Alumni Awards The annual Tulane Alumni Association Awards on April 18, 2015, at the National World War II Museum U.S. Freedom Pavilion in New Orleans recognized alumni for their hard work and dedication to Tulane University and their communities.
Nere hopes to move to New York to work in the consulting industry and pursue his proclivity for running Monte Carlo Simulations.
Brothers LOUIS M. FREEMAN (B ’63) and RICHARD W. FREEMAN JR. (B ’60), both emeritus members of the Board of Tulane, received the Dermot McGlinchey Lifetime Achievement Award. The A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane is named in honor of their grandfather. Louis Freeman is former chair of the Endowment Management Committee, a trustee of the E.V. Richards Foundation and former president of the Howard Memorial Library Association. Freeman was elected vice president of the Louisiana Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in 1970. Among his many contributions to the community, Freeman serves as chair of the board of trustees for the National World War II Museum and is chairman of the Ella West Freeman Foundation. Richard Freeman Jr. succeeded his father as president of the Louisiana CocaCola Bottling Co. in 1970 and held that position until 1986. He has served on the boards of the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the Bureau of Governmental Research, the Metropolitan New Orleans Safety Council, Ochsner Clinic Foundation and Community Hospitals. He chairs the RosaMary Foundation and is a trustee and former chair of the Ella West Freeman Foundation.
2010s In April, BENJAMIN D. CAPPIELLO (’10), the scientific founder behind Bioceptive, received one of six awards given by the Louisiana chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth to standouts in the business community. The startup is working to make intrauterine birth control devices and other women's health products easier and safer to insert. Bioceptive has raised $3 million in capital and seeks to launch its products worldwide.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award went to DOUGLAS G. HURLEY (E ’88), a retired colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, who is a NASA astronaut, test pilot and fighter pilot with a military career that spans almost 25 years. Hurley was a “Viking” with Marine All Weather Fight/Attack Squadron 225 where he was an F/A-18 fighter pilot. He was the pilot on two space shuttle missions to the International Space Station. MARSHA S. FIRESTONE (NC ’65) received the Professional Achievement Award. Firestone is founder and president of the Women Presidents’ Educational Organization, dedicated to increasing access to business opportunities for women’s enterprises. She also founded the Women Presidents’ Organization, a peer advisory organization for women who own multimillion-dollar businesses. The Scott Cowen Service Award was presented to ANTHONY “TONY” RECASNER (E ’86, ’88), chief executive officer of Agenda for Children. Recasner has been involved in public education reform and other efforts to improve the lives of children and families for more than 20 years. Previously, Recasner was president of FirstLine Schools, a charter school management organization.
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EDWARD J. CRAWFORD IV (B ’08), who received the newly named Robert V. Tessaro Young Alumnus Volunteer Award (see page 37), served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. He joined the Navy and served in Afghanistan, earning the Bronze Star. He remains a U.S. Naval Reserve intelligence officer and is the veteran recruitment captain at Goldman Sachs. He founded the Freeman 50, a group of young alumni whose aim is to support the A. B. Freeman School of Business. Crawford won the Tulane Business Plan competition in 2008. The winner of the Outstanding Alumni Club of the Year Award was the Tulane Club of Washington, D.C.
Louisiana Impact Did you know that Tulane University provides healthcare services at 58 sites in 22 parishes of Louisiana? Or that the university offers 10,600 jobs with an economic benefit of $920 million? And that the value of community service performed by Tulane volunteers was estimated at $5.4 million in 2013? To increase the visibility across the state of the university’s contributions to Louisiana, the Tulane Office of Government and Community Relations and the Office of Alumni Affairs have created the Wave Network, so alumni, students, parents and friends can speak out for Tulane University around the state. Sign up to be part of the Wave Network by visiting cqrcengage.com/Tulane.
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JESSICA HAYES (’11) and RACHEL RYLEY (’14) received National Science Foundation fellowships for graduate study in economics. Since graduation, Hayes has been working for the Federal Reserve System’s board of governors, where her projects have included research on intra-household credit utilization. Hayes will go to UCLA for graduate study. Since graduation, Ryley has been working for Americorps as a member of the City Year Corps in Philadelphia, where she has been helping high school students with their mathematics literacy and their general “life skills.” Ryley will pursue her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. DEREK BURDETTE (’12) received the Association for Latin American Art’s biennial award for the best dissertation in Latin American art history, 2012–2014, for “Miraculous Crucifixes and Colonial Mexican Society: The Artistic, Devotional and Political Lives of Mexico City’s Early-Colonial Cristos.” Burdette is a visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College. BETHANY VAN KAMPEN (SW ’13, L ’14) is a Lindy Boggs Congressional Fellow working with Sen. Barbara Boxer of California in Washington, D.C. Boggs Fellowships, named for the late LINDY CLAIBORNE BOGGS (NC ’35), go to graduate students with a proven commitment to equity for women. Boggs fellows gain practical policymaking experience and graduate credit as they work from January to August as Congressional legislative aides. The program is sponsored by the Newcomb College Institute at Tulane through Women’s Policy, Inc. Van Kampen plans to stay on Capitol Hill for another year or two, and then hopes to work for a women’s rights organization doing policy work. BRADLEY H. PACE (L ’14) joined Hinshaw & Culbertson in the firm’s expanded San Francisco office as an associate. The new group is launching the firm’s formal maritime practice. Pace focuses his practice in insurance services, with particular emphasis in maritime and aviation law. MORGAN WEBER (’14) is a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, teaching mathematics to students between ages 16 and 20 in Kongwa, Dodoma. In addition to teaching, Weber has been working on a few secondary projects, including starting an after-school math and English club.
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