Fall/Winter 2020, Volume 96, Number 3

CONNECTING

GENERATIONS

From the INTERIM PRESIDENT

Reaching New Heights The pandemic has transformed the way we learn and live at LSU, but it hasn’t slowed the tremendous momentum of our great university. At a time when most universities across the country are struggling to maintain enrollment, retention, and graduation rates, we’re celebrating record high figures on all three fronts. This fall — for the third-straight year — we enrolled the largest freshman class in our history. The 6,690 full-time students who joined our LSU family represent a 9 percent increase over last year, and they helped boost our total enrollment to a record high 34,290 students. More importantly, the academic quality of our freshman students is not wavering as enrollment rises. The GPA of our newest class of Tigers reached an all-time high of 3.45, while the ACT is holding steady at a near record high of over 25.4. We also set a new enrollment record at Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College, with more than 800 freshman students whose average ACT of 32 and GPA of 3.81 are both the highest in the college’s history. Our campus community is also more diverse than ever before. Historically underrepresented students make up more than 30 percent of our freshman class, with Black students comprising 16.8 percent of the class — the highest in our history — and Hispanic student enrollment of 9.1 percent for the first time. Over the past decade, Black student enrollment at LSU has increased by 87 percent to 5,028, while enrollment of Hispanic students has risen 130 percent to 2,490. “Setting new records for I’m incredibly proud of our enrollment increases and increasing diversification, which are a testament to the first-rate academic experience we enrollment, retention, provide at LSU, the exceptional work of our dedicated faculty and staff, and our and graduation rates ongoing work to create an even more inclusive and equitable campus culture. But our ultimate mission is to support and guide students to the proud day on would be an incredible which they graduate and leave LSU with a degree that positions them to earn achievement during any above average starting salaries and mid-career earnings — and we’re excelling in those areas as well. year, but to do it during Our retention rate of first-year students rose to almost 86 percent this fall, a a pandemic year is truly record high, while our two-year retention rate increased to 75 percent. Our six- year baccalaureate graduation rate rose to 66 percent, the second highest rate remarkable.” in LSU history, while our four-year bachelor’s graduation rate reached an all- time high of 44.1 percent, and our five-year rate rose to 61.9 percent. Setting new records for enrollment, retention, and graduation rates would be an incredible achievement during any year, but to do it during a pandemic year is truly remarkable. It’s evidence that LSU is moving in the right direction despite unprecedented disruption and that we will further flourish when we finally emerge from the pandemic. Stay safe, be strong, and Geaux Tigers!

Thomas C. Galligan, Jr. LSU Interim President and Professor of Law

@lsuprez

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 1 Contents Publisher LSU Alumni Association Editor Jackie Bartkiewicz Advertising Emily Johnson Art Director Chuck Sanchez STUN Design & Interactive Editorial Assistant 8 Emily Johnson Feature Contributors Bailey Chauvin, John Grubb, Libby Haydel, Adrian Hirsch, Rachel Holland, Emily Johnson, Mignon Kastanos, Steve Neumann, 18 Connecting Generations: Alison Satake, Paul West LSUTigerNation.com While the coronavirus pandemic created a Photography Darlene Aguillard/real life photos, April Buffington, Robert Friedman, “new normal” working environment for much of Sean Gasser/InRegister, LSU Athletics, Chris Parent, M.C. Rollo, the spring and summer, it did not prevent your The Walls Project Association from looking toward tomorrow, 36 Printing finalizing and launching already in-the-works Baton Rouge Printing strategies to benefit University alumni, faculty, and students. These new ventures, part of the new online platform LSUTigerNation.com, underscore BOARD OF DIRECTORS the organization’s primary commitment – Jeffrey M. “Jeff” Mohr, Chair maintaining contact with and between alumni and Baton Rouge, La. keeping alive the traditions that are Forever LSU. Bart B. Schmolke, Chair-elect Alexandria, La. 24 LSU’s Human Anatomy Lab 44 Beverly G. Shea, Immediate Past Chair By the time they get to college, really smart kids New Iberia, La. are used to knowing all the answers. Whether Stanley L. “Stan” Williams they rely on an app, all night study sessions, Fort Worth, Texas or a photographic memory, they can master Jack A. Andonie, Director Emeritus material to excel on just about any test. They Metairie, La. make Scantrons sing. They ace the MCAT and get J. Ofori Agboka, Seattle Wash. Mario J. Garner, Spring, Texas into their choice of post-graduate program. The Mark Kent Anderson, Jr., Monroe, La. James G. “Jimmy” Gosslee, Shreveport, La. problem is: Medicine is about more than parroting 72 Michael B. Bethea, Covington, La. Leo C. Hamilton, Baton Rouge, La. back textbook answers. Success depends on a Karen Brack, San Diego, Calif. R. Scott Jenkins, New Orleans, La. different kind of skill. It takes the ability to apply David B. Braddock, Dallas, Texas Matthew K. “Matt” Juneau, Baton Rouge, La. Cassandra M. Chandler, West End, N.C. Michael J. Kantrow, Jr., New York, N.Y. knowledge, navigate through uncertainty, make Kathryn ‘Kathy” Fives, Baton Rouge, La. Kevin F. Knobloch, Baton Rouge, La. tough decisions quickly, and take action – and, Corey Foster, Lake Charles, La. Brandon Landry, Baton Rouge, La. that requires a giant leap from the world of G. Archer Frierson, III, Shreveport, La. Van P. Whitfield, Houston, Texas science into the art of medicine. LSU ALUMNI MAGAZINE is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December by the LSU Alumni Association. Annual donations are $50, of which $6 is allocated for a subscription to LSU Alumni Magazine. The 80 LSU Alumni Association is not liable for any loss that might be incurred by In Each Issue a purchaser responding to an advertisement in this magazine. 1 From the LSU Interim President Editorial and Advertising LSU Alumni Association 4 LSUAA President Message 3838 West Lakeshore Drive 8 LSU Alumni Association News Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4686 225-578-3838 • 888-RINGLSU 28 Around Campus www.lsualumni.org / [email protected] 42 Locker Room © 2020 by LSU ALUMNI MAGAZINE. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 60 Tiger Nation LSU ALUMNI MAGAZINE, 3838 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4686

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2 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Bank of America

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 3 President and CEO MESSAGE

“Tigers have always And, thank you to those of you who have already responded. stood together in the I take this opportunity – and face of adversity and know you join me – in thanking our extraordinary team that readily and emerged stronger enthusiastically responded to the plight than ever.” of those affected by Hurricane Laura. Their call for supplies to support relief efforts in SWLA communities was a guidelines. We look forward to the day huge success. Alumni, friends, and fans our entire team is truly together again. across the country donated countless This issue’s cover story items, which were distributed by staff is a testament to the talent, members in mid-September. We are resourcefulness, and dedication of blessed to be able to “give back” to your LSU Alumni Association staff. Louisiana in time of need. See page 12. Plans for LSUTigerNation.com were It was with much sadness that we underway when the quarantine went learned of the death of our friend and into effect in spring and launched benefactor Lod Cook in September. during work-from-home efforts. This Lod achieved phenomenal success new online tool supports professional and – remembering his experiences at networking, job search, career LSU – used his standing and resources building, and more by connecting to make a difference at his alma mater. generations of fellow Tigers. We hope The New Normal His hope was that his philanthropy it will help you take your next step. would inspire his peers and the The coronavirus pandemic The pandemic forced major changes next generation of LSU alumni, fans, for our alumni chapters, whose main impacted everyone in one way or and friends to also give back to the events take place in the spring and another, and we are still adjusting University. Thanks to Lod Cook, LSU summer. The alumni staff certainly to a new way of life. Masks, alumni and future alumni will chart their missed traveling across country to visit gloves, sanitizing wipes, and social paths to successful lives. with hundreds of friends and to thank distancing – with X’s marking No one can be sure how things will each and every one for their loyalty play out in the future. We face many standing-in-line boundaries – are and support. Until this year, the summer unknown challenges, but Tigers have the way of the “new normal.” and fall issues of LSU Alumni Magazine always stood together in the face of Handshakes, hugs, and high fives featured several pages of chapter adversity and emerged stronger than have been replaced with foot taps, activities, especially the popular ever. In that spirit – in the spirit of Lod elbow bumps, or a simple nod of crawfish boils, which provide good Cook – the LSU Alumni Association the head. food, libations, and camaraderie while staff joins me in wishing you a safe and We missed “in-person” spring and raising funds for chapter undertakings – happy holiday season and all the best summer commencements, hosting primarily scholarships for future Tigers. in the coming year. pre-game events, traveling to away Chapters have seen a significant drop games with fellow alumni and fans, in donations, and their ability to support Forever LSU! and visiting with old friends at retired their aspiring local students has been faculty/staff events. And, we missed seriously affected. each other. I take this opportunity to The Association was impacted also, thank our dedicated employees, who and we are striving to find new and for months have kept things running better ways to financially support Gordon Monk as smoothly as possible and kept us in our programs for faculty, alumni, and President/CEO touch with one another and with you. students. We have been serving LSU As quarantine eased, we settled into for more than a century, and we have LSU Alumni Association a “new normal” at work – essential a strong vision for the future. We need AlumniLSU employees, staggered schedules, your help to reach those goals. Visit Zoom meetings, and, of course, our website – lsualumni.org – to lsualumniassociation following the above-mentioned safety assist in these emergency efforts.

4 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 5 LODWRICK MONROE COOK A LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP AND LOYALTY

1928 - 2020

“I saw my role as a catalyst.”

OD COOK – the man behind the Lod Cook and Jimmy Carter, and working relationships with these Alumni Center and The Cook Hotel – began life commanders in chief grew into close friendships. Presidents L in small-town Louisiana. Hot water came from a Bush, Ford, and Carter were special guests at the grand kettle on a wood-burning stove, he was third in opening of the alumni center in 1994, and Bush returned for his class of five graduates of Grand Cane High School, he the dedication of the LSU War Memorial and the dedication lived and milked cows in the “old cow barn” to earn room of the Lod & Carole Cook Hotel and Conference Center. and board while at LSU, and he started his career as “an In remarks made at the twentieth anniversary celebration engineering trainee digging ditches.” of the Lod Cook Alumni Center, he recalled being asked From those humble roots, Lod Cook achieved years back by then-LSU Alumni Association President Charlie phenomenal success – and remembering his remarkable Roberts, “How does the Lod Cook Alumni Center sound?” experiences at LSU, he used his standing and resources to “I had to ‘sleep on it’ – having one’s name on a building is make a difference at his alma mater, in Louisiana, and around a little daunting. But I was excited about doing something the world. Lauded for unparalleled leadership exploits and different. ARCO traditionally endowed chairs and funded business acumen as chief executive officer of ARCO, he was scholarships in honor of outgoing chairmen. I wanted to thrust into the political arena and worked at arm’s reach with direct funds as a lead gift for the alumni building. I never Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, had the notion that the building was to exalt me but rather

6 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 LSU Legend Alumnus Extraordinaire

1986 Alumnus of the Year

my name might be a focal point, a leverage to attract can be had through the love of people and the love of financing. I saw my role as a catalyst. I would not have been life. Thanks to Lod Cook, LSU alumni and future alumni a part of it – nor would this Association be the extraordinary will chart their paths to successful lives filled with love by organization that it is today – if one man had not asked me, “influencing the middle,” as he did. “What do you think of the Lod Cook Alumni Center?” An interviewer once asked Lod Cook what he’d like Lod Cook was a visionary. His gifts enabled the creation people to say about him when he passed from the ”great of structures and businesses that generate revenue to stage of life.” Cook replied: “I always kid people that on my continually support LSU and its thriving community. His headstone, they’d write, ‘Gee, what a guy!’” hope was that his philanthropy would inspire his peers Indeed he was. and the next generation of LSU alumni, fans, and friends to also give back to the University. He was proof that success See In Memoriam on page 67

THE ENTIRE LSU TIGER NATION THANKS YOU! GOD BLESS YOU.

To honor Lod Cook’s legacy and ensure that future generations of alumni have a place to call home at their alma mater, please consider a gift to the Lod Cook Memorial Preservation Fund to support restoration and upkeep of the Cook Campus facilities. Contact Amy Parrino, Senior Vice President-Planned Giving, at 225.578.3835.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 7 LSU Alumni Association NEWS Chapter Events

Charlie Oliver, left, and Allison Walsh. Mary Lee Jansen, left, and Melissa Olivier.

Caddo-Bossier Senior Send-Off – Caddo-Bossier chapter board members Karen Peace, Melissa Olivier, Charlie Olivier, Allison Walsh, and Mary Lee Jansen congratulated incoming LSU Tigers and their families at a Senior Send-Off Drive Thru at East Ridge Country Club in July. Some fifty students headed for Baton Rouge were presented LSU Bound signs, future alumni koozies, and LSU swag through their car windows to wish them well as they embarked on a new educational journey. Incoming LSU students pick-up their LSU Bound signs.

LSU Bound – More than 200 new Tigers picked up their LSU Bound signs during a drive-thru Senior Send-Off hosted by the LSU Alumni of Greater Baton Rouge chapter in August at The Cook Hotel.

8 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 9 LSU Alumni Association News Central Florida Golf Tourney

By Paul West

Walk-On's Bistreaux Orlando team members serve Jordan West finishing his drive on the longest drive hole. golfers great Louisiana food.

Don Simmons bidding on auction items. Golf tournament coordinators Orlando Torres, Paul West, Chris Gearity, Debi West, Stephanie Lopez.

The LSU Alumni of Central Door prizes were given to all Florida chapter hosted twenty- golfers and plenty of raffle and two teams at the 5th Annual auction items helped raise additional Scholarship Golf Tournament in scholarship funds. August at Celebration Golf Club Walk-On's hosted a food tent offering beignets, crawfish etouffee, in Kissimmee, Fla. Fountain Buick and turkey wraps, and the Steer GMC Auto Mall, the main sponsor, Steakhouse served up sliders from its along with the newly opened food tent. Both restaurants provided Walk-On's Bistreaux in Orlando snacks for golfers during the event. and other loyal sponsors made Abita provided beer, and PepsiCo the event a success. The provided water and soft drinks. tourney brought in more Box lunches were served, and prizes than $7,000 for the chapter’s were awarded at the conclusion of scholarship endowment. the tournament. There was not a winner of the hole- Next year’s event is scheduled in-one 2020 GMC Yukon XL Denali for April 17 at Bill Frederick Park 2019 LSU sports commerce graduate prize, but everyone had a great time. in Orlandeaux! Payton Braggs.

10 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 11 LSU Alumni Association News Snapshots

From left, Amy Parrino, Jamie Bice, James Roundtree, Brandli Greer, Frank Bernath, Renee Horton, Gaines Garrett, Sally Stiel, Jade Ethridge, John Mayleben, Tammy Abshire, and John Grubb.

Association volunteers set up shop at the Lake Charles Courthouse. Hurricane-damaged Capital One Tower is in the background.

The Andonie Sports Museum was headquarters for collecting donated relief items.

Lending a Hand after Laura – Following Hurricane Laura, the LSU Alumni Association put out a call for supplies to support relief efforts in Lake Charles, La., and other SWLA communities. The response was a huge success, with alumni, friends, and fans across the country donating countless items, which Association Tammy Abshire, left, and Rachel Rhodes. staffers distributed the items at the Lake Charles Courthouse in mid-September.

12 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Olympic ‘Metals’ Still Precious to Hardin Family

Linda Hardin Caston and Billy Hardin.

Precious metals have been soaring on the stock market recently, and they are still highly valued at the Andonie Sports Museum. The Olympic medals – gold and silver – won by the late Glenn “Slats” Hardin received a visit from two of the track star’s family members in August – three-time All-American and Olympian Billy Hardin and his sister, Linda Hardin Caston. Slats Hardin won the gold medal in the 400 meter hurdles at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He captured the silver at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in the same event. He also won two events – the 440 yard dash and the 220 yard low hurdles to lead LSU to the 1933 NCAA track and field championship. Billy Hardin was the 1964 NCAA 400 meter hurdles champion and the 1964 U.S. Nationals 400 meter hurdles champion, and he participated in the 400 meter hurdles in the 1964 Olympic Games. The museum features a display of the medals and other artifacts of one of the few father-and-son combinations in U.S. Olympic history. Both Hardins – Glenn and son Billy – were NCAA hurdling champions for LSU and members of the U.S. Olympic team.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 13 LSU Alumni Association News Your Board of Directors Getting to Know Bart Schmolke, Chair-elect

Bart Schmolke, an independent financial advisor with Financial Solutions Group in Alexandria, La., joined the board in 2017 as an at- large member. A thirty-seven year professional in the financial industry, Bart started his career in 1983 with A.G. Edwards & Sons, and from 1988 to 2008, he served on the President’s Council with A.G. Edwards. Bart graduated from Bolton High School in 1974 then attended LSU where he earned a bachelor's degree in finance in 1978 and an MBA in 1980. Bart is active in numerous civic and professional organizations in the community. He served as a board member and held leadership positions in Kiwanis Club of Alexandria, Cenla Tiger Booster Club, Rapides Coliseum Authority, Alexandria Dixie Girls, Centre Court Lions Club, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Foundation, Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce, and since 2003 has co-hosted “Tiger Talk” sports radio show. He is a longtime member and supporter of the Tiger Athletic Foundation and the LSU Alumni Association. Bart and his wife, Diane “DeeDee,” have two children, Brian and Brittany, and five grandchildren – Luke, Lily, Lydia, Laurel, and Madelyn. What’s your favorite thing about your career? I truly enjoy helping people reach their financial goals, particularly helping people save for a comfortable retirement or helping young adults start an LSU Alumni Association Chair-elect Bart Schmolke and his wife, DeeDee. investment program for later years and also help them invest for their children’s college education. It is definitely a serious responsibility, but also an honor, to have clients who trust your judgment and your sincerity for their financial well-being. What experiences had significant impacts on your life? In my professional career, I would have to say all of the really bad stock markets, for example losing approximately 25 percent in one day in October 1987, the collapse of the Internet bubble in the early 2000s, and the financial meltdown in 2008-2009. We learn a lot during difficult times, and these were truly tough for investors and their financial professionals. In my personal life, getting married and having children has to be the most significant. As all who have children know, there are no true playbooks – you learn on the go and you do the best you can, but we all have trials and tribulations with our children, particularly our teenage children. What is your most memorable accomplishment? Finding a great lady who would marry me and stay with me through all of the good and tough times. If you could choose to do anything for a day, what would it be? To be able to have some conversations with friends and family who have passed on. Just to tell them how much I miss them and thank them for being a part of my life. What was your favorite place on campus as a student? Now? As a student my favorite place was the SAE house; lots of fun was had over my years on campus. Now, I would say Tiger Stadium and Alex Box Stadium. What does it mean to you to serve your alma mater and fellow graduates through the Association? It is an honor to serve with so many outstanding people on our board and work with the Association staff. All of these people care deeply for the University, and it is heartwarming to know that there are so many that truly love LSU like I do. Right now it is a very tough time but to serve with people of such high character helps me know we will get through these times.

14 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 15 LSU Alumni Association News Letters from Our Scholars

I will be attending LSU in the fall to pursue a degree in elementary Thank you for your generous Etta Obier education. I have wanted to be an early childhood teacher since I Endowed Alumni Scholarship award. I was was a little girl. I love to see the light bulb go off when a concept ecstatic and thankful to hear that I was finally clicks in a child's brain. Throughout my high school career selected as a recipient of your award. I have worked at my elementary school in the aftercare program In the College of Human Sciences and “nannied” in my hometown. These experiences have been very & Education, I am majoring in dual rewarding to me and have furthered my passion toward becoming certification in general/special education a teacher. for grades first through fifth. My dream Thank you for your generous donation to the College of Human career is to be an elementary school Sciences & Education. Because of your donation, I am the recipient teacher or administrator, and I believe of the Etta Obier Endowed Alumni Scholarship. Both of my parents Louisiana State University’s education work outside of the home, my father as a firefighter and my mother program will prepare me to teach children in the hospital setting. These funds will help in reducing the cost of efficiently based on the students’ strengths my education. Upon graduation I plan to return to my hometown and and weaknesses. The financial assistance teach in a local elementary school. you provided for me is already putting me Again, I want to express my gratitude; my family and I are extremely in the right direction to achieve my goal. grateful for your donation. By receiving this generous scholarship Arlen Dehon, New Orleans, La. award, I will be able to devote more time to my studies and motivate myself to achieve exceptional grades. Thank you again for your immense It is my pleasure to humbly accept the Etta Obier Endowed Alumni support. You have my word that I will Scholarship. I graduated from Lusher Charter School. Growing up I was work extremely hard as a Louisiana State fortunate enough to attend a good school and was even more blessed University Tiger and eventually give back to when I was able to get into Lusher. This was not only a relief to me my alma mater and future students. but to my mother as well, being my main support system. Lusher has Lauren Pete, Metairie, La. opened me to many opportunities, people, and has taught me many life lessons over the years. It is also where I was able to find my perfect college and career choices. I have made so many bonds and memories with my teachers as opposed to the three other schools I had attended I was very pleased to learn that I was prior to Lusher. Being in such a welcoming, diverse environment made awarded the Julia Kate Gerald Endowed me realize how impactful teachers really are. Teachers have one of the Alumni Scholarship. I am writing to thank most important jobs in the world and can influence a child's life in all you for your generous donation, which I will aspects not just academically. Going to different types of schools also use toward my education this school year. enlightened me as to how important it is to have a solid foundation of I am pursuing a degree in early childhood learning because, truth be told, it starts in kindergarten. education. Attending LSU has been a major This realization, combined with my energetic attitude and love for milestone for my family, as I am a first- kids prompted me to go into the early childhood education to make generation college student. This has truly a difference. Important lessons and habits start all the way from the motivated me to put in countless hours of beginning, whether it be learning numbers or remembering to recycle. work and dedication toward my education. In looking for the right college, I was not sure where I wanted to go but Growing up, my mother and grandmother knew what I wanted to study. I began looking at schools that had good took care of children in their homes. When programs in education, and I was happy to see LSU on the list. Initially, choosing a major, this made me realize that I was unsure – but after visiting and finding out that I would be able to I had a special connection with children and assist and learn at a school near campus, my answer was clear. The that I desired to teach them. LSU UREC also may have had a small impact on my decision! With this being said, receiving this Thanks to your assistance, I will be able to follow my dreams and scholarship validates all of the hard work I make an impact on the world through education. This scholarship have put into my education. My family and award is a weight lifted from my family's shoulders as well as my own, I are extremely thankful and honored for in knowing that the burden on them will not be too heavy. your contribution towards my education. Micah Allen, New Orleans, La. Kaylor Goodyear, New Iberia, La.

16 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 I am writing to express my sincere gratitude to you for considering and appreciating my application for the generous 2020 LSU Alumni Association International Student Scholarship. I was thrilled to learn I was one of the recipients of your scholarship, and I am deeply grateful for your support. I am a Spanish doctoral student in anthropology and geography, with a minor in linguistics. For the last four years, I have been investigating the black market in antiquities from the archaeological and legal perspectives, so as to understand how the international crime in cultural heritage property works and what measures can be taken to deter it. This semester I am enrolled in my last required course, and I plan to take my general exams at the end of the year. I expect to graduate in August 2022 and continue my researching career with a postdoctoral position. By awarding me the scholarship, the financial assistance you provided lightens my educational expenses significantly and allows me to concentrate more on writing my dissertation. In addition, it greatly increases the sense of belonging to the LSU community and the honor of wearing the purple and gold colors once I graduate and go back to Europe. This scholarship is remarkable evidence of the support that international students receive from LSU and its extended organizations, such as the LSU Alumni Association. We feel welcomed, included, and appreciated. Thank you again for your generosity and support. Irene Martí Gil, Prairieville, La.

Six Named to Young Alumni Advisory Council

Six alumni were named to the risk consulting manager, Ernst & Young, LSU Alumni Association Young Houston, Texas; Katy Stuart, account Alumni Advisory Council (YAAC) supervisor, The Marketing Arm, Dallas, in August. Texas; Truman VanVeckhoven, financial Newly selected members of the advisor, Morgan Stanley, New Orleans, sixteen-member YAAC are: Jeremy La.; Adam West, commercial banking, DeCuir, private wealth relationship Progressive Bank, Shreveport, La.; Theo Williams, associate//investor manager, Merrill Lynch, Inglewood, Remington Freeman Kristen Dufauchard Calif.; Kristen Dufauchard, associate relations, Cadre, New York, N.Y.; and director/communications, New York John Woodard, development manager, University, New York, N.Y.; Remington Stirling Properties, New Orleans, La. Freeman, associate director/student The YAAC provides key insight activities; Hobart & William Smith and feedback on engagement, Colleges, Geneva, N.Y.; Chantelle development, and fundraising. George, founder and lead consultant, Through the group, members have Chantelle George Consulting, New the opportunity to reconnect with their alma mater and network with fellow Orleans, La.; Jourdan Williams, assistant Jourdan Williams Jeremy Decuir media counsel, NASCAR Media alumni while working to better support Ventures, Charlotte, N.C.; and Jack young and future alumni to build Zeringue, associate, Sidley Austin LLP, increased and enhanced connection to Dallas, Texas. each other and to the University. The Continuing to serve on the council council's overall goal is to generate are: Mark Kent Anderson, corporate ideas and initiatives that enable the sales, Mid South Extrusion, Inc., Association to serve and provide value Monroe, La.; Alden Cartwright, vice to this demographic. president/sales and marketing, The council has met throughout Jack Zeringue Chantelle George Edelberg and Associates, Baton the year via conference call due to Rouge, La.; John Lierley, channel the coronavirus pandemic. In-person sales manager, Verkada, Austin, meetings will resume in 2021. Texas; Carlton Miller, attorney, FWD. For more information, visit lsualumni. us, Washington, D.C; Philip Ollendike, org/blog/young-alumni-advisory-council.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 17 CONNECTING GENERATIONS

18 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 CONNECTING ALUMNI, FANS, FRIENDS

hile the coronavirus pandemic created a “new normal” working environment for much of the spring and summer, it did not W LSU NEWS AND CONTENT prevent your Association from Find official updates from LSU Alumni Association, including looking toward tomorrow, finalizing and LSU news, alumni spotlights, athletics news, research, Tiger launching already in-the-works strategies to Advocates, Traveling Tigers, and more, in the main feed. benefit University alumni, faculty, and students. These new ventures, part of the new online platform LSUTigerNation.com, underscore the organization’s primary commitment – maintaining contact with and between CHAPTER GROUPS alumni and keeping alive the traditions that Join a local chapter group and/or an affinity chapter group are Forever LSU. during the sign-up process. Read and share chapter-related “LSUTigerNation.com is the ‘geaux-to’ content, find chapter events in your area, and engage with resource for LSU alumni, fans, and friends,” said fellow Tigers. Association President Gordon Monk. “It provides the resources needed to learn, grow, and thrive, while connecting generations – personally and professionally – to share insights, JOB SEARCH BOARD The LSUTigerNation.com job board, integrated with LSU's experiences, and LSUTIGERNATION.COM Handshake job board, offers a variety of open positions. perspectives.” PROVIDES THE The Association works directly with organizations’ HR The platform departments – specifically, with their HR professionals who keeps users RESOURCES NEEDED are LSU Tigers – to grow content at all levels of experience connected to all and across all industries. Users are encouraged to post things LSU – news TO LEARN, GROW, information about open positions in their organizations that and events, fellow provide good opportunities for fellow Tigers. Tigers across AND THRIVE, WHILE the globe, and alumni chapters. CONNECTING And, it offers new, exclusive GENERATIONS – MENTORING content, including Mentoring via LSUTigerNation.com is an extremely valuable tool and an excellent way to “give back” by a mentorship PERSONALLY AND supporting and advising a fellow Tiger. The Association program, as well provides helpful resources to guide you along the way as job search, PROFESSIONALLY – and provide best practices on how to build a mutually professional beneficial mentor-mentee relationship. networking, a TO SHARE INSIGHTS, variety of virtual events, and EXPERIENCES, AND career-building opportunities. PERSPECTIVES. PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING & DIRECTORY Forming professional relationships on LSUTigerNation.com is a great way for Tigers to expand their networks and find help during career transitions. It can be used to find alumni in similar industries, connect with old classmates, and create "online" relationships at virtual events and official in-person chapter events such as happy hours, crawfish boils, LSU Football watch parties, and golf tournaments.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 19 Andrew Dunckelman, of LSU ALUMNI FOUNDING MENTOR PROGRAM Washington, D.C., leads the education and economic The LSU Alumni Mentor Program provides opportunities for alumni and opportunity team at friends to “give back” to the University as advisers to those just launching Google’s philanthropy, their careers or seeking advice on their career journeys. Any active member Google.org, heading up philanthropic on the platform has the opportunity to establish mentor-mentee relationships. investments in computer science LSUTigerNation.com even does the heavy lifting - using profile attributes to education, digital skills, and the future suggest good matches based on professional goals. of work. Previously, he led Google’s LSU Alumni Association named nine LSU Alumni Founding Mentors who grant making in its international represent years of experience in a variety of areas and industries – some markets. Prior to Google, he worked work in the public sector, some are entrepreneurs, some represent global at The Bridgespan Group in Boston, organizations such as Nike, Google, and Amazon. These experts are sharing a strategy consultancy for the social their successes, failures, and advice through monthly virtual "Tiger Talks" so sector spun out of Bain & Company. that the entire LSU Tiger Nation community can benefit from their knowledge. Dunckelman earned a bachelor’s Read more about each of them below. degree in political science from LSU, graduating Phi Beta Kappa; an J. Ofori Agboka, of Seattle, Wash., is vice president of MPA in nonprofit management from global customer fulfillment at Amazon and previously served Indiana University, where he serves as executive director of human resources global corporate on the Distinguished Alumni Council; staffs at General Motors. He began his career as an intern and an MBA with distinction, from at GM in 1996 and advanced in leadership positions in Harvard Business School. He has manufacturing, labor relations, and human resources across been a featured speaker numerous the globe. Previously, Ofori was executive director of human times, including at the SXSW EDU resources for North America, the Middle East, and North Africa. He also served Conference and Festival in 2019. as executive champion of GM’s African Ancestry Network – Employee Resource , Group, and was actively involved in fundraising and community service for the K. Renee Horton Space Launch UNCF, American Cancer Society, Detroit’s NEYIC Adopt-A-Child, and various System quality mentoring programs. He has been recognized by Savoy Magazine as one of engineer at NASA’s the 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America and was the recipient Michoud Assembly of Automotive News’ 2017 Rising Star award. Ofori holds a bachelor’s degree Facility in New in psychology from LSU and completed the GM Transformational Leadership Orleans, La., worked as Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is an at-large a student and started her career as a member of the LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors. mechanical test engineer at the agency. Cassandra “Cassi” Chandler, of West End, N.C., is CEO In 2016, she was elected president of and managing partner of Vigeo Alliance, a leadership and the National Society of Black Physicists talent risk assessment and skills training firm, an adjunct (NSBP) – the second woman to hold professor at Pace University in New York, and head of the office. She has served the physics Chandler Consulting Group. She has enjoyed a distinguished community abroad as a member of career as an innovative strategist identifying and addressing the International Union of Pure and emerging cyber and fraud risks in the banking industry and as Applied Physics Women in Physics a senior executive within U.S. government services and the financial services Working Group and currently serves industry. Chandler has served as a leader and advisor on the global diversity on several advisory boards dedicated and inclusion boards of one of the world’s top multi-national banks and at LSU, to a diverse inclusion in physics. In and she currently serves as an independent federal monitor with the New York 2017, she was elevated to a Fellow in Police Department. She retired as senior vice president for business operations the NSBP, the highest honor bestowed and senior global investigative services executive at Bank of America, which upon a member. Horton has spoken she joined after retiring from the FBI with twenty-three years of service as to audiences across the world and assistant director, U.S. Senior Executive Service. She also served as an attorney was an invited speaker for the first in the Office of Legal Counsel and Special Agent in Charge of the Norfolk Field International Women and Girls Day Office. Chandler earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and English from LSU at the United Nations, the Essence and a juris doctorate from Loyola University in New Orleans. She serves on the Power Stage, the March for Science- LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors as an at-large member. New Orleans, and an LSU College

20 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 of Engineering commencement to emerging artists. Kantrow earned a bachelor's degree in English from LSU ceremony. She is the author of Dr. and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the LSU Alumni H Explores the Universe, Dr. H and Association Board of Directors. her Friends, and Dr. H Explores the ABCs. Horton earned a bachelor’s Bhrett McCabe is a sports psychologist and founder of degree in electrical engineering The MindSide, a performance consulting organization in from LSU and a doctoral degree in Birmingham, Ala. He works with professional, amateur, and material science from the University collegiate athletes, focusing on mental strength and keys to of Alabama, the first African success, and is a resource for golfers on the PGA, Web.com, American to graduate from the and LPGA tours and recognized by coaches, publications, and university in this field of study. training organizations. He has provided main-stage presentations for the National PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit, speaks regularly for the Michel Kantrow, Titleist Performance Institute, and provides content for Golf Magazine. As the of New York sports and performance psychologist for the University of Alabama Athletic City, is the Department, McCabe works with coaches and athletes to overcome struggles of founder, CEO, performance and manage the psychological burden of athletic injuries. Numerous and managing collegiate programs across the country, among them Florida State University, partner of Samford University, Missouri State, and Texas State use him for consulting services. Makeable, The The author of The MindSide Manifesto: The Urgency to Create a Competitive Innovation Company. Makeable Mindset and The Game Plan, he also hosts the weekly Secrets to Winning podcast. works with clients, businesses, McCabe holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in psychology from and organizations across the LSU and completed his psychology internship at the Clinical Psychology Training intersection of strategy, design, Consortium, Warren Alpert Brown Medical School, in Providence, R.I. As an LSU and technology to make and take undergraduate, he was a four-year letterman on the baseball team and a member new products, services, businesses of two National Championship teams, three SEC championship teams, and three and brands to market. With twenty- College World Series teams. plus years of experience working with Fortune 500 and venture- Tanya Morning, of Beaverton, Ore., is senior director of backed companies industries, he employee relations at Nike, leading innovative employee- brings a wealth of experience relations strategies to provide support and solutions and knowledge to the company’s globally. A Nike employee since 2017, she worked a stint in clients, partners, and teams, among the Netherlands, leading an employee relations team that them, American Express, Anheuser- supported stores, corporate offices, and distribution centers Busch/In-Bev, City Harvest, across twenty-seven countries in Europe, South Africa, and United Kimberly-Clark, MTV, Nickelodeon, Arab Emirates. She the NY Knicks, Priceline, Sephora, previously held and TNT. 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START INTERACTING WITH YOUR FELLOW TIGERS!LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 23 How a centuries-old kinesiology class challenges high- achieving students to discover whether they’re ready for a future in high-tech medicine.

By the time they get to college, really smart kids are used to knowing all the answers. Whether they rely on an app, all night study sessions, or a photographic memory, they can master material to excel on just about any test. They make Scantrons sing. They ace the MCAT and get into their choice of post-graduate program. The problem is: Medicine is about more than parroting back textbook answers. Success depends on a different kind of skill. It takes the ability to apply knowledge, navigate through uncertainty, make tough BY ADRIAN HIRSCH decisions quickly, and take action – and, that requires a giant leap from the world of science into the art of medicine. Many students don’t discover whether they thrive in that environment until they’ve invested time and money to enter a medical graduate school. But, the School of Kinesiology has one of the few programs that allow students to experience that transition as undergraduates. Since 2007, prosection and dissection classes have taught undergraduates how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable and use the scientific method to explore the unknown.

24 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 WHERE THE SCIENCE OF ANATOMY MEETS THE ART OF MEDICINE

After observing an anatomist dissect a cadaver in prosection class, kinesiology students perform dissection themselves in dissection class. NO COURSE LIKE IT ON That ambiguity mirrors the reality OUR BODIES ARE CAMPUS of medical practice. For example, a During prosection, students observe battery of tests may not result in a an anatomist dissecting a cadaver. In clear diagnosis. And, patients with an GOING TO HANDLE dissection class, students perform illness or injury rarely present with dissection themselves. “There’s no identical symptoms. “Our bodies THE ILLNESS course like it on campus,” said Dennis are going to handle the illness and Landin, professor of kinesiology, one recovery differently,” Thompson of the cadaver lab’s founders and chair explained. “Understanding that AND RECOVERY of the LSU Institutional Review Board. uniqueness is important; but, it’s Before they can apply for the two really hard.” advanced courses, undergraduates That lesson has not been lost on DIFFERENTLY. must excel in introductory anatomy students like 2020 graduate Maritza classes. Even with that preparation, Martinez, who plans to attend medical “From the minute the class starts, school. “My ninety-year-old patient’s UNDERSTANDING they’re amazed at the complexity of body will look different than a thirty- human body,” Landin said, “the way it’s year-old’s,” she said “You learn to wonderfully and fearfully made.” treat someone based upon a range of THAT UNIQUENESS factors because everyone is different.” TEACHING THE ART OF SCIENCE AN AMAZING ADVANTAGE IS IMPORTANT; While they appear distinct in a color- While there are good virtual anatomy coded atlas, structures in the body can programs, “Dissection is the epitome be difficult to identify. So, “The biggest of anatomy—the absolute peak,” said BUT, IT’S challenge is helping the students to Landin. “Nothing compares to it.” change their mindset,” said Melissa Even though she grew up in the Thompson, assistant professor of digital age, Martinez agrees. “The REALLY HARD." professional practice. “The high- world is so technology based; but, achieving students don’t like the the best learning comes from doing it fact we don’t always have concrete yourself,” she said. “There’s no better answers,” Thompson said. tangible experience than holding a

Melissa Thompson, assistant Ryan Pontiff, center coordinator Dennis Landin, professor of Maritza Martinez, a 2020 graduate, professor of professional practice. of clinical education at Concentra kinesiology. plans to attend medical school. Houston.

26 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 HONORING THE LEGACY OF DR. MONROE J. RATHBONE JR. AND BARBARA F. RATHBONE

brain, a heart, or a lung with COPD WHEN THE RENOVATED HUEY P. LONG [chronic obstructive pulmonary Field House opens, the Dr. Monroe J. Rathbone, disease] in your hands – it helps Jr., and Mrs. Barbara F. Rathbone Cadaver Lab will you see things differently.” provide the state's future doctors, nurses, researchers, These days, it’s not only medical and medical professionals with unprecedented access schools that use cadavers in to the pinnacle of anatomy classes. With a generous teaching. Medical, dental, physical $1 million gift from the Rathbone family, the college therapy, occupational therapy, will relocate the lab from the School of Veterinary physician’s assistant, nursing, and DR. MONROE J. RATHBONE, JR. Medicine to the heart of the LSU campus and expand other programs routinely require its capacity to offer state-of-the-art anatomy instruction. dissection and advanced anatomy. Naming this particular lab to honor the lives of While attending LSU from 2006 cherished grandparents may seem a little peculiar. to 2011, Ryan Pontiff took advanced But, it makes complete sense to one of the family's anatomy and worked as a teacher’s youngest members, Brittney Rathbone. "I love [this assistant in the anatomy lab. After gift] because of the connection," she explains. "My graduation, he entered Texas grandfather was a surgeon here, and my uncle and Women’s University’s School of two cousins' husbands all practice in Baton Rouge." Physical Therapy. “There were eight An LSU kinesiology major, Brittney Rathbone LSU grads in that class, which was graduated from LSU School of Nursing in 2019 BARBARA FAURES RATHBONE unusual,” said Pontiff, who is now and works as cardiac ICU nurse in New Orleans. the center coordinator of clinical "Understanding the body and how it works gives me education at Concentra Houston. such as an advantage as a nurse," she continues. "I literally cannot “Those who had cadaver lab had imagine not having [the cadaver lab] experience. It's amazing that an easier time in the difficult gross LSU offers top students that experience as undergraduates in the anatomy class than others.” kinesiology department." Even beyond the lab itself, "the Huey P. Long Field House is very A GENEROUS GIFT special to our family," Brittney continues. "Both of my grandparents Since the class started in 2007, were very involved in LSU fraternities and sororities. The Field House LSU’s prosection and dissection had dances and was the center of student activity on the campus. So, classes have been conducted at the they probably spent countless days and nights there." LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. Barbara Faures Rathbone and her husband, Monroe J. Rathbone Thanks to a $1 million gift from Jr., were high school sweethearts, and both attended and graduated the Rathbone family, an expanded from LSU. Barbara graduated the College of Arts & Sciences in 1946. state-of-the-art lab will be a part of After completing his undergraduate work on the main campus, Monroe the renovated Huey P. Long Field J. Rathbone, Jr., graduated from the LSU School of Medicine in New House and accommodate more Orleans in 1949. students. “Having this hands-on A renowned general surgeon, Dr. Rathbone cofounded and served experience with cadaver dissection as chairman of the board of Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center for is a huge advantage for anyone twenty-seven years. He also served as medical director of Our Lady of going into the medical field,” the Lake Regional Medical Center for twelve years. Martinez said. “And, what is college The elder Rathbones distinguished themselves as community leaders really for? To prepare us for our as well as tireless volunteers. They were committed to making Baton next step in life.” Rouge and LSU a place for families to grow and prosper. Tragically, Barbara and Dr. Monroe J. Rathbone Jr. died together Adrian Hirsch works with the LSU College of Human Sciences in an automobile accident in Virginia in 1998. Over the years, friends and Education. and family have honored their memory with philanthropic gifts to MBP/OLOL's Rathbone Society, the LSU Foundation, College of Music & Dramatic Arts, and the LSU Alumni Association, among other organizations.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 27 Around CAMPUS Noteworthy

Mark Batzer, a Boyd Professor and the Dr. Mary Lou Applewhite Distinguished Professor of biological sciencs, was among thirty-eight academic inventors named to the National Academy of Inventors. Batzer, along with former graduate student Dale Hedges and current staff scientist Jerilyn Walker, holds multiple patents in forensic DNA analyses that have been commercialized. In addition, he and his research group have published more than 290 original research articles, including many with undergraduate, graduate student, and postdoctoral coauthors.

Mark Batzer Nichole Bauer Nichole Bauer, assistant professor of political communication, Manship School of Mass Communication and Department of Political Science, was awarded more than $100,000 in a three-year grant by the Louisiana Board of Regents to support her research examining citizens’ responses to female-dominated political institutions and political leadership. The grant will fund her project entitled “Feminizing Political Institutions: Does Increasing the Number of Women in Politics Change How Citizens Stereotype Political Institutions?”

Kevin Benham, the Jon Emerson/Wayne Womack Design Professor and assistant Kevin Benham Stephania Cormier professor of landscape architecture, was awarded a Rome Prize 2020-2021 fellowship to advance his research on transhumance. The fellowships, presented by the American Academy in Rome, support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, fellowships were awarded to twenty-two American and two Italian artists and scholars.

Stephania Cormier, the Werner Chair Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Rebecca Christofferson, assistant professor of pathobiological sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine, developed a saliva-based test Willis Delony Zhiqiang Deng to help track COVID-19 in K-12 school children and teachers in Baton Rouge. The initiative received mention during congressional hearings when Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services Admiral Brett Giroir testified that such programs are part of the robust surveillance system needed to track COVID-19.

Willis Delony, a Boyd Professor and the Virginia Martin Howard Professor of Piano & Jazz Studies, was named LSU’s honoree for the 2020 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. Delony is one of the nation’s leading classical Tammy Dugas and jazz crossover artists, with a performance career spanning more than four decades. The individuals selected for the Faculty Achievement Award represent the best academics throughout the SEC and become his or her university's nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award.

Zhiqiang Deng, professor of civil and environmental engineering, was awarded a $750,000 award from NASA and a $750,000 matching grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents for his project Satellite-Assisted Forecasting Environment for Improving Oyster Safety (SAFE Oyster). It was selected for the federal award by the NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program Office. Deng proposes using innovative NASA satellite-based information products to enhance the forecasting of norovirus and vibrio risks of oysters harvested along Louisiana and other Gulf Coast areas.

Tammy Dugas, professor of comparative biomedical sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine, was named head of the department's biomedical research program and advanced degrees. Dugas joined the faculty in 2014.

28 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Judith Anne Garretson Folse, professor of marketing, coauthored an article accepted for publication by the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. "The Interplay Between Business and Personal Trust on Relationship Performance in Conditions of Market Turbulence" discusses how businesses need to engage with customers during times of turbulence. The focus of this article is on both business and personal trust and the value of its combination, based on firm data.

Mara Gibson, associate professor of composition in the School of Music, will pursue a unique music composition project for bassoon and orchestra inspired by Judith Anne Garretson Folse Mara Gibson the lithographs of M.C. Escher. She was awarded a $32,300 grant from the Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS) program of the Louisiana Board of Regents, to fund the project titled, “Escher Keys,” which will explore the interactive possibilities between the bassoon, an instrument lacking in repertoire, and the orchestra, investigating the ideas of negative and positive space.

Cassandra Glaspie and Michael Polito, assistant professors of oceanography and coastal sciences, are among twenty U.S. faculty selected for the Early-Career Research Fellowships. Now in its sixth year, the fellowship is awarded to emerging Cassandra Glaspie Michael Polito scientific leaders who are prepared to work at the intersections of environmental health, community health and resilience, and offshore energy system safety in the Gulf of Mexico and other U.S. coastal regions.

Jenifer Godfrey was promoted to assistant dean of admissions and recruitment at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Godfrey joined the school in 2017 as director of admissions and enrollment. In addition to overseeing admissions, she teaches a course on ethics and jurisprudence. Jenifer Godfrey Gabriela González Gabriela González, Boyd Professor of physics, was elected as a general councilor of the American Physical Society for 2021. The council oversees all activities of the society including publications, scientific meetings, membership, prizes and awards, and educational activities.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $138,613 to Manship School of Mass Communication researchers Michael Henderson, director of the LSU Public Policy Research Lab, and the late Martin Johnson, Kevin P. Reilly, Sr. Chair in Political Communication and dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication Michael Henderson Martin Johnson were awarded $138,613 by the National Science Foundation to further research on social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana. The NSF Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant will their study, "Pandemic Anxiety, Recovery, and Inequality: Evaluating Institutions and Policy in a Coronavirus Hotspot.”

Nancy Isenberg, the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History, had her biography of Aaron Burr cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark ruling over presidential immunity from criminal proceedings. Isenberg penned the prize- winning biography, Falling Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, in 2007. Nancy Isenberg Sigrid Kelsey Sigrid Kelsey, LSU Libraries, was named to the editorial board of Library Diversity and Residency Studies, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on the social justice project of increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the library profession and curricula. Kelsey led the implementation of LSU Libraries Diversity Residency Program and has administered it since its implementation in 2018.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 29 Around Campus Noteworthy

Jonathan Levesque, IT manager and building coordinator at the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes (CCACSA), is serving as the fortieth president of the LSU Staff Senate. Levesque joined CCACSA in 2012, after serving as the technology coordinator at Redemptorist High School. He also worked for several technology companies after serving in the U.S. Navy on the USS Pittsburgh.

Jun-Hong Liang, associate professor in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences received a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Jonathan Levesque Jun-Hong Liang Career Development (NSF CAREER), which recognizes junior faculty who “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.” The award will support his research into how ocean bubbles play an important role in upper ocean dynamics and in air-sea gas exchange and will enrich the curriculum in physical oceanography and outreach activities at LSU and in local communities.

Lori Martin, professor of African & African American Studies; Nikki Fargus, women’s basketball coach; and Kevin Nickelberry, men’s basketball assistant Lori Martin Nikki Fargus coach are among the notable African Americans who have formed a new nonprofit organization, the Advancement of Blacks in Sports (ABIS), with a mission to connect and inspire people to boldly advocate for racial, social, and economic justice for Blacks in sports. Officially launched in September, ABIS works to foster a culture of equity and inclusion in all aspects of sports. Visit www.weareabis.org.

Patricia Persaud, assistant professor of geology and geophysics, was named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining an impressive class whose work will span the sciences, social Kevin Nickelberry Patricia Persaud sciences, humanities, and arts. As the Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow, Persaud will pursue an individual project in a community dedicated to exploration and inquiry. Her research focuses on identifying the risk of human- induced earthquakes in Louisiana. Photo: April Buffington

Cyntha Peterson, dean of the College of Science, was elected to the board of directors of the Environment and Health Council of Louisiana.

Dandina Rao, professor of petroleum engineering, was named editor-in-chief of Cyntha Peterson Dandina Rao Petroleum Science and Technology, an international journal that publishes original, high-quality, peer-reviewed research and review articles that explore various aspects of the petroleum industry.

James H. Spencer was appointed vice provost and dean for the LSU Graduate School, effective Aug. 3. He was also appointed a professor in the School of Architecture. He was most recently a professor of city and regional planning and associate dean of the College of Architecture, Arts & Humanities at Clemson University, as well as Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East West Center in Hawaii. James H. Spencer Mingxuan Sun Spencer holds a bachelor of arts degree from Amherst College, a master's degree in environmental management from Yale University, and a doctorate in urban planning from UCLA.

Mingxuan Sun, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, received the NSF CAREER Award for her “Privacy-aware Predictive Modeling of Dynamic Human Events,” project, which is supported by the NSF Information & Intelligent Systems Division. The $422,815 grant runs from June 2020 to May 2025. Sun is expected to develop a series of novel models and algorithms to analyze dynamic human events.

30 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 TIGER TRIVIA

1. Who was named Most Valuable Player in LSU’s first BCS National Championship in 2003? Matt Flynn Justin Vincent Anthony “Booger” McFarland JaMarcus Russell 2. When was Paul Dietzel’s first season as football coach? 1955 1958 1966 1980

Graça Vicente Tyrslai Williams-Carter 3. What was the first fraternity to be established at LSU? Zeta Beta Tau Sigma Chi Tau Kappa Epsilon Kappa Alpha 4. When could LSU students first participate in Navy ROTC? 1860 1916 1971 1989 5. Who was the first Black professor to teach at LSU? Julian White Huel Perkins Kirt Bennett A.P. Tureaud, Jr. Isiah Warner Gretchen Schneider 6. Which LSU professors conducted Louisiana’s first complete An LSU team received geological and topographical survey? the University’s Henry Howe and Samuel Lockett and first – and Louisiana’s Richard Russell Frederick Hopkins second – MARC award Fred Kniffen and Sam Wilson Thomas Boyd and David Boyd from the National 7. What was the title of the study in question 6? Institutes of Health Louisiana, Its Land and People Louisiana, This One’s for You to boost diversity in A Louisiana Journal Louisiana As It Is biomedical research. Craig Wooley 8. Which dormitory was named for an LSU alumna killed in 1944 The Maximizing while saving other Marines from a burning building? Access to Research Careers (MARC) T34 Joan Miller Hall Grace King Hall program for juniors and seniors interested Germaine Laville Hall Lizzie McVoy Hall in pursuing advanced degrees in biomedical 9. What were the campus radio station’s call letters before they or behavioral sciences. , the Graça Vicente became KLSU? Charles H. Barré Distinguished Professor WPRG WLSU of chemistry and IMSD program director, KFGC All of the above is principal investigator (PI). Co-PIs are 10. What was LSU’s first student-published literary magazine? Tyrslai Williams-Carter, director of Delta Southern Review research, education, and outreach Pell Mell Whangdoodle programs in the Office of Strategic Initiatives, and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives 11. How was construction of the Memorial Tower paid? Isiah Warner, Boyd Professor and the Phillip Taxpayer funding A combination of a fundraising W. West Professor of surface and analytical program led by the American Legion and an appropriation from chemistry. Gretchen Schneider, manager the Louisiana Legislature of public relations and community An appropriation from LSU president Thomas Boyd wrote outreach in the Department of Chemistry, Congress a personal check to cover the is program manager. expenses

Craig Wooley was named LSU’s chief 12. With which other university did LSU discuss a proposed merger information officer (CIO) in August. He was in 1971? most recently CIO at Wright State University Southeastern Louisiana University of Southwestern University Louisiana and previously served as the assistant vice Southern University SOWELA Technical Community president for information technology at College the University of South Florida (USF). He earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering Tiger Trivia is compiled by Barry Cowan, assistant archivist,

technology and a master’s in instructional Hill Memorial Library.

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LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 31 Around Campus Noteworthy

LSU Press received a Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). "A Humanities Mission Endangered: Sustaining LSU Press" will provide support for day-to-day operations in the midst of the ongoing pandemic. LSU Press was one of 317 successful applicants chosen from among more than 2,300 applications.

The LSU Libraries T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History received $10,000 in emergency relief from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) as a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to fund a graduate assistantship for the 2020-2021 academic year.

LSU received the 2020 Sustainability Innovation Award from the Association of Physical Plant Administrators. The award recognizes and promotes “unique and innovative sustainable practices in the educational facilities and campus environments, ultimately embedding them within the educational institution.”

LSU has licensed access to a vast library of bioremediation microbes to the national environmental services firm Cameron-Cole. The library was developed by Environmental Sciences Professor Emeritus Ralph Portier over almost forty years as he and LSU helped private companies as well as local, state, and national government organizations mitigate a wide range of environmental hazards in the U.S. and across the globe.

LSU received the 2020 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity, or HEED, Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. This is eighth year LSU has been named as a HEED Award recipient.

In U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 edition of Best Colleges, LSU is ranked in the top tier for Best National Universities for the thirteenth straight year, and the undergraduate petroleum engineering program ranks second overall. The University is ranked thirty-sixth among flagship universities nationwide – ahead of other flagships such as West Virginia University, University of Rhode Island and the University of Nevada – and seventy-first among public universities – ahead of public peers such as Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University. LSU remains as the highest ranked public university in Louisiana, and in the SEC, LSU ranks ahead of the University of Arkansas, University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University.

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LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 33 Around Campus In Focus

Jason Doré, president of the Star & Crescent Foundation.

The Star & Crescent Foundation, the nonprofit foundation established by Kappa Sigma Fraternity at LSU, awarded more than $160,000 in scholarships to 141 LSU students in financial need this fall, including thirty-one students from Baton Rouge. "We're honored to award a record number of deserving students with scholarships this year and are immensely proud to continue supporting excellence within the LSU education system," said Jason Doré, foundation president. "All of these young men and women are outstanding examples of what it means to be an LSU Tiger, and we're proud to invest in their futures." Hailing from more than forty cities across ten states, the winners – both full- and part-time students enrolled in LSU’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs this fall - received scholarships in amounts ranging from $500 to $3,000.

Four Named to LSU Board of Supervisors

Governor John Bel Edwards Congressional District; Raymond R. named four new members to the “Randy” Morris, of Monroe, La., founder, LSU Board of Supervisors in July. West Carroll Health Systems, 5th Joining the board are Collis B. Congressional District; and Richard Temple, Jr. of Baton Rouge, chief Zuschlag, of Lafayette, La., president Collis B. Temple, Jr. Patrick C. Morrow, Sr. executive officer, Harmony Center, of Acadian Ambulance Service, 6th Congressional District; Patrick member-at-large. C. Morrow, Sr., of Opelousas, The new members replace Blake La., founding partner Morrow, Chatelain, James Moore, Stephen Morrow, Ryan, Bassett & Haik, 5th Perry, and Bobby Yarborough, whose terms expired June 1.

Raymond R. “Randy” Richard Zuschlag Morris

34 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Building Name Evaluation Committee

As part of ongoing efforts • Dawn Jenkins (staff) - College of to cultivate a more inclusive, Science Director of Communications equitable, and diverse • Trey Jones (staff, ex-officio member) - campus community that is Deputy General Counsel welcoming to all, Interim • Jonathan Levesque (staff) - IT President Thomas Galligan Manager and Building Coordinator, named sixteen individuals to the LSU Staff Senate President newly formed Building Name • Mandi Lopez (faculty) — Director Evaluation Committee. Laboratory for Equine and Comparative Orthopedic Research, The faculty, staff, students, and alumni LSU Faculty Senate President serving on the committee are: • Theda Daniels-Race (faculty) - Michel • Verge Ausberry (staff) - LSU B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor Athletics Executive Deputy Athletic (staff) - Vice Provost Director/Executive Director of • Dereck Rovaris for Diversity External Relations • James Stoner (professor) - Hermann • DeMetris Causer (student) - Black Moyse, Jr. Professor of Political Law Students Association Member Science • Stone Cox (student) - LSU Student (student) - Black Government President, Board of • Devin Woodson Male Leadership Initiative Co-chair Supervisors Member • Jason Droddy (staff) - Associate Vice Any committee recommendation President, LSU Board of Supervisors to remove a building name will be evaluated first by the existing Naming • Katrina Dunn (alumna) - LSU National Committee, followed by Executive Vice Diversity Advisory Board, President President and Provost Stacia Haynie, of the A.P. Tureaud, Sr. Black Alumni Interim President Galligan, the Board Chapter, Practice Administrator, Co- Academics Committee, and the LSU owner, Auburn Urogynecology and Board of Supervisors. Women’s Health The committee is part of a broader • Theresa Gallion (alumna) - LSU effort to eliminate racism on campus Foundation National Board member, and create a living and learning TAF Board of Directors, Partner environment that not only embraces at Cornell Smith Mierl Brutocao individual difference but also thrives Burton, LLP because of it. • Tina M. Harris (faculty) - Douglas L. At the Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity Manship, Sr.-Dori Maynard Endowed Leadership Retreat in July nine Chair of Race, Media, and Cultural committees were created to bring the Literacy, Manship School of Mass action items outlined in the Diversity Communication & Inclusion Roadmap 2020-2022 to • Tyler Hunt (student) - Black Women’s fruition in a timely manner. Empowerment Initiative Scholar

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 35 Around Campus Unity Rally

Photos: Chris Parent/LSU Athletics

LSU and Southern University students, student-athletes, coaches, and staff at the “Enough is Enough: Rally for Unity.”

LSU and Southern University students, student-athletes, coaches, and staff gathered at Free Speech Alley on June 12 for the “Enough is Enough: Rally for Unity.” Both schools coordinated the event, which allowed participants to share their respective experiences at the predominantly white university and the historically black university. "What's happening right now in our lifetime is we are witnessing the demand of social change and equal justice in the wake of the death of George Floyd," said Nikki Fargas, LSU women’s basketball coach. "We are seeing how communities from all over the world are demonstrating their support to condemn all racism. Through our platforms, we always want to strive to promote a culture where racism and inequality are not tolerated. It's about hearing and engaging, and being diligent in our efforts. As a community we can be the change, we will be the change."

36 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 LSU Fall Enrollment, Retention Rates at an All-Time High USE YOUR LOUDEST ROAR

For the third-straight year, LSU has broken the record for the largest and most diverse freshman class in University history. This year’s 6,690 Join Tiger Advocates freshmen enrolled surpasses last year’s record of 6,126 freshmen. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, overall enrollment at LSU is at an all-time high of Get involved now to protect LSU and higher 34,290, and the University also saw high marks for retention and graduation rates. education in Louisiana. We want LSU TIGER With a record-breaking 6,690 full-time freshman enrolled, NATION – alumni, friends, fans, future alumni, diversity of the class is also at an all-time high. The freshman class is made up of 16.8 percent Black students, faculty, and staff – to be well informed on topping the 15.8 percent of Black students in the 2018 legislation that might impact YOUR University. class. Hispanic students in the freshman class is also a record high of 9.1 percent for the 2020, exceeding the 8.1 percent in the 2019 class. Students who identify as either American Indian, Black, Asian, Native Hawaiian, Hispanic, WHY SHOULD YOU BECOME A TIGER ADVOCATE: and two or more races make up more than 30 percent of the total freshman class this year. In the last ten years, LSU Help support the future of our state’s most has seen overall enrollment of Black students increase 87 gifted future alumni. percent to 5,028 and Hispanic student enrollment increase 130 percent to 2,490. Keep vital research going to address our With the growth of the freshman class, the quality of state’s most pressing problems. student entering LSU has not wavered. The GPA for the Support University parish extension offices freshman class is an all-time high close to 3.5, and the ACT throughout the state that spread the wealth has remained steady when compared to previous classes at over 25. The Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College is of LSU research. seeing record-breaking numbers as well, with freshman Help LSU continue to produce alumni enrollment exceeding 800 students for the first time in the community leaders across the state. college’s history. The freshman honors class also has an average ACT of 32 and average GPA of 3.81 – both new records as well. LSU continues to retain students at record rates. First-to- WHAT DOES BECOMING A TIGER ADVOCATE MEAN? second-year retention is at a record high of 85.8 percent, while first-to-third-year retention is also up from last year to You will receive email notifications at critical 74.8 percent. times when your voice needs to be heard in LSU is also seeing high marks in baccalaureate the Louisiana Legislature. graduation rates. The six-year baccalaureate graduation rate (not including students who successfully complete a transfer With just a click or call, your legislators will preparatory program such as pre-nursing and pre-allied know LSU TIGER NATION is closely monitoring health) for freshman entering LSU in 2014 is 65.7 percent, legislative decisions that impact LSU. the second highest in LSU history. In addition, the five-year baccalaureate rate for freshman entering in 2015 is 61.9 Your legislators represent YOU. Show them percent, the second highest five-year rate in LSU history. you are for LSU. Records broken by the 2020 LSU student body: Total enrollment of 34,290; freshman enrollment of 6,690; Black freshman enrollment of 16.8 percent; Hispanic freshman enrollment of 9.1 percent; GPA for the freshman class of 3.4; Ogden Honors College exceeds 800 new freshman for the first time ever; Ogden Honors College freshman average ACT of 32 and GPA of 3.81; first-to-second-year retention of 85.8 percent; first-to-third-year retention of 74.8 percent. Near records for 2020 LSU student body: Six-year Signing up is easy, free, and taking part baccalaureate graduation rate for freshman entering LSU requires a minimal investment of your time. in 2014 is 65.7 percent; five-year baccalaureate rate for Show your Love for LSU by signing up at freshman entering in 2015 is 61.9 percent; average ACT of lsualumni.org/tiger-advocates freshman class of 25.4.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 37 An MBA for Working Professionals Around Campus Flores Executive MBA Flex

By Bridget Conrad Times are changing, and so is the landscape of business education. In the past, there were two types of curriculum – campus-based classes and online classes. Now, amid the largest disruption ever in higher education, the E.J. Ourso College of Business is one of the first business colleges in the south to introduce a flexible hybrid MBA format that gives students the best of both campus-based and online instruction. The Flores Executive MBA Flex track will provide professional students with an innovative approach to learning, making it easier for them to manage their time effectively. “With our Flores Executive MBA Flex format, we are providing new opportunities for our students. We’ve rethought our delivery, so students get the in-depth mastery of our academic business disciplines, but now we’ve added an experiential learning component. Through this track, students have opportunities to work on consultative projects with companies, delivering solutions to those companies in real-time,” said Flores MBA Director Dana Hart. “Students will see that they are adding value to companies but will also have a peer-learning, academic experience. Throughout this track, students are consistently working with a network of peer MBA students to maximize the overall potential of their MBA experience.” Launching in January 2021, this format is a total of thirty-six credit hours, taking twenty months to complete. On-campus residencies take place one weekend a month, creating more flexibility for students who are working professionals. Students will focus on things like professional/career development, executive Flores Executive MBA Flex students get the in-depth mastery of academic business disciplines with an experiential learning component. coaching, and experiential learning on Friday afternoons, with Saturdays designated for classroom instruction. Today, business education is very much an evolving landscape. “The “The E.J. Ourso traditional pillars remain the same – marketing, finance, accounting, strategy – but how we deliver these courses is different now. You are seeing programs College of Business move away from their full-time, campus-based delivery to go exclusively online. is one of the first We still wanted to capitalize on the on-campus experience, where students can develop relationships, but at the same time maintain flexibility with online business colleges in classes,” Hart said. the south to introduce The Flores MBA Program considered moving to a part-time hybrid delivery for some time, and the pandemic was the driving force that accelerated the a hybrid MBA format.” conversation. It has forced many businesses to disrupt what they do, and now, many business schools across the country are thinking differently about the MBA experience. Candidates want to maximize their time, effort, and value, so LSU strives to demonstrate a value proposition to its candidates and stakeholders. The Flores Executive MBA Flex may have a different delivery, but it’s still relevant, and students will get a substantial experience with a tangible return on investment on the overall MBA degree.

Bridget Conrad is assistant director of communications and external relations at the E.J. Ourso College of Business.

38 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020

Around Campus Baton Roots Community Farm

By Alison Satake Photos: The Walls Project

LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio will partner with The Walls Project to develop a master plan for the Baton Roots Community Farm, which opened last year in North Baton Rouge.

Baton Roots Community Farm opened last year in North Baton Rouge as a restorative landscape to support healthy lifestyles, mental welfare, and environmental security. With recent support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio will partner with the nonprofit organization The Walls Project, which operates Baton Roots Community Farm at BREC Howell Park, and Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s HealthyBR initiative, to develop a comprehensive master plan and site design for the 115-acre site. LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio faculty and students will lend their expertise in design and engineering to help develop the plan with the local community, BREC, and Build Baton Rouge, the parish’s redevelopment authority. “At the LSU Coastal “The LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio will facilitate design studios where our students and faculty will work collaboratively with artists and design consultants Sustainability Studio, to help develop a master plan for the Baton Roots Community Farm. Our intention our creative faculty is to help this valuable community space expand in scope from urban agriculture to creative place making by incorporating public art with community gardening, and students green infrastructure and urban ecology,” said Nicholas Serrano, LSU assistant come together to professor of landscape architecture, who is a principal investigator for the project. Baton Roots Community Farm grew from the mayor’s Geaux Get Healthy reimagine communities initiative, a project of HealthyBR, to improve the well-being of citizens by and spaces.” promoting active lifestyles and access to fresh foods in one of the city’s largest food deserts. “We are honored to be selected by the NEA for this prestigious grant. Baton Roots is the culmination of eight years of building partnerships to elevate our impact with arts, workforce, and community health programs. The Walls Project welcomes all residents of Howell Park and leaders from across the city to be a part of the planning process. Together we will explore ideas for community amenities at the farm like a new event pavilion equipped with an outdoor demonstration kitchen, farmers market, and a public art system throughout the entire park to inspire the imagination and encourage exercise among people of all ages outdoors,” said Casey Phillips, The Walls Project executive director. Baton Roots Community Farm opened in January 2019 during MLK Fest with the intergenerational Harmony Garden and is expanding to four acres of farm rows to yield 200,000 pounds of fresh food in North Baton Rouge. It currently offers multiple programs including a youth urban agriculture training program, Hustle & Grow, and “Garden In a Box,” which promotes backyard gardening to

40 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 promote healthy eating and food security. The new NEA Our Town grant will fund the development of a comprehensive master plan engaging artists, designers, engineers, students, and residents to repurpose an additional 115 acres of an abandoned golf course in a flood-prone area of North Baton Rouge. “At the LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, our creative faculty and students come together to reimagine communities and spaces. Through our design studios, they put ideas onto paper, which will serve as the blueprint for the Baton Roots Community Farm for years to come,” said Traci Birch, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio director. The Walls Project will lead community dialogue sessions with neighborhood residents, local artists, food access advocates, churches, and students to begin the process of developing creative concepts and ways to integrate arts, education and healthy living into cultural assets for a part of Baton Rouge that has endured decades of disinvestment and systemic poverty. Baton Roots Community Farm is one of fifty-one programs recently awarded an Our Town grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. “These awards demonstrate the resilience of the arts in America, showcasing not only the creativity of their arts projects but the organizations’ agility in the face of a national health crisis,” said Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. “We celebrate organizations like the Baton Roots Community Farm for providing opportunities for learning and engagement through the arts in these times.”

Alison Satake is associate director of research communications, Division of Strategic Communications and Office of Research & Economic Development.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 41 Locker Eagles Found Likely Successor To ROOM Bednarik: LSU’s Bo Strange

The Bednarik Award is given to the College Defensive Player of the Year by the Maxwell Football Club. Philadelphia’s search for a successor to Iron Man Chuck Bednarik intensified in the 1960 football season. Bednarik was nearing the end of a remarkable fourteen-year career as the last player in National Football League history to play both offense and defense. A trade was unlikely. Nobody in the NFL would give up a player that approached Bednarik in ability and accomplishment. He had made All-Pro eight times, an unmatched achievement in that era. The American Football League had burst onto the scene in 1960 to complicate matters. The two leagues would again compete for college talent. But the Eagles believed they had located an heir apparent: LSU’s Bo Strange, also a center and linebacker. His size, speed, stamina, and leadership met the criteria of Philadelphia scouts in their effort to find a replacement for Bednarik. Unfortunately for the Eagles, Strange also had the academic requirements essential for admission to the LSU School of Medicine. And his mother was rooting for the med school. Her oldest child, Virginia, had already reached that goal. Bo was the twenty-eighth player chosen overall in the 1961 NFL draft. By choosing Strange in the second round – ahead of such future pro stars a Fran Tarkenton – the Eagles had made a statement. Strange was a player they highly valued. They didn’t want to risk losing him in a later round. Philadelphia had seen his game film. The Eagle scouts had witnessed Strange making big plays in two all-star games. They were convinced that he could be groomed into a solid successor for their legendary linebacker. Bo had played only one college season— 1960 — as a center and linebacker, although he had LSU’s Bo Strange was the twenty-eighth player chosen overall in the 1961 NFL draft by the excelled at both positions at Baton Rouge High. He was LSU’s starting right Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles wanted him tackle for two seasons, including the 1958 national championship campaign. He to replace their legendary linebacker Chuck Bednarik. He declined their offer and graduated was a second team All-SEC selection as a senior in 1960. from the LSU School of Medicine in 1965. It appeared that the Eagles were smarter than a tree full of owls. No other NFL team had scouted Strange as thoroughly as Philadelphia. But they missed one significant item: Strange was a member of the All-SEC Academic team. His major was pre-med. Even as competition for players between the NFL and AFL became heated, pro football was not in Bo’s plans. The AFL’s Denver Bronco drafted Strange in the third round, but they were never a factor. “Now retired in his After the draft, Strange received a registered letter from the Philadelphia ball eighty-first year, club. It contained an offer to sign a contract for $16,500 and a bonus check of $3,500. That was more money than Paul Dietzel was being paid as LSU’s Strange lives in head football coach. But after family discussions (his father was Clarence “Pop” Asheville, N.C., and is Strange, a member of Dietzel’s coaching staff), Bo thanked the Eagles for their interest, and told them he was going to enter LSU’s medical school in the fall. He even more confident returned the bonus check to Philadelphia. “I told them I was going to med school today that he made the at the Senior Bowl,” Strange recalled. “My sister was already in med school. My parents were educators. They made sure we were good students at every level. right decision.” Our goal from an early age had been med school.” His brother David followed Bo at LSU as a football player and attended dental school. Although Strange planned to attend med school, he played in two post-season games – the Blue-Gray game in Montgomery, Ala., and in the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., which were popular venues in the sixties for professional coaches and general managers. It provided them the opportunity to watch prospects in practices and games and to discuss the possibility of a pro football future with the players.

42 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Bo made a big impression on pro scouts at the Senior Bowl, highlighting an outstanding game by blocking an extra point attempt in the fourth quarter of a 33-26 South victory. He met with Philadelphia representatives several times in Mobile. One of the ball club’s representatives was Eddie Khyat, a native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and a former Tulane player who had been a Senior Bowl participant. He was then an active member of the Eagles. When medical school was mentioned in the discussions, Philadelphia made a persistent run at Strange. The Eagles offered to help him get admitted to Temple. Its quarter system would allow Bo to attend medical school while playing pro football. After some consideration, Strange concluded that attending Temple would take him twice as long to complete his medical education. He declined the offer. But that didn’t stop Philadelphia from paying him the ultimate compliment. They wanted Bo to be the player to replace one of pro football’s legends: Chuck Bednarik. Now retired in his eighty-first year, Strange lives in Asheville, N.C., and is even more confident today that he made the right decision. He is mentally alert with a vivid memory for the people and events of his youth. There are no lingering reminders of football injuries. He performed knee surgery, but never needed Locker Room is compiled and edited corrective surgery for himself. He had no concussions. For that he is grateful. by Bud Johnson, retired director of the Bo’s family connections to LSU continue. They began in the 1930s when his Andonie Sports Museum and a former father played tackle for the Tigers’ Sugar Bowl teams. His son, Chip, owner LSU Sports Information director. He is of Unique Cuisine, has been providing the food service for the LSU Alumni the author of The Perfect Season: LSU's Association for eighteen years. Magic Year – 1958.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 43 Locker Room Her Vision Realized, D-D Breaux Retires

Photos: LSU Athletics Creative Services What will D-D Breaux do next? had none. Maddox gave Breaux some It probably hasn’t been done advice at one of their early meetings. before. Certainly not in retirement. “I’m going to tell you no a lot,” he Those who have witnessed her warned. “Don’t let that discourage you. Come back with a Plan B.” long career have observed her Breaux didn’t forget that. She kept winning against long odds. From asking until the program gained a dark and dusty corner of the national prominence. Then came her Carl Maddox Field House she ultimate request – a first-class practice carried a gymnastics program facility. Joe Alleva liked it, but he to the mountain top of the sport. must have blinked when he saw Discouragement only made her the numbers. more determined. She endured to D-D’s determination and enthusiasm see her vision for LSU gymnastics were vital to the completion of become reality. the glistening LSU gymnastics Some of her jousts with several practice facility. Most say it’s second athletic directors should have been to none. But, it needs a better name. In forty-three years, D-D Breaux had the pleasure recorded. She survived temporary That has probably occurred to those of leading the Tigers to three straight second setbacks, making her stronger for in authority. place finishes in the NCAA championships and thirty-five consecutive NCAA regional the next challenge. They didn’t fully In the longest coaching reign in appearances. appreciate her perseverance. They SEC history – forty-three years – never swam across the Mississippi this two-time national Coach of the River. D-D did it as a teenager. Year had the pleasure of leading the Rodney Dangerfield could have Tigers to three straight second-place been the patron saint of LSU finishes in the NCAA championships gymnastics in the first twenty-five and thirty-five consecutive NCAA years of its existence. It got no respect. regional appearances. “D-D had a vision for One athletics director gave the new She even selected her successor. women’s basketball coach Breaux’s Jay Clark is one of the nation’s what the program office. D-D found out when her key outstanding coaches, as well as a could become. She wouldn’t fit her office door. Another recruiting and marketing whiz. He AD fired her assistant coaches and had walked the plank at Georgia. had seen how the told Breaux to replace them with Breaux always believed she was sport had been graduate assistants. A third AD wanted a better judge of coaching talent to terminate the sport. than most athletic directors she had embraced around the “D-D had a vision for what the known. So, she brought Clark to LSU world and she knew program could become,” said Bill as her associate coach in 2014. Then Bankhead, the godfather of LSU elevated him to co-head coach in 2019. it could happen here.” gymnastics. “She had seen how the D-D built a premier program. All of sport had been embraced around the essential ingredients for success the world, and she knew it could were in place: happen here.” • A one-of-a-kind practice facility Breaux was grateful to Carl Maddox, • Big crowds the athletics director who hired her in • One of the best young coaches in 1978. She valued steadfast supporters the country to replace her like Bankhead, the director of minor • Talented young athletes sports, who had rallied resistance when her program was threatened, Everything seemed set for this day. and baseball coach Skip Bertman, But at some point, Breaux must have who shared his resources when she mused as she neared this decision: “Retirement is such a man thing.”

44 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 45 Locker Room Football Quiz Bowl

1. Who was LSU's most highly Under classmen, two sophomores decorated assistant in 2019? and eight freshmen, dominate the 2. Which LSU assistant ranked in o-line room. The two sophomores – second place in national awards? Dare Rosenthal (6-7, 327), who started 1. Joe Brady. LSU’s 2019 passing four games last year, and Cameron game coordinator attracted more Wire (6-6, 311) – are expected to play national attention than any Tiger most of the minutes at left tackle, assistant coach, winning the although a graduate transfer from Broyles Award as the nation's top Harvard, Liam Shanahan, (6-5, 304) assistant coach. could be a factor there as well as at 2. If your answer was offensive line other positions up front. The center coach James Cregg, go to the head of position is wide open. Junior Chasen the class. Cregg’s LSU linemen won Hines (6-3, 349), a converted guard, James Cregg, 2019 Offensive Line Coach of the Joe Moore award as the nation’s and freshman Joseph Evans (6-1, 319), the Year. best offensive line, the first time the a converted defensive lineman, will Tigers earned that honor. And Cregg compete for playing time with Ivy was voted the Offensive Line Coach Leaguer Shanahan. At right guard, of the Year. Greg Studrawa won that one Cregg’s prize recruits, Anthony award as LSU’s offensive line coach Bradford (6-5, 365), and Kardell in 2011. Thomas (6-3, 326) will wage one of The LSU offensive line of 2019 was the most competitive battles of the instrumental in helping the Tigers field pre-season. A top incoming freshman, the first offense in NCAA history that Marcus Dumervil (6-5, 310), should be featured a 5,000-yard passer, two a backup at tackle. 1,000-yard receivers, and a 1,000-yard Cregg continued his recruiting foray rusher. LSU’s offense led the country into Michigan (he landed Bradford in both scoring and total offense from Muskegon last year), getting a and set numerous SEC and school commitment from one of the nation's records en route to a 15-0 record and top high school tackles Garrett a national title. Dellinger, a 6-6, 290-pounder from With Cregg’s offensive line leading Clarkston, Mich., for the 2021 class. the way last season, LSU ranked Ed Orgeron hired Cregg to replace fifth nationally on third down with Jeff Grimes who became the offensive a 50.89 percent success rate, and coordinator at Brigham Young in 2018. ranked fifth in red zone touchdown Cregg's first major accomplishment percentage, scoring fifty-five times in was to stabilize the LSU offensive seventy attempts. line that season. LSU had eight Cregg has another rebuilding players start at least one game on the assignment when LSU plays again. offensive line that year. The Tigers Only one starter – senior right tackle used a total of seven combinations Austin Deculus (6-6, 331) – returns on the offensive line in thirteen games from a year ago. Ed Ingram, a 6-3, in 2018. 315-pound junior is another likely Prior to joining LSU in December of starter at left guard. In 1,151 plays last 2017, Cregg spent four seasons as the season, he allowed only one sack, assistant offensive line coach for the according to LSU sports digital media Los Angeles Chargers. He held the reporter Cody Worsham. When All- same position at previous NFL stops SEC guard Damien Lewis was injured with the Denver Broncos (2014-16) and in the Peach Bowl, Ingram replaced the Oakland Raiders (2007-08). He him for sixty-eight plays in the win over won a Super Bowl with the Broncos Oklahoma. Freshmen Thomas Perry (6- in 2015. 6, 329) and Marlon Martinez (6-4, 325) According to Cregg, only one are probable backups. college coach could have persuaded

46 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 him to leave the NFL – Coach O. “I not only one of college football’s wouldn't have come back to college winningest coaches, he was one of football to work for anybody else the best amateur psychologists of besides Coach O,” Cregg told the his day. Bryant borrowed offensive listeners of ESPN Baton Rouge radio and defensive schemes from other upon joining the LSU staff. coaches. But he understood that Orgeron and Cregg coached people win games. He was as good as together for one season at Tennessee anybody at connecting with his people. in 2009 and three additional seasons The Bear expressed it this way: with Southern Cal in 2010-13, which “If anything goes bad, I did it. included Orgeron’s eight-game interim “If anything goes semi-good, we head coaching role with the Trojans. did it. Some of the great coaches of the “If anything goes really good, then game were linemen as players – Vince you did it. Lombardi, Paul Bryant, and John “That’s all it takes to get people to Vaught, to name a few. Bryant was win games for you.”

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 47 Locker Room Predicting The Future: Three National Champs

Prediction: LSU will win multiple national championships in the same calendar year. Selecting the year is above my pay grade. It’s just a matter of time. The coaches have built nationally prominent programs. They have been recruiting too many good athletes to be locked into the role of eternal Thelma Davies, a sophomore sprinter from contender. One of these years, the Philadelphia, Pa., ended her freshman season depth of talent and a minimum of with a 200-meter dash time that ranked No. 5 in the NCAA (22.80) and the No. 14 time in the injuries will favor the Tigers. 60-meter dash (7.23). Coach Dennis Shaver Our predicted winners for an LSU All-American Kiya Johnson was one of the nation’s hopes Davies will reach her peak in national best gymnasts as a freshman. She was named competition this year. trifecta are – gymnastics, beach SEC Freshman of the Year, the first LSU gymnast volleyball, and women’s track to be recognized since April Burkholder, and she won twenty-two event titles and three All-America and field. These teams have an honors in her first year. Johnson, a sophomore excellent opportunity to win national from Dallas, Texas, owns career highs of 10 on championships in the same school year. vault and beam, 9.975 on floor, and 9.90 on bars. Since there is no “One and Done” in these sports, there is a good chance the Tigers can achieve this gaudy goal. Recruiting success should help LSU stockpile talent on these three teams. These teams have gifted coaches, elite athletes, and a national brand. Tonea Marshall's three fastest times of 2020 – 7.86, 7.89, 7.89 – made her the second hurdler They have been the noteworthy in NCAA history to have three performances challengers for several years. Jay Clark, of 7.90 or faster in the 60-meter hurdles. She is currently the Tigers’ most highly decorated track Russell Brock, and Dennis Shaver are athlete – five-time All-America, four-time All-SEC, highly regarded coaches and recruiters. 2020 Women’s South Central Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year, 2020 Corbett Award winner, Clark has proved that he can recruit 2020 Bowerman watch list. The senior from great gymnasts. Brock has lifted beach Arlington, Texas, appears headed for her best year volleyball into a national power with in Tigertown in 2021. talented players. And Shaver continues to recruit an endless line of swift and gifted track and field performers to Bernie Moore Stadium. All three programs have consistently been ranked among the The arrival of the highly regarded Haleigh Bryant nation’s best in their sport. to the LSU gymnastics team could push the Tigers Last season Kiya Johnson was named SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Year and over the top. CollegeGymNews.com ranked Bryant the No. 1 incoming freshman in floor and vault, No. Region 1 Freshman of the Year. She is expected to be an even more polished and 2 in all-around, and No. 7 in uneven bars. productive performer this season. This year’s recruiting crop features Haleigh Bryant, another national standout. She will also be a favorite to become the SEC Freshman Gymnast of the Year and Region 1 Freshman of the Year. These two young women are capable of the leading the Tigers to the promised land. In beach volleyball, Kristen Nuss and Claire Coppola, were named “Pair of the Year” and All-America in back-to-back seasons – 2018 and 2019. Their success in the sand has been largely responsible for making LSU one of America’s elite teams in their sport. LSU track athletes like Tonea Marshall, the third fastest women’s hurdler in NCAA history, and sprinter Thelma Davies, a 2x All-America in 2020 with outstanding performances in the 60 meters and 200 meters indoors, should rank with the nation’s best in those events. In some special year, these three women’s programs will enter the championships as the favorite and they will capture the prize. Best of all, one or more of these programs has what it takes to linger in the winner’s circle. A

48 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 championship will only ensure that America’s top athletes will continue to keep Tigertown high on their priority list for collegiate competition. Softball is also a nationally ranked sport – not far behind these three programs. A few more premier players could lift softball into a major contender’s role soon. Women’s tennis is making great progress. But now is the time for gymnastics, beach volleyball, and women’s track and field to reach legendary status, joining forces and winning national championships in a memorable year. It would give each sport a long-term boost. It could happen any year. In LSU sports history, great teams changed the course of Tiger football. The football teams struggled immediately prior to a perfect 10-0 season in 1908. LSU struggled to a 5-5 record in 1957 before winning the national championship in LSU’s two winningest beach volleyball players – 1958 with an 11-0 season. Those teams made a difference for their sport. The Kristen Nuss, left, and Claire Coppola – have been largely responsible for the Tigers’ rise to 1908 Tigers popularized the game and increased attendance. The 1958 Tigers the top in national rankings. Coppola and Nuss solidified Louisiana as the team’s recruiting base. What did those teams have in were previously named two-time, pre-season All-America selections and two-time CCSA Pair common? Legendary athletes. Doc Fenton was the star in 1908. Billy Cannon was of the Year. They make the LSU team a national everybody’s All-America in 1958. contender again in 2021.

Tigers’ Aucoin Named Video Coordinator of the Year LSU’s Doug Aucoin was named the a room inside the Football Operations 2019-2020 Bob Matey National complex. It’s called the Walk Through Video Coordinator of the Year by Room. By standing on a fifty-foot-wide the Sports Video Association. He turf floor, you can look at a twelve-foot- is the first ever to become a two- high wall and see the Alabama (or a designated opponent) offense facing time winner of the award. Aucoin you. It is a major breakthrough in film previously won this honor in 2010. study for college football. It gives the The twenty-three-year veteran Tigers a life-sized view of their opponent maestro of football video has been every week. a five-time selection as the SEC’s Just as Orgeron and his staff must Video Coordinator of the Year. stay on top of changes in the game, He recently provided the football Aucoin’s task is to find and utilize the coaches with a technological assist latest technology to assist the Tigers in to be more productive during the preparing for a game. COVID-19 pandemic. Aucoin utilized Prior to coming to LSU, Aucoin Zoom to bring the coaches and players held similar positions at Tulane and Doug Aucoin, LSU Athletics video director. together in the age of social distancing. for the New Orleans Saints, where his He helped the football staff install their father, Erby Aucoin, also a creative offensive and defensive systems with pioneer in the field, directed the the team—all from the comfort of their filming of practices and games for homes. And, Zoom allowed Coach O the NFL team. The elder Aucoin also to conduct tours of the LSU facilities for assisted LSU Coach Paul Dietzel in recruits and their families when all were 1958 while serving as a photographer abiding by stay-at-home mandates due for The Advocate. to the virus. Just days prior to LSU’s 10-7 win over Aucoin has been assisting the LSU Florida, Don Scully, captain of the 1956 staff with player development and Tigers, lost his life in an automobile scouting of opponents through film and accident while serving in the military. video since 1997. Dietzel’s team took the field against His latest “tool” to assist the coaching Florida running past Erby Aucoin’s staff and team in game preparation is floor-to-ceiling image of Don Scully.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 49 LSU SUMMER 2020 GRADUATES

CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES! On behalf of the LSU Alumni Association and proud LSU alumni across the country and around the globe, congratulations and welcome to Tiger Nation. You have earned it. You have overcome many hurdles – especially in the last few months – and we are proud of you and all that you have accomplished. No matter where you live, the LSU spirit is there – and you'll find fellow alumni to support you in your new endeavors and show the world just how awesome LSU graduates are. Our more than 135 alumni chapters around the world provide connection and camaraderie, and we hope you’ll unite with your fellow alums to keep the Tiger spirit alive. To ensure that you have as many resources as possible to help you succeed during this important transition in your life, the LSU Alumni Association is providing a free one-year membership to August 2020 graduates. To take advantage of all we have to offer you, visit lsualumni.org/August2020Grad.

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50 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

Bachelor of Science Shayson G. Fu Hannah Clare Hayden Lauren Nicole Kindrachuk Jazmine Elaine Pittman Grace Angelle Tucker Cidney Raynette Grigsby Abigail Helen Kahrs Marianna Denise Morrison Brittany Nicole Tallent

COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN

Bachelor of Fine Arts Toyoun Cho Pedro Giovanni Gutierrez Ryan Carson Jude Sidney Marie Rosso Kristin Marie Selle

Bachelor of Interior Design Kaegan Jacqueline Case Marianne Mercedes Camille Catherine Royerre Newall

E. J. OURSO COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

Bachelor of Science Abdullah Rashid Abdullah Brandon C. Chevalier Alyssa Nicole Helak Ricardo Alejandro Najarro Bianca Soto Al Makhmari Firas A. Choumar Cole Andrew Held Victoria Alycia Regueira Gabrielle Frances Dustin Michael Bickham Amber Le Dang Austin Chase Henriksen Christopher L. Rigney Terrebonne Dustin Michael Bickham Seth Ragan Daugherty Frank Graham Holloway Jeremy Stephen Rosen Curtis Scott Thompson Gene James Brauns, II Nicholas Keagan Finley Megan Kennedy Jonathan Alexander Ryan Samuel Luke Tuminaro Claire E. Buckley Jackson Cole Green Blaine Austin Lund Javier Sanchez Tovar Preston Jace Vaughn Molly Elizabeth Burgess Griffin Mack Guzan Qasim Hameed Mehr Walter Lee Scott Sydney St. Claire Watson Megan Elizabeth Campbell Lesa Renee Hall Andy T. Mejia Nathan Lee Singleton Junhao Zhao Priscilla Castrellon

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Bachelor of Science Walter Lee Scott

Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering Kendall Tynea Raymond

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Hashem Hussain Abdullah Andrew Philip Hendrickson Matthew David Pearl Peyton Alexander Smith Chelsea Victoria Benton Richard Joseph Oubre, III Tommy Duy Pham Acca Elizabeth Stoute

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Christopher Michael LaForge

Bachelor of Science in Construction Management Corey Christopher Free

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Brian Scott Johnson Edward Peter Krass, IV Alejandro Miguel Sevilla-Vanegas

LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 51 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Ethan Wood Eisenhardt Connor Crosswell Stone

Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering Ahmed Ibrahim Alawadhi Eisa Mohammed Alzarooni Priyankkumar H. Patel Dominic Jay Vasquez

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Construction Management Sydney Bankston Taro Kyllonen Jarvus Joseph Ryes Victoria Catherine Conoly Russell Wayne Milam Richard Ellis Zettler

COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCES & EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Brandon Thomas Adam Caroline Shelly Danziger Ta’Vion DeShawn Cassidy Ann McCarthy Jaelyn Zhanet Schyler Hampton Peyten Ross Davis Jefferson Allison Elizabeth Meador Richard-Harris Alexander Erica Ann DeLaneuville Taylor Symone Jiron Christian Alexzander Miller Paige Nicole Robichaux Andre Ricky Anthony Ajha Nicole Dortch Quishon Stephanie Zachary Ryne Minton Nicolas Rodriguez Liseth Abigail Avila Nicholas Joseph Doucet Jourdan Nicholas James Nagrowski Nicholas Da’Michael Jeremy Sinjin Barba Kaitlyn Michelle Fagan Cameron Collingwood Ryan Louise Nash Rogers Karkoska Maitland Elizabeth Bean Shetrell Anicia Fisher Jasmine Lynette Notto Caroline Elizabeth Ruggles Sanad Mohammad Khalaf Mercedes Nashawn Tylar LeeAnn Foster Cameron Marshall Owens Peyton Shaye Salsbury Matthew James Klotz Brooks Darryl Joseph Gallo Clarke Denise Parham Reed Allen Saunders Serenity Laine Lanclos Nicholas John Brossette Brady Michael Goings Jamal Colby Pettigrew Jon Paul Segura Marcus James Leydecker Andrew Paul Brouillette Kevin Michael Gueniot Rachel Lynn Piper Gabriel Michael Sonnier Abigail Elizabeth Martin Clint John Brownell Jr. Julia Frances Hackman Ally Renee Pipkin Victorya Mattice Stallworth Kalyn Dianne Caston Breanna Elizabeth Bennett Evan Stein Drake Simeon Hale Matherne Wilani Keson’De Porter Sydney Franchesca Janelle Hernandez Kounty Jack Price Marlon S. Taylor, III Cockburn Payton Catherine Mayo Matthew Patrick Hughes Shelby Lynn Putfark Drew Elizabeth Tran Erin Marie Coomey Nicholas Darrick Mayon Kyle Russell Tyson Robinson Elizabeth Tracy Rakelle McBride Christian Allen Ratliff Joshua Floyd Daniels Humphrey

Bachelor of Social Work Amanye La’Shaye Wilkerson

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES

Bachelor of Arts Lauren Victoria Abington Cameron Marie Cormier Donald Ray Hunter Clay Caras Milneck Cameron Will Thomassie Molly Jean Alimia Mary Margaret Couvillion Katie Elizabeth Johnson Gabi Elizabeth Mistric Grayson Julia Touchard Patrick Owen Angelette Douglas Tyler Joelle Johnson Kirby Laurel Morris Elizabeth Ann Turnage Sarah Elizabeth Armstead Kayla Nicole Dukes Rachel Nicole Jordan Alyssa Marie Mulligan Connor Lane Vaughan Kolby Jené Balthazar Caroline E. Fontenot Brooke Justus Madeleine Marie Murphy Landon Gates Weeks Tyler Brandon Bergeron Sean Riley Fore Adam Zachary Kimball Haley Thurman Newberry Macey Noelle Williams Heidi Brooke Bieber Grace Elizabeth Julia Beth Lannon Addison Edward Nick Hannah Elizabeth Wilson Steven David Boudreaux Galeziewski Jerkalynn Torrolanda Kendall Tynea Raymond Gibson Marc Wolverton Michael Murphy Brame Jr. Grace Elizabeth Lawrence Katherine Louise Riecke Sarah Jae Yarbrough Galeziewski Shemia Ann Burns James Ductriet Le Allyson Mae Riedl Brianda Lucero Emily Keene Gilliland Bailey Marie Caillouet Ana Catherine Love Francisco Jose Sanfiel, II Zapien-Vargas Krista Rae Goldbard Kourtney Abriana Daniel Alexander Loving Kelly Ann Satter Evan Micheal Zizzi Hannah Elizabeth Greer Campbell William Tristian Maddox Emily Diann Scroggs Conner James Gregerson Jordan Elizabeth Champ Najai Dalice Martin Ervin Tadarro Smith Grace Duffel Grundmann Samuel Brooks Clutter Gianna Rose Mayberry Denise Michelle Steels Gregory Kyle Hamilton Patrick Clifford Cole Andrew Sterling Madison M. Street Matthew Patrick Hemphill Rashaad Deante Cooper McWilliams Brooke Ashley Tassin

52 LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Faustine Enome Aifuwa Roman Antony Davis Megan Rená Kennedy Hillary Savannah Mouton Abbigail Nicole Tuttle Brennon Lynn Albarez Bailey Ann Dixon Ricky LeBlanc Marisa Marie Naccari Rebekah Brignac Vercher Santiago Alvarez Lavar Michael Edwards Sarah Grace McGreggor Hayes Thomas Perrilloux Kejuan Dwayne Jordan Payne Armstrong Rachel Ariana Farrar Krystal Rose Mejia Matthew Joseph Robinson Washington Kyle Lee Baker Sara Catherine Fincher Elizabeth Anne Miller Zeshan Shahid Carolyn Christina Benjamin Trey-Anthony Francois Eric De’wayne Monroe Troy Ross Simoneaux Jr. Ellie Annette Blackwood Victoria Michelle Gillette Emily Mary Moore Mark Martin St. Romain Jr. Patrick Ross Campesi Sophia Rose Hartley Travez Iziah Moore Emily Lynn Turner

Bachelor of Science Michael Joseph Austin Kayla Ann Chacon Mallory Michelle Comeaux Isabel Catherine Gibson Kyreal Jackson Taylor Marie Bourque Casie Danielle Carmen Renee Fontenot Faith Alexis Harris Tiara Marie Lansky Faith Elizabeth Brown Champagne Cole Michael Gaudin Amber Nicole Hornsby She’niya J’ne Lee

MANSHIP SCHOOL OF MASS COMMUNICATION

Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication Madison Elise Day Alaina Rose Hebert Aubry Dylan Procell Camille DiRosa Vulcano Frances “Annie” Edick Madison Ali Myers Kennedi Iman Spurling Connor Clark Young

COLLEGE OF MUSIC & DRAMATIC ARTS

Bachelor of Arts Alexandra Lee Nicholson Rachel Morgan Omar

Bachelor of Music Daniel Alexander Loving

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE

Bachelor of Science Aubrey Di Barrett Lynnvi Tramvi Dang Stephanie Lynne Mayer David Harrison Rollins Madison Elizabeth Ethan Paul Bartel James Robert Gregory Chibuozo Onyekachukwu Charles Pendleton Williams Ellen Margaret Briley Valencia Olivia Henderson Mmonu Tompkins Brittany Rose Collins Kyreal A. Jackson Uyen Thu Nguyen Alexandra Jane Walsh Mallory M. Comeaux Dakota Marie Kutcher Megna K. Patel

Bachelor of Science in Geology Stephanie Anne Matthews Mallory Ray Pilié

COLLEGE OF THE COAST & ENVIRONMENT

Bachelor of Science in Coastal Environmental Science Hannah Kimberly Gordon Nadia Ayman Abdel Kader Ayoub Hamed Lacey Jessica Melancon Michael Joseph Plets Nadia L. Romero

LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 53 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREES

GRADUATE CERTIFICATES

Analytics Early Childhood Education Records and Information Urban and Community Sean Michael Peters Carlye Anna Breuhl Management Education Patrick Michael Sofranec Courtney Leigh Britton Tiffany Leondra Davis Geographic Information Relius Jabbar Johnson Archival Studies Science School Librarianship Joseph McMahon Lachajczyk Luz Mireya Castro Morales Tyesha Danielle Evans Veterinary Medical and Sean Michael Neary Tanvi Mukesh Shah Biomedical Annelise Lissette de la Houssaye

MASTER'S DEGREES

Master of Accountancy Brett Paul Lorio Isabella Davis Miller Rachel Marie Sileo

Master of Applied Statistics Luke Anthony Aucoin Haoran Liu Baoling Wang

Master of Architecture Andrea Nicole Barrios Seyedeh Zahra Fattahi

Master of Arts Karissa Lyn Bailey Halie Jean Taylor Jerkins Joy Ngelor Watchese Allison Lyon Comeaux Madeline Spearman Blocker Relius Jabbar Johnson Meredith Louise Percy Jennifer Lynn Jablonski Kelsey Catrice Fox Ferin Ellesse Jones Franklin Antone Soares Maegan Prejean Lewis Sarah Christian Holmes Emily Claire Kemp Danielle Ashly Stager Wesley Stuart Rodgers Logan Stagg Istre Dennis Robert Koch Karmen Renay Williams Santina Louise Swiger

Master of Business Administration Corey Brandon Cheeks Saul Garcia Cory Johnson Taylor Benjamin Nobles John Brian Clopton Kaitlyn Leanne Gray Jeffrey Todd Littlejohn Christopher Patrick O’Connor Christopher Andrew Davis Rodney Scott Hutson Jacob Stephen Manus Edwin Rolando Garcia Tina Huynh Sean Solanus Mulvey

Master of Education Jeanette Lee Bankston Tiffany Leondra Davis Falen Simone Johnson Jess Elaine Schaben Carlye Anna Breuhl Caroline Louise Groos Emily Breaux Pettaway

Master of Fine Arts Christopher George Fazekas Jessica Lindsay Maddocks Clare Madeline Samani Emery Kate Tillman Burns Ian James Park Hunter Daniel Stabler Matthew Douglas Zorn Samantha Marie Combs Kyle Joseph Peruch Narges Tavakoli

Master of Library and Information Science Amy Kathlyn Alred Ashley Ann Hebert Gabriel Duncan McBride Brett Russell Williams Breanna Nicole Benson-Pearce Jessica Rena Joseph Sean Michael Neary Susan Elizabeth Witte Creighton Matthew Durrant Joseph McMahon Lachajczyk Katie Amanda Pennington Tyesha Danielle Evans Madeline Claire Mahony Jennifer Carol Razer

Master of Mass Communication Evan Gabriel Fernandez Eboni’ Brianna Register

54 LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 Master of Music Robert Charles Burton Katherynn Hildegard Hamilton Ericka Jeannine Kudry Austin Franklin Kourtney Holmes Yiqing Ma

Master of Science Praja Adhikari Ahmed Khaled Hassan Gad Kritee Niroula Monica Nicole Cook Carlos Aguilar Miranda Lauren Gatenby Jennifer Cheri Pulsifer Stacy Lavette Davis Ethemaaduddin Ahmed Gina Nicole Groseclose Farhana Sultana Shanta Mark Allen Fritz Benjamin Glen Aker William Henry Hicks Rachel Louise Snider Desirae La’Saundra Gibson Ricardo Santos Aleman Troy Devin Jacobs Caleb Benjamin Taylor Heather Anne Hall Michelle Marie Anderson Fettah Kiran Jessica Lynnette Tolan Meagan Christianne Jackson Leslie Alejandra Aviles Lopez Alexandria Savannah Leake Kerrin Elizabeth Toner Trenae Siobhan Leonard Hanna Marie Bauer Ran Li Andrea Lucia Velasquez Stephany DeAnn Lewis Aimee Beaudette Ting Lin Stephanie Lianglei Wang Sacha Lyn-Nicole Lyson Arjan Bhandari Kevin Douglas Lindsey Joshua Alexander Wolpert Megan McCann McManus Jeanne Esther Weis Bloomberg Timira D’Iman Adore Lockheart Hao Zuo Richard James Means, II Monique Gabrielle Boudreaux Mark Coleman Maher Eduardo Arias Porsche’ Porscha Paige Lorena Cisneros Peter Taiji Mates Ragan Elise Benton Jordan Tyler Rheams Audrey Joann Copeland John Kihara Mathaga Adrienne Alicia Breaux John David Te’at Marcelline Eugénie Marguerite Andrew Scott McGuffey Cody Matthew Cartwright Dechenaud Stephanie Marie Moothart Ashli Nicole Coggins

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Qi Lei Behnam Safavinia

Master of Science in Civil Engineering Anu Abraham Abedalqader Ahmad Idries Md. Ariful Hassan Mojumder Jennifer Michelle Whipple Patrick Gabriel Duffy David Patrick May Md Nafiur Rahman

Master of Science in Construction Management Srikanth Sagar Bangaru Entai Xu Nick Francis Castjohn Michael Joseph Tourgee Yamini Kodavatiganti Olaleye Eniola Bakare Nelson Gaetano Rodriguez Michael Brian Williams

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Farhana Afrin

Master of Science in Engineering Science Ahmad Ebrahimi Arshil Gandikota

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Lou Toua Carine Vi

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering Dae Won Kim

Master of Social Work Xi Du Dawn Kathleen Ambrose Shelly Diane Long Kelly Jean Reber Rachel Rae Emick Heatwole Kerri A. Peterson

Certificate of Education Specialist Angela Bradley Leiflyn Kay Gamborg Markecia Che’nell Lyons Christal L. Carroll Chelsie Ann Giffin-Davis Catherine Perry Rosenfeld Frankie Digirolamo Day Nathan Wayne Hite Caroline Concepcion Tolentino Elizabeth G. Elizardi Brent Allan Johnson

LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 55 CANDIDATES FOR DOCTORAL DEGREES

Prasanna Kumar Acharya Kirill Bryanov Yuankai Dong Andrian Harabaru Kinesiology, PhD Mass Communication and Public Biochemistry, PhD Music, DMA Professor Arend W. A. Van Affairs, PhD Professor Craig Hart Professor Dennis Parker Gemmert Professor Raymond J. Pingree “Characterization of Drosophila “Transcription for Cello of the “Neuromotor Control of the Hand “Agenda Cueing in Aggregated Boundary Element Associated Second Violin Sonata in F Minor During Smartphone Manipulation” Newsfeeds” Factor BEAF-32B Interactions Op.6 by George Enesco” with Transcription Factors Ramazan Aydogdu Jackie Rae Victoriano Calhoun and Chromatin Remodeling Rachel Roxann Harman Sociology, PhD Kinesiology, PhD Complexes” Biological Sciences, PhD Professors Yoshinori Kamo and Professors Alex C. Garn Professor James T. Cronin Mark Ira Duhon Samuel Stroope “An Investigation of Athletic “Habitat Fragmentation and “Gender Equality, Tolerance, and Buoyancy in Adult Recreational Biological Sciences, PhD Range Margin Effects on Well-being in Turkey: The Role of and Club Sport Athletes” Professor Michael E. Hellberg Dispersal and Interactions Religion” “The Evolution of Bivalve Shell Between Competitors” Peter James Castagna Matrix Proteins” Alexandra Morris Benoit Psychology, PhD Keith Michael Hernandez Social Work, PhD Professors Thomson E. Davis, III Laura Gayle Fallon Oceanography and Coastal Professor Timothy Page and Steven G. Greening English, PhD Sciences, PhD “Examining Relationships “Interactions Among Amygdala Professor Malcolm Richardson Professor Michael J. Polito Between Early Childcare Volume, Cortical Thickness, “Constructing Sanctuary: Refuge “Insights to Gray Seal Teachers’ Adult Attachment and Structural Connectivity in and Asylum in Late Medieval (Halichoerus grypus) Foraging Orientations and Quality Youth: Relationship with Emotion Literature” Ecology from Stable Isotope and of Interaction in the Infant Regulation” DNA Metabarcoding Analyses” Classroom” Nicole Francesca Fassold Kaiyu Chen Music, DMA Silu Huang Rupsa Bhowmick Civil Engineering, PhD Professor Lin He Physics, PhD Geography and Anthropology, Professors Xiuping Zhu and “The Concurrent Prevalence of Professor Rongying Jin PhD Hongliang Zhang Modernism and Romanticism in "Electrical, Magnetic, and Termal Professor Jill C. Trepanier “Source Apportionment of Ozone Operas Performed Between the Properties of Semimetallic “Western Southwest Pacific and Its Health Effects in North World Wars, Exemplified by Ernst XMnPn2 (X = Ba, Eu, Pn = Sb, Bi)” Tropical Cyclone Frequency and China Plain and Southeast United Krenek’s Jonny Spielt Auf” Intensity Related to Observed States” Clara Jane Huesing and Modeled Geophysical and Michelle Pennington Biological Sciences, PhD Aerosol Variables” Alexander Houston Cleveland Grantham-Caston Professors Heike Munzberg- Chemistry, PhD Curriculum and Instruction, PhD Gruning and Jacqueline Stephens Karin Julia Bichler Professor Rendy Kartika Professor Cynthia DiCarlo “Anatomical Organization and Physics, PhD “New Synthetic Transformations “Investigating Leaderships Styles Distinction of the Sympathetic Professors Gerald Schneider and Utilizing Styloxyallyl Cations and of Childcare Directors” Inputs to iBAT and iWAT in the Phillip Sprunger Epoxonium Ions as Reactive Mouse” “Morphology and Dynamics of Intermediates” Elizabeth Watts Griggs Bottlebrush Polymers” Biomedical and Veterinary Shazia Humayun Stuart Karl Dameron Medical Sciences, PhD (PBS) Educational Leadership/Research, Candice Roché Boucree Music, DMA Professor Ronald Thune PhD Accounting, PhD Professor John Dickson “Edwardsiella Ictaluri is Capable Professor Kim Skinner Professor Jacquelyn Moffitt “A Conductor’s Guide to Dale of Persisting in Channel Catfish “Past, Present and Future “Earnings Management of Trumbore’s ‘How To Go On’” by Evading Host T Cell and Cell of the Foreign Professional Leaders and Laggards” Death Responses” Development Programs in Nirmal Dhakal Pakistan” Farid Bouya Civil Engineering, PhD Xin Gui Mathematics, PhD Professor Mostafa Elseifi Chemistry, PhD Niloufar Iravani Professor Bogdan Oporowski “Identification of Top-down, Professor Weiwei Xie Music, PhD “Some Results on Seymour’s Bottom-up, and Cement “Design, Synthesis and Professor Dinos Constantinides Second-Neighborhood Conjecture Treated Reflective Cracks Using Characterization of new “The Seven Valleys for Orchestra and on Decompositions of Convolutional Neural Network Superconductors” and A Study of Music Composition Graphs” and Artificial Neural Network” Pedagogy” Harriet LaJade Hammond Walter McFarland Bridges Caleb Scofield Doan Biomedical and Veterinary Cody Lee Johnson Mathematics, PhD English, PhD Medical Sciences, PhD (CBS) Civil Engineering, PhD Professor Oliver Dasbach Professor J. Gerald Kennedy Professor Arthur Penn Professor Celalettin Emre “Combinatorial and Asymptotic “Pacific Crosswinds: Antebellum “Adult and Maternal Waterpipe Ozdemir Statistical Properties of Partitions American Fiction and the Tobacco Smoke Exposures “The Medium-Term and Event- and Unimodal Sequences” Transpacific World” Alter Immune Responses of Scale Tropical Cyclone-Driven the Lung and Modify Offspring Morphodynamics of a Vulnerable Susceptibility to Allergen-Induced Barrier System with Emphasis on Asthma” the Role of Backbarrier Wetlands”

56 LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 Zackeus Dontrell Johnson Danielle Sarah Lazerson Kelsey Marie Lopez Abah Philip Omale Educational Leadership/Research, Accounting, PhD Chemistry, PhD Geology, PhD PhD Professors Kenneth Reichelt and Professor Isiah M. Warner Professor Juan M. Lorenzo Professors Jennifer Curry and William Buslepp “Antimicrobial Strategies for “Fault Kinematics at Active and Petra Robinson “Does Auditor Tenure Matter? Topical Applications” Passive Margins: Implications “Access Granted: The Journey Audit Partner Rotation and for Tectonic and Sedimentary of Conditionally Admitted First- Industry Specialization in the U.S.” Kieran Leigh Lyons Evolution” Generation College Students at English, PhD an HBCU” Chau Bao Le Professors Chris Barrett and Marcella Giuliana Otto Curriculum and Instruction, PhD Pallavi Rastogi Kinesiology, PhD Keilor L. Kastella Professor Kim Skinner “The Language of Rats: Professors J. Michael Martinez Music, DMA “Spatial Production and Nomadic Unwelcome Animals and and Chris Barnhill Professor Willis Delony Subjectivities in a Buddhist Interspecies Connection in “Exploring the Role of Learning Space” Contemporary Anglophone Engagement Among Sport Samuel Obadiah Kellar Fiction” Volunteers at College Football Physics, PhD Blase Matthew LeBlanc Bowl Games” Anthony Thomas Marasco Professor Ilya Vekhter Biological Sciences, PhD Varada Menon Palakkal “Quantum Criticality in Strongly Professor Steven Hand Music, PhD Correlated Electron Systems” “Insights into Desiccation Professors Jesse Allison and Chemical Engineering, PhD Tolerance: Properties of Late Edgar Berdahl Professor Christopher Arges Fatemeh Khamespanah Embryogenesis Abundant “Bendit I/O: A System for “Engineering Ionomer Materials Chemistry, PhD Proteins from Embryos of Artemia Extending Networked for Addressing Ohmic Resistances franciscana” Performance Techniques to in Electrochemical Desalination Professor Andrew W. Maverick Circuit-Bent Devices” and Waste Heat Recovery” “Copper and Ruthenium Mary Grace Tucker Lemon Pyridyltriazole Complexes and Hassan Marzoughi Ardakani Julie Parrish Their Reactivity Toward Carbon Renewable Natural Resources, Dioxide and Water” PhD Business Administration, PhD Curriculum and Instruction, PhD Professor Richard F. Keim Professor James R. Van Scotter Professor Renee Casbergue Shana Sanam Khan “Characterization of Shallow “Identifying Human Trafficking “Making Meaning in Tandem: How Curriculum and Instruction, PhD Subsurface Hydrology in Large, Networks in Louisiana by Using Kindergarteners Comprehend Fine-Grained Floodplains” Authorship Attribution and and Interact with Digital and Professor Kim Skinner Network Modeling” Traditional Texts” “The Experiences of International Song Li Students Regarding English Ilayna K. Mehrtens Benjamin Beau Peterson Proficiency and Policy in a Higher Oceanography and Coastal Education Setting” Sciences, PhD Psychology, PhD Chemical Engineering, PhD Professor Robert R. Twilley Professor Mary Lou Kelley Professor John C. Flake Sunghyun Kim “Nitrogen Dynamics in “The Relative Impact of Risk “Brominated Carbon Materials Psychology, PhD Response to Deltaic Succession, and Protective Factors on the As Positive Electrodes for Anthropogenic Fertilization and Psychological Functioning of Nonaqueous Lithium-Bromine Professor Melissa Beck Hurricane Events in a Mississippi Sexual and Gender Minority Batteries” “Previous Experiences Drive River Delta Using Continuous Youth” Attention” Flow-Through Incubations” Samir Prasun Jose Rodolfo Mite-Caceres Krystal Marie Kirby Petroleum Engineering, PhD Haoran Liu Plant, Environmental Physics, PhD Professor Andrew Wojtanowicz Applied Statistics Management and Soil Sciences, “Development of Water Coning Professors Owen Carmichael and Oceanography and Coastal PhD Control Design Metrics in Kenneth Matthews Sciences, PhD Professor Brenda Tubana Naturally Fractured Reservoirs” “Applications of Advanced “Cover Cropping in Soybean- Structural and Functional MRI Professor Kehui Xu Corn Rotation System: Economic, Saurin Hiren Rawal Methods” “Sediment Transport and Geomorphological Evolution Agronomic and Soil Fertility Chemical Engineering, PhD Impact” Danielle Marie Klein in the Transgressive Ship Professor Ye Xu Shoal, Louisiana: Insights “Theoretical Investigation of Curriculum and Instruction, PhD Jane Helen Noble from Geophysical Obervation, Metal-O2 Batteries” Professor Jacqueline Bach Modeling, and Machine Learning Curriculum and Instruction, PhD “Empathy, Fiction, and an Studies” Professor Kim Skinner Cholena Russo Ren Educational Ecosystem: A “Valuing Voices: Construction Narrative Case Study of a High Chemistry, PhD Sijing Liu of Meaning Through Discursive School ELA Classroom” Professor Robin McCarley Mathematics, PhD Interactions During a Critical “Behavior of Iron Species and Service-Learning Partnership” Whitney Anne Kroschel Professor Susanne C. Brenner Free Radicals in Ambient PM2.5 “Multigrid Methods for Elliptic and PM Surrogates” Renewable Natural Resources, Optimal Control Problems” Daniel Alexis Norena Caro PhD Chemical Engineering, PhD Professor Sammy King Yang Liu Professor Michael G. Benton “Floodplain Forest Regeneration Kinesiology, PhD “Metabolic Network Analysis of Dynamics in the Lower Mississippi Filamentous Cyanobacteria” River Alluvial Valley” Professor Senlin Chen “Characterizing Middle School Students’ Physical Literacy: A Sequential Mixed Methods Study”

LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 57 Jerry Franklin Reynolds, II Soyeon Seo Christopher Lee Sumner Jr. Nicholas Ryan Walker Social Work, PhD Music, DMA Chemistry, PhD Physics, PhD Professor Cassandra Chaney Professor Lin He Professor Robin McCarley Professors Ilya Vehkter and Ka “The Role of an Educational “A Biographical Introduction of the “Synthesis, Characterization, Ming Tam Intervention in Addressing Parent Korean German Composer, Isang and Investigation of Metal Ion “Identifying Structure Transitions Spectator Behaviors in Louisiana Yun and an Analysis of Eastern Quenching in Fluorescent Carbon with Machine Learning Methods” Youth Sports” Folk Elements in His ‘Lina Im Dot Surrogates for Particulate Garten’” Matter Black Carbon and Phillip Douglas Hardenbergh Philip Ross Richard, III Evaluation of Cellular Health Wall Psychology, PhD Georgia Leigh Shaheen Effects Due to the Surrogate Physics, PhD Materials” Professor George Noell Psychology, PhD Professors Jonas Fontenot and “Video-based Interventions: Professor Thompson E. 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Tomlinson Understanding How Latinx Asynchronous Event Sequence Professor Neil Johannsen Students Make Meaning of Data” History, PhD “Body Temperature and Federal Work-Study Employment” Professor Suzanne Marchand Cardiovascular Control During Dipak Singh “Reshaping an Earthly Paradise: Exercise in the Heat: Implications Danissa Victoria Rodriguez Computer Science, PhD Land Enclosure and Bavarian for Special Populations and State Centralization (1779-1835)” Caraballo Professor Seung-Jong Park Athletic Performance” Computer Science, PhD “A Study on the Improvement of Alejandra Sofia Torres Professor Doris Carver Data Collection Centers and its Pengfei Wang Rodriguez “Information Retrieval-Based Analysis on Deep Learning Based Civil Engineering, PhD Optimization Approaches for Applications” English, PhD Professors Xiuping Zhu and Requirement Traceability Link Professor Sue Weinstein Hongliang Zhang Recovery” Akai Crystal Smith “Documenting Desire: Addressing “Understanding Air Pollutants and Educational Leadership/Research, the Educational Needs of Meteorology Interactions Using Farnaz Safdarian PhD Undocumented English Learners” Chemical Transport Models” Electrical Engineering, PhD Professor Roland W. Mitchell Professor Amin Kargarian “The Road to the Presidency: John Arthur Underwood Aeryel Dominique Williams “Temporal Decomposition for A Case Study of HBCU Educational Leadership/Research, Educational Leadership/Research, Multi-Interval Optimization in Organizational Culture and Its PhD PhD Power Systems” Impact on the Career Progression Professor S. Kim MacGregor Professors Roland Mitchell and of Women of Color” "Evolution of Computational Ashley Clayton Elana Klein Schwartz Thinking Contextualized in a “A Case Study on Alternative Psychology, PhD Vann Edmond Smith Teacher-Student Collaborative Spring Break: Supporting Black Learning Environment” Women at an HBCU” Professor Alex S. Cohen Geology, PhD “Social Capitalization as a Professor Sophie Warny James Jaran Alpinio Upright Elizabeth Kelsey Wilson Positive Emotion Regualation “Palynology and Paleoclimatology Strategy in Individuals At-Risk of the Chicxulub Impact Crater in Psychology, PhD Psychology, PhD for Developing A Schizophrenia- the Early Paleogene” Professor Anna Long Professor Frank M. 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58 LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2020 Dan Yang Economics, PhD Professor Fang Yang “Household Income, Consumption, and Savings in China”

Matthew Alan Yeomans Kinesiology, PhD Professors Jan Hondzinski and Marc Dalecki “Eye-Hand Coordination Varies According to Changes in Cognitive-Motor Load and Eye Movements Used”

Xiaoliu Zhang Chemistry, PhD Professor Daniel Kuroda “Solvation Structures and Dynamics of Small Molecules: Experimental and Computational Studies Using Carbonyl Vibrational Modes as Probe”

Zhiming Zhang Civil Engineering, PhD Professor Chao Sun “Data-Driven and Model-Based Methods with Physics-guided Machine Learning for Damage Identification”

Xu Zhou Petroleum Engineering, PhD Professor Mayank Tyagi “Data-Driven Modeling and Prediction for Reservoir Characterization and Simulation Using Seismic and Petrophysical Data Analyses”

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Joseph Arthur Simon (1960 Jon Ann H. Giblin (1976 BACH 1960s BACH BUS, 1967 MAST HS&E, 1994 JD), an attorney Beth Courtney (1965 BACH H&SS), of Shreveport, La., with McGlinchey Stafford, was HS&E), president and chief received the Marine Corps named to the 2021 list of Best executive officer of Louisiana Heritage Foundation 2020 Lawyers in America in the Public Broadcasting, received Colonel Joseph Alexander areas of Bankruptcy and the National Mortar Board Award (biography or Creditor Debtor Rights/ National College Senior autobiography) for The Greatest of All Insolvency, and Reorganization Law. Honor Society 2020 Alumni Leathernecks: John Archer Lejeune and the Achievement Award. Nominated by the Making of the Modern Marine Corps. Leo C. Hamilton (1973 BACH Baton Rouge Area Mortar Board Alumni Winners receive a gold medallion, a H&SS, 1977 JD), a partner in Chapter and endorsed by the Blazer Chapter commemorative brick along the Semper Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, at LSU, Courtney was honored as a Fidelis Memorial Park pathway adjacent to was recognized by Best communicator, broadcaster, producer, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Lawyers in America as the community leader, and an outstanding and a cash prize, if applicable. 2021 Lawyer of the Year for alumni member of Mortar Board. Photo: M.C. Rollo Administrative/Regulatory Law and was named to the 2021 list of Best Patrick C. Morrow, Sr. (1969 Lawyers in the aeras of Employment BACH H&SS, 1972 JD), senior 1970s Law-Management and Labor Law- partner in the firm of Morrow, Rodolfo J. "Rudy" Aguilar Management. Hamilton is a member of the Morrow, Ryan, Bassett & Haik, (1979 BACH BUS, 1982 JD), an LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors. announced the funding of attorney with McGlinchey fifteen $2,500 scholarships Stafford, was named to the Grady Hazel (1970 BACH for students in St. Landry and 2021 list of Best Lawyers in BUS, 1971 MBA), chief financial Evangeline parishes for the 2020-2021 America in the areas of officer of the Dunham School, school year. Six of the recipients are enrolled Commercial Litigation, Baton Rouge, was honored for at LSU. Corporate Law, Insurance Law, and his service to the Society of Litigation-Mergers and Acquisitions. Louisiana Certified Public Accountants (LCPA) and the Samuel A. Bacot (1970 BACH accounting profession with a scholarship DEGREES H&SS, 1972 JD), an attorney established in his name. The annual BACH Bachelor’s Degree with McGlinchey Stafford, was Grady Hazel Scholarship will be awarded MAST Master’s Degree recognized by Best Lawyers to an accounting major at a Louisiana PHD Doctorate in America as a 2021 Lawyer university. Hazel is a past executive director SPEC Specialist of the Year in the area of of the LCPA. Litigation-Real Estate and DVM Doctor of Veterinary Medicine named to the list of Best Lawyers in America JD Juris Doctorate Michael D. Hunt (1974 BACH in the area of Land Use and Zoning Law. H&SS, 1977 JD), an attorney (LSU Law School) with Phelps Dunbar, was LLM Master of Laws Richard A. Curry (1973 BACH named to the 2021 list of Best MD Medical Doctor H&SS, 1977 JD), an attorney Lawyers in America and was (LSU School of Medicine) with McGlinchey Stafford, was appointed to a three-year DDS Doctor of Dental Science named to the 2021 list of Best term on the American Bar (LSU School of Dentistry) Lawyers in America in the Association Standing Committee on the areas of Commercial Litigation Federal Judiciary. COLLEGES/SCHOOLS and Litigation-Environmental. AGR Agriculture H. Alston Johnson, III (1970 A&D Art & Design Larry Feldman (1972 BACH JD), an attorney with Phelps C&E Coast & Environment H&SS, 1974 JD), an attorney Dunbar, was recognized by with McGlinchey Stafford, was H&SS Humanities & Social Sciences Best Lawyers in America as named to the 2021 list of Best SCI Science a 2021 Lawyer of the Year in Lawyers in America in the areas the area of Bet-the-Company BUS Business of Bet-the-Company Litigation Litigation. HS&E Human Sciences & Education and Commercial Litigation. ENGR Engineering Mary Terrell Joseph (1970 M&DA Music & Dramatic Arts Mark Fullmer (1976 JD), an JD), an attorney with MCOM Mass Communication attorney with Phelps Dunbar, McGlinchey Stafford, was SCE School of the Coast was recognized by Best named to the 2021 list of Lawyers in America as a 2021 & Environment Best Lawyers in America in Lawyer of the Year in the area SVM School of Veterinary Medicine the area of Banking and of Venture Capital Law. Finance Law. SW Social Work

60 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Kathleen A. Manning (1974 Stephen P. Strohschein (1978 Jonathan C. Benda (1986 JD), BACH HS&E, 1977 JD), an BACH BUS, 1981 JD) joined an attorney with Phelps attorney with McGlinchey Hinshaw & Culbertson law Dunbar, was named to the Stafford, was named to firm in New Orleans, La. 2021 list of Best Lawyers the 2021 list of Best Lawyers Previously with McGlinchey in America. in America in the areas Stafford, Strohschein is of Personal Injury qualified as a specialist in Litigation-Defendants and Product business bankruptcy law by the American Liability Litigation-Defendants. Board of Certification and recognized by Mark N. Bodin (1984 BACH Best Lawyers in America in the areas of ENGR, 1988 JD), an attorney Richard E. Matheny (1979 JD), Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights/Insolvency with McGlinchey Stafford, was an attorney with Phelps and Reorganization Law, Litigation - named to the 2021 list of Best Dunbar, was named to the Bankruptcy 2006-2020. Lawyers in America in the 2021 list of Best Lawyers area of Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants. in America. 1980s Ricardo A. Aguilar (1983 Mary Broussard (1983 BACH BACH BUS, 1986 JD), an MCOM) was named director Robert P. McCleskey, Jr. (1979 attorney with McGlinchey of governmental affairs for the JD), an attorney with Phelps Stafford, was named to the SJB Group. Broussard has Dunbar, was named to the 2021 list of Best Lawyers in twenty-five years of 2021 list of Best Lawyers America in the areas of experience in the electric in America. Bankruptcy and Creditor utility business having Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization recently retired from Dixie Electric Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation- Membership Corp. as manager of economic Banking and Finance, Litigation-Bankruptcy, development and held a board seat on the Randy P. Roussel (1977 BACH Litigation-Mergers and Acquisitions, National Rural Electric Economic Developers BUS, 1984 JD), an attorney Litigation-Real Estate, and Litigation-Trusts Association. She previously retired from with Phelps Dunbar, was and Estates. Entergy. In 2015, the Livingston Economic recognized by Best Lawyers Development Council honored her with the in America as a 2021 Lawyer Heather LaSalle Alexis (1988 annual Robert “Bob” Easterly Award for her of the Year in the area of BACH H&SS, 2000 MPA) work in economic development. Broussard Banking and Finance Law. joined Hinshaw & Culbertson is active in Rotary. law firm in New Orleans, La. Michael H. Rubin (1975 JD), Previously with McGlinchey Kenneth Champagne (1987 an attorney with McGlinchey Stafford, was selected as an BACH BUS), senior vice Stafford, was named to the LCLD Fellow (Leadership president, Premium Finance 2021 list of Best Lawyers in Council on Legal Diversity) in 2016. She Business Unit with Confie, is America in the areas of earned a JD from Loyola University New serving the second year of a Appellate Practice, Bet-the- Orleans College of Law. two-year term as member-at- Company Litigation, large of the Society of Louisiana Commercial Litigation, and Litigation- Richard Arsenault (1980 JD) Certified Public Accountants (LCPA). He is past Banking and Finance. was nominated for 2020 president of the Baton Rouge chapter. membership in Premier James J. Schnabel (1975 BACH SCI, 1980 Lawyers of America and was Warner Joseph Delaune recognized as Acquisition PHD SCI, 1984 MD-NO), of Oklahoma City, (1986 BACH ENGR, 1991 JD), International's Leading Trial Okla., made an irrevocable donation to an attorney with Phelps Attorney of the Year for establish the Simon Chang Biochemistry Dunbar, was named to the Louisiana as part of the 2021 list of Best Lawyers Support Fund honoring Professor Emeritus Leading Advisor Awards. During the summer, Chang’s profound impact on him while a he spoke at the Mass Tort Symposium in in America. student at LSU. The fund will provide general Cancun on the topic of Plaintiffs' Steering support of the Division of Biochemistry Committees and was asked by the American and Molecular Biology in the Department Bar Association to author two chapters in A Mark C. Dodart (1986 JD), an of Biological Sciences and its teaching Practitioner's Guide to Class Action with LSU attorney with Phelps Dunbar, and research activities, including but not Interim President Thomas C. Galligan, Jr., was named to the 2021 list of limited to, equipment, labs, faculty, and and Jaime L. Dodge, a professor at Emory Best Lawyers in America. students. Schnabel, a pathologist retired from law School. Ameripath Diagnostic Pathology Services, is president of the LSU Alumni Central Oklahoma Chapter.

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Michael D. Ferachi (1986 Kevin J. LaVie (1981 BACH Eric J. Simonson (1986 BACH BACH BUS, 1989 JD), an H&SS, 1984 JD), an attorney BUS) joined Hinshaw & attorney with McGlinchey with Phelps Dunbar, was Culbertson law firm in New Stafford, was named to the named to the 2021 list of Best Orleans, La. Previously with 2021 list of Best Lawyers in Lawyers in America. McGlinchey Stafford, he was America in the areas of named Ones to Watch by New Commercial Litigation, Orleans CityBusiness in 2017 Litigation-Banking and Finance, and and is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law. Steven J. Levine (1984 JD), an Association. He received a JD from Loyola attorney with Phelps Dunbar, University New Orleans School of Law. Susan W. Furr (1986 BACH was recognized by Best H&SS, 1989 JD), an attorney Lawyers in America as a 2021 S. Jess Sperry (1985 BACH with Phelps Dunbar, was Lawyer of the Year in the area BUS, 1988 JD), an attorney recognized by Best Lawyers of Litigation-Environmental. with McGlinchey Stafford, was as a 2021 Lawyer of the Year named to the 2021 list of Best in the area of Litigation-Labor Lawyers in America in the and Employment. Scott D. Mattson (1982 BACH area of Real Estate Law. H&SS) retired from teaching in R. Marshall Grodner (1983 June. After earning his BACH H&SS, 1990 JD), an commission in the Air Force at Patrick A. Talley, (1982 JD), an attorney with McGlinchey LSU, Mattson served on active attorney with Phelps Dunbar, Stafford, was named to the duty from January 1983 to was recognized by Best 2021 list of Best Lawyers in May 1995. "We arrived in Lawyers in America as a 2021 America in the areas of Cheyenne, Wyo., in February 1994," he Lawyer of the Year in the area Commercial Transactions/UCC writes. "When I separated from active duty of Railroad Law. Law and Equipment Finance Law. we decided to settle in Cheyenne. I joined the Wyoming Air National Guard in 1997 Thomas H. Kiggans (1984 JD), while working on my teaching certificate. I an attorney with Phelps was a traditional guardsman and taught 1990s Dunbar, was named to the junior high and high school from 1998-2011, José Arce (1997 DVM), 2021 list of Best Lawyers when I retired from the ANG at the rank of president and co-owner of in America. major. I continued teaching until retiring Veterinary Medic Miramar this June." Animal Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and one of the Marshall M. Redmon (1987 first natives of the U.S. Robert Kimbro (1980 BACH JD), an attorney with Phelps Commonwealth to serve on BUS), owner of SageWay, New Dunbar, was named to the the American Veterinary Medical Association Orleans, La., received the 2021 list of Best Lawyers (AMVA) Board of Directors, achieved another Society of Louisiana Certified in America. first last summer when the AVMA House of Public Accountants (LCPA) Delegates (HOD) named him the 2020-2021 Distinguished Public Service president-elect. Arce was a member of the Award. Throughout his career HOD from 2000 until joining the AVMA in accounting until his retirement from Ernst Kim Hunter Reed (1987 BACH Board in 2014. & Young in 2018, after having spent twelve MCOM, 1995 MPA), Louisiana years as the managing partner, Kimbro commissioner of higher Jeffrey M. Barbin (1992 BACH served on several nonprofit boards including education, received the BUS, 1998 JD), an attorney the Childrens Bureau of New Orleans, the Exceptional Leader Award with Phelps Dunbar, was United Way of Southeast Louisiana, and the from the State Higher named to the 2021 list of Best Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Most Education Executive Officers Lawyers in America. recently, he has volunteered with GiGi’s Association, cited for her role in launching a Playhouse New Orleans, a nonprofit whose state push to double the number of adults mission is to empower individuals with Down with postsecondary credentials by 2030. syndrome and their families. Lori Boeneke (1994 BACH John O. Shirley (1986 JD), an BUS), chief financial officer of Errol J. King, Jr. (1986 JD), an attorney with Phelps Dunbar, Wampold Companies, Baton attorney with Phelps Dunbar, was named to the 2021 list of Rouge, received the Society was named to the 2021 list of Best Lawyers in America. of Louisiana Certified Public Best Lawyers in America. Accountants Outstanding CPA in Business and Industry Award. Boeneke serves on the Heritage Ranch Christian Children’s Home Board of Directors as treasurer and head of the finance and HR committees.

62 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Jennifer Woods Bollich (1994 J. Alan Harrell (1994 BACH John A. “Jay” Montalbano BACH HS&E) was admitted to H&SS, 1997 JD), an attorney (1999 BACH BUS), a partner the Global Field Program at with Phelps Dunbar, was with Hannis T. Bourgeois, was Global Field Program at named to the 2021 list of Best named the 2020-2021 chair of Miami University in the Earth Lawyers in America. the Society of Louisiana Expeditions: Connected Certified Public Accountants Conservation course. She (LCPA). A past president of the completed a Conservation Campaign project Baton Rouge chapter, he has served on the in which she and fellow graduate students Marlon D. Henderson (1997 board since 2016. used research-based literature to create BACH SCI, 2001 DDS-NO), a inquiry-based lesson plans and activities on general dentist at Henderson Jean-Paul Perrault (1991 behalf of Centro de Educacion, Ciencia y Dentistry, Shreveport, La., was BACH BUS), an attorney with Conservacion. Bollich, a secondary science awarded the National Dental McGlinchey Stafford, was teacher at STEM Magnet Academy of Pointe Association (NDA) 2020 named to the 2021 list of Best Coupee, lives in Ventress, La. President's Award. Lawyers in America in the Henderson, current vice-president of the area Insurance Law. Lisa Marie Bunch (1997 BACH NDA, was selected to participate in the H&SS) is serving her fifth term American Dental Association's Institute for as president of the LSU Diversity in Leadership 2020-2021 program. Patrick Ragan Richard (1993 Houston Alumni Chapter. She He is a former president of the Pelican State JD), an attorney with Phelps has served on the board since Dental Association, former member of the Dunbar, was named to the 2008 and held multiple roles. Louisiana Health Care Commission, and 2021 list of Best Lawyers in Bunch is a founding member former board member of the LSU School of America. of the Houston SEC Alumni Group, a captain Dentistry Alumni Association. at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, serves on the Texas Bowl Committee, and Christine Hoang (1999 BACH volunteers with multiple other charities. A H&SS) attended the Writers Shannon S. Sale (1999 BACH senior hospital surgical representative, she Lab with her comedy “Fly H&SS), an attorney with holds an MBA from Saint Joseph's University. Girl.” An attorney, Hoang, a McGlinchey Stafford, was child of Vietnamese refugees, named to the 2021 list of Virginia Y. Dodd (1993 BACH entered her "second act" – Best Lawyers in America in BUS, 1997 JD), an attorney writing – after her daughter the area of Mass Tort with Phelps Dunbar, was started Pre-K. “Fly Girl,” her first screenplay, Litigation-Class/Class named to the 2021 list of Best was a 2020 Tribeca Film Network selected Actions-Defendants. Lawyers in America. feature, 2019 Austin Film Festival Pitch Finalist, and 2019 Sundance 2nd Rounder. Terri Broussard Williams Hoang's goal is to write broad comedy (1999 BACH MCOM) is the feature films and TV shows for universal author of Find Your Fire: Edmund J. Giering, IV (1990 audiences. Launched in 2015, the Writers Stories and Strategies to BACH HSS, 1994 JD, 2005 Lab is produced by co-founders Elizabeth Inspire the Changemaker MBA), general counsel of the Kaiden and Nitza Wilon and New York Inside You, a No. 1 Amazon Baton Rouge Area Women in Film & Television and supported New Release, No. 1 Amazon Foundation, was named the by Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Best Seller for Women in Politics, and No. 6 2020 recipient of the Oprah Winfrey. Cosmopolitan Best Non-Fiction Books of Outstanding In-House 2020. Williams is a member of the LSU Counsel Award for distinguished service by Ronnie L. Johnson (1990 JD), National Diversity Advisory Board. a nonprofit in-house counsel by the an attorney with McGlinchey Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the Stafford, was named to the American Bar Association, Business Law 2021 list of Best Lawyers in 2000s Section. Giering currently serves on the LSU America in the area of Riley Busenlener (2002 JD), Law John P. Laborde Energy Law Center Insurance Law. of Metairie, La., received the Advisory Council and the E.J. Ourso College Society of Louisiana Certified of Business Dean’s Advisory Council. Public Accountants (LCPA) Christine Lipsey (1994 BACH Special Recognition Award. Karleen J. Green (1994 BACH H&SS, 1982 JD), an attorney He is vice president of the BUS, 1997 JD), an attorney with McGlinchey Stafford, was Valuation Advisory group and with Phelps Dunbar, was named to the 2021 list of Best chairs LCPA's forensic, litigation, and named to the 2021 list of Best Lawyers in America in the valuation services committee. Lawyers in America. area of Commercial Litigation.

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Joseph J. Cefalu (2009 BACH Sarah Homann (2006 BACH Sunny Mayhall (2008 BACH BUS, 2012 JD), an attorney with SCI), assistant professor in the MCOM), an attorney with Breazeale, Sachse and Wilson, Division of Rheumatology and Breazeale, Sachse and was included in the 2021 list of Immunology at Vanderbilt's Wilson, was included in the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Medical Center, received her 2021 list of Best Lawyers: the area of Personal Injury Master of Public Health degree Ones to Watch in the area of Litigation-Defendants. from Vanderbilt University in Corporate Law. May and completed her practicum with the (2008 Ryan Christopher (2002 Tennessee Valley Healthcare System. Matthew M. McCluer BACH H&SS), an attorney with BACH MCOM) of New York, Homann earned her MD from Texas Tech Breazeale, Sachse and N.Y., was appointed global University Health Sciences Center. director of product marketing Wilson, was included in the 2021 list of Best Lawyers: at PubMatic, one of the largest Rachael Jeanfreau (2007 independent, omnichannel H&SS), an attorney with Ones to Watch in the area of supply-side platforms (SSP) in Breazeale, Sachse and Labor and Employment. the programmatic advertising space. Wilson, was included in the Mukti Patel (2002 BACH BUS, 2021 list of Best Lawyers: 2004 MAST BUS), associate Koby J. Coulon (2001 BACH Ones to Watch in the areas partner with Hannis T. ENGR) was appointed chief Labor and Employment Bourgeois, Baton Rouge, engineer at Gulf Coast Law-Management and Litigation-Labor received the Society of Pre-Stress Partners, in Pass and Employment. Louisiana Certified Public Christian, Miss. A native of Accountants (LCPA) Women to Bunkie, La., Coulon received Kyle LaFerney (2007 BACH Watch Emerging Leader Award. She is his Professional Engineering A&D) was promoted to involved with Our Lady of the Lake’s License (PE) in 2007. associate at Parkhill, a Children’s Hospital, Volunteers of America, multidisciplinary firm that Youth Oasis, and Habitat for Humanity. David C. Fleshman (2008 provides comprehensive BACH H&SS, 2011 JD), an architectural and engineering Erik Piazza (2004 JD), an attorney with Breazeale, design services. A client attorney with Phelps Dunbar, Sachse and Wilson, was manager in the site development and was named to the 2021 list of included in the 2021 list of planning sector, LaFerney has nearly fifteen Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch years of experience partnering with public in the areas of Construction clients and assisting in the management of Law and Litigation-Construction. their capital programs. He and his wife, Robin, have been married for ten years and Jacob E. Roussel (2008 Rowdy Gaudet (2007 MBA) have two sons, Cade and Myles. BACH ENGR, 2012 JD), an was named managing director attorney with Breazeale, at Emergent Method, a Ali Landry (2009 BACH Sachse and Wilson, was management consulting firm in MCOM) was named executive included in the 2021 list of Baton Rouge. He was most director of the Louisiana Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recently assistant chief School for Math, Science, in the areas of Construction administrative officer to East and the Arts Foundation in Law and Litigation-Construction. Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon July. Landry was previously Weston Broom and previously served as senior director of Brian Schmolke (2006 BACH infrastructure director of the disaster recovery development for the LSU College of H&SS), a financial advisor with unit and as chief of staff at the Louisiana Humanities & Social Sciences. the Schmolke Investment Office of Community Development. Team, Alexandria, La., Jason MacMorran (2002 received his Certified Druit G. Gremillion (2007 MAST BUS), a director with Financial Planner™ designation BACH H&SS, 2011 JD), an Postlethwaite & Netterville's in April. attorney with Breazeale, Consulting Services Group in Sachse and Wilson, was Baton Rouge and leader of Stewart Spielman (2000 included in the 2021 list of the firm's litigation niche, is BACH H&SS) joined Hinshaw Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch immediate-past chair of the & Culbertson law firm in New in the area of Insurance Law. Society of Louisiana Certified Public Orleans, La. Previously with Accountants (LCPA). McGlinchey Stafford, Spielman is certified as a business bankruptcy specialist

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64 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 by the American Board of Certification and Kelsey A. Clark (2012 BACH David Koke, III (2019 BACH the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization. H&SS, 2015 JD), an attorney BUS), of Lafayette, La., joined He was selected as an LCLD Fellow with Breazeale, Sachse and the Picard Group, a national (Leadership Council on Legal Diversity) Wilson, was included in the governmental affairs and in 2014. He received a JD from Tulane 2021 list of Best Lawyers: consulting services firm. He University Law School. Ones to Watch in the area of served on the committee staff Mass Tort Litigation/Class for the Natural Resources Megan Volpert (2006 MFA) Action-Defendants and Product Liability Committee; Agricultural, Forestry, won the Georgia Author of the Litigation-Defendants. Aquaculture and Rural Development Year award for her book, Boss Committee; and Ways & Means Committee Broad (Sibling Rivalry Press, Benson Edagwa (2012 PHD in the Louisiana House of Representatives. 2019). Volpert, author or editor SCI), associate professor of In addition to his work in the legislature, he of more than a dozen books pharmacology and assisted on a number of election campaigns on popular culture, including experimental neuroscience at through advocacy, marketing, and two Lambda Literary Award finalists, is an the University of Nebraska fundraising efforts. Koke participates in American Library Association honoree. She Medical Center, is a key fundraising events to support the Muscular has taught public high school English in inventor of a potential HIV Dystrophy Association and is a member of Atlanta, Ga., for more than a decade and eradication strategy that could allow people the705, an organization for young leaders. was 2014 Teacher of the Year. She writes for to feel a sense of normalcy while living with PopMatters and has edited anthologies of HIV. He also created a novel means to Catherine Breaux Moore philosophical essays on the music of Tom prevent HIV infection that could allow (2015 JD), an attorney with Petty and the television series RuPaul's people with or who are at risk of acquiring Breazeale, Sachse and Drag Race. the virus to take medicines once a year. Wilson, was included in the Photo: Robert Friedman 2021 list of Best Lawyers: Sarah Edwards (2011 BACH Ones to Watch in the area of A. Grady Williams, IV (2007 H&SS), an attorney with Health Care Law. JD), an attorney with Phelps McGlinchey Stafford, was Dunbar, was named to the named to the 2021 list of Best Kristin Oglesby (2015 BACH 2021 list of Best Lawyers Lawyers in America in the BUS, 2018 JD) joined the in America. areas Commercial Litigation Baton Rouge office of and Financial Services Breazeale, Sachse and Regulation Law. Wilson as an associate in the corporate practice Jennifer Zundel Forest (2011 group. Previously, she served 2010s MAST BUS), an internal as judicial law clerk to the Hon. S. Kyle Danielle Borel (2011 BACH auditor with RoyOMartin, was Duncan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the BUS, 2014 JD), an attorney elected to a two-year term as Fifth Circuit. with Breazeale, Sachse & a member at-large of the Wilson, received the American Louisiana Certified Public Duane Patin (2013 MAST Bar Association’s (ABA) 2020 Accountants (LCPA). She is a A&D), a colonel in the U.S. On the Rise-Top 40 Young past president of the Central Louisiana Army, graduated from the U.S. Lawyers Award. Active in the chapter and served as the chapter's Army War College at Carlisle, Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) and Emerging CPA Council representative. Pa., with a master's degree in the American Bar Association (ABA), she strategic studies on June 5, received the LSBA Young Lawyers Division Taylor Jacobsen (2014 BACH 2020. A native of Breaux Bat. P. Sullivan, Jr. Chair’s Award and ABA A&D, 2020 MAST A&D) was Bridge, La., Patin earned his bachelor’s Health Law Section Emerging Young named business development degree at University of Louisiana-Lafayette Lawyers in Healthcare Award. She serves on director of design and in 1996. His next assignment will be chief of the board of directors, chairs the advisory planning services at SJB staff at the Joint Readiness Training Center board, and serves on the fundraising Group. Jacobsen, founder of (JRTC), Fort Polk, La. committee of Lighthouse Louisiana. Borel Urban Canvas Studio and an was included in the 2021 list of Best United Aerial, an aerial data collection and Lawyers: Ones to Watch in the area of management company, and also worked 2020s Commercial Litigation. with landscaping companies CALLISONRTKL Alexa Candelora (2020 JD) and Studio Outside. He holds a remote joined the Baton Rouge Timothy G. Byrd (2014 JD), an pilot’s license and belongs to the National office of Breazeale, Sachse attorney with McGlinchey UAS Crediting Program NUSCAP, American and Wilson as an associate Stafford, was included in the Society of Landscape Architecture, in the casualty litigation 2021 list of Best Lawyers: Louisiana Business & Technology Center, practice group. Ones to Watch in the area of and SENSE’s Baton Rouge Business Commercial Litigation. Entrepreneurship. He is active in Habitat for Humanity and is a founding father of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

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Molly McRae Hirsch (BACH BUS 2009) and Leon Hirsch, III (BACH BUS 2009), along with Grandad Leon Hirsch (BACH BUS 1973) and a contingency of aunts, uncles and a godfather – all LSU grads – welcomed Mason James Hirsch to the world at 1:40 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2020, in Houston, Texas. Mason weighed in at 7 lbs. 14 oz., was 19.5 inches, and upon arrival said, “Coach O, put me in and Geaux Tigers!”

Lisa Rogillio Ramsey (BACH HS&E 2012) and her husband, Thomas “TJ” Ramsey, of Denham Springs, La., announce the birth of twins Carter and Reid on Jan. 15, 2020. Carter weighed 5 lbs. and 10 oz.; Reid, 4 lbs. and 15 oz. Big sister Elizabeth “Lizzy” Ramsey welcomed them home. Lisa writes: “The pregnancy seemed to center around LSU football. The gender reveal took place during the halftime of the LSU vs. Vanderbilt football game, using a decorated box filled with either two LSU cheerleader teddy bears or two LSU football teddy bears. The opening revealed two quarterback bears meaning identical twin boys were on the way. I went into labor and watched the Tigers complete a perfect season from my hospital room. My doctor joked that I could not give birth during the game since she was going to the championship game that evening. The boys held off, and mom, dad, and big sister Lizzie celebrated that perfect season with the Tigers.”

Ashley M. White (2009 BACH H&SS) and Michael P. Rosalez (2020 MSW), of Hammond, La., celebrated their marriage with a reception at the Lod Cook Alumni Center. “We now have more news to announce,” writes Ashley. “Our first child, Scarlett Moore Rosalez, was born June 10, 2020. She was three-and-a-half weeks early, weighing in at 7 lbs. and 20 ins., and is ready to be our newest Tiger Tailgater.”

66 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 In Memoriam

Lodwrick Monroe Cook, III (1950 BACH H&SS, 1955 of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles (of which he was Founder MAST ENGR, 1990 Honorary Doctor of Science), a Chairman) and Life Regent of Pepperdine University. Cook also successful businessman and philanthropist, passed had a long association with Junior Achievement having been away Sept. 28 in Sherman Oaks, California at the age former National Chairman and Trustee from 1987-1989 and was of 92. A Louisiana native, growing up in Grand Cane, National Director Emeritus. In 2000 he was inducted into the Junior Cook received degrees in mathematics and Achievement Business Hall of Fame. petroleum engineering at LSU, the latter after a tour of duty in the His financial contributions and work with the Library Foundation U.S Army as a First Lieutenant stationed in Germany. Later, while of Los Angeles led to the dedication of the Lodwrick Cook Rotunda working, he finished an MBA program at Southern Methodist in the library's downtown Los Angeles location. Cook received the University in 1965. Golden Plate Award and was inducted into the American Academy Cook’s professional career began in 1956 as an engineering of Achievement in 1992. trainee with Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). He quickly Cook was presented by Sigma Chi with the Significant Sig award in ascended the corporate ladder, eventually becoming the CEO and 1979 and later the Semi Century Sig for fifty years of membership. In Chairman of the Board. Under his leadership, ARCO was hailed as addition to his Honorary Doctorate from LSU, he was elected to the the Best-Managed U.S. Company, with profit margins approached LSU College of Engineering Hall of Distinction, and he was awarded by few and returns on equity equaled by none. In 1988, he was an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law from St. Augustine College, featured on the cover of Forbes magazine for his negotiating skills Honorary Doctor of Laws from Pepperdine University, Honorary and leadership. After thirty-nine years with ARCO, he retired in 1995 Doctor of Laws from Cal Lutheran University, and Honorary Doctor and was named Chairman Emeritus. From 1998 to 2002, Cook was of Humane Letters from Cal State Dominguez Hills. Co-Chairman of Global Crossing, Ltd., which built the first global Cook was honored with more than 500 awards, commendations, fiber-optic telecommunications network connecting more than 200 certificates, and proclamations throughout his lifetime. cities. Most recently, Cook served as Chairman of NeuroSigma, Cook was married for thirty-five years to his beloved wife Carole, Inc., a medical device company approved by the FDA for pediatric who passed away in 2010. He is survived by his first wife, five treatment of ADHD with future additional uses in development. children, and ten grandchildren who will celebrate his life for the Cook served as a director on numerous additional boards including rest of theirs. Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Litex, Inc., and Castle & Cooke. Cook was also a Trustee of the Aspen Institute. James R. Peltier (1950 BACH H&SS, 2005 Honorary Cook’s connection to LSU remained strong. He served on the Doctorate of Humane Letters), of Thibodaux, La., a LSU Alumni Association Board of Directors for twenty-seven years. retired oral and maxillofacial surgeon, died on May He made the lead gift for the construction of the Lod Cook Alumni 22, 2020. He earned his DDS from Loyola Center, dedicated on May 20, 1994. The LSU community, along University. He served as a captain in the U.S. Air with former U.S Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George Force during the Korean War, interned at Duke H.W. Bush, and Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, celebrated University Hospital, and did his residency at Charity Hospital. the opening of the new facility, which he envisioned would open Peltier was past president and founder of the Louisiana Society of doors for many alumni and future graduates. Cook and his wife, Oral Surgeons, past president of the Southeastern (U.S.) Society of Carole made the lead gift for construction of the Lod & Carole Cook Oral Surgeons, and a diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Conference Center, also known as The Cook Hotel located on the Maxillofacial Surgeons. He held fellowships in the American and LSU campus. The facility, the only privately owned and operated International College of Dentists and was chief of the medical staff alumni association hotel in the country, was dedicated on Oct. 21, and a director on the hospital board at St. Joseph's Hospital. He 2001. Cook was named a Louisiana Legend by Louisiana Public was former chairman of Argent Bank, a director of Hibernia Broadcasting in 1995. National Bank, and past president of numerous organizations, Cook's philanthropy had a particular focus on education, youth, and including the Thibodaux Rotary Club and the Thibodaux Chamber minority programs. He was a Trustee of the George Bush Presidential of Commerce. Peltier was the only person in LSU history to be Library Foundation and former Chairman and Lifetime Trustee of the elected chairman of the Board of Supervisors, president of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. He was also a member of LSU Alumni Association, and president of the LSU Foundation. He the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors at Oxford University in England, served as chairman of the board of CABL (Council For A Better and served on the board of advisors of the Carter Center of Emory Louisiana) and PAR (Public Affairs Research Council) and was University Board of Directors. In 1994, upon appointment by HM secretary/treasurer of the Lafourche Arc for more than sixty years. Queen Elizabeth II, Cook was invested by Prince Charles with the He received the Durel VFW Award for outstanding citizenship, insignia of Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order Tri-Parish Volunteer of the Year award, Inaugural Louisiana Dental of the British Empire (KBE) for his contribution to Anglo-American Association Distinguished Achievement award, the Thibodaux relations and support for philanthropic projects around the world. In Chamber Kennedy award; was named to the E.D. White High 2001, the Points of Light Foundation presented Cook with the first School Hall of Fame, named LSU Alumnus of the Year, named George Bush Corporate Leadership Award for his leadership role in Outstanding Community Businessman by Beta Gamma Sigma of supporting employee volunteerism and corporate citizenship. Nicholls State University, and selected by Arts & Antiques Since 1970, Cook and his family have resided in the Los Angeles Magazine as one of American's Top 100 Collectors. Peltier also area. His local community interests include serving as a member served aboard the Hospital Ship HOPE in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

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In Memoriam Charles M. Smith (1951 BACH H&SS, 1955 MD-NO), of for local students interested in medicine, served on the board of the Sulphur, La., a retired physician, passed away on Sept. Imperial Calcasieu Museum, and donated medical furniture and 15, 2020. After completing medical school, Smith equipment from the original 1927 Sulphur medical practice to the city’s enlisted in the U.S. Air Force’s Flight Surgeon Program Brimstone Museum. Inspired by his personal experiences as a cancer and spent twenty one months overseas in the Azores. survivor and his desire to improve patient care and cancer treatment in After his discharge, he started a residency program in Louisiana, he established the Dr. Charles M. Smith Chair of Medical family practice in Lafayette, La., and was then recruited for a family Physics & Health Physics Program in partnership with Mary Bird Perkins practice in Sulphur. He was elected coroner of the Calcasieu Parish Cancer Center. The academic-clinical partnership, which serves the Coroner’s Office, a position he held for twenty years. In addition to critical needs of Louisiana, is one of the strongest accredited medical serving as a physician, Smith supported his community through his physics programs in the country. Smith was a charter member of generosity and many volunteer commitments over the years. He was a College of Science Dean’s Circle and served on the Dean’s Circle Rotarian and directed the parish heart drive fund, polio drive, and Executive Committee. He was a member of the LSU Foundation’s immunization programs. In retirement, his philanthropic efforts were Laureate Society and the Forever LSU Society (formerly named the inspirational. He was a benefactor of the Methodist Children’s Home of 1860 Society). He was a 2009 Hall of Distinction honoree and was Southwest Louisiana, funded scholarships at McNeese State University inducted into LSU’s Alumni Hall of Distinction in 2017.

1940s Peggy Wilson Martin, 1956 BACH H&SS, Aug. 3, 2020, New Orleans, La. Gerard Arthur Becnel, 1949 BACH HS&E, July 6, 2020, Lake Charles, La. Gerry Elizabeth Roy Mathews, 1956 BACH HS&E, June 1, 2020, Oley L. Cross, 1947 BACH BUS, June 19, 2020, Denham Springs, La. Baton Rouge, La. Rita Winifred Montegut Davis, 1947 BACH HS&E, May 14, 2020, Oviedo, Fla. Hallie Loy McCarter, 1956 BACH HS&E, Sept. 12, 2020, Midland, Texas John Wayne "Mickey" Dupuy, 1946 BACH BUS, June 13, 2020, Metairie, La. John Wells “J.W.” Melancon, Sr., 1950 BACH ENGR, Aug. 28, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Frances McInnis Anderson Fish, 1949 BACH H&SS, May 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Joseph Allen Nadler, Jr., 1959 BACH BUS, Sept. 17, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Gloria Harlow, 1948 BACH AGR, July 30, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Easton Joseph Pitre, 1954 BACH H&SE, 1966 MAST H&SS, May 13, 2020, Golden Meadow, La. Gladys McDonald “Mac” Olinde, 1948 BACH HS&E, May 31, 2020, Henry Glynn Pylant, 1950 BACH ENGR, June 4, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. New Roads, La. Oran Andrew Ritter, 1957 BACH ENGR, 1968 MAST ENGR, Aug. 24, 2020, 1950s Baton Rouge, La. Don Adams, 1957 BACH BUS, May 9, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Iris Jean Altrogge Soulé, 1956 BACH HS&E, May 30, 2020, O’Fallon, Ill. Lenore Elizabeth Evans "Nonie" Banks, 1952 BACH HS&E, 1954 MAST William Patrick Stewart, Jr., 1951 BACH ENGR, July 23, 2020, Monroe, La. H&SS, 1972 PHD HS&E, June 17, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Genevieve Fuselier “Genny” Aillet Thomas, 1957 MLS, Aug. 2, 2020, George Noah Baquet, Jr., 1958 MD-NO, June 29, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Patricia Bergeron, 1955 BACH A&D, July 15, 2020, The Woodlands, Texas Kathleen McHenry Wilkins, 1950 MLS, July 25, 2020, Lufkin, Texas James Madison Bouanchaud, 1953 BACH BUS, June 7, 2020, Madeline N. Wright, 1950 BACH H&SS, Aug. 4, 2020, St. Francisville, La. New Roads, La. James Logan Brown, 1950 BACH H&SS, May 28, 2020, Austin, Texas 1960s Jane Louise Arbor, 1961 MLS, Sept. 17, 2020, Wichita, Kan. George Robert Burleson, 1955 BACH SCI, March 2, 2020, Las Cruces, N.M. Mary Kathleen Brian Arceneaux, 1967 BACH H&SS, May 15, 2020, Marilyn Hill Catchings, 1954 BACH HS&E, 1980 MAST HS&E, Aug. 15, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Alison Hubbard Ashton, 1969 BACH AGR, July 22, 2020, Durham, N.C. David A. DeBeouf, 1955 PHD BUS, July 20, 2020, McComb, Ill. Homer Ed Barousse, Jr., 1969 JD, Aug. 6, 2020, Crowley, La. Huey James Dufrene, 1957 BACH BUS, Sept. 10, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Victor Hilary Barousse, 1960 BACH BUS, June 20, 2020, New Orleans, La. Sarah "Sally" Frances Helm Evans, 1957 BACH HS&E, July 22, 2020, Sharon Ann Milton Bezdek, 1969 BACH HS&E, retired from Office of the Baton Rouge, La. Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development, Aug. 26, 2020, Mary Fay Lapeyrouse Freshley, 1954 BACH HS&E, May 22, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Lafayette, La. Julius Ladell Birch, 1960 BACH ENGR, Sept. 19, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Norma Alford Garner, 1952 BACH HS&E, May 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Thomas Allen Boone, 1969 BACH BUS, 1970 MBA, July 25, 2020, Russell John Gremillion, 1957 MAST HS&E, July 15, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Biaggio Anthony “Blaise” “Bill” Guarisco, 1955 BACH ENGR, May 5, 2020, Joseph Roy Chustz, Jr., 1960 BACH H&SS, Aug. 4, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Leon DeMent, Jr., 1968 BACH H&SS, 1971 MD-NO, July 15, 2020, Robert Harold Hodges, 1956 JD, Sept. 5, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Charles Baad Kahao, 1951 BACH BUS, Sept. 16, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. James "Jim" Euel DeLaune, Sr., 1966 MAST HS&E, July 23, 2020, Kenneth F. Kuzenski, 1957 MSW, July 23, 2020, Rosa Beach, Fla. Denham Springs, La. Leo Lambert, Jr., 1951 BACH HS&E, June 2020, Gonzales, La. Ronald Ruhl Donaldson,1960 BACH H&SS, Aug. 3, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Elsie Patricia Olinde “Pat” Laurent, 1948 BACH M&DA, June 28, 2020, Donald Beauchamp Fisher, 1964 BACH AGR, May 9, 2020, Highlands, N.C. New Roads, La. Kenneth Maxwell Frith, 1961 BACH ENGR, April 29, 2020, Rocky Branch, La. Hal Bailey "Buck" MacMurdo, 1956 BACH AGR, July 19, 2020, Lloyd Funchess, Jr., 1963 BACH HS&E, July 26, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La.

68 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Michelle Menton Gauthier, 1964 BACH H&SS, July 18, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Lou Delaunay, 1979 BACH H&SS, June 15, 2020, Austin, Texas John Lawrence Gibbens, 1964 BACH H&SS, June 25, 2020, Lockport, La. Catha Elise Gaines Duhe, 1976 BACH HS&E, Sept. 2, 2020, Gonzales, La. Emmett Casey Heitmeier, 1967 BACH AGR, April 30, 2020, Melbourne, Fla. May Yvonne Fuller, 1973 BACH HS&E, 1982 MAST HS&E, May 7, 2020, Carol Conerly Hopper, 1967 BACH HS&E, 1970 MAST HS&E, May 17, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. David E. Gaudin, 1974 BACH H&SS, 1977 MD-NO, May 10, 2020, Hammond, La. Nathan “B” Knox, 1965 BACH BUS, July 4, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Barbara Sutton Kavanaugh, 1978 MLS, July 26, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Jules Burton LeBlanc, III, 1966 BACH H&SS, 1969 JD, May 23, 2020, Steven W. Parnell, 1978 BACH H&SS, June 14, 2020, Laurel Hill, La. Baton Rouge, La. John Frank Prestigiacomo, 1977 BACH H&SS, 1983 MD-NO, 2002 MBA, Milford Lee, 1967 BACH H&SS, July 27, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. August 11, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Meredith Hoag Lieux, 1969 BACH SCI, 1986 JD, Retired Professor of Roy Dwayne Roberts, 1979 MAST HS&E, May 29, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Botany, Aug. 25, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Doris Pierce Sandifer, 1978 BACH HS&E, June 28, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Hiram Louis Lyles, 1969 BACH H&SS, 1992 MPA, May 10, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Llewelleyn Ray Sibley, attended 1974-1977, July 20, 2020, Opelousas, La. Iris May Guarisco Marionneaux, 1965 BACH HS&E, Aug. 28, 2020, Walker, La. Dennis R. Trombatore, 1976 BACH H&SS 1977 MLS, July 8, 2020, Austin, Texas Larry David Michel, 1967 BACH H&SS, 1969 MAST H&SS, May 18, 2020, Mobile, Ala. 1980s Joseph Henry Mitchen, 1964 MAST SCI, May 7, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Marc John Bitner, 1988 BACH H&SS, 1995 JD, July 16, 2020, New Orleans, La. Kenneth Wayne Peyton, Sr., 1968 BACH BUS, July 13, 2020, Pamela K. Ellender, 1985 BACH H&SS, July 4, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Denham Springs, La. Thomas Hobbs “Tom” Fletcher, 1987 BACH H&SS, May 24, 2020, Shelby L. Roper, 1963 BACH H&SS, Aug. 8, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Montreal, Canada Gerald Joseph “Jerry” Smith, 1968 BACH H&SS, June 9, 2020, Maureen Elizabeth Regan “Beth” Grissom, 1986 BACH HS&E, Baton Rouge, La. June 28, 2020, Johnsburg, Ill. Norman James Stafford, Jr., 1960 BACH AGR, Aug. 1, 2020, Franklinton, La. Mary Shea Miller Heider, 1989 BACH H&SS, April 3, 2020, Denver, Colo. Bobby E. Stanley, 1966 BACH BUS, July 10, 2020, Port Allen, La. Zoe Frances Howard, 1980 BACH A&D, May 15, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Toni Lyn Edwards Stephenson, 1967 BACH H&SS, May 2020, Boulder City, Nev. Judy Derouen Koonce, 1982 MLS, May 27, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Sharon Ann Smith Storey, 1968 BACH HS&E, June 4, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Francis Anthony “Frank” Manale, Jr., 1984 BACH ENGR, Aug. 20, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Louis Joseph Thibodeaux, 1962 BACH ENGR, 1966 MAST ENGR, 1968 PHD ENGR, Professor, School of the Coast & Environment, Aug. 18, 2020, Daniel Andrew Pressley, 1983 BACH H&SS, June 9, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. André Carolyn W. Ray, 1983 BACH BUS, Sept. 17, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Glenn Robert Timmons, 1966 MAST AGR, May 15, 2020, St. Francisville, La. 1990s William Joseph Torres, 1966 MD-NO, June 18, 2020, Houma, La. John Kincaid Carpenter, 1993 BACH MCOM, May 13, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Alfred Denman "Dennie" Wall, Jr., 1964 BACH ENGR, July 27, 2020, Cathy Joyce Pettway Greenwald, 1991 MAST HS&E, Aug. 19, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. Martin Johnson, 1991 BACH MCOM, Dean, Manship School of Mass Jean Claire Barlow Wattigny, 1966 BACH H&SS, April 18, 2020, New Iberia, La. Communication, Sept. 28, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Eleanor Elaine Webb, 1965 BACH HS&E, 1978 PHD HS&E, July 15, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. 2000s William Bruce King, 2008 MAST ENGR, June 8, 2020, Greenwell Springs, La. 1970s Richard Bailey Macmurdo, 2000 BACH H&SS, July 20, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Joseph L. “Joe” Anjier, 1977 MBA, July 27, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Frederick "Fred" Reuben Posey, 2004 MAST AGR, Aug. 31, 2020, Walter Bennett Atkinson, 1971 BACH AGR, July 21, 2020, Brandon, Miss. Baton Rouge, La. Elizabeth Nell Dubus “Beth” Baldridge, 1973 MAST H&SS, Aug. 30, 2020, Dee Dee Reilly, 2002 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, July 19, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Baton Rouge, La. John Edward “Jack” Bride, 1972 JD, April 11, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Carol Mae Cox Stuart, 2001 MAST H&SS, August 2020, Walker, La. Thomas W. Bunce, 1970 BACH H&SS, May 24, 2020, Henrico, Va. Terry J. Thomas, Jr., 2003 BACH H&SS, July 28, 2020, Baton Rouge, LA. Francis Raphael “F.R.” Cavell, Jr., 1972 BACH H&SS, March 30, 2020, John William Wright, 2006 PHD M&DA, June 9, 2020, Lafayette, La. Baton Rouge, La. Janice Smith Cox, 1972 MAST HS&E, June 20, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. 2010s Patsy Ree "Patti" Coxe, 1973 BACH A&D, June 18, 2020, Baton Rouge, La. Matthew "Matt" Vaughn Hopkins, 2013 BACH ENGR, July 25, 2020, Baton Rouge, La.

Jonathan P. Dowling Ralph Izard Robert J. “Bob” Koch Professor & Hearne Chair of Professor Emeritus, former Interim Dean and Associate Retired Professor Theoretical Physics Dean of Graduate Studies, Manship School of Mathematics June 5, 2020 Sept. 3, 2020 Aug. 11, 2020 Baton Rouge, La. Athens, Ohio Baton Rouge, La.

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Tigers in Print

Al Comeaux (1987 BACH MCOM) Change (the) Management: Why We as Leaders Must Change for the Change to Last (Lioncrest Publishing) There’s a reason two-thirds of organizational change initiatives are unsuccessful and an estimated $2 trillion is wasted on change each year: change efforts are largely one-dimensional. Now Change Up (2004), examined leadership normative children and those (the) Management brings a second characteristics of those bold with special education needs, dimension to the conversation. In enough to imagine, create, and identifies how best to perform addition to setting rational goals, successfully lead schools within the neuropsychological assessments leaders also must become deeply new educational reform initiative. of executive function using both involved in the change process— The second, Journeys of Charter qualitative and quantitative not outsourcing it to others. They School Creators: Leadership for the measures, and presents the must pull their people through Long Haul (2019), followed up with best treatment interventions for the change, reaching them on the original leaders fifteen years improvement. The book makes an emotional level rather than later – asking what had changed, special note of the contributions of pushing change on their people what hadn't, and what they had A.R. Luria, from Russia, and Ralph M. transactionally. Using both science learned from their leadership Reitan, from the U.S. as the "fathers" and well-told stories that illustrate journeys. In Changing to Charter, of modern neuropsychology to the need for this fundamentally Shore and her co-authors zeroed help readers understand current new way of thinking, this book in on a subcategory of the initial advances in theory and clinical finally speaks straight to leaders to group of leaders, those who started applications relating to help them re-think how to manage out as traditional public or private executive function. school principals, then made the change…and even how to lead Joseph Arthur Simon (1960 BACH decision to "convert" their schools every day. Instead of drawing on the BUS, 1967 MAST H&SS) work of outside observers, Change to public charter school status. As The Greatest of All Leathernecks: (the) Management draws on the one reviewer comments, this is "the John Archer Lejeune and the author’s decades of experience book that every person interested Making of the Modern Marine Corps in better schools for our children in-seat as a change champion and (LSU Press) senior executive at well-known must read." companies as well as decades The Greatest of All Leathernecks is Darlyne G. Nemeth (1971 MAST the first comprehensive biography of research on the subject of H&SS, 1973 PHD H&SS) with organizational change. of John Archer Lejeune (1867-1942), Janna Glozman a Louisiana native and the most Rebecca Martin Shore (1980 Evaluation and Treatment of innovative and influential leader BACH HS&E) Neuropsychologically Compromised of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Changing to Charter: How and Why Children: Understanding Clinical twentieth century. As commandant School Leaders Convert (Rowman & Applications Post Reitan and Luria of the Marine Corps from 1920 Littlefield Publishers) (Academic Press) to 1929, Lejeune reorganized, Changing to Charter is the third in a Evaluation and Treatment of revitalized, and modernized the series of books that are the result of Neuropsychologically Compromised force by developing its new and two decades of study of successful Children: Understanding Clinical permanent mission of amphibious leaders of charter schools across Applications Post Luria and Reitan assault. The son of a plantation the United States. The first book, defines what executive functions owner from Pointe Coupee Parish, Adventures of Charter School are, discusses differences in Lejeune enrolled at LSU in 1871, Creators: Leading from the Ground executive functioning between aged fourteen. Three years later,

70 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 he entered the U.S. Naval Academy, Band Drumline stops on Victory Hill. approach to the media production afterward serving for two years Cymbal, snares, bass give us a thrill! process, and craft a distinct idea for a at sea as a midshipman. In 1890, To the Ag Center Dairy Store for a project’s intent and form. In five in- he transferred to the Marines and cold treat, Delicious ice cream tasty depth chapters, the book delves into ascended quickly in rank. During and sweet." Included are beloved topics ranging from pre-production the Spanish-American War, Lejeune mascot Mike the Tiger, baseball and planning processes to technical commanded and landed Marines at Alex Box Stadium, the chiming considerations and post-production at San Juan, Puerto Rico, to rescue Memorial Tower, dancing Golden methods. It concludes with an American sympathizers who had Girls, the Quad, the Greek Theater, overview of career opportunities for been attacked by Spanish troops. and much more. aspiring media-makers. This book is A few years later, he arrived with a an invaluable resource for students Glynn Young (1973 BACH MCOM) battalion of Marines at the Isthmus Dancing Prince (Dunrobin Publishing) and professionals alike looking to of Panama, part of Colombia at the hone creative production techniques time, securing it for Panama and A mother’s last words, a father’s final within a broad range of formats and making possible the construction message, and a strange painting: environments, particularly those of the Panama Canal by the United Michael Kent-Hughes faces personal requiring effective marketing and States. He went on to lead Marine tragedy, one that leads to long- advertising-oriented content. expeditions to Cuba and Veracruz, lasting damage to the relationship Terri Broussard Williams (1999 Mexico. During World War I, Lejeune with his youngest child, Prince BACH MCOM) was promoted to major general and Thomas. As the young boy grows to adulthood, he finds his own way Find Your Fire: Stories and Strategies given command of an entire U.S. to Inspire the Changemaker Inside Army division. After the war, Lejeune in life, as the estrangement from his You (Movement Maker Publishing became commandant of the Marine father continues. But in the boy’s Corps, a role he used to develop hands and heart will lie the future of Looking for inspiration from real its new mission of amphibious the kingdom. Dancing Prince is the women changing the world right assault, transforming the corps from moving conclusion of the Dancing now? Look no further. Find Your an ancillary component of the U.S. Priest series. Fire will ignite your potential with powerful stories and no-nonsense military into one of its most vibrant Steve Zaffuto (1991 BACH MCOM) and essential branches. He also Essential Knowledge for the Aspiring advice. You'll meet social justice created the Marine Corps Reserve, Media Professional (Routledge Press warriors, elected leaders, activists, social entrepreneurs, and other oversaw the corps’s initial use of Essential Knowledge for the Aspiring aviation, and founded the Marine extraordinary women on a mission of Media Professional provides readers Corps Schools, the intellectual change. Named #6 Best Non-Fiction with the skillset needed to produce planning center of the corps that Book of 2020 by Cosmopolitan professional, high-quality video currently exists as the Marine Corps Magazine and an instant Amazon #1 content in today’s competitive media University. As the author masterfully New Release and #1 Best Seller, this landscape. The author draws on over illustrates, the mission and value of book will give you the tools to turn two decades of industry experience the corps today spring largely from the vision for your own movement to offer strategies for how to develop the efforts and vision of Lejeune. into a reality. a sense of design, adopt a holistic Linda Colquitt Taylor (1974 BACH HS&E) The ABCs of LSU (LSU Press) Tiger Nation's youngest generation will delight in The ABCs of LSU. Rhymed verse and colorful drawings introduce children to the landmarks, history, activities, and traditions of Louisiana's flagship university. Each page of the book highlights a different letter of the alphabet: "Tiger

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 71 PROFILE Tiger Nation The Enduring Bonds of Brotherhood

By John Grubb Fraternal organizations have get involved in events at LSU that long existed at LSU and helped would have been very difficult as an forge not only friendships but individual. Delt attracted me because also enduring bonds between of the sense of belonging. I felt comfortable with the guys I met during young men and women that led to rush. Having a fraternity house on the institutional creations – marriages, lake was a nice draw also.” companies, private foundations, Fraternity roots run deep, despite and yes, kids. For the most part, age differences, according to Monk. “I these bonds have centered have stayed close with a number of primarily on friendships, some brothers in person, more with the so strong they cross decades advent of Facebook. I have a neighbor and generations. that I see often and my internal For three such friends – Gordon medicine doctor was two years Monk, Jerry Shea, and Jeff Mohr older than me. I do keep in close – those bonds have kept them contact with my fraternity roommate connected year after year to LSU from Bossier City. While my children where they began their college attended LSU Lab School, I met a careers as fraternity brothers in Delta dad who served as chapter president

Delta Tau Delta fraternity brothers, from left, Tau Delta. about ten years younger than myself, LSU Alumni Association Chairman Jeff Mohr, and we’ve become good friends.” Gordon Monk Association President and CEO Gordon Monk, As a result of a disciplinary action and former Chairman Jerry Shea prior to a board Gordon Monk, a native of Leesville, La., meeting at the Lod Cook Alumni Center. did his undergraduate years at LSU a few years ago, the chapter is not from 1974-1978 and earned a master’s currently on campus. “That has been degree in public administration in 1984. a detriment to staying close to the He served in the Louisiana Legislative fraternity. Before the closure, I would Fiscal Office for many years, retiring as attend functions – especially around legislative fiscal officer in 2012. football season and chapter events,” “Fraternity roots Monk and his wife, Debbie, an he said. ExxonMobil retiree, raised three Monk was a part of his son Steve’s run deep.” children in Baton Rouge. They are involvement with Delta Tau Delta at active University volunteers and Vanderbilt. “I became friends with benefactors of several campus the fraternity’s CEO when Steve departments, including the LSU started Vanderbilt. During a student Alumni Association. orientation meeting, the Greek Life Monk was named president table noted that Delta Tau Delta and chief executive officer of the would return to Vanderbilt in Steve’s Association in May after serving sophomore year, after an absence as interim since October 2019. His since 1920. I called the Delt Office and connection to LSU through his reached out about Vanderbilt and LSU. fraternity was a vital link to the My son became a founding father at organization as he was considered Vanderbilt, and I got to participate in for the interim role at the request of the ritual and installation of the new Jeffrey Mohr, a longtime friend and chapter. It was a very moving time fraternity brother who would assume for me as a dad and a brother,” said chairmanship of the LSU Alumni Monk. “A brother with me from the Association Board of Directors in 2020. Delt chapter at LSU was the chapter “Coming from a small town and high advisor for the Vanderbilt chapter.” school, LSU was a bit overwhelming. “I met Jerry as a pledge, when he The fraternity gave me a sense of returned for a game or other event, belonging to a group within the larger and we ran into each other at events LSU community,” said Monk. “Delta from time to time. Jeff was a pledge Tau Delta gave me an avenue to when I was a senior. We caught up on

72 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 the Traveling Tigers trip to Green Bay Beverly Shea earned both and have been close friends since that bachelor’s and master’s degrees in time,” he explained. human ecology. “I have been involved with LSU and “LSU and the education, friends, the Association for a very long time – and opportunities it afforded has LSU was very good to me and I try to played a major role in our ability to pay them back as I can,” Monk said. be able to give back some of our “Some of the best years of my life were time, talents, and treasures. Beverly at LSU and the Delt experience was and I participated early on in our local wonderful. I met my wife at a Delt alumni chapter, moved up to serve on event. Any success that I’ve had in the National LSUAA Board of Directors, life I owe to my parents and my time and became the first husband and wife at LSU from an educational and to both chair the board,” Shea said. social aspect.” Shea also served six years on the LSU Board of Supervisors, including Jerry Shea a term as chair, and served on the Born in New Iberia, La., Jerry Shea’s board of the Tiger Athletic Foundation. life seems one with many road- His years of service to both LSU mapped points along the way – in and the national fraternity have not hindsight, of course. It was a blind gone unnoticed. Among his many date with a young lady from Kentucky awards and honors in business and that began that course while he was in philanthropy, he was inducted into a student and member of Delta the LSU Alumni Association Hall of Tau Delta. Distinction in 2001 and awarded the “The fraternity and brotherhood Delta Tau Delta Lifetime Achievement offered by the Delts provided bonding Award in 2017. with other men to grow, learn, “The staff of the Association has been socialize, and work to better our the most important part of keeping our communities. Sports attracted me to relationship going, as have people we fraternity life initially, but meeting and met along the way. Dr. Jack Andonie, making lifelong friends was important. Lod Cook, and former LSU President I graduated from high school weighing John Lombardi were major influences in 145 pounds, so did not play football, our lives,” he said. “Fraternity brothers but playing it was always my love as Mike Candella, Art Favre, Sid Gonsoulin, well as basketball, volleyball, softball, and Clint Wainwright remain close and track,” said Shea. friends to this day.” Shea and his wife, Beverly, married four years after meeting Jeff Mohr and began what is a truly full-family Jeff Mohr, president of Lewis Mohr engagement with LSU, community Real Estate and Insurance Agency in service, and philanthropy that has Baton Rouge, graduated from LSU far-reaching effects. in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in “My dad took me to LSU football management and administration and games while growing up. He was a earned a master's degree in insurance petroleum engineer and attended LSU. management from Boston University. My mother wanted me to go to Notre Mohr’s love for LSU runs deep – Dame, but I’d been a Tiger since birth back to the days he joined Delta Tau and followed my dad’s lead to Baton Delta – and the brotherhood and Rouge, got my undergraduate degree connections the organization offered in petroleum engineering, then stayed ultimately brought him to his current two extra football seasons to get an role as chair of the LSU Alumni MBA. We still attend all home football Association Board of Directors. games and many basketball games,” “I had no desire to go away to said Shea. college. I was content to attend and

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graduate from LSU and work in the spot on Coursey Boulevard,” Mohr family business. Of course, a lot of that said. “It was that moment that the was driven by the magic of football idea surfaced. “I knew Gordon games,” said Mohr. “Plus, Coach Dale was enjoying retirement, but I saw Brown had given everyone basketball before me someone who could take fever, and those were some great the role as interim president while times as a student. It is also a sense of we conducted a search for a new pride. Pride is also a big part of what president for the organization.” brought me to LSU.” And take it he did. What was to Mohr’s first encounter with Shea come next was amazing. was at a Delt crawfish boil with “Jerry The Next Chapter Shea and the Cajuns.” He recalls: “I “I never in my wildest dreams thought don’t know if Jerry will remember this, this would have been how events but I was a sophomore and said to unfolded,” said Mohr. “To engage a Jerry, ‘Hey, put a few crawfish aside friend who so graciously accepted for my mom.’ As we were leaving, he a job as an interim CEO for an handed me about five pounds and organization, only to have a global Jeff Mohr, Gordon Monk, and Jerry Shea at the said, ‘These are for your mom’. Who national championship game in January. pandemic emerge and change the does that – let alone a young world forever, is not something anyone twenty-something?” could have predicted. But, here is A member and officer of numerous the person who steps up in those “And three friends civic and professional organizations, conditions and chooses to lead,” look back on Mohr served as president of Delta he said. Tau Delta House Corporation from Throughout the pandemic, the a lifetime of 1992-1998 and president of the LSU Alumni Association and its many memories while Southern Division House Corporation operations – The Cook Hotel, Shelton of Delta Tau Delta National Fraternity Alumni Gift Shop, Traveling Tigers, looking forward to from 1994-1998. He also served on and LSU Alumni Magazine – have making many more.” the fraternity’s National Insurance operated through the dedication of Advisory Council. the staff and under the leadership of Mohr remembers, too, reconnecting Gordon Monk. And three friends look with Gordon Monk on the Traveling back on a lifetime of memories while Tigers trip to Green Bay. “The Alumni looking forward to making many more. Association is special. You feel part “To me, the real story is how LSU, of something so much bigger. One of Delta Tau Delta, and the LSU Alumni the big influencers is Traveling Tigers. Association brought three diverse They are always so accommodating individuals together. Great friends, and caring,“ said Mohr. brothers, and alumni . . . not a bad Indeed, the connection was story,” said Mohr. fortuitous. It was at a luncheon that the bonds of brotherhood and John Grubb, an LSU retiree and LSU fraternity played a part in writing the Alumni Association vice president, future when in September of 2019, hold bachelor’s and master’s degrees Association President Cliff Vannoy from the LSU Manship School of Mass announced his retirement after thirty- Communication. By day, he is general eight years with the organization. manager/operations manager of The Cook Hotel & Conference Center but Mohr, Gordon, and other fraternity is a reporter/writer at heart and has brothers gather several times a year been a contributor to this magazine for lunch. since 1988. “In September 2019, we happened to be dining at Willie’s, a local favorite

74 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 PROFILE Pirates, Steelers and Tigers

Ever since he was a little kid, LSU graduate and Lafayette-native Tyler By Rachel Holland Batiste (2009 BACH MCOM) has loved sports. Today, he is responsible for delivering sports news as the assistant managing editor of sports at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But his journalism work has focused on more than just sports, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. “I think it really put into perspective how unimportant and important sports are at the same time. There are obviously much more important issues in the world, but without the escape and entertainment that sports regularly provides, there was a void in a lot of people's lives, both professionally and personally,” Batiste said. “A lot of my staff, along with myself, tried our best to pitch in where we could in other aspects of our news operation, and that's been a fun challenge for us all, but where we thrive and what we love is sports, for better or worse.” Batiste’s career began with his involvement with LSU student media. He worked for KLSU, then joined The Daily Reveille, working in a number of different positions. “I think I was only the third African American editor-in-chief of The Reveille. Obviously, some of my closest friends to this day are folks that I met through student media. It was a really big part of my life,” Batiste said. Tyler Batiste is assistant managing editor of sports at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. As a student in the Manship School of Mass Communication, Batiste attended a panel and had to introduce himself to one of the speakers – the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. That introduction would lead to an internship with the publication. “You learned “Seven years later, they were looking for talent, and they noticed I had how to be part previously interned there. Another editor reached out, and I ended up back where it started. But that was my only internship – where I am working right now,” of a big market. he said. It was a really Before he moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., Batiste’s professional career started in Houma, La., with the Houma Courier, as well as the Daily Comet, the Thibodaux, good place La., newspaper. He started as a copy editor and page designer, then was to learn.” promoted to the copy desk chief position. “The staff was only four people, but it was a lot of responsibility for someone who was only twenty-two. I am glad my editors gave me that opportunity and entrusted me with running that show,” Batiste said. In 2012, he traveled north, to the News Journal in Wilmington, Del., and oversaw the sports operation at night. “I was number two of the department, and I really got lucky that someone wanted to bring me on and help them run a sports department,” Batiste said. “Being only thirty minutes from Philadelphia, we covered the Philadelphia professional teams. You learned how to be part of a big market. It was a really good place to learn.” Finally, in 2014, Pittsburgh called, and he became a digital news editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s website, before moving back to sports. Batiste has been running that sports department for the last two years. “It can be stressful at times, but it’s what you sign up for,” he said.

Rachel Holland is the content coordinator at the LSU Division of Strategic Communications.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 75 PROFILE Tiger Nation Haltzman Law Provides New Legal/Medical Model

By Bailey Chauvin Matthew Haltzman (2010 BACH H&SS, 2014 JD) is reimagining the way his clients secure expert consultation for their cases through Haltzman Law Firm. Based in Fort Collins, Colo., Haltzman’s is the only law firm in the area with both a medical doctor and a toxicologist on staff. This in-house expert medical consultation allows the firm to resolve clients’ cases in a more cost-effective way. Haltzman recognized a need for a new model during his four years as an attorney for a personal injury firm. He often found himself consulting with his father, a psychiatrist, in order to best serve his clients. “Being a psychiatrist, he has good insight into a lot of medical issues that span from things you would learn in medical school up to very specific issues in psychiatry,” Haltzman said. “I had unrestricted access to that kind of information.” This unrestricted access inspired him to open his own law firm in late 2019, which specializes in criminal defense and personal injury. Besides the firm’s three attorneys, it also employs Haltzman’s father as a medical consultant, two toxicology consultants, and an investigator/paralegal. Hiring an expert for a criminal or civil case under the traditional model is often a time-consuming, costly process. After the initial consultation and hiring, the client or attorney becomes responsible for the expert’s travel cost, time, and other case-based expenses, which can quickly add up. “It’s a very cost prohibitive model, and it gets very expensive for clients,” Haltzman said. “They Matthew Haltzman’s law firm provides in-house medical services to resolve client’s cases more often have to make a choice: ‘Is it worth hiring this expert for my case? Am I efficiently. willing to spend this kind of money with no guarantees of success?’”

76 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 “This is an original design . . . . as far as I know, we're one of a kind.”

In contrast, Haltzman’s firm gives its clients direct access to experts from the very beginning. With a client’s approval, the firm’s medical and toxicology experts screen their case for any issues that might be worth exploring. The attorney then presents the client with several options based on the experts’ initial opinion of the case, including having one of the firm’s experts write a report or hiring an independent expert. This initial expert screening process saves the firm’s clients money and helps its attorneys resolve cases more effectively. An attorney knowledgeable about the medical components of a case, such as mental health and addiction issues, can better explain an expert’s opinion to their client and advise them on how they should proceed. Likewise, the ability to clearly explain medical information to a judge during a trial can be beneficial. “With direct lines to toxicologists and medical experts, I’m able to educate myself,” Haltzman said. “We’re able to know something new about this case that helps us with the case we’re working on and any future case that comes in with a similar fact pattern.” From an early age, Haltzman was intent on becoming a lawyer and advocating for others. When it came time for him to choose a college, he knew he wanted to attend a “big school in the South” with a law program, which led him to LSU. After earning a bachelor’s degree in political science and history, Haltzman decided to attend LSU Law, which he describes as one of the biggest and most influential decisions of his life. “I’d put my legal education up against any lawyer’s law school; my education at LSU Law rivals, if not exceeds, what they got,” Haltzman said. “We had great professors, but not only that – we had a way of learning that gave us some real-world experience.” After graduating, Haltzman moved to Wyoming, serving as a special prosecutor for Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park. He then practiced complex civil litigation at a firm in Cheyenne, Wyo., before moving to Colorado. Haltzman’s firm’s approach to expert consultation is unique to the Fort Collins area, and it may even be the first of its kind. “I don’t know of anyone with a pool of experts who have signed on to do consultations specific to a law firm,” Haltzman said. “This is an original design as far as we’re concerned. As far as I know, we’re one of a kind.”

Bailey Chauvin is a political science junior and editor-in- chief of The Reveille.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 77 PROFILE Tiger Nation Delivering Solutions: Innovating at USPS

By Libby Haydel As a minority and a female, Jayda initially wanted to pursue math, until Malveaux (2017 BACH ENGR) her mother pointed out that she could has worked hard to excel in aim higher. “One day, she told me I college and now as an operations have more potential than that, not that there’s anything wrong with industrial engineer for the U.S. teaching math,” Malveaux said. Postal Service in New Orleans. “That’s when I branched out into the In her role with the USPS, she engineering world.” tries to improve the mail-sorting Malveaux thought she wanted to process, especially in light of the major in computer science at LSU ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. until she attended the college’s “With letter volume going down, we Encounter Engineering Summer can’t continue to have employees Camp, now known as Geaux manually work that mail, so we Engineering, where she discovered brought in robots to sort the letter she liked industrial engineering. volume,” Malveaux said. “That way, “I really enjoyed my IE classes,” she we’re decreasing our cost in letters. said. “They were all tailored to what Since package volume is increasing, I wanted to do, from plant layout and we need to figure out what we need supply chain to ergonomics, which all to do to increase efficiency. Pretty apply to my current job.” much every day it’s asking, what do Part of the challenge Malveaux we need to be doing to make things faced as a student was being a better while still figuring out where our female in STEM [science, technology, Through her hard work and words of biggest opportunities are? What do we engineering, and math], recalling she encouragement, Jayda Malveaux shows female need to do to get our service scores engineering students that anything is possible. was one of only a few females working up and improve customer satisfaction?” during her internships. Today, she After earning her industrial advises female engineering students engineering degree, Malveaux went to to get ahead of the curve by getting work for USPS, even though she had to know their IE professors. “That will quite a few other jobs to choose from. take you a long way,” she said. “You “I really enjoyed USPS had a two-year onboarding can take their class one semester, then my IE classes. fast-track training program to learn the next semester use them as the complex business and gave her a mentor.” They were time to work on process improvement. Malveaux spent last year all tailored to In those two years, she trained in volunteering with the Junior League Oklahoma and Washington, D.C., of New Orleans, helping students what I wanted where she met other engineers. prepare for RISE [Resident In-Service to do . . .” Malveaux credits her many Examination] by teaching them math. internships, mentors, and the College She is now considered an active of Engineering Office of Diversity member and is going on her second for helping her navigate through year with JLNO. college and lead her to where she is today. She grew up in Lafayette, La., Libby Haydel is a communications attended Acadiana High School, and specialist in the College of Engineering.

78 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 Start Your Forever AT THE COOK

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PLANNING BY AMY BREWER OF WEDDINGS TAYLOR MADE ● PHOTO BY CAITLINLSU AlumniB. PHOTOGRAPHY Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 79 PROFILE Tiger Nation Showing Up By Showing Out

By Steve Neumann Kimberly McGlonn (2001 BACH H&SS, 2002 MAST HS&E, 2007 PHD HS&E) grew up on Grant Boulevard on the north side of Milwaukee, Wis., on a block that was a unique island in the city back then – it was the only block where there were Black and white people living as neighbors in an otherwise highly segregated city. It’s also where McGlonn was exposed to a wide range of ideas about beauty, health, clothing, and poverty that would later inform her business, Grant Blvd, a social impact fashion company in Philadelphia. “I was inspired to launch Grant Blvd because I was determined to be of service not only to marginalized people but also to the planet,” McGlonn says. From sweatshirts and tees to runway styles, McGlonn’s company uses no new water and barely any new materials, and zero outsourcing. The small Grant Blvd team designs, cuts, and sews every piece of clothing in its collection. “Ultimately, the mission of Grant Blvd is to make clothes that are undeniably and reliably stylish, but to also center an approach to design within the fight for justice and reform,” McGlonn says. “For me, sustainability also means hiring women, particularly those that are returning citizens, immigrants, and those working through homelessness.” McGlonn credits her parents with the fervor behind her vocation. Both parents worked full-time at a post office, but in their spare time, her father worked with people living in poverty on the north side of Milwaukee who didn't have access to fresh food, and her mother volunteered at a women's correctional institute. “So there's all those little pieces of that house on that boulevard that made me think this was the way that I could show up,” McGlonn says. Before starting Grant Blvd, McGlonn was a teacher for eighteen years, and she was the only Black person on the faculty. But as she was teaching To Kill a Mockingbird to her students and trying to get them to think about the character Tom Robinson in a way that had some nuance, she found herself feeling disconnected. “And then I saw Ava DuVernay’s documentary, 13th,” McGlonn

Grant Blvd founder Kimberly McGlonn. says, “and it elevated my understanding of the complexities and history of mass incarceration. So then I was like, ‘Okay, Kimberly, you know how this works. You know how being incarcerated creates these barriers. Teaching is great. What else are you going to do?’” “I was inspired to launch McGlonn took inspiration from her mother, and spent a year learning about the fashion industry while working in the prison-industrial system. She started Grant Blvd because I volunteering for Books through Bars, a program in Philadelphia that distributes was determined to be free books and other educational materials to people who are incarcerated. (Today, for every Grant Blvd garment purchased, the company sends a book of service not only to through the program.) marginalized people but It’s been three years since McGlonn resigned from teaching full-time, and Grant Blvd has been a resounding success. McGlonn even opened her first also to the planet.” brick-and-mortar store in University City, Philadelphia this past spring. And as her own business continues to grow, McGlonn wants people to know that there's optimism about a new crop of social impact businesses that are driving every single day to put people on the planet first. “Hopefully,” McGlonn says, “what my showing up will do is give an affirming message for people who are trying to figure out how to navigate such horrible odds.” “Voltaire said we must cultivate our own garden,” she adds. “My garden is in Philadelphia, and I'ma weed the hell out of that garden. I'm gonna roll up my sleeves, put my head down, and get my hands dirty. That's all I can do with this life.”

Steve Neumann is a freelance writer living in New Jersey. His website is https://stephenneumann.com/.

80 LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 The Right Stuff

William “Bill” Conti (1963 BACH M&DA, 1985 HON) and Shelby Cox Conti (1965 BACH HS&E) are giving their alma mater one of the University’s biggest in-kind gifts in history – the original scores from Bill’s prolific career as a composer and conductor, including the iconic “Rocky” theme. By giving these scores, the Contis will enable aspiring musicians at LSU – as Bill once was – to learn from his iconic work while ensuring its preservation in the long term. The William and Shelby Conti papers, to be held in LSU Libraries’ Special Collections, include his well-known film scores from “The Right Stuff,” the “Rocky” series, the “Karate Kid” series, “For Your Eyes Only,” and “Dynasty.” Read the story in the summer/fall issue of Cornerstone at lsufoundation.org/s/1585/17/interior. aspx?sid=1585&gid=1&pgid=3799

OOPS! The degree information listed for WHAT’S YOUR VOLUNTEER PASSION? Andrew Gravens in the profile “Cooking Send a photo of yourself “in action” and tell Tigers Around the World how Up Kindness” was incorrect. It should be and why you share your time and talents with others. (2014 BACH H&SS). The magazine regrets the error.

LSU Alumni Magazine | Fall/Winter 2020 81 Tiger Nation Scholarship Honors Rosalyn Fagan’s Legacy

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation

Rosalyn Fagan, seated, celebrated her 100th birthday in August 2019. Photo: Sean Gasser, InRegister, August 2019.

A scholarship endowment College in Mississippi for one year, then honoring LSU alumna Rosalyn Mississippi State College for Women. Simmons Fagan was created She attended LSU during the summers earlier this year to encourage while working on her teaching degree outstanding students majoring in at MSCW. After graduation, she taught preschool in Alabama until returning to education. The Rosalyn S. Fagan Baton Rouge where she met my father, Endowed Scholarship will provide who rented a room from Aunt Orene. $1,000 a year – $500 in the fall “Mother taught home economics and spring semesters – to a full- at Pride High School and earned her time junior or senior pursuing master's degree in education in 1958. a degree in education in the She served as state supervisor of College of Human Sciences & home economics for several years Education. When fully endowed, before returning to teaching at the the scholarship will support three sixth-grade level, then fourth-grade students annually. level, at Highland Elementary School. Jeanne Hebert (1968 BACH HS&E) During those years, she earned thirty shares a bit of information about hours over her master's degree and her mother, Rosalyn Simmons Fagan certification to teach French as a (1958 MAST AGR), in whose name second language. She attended Paul the scholarship was established by Valery University in Montpelier, France, Jeanne and her husband, Larry (1969 one summer to learn how to speak the BACH BUS). language more fluently. “My mother’s dream to become a ”My mother loved teaching and teacher began when she graduated sharing her love of knowledge in all from high school at sixteen years of things. We hope those who benefit age. Her brother and sister (Orene from our scholarship will strive for Muse) made it possible for her to excellence in their teaching careers attend college by providing the funding. and have a love of learning they want She attended Pearl River Junior to share with their students.”

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From left, William Daniel – III, IV, and V. William Daniel, V (2016 BACH ENGR, 2018 MAST ENGR), a third- generation LSU petroleum engineering graduate, pays tribute to “great men and avid LSU supporters” – his father, William Daniel, IV (1978 BACH ENGR, 1994 MAST ENGR, 1996 MAST ENGR), and grandfather, William Daniel, III (1952 BACH ENGR). “My father was a research associate at the LSU Center for Energy studies Future Tiger – Five-year-old while he was serving as a state representative for Louisiana, and he was Connor Rogers, son of Scott (2003 inducted into the LSU Engineering Hall of Fame as part of the 2003-2004 JD) and Tiffany Rogers, of Iowa, La., class,” he writes. “When it was time for me to choose a university upon my graduated from Pre-K and is a proud graduation from University Laboratory School, my father told me, ‘You can go kindergartener on his way to LSU. anywhere you want as long as it is LSU.’ There was never a question in my heart of where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do there. I can only hope someday I will have a son so that he can continue this rich tradition.”

Laura and René Ybarra with their sons from left, Owen (age 6), Maxwell "Max" (2), Nathaniel "Nate" (6), and Leo (age 1, front and center, and in photo at right).

Laura Weems Ybarra (2009 BACH MCOM) and René Ybarra (2010 BACH BUS), of Seaside Calif., welcomed their fourth son, Leo Pierce, on Nov. 10, 2019. Leo weighed 8 lbs. 13 oz., was 20.5 inches long, and was welcomed Tipton Tigers – Michael Tipton (2005 home by brothers Owen, Nathaniel, and Maxwell. René Ybarra was promoted BACH H&SS), his wife, Sarah Mecholsky to major in the U.S. Army on July 1, 2020, and will earn his master's degree in Tipton (2015 MAST HS&E), and son systems engineering from Naval Postgraduate School in December. The family Alexander welcomed Eleanor Rose will soon relocate to Huntsville, Ala., where Ybarra will serve as an assistant Tipton to their family on Oct. 9, 2019. program manager with the Missile Defense Agency at Redstone Arsenal.

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