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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE FALL 2013
Mentors Lead the Pack
INSIDE: ••••• The Wolf, Evolved: Loyola Athletics, past, present, and future ••••• Looking Forward: Facing today’s higher education challenges ••••• Ministry Students in Nigeria ••••• Outstanding Graduates
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Message from the Editor Eve C. Peyton
In With the New There’s nothing quite like a fresh start. Traditionally, we think of the new year as beginning in January, as we hang up a new calendar and make our resolutions. Anyone who has spent much time on a college campus, however – or really any school campus at all – knows that there is also a sense of exciting beginnings and exhilarating possibilities every autumn as students return with their brandnew notebooks and their contagious energy. This year, even though I haven’t been a student in longer, maybe, than I’d like to admit, I am feeling that sense of excitement more than ever because I am delighted to have taken the helm of LOYNO magazine from Ray Willhoft, who served as its faithful editor for six years and shepherded it through a successful redesign. Ray left big shoes to fill, but I’m thrilled at the challenge. And honestly, it’s hard not to be excited to be at Loyola right now. Students are gaining incredible experience from internships and mentoring programs; faculty are making a huge impact with their work, such as Assistant Professor Laura Murphy’s work to combat human trafficking; and of course, alumni are doing all manner of amazing things, from publishing books to having babies to appearing on CNN and MSNBC for starring in a viral YouTube video. You can read about all of this and more in this issue. The centennial celebration may be behind us now, but I could not be happier to be a part of everything that’s still to come.
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 2013 Editor Eve C. Peyton Designer Craig Bloodworth Photographer Harold Baquet Photo Contributor Kyle Encar Intern Kate Trotter ’14 Director of Creative Services
Allee Parker Director of Marketing
Francie Davenport ’92 Director of Public Affairs and External Relations
Meredith Hartley Director of Alumni Relations
Monique Gaudin Gardner Director of Advancement Records
Martha Bodker Director of Annual Giving
Stephanie Hotard ’04, M.B.A. ’10 Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications
Terry Fulghum Fisher ’76 Associate Vice President for Development
Chris Wiseman ’88 Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Bill Bishop University President
The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D. LOYNO Magazine is published three times per year. Send address changes to Loyola University New Orleans, Office of Marketing and Communications, 7214 St. Charles Ave., Box 909, New Orleans, LA 70118. Loyola University New Orleans has fully supported and fostered in its educational programs, admissions, employment practices, and in the activities it operates the policy of not discriminating on the basis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex/gender, or sexual orientation. This policy is in compliance with all applicable federal regulations and guidelines. Correspondence can be sent to: Editor, LOYNO Magazine 7214 St. Charles Ave., Box 909 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 861-5859 Fax: (504) 861-5784 E-mail: magazine@loyno.edu Submissions of stories and photographs are accepted.
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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE FROM THE DEN
6..................President’s Reflection 6..................News HOWLING and PROWLING
10................Community Engagement 12................Local Flavor 13................Ask Iggy 14................Media Shelf 15................Institutional Advancement
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38................Alumni Events 40................Alumni Voices 42................Wolftracks 43................Alumni Milestones 51................Memorials
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FEATURES
18 .............Looking Forward Facing today’s higher-education challenges.
22 .............Around the World ON THE COVER First-year students and peer mentors in Loyola’s First in the Pack program work together to improve retention and make college a little less intimidating. 4
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Senior Dimitri Staszewski is proof that at Loyola, the world really is our classroom.
24 .............Leading by Example Mentorship programs help students thrive.l
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28 .............Loyola Athletics Future and Past
32 .............Loyola Institute for Ministry Students Transformed in Nigeria The Loyola Institute for Ministry Extension Program in Benin City, Nigeria, will graduate its first class of students this January.
Senior Dimitri Staszewski 34 .............Intern It Up Loyola students tackle internships and other life-changing opportunities that offer a wealth of real-life experiences.
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CAMPUS
Cabra Hall has a number of “green” features, as well as a private fitness center.
Loyola University New Orleans rededicated Cabra Hall on Sept. 27. The freshly renovated apartment-style suites underwent a $12 million face-lift. The five-
story, 163-bed property is located at the intersection of St. Charles Avenue and Broadway Street. The residence hall features in-
demand single bedroom suites and enlarged double-bedroom suites, all with full kitchens in each apartment. The building includes completely updated,
moveable furniture; larger, updated windows; and a redesigned, expanded lobby and lounge space on the first floor.
President’s Reflection
The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D.
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This year, as we begin the second century of the university, we are facing some serious challenges. But this is not the first time Loyola has faced serious challenges. For example, just a few years after the founding of the university, the United States entered World War I. A combination of factors, including the war and the draft, along with a serious outbreak of the Spanish flu, saw the student population drop to 11. Within a few years, however, the enrollment had risen and the university began to thrive. In its first century Loyola has faced many challenges, and the university has consistently risen to meet the challenges and emerge stronger. I am confident that we can and will do the same yet again. And now for some good news: Loyola University New Orleans was named one
of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education in the 2014 edition of The Princeton Review’s annual college guide. Loyola was also included in the online guide Colleges of Distinction, and we maintained our ranking as a Top 10 Regional University of the South in U.S. News & World Report for the 23rd consecutive year. From World War I and the Spanish flu to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the university has been threatened. But in every instance, the people who make up the university, from faculty and staff to students and alumni, have responded to the challenges with generosity and creativity, and Loyola has met the challenges and become stronger in the face of them. Thank you, as alumni, for the role you play in our continued success
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Cabra Hall has been a fixture of Loyola’s Broadway Campus since it was acquired from St. Mary’s Dominican College in 1984. The residence hall closed in May 2012 to undergo its first major renovation and re-opened for the 20132014 academic year. ••••••
During its 2012-2013 fiscal year, Loyola’s economic impact amounted to an estimated $191.1 million, the majority of which flowed directly into the Greater New Orleans area and Louisiana. This is the greatest impact Loyola has recorded since it began publishing the information in 2010 and results from operational expenditures to
local companies, capital improvement projects, employment of local personnel, and the attraction of students and employees from elsewhere who live and work locally. This year’s impressive economic impact highlights the importance of the university to the community; not only does Loyola help shape the city’s civic, social, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual lives but also its economic life. ••••••
Loyola University New Orleans was singled out as a great value school by U.S. News & World Report's “Best Colleges” 2014 edition, marking the sixth consecutive year the university
has ranked in the Top 10 in the Best Values category. U.S. News also ranked Loyola among the nation’s Top 25 universities for service learning initiatives and verified its strong academics, ranking it for 23 consecutive years as a Top 10 Southern regional university. Loyola came in at No. 7 among Southern regional universities in the Great Schools at Great Prices category, moving up from No. 9 on the same list last year. U.S. News considers the most significant
values to be among colleges and universities with strong, proven academic performance. Academically, Loyola is ranked No. 9 in the Best Regional Universities of the South category, according to U.S. News. Loyola is also recognized this year as a great school that seeks a broad and engaged student body, considering students’ spirits and hard work in the admissions process. For its efforts, U.S. News named Loyola one of 25 Southern regional universities to the A+ Schools for B Students category.
EVENTS With plenty to fuel the discussion on the future of peace and democracy in the Middle East – including potential U.S. involvement in Syria’s civil war, recent bloody events in Egypt, and Iran’s last presidential election – leading experts in the fields of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies held roundtable and question-and-answer discussions at Loyola University New Orleans on Oct. 10. “This exciting roundtable brings together leading experts in Middle Eastern studies circles, offering an unparalleled look into the major topics of peace-building and democratization in the Middle East,” said Loyola Associate Professor of History Behrooz Moazami, Ph.D., who leads the university’s Middle East Peace Studies interdisciplinary minor program. Panelists for the Future of Peace and Democracy in the Middle East Roundtable included Touraj Atabaki, chair of social history of the Middle East and Central Asia
at Leiden University; Charles Kurzman, co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Salim Tamari, a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, editor of Jerusalem Quarterly, and professor of sociology at Birzeit University; and John O. Voll, associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and an Islamic history professor at Georgetown. ••••••
The Loyola Institute for Ministry paid tribute to the late Gerald “Jerry” Matthew Fagin, S.J., with a celebration event on Sept. 25 commemorating the posthumous release of his new book, Discovering Your Dream: How Ignatian Spirituality Can Guide Your Life. “Father Jerry Fagin was much beloved by friends and colleagues
for his grasp of and deep commitment to Ignatian spirituality, characteristics that come through clearly in his new book,” said Tom Ryan, Ph.D., director of the Loyola Institute for Ministry. The book shows readers how St. Ignatius’ own decision-making process can be molded to meet the needs of our faith and to lead people to the truest version of themselves, getting them closer to what God desires for their lives.
Father Jerry Fagin was honored on Sept. 25.
Fagin was a member of the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus and taught theology and
spirituality at Loyola for 33 years. He was a Jesuit for 55 years and a priest for 43 years. He died in June 2012.
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FACULTY/STAFF Jeffrey Albert ’93, Ph.D., assistant professor of music industry technology, is uncovering the music that results when you pair a musician not with another human or instrument but with a machine. His research has been published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Critical Studies in Improvisation. ••••••
The FBI awarded criminal justice professor Christian Bolden, Ph.D., a two-year Futurist in Residence research project on future crime. Bolden’s research project focuses on globalized and transnational crime, including criminal innovations emerging in other countries that have not yet caught on in the U.S. ••••••
Nicholas Capaldi, professor of management, led the Reformation Quincentennial Conference at Louisiana State University. Cosponsored by the Center for Spiritual Capital in the College of Business, the conference explored the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. ••••••
Anthony Decuir, Ph.D., professor of music therapy and former associate dean of the College of Music and Fine Arts, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Professional Con-
tributions from the American Music Therapy Association. The award recognizes his work as a music therapy clinician in mental health. ••••••
Physics professor Patrick Garrity, Ph.D., received a more than $74,000 NASA research grant from the Louisiana Space Consortium. The grant will fund a one-year project to develop a prototype thermal electric module that uses a more efficient method to turn heat into electricity. ••••••
Michelle Johnston, Ph.D., associate professor of management, helped with the expansion of the Advocate newspaper into New Orleans. Local entrepreneur John Georges, who purchased the paper in May, enlisted Johnston to interview the newspaper’s leadership to find the organization’s strengths and opportunities for improvement.
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Sociology professor Carol Ann MacGregor, Ph.D., spearheaded the creation of a New Orleans chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, a nationwide effort to connect academic research with policymakers. The new chapter focuses on education, crime and punishment, the environment, and persistent inequalities. ••••••
Loyola chemistry professor Jai Shanata, Ph.D., received a more than $109,000 grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents to help doctors more fully understand the side effects of drugs specific to each individual patient, particularly patients whose diets contain large amounts of cholesterol or fatty acids such as Omega-3 and Omega6. The three-year grant will fund a team of five undergraduate researchers in Shanata’s lab.
at the national Corbis Motion One Minute Cinema Competition. ••••••
Associate professor of music therapy Victoria Policastro Vega, M.M.T. ’84, Ph.D., was named the new associate dean for the College of Music and Fine Arts and director of the School of Music. She is an accomplished music therapy clinician, educator, and lecturer and has served as the coordinator of the Music Therapy Program at Loyola since 2000 and division coordinator of Music Therapy and Education since 2011.
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Patrick Lynch, visiting assistant professor of accounting, and Clayton White ’78, M.B.A. ’93, J.D. ’07, an adjunct professor in the M.B.A. program, were honored by New Orleans CityBusiness as 2013 Money Makers. Money Makers recognizes 50 financial professionals whose work has set the pace for their companies and the region.
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Graphic design instructor Tom Varisco’s short film, Was It the End, was selected to screen at the TIMECODE: NOLA Film Festival in New Orleans and the Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival. The film was also awarded the grand prize
Victoria Policastro Vega, M.M.T. ’84, Ph.D., was named an associate dean.
STUDENTS Over the summer, 30 Loyola University New Orleans students served as Ignacio Volunteers, a program of Loyola’s Office of Mission and Ministry. Fifteen Loyola students participated in a 10-day service trip to Kingston, Jamaica, in May while another 15 students traveled to Belize from late July to mid-August. In Belize, more than 200 local 8
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children participated in the twoVolunteer week Ignacio “Umadagu Lescuelana” Summer Camp, which was founded by the Reverend Ted Dziak, S.J., Loyola vice president for Mission and Ministry, more than 20 years ago at Holy Ghost School, a small Catholic primary school in the town of Dangriga. The Loyola students worked with Belizean co-teachers and taught classes in
English, math, and arts and crafts in the mornings. In the afternoons, the students led a sports program in basketball, soccer, and volleyball. The 23-day Belizean immersion experience for the Loyola students also included visits to Mayan ruins, waterfalls, and the rainforest and a school painting project in a small rural Mayan village.
In May, the Ignacio Volunteers traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, to serve displaced elderly and disadvantaged youth in tough urban areas of the capital city. The Loyola students worked each day with pre-primary and primary schoolchildren at two small schools located at Riverton City, a shanty town at the Kingston dump. The volunteers also worked with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of
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In Belize, more than 200 local children participated in the two-week Ignacio Volunteer “Umadagu Lescuelana” Summer Camp, which was founded by the Reverend Ted Dziak more than 20 years ago. Charity, who facilitate a home for abandoned and sick elderly people in urban Kingston. The Jamaica program included students Nick Carlisi, Matthew Higginbotham, Phillip Kane, Savannah Logan, Magin Maier ’13, Karen Miranda, Matthew Moldthan, Devina Parker ’13, Catherine Pugh, Robbie Renfurm, Margaret Vienne ’13, Vanessa Onstad, and Kirsten Wee. Loyola staff Brooks Zitzmann and Edwin Madera joined the group.
The Belize program included students Kendall Cousin, Shannon Donaldson, Carlisa Jackson, Chad Miltenberger, Sharon Moscoso, Philip O’Rourke, Amanda Osei, Samuel Rottman, Sarah Scalese, Sam Thomas, and Annie McClure. Loyola staff Jeff Castille, Peter Stewart, Sola Gilbert, and Dziak joined the group. ••••••
Loyola University New Orleans student journalist Lucy Dieckhaus is recognized among the Top 10 college reporters in the
nation. She is a finalist for Story of the Year from the Associated Collegiate Press for her coverage last year of the Student Government Association featured in The Maroon, Loyola’s student newspaper. Dieckhaus, a junior in the School of Mass Communication and the current news editor of The Maroon, hopes to pursue a career in broadcast journalism after graduation and credits her Loyola education with helping her blossom as a standout reporter. “Loyola’s
sense of community has created an atmosphere for me that has been vital in the positive progression of my journalism skills,” the native of Rockton, Illinois, said. “I would not be the journalist I am today if I had not stepped into The Maroon newsroom two years ago.” The latest accolade caps the end of a successful awards season for Loyola’s student media. In all, students brought home 16 awards from regional and national press organizations this year
ATHLETICS
The Loyola University New Orleans men’s basketball team earned the top GPA in Division I of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for the 2012-2013 school year and has six Southern States Athletic Conferences All-Academic honorees.
The Loyola University New Orleans men’s basketball team earned the top GPA in Division I of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for the 2012-2013 school year. The Wolf Pack posted a cumulative GPA of 3.24, which topped all NAIA Division I schools in the country.
“Our men's basketball team, like all of Loyola's intercollegiate programs, believes in the mission of being a true student athlete and is dedicated to pursuing excellence on and off the court,” said Athletic Director and Head Men’s Basketball Coach Dr. Michael Giorlando. “We are very proud of all of their academic recogni-
tions this past year and look forward to another run for success and excellence on and off the court this upcoming year.” The squad featured six Southern States Athletic Conference All-Academic honorees: Ben Amoss, Steve Davis, Manuel “Rocco” Gandara, Cameron Hill, Kyle Simmons, and McCall Tomeny
received recognition. Davis was named to the Capital One Academic All-District team, and Gandara was a NAIA Daktronics Scholar-Athlete. Hill, Davis, and Gandara were NABC Honors Court recipients. Additionally, the team received the NABC Inaugural Team Academic Excellence Award. magazine.loyno.edu
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HOWLING and PROWLING Community Engagement
Modern Slavery Research Project Calls Loyola Home A team of professors and students is actively collaborating on citywide efforts to combat human trafficking in New Orleans. By Kate Trotter ‘14
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here are 27 million people enslaved globally, and New Orleans is no exception when it comes to cases of modern slavery. That’s according to Loyola University New Orleans assistant professor of English Laura Murphy, Ph.D. In order to eliminate human trafficking in the Crescent City, Murphy created the Loyola University Modern Slavery Research Project. “How can I possibly live in this world where there is slavery happening now and not address “On the days that I think this it, pretending it’s a thing of the past?” Murphy says. is too much, I think about Murphy is joined by several Loyola faculty who are pursuing the people who suffered projects related to trafficking, their whole lives, people including Loyola assistant professors of criminal justice Chriswho were literally enslaved. tian Bolden, Ph.D.; Brenda VollThey’re tired, too, but they man, Ph.D.; and Rae Taylor, Ph.D., as well as migrant spekeep working. I am humbled cialist and fellow Sue Weishar, Ph.D., from Loyola’s Jesuit Soby working with them, cial Research Institute. They radically humbled.” work together to apply for funding and launch local campaigns as –Laura Murphy, Ph.D. well as nationwide research studies on domestic slavery. Currently, they are waiting to see if the team will receive a $500,000 grant from the United States Department of Justice. Murphy says the grant will fund a threeyear research study that includes federal prison
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visits to talk directly to traffickers, interviews with survivors of domestic slavery, and a study done in New Orleans during the third year to test an antihuman-trafficking plan that will be implemented in cities all over the country. Bolden has already received a $10,000 FBI fellowship that includes investigating human trafficking, and thanks to a generous corporate gift to the Office of Service Learning, Murphy has received a $3,000 community-engaged research fellowship to help gather evidence for her white paper, the “New Orleans Human Trafficking Report.” The goal of the report is to inform the public and stakeholders about the critical issues surrounding human trafficking. With the secret nature of modern slavery, however, retrieving evidence is difficult, to say the least. “It’s really hard to find good statistics, so we’re trying to find out who knows what and who can get more data to be collected so we can at least paint an anecdotal picture of the situation,” Murphy explains. Fortunately, Murphy also has the help of three avid student research assistants, junior Saramaile Tate, senior Lauren Cutuli, and alumnus Brian Ea ’12 (English). One of Tate’s responsibilities is to maintain the website SurvivorsOfSlavery.org, an outreach project that aims to promote the speaking careers of survivors. “What makes this [research] important to me is the desire to lift the veil many people live behind,” Tate says. “I want to engage communities and educate them socially and culturally about
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Laura Murphy, Ph.D., is a tireless advocate for survivors of human trafficking.
history, racism, and sexism. These institutions function in our lives every day, and human trafficking is wrapped into all of that.” In addition, Murphy is publishing a book with Columbia University Press due out in March 2014 titled Survivors of Slavery: Modern Slave Narratives. The book includes more than 40 firstperson narratives, which Murphy has been collecting since 2009. Loyola’s campus also provides a meeting place for the New Orleans Human Trafficking Working Group, which initiates discussion and gives feedback on the issues surrounding human trafficking, including legislation; awareness; and resources for police, health professionals, and others who come in direct contact with victims and traffickers. “We want to make sure we’re shifting the punishment to exploiters and not criminalizing vulnerable people,” Murphy says, “and that’s not always easy.” The Modern Slavery Research Project gave a presentation to 20 city officials and leaders at a breakfast meeting on Sept. 11 at Loyola to launch
the Make Escape Possible campaign. The campaign’s goal is to inform victims of their rights and the social services available to them if they choose to escape. “Every single person I know who is a survivor of trafficking, when they describe leaving their jobs, they don’t describe it as ‘quitting’; they describe it as ‘escaping,’” Murphy says. Students on campus are getting involved, too. The Free the Slaves chapter at Loyola turns out crowds in the hundreds for keynote events. “Free the Slaves is working to educate as many people as they can on the subject of modern-day slavery,” says sophomore Charlotte Lapp, copresident of Loyola’s Free the Slaves chapter. Murphy admits research on modern slavery can be frustrating and difficult at times but believes the issue is far too important to ignore. “On the days that I think this is too much, I think about the people who suffered their whole lives, people who were literally enslaved,” Murphy says. “They’re tired, too, but they keep working. I am humbled by working with them, radically humbled.”
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Local Flavor
Close to Home Local farmers markets make it easy to eat locally. By Eve C. Peyton
With the bounty of fresh food and the growth of outdoor markets, New Orleans is eating healthier but still having fun.
nyone who has lived in New Orleans for more than a few months knows that we don’t really have seasons here. Oh, we have crawfish season, hurricane season, snowball season, and Carnival time – but beyond that, fall feels a lot like summer, which feels a lot like winter and spring. But even if the weather doesn’t change much, fall is still harvest time, and here in New Orleans, now more than ever, we are lucky to have an abundance of local farmers markets. The oldest of them all, the French Market, is still open every day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., but there are many new spots around town to get the very freshest produce, baked goods, meats, and other staples. The Hollygrove Market & Farm is open daily and offers a $25 box full of seasonal produce such as apples, sweet potatoes, pecans, and arugula in addition to à la carte items such as goat cheese, fresh bread, and free-range eggs and chicken. Closer to Loyola, the Crescent City Farmers Market holds a Tuesday sale in the 200 block of Broadway, in addition to Thursday and Saturday
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markets in Mid-City and downtown, respectively. And if you’re looking for a little bit of fun to go along with your organic rapini, well, then look no farther than the Freret Market, held on the first Saturday of the month at the intersection of Freret and Napoleon. The Freret Market sells art and produce and also offers pet adoptions, live music, and a flea market. It’s a great place for friends and neighbors to gather and has played a vital role in the Freret Street renaissance. “Eating local, when possible, is great for the environment, economy, and building community,” says alumna Ecoee Rooney ’92, M.S.N. ’05, who often visits the farmers markets with her family. “We enjoy the seasonal treats and artisan products like cheeses, preserves, and baked goods that farmers markets make available.” The importance of eating local food is catching on nationwide, and although many trends take awhile to make their way to New Orleans, eating locally is one thing we have always done. With such good food available to us in the form of fresh veggies and delicious Gulf seafood, why would we want to eat any other way?
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Ask Iggy Dear Iggy: It has been 80 years this December since Prohibition was repealed. What was the attitude toward Prohibition on Loyola’s campus and in New Orleans generally? The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920 until its repeal in 1933. In 1931, Loyola students favored repeal of the 18th Amendment by a vote of 706 to 27. Bentley Byrnes, president of the senior law class, castigated Prohibition as breeding disrespect for the law through its uneven enforcement. William Dardis, president of the Sodality, shared this sentiment. Byrnes elaborated that there was one law for the rich and another for the poor. Prohibition was unpopular in Louisiana, especially in New Orleans. The Literary Digest conducted polls in 1930 and 1932 to gauge the attitudes of Louisianians toward Prohibition, and the views of Loyola students mirrored those of their fellow New Orleanians. In 1930, 77 percent of Louisianians favored repeal. That figure included the dry northern part of the state as well as the more indulgent south. Two years later, the figure was 82 percent. As Prohibition neared its end, the Great Depression tightened its grip on the nation. In May 1932, 20,000 New Orleanians paraded for Beer and Prosperity, a movement credited to James Walker, the mayor of New York City. Long before repeal, the alcohol ban had been widely flouted in New Orleans. In 1922, Perley A. Baker, a leading Prohibitionist, called notoriously wet Louisiana “… one of the two sloppiest states in the Union.” Isadore “Izzy” Einstein, a noted enforcement agent, did an informal survey of U.S. cities to determine where it was easiest to obtain a drink, and New Orleans won hands down. He had barely de-trained in the Crescent City when his cab driver offered to sell him a pint. Taken from Founded on Faith: A History of Loyola University New Orleans by Bernard A. Cook, Ph.D. Available for purchase at www.bkstr.com
Cover page of The Maroon, Nov. 6, 1931
Do you have a question for Iggy? Send it to magazine@loyno.edu or Ask Iggy, c/o LOYNO Magazine Loyola University New Orleans 7214 St. Charles Ave., Box 909 New Orleans, LA 70118
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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps Kelly Williams Brown ‘06 Based on Kelly Williams Brown's popular blog, Adulting makes the scary, confusing “real world” approachable, manageable, and even conquerable. (See profile, p. 48) www.amazon.com
Media Shelf
Priory, Louisiana Pat Kogos ‘86 In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina enters the Gulf of Mexico, and coastal residents flee the chaos. Priory, Louisiana is a story about the relentless nature of regret, the puzzling role of God in human suffering, and the opportunity to reinvent yourself after the life you know has washed away.
Lords a Leaping: A Jerry Malone Caper George Flynn ‘60 Jerry Malone finds himself flying to London for a new case involving the sordid divorce of a local beauty from a British lord. Flynn is also the author of Conspiracy in the Crescent City. www.amazon.com
www.bigporchpress.com www.patkogos.com
Stand by Me: A Celebration of African-American Song Stephen Lee ‘82 Stand by Me explores the development and history of African-American spirituals, combining a diverse range of musical styles and influences. www.ocp.org
Love Letters From New Orleans Nessim Higson ’97 and Lizzy Margiotta ‘10 Using photography and typography, designers Higson and Margiotta, along with photographer Daymon Gardner and writer Anthony Vachris, take readers on a unique journey of New Orleans by recounting experiences through letters from A to Z, from andouille to Zulu coconuts. www.lovelettersfromnola.com
Fight, Grin & Squarely Play the Game: The 1945 Loyola New Orleans Basketball Championship & Legacy Ramon A. Vargas ‘09 In 1945, the Loyola New Orleans Wolf Pack became the city's first basketball team to earn a national championship. With many heartfelt personal narratives, this book tells the story of the championship and legacy of a team that led Loyola to national prominence. (See excerpt, p. 29.) www.historypress.net
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INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT
University Marks Highest Level of Gift Income in Two Decades
ExxonMobil’s Janet Matsushita presented a check to Loyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., on May 30.
iscal year-end giving numbers indicate that in 2012-2013, donors provided the university with its highest level of gift income in the past 20 years. Chris Wiseman '88, Ph.D., associate vice president for development in Loyola’s Office of Institutional Advancement, says the university received more than $11 million in actual gift income for 2012-2013. Unrestricted gifts of any size given through the Loyola Fund also reached near-record levels, topping out at $800,000. In addition, the number of alumni who gave this year increased over last year. “As Loyola faces a new and very competitive world in higher education, alumni support and volunteer action are more important and more meaningful than ever,” Wiseman says. “Alumni volunteers – from trustees and CEOs to high school teachers and accountants – have really rallied to the Loyola cause as volunteer fundraisers. With their gifts and volunteer work, Loyola’s alumni and friends are telling us in impressive ways that they believe in our current students and faculty, as well as in the future of the university.” In addition to a $5 million pledge from Tom H’87 and Gayle Benson; a $1.5 million gift from the estate of Clement Tricon “Tric” Sehrt, J.D. ’71; a $2.4 million gift from the estate of Dr. Everett L. Drewes; and a $1.26 million pledge from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation, Loyola University New Orleans received a $109,875 gift from ExxonMobil after the company matched donations given to the university by 16 of its generous employees and former employees,
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many of whom are Loyola alumni. In addition, private gifts to the Rev. Stephen J. Duffy Chair in Catholic Studies, as well as to five endowed professorships and one endowed first-generation scholarship fund, leveraged grants totaling $640,000 from the Board of Regents of the State of Louisiana. ExxonMobil Chalmette Refining plant manager Janet Matsushita presented her company’s check to Loyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., in a reception held May 30. Donors Michael and Monica Keenan, parents of Elizabeth Keenan ‘98, Ph.D., attended the reception. Their contribution was among the ExxonMobil employee and former employee donations matched by the company in the gift. The ExxonMobil funds will benefit the College of Law, the College of Music and Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences, the College of Business, the College of Social Sciences, the Loyola Fund, and Loyola scholarship students. Many companies offer matching gift programs that increase the impact of their employees’ charitable donations. If you work for a company with a matching gift program, you can participate and significantly increase the total value of your gift to Loyola University New Orleans. To see if your company has a matching gift program, go to giving.loyno.edu/matching-gifts-employers If you can’t find your company here, please ask your human resources department if your company matches charitable contributions. magazine.loyno.edu
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INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT
Community Engagement Meet the Board
The new members of our Board of Trustees James Caillier, Ed.D., a previous member of the Board of Trustees, is executive director of the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation and president emeritus of the University of Louisiana System. He began his career in education in the 1960s as a teacher and administrator in public schools in Lafayette, Louisiana. At the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), he served as a professor of education, dean of both the Junior Division and the College of General Studies, and vice president of administrative affairs. He then served as president of Delgado and Nunez community colleges. He was president of the University of Louisiana System from 1992 to 1999. He received a B.S. from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1964, an M.S. in chemistry from Southern University in 1968, and his doctorate in education from LSU in 1978. He serves on the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and its Committee on Accreditation, the board of the National Association of Systems Heads, the American Association of Community Colleges’ Urban and Research Commission, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges Executive Committee. He served on the boards of the World Trade Center of New Orleans, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, the Southern Consumer Education Foundation, and the corporate board of Entergy of Louisiana. He is a recipient of the A.P. Tureaud Black Citizenship Medal and the American Legion Honor Award. He and his wife, Geraldine, reside in Lafayette. Edgar L. Chase III ’71, M.B.A., C.P.A., J.D. ’83, is a retired licensed certified public accountant and attorney who now focuses on board policies and procedures to improve operational efficiencies, monitor asset utilization, and achieve sustainable targeted returns for those organizations that he serves. Chase retired in 2009 after serving as Dillard University’s vice president for master facilities planning and management. However, from 2010-2012, he returned to lead the Delgado/Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program. Chase graduated in 1967 from Jesuit High School and in 1971 from Loyola University. In 1973, he obtained a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University in New York and returned to Loyola in New Orleans to obtain his juris doctorate degree in 1983. From 1973-1978 he served as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. Chase has served on numerous boards and commissions, often as 16
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chairman of the board. Some of these are the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, the State Board of Economic Development, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and many more. He has lectured in Paris and at universities in Nice and Toulouse, France, regarding affirmative action and inclusiveness of ethnic minorities in the mainstream of French economic and political life. Chase, son of the famed restaurateurs at Dooky Chase, is married to Alva Jean Darensbourg Chase. They have three sons, Trevor, Travis, and Edgar IV; three daughters-in-law; and six grandchildren. Barry D. LeBlanc, M.B.A. ’82, a previous member of the Board of Trustees, is an entrepreneur who has focused his professional career on building food and life science companies around proprietary technologies. He has served as the president and CEO of Pamlab, which develops prescription medical foods that are prescribed by physicians throughout the U.S. to address chronic diseases such as depression, dementia, and diabetes. He was also the co-founder and financial vice president of Bernard Foods Inc., which developed a technology that revolutionized the shelf life of refrigerated foods. His civic and community involvement is largely centered around higher education, where he serves on several not-for-profit boards. He is currently the vice chair of the Board of Trustees for the University of New Orleans Foundation. Barry and his wife, Teresa, are the cofounders of Students4HIGHER, a not-for-profit initiative that assists first-generation Louisiana high school graduates with earning four-year degrees from the University of New Orleans. He is a lifelong resident of Louisiana, residing in New Orleans. He earned a B.S. in accounting from the University of New Orleans and later earned the designation as a C.P.A. He also obtained an M.B.A. from Loyola University New Orleans in 1982. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Teresa Villars LeBlanc, M.B.A. ’82, and has three grown children. Joseph E. Mahoney Jr. ’76, a previous member of the Board of Trustees, is the owner of Lifetime Strategies Group/A Member of the John Hancock Financial Network in Dallas. With offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin, the Mahoney Group provides financial planning, insurance, and investment advisory services to the Texas marketplace. He has been in the insurance and
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financial service business since 1978. Prior to that, he was with the Leo Burnett Company, an international advertising and marketing firm. He received his bachelor of arts degree in communications from Loyola University New Orleans in 1976. His wife, Mary Lou (Molella), received her bachelor of science degree in dental hygiene in 1977. He is a former president of Loyola’s alumni chapter in Chicago. He has served as a member of the President’s Council and Planned Gift Committee and is a member of the Heritage Society and a past member of the College of Business Visiting Committee. He and his wife are Loyola University Parent and Alumni Admissions Network volunteers, and they regularly host Loyola events in their home in Dallas. Their daughter, Maureen, is a 2005 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences with a major in communications. Their son, Matthew, graduated from Loyola Marymount in 2008. Jim McBride serves as the head of Capital One Bank’s energy banking business and as chairman and CEO of Capital One Southcoast, the energy investment banking division of Capital One Securities. McBride has a combined 36 years of experience as a petroleum engineer and energy finance executive. Prior to joining Capital One, he was managing director of North American energy finance for The Royal Bank of Scotland. He began his career as a petroleum engineer with Mobil Oil in 1977 in New Orleans and has since served in a number of leadership roles in the energy divisions of Texas Commerce Bank and its successors, Chemical and Chase Bank, as well as Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial. He also was chief financial officer of Baker Hughes Solutions in Houston in the late 1990s. McBride received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Mississippi State University. He is a member of the Society for Petroleum Engineers, the Houston Producer’s Forum, the Houston Energy Finance Group, the Independent Producers Association of America, and the Houston Club. He is married to Pinet Braun McBride, and their three children, Georgia, Annie, and James, are Loyola University New Orleans alumni. Paul Pastorek ’76, J.D. ’79, is EADS North America’s chief administrative officer, chief counsel, and corporate secretary, with an overall responsibility portfolio that includes oversight of all legal activities – including contracts, ethics and compliance, trade and export control, human resources policy and information technology –
along with support for the Board of Directors. Pastorek is an attorney and was associated with the law firm of Adams and Reese for more than 27 years as a partner, litigator, and corporate attorney. In 2002, he was appointed as general counsel of NASA, directing the activities of a 150-attorney legal team and serving as the agency’s chief ethics officer. From 1996 to 2004, he was a member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and was elected to three consecutive terms as board president from 2001 to 2004. In 2007 he was appointed to the position of Louisiana State Superintendent of Education and served two consecutive terms. He also directed the state’s efforts to turn around more than 100 of Louisiana’s most challenged schools, including rebuilding elementary and secondary schools in New Orleans that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Pastorek received both his undergraduate and juris doctorate degrees from Loyola University New Orleans. He is married to Kathy and has three children, Ryan, Jeffrey, and Kaitlin. Carol Waguespack ’62, M.Ed. ’64, M.P.S. ’92, is certified as an advocate for the Archdiocese of New Orleans and the dioceses of both Baton Rouge and Houma-Thibodaux. She counsels and represents parties seeking annulments in these dioceses. Waguespack works part time as an office administrator for her husband’s medical clinic, as well. She is a graduate of Loyola University, where she received her B.S. in secondary education with a double major in history and political science and a minor in English. She then enrolled at the University of London and completed coursework for her M.A. in modern European history before re-enrolling at Loyola to earn a master’s of education in counseling. Waguespack and her husband took an interest in the changes in the Catholic Church and jointly enrolled in the Loyola LIMEX Program where they each received a master’s degree in pastoral studies. Waguespack took additional courses and became certified as a divorce mediator after completing coursework through Loyola’s College of Law. She also worked for five years as the head of the Counseling Department of Charity Hospital School of Nursing, where she taught general psychology and growth and development. She has served on Loyola’s Alumni Board and has held the position of vice president and president of Loyola’s Alumni Association. She also sits on the Board of the Gisevius Foundation, which was founded by her father, who attributed all of his success to his education at Loyola. She has been married to her husband, Dr. Roland Waguespack, for 46 years, and they have three children and eight grandchildren. magazine.loyno.edu
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Looking Forward FACING TODAY’S HIGHER EDUCATION CHALLENGES
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Law and graduate programs, when all was said and done, overall fall enrollment was only down less than five percent, and the high quality of students was maintained across all programs. The essence of what makes Loyola Loyola – our commitment to students, our Jesuit traditions, our diversity, our sense of community – is unchanged by the number of students we have on campus. BANDING TOGETHER Once the challenging news became clear, President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., sent out an email to faculty
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and staff in mid-May detailing the situation and laying out several scenarios for handling the anticipated budget deficit. “We want to be honest about this,” he says. “We are dealing with it.” Loyola implemented a hiring freeze in August as the first part of curbing costs. Further options for absorbing the deficit, Wildes says, include voluntary severance packages and the possibility of salary and fringe benefit reductions for faculty and staff, with layoffs as an absolute last resort. As of right now, it is too soon to tell what options will be necessary because it is not yet clear how many employees will opt to take voluntary
severance. There is reason to be optimistic, though, as well as immensely proud of Loyola: Because of a concerted effort by alumni, faculty members, and staff making personal appeals to students who hadn’t yet committed to a school, the final numbers for the class of 2017 turned out better than the original predictions. “This was a group effort to bring this class in – I was proud and impressed by the way people came together,” Dr. Marc Manganaro, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, says. “Members of the university community did a wonderful job of kicking in and aiding the Enrollment Management team. The faculty, staff, and alumni were very eager, too, and it really helped. We were originally thinking we were looking at a number as low as 525 for the incoming class, but everyone’s efforts paid off, and we came in on the high end of our expectations with 620. This class is really the fruit of all of our efforts, and it’s an exciting class. They have a wonderful academic profile, and their energy is terrific.” PLANNING AHEAD Wildes says he is grateful to have the chance to examine larger questions about the university. “To me the fundamental question that I want to look at is: ‘What is the right size of the undergraduate population?’” he says. “I think that’s the opportunity we have here. We’ll get through and deal with the immediate issues in terms of enrollment and financing – we can
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Prospective students and parents attend Loyola’s Open House each fall at the Danna Student Center.
deal with that – but rather than just assuming that an incoming class of 875 is the right size for us, I really want to find out, ‘What is the right size for us?’ Knowing that will also have much to do with the planning we do for the future.” A NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE To help the university answer that question, among many others, Loyola has retained two national enrollment management firms: The Lawlor Group is applying admissions marketing expertise to undergraduate recruitment and branding efforts, Manganaro says, while Scannell & Kurz, strategic financial aid leveraging experts, are working with the enrollment team to ensure the most effective use of institutional aid to enroll future Loyola students. A BRIGHT FUTURE Even as first-year enrollment declined this year, Loyola is thriving. Retention is up this year, with 80 percent of last year’s freshman class returning, a six percent increase over last year, Manganaro says, and the College of Law and the University Honors Program have grown this year, both exceeding their enrollment goals. The Office of Institutional 20
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Research reports that Loyola’s total enrollment count, including undergraduate, graduate, law, and transfer students, is 4,864 students, representing only a 4.3 percent drop from last year’s total of 5,082 students. Wildes feels that Loyola’s mission has not changed: “The focus is on undergraduate education, quality education in the Catholic, Jesuit tradition, in a city that is undergoing a great deal of renewal. And I really value the diversity of the university – faculty, staff, and students.” The class of 2017 is indeed diverse, made up of students from 42 states and territories and 15 countries and composed of 42.8 percent ethnic minorities. Sixty-four percent of students are from out of state, and 61 percent are female. In addition to its cultural diversity, the class is strong academically, with an average GPA of 3.54 and SAT and ACT scores well above the national average. And Loyola’s commitment to Jesuit values is obviously a driving factor, too, with more than 40 percent of first-year students identifying as Roman Catholic. The class might be smaller than anticipated, but even if the size of the student body has declined, the overall quality of the students absolutely has not.
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WHY I CAME TO LOYOLA Devin Council, Class of 2017, Undecided Loyola is in a place with a staggering amount of history and culture. Being from New York City myself, I wanted to explore other parts of the country that would help me understand it more while leaving the things I knew so I could find new things to love. Loyola in itself is a place where an eclectic assortment of people from all over have come to further understand the world we live in, and to add to the mixing pot just seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up.The sheer amount of raw talent here is already hard to comprehend. I can’t wait until the years go by and we all continue to grow with one another here at Loyola. The energy here is so great. Not only that, but the people who attend and run the school here are all very knowledgeable and have found that special thing that makes learning exciting. I couldn’t have made a better choice.
Endia Bush, Class of 2016, College of Business One of the most appealing factors about Loyola that stood out to me is the small student-to-teacher ratio. I truly believe that there is such great value in having an extensive opportunity to develop and maintain a relationship with my professors. They not only have the opportunity to get to know Endia the student but Endia the person, as well, which merely accentuates the benefit of having the smaller campus experience. I know that choosing Loyola is one of the best decisions I have made in my entire life. I couldn’t imagine having attended anywhere else and having the exact amount of success and growth that I am having now. Whether it’s needing help to secure an internship or just needing career advice, as a student at Loyola, you will get the best help that suits your necessity. I am truly thankful to be a part of such an amazing community!
Kate Hinnant, Class of 2015, College of Social Sciences Loyola was the only small school I applied to – and I decided I wanted smaller classrooms instead of a state school experience with big lecture classes. Also, New Orleans is a great city, and there are a lot of opportunities that not only the school but also the city provide. I’m from Connecticut, so getting to see Mardi Gras was a fantastic cultural experience.
Alyssa Mercado, Class of 2014, College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Loyola offers a generous amount of financial aid, which was definitely a factor in my decision to come here. The cost of education in America has skyrocketed in the past few years, so I’m thankful Loyola has continued to give me generous grants to help further my education. It wouldn’t be possible without them. I am definitely happy I chose Loyola. The history department has shaped me into a true historian in the past four years and has helped me become who I am today.
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Around the World Senior Dimitri Staszewski is proof that at Loyola, the world really is our classroom. By Jessica Brown, Communications and Artist Relations Manager
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hen Loyola University New Orleans senior music industry studies major Dimitri Staszewski began his academic career four years ago, he never imagined he would travel 7,000 miles across the globe on a quest to document the changing musical traditions of Mongolian herders. But the aspiring filmmaker recently spent four months traveling back and forth between Mongolia’s capital city, Ulaanbaatar, and the Mongolian countryside, filming and experiencing firsthand the culture he’d previously only read about. His more than 20 hours of footage preserves examples of the music of one of the world’s last surviving nomadic cultures and one of the largest nomadic populations in the world. More than half of the Mongolian population has already shifted away from traditionally nomadic lifestyles, according to Staszewski. After a sophomore semester backpacking throughout the southwest United States, Staszewski began exploring the idea of how people not only choose to live but actually do live throughout the world. One year and hours of research later, the California native embarked on his journey to Mongolia. He set off with the idea to film a documentary about the disappearance of the country’s traditional music of herders and the consequences for Mongolian culture as a whole. “I realized that I wanted to document and help preserve music performed by herders and former herders because that is the cultural context from which all of the country’s traditional music originated,” Staszewski says. “Even Mongolians who live in the city will attest to the fact that, even though they are not herders, some part of the nomadic herder identity in the music resonates with them and speaks to their own sense of identity.” During his stay with a nomadic family in the Mongolian countryside, Staszewski spent time herding, sheep wrangling, and interviewing the locals. The most memorable moments happened when he was recording their musical performances. “I met a herder who, after an interview, invited me to record him singing to his herd,” he says. “That performance ended up being one of the most inspiring moments I have been able to be part of, and I felt honored to be able to be the one there capturing it.” Staszewski is currently back at Loyola and slowly editing the footage from his time abroad. His original notion of creating a documentary, however, has changed. “It was impossible to capture everything I would want to include in a documentary, and I feel like that wouldn’t accurately showcase everything I witnessed,” he says. “Instead, I want to create an interactive book that would combine short ethnographic essays with footage of actual performances and stories about my experiences as a foreigner and film engineer.” Staszewski, who recently applied for a Fulbright scholarship, hopes to return to Mongolia for another 10 months after graduation. While there, he would create an extensive online archive of performances and written narratives about Mongolian herders and former herders. “My goal is to showcase a side of traditional Mongolian music that I feel is currently underrepresented,” Staszewski says. To see more of Staszewski’s work, please go to http://itsdimitri.com/
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Leading by Example By Autumn Cafiero Giusti ’00
Peer mentors for First in the Pack play a huge role in student success and retention. Eight years ago, Garlan White ’08 (finance), was an inexperienced freshman gaining his first exposure to the professional world through the College of Business’ Executive Mentor program. Today, he is a successful wealth manager working at a boutique firm in New Orleans. And as far as mentoring goes, he’s come full circle. Last fall, White reconnected with Executive Mentor, and now he’s starting his second year of mentoring first-year business students. Having come up through the Executive Mentor ranks, White 24
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hopes he can provide first-year business students with the same kind of support he received to map out their career paths. “We’re a resource that’s out in the business world – someone who’s an advocate who can share personal experiences like what it was like the first time you went for an interview or how you got your first internship,” says White, associate wealth manager for Bellingrath Wealth Management & Employee Benefits. Loyola’s base of mentor programs, including Executive Mentor, has grown steadily in the past decade, particularly in
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MENTORSHIP PROGRAMS HELP STUDENTS THRIVE. that houses Executive Mentor. Barnett is also the College of Business’ internships coordinator and an assistant professor of management. Program organizers believe giving and receiving mentorship can help students carry out Jesuit values and influence future generations. “Mentors form relationships with the students, and those relationships are formative of what they really want to do with their lives,” says Al Alcazar, Ph.D., director of Urban Partners for the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice, which hosts the Pre-College Incubation Experience for Majors in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, or PRIEMMANS, mentorship program.
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the eight years since Hurricane Katrina. Faculty and staff say more students are pursuing the mentor route as an opportunity to give back to the community at large and to their peers at Loyola. Meanwhile, students in the mentee role have come to rely on these programs to gain a leg up in their fields before heading out to the professional world. “The majority of students come here with a career in mind, so we want them to understand those career choices, get focused, and then transition into a career,” says Kathy Barnett, Ph.D., director of the Business Portfolio Program
For individuals receiving a mentor’s guidance, Loyola has developed a host of programs to help students transition from high school to college to the professional world. Executive Mentor is one of the longest-running programs of its kind. For the past decade, the program has given business students such as White the opportunity to shadow local business leaders at the outset of college. “It’s very, very rare for a business school to have a first-year mentoring program, but we do,” Barnett says. Developed by Michelle K. Johnston, Ph.D., associate professor of management, Executive Mentor consists of an all-volunteer base of about 30 executives hailing from the New Orleans business community. Each firstyear student is assigned to a mentor who schedules off-campus outings throughout the year to help the students see businesses in action. Bob Brown, managing director of the Business Council of New Orleans and a member of Loyola’s Board of Trustees, often takes students to the Idea Village to see how start-up
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The program was the brainchild of Laura Murphy, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, who herself was a first-generation college student. Rainey and Roberta Kaskel, interim vice president for Enrollment Management and director of the Career Development Center, were later asked to create a student-success initiative and based First in the Pack on Murphy’s suggestion. The program partners each student with a peer mentor, as well as a faculty or staff member. First in the Pack puts on monthly focus dialogue lunches and holds nighttime programs for students and mentors to attend. Already, the program is showing signs of success. All of last First in the Pack first-year students are mentored by peers spring’s peer mentors have returned and faculty and staff members. to Loyola this fall, along with 35 of the 40 mentees. businesses are born. And Ann Tuennerman, founder of the “We want our students to go on to be successful Loyola New Orleans-based Tales of the Cocktail festival, was on the graduates, but we also want them to come away knowing peoSuper Bowl XLVII host committee and took last year’s students ple on campus who are here to help,” Rainey says. to learn how to pitch a Super Bowl. “It really gets them interested in business and helps them STUDENT AFFAIRS FELLOWSHIPS determine what they need to be successful in college and in Also new to the mix of mentoring programs is a fellowship their lives and what area of business they want to go into,” to help students explore careers in student affairs and higher Barnett says. education. In 2009, the College of Business folded Executive Mentor For the past two years, Loyola has participated in the into its in-house career development program, Portfolio. For National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, seniors, Portfolio features a program known as the Executive or NASPA, Undergraduate Fellows Program, a mentoring Network, which connects students with College of Business program developed by NASPA for undergrads who want to alumni around the country. gain a better understanding of the field. “We didn’t want to be a college that says: ‘You’ve been a The program debuted in the fall of 2011 in response to a student for four years. Now you’re on your own,’” Barnett student who expressed interest in a career in higher education. says. “We really care about what happens to our students once “As an engaged student leader, she benefitted from many of they leave here.” our Student Affairs programs and practices, and she was in-
FIRST IN THE PACK One of Loyola’s newest mentoring programs is focusing on first-year, first-generation college students. In January 2013, the offices of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management launched First in the Pack to lend support to students in the challenging position of being the first people in their families to attend college. “We felt strongly based on the research we did that having that kind of community was important for our students,” says Elizabeth Rainey, director of Retention and Student Success. First-generation students usually make up 25 percent to 30 percent of each class. For this year’s incoming class, the number is 30 percent.
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fluenced by the professional staff who nurtured her development,” says M.L. “Cissy” Petty, Ph.D., vice president for Student Affairs and associate provost. The fellowships take place over the course of one academic year and one summer in which students work on a collaborative project, receive one-on-one mentoring from Student Affairs professionals, and take part in national internships and conferences. Since starting with one fellow in its first year, the program has expanded to six fellows last year and five this year. Two of the program’s recent graduates are pursuing careers in higher education with their fraternity and sorority headquarters. “We hope to continue growing the program in the future,” Petty says.
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PRIEMMANS In addition to programs where mentors work with Loyola students, several programs allow students to take the lead in the mentoring relationship. One of the 12 ideals of a Jesuit education is to provide special concern to the poor and oppressed. That ideal plays heavily into the mission of PRIEMMANS. Alcazar and the Twomey Center started the program in 2007 to address the needs of local public school students from lowincome families who couldn’t take advantage of the math and science opportunities available at private Dr. Ricardo Marquez leads a First in the Pack group in a schools. closing prayer. By limiting the group to about 25 to 30 high school students, Alcazar believes mentors can devote “Having the Loyola students as volunteers really increases their attention to the students’ specific needs. their ability to provide that extra level of care and attention.” “If you create hope for a small group of people, it translates Partners include Boys Hope Girls Hope of Greater New to a bigger hope for our kids in underserved communities,” he Orleans; the NET Charter High School for at-risk students says. ages 16 to 21; and Elevate New Orleans, a program that menLoyola student mentors meet with PRIEMMANS partic- tors inner-city youth athletes. A full list of Service Learning ipants for four-hour math and science sessions every other partner agencies is available at www.loyno.edu/servicelearnSaturday, as well as for five weeks during the summer. ing/agencies PRIEMMANS curriculum includes concepts to help the Professors can incorporate Service Learning programs into students develop cultural awareness and conflict resolution their courses when they believe real-world experience would skills. Alcazar points out that violence has been completely help students better themselves. Although these programs last absent from PRIEMMANS, despite the fact that many of the only a semester, many students go on to do more volunteer students have been exposed to it in their communities. mentoring and tutoring for those organizations long after their “Most of them graduate from our program, and most are courses end, Brotzman says. accepted into colleges,” Alcazar says. About eight or nine PRIEMMANS graduates are current FUTURE GENERATIONS Loyola students, and Alcazar knows of at least one student Mentoring program organizers and participants believe who is planning to attend medical school after graduation. they are assembling the next generation of professionals while
SERVICE LEARNING In keeping with the Jesuit mission of helping young people become men and women for others, the Office of Service Learning has well more than two dozen community partners that provide Loyola students with the chance to serve as mentors and tutors. “What we hear most often from our community partners is that their staff just isn’t large enough to provide the individual and one-on-one attention and care that at-risk youths really need,” says Kelly Brotzman, director of Service Learning.
also recruiting and retaining Loyola students. Through his mentoring efforts, White helped one of the students he met last year get an internship with his firm – an outcome that likely never would have happened without the Executive Mentor program. “What freshman gets an internship?” White asks. For the high school students Alcazar sees entering PRIEMMANS, it’s beyond their imagination to be able to get accepted into Loyola. He believes mentoring can change that. “With them creating a relationship with Loyola students, they’ll start to think, ‘I can do this, too.’”
Autumn Cafiero Giusti ’00, a communication alumna, is a freelance writer and editor. magazine.loyno.edu
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Loyola Athletics:
Loyola University New Orleans unveiled a new Wolf Pack logo to kick off the 2013-2014 athletics season. The new logo, the sixth since the Wolf Pack became the university’s mascot in 1924, was officially launched on Aug. 29 during Maroon and Gold Day. The free event, held on the Peace Quad, featured music, food, giveaways, and a special appearance by Havoc. Dr. Michael Giorlando, head men’s basketball coach and director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Wellness at Loyola, hosted the event, and the Loyola Golden Eyes Dance Team and the Cheer Team performed. The logo replaces the Wolf Pack logo that has been used since 1997 and was a joint effort that included representatives from the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Institu28
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tional Advancement, alumni, student athletes, and outside sports design company Phoenix Design Works. “Loyola’s athletics program has grown exponentially since its rebirth in the ‘90s, and we hope it will keep growing with a brand that reflects its future,” says Allee Parker, Loyola’s director of creative services. The Wolf Pack symbolizes Loyola’s Jesuit values, such as strength in numbers and pride in teamwork, and this bold new look also signifies that Loyola Athletics are prepared to move into the future. Loyola now has varsity teams for men’s baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country and track, men’s and women’s golf, and men’s and women’s tennis.
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Future…and Past A World at War Disrupts a City and a Basketball Team on the Rise EXCERPTED FROM FIGHT, GRIN & SQUARELY PLAY THE GAME: THE 1945 LOYOLA NEW ORLEANS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP & LEGACY By Ramon Antonio Vargas ’09, The History Press, 2013 With his peerless passing, dribbling and scoring, freshman Sammy Trombatore forced his basketball coach at Loyola University in New Orleans to start him in the game in which the school had a chance to clinch its first-ever conference championship. Trombatore did not let his coach, John C. “Jack” Orsley, down that Monday, March 4, 1942. He hit six field goals and two free throws for fourteen crucial points against Spring Hill College, one of Loyola’s fiercest rivals. The Loyola Wolf Pack won 51–45, and thus the program earned its unprecedented Dixie Conference title. The fivefoot, eleven-inch Trombatore ended up scoring as many points as Loyola’s senior captain, its veteran leader, six-foot, eightinch James J. “Big Jim” McCafferty. He was selected for all-conference honors. He was growing into a star who made winning a habit. And he was becoming a cornerstone around whom Orsley and Loyola could build a championship basketball team—or so the school and coach thought. Before arriving at Loyola, Trombatore led his New Orleans high school, St. Aloysius, to the state championship in 1941. Then, as a college rookie, he rapidly became the second-highest scorer on a fourteen-win Wolf Pack, contributing to victories over schools such as Millsaps, Howard (now known as Samford), Spring Hill and various colleges in the state of Louisiana. “Sam was as smooth as silk,” Orsley would marvel. “He could hurt you as much with his passing and his feinting as he could with his scoring. He could fake a defensive man out of his sneakers. And he did it with the grace of a ballet dancer.” Sam Ciolino, who played basketball for Loyola in the 1940s, echoed that praise, saying, “Sam Trombatore could magazine.loyno.edu
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fake out people like you wouldn’t believe. More people than you could count fell because of his fakes.” With World War II ongoing in the backdrop in the next season, Loyola and Trombatore played sixteen games against their traditional opponents, like Spring Hill, Millsaps and Howard, and they also took on teams of military servicemen stationed around the region. Trombatore led the Wolf Pack in scoring, and Orsley’s team won The Loyola Fight Song, fourteen of its games. By virtue its excellent record, Loyola original chorus lyrics of could fairly claim it was the champion of its conference a consecutive year. “This Fight! Fight! Fight! second was Loyola’s best year in hisYou men of the South! tory,” New Orleans’ TimesPicayune newspaper declared. We hail your courage born of old, Basketball officials noticed, and they invited Loyola Fight! Fight! Fight! to play in the National AssoYou men of the South! ciation of Intercollegiate BasLoyola’s honor to uphold; ketball championship tournament in Kansas City in March You men who fight and grin, and 1943. The Wolf Pack certainly have loved to go, espesquarely play the game, would cially since Loyola had never We know that you go in, been asked to participate in the tournament. a victory to claim; However, of the nine players Loyola would have had So, Fight! Fight! Fight! available for the competition, You men of the South! two—starting guard Milton Jackson and substiFor the Old Maroon and Gold. “Whitey” tute guard Frank Kiernan— Make a Gold. RAH! toast! Make a were called to active service with the U.S. Army Air Corps boast! to Loyola’s warriors bold! the week the university got its Cheer again! For the men! tournament bid. Another, starting guard Bob Segura, a Who defend Maroon and Gold! reserve military officer in the So cheer them right, with all your dentistry school, could not leave campus due to travel remight! RAH! RAH! RAH! RAH! strictions for students. That left six players —Written by the whom Orsley could take to Reverend Charles C. Chapman, S.J.; Kansas City—five on the court and one on the bench. The Raymond McNamara; and coach knew he did not have Milo B. Williams, J.D. ’23 enough men to field a competitive squad, even with a talent like Trombatore on his side. So Orsley, also Loyola’s athletic director, declined the invitation, disappointing as that was to the university’s community. “The draft board was catching up with our boys,” the coach explained. When the 1943–44 season arrived, the draft board had
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not yet caught up with Trombatore. And because of that, he was as dominant as ever as Loyola vied for the New Orleans Senior Amateur Athletic Union title, facing teams from local recreational clubs and military facilities. In a particularly memorable 47–39 Loyola victory that year against a team representing New Orleans’ Kingsley House Community Center, Trombatore erupted for thirty-six points. Of course, that means all of Kingsley House outscored Trombatore by a scant three points on that occasion. Loyola finished with a 21–3 record and won the Senior AAU league (the Wolf Pack competed there because its normal conference had suspended play due to the war). It was the first season in which Loyola’s basketball team had reached twenty wins. Trombatore scored 488 points despite missing five games due to a sprained ankle. Otherwise, he would have undoubtedly tallied more than 500 points, a vast figure for a basketball player in those days. With his scoring average of 25.7 points per game, Trombatore earned a place on The Associated Press’ All-America list, as well as the epithet “Point-a-Minute.” “The way Trombatore made the goals was the thing!” the Times-Picayune wrote that year. “He made them from the left side, from the right side and from the middle—they all looked alike to him.” The war prevented a national championship tournament from being held in 1944. However, if that tournament came back after the 1944–45 season, Trombatore’s All-America credentials meant that Coach Orsley’s Wolf Pack had to be considered a contender. But such lofty expectations were shattered by a terse Times-Picayune dispatch on April 11, 1944, that read, “Sammy Trombatore, sensational basketballer for Loyola this past season and nominee to the All-America team, is scheduled to leave today to enter the active service of the United States Army.” Trombatore, at the very least, was going to miss what would have been his fourth season at Loyola. Trombatore’s departure crushed Orsley. In Orsley’s opinion, Trombatore possessed more all-around ability than any other basketball player he had ever coached. Now, there was no telling whether Trombatore would ever play basketball for Loyola again, or whether he would come back to New Orleans at all. The dream of building a championship team around Trombatore was over. World War II, of course, didn’t just disrupt Trombatore’s basketball career and the Loyola Wolf Pack’s ambitions. The fighting had disrupted the lives of all New Orleanians, among them Loyola students such as Luke Cuccia, a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who was sent to fight in the Pacific. The night before a battle against Japanese soldiers in the Philippines, Sergeant Cuccia attended Mass and received Holy Communion. At sunrise, he charged into blankets of machine gun and artillery fire unleashed by the Japanese. “On my first day up, a Japanese mortar exploded a foot from my head,” he wrote in a letter addressed to the Reverend Joseph A. Butt, S.J., for whom the university’s College of Business is named. “I
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attribute this miraculous escape to my faithful carrying of the rosary.” Cuccia’s letter expressed a measure of dark humor. “Except for sniper fire and some shellings, things haven’t been too bad for me,” the sergeant wrote. He also described how the marines’ “ruthless” enemies would “kill civilians and burn their houses” as they retreated. Cuccia’s patrolling had taken him through blazing, smoking Filipino towns. The island’s natives evacuated their neighborhoods with whatever food, clothing and animals they could round up as they tried to flee the perils of the war. Cuccia recounted how the inhabitants of a land that became poorer and more desolate each day the war raged—a land far from New Orleans—were ready to give what little they possessed to American marines hailing from places they probably had never heard of. “As [we] pass through, we see happy people again,” Cuccia noted. “In this particular area, the people give us eggs, bananas and some fruit. On the way down, Filipinos throw bananas into our trucks.” While Cuccia was able to share his tales from the war, other Loyola servicemen were not fortunate enough to have that opportunity. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Butler, a 1930 Loyola graduate, spent fifteen days fighting against some of the twenty-two thousand Japanese soldiers defending the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. The fifteenth day took him to the front lines on a matter. As the eleven-year marine veteran headed back toward headquarters, a Japanese mortar shell tore through his Jeep. The blast killed him and two other passengers and wounded the driver, according to a dispatch by Staff Sergeant Henry Giniger obtained by the university. Giniger added, “One of the most courageous and aggressive battalion commanders on the island, Col. Butler…had met and conquered some of the stiffest opposition that the Japanese offered, and all during the battle northward, the colonel had been on the front lines.” As the 1944–45 basketball season approached, Loyola University celebrated a Mass in memory of thirty university alumni who were killed in the war. A sophomore music student blew the bugle piece “Taps”— traditionally performed at American military funerals—at the consecration and at the end of the Mass. “Loyola men have given their lives to protect our way of life, therefore it is only fitting that the university should honor them with a special service,” the Reverend William Crandall, S.J., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, told The Maroon before the Mass. Another priest at the university, the Reverend Loyd Ha-
trel, S.J., added, “It is in accord with [the] Catholic spirit that Loyola, holding dear her sons who have given their all that our way of life may prevail, solemnly and publicly pays patriotic and religious homage to her…alumni who have died in the service of this country.” Though not slain, other Loyola students suffered wounds during the war. Among them was Maroon sports editor Ed Fricke. After he was hurt in the fierce fighting around the Siegfried Line in Germany, Fricke wrote in a letter to a professor, “Here I am…in England, with my hand all shot up and practically nothing to do. I’m not getting any mail, and when I write, I have to write left-handed. Incidentally, my thumb is gone, and it looks really odd.” Despite his missing thumb, Fricke managed to write in his letter that the heavy fighting allowed him to see parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and “too much of the Siegfried Line,” composed of Nazi forts and tank defenses. “We ran into some forts there that looked as big as Bobet Hall,” an academic hall at Loyola that today houses the university’s philosophy, foreign languages, history and English departments, Fricke wrote. “In one,” he added, “we had to kill 270 Germans to take it.” One line of Fricke’s missive poignantly illustrated what young men from Loyola and New Orleans faced when they left their loved ones, went overseas and charged into combat. “All my buddies are up there on the First “It is in accord with [the] Catholic Army front, but I guess a lot of them are gone,” spirit that Loyola, holding dear her he wrote. It was obvious that sons who have given their all that the Loyola community our way of life may prevail, was weathering a time of loss and crisis. A solemnly and publicly pays patriotic Wolf Pack triumph on and religious homage to her… the basketball court would enliven and in- alumni who have died in the service spire its fans, its campus of this country.” and its city. But, as things stood shortly be—Written by the fore the 1944–45 seaReverend Loyd Hatrel, S.J. son tipped off, there seemed to be little chance that Jack Orsley and his Wolves could actually do that. Besides the unavailability of Trombatore, just two key players were returning from the previous year’s team. Almost everyone else was a freshman.
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LOYOLA INSTITUTE FOR MINISTRY STUDENTS TRANSFORMED IN NIGERIA THE LOYOLA INSTITUTE FOR MINISTRY EXTENSION PROGRAM IN BENIN CITY, NIGERIA, WILL GRADUATE ITS FIRST CLASS OF STUDENTS THIS JANUARY. By Kate Trotter ’14
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Loyola’s Institute for Ministry, or LIM, has been a leader in distance education for ministry since 1983. The Loyola Institute for Ministry Extension Program, or LIMEX, offers master’s degrees and certificates in pastoral studies and religious education through partnerships with local sponsoring agencies, such as dioceses, parishes, and retreat centers. The program takes place entirely on location in more than 40 places across the country and internationally. Loyola Institute for Ministry Director Thomas Ryan, Ph.D., says LIMEX affirms the vocation of all the baptized to ministry, whether in explicitly religious settings or in the world. It also responds to the need for education where people are because coming to campus in New Orleans is not always feasible. “We provide in-person, on-site education anywhere where eight to 15 students can gather,” Ryan explains. “LIMEX started 32
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in Louisiana and then expanded around the country and around the world. We even have nine students at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.” In January 2014, LIMEX will have its first group of graduates from Benin City, Nigeria. According to Ryan, Sister Cecelia Dimaku, M.P.S. ’07, a sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Benin City, received her master’s degree on campus in New Orleans and wanted the same education for her hometown. The Koch Foundation Inc., which funds Roman Catholic evangelization efforts throughout the world, generously gave Loyola a grant to pay for tuition, books, and other necessities to get the program running in Nigeria, Ryan says. “The Loyola program has a lot of what we need as a church in Nigeria to train the agents of evangelization,” says student Stella-Rose C. Okeke of Immaculate Conception College in
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Benin City. “We need formation for our laypeople, we need formation for our priests, and we need formation for our religious women and men.” The church in Benin City supplies a liaison to help administer the program while Immaculate Conception College provides space for the group of 10 students to meet weekly. “It’s a distinctive program; adult students bring the wisdom of their lives and their experience to the table,” Ryan says. “They themselves become teachers.” “The process is so fantastic,” student and lawyer Patrick Eifediyi says. “I’ve never seen this kind of learning process. It’s a small group, so you are given the opportunity to talk. It’s a new thing altogether, and I really enjoy it.” Moreover, students integrate their knowledge of the Catholic faith with their ministry. They develop ministerial proficiency by combining in-depth study of the Christian theological tradition with an appreciative and critical understanding of the contexts in which they minister. In addition, participants develop specific competencies in a ministry focus area of their choice. “The Loyola program calls you to be conscious of what you are doing, to reflect on what you are doing, and to apply it back into your ministry,” Dimaku says. “You receive academic formation, you receive faith formation, and you receive a spiritual formation for your own personal growth.” The students will graduate with the Continuing Education Certificate either in pastoral studies or religious education. Ryan uses four words to describe the LIMEX program: “Catholic,” “Ignatian,” “practical,” and “transformative.” It is Catholic in the sense of a particular way of being Christian but also in the lowercase sense, “catholic,” meaning “universal and open to truth wherever it can be found,” Ryan explains. “Doing this course shows us who Jesus was, just the ordinary Jesus, that what Jesus was doing we also can do,” says LIMEX facilitator Celestina Ihayere, who is a lecturer at Western Delta State University in Oghara, Nigeria. “I have seen Jesus in me. You don’t need to look for Jesus in the sky. He is here.”
Key to LIMEX is its Ignatian spirituality component, which was developed by a former Loyola professor, the late Father Jerry Fagin, S.J. Focusing on the graces of the “Spiritual Exercises” of St. Ignatius Loyola, students pray their way through the program. “Spirituality helps me as a person to sit back, to listen more than to talk,” reflects student Sister Patricia Okwuchukwu of Missionary Servants of Divine Providence of Immaculate Conception College. “So Ignatian spirituality challenges one to do more listening, and it also helps one see God in every minute, every second, every hour of one’s life; that is deep reflection.” LIMEX as “education where you are” is practical in the sense that “it insists that students ask: ‘So what? So what does what I have learned mean for me, for my life, for my faith, for the world, and for the church?’” Ryan says. Finally, Ryan characterizes LIMEX as transformative because the program places “an emphasis on spirituality and on building a community of learners. It really changes people’s lives.” “It is a very wonderful program,” Okeke says. “I have been transformed, and I have seen others transformed. It has given me a sense of belonging, and as members of this group, it has made us good friends, yes, who have come to be very close to each other and accept each other. It unifies.” LIMEX in Benin City does not come without its challenges, Ryan says. One of the greatest has been how culturally sensitive the program has to be, making sure that the course materials and activities are attentive to and respectful of other cultures. However, due to the nature of the program and its model of theological reflection, students have the tools to be appreciative of other cultures and critical when these issues are not seriously addressed. “I have come to find that Christianity finds a home in every culture, that no culture is evil or wrong,” Okeke says. “There is something good about every culture.” For more information about the Loyola Institute for Ministry, please see www.lim.loyno.edu
Kate Trotter ’14 (marketing) is the marketing and publications intern for the Office of Marketing and Communications for the fall 2013 semester.
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Intern It Up
Loyola students tackle internships and other life-changing opportunities that offer a wealth of real-life experience. By Diana Mirfiq ’14
Whether cruising in a submarine, shaking hands with the U.S. vice president, building a web show in MTV’s New York City office, volunteering with the Google Community Leaders Program, or opening up a gym, Loyola students are taking every opportunity to get immersed in the world around them through internships and community outreach programs. IN THE NAVY LaMicha Jackson, international business junior, interned with the U.S. Navy this summer. Her summer adventures included flying in a helicopter, firing weapons, and riding in a submarine on her birthday. Jackson says her most memorable experience was flying a T-34 aircraft by herself. “That was incredible,” she says. “We did barrel rolls and sharp turns, so we had about two or three G-forces acting on us.” Jackson believes that her Loyola education enabled her to think critically, particularly during her Somali immersion training. Jackson says everyone was split into different teams and given rifles loaded with paint bullets. They had to formulate a plan to kill all snipers while keeping their teams safe, Jackson says. LaMicha Jackson “With the chaos of yelling, carrying ‘injured’ or ‘dead’ team members, explosions, and numerous weapons being fired, along with a captain and five or six sergeants yelling at us, this was an experience for the books,” Jackson says. She says she was shot twice in the exercise but still managed to “kill” three snipers. Jackson finished off by carrying out a “wounded” teammate, all without “dying” during the training. A major recognized her group as the best fire team, but Jackson gained more than an award. “So much respect was gained for not only the Marines but also all troops who go through land and hand-to-hand combat,” Jackson says.
PLAYING POLITICS Like Jackson, Alden Woodhull, mass communication and Spanish senior, says she strengthened her sense of pride for her country through her summer internship. Instead of taking on her usual summer waitressing job in her hometown of Washington, D.C., Woodhull ditched the apron and embarked on an adventure at the White House as an intern in the vice president’s press office. “I realized that this internship encompassed so much of what I’m passionate about,” Woodhull says. “It allowed me to work in my field of study with communications and media relations.” Woodhull says she enjoyed meeting Vice President Joe Biden and that he even spared time to talk to the interns who 34
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worked in his office. Any time she got to listen to the vice president was a “good day,” Woodhull says. “He speaks with so much poise but is so genuine at the same time,” she says. “The two most moving speeches that I heard in person were his calls to action for mental health care and gun safety in our country.” Woodhull says she believes her mass communication education gave her an upper hand during her internship. She felt confident about her writing and learned things that added to her previous social media knowledge. “Having taken Professor Nelson’s Social Media Strategies class, I already had background on social media analysis and was thereby able to get so much more out of the experience,” Woodhull says. Alden Woodhull Woodhull feels honored to have had the privilege of interning at the White House: “I know what a rare and special opportunity it is to walk onto the White House grounds every day, and I feel so fortunate to have been able to been a part of this amazing and historic administration.”
I WANT MY MTV Bryan Mooney, music industry senior, says he had his sights set on a different kind of summer internship. He was interested in Viacom International Inc., a media company that owns various television networks and film studios including VH1 and MTV. After seeing what the company had to offer, Mooney says MTV seemed like the perfect placement. “When I applied to Viacom, my interest was focused on MTV because I feel that it is more closely tied to the music industry than many of Viacom’s other brands,” Mooney says. As a product development intern, Mooney’s main objective was to Bryan Mooney design strategies and campaigns to attract more online engagement. His coworkers started a weekly live-streamed music and comedy show out of their office called Streamed Dumplings that he soon became involved with along with co-worker Ralph Bishop. “This began as a test of the company’s live-streaming technology,” Mooney says. “They decided to turn it into a program after Ralph ate a banana at his desk on the live stream and was encouraged by viewers to eat a second.” After that, Mooney started handling the booking and engagement strategy for Streamed Dumplings. As for celebrities, Mooney says he occasionally bumped into a few around the MTV office, but being starstruck isn’t in his nature. “Celebrities are just people, and I can’t say that there are many people I would really freak out over meeting,” he says calmly. “Unrelated to MTV, my friend and I chatted with [actor and comedian] Aziz Ansari the other night – he was pretty cool.”
JUST GOOGLE IT Kimberly Iberico, visual arts senior, and Ethan Rosenberg, music industries studies junior, didn’t wait until summer to get involved with the Google Community Leaders Program, which helps local businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits leverage and utilize online tools. The opportunity magically appeared to them last year, and now they’re team leaders. “I was really bored one day, and I was exploring EMPLOYOLA [the Office of Student Affairs’ Career Development Center’s job search website],” Iberico says. “I saw the listing for the program and just applied to Middle row, far right, it. I completely forgot about it until I received an email saying I was a fiKimberly Iberico nalist. It really took me by surprise.” Rosenberg has a similar serendipitous story: “Elliott Adams, entrepreneur music industry professor, knew I was into technology. He saw that Google was offering something. He sent me the link, and the deadline was that day.” magazine.loyno.edu
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Unlike an internship, Iberico and Rosenberg were doing community outreach service work, but they gained professional development skills and their experience was immeasurable. “It is rewarding and a great learning experience,” Iberico says. “Helping small businesses and organizations around the city become more web-literate to help improve businesses is amazing.” She thought it was shocking that they were able to get 115 businesses online: “That's a lot of businesses! And we did that.” Not only has Iberico helped numerous businesses, but she also used her newfound skills to help her family businesses get online. “I think it’s great that I can make an impact on my family and helped improve their businesses,” she says. Rosenberg developed a program with an organization called Sweet Home New Orleans. He was able to use his music industry education to find ways that local musicians can benefit from Internet tools to build their fan bases. “The musicians really loved it,” he says. “We taught a class with eight musicians in May. The feedback was great. We were primarily focused on developing engagement strategy, more so than just showing them how to use tools.” One of Rosenberg’s strategies was for musicians to add more relatable things online instead of just posting when they have an upcoming show. A musician who incorporated this advice was a woman in her 60s who started posting more pictures and videos from earlier in her life. “It was cool because you could tangibly see more engagement around her posts on Facebook,” Rosenberg says. “It was cool to see how that impacted her. She’ll call me with questions all the time. We go and get lunch – it’s so nice to be able to build meaningful relationships.” Google unexpectedly affected Iberico’s and Rosenberg’s lives. They were surprised to find that 64 percent of Louisiana businesses aren’t online. They are now team leaders and want to continue increasing digital literacy. “It’s awesome,” Rosenberg says. “I’m a natural-born leader. It’s cool to be able to inspire people to take ownership over something that I created that is making an impact on the musicians in the city. It’s really meaningful. I’m thankful for the opportunity.”
GETTING A WORKOUT International business junior Adam Stelly wouldn’t settle for just an internship or outreach program. He combined his passion for business and his self-proclaimed obsession with fitness by opening up his own gym this summer. Stelly’s Appear Fit fitness center opened its doors on July 29. It was a huge moment for Stelly, whose journey toward fitness began as a child when he struggled with emotional eating. “I turned to food for comfort,” he says. “It was my only coping mechanism for my emotions.” Stelly says he became determined to focus his energy on something he could control – working out. It wasn’t easy, and Stelly says he had to learn how to fall in love with the process and not the end result. “I had to say, ‘OK, Adam, if you’re not the hardest-working in the gym, then you’re not going hard enough,’” he recalls. Adam Stelly Stelly began to incorporate that philosophy into his daily life. He became a certified personal trainer at 17 and started off with freelance training, but he hated working on other people’s turf. He decided to buy equipment and train clients in his parents’ garage. But business-minded Stelly ultimately wanted to run his own fitness center, and just last year he opened up the first Appear Fit in Uptown New Orleans. His motivation wasn’t enough, and Stelly says he “failed miserably” at his initial attempt to open his fitness studio. “Not a single person showed up for the entire three weeks that my classes were offered,” Stelly says. “I realized that I was marketing to the wrong crowd. Now Appear Fit is on the Westbank near Oakwood Mall. I’m so glad we made the move.” Stelly even kicks military soldiers into shape. The military saw something special in Stelly, and this past July they awarded him a contract to get Army platoons in top shape before their basic training begins. He started off by working with the soldiers once a week, and now he trains them twice a week. “During the workout, they hate my guts, but they really do like me,” he says.
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Judged on Their Merits FOUR MAY 2013 GRADUATES RECEIVE IGNATIAN AWARDS
From left, Javier Jalice, Mary DePartout, Carissa Marston, and Justin Romaire Loyola University New Orleans honored four of its recent graduates with its highest student honor, the Ignatian Awards for Outstanding Senior and Graduate Students. The awards were formally presented at the Baccalaureate Mass on May 10. The awards are given annually to those students who represent the university’s commitment to Ignatian values. Recipients have a distinguished, pronounced involvement in the life of the university and represent Loyola with honor and distinction. They have achieved academic excellence and critical thinking skills and have demonstrated a commitment to faith. They also demonstrate an acceptance of Loyola’s Jesuit values and goals as well as a commitment to service with special concern for the disadvantaged. The 2013 award winners are: • Outstanding Ignatian Senior Woman: Carissa Marston. A biology/pre-med major from Luling, Louisiana, Marston served as a resident assistant, awakening rector, and Ignacio Volunteer in Belize. She graduated magna cum laude and is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps/Northwest for the next year. • Outstanding Ignatian Senior Man: Justin Romaire. A chemistry major from Harvey, Louisiana, Romaire is a fouryear letter winner for the Loyola baseball team. He put his sports skills to good use when he taught baseball in Belize last winter with the Ignacio Volunteers. He graduated magna cum laude and is attending Yale University to pursue a doctorate in organic chemistry. • Outstanding Ignatian Graduate Student: Mary DePartout. DePartout received her master’s of science degree in clinical mental health counseling and is currently finishing her internship with Family Service of Greater New Orleans. She was responsible for starting Loyola’s Active Minds chapter, which strives to destigmatize mental illness on college campuses. • Outstanding Ignatian Law Student: Javier Jalice. Jalice, a native of Cuba, graduated cum laude in the Loyola College of Law Civil Law Division. He worked on the College of Law’s Journal of Public Interest Law, serving his last year on the board of editors. In that role, he helped coordinate alumni and professor panels on diversity by spearheading the journal’s annual fall symposium. He is now working as an associate at The Kullman Firm in downtown New Orleans. (The Outstanding Ignatian Law Student award was presented at the Law Graduation Mass May 9.) magazine.loyno.edu
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Alumni Events
Northshore Mass and Dinner Aug. 4, 2013: The Manshel and Bruns families celebrated the feast day of St. Ignatius.
Loyola Loyal Fête hosted by Chelsey Richter ’12 July 29, 2013: Back row from left, Ashley Abendschein ‘12, Kimberly Gaiennie ‘12, Michelle Rau ’12; front row, from left, Crystal LoCicero ‘13, Ashley White ‘13, Chelsey Richter ‘12
Chicago Summer Send Off Aug. 8, 2013: From left, David Nurnberger, Sidney Nurnberger '17, Kim Sarchet, and hosts Jeanne and Kevin Poorman
Athletic Logo Launch Luncheon Aug. 28, 2013, at Walk-Ons: Ed Wahden ’62; Tom Kloor ’52; Head Men’s and Women’s Golf Coach Lisa Tinkler; Frank Fortunato ’71; Anastasia Ochoa; Felix Gaudin ’54, ’63, M.S. ’58; Director of Athletics and Wellness Dr. Michael Giorlando; Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Stacy Hollowell; Vice President of Student Affairs M.L. “Cissy” Petty, Ph.D.; Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach Beck Flanagan; Havoc T. Wolf; Jill Tucker ’03; Jerry Brady ’62; Frank France ’49, M.Ed. ’56; Head Women’s Basketball Coach Kellie Kennedy; and Associate Athletic Director Brett Simpson ’96, M.B.A. ’03, got a sneak peek of the new Athletics logo.
Los Angeles Picnic in the Park July 31, 2013: The Los Angeles Chapter showed their Wolf Pack pride at the Dr. John Concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
Golden Star Volunteers May 2, 2013: Mary Wendt ’66 and Erwin Caswell ’56, J.D. ‘70
New York City Crawfish Boil May 11, 2013: The NYC Chapter had fun at the spring crawfish boil!
Dallas Texas Rangers Game Aug. 17, 2013: From left, Kayla Butler ‘12, Carl and Joyce Butler, and Kila-Kitu Garrett ‘04
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D.C. CHAPTER CHRISTMAS PARTY
WOLF PACK WOMEN’S PEP RALLY
SINGING WITH SANTA
SAN DIEGO ALUMNI CHAPTER CHRISTMAS HAPPY HOUR
DALLAS ALUMNI CHAPTER CHRISTMAS MASS AND DINNER
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College of Business Wine Tasting Aug. 1, 2013, at The Pearl Wine Co.: From left, Emily Moran; Tiffany and Ra'Shaud '10 Haines; Stephanie Hotard '04, M.B.A. '10; and Steven Mula '10
Las Vegas Chapter Crawfish Boil May 11, 2013: Pat and Conrad ‘75 Davillier
San Francisco Evening of Jazz with the Rebirth Brass Band Aug. 8, 2013: From left, Paul and Denise ’84 Lombard and Jennifer Costa ‘03
Miami Summer Send Off Aug. 4, 2013: Incoming freshman Debbie Hernandez ‘17 is welcomed, along with her sister and parents.
Chicago Crawfish Boil June 1, 2013: Alumni from the Chicago Chapter enjoyed the spicy crawdads!
Young Alumni Pack Summer Social May 30, 2013,at The Other Bar: From left, Keelia O’Malley ’07, Kerry Plagman ’06, Michelle Bergeron ’07, and Erin Costello ‘07
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HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
100TH ANNIVERSARY LAW ALUMNI LUNCHEON
Miami Crawfish Boil May 18, 2013: Miami Chapter President Milly Morgado, J.D. ’98
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VALENTINE’S DAY BLESSING
For more information about upcoming events, visit alumni.loyno.edu
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Alumni Voices
Going Viral A YouTube video on the NFL purse policy led to a whirlwind week. By Lauren LaBorde ’09
Lauren LaBorde ’09 and Colleen Allerton
My best friend, Colleen Allerton, and I sat in front of a dusty bookshelf in a studio on North Rampart Street with earpieces in and mikes clipped to our shirts – mine a royal blue and hers a bright coral, colors we thought would “pop” on TV. A pair of friendly women did our makeup to make us “camera-ready.” Soon a voice came through our earpieces: “Colleen and Lauren, can you hear me OK?” In a few minutes, we would be doing a live interview on MSNBC because of a video we created just days before. The interview was the apex of a crazy week that involved mentions on the TODAY show and CNN, interviews, and offers of free nutrition bars. Colleen and I created a satirical video called “My Purse, My Choice” that went viral – it received nearly 400,000 views in just over the course of a few days. The video was taking aim at regulations by the NFL to limit the size of bags brought into the Superdome and stadiums all over the country. I got tickets to the first Saints preseason game through work and invited Colleen. She was a natural choice because she loves football and can make most situations entertaining. (I do not like football.) She’s also known for carrying a 4040
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pound purse that at any time can include a variety of snacks, hair accessories, and sometimes a full-size bottle of white wine. Because of the regulations, we had to downsize our purses considerably. On our way to the game, we lamented the rules for being “anti-woman” (which is sort of true), and, making a play on a women’s rights mantra, I said, “My purse, my choice!” That gave us the idea for a fake commercial about the bag rules in the style of womentargeted PSAs, using the grave tone of those ads while listing the sundry items women are being “denied access to”: multiple pairs of sunglasses, electronic devices, food, drinks, actual garbage. “We should say ‘gum,’ like, six times,” Colleen said. Instead of watching the game, we devised the video over stadium nachos and overpriced cocktails. I met Colleen through a sketch-writing class at The New Movement, or TNM, a comedy theater and training center in New Orleans. She was wearing scrubs, so I asked her if she was a nurse. “No, I’m a doctor’s assistant,” she said. “But I worry that because I wear scrubs people think I could actually be helpful to anyone.”
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While a student at Loyola, I did all the things journalism students are supposed to do: I occupied nearly every editorial position in student media publications; I did internships in the city and one out of state; I freelanced and took on other extracurricular activities. And after I graduated, I got a job at a newspaper. I liked it, but what I enjoyed most was being funny. I wrote some humorous things for the paper’s blog that were popular and supported by my editors, but in the context of a newspaper, people don’t always understand humor and are easily offended. Around that time I got started taking sketch, and later improv, classes at TNM and fell in love. Comedy was such a good fit for me because it was a place where I was supposed to be funny. I still work in publishing, and I enjoy it, probably even more so because I have this wonderful outlet outside of work. Exactly a week after that preseason game, we got together with our videographer friend Chad Bower ’09 (communication) and filmed at 11 that night. He edited the video the next day and sent it to us Sunday morning as I was just waking up. Still in pajamas, I began to post the video on my various social networks, and Colleen did the same. Our friends, family, and fellow comedians loved the video and began sharing it immediately. By noon the video had a few hundred views. At this point, my goal for this project was reached: People we like and respect thought it was funny. But neither of us could have anticipated what would come next. Nola.com posted the video, and then the With Leather blog on the website Uproxx did, too – we had acquaintances at both outlets, so it wasn’t too surprising. But then a Yahoo! Sports blog posted it, and later we got an email from a TODAY show producer asking if they could show a clip of the video for a segment. It turns out we hit on a very timely topic with this video. The video came out just as season ticket holders for teams around the country were receiving word of the regulations. Besides showing up briefly on the TODAY show, it also popped up on CNN. Luna Bar – among the items we mentioned in our litany of “essential” purse objects – contacted us, saying they loved the video and wanted to send us free bars. Then we got the email from MSNBC. We also were the subject of many vile, misogynistic, and
downright weird YouTube comments, but overall the good outweighed the bad. I was happy with the MSNBC interview. It was short, lighthearted, and I think we came across as ourselves. After, we both returned to It turns out we hit on a very our jobs. Colleen laughed about how she’d be in scrubs timely topic with this video. with full “camera-ready” hair The video came out just as and makeup. After “going viral,” season ticket holders for everyone has questions: What’s your next video? teams around the country How will you “capture your were receiving word of the web audience”? Has Lorne Michaels called? (No, he regulations. Besides hasn’t.) Those questions scared showing up briefly on the me at first. But then I reTODAY show, it also membered that Colleen and I are comedians and this popped up on CNN. success wasn’t a fluke. We weren’t kittens playing a piano; we created something that was supposed to be funny, and people thought it was funny. We are going to continue making things, and no one knows if we will have another hit like this. But we are funny, so we are capable of it. For now we have that crazy week to look back on – plus about 60 Luna Bars.
Lauren LaBorde ’09, a communication alumna, is a writer and associate editor at Renaissance Publishing in New Orleans. She can be seen performing with The New Movement. magazine.loyno.edu
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1950s Jerome J. Reso ’58, J.D. ’61, has been selected by his peers as one of The Best Lawyers in America 2014 in the fields of Business Organizations, Nonprofit/Charities Law, Tax Law, and Trusts & Estates. Reso is at Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer in New Orleans.
1970s Ronald A. Fonseca, J.D. ’62, M.B.A. ’70, won a Pro Bono Publico Award from the Louisiana State Bar Association. Fonseca is a retired U.S. Magistrate Judge from the Eastern District of Louisiana, where he served for 15 years. After graduation from law school, he engaged in the private practice of law and later served 10 years in the civil and criminal divisions of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Orleans. In the past two years he has accepted six cases from the Pro Bono Project involving contractor fraud. Judge Fonseca has also volunteered to serve in Homeless Experience Legal Protection, a program established by United States Judge Jay C. Zainey to provide notarial services at several homeless centers in New Orleans. Alfred E. “Ted” Stacey IV, C.P.A., ’70 (economics) received the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accounting 2013 Outstanding Continuing Professional Education Discussion Leader Award.
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Maurice “Marc” Eagan ’77 (general business) was awarded the Independent Agents Lifetime Achievement Award.
1980s Francis “Frank” Collins, M.B.A. ‘80, was promoted by Whitney Bank to the position of loan workout specialist. Harold J. Flanagan ’84 (management), J.D. ‘95, was named to the 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for his work in appellate law, commercial litigation, insurance law, oil-andgas law, and construction litigation. This is his fourth time being named to this prestigious list. Flanagan and his brother Thomas M. Flanagan are the founders of Flanagan Partners LLC in New Orleans. Tod Smith ’84 (management) was elected to the board of Volunteers of America of Greater New Orleans. Kerry Nichols ’87 (accounting) was elected as a member at large by the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants Board of Directors.
1990s Shannen Coffin ’91 (finance), along with his team at international law firm Steptoe & Johnson, recently won a ruling in Washington that could dramatically reduce the fees that nationwide
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS banks can charge businesses that accept debit cards. The ruling, which could save restaurants and retailers billions of dollars annually, led to Coffin’s being named Litigator of the Week in August by American Lawyer Media. Jay P. Still, M.B.A. ’92, was named president and chief operating officer of Laredo Petroleum. Previously the executive vice president of domestic operations for Pioneer Natural Resources, Still also worked for Mobil Oil Corporation for 10 years. Dennis Lauscha, M.B.A. ’93, was appointed to the board of directors for Stuart Hall School for Boys. Richard F. Cortizas ’96 (international business), J.D. ’02, has rejoined Jones Walker LLP after three years of service as city attorney for the city of New Orleans. As city attorney, Cortizas was responsible for directing and supervising legal affairs for the city and worked as part of the team that negotiated the New Orleans Police Department consent decrees. He also served as executive counsel to Mayor Mitch Landrieu from 2010 to 2011. At Jones Walker, Cortizas will practice as special counsel in the firm’s Business & Commercial Transactions Practice Group in the New Orleans office. William Schroeder ’99 (marketing) just celebrated his sixth year of owning his own boutique mental health company, JustMind.org, based in Austin, Texas. He has more than 10 therapists who work with JustMind.org, and he also runs the Austin Mental Health Group, which has more than 800 members in Austin.
2000s H. Jude Boudreaux ’00 (finance) was named to the 2013 MoneyMakers list by New Orleans CityBusiness.
Elizabeth Bates ’02 (marketing and international business) sold her California-based business specializing in environmentally friendly cleaning products and returned to New Orleans to launch The Petite Shop, the first online store dedicated exclusively to clothing for women 5-foot-4 and shorter. The 5-foot-tall founder lists the Loyola community as one of the reasons she chose to leave the fashion hub of Southern California for New Orleans. She was recently accepted into the local IDEAxcelerator program through The Idea Village. The self-described “serial entrepreneur” was chosen to be a part of the 2013-2014 class of 17 companies after a highly competitive application and presentation process that started with 114 companies. Jeffery Ehlinger, M.B.A. ’03, was named to the 2013 MoneyMakers list by New Orleans CityBusiness. Denia Aiyegbusi ’04 (international business), J.D. ’07, was hired as an associate in the civil litigation department at Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles. Darryl Glade, M.B.A ’04, J.D. ‘13, was chosen to be a part of the local IDEAxcelerator program through The Idea Village for his partnership with Kris Haug, Snap Real Estate Photography, which produces real estate photography and provides clients with highquality listing photos within 24 hours. Chrissie Scelsi ’04 (marketing) of Scelsi Entertainment and New Media Law received her LL.M. in Entertainment and Media Law from Southwestern School of Law. She presented on the panel “Is That Domain .Yours or .Mine: Coping With the New gTLD Program” at the 28th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference for the American Bar Association of Intellectual Property Law in Arlington, Virginia. She also spoke on the panel “Licensing and Branding Guidelines 2.0: Social Media Marketing and Its Role and
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ALUMNI MILESTONES Effects in Relation to Cross-Border License Agreements” at the ABA Section of International Law 2013 Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C. Rosa Asciolla ’08 (finance) accepted a position on the Artist Services team at Spotify. Alexander McConduit ’08 (marketing) has started a crowd-sourced financing program called FundDat. He pitched the concept at Startup Weekend New Orleans, an event for entrepreneurs with ideas in the early stages of development. McConduit won coworking space, financial consulting, and legal services from local businesses. FundDat helps raise money for projects with a New Orleans connection, although projects don’t have to be based in the city – McConduit offers as an example a Canadian trying to open a New Orleans-themed po’ boy shop. He and his business partner, Marc Juneau, are also hosting a series of seminars on crowd-funding.
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1 Allison Drevich Cruz ’03 (sociology) and her husband, Brian, welcomed their son, Xavier Romero Drevich Cruz, on June 8, 2013. Xavier joins big sister, Eva. Allison is working for the Office of Cocurricular Programs at Tulane University. 2 Erin Denison Guilbeault ’01 (international business) and her husband, Ken, welcomed their son, Colin Aiden Guilbeault, on March 5, 2013. Colin joins big sister, Alexa Rose. 3 Lisa Talley Marchese ’97 (English) and her husband, Shawn Marchese ’97 (English), welcomed their first child, Lucian Dominic Ignatius Marchese, on April 9, 2013. • Tori Harris Chatman ’98 (biology) and her husband, Bradley, welcomed their baby girl, Aubrey Grace, on Nov. 5, 2012. • Shandi Anderson ’05 (history) and Chris Anderson ’05 (communications) welcomed their second child, Eveleen Jocelyn, on May 28, 2013. She joins big brother, Charlie.
Weddings 4 Jenna Cronin ’05 (music) and Joseph Halm ’04 (communication) were married on April 20, 2013, on the outdoor deck of the Swamp Exhibit at Audubon Zoo. The ceremony – counting the bride and groom, the wedding party, the readers, and the musician – included 13 Loyola alumni. After a three-week honeymoon in Europe, the couple returned to their home in New Orleans and their dachshund mix, Lucky. 5 Kerry Mader ’07 (communication) married Matt Vitou ’07 (communication) on March 23, 2013, at Holy Name of Jesus Church on Loyola’s campus. The couple met during the first semester of their freshman year in their Introduction to Mass Communication class. They live and work in Brooklyn, New York. 6 Sarah Macom ’11 (English and sociology) and Jonathan Villien ’08 (history and political science) were married Sept. 14, 2013, at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in San Antonio, Texas, surrounded by family and fellow Loyola alumni. They live in Lafayette, Louisiana. • Katie Anderson ’09 (communication) married Matthew David Pippin on April 20, 2013, at St. Francis of Assisi Church in New Orleans. A reception followed at the Audubon Tea Room. magazine.loyno.edu
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Sister Carla Dolce ’60 (education) was named a Top Female Achiever by New Orleans Magazine for her work as the prioress of the Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans.
Virginia “Ginnie” Robilotta ’87 (French) was named a Health Care Hero by New Orleans CityBusiness for her work in animal care.
Charles Heim, M.Ed. ’69, was appointed as interim executive director of the Catholic Foundation of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
1970s John J. Gillon Jr. ’70 (English), J.D. ’80, was appointed as the bioethicist member of the Institutional Review Board, or research ethics committee, of the National Institutes of Health/National Heart Lung Blood Institute for a three-year term. While serving his term, Gillon will continue his work as an attorney on the patent side of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He also will continue his pro bono work overseeing humanuse/human-subject research on institutional review boards at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the American Red Cross, as well as Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (formerly Walter Reed Army Medical Center). Gillon also teaches in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics/Georgetown University Medical Center. Joyce Pulitzer ’79 (history), Sean Patterson, David Seelig, and Kitty Greenberg had their play, Freedom, performed by Lorraine LeBlanc and John Neisler in July at Southern Rep at the CAC. This new American play looks at the many ways we yearn for freedom – not just “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” but also the freedom to face the truth about ourselves with grace, acceptance, and forgiveness.
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Barbara Bossetta ’88 (history), J.D. ’90, was promoted to partner at the law firm Curry & Friend in New Orleans. Mark Dvorak ’89 (history), an executive director of GolinHarris in Atlanta, was selected to the College of Fellows of the Public Relations Society of America by the society’s board of directors. Out of the approximately 21,000 members of the PRSA, only about 300 are members of the College of Fellows.
1990s Laura Trunk ’91 (biology) was named One to Watch by New Orleans CityBusiness. She is the market vice president and market medical officer for Humana Health Benefit Plan of Louisiana Inc. Her duties include implementation of strategic growth objectives, pricing, product enhancement, and growth strategies for clinical programs. She is an active member of the American Medical Association, the Louisiana Health Care Commission, and the Jefferson Parish Medical Society. She sits on the Odyssey House Board of Directors. John D. Mason ’92 (history), J.D. ‘96, launched his new art and entertainment and intellectual property law firm, Copyright Counselors LLC, in July. He is also a literary agent and specializes in copyright and trademark transactions and litigation, publishing and media law, and working on legal issues for all types of artists.
Scott Damian Arroyo ’96 (English) just released a memoir, Voice: A Stutterer’s Odyssey, chronicling his 33-year struggle with stuttering as an actor and a writer, published by Behler Publications. In May 2012, he received the Converting Awareness Into Action Award from the Stuttering Foundation in New York. Royd Anderson ’98 (English literature) recently released his latest film, The Upstairs Lounge Fire, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1973 arson attack on a gay club in the French Quarter. The film was covered by the Times-Picayune, the Advocate, WGNO, WWL, and even by TMZ’s Perez Hilton. The trailer for the film, available at facebook.com/upstairsloungefire, received more than 71,000 hits in just two weeks. Anderson specializes in covering tragic local events that he feels have been overlooked. His previous films include The Luling Ferry Disaster, The Continental Grain Elevator Explosion, and Pan Am Flight 759.
2000s Marie B. Comeaux ’01 (history) was named the principal of St. Peter Catholic School in Reserve, Louisiana. Maggie Bove-LaMonica ’02 (history and French) graduated from Loyola’s College of Law in May 2013. She will be focusing on issues of education and juvenile justice. Eric J. Schmidt ’03 (biology) graduated medical school in 2011 and is currently completing a residency in eye surgery at the St. Louis University Eye Institute. Mary Isbell ’04 (English) is currently working as a lecturer and post-doc associate in the theater studies department at Yale University. Isbell earned her Ph.D.
in English from the University of Connecticut in 2013. She is currently working on a book project. Isbell co-edited, with Judith Hawley, a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film on “Amateur Theatre in the Long Nineteenth Century” and has presented her research at conventions of the American Society for Theatre Research, North American Victorian Studies Association, Nineteenth Century Studies, American Literature Association, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, and Modern Language Association. Her work has been published in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies and is forthcoming in Victorian Literature and Culture. Alongside her book project, Isbell is preparing a digital edition of The Young Idea: A Naval Journal Edited on Board the H.M.S. Chesapeake in 1857, 1858 & 1859.
2010s Steffon Montrell Gray ’12 (mathematics) was one of 80 fellows in the inaugural class of the Excelsior Service Fellowship Program. The program was started by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in April to bring talented students into government service. Gray will be working on program evaluation and statistical tools in the Division of Grants and Scholarship Programs in the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation.
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COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND FINE ARTS 1970s
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Anthony Laciura ’74 (music education) resumed his role as Eddie Kessler on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire in September.
Amy Arpan ’97 (drama) is starring in a TV commercial in the Charlotte, North Carolina, market for Crown Auto Sales. It is airing on ABC affiliate stations.
Jane Frosch ’78 (music education) was hired as director of development at Ursuline Academy in New Orleans. Tim Mooney, M.M. ’78 (cello performance), retired last year after 38 years of public and private music teaching. He taught vocal music at Seton Academy from 1976-1980, orchestra in the Orleans Parish schools from 19801992, and orchestra in the Cobb County schools from 1992-2012.
1980s Kristin Albarado ’85 (piano) performed on July 21 as part of the trio Encore! at Christwood Retirement Community in Covington. Encore!, which consists of Denise Bayraktar and Kyle Jones on vocals and Albarado on piano, performs everything from opera to folk songs and show tunes.
2000s Anne Chabreck ‘02 (music performance) was named One to Watch by New Orleans CityBusiness. Chabreck is the chair of the English department at Holy Cross School, where she has launched an Advanced Placement English Language and Composition class and planned the curriculum for the Brother James McDonnell Scholars Program. Perryn Olson ’03 (visual arts), president and chief operating officer of The Brand Constructors, was named One to Watch in the field of construction by New Orleans CityBusiness.
Daniel DeShazo ’09 (music education) started a position as music director at Helena United Methodist Church in Helena, Alabama.
Katie Bertschi ‘12 (music education) started a position as choral director at Central Lafourche High School in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Marley Dzis ’09 (music education) started a position as choral director at the Chicago Waldorf School.
Kelsey Scott ‘12 (visual arts/graphic design) was hired as a graphic designer at Valence in New Orleans.
Sara Melton ’09 (music education) started a position as music teacher at Paul Habans Elementary in New Orleans.
Brooke Hagler ’13 (music education) started a position as music teacher and choral director at Lusher School in New Orleans.
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Victoria LaFitte ’13 (music education) started a position as band director at Bonnabel Magnet Academy High School in Kenner.
Christalisa Gilmore ’10 (music industry studies) was recently hired as a sales assistant by fellow alumna Amy Cyrex Sins ’98 (communication), author of the Ruby Slipper Cookbook. Emily Boudreaux ‘11 (music education) started a position as music teacher and choral director at Catholic High School in Houston. Gerald Gillum a.k.a. G-Eazy ’11 (music industry studies) is joining Lil’ Wayne and T.I. on a 40date U.S. tour.
Ronald Nolting ’13 (music education) started a position as assistant band director at Holy Cross School in New Orleans. Kenny Tsao ’13 (music education) started a position as graduate teaching assistant at Washington State University School of Music, where he is also pursuing a master’s degree in music.
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Wolftracks COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 1960s Peter M. Cadaro Jr. ’63 (social science) is completing 31 years at criminal district court, 25 years as jury commissioner. He was appointed by four governors and the en banc judges of criminal and civil district court. He served six years as judicial assistant to Judge James F. McKay III, J.D. ’74, and Judge Leon A. Cannizzaro Jr., J.D. ’78. He served as judicial assistant to Judge Eddie L. Sapir, J.D. ’62, at municipal court from 1975-1980.
judge said: “This was a very well researched story with a lot of good quotes and insights from coaches and players at all levels. Perhaps it is fitting that the Louisiana story of the year was about the story of perhaps this decade in football – the concern over severe head and spine injuries in the game. This multi-faceted story provided a comprehensive look at the issue from all angles and all levels of football – from peewees to the pros.” Smith has worked at the Times-Picayune for 40 years.
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1970s Carol Bebell ’70 (sociology) was named a Top Female Achiever by New Orleans Magazine for her work as the co-founder and executive director of the Ashe Cultural Arts Center. Peter Finney Jr. ’78 (communication), executive editor and general manager of the Clarion Herald newspaper of the New Orleans archdiocese, was awarded the St. Francis de Sales Award during the Catholic Press Association’s annual conference in Denver. This is the highest honor given by the CPA. Finney also won first place for Best News Writing Originating With the Paper for his story “A Song for Haiti, From the Heart” and second place for Individual Excellence – Editor for “Forty-seven minutes and a life filled with meaning.” Finney served as editor of The Maroon student newspaper while at Loyola and has also worked for United Press International, the New York Post and the New York Daily News. James “Jimmy” Smith ’78 (communication), won Story of the Year from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for his story about the injury of Tulane football player Devon Walker and the general problems of head and spinal injuries in football. Of Smith's feature, which also won the Division I College Feature category, the 46
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Van Gallinghouse ’88 (communication), senior vice president of Deveney Communication, was part of the marketing team that was recently recognized with seven Hermes Creative Award distinctions from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The award winners were selected out of 5,600 entries submitted to the competition from agencies across the globe.
Gia Rabito ’80 (communication) was hired by the New Orleans Museum of Art as individual and corporate giving manager. Anthony Cimino ’82 (communication) has been named the vice president of Member & Group Services for the Louisiana Health Cooperative, the state’s only nonprofit consumer-governed health co-op. Rene Sanchez ‘87 (communication) was named editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Sanchez was an editor at The Maroon during his time at Loyola. Angelle Albright ‘88 (communication) and her sister, Danielle Fournier, beat out more than 1,000 national competitors and were named Top 5 finalists in a national Walmart contest for their product, Chemo Beanies. Chemo Beanies are branded as comfortable, stylish alternatives to traditional head coverings for people who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy. Since the company was started in 2011, it has sold approximately 35,000 beanies. As part of the contest, Chemo Beanies were featured on an online reality series with voters selecting them as their favorite product in the Live Better category. Chemo Beanies are now available on Walmart’s website, and online sales will decide whether Walmart will purchase Chemo Beanies to sell in their stores.
Carol A. Geise, M.P.S. ’90 (LIMEX), recently ranked No. 3 in sales volume increase in District 4221, Starfire Division, as an independent sales representative for Avon Products Inc. The district has about 850 representatives. Penny Menge ’90 (nursing) was named a Health Care Hero by New Orleans CityBusiness for her work as a nurse. Simone Bruni ’93 (communication) was named to the Louisiana SPCA’s Board of Directors. Clint Cantwell ’93 (communication) is the editor of Grilling.com and president of SIDE Ink, a public relations and branding firm devoted to live fire cooking. Cantwell travels the country in search of “the people, places, and tastes that define our shared grilling culture.” He lives in Memphis, Tennessee, with his wife, three kids, and a dog named Charcoal, and he enjoys sharing recipes and his barbecue and grilling expertise via his website, social media, traditional media, and cooking demonstrations. Mykel Shannon Jenkins ’93 (communication) is starring in, directing, and producing a web series, Off the Grid, an action thriller. Chauntis Jenkins ’95 (political science) was selected as a fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation. Jenkins is a partner at the New Orleans branch of the law firm Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson.
Lee Reid ’96 (political science), J.D. ‘99, was named to the board of commissioners of the Arts Council of New Orleans. Reid is a partner at Adams & Reese law firm. Avery Corenswet ’97 (nursing) was named a Health Care Hero by New Orleans CityBusiness. Courtney Burke Maron ’97 (communication) is now senior vice president, group partner at Universal McCann, the media arm of McCann Erickson in New York. Maron oversees the Integrated Investment teams for both Chrysler LLC and Charles Schwab. Michael Brough, M.P.S. ’98, a graduate of the Loyola Institute for Ministry, recently returned to Loyola as part of the Ministry of Management Seminar sponsored by the Jesuits of the New Orleans Province. Brough is the director of engagement at the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management. Amy Cyrex Sins ’98 (communication) was honored as a 2013 Junior Achievement Rising Star for her work as the chef/owner of Langlois Culinary Crossroads. Erick Cordero-Giorgana ’99 (political science) was hired as chief of staff for freshman Alaska State Representative Lynn Gattis from Wasilla.
2000s Ansel Augustine '00 (sociology), M.P.S. '02, was recently named the director of the archdiocese’s Office of Black Catholic Ministries. Augustine, a New Orleans native, previously led the archdiocese’s Young Adult Ministry office and worked with youth at St. Peter Claver Church. In his new role, Augustine will serve as the link between the archdiocese and the city’s Catholic AfricanAmericans. Augustine sits on the board of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry and delivered a keynote address at the
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COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, continued National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis in November. He is a former board member of the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association (See story p. 50) Tim Lentz ’04 (criminal justice), M.C.J. ’08 , was named Covington police chief by Mayor Mike Cooper. Brandon Robb ’04 (political science), J.D. ’08, and Ryan Delaney, J.D. ’08, were recently profiled in New Orleans CityBusiness for their new law firm, Delaney & Robb Attorneys at Law. The two opened their firm this summer to address the lack of legal services that target issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender couples. They both say that the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act could have repercussions in Louisiana, even though the state is one of 35 that does not currently recognize samesex unions. Susan J. Thomas, M.S.N. ’04, joined American Sentinel University, a leading online university accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council and a recognized member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, as an assistant professor of nursing. She will be responsible for developing online nursing courses that meet the quality standards set forth by the Commission for the Collegiate Nursing Education and American Sentinel University. Thomas will also work with the dean of nursing to maintain curriculum integrity, promote learning opportunities for students, and foster a rich online environment for the students. Katelyn Whitty ‘04 (communication) was recently promoted to Director of Collegiate Experience for Alpha Chi Omega in Indianapolis. Lyndsey Young ’04 (communication) is a co-founder of Women in Technology, a group that hopes to increase the number of
women who work in the growing tech field while also addressing pay discrepancies between those women and their male counterparts. She also started Voce Media, a digital marketing agency for the New Orleans entertainment and tourism industries, in June.
since before his graduation, and he has won numerous Press Club of New Orleans awards. He recently published a book about Loyola’s 1945 championship basketball team, Fight, Grin & Squarely Play the Game. (See story p. 29)
Kelly Williams Brown ’06 (mass communication) appeared on the Today show to promote her book, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps, on June 19, and her book was featured in the New York Times on June 21. Her book has also received coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, and Vogue, among others. (See story p. 48)
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Lesley Bourlet ’07 (nursing) was named a Health Care Hero by New Orleans CityBusiness for her work as a nurse. Jeremy Claud ’07 (communication) joined mono ad agency in Minneapolis as a creative copywriter. Daniel Howard Green ’07 (political science) was ordained into the priesthood on June 1 at a Mass at St. Louis Cathedral. While at Loyola, Green served as president of the Student Government Association. He reported to his new parish, Visitation of Our Lady Church in Marrero, on July 1. Lauren LaBorde ’09 (communication) appeared on the TODAY show, CNN, and MSNBC after the video she co-wrote and -starred in, #MyPurseMyChoice (along with non-alumna Colleen Allerton), went viral, receiving almost 400,000 views on YouTube since Sunday. The video has also been covered on Yahoo!, Uproxx's With Leather, USA Today's For the Win blog, CNBC, and the New York Times, among others. (See story p. 40) Ramon Vargas ’09 (communication), was recently hired to cover the Saints for the Advocate. Vargas has been a writer for the Times-Picayune and NOLA.com
Leigh Pechon ’10 (communication) was hired by Zehnder Communications in New Orleans as a media coordinator. Kristie Hadley ’11 (sociology), a former Ignatian scholar, was the sole recipient of a four-year $12,000 per year scholarship from the Medical School for International Health. The scholarship recognizes
Hadley’s extensive global health activities and interests, including her Ignacio Volunteers trips to Belize and Jamaica. Hadley is now in her first year of medical school at the MSIH in Beer-sheva, Israel, a collaboration between Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Columbia University Medical Center that incorporates global health coursework into a traditional medical school education. Will Bryant (non-degreed, communication) was hired as president and CEO of Pro Placement USA.
MULTI-COLLEGE 1970s Clayton White ’78 (physics), M.B.A. ’93, J.D. ’07, was honored as a 2013 MoneyMaker by New Orleans CityBusiness.
1980s Raul Navarro ’83 (geology), S.J. ’83, M.B.A. ’86, M.S. ’95, was ordained as a priest on June 8. New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond performed the Mass of Ordination at the Holy Name of Jesus Church on the Loyola campus. Father Navarro will serve at Immaculate Conception Church on Baronne Street in New Orleans.
2000s Michelle Lucas Huck, C.P.A., C.I.A., C.F.E., ’04 (economics and history) is working as a controller at the law firm Liskow & Lewis in New Orleans. Elliot Sanchez ’08 (philosophy and political science) was chosen to be a part of the local IDEAxcelerator program through The Idea Village.
He is also the founder of mSchool, a program that rapidly establishes miniature schools inside community centers. His program won the 4.0 Education Challenge at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week last March, a $25,000 prize that he says will help him open 20 more school next year. Ashley Stevens ’11 (music and communication) was named account coordinator for The Food Group, a national food and beverage marketing agency. Stevens represents the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board in all of its national efforts, including a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign. She represented Louisiana Seafood at the Super Bowl in New Orleans and also coordinated the local filming of a national television show. She was named to the 2013 class of Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans, the youngest person ever to be accepted to this elite group. She is also a member of the Young Leadership Council and the Public Relations Society of America awards committee.
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Growing Up in 468 Steps By Kate Trotter ‘14
Kelly Williams Brown ’06 Loyola University New Orleans School of Mass Communication alumna Kelly Williams Brown ’06 has written just about the most helpful guide to becoming a successful adult you’ll ever find, according to Publishers Weekly. The book has been covered in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Vogue. Brown’s new book, Adulting: How to Become a GrownUp in 468 Easy(ish) Steps, published Grant Central Publishing, includes valuable, practical advice for those in their 20s (or 30s) looking to navigate the rough roads of adulthood. Brown appeared on NBC’s TODAY show this summer to explain a few of the book’s steps, which cover everything from getting your taxes done on time and what to wear on casual Fridays to being a good apartment tenant and even reasonable dating etiquette. Although most steps offer insight on issues adults presume they will encounter eventually, some steps cover the basics, such as toilet paper (in step No. 18), a necessity often forgotten about. “One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper,” Brown writes. “Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed, and now it’s a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?” Brown’s humorous and relatable anecdotes fill her book alongside her 468 steps, leaving readers with a new best friend who not only tells all but is also forgiving of inevitable mistakes such as, in step No. 382, going a bit crazy after having your heart broken. “Heartbreak can induce insanity in the very sanest of us,” she writes. “If you could wave a wand and make your48
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self not feel it, you would. Constantly reminding yourself how pathetic you are does not need to be a part of it.” The verb “adulting” was originally created for Brown’s blog, which has more than 140,000 followers on Tumblr. Brown claims the blog helps you act like an adult even if you don’t feel like one, which Brown can easily relate to herself. Actually, most of her advice and steps come from other people, including friends and strangers. “Wise random strangers at bars are modern-day Oracles of Delphi, except drunk and sometimes leaving abruptly when it’s their turn for karaoke,” Brown writes. An important part of the book is the beginning, which instructs readers to get their minds right and accept (in step No. 1) that they are not “Special Snowflake[s].” It might be a tough statement to digest right away, but Brown wants readers to know that taking a new perspective on life is one of the first steps to being a grown-up. “The point of this book is that even though things seem – and are – complicated and difficult, we have control over ourselves,” Brown writes. “Someone is a grown-up by virtue of acting like one. And no matter who you are, you can be a grown-up.” As for advice to any future writers, Brown believes in looking to your audience. “I think the only really useful advice for anyone who wants to be a writer (besides insane amounts of practice) is asking yourself not why you want to write this, but why others want to read it,” Brown says. Brown, currently working as a copywriter for Leopold Ketel & Partners in Portland, Oregon, has worked as a reporter and columnist for various newspapers for six years and was an award-winning humor columnist for the Statesman Journal, a daily newspaper in Salem, Oregon.
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Leading With Faith Alumnus Ansel Augustine named director of Black Catholic Ministry By Mikel Pak, Associate Director of Public Affairs
Ansel Augustine ’00 In July, Loyola University New Orleans alumnus Ansel Augustine ’00 (sociology), M.P.S. ’02, embarked on a new chapter of his life’s work in ministry as director of the Archdiocese of New Orleans Office of Black Catholic Ministry. “What a good choice for director of Black Catholic Ministry in New Orleans,” says Tom Ryan, Ph.D., director of the Loyola Institute for Ministry, where Augustine earned his master’s degree. “Ansel is a leader. He’s wise, insightful, has national connections and a great sense of humor. New Orleans is lucky to have him.” Augustine will lead the office in its mission to serve as a bridge between the resources of the Archdiocese and the gifts of the black Catholic community of New Orleans. One of the largest programs for the Black Catholic Ministry is its Annual Gospel Fest, which took place Sept. 14. The call to ministry came to Augustine while a student at Loyola. “Loyola was, and continues to be, a place where my ministry is nurtured,” Augustine says. “My ministry was forever changed when Loyola University Ministry challenged me to go back to my old neighbor50
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hood – the Sixth Ward/Treme – and serve my home parish, St. Peter Claver. It was there that youth ministry became my passion.” He began helping with the youth group at St. Peter Claver, and after he graduated with his master’s degree, a job was waiting for him there. “I had so many people praying and believing in me,” he says. “That’s the blessing of Loyola. Everyone from the people that maintain the campus and serve in the cafeteria all the way up to the president’s office had a hand in my holistic Loyola education. I know that I wouldn’t be the man that I am if it hadn’t been for the love and support of these Loyola faculty and staff.” Previously he served as the associate director of the Archdiocese of New Orleans CYO Youth and Young Adult Ministry Office. He also served on the board for the National Young Adult Ministry Association and presently serves on the board for the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry. He also gave a keynote speech at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis.
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In Memoriam ALUMNI Virginia M. Scheppegrell ‘38 Eula Andrus Cobena ’40 William J. Guste Jr. ’42, J.D. ’43, H’74 Mildred Sendker Egan ’45, M.E. ‘53 Dr. Kathryn Krieger Nix ‘45 Judith W. Gehrig Hattier ‘47 Luis A. Tizol ‘47 Malcolm A. McKeller ‘48 Michael J. Carubba ’49 Rene M. Crane Jr. ’49 Lester J. Madere ‘49 Roland F. Poche Jr. ‘49 Julian B. Quigley ‘49 Ronald F. Sadlier ‘49 Dr. William T. Welsh Jr., D.D.S. ‘49 Charles J. Holloway ‘50 Dr. Joseph G. Juracovich ‘50 Kathleen McShane Keller ‘50 Dr. Frank A. Kruse Jr., D.D.S. ‘50 Dr. Edward L. Schmidt Jr. ‘50 Gerald R. Seely ‘50 James L. Toca III ‘50 Ignatius J. Barreca ’51 Joseph H. Duggan ‘51 Ronald J. Hingle ‘51 Edward S. Rapier ‘51 George T. Vila, J.D. ‘51 Howard B. Bolton ’52 Grace Landry Dauphin ’52 Dr. Edward B. Goellner ‘52 June Conravey Kissgen ‘52 Arthur Abramson ’53 Joseph S. Comeaux ’53 Louis J. Hauth ‘53 Audrey Brown Truxillo ‘53 Dr. Andrew A. Arata ’54 Raymond J. Fagot ‘54 Dr. Wilfred J. Fontenot, D.D.S. ‘54 Dr. Harry F. Leveque Jr. ‘54 Roger E. Manfre ’54, J.D. ‘62 Joseph M. Singerman ’54, J.D. ‘73 Colonel Roy L. Schutzmann (ret.) ‘54
Gerald A. Stewart, J.D. ‘54 George R. Bischoff Jr. ’55 Sister Rosemary Montecino, C.S.J., ‘55 Rodney T. Dolese ‘56 Dr. Richard C. Curry, D.D.S. ‘57 Sister Louise Ibert, C.S.J., ‘57 Joseph F. Bonfiglio Sr., M.E. ’58 Carl A. Deroche ’58, M.B.A. ‘64 Doris Depaoli Kauder ‘58 Anthony Pizzitola Jr. ‘58 Abraham J. Plough ‘58 Ronald J. Haydel ‘59 John K. Jackson Jr. ‘59 Walter E. Mount Jr. ‘59 Dr. Edmond J. Ganucheau Jr., D.D.S. ‘60 Dr. Milford L. Kathmann Jr., D.D.S. ‘60 Dr. Louis Le Blanc Jr., D.D.S. ‘60 Richard K. Mazeau, J.D. ’60 Charles E. Chavanne ’61 Olive Walker Currier ’61 John E. Gauci ‘61 Dr. Martin F. Gravel ‘61 Louise Barrois Mount ‘62 H. Andrew Dawson Jr. ’63 Thomas D. Hamilton ‘63 Alex L. Pisciotta ‘63 Albert J. Winters Jr. ’63, J.D. ‘66 The Hon. Edward E. Carriere Jr. ’65, J.D. ‘67 J. Philip Stein, J.D. ‘65 Gloria Cox Fallo ’66, M.M. ‘89 Mary Josephine Butler Gonzalez ‘66 Bonnie Bagert Carpenter ’67 Mary Williams Cazalas, J.D. ‘67 Edward E. Madden Jr. ‘68 Marilyn L. Farnet ‘69 Michael A. Herrera ‘69 Robert J. Neal, J.D. ‘69 Daniel W. Osborne ‘69 Hal Brown Jr. ’70 Elaine Devenport Clary, M.E. ’71 Earl J. Grego ‘71 Gregory J. Reibenspies ‘71 Lawrence Stewart ‘71
Paul E. Trouard ‘71 Donald K. Eppling ’72 Diane Fontcuberta ’72, M.E. ‘75 Dorothy S. Wright Washington, M.E. ‘72 James E. Kurzweg, J.D. ‘73 Charles N. Pyeatte ‘73 Charles C. Spinosa Jr. ‘73 Elizabeth K. Waligora ‘74 Elmire F. Becker, M.E. ’75 Henry E. Braden IV, J.D. ‘75 August L. Claverie Jr. ’75 Joseph G. Gibson, M.A. ‘76 The Hon. Corinne “Lindy” Claiborne Boggs H’77 Taline Dadian Infante, A.D.H. ‘77 Frank A. Volpi Jr. ‘77 Murray J. Naihaus ‘78 Renee E. Pesquie, A.D.H. ‘78 Catherine Gordon ‘84 John T. Culotta, J.D. ‘85 Sally I. Gilmore, J.D. ‘86 Deborah A. Van Meter, J.D. ‘87 Clayton J. Joffrion, J.D. ‘88 Pamela A. Chevalier August ’91, J.D. ‘01 Robert M. Hodge, J.D. ‘95 Jeremy Johnson ‘96 Patricia Stamps Phipps ‘98 Ignace J. Tanner Sr. ‘98 Kathryn Greer Feagin ‘99 Frances M. Harris, C.P.S. ‘00 Julianne J. Stein, M.R.E. ‘01 Lisette A. Charbonnet, C.S.S. ‘08 Elizabeth L. McGowan Montgomery, Ph.D., C.R.E. ‘08 Virginia Baylor Malik (non-degreed) STUDENT Foster P. Douglas STAFF Madeline Faust FACULTY Philip B. Frohnmayer
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In Memoriam ALUMNI Virginia M. Scheppegrell ‘38 Eula Andrus Cobena ’40 William J. Guste Jr. ’42, J.D. ’43, H’74 Mildred Sendker Egan ’45, M.E. ‘53 Dr. Kathryn Krieger Nix ‘45 Judith W. Gehrig Hattier ‘47 Luis A. Tizol ‘47 Malcolm A. McKeller ‘48 Michael J. Carubba ’49 Rene M. Crane Jr. ’49 Lester J. Madere ‘49 Roland F. Poche Jr. ‘49 Julian B. Quigley ‘49 Ronald F. Sadlier ‘49 Dr. William T. Welsh Jr., D.D.S. ‘49 Charles J. Holloway ‘50 Dr. Joseph G. Juracovich ‘50 Kathleen McShane Keller ‘50 Dr. Frank A. Kruse Jr., D.D.S. ‘50 Dr. Edward L. Schmidt Jr. ‘50 Gerald R. Seely ‘50 James L. Toca III ‘50 Ignatius J. Barreca ’51 Joseph H. Duggan ‘51 Ronald J. Hingle ‘51 Edward S. Rapier ‘51 George T. Vila, J.D. ‘51 Howard B. Bolton ’52 Grace Landry Dauphin ’52 Dr. Edward B. Goellner ‘52 June Conravey Kissgen ‘52 Arthur Abramson ’53 Joseph S. Comeaux ’53 Louis J. Hauth ‘53 Audrey Brown Truxillo ‘53 Dr. Andrew A. Arata ’54 Raymond J. Fagot ‘54 Dr. Wilfred J. Fontenot, D.D.S. ‘54 Dr. Harry F. Leveque Jr. ‘54 Roger E. Manfre ’54, J.D. ‘62 Joseph M. Singerman ’54, J.D. ‘73 Colonel Roy L. Schutzmann (ret.) ‘54
Gerald A. Stewart, J.D. ‘54 George R. Bischoff Jr. ’55 Sister Rosemary Montecino, C.S.J., ‘55 Rodney T. Dolese ‘56 Dr. Richard C. Curry, D.D.S. ‘57 Sister Louise Ibert, C.S.J., ‘57 Joseph F. Bonfiglio Sr., M.E. ’58 Carl A. Deroche ’58, M.B.A. ‘64 Doris Depaoli Kauder ‘58 Anthony Pizzitola Jr. ‘58 Abraham J. Plough ‘58 Ronald J. Haydel ‘59 John K. Jackson Jr. ‘59 Walter E. Mount Jr. ‘59 Dr. Edmond J. Ganucheau Jr., D.D.S. ‘60 Dr. Milford L. Kathmann Jr., D.D.S. ‘60 Dr. Louis Le Blanc Jr., D.D.S. ‘60 Richard K. Mazeau, J.D. ’60 Charles E. Chavanne ’61 Olive Walker Currier ’61 John E. Gauci ‘61 Dr. Martin F. Gravel ‘61 Louise Barrois Mount ‘62 H. Andrew Dawson Jr. ’63 Thomas D. Hamilton ‘63 Alex L. Pisciotta ‘63 Albert J. Winters Jr. ’63, J.D. ‘66 The Hon. Edward E. Carriere Jr. ’65, J.D. ‘67 J. Philip Stein, J.D. ‘65 Gloria Cox Fallo ’66, M.M. ‘89 Mary Josephine Butler Gonzalez ‘66 Bonnie Bagert Carpenter ’67 Mary Williams Cazalas, J.D. ‘67 Edward E. Madden Jr. ‘68 Marilyn L. Farnet ‘69 Michael A. Herrera ‘69 Robert J. Neal, J.D. ‘69 Daniel W. Osborne ‘69 Hal Brown Jr. ’70 Elaine Devenport Clary, M.E. ’71 Earl J. Grego ‘71 Gregory J. Reibenspies ‘71 Lawrence Stewart ‘71
Paul E. Trouard ‘71 Donald K. Eppling ’72 Diane Fontcuberta ’72, M.E. ‘75 Dorothy S. Wright Washington, M.E. ‘72 James E. Kurzweg, J.D. ‘73 Charles N. Pyeatte ‘73 Charles C. Spinosa Jr. ‘73 Elizabeth K. Waligora ‘74 Elmire F. Becker, M.E. ’75 Henry E. Braden IV, J.D. ‘75 August L. Claverie Jr. ’75 Joseph G. Gibson, M.A. ‘76 The Hon. Corinne “Lindy” Claiborne Boggs H’77 Taline Dadian Infante, A.D.H. ‘77 Frank A. Volpi Jr. ‘77 Murray J. Naihaus ‘78 Renee E. Pesquie, A.D.H. ‘78 Catherine Gordon ‘84 John T. Culotta, J.D. ‘85 Sally I. Gilmore, J.D. ‘86 Deborah A. Van Meter, J.D. ‘87 Clayton J. Joffrion, J.D. ‘88 Pamela A. Chevalier August ’91, J.D. ‘01 Robert M. Hodge, J.D. ‘95 Jeremy Johnson ‘96 Patricia Stamps Phipps ‘98 Ignace J. Tanner Sr. ‘98 Kathryn Greer Feagin ‘99 Frances M. Harris, C.P.S. ‘00 Julianne J. Stein, M.R.E. ‘01 Lisette A. Charbonnet, C.S.S. ‘08 Elizabeth L. McGowan Montgomery, Ph.D., C.R.E. ‘08 Virginia Baylor Malik (non-degreed) STUDENT Foster P. Douglas STAFF Madeline Faust FACULTY Philip B. Frohnmayer
Please consider leaving a legacy to Loyola University New Orleans in your will. Visit our website at www.loyno.edu/plannedgiving, and consult your adviser prior to making gifts to charity.
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