Volume 38, Number 2

The Magazine of Jesuit High School of New Orleans • Spring/Summer 2012 Volume 38, Number 2

SPRING/SUMMER 2012 Jaynotes, the magazine for and about alumni, parents, and students of Jesuit High School of New Orleans, is published by the Office of Institutional Advancement. Opinions expressed No Headline... No Story... No Announcement in Jaynotes are those of the individual authors. President It was simply a vastly understated phrase in overall experience like attending Jesuit? What Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J. ’76 the school’s diary, an innocuous hand-written was the best and what was the worst? Were you [email protected] notation devoid of drama, expression, much less treated differently by your classmates or teachers? Director of Institutional Advancement excitement. Describe the seminal moment as an African- Thomas V. Bagwill II [email protected] American Blue Jay among the majority of white In fact, one could easily skim over the Director of Communications September 4, 1962 entry that documented the students. How were you treated by your African- Pierre DeGruy ’69 American friends who attended predominantly Jaynotes Editor moment when African-Americans integrated [email protected] black high schools? How did a Jesuit education Jesuit High School. The entry was made by Director of Alumni Affairs Jesuit’s longtime registrar, Mr. John C. Paquette benefit you in college, your career or the work Mat Grau ’68 ’27, who at the time had been working in that force, in marriage, and in parenthood? [email protected] Director of Special Projects capacity for 35 years. If you have an interesting story about Jesuit Br. William Dardis, S.J. ’58 The diary of sorts was actually a thickly and race, please consider sharing it with your [email protected] bound ledger called the Daily History of Jesuit fellow Blue Jay alumni as well as the current Creative Director parents and students who read Jaynotes. Essays Meghan Weaver High School. Mr. Paquette, who retired in 2002 [email protected] may be brief, as few as 50 words, with lengthier after serving as the school’s registrar for 75 Executive Development Coordinator years (he died in 2004), served as the guardian, submissions no more than 1,000 words. The Krista Roeling [email protected] keeper, and author of this Daily History. Nearly topics to be addressed are open and strictly up to the writer. Jaynotes reserves the right to edit LEF Coordinator every day, Mr. Paquette would jot something Logan Diano of interest — not every item was of paramount articles submitted for publication. Jaynotes may [email protected] importance — onto the pages of the ledger, withhold the name of the author if requested, Alumni Coordinator often times in precise phrases and concise half provided there are valid or extenuating reasons. Wendy Schneider [email protected] sentences. Today, the vast majority of his entries The deadline to submit “Essays on Race” is Volunteer Coordinator would satisfy the maximum 140-character October 31, 2012. Essays should be emailed as Marilyn Beauford Twitter requisite. Word attachments and contain the name and [email protected] The next issue of Jaynotes will examine the graduation year of the author-alumnus, along with a phone number in the event we need to Letters, photographs, and correspondence profound significance of this event — the are welcome and may be submitted to lead-up, the moment itself, and the impact on contact you for a photo or if we have a question. [email protected] or mailed to: Jaynotes the Jesuit community then and in the ensuing Email your “Essays on Race” to either alumni Jesuit High School decades. We hope not only to celebrate the director Mat Grau ’68 (grau@jesuitnola. 4133 Banks St. New Orleans, LA 70119 50th anniversary of Jesuit’s integration but also org; 504-483-3840) or Jaynotes’ editor Pierre Contact info and address changes should be to honor the moment itself and the virtues it DeGruy ’69 (that would be me). My direct emailed to [email protected], or call highlights. office line at Jesuit is 504-483-3813, or email: Jesuit’s alumni office at 504-483-3815. [email protected]. Questions about essays Parents: If you are receiving your son’s copy of To commemorate this historic time in Jaynotes and he no longer lives with you, please may be directed to either one of us. let us know so we can update our database and our school’s history, Jaynotes is seeking from send the magazine directly to him. If you enjoy its alumni “Essays on Race.” All alumni are Essays may also be submitted by mail, reading his copy of Jaynotes, we will be glad to send a copy to his new address and a copy to encouraged to submit essays dealing with addressed to Jaynotes; Essays on Race; Jesuit you. Email changes to: Jesuit and race. Jaynotes especially encourages High School; 4133 Banks St.; New Orleans, LA [email protected]. African-American alumni to share stories and 70119. Sign-up online for class reunions and other events. Go to: www.jesuitnola.org. remembrances that describe their personal We look forward to publishing some It is easy to contribute online to Jesuit High experience as students at Carrollton and Banks. School. Go to Jesuit’s web site: interesting “Essays on Race” in the next Jaynotes. www.jesuitnola.org. Look for the Essays are particularly sought from African- Until then, please sit back and enjoy reading this “DONATE ONLINE TO JESUIT” link in American alumni who were students in the years 2012 Graduation issue of Jaynotes. the upper left corner. following the integration of Jesuit High School, although alumni from all years are invited to tell Sincerely, On the Cover Seniors of the Class of 2012 their story in which the central theme is race. Pierre DeGruy ’69 patiently wait to be awarded Some ideas to consider: What was your Director of Communications/Editor, Jaynotes their diplomas during the 165th Commencement Exercises on Friday (May 25) at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Amidst Apocalyptic Changes, Resolve to Be True to the Foundations of a Jesuit Education An apocalypse of any kind will get our attention. It doesn’t matter whether it involves aliens from outer space, unruly zombies, split-second climate changes, or rabid kangaroos. An apocalypse means that our lives are going to be different, and just about all apocalyptic books or films highlight this element of discontinuity.

Gentlemen of the Class of 2012, you quite literally faced an judge the choices that will shape the men you become. apocalyptic moment when the curtain rose this evening, both to I urge you, even implore you, to maintain the habit of the reveal you to the audience and to signal the approaching end of examen of conscience in your daily life. Be grateful for the good your time as Jesuit students. After the curtain closes and you leave you have received and have done; acknowledge honestly and here, you will fill up a day differently from the way in which you courageously the wrong you have committed; be generous and have done so during the last four or five years. This discontinuity in great-hearted in anticipating future good you can perform. your lives rightly commands your attention. Such an examination requires God’s grace, His active guidance But I suggest that in the midst of these apocalyptic changes, you and presence in your life. This grace is available in abundance, the listen more intently for the note of continuity. Much will necessarily “daily bread” that God desires to give you. Ask for it and open and properly change, but there are other elements that can and must yourselves to receive it. remain the same. In another apocalyptic context, we hear the words: “Behold, I If what you do to fill up a day alters considerably, the way you am making all things new.” My good brothers, may the Word of evaluate what you do to fill up a day should remain constant. This God — who uttered these words and who reveals a divine love for evaluation must be true to the principles and standards that are you that is ever ancient and ever new — renew you all the days of the foundations of your Jesuit education: living Ad Majorem Dei life, taking up this evening’s change and all the changes in your lives, Gloriam, seeking the good of souls, being men of faith and men for and directing them toward the everlasting life for which God has others. These terms are more than Jesuit alumni’s verbal equivalent destined you.  of a secret handshake. These are the criteria by which you are to –Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J. ’ 76

Fall/Winter 2011-12 1 AVALEDICTORY R T I C L E N A M E ADDRESS

Forever Trumpet Your Blue Jay Spirit

The Class of 2012 produced nine valedictorians. The graduating senior who has earned the highest total numerical semester grades in the prescribed core curriculum for his senior year is selected to be the speaker at commencement ceremonies. Thus, Benjamin T. Sketchler was given the honor of delivering the Class of 2012 commencement address.

Reverend Father Fitzgerald, Mr. Giambelluca, So when I ask you to foster Blue Jay learned, by the examples your friends and faculty, family, friends, and fellow members of Spirit, I do not ask you only to hold self- teachers and family have set, by the ultimate the Class of 2012: indulgently onto that great feeling we were showing of sacrifice by Christ Himself. I am honored to bid you farewell on told to “catch” when a big football game Further, as we move on in our lives, we behalf of my class. But as I stand here, I came around. On the contrary, in asking all have certain dreams we wish to fulfill. cannot simply bid my adieu to these four or this, I ask you to remember that, as my And I warn you: these dreams will change, five years that have shaped us into the men favorite trumpeter Louis Armstrong said, and in seeking them we will sometimes fail, we are. No, even though we are physically “What we play is life.” and the world will sometimes fail us. As and mentally moving on, I challenge my Class, starting tonight, we embark on Captain Benjamin Sisko of Star Trek: Deep class to maintain in our lives one vastly very different paths. We move to different Space Nine (1998) once said, “Worry and important ideal we have absorbed at Jesuit: places. We learn new trades. We meet new doubt are the greatest enemies of a great Blue Jay Spirit. people. In doing so, we will all find various chef.” Jesuit was always more than just a place ways to profit and to live out what we call Whatever type of chef you become, where we took tests and performed in our our dreams. But when you find yourself as whether you cook up efficient business plans co-curricular activities so that we could a professional football player, a doctor, a or dish out diagnoses for your patients or gain knowledge, skills, and perhaps glory musician, or president of the world, do not mix lyrics and chord progression into songs in return. Jesuit called us not to look inside work only for your own money and glory, or or actually cook soufflés, hold steadfast your to see how we could serve ourselves; Jesuit else you will not truly be living. ideals of love and sacrifice. When you do so, called us to look outside to learn how we What we play is life. Every step you take you will live a life of love and passion. You could become better for our world. on this path, you sacrifice yourself for your will be a true Man for Others. You will live We worked tirelessly to entertain our fans, your patients, your audience, or your a full life. friends and families with our talents. We citizens. You sacrifice to support your family. Class of 2012, I know there are some sacrificed our time and possessions out You do what you do because you know it is things we will leave behind at Jesuit. Many of love of our community through the best for your community, and you do what of us leave behind state championship Thanksgiving Drive and other community you do Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. trophies. We leave memories for other service. We put in years of hard work to Acting in this manner, you carry on students. We leave the figurative and literal develop skills that will allow us to improve the Blue Jay Spirit, and you see that this sweat and blood we shed. And, I am surely the world for the rest of our lives. Through thing you are playing is life. You are not leaving behind the strict hair regulations. all of this, we have built loving friendships a machine built for profit. You are not an When you leave this building, though, I with those around us and developed a true, animal who feeds on pride and glory. You beg: be a great chef. Do not leave behind the living passion to serve. are a person, living by the lessons you have Blue Jay Spirit. Thank you and God bless. 

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Three Seniors Honored With Special Awards Each year, the faculty of Jesuit High School vote on the recipients of three special awards that are presented at the Commencement Ceremony.

THE REVEREND FATHER PRESIDENT’S SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP AWARD is presented to the senior who has exerted the greatest spiritual influence on others by living a life exemplifying his Catholic faith. The President’s Spiritual Leadership Award is given to that member of the senior class who manifests to the rest of the school community his dedication and commitment to Christ and the Church through his personal life, concern for others, and Christian example. By vote of the faculty, this year’s award was merited by Taylor J. Billings. THE JULIA FERGUSON MCENERNY MEMORIAL TROPHY, DONATED BY WILL GIBBONS MCENERNY OF THE CLASS OF 1914, is awarded to that member of the senior class who has a good scholastic record, actively participated in extracurricular activities, and who possesses those qualities which symbolize “the most representative student of Jesuit High School.” He should be a leader among the students, and his leadership should be in the area of preserving school spirit. The senior who was Recipients of the three major awards presented at the 2012 Commencement judged deserving of this year’s award, by vote of the faculty, was were, from left, Taylor Billings, Matthew Dupre, and David Scotton. Matthew J. Dupre.

THE VERY REVEREND FATHER PEDRO ARRUPE AWARD is presented to the senior who has exemplified the spirit of being a man for others by his participation and excellence in service. This year, by a vote of the faculty, the award was merited by David J. Scotton.

THE BLUE JAY PARENTS’ CLUB AWARD for excellence in scholarship is awarded to the seniors who are graduating with the highest grade point average for four years at Jesuit High School. They are also named co-valedictorians of their class. This year, the award was merited by the nine seniors below. From left: Taylor J. Billings, Jason P. Britsch, Michael M. Ceraso, Christian L. DeBuys, Alexander P. Hebert, Jonathan V. Nguyen, Jacob J. Pritt, Alexander D. Sherry, and Benjamin T. Sketchler.

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Each year, Jesuit High School recognizes seniors and underclassmen who have achieved significant academic and athletic honors. Unless designated otherwise, recipients were seniors of the Class of 2012. Among the awards presented on May 10, 2012 in the Jesuit Auditorium were the following: The Frank T. Howard Memorial Award for excellence in English was merited The Larry Gilbert Family Memorial Award for the best all-around athlete on by Christopher M. Hazlaris. the varsity teams was awarded to John W. Pyburn. The Jesuit 500 Club Award for Latin was merited by The Robert T. Casey Memorial Award for the varsity athlete with the best Alex B. Janzen. sportsmanship and spirit was awarded to Christopher M. Hazlaris. The William Helis Memorial Award for Greek was merited by The Coach Gernon Brown Memorial Award for the best all-around athlete Jacob J. Pritt. of the junior varsity teams during the 2011-12 school year was awarded to Joseph D. Hebert IV ’14 The Loyola University Award for Mathematics, given to the senior with the . highest overall average in mathematics, was merited by The “Rusty” Staub Award for the senior baseball letterman who best Benjamin T. Sketchler. exhibited leadership, sportsmanship, and spirit was awarded to Matthieu P. Robért The Reverend William J. Ryan Memorial Award for social studies, donated . by Dr. J. Joseph Ryan, was merited by Alexander P. Hebert. The Donald R. Ford Award for the outstanding football lineman was Michael A. Gogreve The Frank T. Howard Memorial Award for excellence in physics was merited awarded to . by Lucas C. Lavoie ’13. The Award for All-Around Athletic Ability was awarded to Deion L. Jones The Jimmy Kuck Award for excellence in chemistry was merited by . Matthew J. Wolff ’13. The William D. & Maybell Postell Award, donated by Mr. John Blake Postell ’59, to the senior basketball player who best exhibited leadership, The Award for Excellence in Biology was merited by John W. Pyburn Steven H. Stradley ’15. scholarship, and spirit, was awarded to . The Paquette Family Award for excellence in French was merited by The “Fighting Jaylet” Award, donated by Mr. Charles W. Heim, Jr. ’59 in Alexander J. Yacoubian. honor of the 1968 Fighting Jaylets, for the junior varsity basketball player who has demonstrated the highest quality of excellence as a student athlete The Ubaldo Trelles Memorial Award for excellence in Spanish was merited was presented to Brett G. Spansel ’14. by Benjamin M. Young. The Morris B. Redmann, Jr. Memorial Award for the outstanding senior The Susan & Garic Schoen Award for excellence in computer studies was football letterman who best combined scholarship and athletics was merited merited by Jordan M. Holmer. by Paul M. Stanton. The Perfect Attendance Certificate & Medal, for the seniors who have not The Edwin F. Stacy, Jr. Wrestling Award, presented to the outstanding missed a single day of school or been tardy once since their admission to wrestler who made a major contribution to the team, excelled in academics, Jesuit High School, was awarded to Andrew S. Barrett. and exhibited exemplary leadership, was awarded to The Philelectic Society Award for outstanding achievement in dramatics was Zachary J. Carmello. merited by Logan H. Breaux. The Michael D. Conway Award for the most valuable player on the varsity The Culture of Life Award, given to the student who has shown exemplary soccer team was awarded to Phillip A. Hicks. leadership in the Jesuit Pro-Life Club, was merited by The Rodriguez Family Award for the most valuable swimmer was awarded to David J. Scotton. Brennan C. Dorsey. The Giunio Socola Memorial Award, donated by Mrs. Anita Socola Specht The Chester M. Rieth Award for the senior track letterman who exhibited for excellence in public debate in the Lincoln-Douglas senior division, was leadership, sportsmanship, and spirit was awarded to merited by Zhen P. Huang ’14. Stefan C. Oddo. The Lea Naquin Hebert Memorial Award, donated by her sons F. Edward The Stanley Ray Award for the most improved track letterman for the and Gordon Ray Hebert for excellence in debate in the Public Forum senior current year is merited by Eric W. Prestenburg. division, was merited by Logan M. Williams. The Most Valuable Golfer Award, presented to the golfer who made a The Felix J. Hebert Memorial Award, donated by his sons F. Edward and significant contribution to the team, exhibited exemplary leadership, and Gordon Ray Hebert for excellence in debate in the Public Forum junior performed in an outstanding manner in tournament play, was awarded to division, was merited by Ryan D. Mouton ’13. Taylor J. Billings. The Aloysius J. Cahill Memorial Award for proficiency in oratory was The Most Valuable Tennis Player Award, presented to the senior tennis merited by Reuben A. Hogan ’14. player who made a significant contribution to the tennis program, exhibited The John D. Schilleci Memorial Award for excellence in elocution in the exemplary leadership, and performed in an outstanding manner in senior division was merited by Jacob J. Pritt. tournament play, was presented to Nicholas C. Braud. The Professor Michael Cupero Memorial Award for band leadership, The Christopher Morgan Memorial Award for the cross-country letterman donated by his grandson Hamil Cupero, was merited by who best exemplified courage, leadership, sportsmanship, and spirit was Evan A. Hartmann. awarded to Neal S. Fitzpatrick ’13. The Reverend Francis A. Fox, S.J. Memorial Award, donated by Mr. Harry The Joseph Michael Worley Memorial Award, presented to a senior who, Morel, Sr., for proficiency in instrumental music was merited by Ian K. by his unselfishness, sportsmanship, and spirit during his career at Jesuit, Rohr ’13. enhanced the athletic program as a player, manager, trainer, or student, was awarded to Taylor J. Billings. The Coach Edwin E. Toribio Memorial Award, presented to the senior who best combined scholarship and athletics, was merited by Alexander J. Yacoubian. View the photo gallery of awards night: www.jesuitnola.org/academics. 4 JAYNotes GRADUATIONALUMNI 2012

The 262 graduates who comprise Jesuit High School’s Class of 2012 move on to more than 50 different universities. In addition to their Jesuit education and all that comes with it, our newest Blue Jay alumni have pocketed a collective $23,611,428 worth of scholarship offers. Congratulations to Jesuit’s Class of 2012! Off They Go!

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Donald Brennan Abadie Scholarship, and Oliver W. & Emma W. Allen Andrew Shawn Barrett Louisiana State University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award (National Merit Finalist) Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University of Georgia John Blackman Ariail III Award Also accepted to University of South Carolina; Louisiana State University Tulane University; Texas A&M University; Patrick Hugh Abry Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Louisiana State University; University of Texas; Louisiana State University Award University of Dallas; Oklahoma University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Benjamin Thomas Bagwill Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Louisiana State University University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident TOPS Honors Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Thomas Herman Abry Award Award; National Merit University of Georgia Louisiana State University Scholarship; Texas A&M University National Jeremy Scott Baldassaro Merit Scholarship; Tulane University Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Louisiana State University (Honors Founder’s Scholar Award; University of Award College) Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Oluwatomi Olamigoke Akingbola Also accepted to Auburn University (Honors Scholarship; University of Oklahoma University of Southern California Program); Baylor University; Spring Hill National Merit Scholar Award; University of Also accepted to Tulane University; Louisiana College; Fordham University South Carolina McKissick Scholars Award; State University; Xavier University of Scholarships offered —Auburn University University of Texas at Dallas McDermott Louisiana; University of Miami; University of Academic Heritage Scholarship; Baylor Scholars Award; TOPS Honors Award University President’s Gold Scholarship; Michigan Grant Christopher Barrilleaux Scholarships offered —University of Southern Louisiana State University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Louisiana State University California Tuition Exchange Award; TOPS Also accepted to Texas Christian University Performance Award Student Aide Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Joshua Paul Allwein Service Award; TOPS Honors Award Award Louisiana State University Chad Joseph Bender Scholarships offered —Louisiana State William Mather Baldwin III Louisiana State University Rhodes College University Bingham Cushman Stewart Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Award St. John’s University; Millsaps College; Matthew Nathan Anjier Huntingdon College André Thomas Benoit (National Merit Finalist) Scholarships offered —Huntingdon College Louisiana State University University of Virginia Mary Elizabeth Stallworth Scholarship and Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Also accepted to Sewanee University of the Huntingdon College Endowed Scholarship; Award South; Washington and Lee University; Tulane Millsaps College Millsaps Award; St. John’s University (Honors Program); Wake Forest University Catholic High School Scholarship Taylor Joseph Billings University; Vanderbilt University and Academic Achievement Award; TOPS (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Scholarships offered —Sewanee: The University Performance Award Finalist) of the South Provost’s Scholarship; Tulane University of Notre Dame University Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Tierron Yon Baptiste, Jr. Also accepted to Louisiana State University Honors Award Louisiana State University (Honors (Honors College); University of Virginia; Program) Boston College (Honors Program Carroll Ray Carl Ansardi III Also accepted to Oglethorpe University School of Management) Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Oglethorpe University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Also accepted to University of Alabama; Loyola Merit Scholarship University Chancellor’s Alumni Scholarship University New Orleans Brian Joseph Barbera and Chancellor’s Future Leaders in Research Scholarships offered —Loyola University Louisiana State University Award; National Merit Sponsored University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS of Notre Dame Scholarship; TOPS Honors Opportunity Award Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Award University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Charles Woodard Applewhite III Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Benjamin Joseph Birdsall IV Loyola University New Orleans TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Jeffrey Nicholas Barbera Also accepted to Oglethorpe University; King’s University of New Orleans Louisiana State University College; The University of Mississippi; Tulane University; Fordham University; Southern Evan Michael Arceneaux Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Methodist University; College of Saint (National Merit Finalist) Award Benedict/Saint John’s University; Florida Valparaiso University (Honors Program) Stephen Daniel Bardot State University; University of Miami; Texas Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans (National Merit Program Commended Student) Christian University Scholarships offered —Louisiana Federation Texas A&M University Scholarships offered —Florida State University of Music Clubs Mildred Bevill State Piano Also accepted to Sewanee University of the Merit Scholarship; Fordham University Award and Past Presidents State College South; University of Alabama; Rhodes College Jogues Scholarship; King’s College Moreau Award; Loyola University Jesuit Identity Scholarships offered —Rhodes College Diehl Scholarship; Louisiana State University LSU Scholarship; National Merit Valparaiso Scholarship; Sewanee: The University of Academic Scholars Resident Award and University Scholarship; Valparaiso University the South Merit Scholarship; University of Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Oglethorpe Board of Directors’ Scholarship, Forte Music Alabama Presidential Scholarship University Presidential Scholarship; College of 6 JAYNotes GRADUATIONALUMNI 2012

Saint Benedict & Saint John’s Catholic High Michael Anthony Bordlee Scholarship; Saint Louis University Dean’s School Scholarship, President’s Scholarship, (National Merit Program Commended Student) Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Recognition Scholarship, and Saint John’s Hofstra University (Honors Program) Seattle University Trustee’s Scholarship; Tulane Abbey Scholarship; Southern Methodist Also accepted to Loyola Marymount University University Merit Scholarship; University of University SMU Distinguished Scholar Award; (Honors Program); Tulane University; Loyola Miami UM Endowed Gift Award; University University of Mississippi Academic Excellence University New Orleans (Honors Program); of San Diego Presidential Scholar Award; Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award University of Massachusetts Lowell; Ithaca TOPS Honors Award Hans Christian Bisgaard College; Elon University Matthew John Braud Louisiana State University (Honors Scholarships offered —Hofstra University Tulane University College) Presidential Scholarship; Ithaca College Also accepted to Spring Hill College (Honors Also accepted to University of Alabama; Academic Scholarship; Loyola University Program); Millsaps College; Loyola University Louisiana Tech University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship and Music New Orleans Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarship; Loyola Marymount University Scholarships offered –Burger King Scholars University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Jesuit High School Scholarship; Tulane Program Scholarship; Loyola University New Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University Academic Achievement Award; Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Millsaps College Louisiana Tech University Presidential University of Massachusetts Lowell Academic Millsaps Presidential Scholarship; Spring Hill Scholarship; University of Alabama Council Scholarship; University of New College Presidential Jesuit Scholar Award Presidential Scholarship and Engineering Orleans Audubon Scholarship; TOPS Honors and SHC Service Award; Tulane University Leadership Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Award Louisiana Legislative Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Borna Matej Bjeliš Nicholas James Boustany University of Zagreb (Croatia) University of New Orleans Nicholas Christopher Braud Louisiana State University (Honors Andrew Christopher Blasini Matthew James Braquet College) Louisiana State University Louisiana State University (Honors College) Also accepted to Millsaps College; Rhodes Also accepted to University of Miami; Spring College; Spring Hill College Hill College; University of Alabama; Loyola Also accepted to Rhodes College (Honors Program); Tulane University; University of Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University New Orleans; Texas Christian University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident University; Millsaps College; Louisiana Tech Miami; Fordham University; Loyola University Chicago; Loyola University New Orleans; St. Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University Millsaps College Millsaps Presidential Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Louis University; Seattle University; DePaul University; St. Edward’s University; University Scholarship; Rhodes College Presidential University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; of San Diego; University of San Francisco Scholarships offered —DePaul University Jesuit Scholar and SHC Service Award; TOPS Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Honors Award Scholar Award; Millsaps College Annual Merit Presidential Scholarship; Fordham University Scholarship; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Fordham Scholarship; Louisiana State Logan Henry Breaux Scholar Award and SHC Service Award; TOPS University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident Louisiana State University Honors Award Award; Loyola University Chicago Loyola Scholarships offered —Louisiana Bankers Scholarship and Jesuit Heritage Award; Loyola Education Council’s Freshman Scholarship; University New Orleans Dean’s Scholar Award; Louisiana State University LSU Tiger Rhodes College Honors Scholarship; St. Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Edward’s University President’s Achievement Award Martin Joel Breen Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award Jason Paul Britsch (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Finalist) University of Dallas Also accepted to University of Notre Dame; Boston College (Honors Program); Fordham University; Franciscan University at Steubenville; Spring Hill College (Honors Program); Louisiana State University (Honors College) Scholarships offered —Fordham University Fordham Scholarship; Franciscan University of Steubenville Chancellor’s Scholarship; Louisiana State University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Scholar Award and SHC

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Service Scholarship; University of Dallas Tulane University Distinguished Scholar Joshua Michael Caluda UD National Merit Finalist Scholarship and Award; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Classics Scholarship; University of Notre Nicholas Patraic Burgess Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Dame Provost’s Scholarship and University University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award University of Louisiana at Lafayette Scholarships offered —University of Award; TOPS Honors Award Gregory David Brousse, Jr. Louisiana—Lafayette Pride of Acadiana Evan Gerald Camus Tulane University Housing Award Louisiana State University Also accepted to Loyola University New Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award Orleans; Spring Hill College; Louisiana State Nicholas Joseph Burke Louisiana State University University (Honors College) (Honors Max Clifford Cannon IV College) Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Louisiana State University (Honors Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University LSU Academic Scholars Resident College) University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholar University LSU Academic Scholars Resident TOPS Honors Award Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Scholar Award and SHC Service Scholarship; Cory Paul Cacamo TOPS Honors Award Tulane University Founder’s Scholar Award; Tulane University TOPS Honors Award Also accepted to Southern Methodist Zachary Joseph Carmello University; Texas Christian University; Loyola (National Merit Finalist) Scott Ferguson Buhler University of Alabama (Honors Program) Louisiana State University University New Orleans; Trinity University; Spring Hill College Also accepted to Louisiana State University Also accepted to University of Southern Scholarships offered —Loyola University New (Honors College); Georgia Institute of

Mississippi Orleans Dean’s Scholar Award; Southern Technology; Colorado School of Mines; Scholarships offered —University of Southern Methodist University SMU Provost’s Tulane University; United States Merchant Mississippi Regional Scholarship; TOPS Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Marine Academy

Opportunity Award Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Service Scholarships offered —Colorado School of Kevin Joseph Bukaty Scholarship; Texas Christian University Mines Presidential Scholar Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholar Award; (National Merit Program Commended Student) Faculty Scholarship; Trinity University University of Alabama Presidential National Tulane University (Honors Program) Trustee’s Scholarship; Tulane University Merit Finalist Scholarship; United States Also accepted to Louisiana State University Louisiana Legislative Scholarship; TOPS Merchant Marine Academy Appointment; (Honors College); Boston University; Elon Honors Award TOPS Honors Award University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award;

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Patrick Steven Carpenter (Honors College); Louisiana Tech University Bryan Joseph Costanzo Louisiana State University (Honors Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Louisiana State University College) University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident Louisiana Tech University Presidential Award; TOPS Honors Award Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans TOPS Honors Award Dean’s Scholar Award; Tulane University Austin Martin Courregé Founder’s Scholar Award; TOPS Honors University of Southern Mississippi David Fahey Joseph Celentano, Jr. Award Also accepted to Loyola University New University of Louisiana at Lafayette Orleans; Spring Hill College; Northwestern (Honors Program) Milad Rabih Chedid Loyola University New Orleans State University in Louisiana Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Scholarships offered —Loyola University Also accepted to Tulane University; Louisiana Award New Orleans Recognition Award and State University; Louisiana Tech University Visual Arts Scholarship; Northwestern State Michael Mario Ceraso Scholarships offered —Louisiana Tech University Outstanding Student Scholarship (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit University Outstanding Student Scholarship; and Presidential Honors Award; Spring Finalist) Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholar Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award and Fordham University (Honors Program) Award; TOPS Performance Award Also accepted to Louisiana State University SHC Service Award; University of Southern (Honors College); Catholic University of Felix Joseph Ciolino Mississippi Regional Scholarship; TOPS America (Honors Program); Boston College Louisiana State University Opportunity Award (Honors Program); Baylor University (Honors Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Award Kyle Joseph Crabtree Program); Emory University/Oxford College; Louisiana State University Case Western Reserve University; Tulane Justin James Clark Also accepted to University of Alabama; Loyola University (Honors Program); Franciscan Spring Hill College University New Orleans University of Steubenville Also accepted to Loyola University New Scholarships offered —Loyola University Scholarships offered —Baylor University Orleans; Louisiana State University; University New Orleans Loyola Scholar Award; TOPS President’s Gold Scholarship; Case Western of Louisiana at Lafayette (Honors Program) Performance Award Reserve University Michelson-Morley Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Scholarship; Catholic University CUA Orleans Recognition Award; Spring Hill Robert Paul Cronvich Scholarship; Fordham University Fordham College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award and Loyola University New Orleans Scholarship and National Merit Fordham SHC Service Award; TOPS Opportunity Also accepted to Louisiana State University

University Scholarship; Franciscan University Award Scholarships offered —Loyola University New of Steubenville Chancellor’s Scholarship; Orleans Loyola Scholar Award; TOPS Honors Louisiana State University LSU Flagship Blake Joseph Cookmeyer Award Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s (National Merit Finalist) Student Aide Award; Tulane University Louisiana State University (Honors Thomas Fowler Crumley Presidential Scholar Award; TOPS Honors College) (National Merit Program Commended Student) Award Also accepted to University of Alabama; Auburn St. Edward’s University University; St. Louis University; Washington Also accepted to Sewanee University of the Bradley J Chauvin, Jr. South; University of Miami; College of Tulane University University in St. Louis Scholarships offered —Auburn University Charleston; Fordham University; St. Louis Also accepted to University of South Carolina; Academic Heritage Scholarship; Baylor University; Tulane University; Loyola University of Georgia (Honors Program); University President’s Gold Scholarship; University New Orleans Louisiana State University (Honors College); Louisiana State University LSU Academic Scholarships offered —Fordham University Texas Christian University (Honors Program); Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Jogues Scholarship; Loyola University New Auburn University (Honors Program); Student Aide Award; New Orleans Orleans Loyola Scholar Award; Sewanee: The Southern Methodist University (Honors Firemen’s Federal Credit Union’s “Reaching University of the South Ecce Quam Bonum

Program) New Heights Education Grant Program” Award; St. Edward’s University President’s Scholarships offered —Auburn University Scholarship; St. Louis University Vice Achievement Scholarship; St. Louis University Academic Heritage Scholarship and Chemical Presidents’ Scholarship and Jesuit High School Dean’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Engineering Freshman Scholarship; Louisiana Award; University of Alabama Presidential Award; Tulane University Presidential Scholar State University LSU Academic Scholars National Merit Finalist Scholarship; TOPS Award; University of Miami Presidential Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Honors Award Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Aide Award; Southern Methodist University Frank Curtis Cummings Lyle Engineering Fellows Scholarship and Adam Joseph Coote University of North Texas SMU Provost Scholarship; Texas Christian Louisiana State University Also accepted to University of New Orleans; University Deans Scholarship; Tulane Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity University of Louisiana at Lafayette; University University Founder’s Scholar Award; Award University of South Carolina McKissick of Alabama Scholars Award and Joseph Biedenbach Kyle Gerard Corvers Scholarships offered —University of New Engineering Scholarship; TOPS Honors Louisiana State University Orleans Privateer Merit Award; University of Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity New Orleans Jackson Scholarship; University Award of North Texas Distinguished Freshman Christopher Rabih Chedid Award; TOPS Opportunity Award Tulane University (Honors Program) Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans (Honors Program); Louisiana State University Spring/Summer 2012 9 AOFF R T ITHEY C L E N GO! A M E

Jarod Thomas Cusimano Christian Laurence DeBuys Donald Moise Dey, Jr. Louisiana State University (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Finalist) Also accepted to University of Mississippi; Award Texas A&M University University of Southern Mississippi Also accepted to Tulane University; University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Nicholas Alexander D’Antonio of Alabama; Georgia Institute of Technology University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident United States Naval Academy Scholarships offered —Georgia Tech University Award; University of Mississippi Academic Also accepted to United States Air Force National Merit Finalist Scholarship; Excellence Scholarship and Academic Academy; Texas A&M University; Louisiana Texas A&M University National Merit Excellence Non-Resident Scholarship; State University (Honors College) Recognition Award & National Merit Finalist University of Southern Mississippi Academic Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarship, President’s Endowed Scholarship, Excellence Scholarship and Regional University LSU Tiger Excellence Award; Aggieland Bound Scholarship, Mechanical Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award United States Air Force Academy Engineering Scholarship, Opportunity Award Appointment; United States Naval Academy Scholarship, and Non-Resident Tuition Ryan Thomas DiMaggio Appointment; TOPS Honors Award Waiver; Tulane University Presidential Scholar Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award Alec René Daher Award; University of Alabama Academic University of Louisiana at Lafayette Elite Presidential National Merit Finalist Cameron Braxton Dobbins Scholarship; and Engineering Leadership Mississippi College Also accepted to University of New Orleans; Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Mississippi College Scholarships offered TOPS— Opportunity Alexander René DeRojas Achievement and Leadership Scholarship Award Louisiana State University Sean Michael Donovan Armand Paul Daigle III Also accepted to Loyola University New Louisiana State University Louisiana State University Orleans; Spring Hill College; Flagler College; Also accepted to St. John’s University; Spring University of Southern Mississippi Hill College Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Award Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College Orleans Loyola Scholar Award; Spring Hill Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award and SHC Service Marshall John David III College Portier Jesuit Scholar Award and Award; St. John’s University Merit Scholarship; Louisiana State University SHC Service Award; University of Southern TOPS Performance Award Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Mississippi Golden Opportunity Scholarship University LSU Tiger Excellence Award; and Regional Scholarship; TOPS Performance Ashton Michael Dorsey TOPS Honors Award Award Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Keith Patrick Delaune Edward Hunter Dawson Award Baton Rouge Community College (National Merit Finalist) Also accepted to The University of Mississippi Louisiana State University Brennan Collins Dorsey Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Scholarships offered —Louisiana State (National Merit Finalist) Award University LSU Alumni Association’s Global Tulane University Leaders Scholarship, Chancellor Future Also accepted to Catholic University of Dylan Floyd del Corral Leaders in Research Award, LSU Flagship America; Fordham University; Loyola Louisiana State University Scholars Resident Award, Chancellor’s Student University New Orleans; Boston College; Also accepted to Baylor University; St. John’s Aide Award, and National Merit Louisiana Spring Hill College (Honors Program); University; The King’s College; Mississippi State University Scholarship; Tulane University University of Miami; University of Hawaii State University Presidential Scholar Award; TOPS Honors at Manoa; Centenary College of Louisiana; Scholarships offered —Baylor University BU Award Louisiana State University (Honors College) Merit Scholarship; King’s College Moreau Scholarships offered —Catholic University Austin James Delery Scholarship; St. John’s University Academic CUA Scholarship; Centenary College Louisiana State University Achievement Award; TOPS Honors Award President’s Scholarship; Louisiana State Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident Quinn Paul del Corral Award Louisiana State University Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholar Also accepted to Clemson University; Purdue Francis Otway Denny IV Award; Spring Hill College Presidential University; Tulane University Louisiana State University (Honors Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Service Scholarships offered —Clemson University College) Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholar Out-of-State Academic Scholarship; Tulane Also accepted to University of Georgia; Award and National Merit Tulane University University Founder’s Scholar Award; TOPS University of Alabama; University of Scholarship; University of Hawaii at Manoa Honors Award Mississippi; Clemson University Scholarships offered —Clemson University Centennial Scholarship; University of Miami Turner Stuart DeBlieux Out-of-State Academic Scholarship; Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Louisiana State University LSU Academic William Bradford Downer Also accepted to Mississippi State University Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Student Aide Award; University of Alabama University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Presidential Scholarship and Engineering Austin Duplain Duncan Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Leadership Scholarship; University of Hamline University Award; Mississippi State University Entering Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Freshman Academic Excellence Scholarship and Academic Excellence Non-Resident University of Alabama; Morehouse College; and Non-Resident Tuition Scholarship; TOPS Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Baylor University; Mississippi College; Rhodes Honors Award College; Millsaps College 10 JAYNotes GRADUATIONALUMNI 2012

Scholarships offered —Hamline University Benjamin Miller Elmer Alexander Presson Farmer Athletic Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Louisiana State University University of Louisiana at Lafayette Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity (Honors Program) Matthew Joseph Dupre Award Also accepted to Louisiana State University; University of Southern Mississippi; Mississippi (National Merit Program Commended Student) Ronald Lawrence Faia III Louisiana State University (Honors State University Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered —University of College) Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Also accepted to Franciscan University of Southern Mississippi Regional Award; TOPS Tulane University Opportunity Award Steubenville (Honors Program) Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarships offered —Franciscan University of University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident Sean Michael Fiegel Steubenville Chancellor’s Scholarship and Fr. Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Louisiana State University Michael Scanlan Scholarship; Louisiana State Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Also accepted to Southeastern Louisiana University LSU Academic Scholars Resident University; University of Mississippi; Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Michael Lee Falba University of Southern Mississippi; University TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University (Honors of Alabama; University of Tennessee College) Brian Christopher Dupree, Jr. Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Also accepted to University of Miami; Fordham University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident Louisiana State University University; Syracuse University Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award Award; Southeastern University Honors Scholarships offered —Fordham University Scholarship and Housing Scholarship; Kyle Joseph Eccles Jogues Scholarship; Louisiana State University University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Louisiana State University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Award and Scholarship and Non-Resident Scholarship; Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Syracuse University of Southern Mississippi Academic University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident University Scholars Award; TOPS Honors Excellence Scholarship and Regional Award; TOPS Honors Award Award Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Where Are They Going? Class of 2012

85% 75% 55%

of the class (232 grads) The majority of the The largest contingent — This year’s “long were awarded one of the grads, some 196, plan 144 Blue Jays (an distance award” goes three TOPS scholarship to stay in Louisiana increase of 33 from the to one Blue Jay who is designations (Honors, and enroll in one of 11 Class of 2011) — is traveling 5,470 miles to Performance, or institutions, including a destined for Louisiana attend the University Opportunity) to attend a seminary. State University. of Zagreb in his home Louisiana college. country of Croatia.

Blue Jays are heading to college in 18 states, including

Louisiana and the District of Columbia. Some of the out-of-

state institutions Blue Jays plan to attend are: University of Alabama (7) Ole Miss (2) Fordham University (5) Rhodes College (2) Spring Hill College (4) University of Notre Dame (2) University of Southern U.S. Naval Academy (2) Mississippi (4) Washington University Boston College (3) in St. Louis (2) Harvard (2) AOFF R T ITHEY C L E N GO! A M E

Alan Mark Flake Emerson Robert Gibbs Tulane University; University of Alabama Louisiana State University Tulane University Birmingham; University of San Diego; Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered —Tulane University Full University of California Santa Barbara; Scholarships offered —Loyola University Athletic Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity University of Miami New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Award Scholarships offered —Fordham University Opportunity Award Jogues Scholarship; Louisiana State University Andrew Michael Giorlando LSU Academic Scholars Resident Award and John Paul Fleming, Jr. Louisiana State University Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Southern Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Methodist University Provost’s Scholarship Also accepted to Southern Methodist University Award and Engineering Fellows Scholarship; Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Ryan Joseph Glaviano University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazer University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident Elite Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Award; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Darcy Guo Zenen Uriel Flores Award (National Merit Finalist) Louisiana State University Washington University in St. Louis Also accepted to Loyola University New Michael Anthony Gogreve Southeastern Louisiana University Also accepted to Tulane University (Honors Orleans; University of New Orleans Program); Vanderbilt University Scholarships offered —Loyola University Also accepted to University of New Orleans; Scholarships offered —Tulane University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Nicholls State University; University of Distinguished Scholar Award; Washington Opportunity Award Southern Mississippi University in St. Louis Thomas H. Eliot Stephen Graham Forcier James Gray Goudeau Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Southeastern Louisiana University Louisiana State University Michael Jules Guste, Jr. Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Also accepted to Millsaps College; Spring Hill Louisiana State University University of Louisiana at Lafayette; College; University of Southern Mississippi; University of New Orleans; Loyola University Loyola University New Orleans; Hendrix Matthew Paul Hahn New Orleans College University of New Orleans Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Scholarships offered —Hendrix College Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans Award Hendrix Academic Scholarship and Odyssey Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Distinction Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; University of Ralph Carroll Freibert IV Orleans Loyola Scholar Award; Millsaps New Orleans Carondelet Scholarship and United States Military Academy College Second Century Scholarship; Spring Privateer Merit Award; TOPS Performance Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award and Award University of Southern Mississippi; University SHC Service Award; University of Southern of Louisiana at Lafayette Mississippi Golden Opportunity Scholarship Sean Robert Hannan Scholarships offered —United States Military and Regional Scholarship; TOPS Performance Louisiana State University (Honors Academy Appointment; TOPS Performance Award College) Award Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans Samuel Jay Grace Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Colin Edward Fulham Spring Hill College Orleans Dean’s Scholar Award; Louisiana State (National Merit Program Commended Student) Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Louisiana State University (Honors Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Service Award, Chancellor’s Student Aide Award, and Program) Award Manship Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Also accepted to Fordham University; Texas Christian University; Loyola University New Nicholas Adam Griffin Evan Michael Hart Orleans (Honors Program); Tulane University Loyola University New Orleans Louisiana State University (Honors Program); University of Denver Also accepted to University of New Orleans; Scholarships offered —Louisiana State (Honors Program); Case Western Reserve Louisiana State University University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident University; Trinity University San Antonio Scholarships offered —Loyola University Award; TOPS Honors Award Scholarships offered —Case Western Reserve New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award Evan Anthony Hartmann University CWRU Scholarship; Fordham Louisiana State University University Dean’s Scholarship; Loyola Hall Winters Guarisco Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University New Orleans Dean’s Scholar Boston College Award Award; Louisiana State University LSU Also accepted to Fordham University; College Flagship Scholars Resident Award and of Charleston; Tulane University Adam Luke Haydel Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Texas Scholarships offered —College of Charleston (National Merit Finalist) Christian University Deans Scholarship; Presidential Scholarship; Fordham University University of Notre Dame Trinity University Murchison Scholarship; Loyola Scholarship; Tulane University Also accepted to University of Texas Austin; Tulane University Presidential Scholar Award; Founder’s Scholar Award; TOPS Honors Georgia Institute of Technology; University of University of Denver Chancellor Scholar Award Alabama (Honors Program); Louisiana State Award; TOPS Honors Award University (Honors College) Richard Frank Guidry Maxwell Eberhard Garrison Scholarships offered — Elks National Louisiana State University (Honors Louisiana State University Foundation Most Valuable Student College) Scholarship; Future Farmers of America Scholarships offered — Louisiana State Also accepted to Boston University; Fordham & the Cargill Corporation Scholarship; University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident University; University of Georgia; Southern Georgia Tech University GT Scholarship for Award; TOPS Honors Award Methodist University (Honors Program); Undergraduates; Louisiana State University

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LSU Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Burger King Scholars Program Scholarship; National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; Pelican State Credit Union Scholarship Award; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Notre Dame University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Christopher Michael Hazlaris (National Merit Finalist) Fordham University Also accepted to Pepperdine University (Honors Program); Georgetown University; Colgate University Scholarships offered —Fordham University Fordham Scholarship; Georgetown University GU Scholarship; Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund Award; National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; Pepperdine University Seaver Scholars Scholarship Alexander Patrick Priola Hebert (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Finalist) (Honors College); Tulane University Nicholas Joseph Hourguettes University of Alabama (Honors Program) Scholarships offered —Louisiana State (National Merit Finalist; National Hispanic Also accepted to Louisiana State University University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Scholar) (Honors College); Auburn University (Honors Scholarship and Chancellor’s Student Aide Washington University in St. Louis Program); Millsaps College; Tulane University Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholar Also accepted to St. Louis University; Fordham (Honors Program); University of Virginia; Award; University of Alabama UA Scholar University; University of San Diego; Texas Fordham University (Honors Program) Scholarship, President’s Cabinet Engineering A&M University; Baylor University; Clemson Scholarships offered —Auburn University Supplement, and Engineering Leadership University (Honors Program); University Academic Presidential Scholarship; Fordham Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award of Alabama (Honors Program); Auburn University Fordham Scholarship; Louisiana Phillip Alexander Hicks University (Honors Program); Louisiana State State University LSU Flagship Scholars Louisiana State University University (Honors College); University of Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Miami Aide Award; Millsaps College Millsaps University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Scholarships offered —Auburn University Presidential Scholarship; National Merit Scholarship and Chancellor’s Student Aide Academic Heritage Scholarship; Baylor Sponsored Scholarship; University of Award; TOPS Honors Award University President’s Gold Scholarship; Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Clemson University Out-of-State Academic Scholarship and Engineering Leadership Royce Alexander Hocke Scholarship; Fordham University National Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Merit Semifinalist Scholarship; Louisiana State Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University LSU Flagship Scholars Resident Steven Clement Helmstetter University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Louisiana Tech University Scholarship and Chancellor’s Student Aide National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; Saint Also accepted to Louisiana State University Award; TOPS Honors Award Louis University Presidential Finalist Award Mason Eliot Kang Helt and Jesuit High School Award; Texas A&M Ronald Daniel Hoefeld III University President’s Endowed Scholarship, Boston College Louisiana State University Also accepted to Louisiana State University Non-Resident Tuition Waiver, and National Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Merit Recognition Award; University of (Honors College); University of Massachusetts Award Amherst Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarships offered —Boston University Jordan Matthew Holmer Scholarship; University of Miami Dickinson Dean’s Scholar Award; Louisiana State Marquette University Scholarship; University of San Diego Alcala University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Also accepted to Illinois Institute of Technology; Award; Washington University in St. Louis Scholarship and Chancellor’s Student Aide University of Illinois Chicago; Purdue Thomas H. Eliot Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award; University of Massachusetts Amherst University; Louisiana State University Award Chancellor’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Scholarships offered —Illinois Institute of Kyle Jacob Hymel Award Technology Henry T. Head Scholarship, Louisiana State University (Honors IIT Housing Scholarship, and STEM+ Oscar Aquiles Hernandez, Jr. College) Scholarship; Marquette Jesuit University Half Also accepted to Tulane University Parsons The New School for Design Tuition Scholarship and Magis Award; TOPS (New York City) Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Opportunity Award University LSU Academic Scholars Resident Jonathan Robert Hess Chad Anthony Hopkins Scholarship and Chancellor’s Student Aide University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of Alabama (Honors Program) Award; TOPS Honors Award Also accepted to Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Award

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Haider Iqbal University LSU Academic Scholars Resident University Academic Scholars Resident University of New Orleans (Honors Scholarship and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Program) Award; St. John’s University Presidential National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Scholarship; St. Louis University Vice Tulane University Founder’s Scholar Award; Tulane University; Loyola University New Presidents’ Scholarship Jesuit High School University of Alabama Presidential National Orleans Award; TOPS Honors Award Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Miami Trustee Scholarship; University of Scholarships offered —Loyola University Denis Don Joachim Mississippi Academic Excellence Award; Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Louisiana State University (Honors Award University of Texas Academic Competitive College) Scholarship and In-State Tuition; TOPS Ibtisam Ismail Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Honors Award Xavier University of Louisiana University LSU Tiger Excellence Resident Scholarships offered —Xavier University XU Award; TOPS Honors Award Blair Fitzgerald Kern Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award Louisiana State University Also accepted to Arizona State University; College of Charleston Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Award Raymond Carl Kleefisch III Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award Ian Werner Konrad Spring Hill College Also accepted to University of New Orleans Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Service Award Jeremy Adam Kozel Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Award Cade Robert Landeche Louisiana State University Also accepted to Spring Hill College Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Service Award; TOPS Performance Award Deion Leandrew Jones Todd Anthony Jacquet Andrew Michael Landry (National Achievement Scholarship Finalist; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State The University of Southern National Merit Program Commended Student) Mississippi Tulane University University Full Athletic Scholarship Also accepted to Spring Hill College; University Also accepted to Arkansas State University; Adam Patrick Kehoe of Mississippi Florida International University; Kansas State (National Merit Finalist) Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College University; University of Houston; University Middlebury College Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Service of Louisiana at Lafayette; University of Also accepted to University of North Carolina Award; University of Southern Mississippi Southern Mississippi at Asheville; Tulane University; Oberlin Regional Scholarship Scholarships offered —Tulane University Full College; Pitzer College; Bates College Athletic Scholarship; Arkansas State University Scholarships offered —National Merit Zachary Stuart Lee Full Athletic Scholarship; Florida International Sponsored Scholarship; Oberlin College John University of New Orleans University Full Athletic Scholarship; Kansas Frederick Oberlin Scholar Award; Tulane State University Full Athletic Scholarship; John Thomas Lindsey, Jr. University Presidential Award; University of Georgetown University University of Houston Full Athletic Texas at Dallas National Merit Scholar Award; Scholarship; University of Louisiana at Also accepted to University of Notre Dame; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University (Honors College); Lafayette Full Athletic Scholarship; University University of Georgia (Honors Program) of Southern Mississippi Full Athletic Dylan Hall Kennedy Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award Scholarships offered —Louisiana State (National Merit Finalist) University Academic Scholars Resident Award The University of Texas at Austin Alex Bradford Janzen and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Fordham University Also accepted to University of Miami; Honors Award Also accepted to St. John’s University New York University of Georgia; Tulane University; (Honors Program); Louisiana State University University of Alabama (Honors College); (Honors College); St. Louis University; Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of Georgia University of Mississippi Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarships offered —Louisiana State

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James Hugh Lynch Michael Hugh Marquis, Jr. Blair Anthony Milano Louisiana State University (Honors Louisiana Tech University University of New Orleans College) Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Award Cody John Mitchell University Academic Scholars Resident Award Louisiana State University and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Royce Ehret Martin Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Honors Award Spring Hill College Award Also accepted to University of Mississippi; Colton John Lyon Loyola University New Orleans Trey Nicholas Moffatt Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College Louisiana State University Also accepted to Spring Hill College; Baylor Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Service Also accepted to University of Alabama; Tulane University Award University Scholarships offered –Spring Hill College Scholarships offered —University of Alabama Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Service Jeffrey Paul Mauras UA Scholar Scholarship; Louisiana State Award; TOPS Performance Award Louisiana State University University Academic Scholars Resident Award Also accepted to Tulane University and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Tulane Jeffrey Louis Madere Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University Academic Achievement Award; Louisiana State University University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award TOPS Honors Award Javier Andres Molina Mark Thomas Madura Tyler Christian McCaffery (National Merit Finalist) (National Merit Finalist) University of New Orleans Fordham University The University of Texas at Austin Also accepted to Loyola University New Also accepted to Louisiana State University; (Cockrell School of Engineering Honors Orleans; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Colorado State University Program) Louisiana State University; Spring Hill College Scholarships offered —Fordham University Also accepted to Georgia Institute of Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Jogues Scholarship; Louisiana State University Technology; University of Massachusetts Orleans Recognition Award; Spring Hill Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS (Honors College); Johns Hopkins University; College Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Honors Award Washington University in St. Louis; Vanderbilt Service Award; TOPS Opportunity Award University Daniel Charles Moore Scholarships offered —National Merit Grant James McClure Louisiana State University Sponsored Scholarship; University of Louisiana State University Also accepted to Boston College; Fordham Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor’s Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University Scholarship; University of Texas at Austin Award Scholarships offered —Boston College Onward Transitional Excellence Scholarship; Fordham Engineering Scholarship Peyton Michael McGaha University Gabelli Scholarship; TOPS Honors Louisiana State University Cody Alexander Maffei Award Louisiana State University Also accepted to Tulane University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Philip Thompson Murray University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; University Academic Scholars Resident Award Louisiana State University TOPS Honors Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Also accepted to The University of Mississippi Honors Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award Stephen Michael Maggio Louisiana State University William Anthony McMahon James Vu Nguyen Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University of Louisiana at Lafayette Loyola University New Orleans Award (Honors Program) Also accepted to Xavier University of Louisiana; Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity University of New Orleans; Louisiana State Charles Thomas Mansour Award University Rhodes College Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Mason Reed McManus Also accepted to Millsaps College; Spring Hill Orleans Loyola Scholarship; University of Louisiana State University College; St. Louis University; Centre College; (Honors New Orleans Privateer Merit Award; Xavier Sewanee: The University of the South; Santa College) University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Clara University; Louisiana State University; Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University of San Diego; Furman University University Academic Scholars Resident Award Jonathan Van Nguyen Scholarships offered —Centre College and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Alumni Award; Furman University Paladin Honors Award Finalist) Tulane University (Honors Program) Award; Louisiana State University Tiger Nicholas Taylor Meilleur Also accepted to Louisiana State University Excellence Resident Award; Millsaps College University of Louisiana at Lafayette Presidential Scholarship; Rhodes College (Honors College); Fordham University Also accepted to University of Southern (Honors Program); Loyola University New Diehl Scholarship; Saint Louis University Mississippi Dean’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Orleans (Honors Program) Award; Sewanee: The University of the South Charles Nicholas Mentz IV Scholarships offered —Fordham University Ecce Quam Bonum Award; Spring Hill College Louisiana State University Fordham Scholarship; Louisiana State Presidential Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Also accepted to The University of Mississippi University Flagship Scholars Resident Award, Service Award; University of San Diego Torero Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Alumni Association’s Global Leaders Award, Pride Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola TOPS Honors Award University New Orleans Jesuit Identity Award; National Merit Tulane University Scholarship; Tulane University Dean’s Honors Scholarship Spring/Summer 2012 15 AOFF R T ITHEY C L E N GO! 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and Valedictorian Scholarship; TOPS Honors New York Maritime College Outstanding Student Scholarship; Texas Award Scholarships offered —Texas A&M University Christian University Founder’s Scholarship; at Galveston Freshman Global Scholarship; University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Eric O’Neal North University of New Orleans Jackson Scholarship; University of New Orleans (National Merit Program Commended Student) Scholarship and Privateer Merit Award; TOPS Jackson Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Honors Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Eric William Prestenburg Award Scot McMillan Pilié Louisiana State University (Honors Mississippi State University College) Travis William Noto Also accepted to University of Louisiana at Also accepted to University of Miami; Texas Mississippi State University Monroe; Louisiana State University A&M University at Galveston Also accepted to Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Mississippi State Scholarships offered —Chevron REACH Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University Academic Excellence Scholarship Scholarship; Louisiana State University Tiger University Tiger Athletic Foundation Student and Non-Resident Tuition Scholarship; Excellence Resident Award; University of Scholarship; Mississippi State University University of Louisiana at Monroe Academic Miami Trustee Scholarship; TOPS Honors Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non- Excellence Tier I Scholarship, Campus Job Award Resident Tuition Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award, and Housing Scholarship; TOPS Award Honors Award Christopher Michael Prieur, Jr. Louisiana State University (Honors Jordan Joseph Nuss Henry James Pittman College) (National Merit Program Commended Student) Louisiana State University Also accepted to Loyola University New Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Orleans; Spring Hill College; University of Also accepted to Tulane University Award Louisiana at Lafayette; Tulane University; Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University of New Orleans; Millsaps College; Matthew William Pivach University Flagship Scholars Resident Award University of Southern Mississippi Louisiana State University and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Tulane Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University Presidential Award; TOPS Honors Also accepted to University of Georgia University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Award Scholarships offered —Louisiana State TOPS Honors Award University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Stefan Christopher Oddo TOPS Honors Award Jacob Jude Pritt Louisiana State University (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award Charles Milton Ponder IV Finalist) (National Merit Program Commended Student) Bradley Scott Parent Harvard University Louisiana State University (Honors Louisiana State University Also accepted to Princeton University; College) Also accepted to Christian Brothers University; Dartmouth College; Brown University; The Also accepted to University of Georgia; University of Chicago; Duke University; Loyola University New Orleans; Franciscan University of Alabama; Ohio State University University of Steubenville Amherst College; Middlebury College; The Scholarships offered —Louisiana Clerks of University of California Berkeley; University Scholarships offered –Christian Brothers Court Association Scholarship; Louisiana University Presidential Scholarship; Franciscan of California Los Angeles; Fordham University State University Academic Scholars Resident (Honors Program) University of Steubenville Dean’s Scholarship; Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Louisiana State University Tiger Resident Scholarships offered —Amherst College The Ohio State University Provost Scholarship Harry de Forest Smith Scholarship in Greek Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola and National Buckeye Scholar Award; TOPS Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award and Amherst College Scholarship; Fordham Honors Award University Fordham Scholarship; National Jacob Mark Pazos Justin Joseph Poole Merit Sponsored Scholarship; University New Orleans Baptist Theological Louisiana State University of California Los Angeles Achievement Seminary Also accepted to Tulane University Scholarship; University of Chicago University Scholar Award Brady Michael Pechon Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Louisiana State University University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; James Owen Puente Also accepted to University of New Orleans; Tulane University Presidential Award; TOPS (National Hispanic Scholar) University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Louisiana Honors Award University of Alabama (Honors Program) Tech University; Loyola University New Jared Daniel Prados Also accepted to University of Miami; Texas Orleans; University of Southern Mississippi Louisiana State University A&M University; University of Texas Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Scholarships offered —Texas A&M University Award Award CB Recognition Award and Non-Resident Competitive Scholarship Tuition Waiver; Matthew Christopher Perque Tyler Michael Prange University of Alabama UA Scholar Louisiana State University The University of Mississippi (Provost Scholarship, President’s Cabinet Engineering Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholar Program) Supplement and Engineering Leadership University Academic Scholars Resident Award Also accepted to Florida State University; Scholarship; University of Miami Trustee’s and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Auburn University; Texas Christian University; Scholarship Honors Award University of Alabama (Honors Program); University of New Orleans; Louisiana Tech Gregg Allen Putnam, Jr. John Simon Pharis University of Louisiana at Lafayette Texas A&M University at Galveston University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Scholarships offered —Auburn University Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Southeastern University; University of New University of New Orleans; State University of Miles and Mary Stephens Endowed Scholarship; Louisiana Tech University Orleans

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Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Alexander Charles Romaine Alexander James Roy Award Louisiana State University University of Mississippi John Warner Pyburn Also accepted to Auburn University Also accepted to University of Alabama; Loyola Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University New Orleans; Spring Hill College Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University Academic Scholars Resident Award Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Orleans Recognition Award; Spring Hill Honors Award College Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Merlin Anthony Ramsey, Jr. Service Award Louisiana State University Tyler James Rooney Louisiana State University Ryan Christopher Roy Also accepted to Rockhurst University Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Rockhurst University Also accepted to Loyola University New (Honors Loyola Scholarship and Community Orleans; Spring Hill College; Millsaps College College) Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Also accepted to Belmont University Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Millsaps College Scholarships offered —Belmont University Michael Adam Rebstock Merit Scholarship; Spring Hill College Portier General Academic Merit Scholarship; Southeastern Louisiana University Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Service Award; Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Also accepted to University of New Orleans; TOPS Performance Award Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award Our Lady of Holy Cross College Mikel Alan Rosenberry, Jr. John Gilbert Rubadue Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Louisiana State University Louisiana State University Award (Honors College) Also accepted to St. Louis University; Baylor Richard Pius Redmann III Also accepted to Loyola University New University; Ohio State University; University Louisiana State University Orleans; Loyola University Chicago; Fordham of Alabama Also accepted to Loyola University New University; Stetson University; University Scholarships offered —Baylor University Orleans; Millsaps College; Spring Hill College; of New Orleans; University of Louisiana at Provost Gold Scholarship; Louisiana State University of Alabama Lafayette; University of North Florida; Spring University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Scholarships offered —Loyola University Hill College; Catholic University of America; Saint Louis University Ignatian Scholarship New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Millsaps University of Miami; Tulane University and Jesuit High School Award; TOPS Honors University Dean’s Scholarship and Second Scholarships offered —Catholic University Award Century Scholarship; Spring Hill College of America CUA Scholarship; Fordham University Jogues Scholarship; Louisiana Corey Matthew Rye Portier Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Service Louisiana State University Award; TOPS Performance Award State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Also accepted to Spring Hill College Rhett Michael Reynolds Loyola University Chicago Dean’s Scholarship Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College Louisiana State University and Jesuit Heritage Award; Loyola University Portier Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC Service Scholarships offered —Allstate Sugar Bowl New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Spring Award; TOPS Honors Award Scholarship; Great American Rivalry Hill College Portier Jesuit Scholar Award Jeffery Lee Sanches, Jr. Scholarship; Louisiana State University Tiger and SHC Service Award; Stetson University (National Merit Finalist; National Hispanic Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Faculty Scholarship; University of Louisiana Award Scholar) at Lafayette Academic Scholarship; University Tulane University (Honors Program) Tyler Jean Richier of New Orleans Audubon Scholarship; Also accepted to Louisiana State University Louisiana State University University of North Florida Blue and Silver (Honors College); DePaul University (Honors Also accepted to Centenary College of Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Program); Colorado State University (Honors Louisiana; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Program); Vermont University (Honors University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Program); Oklahoma University (Honors Kyle Donahue Ritter Louisiana Tech University Also accepted to Louisiana State University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Scholarships offered —Louisiana Tech University Outstanding Student Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award Matthieu Poché Robért George Washington University Also accepted to Texas Christian University (Honors Program); Tulane University (Honors Program); University of San Diego; Louisiana State University (Honors College) Scholarships offered —The George Washington University Baseball Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

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Program); Sewanee: The University of the Alexander Dean Sherry Philip William Smith South (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Colorado State Finalist) Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University Presidential Scholarship; DePaul University of North Carolina Award University Presidential Scholarship; Louisiana at Chapel Hill State University Academic Scholars Resident Also accepted to Boston College (Honors Travis William Smith Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Program); University of Virginia (Honors (National Merit Finalist) National Merit Tulane University Scholarship; Program); Vanderbilt University; Southern United States Naval Academy Sewanee: The University of the South Ecce Methodist University (Honors Program); Also accepted to University of Notre Dame; Quam Bonum Award; Tulane University Washington University in St. Louis Auburn University (Honors Program); Mayoral Scholarship; University of Vermont Scholarships offered —National Merit Louisiana State University (Honors College) Presidential Scholarship and Green Mountain University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Scholarships offered —Auburn University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Scholarship; Southern Methodist University American Heritage Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Joseph Francis Sansone Founder’s Scholarship and Mustang Scholar Award Award, Alumni Association’s Global Leaders Louisiana State University Award, and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance James Andrew Shoemaker National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; Award Louisiana State University United States Naval Academy Appointment; Nicholas Alexander Scandurro Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity University of Alabama Presidential National California Polytechnic State Award Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Oklahoma National Merit Scholarship; University Ahmad A. Azeem Siddiqui University of Texas at Dallas Eugene Also accepted to California State Polytechnic Xavier University of Louisiana University, Pomona; California State McDermott Scholars Program; TOPS Honors Also accepted to University of New Orleans; Award University, Chico; San Jose State University; Louisiana State University San Diego State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Cristian Miguel Soler Scholarships offered —California Polytechnic Award (National Merit Finalist) State University Cal Poly Outreach Louisiana State University (Honors Alec James Simonson Scholarship and Leopold Edward Wrasse College) Louisiana State University Scholarship (Honors Also accepted to Spring Hill College (Honors College) Austin Joseph Schillaci Program); St. Louis University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Copiah-Lincoln Community College University Academic Scholars Resident Award Also accepted to University of New Orleans; University Academic Scholars Resident and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Austin Peay State University Honors Award Scholarships offered —Copiah-Lincoln National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; Saint Community College Golf Scholarship Benjamin Thomas Sketchler Louis University Vice Presidential Scholarship; (Class of 2012 Valedictorian; National Merit Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Scholar Nicholas Anthony Schiro Finalist) Award, SHC Service Award, and Alum Award; University of New Orleans Tulane University (Honors Program) TOPS Honors Award Also accepted to University of Mississippi; Also accepted to Georgetown University; Christian Alexander Songy University of Southern Mississippi; University Boston College (Honors Program); University Louisiana State University of South Alabama; University of Louisiana at of Virginia; Vanderbilt University; Rice Lafayette; Louisiana Tech University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance University; Fordham University (Honors Award Scholarships offered —University of Southern Program); Louisiana State University (Honors Mississippi Regional Scholarship; TOPS College); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Kyle Patrick Springmann Opportunity Award Scholarships offered —Fordham University Louisiana State University Benjamin Ross Schwehm Fordham Scholarship; Louisiana State Also accepted to University of the Pacific Louisiana State University (Honors University Flagship Scholars Resident Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance College) and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Award Scholarships offered —Louisiana State National Merit Tulane University Scholarship; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal Collin Paul Stansberry University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; (National Merit Finalist) TOPS Honors Award Scholarship; Tulane University Presidential Award and Valedictorian Scholarship; TOPS Boston College David James Scotton Honors Award Scholarships offered —National Merit Louisiana State University Sponsored Scholarship; University of Ethan Joseph Slawson Also accepted to Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist St. Louis University; Baylor Louisiana State University University; Oglethorpe University (Honors Scholarship; University of Oklahoma National Scholarships offered —Saint Louis University College) Merit Scholarship; University of Texas at Ignatian Scholarship and Jesuit High School Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Dallas National Merit Scholarship Award; TOPS Performance Award University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Paul Michael Stanton Daniel Irwin Senentz, Jr. Honors Award Harvard University Louisiana State University Also accepted to Louisiana State University Also accepted to Nicholls State University; (Honors College) University of New Orleans Scholarships offered —Allstate Sugar Bowl Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Scholarship; Harvard Faculty of Arts and Award Sciences Scholarship; Italian-American

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Michael Joseph Veters Loyola University New Orleans Also accepted to Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award Alexander Aaron Villarejos (National Merit Finalist; National Hispanic Scholar) University of Alabama (Honors Program) Also accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); Fordham University Scholarships offered —Fordham University Fordham Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Kevin Quoc Binh Vo Athletic and Academic Scholarship; Louisiana Zachary Bryce Tosh Tulane University State University Academic Scholars Resident (National Merit Finalist) Also accepted to Louisiana State University Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University of Alabama (Honors College) TOPS Honors Award Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Clemson University; Auburn University University Academic Scholars Resident Award Rodney Henry Stieffel, Jr. and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Tulane Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Auburn University National Scholars Presidential Scholarship; University Founder’s Scholarship; TOPS Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Honors Award Award Clemson University Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Austin Thomas Vollman Adam Michael Stierwald Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Louisiana State University Bryce Aaron Toups Scholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Also accepted to Tulane University; Auburn Southeastern Louisiana University Award University; University of Mississippi; University of Alabama Also accepted to University of New Orleans Jacob Hadley Volpi Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Christopher Morgan Toups University of Southern Mississippi University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; (National Merit Program Commended Student) Dean Dufour Vosloh Tulane University Presidential Award; Louisiana State University (National Merit Program Commended Student) University of Alabama Dean’s Engineering Also accepted to Fordham University; Boston Louisiana State University Scholarship; University of Mississippi University; University of Alabama at Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Academic Excellence Scholarship; TOPS Birmingham; University of Colorado Boulder; Honors Award University Academic Scholars Resident Award Tulane University and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Gage Cullen Talbot Scholarships offered —Fordham University Honors Award Louisiana State University Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Thomas Vu Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Xavier University of Louisiana Award Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazer Elite Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans Evan Bernard Tassin Scholarship; TOPS Honors Scholarships offered —Loyola University New Louisiana State University Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Xavier University Dao Chanh Tran Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Xavier University of Louisiana University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Joshua Paul Waller TOPS Honors Award Kevin Richard Tully University of Southern Mississippi Christopher Kearny Tebo College of Charleston Scholarships offered —University of Southern (National Merit Program Commended Student) Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Mississippi Regional Scholarship Sewanee: The University of the South Millsaps College; Spring Hill College; Steven Warren Weisler, Jr. Also accepted to College of Charleston Stonehill College; Fairfield University; University of San Diego; DePauw University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Cody Matthew Todd Butler University Fritz Nicholas Westenberger Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Butler University Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Fairview Scholarship; DePauw University Award Old Gold Honors Award; Fairfield University Scholarships offered —Loyola University Xavier Scholarship; Millsaps College Second New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Century Scholarship: Spring Hill College Opportunity Award Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award and SHC Service Award; TOPS Honors Award

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Michael Charles Wible, Jr. Bryant Stephen Woods the Holy Cross; Rhodes College; University Louisiana State University Louisiana State University of Richmond; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Also accepted to University of New Orleans (Honors College) Award Scholarships offered —Louisiana State Scholarships offered —Allstate Sugar Bowl University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Scholarship; Dickinson College John Erik Robert Wientjes TOPS Honors Award Montgomery Scholarship; Fordham University Louisiana State University Loyola Scholarship; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Christian Thomas Worrel Academic Scholars Resident Award and Award Louisiana State University Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Rhodes Also accepted to University of North Carolina Eric Mathanuel Williams II College Honors Scholarship; TOPS Honors Asheville Louisiana State University Award Scholarships offered —TOPS Honors Award Benjamin Matthew Young Gerald Michael Williams II Keith Faustin Wright Louisiana State University Northwestern State University of Louisiana State University Louisiana Also accepted to Culinary Institute of America Also accepted to Spring Hill College; University Scholarships offered —Culinary Institute of Scholarships offered — Directed Initiative of Mississippi America Dean Scholarship; TOPS Honors for Youth Rising Stars Scholarship; LOJ Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College Award International Young Leadership Award; TOPS Gautrelet Jesuit Award and SHC Service Opportunity Award Award; TOPS Performance Award Matthew Edwin Young (National Merit Finalist) Logan Mark Williams Howard Hai Wu University of Alabama Louisiana State University (Honors Program) (Honors University of New Orleans Also accepted to Louisiana State University College) (Honors College); St. Louis University; Also accepted to Tulane University; Fordham Wade Anthony Wyckoff Louisiana State University Fordham University University (Honors Program); University of Scholarships offered —Fordham University San Francisco Also accepted to University of New Orleans; Loyola Scholarship; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Fordham University Spring Hill College Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Jogues Scholarship; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered —Spring Hill College Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Saint Louis Tiger Excellence Resident Award; University Presidential Jesuit Scholar Award and SHC University Vice Presidents’ Scholarship and of San Francisco Jesuit Scholars Award; TOPS Service Award; University of New Orleans Jesuit High School Award; University of Honors Award Jackson Scholarship and Privateer Merit Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Award; TOPS Honors Award Kyle Edward Wilson Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Louisiana State University Alexander John Yacoubian Also accepted to University of Mississippi; (National Merit Program Commended Student) University of New Orleans Washington and Lee University Scholarships offered —TOPS Performance Also accepted to Dickinson College; Fordham Award University; University of Georgia; College of Stuart Braithwaite Wilson (National Merit Finalist) Fordham University Also accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of California Los Angeles; University of Alabama Scholarships offered —Fordham University Fordham Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; National Merit Sponsored Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of California Los Angeles Regents Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Christian Dean Woodin Louisiana State University Also accepted to Tulane University Scholarships offered —Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

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STATE OF THE SCHOOL ADDRESS Focus on the Journey

On May 4, 2012, the Class of 2012 enjoyed Senior Day, which is set aside for the almost-Jesuit alumni to share each other’s company in meaningful ways before final exams and graduation. Senior Day is designed as a stress-free Friday, and it begins when they arrive at school dressed in fashionable suits and sports jackets with ties instead of khaki uniforms. Their final Assembly is also special, highlighted by the “State of the School” address, which was delivered by student council president Matt Dupre.

oday — May 4, 2012 — is a key been instilled in us at Jesuit. Competence course, and as well, the athletes, the actors milestone in our journey together. guides our intellect towards knowing and and the religious. But more importantly, I The 2011-12 year has been marked understanding our vocation. Conscience, hope and I pray to see good men that have Tby many accomplishments and by much molded by the virtues, guides our character courageously embraced the challenges that success. and enables us to recognize God and will be on their paths. Jesuit won six state championships. The respond to Him. And compassion guides To the underclassmen, whatever grade senior class achieved 32 National Merit our soul and enables us to love as Christ you are, you still have plenty of time. Find Finalists. This year we opened John Ryan loved. your compasses. Whatever significant events Stadium, our first off-site sports facility, all We have our compasses but where are occur, reflect on what you have learned within the inaugural year of Jesuit’s fifteenth they leading us? What is the destination? about yourself and what you were given. president, Father (Raymond) Fitzgerald. They are leading us down the path that God God always teaches us something through However, even failure and loss can be has chosen for each of us and for which we the joy and the heartache. You still have an considered as landmarks within our lives, as are created, journeys that can be filled with opportunity to make the milestones of your well as the memories that have been formed goals or dreams to be the best and brightest journey here at Jesuit. Use your compasses this past year — memories like giving that in the future. to direct yourselves towards the path that box of food to the needy family during the However, success is not measured by God has called you on. And that destination Thanksgiving drive, cheering at the locker how many of our goals we attain. It is I was talking about, that destination is room during half time at the soccer state measured by what we take away from those nothing less than the salvation that awaits us tournament, or waiting to cheer for bowling events that enable us to move closer and all in heaven. results that never came. more in line with the path God has called I have had the greatest honor and All of these are significant to each of us. us to. pleasure to serve you as president this All of these are milestones. While reflecting When we realize that the significance year. Thank you, thank all of you for your on what was significant about the year is lies in the journey, not the destination, it participation, your willingness to step important, we must reflect on why those is then that our path plans and God’s plan outside yourselves, and for your zeal. It has events in our lives were significant, and what become one and the same path in the same been an amazing experience that I have been have we learned from our experiences. direction. able to share with each and every one of Our experiences in our lives were Success comes when we have the you. It is another milestone on our journey significant because they helped to reveal satisfaction of knowing that we gave our all together. who we were and they taught us something for the greater glory of God, win or lose. It is with the deepest pride and respect about ourselves. They were meaningful That is when the milestone in our journey that I can call each of you my brother, because they gave us a means to learn about becomes significant. my friend, and my fellow traveler on the and shape ourselves. So May 4, 2012, seniors, we leave this journey to salvation. They gave us a compass, so to speak. place having been given our compasses. Thank you and God bless.  And what do these compasses look like? I look forward to seeing all of you at the These compasses are the competence, 20-year reunion. In 2032 I hope to see — Matt Dupre conscience, and compassion that have the doctors and lawyers and politicians, of Student Council President Class of 2012 Spring/Summer 2012 21 ACOMMENCEMENT R T I C L E N A M E LUNCHEON

Class of 2012 Encouraged to Seek the Greatest Good for the Most People in the Shortest Time It should come as no surprise that, year after year, Jesuit executes a plan laden with intricate details and logistics to safely transport downtown 262 seniors on eight school busses to and from the Commencement Luncheon, which was held May 4 at the Sheraton Hotel on Canal Street. The Class of 2012 arrived punctually as did this year’s alumnus speaker, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu ’78, who defied traditional mayoral tardiness and actually showed up before the seniors marched into the Armstrong Ballroom.

The guests of honor processed into the ballroom on cue, accompanied by the familiar (and endless) looped instrumental version of the Fight Song. The applause from 250 Blue Jays, many of whom were the fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins of the honorees, created an enthusiastic and festive atmosphere on a special day that officially ushered the seniors into the ranks of the Jesuit Alumni Association.

Senior class president Matt Robért introduced Mayor Landrieu before the packed ballroom. His unscripted remarks were delivered in typical off-the-cuff style and featured candid observations, reminisces, and healthy doses of sage advice for the seniors of 2012.

Here are edited excerpts of Mayor Landrieu’s address at the 11th Commencement Luncheon.

Home Jesuit is your home and it will be your home Fundamentals I am really overjoyed to be here for many for the rest of your life. And you will need Why do we have to show up for class on different reasons. As I look amongst this it, by the way. time when that bell rings? Why do we have crowd and reflect on the conversations I Leadership to go to PH? Why can’t I just be me? Why had with these incredible young men, I The Jesuits are good about repetition and can’t I be creative? Why do I have to do am amazed how much of my life is sitting that you understand. But understanding it the way everybody else does it? Because before me. You seniors really are sitting is not the same as appreciation. What the Jesuit says it is important to first get the amongst the people who will be with you Jesuits really teach is to be a man for others. facts and the fundamentals right before for the rest of your life. This was brought They form you into a man who serves and moving on. You will find that as you move home to me a couple of weeks ago when I who leads. In good times, leadership is on in your life, when things really get hard, helped cut the ribbon on your brand new easy. And, quite frankly, it is not hard to that the foundation that Jesuit taught you John Ryan Stadium. It was a beautiful night serve when everybody else wants to help. will be the thing that gets you through. If and I was standing on the field with Rusty People who find themselves in leadership you ever have any concern about what you Staub (’61) when I hear this yelling positions know well that when things get should do in your life, you just need to ask coming from the stands. This fan screaming hard, leadership gets lonely. What will you the question that should be ringing in your was just obnoxious. It reminded me when do when nobody is looking, not when ears every day — what helps the greatest I played on Jesuit’s eighth grade basketball everybody is cheering for you? What is the number of people in the shortest amount team and Buddy Lazare (’43) was in the moral code you follow? Would it be okay of time? Where can I be of service to other stands yelling at me. I’m 51 now, and Buddy not to tell the whole truth because nobody people and how can I make things happen? Lazare is still yelling at me. It brought home would know? Will you lead in a direction That is what leadership is about. to me, at that moment and then again today where nobody else wants to go? When they Confrontation as I look around this room, you graduates tell you that you are wrong and you know When I was at Jesuit, I was in the Philelectic should take to heart how Jesuit will always you are right, will you do it anyway? Your Society and in a lot of plays. In my junior be with you. You will realize later in your character, which is being formed every day, year, Fr. (Harry) Tompson, who was the life, after it seeps into your DNA, that Jesuit helps you figure it out. principal at the time, and Fr. (Paul) Schott, is not just a place you are passing through. who was president, suggested that I run for

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senior class president. I said I did not want Character could justifiably choose to walk away and to be class president, that I had friends who Every one of you in this room would not take your skills and talents to New York, wanted to be class president. And they said, be graduating from Jesuit if you were not Chicago, San Francisco, down the road “Look, we think you have it. This school has smart. Not many kids in the country are to Baton Rouge, or wherever. If you did given you a lot and you owe it to step up. smarter than everybody in this room. that, that would be fine. But if you stayed Qualifying is next week and we would like Those who were on the baseball team, and stepped up to the plate — even when you to think about it.” Well, I was in play the basketball team, the soccer team, the you thought it was impossible, even when practice at the time. I never made it over to Philelectic society, the debate team have people told you that you could not do it, Room 312 to sign up and qualifying closed. developed skills that most people in this even when you knew it was hard because When I was a senior and rehearsing for a country don’t have and may never have. But you asked the question, “Where can I play in the Auditorium, Fr. Tompson came that is not important. What is in your spirit serve the greatest number of people in the over to the stage one day. He put his finger and what is in your soul is most important. shortest period of time?” — the future of in my chest and said, “You let Jesuit down. Essentially it comes down to a matter of New Orleans is bright, not only for you, but You didn’t do what you were supposed to character. As mayor, I make choices about also for the rest of the people of America. do. You had a decision to make and you who will work with me. If I have to choose Diversity made a decision that was selfish. You should between skill and character, I always go with It is very important for you to understand have done something because this school character. People with good character will that diversity is a strength, not a weakness. needed you. And I am disappointed in find a way to do it right. People with good The more people who are creating and you.” Now, for those of you who knew Fr. character will always be there to make the bringing to the table their best will result in Tompson, the conversation wasn’t just like decision about what is the right thing to do a richer and more authentic New Orleans, that. It was more boisterous, robust, and, as and what would be the wrong thing to do. as will be your life. Jesuit taught you how to I recall, somewhat more colorful. And at the end of the day, as long as the follow your heart, mind, and soul and not Message person with character has a certain level of be afraid to do so. What am I supposed to In any event, Fr. Tompson’s message stuck competence, character trumps skill. That do? Where am I going? How am I supposed in my ear. When I was lieutenant governor really is the most essential thing that Jesuit to act? Here is the question: Where can I go and the City of New Orleans was dying attempted to teach you. And whether you and do the greatest good for the most people in after Katrina, people came to me and said, know it or not, Jesuit actually succeeded the shortest period of time? You will know the in doing that otherwise you would not be “You really ought to run for mayor.” And I answer.  said, “Who in their right mind would run sitting here today. for mayor? The City of New Orleans is 18 Commitment An edited audio version of Mitch Landrieu’s feet under water. Nobody gets along with If you are committed and use your character Commencement Luncheon speech is posted on anybody. It’s gone to hell in a hand basket. to make this city one of great character, then the Alumni Home Page: www.jesuitnola.org/ Why would anybody want to do that?” And the opportunities here will be fantastic. You alumni. Fr. Tompson’s words rang in my ears. So I went to Manresa, which I do frequently, and there was a priest from Chicago whose retreat was about discernment — who are you, what are you doing, why are you making the decisions that you’re making in life, and what are you supposed to be doing? The Jesuit way is to keep all your stuff, so I went looking through my retreat books. I found a 1980 retreat book Fr. Tompson gave a year after he yelled at me. And I remember his message coming back to me loudly and clearly. What you are supposed to do in your life, wherever it happens to be, is go to the place where you can help the most people in the shortest period of time. No matter how hard it is, just go do it, and everything else will be fine.

Spring/Summer 2012 23 APRINCIPAL’S R T I C L E N A M CORNER E The A-Team’s Top 10

Jesuit High School’s 2011-12 Administrative Team

Kathleen Juhas – Academic Assistant Dave Moreau – Athletic Director Principal Mike Prados ’83 – Director of Student Peter Kernion ’90 – Assistant Principal for Activities Student Affairs Mollie Roberts – Director of Guidance Lary “Top” Abshire – Prefect of Discipline Jack Truxillo ’73 – Director of Admissions Mat Grau ’68 – Alumni Director Malcolm Villarrubia ’66 – Director of Mike Giambelluca ’82 – Principal Professional Development

The Jesuit High School Administrative parents and helped them keep their sons championship and a top 10 national finish. Team (A-Team) has workshops to start and better “organized.” The end of the school year brought two end every school year. A segment at the The Exploration of Semester Exam events — one completely new and one with closing workshop involves sharing the “Top Committee did good work in researching a new “twist.” The “completely new” event 10” highlights of the school year. It is an and discussing whether students might be was a Kairos retreat reunion following the eye-opening experience for me every year better served in taking semester instead of return of a Kairos retreat group to campus. to read these highlights recalled by the 10 quarter exams. While the committee did That reunion saw many alumni who members of the A-Team. The collection of conclude that our quarter exam structure attended Kairos retreats return to campus. these fondest memories truly encapsulates should continue, it recommended ways that Several A-Team members also mentioned the blessings from God that we have could maximize instructional time. how powerful it is for them to attend a enjoyed as a school community in the given Jesuit hosted an iPad conference in Kairos retreat every year. The new “twist” year. January to help determine how we might event was the faculty-staff party at the end The summary of the Top 10 for 2011-12 begin to integrate this type of technology of the year that featured a live band playing coalesced into five categories: new events, into the classroom. great music. faculty professional development, “oldies The A-Team had its inaugural mid-year Faculty Professional Development but goodies,” facilities, and the legacies of workshop to help assess how we might “Faculty professional development” three individuals. maximize the second part of the school year. received numerous highlights from the New Events While teachers were engaged in two While Jesuit preserves those traditions days of professional development, the that connect us to all the “best” from our guidance department held its first in-service past, we do not shrink from embracing the “for counselors only” that focused on their “new” when we see a reason to do so. The impact on student life. Mat Grau ’68 “new” category won the prize for the largest Alumni director and Br. Billy Dardis, S.J. ’58 number of submissions. , who serves as For the first time in memory, Jesuit had director of special projects, did fine jobs in an in-service specifically for coaches about presenting a “History of the School” series how athletics should impact Jesuit’s mission at several faculty meetings; and teachers for the better. learned many things about Jesuit’s past. The first “student planner” was a Jesuit participated in its inaugural great organizational tool for students and Geography Bee competition that happily Anthony teachers. ended with eighth grader Stoner Email notifications about PH informed (photo, right) claiming the state

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A-Team, which convened in early August Oldies but Goodies in Ocean Springs, MS for the annual Some areas of school life do not need beginning-of-year workshop. These two any remedies, and these fall into the and a half days together helped us plan the category of “oldies but goodies.” As a school coming year to make it the best that it was. community, we are simply blessed year after Jesuit’s involvement with RBT (Research year to experience these successes. Team for Better Teaching) continues to pay members mentioned numerous athletic dividends in the classrooms where we and non-athletic co-curricular highlights. see teachers becoming more effective in But what “floated to the top” were the engaging students cognitively in the tasks at successes of our football, baseball, soccer, hand. tennis, rugby, and lacrosse teams, as well While it is no secret that Jesuit always as the achievements of our mock trial, quiz Legacies has a bevy of teachers able to elicit the most bowl, and debate teams. Also notable were The A-Team highlighted several from their students, we are excited about the extremely cooperative and positive individuals whose lives touched our our five-year plan for focused professional parents supporting their sons and the school community in a special way. The year began development based on the “Ignatian throughout the athletic seasons. with Jesuit having a new president after Pedagogical Paradigm.” Our reinvigorated The Jesuit-Holy Cross football game Fr. Anthony McGinn’s 19-year tenure. Ignatian Identity Team has created the being part of the Great American Rivalry Obviously, the school community had plan, which was unveiled at the August 13 Series continues to shine and grow as an become accustomed to excellence with Fr. faculty in-service. With the solid pedagogy event. McGinn, and Fr. Raymond Fitzgerald, advanced by RBT, we look forward to this The LHSAA passage of the classification S.J. has already grabbed that torch from five-year plan translating into even more play-up proposal will hopefully find Fr. McGinn in a major way. The beginning learning successes for our students. the traditional Catholic League schools of Fr. Fitzgerald’s tenure as president made Those faculty members who experienced once again competing in a single district every team member’s Top 10 list. We look great success with their students this year beginning in 2013-14. forward to many years of Fr. Fitzgerald’s were nominated by their colleagues to The experiences of our students steady, strategic, and compassionate receive one of the four Profile of a Jesuit attending World Youth Day and the 8th leadership of the Jesuit High School Teacher Awards. This fifth year of the Profile grade trip to San Antonio continue to be community. Awards brought the most nominations and powerful, formational, and fun. In late September 2011, the entire the four winners were announced at the Other notable events this year were student body, as well as faculty and staff, end-of-year faculty party. (Read the article on the Commencement Luncheon that lined both sides of the north-bound lane page 48). featured Mayor Mitch Landrieu ’78 of Carrollton Avenue to pay their respects Although Operation Upgrade has been addressing the Class of 2012, graduation to Archbishop Philip Hannan as around Jesuit since the early 1970s, many itself, and “Senior Week,” a newer tradition his funeral procession solemnly made faculty member were not aware of the experienced by the seniors during their final its way through Mid-City towards St. program’s extent and success in reaching out “regular” week at Jesuit. Louis Cathedral. We were fortunate as a to academically capable, yet educationally Facilities school community to participate in such a disadvantaged, elementary school students. One of the most significant events in memorable way in honoring Archbishop James Michalik Theology teacher , who the history of Jesuit High School occurred Hannan for his decades of shepherding the is Operation Upgrade’s director, made a this year — the grand opening of John Ryan faithful of New Orleans. presentation at a faculty meeting and helped Stadium, our first-ever off-campus athletic Bonnie DeLatte, a beloved faculty everyone understand its excellence. facility. We are so blessed to have such a fine member who shepherded her Spanish classes Jesuit’s testing calendar is supposed to facility made possible by the hard work and at Jesuit for 20 years, passed away in early guard against students having more than generosity of so many individuals. Having March after a courageous battle with breast three tests in one day. However, the reality all of those people together to celebrate the cancer. Jesuit was able to celebrate Bonnie’s is that situation is not always prevented. At opening weekend (March 2-4, 2012) made life throughout her battle and after her the final faculty meeting in May, teachers for a truly memorable event. death in ways that touched not only Bonnie openly offered productive comments about Back at Carrollton and Banks, work and her family, but also her students and the testing calendar issues that will hopefully began this summer on the first significant our faculty and staff. Requiescat in pace. remedy conflicts as much as possible. upgrade to the Roussel Building since it was AMDG  completed in 1985. — Mike Giambelluca ’82

Spring/Summer 2012 25 ANNUS MIRABILIS

The Origin of Jayson The mascot of Jesuit High School is that ubiquitous and enigmatic Blue Jay — a cartoonish and transmutable When John Ernst ’58 was a pre-freshman in bird with an inflated chest that matches outsized feet 1954, he won the contest to name the new Blue Jay mascot “Jayson.” and a chirpy beak with vague duck-like characteristics. A closer look reveals a majestic plume, a sassy tail of two feathers, a solo round eye accompanied by a single subtle arched eyebrow, its head topped with a scruffy tuft. In place of wings, arms of stout stumps protrude, the ends of which are clenched into fists that feature those weird three-fingers-plus- thumb hands belonging to characters in a comic strip. The bird assumes a fighting stance, but not in any hostile, antagonistic, or destructive sort of way. On the contrary, this bird appears to be clever, astute, patient, plucky, and perspicacious.

ow and when such a change when he agreed to draw a blue Blue Jay staff artists will copy Mr. Kelly’s did this Blue jay for our annual. drawing and adapt it in different poses Jay come to be When the art staff began mapping plans throughout the magazine. the eminent mascot of Jesuit for the magazine, they decided to use a cartoon Kelly signed his original undated sketch, High School? The theme. To get a cartoon blue jay into the book, which appears to have been drawn with answers to these they contacted Mr. Kelly and asked if he would black ink: nagging questions create a blue jay. To everyone’s pleasure, Mr. Best Wishes to Jesuit High are found in the Kelly agreed to do so, and said he would soon from Pogo and Walt Kelly archives of The Blue visit New Orleans. Jay, beginning with the Finally, on February 8, Steve Collins In a separate story in the same 1954 February 26, 1954 student ’55, assistant editor (he is the student in issue, under the headline “Staff Starts Contest to Name Pogo’s Pal,” the editors newspaper that carried a front the photo watching Kelly put the finishing of The Blue Jaysheepishly confessed that in page article with the headline: “Pogo Joins touches on his Blue Jay masterpiece), the excitement generated when Walt Kelly Staff as Work on Book Starts.” received the drawing from Mr. Kelly at the completed and delivered his original sketch, Times-Picayune plant. The whole affair was There’s quite a difference between a mild- the realization dawned on them that the climaxed when it got front-page publicity in mannered possum and a sassy blue school’s new mascot lacked a name. jay, but cartoonist Walt Kelly the Times-Picayune, Pogo’s local publisher. managed to take it in “They told me it was a fighting Blue Jay,” How would you like to go through life stride. The famous creator said Mr. Kelly pointing to his drawing, “so I called “that guy” or “hey, you!”? Well, as things of “Pogo” was faced by put him in a fighting pose.” stand, that’s the fate of our

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own school cartoon mascot. “I thought the name ‘Jayson’ was fitting The editors of the The story of how the staff contacted Mr. because Jason was a courageous warrior Annual were true to Walt Kelly, the famous cartoonist, and asked and hero,” recalls Ernst 58 years later as he their word and adapted him to create a cartoon personifying our Blue gazed at the original Kelly sketch behind the original Jayson Jay is told on page one. But recently it was dirty glass in a flimsy frame. “I added a ‘Y’ to reflect the 1954 noticed that during all the work, and even the to ‘Jason’ to make it ‘Jayson’ and turned it yearbook’s cartoon theme. The imaginative ensuing publicity, no one ever thought to name in. I really didn’t think any more about it. Jayson illustrations on these two pages are our bird. So now we’re asking all of you to help From what I remember, there were not a some of the almost 20 that were conceived us. lot of guys who sent in names. A couple of specifically for the 1954 soft-cover Annual. Here are the rules of the contest: my friends talked about submitting ‘Sluggo’ It includes the amusing drawing (below) The boy handing in the winning name will and ‘Poindexter,’ but they were just joking. depicting a Blue Jay editor — an indolent be awarded a prize of merchandise from the I don’t believe the contest generated much Jayson reclining in a chair with his feet school bookstore. competition.” propped up on a desk, cutting a strip of Each boy may hand in only one name. Ernst was unaware that he won the paper humans with scissors, a lit cigarette Each name must be handed in to the contest because he missed reading the brief clenched in his beak. (Jayson kicked the moderator of the paper or to the “Blue Jay” announcement that was published in the habit not long afterwards.) room with the entrant’s name and class before March issue of The Blue Jay. Instead, he Walt Kelly’s invention of Pogo, a possum 4:00, Friday, March 4 (1954). learned in typical New Orleans word-of- with wit, was his ticket to fame. Pogo first Names will be chosen for originality and mouth fashion. Upon climbing aboard the appeared as a comic strip on October 4, aptness. In case of duplication, the earlier entry Carrollton bus one Friday afternoon on his 1948 and was soon syndicated in hundreds will get the prize. way home, the driver happened to be the of newspapers. Kelly died in 1973, almost The winning entry was submitted by a father of one of Ernst’s classmates. 20 years after he presented his gift of a John Ernst III pre-freshman, of S-1, who “The bus driver asked me, ‘Aren’t you the mascot to Jesuit High School. was inspired to write the name “Jayson” on student who named the Blue Jay mascot?’ Meanwhile, the original Blue Jay sketch a piece of paper which he turned in to the I was very surprised and found out that he of Jayson that Kelly generously gifted to editors of the paper, then promptly forgot read I had won the contest after my friend Jesuit has been temporarily removed from about it. The contest coincided with his brought home a copy of the newspaper,” the hallway outside St. Ignatius Hall where class studying Greek mythology, particularly says Ernst, adding that he is “always it has been on display for at least 20 years. the story of a well known mythological stunned” on the rare occasions when an The work of art is being restored and hero, Jason, who with his Argonauts, were alumnus mentions the little known fact that reframed to preserve what is one of Jesuit’s in search of the Golden Fleece. he was the Blue Jay who named Jayson. most distinct and recognizable cultural pop Ernst graduated from Jesuit art icons. in 1958 and became a doctor (Read more about Walt Kelly and Pogo on specializing in internal medicine. their official web site: www.pogopossum.com.) Today he actively maintains a practice in the uptown area.

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Grad Years 2 & 7 Celebrate Reunions The 2012 reunion season saw Blue Jays from grad years ending in “2” and “7” come together to celebrate their bond as sons of Jesuit High School. While social media have enhanced class connections, nothing surpasses a handshake, a face-to-face chat, or a group laugh to renew the Blue Jay Spirit. Reunions provide just that opportunity. 1952

1947 1947 chose a mid-May Saturday evening for their 65th year celebration. Class leader Louie Larue worked with Brother Billy Dardis, S.J. ’58 to organize a Mass and dinner in St. Ignatius Hall on the school’s campus. 1952 also came back to Banks on a Saturday in early May for a couples’ Mass and dinner. As usual, Bob Armbruster and Erwin Caswell took the lead in creating the festivities for the ’52 Jays and their guests. 1957 kicked off the reunion season with a mid-March event. Al Demarest and his committee organized a stag gathering in Jesuit’s Student Commons and a couples’ cocktail reception at Arthur Renaudin’s beautiful Maison Montegut in the French Quarter.

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1962 1967 1962 Thanks toClaiborne Perrilliat and his committed committee, all was golden for the Class of 1962 as they celebrated 50 years of being alumni. On Friday, May 18, these Jays gathered at the Acme Oyster House for a seafood feast. The ladies joined their Blue Jays on Saturday night for cocktails and buffet dining at the Southern Yacht Club, but not before many had attended Mass and enjoyed a tour at Carrollton and Banks. 1967 Tony Milazzo and his committee chose the first weekend in June for their celebration. On Friday night the guys enjoyed a crawfish boil in the Commons while couples met on Saturday night at Ralph’s on the Park for a reception.

1972 1977 1972 Thanks to Nick Viviano’s leadership, these Blue Jays enjoyed two nights of partying on May 11-12. On Friday night it was guys-only at the Monkey Hill Bar. On Saturday wives and dates joined the Jays at Zea’s on St. Charles Avenue for a buffet reception. 1977 closed out the reunion season on the last weekend in June with events planned by Mike Riley and Craig Smith. The Hard Rock Café was the location of Friday’s stag party (featuring a case of wine straight from the Zichichi Family Vineyard and delivered by Steve Zichichi himself). The couples went cruising on Saturday night on Craig Smith’s Creole Queen. 1982 celebrated 30 years with a Friday evening stag reception in the Commons and a Saturday night cocktail party at the Westin Plimsoll Club, all organized by Bryan Wolff and his committee. 1982 Spring/Summer 2012 29 REUNIONS

1987 John McMahon took the lead in putting together the June celebration for the Silver Anniversary Class. On Friday night Blue Jays made their way to the Ernst Café Chicory Room for a stag celebration. On Saturday couples enjoyed a buffet feast at Metairie Country Club.

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2002 1992 Johnny Hughes and Marc Bonifacic changed 1992 things up a bit with a Friday night couples’ party at Rock ’n Bowl followed by a Saturday night stag at Hard Rock Café. 1997 celebrated in May with two events organized by Bill Wynne: a stag get-together in the Commons on Friday night and a couples’ party at Rock ’n Bowl on Saturday night. 2002 celebrated 10 years as alumni with a June guys-only event. Trey Fury and his committee hosted over 100 Jays who turned out for the seafood extravaganza at the Acme Oyster House. 2007 celebrated their very first reunion with a great turnout of 139 Blue Jays at the Red Eye on the last Saturday of June. Ian Gunn, Patrick Stoudt, and the other committee members worked their class Facebook page to stir interest and go for the record of 148 set by 2004 three years ago. Still, the strong attendance foreshadows great things to 1997 come from the Class of 2007. 2007 ALUMNI

Blue Jays Put Some English Turn in Their Golf Classic

It didn’t take home a trophy; but the parents of alumni to revision the event. Cup, which is on permanent display in the foursome of strong volunteer leadership, That group included Beth Bares, Anne hall outside Fr. Fitzgerald’s office. a more temperate date on the calendar, a Barnes, Paul Briuglio, John Faherty The overall champions who finished top-flight course, and improved amenities ’53, Eddy Hayes ’90, J.P. Escudier with a 59 (13-under par) were Tommy played like a champion. ’95, and Mike Rodrigue ’71. Bartlett ’89, Dr. Tim Finney ’77, Ross The 2012 Jesuit Golf Classic sold Rodrigue, who played on Jesuit’s golf Gatti ’88, and Bob Talbot, Jr. ’80. out in less than a week, and the 144 golfers team as a student, coordinated with some Jesuit thanks everyone who generously who participated loved every hole of it. of the city’s most popular restaurants, donated their time and services to the 2012 The event, which was presented by Iberia including his own (Acme Oyster House) to tournament, including: Bank, was held on Friday, April 13 at provide food before, during, and after the Iberia Bank (Karl Hoefer ’76) English Turn. It included grilled burgers and tournament. Acme Oyster House (Mike Rodrigue ’71) chicken for lunch; gumbo, pasta, shrimp “I am so grateful for the work this group Banner Chevrolet (Rick Flick ’82) remoulade, raw and charbroiled oysters on put in to upgrading what has always been Cooking Crew of ’69 (Wally Landry ’69, David Latham ’69, Julio Torres ’69, Bob the course; and hot-boiled crawfish and a wonderful event of Blue Jay connection Funck ’75) jambalaya at Jayson’s 19th Hole. and camaraderie,” said Jesuit president Fr. Crescent Crown Distributing (Nick Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J. ’76 And although it didn’t rain, there was . Hayes Hazard ’84) plenty of “hydration.” will lead the 2013 tournament planning Delta Southern Catering (Bobby “When our golfers told us they would effort, which is already underway. Due to Suggs ’90) prefer not to play in the heat of summer and demand, the committee is leaning toward Drago’s Seafood (Tommy Cvitanovich, that a nicer course and additional amenities adding a morning flight in 2013. The date Jesuit parent) might make sense, we listened,” said Rocky for next year’s tournament is Friday, April Massage Envy (Brian Grenrood ’86) Daigle ’85, who served as chairman of the 19. Mr. Mudbug committee that planned this year’s event. The inaugural Blue Jay Class Champion NATCO Food Service (Anne and Michael “Plus, Jesuit’s Alumni Steering Committee Golf Cup, which recognizes the first Babin ’85) requested that we keep the tournament place foursome from the same class, was Pelican Ice (Arthur Renaudin ’57) Republic Beverage affordable. We did it all.” won by Marc Bonifacic, Wiggins Daigle worked with Jesuit’s Office of Edrington, Geoff Smith, and Roland (View the photo gallery of the tournament Institutional Advancement and a top-flight Waguespack of the Class of 1992. Their in the 2011-12 Alumni Archives on volunteer group of alumni, parents, and names and class year are engraved on the Jesuit’s web site.)

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Sam McNeely ’31 celebrated his 97th birthday on several years, was successful in his raw bench press Advisory Council. He was Jesuit’s 1986 Alumnus of May 24 which makes him one of Jesuit’s most senior of approximately 182 pounds at the Riga event. the Year. His efforts won him a world championship and a alums. Fluent in four languages, Sam specialized Michael D’Antonio ’60 is enjoying his second gold medal in his division, in the process setting in international education as a professor at Tulane year as a board member of the Memorial Hall a new world record. “This was a first for me and University before his retirement. He has published Foundation of the Civil War Museum on Camp probably the first time in the history of the world three poetry collections, the most recent — Mind at Street in New Orleans. Michael serves as vice that a graduate of 4A competed successfully in Play — in 2004. As an education officer in occupied president of M.A. D’Antonio’s Quality Foods and athletics at the international level,” writes Paul, Japan, his interest in the history and fine arts of the also has practiced law for the past 40 years. country earned him election to the Order of the somewhat facetiously. When Paul isn’t lifting weights Rising Sun by the Imperial Government. He served and working out, he is a pathologist. He lives in Rusty Staub ’61 was recently inducted into the as an interpreter in World War II. Sam now lives in Houston. Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Known as Le Grande Orange, Rusty played for the Montreal Expos an assisted living home in Pensacola where his wife Dr. Melvin G. Bourgeois ’53 has completed for just under four seasons during his 23-year Major Betty helps care for him. about eight months of a two-year term he was League career. Rusty is still a beloved figure north of elected to as president of the Louisiana State Board Jimmy the border, especially in Montreal, the city that gave of Medical Examiners. Melvin, who is a family Fitzmorris ’39 him the French nickname — because of his red hair physician in Morgan City, was originally appointed was recognized by — that has stuck with him through life. the Louisiana State to the board in 2000 by then-Gov. Mike Foster, Senate with a special who re-appointed him in 2002. Then-Gov. Kathleen Victor Howell ’62 is vice president of birthday resolution Blanco re-appointed him in 2006, and Gov. Bobby preparedness health and safety services for the commending him Jindal re-appointed him in 2010, with his final national American Red Cross, responsible for for celebrating term expiring December 31, 2013. He was St. Mary field operations across the U.S. He still resides in 90 years: “Jimmy Parish’s first physician to be appointed to the board. Baton Rouge, but spends the majority of time in Fitzmorris sets a Bourgeois and his wife, Geri, have six children. Washington, D.C. or traveling to the Red Cross’s division offices. solid benchmark Sam LeBlanc ’56 and his wife Noelle are for a long life rich enjoying retirement in their dream home of Maurice LeGardeur ’62 lives on the Northshore with experience; he Roussillon in St. Francisville. The story of how Sam where he also maintains a legal practice. In 2009, he remains active; he and Noelle came to design Roussillon as they did is wrote and published a hardcover coffee table satire, savors all that life offers; and he serves as a reminder featured in the May/June 2012 issue of Louisiana Carnival in New Orleans: A Fantasy, which was that every day is a gift from God neither to be Life Magazine. Sam retired in 2002 as a senior favorably reviewed and is available in bookstores. wasted nor squandered, no matter what length of partner at the law firm of Adams and Reese. “I’ve also written and published five poetry books, time one is allotted.” the most recent titled, So Much for the Mountains, John Conway ’57 retired on July 1, 2011 from which I am selling in western North Carolina,” Richard McNeely ’40 and his wife Margot George Washington University and the next day he writes Maurice. “Last November my wife Meg and are enjoying retirement on their 33-acre spread and his wife Ann departed for a three-month stay at I opened Three Rivers Gallery on East Boston Street in Covington, where they breed Great Danes and the little house in France they bought in 2002. “It’s in downtown Covington. The gallery features 17 lovingly tend their chickens. just a one-bedroom cottage, but it sits on top a cliff local artists along with their fine art, photographs, overlooking the ocean in a remote part of Brittany, Peter Finney ’45, whose first story in the Times- pottery, and jewelry.” Picayune was published 67 years ago, was inducted surrounded by some of the most beautiful scenery into the United States Basketball Writers’ Hall of we have ever seen,” writes John. “I continue to be Alvin Rouchell ’62 is chairman emeritus of the Fame during that organization’s annual meeting involved in mathematics and just had my ninth psychiatry department at Ochsner and works part in New Orleans in April. Introducing Pete at the book accepted for publication by the American time. ceremony, fellow TP sports writer Jeff Duncan said, Mathematical Society. Our son Bligh has lived for 13 Michael Songy ’62 and his wife Barbara live in “New Orleans is a big-event town, and it demands a years in St Petersburg, Russia with his Russian wife Tampa, where he was an active volunteer at their distinctive voice for those big events. For more than and our grandson. He teaches history at the Anglo- sons’ alma mater, Jesuit High. Mike was so active six decades, no one has done it better than Peter American School. We see them twice a year — once that Jesuit Tampa honored him by creating an Finney.” While at Jesuit, Pete continued the “Flying at our home in Fairfax, VA and again at some agreed annual award in his name. Each year the Dads’ Club with the Jays” sports column that was originally upon city in Europe. Last year was Paris, this year at Jesuit Tampa bestows the Michael G. Songy Award created by Hap Glaudi ’36. Incidentally, Pete’s first will be Rome.” on a student’s father for his significant achievements sports story for the TP — about a summer league Ron Jung ’58 and fellow Blue Jay Jack Saux, in the volunteer arena. A severe stroke changed baseball game featuring the Blue Jays — appeared on Jr. ’59 were among the 231 laypersons who Mike’s life in 2007, but Barbara reports that he is June 22, 1945, just a few weeks after he received his received the Order of St. Louis IX Medallion in doing much better and would love to hear from his Jesuit diploma. recognition of their dedication and years of service classmates. E-mail: [email protected]. Pat Browne ’50 became permanently blind in a to the Catholic Church. Ron’s wife Sandra also Creed Brierre ’64 has been elected chairman of 1966 auto accident. But that has not stopped him was among those honored. Archbishop Gregory the board of Goodwill Industries of Southeastern from leading a full life and achieving his goals. Pat Aymond presented the Medallion to the honorees in Louisiana. was an all-state basketball player at Jesuit before a ceremony held in May at the St. Louis Cathedral. enjoying a stellar collegiate career in golf and The award was established more than 40 years ago John DiLeo ’64 continues to practice basketball at Tulane. He practiced law for 18 years to honor members of the laity who have contributed anesthesiology at South Lake Surgery Center in before becoming president, CEO, and chairman of their time and talents to the church. LaPlace. John writes: “My off time is occupied by the board of Hibernia Homestead Bank. After his Jack Dardis ’59 long solo cross country motorcycle rides on my was the 2012 recipient of Loyola trusty BMW steed, Stella; by photography and accident, Pat overcame the challenges of blindness University’s Adjutor Hominum Award, the highest to win the U.S. Blind Golf Association National writing; by my family that now includes seven honor bestowed by its Alumni Association. Each grandchildren; and, some sleep here and there.” Championship an incredible 23 times. Pat and his year, Loyola recognizes an outstanding graduate wife Joanie were the co-chairs of the eighth annual whose life demonstrates the values and philosophy Glenn Gennaro ’66 has been named interim Pat Browne/WRBH Radio for the Blind Golf of a Jesuit education — namely moral character, president of Ursuline Academy for the 2012-13 Tournament held in May. service to humanity, and unquestionable integrity. A school year, where he will oversee school operations Paul Radelat ’51 snatched the top prize in 1963 graduate of Loyola, he is the chairman of Jack and administration, including academic progress his age group (75-79) at the World Powerlifting Dardis and Associates, Ltd., a financial services and and ongoing facility construction. Glenn is a 40-year Championships in Riga, Latvia in November insurance services company in Metairie. Jack, a long- veteran of Catholic and public education in the New 2011. Paul, a competitive power lifter for the last time member of Jesuit High School’s President’s Orleans area and has previously served as principal 32 JAYNotes ALUMNI

of the Jefferson Community School, St. Clement 27 years and have four children. Ralph Pausina ’77 has returned to New of Rome School, and Pope John Paul II High Barry Obiol ’74 was recently promoted to Orleans from Houston and has opened Café School. He also served as director of guidance at the deputy regional supervisor for the Office of Ralphie in Metairie. Ralph is serving many of the Jesuit. Environment in the Bureau of Ocean Energy dishes he made popular at Restaurant Barataria Frank Maselli ’68 presided as Grand Marshall Management (BOEM), an agency in the several years ago. th in the 30 annual Louisiana Irish-Italian Parade Department of the Interior that oversees all Dr. Gerald Cvitanovich ’78 is the new which rolled through Metairie last March. aspects of the development of energy resources coroner of Jefferson Parish. He succeeded Greg Glowacki ’69 was voted best on the Outer Continental Shelf of the U.S. another Blue Jay, Robert Treuting ’55, who pediatrician in the Opelousas area and presented Barry’s family has expanded to include three retired after 24 years as Jefferson’s second longest an award for his 30 years of service to the sons, three daughters, and six grandchildren, all serving coroner. As the new deputy coroner of community. of whom currently live in Louisiana. “I am very Jefferson Parish, Dr. Granville Morse ’89 will fortunate to be given the family I have and to be be working alongside Gerry. Mike Valentino ’69 reigned as King at the afforded this great opportunity to be a part of 2012 Hermes parade. our country’s energy program,” says Barry, adding Scott Mattson ’78, who retired as a Major that his youngest daughter is only seven years old from the Air Force in June 2011, teaches courses and “retirement is far away, so it is good that I in U.S. history and government at Cheyenne really enjoy my work.” South High School in Wyoming. “The school just finished its second year, so this coming Michael O’Dwyer ’74 has built a new office year (2013) marks the first class of graduating for O’Dwyer Realty in Pass Christian. Michael seniors,” writes Scott. “It’s been real exciting.” and his wife Rebecca have a daughter, Avra. He throws out the welcome mat and invites Blue Kyle Sherman ’78 lives in Manhattan Beach, Jays who are in the Gulf Coast region to stop by CA with his wife Lori and daughters Courtney and visit the new digs. and Sarah. Kyle writes: “For the past 14 years, John Meunier ’69 I’ve been at FOX Sports where I am the executive plays bass guitar in Al Roger Schroeder “Carnival Time” Johnson’s band. When he is vice president of Home Team Sports, which has ’74, not gigging on stage with this Mardi Gras and a lawyer by trade, advertising representation of every home team Jazz Fest icon, John leads the quiet life of a sales is doing quite well as in the U.S. in MLB, NBA, and the NHL. I also representative for Louisiana Office Products. a screenwriter in Los have USC Sports properties in the company Angeles. Roger recently portfolio, which contradicts my purple and gold Terry Fugetta ’70 was the 2012 recipient snagged an Emmy LSU blood.” of the Distinguished Service Award given by Award for writing the the Louisiana Dental Association at its annual NBC daytime soap Glen Wadge ’78 has been sending things into meeting in May. The award is the loftiest honor Days of Our Lives. outer space since 1984. He has spent his career the association bestows on a member who This was Roger’s first in the aerospace industry with Lockheed Martin exemplifies the highest standards of professional year writing for the and the space shuttle program. Glen is planning conduct in dentistry and makes extraordinary show, his first Emmy his next great space adventure! He and his wife contributions to dentistry and the community. nomination, and, Belle have two children and reside in Slidell. Terry has a general dentistry practice in Metairie. of course, his first Alan Donnes ’79 is the president of National He and his wife Cecelia have three daughters — win, but probably not his last. A Boyfriend for Lampoon, Inc. He now leads the company that Darah, Erin Adams, and Allison. Christmas, which Roger wrote, is a Christmas brought us such classic comedies as National Cliff Hurndon ’71 is chair of the counselor staple on the Hallmark Network. Lampoon’s Animal House and National Lampoon’s education programs in the College of Behavioral Tim Rice ’75 is embracing a new cause that, Vacation. For several years Alan has been Social Sciences at Southeastern University in as he says, “has had a tremendous impact on associated with National Lampoon, producing Lakeland, FL. “In this role I oversee the graduate both my heart and my life.” Tim’s 3-year old several of the company’s movies. In his new programs in professional and school counseling, nephew Jonathan Rice, son of Sean Rice ’90, position, he must rebuild a business and a brand and prepare mental health professionals with an has been diagnosed with Duchenne muscular that have fallen on hard times. overt Christian faith to serve others in various dystrophy. “As I searched for meaning in all Vergil Smith ’79 lives in Warsaw, Poland, locations in their communities,” writes Cliff. “It this confusion, the passion to ‘DO’ something where he teaches “conversational English.” is a blessing.” was overwhelming,” said Tim, who decided to participate in the “Because I Can” program, Keith Cavanagh ’82 has been elected Gary Wadge ’73 is a mechanical and president of the Dads’ Club at Cabrini High managing engineer in the New Orleans office which sponsors hikes to raise awareness of the disease and financial support for research towards School. He succeeds Pat Gaffney ’76 in that of EDG, Inc., an international consulting firm position. serving the oil and gas and industrial markets. a cure. Tim plans to trek 500 miles of the Pacific Wadge has shared international assignments Crest Trail. Check out Tim’s web site: Dan Crumb ’82 is the chief financial officer with his nephew, André Toujas ’01, a bit.ly/whereyat-rice75. of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. Previously mechanical engineer who also works at EDG. Chip Pendleton ’76 works as an electrical Dan was the CFO of the New Orleans Hornets. (Read his separate entry in Where Y’at.) Together, engineer with the LSU system in Baton Rouge. In both New Orleans and Kansas City, he has they have worked on international projects He and his wife Sharon have eight children, five been an active member of the community in Angola, Africa, where Gary spends a fair of whom are LSU Tigers. serving on numerous boards of charities amount of his time. When not traveling, he and Gordon Wadge ’76 his wife Barbara breed, raise, and show boxers is the president and and philanthropic under the business name Bargary Boxers. They CEO of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New organizations such as also own and operate a UPS franchise store on Orleans, an umbrella agency with 42 programs the Salvation Army and Brownswitch Road in Slidell. and three affiliated ministries delivering health Catholic Charities. He and human services to the poor and vulnerable in and his wife Janet have Peter Knecht ’74 is a CPA in private eight parishes located in southeastern Louisiana. two children. On the practice who still finds time to play competitive He joined the agency in 1979 and spent the morning of his Class basketball, a passion since graduating from Jesuit. first 10 years in ministry with abused, neglected, of 1982 reunion, Dan He and his wife Julie remain active in St. Philip and delinquent teenagers. He and his wife Mary spoke to the Jesuit Neri Parish in Metairie. They have been married became grandparents in 2011. students at assembly.

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Otha Sandifer ’83 has been promoted to the of community life at Rutgers Preparatory School Brad Fortier ’91 is position of Commander at the New Orleans in Somerset, NJ. He has lived in the New Jersey the president of Fortier Police Department, with the responsibility of area for the past 12 years. Financial and the author leading the NOPD Training Academy. The newly David Lafranca ’89 recently married Lisa of Dear Kate: Reflections on created rank of commander is the third-ranking Bogard in a ceremony at St. Anthony of Padua Risk and Rewards after the position in the department. Church. He is a regional field manager for ICA Storm. Dear Kate is Brad’s Tim Morales ’84 celebrated his 10-year Claims Adjusters. David and Lisa live in story of his journey through anniversary as general manager of Louisiana Golden, CO. personal loss and death Garment Silkscreeners. and destruction toward a Shawn O’Brien ’89 has joined Mayer Brown’s discovery of what was truly important to him. Sherif Ebrahim ’85 was one of 11 people Tax Controversy practice as a partner in the Scott Roos ’91 honored at the White House in March as a Houston office. Previously, Sean managed the teaches classical languages “Champion of Change.” An adjunct professor Tax Controversy Practice Group in the Houston at Stuart Hall High School in San Francisco. at Tulane, Sherif was commended for his office of Jackson Walker, L.L.P., where he was Stuart Hall is part of the national network of the contributions as an entrepreneurial mentor and a partner. Sean is part of the Jesuit Houston Schools of the Sacred Heart. for business training in the community. He is Alumni Chapter’s leadership team. Jonathan Lartigue ’92 recently earned his president and CEO of Strategic Management Peter Kernion ’90 completed his first Iron doctorate in software engineering from Auburn Group and managing partner of SMG Capital, Man Competition in May, and lived to tell about University. both nationally recognized private equity and it. Peter, who is Jesuit’s assistant principal for Craig Marinello ’92 health care firms based in New Orleans. Sherif is the North Shore student affairs and head coach of the Blue Jays’ also is an instructor for Interise, a Boston non- regional director of Catholic Charities. Cross Country team, diligently trained for an profit network of teacher who help small business Bruno Prager ’92 is a publisher/ franchisee entire year to whip his body into the requisite owners. of the New Orleans edition of Coastal Angler shape. When the day of competition arrived, Magazine, one of the largest fishing, boating, John Neyrey ’85 is an adjunct instructor Peter made it look all too easy as he zipped and outdoor publications in the U.S. Bruno at the Lester E. Kabacoff School of Hotel, through the cycle of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112-mile welcomes articles and photos dealing with Restaurant, and Tourism Administration at the bike ride, and a 26.2 mile run. Peter finished all fishing and boating in the Louisiana marshes University of New Orleans. three events in just over 14 hours. and the Gulf of Mexico. Submissions may be Brian Sevin, Sr. ’85 has joined the law firm Jay ’91 and Mark ’95 Duplass have done it made through the magazine’s website: http:// of Perrier & Lacoste as special counsel. Brian and again, following up their first mainstream movie coastalanglermag.com/new-orleans/. his wife Kimberly have five children, including Cyrus with the critically acclaimed and wickedly Michael Vezina ’92 has been a pilot for Brian of Jesuit’s Class of 2014. funny Jeff, Who Lives at Home. There might be Southwest Airlines for 10 years. He lives in some classmates who think that they serve as Jorge Bravo ’86 completed his first year as an Mandeville with his wife Ashley and their two the model for the slacker Jeff, who lives, loafs, assistant professor of classics at the University of daughters Emma and Hailey. Michael also owns and imbibes all day long in the basement of his Maryland, College Park. an aircraft brokerage business. mother’s house while waiting for his epiphany. Jim McCormick ’86 hit #1 on Billboard’s However, Mark says, “Jeff is not a classmate, William Nolan ’93 is the executive chef at Hot Country Singles Chart on July 10 with though certainly an amalgam of people I’ve Eight K in the Viceroy Hotel in Snowmass, CO. Brantley Gilbert’s “You Don’t Know Her Like known.” And now Mark is honing his acting Prior to the Viceroy, Will was the executive chef I Do,” which he co-wrote with the artist. Jim is chops starring in the cable series The Leagueand at the Palace Restaurant in Durango, CO and the a frequent guest lecturer at music schools and the movie Safety Not Guaranteed. In July 2012, Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans. Will conferences around the world and is a current the brothers’ latest comedy creation hit theaters, was one of 10 nominees for Best New Chef in governor on the Recording Academy’s Memphis The Do-Deca-Pentathlon.Jay and Mark have two the southwest region in Food and Wine Magazine. Chapter Board. children each. (Read the Where Y’at entry for Steve Arthur O’Keefe ’93 is the CFO of Coquelux, Stephen Mitchell ’88 is middle school dean Zissis ’94.) an online Brazilian luxury private sales club.

Miner Papal Encounter Chad Miner ’99, his wife Stephanie, and their 11-month-old daughter After some waiting, I received Bronwyn Emilia came home to Old Metairie during the first week of the command to go forward a August to visit parents, family, and friends who they have not seen in quite bit more. One of the Pope’s men awhile. For the past year the Miners have been living in Rome, where Chad alerted him to turn around. works as a political and economic officer in the U.S. Embassy to the Holy When he did, right there in front See. of him were the three of us. The Holy Father gave Of course, there are certain perks that are naturally attendant with Bronwyn a big, warm smile, being a papal envoy for the U.S. State Department, as Chad relates in this cupped her cheeks in his hands, story that he sent to Jaynotes. leaned over, and kissed her on the Stephanie and I took our daughter Bronwyn Emilia — who was five- forehead. months-old at the time — to the Papal Mass on Ash Wednesday earlier this year. He then made the sign of the The Mass was celebrated at the “Basilica Sanctae Sabinae,” also known simply cross on her forehead with his as “Santa Sabina.” This Basilica is high on the Aventine Hill next to the Tiber thumb. In doing so, his Holiness left the faintest outline of a cross from the ash River, near the headquarters of the Knights of Malta. that was used earlier, traces of which were still on his thumb. We arrived just before Mass began and stood in the back corner where there Bronwyn’s second Mass ever and she received a Papal blessing! weren’t many chairs. We had some room to push the stroller back and forth Like I told Stephanie as we were leaving the Basilica, “She’s advanced.” and Bronwyn slept through the first half of Mass. When she awoke she didn’t want to stay in the stroller, so I held her for Chad, Stephanie, and Bronwyn will be in Rome for one more year. the rest of the service. As the Mass was ending, an attendant pointed to us and Then it’s back to Washington, D.C. for eight months to prepare for his told us to come over. We did. A minute later, Stephanie, Bronwyn, and I were next two-year assignment: Quito, Ecuador. Chad speaks fluent Russian, waiting for Pope Benedict XVI to process down the church aisle. Romanian, and Italian, and adding Spanish to his list of mastered languages should be muy fácil.

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His background is in computer engineering, Walt Leger ’96 is an attorney with Leger Michael Balch ’99 and his wife Amanda nuclear submarine operations, and hedge funds. & Shaw in New Orleans, where his focus is moved from San Diego back to New Orleans He spent five years in the Navy as a nuclear civil, commercial, complex, and admiralty and in 2010. He is a project engineer for a local trained submarine officer aboard the Trident maritime litigation. One year after joining the company. (Read their entry in the Bib List.) Ballistic Missile Submarine USS GEORGIA firm in 2006, he was elected to serve as the state located in Silverdale, WA. representative for District 91 in New Orleans. Trace Timkin ’93 has been an air traffic He was re-elected without opposition in 2011 controller (ATC) for the past 10 years at the to his second term. In January 2012, Walt was Atlanta Enroute Center. “Atlanta is the busiest unanimously elected as the speaker pro tempore ATC facility in the world,” writes Trace. “We of the Louisiana House of Representatives. handle more than 8,000 planes per day on Walt says that he is proud to serve in the average across six states. I’m a representative Legislature alongside fellow Blue Jays and state on the Safety Council at my facility, where we representatives Cameron Henry ’94 and Nick Lorusso ’85. Walt is engaged to Danielle implement changes to the National Airspace Michael D’Aquila ’99 ran this year’s Boston Doiron, who is originally from Houma. The System to enhance the safety of the flying public. Marathon wearing his Jesuit Cross Country tank couple hopes to marry by the end of 2012. If you’ve ever flown over the Southeast U.S., top. He finished in 3.5 hours, but it must have chances are I have been responsible for guiding Scott Delacroix, Jr. ’97 and his wife Sunny seemed like 23.5 hours with the record heat your aircraft. Being an ATC is viewed as the most are celebrating their first year of marriage (temperatures in the 90s) that prompted 4,500 stressful job on earth, and I can definitely attest and their return to New Orleans. Scott has runners skip this race. The Boston event marked to that. But I wouldn’t change a thing about it.” completed a three-year program in urologic Michael’s fourth marathon, two of which he Brian Landry surgical oncology and robotic surgery at the ran in Chicago. The other was the New Orleans ’94 is the executive M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He Mardi Gras Marathon, which Michael finished in chef and co- recently began the next 3:05, a time that qualified him for the premiere owner of the new phase of his career which run in Boston. His wife Genevieve, who snapped Restaurant Borgne is director of urologic the photo above, writes: “During the race, he in the renovated oncology and assistant came across another Jesuit alumnus who was Hyatt Regency professor of urology from the Class of 1986. I don’t think he had Hotel adjacent to at the LSU School enough time to get that guy’s name, but they did the Superdome. of Medicine. Scott exchange a ‘high five.’” Michael is a field director Borgne was received his medical and wealth management advisor affiliated with awarded a rare degree from LSU in Northwestern Mutual in Chicago, where he and “four beans” by the 2004 and completed Genevieve reside. his residency training in Times-Picayune’s Corey Jambon ’99 is a business consultant urology through LSU food critic. Brian for Postlethwaite & Netterville, APAC. Corey and Ochsner in 2009. was previously executive chef at Galatoire’s. married Katy Bowman in April 2012. Two of his new partners Steve Zissis ’94 continues to pad his acting at Ochsner are J. Christian Winters ’80 and Edward Persand ’99 is a corporate account portfolio with significant roles in the films Stephen Lacour ’90. manager with Cook Medical, Inc. Eddie recently produced and directed by his Jesuit buddies, the married Christina Marciante. Duplass Brothers. Steve had a small role in Cyrus, John Clay Leech ’97 is a host of “The Sports a bigger role in Jeff, Who Lives at Home, and Throwdown” talk radio show heard on Saturday Chris Rholdon ’99 is a college administrator he shares the lead in the brothers’ The Do-Deca morning at 10 on WIST-690 AM. He lives in in the institutional research and effectiveness Pentathlon. Steve lives in Los Angeles. New Orleans. department at Fletcher Technical Community College in Houma. Chris earned his Doctor of Stephen Pesce ’97 has been elected Sean Fitzwilliam ’95 finished fifth in the New Education degree in organizational leadership partner at Flanagan Partners LLP in New Orleans Rock ’n Roll Mardi Gras Half-Marathon from Northcentral University in January 2012. with a time of 1:10:54. Orleans, where his practice focuses on energy, insurance coverage, admiralty, construction, and Christopher Graham ’01 graduated from Henry Guste ’95 has opened HuckleBerry’s, a commercial matters. the LSU School of Medicine in May 2012. After full service, casual restaurant located on Hickory an internship at LSU in New Orleans, Chris will Christian Weiler ’97 has joined the law firm Avenue in Harahan. Henry invites all Blue Jays head north to Ohio State University to undertake of Weiler & Rees, L.L.C. Christian’s practice to visit and “treat yourself to an oyster loaf or a his radiology residency. bone-in ribeye, or come relax at the bar after a includes all areas of tax law, estate, and business hard day’s work.” planning, with an emphasis in tax controversy Gavin Guillot ’01 specializes in admiralty and and tax litigation matters. He is a board certified maritime litigation at Johnson, Johnson, Barrios Andrew Higgs ’95 is a partner in the Costa tax law specialist certified by the Louisiana board & Yacoubian, APLC. He recently married Jenny Mesa office of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard, & of legal specialization. He volunteers with several Summers. Smith L.L.P., where he works in the products charitable and civic organizations, including Johmyrin Johnson ’01, a teacher at and professional liability group. He and his Greater New Orleans Chapter of Partnership wife Molly and their daughter Hannah live in Advocates for Science and Math, is working on a for Philanthropic Planning, Children’s degree in pharmacy at Xavier University. Orange County, California. Andrew confesses: “I Neuromuscular Foundation of Louisiana, and seriously need to visit New Orleans soon.” the Louise T. Fein Memorial Foundation. Billy Neilson, Jr. ’01 is an associate attorney James Waldron ’95 has been elected partner Danny White ’98 at Weiler and Rees, L.L.C. where his experience has been named the athletic includes researching tax issues and drafting at the Frilot Law Firm where he represents director of the University of Buffalo. He is 32 entities across the spectrum of the healthcare opinions on such issues as collection due process and the youngest athletic director in the Football hearings, TEFRA partnerships, reasonable industry, including hospitals, physicians, and Bowl Subdivision ranks. He most recently other healthcare providers, in all aspects of their compensation, and capital gain exclusion on sales held the position of senior associate AD at Ole of personal residences. He served as an attorney practice including, medical malpractice and Miss. is working to complete a doctorate in premises liability cases. James is an associate advisor to Judge Joseph Goeke of the U.S. higher education. He and his wife Shawn have Tax Court in Washington, D.C. Billy recently member of the Sugar Bowl Committee and on three children: Aiden, Molly, and Caitlin. the board of directors of the Irish Channel St. married Elizabeth Brugge. Patrick’s Day Committee.

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Mark Scioneaux ’01 is developing a nice latest Fancy Pants Adventures game, World 3, was career as a writer and editor of horror fiction released and became an instant addictive hit with LET US KNOW... when he’s not an industrial hygienist in Baton the gaming community. Millions of people have Rouge. Mark has published a novel, several played the three versions of Fancy Pants, which novellas, and numerous short stories. He recently features Fancy Pants Man, a two dimensional WHERE Y’AT! stick figure with spiky, choppy hair, wearing assembled an anthology entitled Horror for Email the editor: [email protected]. Good, featuring 32 stories from several of the top only a pair of colored triangular-shaped pants. authors in the horror genre. All proceeds from Brad speaks at gaming conferences and is often Send one or two high resolution digital sales of the anthology go to The Foundation for interviewed by journalists. He is one of the more photos. Or mail to Jaynotes, Jesuit AIDS Research, amfAR. “The authors contained popular speakers at Jesuit’s Career Day. He and High School, 4133 Banks St., within these pages are a mix of some of the his wife Jenna Galle welcomed a different kind of New Orleans, LA 70119 brightest stars and some of the most promising Fancy Pants to the family. (Read their entry in the new talent in horror,” said Mark. “They have Bib List.) donated their stories, consisting of rare reprints, Steven Broschofsky ’03 Hurricane Katrina. Hands On is the official and his sister volunteer organization for the City of New personal favorites, and brand new, never-before- opened The Yogurt Experience in 2009 in Round published tales.” Mark also has established his Orleans. Graham, who served as online editor Rock, TX. In June 2012, they took their store on for the Louisiana Law Review, received his juris own publishing company, Nightscape Press, and the road, opening The Yogurt Experience mobile already has a few authors under contract. doctor from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at trailer in the brand new North Austin Trailer LSU in 2011. André Toujas ’01 is a mechanical engineer Yard. Gordon Wadge ’04 who works with his uncle, Gary Wadge ’73, Michael Lillis ’03 is attending LSU married Stephanie Anne Medical School in New Orleans. In April on international engineering projects with EDG, Hilferty on March 24, 2012. Inc. When André is not working in Africa or 2011, Gordon married Brianne Bordes, an elsewhere, he is traveling the world. André Kenny Belou ’04 is a civil engineer with anesthesiology resident at Ochsner who he met has visited almost every continent and has Meyer Engineers, Ltd. in Metairie where he is while volunteering with LSU Camp Tiger, a experienced cliff diving in South Africa, glacier involved in several fun projects, including the program for children with special needs. Gordon climbing in Argentina, swimming with the creation of a children’s playground and dog and Brianne hope to practice medicine in New sharks in Australia, back packing across Europe, park at the Bonnabel boat launch. Kenny is a Orleans. and exploring Vietnam and South Korea. competitive athlete and a huge sports fan who David Dietz, Jr. ’05 and Dale Hanan ’05 can be found courtside at most New Orleans both work at Ochsner teaching physicians the Chris Edmunds ’02 is a free-lance performer Hornets home games. with several New Orleans bands. His traditional new electronic medical record program called jazz band, The New Orleans Moonshiners, Justice Buras ’04 married Miranda Paine- Epic. Dale received his MBA from UNO in May performed at this year’s Jazz Fest. Jesam in April 2012. Justice is the band director 2012. for Abita Springs Middle School and has begun Sparky Martin ’02, who is the sales and Christopher Johnson ’05 was promoted working toward a master’s degree in education to branch manager of Fidelity Homestead in marketing director for the mediation firm administration. MAPS, Inc., will marry Emily Schmidt on April Lakeview and also joined the board of directors 20, 2013. Sparky is an active member in the Stephen Carroll ’04 is a veterinarian whose of Hands On New Orleans. Christopher is Rotary Club of Downtown New Orleans, which practice focuses on caring for race horses in engaged to Audrey McIntosh who he will marry is the 12th oldest Rotary organization in the Bossier in January 2013. world. City and Bryan Whalen ’05 has earned his CPA New designation and is practicing with the Metairie Wesley Muller ’02 is a freelance writer for Orleans. the satirical newspaper New Orleans Levee while accounting firm of Wegmann Dazet & Stephen Company, APC. Bryan graduated from LSU attending UNO, where he is studying journalism earned his and English. Wesley graduates this fall and in 2009 with dual degrees in finance and doctor of accounting. intends to enter the Masters degree program veterinary at the university. He writes that he is already medicine John Worrel ’05 is chief human interaction “swimming in student-loan debt.” degree officer for College District, an online college Yancy Tiblier ’02 is a sales representative with from LSU apparel company based in Baton Rouge. The Liberty Mutual Insurance in Baton Rouge. He in May company’s web site says this about him: “John recently married Samantha Sagona. 2012. is loud and obnoxious. He runs the marketing He has for College District. So if you interact with us Joseph Vaccaro ’02 married Lindsey Barbera a bachelor’s degree in animal science and on Facebook, Twitter, or our Blog, you are most on March 24, 2012. technology from LSU. likely interacting with John. In his spare time he Adam Ganucheau ’04 attempts stand-up comedy wherever they allow has been named him.” And here is what John says about John: “I campus minister at Cabrini High School. He am loud and obnoxious. Oddly enough, though, joins fellow Blue Jays Ardley Hanemann, Jr. ’61 Rudy I’m a fantastic listener. I run the marketing for , who is president, and teachers College District and love every minute of it. Horvath ’86, Todd Schrenk ’89, and Maxwell Wheeler ’91 Well every other minute of it. So I basically love at the all-girls Catholic it half the time.” John does digital marketing school located on Esplanade Avenue. consulting for Socially Awkward, L.L.C. and in Mark Hill ’04 joined the law firm of Waits, his spare time hosts a comedy show “Let’s Just Be Emmett, & Popp, L.L.P. as an associate Facebook Friends.” specializing in maritime defense litigation. Stephen Sewell ’06 is a staff operations Graham Ryan ’04 is an associate attorney intern in the corporate headquarters of the at the New Orleans law firm of Jones Walker. United States Automobile Association. Stephen is Brad Borne ’03 is doing more awesome He recently joined the board of directors of in the LSU Flores MBA Program and expects to things with gaming on the Internet (check out Hands On New Orleans, a non-profit that has graduate in the Class of 2013. bornegames.com). Not that he has been living mobilized more than 32,500 volunteers since under a rock in Squiggleville. In April 2012, his Rob Barrios ’07 graduated from LSU in civil

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engineering and works at Entergy’s nuclear plant a $10,000 first three semesters at Tulane. Briggs was one of in St. Francisville. post-graduate the valedictorians of Jesuit’s Class of 2010. scholarship Kyle Bradford ’07 graduated magna cum Warren Bondi ’10 is the regional sales provided by the laude from Spring Hill College in Mobile with manager of Green Team Landscaping and SEC. Cullen is degrees in finance/economics and computer Voodoo Glass, an automotive window repair only the third information systems. He is currently pursuing a company. LSU student- Masters of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences Jarvis Harris ’11 Center in New Orleans. athlete to win recently completed his the award. In freshman year at Harvard, where he is working Ryan Ebberman ’07 graduated from UNO May he earned towards a degree in biomedical engineering. in 2011 with a degree in Hotel, Restaurant his B.S. degree Competing on the Harvard Track Team, Jarvis and Tourism and is working for the Hyatt in biological won several events during the season. He set a Corporation, managing its restaurant, The Whole sciences. Cullen new school record at the Battle of Beantown, Hog Café, in the Entergy Building. is a two-time where he clocked in at 8.11 seconds in the Ian Gunn ’07 is currently pursuing his law recipient of the Wally Pontiff, Jr.’99 Academic 60-meter hurdle. In the Ivy League Indoor Meet, degree at Tulane University Law School. Ian Excellence Award at LSU, as well as a Chancellor’s Jarvis took fifth in the triple jump (14.34m) and graduated magna cum laude from the University Award winner from 2009-11. He is a three-time ninth in the 60-meter hurdles (8.56). In June of Georgia in May 2011 with degrees in member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll while he competed in the USATF Junior National philosophy and psychology. maintaining a 3.93 GPA in biological sciences. Championships in Bloomington, Indiana. As a three-year member of LSU’s Student-Athlete Jarvis writes, “This past year has enriched me Mark Johnson ’07 is an instructor of guitar Advisory Committee, Cullen played a primary with an eclectic for The New Orleans Academy of Music, L.L.C. role in the SEC’s “Together We Can” food drive, body of experiences “I have 20 students whom I meet with weekly,” as well as Habitat for Humanity projects in from learning writes Mark. “I am also in The Acadias, a New Baton Rouge. He is a familiar face to the children from renowned Orleans folk pop band. We released our first full at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital and Delmont professors, meeting length album in January 2012.” The album is Elementary School. Cullen helped LSU host and befriending available on The Acadias’ web site and Amazon. children and families at “Thanksgiving with the many people from Connor Martinez ’07 graduated from New Tigers” and is a volunteer campus leader in the almost every corner York University with a BA in music business. “Geaux Givers” community service program. of the world, He is employed in the live music entertainment Cullen was twice named LSU’s Cross Country smashing school industry. He recently married Madeline Foster in Runner of the Year in 2009 and 2011, while also records running on a ceremony at the Jesuit Immaculate Conception serving as team captain during his senior season the Varsity Track & Church on Baronne Street. Connor and in 2011. He has been accepted to medical school Field Team, and even Madeline live in Berkeley, CA. and plans to pursue a career in dermatology. performing in a huge Kevin Fitzgerald ’08 fashion show!” Wade Trosclair ’07 is on the fast track. It was recognized for took only three years for Wade to receive his BA his athletic and academic accomplishments at in history from LSU. In May 2012, he earned his Fordham University. For the second time, he MA in history from LSU. was named to the 2012 Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference Team for men’s indoor track Alumni News & Stephen Collura ’08 was selected as a and field. Kevin was honored for winning the member of LSU’s “Tiger Twelve” class. Each year 1000-meter race at this year’s Atlantic 10 Indoor Notes LSU recognizes Championships. His 4 x 800 relay team set 12 outstanding an Atlantic 10 Conference record by winning City Business has announced its 2012 seniors who the race in a fast time of 7:38.31. For his Leadership in Law honorees, recognizing 50 contribute accomplishments, Kevin was named Fordham’s legal professionals who helped move the legal positively to the 2011-12 Men’s Indoor Track & Field MVP. community forward with energy, innovative life of the campus ideas, achievements, and a commitment to Mason Katz ’09 and surrounding , who just completed his excellence. Eight Blue Jays were recognized: junior year on the LSU baseball team, was community as Charles Booker ’88, Lawrence members of the selected the Greater New Orleans Amateur Chehardy ’71 Justin Chopin ’98 Athlete of the Month for March. During that , , Tiger Twelve. George Fowler ’95, John Glas ’87, The award is the month, Mason batted .304 with four home runs, 15 RBIs, and 17 runs scored as the Tigers went Stephen Hanemann ’95, Martin highest honor Landrieu ’81, and Kermit Roux ’87. the university 14-4. Mason is a second team All-SEC selection for the 2012 season. bestows on The United States Marine Corps has any senior Briggs Barrios ’10 , a member of the Green announced that five Blue Jays will be class member. Wave baseball team, was named Male Scholar Stephen also promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel Athlete of the Year at Tulane University for the Justin was recognized 2011-12 school for fiscal year 2013. They are Majors as “Greek Man of the Year” at LSU, the highest year. Briggs is Ansel ’91, Brandon Gregoire ’91, honor for a fraternity brother. Stephen graduated a double major Donny Hasseltine ’93, Craig Himel from LSU in May with a degree in accounting. in finance/ ’91, and Ross Parrish ’92. He will continue at LSU Law School this fall. management, Bart Bacigalupi ’00, Brian Hoerner Cullen Doody ’08, has a 3.978 a standout distance runner ’04 Scott Ponoroff ’05 at LSU, was recognized by the Southeastern GPA, and has , and , attorneys Conference as the recipient of the 2012 Brad received the with Phelps Dunbar, were honored by the Davis SEC Community Service Leader of the Conference USA Pro Bono Project of New Orleans, whose Year Award. Selected by a committee of faculty Commissioner’s mission is to provide free, quality civil legal athletic representatives from the league’s Academic Medal services to the poor. 12-member institutions, Cullen will receive (3.75 GPA and above) for his

Spring/Summer 2012 37 IN MEMORIAM

The list of deceased members of the Jesuit High School Community represents information received from January 1 – June 30, 2012. For current announcements, check the “In Memoriam” page on Jesuit’s web site. † This symbol indicates the individual is deceased.

Alumni… (By Class Year) John R. May ’47 Kenneth G. ’65, Mark D. ’78, & † Gregory L. Ray ’66 Nicholas J. Compagno, Sr. ’33 William A. McGarry, Jr. ’72 Paul G. Schott ’82 David M. Rieder ’77 Peter G. Vidal, Jr. ’34 † Edward H. McGinty, Jr. ’31 James E., Jr. ’71, Jason L. ’73, & Michael G. Rivas, Jr. ’84 Gerard M. Dillon ’35 John T. Moore ’48 Craig W. Smith ’77 James M. Robinson ’69 Anthony J. Accardo ’37 Robert R. Quintana, Jr. ’55 R. Shelton Spangenberg ’00 Charles G. Schibler ’57 James H. Wetzel, Sr. ’37 William F. Rachal, Jr. ’86 James J. Spadaro, Jr. ’69 Henry C. ’57 & J. Cressend James P. Caire ’38 † William J. Waguespack III ’47 Robert S. Speyrer ’07 Schonberg ’61 Michael S. Power, Jr. ’39 † Alfred G. Wiedemann, Jr. ’46 Arthur G. Tribou ’75 Harold F. Smith, Jr. ’61 William J. Virgets, Jr. ’39 † Warren O. Weilbaecher ’30 Tom L. ’89 & Christopher B. Jeffrey J. Teachworth ’76 J. William Earle, Jr. ’40 Harold J. Zeringer, Jr. ’38 Trumble ’94 A. Scott ’70, Michael K. ’72, & Mark A. Turegano ’72 Thomas A. Fromherz ’41 Father of… Jefferson R. Tillery ’79 Dino E. Viera ’77 Stanley E. Turegano ’41 Robert A. Adams, Jr. ’91 Dominic C. ’77 & Guyton H. † James H. Wetzel, Jr. ’65 Edwin J. Williams, Jr. ’42 Stephen F. Barcia ’81 Valdin, Jr. ’81 John J. Weigel, Jr. ’79 Charles A. Achee, Jr. ’43 Donald S., Jr. ’90 & Charles O. Webster J. Veade, Jr. ’74 Charles J. O’Shell ’43 Berry ’96 Mother of… Paul F. Wartelle ’68 William K. Christovich ’44 Patrick M. Bollman ’09 Barry M. ’62, Ronald E. ’68, & Mark R. ’70, Brian D. ’72, & James A. Cobb ’44 Billy F., Jr. ’87 & Michael F. Wilbur J. Babin, Jr. ’74 Eric P. Zeringer ’75 Lt.Col. Lyle J. Garitty, Jr. ’45 (Ret) Booty ’08 Brodrick M. Bazanac ’16 Brother of… Alfred G. Wiedemann, Jr. ’46 John E. Brown III ’88 Frank A., Jr. ’61 & † Charles A. Accardo ’32 Frank J. D’Aquin ’47 Randall C. ’74 & Stephen N. Edmond K. Birdsong ’68 Arthur R. Adams ’44 Roy B. Fontenelle ’47 Chesnut ’79 Thomas J. ’69 & Harry M. Block ’72 Robert W. Bouzon ’69 Frederick J. Otis ’49 Chris V. Clement ’70 Lee F. Boutte, Jr. ’62 Harry G. Caire ’41 Henry L. Vandrell, Jr. ’50 Michael V. D’Aquila ’99 Martin J. Breen ’12 Andre P. Constantin ’56 Allen J. Ecuyer ’55 Mark L. D’Aquin ’81 Martin L. Broussard, Jr. ’68 † Richard J. ’54 & Lawrence J. J. Earl Pedelahore, Jr. ’55 Brian A. ’77 & Andrew A. Daniel C. Browne ’12 Ecuyer ’61 Odom B. Heebe ’56 Dalio ’81 David M. ’62 & Gregory J. Leon A. Flettrich III ’75 Robert A. Adams, Sr. ’58 Walter A. Dupeire III ’65 Bruce ’68 George J. Flick, Jr. ’58 Marshall L. Klein ’58 Gilmer W. III ’82 & Edward E. Rodney L. Cambre, Jr. ’77 Wayne J. Fontana ’69 David J. Guglielmo ’60 Engelhardt ’88 James C. Cowie ’07 † Werner J. Hagen ’45 J. Allan Michelet ’60 Joseph Foto ’84 Chris V. Clement ’70 † Marvin G. Heebe ’61 Leonard N. Bouzon ’64 Peter J. Fortier ’70 David S., Jr. ’83 & Paul F. Cressy ’87 Larry B. Hoffman ’54 Eugene H. Lillis, Jr. ’65 John K. ’84 & Soren E. Richard E. ’75 & Paul C. † James D. Huck, Jr. ’25 Albert M. Charlton, Jr. ’67 Gisleson ’88 Deichmann ’89 † William B. Landry ’45 Richard E. Hartenstein ’69 Todd P. Golemi ’95 Brian R. DeLatte ’96 † George J. Malochee ’33 John P. Dugan ’70 James H. ’84 & Thomas A. Christopher Drew ’74 Leonard J. McCaffery, Jr. ’60 Michael P. McCaffery ’70 Grady ’88 Robert J. Durand ’73 † Frank J. Moore ’64 Thomas J. Tiblier, Jr. ’70 Cary L. Guglielmo ’95 Leonard E. II ’84 & Allen C. † Martin G. Power ’44 Thomas E. Zahn ’71 John J. IV ’83 & Nicholas P. Enger ’88 † Joseph S. Reynaud ’32 Forrest G. Kontomitras ’81 Hazard ’84 Richard B. Farmer III ’60 David G. Schellhaas ’79 Jason N. Treigle ’93 Wallace R. ’69 & Robert J. John J. III ’66, Thomas ’72, Douglas M. Schmidt ’68 Jack D. Hines III ’00 Jeanfreau ’73 Kevin T. ’79, & Joseph P. † Terrence J. Smith ’36 Wife of… (By Last Name) Patrick S. Johnson ’92 Fenerty ’81 Marc R. Spangenberg ’69 † Albert F. Backer, Jr. ’41 Noel R. Kammer ’00 Kevin M. Glapion ’87 Louis A. Vinterella ’57 Harold R. Ballina ’36 William J. ’67, Lee A. ’76, Stephen M. Emory T. Gonzales ’69 Thomas D. ’42, Donald C. ’46, & † James J. Brothers ’49 ’81, & Peter C. Kelley ’83 Louis G. Gruntz, Jr. ’65 † George J. Wetzel ’39 † John M. Bruce ’33 Michael R. Koenig ’95 Robert D. Haskins, Jr. ’79 Lawrence W. Wiedemann ’49 Thomas R. Bush ’67 Joseph J. III ’82, Timothy W. ’84, & William J. ’67, Lee A. ’76, Albert J. Zahn, Jr. ’69 David A. Lafranca ’89 Stephen M. ’81, & Peter C. Ronald R. Campagna ’58 Sister of… † John D. Cieutat ’43 William J. Lahners ’87 Kelley ’83 † Angelo A. ’42, † Frederick P. ’44, † Hugh A. Cogan ’30 David M. ’69, † John F., Jr. ’72, Richard J. Kernion, Jr. ’85 & † George H. † Alfred F. Correnti ’38 William B. ’79, & Mark D. Theodore F. III ’64 & Boudousquie ’48 † Alwynn J. Cronvich ’36 Latham ’80 Terrence G. Kirn ’68 † Rev. Joseph L., C.S.S.R. ’30, † Bernard F. Danton, Jr. ’37 Michael E. Lillis ’03 Daniel E. Knowles III ’71 † William S. ’36, & † Frederick J. Willard A. Eastin ’59 Taylor R. ’92 & Ian T. Gregory G. Lacour ’88 Buhler ’37 † Richard J. Ecuyer ’45 McCaffery ’96 John P. Latour ’94 † Ernest A., Jr. ’33, † John F. ’37, & † Richard L. Fagot, Sr. ’48 Colin L. ’66 & Barry D. Edmund L. Leckert III ’76 † Richard J. Carrere ’40 † John J. Fenerty, Jr. ’35 McCormick ’70 Salvatore G. ’81 & George S. Louis F. DeGruy III ’59 Stephen C. Hartel, Jr. ’63 Arthur M. Mora ’91 Lovecchio ’83 † Robert J. Fontaine, Jr. ’64 Odom B. Heebe ’56 Ryan P. Neal ’97 Harold D. Marchand ’69 Jose L. II ’71 & Antonio J. † Augustus H. Jelks, Jr. ’44 Justin H. O’Rourke III ’85 Francis Mayer ’63 Garcia ’77 † Theodore F. Kirn, Jr. ’34 Melvin L. Parnell, Jr. ’68 William P. McCarthy, Jr. ’68 Donald I. Geier ’51 † Daniel E. Knowles, Jr. ’47 Louis J. Pedelahore ’81 Jack H. Meehan ’14 Augustus A. Harmon, Jr. ’53 Paul M. Lapeyre ’57 Brady G. ’92 & Chad E. Noel A. Monjure ’65 † John M. Holahan ’49 † Edmund L. Leckert, Jr. ’37 Perniciaro ’95 (stepfather) Christy A. ’70, Joseph O. III ’77, Leo † Andrew J. Kikas ’53 † Joseph M. Lichtenstein, Jr. ’47 Michael T. ’73, Timothy M. ’78, J. ’79, Walton J. ’79, & Roy C. Joseph D. ’56 & Lawrence T. † Rene J. Lorio, Jr. ’51 Gary J. ’79, & Kevin P. Power ’80 Montegut ’81 Kirn ’58 Gordon J. Lousteau ’47 Terrence A. Riedl ’71 † Thomas E. Motto, Jr. ’61

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Andrew L. ’76 & David J. Christopher M. Hannan ’00 B. Michael Babin ’91 Ory J. Mire III ’84 Lukinovich ’77 Sean R. Hannan ’12 Joshua D. Barbara ’02 Jason C. ’96 & Christian L. † Adam A. Muhleisen, Jr. ’37 Bryan F. Hansen ’96 Matthew J. Barbier ’03 Montegut ’00 Beauregard J., Jr. ’59 & Clifford W. Travis M. Hedgpeth ’02 Matthew B. ’01 & Nicholas R. Jay M. Napolitano, Jr. ’11 Parent ’63 Nathan A. Henderson ’09 Bernard ’05 Stephen M. Noya ’11 † Louis A. Pilié ’41 Gian-Carlo Hernandez-San Bryan J., Jr. ’99, Stephen M. ’01, Michael J. Palestina ’01 † Kent, Jr. ’48, † George R. ’52, & Martin ’14 Nicholas T. ’03, & Matthew B. Henry J. Pittman ’12 † Robert J. Satterlee ’56 Matthew D. Hetzler ’95 Bertucci ’05 Geoffrey C. Pizzaloto ’98 Philip J. Schoen IV ’66 Kyle J. ’12 & Ross J. Hymel ’14 W. Eugene ’84 & Michael D. Jamaal A. Porche ’00 James L. Trinchard ’74 Emanuel J. Jackson ’88 Billingsley ’97 Bradley J. ’13 & Christopher C. † Frank J. Tripoli ’47 Jason A. Joffre ’99 Samuel K. Birdsong ’97 Powers ’13 Lawrence R. Zummo ’59 Jeremy W. ’99, Adam P. ’01, Ian E. Blanchard ’03 Robert J. ’94 & Donald E. Son of… David E. ’03, & Jacob A. Kevin M. ’00, Michael F. ’02, Quintana ’01 Jeanfreau ’11 Eric D. ’05, & Joel T. Block ’06 Matthew J. ’04 & Christian M. † Lloyd F. Azcona ’25 Adam G. ’08 & Brian M. Ronald G. Bourgeois, Jr. ’97 Rabito ’06 † Etienne D. Cambon, Jr. ’42 Kampen ’10 Lance J. ’94 & Brian J. Branch ’98 James W. Rehkopf ’04 † L. Sidney Charbonnet, Jr. ’25 John J. Kelley ’98 Dustin J. Broussard ’06 Michael J. Ripple ’04 † Alfred Dyer, Sr. ’28 Timothy W. Lafranca, Jr. ’15 Stephen A. Browning ’15 Richard A. Rodrigue ’00 Gilmer W. Engelhardt III ’82 Philip J. ’10 & Andrew M. John-David ’96, Gregory J. ’98, & James E. ’00, Kevin P. ’03, & Daniel J. Falk ’72 Landry ’12 Robert P. Bruce ’05 Joseph C. Rolf ’08 Leon A. Flettrich, Jr. ’52 Michael D. ’07, Bradley D. ’08, & Grant G. Butler ’15 Louis M. Schaff II ’99 † Maxime E. Gourgeot ’27 Joshua C. Latham ’13 Andre G. Chaumont ’14 Brett H. Schibler ’96 † Joseph W. Hecker, Jr. ’37 Cole E. Lauman ’15 Jefferson F. III ’00 & Julien N. Stephen H. ’81 & Christopher S. † Carol J. Hooper ’38 Stephen C. Lazar ’14 Chouest ’02 Schonberg ’84 † Leonard J. McCaffery ’38 Christopher W. ’05 & Stephen M. ’07 & Colin C. Daniel J. Shanks ’03 † Allan N. Peirce III ’39 Stephen G. Legrand ’07 Chouest ’11 Nicholas P. ’97, Clint M. ’00, & † Clement F. Perschall, Sr. ’27 Alexander G. Lopez ’13 Sean W. ’07 & Ian M. Christie ’09 Shane A. Simoneaux ’05 Joseph M. Pilié, Jr. ’66 (stepson) Thierry A. Marceaux ’16 Cameron J. Coker ’15 Charles G. Smith III ’15 Donald P. Schellhaas ’51 Robert M. Marino ’92 Ryan M. Crespino ’86 Geoffrey W. ’92 & Griffin B. Richard B. Spangenberg ’43 Ryan D. ’99, Jeffrey D. ’01, & Gray V. Cressy ’16 Smith ’04 † Thomas J. Tiblier, Sr. ’41 Steven A. Martiny ’04 Douglas V. Cunningham ’86 Peter J. Spera III ’98 Daughter of… Kyle J. ’08, Michael T., Jr. ’11, & Glenn R. Dedeaux III ’95 Gary C. ’95 & Lawrence W. Herbert F. de Buys ’25 Trey N. Moffatt ’12 Ian S. Doskey ’17 Stoulig ’06 Kyle F. Graffagnini ’91 Benjamin C. III ’02, Matthew T. ’04, John W. ’99 & Patrick R. Doyle ’01 Matthew J. Stuckey ’15 John G. Schoen, Jr. ’63 Daniel M. ’09, Andrew P. ’10, & Paul J. Dufour ’98 Steven M. Terrio ’93 † Philip J. Schoen III ’36 Jordan J. Moise ’10 Andrew P. Dupont ’00 Matthew J. Thomas ’09 Grandfather of… James T. Molinario III ’01 John W. ’07, Robert F. ’09, & Madison J. ’13 & Sean Z. Henry T. Moreau ’16 William L. Emmett ’13 Tillery ’13 David E. Amrock ’05 Ryan K. Nagim ’97 Robert W. Etreves, Jr. ’90 Matthew L. Troescher ’99 Cameron D. Armand ’16 † Joseph E. Pedelahore IV ’98 Robb B. Farmer ’92 Joseph C. Trosclair ’09 Austin M. Ashburn ’16 Christopher M. Pettus ’11 Charles G. Favret, Jr. ’84 Gregory J. Troyer ’91 Michael O. Babin, Jr. ’85 Ryan T. ’10 & Robert M. Power ’10 Patrick J. Fenerty ’09 LT. Thomas N. Veade ’04 Michael H. Bagot III ’07 Stephen R. Rebert ’00 Brady P. Gallwey ’01 Nelson D. Voelker III ’02 G. Wogan Bernard ’99 Scott T. Riedl ’01 Mitchell A. Gibbs ’98 Frank P. Von Hoven III ’99 David J. Bindewald, Jr. ’89 John S. ’00 & Nicholas A. Rives ’03 James B. ’99 & Ryan P. Griffin ’02 Connor A. Bodin ’15 Grandson of… Scott C. Roos ’91 Louis G. III ’87, Cory P. ’88, & Jonathan C. Boraski II ’08 † Raymond J. Calecas ’46 Daniel C. Sagona ’15 David W. Gruntz ’01 Andrew M. Bragagnini ’09 † Joseph O. Kuebel, Jr. ’42 Chad M. Schmaltz ’08 Blake J. ’08 & Richard F. Guidry ’12 Mac G. Bulloch IV ’11 Garrick J. ’91, Michael F., Jr. ’06, Gavin J. Harrington ’11 Granddaughter of… Matthew J. Bush ’01 Jeffrey M. ’07, & Austin J. Joseph D. Hart ’10 J. Garic Schoen ’38 Jeremy H. Call ’05 Schott ’15 Albert C. Heavener ’98 Ryan N. ’04 & Daniel J. Great Benedict J. ’09 & Robert G. Jacques P. Hebert ’03 Casanova ’07 Grandfather of… Semmes ’10 Blake M. ’04 & Colin A. Hosli ’07 Tyler S. Champion ’10 Gerald J. ’11 & Jack M. Ferro ’13 Jared T. Strecker ’01 Jeremy L. Hotard ’02 Chase C. Charbonnet ’02 Jude N. Foret, Jr. ’10 Zachary A. Swan ’09 Greg L. Johnson ’88 Nicholas A. Charles ’14 Samuel B. White ’15 Russell E. Trahan III ’06 John J. Kelley ’98 Jared B. Civello ’10 Steven A. ’92 & Brian A. Richard J. Kernion III ’15 Great Dominick M. Conforte ’15 Trapani ’95 Brian S. Knowles ’09 Grandmother of… Collin P. Constantin ’03 Christian D. Trapp ’09 John N. Kramer ’09 Christopher M. ’10 & Brandon D. Richard S. Dempsey ’09 James N. Vitale ’06 E. Grant Laizer ’16 Barnett ’13 Kevin P. Donelon ’95 Austin T. ’12 & Christian A. Sean A. Lajaunie ’06 William H. Breaux ’16 Justin P. Duvieilh ’08 Vollman ’15 Adam M. Laurie ’08 Gareth P. Clouatre ’15 Vincent Falcone III ’00 Elbert J. Weinberger ’03 Robert J. Laviolette IV ’02 Keith A. Collins ’14 † David L. Faust, Jr. ’99 Ezekiel J. Wetzel ’93 Nicholas J. Lefante ’03 Connor P. Gruntz ’14 Stephen M. ’08, John G. ’11, & Douglas B. White ’89 Cooper M. ’14 & Spencer G. Hubert R. Hancock IV ’08 Kyle P. Finney ’11 Eric C. ’07 & Kevin P. Lemoine ’16 Aaron M.H. Ranson ’05 Chet A. Fischer ’98 Whittaker ’11 Brandon S. Long ’95 Tyler J. ’12 & Alex M. Rooney ’14 Greg L. Foster, Jr. ’99 Graham H. Williams ’08 Ryan A. Malbrough ’98 Preston T. Serio ’16 Christopher M. ’91 & Douglass F. Wynne, Jr. ’01 Ryan D. ’99, Jeffrey D. ’01, & Justin M. Vlosich ’16 Charles R. Frater ’97 Steven A. Martiny ’04 Allen J. IV ’13, Bradley M. ’15, Grandmother of… Dylan M. McCaffery ’11 & Ryan P. Gaudet ’16 Blain C. ’93 & Gregory S. Information and corrections should be David B. Melius, Jr. ’97 Matthew J. Granier ’17 Arthurs ’96 directed to Bro. William J. Dardis, S.J. ’58: Chad G. Minor ’99 Maxwell D. Gruenig ’06 Daniel B. Ayrod ’91 (504) 483-3814; [email protected].

Spring/Summer 2012 39 B I B L I S T

LtCol. and Mrs. Clyde D. DeLoach ’67 on Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Kowalski ’95 on Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Laborde III ’98 the birth of their grandson, Robert Andrew the birth of their son, Rafeal Stoffa Kowalski, on the birth of their first daughter, Lucia Wells, May 2, 2012. September 17, 2011. Rafeal is the nephew of Michelle Laborde, July 28, 2011. She is the Dr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Glowacki ’69 on Chris Kowalski ’91. niece of Jake Laborde ’02. the birth of their first grandchild, Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Juhas, Jr. ’96 on Mr. and Mrs. Ryan J. Morehead ’98 on the Nicholas Glowacki, July 17, 2011. the birth of their son, Kai Vincent Juhas, birth of their son, William James Morehead, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Brodtmann ’77 on May 24, 2012. Kai is the great-grandson of September 17, 2011. William is the grandson the birth of their granddaughter, Angelina the late Louis J. Brown, Jr. ’42. He is the of James D. Morehead ’71. Rose Gautier, May 7, 2012. Angelina is the nephew of Jeffrey Juhas ’00 and Timothy Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey D. Peuler ’98on the niece of Anthony Engolia ’78 and Lance Juhas ’04. (Kai is also the grandson of Mrs. birth of their daughter, Ava Marielle Peuler, Engolia ’83. Kathy Juhas, who serves as Jesuit’s academic March 7, 2012. Ava is the granddaughter of assistant principal.) Mr. and Mrs. Jude H. Trahant ’80 on the late James R. Daboval ’46. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Moisant IV ’96 the birth of their daughter, Julia Elise Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Ritter, Jr. ’98 on Trahant, May 28, 2012. Julia is the great- on the birth of their son, Graeme Sinclair the birth of their first daughter, Mia Rose granddaughter of the late Amedee Richard Moisant, September 19, 2011. Graeme is the Ritter, August 23, 2011. She is the niece of ’36. She is the grand niece of Michael grandson of George A. Moisant III ’66. Justin Ritter ’02. Geerken ’67 and Steve LeBlanc ’67. She is Mr. and Mrs. Johann Palacios ’96 on the Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Balch, Jr. ’99 the niece of Kevin Trahant ’82 and Richard birth of their son, Noam Joseph Palacios, on the birth of their first child, a daughter, Trahant ’85. She is the sister of Christopher March 20, 2012. (Noam is also the grandson Landry-Lynn Elizabeth Balch, April 3, 2012. Trahant ’09. of Jesuit Spanish teacher Mrs. Merle Mr. and Mrs. G. Wogan Bernard ’99 on the Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Adams ’86 Palacios.) on the birth of their second son, Konrad Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Billingsley ’97 birth of their daughter, Ava Presley Adams, Bernard, February 15, 2012. November 16, 2010. Ava is the niece of on the birth of their son, Brycen Billingsley, George Adams ’92. December 14, 2010. Brycen is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Hefler ’99on the birth of their daughter, Claire Brenchley Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Konrad ’87 Gene Billingsley, Jr. ’84. on Hefler, December 14, 2011. Claire is the Mr. and Mrs. Ridge E. Bourgeois ’97 the birth of their twin sons, James Francis on niece of McCall Baldwin III ’97, Will Konrad and Henry Jacob Konrad, February the birth of their third son, Hudson Smith Baldwin ’01, and Chris Baldwin ’07. 20, 2012. They are the nephews of Shawn Bourgeois, June 8, 2011. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle B. Kloor ’99 on the Konrad ’92, Blake Babcock ’00, John Mr. and Mrs. C. Walker Brierre II ’97 on Becknell ’05, and Ian Konrad ’12. birth of their son, Beau Berrigan Kloor, the birth of their son, Creed Walker Brierre January 28, 2011. Beau is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. André Jeanfreau ’89 on the III, May 20, 2012. Creed is the grandson Brad Kloor ’03. birth of their twin daughters, Samantha of Creed W. Brierre, Jr. ’64. He is the grand Ashley Jeanfreau and Molly Grace Jeanfreau, nephew of William Brierre, Jr. ’64 and the Mr. and Mrs. Nick S. Lama ’99 on the birth August 28, 2011. They are the nieces of nephew of Christian Brierre ’01. of their daughter, Sofia Ann Lama, April 19, 2012. Sofia is the niece of Anthony Lama III Charles Jeanfreau, Jr. ’87 and Mark Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholas Jurisich ’97 ’97. Jeanfreau ’93. on the birth of their first child, Olivia Reese Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Hayes ’90 on the Jurisich, June 19, 2012. Olivia is the niece of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Grishman ’01 on birth of their second daughter, Christina Malcolm Jurisich ’91. the birth of their first child, Andrew Patrick Grishman, March 9, 2012. Andrew is the Murphy Hayes, May 19, 2012. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Psilos ’97 great-grandson of Alfred E. LaPointe ’45, the Mr. and Mrs. Salvadore Christina, Jr. ’91 on the birth of their twin sons, Andrew grand nephew of Mark J. LaPointe ’73, and on the birth of their twin daughters, Luca Christopher Psilos and Michael Christopher the nephew of Michael C. Grishman ’04. Giovianni Christina and Vandeveer Eleanor Psilos, March 8, 2011. Andrew and Michael Christina, November 18, 2011. They are the are the nephews of Matthew Psilos ’00. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Fick ’02on the birth of their son, John Everett Fick, nieces of Murphy Christina ’89 and Carlo Mr. and Mrs. Flynn K. Smith ’97 on the Christina ’99. February 17, 2012. Everett is the nephew of birth of their son, Barron Flynn Smith, June Brandon Fick ’99, Walt Leger ’96, and Rhett Mr. and Mrs. James Wesley Harris ’91 21, 2011. Barron is the great-grandson of the Leger ’99. on the birth of their daughter, Tallulah late Alvin Kempff ’34 and the great-grand Falgoust Harris, October 30, 2011. Tallulah nephew of the late Otto Kempff ’33 and Mr. and Mrs. Brad Borne ’03, on the birth is the great-great-granddaughter of the late the late Warren Kempf ’35. He is the grand of their son, Joseph Henry “Seth” Borne, in William Harris (Class of 1898), the great- nephew of the late Harvey Nicaud, Sr. ’56 October 2011. granddaughter of the late Louis Bernard ’19 and George Smith, Jr. ’55. He is the nephew Mr. and Mrs. Shane Simoneaux ’05 on the and the late William Harris ’32, and the of Gavin Smith ’92. birth of their son, Maddox M. Simoneaux, granddaughter of William Harris III ’61. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Spring ’97 on March 24, 2011. Maddox is the nephew of She is the niece of William Harris IV ’86, the birth of their son, Jake Armand Spring, Nicholas Simoneaux ’97. Michael Harris ’92, Peter Harris ’94, and January 3, 2012. Christopher Harris ’98. Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Coulon ’98 on Send Biblist info to: Krista Roeling the birth of their first son, Payton Thomas ([email protected]) and she will Coulon, May 13, 2012. send you a blue or pink Blue Jay bib!

40 JAYNotes THE TEACHER TESTIMONIAL ALUMNI Remembering Mr. Lademan Let the Punishment Fit the Crime by Stanley McDermott, Jr. ’46

n 1942, as a “Mr. Brown, I will see nervous 13-year- you at 3:00 o’clock.” oldI newly enrolled at These were buzz words Jesuit, I was assigned to any Jesuit student and McDermott to Class 1G, along we could barely keep our our teacher left the classroom and walked with about 25 minds on our assignments for the next two right between us gawkers and down the hall classmates. As we sat hours. towards the rectory. He carried that oleander there not knowing At long last, the 3:00 bell rang. The rest branch with him and none of us that day what to expect, our of us left the classroom, leaving only Joe ever saw it again. home room teacher and Mr. Lademan. We gathered in the hall I would like to report an epiphany came into the outside the classroom to hear or see what lay McDermott in his awakened me to the full import of what I class. He was tall, in store for Joe. senior year photo. had just witnessed that stifling hot day back about six feet, three Mr. Lademan stood up from behind his in 1943, but I was too young and immature. inches, with wavy, desk and strode over to the door leading Throughout my adult years, though, chestnut hair, 24 or 25 years old, trim, and to the hallway. Ignoring the audience, he whenever I hear the maxim, “Let the moved with an athletic grace. His name reached behind the door for an oleander punishment fit the crime,” I think of Mr. was Mr. William D. Lademan, S.J., a Jesuit branch that had been stripped of its leaves. Lademan, and give him an appreciative scholastic, working toward his ordination as He handed the branch to Joe, and thumbs-up. a Jesuit priest. He had an air of confidence simply said, “Get them down.” About one month after this incident, about him and he tried to instill this trait The branch was not quite long enough Mr. Lademan resigned from the Society of in us. and this forced Joe to stand on the seat Jesus (the Jesuits) and enlisted in the U.S. We had heard that he had been a high of his desk. His hands firmly gripped the Navy immediately after learning that his school basketball star in Milwaukee and he thick end of the branch and his arms were brother had been killed in action.  showed us that this was true. Occasionally, extended fully upward. The flexible, whippy he would tuck the hem of his cassock under end of that oleander branch barely brushed Stanley McDermott, Jr. graduated from Jesuit his belt and join us in pickup basketball the spitball-peppered ceiling. High School in 1946. He is an attorney and games during the lunch recess. He taught us Given his only cleaning tool, Joe went partner in the New Orleans-based law firm of the nuances of the game – not to telegraph at it, either encouraged or embarrassed by Montgomery Barnett, L.L.P. McDermott is the a pass, how to screen, and how to block out the occasional cat call coming from the hall. father of two Blue Jays — Stanley III ’71 and under the basket. Whenever he succeeded in detaching one of Kevin ’73. And he was an excellent teacher. It is no his spitballs, someone would shout, “Way to exaggeration to say we were in awe of Mr. go, Joe!” Editor’s Note: Mr. William Duero Lademan Lademan. To us just-become-teenagers, he After about 30 minutes in that hot, was born April 11, 1918 in Milwaukee, WI. In 1937, he graduated from St. John’s Cathedral was hero and icon wrapped up in one. pre-air-conditioned room, Joe succeeded High School and joined the Society of Jesus. He A few weeks before that freshman year in dislodging every single spitball which was a scholastic when assigned to teach religion, ended, “Joe Brown” (the name has been he had propelled to the ceiling. Exhausted, English, Latin, and history at Jesuit High School changed to protect the guilty), whose desk he slumped over with his head down on to McDermott and his freshman classmates. was next to mine, discovered that he could his desk. His hair was wet and sticky. His Mr. Lademan was at Jesuit for only one year. chew paper to just the right consistency to uniform shirt was soaked as if he had The Blue Jay newspaper of September 21, 1943 form a spitball. When Mr. Lademan’s back showered in it. He was still holding the reported that Mr. Lademan had enrolled in was to the class, Joe flipped the spitball up oleander branch upright in his right hand, Spring Hill College to complete his studies in to the ceiling where there it would stick like the thick end touching the floor, appearing philosophy and would not be returning to Jesuit. a forbidden piece of Wrigley’s gum under a very much like an elderly bishop supporting The “rumor” that McDermott and other desk. himself by leaning on his crozier. freshmen had heard proved true. Mr. Lademan Joe launched several spitballs that day All the while that Joe had been did, in fact, resign from the Society to join the and the rest of us were puzzled that our “sweeping” the ceiling, Mr. Lademan sat Navy after learning that his brother Jerome, a heretofore savvy teacher did not even quietly at his desk, pre-occupied with tests signalman 3 in the Navy, had been killed in the war. After the war, Mr. Lademan completed his notice. For about a week, Joe, emboldened and papers. He scarcely glanced at Joe but studies at Fordham University, where he met his by his perceived lack of detection, added somehow knew that the ceiling had been future wife. They both became college professors about a dozen more spitballs to his ceiling restored to its pre-spitball look. Gathering (he stuck to philosophy) and they taught at collection. Still Mr. Lademan gave no his papers and textbooks, Mr. Lademan several universities in Hawaii and Connecticut, indication he had observed him. walked over to Joe’s desk and took the and even at a Ukrainian seminary. Finally, on a warm Friday, Mr. Lademan branch out of his hand. The couple had five children. Mr. Lademan died entered the class after the lunch break, went “Have a good weekend, Mr. Brown,” from Alzheimer’s on November 22, 1995 in to his desk, looked directly at Joe, and said, said Mr. Lademan. Without another word, Annapolis, Maryland. He was 77.

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Chris Hannan’s Parallel Universes of Law and Poetry

Chris Hannan ’00 was the grand prize winner of the second annual poetry contest sponsored by the Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival. His winning poem, The Nephilim, chronicled his return to his grandmother Zelda’s flooded home in Chalmette following Katrina. It was judged by Louisiana’s poet Chris Hannan and his laureate Julie Kane to be the best among all the entries. When Hannan is not writing and publishing poetry, he has a day job as a grandmother Zelda maritime attorney in the New Orleans office of Baker, Donelson. After he graduated from Jesuit in 2000, Hannan received a bachelor of arts in the Classics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his juris doctorate in 2008 from Loyola University College of Law. “That classics background shows up in his gorgeous poetry, with its rich mythic overlay and concern for form,” wrote former Times-Picayune book critic Susan Larson, who interviewed him for the Tennessee Williams Festival’s web site. In the interview, Hannan talked about his background and the experience of winning the 2012 poetry competition, pocketing a $1,000 award in the process. Hannan, his wife Emily, and their son Jack William (and two cats) live in Mid- City, not too far from Carrollton and Banks, where he first discovered a taste for the classics and poetry.

What does your New Orleans background contribute to dice playing may not on the surface seem to have anything to do your life as a poet? with Achilles in the Iliad, the underlying motifs and meaning of The fact that I am from New Orleans does not just contribute to their stories are connected. my life as a poet — it is the very bones, blood, and breath of my The Nephilim, the poem cycle that was the winner, has a life as a poet. I come from a family that has been in New Orleans special place in your work and family history, doesn’t it? for generations. My family has stood on the same corner for Mardi The Nephilim poems are probably the most important poems I Gras since before my dad was born. All my aunts, uncles, cousins, have ever written, in my mind. They tell the story of returning to second cousins, fake aunts, and uncles — they all still live here. As my grandmother’s flooded house in Chalmette after Katrina, and a result, my life has always been deeply, fundamentally tied to this trying to find her wedding ring in ruins. I didn’t write the cycle area, its environments, and its culture. Along the same lines, family until 2010 — five years after the storm — because it took me that and traditions are as much a part of the landscape of New Orleans long to figure out what the experience had meant to me and to my and southeast Louisiana as bayous and marshes — whether it’s family. I knew when we were shoveling mud in the 100 degree heat fishing spots handed down from father to son, recipes from mothers and the unearthly silence of the flooded house that something very and grandmothers, or Saints games on Sunday. In many ways, important and deeply human was happening. It just took me several family and place are inextricably bound in my work. years to figure out what it was and how to say it. You draw from our musical heritage in your work, don’t The Nephilim poems were my attempt to recreate and distill you? what we felt on that day. These poems were meant as a tribute to I was blessed to have parents who exposed me early and often to and a relic for my family — and particularly my grandmother — New Orleans music. I grew up on Professor Longhair, the Nevilles, of that profound experience. As a result, I was overwhelmingly Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas. Anyone from here can fill in the rest of humbled when they were selected as the grand prize winner in the the list. A part of this musical culture that always intrigued me, even Tennessee Williams Festival poetry contest. as a child, was the immense mythology of Louisiana music, peopled Would you tell us a bit about the reading at the Festival? by characters such as John Henry, Stag O’Lee, and countless others. You had a very special audience member! I went to college in Massachusetts, majored in classics, and started The reading was a fantastic experience, and I did have a very special seriously focusing on my poetry. Somewhere along the way, I guest — namely, my grandmother, who is in some sense the central realized that all the mythic personalities in the music I grew up with character in the poems, and to whom the poems are dedicated. were the mythology of America, or at least the Deep South. With Given that The Nephilim was really meant as a sort of gift to her and that, I embarked on an ongoing series of poems that connect the my family, the fact that she was able to hear them read at the festival mythic characters of Louisiana’s musical heritage with the myths of was wonderful. ancient Greece, using the meters and rhyme schemes of the songs themselves to reinterpret both the stories of the characters in the You write very intricate, formal poems that are still lovely songs and the ancient myths that, in my mind, are echoed in their and accessible, a wonderful combination of qualities. Who’s lyrics. My intent with these poems is to evoke the idea that while influenced you? What teachers? the characters may have different names, and while Stag O’ Lee’s I think that for a very long time — and arguably with good reason 42 JAYNotes ALUMNI

The Nephilim, a suite of five poems that won the grand prize in the 2012 poetry contest sponsored by the Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans — readers in general have come to view poetry as some arcane Literary Festival. The Nephilim is an intensely personal and deeply and totally abstract form that only a select few can understand moving poem about returning to a Katrina-devastated Chalmette where his grandmother’s home was swallowed in the stark devastation of the — a sort of literary philosopher’s stone. This goes against flood. everything I believe about poetry. At one time (think Homer, Gilgamesh, Beowulf, etc.) poetry “Nekuia”, which is a word found in Homer’s Odyssey Book XI that was the most popular, most accessible, and most democratic art describes a rite used to summon and question ghosts, is the fourth form known to man — all you needed was a mouth to compose poem in the suite. In “Nekuia”, Hannan and his family are on a ghostly mission, desperately trying to salvage a single sentimental item from the it and ears to listen. Somehow, this aspect of poetry has been ruins. lost to a large extent in modern poetry, and most people on the street would tell you that poetry is for the most part like a From The Nephilim foreign language to them. In my own poetry I strive first and My Grandmother’s Flooded House in Chalmette foremost to make sure that everything I write is accessible — For Zelda that is, I try to make sure that anyone who comes to one of my Nekuia poems can read it once and say “this is what this poem is about.” Before we can return home, we must spend time probing the dead At the same time, I also strive to write poems that are minnows decomposing in the bedroom, shards of windows layered and dense, so that a second or third reading may stir up staring like lifeless eyes from the dimness, and the inescapable mud meanings, images, or themes that may not have been apparent that sticks thick as old blood to everything in the house, searching in a casual first reading. But ultimately, if there were one for the wedding ring my grandmother left behind in the flood. adjective that I would hope could be applied to my poems, it Below the oak-root bend of arthritic knuckles, she still bears would be accessibility — because without accessibility, the act of the mark, rubbed smooth as a river bed, of wearing for fifty years writing is nothing more than a shout echoing in an empty cave. this symbol of the man she loved, God, her family, and her home, I have been influenced profoundly by my friend, fellow poet, now lost amid the remnants of rushing water and displaced earth. and poetic mentor John Freeman, who has fostered my writing It is the only thing she hopes to take away from this place. for the better part of 10 years now. Likewise, professor Stephen From the door of the bedroom where her jewelry box disintegrated Pearce, my high school Latin and Greek teacher, instilled in in the rushing salt surge, we dig trenches one foot wide and deep, me a love for the classics, which resonates to this day in nearly carrying the shovelfuls of spoil — mixed with bits and pieces of her everything I write. clothes, earrings, shoes, and bed sheets — out to the front lawn. with no running water, we sieve it all through a window screen, Which poets do you read for pleasure? pouring Diet Coke from the trunk of her flooded car into the mud I have a copy of Robert Penn Warren’s selected poems on my like a drink-offering of honey, milk, wine, and blood to the ghosts nightstand. He is, in my opinion, the exemplar in modern that slowly reveal themselves, as the dirt washes away, in flashes poetry for depth of vision combined with accessibility... of silver and gold, speaking to us of past lives and the memories I make it a point to read Louisiana poets as well as poetry by welling in her eyes with every necklace and earring we unearth. other young writers. Currently, I am enjoying former Louisiana We grasp at these apparitions before they slip through our hands poet laureate Darrel Bourque’s selected poems (In Ordinary and sink back into the blackness pooling like a Lethe below Light) as well as the fantastic Louisiana volume of the Southern the screen, where the Coke and sludge smell of asphodel. Poetry Anthology — a must have for anyone in Louisiana who As the light fades, we begin to lose hope of finding this one thing is serious about reading poetry. Finally, I have been reading and she seeks in the destruction, that will bring her back to her life re-reading three collections of poems by an astoundingly good before the flood. But then, the smiling curve of a plain gold ring poet — and good friend — William Wright, whose most recent swims up through the fetid bilge, reflecting the house and the faces book Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature Press) is starkly of you, your father, and your cousins standing over the screen. beautiful. And as she slides it onto her hand, her eyes shine with thanks How do you combine poetry with your day job? Most and the streams of a different flood of salt no levees can contain. lawyers are trying to be the next John Grisham! This may sound odd, but in many ways I view legal writing and poetry to be very similar — in practice if not substance. When I write poems, I try to make sure that I am very clearly portraying my images and themes with language that is tight and syntactically interesting. When I am writing legal briefs, I strive for the same goals — clarity, tight language, and a flow that keeps the reader reading and (hopefully) understanding my arguments. There is a very long and rich poetic tradition of lawyer poets (Wallace Stevens is the one most people recognize), which bears out the idea that poetry and the law are not necessarily strange bedfellows. I wouldn’t complain if my poems wound up on the bestseller shelf alongside the next John Grisham novel. 

Spring/Summer 2012 43 AFISHING R T I C L E RODEO N A M E

Rusty Gros, an incoming Blue Jay pre-freshman displays his trophies From left: Michael Veters ’12, Chris Veters ’07, Chris Trahant for winning in the under-18 ’09, Jude Trahant ’80, and Ryan Veters ’09. division.

Bobby Weiss ’62

Clockwise from far right: Michael Heier ’05 and his father Steve; Mikey Elvir ’17 and his father Mike ’82; and, Brandon Ford ’06.

Blue Jays Hook a New Location for 20th Anniversary Fishing Rodeo More than 150 Blue Jays and their friends attended the 20th Anniversary of the Fishing Rodeo on Saturday (June 23). For the first time (and certainly not the last), the weigh-in location was held under the Wally Pontiff, Jr. Pavilion at John Ryan Stadium. Despite the 12-foot waves offshore that thwarted the plans of gallant Gulf fishers, Blue Jays arrived at the weigh-in boasting impressive catches. Brother Billy Dardis, S.J. ’58 and rodeo chairman (View the photo gallery of the rodeo in the 2011-12 Alumni Archives on Jesuit’s web site.) Mike McMahon ’85 44 JAYNotes JESUIT TODAY

Jesuit Alumni Return for Career Day

Career Day on January 25, 2012 featured 40 Jesuit alumni who While juniors and seniors attended two 30-minute sessions of their met with seniors and juniors to discuss the intricacies of 27 different choice, underclassmen assembled in the auditorium to hear occupations, including aviation, business, computers, education, Dr. Ryan Thibodaux ’92 recount how his Jesuit experience led to engineering, finance, health, journalism, law, politics, sports a dual career in dentistry and music. When Thibodaux finishes the administration, and tourism. daily grind of his dental office, he often totes his trumpet to a stage Career Day was moved up from its typical April date “primarily to to join band mates in the Bucktown All-Stars. His other passions are give upperclassmen additional time to use what they learn when long-distance running and bicycling. considering colleges,” said alumni director Mat Grau ’68, who works with Mollie Roberts, Jesuit’s Director of Guidance, to host View the Career Day Photo Gallery in the 2011-12 archives on Jesuit’s this annual popular event. alumni home page: www.jesuitnola.org/alumni.

Counseling for College A Salute to Mrs. Denise Dupuis The Class of Each year the Jesuit 2012 huddled Marine Corps JROTC selects a faculty member in the Student to honor for outstanding Commons on service to the school and its the morning of students. For the 2011-12 April 10, 2012 year, the Marine Corps paid to listen to tribute to Mrs. Denise Dupuis practical and , an English teacher who completed 32 years wise advice of service at Jesuit. In the about college process she has guided and money. more than 3,000 Blue Jays Michael through the intricacies of Firmin (center) and Stephen Capella, who graduated the English language. And she’s not done yet! A proclamation that was read at the ceremony praised Mrs. with the Class of 2011 and attend LSU, enlightened Dupuis as a thorough and creative teacher, constantly striving to Blue Jays about the many twists in transitioning from develop innovative and effective lessons that engage her students in high school to college. Financial adviser Mason the subject matter while encouraging original thinking. Couvillon ’92 (left), who is president of Dardis “Mrs. Dupuis’ patient and sensitive approach to her students Couvillon & Associates, spoke to the seniors about infuses her teaching with respect and kindness for all, even as she money matters. The morning event also included an challenges them to excel,” the MCJROTC proclamation noted. “She is loving and nurturing not only to her students but also to her overview of Jesuit’s Career Shadowing Program, which fellow faculty members. Mrs. Dupuis truly embodies the Ignation is directed by guidance counselor Aurora Daigle. ideals of the magis and cura personalis and serves as an outstanding example of selfless service.” Spring/Summer 2012 45 AMEDALLION R T I C L E N A MSTORIES E ALUMNI

obert Bellarmine would have intellect, Bellarmine’s apologetics were driven by a appreciated the scene: crammed into deep faith persistently practiced, as evident in his the richly appointed conference room spiritual writings and reputation for piety. In short, of a Washington, D.C. thinktank, a Bellarmine is a model of the prayerful, learned Rsmall army of Jesuit High students fought eyelids, defender of the faith who is needed to take up arms heavy from a long, cold day of marching across town in the war of at the 2005 March for Life. George Weigel, a leading ideas that Catholic intellectual and friend of Jesuit High School, challenge the stood at a podium, delivering a survey of recent foundation events at the intersection of religion and politics. of western

Robert Bellarmine’s outspoken defense of the civilization Church in the wake of the Protestant Reformation today. Or more embroiled him in controversy but eventually led simply, he is to his election as a cardinal and ultimately to his the model of a canonization as a saint. Although known for his Jesuit graduate.

Robert Bellarmine, S.J. (1542-1622) by Brandon Briscoe ’98

The Life of Robert Bellarmine University of Louvain in Belgium — on the Bellarmine was born in 1542 in front lines of the Reformation. Montepulciano, about 100 miles north The 26-year-old’s talents were quickly of Rome. Just eight years earlier, St. appreciated in Belgium, too, where he was Ignatius and his companions took vows ordained a priest and developed a reputation in Paris, beginning the Society of Jesus as a powerful preacher who drew large that would shape much of Bellarmine’s congregations and won many converts. life. Educated by Jesuits in his youth, After just a year, he was appointed to a Bellarmine entered the Society just professorship and taught himself Hebrew shy of his 18th birthday and four years to better employ Sacred Scripture in his after St. Ignatius’s death. He studied engagement with Protestant theologians. philosophy in Rome, where his uncle, The years of confrontation took their toll on Pope Marcellus II, had recently served Bellarmine, who once anticipated imminent as Peter’s successor for 22 days before martyrdom at the hands of an advancing succumbing to illness in 1555. Protestant army. He was recalled in 1576 to Bellarmine studied and taught in the Roman college founded by St. Ignatius Florence and Padua, learning Greek (today’s Pontifical Gregorian University) to along the way. His abilities in academic restore his health and resume teaching as the skirmishes and his zeal in preaching Chair of Controversies. He used the time to drew the attention of his Jesuit superiors pen his most famous work, De Controversiis, who sent Bellarmine in 1569 to an index of Reformation heresies and a complete his theology studies at the treatise on the Church’s response to each.

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The work was enormously influential throughout Europe. In 1588 he became the spiritual father (and later rector) of the Roman college while assisting in the final edits of the new edition of the Vulgate commissioned by the Council of Trent. He administered last rites to the young (St.) Aloysius Gonzaga and later pressed his cause for beatification. Pope Clement VIII appointed him papal theologian and elevated him to the College of Cardinals in 1592 over Bellarmine’s strident objection. Cardinal Bellarmine oversaw the selection of new bishops and was a Consultor of the Holy Office, through which he played a minor role in the early stages of the Galileo affair by noting that the Church would accept heliocentrism if sound science could prove it. Bellarmine narrowly escaped the no less) argued against the Catholic sacraments, that teaches us how to live well papacy, participating in three conclaves and bishops’ attempts to interject faith into in this life and prepares us for eternity in the reportedly receiving votes. In his later years, the discussion of public policy by voicing next. he completed his service to the Church by fundamental truths about God and His As Bellarmine solemnly noted, penning several spiritual works, including creation of the human person. The speaker “[A]fter death, we shall have to give an The Art of Dying Well. He continued to live instead advised the audience to consider account to God of everything we did, an ascetical, simple life, with one biographer others’ opinions, but “in the end, to follow spoke, or thought of during our whole life... recounting — with a dash of humor — that [their] own moral compass,” as if each and that the devil being our accuser, our as a penance he eschewed fire, even in the individual were the final arbiter of right and conscience a witness, and God the Judge, a winter months, preferring to save it for wrong. sentence of happiness or misery everlasting heretics. He died in 1622 at age 79 and was Bellarmine knew better, condemning awaits us.” buried inside the Church of St. Ignatius “those who...teach that rulers should care for Guided by the Holy Spirit, may we Loyola (pictured). He was canonized in the State and the public peace, but should follow Bellarmine’s heroic example in 1930. allow everyone to think as he pleases and promoting eternal truths in our day and to live as he pleases, provided he does not living a life of prayer so that we may Bellarmine’s Relevance Today disturb the public peace.” ultimately join him in that everlasting We don’t employ the term heresy as often And we know better, too. We commit happiness with God.  as in Bellarmine’s day, although the same grave error in trying to order a world we did ideas Bellarmine refuted persist. Perhaps not create by a moral compass that points Brandon Briscoe this is because the first heresy of the modern toward our personal whims and wants. ’98 is an attorney at era is to deny any place for faith in public Authentic freedom and the actual common Flanagan Partners discourse. Those who in Bellarmine’s time LLP in New Orleans. good are found in eternal and frequently opposed the faith by attempting a coup He studied philosophy difficult truths, in the freedom to do as we from within now seek instead to establish and theology at Notre ought, not merely as we want. Dame Seminary and a new, purely secular order, banishing all And Bellarmine knew that these serves as a lector, mention of Christ, His Church, and the fundamental truths that any healthy acolyte, and tour natural law that governs creation. The old guide at St. Louis civilization must acknowledge can be heresies purported to support the faith; Cathedral. Each Good accessed only in part by reason and science. today’s “heresies” deny it altogether. Friday, Brandon leads a traditional New Ultimately, faith and the spiritual life must Orleans Nine Churches tour. On the very day of this writing, in fact, play their parts and cannot be written out of a prominent Catholic politician speaking to the analysis. It is our relationship with the public policy students (at a Jesuit University, Author of creation, through prayer and the

Spring/Summer 2012 47 AFACULTY R T I C L E NNEWS A M E

Jesuit Teachers Honored by Their Peers Four Jesuit High School teachers were honored by their peers with the school’s prestigious Profile of a Jesuit Teacher Award. The 2012 recipients are, from left, Jo Ann Schexnayder, who has taught math for six years at Jesuit; Patrick Benoit, a nine-year French teacher and chairman of Jesuit’s Modern teachers and are recognized for their outstanding accomplishments, Foreign Languages department; Mary Favalora, a guidance service, talents, commitment, and leadership, both in and outside counselor for 11 years and, for the past five years, director of the classroom. The honorees are announced at Jesuit’s faculty-staff Jesuit’s guidance office; and, James Michalik, who has served dinner reception held annually to celebrate the end of the school 16 years at Jesuit and is currently a theology teacher and director of year. Since the awards were created in 2008, a total of 20 Jesuit Operation Upgrade, a summer academic program Jesuit hosts for teachers have merited such distinction. The honorees each receive disadvantaged minority students. a handsome plaque, a $2,500 check, and well-deserved recognition The Profile Award recipients are nominated by their fellow amongst their peers.

May 2, 1950 — March 3, 2012 Bonnie DeLatte Longtime Jesuit High School Spanish Teacher

“We strive to make our students not just intellectually competent but also men of compassion, conscience, and faith. Our students truly become men for others. I would like to think that I have a small part in helping them become those things.” — Mrs. Bonnie DeLatte

rs. Bonnie DeLatte left her mark thousand students during her two decades hope by sharing my values and beliefs with my on more Blue Jays than she ever at Jesuit, where her uplifting and perpetual students I have given them the tools to succeed M dreamed of, as evidenced by smile graced hallways, classrooms, and in life. It is always very gratifying to me to the number of faculty, students, and staff of faculty meetings and retreats. In addition hear about a student’s success.” Jesuit High School who had gathered in the to her skills as an educator, Mrs. DeLatte At the time of her death, she was Chapel of the North American Martyrs to served as head of the Modern Foreign surrounded by her loving family — David, bid her a final fond farewell at a Mass that Languages Department for several years, and her husband of 38 years, and their two joyously celebrated her life, which ended was the moderator of the National Honor children, Brian ’96 and Laura. Her beautiful way too early at the age of 61. Society and the Spanish Honor Society. Her grandchildren — Taylor, Joshua, and A beloved Spanish teacher at Jesuit for reputation embraced professional integrity, Lucas — were “the lights of my eyes” and 20 years, Mrs. DeLatte peacefully passed academic excellence, and Christian charity. her sustenance for having waged such a away on March 3 following a courageous “I would like to be judged by the success ferocious and valiant fight to the end. battle with inflammatory breast cancer. of my students in their lives,” she once wrote Mrs. DeLatte taught well over a in her own personal teacher assessment. “I 48 JAYNotes FLYING WITH THE JAYS JESUITALUMNI TODAY

Blue Jay Lacrosse Team Wins 1st State Title

The 2012 Blue Jay Varsity defending state champions. “But we more than made up for it with Lacrosse Team added “Our final two matches of the season were commitment and team leadership,” said Abadin. a new entry in Jesuit’s unbelievably exciting,” said Michael Marquis ’12, who was honored as the “Instead of permanent captains selected for already voluminous athletic tournament’s MVP on offense. “To climb the entire season, the responsibilities were history book after the squad defeated out of a 5-1 hole against last year’s state shared among as many players as possible,” the Wolves of St. Paul’s (Covington), champions was pretty special. To eliminate said Mike Brantley, who completed six 7-5, to capture the school’s first State them from the tournament on their own years as Jesuit’s head lacrosse coach. “It Championship. field reflects our own team’s arrival.” might seem like a minor change, but the fresh approach of rotating captains actually The victory was made even sweeter because Zack Tassin ’13 — the MVP on gave the players a greater sense of team the lacrosse Jays almost did not make it defense — echoed his teammate. “We ownership.” to the April 28 championship match. The were exhausted after the match against U.S. Lacrosse, the sport’s national governing Blue Jays had to dig deep to stage a thrilling the Cougars,” said Tassin. “That win really body, honored Jesuit defender Antonio come-from-behind win in the semifinal pumped us up and our confidence levels Scelfo ’13 (above) as an All-American against St. Thomas More on the Cougars’ soared. I’m glad the adrenalin followed us and also recognized Brantley as the 2012 home field in Lafayette. It looked bleak for into the next day’s championship match.” Louisiana Lacrosse Coach of the Year. the Jays, who trailed the Cougars, 5-1. But Jorgé Abadin ’14, the Blue Jays’ winning Jesuit embarked on a wild spree of eight goalie in both matches, noted that the 2012 View the 2012 Blue Jay Lacrosse season on unanswered goals to snatch the semifinal lacrosse team was relatively young, with Jesuit’s web site: www.jesuitnola.org/extra/ win, 9-5, from the jaws of the Cougars, the seven seniors (now alumni) and 17 juniors. lacrosse.htm.

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In previous Jaynotes (Fall/Winter 2011-2012; Vol. 38, Number 1), Flying With the Jays Flying With the Jays recapped the seasons of the football, cross country, and swimming teams.

Baseball: The Longest Game of the Year) had this to say to Hotard held off Austin Compete of Byrd his players: “You were part of High (6-2, 6-4) in the championship The Varsity Baseball Team made a what could be one of the greatest match. “I play tournaments on the herculean effort to defend its 2011 State high school games ever played, road most weekends and have played Championship, but lost a tough game in certainly in the Catholic League. here before so being on the road did the semifinals of this year’s tournament to Nothing else as a player or a coach not bother me,” Hotard said. “I was Barbe, the eventual winner. Still, the Blue measures up to this game. It was struggling with the back a little. I am Jays (27-8) had an exciting and memorable phenomenal… and winning makes just excited to get the win and proud season, made even more special it that much sweeter. for my school and proud to represent with the opening of John Ryan “Looking back on this game years Jesuit.” Juniors James Sampognaro Stadium. At their new home, from now, you will be able to tell and Trevor Lew defeated a team the Jays won 12 games and your children and grandchildren from Brother Martin to lost only one. that in the inaugural season at John emerge from the state Tens of thousands Ryan Stadium — hopefully some tourney as doubles of thrilling moments of your sons and grandsons will be champions. course through Jesuit’s playing on this very same field — hallowed athletic history. And we went toe-to-toe with Rummel when future Blue Jays glance Rugby: Thrice Is for 18 innings. Eighteen innings Nice back at 2012, they will certainly is amazing, absolutely amazing.” stumble upon the 18-inning Meanwhile, Jesuit-based Retif The Varsity Rugby Team went Jesuit-Rummel game that was Oil had a fantastic summer undefeated this season and played Friday, April 13 before playing American Legion Baseball. won its third consecutive a packed house at John Ryan Retif stayed undefeated in five games state championship when Stadium. Not many fans left the to win the Legion’s State Tournament in it defeated Archbishop Shaw four and a half hour game early. Lafayette in late July. Retif brought its 32-6 on April 21 at Pan American Two prep pitchers who rank among record to the Legion’s Mid-South Regional Stadium. The team compiled the best in the country occupied Tournament that opened August 9 in a sterling 12-0 season record. the mound for a total of 25 New Orleans. The Jays traveled to Atlanta innings. Jesuit’s Emerson (View Jesuit’s post-season accolades on to compete in the USA Rugby Gibbs (pictured), recipient the Baseball home page: www.jesuitnola. South High School Regional of a Tulane University baseball org/athletics/baseball.htm.) Championship and knocked off scholarship, pitched a full 15 the first two teams before losing innings, giving up one run on six hits and Tennis: High Five the championship match to striking out 13 Raiders before being relieved a North Carolina opponent, The Varsity Tennis Team won a fifth by junior Andrew Mitchell. Rummel’s 16-10. A 14-1 season and a consecutive State Championship, Mitch Seward, who will play for LSU, threw second place finish in the Southern Region its 17th title over the past 18 10 innings before he was relieved. The 1-1 still made for a successful and fun season. years. Junior Hobie Hotard, tie was broken in the bottom of the 18th despite a nagging back injury when Jays’ catcher Matt Robért doubled Bowling: A First and the team having to travel to left field. Junior Michael Cusimano, to Monroe to play, won Cory Ledet who was sent to second base as the courtesy Junior is Jesuit’s first state his third consecutive runner, scored the winning run when third champion in bowling. He brought individual state title, baseman Spencer Miller hit a big single. home the singles crown April 14 keeping alive those In the post-game meeting in right field, after bowling an average of 247 dreams of center head baseball coach Joey Latino (the in the three games of the final court at Wimbledon. Times-Picayune’s All-District 9-5A Coach round. Prior to the state tourney,

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Ledet carried an average of 234, the highest fellow junior Andrew Pettus won among high school bowlers in Louisiana. the 1600-meter event. At the state Earlier this year in a match against Rummel, meet Fitzpatrick was runner-up in the Ledet rolled a perfect 300 game, his first and 3200-meter race. most likely not his last. “This was awesome to be able to have the kind of season like Basketball: District I did,” said Ledet, who was voted Runner-up MVP by the district coaches. “I The Varsity Basketball Team was district look forward to coming back and runner-up but in the opening game of the defending my title.” state playoffs, the Jays found themselves in Track: Run, Neal, in Monroe on Mardi Gras night playing Shreveport. Run the Ouachita Lions which, with a mighty roar, disposed of their visitors, Senior Zach Carmello (160) was the only The Varsity Track 89-49. The Jays’ 2012 season record Blue Jay to win an individual state title. Team placed a respectable was split evenly at 16-16. A trio of Junior Mitch Capella (106) was state third in the district meet Blue Jays was named to the Times- runner-up and senior Ronnie Hoefeld April 26 at West Jefferson Picayune’s All-District (9-5A) Team: senior (145) took a bronze medal. Carmello High School. Junior runner Jay Pyburn, junior Matt Felger, and and Hoefeld were named to the Times- Neal Fitzpatrick continued sophomore Riley Conroy. Picayune’s All-Metro Team. In another to sparkle, sweeping the post-season honor, Capella placed fourth 1600-meter and 3200-meter Wrestling: Out of the Money in the USA Wrestling Folkstyle National Championships in Cedar Falls, IA. runs in 4:29.12 and 9:54.81, In the past six seasons, the Varsity Wrestling respectively. In the regionals Team has won the state tournament twice at Thibodaux High School, (View team records and championship history while finishing as runner-up on four on the Athletics Page of Jesuit’s web site.) Fitzpatrick again ran first in occasions. Not this year. The Jays finished a the 3200-meter race while distant fourth place at this year’s state event

A Golf Title Down the Drain? day scores and posted the winners based for the past 10 years by on results from the opening round. Chad The Blue Jay golf team, anchored by Billings shot a 69 on the first day and his Laborde senior co-captain Taylor Billings, three-under par score earned him third ’98. This past gave its best shots at the May 1-2, place and a bronze medal. In addition to season, Owen 2012 state championship Billings, Jesuit’s team was represented by Seiler ’75 tournament. Unfortunately, senior Austin Schillaci (who will attend joined Laborde the monsoon season struck Copiah-Lincoln Junior College in Ellisville, in the Blue Jay coaching the Copper Mill Golf Club in MS on a golf scholarship), junior Nick gallery to ensure a smooth Zachary, LA and the LHSAA was Ingles, and sophomores Alex Anderson transition for the next round forced to cancel the soggy event and Cole Johnson. Senior Cade of Jesuit golfers. Seiler takes mid-way through its second and final day. Landeche was the alternate. The Jays over the head coach duties for No one was more disappointed than finished fourth as a team with a combined the upcoming 2012-13 season Billings, who was making a strong bid to score of 306. The four lowest scores are while Laborde will be around and win the individual title and had just jumped counted and the fifth is discarded. about, playing the role of advisor, into the lead after a birdie on the 12th hole. In a tune-up the week before the state much like that of a sharp, shrewd With six holes to left to play, the menacing event, Jesuit’s golfers shot a combined 300 caddy. clouds suddenly unleashed torrential at Lakewood Country Club to capture the (Learn more about the 2011- rain which in no time made the course Regional III Tournament. Billings had his 12 Jesuit Golf Team and its unplayable, sinking Billings’s aspirations. game in a groove and shot a one-under 71 to win the individual title. accomplishments at: The LHSAA discarded all of the second- Jesuit’s golf teams have been ably coached www.jesuitnola.org/

Spring/Summer 2012 51 FLYING WITH THE JAYS The Indomitable Will of Blue Jay Soccer

Phillip Hicks scores Jesuit’s first goal in the state championship match against St. Paul’s.

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” — Mahatma Gandhi

hen the 2012 Jesuit High This past season Hicks was captain of soccer fans on their feet from start to finish. School Varsity Soccer the varsity squad, which consisted of 18 The match ended in a tie, necessitating Team stepped onto seniors, 16 juniors, and two sophomores. penalty kicks to determine the winner. the Marconi practice They collectively decided, from that first After making three penalty shots in a row fieldW for the first time in October (2011), practice onward, to ignore any monumental and Jesuit not scoring any, Brother Martin expectations were not very high. After obstacles that might exist, or as Hicks put it, stunned the #1 team in the state. The Jays winning back-to-back state championships “Just take it one step at a time and try to get were dealt their first loss of the season, in in 2009 and 2010, the 2011 prestigious better each day.” the process nearly derailing any hopes of army of Blue and White snapped its 96- And, indeed, the soccer Blue Jays did winning a district title. game unbeaten streak, losing to St. Paul’s in just that, emerging undefeated in their first At the time, the 36 Jesuit players were a heartbreaker of a championship game. 12 matches, most of which were played on despondent, never realizing that this Entering the 2011-12 varsity season — the home field at Pan American Stadium. crushing defeat at the hands of their arch- on top of everything else — the Blue Jays The first real test the varsity faced occurred rivals would turn out to be the best thing had lost their entire starting lineup, with the December 13, when Jesuit squared off that could have happened to them all year. exception of senior Phillip Hicks, who as against district rival Brother Martin. The “We weren’t a team then,” Hicks a junior defender made the Times-Picayune’s game was nothing short of entertaining as reflected at the close of the season. “We All-Metro Team following Jesuit’s tough loss both teams constantly vied for, and then were just a bunch of individuals. There was to St. Paul’s. lost, the upper-edge in a tug-of-war that had a huge division between juniors and seniors,

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and it was all about fighting each other for blanking New Iberia, 2-0, in a quarterfinal be silenced on this roller-coaster, nor would playing time instead of fighting the other match. the team’s leading scorer, Charles Mansour team.” The ardent Jesuit fans who left their scored on a header in the 75th minute to tie The loss to Brother Martin resulted in a nails in the Rummel bleachers the week the match 2-2. dramatic move by Jesuit head soccer coach before turned to chewing leather in the Blue With time about to expire, Mansour Hubie Collins. He changed the entire Jays’ semifinal match against the always somehow broke free from the Wolves’ composition of the team, not by radically formidable Cougars of St. Thomas More. defenders and fired a perfect strike past altering the starting eleven or completely With Jesuit sitting on a 2-1 lead, the match their goalie. The Jesuit crowd erupted in switching the team’s formations. Coach entered its 80th minute. Nearly six minutes jubilation while the St. Paul’s side of Tad Hubie instituted a fundamental “get-to- into this “stoppage time,” the Cougars tied Gormley Stadium sat stunned in silence. know-one-another” system of training. the score and their fans went wild. Moments later, the final whistle ended the At the first practice following that Meanwhile, a wave of nausea that match and the Jays were state champions for deflating district loss to Brother Martin, enveloped most of the Jesuit supporters the 11th time since Jesuit’s soccer program Coach Hubie made each player call out dissipated quickly. As the match crept began in 1977. Mansour was voted the the first and last name of all the other towards the 86th minute, Jesuit senior Kyle tournament’s MVP and Hubie Collins was members of the team. The exercise showed Wilson buried the ball with a bull’s eye Coach of the Year. Those five playoff games the importance of trusting one’s teammates. kick into the corner of the goal. A scant had the Blue Jays scoring a total of 22 goals It also illustrated how little each person 15 seconds later, the ref finally blew that versus five by their opponents. actually knew about the man standing next whistle. The Blue Jays’ 3-2 win was their At the beginning of the 2012 season, him. ticket to play in the state championship the Blue Jays struggled to understand that At practices, the Jays focused on drills game. there is no I in team. With hard work, designed to make the team work together. The Jesuit players soon learned that their heart, faith, determination, and — most Coupled with several bonding events like opponent would be the Wolves of St. Paul’s, importantly — teamwork, they eventually movies and dinners, the team’s personality the very team that a year earlier had sent got it. They learned that discussions “on evolved. The Jays were still in the hunt, their them home as runners-up. the field” were much more important than heads up, and no one was looking back. “This wasn’t revenge,” remarked senior talking off the field. They believed that no Playing with a fiery passion, Jesuit forward Charles Mansour. “It was team can be counted out, ever. won the St. Paul’s Tournament right after definitely a pride thing, and if we needed Finally, these 2012 Blue Jay soccer Christmas, shutting out Brother Martin, any extra motivation, all we had to do was champs understood that the source of 3-0, in the championship game. Scarcely look back at last year.” strength comes from indomitable will, a a month later, the Jays won the district The night of the state championship trump card over physical capacity and brute title, defeating the Crusaders, 3-2, this arrived and both teams played at an force. time on their home field in Gentilly. “This incredible level of emotional and physical is a terrific feeling,” Hicks reminded his intensity. The match could not be described Chris Hazlaris played teammates immediately after the victory, as anything but a classic battle between on Jesuit’s soccer teams “but we set a goal at the beginning of this two talented soccer teams, as witnessed by for four years. He was season that is much bigger than this match.” boisterous fans who have come to expect the newest recipient of In posting a 23-1-4 regular season ferocious tackles, quick footwork, intense The Robert T. Casey record, the Blue Jays wowed fans by scoring headers, and those obnoxious vuvuzelas. Memorial Award, 92 goals while allowing their opponents The first half was scoreless due to which is presented only eight goals. The state playoffs were six staunch defensive efforts from both teams. annually to the varsity days away and for the Blue Jays, it was time Two minutes after the match resumed, the athlete who exhibits to claim the silverware and a few pieces of Wolves scored first. But following a pattern the best sportsmanship crystal. that recurred many times during their and spirit. A graduate of Jesuit’s Class of 2012, Jesuit polished off its first opponent, the season, the Blue Jays responded with greater Hazlaris attends Fordham University. Walker Wildcats, 12-0. In the next match, intensity and confidence, scoring less than View all the photo galleries and post-season the Jays narrowly escaped from the Raiders’ 10 minutes later on a loose ball in the box honors from Jesuit’s 2012 State Championship field in Metairie with a nail-biting 2-1 that Hicks knocked into the net. season: www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/soccer.htm. overtime win against Archbishop Rummel. Jesuit’s excitement was short lived. The Blue & White next put on a dazzling Seconds later, a long throw-in resulted in display of soccer skill and creativity in another goal for St. Paul’s. Jesuit would not PAID

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Alumni Homecoming Blue Jay Bazaar MARK YOUR Mass & Brunch Sunday, March 24, 2013 CALENDARS Sunday, October 21, 9 AM for these upcoming Blue Jay events Recognition of the Golden Anniversary Jesuit Golf Classic Class of 1962; the Silver Anniversary Friday, April 19, 2013 Jesuit vs. Holy Cross Class of 1987; and, the 10th English Turn Golf Course Pre-Game Reception Anniversary Class of 2002 Commencement Luncheon Chapel of the North American Martyrs & Friday, September 7, starting at 5 pm Friday, May 3 Student Commons Tad Gormley Stadium, Marconi Mall Sheraton New Orleans (Canal Street) LEF Phone Drive Open House Blue Jay Fishing Rodeo Wednesday, November 7 Tuesday, October 9 - Thursday, Saturday, June 22 Tours of the school starting at 4, 5, October 11 Weigh-in festivities at John Ryan 6, & 7 PM Back to Banks Stadium Saturday, October 20, 3 PM Celebration 2013 Traditions Courtyard Saturday, March 2, 2013 Followed by Jesuit vs. Brother Martin Traditions Courtyard & Student Commons

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