CONTENTS

PAGE 1 Board and Staff

PAGE 2 Introduction

PAGE 4 PRIMETIME Family Reading Time

PAGE 5 Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine

PAGE 6 Readings in Literature and Culture (RELIC)

PAGE 7 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study

PAGE 8 Teaching American History Key Ingredients: America by Food PAGE 9 Louisiana Association of Museums PAGE 10 Humanist of the Year & State Poet Laureate PAGE 10 Tennessee Williams Festival & American Routes PAGE 11 Grants PAGE 12 Grants Analysis (p. 12) Public Humanities Grants (p. 12) Documentary Film & Radio Grants (p. 17) Outreach Grants (p. 19) 2006 Humanities Awards ABOUT THE COVER: PAGE 22 Past Board Members Port and City of New Orleans, circa 1858, a gouache on woven PAGE 23 2006 Donors to the LEH French-made paper by Adrien Persac, depicts antebellum New PAGE 24 Orleans looking upriver from Mandeville Street along the banks of the Mississippi. courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection; purchased through the Clarisse Grima Fund

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF CONSULTANTS

Linda Spradley Legislative Liaison

Alice G. Pecoraro, PhD Michael Sartisky, PhD Linda Langley Morgan City, Chair President/Executive Director Program Evaluation

Restech Network Administrator

Laura Ladendorf John R. Kemp Faye Flanagan M. Cleland Powell III Kevin M. Kelly Designer, Deputy Director Project Director, New Orleans, Vice Chair Darrow Louisiana Cultural Vistas Prime Time Family Janet R. Wood Sarah Kracke Jennifer Mitchel Reading Time® Lafayette, Treasurer Baton Rouge Associate Director for Grants Olivia Pass, PhD R. Lewis McHenry, JD Charles A. Landry, JD Warren Meyer Associate Director, New Orleans, Secretary Baton Rouge Associate Director of Prime Time Family Administration Reading Time® Judy M. Bajoie Melinda Mintz 1 New Orleans Monroe Gary Talarchek, PhD Dianne Brady Associate Director, Senior Consultant, Prof. John Biguenet Anil Nanda, MD Grants Program Prime Time Family New Orleans Shreveport Reading Time® Erin MacInnes Philip C. Earhart Lawrence N. Powell, PhD Assistant Director, Shantrell Adams Lake Charles New Orleans Grants Program Assistant Director, Prime Time Family Glenda Erwin Drew Ranier, JD Jim Segreto Reading Time® Shreveport Lake Charles RELIC Director Miranda Restovic Rosemary Upshaw Ewing Margaret M. Ritchey Michael Boyle Assistant Directors, Quitman Lafayette Director of Development Prime Time Family Reading Time® Nancy Guidry Philip A. Rozeman, MD David Johnson Metairie Shreveport Executive Editor, Brian Boyles Louisiana Cultural Vistas Executive Manager Sandra M. Gunner Mary Ann Sternberg New Orleans Baton Rouge Toan Nguyen Eve Y. Tao Web/Graphic Designer, Bookkeeper Mark H. Heller, CLU, CPC Renee Vanover Louisiana Cultural Vistas New Orleans Morgan City Barbara Lopez Administrative Assistant William Jenkins, PhD Baton Rouge ANNUAL 2006 REPORT LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

programs, almost 83,000 have attended RELIC programs, and more than 3,700 educators INTRODUCTION have enrolled in LEH’s Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study. Millions more have attended THE CONTINUED LEGACIES OF HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA presented the Louisiana LEH-funded programs throughout the state or have watched LEH-funded documentaries. Endowment for the Humanities its greatest challenges and opportunities in 2006. While The bulk of that investment was made possible through state and federal appropriations many people and institutions in our state struggled for survival, the LEH was hard at work, and grants the LEH received through competitive applications. expanding its programs and fund-raising efforts. These were challenges we met with full determination. TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY GRANTS In 2006, the LEH — through its national award-winning programs, such as PRIME TIME In June 2006, the LEH conducted three Teaching American History institutes at Louisiana FAMILY READING TIME®, Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, Teacher Institutes for State University-Shreveport for American history teachers in Caddo Parish public schools. Advanced Study, our Smithsonian Partnership Museums on Main Street, Readings in Sixty-one teachers completed the program. In addition, nine teachers and two LSU- Literature Culture library programs, the American Routes national radio series, the Tennessee Shreveport professors traveled to Washington, D.C., to learn the latest Internet teaching Williams Literary Festival, and grants awarded to communities across the state — remained resources at the Library of Congress, the National Archives and the Smithsonian Institute. the nation’s leading state humanities council. It continued to create greater public access for The summer of 2006 was to be the third and final year for the Teaching American History all Louisianians to our shared heritage. institutes for Orleans Parish public school teachers. But because of Hurricane Katrina’s Since its inception, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has invested over $40 devastation to the public school system there, the final institutes will be held at Loyola University million to bring Louisiana’s history, cultures, and stories to local, national, and international in the summer of 2007. audiences. More than 16,000 Louisiana residents have participated in PRIME TIME 2 LEH PROGRAMS Turners’ Hall in New Orleans, home to LEH programs, whether through the dramatic expansion of PRIME TIME FAMILY the Louisiana Endowment READING TIME®, receipt of a major Teaching American History grant, our Teacher for the Humanities. Institutes for Advanced Study, RELIC, our grants programs or Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, reached deep into communities throughout the state. We continued to excel in developing and supporting programs that are now national models. Louisiana rarely has been the source of a solution to the problems of illiteracy. Too often, our state has been cited among its dismal examples. Yet, in 2006, PRIME TIME completed programs in 20 parishes and reached approximately 1,320 young people and their parents or guardians. In addition, thanks to non-state funding, the LEH conducted PRIME TIME programs in California, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. NEH funds also targeted sites in California, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and South Dakota. Since PRIME TIME began in 1991, it has reached 60 of the Louisiana’s 64 parishes as well as communities in 35 other states, plus the Virgin Islands. This is truly a Louisiana success story. Now in its 24th year, RELIC is a blueprint for successful adult reading programs. In 2006, the LEH, working with local libraries, conducted programs in 27 parishes with 2,714 Louisiana residents signing up for the programs. Since its inception in 1983, RELIC programs have reached nearly 83,000 Louisiana residents in 62 of the state’s 64 parishes. In December 2006, the LEH provided grant funds for four Teacher Institutes for Advanced Studies that will be held in the summer 2007. Since 1985, the LEH has sponsored 189

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES summer seminars for more than 3,700 Louisiana middle and high GRANTS school teachers, who in turn teach approximately 500,000 students This year’s Annual Report also describes grants projects funded in annually. This was in addition to the three Teaching American History 2006 to community organizations, institutions, museums, scholars, Institutes held at Louisiana State University Shreveport for Caddo writers and film producers. Since 1971, the LEH has invested over $40 Parish public school teachers. million in humanities programs and projects that, together with funds Louisiana Cultural Vistas, the LEH’s quarterly arts-and-culture invested by our collaborative partners, represent a total humanities magazine, continued to gain greater attention and acclaim. With a investment of almost $93 million. readership exceeding 50,000, Louisiana Cultural Vistas is a lasting way As you will see in the pages that follow, 2006 was a challenging year, for the LEH to promote and explore Louisiana’s rich cultural heritage. thanks to continued support from the State of Louisiana, the National Two other major LEH-supported projects also are featured in this Endowment for the Humanities, corporations and hundreds of private Report. “American Routes” is a nationally acclaimed two-hour weekly donors. radio program, featuring Louisiana roots music. In 2006, the show reached 447 stations in 236 radio markets, including XM Satellite Radio, Michael Sartisky, PhD for a combined weekly audience of over 500,000 listeners. The Tennessee President/Executive Director Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, completing its 20th year in 2006, continued to gain national recognition as one of the nation’s Alice Pecoraro, PhD, premier literary events. LEH Chair

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN Michigan’s prestigious Kresge Foundation ($400,000 Challenge Grant to the Capital 3 In 2000, The LEH purchased the LOUISIANA HUMANITIES CENTER AT TURNERS’ HALL, Campaign), and $250,000 from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. Kresge’s vote of and its 27-space parking lot, in downtown New Orleans to meet its needs for additional confidence was especially important. Before making its investment in the LEH, Kresge office, meeting, and training space caused by the burgeoning success of its programs. analyzed the LEH’s record of successes and accomplishments, as well as its plans for The LEH financed 100 percent of the purchase and $300,000 in renovation and deferred the future. Realizing that the largest donors to the Capital Campaign were from outside maintenance with a loan of $1.835 million. New Orleans, Kresge is looking at its grant and the community’s response as a litmus In the spring 2004, the LEH began a Capital Campaign to raise $4.3 million to pay test — of the LEH and of the community — to determine whether the philanthropic off the building’s debt and to create the Louisiana Humanities Education Center, a community is willing to step up to improve education in Louisiana. state-of-the-art distance-learning facility to serve all of Louisiana, and to start a While still $1 million short of its goal with two final years of the campaign to go, the program endowment. The first phase of the Campaign has been completed as the LEH LEH is about open one of the most advanced learning environments in the Gulf South, retired the debt on the building in October 2005 and now owns the property free and the Louisiana Humanities Education Center. It will include a 120-plus-seat auditorium clear. and three, 15- to 30-seat seminar/breakout rooms equipped with state-of-the-art South Louisiana’s educational infrastructure was devastated by hurricanes Katrina technology to foster a climate of learning in the humanities that inspires and motivates. and Rita and flooding caused significant damage to the Louisiana Humanities Center. The center will be a major facility for the LEH’s statewide teacher professional To mitigate damage, lessen costs, and put an important educational asset on-line as development programs and for LEH’s PRIME TIME and RELIC training and other fast as possible, the LEH accelerated construction of the Humanities Education Center humanities programming. The LEH will make this facility available to schools and and used organizational reserves to complete the project. universities, cultural organizations, community groups and other non-profits. The Louisiana Humanities Education Center has received great support from the In 2007, the LEH will call upon Louisiana’s philanthropic communities to commit State of Louisiana ($600,000 in funding to the Capital Campaign), the National to the $660,000 necessary to fulfill the Kresge Challenge Grant and to help the LEH Endowment for the Humanities ($500,000 to “seed” the Program Endowment), remain an integral part of rebuilding humanities education throughout the state.

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME

PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME, a unique intergenerational six- or eight-week literacy program composed of readings, 2006 ACHIEVEMENTS discussions and story telling, reached N Completed 29 sites in Louisiana representing 20 parishes. approximately 1,320 participants in 2006 at N public libraries, schools, community centers Reached a statewide audience of approximately 1,320 with an average of 45 participants for each weekly session. and other public venues. The exemplary family-based model features award-winning N Continued expansion as a national model for family reading programs. As a result children’s books to stimulate discussion about of NEH funding, grants from the Library Services and Technology Act and affiliate themes and problems encountered in daily life. funds, 92 sites were implemented in 13 other states. The goals of this humanities project are to N States to contract as affiliate states, illustrating their commitment to sustain and encourage parents and children to bond around the act of reading and learning together, thus expand the program, were New Mexico, Kentucky, Nebraska Michigan, Oklahoma, reinforcing the role of the family, and to help children and parents learn how to select and share Pennsylvania, California, Indiana and Florida. books, thereby inspiring a lifelong love of books and libraries. N NEH funds targeted 25 sites in California, Kansas, Georgia, Ohio and South Dakota. In 2006 PRIME TIME completed 29 sites in Louisiana, representing 20 parishes. Since the program began in 1991, 60 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes have participated. This program is designed for families with low literacy skills and targets parents with children ages 6 to 10. However, the

format includes a separate pre-literacy group activity for younger siblings. Morehouse 4 Claiborne Union t l

In recognition of the proven potential for replication, the American Library Association Bossier Wes arrol C arroll East C continued their supportive efforts through the office of Public Programs and the National Webster Lincoln Ouachita Richland Caddo Endowment for the Humanities funded a grant for national expansion. Madison Bienville No state funds were used for out-of state programs. These programs were supported by federal Jackson Red River Caldwell Franklin grants that required regional or national sites and by individual libraries. De Soto Tensas Winn

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on Socrates would have been proud!” — Helen Taylor, Ph.D. C 2006 PRIME TIME SITES Rapides Vernon Avoyelles “The Prime Time families showed improved skills, not just critical thinking, but West Feliciana St. Washington East Helena Tangipaho Feliciana communication, talking and listening, social interaction, and literacy skills. By the Evangeline Beauregard Pointe East end of the program, children were sitting with other children, parents with other Allen Coupee Baton

St. Landry a West Rouge St. Tammany Baton parents, and were interacting with each other and discussing how they all brought Rouge Livingston Jefferson Acadia home with them individual experiences from the session.” Davis Lafayette St. Iberville ist Calcasieu Martin Ascension — Michelle McInnis, storyteller John St. Assumption St. ans Iberia James The Bapt Orle Cameron St. Vermilion St. Charles St. Ber Martin nard

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Terrebonne min es 1 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES LOUISIANA CULTURAL VISTAS

LOUISIANA CULTURAL VISTAS completed its 17th year of publication, winning 10 awards from the New Orleans Press Club while focusing on the state’s culture, arts and history, with a heavy concentration on the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita at the onset of the recovery phase. The quarterly magazine ensures that grant projects that may have reached a select regional audience gain greater visibility on magazine racks and coffee tables in the living rooms, waiting rooms, and offices of more than 50,000 readers.

Highlights of 2006 include:

N A cover illustration depicting New Orleans’ Mardi Gras in the post-Katrina era by Shreveport artist William Joyce. Originally commissioned for The New Yorker, LCV gained rights to the image after that magazine bumped Joyce’s art in favor of a timely cover lampooning Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting accident. N A sampling of images and artifacts from “Common Routes: New Orleans and St. Domingue,” an exhibit at The Historic New Orleans Collection that traced the relationship between Louisiana's largest port city and its French- colonial peer in the Caribbean. 5 N Artist Phil Sandusky’s portfolio of paintings depicting the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina in metro New Orleans. N A chronology of New Orleans’ ill-fated 20th-century housing developments in the city’s lowest-lying regions, devastated by Hurricane Katrina. N A history of the Civil War’s Red River Campaign in Central and North Louisiana. 2006 Press Club of New Orleans Awards N Interviews with historian Douglas Brinkley on his controversial book The Great Deluge, a chronicle of both the failures and triumphs of governmental In 2006, the magazine received ten New Orleans Press Club awards including four first place officials and citizens affected by Hurricane Katrina, and Nick Spitzer, the awards: Best Public Relations Publication; David Rae Morris’s photo story on Hurricane Katrina; Toan 2005 LEH Humanist of the Year and host of the popular public radio Nguyen’s layout of “Capitol Improvements”; and Michael Sartisky’s editorial “The New Orleans of program “American Routes.” Possibility.” Dr. Sartisky also received the Ashton Phelps Sr. Memorial Award for best of all editorials. N A report on the resilience of Southwest Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Other photo winners were William Greiner (second place) for his images that accompanied Rita. “Welcome to the Fallen Paradise,” and Richard Sexton (third place) for his portfolio “Sign N Excerpts of journalist Jed Horne’s Breach of Faith, a book that provides an Language.” Book reviewer Thomas Uskali won second place in critical reviews for his critique of overview of the complicated and volatile rebuilding process in post-Katrina “Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines,” and LEH board member John New Orleans. Biguenet won second place for his feature story “Back to New Orleans.” N A photo essay of decaying plantations captured by photographer Robert Tebbs, circa 1926.

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT RELIC: READINGS IN LITERATURE & CULTURE

“I have been introduced to readings I probably would not have read. I have met people I did not know before.” —Haynesville, Louisiana History: Perspectives on the Pelican State

“I felt like I was there.” —Winnsboro, In the Cross Hairs: Louisiana’s Hurricane Experience

“Certainly I will attempt to preserve and tell stories about my memories.” —Winnfield, Folktales and Stories of the South and Louisiana

READINGS IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (RELIC) “Hurricanes will be with us for many years. After Rita, we are highly concerned about has offered adult readers the opportunity to engage in our future.” —Lake Charles, In the Cross Hairs: Louisiana’s Hurricane Experience diverse and intellectually challenging reading-and- discussion humanities programs in local libraries across the state. RELIC is the Louisiana Endowment for the

Humanities’ longest running program. Morehouse Claiborne Union RELIC topics speak to the experiences of 2006 ACHIEVEMENTS Bossier West t ster arroll C arroll Eas C 6 Louisianians as residents of the state and as American Web Lincoln Ouachita Richland N Caddo Engaged 17 humanities scholars from 12 institutions and 1 citizens. In response to the 2005 storms that Madison devastated south Louisiana, the LEH developed a new, three Bienville Jackson from the public sector Red week program titled “In the Cross Hairs: Louisiana’s Hurricane River Caldwell Franklin Tensas De Soto N Delivered ten different subjects, ranging from Louisiana Experience,” which took place in 15 sites and was positively received by Winn Catahoula biography to immigration literature, from contemporary the public. Two new programs were developed for 2007. “The Creole Nach La Salle Sabine itoches Southern literature to the history of World War II, and Identity and Experience in Louisiana Literature and History” and Grant including a new, special program on hurricanes in Gulf Coast “Battleground Louisiana: Civil War Events and Experiences” will take place oncordia C in several locations beginning in January 2007. Rapides N Drew into discussions 2,714 citizens in 33 RELIC, administered in partnership with the Louisiana Library Association, Vernon Avoyelles West programs for an evening session average serves as a gateway for individuals to engage the worlds of ideas and expression Feliciana St. Washington East Helena Tangipaho Feliciana of 18 persons, this as coastal parts of the Evangeline about the human experience, and as a vehicle for libraries to diversify their Beauregard Pointe East Allen Coupee Baton state continued to recover from the

St. Landry a role in their communities. Small towns and rural areas particularly benefit West Rouge St. Tammany Baton from these high quality programs, as well as newcomers to Louisiana and Rouge Livingston destruction of hurricanes Katrina and Rita Jefferson Acadia Davis Lafayette t St. Iberville is others with specific interests. Calcasieu Martin Ascension apt N John Delivered programs in 29 t. S s Reaching 62 of Louisiana's 64 parishes since 1983, the university scholar- Assu St. ean Iberia James The B Orl locations in 27 parishes Cameron mption St. Vermilion St. St. Bernard led reading sessions have been held in libraries across the state. RELIC has Martin Charles Jefferson throughout the state, with 15 attracted a total attendance of nearly 83,000 — from all accounts the most St. Mary Lafourche Pl of them in rural and small widespread and well-attended series of reading projects in the South. aque Terrebonne mi nes town communities 2006 RELIC SITES 1

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES TEACHER INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED STUDY

SINCE 1985, THE LEH HAS SPONSORED an intensive series of 189 summer seminars for more than 3,700 Louisiana middle and high school teachers, who in turn teach approximately 500,000 students annually. The purpose of this program is to provide teachers with intellectual stimulation and advanced knowledge of the subjects they teach. Originally supported entirely by the LEH with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the series has expanded with support from the State of Louisiana and foundation gifts. At its December 2006 meeting, the LEH board approved 4 Teacher Institutes that will take place during the summer of 2007. Most seminars offer graduate credit, feature guest lecturers, and provide information on Internet resources available for classroom use.

FORTHCOMING 2007 TEACHER INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED STUDY Morehouse Claiborne Union Revisioning Shakespeare: Alternative Cinematic Adaptations roll l Bossier West ar rol C r ast a E 06-080-131/$35,989.00 C Webster Lincoln Ouachita Richland Loyola University of New Orleans Caddo Madison Bienville Jackson Andrew MacDonald Teacher institute on Shakespeare and films that parallel the texts. Red 7 River Caldwell Franklin Tensas De Soto Winn Greatest Thoughts, Deepest Feelings: The Power of Poetry Catahoula 06-080-132/$32,060.00 Nach La Salle Sabine itoches Grant Nicholls State University

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on C Institute survey on poetry from earliest forms to contemporary masters. Rapides Vernon Avoyelles Voices of Freedom: Legacy of the Underground West Feliciana St. Washington Railroad and Anti-slavery Movement East Helena Tang Feliciana Evangeline Beauregard ip 06-080-133/$30,779.00

Pointe East ahoa Allen Coupee St. Landry Baton Southern University and A&M College West Rouge St. Tammany Baton Rouge Livingston Troy Allen Jefferson Acadia L Davis af St. Institute on the Underground Railroad and the Calcasieu a Iberville ist ye Martin Ascension t John te anti-slavery movement. St. As St. ans The Bapt e Iberia s James Orl

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Jeff St. Mary Long to Ernest ‘Dutch’ Morial Lafourche ers on Plaquemines 06-080-135/$35,186.00 Terrebonne Grambling State University Parishes of Teacher enrolled 1 Nikki Brown and Paul Gelpi in 2006 Teacher Institute sites Institute on the Civil Rights Movement, 2006 Sites of Teacher Institutes especially in Louisiana.

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY

The LEH is the managing partner in two U.S. Department of Education’sEACHING T AMERICANHISTORYGRANTS for public school history teachers in Orleans and Caddo parishes. The purpose of this program is to increase teachers’ knowledge of and appreciation for American history.

CADDO PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS In June 2006, the LEH, in partnership with Louisiana State University-Shreveport and Caddo Public School System, held three summer institutes in American history for Caddo public school teachers. These were the first in a three-summer project. The institutes included “Colonial American History from 1492 to 1763” for elementary school teachers, “U.S. History from the American Revolution to Reconstruction” for middle school teachers and “U.S. History from the Industrial Revolution (1865) to the Present” for high school teachers. 8 In addition to three graduate credit hours from LSU-S, the 61 teachers who completed the program received a $1,000 stipend, free textbooks, paid fees and $150 in teaching materials to take back to their classrooms. Teachers gave the institutes high marks. Post-institute evaluations indicate participating teachers developed a deeper understanding and appreciation of American history. In addition, the LEH, working with LSU-S Professor William Pederson, organized the first teacher visit to Washington, D.C. The all-expense-paid trip took place in October and included nine teachers, the Caddo Parish elementary school social studies coordinator and two LSU-S professors. Their busy schedules included presentations on Internet teaching resources at the National Archives, Library of Congress and Smithsonian, plus tours of the National Archives, Capitol, Library of Congress and National Portrait Gallery.

ORLEANS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Due to Hurricane Katrina, the third and final year of the LEH’s three-year Teaching American History program for Orleans Parish public school teachers, scheduled for the summer 2006, was postponed to the summer 2007.

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES LEH SPECIAL GRANTS KEY INGREDIENTS: America by Food

The exhibition KEY INGREDIENTS: AMERICA BY FOOD, our country’s rich immigrant experience, the history and made possible by a partnership between the Louisiana innovations of food preparation technology, and the ever-changing MUSEUM ON MAIN STREET Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian availability of key ingredients. KEY INGREDIENTS: AMERICA BY FOOD Institution’s Museum on Main Street Program, has been Besides covering all exhibition costs ($9,000) and providing in traveling throughout underserved rural Louisiana since June total $31,000 in grants for ancillary exhibits and public programs to 06-080-097/$5,000.00 2006. Key Ingredients explores the connections between Americans the six host sites, the LEH has provided continuous technical 06-080-098/$5,000.00 and the foods they produce, prepare, preserve, and present at the assistance to the sponsoring organizations on exhibition and 06-080-099/$5,000.00 table – a provocative and thoughtful look at the historical, regional, program development, fundraising, publicity and promotion, 06-080-136/$5,000.00 and social traditions that merge in everyday meals and celebrations. collaboration, and budget planning, all of which will benefit these OG 06-080-073/$1,000.00 Our recipes, menus, ceremonies, and etiquette are directly shaped by organizations long after the Smithsonian exhibit has left town.

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Julien Poydras Museum and Arts Council Ron Sanders

Friends of the Old Natchitoches Courthouse Museum, Inc. Carolyn Harrington

Jena Cultural Center Pam Davis

St. Mary Parish Library Gail Garcia

Bayou Civic Club, Inc. Brian Detillier

City of Eunice Charles F. Seale

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT LEH SPECIAL GRANTS

Louisiana Humanist of the Year Association of Museums NICHOLAS SPITZER, Ph.D. Host and producer of “American Routes,” ICKN SPITZER is a folklorist specializing in American music and THE LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS is a not- cultures of the Gulf South, with a long history of for-profit statewide membership organization that serves the involvement in radio. He is also a professor of folklore more than 350 museums, historic sites and historical and cultural conservation at the University of New organizations of Louisiana. These unique institutions have Orleans. a positive influence on the economy and the quality of life for all Louisiana citizens, as they protect, preserve, and present Louisiana’s art, history and cultural treasures. They 2006 Humanist of the Year tell the stories behind those treasures to the people of OG 06-080-069 / $1,000.00 Louisiana and to its visitors from around the world. They are a tremendous resource for our schools, providing THOM BENNETT 10 countless hours of teacher workshops and unforgettable out- of-the-classroom learning experiences for students. LAM is the only organization with the structure in place to provide the services — annual conference, professional development workshops, Spring Summit, advocacy, and regional meetings State Poet Laureate — needed by many of Louisiana’s museums through B professional training and technical assistance in all fields of RENDAMARIE OSBEY, New Orleans writer and poet, was museum work, and helping to spread the word about all that selected as Louisiana’s first peer-selected poet laureate, Louisiana museums have to offer. under the auspices of the LEH, in 2005. Called “the voice of the Creole in print,” Osbey is author of Ceremony for Minneconjoux: Poems; In These Houses; Desperate Circumstances, Dangerous Women; and All Saints: New and Selected Poems for which she received the American Book Award in 1998. She will serve a two-year term ending in 2007. Louisiana Association of Museums 06-080-128/$22,500.00 Louisiana Association of Museums Debra Henderson

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES LEH SPECIAL GRANTS

Tennessee Williams Festival

2007 marks the 21st anniversary of the ENNESSEET WILLIAMS/NEW ORLEANSLITERARYFESTIVAL, which presents theatrical, literary and musical programs showcasing regional writers, actors and musicians for the community. This annual literary festival brings top writers to New Orleans and provides quality programming for the general public. The festival contributes to the city’s cultural life with five days of master classes, poetry readings, literary panels, cultural walking tours, theatrical and musical performances, and a book fair. It is the largest and oldest established literary festival in the city and reaches the largest audience of any local literary event. Many local residents are The 21st Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival: reached by way of area cable access channels where videotapes of “Coming of Age” all panels are broadcast. Besides reaching thousands of readers, 06-080-130/$30,000.00 the festival is one of the nation’s Top 10 Literary Events. The festival also sends writers to the city’s public high schools and The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival contributes books to their libraries. Paul Willis

2007 festival participants included Douglas Brinkley, Richard Ford, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Lewis, Sharyn McCrumb, Mike Tidwell, and John Waters.

BILLY ROSE THEATER COLLECTION, THE NEW YORK LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS THE PERFORMING FOR YORK LIBRARY THE NEW COLLECTION, THEATER ROSE BILLY 11

American Routes

AMERICAN ROUTES is a one-hour radio program featuring Louisiana and nationally known musicians. These artists represent a wide range of popular music: jazz, blues, Cajun, Latin, soul, Zydeco, western swing, pop, and gospel. The program format includes conversational interviews with the hottest artists on the contemporary and traditional music scene as well as samples of their latest creations.

Reaching 447 stations in 236 radio markets including XM Satellite Radio, these stations ranged from those dominated by classical formats to those featuring news. The estimated weekly national audience is over 500,000 listeners.

American Routes 06-080-129/$100,000.00

NICK SPITZER Nick Spitzer

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT GRANTS: ANALYSIS SUMMARY

THE LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES awarded 55 grants 2006 GRANT PROFILES totaling $547,151 in 2006. These grants ranged from an Outreach Grant of $1,000 Areas of Concentration Grants Total Awards % of Funds % of Grants to a Teacher Institute for Advanced Study grant of $35,989. The average grant General Humanities 19 $237,339 43% 35% was $9,948. These grants included funding for 13 discussion projects averaging Louisiana Humanities 36 $309,812 57% 65% $3,378; seven documentary film and radio projects averaging $15,417; 13 museum Location of Awards (by Congressional District) and exhibition projects averaging $7,878; 10 festival projects averaging $9,680; District 1/Jindal 4 $48,874 9% 7% three informances averaging $9,138; four publication projects averaging $8,041; District 2/Jefferson 11 $132,334 24% 20% and five Teacher Institutes and workshops averaging $33,503. District 3/Melancon 10 $86,101 16% 19% District 4/McCrery 8 $39,608 7% 14% District 5/Alexander 8 $58,556 10% 14% District 6/Baker 7 $129,671 24% 13%

Morehouse District 7/Boustany 7 $52,007 10% 13% Claiborne Union Out of State 0 $0 0 0 roll Bossier West ar t C Totals 55 $547,151 100% 100% arroll Eas C

Webster Lincoln Ouachita Richland Caddo Madison Format Bienville Jackson Conference/Discussion/Lecture 13 $43,921 8% 24% Red Documentary Film & Radio 7 $107,922 19% 13% River Caldwell Franklin Tensas De Soto Exhibition 13 $102,413 19% 24% 12 Winn Festival (Literary, Film, Folklife) 10 $96,802 18% 18% Catahoula Nach La Salle Informance 3 $27,415 5% 5% Sabine ito ch Grant Publication 4 $32,164 6% 7% es

cordia 2006 GRANT SITES Teacher Institutes 5 $136,514 25% 9%

on C Total 55 $547,151 100% 100% Rapides Vernon Avoyelles Size of Grants West Feliciana St. Washington To $2,000 11 $18,539 3% 20% East Helena Tang Feliciana Evangeline $2,001-$2,500 11 $27,221 5% 20% Beauregard ipahoa Pointe East Allen Coupee $2,501-$7,500 13 $66,417 12% 24% St. Landry Baton Rouge West St. Tammany $7,501-$10,000 2 $16,666 3% 4% Baton Rouge Livingston $10,001-$15,000 5 $64,041 12% 9% Jefferson Acadia Davis Laf St. Iberville ist $15,001-$20,000 3 $54,446 10% 5% Calcasieu ayett Martin Ascension John e $20,001-$25,000 2 $42,585 8% 4% St. Assumption St. ns Iberia James The Bapt Orlea $25,001-$30,000 2 $55,150 10% 4% Cameron St. Vermilion St. Charles St. Bernard Martin More than $30,000 6 $202,086 37% 10%

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Lincoln C Webster Ouachita Richland Caddo Madison 2006 Prime Time Sites Bienville Jackson Outreach Grants Public Humanities Grants Total Red River Caldwell Franklin 2006 RELIC Sites Applications Received 23 43 66 De Soto Tensas Winn Applications Funded 22 33 55 Parishes of teachers Catahoula % of Applications Funded 96% 77% 83% Nach La Salle Sabine enrolled in 2006 institutes itoches Grant LEH Awards $45,760 $501,391 $547,151 Project Cost Sharing $154,869 $2,346,959 $2,501,828

oncordia C Total $200,629 $2,848,350 $3,048,979 Rapides Vernon Avoyelles West Feliciana St. Washington East Helena Tang RELIC: READINGS IN Feliciana Evangeline Beauregard ip

Pointe East a LITERATURE & CULTURE Allen Coupee hoa St. Landry Baton West Rouge St. Tammany 2006 Library Reading Discussion Project Baton Rouge Livingston A cooperative project of the LEH and the Louisiana Library Association Jefferson Acadia Lafayette t Davis St. n Calcasieu Iberville tis Martin Ascension h Regions North Central Southeast Southwest Total ap t. Jo B S Assumption St. Number of Programs 13 4 10 6 33 Iberia James The Orleans Cameron St. Vermilion St. S Outright Funds $50,078.00 $15,409.00 $38,521.00 $23,112.00 $127,120.00 Martin Charles t. Bernard

Jeff St. Mary % of Total Funds 39.39% 12.12% 30.30% 18.18% 100.00% 13 Lafourche ers on Plaquemin Library Cost Share $37,310.00 $11,480.00 $28,700.00 $17,220.00 $94,710.00 Terrebonne FUND es Total RELIC Funding $87,388.00 $26,889.00 $67,221.00 $40,332.00 $221,830.00 RAISING 1 OTHER S P ADMINISTRATIVE E 2% C I A 8% L PRIME TIME 3% PRIME FAMILY READING TIME TIME P

R 34% 2006 Library Reading Discussion Project for Families PROGRAM O

J Location North Central Southeast Southwest National* Total DEVELOPMENT RELIC E Library Sites 8 5 11 5 92 121

17% C Outright Funds 58,833.04 36,770.65 80,895.43 36,770.65 676,579.96 889,849.73 AMERICAN ROUTESLOUISIANA T

CULTURAL S % of Total Funds (LA) 28% 17% 38% 17% 100% TEACHER VISTAS Library Cost Share 19,000.00 11,875.00 26,125.00 11,875.00 218,500.00 287,375.00 INSTITUTES Total PT Funding 77,833.04 48,645.65 107,020.43 48,645.65 895,079.96 1,177,224.73 OTHER GRANTS * National sites were funded by federal programs requiring sites in multiple states. G R A N T S 36% ANNUAL 2006 REPORT LEH GRANTS

Brochures highlighting historic PUBLIC HUMANITIES GRANTS structures in New Orleans’ Lakeview and Broadmoor neighborhoods of the The LEH supports cultural efforts throughout the state by early 20th century were printed by awarding grants to local cultural organizations and way of an LEH grant to the institutions. These awards support large- and small-scale Preservation Resource Center of humanities public programs from university-sponsored New Orleans. events to those sponsored by museums, libraries, cultural centers and historical societies. Public Humanities grants bridge the gap between academia and the community, giving Louisiana residents access to top university faculty and resources. Specific formats for these projects include, but are not limited to, public forums such as conferences and workshops, interpretive exhibits, and film and music lecture series.

14 Public Humanities grants awarded in 2006 included Documentary Film and Radio projects.

Living with History II 06-080-096/$3,200.00 Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans Michelle Kimball Interpretive brochures on New Orleans’ newest historic THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION neighborhoods—Lakeview and Broadmoor.

International Conference on World War II: Creating Cultural Experiences Through the Louisiana Collects The War that Changed the World Humanities and Visual Arts 06-080-104/$14,183.00 06-080-100/$19,000.00 06-080-103/$7,052.00 Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College The National World War II Museum Artists Guild Unlimited Diane Dufilho Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller Lee LeBlanc Exhibition, lecture and discussion series themed around International conference on WWII and its impact on the Center’s 2006-07 arts and humanities series featuring a Louisiana artists and collections owned by Louisianans or world over the last 60 plus years. spring and fall film-discussion series and the exhibit “Andrew Louisiana institutions. Jackson Grayson: Audubon of the West.”

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES LASM Ancient Egypt Gallery 06-080-105/$20,085.00 Louisiana Art and Science Museum Elizabeth Chubbuck Weinstein Updated permanent exhibit in the Ancient Egypt Gallery.

LEH grant funds The Routes to Roots Program Book will allow the 06-080-108/$13,375.00 Louisiana Arts and Louisiana Folk Roots Science Museum in Alan Broussard Baton Rouge to Publication on traditional Louisiana folkways that update their complements the annual Routes to Roots workshops series. Ancient Egypt Gallery. Louisiana Crossroads Season 7 06-080-109/$18,470.00 Acadiana Arts Council Todd Mouton Seventh annual, 16-event informance series, also broadcast 15 on KRVS radio.

Music at the Cabildo/Music at the Mall 06-080-110/$6,945.00 Louisiana State Museum Foundation Gabriela Hernandez 11th season of this popular New Orleans informance series, now also in Baton Rouge.

Banners: The McNeese Arts & Humanities Series 06-080-111/$8,716.00 McNeese Foundation Janet Allured 15th annual series of music, art and humanities events featuring Charles Kimball, Gary Joiner, Ryan Brasseaux and Craig Colten. THE BRITISH MUSEUM-LONDON

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT Jubilee 2007: L’Esprit Engage (The Engaged Mind) 06-080-112/$7,950.00 Nicholls State University Jackie Jackson Ninth annual series of music, art and humanities events featuring Brenda Marie Osbey, Ernest Hill and W. C. Nyaho.

Natural Resources in Louisiana’s Cultural Traditions Narrative Sessions at the 2006 Natchitoches/NSU Folk Festival 06-080-113/$5,005.00 Northwestern State University Sheila Richmond 26th annual folklife festival focused on the use of natural resources in Louisiana’s cultural traditions.

16 2006 Louisiana Book Festival 06-080-114/$16,976.00 Louisiana Library Foundation Rod Mills 4th annual book festival featuring regionally and nationally recognized poets, writers, and storytellers in writing workshops, exhibits and demonstrations.

Putting the Ninth Ward Back on the Map 06-080-115/$13,700.00 The Neighborhood Story Project Abram Himelstein Publication authored by the Nine Times Social Club, which documents the group’s history as a social organization and pays tribute to the Ninth Ward, their community devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette hosted an LEH-funded month-long series of seminars on women’s history titled “Move Up, Reach Down: Women Then and Women Now.”

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES The Young-Sanders Center for the Study of the War Between the States in Louisiana presented a “Speakers on the Teche” series about the Civil War’s impact in the Bayou Teche region. DOCUMENTARY FILM AND RADIO GRANTS

Documentary Film and Radio projects are the most cost- effective of the LEH grants. These projects have the potential to reach all Louisiana residents simultaneously through broadcast on public radio or television. Actual audience numbers show that a documentary film can be provided to a Louisiana audience for as little as 10 cents per viewer. In addition, our efforts have made the LEH the largest state supporter of documentary film and radio projects for more than 20 years. Films funded by the LEH are made available after broadcast through the Louisiana State Library Audiovisual Resource Center. All films published in the LEH Media Catalog available to 17 any Louisiana resident with a library card. THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION American Creole: New Orleans Reunion Louisiana Indian Heritage Association’s Passing It On - The Next Generation: 06-080-101/$34,981.00 Fall and Spring Powwows Narrative Sessions at the 2007 Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting 06-080-118/$11,283.00 Natchitoches Folk Festival Glen Pitre LA Indian Heritage Association, Inc 06-080-138/$5,320.00 Documentary film that follows the Diaspora of one Creole Andrea Randazzo Northwestern State University family of musicians spread around the world, taking New Cultural revival and festival celebrating Native American Sheila Richmond Orleans’ sound with them as they helped pioneer jazz, rhythm traditions held bi-annually in Robert. 27th annual folklife festival on Louisiana history and culture. & blues, and rock & roll, now struggling “to bring the music home” post Hurricane Katrina. The Dixie Overland Highway (US 80) Floodwall 06-080-137/$6,145.00 06-080-139/$11,500.00 Jewish New Orleans Friends of the Library, University of Louisiana at Monroe Young Artists/Young Aspirations Inc 06-080-102/$33,091.00 Lee Estes Teresa Parker WYES-TV Photo-essay on the disappearing landscape of Louisiana’s Interpretive memorial exhibit to the victims and survivors of Terri Landry Dixie Overland Highway (US 80). Hurricane Katrina. Fourth documentary film in a series focused on the history, culture and contributions of ethnic groups to New Orleans.

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The Louisiana Council of Teachers Reconstructing Creole Louisi Radio Spots ana Cultur of English printed an LEH-funded 06-080-119/$25,150.00 06-080-124/$6,000.00al Vist 06-080-126/$1,950.00 journal “Salvaging Stories from The Laura Center for Creole Heritage University of New Orleans as KRVS-FM Storms: Stories from Katrina and Jennifer John Chuck Miller David Spizale Rita.” Documentary film on the life of Laura Lecoul Gore and the restoration process of her home to reveal a rich story about 06-080-125 $3,600.00 06-080-127/$3,150.00 plantation-era, Creole Louisiana. The Red River Radio Network WRKF-FM Gene Haynes Jim Engster

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES OUTREACH GRANTS First People of the Red River: An Exhibit and Jim Bowie: The History of His Presence in Symposium Celebrating Caddo Traditions Vidalia The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Outreach Grants OG 06-080-075/$2,000.00 OG 06-080-076/$2,500.00 encourage community groups throughout the state to develop Bossier Parish Libraries Vidalia Chamber of Commerce humanities projects that celebrate and preserve local culture Pamela Carter Kathy Nunnery and heritage, as well as introduce people to new ones. Conference and exhibition on the history and culture of the Annual Jim Bowie Festival Chautauqua on the famous Designed to fund programs of three months or less in duration, Caddo Indians. scoundrel. these grants of up to $2,500 provide for a wide range of interests and needs in a state of such great diversity. In 2006 Outreach Grants made a significant impact on the cultural life of Louisiana’s residents in both urban and rural areas.

Southern Crossroads Storytelling Conference OG 06-080-070/$2,249.00 Louisiana State University at Alexandria Owen Elmore Two-day storytelling conference, workshops and presentations around the use of stories within the Southern The Madison Historical community. Society presented an 19 LEH-funded chautauqua on the life Speakers on the Teche and times of Madame OG 06-080-072/$1,500.00 C.J. Walker, a cosmetics Young-Sanders Center entrepreneur. Born in Roger Busbice Tallulah, La. in 1867, Lectures on 19th century Louisiana history with emphasis on she went on to become the social, economic, political and military impact of the Civil America’s first black War, especially to the Bayou Teche region. female millionaire.

James & Dolley Madison: Life, Times and Legacy of Southerners OG 06-080-074/$2,000.00 Louisiana State University at Shreveport William Pederson Conference on the life and legacy of James and Dolley Madison.

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT Coffee and Conversation: A Series of Literary Discussions OG 06-080-079/$2,000.00 The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Paul Willis Fifth annual literary discussion series.

Bebop and Beyond: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Jazz OG 06-080-080/$2,500.00 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival & Found., Inc Don Marshall 2006 Tom Dent Congo Square Lecture Series Symposium.

Salvaging Stories from Storms: Stories from Katrina and Rita OG 06-080-081/$1,889.00 Louisiana Council of Teachers of English Melissa Garner 20 Fall issue of the Louisiana English Journal for English teachers throughout Louisiana to utilize personal stories of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the classroom.

Tracking the Progress of Young Readers, Young Thinkers: Teaching the Humanities to Elementary Students OG 06-080-082/$2,500.00 Two LEH-funded projects in 2006 focused on World War II: an exhibit at the Masur Museum of Art University of Louisiana at Monroe in Monroe and an international conference at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Jack Heflin Follow-up Teacher Institute for Advanced Study workshop on PRIME TIME Family Reading Time. Author John Barry Crossings: Assimilation and Acculturation OG 06-080-077/$2,500.00 OG 06-080-078/$2,500.00 Memories of World War II Southeastern Louisiana University Nicholls State University OG 06-080-083/$2,500.00 Donna Gay Anderson Daryl Holmes Twin City Art Foundation/Masur Museum of Art 2006 Fanfare Celebration of the Arts & Humanities 2006 Fletcher Lecture Series keynote speaker Dr. Henry Scott Higginbotham keynote speaker John Barry. Louis Gates, Jr. Exhibit and accompanying lecture series on Memories of World War II.

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES A Conversation with Alvin Batiste and Eloise Johnson OG 06-080-086/$2,000.00 Black Heritage Festival Stella Miller Exhibition and discussion session on the work of primitive artists Alvin Batiste and Eloise Johnson.

The History of Webster Parish Louisiana OG 06-080-087/$2,500.00 The Dorcheat Historical Association and Museum Thad Andress Script preparation for the permanent exhibition on the history of Webster Parish.

The Eleventh Annual Cajun/ Zydeco Music and Dance Exhibit OG 06-080-088/$2,000.00 Ellender Memorial Library at NSU Anke Tonn 21 11th annual Cajun/Zydeco Music and Dance Exhibit themed Louisiana Swamp Culture for 2007. THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION

The Laura Center for Creole Heritage produced an LEH-funded film that traced the life and times of a Move Up, Reach Down: plantation matriarch, Laura Lecoul Gore, and her home, set among the antebellum sugar cane plantations Women Then and Women Now of Louisiana’s River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. OG 06-080-089/$2,496.00 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Mary Farmer-Kaiser Month-long humanities-focused celebration of women's history. Just Plain Nuts or The Nuts and Bolts of New Orleans Stained Glass: An Artistic Successful Writing, Teaching and Parenting Heritage and a Challenge for the Future Profile of Courage OG 06-080-084/$1,200.00 OG 06-080-085/$2,500.00 OG 06-080-090/$2,476.00 Louisiana Council of Teachers of English Friends of Saint Alphonsus Madison Historical Society Bernard Gallagher Blanche Comiskey Codie Ray Lecture and discussion by author, Hope Norman Coulter. Two-day symposium on the history of stained glass in New Chautauqua with Tallulah-born Madame C. J. Walker. Orleans architecture.

ANNUAL 2006 REPORT LEH HUMANITIES AWARDS

NATIONALLY RENOWNED FOLKLORIST AND PRODUCERof the internationally acclaimed “American Routes” syndicated radio program, Nick Spitzer of New Orleans received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ 2006 Humanist of the Year award during special ceremonies March 18th at Houmas House Plantation in Darrow, La. Other awards presented during the ceremonies at Houmas House, generously underwritten by Hibernia National Bank, included Lifetime Achievement, the LEH Chair’s Award for Institutional Support, the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Special Humanities Awards, and the Humanities Teacher of the Year Award. The LEH Board of Directors named Spitzer because of his incomparable contributions to a better understanding of Louisiana and other American music. Spitzer teaches folklore and cultural conservation at the University of New Orleans. Since April 1998, hundreds of thousands of listeners across the country on about 225 public radio stations and XM Satellite Radio have listened to Nick Spitzer the voice of “American Routes,” a weekly two-hour radio program 22 produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad spectrum of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. Receiving the LEH Chair’s Award for Institutional Support was Bruce Cole, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in grateful recognition of the NEH’s emergency support given to the LEH and other cultural institutions 2006 LEH Humanities Award winners were, seated from left, Rosemary in Louisiana in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. James, Diane Dufilho, Nick Spitzer, Mary Beth Romig; standing, Jerry The LEH’s Lifetime Achievement Award went to Rosemary James and Joseph Sanson, Joseph DeSalvo, Bruce Cole, Phil Earhart, and Rick Gruber. Not DeSalvo of New Orleans, founders of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, the pictured are Wanda Ellard, Phillip Collier, Jim Rapier, Tom Piazza, Jan Faulkner Literary Festival in New Orleans, and the publication Double Dealer Gardner, and Judith Allain. Redux Literary Journal. Special Humanities Awards went to Jerry Sanson, professor of history at Louisiana State University-Alexandria, for leading 21 Readings in Literature and Humanities Book of the Year Awards were given to two books – Missing New Orleans Culture (RELIC) programs for the LEH in seven parishes; Wanda Ellard, of by Rick Gruber, Mary Beth Romig, Phillip Collier and Jim Rapier, and Why New Orleans Bastrop, for her work with the LEH’s PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME Matters by Tom Piazza. literacy program; and Diane Dufilho, director of the Meadows Museum of Art Receiving the Humanities Teacher of the Year Awards were Jan Gardner, of C.E. Byrd at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, for her contributions to High School in Shreveport, and Judith Allain, of St. John Elementary School in Franklin. humanities programming in North Louisiana.

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES LEH PAST BOARD MEMBERS

I Suzan G. Allen I Francis A. DeCaro, Ph.D. I Homer L. Hitt, Ph.D. I Kathleen Heim McCook, I Andrew Reck, Ph.D. I Cecil Taylor, Ph.D. Lafayette Baton Rouge New Orleans Ph.D. New Orleans Baton Rouge I Vaughan Baker, Ph.D. I Hon. James L. Dennis I Sen. William Jefferson Baton Rouge I Jean Reeves I Maxine Taylor, Ph.D. Lafayette New Orleans New Orleans I Alden J. McDonald New Orleans Natchitoches I A. David Barry, Ph.D. I William M. Detweiler, J.D. I Ben D. Johnson New Orleans I Doris Reggie I Phyllis Taylor Lafayette New Orleans Natchitoches I F. Charles McMaines, J.D. Crowley New Orleans I Melinda Bartley, Ph.D. I Dardanella Ennis, Ph.D. I Jerah W. Johnson, Ph.D. Baton Rouge I Miles Richardson, Ph.D. I Sibal S. Taylor New Orleans Grambling New Orleans I Doris McWilliams Baton Rouge Baton Rouge I Reginald Bess, Ph.D. I David Eppler I Theodore R. Kauss, Ph.D. Shreveport I Mrs. Rupert Richardson I Hon. Gene Thibodeaux Langston Pineville Shreveport I David E. Middleton, Ph.D. Baton Rouge Lake Charles I Warren M. Billings, Ph.D. I Neil T. Erwin, J.D. I Peggy Kinsey Thibodaux I Ronald Robert I Morris Taft Thomas New Orleans Shreveport Shreveport I Saul Mintz New Orleans Alexandria I Elizabeth Bingham I Randall Feldman I Glenna Kramer Monroe I Ron Roberts, Ph.D. I Bailey Thompson Baton Rouge New Orleans Franklin I James Montgomery DeRidder Shreveport I Rabbi Murray Blackman I Anne Fitzgerald I James H. Lake, Ph.D. Shreveport I Sidney Romero, Ph.D. I Stan Tiner New Orleans Alexandria Shreveport I Sybil Morial Hammond Shreveport I Ralph Brennan I Daniel M. Fogel, Ph.D. I Beverly D. Latimer New Orleans I Thomas Ruffin I Rev. David Trickett New Orleans Baton Rouge Lafayette I Stephen A. Moses Shreveport New Orleans I Peggy Brian I Fred A. Frey I Frances L. Lawrence, Ph.D. New Orleans I Jerome J. Salomone, Ph.D. I Jane Ann Tudor Alexandria Baton Rouge New Orleans I G. Leon Netterville, Ph.D. Hammond Pineville I Mark T. Carleton, Ph.D. I Gary B. Froeba I Seraphia D. Leyda, Ph.D. Baton Rouge I Edward E. Samaha, Ph.D. I Sue Turner Baton Rouge New Orleans New Orleans I Paul T. Nolan, Ph.D. Ruston Baton Rouge I Thomas Chambers, I Anthony J. Gagliano, Ph.D. I Cynthia Lowenthal, Ph.D. Lafayette I William R. Savage, Ph.D. I Charles Vincent, Ph.D. 23 C.S.C., Ph.D. New Orleans New Orleans I Hope Norman New Orleans Baton Rouge New Orleans I Antoine Garibaldi, Ph.D. I Walter M. Lowery, Ph.D. Alexandria I Darwin H. Shrell, Ph.D. I Neari F. Warner, Ph.D. I Richard Chardkoff, Ph.D. New Orleans Shreveport I John M. Norris, Ph.D. Baton Rouge Grambling Monroe I Aline M. Garrett, Ph.D. I Ann Lowrey Lake Charles I Msgr. Alexander O. Sigur I Liz White, Ed.D. I Millie M. Charles Lafayette Alexandria I James L. Olney, Ph.D. Lafayette Ruston New Orleans I Tony Gelderman, J.D. I Fr. George F. Lundy, Baton Rouge I Lanier Simmons I Robert C. Whitemore, Ph.D. I Joy Clemons, J.D. New Orleans Ph.D., S.J. I Lise Pederson, Ph.D. Avery Island New Orleans Baton Rouge I Caroline Gilliland New Orleans Lake Charles I Hon. Anne L. Simon I Nathaniel Wing, Ph.D. I Henry Cobb, Ph.D. Alexandria I Louis J. Lupin, J.D. I Huel D. Perkins, Ph.D. New Iberia Baton Rouge Baton Rouge I Sylvia Klumok Goodman New Orleans Baton Rouge I Lorraine Slacks I Everett Williams, Ph.D. I Jeff Cowart Shreveport I Michael H. Madison I Emma Bradford Perry, Ed.S. Monroe New Orleans Leesburg I Morgan J. Goudeau III, J.D. Shreveport Baton Rouge I Fraser Snowden, Ph.D. I Frank Williams, Jr. I Hon. James J. Cox Opelousas I Yale Mandel, Ph.D. I Sheela Plater Natchitoches Shreveport Lake Charles I Alfred G. Guillaume, Ph.D. Shreveport Thibodaux I Robert C. Snyder I Alma Young, Ph.D. I Michael Craft New Orleans I Vincent Marino, Ph.D. I Jessie J. Poesch, Ph.D. Ruston New Orleans Shreveport I Edward Haas, Ph.D. Lafayette New Orleans I Thilo Steinschulte I Rabbi Richard Zionts I Betty Lee Crain New Orleans I Judy P. Martinez, J.D. I Nick Pollacia Jr. Alexandria Shreveport Monroe I Elton C. Harrison, Ph.D. Metairie Leesville I George A. Stokes, Ph.D. I Richard E. D’Aquin New Orleans I Peter Mayer I Peggy Prenshaw, Ph.D. Natchitoches Lafayette I Danella P. Hero New Orleans Baton Rouge I Raleigh A. Suarez, Ph.D. I Thomas C. David Belle Chasse I Mary G. McBride, Ph.D. I Sanna Randolph Lake Charles Alexandria I Otis A. Herbert, Jr., Ph.D. Shreveport Alexandria I Carole R. Taylor, Ph.D. I Moselle Dearbone, Ph.D. Lafayette I Jack McCarthy I Helaine Razovsky, Ph.D. New Orleans Alexandria Baton Rouge Natchitoches

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