students and faculty into the songwriting experience. View a video of the chapel at vimeo.com/esacadiana.

Call for Career Guidance We’re putting together a database of ESA alumni and past parents to serve as a resource for our current students who are considering pursuing careers in fields such as law, health care, education, science and engineering, technology... well, pretty much any field. If you’d like to share your time and experience with an ESA student, please contact Development Director Linda Dautreuil with your area of expertise and contact information (ldautreuil@esacadiana.com, 337-365-1416).

Share your experiences with us at ESAcadiana.com/AlumniUpdate.

Elise LaPointe, ‘02, married Noah Kohan of New Jersey on February 22, 2015.

Their nuptials took place at Temple Sinai in New Orleans. The couple met in Washington, DC, where Elise teaches Special Education at a public school for the arts and sciences and Noah consults as a Senior Associate with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Stephanie LaPointe Wingert, ‘04, Lizzy LaPointe, ‘03, and Kaira Casey, ‘03, stood with Elise as bridesmaids.

Members of the Classes of 2002 and 2003 (left) gathered to celebrate the marriage of Lizzy LaPointe, ‘03, and Christiaan Mader, ‘02. The couple wed on December 19, 2015, at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette.

Congratulations, LaPointes!

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