Loyno Magazine Fall 2018

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Hope & Healing Dr. Tony Lazzara

honored with Integritas Vitae Award The Inauguration of President Tania Tetlow

schedule of events

The Promise of

SUCCESS All the resources students need to keep them on the path to graduation in one centralized new location

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Loyola's new Pan-American Life Student Success Center provides resources to empower students

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President’s Message Inauguration Day Know & Tell News Roundup Integritas Vitae The Loyola Effect Alumni Events Class Notes How Loyola Shaped Me College Roundup

FALL 2018 Vol. 28, No. 3 Editor Laura F. Frerichs Designers Hollie Garrison Linda Lien-Ribardi

Distinguished Alumnus

ESPN's Michael Smith ’01 returns to campus as visiting professional in residence

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University Photographer Kyle Encar Contributing Writers Angelique Dyer ’11 Will Glass Associate Director of Public Affairs Patricia Murret Executive Director of Development Stephanie Hotard ’04, M.B.A. ’10 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Engagement Laurie Eichelberger Leiva ’03 Vice President for Institutional Advancement Chris Wiseman ’88, Ph.D. Executive Director of Marketing and Communications Laura F. Frerichs University President Tania Tetlow

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Inauguration Day

Tania Tetlow sworn in as 17th President of Loyola University New Orleans

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In the 2018 Presidential Issue of LOYNO Magazine, Sr. Maureen Fay’s name was spelled incorrectly. Also, the University of Detroit Mercy was noted incorrectly. We apologize for the mistake.

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

A message from

President Tania Tetlow Dear Loyola community, This is my fourth month as president of Loyola, and I have been utterly inspired by the community I have joined. Every day I revel in the passionate commitment of the staff, the remarkable teaching and research of the faculty, and the joyful enthusiasm of the students. The energy of these students — these talented, diverse, and brilliant students — fuels everything we do.

It is a humbling honor to serve as a temporary caretaker of this crucial institution. I feel the presence of my grandfather, who played football here in 1928, and my uncle, who served as dean of Arts and Sciences in 1970. I have strong memories of walking from middle school at Holy Name of Jesus to my father’s faculty office in Monroe Hall. Loyola has made all the difference to my own family and to so many of yours.

Loyola has fostered much success and endured many hardships over more than a century. I like to think that Loyola’s red brick walls have absorbed the resilience and grit of generations of students who fought to be here, who worked with military discipline to hone every talent God gave them. Together, the Loyola community has survived wars, fires, floods, and economic recessions and always emerged stronger.

As you know, these past years have been another difficult time for the Loyola community. In 2012, we changed our financial aid strategies, and it unintentionally caused a serious dip in enrollment and thus in our revenue. Because of that, Loyola had to downsize for smaller classes — first through attrition and buyouts and then ultimately some cuts. This has been a painful time for a very tight-knit community.

But here is the good news. Through creativity and entrepreneurship, Loyola has come back strong. Loyola worked to restore its admissions strength, and the size of the student body

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has increased from 3,836 to 4,302 in the past three years. And we have brought our extraordinary teaching to an ever-broader market through online and continuing education.

Our budget is balanced this fiscal year, thanks to much hard work before I arrived. We now wait to find out about one final hurdle this December: whether our accrediting agency decides to put us on financial probation to make sure we live within that balanced budget this year. Having approved of our academic performance on all 96 different measures, they may want time to ensure that we have indeed righted our fiscal ship. We know that we have.

Here is what makes me proudest. In the midst of this difficult period, Loyola’s faculty and staff have managed to do even better by our students. Our retention rate of students between their first and second years has soared eight percentage points in three years. The average LSAT score for our incoming law students went up four points this year, and our Louisiana bar passage rate for first-time test-takers is an impressive 87 percent.

This is our moment to dream again, to decide how to build on our strengths. Loyola has come together with the resilience you remember and the magic you can never forget.

We teach students doctrine but also discipline. We forge character. We change lives. We harness the driving creativity of New Orleans and the passionate commitment of Jesuit education.

That is our Jesuit mission.

Tania Tetlow, J.D. University President

Inauguration Presidential

Loyola University New Orleans made history this year with the appointment of Tania Tetlow, J.D., as the university’s 17th president. She is the first woman and the first layperson to lead Loyola since the university’s founding in 1912.

President Tetlow is also the fourth woman president, as well as the youngest woman president, to lead one of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S. With joy, the Loyola community celebrates this historic moment with an Inauguration Celebration, to be held Nov. 15 and 16, 2018.

Thursday, November 15

Friday, November 16

Missioning Mass

inauguration CereMony

11:30 a.m. | Holy Name of Jesus Church

4 p.m. | Holy Name of Jesus Church

President Tetlow formally accepts from the Provincial of the U.S. Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus her role in furthering the mission of the university. President Tetlow’s uncle, the Rev. Joseph Tetlow, S.J., former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Loyola Alumni Association president, will give the homily. Music will be provided by the university’s esteemed College of Music and Fine Arts.

Post-Mass student Celebration 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. | Peace Quad Students will celebrate our new university president with their own fun-filled event, led by the Department of Student Life and Ministry and the Student Government Association. On tap for the afternoon are “Trivia with Tetlow,” a photo booth, and other games. Join us on Snapchat for a look-see!

inauguration ConCert 7 p.m. | Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall Presented by the College of Music and Fine Arts, this multidisciplinary hour-long concert event features Loyola alumni along with current faculty and student performances in celebration of President Tetlow’s inauguration. The concert is free, and tickets are not required.

President Tetlow is inaugurated as the 17th president of Loyola University New Orleans. Speakers include New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell; Tulane University President Michael A. Fitts, J.D.; retired Xavier University Louisiana President Norman Francis, J.D. ’55, H ’82; and journalist Cokie Roberts, H ’93. Archbishop of New Orleans the Rev. Gregory M. Aymond will offer the Benediction. Music will be provided by the university’s esteemed College of Music and Fine Arts.

Inauguration r eCePtion 5:30 p.m. | Palm Court Immediately following the Inauguration Ceremony, a celebration will be held in the Palm Court. All are welcome.

1912 soCiety inauguration dinner 6:30 p.m. | Audubon Tea Room, Audubon Park Tickets are required for this event.

The annual 1912 Society Dinner moves to the Audubon Tea Room this year for a post-Inauguration Celebration to welcome President Tetlow.

At the event, Loyola will present one of its highest honors, the 2018 Integritas Vitae Award, to Dr. Anthony “Tony” Lazzara, a pediatrician who left an academic position at Emory University in 1983 to begin an apostolate among the poor children of the developing world. Through the Villa la Paz Foundation, he leads Hogar San Francisco de Asis, a home for destitute ill children near Lima, Peru.

watch the INAUGURATION CEREMONY online at LOYNO.EDU/ INAUGURATION FALL 2018 | loyno

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know&tell Loyno news worth howling about

Emmy award-winning Loyola alumnus Chris Delhomme ’97, vice president of communications for VH1, MTV, and Logo, is

“beyond proud!!!!”

to be part of a team that took home TV’s top honor. VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race won five Emmy awards this year and made Emmys history as the first show to win Outstanding Reality Competition and Outstanding Reality Host in the same year. Delhomme, honored this summer as PR Executive of the Year by CableFax, studied drama and communications at Loyola and previously worked as a publicist for E! Networks, Comcast, and CMT.

American biologist and Loyola University New Orleans Chair of Environmental Communication

Bob Thomas, Ph.D., has a new namesake — a species of snakes:

Pseudalsophis Thomasi, from the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. Dr. Thomas has spent over 40 years studying neotropical snakes and now bears the honor of having a species on the Island of Santiago and Rábida named after him. The snakes’ ancestors arrived on Galápagos more than 4 million years ago and are part of the estimated 5,000 unique species of animals that inhabit the islands. Photo credit: Miguel T. Rodrigues

In September, Loyola celebrated a generous

$1.5 million gift

that will expand the scope of the university’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development, now under the direction of Kate McCrery. Bestowed by an anonymous donor, the gift will transform and expand opportunities available to all Loyola students aiming to pursue their interests in entrepreneurship. The gift will allow the CECD to hire and train additional staff, further develop experiential programming for students, bring entrepreneurs and mentors to campus, and launch a new consulting venture that will allow Loyola entrepreneurship majors and MBA students to gain professional experience while providing local businesses operational support.

Filmmaker and young alumna Cami Thomas ’15

recently premiered the second season of her docuseries, Smoke City,

a visual glance into the segregation issue in her hometown of St. Louis. The series was inspired by the aftermath of the death of Mike Brown in Ferguson and captures stories that address the racial divide in St. Louis and how segregation in the city specifically impacts African Americans. Thomas' series can be viewed at ftctvofficial.com.

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Support the

Wolf Pack

wherever you go!

The newly redesigned Loyola license plate is now available from the State of Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles. Proceeds from each purchased license plate support the general scholarship fund.

The Women of the Storm

alliance honored Loyola President Tania Tetlow and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell in October for their work in New Orleans after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Tetlow has been active with the organization since 2006, when she traveled to Washington, D.C., to help raise awareness of the devastation and destruction in New Orleans to Congress.

Howl! Starting this fall, Loyola will

livestream on-campus athletic events

on the university website with the help of new state-of-the-art resources and an exciting new partnership between Athletics and the School of Mass Communication.

Thanks to cutting-edge new technology and high-definition cameras purchased in summer 2018 through an endowment established by the Joseph Costello family, Loyola journalism students can now record athletics events and send them via an IP-based feed across campus to the School of Mass Communication’s Digital Communications Lab, where they will be broadcast live on the Loyola Athletics streaming website. You will be able to enjoy Wolf Pack Athletics from wherever you are around the world on the university’s website. Tune in at portal.stretchinternet.com/loyno Through this new partnership, Loyola students will gain valuable training and professional live broadcast experience. Using some of the most advanced technology available, they will be able to shoot, edit, and produce sports journalism highlights and interviews that will be offered to local newsrooms. Audiences will enjoy better production, better sound, better video quality, and graphics not previously possible at Loyola. And Wolf Pack athletes will get more of the attention they deserve.

Leigh Morgan Thorpe ’03, was elected the new Loyola University New Orleans

Alumni Association Board President.

Thorpe has been an active volunteer for Loyola, serving as president-elect of the Loyola University Alumni Association and also chair of the Loyola Loyal alumni giving campaign as well as president of Loyola’s Young Alumni Pack. She was also named Volunteer Young Alumna of the Year in 2009. In 2016, she was named one of New Orleans’ 40 Under 40 by Gambit Weekly.

She currently serves as senior vice president of resource development and marketing for United Way of Southeast Louisiana, managing two teams within the organization dedicated to reaching this year’s $12.4 million fundraising goal.

Immediately following Hurricane Katrina, Thorpe served as director of United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council and director of corporate partnerships.

She is a graduate of both the Center for Nonprofit Resources’ BoardsWork board training program, which she also co-chaired for two years after being brought back under the umbrella of the Junior League of New Orleans, and the Committee for a Better New Orleans’ Metropolitan Leadership Forum.

Thorpe also is well- known for her volunteerism in the New Orleans community, having dedicated her talents to chair, fundraise, and advise myriad notable charities, organizations, and causes.

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news roundup New Music Program Emerges The New Urban and Electronic Music Production Program is the first of its kind in the country.

Michael Smith ’01 serves as visiting professional in residence.

ESPN Anchor Joins Faculty Michael Smith, anchor, commentator, and reporter for ESPN, served as the keynote speaker at the Louisiana Journalism Education Association Fall 2018 conference, on Sept. 27 at Loyola University New Orleans. Smith also served as visiting professional in residence in the School of Mass Communication Sept. 25-27, working with mass communication majors at Loyola before opening the high school journalists’ conference. The Louisiana JEA Fall Conference was co-sponsored by the Press Club of New Orleans and the Loyola School of Mass Communication. It included the Fall 2018 JEA/Tom Bell Silver Scribe Yearbook Contest, open to any Louisiana high school that produced a printed yearbook for the 2017-18 academic year.

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“We are always delighted to have our distinguished alumni return to provide insight and encouragement to current students, and Michael is generous with his time and expertise,” said Sonya F. Duhé, Ph.D., director of the School of Mass Communication.

A member of the Loyola class of 2001, Smith was inducted into the School of Mass Communication’s alumni hall of fame, the Den of Distinction, in 2013.

Prior to joining ESPN, Smith was a reporter for the Boston Globe, serving as the paper’s NFL and New England Patriots beat writer. Smith began his journalism career while a student at Loyola University in his hometown of New Orleans, serving as a sports reporter and casino copy editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and sports columnist for the awardwinning Loyola Maroon.

Since 2004, Smith has regularly appeared on ESPN studio programs in a wide variety of roles, including as co-anchor for the 6 p.m. weekday edition of SportsCenter, ESPN’s flagship program; as an NFL reporter and insider for SportsCenter, NFL Live, and Sunday NFL Countdown; and in 2016 as the co-anchor for Fantasy Football Now. From 2011-2017, Smith co-hosted a daily midday talk show, first titled Numbers Never Lie and later re-named His & Hers, after his popular podcast. He also periodically appears as a panelist on Around the Horn and was a correspondent for ESPN's news magazine show, E:60.

Smith is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

In the fall semester of 2019, the university will launch the first program of its kind in the United States, the Bachelor of Science in Urban and Electronic Music Production degree in the College of Music and Fine Arts. This program is designed to immerse students in the worlds of modern hip-hop, R&B, and EDM from their very first semester. Students will have the chance to work with state-of-the-art recording studios and software and Grammy-winning faculty, and this degree provides an avenue for young aspiring producers, rap artists, singers, and musicians to capture and hone their skills and learn every aspect of the music and recording industries.

Law Graduates Excel They did it again – Loyola law graduates achieve high bar passage rate in Louisiana for the second year in a row.

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law graduates once again have achieved a high bar passage rate on the July 2018 Louisiana State Bar Exam.

For the second year running, Loyola’s first-time test-takers passed the Louisiana State Bar Exam at an impressive rate of 87 percent. Loyola scores also rose across the board — nearly 84 percent of all Loyola test-takers passed the exam, a 2 percent increase from last year.

The College of Law offers both civil law and common law curricula, preparing graduates to practice law in Louisiana, across the nation, and throughout the world. “I am so very proud of our graduates and the academic strength of our faculty,” said Dean Madeleine M. Landrieu, a Loyola law alumnus and former state appellate judge. “We look forward to welcoming our graduates into this great profession.”

First Lady Exclusive

Graduate Shines Bright Thanh Mai ’18, history and philosophy major, has won a Fulbright award at the Universiteit Hasselt in Belgium for the 2018-2019 academic year.

After she completes her time in Belgium, she will begin graduate work in philosophy at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

During her time at Loyola, Mai served as the conference organizer of the annual Student Peace Conference; completed an internship with the New Orleans Citizens Diplomacy Council; won several awards as an honors student; and was a member of the Ethics Bowl team, where she competed in the spring of 2016 in the National Bioethics Bowl Championship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

School of Mass Communication alumnus interviews First Lady Melania Trump.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Tom Llamas ’01 secured an exclusive interview with First Lady Melania Trump that aired on ABC Oct. 12, 2018. Llamas serves as the ABC News chief national affairs correspondent and traveled to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya, to interview the first lady about her life in the White House; her role as first lady and what she hopes to accomplish; her first solo trip on the global stage; and her husband, President Donald Trump.

Photo credit: ABC News/Tony Karumba

Kissing Bug Achievement Faculty member discovered a new species of kissing bugs in Belize.

Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., William and Audrey Hutchinson Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Loyola, with the help of a few colleagues, recently discovered a new species of the kissing bug in a cave in Belize. Kissing bugs can carry the deadly Chagas parasite, which Dorn and her team have already found in this new species.

Dorn named the new species Triatoma mopan in honor of the indigenous Mopan Maya historically and presently in this region. Dorn and collaborators from Guatemala, Vermont, and Brazil published their discovery in ZooKeys journal this past summer.

Photo credit: Raquel Lima

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A LIFE OF SERVICE

Patients, staff, colleagues, comrades ­— all who come to know Dr. Anthony “Tony” Lazzara give testament to his compassion.

His generosity. His kindness.

His selflessness.

At his clinic home Hogar San Francisco de Asis in Peru with capacity for 40 live-in patients, Lazzara averages 50 (or more). The children range from newborns to young adults and stay as long as he can help them. They suffer from an array of illnesses from malnutrition and tuberculosis to cerebral palsy and leukemia. His clinic is often the only chance of medical care for some of Peru’s most impoverished families, and many of his patients otherwise would receive no treatment.

HOPE & HEALING dr. anthony lazzara and a lifetime of service For children at Hogar, all medical treatments, including drugs and surgeries, are offered free of charge.

Lazzara also pays for their education, physical therapists, nurses, cooks, laundresses, and three nutritious meals a day.

He brings wrapped gifts and a cake each month to celebrate the children whose birthdays fall during their stay.

He brings relief, routine, dignity, compassion, healing, and hope.

“This is a story laced with heartache and anguish, yet through the pain, hope burns brightly,” said Gerard Straub, documentary filmmaker of The Patients of a Saint featuring Lazzara’s clinic. “Dr. Tony is a candle in the darkness of crippling chronic poverty, bringing hope and healing to some of the children of Lima, Peru.”

The walls of the clinic home display pictures of Christ and St. Francis of Assisi — the rich man who gave up everything to help the poor and the namesake of the clinic.

He also happens to be Lazzara’s hero and a model for the life he strives to lead. Lazzara left a tenured academic position in the United States in 1983 to move to Peru and operates the house solely from charitable contributions made to his fundraising organization, the Villa la Paz Foundation.

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In the face of chronic illnesses, Lazzara finds love: “Well, I do know that suffering makes us more dependent on God. It makes us more dependent on each other. Suffering engenders charity, makes us love one another more. These children in some way are redeeming me.”

His life truly is one lived in the Jesuit tradition of service to others, and Loyola University New Orleans is proud to name Lazzara the recipient of the university’s annual Integritas Vitae Award. This award will be presented at the 1912 Society Dinner on Nov. 16.

The Integritas Vitae Award is presented to a local, national, or world leader who has demonstrated the values and philosophy of a Jesuit education — namely moral character, service to others, and unquestionable integrity. It is distinctive as Loyola’s recognition of an individual of outstanding character from any walk of life — with an enhanced focus on a person whose impact is pervasive and whose character should be subject to emulation by students, alumni, and the community. The literal translation of integritas vitae is “a life of integrity.”

THE

LOYOLA EFFECT

MARJORIE FRUGÉ

HER LEGACY ENDURES

Marjorie Frugé passed away on May 23, 2018, at 80 years old. She was a fearless adventurer who biked throughout the country and learned foreign languages — in her 70s.

Her loved ones remember her proudly sharing flowers from her garden and warm meals from her kitchen. And the Loyola community remembers her for the profound effect she's had on so many of our students' futures.

Before she was a gardener and a cook, Marjorie was a Loyola student herself. Having graduated from Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, La., she continued to learn the Catholic ­— and specifically Jesuit — value of commitment to service at Loyola University New Orleans and carried it with her for the rest of her life.

She would go on to work with an AIDS respite team to help patients with HIV. And, of course, she volunteered at her church and as a member of the Charity Guild of Catholic Women.

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But most strongly of all, she became a supporter of the Jesuit education — the very thing that incubated her commitment to service. In 2001, Marjorie wrote the Loyola administration, saying: “To summarize my wishes as directly as I can, I am interested in any sort of work that will directly benefit and better the conditions of some small portion of humanity, that most directly will help someone or someones, to live better, now or in the future — educationally, financially or emotionally.”

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the Monsignor Frugé Scholarship for Social Justice Scholars.

The funds were dedicated to the students in the College of Social Sciences “to advance the cause of social justice for all, while facilitating the Jesuit ideal of service to humankind.”

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Loyola President Emeritus Fr. James Carter, S.J., presented Frugé with an award at the annual Golden Wolves Society dinner in 2009.

2 Taiyiana Robinson graduated from Loyola in 2018 with a degree in sociology.

Over the years, she remained dedicated to seeing her contributions through.

She frequently came to campus to meet the students who received her scholarships, and upon her death, she left a final, very generous gift to Loyola, ensuring that her impact on our students' success would be felt for generations to come.

“As a first-generation college student, finances notwithstanding, the road to school is not always the easiest. With this scholarship, I have the ability to obtain an excellent education that not only benefits me but will positively impact my family and community.

“Ms. Frugé, without your contribution, I would not be able to tutor children in reading, mentor other first-generation college students, or continue to pursue my degree in sociology. For this, I am beyond grateful.”

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For some students, the second floor of the library is just a place to study. For students like Oanh Nguyen who benefit from personalized coaching and resources, it’s the fulfillment of a promise.

The Promise of

SUCC

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Oanh Nguyen came to New Orleans from Vietnam at the age of 12.

She is a first-generation college student and credits her time at the Student Success Center for improving her speaking and writing skills. Nguyen studied abroad in Amsterdam this past spring and will graduate in May with a degree in psychology.

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You're

accepte

These two words signal something really important to every collegebound student in America. And not necessarily what you'd expect.

More than some kind of academic victory or achievement — though that's also what it is, no doubt — that acceptance packet signals a homecoming.

It tells the student that they've found the place that they belong for the next four years. The place they'll grow, develop, succeed. And it tells them, too, that the college has found them.

In the past three years, it's become one of the biggest parts of Loyola's mission that we finish what we start when we admit a student. That we raise our standard of excellence,

increase accountability, and follow through on our promise that their success starts here. That each student lives up to the potential that got them into Loyola in the first place.

And now, we have a space and a crew dedicated to just that promise.

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A day in the Pan-American Life Student Success Center

Sitting in the second floor of the library, I get to see the Student Success Center, or SSC, in action on an average day.

Kids signing in on the wall-mounted iPad. Tutors lying in wait for appointments or walkins. Some, depending on the subject, fielding multiple students at once. And explaining things like derivatives and limits — things I mercifully have not been quizzed on during my career as a writer. But the point is, it's busy.

In 2017-2018, the SSC's former location saw 995 individual students — and every college and undergraduate major program was represented. The new center, only open since June 2018, is on pace to beat these numbers before fall break.

In the first month of school alone, there have been more than 400 coaching meetings, 350

advising meetings, and 275 tutor visits. In total, the SSC gets between 80 and 200 students per day.

And somehow — “It's the right kind of quiet,” Nick Silverman ’20 says.

Nick frequents the center for his testing accommodations and makes a habit of studying here several days a week. He's there most Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

The staff gets to know people's schedules like that. It's part of what's made the retention effort such a success.

Starting in April 2017 as part of Project Magis, Liz Rainey, director of the Pan-American Life Student Success Center, led the campus-wide retention committee, which was composed of dedicated faculty and staff who deeply cared about one thing — seeing our students persist and graduate.

“Our work yielded investments in the coaching and advising programs,” Rainey says, “as well as funding for study abroad, intentional programming, and software to track student interactions. Most of all, we created crosscollaborative energy and partners. We truly worked together to do what it took to see our students succeed.

“We know that more students using our services means more of them remain on the path to graduation,” she continued. “This stunning space and significant uptick in visits will keep us on the uptrend we started more than a year ago.”

While new, having just opened in June, this updated SSC is a resounding punctuation mark at the end of an extremely successful campaign to increase retention.

So not an end then, I guess. A beginning.

A successful one.

Over the past three years, Loyola's retention rate has increased 8 percent — from 77 to 85 percent. The SSC is the culmination, taking many of the practices that made the increase possible and putting them in one place.

And sure, a big part of that increase comes from things that happen behind the curtain — asking the right questions when students mention the possibility of transfer, vigilance in making sure simple fixes aren't overlooked — but the stuff you can see just sitting in the center is really fun to watch.

Because — watching from a comfy chair by the window, I should note, I guess, that I told a little fib. This is not a completely average day in the SSC — the new tutors have their training today.

These students — about 40 compassionate peer tutors — will be part of the SSC team, committing to their fellow students and to Loyola's standard of excellence.

What I witness then is a sort of boot camp for them. Led by Dr. Samar Sarmini, assistant director for mathematics support, it goes far beyond just effective tutoring techniques and

into best practices for dealing with anxious or resistant students: conversational techniques as specific as redirecting questions, keeping conversations open, and even body language that empowers the student.

“We’re trained to give the student the pen,” Lisa Jackson ’21, a writing tutor, says.

These tutors, like the SSC itself, will be instrumental in the success of their peers. But they're just a part of what the SSC offers. This place is a center literally devoted to student success only. A one-stop shop for whatever point of excellence needs sharpening. Check page 16 for a breakdown of all of the facility's services. It's incredible.

And what's more incredible — the tangible results the center has seen in its attendees.

Put Me In, Coach

LeBron James is the all-time NBA playoffs scoring leader. He's won four NBA MVP awards and two Olympic gold medals.

He is, by many accounts, the greatest basketball player alive.

And — he still has a coach.

This is Director of Writing and Learning Services Robert Bell's philosophy in a nutshell: Coming to the SSC doesn't need to indicate struggle or catastrophe. Instead, it's preparation for victory — for success.

Simply put, people come here to practice.

“I want students who come into the center to be empowered to walk in and think: ‘Wait, this isn't where people go because they're having trouble. It's where people go because they're engaging in the material more,’” Bell says.

“That's what academics do. They sit around and talk about the stuff they're studying and learning about. That's what I want this place to be. A place where people can come and talk about what they're learning. And then maybe the person you're talking with knows a little more and can guide you along that journey a little more. I think that's better for everybody instead of, like, ‘Here's the right answer.’”

Enter Oanh Nguyen.

When she started at Loyola, Oanh Nguyen ’19 worried most about how she expressed herself.

She knew what she wanted to say but, in her words, struggled to put thought to paper. It’s a common stumbling block for most college students, but Nguyen had the added obstacle of writing in English as her second language.

She came to New Orleans from Vietnam when she was 12. When she enrolled at Loyola in the fall of 2015, she became the first person in her family to attend college. She knew she would need support.

She quickly discovered the Student Success Center — when it was still on the first floor of Marquette Hall.

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And she found it to be a second home.

She returned weekly, sometimes daily, because her writing improved. A native Vietnamese speaker, Nguyen also credits her time in Student Success for improving her speaking skills.

“People there didn’t judge me or my accent,” Nguyen says. “It opened me up to speak more.”

Here, at the SSC, she found her voice. And now it's taking her all over the world.

This spring, Nguyen studied abroad in Amsterdam, navigating life in her second and third language, a feat by which she still seems amazed.

While abroad, she learned that the Student Success Center moved locations and names.

As a frequent visitor to the old space (Rainey jokes that she must hold the record for most attended), Nguyen was afraid of what she would return to.

“I am afraid of change,” she says. “I was afraid that with new space, the people might change. I loved it so much I wanted to keep it the same. But when I saw the new beautiful space, I was inspired.”

What she saw was nearly 9,000 square feet in Monroe Library dedicated to academic advising, accessible education, career development, success coaching, and writing and learning resources — the new PanAmerican Life Student Success Center.

If you build it . . .

Grayson Gavras ’21 and Rana Thabata ’20 visited the space for the first time this September.

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“I love that it’s cozy, welcoming, and funky,” Gavras says. “It’s lively here!”

“I’m more productive when other people are productive,” Thabata agrees. “It feels like shared working space.”

Which is the point. The new space is designed to be accessible, obvious, and sort of fun. It encourages traffic, and it simply feels productive.

“The new space and location bring more students to see us, and we expanded our range of services to students,” Rainey says. “We’ve combined long-standing services at Loyola like tutoring and career development with newer initiatives that stem from Project Magis like first-year advising and coaching.”

“I want the tutors to run the show,” Bell says. “It's peer-centered and peer-run, and I think they need to step up and have the responsibility to take over and do what needs to be done.”

Gavras, Thabata, and Nguyen (who also loves the new space, for the record) are among thousands of those peers who have passed through the center’s doors since it opened in 2015.

That those doors have not only remained open but also have been able to move from the dimly lit first floor of Marquette Hall to the vibrant, naturally lit expanse of the second floor of the library is thanks to gifts from our community.

“This $1.2 million center has been made possible by philanthropic support,” Interim Provost Maria Calzada says. “We are extremely grateful to Pan-American Life Insurance Group, Jose and Ileana Suquet, and a very generous anonymous donor for understanding our vision and making this wonderful new center possible.

“This renovation provided much-needed structural updates and improvements to the existing space,” Calzada continues. “It also modernized and expanded learning space and tripled the size and capacity for shared tutoring and study group spaces. We have new offices for staff members, open tutoring space, computer workstations, meeting and study rooms, and new main doors accessible to all students.”

The effect of the anonymous donor’s contribution was especially felt by the SSC's accessible education testing facilities, where some of the simplest things end up being the most expensive — things like soundproof doors, wheelchair accessible desks, and privacy screens.

“The Office for Accessible Education enjoys an improved dedicated testing space,” Rainey says, “including soundproof testing rooms for individual and small group testing, video camera monitors in testing rooms that allow staff to monitor tests from their offices without need for a proctor, individual testing desks with distraction-reducing screens, and heightadjustable desks for wheelchair accessibility.”

Being in the testing space is distraction-free, soothing — almost like an exercise in meditative sensory deprivation. The vibrant bustle of the SSC melts away, and you're left with focus.

Rainey continues: “The Office for Accessible Education also has state-of-the-art technology that will allow us to better serve students with special needs, including ClockWork, Sonocent Audio Note Taker Program, and Kurzweil 3000+firefly Assistive Technology Text-toSpeech Program.”

85 percent first-year retention!

Faculty and staff from the Student Success Center celebrated the announcement of the new record-setting retention numbers on Sept. 28.

From left: Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Maria Calzada, Carol Ann MacGregor, Donna Goforth, Donna Bourgeois, Director of Student Success Elizabeth Rainey, Nathanael Straight, and Asia Wong.

And perhaps most important to Rainey, these new funds have helped to support not just the facilities themselves but also the way the center treats accessible education systematically.

“Our new Office for Accessible Education represents a shift from the medical model to the social model of disability, a shift that allows us to be more inclusive. We recognize that disability is caused by the way society is organized rather than by a person’s impairment or difference,” Rainey says. “More than 550 of our 3,800 students on campus are regular visitors to the Office of Accessible Education, and they represent some of our highest achievers.”

Carving Out Space

So, look.

This is really two stories. It's a story about our community continuing to support its students and itself. A historic investment in keeping students on the path to graduation.

But it's also a simple reminder that yeah, devoting a space totally to the success of your students will empower them toward that very thing.

That building them a home (thanks, donors) will make them feel like this campus actually is home.

“I really like the chairs,” student Grant Dufrene says. “They're super comfy. Also, it’s warmer here than other parts of the library.”

Since August, the SSC has had more than 1,500 student visits , a pace that shows no signs of slowing down.

So, without any more ado — let me show it to you.

Presenting . . .

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Over the past three years, Loyola's retention rate has

increased 8% from 77% to 85%.

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STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER The Pan-American Life

Loyola's mission emphasizes a commitment to both academic excellence and care for the whole person.

It promises students that as they hone their skills, they'll also find themselves, a sense of belonging, a community — a home. The Pan-American Life Student Success Center ensures that every student has full access to the resources they need to thrive at Loyola.

Here are some of the services and team members that keep our students on track toward graduation.

Career Development Center

provides career services, including career and major exploration, job and internship searches and recruitment, résumé review, and interview preparation.

Handshake is Loyola’s new career management platform. It's a one-stop shop for job and internship searching, accessing career resources and guides, registering for career fairs and on-campus interviews, reporting for-academic-credit internships, and scheduling appointments with a career coach. This new resource will help all Loyola students manage their careers in a more modern, comprehensive way.

By implementing Handshake, we are joining a community of 500+ colleges and universities that have recently transitioned from their previous job and internship boards to Handshake.

On July 9, we officially launched to students. All current Loyola students already have a Handshake account. Visit joinhandshake.com or the Career Development Center homepage at studentaffairs.loyno.edu/careers to log in and complete your Handshake profile.

More than 3,000 employers have connected with Loyola to express interest in recruiting Loyola students, and there are currently more than 2,000 active job and internship postings in Handshake.

Office of Academic Advising

provides advising to first-year students at Loyola, helping them navigate the complexities of a college education. By partnering with faculty advisers, academic advisers work with students to explore opportunities and understand academic expectations for each major.

Office for Accessible Education (OAE)

(formerly Disability Services) strives to provide equal access to students, regardless of disability, by ensuring Loyola remains compliant with federal laws and determining appropriate accommodations, support, and access.

Office of Writing and Learning Services (OWLS)

now houses the Foreign Language Lab and the Mathematics Lab, creating a centralized space for all peer-led tutoring — in subjects ranging from writing and accounting to calculus and Spanish.

Success Coaching

for all first-year students empowers them to set personal and academic goals and to move from thought to action. Coaches work one-on-one with students to take proactive steps toward a successful and rewarding academic career and ultimately, graduate from Loyola.

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MADISON WOOD ’19

DOIREANN DUFFY ’16

Peer Tutor

Success Coach

“Math, from what I can tell, is something that a lot of people find very stressful because they go, ‘Oh, I’m not good at math; I don’t know any of these things.’ When in reality, it’s not that you’re not good at math — you’re just out of practice.

“When you’re a freshman, you feel like you’re the only one who’s a total mess and that everyone’s got it going on. I just remember feeling that way, and it’s awesome to be able to calm down and put college into perspective.

“I would say that my strongest point is calculus. It’s the highest level math that I did in high school, and it was something that I really enjoyed because I was a huge fan of the unit circle.

“There’s nothing better than when a student comes in feeling lost, and then you get a text maybe a week later and they’re like, ‘I totally figured it out! Everything’s good!

Thanks so much for your help!’ . . . or when they come in two weeks later and you can just tell that you actually made a difference.

“I wish that more students would come to the Student Success Center because it’s such a valuable resource that I wish I utilized more during my first few years at Loyola.”

“I remember my name being called as I walked across the stage at the Superdome. I had the best four years of my life. I just want to make sure everyone feels that feeling when they walk across the stage.”

ROBERT BELL ’89

Director of Writing and Learning Resources

“It's called the Student Success Center for a reason. ‘Student’ is first. Everybody here is working toward that. Nobody here is thinking, ‘Oh, let me become the next famous X, Y, or Z.’ No. I would love it if my student became the next famous X, Y, or Z. That's what we're here to do. Just that one thing.

To help them along so they can become the LeBron James of whatever they want to be.

Whatever field that is.

“It's about empowering the students to start to learn how to take care of themselves.”

Robert Bell was Loyola’s first writing tutor, hired in 1987.

Talk about committed!

LAURA COATNEY ’20

Success Center Student

“I’m very thankful for the teachers and staff here at Loyola. Many universities accept a student and then ask them to prove they are worth it. Loyola accepts a student and instead says, ‘We know you are worth it’ and proceeds to help students achieve their full potential.”

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Alumni Events

Heritage Society Reception

1-3 The Heritage Society reception was held on April 6, hosted at the home of Drs. Haydee and Nicholas Bazan. This society recognizes individuals who have included Loyola in their estate plans.

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Rhonda Shear ’77 hosted a fundraising party and auction at her home in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 15 to benefit the J. Michael Early Studio at Loyola’s School of Mass Communication. Through the generosity of alumni and friends, more than $45,000 was raised at the event.

Young Alumni Pack Spring Social

Young alumni in the New Orleans area came together for the Young Alumni Pack Spring Social at The Rusty Nail on May 3.

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Crawfish Boils

Alumni nationwide gathered throughout the spring for their chapter's annual crawfish boils.

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Loyola Loyal Day

New Orleans alumni celebrated Loyola’s birthday at Wednesday at the Square on Loyola Loyal Day on April 11. This year 571 gifts were made during the 24-hour Loyola Loyal Day Campaign, well above the 500 gift goal! Loyola alumni are Loyola loyal!

Louisiana State Bar Association Reception

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law alumni visited with one another at the Louisiana State Bar Association Reception in Sandestin, Fla., on June 5.

Senior Crawfish Boil

Seniors and their families kicked off Commencement Weekend with the annual Senior Crawfish Boil on May 11.

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Dedication of the Harold Baquet Study Space

1-3 The Loyola community gathered in Monroe Hall on March 22 for the blessing and dedication of the Harold Baquet Study Space.

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MBA Happy Hour at Urban South Brewery

MBA alumni gathered at Urban South Brewery for a summer happy hour and behind-the-scenes tour to learn how Urban South produces their local brews.

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Wolf Pack Athletics Golf Tournament

This May, Wolf Pack Athletics supporters met at Audubon Golf Club for the 21st Annual Wolf Pack Athletics Golf Tournament. More than $25,000 was raised at the tournament to support Wolf Pack Athletics.

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Class Notes 1950s 1980s Georgia Tech, recently published Animating the Science Fiction Imagination with Oxford University Press.

Eveline Golden Buske ’56 welcomed her first great grandchild, Maggie Grace Dunn, on Jan. 4, 2018.

1960s Dennis O’Callaghan ’62 retired from his position of chairman of microbiology and immunology at LSU Health Shreveport after 34 years. He was honored with a reception attended by family, students, and colleagues. In 2002, he was named a Boyd Professor, the LSU System’s highest designated professorial rank. He is also the Willis-Knighton Endowed Chair of Microbiology, the first endowed chair at the LSU Health Shreveport campus. In honor of his many achievements and contributions, Shreveport Mayor Ollie S. Taylor designated March 13 as Dr. Dennis J. O’Callaghan Day.

1970s Alfred E. “Ted” Stacey IV ’70 was elected to a two-year term as a member at-large of the Society of Louisiana CPAs, or LCPA. A retired partner of Bourgeois Bennett LLC, a CPA and consulting firm, Stacey also received the LCPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member of the Loyola College of Business Alumni Board of Directors and an adjunct professor of accounting.

Jay P. Telotte ’71, a professor of film and media studies at

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Alvin A. Baumer Jr. ’75 was honored as the recipient of the Alden “Doc” Laborde Award for Ethical Entrepreneurship at the College of Business Alumni Luncheon on May 4, 2018.

P. David Guarisco, J.D. ’76, married Gayle George on Dec. 28, 2017.

William Langenstein III, J.D. ’77, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Rhonda Shear-Fagan ’77, a former comedian and host of the late-night movie show USA: Up All Night who went on to launch a line of best-selling bras, was inducted into the School of Mass Communication’s Den of Distinction. She is an active volunteer with the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, and Pace School for Girls. She was also named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012. In 2017, she published Up All Night: From Hollywood Bombshell to Lingerie Mogul, Life Lessons from an Accidental Feminist.

Katharine O’Callaghan ’78 received the Pelham Civic Association’s 2018 Person of the Year Award. This is the most prestigious honor of the Pelham Civics, one of New York’s most active volunteer charitable organizations, acknowledging volunteer work by individuals truly making a difference in the community and society at large.

V.M. Wheeler ’78 received the St. Louis Medal at St. Francis Xavier Church.

Stephen Myers, J.D. ’79, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Veronique “Vikki” Spruill ’80 was named the president and CEO of the New England Aquarium. A longtime ocean advocate and nonprofit leader, Spruill has led the Council on Foundations, a national network of philanthropic organizations since 2012. Prior to that, she spent six years as president and CEO of the Ocean Conservancy in Washington, D.C. She also was the founder and president of SeaWeb. Additionally, she was named to the Board of Directors of the Water Institute of the Gulf in Baton Rouge, La.

made freedom, liberty, and compassion a part of their life’s work.

Raymond Areaux, J.D. ’85, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Robbie Castleman ’85, professor emerita of biblical theology at John Brown University, just published her fifth book with Baker Books/Academic. She also has written eight Bible study guides and contributed chapters or essays to several magazines and anthologies.

Robert Angelico, J.D. ’86, received the Outstanding Discussion Leader Award from the Society of Louisiana CPAs.

Patrick Seiter ’82 was ranked among “Leaders in Their Field” in health care law in Louisiana by Chambers USA. He is a partner and health care practice team leader at Taylor Porter.

Magdalen Blessey Bickford ’83, J.D. ’86, a member at McGlinchey Stafford, was named to the 2018 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers in the category of Employment and Labor.

Bickford, who joined McGlinchey Stafford in 2016, represents management and employers in labor and employment matters, including litigation, and provides general labor and employment law advice.

Rose Hanley ’83 received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for her work founding and leading the Little Bit Foundation in St. Louis. The Ellis Island Medals of Honor are presented annually to American citizens who have distinguished themselves within their own ethnic groups while exemplifying the values of the American way of life.

Past medalists include seven United States presidents; world leaders; Nobel Prize winners; and countless industry leaders in arts, education, sports, and government; and countless everyday Americans who have

Jeffrey J. Cave ’86, after spending 23 years at Merrill Lynch as a director of ultra high net worth wealth management, had an epiphany that the purpose of investing was not just to make money but also to provide capital to great business that in turn would create value for all of their stakeholders. This includes the environment and society at large. After founding the Merrill Lynch Christian Focus Group in 2007, he went on to join Eventide Asset Management, where he is allowed the opportunity to preach and practice investing that creates value for the

Kurt J. Goins ’78, J.D. ’81, was named one of the ShreveportBossier areas top attorneys in the March 2018 issue of SB Magazine.

Goins is an assistant public defender in the Caddo Parish Public Defenders Office.

world. He works closely with financial advisers who manage accounts for individuals and Catholic institutions, aligning their investments with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ investment guidelines.

David Prados, J.D. ’89, was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 24th edition of The Best Lawyers in America for his work in family law.

Michael Bourg ’87 was named the vice president for institutional advancement at Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

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Chris Eck ’88 was named the executive director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for the National Archives.

Brian F. Geiger ’88 served as an international volunteer during the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea.

Daneeta Loretta Jackson ’88, a filmmaker, visual artist, and trans-media storyteller who works in partnership with her husband, Patrick Jackson, recently completed her latest documentary, Locked, a 100year history of the Industrial Canal and Lock in 11 minutes that describes how poor urban planning around waterborne transportation has caused catastrophic flooding in the Greater New Orleans area for decades. Earlier in 2018, she and her husband won both the coveted Vimeo Staff Pick and the audience award at the New Orleans Film Festival for their narrative film, Niacbob, about an autistic teen who is bullied off of YouTube only to make a real human connection.

John Dunlap III, J.D. ’89, was promoted to the rank of Louisiana Army National Guard brigadier general. In this role he serves as the principal military adviser to the adjutant general of the LANG. Shannon B. Joseph ’89 was named to the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors.

Ava Dejoe ’91, the executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, was honored with an Esprit de Femme Award, given to individuals who have made exceptional efforts toward the advancement of women in Louisiana and elevated the status of women in their communities through contributions to education, health care, business and industry, charity, civic engagement, and the arts.

Laura Shattuck ’91 recently opened a new law firm, Parrino Shattuck PC in Westport, Conn.

Parrino Shattuck focuses on family law, including divorce, alimony, child support, property division, and child custody and relocation cases. She was recognized as one of the 2018 Best Lawyers in America, making her in the top 5 percent of private practice attorneys nationwide.

She also was recognized for lifetime achievement among America’s Top 100 Attorneys.

Laurie Young, J.D. ’91, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Tracey Laird ’92 published two scholarly monographs with Oxford University Press.

Derrick Pope, J.D. ’92, was recently appointed president and managing director of the Arc of Justice.

Eric Simonson, J.D. ’92, was named to the 2018 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers in

the categories of Business Litigation and Class Action/Mass Torts: Defense.

Jedd Malish, J.D. ’95, was named One to Watch: Law by New Orleans CityBusiness.

David Fernandez ’93 just published his second book (under the pen name D.H. Cermeno), Coffee and Cedar: Finding Strength From Memories.

Andreanecia Morris ’95, the executive director of HousingNOLA, was named the 2017 New Orleanian of the Year

by Gambit. HousingNOLA is a 10-year plan to address the city’s affordable housing crisis; Morris plans to start with 3,000 affordable homes by 2018 and grow to 5,500 by 2021. Previously, Morris worked at the Housing Authority of New Orleans for almost 10 years.

In 2007, she joined the nonprofit development group Providence Community Housing, where she served as vice president of homeownership and community development. She later chaired the Board of Governors of the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance, an advocacy group made up of nonprofit builders and community development corporations.

Douglas Hubscher ’91, MBA ’93, is the department chair for special education at King George County Public Schools in King George, Va. He is married to Maria Sotomayor Sanchez Hubscher and has three children, Jacob, Emma, and Sophie.

Dennis P. Lauscha, MBA ’93, recently joined the 2018 Board of Directors of the Catholic Foundation.

Erin Fury Parkinson ’81, J.D. ’93, a member at McGlinchey Stafford, was named to the 2018 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers in the categories of Transportation/Maritime and Environmental.

Matt Trebon ’93 serves on the alumni and development staff of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. He and his family reside in nearby suburban Maryland.

Ralph Wall, J.D. ’93, recently became a partner of Couhig Partners LLC. Christy Kane ’94 left her position as executive director of Louisiana Appleseed after 11 years and accepted a position with Entergy as its first-ever pro bono counsel.

Dr. Tara Guillermo Berner ’96, a family doctor at Oschner, was recently interviewed on Catholic Community Radio.

Doris Bobadilla ’91, J.D. ’95, is a member of Galloway Law Firm.

She was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Tristan Manthey, J.D. ’96, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Elizabeth McCourt, J.D. ’96, released her novel Sin in the Big Easy from Post Hill Press Robin D. Pittman ’91, J.D. ’96, recently received the A.P. Tureaud Achievement Award.

Lawrence DeMarcay III, J.D. ’97, was named to New Orleans City Business’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Ness Higson ’97 is the creative director at Squarespace.

Royd Anderson ’98 has been featured in NOLA. com/The Times Picayune for his recent documentary, The Continental Grain Elevator Explosion. He also was on a panel at The Historic New Orleans Collection discussing the 1973 UpStairs Lounge Fire, about which he made a documentary.

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Kara Hadican Samuels ’98, J.D. ’04, of Kara Hadican Samuels and Associates LLC had an article published by the Louisiana Association for Justice.

Arthur Laughlin ’98 recently received extensive media attention and was interviewed by The Southern Weekend for his role as manager for Dong Phuong bakery, which made the wildly popular musthave King Cake of the 2018 Carnival season.

Tammy Angelety Boyd ’94, MBA ’99, a regional market credit manager with Capital One Spark Business, was named One to Watch: Financial by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Clifford Yeary, M.P.S. ’00, had his fourth book, But I Say to You, published by Liturgical Press in June 2018.

Marrick Armstrong, J.D. ’01, and wife, Melissa, welcomed Miles Noe Armstrong on Oct 17, 2017.

George Luis Beguiristain ’98, J.D. ’01, and wife, Beth, welcomed Julia Maria Beguiristain on Nov. 28, 2017.

Erin L. Matherne ’99 recently completed on Jeopardy! after testing and auditioning. Although she did not win, she was honored to be one of only 400 people per season selected for the show.

She says being on Jeopardy! and meeting Alex Trebek was a lifelong dream of hers.

Brad Cashio, J.D. ’01, was featured on House Hunters International earlier this year.

Sarah Segrest-Jay ’99, J.D. ’07, counsel at Irwin Fritchie Urquhart and Moore LLC, was named One to Watch: Law by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Anthony LeBlanc ’01 directed a new play, Nothing to Lose (But Our Chains), for the famed Second City at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. The play opened to rave reviews, including one by the Washington Post that called it “the finest work the busy Second City has done in D.C.” LeBlanc is the associate artistic director of the Chicago Training Center and a part-time faculty member at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches comedic writing and performance in the Theater Department.

2000s Margaret J. Couvillion ’00 was named assistant professor of entomology in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Tiffany Delery Davis ’00 of Liskow & Lewis was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Andrew Grafe ’00 and Jaclyn Hill, J.D. ’06, welcomed their son, Elvis Quency Grafe, on Dec. 6, 2017.

Robert LeBlanc ’00, owner of Cavan, helped a teen with

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hypoplastic left heart syndrome achieve his dream of being a chef through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The 14-year-old made fried chicken, collard greens, corn bread, biscuits, macaroni salad, and King Cake with Cavan’s executive chef.

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Michelle E. Fortier ’01, chair of the English Department at Cabrini High School, was named One to Watch: Education by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Luis E. Rivera II ’01, an attorney at Henderson Franklin Starns and Holt PA in Florida, was selected as an emerging leader in the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 40 Under 40 initiative. He was formally recognized at ABI’s 2017 Winter Leadership conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Rivera has broad

experience in business, litigation, bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, and insolvencey counseling.

Greg Ferrara ’02 has been named executive vice president of advocacy, public relations, and member services for the National Grocers Association. He will continue his role overseeing the government relations and communications and marketing departments, in addition to the member services department.

Ferrara, who joined NGA in 2005, brings a wealth of experience in the grocery industry, having managed the operations for his family’s century-old supermarket in New Orleans before the store was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. He also has worked as a corporate project manager for Associated Grocers in Baton Rouge, La. Ferrara was recognized in 2015 as one of Association TRENDS Leading Lobbyists and is a fellow of the prestigious Institute of Politics at Loyola University New Orleans.

Stephen Hanemann, J.D. ’02, was named One to Watch in the practice of law by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Wayne D. Lewis ’02 was named interim commissioner of education for the commonwealth of Kentucky, the state’s top public school official.

Kathryn Knight, J.D. ’03, was named One to Watch in the practice of law by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Adrienne White-Woodward, J.D. ’04, was honored with the Citizen Lawyer Award presented by the Louisiana State Bar Association.

Jeff Pastorek ’03, a partner at Couhig Partners LLC, was named One to Watch in the practice of law by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Jacqueline Putnam Epstein ’03 published a book on amicable co-parenting titled LifeLong Frenemies: A Guide to Transitioning from Perfection to

Civility and Staying Friendly with Your Co-Parent.

Robert Allen ’03 was awarded the Percy Dyer Award in Teaching Excellence at Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement.

He is an adjunct instructor in the Homeland Security Studies Program and received the award for his instruction in domestic and international terrorism. He also accepted a two-year appointment to the Loyola Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.

Philip Braun III ’03 was nominated for a New Filmmakers of Los Angeles award for documentary short for his film I Lived on Parker Avenue, a film about adoption and one man’s journey to find his biological parents.

Randal “Randy” Despommier ’04 released his first jazz-classical fusion album, All At Onceness, with Red Piano Records, part of a collaboration with New York-based pianist Jason Yeager.

Pablo Gonzalez, J.D. ’04, was named One to Watch in the practice of law by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Kristi Jacobs-Stanley ’04 was chosen to be the queen of the Krewe of Freret parade, which rolled Feb. 3, 2018. She was selected for her service to the krewe. She holds a MFA in theatre management from the University of Alabama/ Alabama Shakespeare Festival and is currently the Fine Arts Department chair and theatre director at Mount Carmel Academy. She serves on the board of the Louisiana High School Speech League and Louisiana State Thespians and is co-moderator of the New Orleans Catholic Forensic League.

James Sullivan ’04 joined Barnwell Whaley in Charleston, S.C., as an associate.

Craig Watson, J.D. ’04, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Jaimme Collins, J.D. ’05, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Allison Regan, J.D. ’05, recently became the professional development manager at Bracewell LLP. Ellen Altamirano ’06 of Zehnder Communications was named 2018 Social Media Person of the Year at the Ad Club of New Orleans’ ADDY Awards.

John Creevy, J.D. ’06, was named to the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors.

Bryan Jeansonne, J.D. ’06, was re-elected as East Baton Rouge Parish Alcoholic Beverage Control Board chairman.

Candace Walker ’06, M.S. ’14, the crime lab director at the Atlanta Police Department, was named one of the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s 40 under 40 for 2018.

Matthew Berger, J.D. ’07, was appointed regional president for Humana’s Louisiana and Mississippi Medicare markets.

Maxwell Eaton ’07 opened Max Well on Magazine Street in New Orleans in December 2017. The restaurant serves cold-pressed juice and a fully vegetarian menu.

Anthony Garrison-Engbrecht ’07 joined the University of California, Berkley, as the assistant dean of students and director of the Lead Office (student leadership). For the past several years, he has been at Loyola Marymount University serving as the director of leadership programs and LGBT student services. He is also working on his Ph.D. at Chapman University.

Stephanie Hilferty ’07 unseated an incumbent to win her seat at the District 94 representative in the Louisiana House. A Republican representing Orleans and Jefferson parishes, Hilferty is currently working on early childhood education reform that has bipartisan support.

Mary N. Bennett, J.D. ’09, was named One to Watch: Law by New Orleans CityBusiness.

Libby Kearney ’07 married Richard Spicer ’07 on Nov. 18, 2017.

R. Daniel Serio, J.D. ’09, was elected a member of law firm King, Krebs & Jurgens.

Rachel Nuwer ’07, a freelance science journalist in New York, recently published her first book, Poached: Inside the Dark world of Wildlife Trafficking, with Da Capo. The book was released in September 2018 and explores the drivers of demand for wildlife, the impacts the illicit trade is having on the ground, and possible solutions for stopping it.

Matthew Sherman, J.D. ’09, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Meredith Arnold McCrindle ’08 released her newest album, When Walls Speak, in July 2018. It was dedicated to Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Ann Burghardt-Dieck, M.S.N. ’08, was honored with the Seymour Weiss Excellence in Teaching Award, Delgado’s most prestigious faculty award, given annually at commencement.

Victoria Adams Phipps ’09 was recently named the executive director of 504Ward, a nonprofit initiative whose mission is to keep talented young professionals in New Orleans.

Rachel Strassel ’09 accepted a communications strategist position with Gambel Communications. Prior to joining Gambel, she worked at NOLA. com/The Times-Picayune.

2010s Kathryn Gonski, J.D. ’10, was elected shareholder at Liskow & Lewis’ New Orleans office.

Joe Shirley ’10 scored the Netflix film The Open House, starring 13 Reasons Why actor Dylan Minnette, which was released in January 2018.

Cory Stuart, J.D. ’10, recently became an associate at Perrier & Lacoste LLC. Andrew Sullivan, J.D. ’10, was promoted to partner at Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer.

Priscilla Taggart Dardar ’11 and Jesse Dardar were married on Dec. 10, 2016, in New Orleans.

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Christian Rhodes, J.D. ’08, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

Jessica Erwin Teel ’08 began practicing real estate in the Seattle area.

Katie Wollfarth, J.D. ’08, recently joined Leake & Andersson LLP. Zac Brown ’09 is head brewer at Waterman’s Brewing Company in Wilmington, N.C. Meghan Harwell Bitoun, J.D. ’09, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

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Class Notes

Angelique Dyer ’11 serves as the digital marketing manager at Loyola University New Orleans, and the web series she executive produced for the university, “Streetcar Stories: A Loyno Web Series,” won a 2018 CASE Circle of Excellence Silver Award. It was also a finalist for the Platinum PR Awards in 2017.

Elissa Haynes, J.D. ’11, was elected secretary of the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar of Georgia.

Brittney Holmes Randall ’11 married Rashaad Randall on April 1, 2016, and welcomed Makaylan Randall on Sept. 22, 2017.

Linda Rivas, J.D. ’11, recently became the director and managing attorney for the Las Americas Immigration Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas.

Steven Botsford, M.R.E ’12, has published a book on youth ministry; created a board game based on the church year, Feast Day! The Liturgical Year Board Game; and is now the director of religion education at a large parish in Marietta, Ga. Kayla Cox ’12 married Justin Fecke ’12 on Sept. 23, 2017, in New Orleans.

Keller Fisher ’12, J.D. ’15, is the co-founder of Unimentors LLC, which was selected as an ALPHA company for the Collision tech conference in New Orleans.

Unimentors was also chosen as one of 60 companies out of approximately 1,000 to take part in the PITCH competition.

Victor Jones, J.D. ’12, was appointed to the board of directors for the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center and the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights.

Ashley Liuzza, J.D. ’12, was named to New Orleans CityBusiness’ 14th Leadership in Law class.

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Timothy Ray, J.D. ’12, made history as the first African-American man to serve as clerk of First City Court in New Orleans.

Kara Larson, J.D. ’14, was awarded a Blackstone’s Order Award in December 2017 by the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

James McBride ’12 wrote, directed, and co-produced (with Loyola theatre faculty C. Patrick Gendusa) the one-woman show ALEXIS, I AM! for RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Alexis Michelle.

Forrest Guedry, J.D. ’15, became an associate with Kean Miller’s Baton Rouge office.

Sam Winston, J.D. ’12, was featured in the New Orleans Advocate for his work in getting a mandatory life sentence conviction overturned for his client.

Tyree C. Worthy ’12 is the publisher of Gentilly Messenger and was selected for inclusion in the Local Independent Online News Publishers’ Revenue Acceleration Mentorship Program, one of 10 chosen out of 79 applicants across the United States.

Camille Bryant, J.D. ’13, was recently named a 2018 Rising Star by Louisiana Super Lawyers in three separate categories.

Emily White ’13 joined Preti Flaherty’s Portland office, where she will practice in the Business Law group.

Sally Zintak Brower ’13 joined the Engel and Voelkers team as a real estate adviser.

Beau Autin ’14 recently competed on American Idol.

Kenneth Bordes, J.D. ’14, co-hosted the Overruled Radio: Sustaining Conversations About Your Rights radio show on 102.3 WHIV-FM. Elizabeth Elliot, J.D. ’14, has worked in leadership for Community Action Group.

Zakir Khan, J.D. ’14, was recently named the executive director of the Oregon chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations.

Allen R. Hall ’15 launched an annual arts magazine, Modern Instincts, on March 3, 2018, with a celebration at the Hoot N’ Holler Inn. The magazine features the work of many Loyola alumni.

Mary Kate Hutchinson ’15 of FSC Interactive was named 2018 Social Media Person of the Year at the Ad Club of New Orleans’ ADDY Awards.

Shane McGovern ’15 helped save his neighbor’s life.

After Mark Guerico suffered cardiac arrest, McGovern offered to step in and relieve Guerico’s wife, a nurse, who was growing tired from repeated chest compressions. He had no real CPR experience, but he did remember a lesson from one of his favorite TV shows: “I learned this from The Office. I don’t know if you watch the show, but Michael Scott is giving a dummy CPR in a class to the rhythm of ‘Stayin' Alive.’”

Zach Klos ’15 is a relationship specialist at Charles Schwab was selected to tour the country giving a presentation on digitally enabling the workplace.

James Van Camp ’15 recently published a photography book detailing his

experience working with a nonprofit organization in the secluded mountains of northern Thailand. He credits his time at Loyola with helping him cultivate the Jesuit ideal of global perspective, as well as equipping him with the entrepreneurial tools he needed to publish his book.

Amanda Brown, J.D. ’16, was named Microsoft Next-Gen Fellow by the newly launched American Bar Association Center for Innovation.

Erica Durousseau, MBA ’16, is the co-founder of Eat NOLA Noir, a 12-day celebration of blackowned restaurants in the city.

Tara Malay-Erikkson ’16 has moved to Finland for graduate school and is working toward her master's in applied linguistics.

She recently married her boyfriend of seven years, who is from Sweden.

Meaghan McComack ’16 is the vice president for marketing and communication at the World Trade Center of New Orleans.

Dan Fowler ’17 launched Reunion Shoe Co., which helps employ and provide services to those transitioning out of homelessness.

While at Loyola, Fowler was involved in ministries for the homeless and held campus-wide fundraisers on the Peace Quad.

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New job? New baby? Got married?

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In Memoriam Robert A. Pascal ’37, J.D. ’39 Manolita H. Chesnut ’43 Lelia C. Duvalle, D.Pharm. ’44 William H. Gallmann ’47 Dr. Glen V. Higgins ’47 Elizabeth H. Smith ’47 Richard A. Hinckley, J.D. ’48 Albert J. Lousteau ’48 Patricia E. Berrigan ’49 Lee T. Davis ’49 Dagmar M. Foley ’49 Rose R. Mackel ’49 Jane Stevens ’49 Frank J. Golemi ’50 Kenneth A. Lafleur, D.D.S. ’50 Joseph S. Serio, D.Pharm. ’50 Paul F. Steen ’50 Kenneth A. Buddendorff ’51 The Hon. George C. Connolly Jr. ’47, J.D. ’50, ’52 Samuel D. Gore, D.D.S. ’52 Dr. Emmett J. Johnson ’52 Charles J. Abdo ’54 James M. Buatt, D.D.S. ’54 Joseph E. DeCuir, D.Pharm. ’54 Gayle Salvatore ’54 William J. Schultis ’54 Carl L. Leefe ’55 John H. Park Jr., D.D.S. ’55 Sr. Rose M. Penouilh ’53, M.E. ’55 Anne L. Fautt, D.Pharm. ’56 Cassard L. Moret ’56 Lois A. Pujol ’56 Mary Britsch ’57 Emory N. Cousin ’57 Gerard J. Fasullo ’57 Nicholas J. Gagliano, J.D. ’57 Frank A. Golemi ’57 Arthur J. Kaiser ’57 Henry A. Maggio, D.Pharm. ’57 The Rev. Edgar A. Maresma, S.J., ’57 Msgr. Robert G. Angelle ’58 Raphael H. De Boisblanc, D.D.S. ’58 John M. Laplante ’58 Patricia Scibilia ’58 Gretchen S. Sehrt ’58 Francis G. Weller, J.D. ’58 Marjorie A. Frugé ’59 Albert J. Janusa ’59 Evelyn E. Stampley ’59 E. Victor Vignes, D.D.S. ’59 Douglas J. Berdou ’60 Gerald L. Olivier ’60 Edward G. Wilson ’60 John S. Breaux ’61 Johnny A. Danos ’61 Lucille A. Deas ’55, M.E. ’61 Dr. Gayle F. Ehrensing ’61 Carolyn A. Galendez ’61 John J. Gallagher ’61 Richard J. Lewis ’61 Frank J. Musso ’61 Frank C. Dupepe, J.D. ’62 Dr. Percy C. Butcher III ’63 Dr. Felix A. Gaudin ’54, M.S. ’58, ’63 Henry L. Mason ’53, J.D. ’63

The Hon. G. Walton Caire ’59, J.D. ’64 Charles P. Currier, D.D.S. ’64 Margaret A. DeBlieux, M.E. ’64 Jan Doyle ’64 Farrell J. Ripp ’64 Dr. Mary G. Wiley ’64 Gilbert B. Beck ’65 John M. Coman ’63, J.D. ’65 Gordon K. Konrad, J.D. ’65 Joseph W. Sherar, J.D. ’65 Fabio J. Canton ’66 Dennis W. Davis, J.D. ’66 Sheldon Lynne, D.D.S. ’66 Joan M. Armstrong, J.D. ’67 Kay E. Bourgeois ’67 James M. Lanius ’67 Mary William Matthews ’67 Margaret M. Mule ’63, M.S. ’67 William D. Owen, D.D.S. ’67 Charles H. Unger ’56, M.B.A. ’67 Richard K. Akin, D.D.S. ’68 Thomas A. Casey ’52, J.D. ’68 Jane M. Gisevius ’65, J.D. ’68 Edmund E. Jeansonne Jr., D.D.S. ’68 Charles D. Lancaster, J.D. ’68 Robert J. Carbon, D.D.S. ’69 William H. Corcoran ’69 Sr. Anita L. Lapeyre, M.E. ’69 Dr. Ronald A. Monica ’69 Edward A. Bosworth ’63, MBA ’70 Hendrix Bourgeois ’70 Lloyd R. Brackney, M.E. ’70 Larry P. Catanzaro ’70 Dr. Harvey D. Smith Jr., J.D. ’70 John K. Stephan, D.D.S. ’70 Frank E. Burke ’71 James A. Dejean, J.D. ’71 Phil C. Faust ’71 Scott C. Hill ’71 Charles F. Leaumont ’71 August J. Bose ’72 John T. Heine, M.S. ’72 Eugene A. Antoine ’73 George A. Bouyelas ’73 James A. Danton ’73 Henry J. Ford ’73 Avery Johnson, M.E. ’73 Noel F. Johnson ’73 Jeanne W. Lee ’73 Ernest J. Rebaudo ’73 The Hon. Walter J. Rothschild, J.D. ’73 Terry J. Boffone ’74 Gerald J. Catoire ’74 Richard V. Dymond ’74 Christine A. Hayes, M.A. ’74 Eileen C. Parr ’68, J.D. ’74 Stanford A. Schneider ’74 Phyllis P. Dubuclet ’75 Wayne B. Howard ’75 Sr. Mary C. Mautemps ’75 Mary E. Constant ’68, M.E. ’76 Lori A. Lambert ’76 Jack P. Panno, J.D. ’76 Edward F. Wrubluski ’76 Robert A. Contreras ’77 Frances D. Geary, M.E. ’77 Fredrick F. Olsen, J.D. ’77

Leon A. Aucoin, J.D. ’78 Kenneth M. Carter, J.D. ’78 James W. Kelly, J.D. ’78 Joseph E. Moore ’78 George R. Ramier, J.D. ’59, ’78 Antoine H. Williams ’78 James G. Prator, M.R.E. ’79 Clemon Scipio ’79 Scott T. Welch, J.D. ’79 Joseph M. Abrams, J.D. ’80 Rodney P. Jordy ’80 John F. Madaio, J.D. ’80 Charles Poehl ’80 Bartholomew J. Natoli, MBA ’82 Peter R. Flowers, J.D. ’83 John J. Alesich ’76, M.C.J. ’84 Robert A. Contreras ’77, MBA ’84 Leslie R. Graf, M.E. ’84 Yvonne H. Humphreys ’84 Deborah M. Matthews ’84 Sara A. Crawford ’65, J.D. ’85 Sandra L. Grossman ’85 Edward J. Mulderick, MBA ’85 Diane Prattini ’85 Rosalie T. Torres ’82, M.S ’85 Anne Bendernagel, J.D. ’86 Anita M. Sclafani, J.D. ’86 Karen K. Kliewer, M.R.E. ’87 Mary J. Mertens, M.P.S. ’87 Pia H. Van Heel ’87 Colette M. Anderson ’89 William A. Campbell ’90 Judith M. Magielski, M.R.E. ’90 Maria M. Groff, J.D. ’92 Kim D. Rivero, MBA ’92 Thomas Dunn, J.D. ’94 Elizabeth H. Anderson, M.S.T. ’95 Oris R. Creighton, J.D. ’96 Mary Catherine Dean, M.P.S. ’98 Mark D. Spoto ’98 Cathy Drolla ’99 Rose Hager, J.D. ’99 Kent E. Bordelon, M.R.E. ’00 Alan F. Burton, MBA ’02 Matthew L. Johnson ’04 Eve R. Lindstedt, J.D. ’10 Christopher M. Chappuis ’12 Anne Healey, M.S.N. ’15 Jeffery Rodrigue ’15 Heather A. Butler ’17 Victor J. Cieutat (non-degreed)

“ God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to the end.” + Psalm 48

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Call and Response HOW LOYOLA SHAPED ME

Cheryl Dileo ’71, M.M.T. ’75, Ph.D.

“Fifty-one years ago my beloved parents drove me from New Jersey to New Orleans to attend Loyola University,” Cheryl Dileo says. “I had just turned 17 and knew I wanted to study music therapy.”

At that time, Loyola was one of only three universities in the country that offered a program in music therapy, and Dileo felt drawn to that profession.

Although her parents were concerned about her moving to New Orleans (all the way from New Jersey!), they found some comfort in the fact that she'd be, as they said, “in the hands of the Jesuits.”

“Loyola was my top choice because it was a Jesuit university,” Dileo says.

That decision — to follow her passion to Loyola, to pursue this innovative new degree — was the start of the wonderful and generous career that was the basis for her receipt of this year's Adjutor Hominum (Alumnus of the Year) Award, which was presented to her at the annual Alumni Association Jazz Brunch at the Audubon Tea Room on Sept. 20.

After receiving her bachelor's degree in music therapy in 1971, Dileo earned her master's degree in music therapy in 1975, becoming the first woman to receive the M.M.T. degree from Loyola. She then went on to earn her Ph.D. in music education for college teaching from LSU in 1981.

Since then, she's received several honors and held many leadership positions in her field. She was the recipient of the American Music Therapy Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, Award of Merit, and Distinguished Research/Publication Award, as well as Temple University's Faculty Research Award. Over the course of her career, she's served as president of the World Federation of Music Therapy, president of the National Association for Music Therapy (USA), vice president of the International Society for Music in Medicine, and founding member of the International Association for Music and Medicine.

CHERYL DILEO, MT-BC, is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music Therapy and director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University where she started working in 1984. She also currently serves as faculty at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and honorary faculty at the University of Melbourne Australia, and she is a member of the Ph.D. program Advisory Board at Aalborg University, Denmark.

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Currently, she's the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music Therapy and director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University, and she travels to South America, Asia, and Europe on a regular basis to teach — something she cites as one of the most exciting and gratifying elements of her career.

“The best part of traveling is that there are music therapy friends in every country,” Dileo says.

“For the past 20 years, my travel has been for invited lecturing and workshops in different countries and for professional meetings.”

As part of her travels, she even founded the first English-language music therapy Ph.D. program in Tokyo in 2016, sort of bringing her passion full circle.

And an even bigger bit of serendipity — several of her students at Temple are now carrying her legacy back to Loyola.

“Most of the recent Loyola faculty — Dr. Darlene Brooks, Dr. Joy Allen, Dr. Victoria Vega ,and currently Dr. Kathleen Murphy — were my students at Temple University, where we offer the first and only Ph.D. in music therapy in the U.S.,” Dileo says. “So I truly feel that things have come full circle, and I feel as if I have ‘given back’ to Loyola by training its faculty.”

Dileo also founded the music therapy program at the University of Evansville and has herself served as music therapy adjunct faculty at Loyola University.

Point being, she's more than followed through on the work she started at Loyola so many years ago, and she believes Loyola gave her the ability to do so.

“Coming to Loyola was one of the best decisions of my life,” Dileo says.

“I’ve had a career that I’ve loved, and I’m certainly not done yet,” she says. “A very well-known Jesuit priest, Padre Pedro Arrupe, once said: ‘Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.’”

“I have, and it did.”

E G E L L O C P U D UN RO COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES In collaboration with the Jesuit Social Research Institute, the Department of Languages and Cultures participated in the Ignatian TeachIn on Migration in September. Leslie Galvez (environmental sciences/Latin American studies major) co-directed the evening’s program with Dr. Susan Weishar. Anderson Leal (mass communication major/Spanish minor) served as an interpreter.

Abby Perez (biology junior) and Ella Hall (environmental sciences senior) were awarded the Loyola Strength in Diversity grant to fund the Late Nights at Loyola events that they will co-direct this academic year with children who attend Anna’s Place, a nonprofit organization that aims to enrich the lives of economically disadvantaged and at-risk youth in the New Orleans area.

Recent graduate Annalisa Sega ’17 received a National Health Service Corps medical scholarship. She gave a presentation in October at the American Society of Human Genetics Meeting in San Diego on her UG research at Yale.

ONLINE PROGRAMS The Loyola University New Orleans Online Program is excited to welcome 246 new students to the Wolf Pack since March.

COLLEGE OF LAW The College of Law received an A+ for public interest law and an A- in environmental law from Pre-Law Magazine.

The College of Law welcomed our inaugural class of Ignatian Law Scholars, 18 particularly promising members of class of 2021 whose applications reflect the Jesuit values of commitment to academic excellence and service to others.

College of Law alumnus Robert Wilkie, J.D. ’88, was confirmed as secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Closer to home, Louisiana Army National Guardsman John Dunlap III, J.D. ’89, was promoted to brigadier general. Three members of the 2018 graduating class, Jami Busby, John Crosby, and Michael Moore, have been accepted into the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.

The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and United Way of Southeast Louisiana unveiled the Nancy M. Marsiglia Institute of Justice, a 12-week course honoring the late Nancy Meyers Marsiglia that engages residents of all backgrounds in exploring and debating elements of the U.S. Constitution.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

There are currently 18 fully online undergraduate and graduate degree programs plus an additional 30 credit-completion programs.

Daniel Viji (finance and economics double major junior) has been invited to attend the Goldman Sachs 2018 Hispanic Latino Leadership Summit in New York City in October.

In January, the university will launch an online bachelor of arts in psychology program as well as expand the popular music therapy master's program to online.

Dr. Frankie Weinberg, associate professor of management, has been elected to the Board of the Southern Management Association. His three-year term begins this year.

COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND FINE ARTS Billboard Magazine posted its 40 Under 40 Music Industry Power Players list and Loyola University New Orleans has notable alumni featured: Rosa Asciolla ’12, head of North American artist and label marketing at Spotify, has grown the streaming platform’s Hot Country Live series to a playlist of 5 million followers.

Matt Bauerschmidt ’10 co-manages Loyola alumnus G-Eazy (Gerald Gillum ’11), who has achieved three top 10 Billboard 200 albums and over 5.5 billion streams.

Greer Grimsley ’76 sang the national anthem at the New Orleans Saints season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 9 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and faculty member Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg will perform the national anthem at the Saints vs. Philadelphia Eagles game on Nov. 18.

This coming spring, the college will launch an online master of arts in mass communication program and a bachelor of design in motion design.

COLLEGE OF NURSING AND HEALTH COUNSELING Two counseling students, Oriel Romano and Ida Ansell, received the Excellence in Research grant from the Chi Sigma Iota Honors Society at the American Counseling Association Annual Conference.

LOYOLA INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY (LIM) The Loyola Institute of Ministry proudly celebrates its 50th anniversary of transformative education.

LIM, the Archdiocese of New Orleans Office of Catholic Schools, and Office of Religious Education sponsored the 11th Annual Summer Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership on campus this past summer for 85 leaders and aspiring leaders from parishes and Catholic schools in the region.

NURSING The American Academy of Nursing selected Assistant Professor Warren Hebert, DNP, RN, CAE, as one of the 195 highly distinguished nurse leaders to join the academy’s 2018 class of fellows.

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