Game Changers Paula Burch-Celentano Head of the Class Taris Shenall Leads His Classmates in an Intro to Jazz Dance Exercise During the Last Day of Class in June

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Game Changers paula burch-celentano head of the class Taris Shenall leads his classmates in an Intro to Jazz Dance exercise during the last day of class in June. The course, taught by associate professor of dance Beverly Trask, explores the legacy of jazz dance: from its roots in African and Carib- bean dance traditions to its assimilation into contemporary American dance culture. Shenall is a sophomore and a member of the Green Wave football team.

Recruitment Back cover: The Molly Marine statue looks out over Canal Street in downtown New Orleans. Commis- sioned by the Marine Corps to recruit women during World War II, it is the first monument of a woman in a U.S. service uniform. It was created by sculptor Enrique Alferez in 1943. The inscription on the base of the stature reads: “Free a Marine to Fight.” (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)

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Another high-achieving Tulane student who would make her predecessors proud is biomedical engineering major Anne Wolff. A Woman’s World Anne has traveled to Rwanda, where she by Mike Fitts assisted locals in fixing difficult-to- replace medical equipment and wrote a compelling case study on Throughout its history, Tulane University has been defined the gendered consequences of by women. Evidence of this is everywhere. The univer- the judicial processes follow- sity’s most famous buildings, in fact, testify to it—from ing that country’s genocide. Newcomb Hall, named for the daughter of Newcomb Borneo was one of the College founder Josephine Louise Newcomb, to the stops for Mikayla Stern- Lavin-Bernick Center, built by a family foundation Ellis, an ecology and headed by one of America’s leading female entrepre- evolutionary biology and neurs, Carol Lavin Bernick. There’s also the Lindy anthropology double ma- Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology, which jor, who has studied how houses our School of Science and Engineering, and raising awareness of the the Caroline Richardson Building, named for the world’s dwindling popu- Tulane graduate and English professor who headed the lation of orangutans can Newcomb Relief Unit, which served overseas with the influence people’s decision YWCA after World War I. in avoiding the consumption And, of course, there’s the Newcomb College Institute, of palm oil. Her passion for pri- which carries on the tradition of women-focused undergradu- mates brought Mikayla to Costa ate education and leadership training begun by Josephine Louise Rica this past semester to research Newcomb more than a century ago. the impact of limited natural resources on The Mary Amelia Women’s Center, which seeks to improve health for white-faced capuchin behavior in Santa Rosa women, children and families through community building, research National Park. and advocacy, is one of many university efforts that are woman-run, Immigration, an issue currently at the fore- woman-focused and Tulane proud. front of the global conversation, is an area of These buildings and centers represent not only physical spaces keen interest for Hannah Dean, a Latin Ameri- where learning, discovery and living flourish, but also the power of can studies and political science major, who women that continues to shape our university, our city and our world. has examined national immigration reform From the arts (National Book Award–winning Tulane professor and its effects on Latino immigrants, public Jesmyn Ward) to Zika (vector-borne disease expert and Tulane profes- education reform in New Orleans and U.S.– sor Dawn Wesson), there are few aspects of today’s society that are not Cuban relations. Hannah has also worked to being shaped, informed, influenced or improved by Tulane women. strengthen relations between Tulane and local It’s likely that even the clothes you are wearing as you read this immigrant communities and has helped draft have been improved by the genius of a Tulane woman. If you are citywide immigrant integration policies as an wondering what I mean, remember that in 1964, Tulane graduate intern with the New Orleans City Council. and one-time professor Ruth Benerito and her research team at the All these students are Newcomb Scholars, U.S. Department of Agriculture altered cellulose molecules to create a program that provides Tulane women with wrinkle-resistant cotton. an enriching and shared four-year adventure Wrinkle-free cotton was just one of the 55 patents held by Benerito, of research, seminars and experiential learn- who also invented a method to deliver fat intravenously to wounded ing opportunities. Besides excelling in their soldiers during the Korean War. Benerito, who entered Newcomb studies and experiencing the true richness, College when she was just 15 years old, is one of the many remarkable depth and transformation of a Tulane educa- Tulane women to whom we all owe a debt. tion, these young scholars are part of a wave Besides their own achievements these pioneers provide inspiration of amazing women coming (indeed rushing) to today’s Tulane students such as Lilith Winkler-Schor, a dual-degree in the wake of their predecessors to take their mark andresen mark major, who is earning a bachelor’s in studio art and a bachelor’s in so- rightful position as leaders. They are eager to cial policy and political science, as well as a minor in social innovation make changes here and now and destined to (how’s that for Tulane grit?). Lilith has wandered far from the columned FEMALE INFLUENCES make history in the future. porticos of Newcomb Hall, and works with formerly incarcerated Tulane has long been So as you read the stories of incredible young adults as they re-enter their communities. Her experience on the and continues today to Tulane women on the following pages, re- be an educational ground largely informs her research, as she examines the intersection institution where women member that the story does not end here. of poverty, incarceration and housing access in New Orleans. thrive and flourish. There is plenty more to come.

2 september 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE TUlane CONTENTS

The Hand She's Dealt Jill Meyers (NC ’71) shows her cards at the American Contract Bridge League tournament in Washington, D.C., in July 2016. (See “Women at the Top of Their Game” on page 18.)

2 PRESIDENT’S LETTER Distinguished women

6 NEWs First female • Doug Hertz, chair-elect of Tulane Board • In That Number • Who Dat? Rich Cohen • University of Value • Diabetes trials • Community

cliff owen cliff Book Center remade • Cannabinoids: High blood pressure treat- 14 Push and Pull ment? • Three Women of America by Elizabeth Discipline and dedication—to their sport and their studies—shape the lives of women Catlett • Tania Tetlow student-athletes. By Kaitlin Maheu, SLA ’16 13 SPORTS Sprinter Jasmine Blocker • Volleyball’s 18 Women at the upcoming season Top of Their Game 30 TULANIANS Matthew Cardinale Seven powerful Tulane women graduates change the way the world works, overcoming • Football tailgating obstacles and opening up opportunities in the fields of business, philanthropy, basketball, • Albert Ledner • KC Guidry • Cam Perron credit, health care, women-led organizations, equal rights and bridge. By Leslie Cardé 31 WHERE Y'AT! Class notes

24 Green Apple 37 FAREWELL Lisa Jackson (E ’83) shifts her passion for a greener environment from government work to Tribute: Apple, the behemoth technology company that is changing the world. By Faith Dawson John Weinmann 38 WAVEMAKERS Cowen Scholars • 26 Homegirl Endowment gifts It’s been a 20-year journey, but designer Becky Watson Vizard (NC ’81) is now at home with 40 NEW ORLEANS herself, her work and her community. By Nick Marinello Navy vs. Tulane

TULANE MAGAZINE september 2016 3 MORE TIFFANYS Robert Force, Niels F. Johnsen Professor of Maritime Law, notes that Tilton Hall also has Tiffany windows in addition to those in the June 2016 Tulane “Gallery.” They are called “Art & Literature.”

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HUMAN INTEREST Library of Health Sciences. “While aware that the caduceus you for publishing it. Kudos on the “Doctors of Dis- As you will note they depict is the staff of the Greek god Wendy Lehrer Birnbaum, NC ’86 covery” article [Tulane, June the caduceus, which was the Hermes—and often mistaken for Weston, Florida 2016]. As a Newcomb grad (NC traditional symbol of Hermes, the rod of Asclepius, which is the ’80), I have been scanning the who was actually the god of correct symbol for medicine—be- MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT Tulane magazine for quite a trade and negotiations, rather cause the bronze gates displayed Just finished reading the June few years. Your article on the than the correct rod of in the Tulane University 2016 Tulane magazine. Angus doctors and their discoveries Asclepius, who was the god of Rudolph Matas Library of the Lind’s reminiscence on the stands out as both well written medicine. In modern times Health Sciences depict the streaking craze brought back and fascinating. this error came about when the caduceus, I thought the image of some fun memories. I was a As a result of your article, Army Medical Corps adopted the gates appropriate to use on junior the spring of the streak- I have ordered a copy of Dr. the caduceus, rather than the the Tulane cover. The caduceus ing craze. One item of note Doty’s book and I look forward correct rod of Asclepius, as the symbol is also associated with that was omitted was that the to future articles on Tulane’s Tulane Band provided inciden- growing role in the field of tal music to accompany some neuroscience. As a 30-plus- of the more organized streaks. year lawyer, I ordinarily don’t Several of us in the band were gravitate to medical articles, contacted by friends and asked but this was not just medicine if we could give a little Mardi but human interest as well Gras flavor, which we were and fascinating. glad to do. I remember accom- I hope you have more such panying a streak at JL House articles in the future. and one at Monroe to mention Thanks for a job well done. a few. Alice London, NC ’80 Fun times and pretty Austin, Texas harmless. After one streak we convened in the “Rat” for a COVER SURPRISE beer and ran into A&S associ- I just got around to catching ate dean John McDowell, who up with a stack of recent BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA allowed as how if he were magazine arrivals. symbol for the Army medical Mercury, messenger to the gods, younger he might have tried Imagine my surprise to see officers’ uniforms. and commerce. The medical joining a streak! Tulane magazine’s cover with Thank you for sending me innovators profiled in the Mike DiCarlo, A&S ’75 a caduceus (Mercury’s staff, your otherwise enjoyable magazine have gone beyond the Ruston, Louisiana symbolizing commerce) with magazine. traditional practice of medicine. the words “Medical Innovators” David Guttman, G ’70 The bronze gates seem an apt STREAKERS BEWARE! when the proper staff for being Tallahassee, Florida symbol for them.” What Angus Lind neglected a medical symbol is the rod of to mention in his recent Asclepius. APPROPRIATE F0R MEDICINE BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS lighthearted article on “The While many make this Please be cognizant of the I was so excited when I opened Streaking Craze” is today the mistake, an institution of “appropriate” medical symbol the June 2016 issue and saw same behavior with an indecent higher learning should not, for our medical profession. ... the gorgeous picture of my exposure conviction can land especially not one with a large Tulane Medical School used five favorite Tulane graduates. someone on the sex offender medical school as a part of its Asclepius when I was a student I wanted to identify them for registry and ruin their life. university system. in the late ’50s. you, they are, from the left: Now that’s foolishness. Otherwise, a good issue David R. Ewing, M ’60 Jessica Gersh, Gena Gelb, Scott Kirby, M ’75 per usual. Tucson, Arizona Rachel Wolfe, Julie Abraham Raleigh, North Carolina Joe Samocha, A&S ’79 and Nicole Birnbaum (my ______St. Louis Editor’s note: Several more daughter). These girls have readers wrote us about the been friends since their fresh- DROP US A LINE! CORRECT SYMBOL image on the cover of the June man year and this picture truly Email us at: I am writing this note in 2016 Tulane. Unfortunately, we embraces the love, laughter [email protected] response to the cover of the do not have enough space to and friendship that these or U.S. mail: Tulane, Office of Tulane magazine, June 2016, print all the letters. Graphic beautiful girls share. I would Editorial & Creative Services, which showed the bronze designer Marian Herbert-Bruno, like to thank the photographer 200 Broadway, Suite 219, doors in the Rudolph Matas who designed the cover, replies: for capturing this picture and New Orleans, LA 70118

4 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE Letter From The Editor

MAGAZINE TUlane EDITOR Mary Ann Travis

CREATIVE DIRECTOR Melinda Whatley Viles

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Faith Dawson

CONTRIBUTORS Keith Brannon Barri Bronston Bradley Charlesworth Catherine Freshley, ’09 Alicia Duplessis Jasmin Angus Lind, A&S ’66 Kirby Messinger Ryan Rivet, UC ’02 Mary Sparacello

SENIOR UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHER Paula Burch-Celentano

SENIOR PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Sharon Freeman

SALLY ASHER SALLY GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Tracey Bellina-Milazzo A WOMAN’S ISSUE Benerito led a team at the U.S. Depart- Marian Herbert-Bruno You may notice: A common thread runs ment of Agriculture to create wrinkle-free through the stories in this Tulane. They cotton. So we can all thank her when are all about women. we roll out of bed and get dressed in the Besides simply their gender, though, morning without fussing with a hot iron IPAD AND ANDROID the women featured here collectively to look presentable as we go about our VERSIONS OF TULANE share something else. They are all game business. ARE AVAILABLE. changers. They have altered how the How will Tulane women graduates game is played in their respective fields. change the game in the future? Time will As Lisa Jackson (E ’83) said in “Green tell. Perhaps it will be in digital innova- Apple” on page 24, “The reason you tion. Tulane now has a computer science want more women in a profession is not faculty that is 50 percent female (four so the profession can stay the same, it’s of eight faculty members are women), a so it can actually change.” quite unusual statistic in academia. PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY From the beginning of Newcomb Nick Altiero, dean of the School of Michael A. Fitts College at Tulane University in 1886, Science and Engineering and interim VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS when Josephine Louise Newcomb, with provost at Tulane, said, “We’re inten- Deborah L. Grant, PHTM ’86 a “strong desire to advance the cause of tionally building a department that female education” and a “request that women students are attracted to. That’s Tulane (ISSN 21619255) is a quarterly magazine published by the Tulane Office of Editorial and Creative Services, 31 McAlister Drive, Drawer 1, the education given shall look to the not only because the students have role New Orleans, LA 70118-5624. Periodical postage at New Orleans, LA 70113 practical side of life as well as to literary models on the faculty, but also because and additional mailing offices. Send editorial correspondence to the excellence,” gave her first gifts to the above address or email [email protected]. women students are likely to be drawn Opinions expressed in Tulane are not necessarily those of Tulane university, women have found opportu- to a program that is focused on applica- representatives and do not necessarily reflect university policies. nity at Tulane. tions of computer science.” Material may be reprinted only with permission. Tulane University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution. And they have made the most of their The practical side of life, indeed, is education. Graduates like Ruth Benerito POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: still important. And games are waiting Tulane, Tulane Office of Editorial and Creative Services, (NC ’35, G ’38) (pictured above) have to be changed for the better. 31 McAlister Drive, Drawer 1, New Orleans, LA 70118-5624. changed the world. —MARY ANN TRAVIS SEPTEMBER 2016/VOL. 88, NO. 1

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 5 MUSIC MENDS Through its Arts in Medicine program, Tulane School of Medicine volunteers, including students, faculty, staff and hospital employees, entertain patients at the Tulane Cancer Clinic with live, classical music.

NEWS Board Chair-elect Atlanta businessman and nonprofit leader Douglas Hertz (A&S ’74, B ’76) has been named chair-elect of the Board of Tulane, the university’s main governing body. Hertz’s three-year term as chairman will begin July 1, 2017. “We are exceedingly fortunate to have Doug accept the role of chair-elect of the Board,” said current board chairman Darryl Berger. “He is a renowned and very highly respected business, philanthropic and civic leader who has deep connections to Tulane and broad experience in higher education. Doug is the perfect choice to continue the university’s tremendous momen- tum in the years ahead.” Hertz earned his undergraduate degree and MBA from Tulane. He is president and

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OF LIBRARY chief executive officer of United Distributors, a privately held beverage distribution business. Under his leadership, it has grown to be listed as one of the top 25 private companies Glass Ceiling in Atlanta. “I’m flattered and humbled to be asked to If first-wave feminists (who focused on women getting the right to vote New York lead the Board of Tulane,” Hertz said. “I’ve in the late 19th and early 20th century) time-traveled to the Democratic Suffragettes been fortunate to have the opportunity to lead National Convention in Philadelphia in July—when Hillary Clinton Suffragettes petition both for-profit and not-for-profit organiza- for the right to vote in became the first woman nominated by a major political party for the 1917. The first national tions, but there can be no greater honor than presidency of the United States—what would they have thought? election in which women to be asked to lead one’s alma mater.” “I think they would be asking, why did it take so long?” said Celeste voted was in November “I am excited about working with Doug 1920, after the 19th Lay, associate professor of political science at Tulane University. Amendment to the in his new capacity,” said Tulane University The U.S. Senate passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution Constitution granting President Michael Fitts. “I look forward to his granting women the right to vote on June 4, 1919. women suffrage was leadership at Tulane.”—Keith Brannon ratified on Aug. 18, 1920. One reason that it’s taken so long for a woman to ascend to standard- bearer of her party is that Americans have a mental picture of a president as “assertive,”“strong” and “tall”—all traits associated with men. The stereotypical image of a U.S. president also used to be of a white man. But that changed with the election of African-American Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 and 2012. “A crack opened up, essen- tially,” said Lay. “There are people who are now open to the president looking different from the way that it had been up until Obama.” As women have slowly risen up through the political ranks to reach CHAIRMAN senatorial and gubernatorial offices, political scientists have found that OF THE BOARD gender, however, usually does not determine how people vote. Douglas Hertz, who earned two degrees from When it’s time to pull a lever or mark a ballot, “partisanship tends Tulane, will succeed to trump—no pun intended—gender in general elections,” Lay said. Darryl Berger as the “Republicans will vote for the Republican candidate, and Democrats chairman of the Board of Tulane. will vote for the Democratic candidate. “Women don’t vote for candidates because they are women,” said Lay. “And men don’t vote against them because they are women. In normal elections (and 2016 has been anything but normal), it comes down

to partisanship.”—Mary Ann Travis SCHAEFER MORRIS TRACIE

6 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE In That Number Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane’s main library on the uptown campus, is moving more extensively to- ward digital resources with the addition of thousands of electronic books, journals and databases, as well as a growing collection of digital images, audio files and more. David Banush (left), dean of libraries and academic information resources, notes that this is part of a larger effort to bring scholarly resources to users wher- ever they are and on whatever device they use, whether laptop, tablet or cell phone.

“We’re about more than just physical objects,” said Banush. “Although books will always be an important part of our identity, it’s critical that we embrace the possibilities new technologies bring us.” On March 16, 2016, the library celebrated the completion of a post- Katrina build-back and hazard mitigation project, which FREE $ There is no cost for Tulane added two new floors to the top of the existing building. 0 alumni to obtain a library card. The number of visits to the library 1968 increased by 25 percent in the 2016 spring The building that houses the current Howard-Tilton 25% semester over the same period in 2015. Memorial Library opened in 1968. 200 The number of seats for study and research increased by 200 with 128.5Doors to Howard-Tilton Memorial the addition of the two new floors Library are open 128.5 hours each in the library. week during the semester. 4,519,565 The number of print volumes held by Howard-Tilton is 4,519,565. 131,959 Library patrons have access to 131,959 audio recordings. 984,362 The number of electronic books available from the library is 984,362 and growing. INFOGRAPHIC BY TRACEY BELLINA-MILAZZO AND ALICIA DUPLESSIS JASMIN DUPLESSIS ALICIA AND BELLINA-MILAZZO TRACEY BY INFOGRAPHIC

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 7 Who Dat? Rich Cohen Play Multimedia COURTESY RICHARD COHEN RICHARD COURTESY

INSIDE STORYTELLER Rich Cohen (A&S Voodoo Lounge tour. He found the band he said. “They kind of created the language ’90) was a student at Tulane when he went practicing in the middle of the night in a and the shape and the look of your whole to see his lifelong favorite rock band, The school gymnasium, sending licks from the world view.” Rolling Stones, play the Superdome during song “Brown Sugar” reverberating through Cohen, now a contributing editor the Steel Wheels tour in 1989. At that point the halls. Cohen interviewed Richards there at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and a he was like any fan, only able to daydream for the first time. He calls it one of the best best-selling author, cultivated his love of about stepping into the world of those interviews of his life. storytelling at Tulane. He was fascinated by mythical figures rollicking on stage in a glory Then, in another twist that fully trans- historic events and took as many creative of sound and light. A few years later, all of formed Cohen from a fan to an insider, his writing classes as possible. that would change. familiarity with The Stones led to a long One class introduced him to another of Cohen the history major became Cohen collaboration with its iconic frontman Mick his future book subjects: Samuel Zemur- the journalist, on assignment following The Jagger and the legendary film director ray, whose banana importing empire gave Stones. “For me it was like falling into the Martin Scorsese on a film about the rock him tremendous influence at Tulane, across diorama,” he wrote in a Vanity Fair adapta- ’n’ roll business. Their hours of brainstorm- Latin America and the world. That book, The tion from his latest book, The Sun & The ing eventually became the television series Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times Moon & The Rolling Stones. “Just like that, Vinyl, which ran in the spring on HBO. of America’s Banana King, was published I was on the other side of the glass with Though these experiences and relation- in 2012. Mick, Charlie, Keith and Ronnie.” ships gave him a different perspective on Cohen is also the author of Israel Is Real He was photographed with guitarist the people behind the fame, Cohen says he (2009), Sweet and Low (2006), Machers Keith Richards (above) shortly after he maintains his youthful sense of awe regard- and Rockers (2004) Lake Effect (2002) and met the band in Toronto in 1994 during the ing The Stones. “You never get over that,” The Avengers (2000).—MARK WALLER

8 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE SOCIETY OF DARWIN Tulane ecology and evolutionary biology professor David Heins has been inducted as a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, the world’s oldest active biological society and a leading forum for debate and discussion of natural history.

NEWS Diabetes Drug Trials When American Diabetes Association offi- cials gathered in New Orleans in June, they announced results of a major international drug trial with the finding that the glucose- lowering drug Liraglutide reduces cardiovascular events by 13 percent for high-risk type 2 diabetes patients. The trial—Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of Cardiovascular Outcome Results (LEADER)—showed a phe- nomenally high patient follow-up rate of 99.7 percent despite spanning five years, 410 sites in 32 countries and involving 9,340 patients. Roberta McDuffie, director of clinical research for Tulane University Clinical Transla- tional Unit, said, “This is a new record for the smallest number of loss-to-follow-up ratio for a cardiovascular outcomes trial of this size. SALLY ASHER SALLY It’s particularly notable because the FDA puts such a value on this for the validity of your data in the study results.” McDuffie was the national study coordinator for all 118 sites in the United States and a Worth the Cost member of the study’s International Panel for More change is on the way in higher education. That’s the message and University of Value Recruitment and Retention. She worked direct- the prediction of Richard Matasar, senior vice president for strategic Institutions of higher ly with staff at all domestic sites to make sure initiatives and institutional effectiveness at Tulane. (See “Interview,” education are in an everything possible was being done to reach Tulane, December 2015.) era of rapid change patients who weren’t responding to check in. For more than two decades, Matasar has been writing about the in which providing Tulane was also one of the largest sites for future of legal and higher education. value to students is the LEADER trial with about 60 participants. The Syracuse Law Review organized a symposium on Matasar’s exceedingly important. Dr. Tina Thethi was the local investigator, and themes of change and then published a specially organized issue (June Dr. Vivian Fonseca, Tullis–Tulane Alumni 2016, vol. 66, no. 3) with a transcript of the symposium along with more Chair in Diabetes and professor of medicine, than a dozen essays by law school deans and professors around the played a lead role in designing the study. country, all writing in response to Matasar’s scholarly work on where — Keith Brannon legal and higher education is going. The issue includes an article by Matasar, “Higher Education HEART HELP FOR Evolved: Becoming the University of Value.” In his piece, he suggests DIABETES PATIENTS Dr. Vivian Fonseca is the that schools must be able to answer doubters who ask: “Is higher educa- lead designer and guide tion worth its costs?” of a major study on the He explains that college applicants and their parents are “now effectiveness of the drug Liraglutide on cardiovas- acutely aware of the return on their investment” and that schools must cular events in type 2 have a clear vision of what they do that is distinctly valuable. diabetes patients. He lays out proposals for how a university can become a University of Value. That’s the term he coined for institutions of higher learning that provide such great value that students and their families understand “that what they receive is worth what they are charged.” “The era of change in higher education is just beginning,” writes Matasar. “Whatever these changes may bring, I believe in one constant:

we must seek and provide value to those we serve.”—Mary Ann Travis BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 9 PUBLIC SCHOOL CHOICE In New Orleans, families have a wider range of public school options than in other cities that have similar student populations such as Atlanta, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi. This finding is from a new report by the Education Research Alliance at Tulane University.

NEWS Cannabis Research Hypertension—or high blood pressure—is a long-term, high-risk condition for millions of people worldwide. At the moment, synthetic beta-blockers are one of the most common drugs prescribed to treat hypertension. But what if a natural drug, marijuana, which has been known for 5,000 years, could be used in the treatment of high blood pressure? Andrei Derbenev, associate professor of physiology in the Tulane School of Medicine, recently received a four-year, $1.5 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how cannabinoids—the compounds of cannabis (another name for marijuana)—affect a brain stem area involved in blood pressure control. His research may have important clinical applications for the treatment of hypertension.

PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA He is identifying the cells in the sympathetic nervous system linked to the kidneys, a key organ in hypertension. (The sympathetic nervous system is the part of the autonomic Community Books nervous system that stimulates the body’s “fight or flight” response. Overactivity of the When Vera Warren Williams enters her freshly renovated Community Design Build sympathetic nervous system is a cause of high Book Center at 2523 Bayou Road in New Orleans, she can scarcely be- At the Community blood pressure.) lieve it is the same space that she has struggled to maintain since open- Book Center in New He is studying the effect of exogenous can- ing the Seventh Ward location in 2003. Orleans’ Seventh Ward, nabinoids—from the marijuana plant—and With its expanded children’s area, performance spaces, a gallery for fourth-year architec- endogenous cannabinoids—those naturally artwork, contemporary shelving and African-inspired furnishings, she ture student Cassidy produced within the body. envisions the center as a hub for school and daycare center field trips. Self puts the finishing Cannabis “has lots of different chemicals “Our focus has always been on children and young people but the touches on a renova- inside,” said Derbenev. “Some of them are tion project that was new makeover will allow us to reach even more young people and ad- painkillers. Some of them, we don’t know what designed, fabricated dress literacy at an even younger age,” Williams said. they are doing.”—Mary Ann Travis and installed by stu- Williams is grateful to the Albert Jr. and Tina Small City Center, the dents working through community design center that is part of the Tulane School of Architecture. the Small City Center. As part of their final design build project, 14 students did the bulk of the work, from client and community interviews, to design, fabrication and installation. HOW HIGH? The process began last year when City Center, which provides high- The effect of cannabinoids quality design assistance for nonprofit groups that are traditionally un- on high blood pressure is the focus of a study by derserved by the design profession, put out its annual request for propos- Andrei Derbenev, als. Williams’ proposal was one of over 20 project proposals submitted. associate professor of “There was a lot of enthusiasm and excitement about this project,” physiology. said Emilie Taylor, design build manager and professor of practice. “Our goal was to create a space that reflects the center’s identity as an African-American–centered educational home, while becoming more accessible for new families and visitors coming to this rapidly changing

neighborhood.”—Barri Bronston THINKSTOCK

10 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE Gallery Elizabeth Catlett

SCULPTING A BETTER FUTURE Three Women of America (pictured here) by Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) is a 30-inch-by-24- inch serigraph that depicts the overlapping of three women of different ethnicities—white, black and Hispanic. The serigraph, purchased from Catlett in 1990 by the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University for its permanent collection, features bold colors and patterns that aid in emphasizing the similarities of the women pictured as opposed to their differences. The spectrum of skin tones ranges from pale to dark, and each face shares an eye with the next. Each woman’s eyes are of the same color and shape. Their hands are intertwined in a way that makes it difficult to tell to whom each limb belongs. They are one. A common characteristic among the work of feminist artists has been the use of the female body and sexuality to promote female strength and power. Instead of sexuality, in Three Women of America, Catlett shows the women in an embrace that exudes maternal warmth. In addition to being a painter and printmaker, Catlett also was a noted sculptor. In “The Sculpture of Elizabeth Catlett,” art curator Jeff Harrison wrote: “Throughout her career, Catlett has been a political pro- gressive committed to improving the lives of African-American and Mexican women, and she has often used her art explicitly to advance their cause.” Born to parents who both worked in schools, Catlett, who was African-American, also made education part of her life. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Howard University and a master of fine arts degree from the Univer- sity of Iowa. She later taught high school and college students in

Durham, North Carolina; New York CENTER RESEARCH AMISTAD COURTESY City; New Orleans; and Mexico City, Mexico. in Mexico City and eventually “gave Although women were the focus of many She moved to Mexico in the late 1950s, up her American citizenship and was of Catlett’s pieces, her work was also known where she continued her passion for declared an undesirable alien by the for highlighting the black experience in activism. According to her April 2012 State Department.” America—male and female—and for rep- obituary in The New York Times, she was She died at age 96 at her home in resenting the lives of all working class men arrested during a railroad workers strike Cuernavaca, Mexico. and women.—ALICIA DUPLESSIS JASMIN

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 11 Interview Tania Tetlow, Chief of Staff and Vice President

How well is Tulane positioned in the face of the changing higher-education landscape? Perfectly. We are big enough to have the advantages of a major research university, but small enough to offer intensive teaching and a nimble approach to a quickly changing world. Our strengths are in areas that represent some of the most pressing problems—subjects like curing infectious disease, or balancing the extraction of energy with the preservation of the environment. Tulane is positioned well because it has always had an unusually international focus, from global health to civil law. While other universities are clamoring to find connections with Cuba, for example, Tu- lane has been running programs there for decades, in public health, medicine, law, international development, Latin Ameri- can studies and business. Tulane faculty have helped Cuba write their environmental regulations and protect their historic architecture. Tulane has deep and abiding roots in Latin America and research offices across sub-Saharan Africa. And, of course, we have our deepest roots in New Orleans, the lifeblood of Tulane. The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South revels in the profoundness of our local culture, history and legacy.

What challenges do you anticipate, and how are you looking to handle them? One of our biggest challenges is to improve the diversity of our student body. We must create a community that mirrors society, one in which students of color will not find themselves so outnumbered and where all of our students have the opportunity to learn from peers who are different from them, in race, class, culture

PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA and nationality. We need to better support students and faculty of color. Since my TANIA TETLOW (NC ’92) graduated from entrepreneurship. Most of all, we have first day at this job, the president made Harvard Law School. She returned to Tulane continued to grow our strengths: faculty clear to me that this was his top prior- in 2005 as a law professor at Tulane Law committed to teaching, research on some ity. We also work constantly to prevent School where she directed the Domestic Vio- of the world’s most pressing problems, violence against women at the university, lence Clinic. She has been a federal prosecu- and students who make Tulane and New to keep our students from being derailed tor. Her scholarship focuses on preventing Orleans their second home for life (or often in their lives and careers by sexual as- discrimination by juries against both defen- their first). saults that too frequently happen in the dants and crime victims. Tulane President first few weeks of freshman year. Given my Mike Fitts tapped her to be chief of staff and What can alums look forward to as background writing about racial issues, vice president of the university in 2015. that evolution continues? directing our domestic violence clinic and The best teaching allows students to engage serving as a federal prosecutor, I am eager You have a long history with Tulane as an with what they have learned in the class- to tackle all of this. undergrad, faculty member and now an room through experiential learning and pub- administrator. How would you define the lic service. Tulane is becoming a place where Do you have a sense of what the hallmark university’s evolution during that time? every student will cement their knowledge of the Fitts era will be? We have become more engaged with by doing, where public service will teach Building on Tulane’s strengths to create New Orleans—in our teaching, our public them crucial skills impossible to internalize the premier student experience and sup- service and our research. We have become through lecture alone: ethics, cross-cultural porting faculty whose research will change more focused on innovation and social understanding and a global perspective. the world.—RYAN RIVET

12 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE The Bleacher Report listed Yulman Stadium on the Tulane uptown campus among the Top 25 College Football Stadiums of 2016. Yulman opened in 2014 and has a seating capacity of 30,000.

SPORTS Net Set The Green Wave volleyball team kicked off its inaugural season under head coach Jim Barnes looking to win, not just compete. Barnes, who came to Tulane from Baylor University, said his squad is improving, and he looks forward to playing in the American Athletic Conference, calling it a “very strong and competitive le ague.” “We have high expectations for our team, and one of them is to challenge for a conference championship this year,” Barnes said. “We look forward to seeing the Green Wave nation come out to our matches and being a part of this spe- cial time in Tulane Athletics history.” The road to that championship began Aug. 20 with the Olive and Blue scrimmage, followed by the kickoff of the regular season at the Southern Miss Tournament in Hatties- burg, Mississippi. The Wave plays its first matchups at Avron B. Fogelman Arena in Devlin Fieldhouse in early September, hosting Sam Houston State, WATERS PARKER UT–Rio Grande Valley and Bethune-Cookman for the Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic. Following tournament play, Tulane opens its conference slate on Sept. 23 in Philadelphia All-American versus Temple. AAC matchups include 2015 NCAA Tournament participant and reigning Banner Year Tulane sprinter Jasmine Blocker had a banner outdoor season in 2016, regular-season conference champion, South- Jasmine Blocker runs culminating in being named a First Team All-American by the U.S. ern Methodist.—R.R. the 4x400 relay in Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association after her per- January 2016 in Baton formance in the 400-meter at the NCAA Outdoor National Champion- Rouge, Louisiana. ships in June. The Green Wave team Blocker, a senior transfer from Princeton University, placed seventh won first place. at the national meet, securing her All-American status with a time of 53.14 seconds for the quarter-mile distance. Eric Peterson, Tulane track and field director, praised Blocker for her determination and grit throughout season. “We are obviously so proud of Jasmine for the season she has had. She has worked so hard and competed so well to earn the opportunity to compete at the national level and experience success, both for herself and for our team,” said Peterson. Blocker also earned honors for the indoor season as well, making her COURTING WINS the first Tulane sprinter to earn All-American status in the indoor and Green Wave volleyball outdoor seasons in the same season since Gloria Asumnu did so in 2007. is ready for conference play. Blocker joins Asumnu, Merritt Grace Van Meter and Hanne Lyngstad as the only track-and-field athletes in Tulane history to earn All-American honors during the indoor and outdoor season. In July, Blocker wrapped up her season when she took part in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, hoping to make the U.S. Olym- pic squad. She placed 27th in the 400-meter trials, missing out on the

PARKER WATERS PARKER opportunity to represent the United States in Brazil.—Ryan Rivet

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 13 PUSH PULL&

DISCIPLINE AND DEDICATION—TO THEIR SPORT AND THEIR STUDIES—SHAPE THE LIVES OF WOMEN STUDENT-ATHLETES.

By Kaitlin Maheu, SLA ’16

Dual-Sport Athlete Sarah Strasner plays on the indoor and beach volleyball teams, with no offseason.

14 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE the WNIT do wonders to strengthen the bonds between teammates. teammates. the WNIT dowonders between to strengthen thebonds withbasketball. after shefinishes to attendschool pharmacy forhermajor.while doingwell courses inpublichealth Herplansare trip to the NCAA Tournament—all of making her second with a goal This twoseasons. year,in herfirst she’s to add looking to that total, player the first over1,000-pointto cross plateau the Tulane history in brother andmen’s basketballstar, Morgan. Malik But she’s anyway, baskets in the gym shooting her training alongside untilNovember.) doesn’t begin (Herseason thisafternoon. practice Singapore,” difficultthing.” isthemost management Ng “Time said. week are per different compared to back home in ofpractices number Ng’s coach,Hayley Veitch, wants everyone prepared. to be at3p.m.starts team’s Thebowling and isquickly approaching, season tend, giving practice her enough time to afternoon grab lunch before morning she hasfinished She’llworkouts. have to at two more classes lecture.Herhairiswet; class witha9a.m.business hersemester starts beforebowl she Commons, ofcereal to grababananaand aquick Bruff time is8:50a.m. Fast-forward intheweight (anda fewreps andthe afewhours room), TIME MANAGEMENT alongtheway.forging memories having andcoaches, withtheirteammates relationships funand Andtheyformstrong intheclassroom. asathletes—and to succeed to strive for excellence in all that they do. They are highly motivated are with. aforce reckoned athletics towomen be ofTulane consecutive tripto oftheirfourth NCAANationals. strokes The round ofWNITplay, women’s whileTulane camewithin golf went2005. also outinstyle, advancing Basketball to thethird theprogram’sference Championships, showing since highest finishattheAmericanCon- Athletic withasecond-place season uptheir swimmingand divingThe women wrapped ofTulane intrialsfortheRiodeJaneirorecently competed Olympics. “All-American,” inMay 13),whograduatedfrom page Tulane 2016, manner.exemplary records along the way and in school an Tulane and representing personal broughtletes home a slew of individual breaking both titles, from Augusting inninevarsity tostudent-ath June. sports - These University Tulane blue to represent ontheNCAAscene,participat In the 2015–16 academic year, women over the olive donned 120 and EXCELLENCE ONTHEPLAYING FIELD It’s andsports. competitive.” day so every percent school forboth work ethichaveYou good. very to be always have giving to be 100 doing it,you can’t doit,” andyour management “Time Strasnersaid. off.alarm isgoing are crawling 5 a.m. from this angle: Some as Strasner’s see into bed atworst. Not gruelinganddisheartening many students college best, well. doesn’t handletardiness coach JimBarnes butshecan’tlong:Workouts too clock, snooze and in20minutes, start days withaslapofthe Most begin underherbelt. nament oftheseason havethough classes Strasneralreadytour- barely hasthefirst begun, iPhone: 5:20a.m.Today day isthefirst Tulane, ofherfinal and year at player SarahStrasnerrollsonher overto silencethealarmset inbed It’s Monday sticky ahot, morninginlatevolleyball August. Senior Postseason runslikeMorgan’s toPostseason the NCAA Tournament trips and March,Kolby 1,002 reached Last Morgan becoming careerpoints, Junior Kolby basketballstandout doesn’t have Morgan aheavy “It was difficultformeinitially. durationsandthe Thecompetition Junior Michelle Ng bowler to the cafeteria, is running up the stairs Women auniquecompetitive drive student-athletes possess McMillan and [see Lilla stars Jasmine Blocker Track andfield “You andjoy, ofperseverance alot need ifyou’re because happy not foranyThe schedule student-athlete tough toat canbe manage

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PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO Most women student-athletes agree that the highlight of their time at Tulane has been the friendships they’ve formed. High Scorer “We hang out a lot and do almost everything together,” Morgan Basketball player said of her teammates. “They’re always there to support you and Kolby Morgan know how to pick you up if you need help with anything, on or off anticipates adding the court. We also enjoy going to other teams’ games, like volleyball more points this and baseball. All the student-athletes talk a lot, whether it be in the year to her already cafeteria or going to and from class.” record-breaking stats. CLASS WORK It’s after dinnertime now, and Strasner is heading to her night class on the academic quad, quite a hike from her apartment in the Aron Resi- dences, where she lives with her volleyball teammates. She has finished a three-hour practice and some rehab for a persistent shoulder injury, and it’s time to shift her focus from volleyball to academics. Keeping a balance between their sport and their studies is an ongoing struggle for these student-athletes, especially when the team is in season and constantly on the road.

“Whatever you’re working towards, you have to work hard to get there. We learn that through athletics.”

—Kolby Morgan, junior public health major and the first player in Tulane women’s basketball history to score more than 1,000 points in her first two seasons PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA

16 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE For Strasner, a dual-sport athlete who plays both indoor and beach volleyball, the grind never stops. There is no offseason. “It’s hard scheduling classes and missing so much school,” Strasner said. “I had to learn how to study on the road and how to teach myself, since I miss almost every Friday.” At the start of the school year, Morgan isn’t in the middle of these struggles quite yet. But once basketball season is in full swing, she will have to balance the demands of home and road games with her commitment to her studies. Morgan said that she thrives on the touch-and- go pace of the season’s demands. “I like being on the road, but you end up with a lot of catching up to do,” Morgan said, echoing the concerns of her volleyball pal Stras- ner. “But to be honest, I think it’s easier for me when we have games because it’s a stress reliever. All this hard work and studying, now I get to play it off and have fun.” Even in the summertime, when most college students are vaca- tioning at the beach or taking internships in their respective fields, the hard work doesn’t stop. Volleyball and women’s basketball players are scattered across the quiet campus in the hottest Louisiana months, taking summer courses and getting in extra workouts during the offseason. The slow time on campus brings them closer together before the season starts. “We got to go home for about a month, which is nice. But summer conditioning is hard, especially for the incoming freshmen,” Strasner said. “As a senior, it’s my job to encourage the new girls, because I know all the struggles when they’re going to hit the wall and get homesick. But we realize that there’s more growth during these times, especially as a team.” Spending so much time in New Orleans can be difficult for a lot of these student-athletes, with so many hailing from out of state. But their teammates step up and provide support for them to make it through difficult times. That’s especially important for student-athletes like Ng, whose family lives on the other side of the globe. “It was hard in the beginning,” Ng said. “I Skyped my family almost every day for the first semester. But it gets better once you adapt to the new culture, and my team feels like my family away from home, so it is a lot better now.” The upperclass women student-athletes in- spire their younger counterparts. “For other women who are trying to get where we are, it’s an inspiration,” said Morgan. “We made it, so you can make it, too, if you put in the hard work. Other than that, it’s trying to get to what you want in life in the future. Whatever you’re working towards, you have to work hard to get there. We learn that through athletics.”

WORTH IT It’s 11 p.m., and Morgan, Ng and Strasner are about to hit the sack. While Morgan doesn’t have workouts until 8 a.m. the next morning, a luxury not afforded to her friends on other teams, she knows how important it is to get a good night’s sleep before another day at the office. WEAVE PTE LTD PTE WEAVE Later this week, the girls will have an off day spent catching up with friends, schoolwork and Netflix before getting back to the athletics toil. They may even venture off campus to sample some of the food and culture that New Orleans has to offer. The journey may be difficult, but it isn’t without its rewards, and they wouldn’t trade their International experiences at Tulane. Recruit “Playing two sports and being on two teams throughout college, Bowler Michelle Ng, I never saw myself doing that,” Strasner said. “It’s been stressful far from her home but worth it. I love it. It’s going to be weird saying goodbye when I in Singapore, relies graduate in May, but it’s been a good run.” on other bowling team Kaitlin Maheu graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the School of members like family. Liberal Arts in May 2016.

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JANELL BURSE NATHAN MANDELL NATHAN

BUSINESS ACUMEN Now the CEO of Polished Nickel Capital Management, a privately For Carol Lavin Bernick (NC ’74), her loving father was the first to ques- held company, managing diversified investments, Bernick has strad- tion his daughter’s ambition to become part of the family-run business dled the heights of the corporate world while raising three successful at Alberto-Culver. Bernick had hit the ground running in her quest children. This, above all, she considers to be her shining achievement. to find a job, after graduating from Tulane with a degree in sociology. “My goal was to raise kind, caring, competent children. I worked 4 “I had gotten an offer from Bristol-Myers in marketing, but decided I miles from the company headquarters, because it was important to be wanted to work for my parents’ company. So, unbeknownst to my folks, near my kids.” I applied for a junior-level marketing assistant’s position, and was In fact, while Bernick was still at Alberto-Culver, she was named hired. My Dad initially tried to discourage me, as he didn’t want me to “Working Mother of the Year” by the Moms in Business Network. And become tough, but within six months, I had developed Static Guard.” since leaving the Chicago-based Fortune 500 company, her philan- Static Guard took the company in a different direction, by laying the thropic work in both New Orleans, post-Katrina, and in Chicago, has groundwork for a number of other innovative household products. been legendary. She recently completed two terms as chair of North- Up to this point, the company’s mainstay had been VO5 hairdressing, western Memorial Healthcare in the Windy City. a leading beauty product. Now, Bernick was creating trendsetters in Now with six grandchildren under age 2, Bernick is always looking the household division … Mrs. Dash, Molly McButter, and Baker’s Joy, for the next challenge. In fact, she’s creating a charity that will be an jointly improving the company’s bottom line. educational resource center. With a slew of successes under her belt, Bernick moved on to “And I’m also talking about writing a book. It’ll be 500 little bul- increasingly challenging management positions, and in a move that let points about things I’ve learned during my crazy life. Tips for the garnered her national publicity, radically overhauled the company’s next generation to weather the storms of their own lives and learn corporate culture, increasing morale and cutting turnover in half. from my experiences.” “This involved a targeted process of turning our employees into maximum contributors, requiring that they think as businesspeople … BASKETBALL DREAMS making sure they understood the company’s goals, and were tuned in Janell Burse (UC ’01) was already 6 feet, 2 inches tall and a proficient to how best to implement them, no matter what their particular job.” basketball player by age 14. When she graduated from Tulane, she Thirty years from the time Bernick began at Alberto-Culver, and a was 6 feet, 5 inches, with an athletic scholarship under her belt. Her lifetime of achievements later, she became executive chairman of the stellar college career as an All-American led her to be drafted in 2001 company. She spun off the company’s Sally Beauty unit, the largest by the Minnesota Lynx, part of the Women’s National Basketball retailer of professional beauty products, from its consumer products Association (WNBA). Traded to the Seattle Storm in 2004, she re- division. And, in 2011, she orchestrated the sale of Alberto-Culver to tained her status as a starter, and as the team’s center, helped them Unilever, PLC. win the 2004 WNBA title.

20 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE Card received a master of public administration from Harvard Univer- sity and a JD from the University of California.) The alliance with Brock was fortuitous, as he was on the Commission for Consumer Credit and EMILY CARD the Senate Banking Committee, and Card was about to have her feath- ers severely ruffled at her neighborhood bank. “I had applied for a BankAmericard years earlier while living in Cali- fornia,” said Card, “and was told that my husband had to apply for the card, even though I was the breadwinner. Later, I wanted to buy a house on my own, but I was denied a mortgage because I was a woman. That time I hired a lawyer, and the bank acquiesced. “When I moved to Washington, D.C., and I went to open a checking account; ironically, there was a big sign on the bank wall, which pro- nounced that no one could be discriminated against based on race, reli- gion, or creed … but it didn’t mention on the basis of sex.” Card had a conversation with Brock, who told her that if she could show him why there should be a federal mandate, he would consider bringing it to the Senate. Card began her quest to gather evidence and documented her findings of years of gender-based discrimination in a 25-page report. The senator was convinced, and it started the ball rolling on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). “To get this bill through the Senate was absolutely amazing, because there were no female senators back then. The antiquated thinking was that if you were married, you could become divorced, and if you weren’t married, you were unstable. If you were a widow, you were viewed as helpless and in need of rescue. One woman was made to sign an agree- ment that stated if she were to become pregnant, she would have an abortion. After all, how could anyone be a good credit risk if they were also a mother?” Card pushed women’s rights light years ahead. Her complete notes on the passage of this landmark bill are now part of the permanent archives at the Newcomb College Institute, along with her book Staying COURTESY NEWCOMB ARCHIVES NEWCOMB COURTESY Solvent, which includes the story of the ECOA. Card has written or co- written seven books.

In 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the levees broke, and SAVING LIVES the Big Easy became a big disaster. For the girl who grew up watching “St. Elsewhere,” it’s no surprise that “The house I grew up in, in the Lower Ninth Ward, was totally Dr. Karen DeSalvo (M ’92, PHTM ’92) became a physician. destroyed. I became the face of Katrina relief. We raised $100,000 for Wait-listed at Tulane University’s School of Medicine, back in 1988, those in need.” someone finally decided to give her a chance. While in medical school, Early on, Burse realized the dearth of opportunities for female bas- she did field work, set health policy and realized she wanted to work ketball players who wanted to turn pro. Unlike their male counterparts, permanently in the public health sector. After doing a fellowship at whose opportunities were abounding with multiple leagues and farm Harvard University, DeSalvo returned to New Orleans as a professor teams, female college players were relegated to opportunities in only in the schools of Medicine and Public Health and Tropical Medicine. one league, with only 12 teams, compared with the NBA’s 30. Then came Hurricane Katrina, putting her “In 2011, when I left professional basketball, I wanted to make a clinical knowledge to the ultimate test … difference in the lives of the athletes who were approaching that turn- the streets. ing point in their lives, where they would either get picked up by the “We were building our wings, after we WNBA, or be forced into something else entirely as a career.” jumped off the cliff,” said DeSalvo. “It was Necessities of Life In 2015, the WMLBA (Women’s Minor League Basketball Associa- stressful, as so many people had lost ev- Facing page, left to tion) was founded. Burse is the association’s first commissioner. It’s erything. The clinics were being staffed right: Carol Lavin been the perfect storm of experience meets opportunity. largely by volunteers, and it was a race Bernick led Alberto- “I have the training and experience to know which girls have poten- against the clock. The city was under mar- Culver in developing tial to get into the WNBA, or the European leagues, while they’re getting tial law, and one of the community clinics beauty and household great training. I’m so passionate about my job. I’m all about empowering we started was in a boys’ dorm. It wasn’t products while women and supplying opportunities, so their dreams last a bit longer. handicapped accessible so we used the successfully raising a That’s exciting!” downstairs. There were people living up- family. Janell Burse stairs, even a dog. It was all makeshift, but had a stellar profes- CREDIT CARD it was about saving lives.” sional basketball career We can all thank Emily Card (NC ’63, G ’66) for the fact that women are Her ideas were transformative, so and is now creating able to obtain credit. Believe it or not, prior to 1974, women could be much so that Mayor Mitch Landrieu, in opportunities for other denied credit based on gender. Card helped draft legislation preventing 2011, tapped her to be his new health players. This page: that form of discrimination. commissioner for the city of New Orleans, Emily Card helped After she earned a PhD from Columbia University, Card was given an structuring an entire network of commu- open the world of opportunity to do a fellowship under then U.S. Sen. Bill Brock. (Later, nity health clinics. credit to women.

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KAREN DESALVO

Currently, in her position as acting assistant secretary for health, “After Newcomb, I had applied to law school at Tulane, but the dean and the national coordinator for health information technology at the told me I wasn’t cut out for law school, as I had a boyfriend and was U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., about to become engaged. Surely, I didn’t have time for both.” she deals with problems on an even larger scale. She’s implementing She moved to New York City and enrolled in Columbia University’s better preventive medicine, the critical sharing of information through graduate school. Eventually, Firestone earned a PhD in communica- databases, and she’s tackling the broader determinants of health: in- tions and followed her dream of starting a company, composed of fant mortality, neighborhood violence and obesity. Throw into that mix women presidents who owned and led $1 million-plus businesses. They emerging pathogens, antibiotic-resistant superbugs and immunization would come together for entrepreneurial education on a worldwide ba- hesitancy, and this doctor has her work cut out for her, albeit with her sis. The first chapter opened in 1997. priorities well in place. “Every year, we’ve published a book about the 50 fastest-growing “Too often, your ZIP code can be the most women-led companies. It’s important because I wanted other women accurate determinant of your health.” to see that these were substantial businesses across all platforms; that Playing Their DeSalvo often harkens back to the post-Ka- they were large, quickly growing; and certainly businesses that could, Cards Right trina madness, and the absolute importance would and presently were competing with male-owned businesses.” This page, left to right: of coalescing. With a maximum of 20 presidents in each chapter, WPO provides Karen DeSalvo works to “We were all in it together, and the rules a peer advisory group where expertise is shared in a noncompetitive, deliver equitable health and the hierarchy went out the window, for collaborative environment. There are now over 130 chapters, on six con- care to all ZIP codes. the good of the patients. There’s an old Afri- tinents. The total aggregate of the businesses represents $21.8 billion in Marsha Firestone can proverb: If you want to go fast, go alone. If annual revenues. connects million-dollar you want to go far, go together.” “I’ve built a huge network of connections, which is ultimately very women-led companies important in both your business and personal life.” to each other. Facing WOMEN POWER Firestone is married and has one son, an attorney, whose wife has an page, left to right: Jill There was a time when there would have been MBA and runs a charter school. Firestone said that her 7-year-old grand- Meyers plays—and no need for an organization called the Women daughter is definitely WPO material. As for her 3-year-old grandson? wins—master bridge Presidents’ Organization (WPO). Today, the “Too early to predict his destiny, but we know one thing … he will tournaments and owns number of women-owned and women-led treat women well.” a music consulting companies is staggering. business. Terry O’Neill For Marsha Firestone (NC ’65), president BRIDGE MAESTRO advocates for feminist and founder of WPO, the idea was hatched out Jill Meyers (NC ’71) is a World Grand Master bridge player, possesses agendas. of sheer frustration with the status quo. a law degree, and is the successful owner of a music business that

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engages in music consulting for TV shows like “The Voice,” “Lip Sync FEMINISM TODAY Battle” and “House of Cards,” to name just a few of the Hollywood pro- If you’re Terry O’Neill (L ’80), president of the National Organization for ductions with which her Santa Monica, California–based company, is Women since 2009, you’ve long been fighting for equal rights for women. actively engaged. “Today, far more millennials identify as feminists than baby boom- Meyers presents a puzzling dichotomy as a competitive bridge er women,” said O’Neill, “and 85 percent of men now believe women player and a business dealmaker. But to hear her tell it, there are many should have equality.” overlaps in the brain functions involved in being facile in both arenas. Becoming a political activist in the early 1990s, when former Klans- “My music business is totally about solving problems. Music super- man David Duke was running for governor of Louisiana, O’Neill went visors clear music (licensing the music for use in any given production), door-to-door disseminating anti-Duke literature. and I’m a lawyer, so I negotiate deals. Playing bridge at the tournament “Whether one is a fan of Hillary Clinton, or not,” said O’Neill, “should level requires a great deal of logic and problem-solving abilities, in be- she become president, the symbolism behind having a woman as the ing able to read one’s opponents and strategize accordingly.” leader of the free world is profound.” Meyers learned to play bridge when she was 10 years old, but tourna- Women have made it into combat, and are now CEOs in the board- ment bridge is dominated by men. “As a graduate of a women’s college, room, but economic disparity is still an issue. I was insulated from gender bias and was shocked when I found out it “As the glass ceiling gets broken,” said O’Neill, “(and people around existed, particularly in the world of bridge. here call it a sticky floor), 70 percent of wage workers are women. We “Whether culturally or biologically, many men I compete against need to start paying social workers and teachers—and other kinds of don’t like sharing the limelight with or losing to a woman. Many jobs that are predominantly done by females—the same salaries that we men don’t perceive women to be good bridge partners, therefore pay to those who repair bridges and pave roads … predominantly male- don’t use them; the women then get less experience, and it has the dominated occupations. There is still a huge, gender wage gap, overall.” ripple effect.” Considering the changes that have occurred, should the current The latest studies show that without early exposure to games like generation of women appreciate the pioneers who preceded them? bridge and chess, one just cannot be as competitive at the higher eche- “Why would millennials be grateful for the work their predecessors lons. It’s why Bill Gates (who will be playing in an upcoming Halloween have done? It’s a long time ago. What we do want from them is to be pro- tournament) and Warren Buffett have partnered to promote bridge in active. And, I think that’s happening. Just Google actress Emma Watson’s elementary schools. game-changing, impassioned speech before the United Nations, galva- “Bridge attracts very smart people,” said Meyers, “but not necessarily nizing young men to become advocates for ending the inequalities that social people, which is why I also love the music world, filled with hip, women face globally,” said O’Neill. “I think she exemplified that this with-it, social people. But, I love my smart, nerdy friends, who after all, generation of women is still about advocacy. You cannot listen to that are running the world.” speech and not be impressed with where feminism is today.”

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 23 Green APPLE LISA JACKSON SHIFTS HER PASSION FOR A GREENER ENVIRONMENT FROM GOVERNMENT WORK TO APPLE, THE BEHEMOTH TECHNOLOGY COMPANY THAT IS CHANGING THE WORLD.

By Faith Dawson

It’s a big and endless job responsibility to bear: “Leave the world and later as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Envi- better than you found it.” ronmental Protection. In 2009 President Barack Obama tapped her That’s one of the mantras and operating principles of Tim Cook, as the first African-American administrator of the EPA, where she chief executive officer of Apple, the multinational technology compa- served for four years. ny headquartered in Cupertino, California. While many workers might Jackson is optimistic about effecting real change in her job. She’d be daunted or even amused by such a directive, his employee of three like to see more and different types of people in tech careers. Using years, Lisa Perez Jackson (E ’83), finds inspiration in the broad goal. her own experience as an environmental advocate as an example, Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy and social Jackson said that technology could be a conduit for finding a life’s initiatives, says she starts by breaking down the broad goal into more work, especially for women. manageable pieces. “I think passion is important. People are [at Apple] because they’re “I almost look at it in classic engineering fashion, where you have passionate about their belief that technology can be used to make the to come in and say, what does that mean? How do you focus that into world better. … The technology might be the spark, but what keeps the places where we can really change things?” she said, noting that Apple flame going is you find your passion and you use technology to -ad wants to espouse meaningful and impactful projects that actually vance what you care about. Women have to see in the STEM [science, make a difference in people’s lives. technology, engineering and mathematics] professions an opportunity The company’s core values, all of which touch Jackson’s role, to make a difference on the issues they care about,” she said. include accessibility of products (“so that everyone has a right to use “The reason you want more women in a profession is not so the technology”), education, environmental stewardship, inclusion and profession can stay the same; it’s so it can actually change,” she added. diversity, privacy, and supplier responsibility. She’s also hopeful about reaching out to minorities, especially since youngsters are growing up with more tech tools available to ENGINEERING ROCK STAR them. Elementary schoolchildren—Jackson mentioned the 9-year- Jackson, a New Orleans native and member of the Board of Tulane and old girl who attended Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference— the School of Science and Engineering’s Board of Advisors, returned to almost instinctively know how to use those tools to express their her hometown in late June to speak at the 4,000-attendee American individuality and find the pursuits that make them happy, a Society for Engineering Education conference. sentiment she echoed in her speech to the ASEE group. Her arrival at the convention center that day was typical New That science and technology can work hand-in-hand with profes- Orleans: It was pouring rain and a brass band was playing in the sional happiness goes against what a lot of people think about background. But if the weather and the music disrupted her train of science in the first place. Jackson pointed to Mr. Spock, the highly thought en route to an interview and then the day’s keynote speech, logical and seemingly unfeeling officer of the original “Star Trek” an onlooker would not have noticed. And yes, there were onlookers: fame, compared with Deanna Troi, the even-keeled counselor of Engineering rock stars have their fans, too. “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and other series, who embraces A chemical engineer by training—she earned an undergraduate science, acknowledges emotions and finds enjoyment in life’s little degree in that field from Tulane—Jackson worked for 15 years at pleasures. Like Troi, Jackson is calm and thoughtful, soft-spoken but the Environmental Protection Agency (See Tulanian, winter 2010) still exciting to be around in a well-controlled sort of way.

24 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE Advancement in Technology With a zeal for making the world a better place, Lisa Jackson leads Apple’s environ mental initiatives. PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA

BLENDING TECHNOLOGY AND LIBERAL ARTS of hardcore engineers to a room full of marketing people to a room Everyone thought she’d turn out be a doctor, Jackson told the ASEE full of our lawyers to a room full of our sustainability experts, our group (if she had, she’d be possessed of excellent bedside manner). But energy team. It can be all those things in one day,” she said. engineering grabbed her attention instead. She recalled attending a Her long-standing passion, a clean environment, is at home high school engineering camp held on the Tulane campus, which was at Apple. “We aspire to show that you can be a company that is rewarding on its own, but participants received a coveted prize: an HP profitable that is also green,” she said. “For us, a lot of those things programmable calculator. She never veered off into medicine. go together well.” Designing phones or laptops that use less energy Still, “I don’t think it’s an accident I ended up at Apple,” she said, than previous generations, packaging products in recycled or “because it’s the only company I know of where that blending of sustainable materials, and using 100 percent renewable energy technology and the liberal arts is actually encouraged.” sources for their offices and U.S. stores are examples of how Apple Apple flexes a new muscle for Jackson. After years in Washington, reduces its environmental footprint. And Apple’s employees are D.C., moving to Silicon Valley was like going to a startup, she said. The challenged to innovate every day. long hours and extensive travel are the same, but Apple’s organizational “Innovation is what drives real, meaningful change … [but] it structure is much flatter and more nimble. “Roadblock” is probably has to be focused, it has to be towards an end. One of the mantras not uttered frequently in Cupertino. around Apple is that you say ‘no’ to a lot of really great ideas,” she “What I love about the job is I can go from meeting with a room full said, “because there’s something even greater out there.”

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 25 HOMEGIRL IT’S BEEN A 20-YEAR JOURNEY, BUT DESIGNER BECKY VIZARD IS NOW AT HOME WITH HERSELF, HER WORK AND HER COMMUNITY.

By Nick Marinello PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA BY PHOTOGRAPHY

26 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE It’s somewhere between seasons here on the banks of Lake Bruin, electricity goes out. The phone goes out. You run out of ink for the and the weather hasn’t made up its mind as to what it wants to do. printer, and it’s an hour drive to Vicksburg.” Becky Watson Vizard (NC ’81) crouches in the garden planted by her Sometimes, a designer from New York will call with an urgent need husband, Michael, taking advantage of a respite in the rain to harvest to have merchandise shipped overnight, which presents a problem arugula and baby kale for tonight’s dinner. most New Yorkers would find hard to fathom. “We call over to the “It’s what I’ve been telling people forever,” she says between snips. grain elevator or the John Deere store,” says Vizard. “‘Has anyone seen “The real story is about working from here.” the FedEx guy?’” You look around her comfortable, landscaped yard nestled between the back of her rustic two-story home and the wavering sheen A DRIVE THROUGH ST. JOSEPH of the lake and think you understand what she means by that, but you The rain’s at it again, softly pelting the car as Vizard drives through really don’t. Not yet. St. Joseph, giving a homegrown tour of the place of her childhood. Four hours upriver from New Orleans in Tensas Parish, an hour “This was my grandfather’s law office,” she says, as the car begins north of Natchez, Mississippi, is Vizard’s tiny, dwindling hometown to lurch and rattle over a patch of uneven pavement. “Over there was of St. Joseph, Louisiana. Her house is 8 miles outside of town and a big, beautiful home that was purchased and moved out of town.” a million miles from anywhere Vizard thought she’d be at this point The memory of what was haunts the drive: an abandoned Catholic in her life. church, a burned-down grocery store, derelict houses to which she once rode her bike for cookies and lemonade. FASHIONABLE PILLOWS Vizard estimates the town is now about one-third the size of the That B. Viz Design, Vizard’s small company run from a cramped little one in which she grew up. The decline can be attributed to typical studio inside her home, is something of an economic engine in this causes of rural blight: the consolidation of farm operations, loss of neck of the woods tells you a bit about the greater metropolitan area young people to urban areas, plummeting property values, and the of St. Joseph, population 1,176 and counting—down. general fallout from educational, cultural and social decay. Vizard employs five workers—four seamstresses and an office And then there’s the brown water that flows from the city’s manager—in the unlikely rural enterprise of high-end interior acces- 90-year-old system. Tests show the town’s water has high levels of sories. More specifically, she incorporates rare, antique textiles into iron, which is not considered to be a health risk, but “if you wash your fashionable, hand-sewn pillows, which she sells across the globe most- white clothes in it, they turn tan,” says Vizard. ly over the internet but also in a handful of exclusive retail outlets. The hard binary of her world doesn’t escape her. In the 20 years she’s been at it, Vizard estimates she’s sold about “I am a person with one foot in this incredibly rich environment 6,000 pillows, most priced between $800 and $2,400. and one foot in this incredibly poor environment,” she says. Inside the studio, Belinda Prudhomme, an employee and friend It’s a duality that she has in the last several years worked to reconcile for nearly 30 years, stands at a worktable using a pair of manicure and make whole. scissors to delicately remove a floral pattern of gold metal-thread embroidery from a tattered fabric made sometime in the mid-19th century. It will take her about an hour of meticulous work to completely detach the pattern, after which it will either be filed away for future use or incorporated into a pillow design that Vizard is currently working on. While Vizard works with other kinds of materials, including early- 20th-century suzani from Central Asia and fabrics from the workshop of legendary Venetian designer Mariano Fortuny, it’s her use of antique gold thread embroidery that has made her a name. And there is only so much of it still around. Several times a year, she flies out of Jackson, Mississippi, on expe- ditions for vintage fabric to be discovered and purchased in Turkey, France, Holland and other far-flung locations. In between those trips, she travels to New York to cultivate designers who may be interested in her product for their clients. (Vizard caught the travel bug early in life from her late mother, Ruth Harper Watson [NC ’58], who took her a number of times to Europe when she was a child.) And lately, she’s squeezing in presentations around the country to support Once Upon a Pillow (Pointed Leaf Press), a coffee-table book on her work, which was published this past November. Never mind that House Beautiful will be deploying onto her grounds next month Rural Life for a photo shoot; about the same time she’s Facing page: Becky planning to move the distribution portion of Vizard savors life— her business into a store in St. Joseph as part making high-end of a revitalization effort stitched together by a designer pillows—in small group of concerned residents. rustic St. Joseph, Loui- Fair to say this is a busy time in her life. siana with her husband, And living in the boonies doesn’t make any of Michael Vizard. Right: it easier. Vizard and her father, “People from all over the world do beauti- Bill Watson, stroll with ful things,” says Vizard. “It is hard to do it from their dogs before dinner. here. Our internet goes out half the time. Our

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 27 Design Sense Top: The Vizards’ living room exudes an elegant and sumptuous, yet comfortable, style. Left: Belinda Prudhomme meticulously handles gold metal-thread embroidery. Above: Embroidery from an antique textile is prepared for incorporation into a future pillow.

28 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE THE THICK OF IT Credit Bill Watson (B ’56, L ’58), Becky Vizard’s father. He was the one who got Vizard and her then-fledgling family to move to the area back in 1987. At the time, Vizard was living with husband Michael and their first child in Shreveport, Louisiana, doing well in her first professional design endeavor of producing hand-painted socks. While the couple entertained thoughts of following Michael’s career to Atlanta, dad weighed in, convincing Michael that he needed help in the small, community bank he ran in St. Joseph. It was not what Vizard had in mind when she graduated from high school and came to New Orleans to attend Tulane. Then, she had aspirations of living in New York or perhaps Europe. “To my horror,” Vizard writes in her book, “as hard as I had worked to escape this really rural country life, I was back in the thick of it.” Vizard says she felt like a “failure” moving back to St. Joseph. This, despite the fact that her hand-painted socks were being sold at retail- ers such as J.C. Penney, Mervyn’s and Talbots. Vizard, who likes to say she comes from a family of “characters,” enjoys telling the next part of the story. After two years of living in town, she and Michael built a house on her family’s property on Lake Bruin. The new house is spacious and, because the Vizards are caught up in their respective whirlwind careers, remains for some time un- decorated and under-furnished, which is great for their, by now, two kids who have the run of it and learn how to Rollerblade in the hall- ways and the living room. In time, Vizard does get around to designing the interior of her house and, it turns out, she’s pretty good at it. So much so that her friends ask her to come to New Orleans to con- sult on remaking their homes. Then friends of friends. And then she’s getting paid to do it and the whole thing explodes into a new line of work. Which is great because it allows her to get out of St. Joseph and into the larger world, which she so desperately wants. The sock business gradually falls aside as she does more and more custom, high- end design for clients from Houston to Manhattan. And she’s at it for about seven years and it’s fun and chaotic and crazy and, eventually, finally—it gets to be too much. Too much running, too much time out of town and away from family. Here’s where the pillows come in, and this time you can credit Wilson Henley (UC ’83), an old Tulane friend living in Manhattan, who hired Vizard to redecorate his place. Which she did. Only problem was, she needed an antique pillow to complete the job and the were shuttered structures on the same block. only one she could find in the entirety of New York was too “froufrou.” The Council on Aging is also moving in, and So she made her own pillow out of 19th-century curtain panels she Vizard is helping pick colors. Decorative found at a flea market. (All girls in St. Joseph grew up sewing, she Eventually, she says, the water problem Touches says.) And then she made additional pillows with the leftover fabric will get fixed. The town will come back. Reclaimed embroidery and began selling them to other clients. And gradually, working in “I have been inspired by the Mississippi hangs at the ready in her own home designing and making pillows seemed like a better Delta because each town has something Vizard’s workroom. idea than fussing with the homes of other folks. worth driving there for,” says Vizard. And “I started trying to figure out a way to slow down the decorating those towns aren’t situated next to Lake Bru- and build up the pillow business,” she writes in her book. in or its adjacent state park. Turns out that living in the boonies may Funny thing—the more she was home, the more she began to feel actually have some amenities. at home and the more she began to get involved in the community. In “That’s the beauty of where we are,” she can now admit. 2009, Vizard hatched a plan to create a farmers market along the le- And, finally, there’s the beer-de-lier project, a sideline of sorts vee in St. Joseph. She drove around Lake Bruin with her son distribut- in which she fashions elaborate light fixtures out of strands of beer ing flyers, inviting people who vacation there from Jackson, Monroe bottle caps. Vizard has involved local youngsters in assembling the and other cities to drop by. Every Saturday during the summer, the strands, paying by the bottle cap. She sees them get excited about market is now attracting not only locals but also wealthy visitors who being paid to make art. flock to the lake. “The idea is to get the lake people to meet the local “That’s what makes me happy,” she says. “I love making beautiful people, and perhaps some of them can get hired to do things and jobs things, and I love seeing people prosper.” can be generated,” says Vizard. She also loves living in a place where everyone waves to everyone, Moving part of her operation to Plank Road in downtown St. she loves walking in the state park, she loves dinner with Michael (a Joseph will open up some studio space, and by decorating it with dis- gourmet cook), loves living next door to her father, loves sunsets over plays of antique fabrics and tapestries as well as educational mate- Lake Bruin, loves the people she works with and thinks she’s blessed rial for visitors to enjoy, she’s also hoping to infuse the town with a to be able to employ them. She loves thinking that just maybe there is little culture. She mentions like-minded friends and neighbors who a future for her hometown. are opening a pottery store, antiques gallery and art studio in what “It’s come full circle,” she says. “I love where I live.”

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 29 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES IN TEXAS Virginia Garrard-Burnett (G ’80, ’86), a professor at the University of Texas–Austin since 1990, has been named the new director of the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. She is a professor in the departments of history and religious studies.

TULANIANS Party Starters As a new era of Green Wave football begins and Coach Willie Fritz’s team prepares to take the field, the Tulane Alumni Association (TAA) is planning new tailgate parties to bring alumni together and share in the festivities. “With the opening of Yulman Stadium and now a new, dynamic head football coach, we’ve seen a wave of excitement growing among fellow alumni and fans for the upcoming season,” said Larry Connelley (TC ’97), alumni association president. This season, TAA will host festivities at all 12 Green Wave football games, including away games at Wake Forest, UMass, Central

BRUCE FORSTER BRUCE Florida, Tulsa, Houston and UConn. The parties will offer classic tailgating cuisine, drinks and visits from Tulane Green Wave Athletics staff. “We had hundreds of Green Wave faithful Housing Helper join us for a memorable tailgate and football game at SMU last fall,” said Greg Miller (SLA The passion Matthew Charles Cardinale (TC ’03) brings to his work Seeking Change ’11), president of the Tulane Club of Dallas- as an affordable housing advocate is personal. He spent three years as Matthew Charles Fort Worth. “We’re excited to keep that high- a homeless teenager in southern Florida before coming to Tulane on a Cardinale promotes energy level of support up for this year’s team full scholarship. his affordable housing with visits to Houston and New Orleans.” Now Cardinale is the architect of a model ordinance called the ordinance in cities The star of the tailgate lineup will be the Affordable Housing Impact Statement. The legislation requires a city nationwide, including Homecoming, Reunion and Family Weekend or county government to provide detailed projections of how land New Orleans and his celebration on campus on Oct. 29. With thou- use and development projects would affect the number of affordable home base of Portland, sands of alumni, fans and family members Oregon. housing units in the area. in attendance, campus will be packed with Cardinale said he’s noticed that even when residential develop- old friends and Green Wave spirit before the ments aim to include affordable housing, they often produce a small SMU game. number of units at prices that are still out of reach for some. Information on the 2016 football tailgate “We’re spending millions of dollars to produce a few new units of schedule will be available on the TAA web- affordable housing that aren’t really affordable,” Cardinale said. “We’re site, alumni.tulane.edu/tailgate16. getting a frozen yogurt stand, maybe a Trader Joe’s and market-rate —Bradley Charlesworth condos—and that’s not what we need.” Cardinale’s ordinance is already in effect in Atlanta, where he lived GRILL ON for eight years. New Orleans; Los Angeles; Pittsburgh; Albany, New The Tulane Alumni York; and Portland, Oregon, also are considering adopting the idea. Association plans tail- Cardinale was back in New Orleans in June to meet with city offi- gate fun and fellowship at all Tulane football cials and discuss how implementing the impact statement law could games this fall. help the city. Cardinale currently lives in Portland, where he runs a nonprofit organization that focuses on housing and the environment. He said his years at Tulane helped shape his attitudes about social justice. “It was a great place to be young and in the movement for social change,” he said. “Tulane was supportive and created a space for us to

explore activism.”—Sonya Stinson BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA

30 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE Dispatch Albert Charles Ledner

WHERE Y’AT!

1950s JUDITH WOODALL HAUMAN DYE (NC ’58) was recently inducted into the Ottawa Hills Founda- tion Hall of Fame in Ottawa Hills, Ohio. She was honored for her achievements in her singing and teaching careers and for her community contributions in the arts. She is the author of An Extraordinary Year, the story of her junior year abroad from 1956 through 1957, published in 2015 by Tate Publishing.

ADRIANNE BUCHOLTZ MAUTNER (NC ’58) recently reunited with her former college roommate to celebrate her 80th birthday in San Antonio. The pair then traveled to New Orleans to relive their time there.

JOHN A. MIPRO (B ’58), an original charter member for the National World War II Museum, has been inducted into the museum’s Volunteer Hall of Fame. Mipro started volunteering at the museum in April 2000 (two months before it opened) and has since volunteered approximate- ly 9,000 hours. Mipro is married to the former Linda Arceneaux of New Orleans and has four wonderful children and nine grandchildren.

MICHAEL M. WAHLDER (L ’58) was formerly the U.S. magistrate for the Western District of Louisi- ana, covering Lafayette, Monroe and Alexandria. He also served as chief judge for the U.S. Land Commission and as a judge for the Social Secu- rity Administration for the last 20 years. Wahlder is looking forward to seeing Tulane play football this year.

1960s RICHARD J. RICHARDSON (G ’61, ’67), former provost and vice chancellor of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, had a distinguished LEDNER CATHERINE lecture series established in his honor. The in- ORGANIC MODERNIST For over six decades, Albert Charles Ledner (A ’48) has prac- augural Richardson Lecture will be given by Dr. ticed architecture in New Orleans. This past year, his extensive career and life became Aziz Sancar, a recipient of the Nobel Prize. the subject of a documentary filmed by his daughter, Catherine Ledner, and her cousin, Roy Beeson. RUSSELL STEELE (M ’67) received this year’s most Set for release next year, the documentary highlights some of Ledner’s best-known outstanding faculty member in pediatrics award from the Tulane University School of Medicine buildings in New Orleans and New York. Through interviews, commentary and behind- Owl Club. This is his second award in the last the-scenes tours of the buildings given by Ledner himself, Catherine Ledner said, “We three years. Steele mentors a Tulane Learning want to expose people to Dad’s work and his philosophy of life.” Community group and has published more than Having graduated from the School of Architecture, Ledner is notable for being one of 400 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. the earliest proponents of organic modernism in New Orleans. He spent time learning the style from Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin before beginning his own practice in 1949. Currently living in Los Angeles, PAUL GARSON Beginning his career by designing homes for New Orleanians, Ledner often experi- (A&S ’68) has a 30-year background in journalism mented with unusual structural forms while catering to each client’s interests. (He and photography that has produced approxi- famously used Cointreau bottles as decorative elements for a cocktail enthusiast on mately 2,500 magazine and periodical features. Park Island in New Orleans.) Garson recently published his latest book, en- In the 1960s and ’70s, Ledner acted as the architect for the National Maritime Union, titled African Colonial Prisoners of the Germans: designing hiring halls across the country and the union’s headquarters in New York City. A Pictorial History of Captive Soldiers in the World During that same time, he taught at the Tulane School of Architecture. Wars. Recording the fate of many French Colonial Ledner has designed over 100 buildings throughout his career, and in 2009, he won the African soldiers during World War I and World AIA Medal of Honor from the Louisiana Chapter recognizing his lifetime of contributions. War II, the book features a collection of never be- The idea for the documentary hatched in 2010 when Beeson met Albert Ledner for fore published photos taken by German soldiers. the first time. Both filmmakers, for whom the project is deeply personal, hope to reach a wide audience and shed light on Ledner’s unique and prolific career. Filming continues WILLIAM KENNEDY (G ’68) was honored at the 68th annual meeting of the Florida Anthropo- through the summer. logical Society in May 2016. For more than three For his part, Albert Ledner, now 92, is “thrilled and very happy” about being the decades, Kennedy mentored undergraduate and subject of this upcoming documentary.—LINDSAY McCOOK graduate students at Florida Atlantic University.

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 31 Dispatch KC Guidry

ARTHUR WRIGHT (A&S ’68), an attorney at Thompson & Knight LLP in Dallas, has been selected for inclusion in the 2016 Who’s Who Legal 100.

1970s MARGARET ESKEW (G ’70), an English professor at Mercer University’s Penfield College, received the Joe and Jean Hendricks Excellence in Teaching Award at the May commencement ceremony. The award recognizes a full-time teacher who best exemplifies qualities that distinguished Joe and Jean Hendricks as mentors to generations of Mercer students.

The Therapist’s Answer Book: Solutions to 101 Tricky Problems in Psychotherapy, the third book by JEROME S. BLACKMAN (M ’71), has recently been translated into Chinese. Blackman continues practicing and teaching as a professor of clinical psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School, as well as consulting at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. In May, he gave the faculty presentation at the graduation of fellows of the New York Freudian Society.

MICHAEL KHOURI (A&S ’71) was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a new five-year term as commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in Washington, D.C. He has served with the FMC since 2010.

SHIRLEY SPARKS-GREIF (G ’71) co-wrote the article “A Family-Centered Approach as Prevention for Substance Abuse” for the February 2016 issue of Counselor Magazine. She is also a volunteer for Celebrating Families, a program that aims to break the cycle of addiction in families.

PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO PAULA JOSEPH V. TRAHAN III (A&S ’76), of Trahan and Associates in the Atlanta area, has been CRESCENT CITY CONNECTIONS As manager of Crescent Park, a public space run- inducted into the Southern Public Relations Federation Hall of Fame, which recognizes pro- ning 1.4 miles along the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Katherine Campbell “KC” fessionals who have brought honor to the field. Guidry (NC ’08) wears many hats, handling programming, social media and community relations, and more, down to the smallest but crucial details like overseeing weed- LEONARD VERGES (A&S ’77, M ’81) was pulling by her landscaping team. What started as an internship with the French Market awarded the revered Platinum Scalpel Award Corp. in 2014 ended up as a job in 2015, largely due to Guidry’s independent research at the Duke Urology graduation ceremony in and development plan for the park. June. Verges teaches Duke residents rotating Guidry gathered input from community members on how the park could best serve through the VA Hospital in Asheville, North their needs. Crescent Park officially opened in July 2015 with breathtaking city views, Carolina. His wife, LISA B. VERGES (M ’81), is green space rich with native landscaping, bike paths, a dog run and multiuse pavilions. a geriatric psychiatrist at MemoryCare, a The park represents “connection,” according to Guidry. It reconnects locals and visi- nonprofit dementia clinic. They have two tors physically and visually to the river as well as provides a corridor that connects the children (one is a new urologist) and a beloved Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods to the riverfront. new grandson. A California native, Guidry was a sophomore when Hurricane Katrina hit. When she returned to campus, Tulane administrators organized a day of service that helped stoke 1980s her compassion and solidified her relationship with the city. JOHN GREGORY BROWN (A&S ’82) had his fourth “To really serve New Orleans, I think you have to understand New Orleans,” Guidry novel, A Thousand Miles From Nowhere, pub- said. “This is a place that isn’t quite like anywhere else. Being a student at Tulane taught lished by Little, Brown & Co. under the Lee Boudreaux Books imprint. Among others, me to love New Orleans. It also taught me how to have a good time. In my job I get to Brown’s honors include a Lyndhurst Prize, develop events with the sole purpose of providing a great experience to our community.” the Lillian Smith Award and the John Stein- One of those “good-times” events Guidry helped organize is the Crescent Park beck Award. He is currently the Julia Jackson Bazaar, a seasonal art market featuring local artisans, food trucks and more on the Nichols Professor of English at Sweet Briar Mandeville Wharf in Crescent Park.—SALLY ASHER College in Virginia, where he lives with his wife, the novelist Carrie Brown.

32 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE SOUTHERN WRITER Frank Turner Hollon (L ’88) published his 10th novel, Jamestown, Alaska, in June. Hollon’s books have enjoyed commercial and critical success, drawing comparisons to William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren and other Southern authors. Two of his books have been made into films.

WHERE Y’AT!

LEE W. SMITHSON (A&S ’84) was selected by Mis- JOSEPH O. BILLIG (E ’87) recently moved from 1990s sissippi Gov. Phil Bryant as executive director of Vail, Colorado, to Denver. As the area medical MICHAEL RUBENSTEIN (B ’90, L ’93) has been the Mississippi Emergency Management Agen- director for Colorado Permanente Medical appointed by the president of the American cy. Smithson served for more than 31 years in Group, he is currently responsible for 150 Bar Association (ABA) as the chair of the ABA’s the U.S. Army and Mississippi National Guard; physicians and oversees quality, service and Death Penalty Representation Project. The during that time, he supported disaster response affordability for five departments, including project is the association’s resource for issues operations during Hurricane Katrina and the neonatology and emergency medicine. Billig related to the defense effort in death penalty Deepwater Horizon oil spill and deployed to Iraq also enjoys fly fishing and reading about class- cases and aims to improve the quality and in 2004 and to Bosnia in 2001. Smithson is mar- mates in this magazine. availability of legal representation for persons ried to the former ELIZABETH BLACK (NC ’85). facing possible death sentences. Rubenstein is ANN HIPPENSTEEL FITZGERALD (E ’87) accepted a shareholder in the Houston office of Liskow & BARRI RAFFERTY (NC ’85) has been appointed a position as a research attorney with the Hon. Lewis, where he serves as a managing partner. as the worldwide president of Ketchum, one of Kathryn J. Gardner on the Kansas Court of the world’s top communications consultancies. Appeals. Her husband, ROB FITZGERALD (B ’87), DAVID GAUS (M ’92, PHTM ’92) recently received Rafferty joined Ketchum in 1994. is an investigator with the Employee Benefit the Humanitarian Award from the American Security Administration of the U.S. Department Academy of Family Physicians for his innova- “GeoCities,” a painting and sculpture exhibi- of Labor. tive hospital training model in rural Ecuador tion by CINDY BUTLER RASCHE (G ’85), was and for his critical effort in earthquake relief. displayed at the Galeria Regina in Houston Idea Village founder and CEO TIM WILLIAMSON this summer. Rasche describes the works as (B ’87) has been named president of NOLA CATHERINE BENTIVEGNA ADAMI (NC ’93) colorful, geometric abstractions of cities and Media group. Williamson has received both na- attended New York University five years ago to structures in landscapes. tional and local awards for his work with Idea study creative writing. Her article, “The Epitome Village, including a Heroes of the Storm award of Cool,” about her late father, Freddy “the A chapter, “Ancient Trepanation From the Per- in 2008 and induction into the Junior Achieve- Beard” Bentivegna, and Pulitzer Prize– winner spective of Modern Neurosurgery,” by DAVID S. ment Business Hall of Fame in 2015. David Mamet, appeared in Billiards Digest Mag- KUSHNER (A&S ’86, M ’89) was published in the azine. Her debut novel, On Elizabeth Street, was book Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeol- ALOKE GHOSH (G ’88, ’93), a professor of ac- published this summer through her company, ogy of Trepanation in Ancient Peru. The book’s countancy at Baruch College, City University of Pool Hustler’s Daughter Press. The comedy is editor, Tulane anthropology professor John W. New York, earned the Fulbright Distinguished about two Tulane graduates meeting in the No- Verano, invited Kushner to write the chapter. Chair Award for research in Finland. This sum- lita neighborhood of New York City to connect mer, he conducted research, gave lectures and with one another for a summer weekend. EDWARD R. PETKEVIS (L ’86) was elected held seminars for doctoral students and faculty president of the board of trustees of the Ma- at Aalto University. LANCE STUKE (A&S ’93, PHTM ’96, M ’02) has sonic Charity Foundation of New Jersey. The been named program director of the general foundation’s charitable responsibilities include STEPHEN TILBROOK (A&S ’88) was appointed surgery residency at the LSU Department of awarding annual scholarships and developing a to Nova Southeastern University’s Ambas- Surgery in New Orleans. He practices general retirement community and nursing home. sadors Board. Tilbrook is a shareholder in surgery and trauma at University Medical GrayRobinson, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, law Center in New Orleans. ANTHONY RECASNER (G ’86, ’88), CEO of the firm. He focuses his practice on complex land advocacy organization Agenda for Children, use, development and environmental matters was awarded Loyola University Alumni Associa- throughout the state. tion’s highest honor, the Adjutor Hominum ALUMNI: Award, at the organization’s annual jazz brunch DANIEL GROSS (A&S ’89) is president of the in the spring. Recasner was a key player in the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. TELL US YOUR NEWS! city’s charter school movement and co-founded Gross recently gave a TED Talk discussing the FirstLine Schools. common ground that exists on the gun issue. Share your professional achievements, awards and honors, and other milestones ALUMNI AWARDS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS with Tulane magazine for the Tulanians / Where Y’At section of Our alumni, equipped with a powerful education, an upcoming issue. 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TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 33 Dispatch Cam Perron

RICHARD HARVEY (UC ’95) is one of 15 members of the Pascagoula, Mississippi, Athletic Hall of Fame’s 2016 class; he was previously inducted into the Tulane Hall of Fame in 1999. Harvey, CEO of the sports marketing firm Breakout Foot- ball Academy, is married and the father of seven children—Richard, Tiffany, Daniel, Elizabeth, Amber, Joshua and James. He lives in Denver.

PHILIP LAWRENCE (L ’96) completed the 56-mile 2016 Comrades Marathon in South Africa. The race is known as the world’s oldest ultramara- thon and was Lawrence’s 131st marathon.

NICHOLAS TSOUDIS (L ’96) joined Invesco Ltd. as chief compliance officer of WL Ross & Co. and Invesco Private Capital in 2016. His principal duties include overseeing and administering the day-to-day operations of the compliance programs for the two registered investment advisers. He is directly responsible for developing, implementing, managing and testing the compliance programs to meet both regulatory and business needs. He is located in New York.

BRADLEY EGENBERG (TC ’98, L ’04) has been inducted as a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. The forum acknowledges excellence in trial advocacy. Members must have been lead counsel in a case in which they achieved a verdict or nonstructured settle- ment of more than $1 million. Egenberg is the founder of Egenberg APLC in New Orleans, a plaintiff’s law firm focusing on catastrophic personal injury, interstate trucking accidents and disaster-related litigation. CAM PERRON CAM VALERIE SASAKI (NC ’98), a partner at the TEAM PLAYER It’s not every middle-schooler who sees his childhood hobby snowball Samuels Yoelin Kantor law firm in Portland, into an appearance on HBO and an article on the Major League Baseball website. Oregon, was honored as a Rising Star in the But that’s what happened when Cam Perron (B ’16) began collecting baseball cards 2016 issue of Oregon Super Lawyers magazine. at age 12. Later he started accumulating memorabilia and autographs from MLB stars. The publication identifies the most outstand- However, he soon realized that he got a more enthusiastic response at collectibles shows ing attorneys in the state, as chosen by their from former players in the Negro Leagues, the African-American teams and organizations peers and through the research of Super Lawyers, that existed parallel to organized baseball in the decades before integration. which is a Thomson Reuters business. Perron (pictured above with William Wyndham) also received many more respons- 2000s es, and much more personal ones, from Negro Leaguers when he wrote to them. He JONATHAN WACHMAN (B ’00) and MELISSA soon developed friendships with many of the former “blackball” stars. WACHMAN (NC ’03) would like to announce the So Perron, still a teenager in suburban Boston, picked up the mantle of educating the arrival of their daughter, Chloe Meadow, born public about the influence and importance of the Negro Leagues, as well as garnering the May 17, 2016. She is welcomed by her 22-month- players recognition and other benefits he felt they had been denied, such as pensions. old brother, Evan Rex. “I was so blown away that they would just call me up and tell me about their careers and introduce me to their friends and other players,” Perron said. “I was just sucked in.” DEREK D. BARDELL (G ’01, ’02) was recognized by Soon after he arrived at Tulane in 2013, Perron appeared on HBO’s “Real Sports With the Associated Professional Educators of Loui- Bryant Gumbel.” The attention from the show led to an article on MLB.com and other me- siana for his unyielding service as chairman of dia outlets, and he toured the country giving speaking engagements to raise awareness of the board of directors for the “A” rated Audubon the Negro Leagues. Charter School. “It was pretty cool,” he said. “I never sought out [media] attention. It just blew up nationally at some point.” SHANNON SPRINKLE (L ’01), partner and general Now, as he embarks on a career at a talent agency in Los Angeles, Perron still tries to counsel at Carlock, Copeland & Stair in Atlanta, do what he can to promote the lives and legacies of his baseball friends. was honored as one of 25 “2016 On the Rise” law- “It’s obviously something I have a passion for,” he said. “There are times when I have yers by the Daily Report. Sprinkle also accepted a position as a part-time adjunct professor at less time to dedicate to it, so I go in streaks, but I’m always interested in staying involved. the Georgia State University College of Law and It’s about making contacts and reaching out [to the players] so they can get more recog- enjoys a thriving commercial litigation, profes- nition in their communities. When you get to know them, you want to tell more people sional liability defense and risk management about them.”—RYAN WHIRTY practice. She is married to BRIAN SPRINKLE (L ’01); they have two children.

34 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE FAREWELL

SUSANNE VETERS (L ’01) was appointed as Ralph Pedersen, Tulane basketball coach, of Robert L. Smith (PHTM ’48) of Lewisburg, West honorary consul for the Federal Republic of Culver, Indiana, on June 15, 2016. Virginia, on March 27, 2016. Germany in Louisiana in April. Members help promote German-American relations and pro- Mary Lou Lanier Fife (NC ’30) of Dallas on April William A. Watson Jr. (A&S ’48) of New Orleans vide consular services, including assisting U.S. 27, 2016. on April 21, 2016. and German citizens in legal issues. She is one of the few honorary consuls in the United States Aline Nobile Thompson (NC ’41, L ’43) of Natalie Walker Watters (NC ’48) of Spartanburg, that processes passport applications. Mandeville, Louisiana, on April 2, 2016. South Carolina, on June 14, 2016.

CARNEY ANNE NASSER (L ’03) was recently Gayle Marschall Cosgrove (NC ’42) of Midlothian, Ivan S. Altman (M ’49) of Lake Oswego, Oregon, honored as a 2016 “Top Female Achiever” by Virginia, on June 6, 2016. on April 5, 2016. New Orleans Magazine. She is a senior counsel for wildlife and regulatory affairs at the Animal Richard L. Gates Jr. (B ’42) of Boyce, Louisiana, Norman J. Bergeron Jr. (B ’49) of Arabi, Louisiana, Legal Defense Fund. Her practice focuses on on June 4, 2016. on May 3, 2015. rescuing big cats and other endangered and exotic animals from exploitative and inhumane Irma Villarrubia Henderson (UC ’42) of Frank J. Dalia (E ’49, ’52, G ’64) of New Orleans Alexandria, Louisiana, on Sept. 24, 2014. on April 25, 2016. conditions of captivity. Mary Elaine Leverich Mears Collenberg (NC ’42) Charles S. Pique Jr. (A&S ’49) of Tucson, Arizona, 2010s of New Orleans on June 27, 2016. on May 10, 2016. Gleason, a documentary depicting the family life of former New Orleans Saints player STEVE Elaine Dicks Flowerree (NC ’44) of Portland, Frank W. Roccaforte (A&S ’49) of Covington, GLEASON (B ’11) and his ongoing battle with ALS, Oregon, on April 24, 2016. Louisiana, on April 24, 2016. premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January. Thomas N. Poulos (A ’44) of Winnsboro, Betty Martinez Thibodaux (B ’49) of Metairie, Louisiana, on June 22, 2014. Louisiana, on May 11, 2016. DAVID KUNIAN (G ’13) is the new music curator at the Louisiana State Museum. Kunian aims to Katherine Saunders Pratt (NC ’44) of Houston Paquita Arrache (NC ’50) of San Juan, Puerto open a New Orleans Jazz Museum on the U.S. on June 9, 2016. Rico, on Oct. 5, 2015. Mint’s second floor in the fall of 2017. He is a radio documentarian and a longtime DJ on the Mary Mathews Brion (NC ’45) of West Hartford, E.C. Beck (G ’50, ’52) of Mount Prospect, Illinois, community radio station WWOZ. Connecticut, on Dec. 18, 2015. on June 1, 2016.

EVAN REUTER (SSE ’14, ’15) spent the last year Lawrence C. French (B ’45) of Corpus Christi, Henry L. Blust (E ’50) of Lancaster, working for Kaplan Test Prep, tutoring students Texas, on March 27, 2016. Pennsylvania, on May 3, 2016. for the MCAT. He recently returned from a 300-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail and Philip H. Roach Jr. (A&S ’45, A ’49) of Hauula, Ernest E. Deshautreaux (A&S ’50, M ’53) of a Birthright Israel trip. Reuter is back in New Hawaii, on April 28, 2016. Mandeville, Louisiana, on April 7, 2016. Orleans and is excited to have started medical school this fall. Muriel Fournet Crane (NC ’46) of Metairie, James R. Keeton (A&S ’50) of Austin, Texas, on Louisiana, on May 17, 2016. March 19, 2016. Tulane University golfer EMILY PENTTILA (B ’16) and head coach Lorne Don were honored Jean Lambou Doerries (NC ’46) of Houston on John K. Laberteaux (E ’50) of Bethlehem, by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association May 22, 2016. Pennsylvania, on April 23, 2016. as the 2016 Louisiana Golfer and Coach of the Year. The organization also named Penttila to Clarence C. Laster Jr. (A&S ’46) of San Antonio Ivan R. Leopold (A&S ’50) of Metairie, Louisiana, the all-state first team. on March 27, 2015. on June 8, 2016. Henry F. LeMieux (E ’46, ’49) of Houston on Violet Whitehead Walker (NC ’50) of Southaven, KEY TO SCHOOLS April 29, 2016. Mississippi, on April 20, 2016. SLA (School of Liberal Arts) SSE (School of Science and Engineering) Harvey J. Fitzpatrick (A&S ’47, G ’50) of Houston John G. Weinmann (A&S ’50, L ’52) of Metairie, A (School of Architecture) on April 12, 2016. Louisiana, on June 9, 2016. B (A. B. Freeman School of Business) L (Law School) Edwin G. Hays (E ’47) of Irving, Texas, on March William F. Becker Jr. (E ’51) of River Ridge, M (School of Medicine) 26, 2016. Louisiana, on April 6, 2016. SW (School of Social Work) Norman J. Kauffmann Jr. (E ’47) of Pebble Beach, Philip J. Centanni (A&S ’51) of Kenner, Louisiana, PHTM (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine) California, on Jan. 9, 2014. on June 14, 2016. SCS (School of Continuing Studies)

A&S (College of Arts & Sciences, the men’s liberal arts George C. Battalora Jr. (A&S ’48) of Covington, Deborah Berry Crosby (NC ’51) of Metairie, and sciences college that existed until 1994) Louisiana, on April 6, 2016. Louisiana, on April 1, 2016. TC (The College of Arts & Sciences changed its name to Tulane College in 1994 and existed until 2006) Edward W. Hess (A&S ’48) of Fullerton, Roberto Gonzalez (A&S ’51) of San Antonio on NC (Newcomb College. Women liberal arts and sciences California, on March 28, 2016. Feb. 11, 2016. students graduated from Newcomb College until 2006) E (School of Engineering) Thomas W. Howard (A&S ’48, G ’50, ’53) of Long Jerald M. Honeycutt (A&S ’51) of Wayne, New G (Graduate School) Beach, Mississippi, on April 8, 2016. Jersey, on April 8, 2016. UC (University College, the school for part-time adult learners. The college’s name was changed to the Douglas P. Levey (B ’48) of Mandeville, John L. Lopez Jr. (A&S ’51) of New Orleans on School of Continuing Studies in 2006.) Louisiana, on May 7, 2016. June 18, 2016.

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 35 PATH TO SUCCESS Patrick David Godbey, senior academic adviser and assistant director of exploratory studies with the Academic Advising Center, died in New Orleans on March 9, 2016. Dedicated to helping students discover their academic path, he was also an accomplished guitar player, songwriter and poet.

FAREWELL

Norman C. Nelson (A&S ’51, M ’54) of Brandon, Carl E. Sills (M ’58) of Cuthbert, Georgia, on Carlos L. Krumdieck-Boit (G ’64) of Hoover, Mississippi, on April 21, 2016. June 17, 2014. Alabama, on May 6, 2016.

Ruth Jordan Baxter (B ’52) of West Carrollton, Arthur J. Axelrod (M ’59) of New Orleans on John H. Faulds (PHTM ’65) of Phoenix on Ohio, on April 23, 2016. May 1, 2016. April 25, 2016.

Eugene T. Glankler Jr. (A ’52) of Alexandria, Paul M. Kraemer (PHTM ’59, ’61) of Los Alamos, David J. Lewis (SW ’65) of Port Saint Joe, Florida, Louisiana, on April 5, 2016. New Mexico, on March 24, 2016. on May 25, 2016.

Robert M. Tollman (B ’52) of Dunwoody, Georgia, Samuel S. Danese (UC ’60) of Slidell, Louisiana, Frederick A. Marchman (G ’65) of Fairhope, on June 1, 2016. on April 21, 2016. Alabama, on April 19, 2016.

Marshall I. Alperin (A&S ’53, M ’56) of Belleville, Beau Fly Jones Davis (NC ’60) of Tucson, Jeffrey S. Seligman (A&S ’65, L ’68) of New Arizona, on June 1, 2016. Illinois, on Feb. 11, 2015. Orleans on April 2, 2016. Thomas F. Haran (E ’53) of Santa Rosa, Karen Bailey Drew (NC ’60) of Paducah, (NC ’66) of Houston on California, on June 2, 2016. Kentucky, on May 27, 2016. Evelyn Lloyd Berges March 29, 2016. James E. Huggins Jr. (A&S ’53) of Haughton, Michael Ellis (M ’60) of Mineola, Texas, on Louisiana, on May 19, 2016. April 8, 2016. Robert B. Fisher Jr. (A&S ’66, L ’73) of New Orleans on April 25, 2016. Betty Woodward McHale (SW ’53) of New Orleans Betty Field (NC ’60, G ’69, ’73) of Lake Charles, on June 23, 2016. Louisiana, on June 15, 2016. Paul Muehlemann Jr. (A&S ’66) of Metairie, Louisiana, on May 29, 2016. L. Diane Bernard (SW ’54) of Lafayette, Louisiana, Francine Foreman (NC ’60) of Slidell, Louisiana, on March 3, 2016. on May 19, 2016. Loren A. Anderson (PHTM ’67) of Pittsburgh on Sept. 10, 2015. Joseph E. Lavarine (UC ’54) of Fleming Island, W.P. Hawley II (B ’60, L ’65) of Lafayette, Florida, on Dec. 1, 2015. Louisiana, on May 31, 2015. Olivia Davis Fitzgerald (NC ’67) of Laredo, Texas, on Feb. 17, 2016. Edward J. Hinman (M ’55) of Winston-Salem, Numa L. Marquette Jr. (E ’60) of Baton Rouge, North Carolina, on March 18, 2016. Louisiana, on May 10, 2016. Rose Mary Martine Coerver (PHTM ’68) of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on June 27, 2016. Andrew J. Tivnan (UC ’55) of Clinton, Robert E. Westfall (M ’60) of Phoenix on Massachusetts, on June 20, 2016. Dec. 21, 2015. James W. Gravely (G ’68, ’74) of Matthews, North Carolina, on April 29, 2016. Joseph J. Barone (A&S ’56) of Metairie, Louisiana, Elise Gifford(UC ’61, SW ’69) of Shreveport, on June 19, 2016. Louisiana, on May 25, 2016. Michael Hice (A&S ’68) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, M.D. Keller (E ’56, ’61) of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Gisela Spieker (UC ’61) of Little Rock, Arkansas, on April 28, 2016. Feb. 15, 2015. on April 1, 2016. Michael L. Hughes (UC ’68, L ’71) of St. Francis- Theodore F. Mehrtens (E ’56) of Kenner, Paul J. Ussery (SW ’61) of San Antonio on ville, Louisiana, on April 9, 2016. Louisiana, on June 23, 2016. Jan. 16, 2016. Mickey W. Via (G ’69) of Denton, Texas, on Charles M. Moore (M ’56) of Houston on Louis T. Maumus (G ’62, M ’62) of Diamondhead, April 24, 2016. April 17, 2016. Mississippi, on April 1, 2016. Deidre White Lee (NC ’72) of Gaithersburg, Edward M. Rubenstein (B ’56) of Frisco, Texas, William W. Pendleton Jr. (G ’62, ’65) of Salem, Maryland, on March 29, 2016. on April 12, 2016. South Carolina, on Nov. 29, 2015. Craig A. Winkel (M ’72) of Shepherdstown, West Susan Roberts Chadwick (NC ’57) of Alexandria, Leon A. Szyller (UC ’62, SW ’88) of Covington, Virginia, on May 26, 2016. Louisiana, on June 23, 2014. Louisiana, on April 27, 2016. Henry J. Berthelot (L ’73) of Metairie, Louisiana, (E ’62, ’64) of Menlo, Georgia, John A. Coleman Jr. (A&S ’57, M ’60) of Winter Hugh A. Thompson on May 16, 2016. Park, Florida, on June 20, 2016. on May 1, 2016. Lloyd O. Bingham (E ’73) of New Orleans on Philip Gensler Jr. (A&S ’57) of Mandeville, Mary Chance (SW ’63) of Sardis, Georgia, on Louisiana, on June 10, 2016. June 5, 2016. May 8, 2016.

Harriet Hall Murrell (SW ’57) of New Orleans on George G. Janis (A&S ’63, L ’65) of New York on Beth Marx (NC ’73) of Oakland, California, on April 15, 2016. May 22, 2016. April 6, 2016.

Edmond H. Fitzmaurice Jr. (B ’58) of Covington, Linda Woods Nicholas (NC ’63) of Charlottesville, Barry Pelofsky Mnookin (NC ’73) of Chicago on Louisiana, on June 3, 2016. Virginia, on April 9, 2016. May 28, 2015.

Joyce Jerawski (SW ’58) of Warren, Michigan, on Harry F. Snapp (G ’63) of Denton, Texas, on James W. Bingham (G ’74) of Tremonton, Utah, April 27, 2015. Oct. 12, 2015. on May 4, 2016.

Lucille Millsaps (NC ’58) of Madison, Ronald J. Voth (SW ’63) of Salem, Oregon, on William H. Peterson III (A&S ’74) of El Paso, Mississippi, on March 20, 2016. April 29, 2016. Texas, on May 27, 2016.

36 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE Tribute John Weinmann

Louis K. Rothbard (B ’74) of New Orleans on May 1, 2016.

Robert F. Layton Jr. (E ’75) of Pasco, Washington, on April 21, 2016.

Thomas D. Saunders (A ’75) of Fulton, Mississippi, on April 12, 2016.

Robert W. Swasey (G ’75) of Hammond, Indiana, on April 14, 2016.

Willis L. Thornsberry Jr. (G ’75) of Phoenix on Feb. 21, 2016.

Robert J. Kainz (PHTM ’77, ’81) of Ladson, South Carolina, on June 16, 2016.

David G. Mazorol (G ’78, ’80) of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on May 9, 2016.

Anna Boudreaux (PHTM ’79) of Metairie, Louisiana, on June 4, 2016.

Stephen C. Brennan (G ’79) of Kenner, Louisiana, on May 30, 2016.

Dennis L. Falcetti (G ’79) of Manchester, Maryland, on May 8, 2016.

David D. Willis (A&S ’81) of Roanoke, Virginia, on May 17, 2016.

Markus S. Kryger (M ’83) of Forsyth, Missouri, ROUX DIGITAL on April 16, 2016. DEDICATED FRIEND The back of a garbage truck might seem an unlikely place to find John Giffen Weinmann(A&S ’50, L ’52). But, during a garbage strike in 1946, there he Paul A. Gregoli (A&S ’84) of Tishomingo, was, the future diplomat and king of Carnival, hanging on for dear life as the truck ca- Oklahoma, on May 28, 2016. reened through the narrow streets of the French Quarter, pausing every so often outside bars and night spots so he could heave a mountain of rotting rubbish into it. Joyce Adema (B ’85) of New Orleans on Jan. 21, 2016. In his freshman year at Tulane, Weinmann and a group of classmates had rallied to the mayor’s call for volunteers to clean up the streets and keep the city working. David L. Weaver Sr. (UC ’86) of Sandy Spring, The episode captured his essential traits: good humor, a taste for adventure and a Maryland, on April 8, 2016. passion for service. Time and again, Jack Weinmann reached the pinnacle in a dizzying range of pursuits: Bruce W. Boudreaux (UC ’90, ’94) of Metairie, Tulane student body president, respected lawyer and longtime general counsel of The Louisiana, on June 18, 2016. Times-Picayune, president of a successful oil company, U.S. ambassador to Finland, White House chief of protocol, king of Rex. Larry V. Caldwell (M ’90, PHTM ’90) of New But he was always grounded by a down-to-earth loyalty—a fierce love of family, of Orleans on April 16, 2016. country, of Tulane—and an abiding desire to serve. His dedication to Tulane was total. He was chair of the Board of Tulane and of its de- E.B. Kemp III (G ’91) of Bay St. Louis, velopment committee. He counseled a succession of law school deans and for decades Mississippi, on May 15, 2016. was one of the school’s strongest supporters, ultimately lending his name to Weinmann Hall, the law school’s home since 1995. Jeffrey T. Halpern (A&S ’93) of Chicago on Jack and Virginia Eason Weinmann, his beloved wife of 61 years, were not only gen- March 26, 2015. erous benefactors, but visionary partners in building the law school’s global reach. He and Virginia endowed the Eason Weinmann Center for International and Com- Heidi Nelson Hochenedel (G ’93, ’96) of Portland, parative Law and supported it personally, hosting dinners for visiting scholars and Oregon, on Jan. 9, 2016. faculty candidates at their lovely Old Metairie home and faithfully attending each year’s Eason-Weinmann Lecture. Daniel S. Carrus (E ’01) of Jackson Heights, Throughout his extraordinary, improbably full life, Jack Weinmann was many things New York, on Oct. 6, 2015. to many people: diplomat, lawyer, businessman, civic leader, king of Carnival and, to his 16 devoted grandchildren, simply “Pop.” To the countless Tulanians he counseled, Amber Huffman Watt(L ’05) of New Orleans on May 7, 2016. supported and championed, he was, above all, a true and dedicated friend who will be very dearly missed.—DAVID D. MEYER David D. Meyer is dean of Tulane Law School Anthony J. Pijerov (L ’06) of Charlotte, North and the Mitchell Franklin Professor of Law. Carolina, on June 8, 2016.

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 37 GIFT ESTABLISHES CHAIR AT STONE CENTER A gift from an anonymous donor endowed the Thomas F. and Carol M. Reese Distinguished Chair in Latin American Studies for future executive directors of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Tom Reese, professor of art history and executive director of the Stone Center, was formally installed as the first chair in April.

WAVEMAKERS FRANK L. AYMAMI III L.FRANK AYMAMI Scholarly Doctors Give Back Pursuits A pair of new scholarships will support Tulane medical students and Next Generation encourage them to give back to society. Two new scholarships The Center for Scholars brings well-known Dr. Dexter Louie (M ’69) and his wife, Patricia, have established endowed by alumni scholars, artists and political leaders to campus the Dr. and Mrs. Dexter Louie Scholarship Endowed Fund, which will will help School of for lectures, conferences, symposia and class- provide support for medical students interested in social justice and Medicine students room visits through the School of Liberal Arts. health equity. who ultimately want Now an endowment from Alan Lawrence “When you finish medical school, your focus is on being a great to give back to society. (A&S ’87) will insure the vibrancy of the center. doctor,” said Louie. “But after 20 years of practice, I thought, what else His gift will provide funds to support travel, can I do?” lodging and honoraria for visiting scholars. An otolaryngologist in private practice in San Francisco, Louie de- “I get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing the cided to donate time to his local community. He found serving on the continued growth of the university and its local school board and the free medical clinic board and chairing the continued support of excellence,” said Law- California Medical Association Foundation immensely gratifying. rence, a partner with New York City law firm “My mentor once told me, ‘You need to replenish the well,’” said Arnold & Porter. “Tulane’s always taken its Louie. “That’s why I created this scholarship. These students will be task of providing a top undergraduate and taking my place.” graduate education seriously. Being a part of Dr. Rouzbeh Kordestani (M ’94, PHTM ’94), who describes his that is important to me.” Tulane education as “bigger than life,” has created an endowed scholar- LECTURE LEADER A member of School of Liberal Arts Dean’s ship for future generations of medical students. Alumnus Alan Law- Advisory Council and an advocate for liberal His training at “Tulane and Charity Hospital were unique experi- rence's passion for liberal arts education arts education, he believes that it prepares ences,” said Kordestani, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in private ensures the vibrancy students well for life after Tulane. “Being able practice in Texas. “The breadth, depth and complexity of cases seen in of the Center for to think clearly and communicate clearly and New Orleans … prepared us for almost anything out in the real world.” Scholars. learn quickly is more important than ever,” Kordestani said that he wanted to remember the faculty members he said. who helped him financially as a medical student. A scholarship makes Thanks to the gift, “the Center for Scholars an incredible impact because it not only affects the lives of students but will continue to connect Tulane’s students those of future patients as well. and faculty to the scholarly world,” said Kordestani has crossed the globe donating his medical skills during School of Liberal Arts dean Carole Haber. mission trips to Kenya, Tanzania, Moldova and the Dominican Republic. —Mary Sparacello “Giving back is a passion for physicians,” he added.—Kirby Messinger

38 SEPTEMBER 2016 TULANE MAGAZINE ALUMNI RECOGNIZED FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP The A. B. Freeman School of Business honored Chris Papamichael (B ’96) and Matt Schwartz (B ’99) as Tulane Distinguished Entrepreneurs of the Year at the 2016 Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards Gala in April. Papamichael and Schwartz are co-founders of the Domain Cos., a real estate development, investment and management firm.

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Cowen’s Class Enrichment seminars with President Emeritus Scott Cowen will be a highlight of the Cowen Scholars program. The first class of Cowen Scholars was awarded in summer 2016. RYAN RIVET RYAN Values Drive Scholarship Fund Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate “As a longtime volunteer at the university, “I appreciated the renaissance of the engi- students make up the first group of Cowen I have a lot of respect and admiration for Scott neering program after Katrina,” said Sullivan, Scholars for the 2016–17 academic year. The and everything that he did for the university,” who also serves as a speaker and mentor to program, a fund of endowed scholarships, said Rusty Pickering (E ’91), who contributed Tulane biomedical engineering students. “The recognizes President Scott Cowen’s leader- to the fund. BME department is on the forefront of technol- ship, passion and service to Tulane and to the ogy, and it’s an exciting part of science. I think New Orleans community, and espouses his “We wanted to endow the skills that these students can acquire from values and principles. it will allow them an opportunity to make sig- Lead gifts from Jill H. (NC ’85) and a scholarship in honor nificant changes and contributions in society.” Avram A. Glazer, Louellen and Darryl Pickering, a former Deans’ Honor Schol- (L ’72) Berger, and Valerie and Michael of the scholarship I ar, says his own undergraduate scholarship (A&S ’87) Corasaniti provided the basis for had been given.” “meant a tremendous amount to me, and it’s the scholarships; those families agreed to changed my life.” Now general counsel of a match follow-up gifts of $50,000 or $100,000 —Rusty Pickering technology company in Atlanta, Pickering and each from other donors. his father wanted to build on their giving. The scholarships support students meet- For Scott Sullivan (E ’87), good timing “We knew that we wanted to endow a ing a variety of criteria, which may include allowed him to give to the program. Sullivan, scholarship in honor of the scholarship I had financial need, or enrollment in a specific a reconstructive breast surgeon in New Or- been given,” he said, adding that he recently school, such as the School of Science and Engi- leans, wanted to create a biomedical engi- spoke at a university scholarship event and neering, School of Liberal Arts or Newcomb- neering scholarship because of his admira- met students and President Mike Fitts. “It was Tulane College. tion for Tulane’s engineering programs. meaningful to me.”—Faith Dawson

TULANE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2016 39 ANGUS LIND A 1966 graduate of Tulane, Angus Lind spent more than three decades as a columnist for The Times-Picayune.

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Friday dress parade and pass in review on the Football Rivalry parade grounds. Watching the seemingly by Angus Lind never-ending companies of spit-polished midshipmen emerge from Bancroft Hall It was “Wheels up!”—not “Anchors —the largest single dormitory in the aweigh!”—as we headed to Annapolis, world—and march in lockstep to the Maryland, last October for Navy’s home- parade grounds, along with the Naval coming game against Tulane. After a short Academy Band and the academy’s Drum ride from Baltimore to our rented house con- & Bugle Corps with bagpipes, was im- veniently located a pitching wedge from both pressive. Classes from 50 and 60 years the alluring Annapolis Historic District and ago looked on. waterfront and the awe-inspiring U.S. Naval The next day, these future Navy Academy, we headed to the epicenter— and Marine Corps officers—4,000 McGarvey’s Saloon. strong—marched into Navy-Marine My wife and I traveled with two New Or- Corps Memorial Stadium and formed leans couples, all good friends. One husband up on the football field where they was Rick Navarro, a 1974 Naval Academy sang songs (“Anchors Aweigh”) and led graduate who flew a P-3 maritime surveil- cheers—part of the pregame spectacle lance aircraft on three different deployments for homecoming and all home games. to the Far East and had a lengthy career as a Then the Navy Glee Club sang “The Delta Air Lines pilot. Nothing like having an Star-Spangled Banner,” finishing as insider tour guide. fighter planes flew overhead. Annapolis had long been high on my bucket “The pageantry is so impressive. If list, and I always thought a Tulane-Navy rival- you don’t feel patriotic watching that, ry would be terrific. I had first seen Navy play then you don’t have a red, white and Tulane in New Orleans in 1956, when I was blue bone in your body,” said Cord- 12, and more recently have followed the Mid- er. Inside the stadium, there are no dies because of Rick. Both schools have storied displays of names, teams or retired football history, and with Navy coming into the numbers. Instead, famous battles— American Athletic Conference in 2015, the tim- Guadalcanal, Midway, Iwo Jima, Bataan, ing was perfect. Not to mention that Navy comes to Yulman Stadium this SOUVENIR PROGRAM Saipan, Corregidor. When Lou Holtz brought fall and their athletic director is former Tulane AD Chet Gladchuk Jr. Tradition lives on his Notre Dame team there, he is credited with at the Tulane-Navy On Friday night McGarvey’s was crowded and noisy. At one point, game. The author kept saying: “Wow! Navy plays a tough schedule.” someone called my name, but the voice was not familiar. I searched the his original football We indeed tailgated with the Heary crowd, faces and was surprised to see a fellow Orleanian who had graduated from program from the who earlier had driven their cars into the lot in first time he attended Tulane with me in 1966—Hank Corder. the matchup in New formation, with the car in the middle armed Corder attended Tulane on a Navy ROTC scholarship and played golf Orleans in 1956. Last with music for the day, flanked by others with for the Wave along with the likes of Wally Blessey, Ray Fontenot and Steve year, he traveled to food, drink, cookout gear, tables and chairs. Annapolis to witness Bellaire, among others. A surface-warfare officer, he was stationed on two de- the game’s pageantry We were served red beans and rice, jambalaya stroyers during his five years in the U.S. Navy. His ships were deployed over- there. and muffulettas, a nice touch for the visitors seas, including once to Vietnam. We learned Hank—retired from his career in from Tulane. investments—and his wife, Porter, were frequent visitors to Annapolis. Tailgaters completely circle the stadium, Why? Daughter Sarah Corder played volleyball for Duke. After she grad- which seats around 34,000 and has superb uated, she moved to Washington, D.C., to get a job. On a double blind date sightlines. Watching the freshmen dash with midshipmen, she met her future husband, Mike Heary, who was not from the stands to the end zone where they her date that night. Heary, it turns out, was a 6-foot-5-inch All-Conference do pushups after every Navy score is highly point guard for Navy basketball teams. They were married in New Orleans; anticipated. Thirty points means 30 pushups. he served his five years’ active duty. They began a family in Annapolis and, Here’s the message: Put Annapolis on away from his full-time job, for the last seven years he has been the color your bucket list for a Tulane game weekend. commentator for the Navy basketball broadcast team. The Corders visit On the banks of the Severn River, it’s an regularly to see their three grandchildren and Navy football. incredible experience. “Annapolis is absolutely By the end of the night, Heary, a gregarious, funny guy, had invited our enchanting,” said Corder. “It draws you in. It’s party of six to their tailgate the next day. a comfortable, cozy place to be with quality Earlier Friday, tour guide Navarro had led us to the visually stunning 338- bars and great oysters and seafood—the same acre campus for a tour of Bancroft Hall and the viewing of the traditional characteristics New Orleans has.”

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