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Where Y’at
ALUMNI:
TELL US WHERE Y’AT!
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1950s
# Gene Fields ’57 who served on the New Orleans Police Department for 19 years and spent 35 years in law enforcement, authored a new book titled Cops and Characters in The Big Easy: True Stories Involving Celebrities, Criminals and Everyday People. The book chronicles his own career, providing a compilation of criminal investigations, unusual incidents, terrorism, and humorous stories involving the author, his friends and co-workers, and the occasional celebrity.
1960s
Thomas Bonner, Jr. ’60 wrote the foreword to Mary Queen Donnelly’s book A Banks Street Story about her late husband and former Jesuit teacher Robert E. Donnelly ’51. Their son, Robert M. Donnelly ’90, drew the image for the book’s cover. The memoir focuses on Donnelly’s life through his graduation from Jesuit.
Robert Greene ’62 moved to Idaho in April 2020 after a 37-year career with IRS to live out the rest of his retirement in a house overlooking Lake Coeur d'Alene. He previously lived in Cleveland, OH, and Richmond, VA.
Michael Miroue ’65 retired after practicing orthodontics for 46 years. He lives in San Diego with his wife of 50 years, Annelle.
# Billy McCarthy ’68 recently released the 12-song collection Crescent City Exile, a tribute to the sounds and sights and smells of New Orleans.
André Mouledoux ’68 received the 2021 Distinguished Maritime Lawyer Award from the New Orleans Bar Association. The award recognizes lawyers who have been a longstanding members of the Maritime & International Law Committee, are highly respected among peers, and contribute significantly to the local admiralty bar.
1970s
# Joseph “Jay” Kuebel ’72 was a member of the crew that recently won the New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, one of the top sailing competitions in the world.
Terry Billings ’74, the co-owner of the TMJ and Sleep Therapy Centre of New Orleans, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain at its recent annual meeting in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Billings is both a fellow and diplomate in the American Board of Craniofacial Pain, as well as having achieved diplomate status in the American Board of Craniofacial Dental Sleep Medicine.
Chip Lavie ’76 recently ranked among the most cited researchers in the world according to the Google Scholar Citations database. He is recognized as the top world expert in obesity by Expertscape and had his 1000th paper recorded on PubMed. Lavie’s research focuses on exercise, physical activity and fitness, obesity and the obesity paradox, cardiac rehab, and many other areas of preventive cardiology.
# David Bond, Greg Gillen, Gary Lindemann, and Pat Veters from the Class of ’79 (and their wives) recently reunited in Vermont to celebrate turning 60 this year. The group biked around the farms, orchards, lakes, and hills of Western Vermont enjoying the fall foliage. These Jays have also been meeting over the last couple of years via Zoom to catch up on each other’s lives and families and to discuss spiritual matters. (From left on the next page: Greg and Deborah Gillen, Sarah
’57 ’68 ’72
GENE FIELDS BILLY MccARTHY JOSEPH "JAY" KUEBEL
’79 ’90s ’15
GILLEN, LINDEMANN, VETERS, BOND
and Gary Lindemann, Susie and Pat Veters, and Anita and David Bond)
1980s
Danny Gillane ’83 has recently been appointed library director of the Lafayette Public Library System in Lafayette, where he has lived since 2004.
David Danna ’85 moved to Gulfport in November to take a new position as the food and beverage director at the Gulfport Yacht Club. He lived in Baton Rouge for the last 25 years and was the food and beverage director at the University Club for the past 9 years.
Eric Ehrensing ‘86 has been named 2022 president of the Jefferson Parish Medical Society. Dr. Ehrensing is currently the vice chair of Infectious Diseases and the physician advisor for Utilization Management at Ochsner Health and serves on the board of Ochsner Physician Partners and Prometheus Advisory Board for Change Healthcare. He is also an adjunct professor at Tulane University, Biomechanical Engineering Dept. and recently finished his M.S. in Healthcare Management at the T. H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.
Quincy Thomas ’86 recently accepted a new role as the director of internal audit for a growing automotive finance company. In this new role, he will use his Big 4 public accounting experience to help guide and grow the Internal Audit department as the company sets its eyes on pursuing IPO in the coming years.
Christopher Mazoue ’88 is an orthopedic surgeon in Columbia, SC, specializing in sports medicine. He is an associate professor for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. In 2018, he was named chairman of the University of South Carolina/Prisma Health Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and he has been one of the team physicians for the Gamecocks since 2005. He and his wife, Krista, have three girls.
Victor Narcisse III ’89 was recently appointed as the deputy surgeon general of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., where he will be working as chair of the Family Health Committee. The initiative provides science-based health information to the 290,000 members, their families, and the broader community through a variety of social media platforms. He currently works at the Houston Methodist Hospital as the associate division head of hospital medicine for the Physician Organization Hospitalist Group. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Medicine and the Society of Hospital Medicine.
WASHINGTON, COLA, JUNE, BUSH, HULL, WILLIAMS MICHAEL McMAHON
1990s
Adrian Bruneau ’90 is principal of Presidio Strategic Solutions LLC, a government relations and business development consulting firm. Associations under management include American CBD Network, American Space Alliance, and United States Disaster Response Coalition.
Dominic Massa ’94 has been named executive vice-president & chief operating officer at WYES. Massa has served as producer or contributing producer for more than 40 local historical documentaries, specials, and feature segments for WYES. He spent 27 years at WWL-TV, most recently as executive producer of special projects.
Sanders Offner ’96 is president of Crescent Payroll Solutions, which is ranked #2866 out of 5000 on the Inc 5000 list for 2021, which lists the fastest growing privately held businesses in the United States.
Charles Griggs ’99 recently redeployed from Iraq as the brigade fire support officer for 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Louisiana Army National Guard and has assumed responsibility as the operations officer for the 1-141 Field Artillery Battalion in New Orleans.
# Classes ’92-’00 — A group of Jesuit alumni gathered to watch Saints vs. Dolphins game in Houston and look at yearbooks. Some of the alums lost their copies and took the opportunity to send pictures from them to their classmates and families. (Front, from left): William Washington ‘99,
Christopher Cola ‘93, Stephen June ‘00, (back, from left) Ian Bush ‘95, Miguel Hull '97, Jay Williams ‘92
2000s
Christopher Stoudt's ’03 latest film, Four Seasons Total Documentary, premiered on MSNBC on November 7th. The film follows a small business in Philadelphia that was unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when its leadership agreed to host a political event during the 2020 presidential election.
Mark Hill ’04 was recently named a partner at the law firm of Thompson, Coe, Cousins and Irons, LLP.
Patrick Cragin ’06 took over as director of performing arts at Bishop McLaughlin Catholic High School in Spring Hill, Florida.
Alejandro Molina ’07 graduated in May of 2021 from LSU Medical School in New Orleans and matched into the psychiatry residency program at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland.
Charlie Tiblier ’09 joined Stokes Family Office, LLC, a registered investment adviser, as chief compliance officer and financial adviser, joining a team of Jesuit alums including Patrick McKay ’06, Douglas Stokes ’06, and Gregory Stokes ’05.
2010s
Thomas Barnett ’10 graduated from Tulane Law School and passed the Louisiana Bar in 2021. He accepted a job offer at Oak Title New Orleans as a new closing attorney and title agent for their new office in Metairie.
Adam Aucoin ’14 is a part of the team which builds the Space Launch System for NASA's Artemis missions to the moon and deep space exploration. He says that he is honored and humbled to be one of the fabrication specialists who gets to build the world’s most powerful rocket. Since joining the space program with Boeing, he has worked at the historic Stennis B Complex Test Stand and Kennedy Space Center inside the Vehicle Assembly Building on the Mobile Launcher. He says, “Everything I do is driven by my devotion to the Jesuit ideal of AMDG. I hope future Jesuit grads will dream ad astra.”
# Michael McMahon ’15 recently proposed to his girlfriend Shea Moreau whom he met while planning the Jesuit and Dominican Carrollton Clash back in 2015.
Max Murret ’16 is working as a project engineer at Impetus.
Dieter Hugel ’17 graduated in May 2021 from SMU in Dallas with a B.S. in Business Administration with a minor in German and History.
Hunt Navar ’17 is a double engineer working for Leviton as a software engineer.
Anthony Cibilich ’18 will be joining PwC as an associate consultant in Houston, Texas, upon graduating with both a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Alabama. As a part of their Delivering Deal Value team, he will be working closely with established companies and assisting them through every step of the M&A process.
Matthew Richards ’18 graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He is returning to Louisiana to start working for a manufacturing firm. THE JESUIT LEGACY CONTINUES:
BLUE JAY BAPTISMS
The Holy Name of Jesus Chapel—more commonly called the “small chapel”—is a cornerstone of spiritual life on campus not only for students and faculty but also for alumni and their families. On Dec 12, Fr. John Brown, S.J., baptized the newest family of the Bordes family, Michael “Mickey” Bordes. Michael “Mickey” Bordes, Sr. ‘78 and Michael “Mike” Bordes, Jr. ‘08 are pictured above.
Pictured below with Brown on Sep. 25 are brothers Christian Bautista ‘06 and Ryan Bautista ’08 and their wives at the joint baptism of their daughters Theresa Carmen Bautista and Collins Everly Bautista.