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ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP. GIVE TO THE ANNUAL FUND. Alumni Magazine Spring 1995 Alumni Columns Official publication of Northwestern State University Natchitoches, Louisiana Organized in 1884 A member of the American Alumni Council
Volume VEI Number 1 Spring 1995
The Alumni Columns (USPS 015480) is published 4 times a year by Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 71497-0002 Second Class Postage Paid at Natchitoches, LA, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Alumni Columns Northwestern Dear Northwestern Graduates: State University, Natchitoches, LA, 71497-0002. Alumni Office Phone: 318-357-4414 FAX: 3 18-357-4225 We have to write these letters so early in the year to make magazine deadline that I can hardly believe that spring will one day be here. But, even in NSU ALUMNI OFFICERS dreary January, there are so many things to be grateful for and happy that we President Tommy Chester can be a part of these projects. Arcadia, 1969 1st Vice President Parker Wiggins Just recently, Don and I drove to Shreveport to witness the awarding of the Monroe, 1941 first Shirley Pittman Smiley Nursing Scholarship to Tiffany Bono. Because of Secretary -Treasurer Elise James the generosity of this family, young students will continue their education. The Natchitoches, 1968 selection process has begun for the first Eleanor Worsley Medical Scholarship Executive Director Elise James to be awarded this fall. Please read the enclosed story about how you can help Natchitoches, 1968 these endowments to grow. BOARD OF DIRECTORS One month and baseball season will begin—spring will officially be here. Tommy Chester Arcadia, 1969 The Alumni Association supports this activity by sponsoring a billboard for the Danny Dison Bossier City, 1969 baseball field. We must be a part of both academics and athletics. A sound Glenn Talbert, Shreveport, 1964 body leads to a sound mind someone else gets credit for that profound — Carroll Long Tyler, TX 1970 statement. Dale Bernard Lake Charles, 1972 Raymond Arthur Ex Officio Natchitoches, 1964 Your generosity never ceases to amaze me. The appeal I made in the Winter David Morgan Austin,Tx,1973 Columns for end of year donations paid off. Thank you! Ginger Wiggins Shreveport, 1987 By the time you read this, the first ever Demonaire Reunion will be history Bryant Lewis Haynesville, 1958 and the people that participated will be happy that they did so. Maybe more Parker Wiggins Monroe, 1941 will come next year. Adrian Howard Arlington TX, 1989
Please do not forget other spring events, such as the Greater Purple STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE Pitchfork Pigskin Party. The Chris Roper Memorial will be a part of this event Blair Dickens Shreveport, La. this year, so you can take in a full weekend on the beautiful Northwestern SGA President campus.
The Joe Delaney Memorial Golf Tournament is again scheduled for the The Alumni Columns is published in winter, spring, summer and fall. spring—get involved. Graduation is scheduled for May 12, 1995. This year the Class of 1945 will STAFF be honored for 50 years of dedication to Northwestern. If you do not get our Editor
letter, please let us know, because this is the beginning of a special year for the Elise James Class of 1945. Art Director/Designer Don Sepulvado This is a beautiful time to return to campus for a visit, so plan to do that this Staff Writers spring and when do, please stop at the Alumni Center and have a of you cup Teresa Bryant coffee or a coke. David West See you soon! Contributors Jerry Pierce Sincerely, Doug Ireland Photography Informational Services Elise James, Director Development & Alumni Affairs Dear Alumni,
The gold medal that Northwestern has received in international competition for a space science program that is broadcast by satellite to students throughout Louisiana reflects the university's leadership role in combining new technologies with innovative academic offerings to achieve a 21st century approach to higher education.
Northwestern was presented the prestigious award from the New York Festivals
International Non-Broadcast Media Competition in Distance Learning for its
"Science: Out of This World" program that is produced by NSU's Space Science Group and broadcast by the university's telecommunications network.
Space science programs at Northwestern are an outgrowth of the university's ongoing cooperative program with the National Aeronautics and Space About the cover: Northwestem's Administration. In that joint venture with NASA, NSU faculty and students arc recruiting office personnel are involved in analyzing data collected through NASA's space exploration programs. pictured together to illustrate the
story, "A Day in the Life of a In addition to broadcasting the award-winning space program, the turiversity's Recruiter", appearing on page 2, of telecommunications center provides other academic courses nationwide through this issue. Seated, are Linda Walker, satellite transmissions and cable television programming. secretary and Chis Maggio, director. Standing (L-R) are Elizabeth Mowad, Northwestern faculty and staff have been involved in a concerted effort for the Lisa Simms, Jana Waites, Roy De past several years to prepare the university to be at the cutting edge of new Vittario, Rhonda Regouffre, Reggie technology in higher education during the 21st century. Internationally -known Gatewood and Jana Lucky. management expert Peter Drucker has served as a consultant in the project, and a comprehensive document has been developed to serve as a blueprint to guide Northwestern through the remainder of the 1990's and into the next century.
The study addresses strategic planning and management, marketing of higher education, new technologies, international programs, serving non-traditional students, assessment, entrepreneurial philosophies in higher education, alternate futures for universities and other factors that will face higher education in the future. The gold medal in international competition for a unique academic program provided through modem technology demonstrates the progress that NSU has made in preparing for the future.
There are numerous other examples, including computerized
It is the policy of Northwestern Stmtc University of classrooms with multi-media capabilities; participation in a Louisiana not id discriminate on the bases of race, color,
religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability in its educa- statewide library computer network; high-tech writing, teaching tional programs, activities or employment practices as re- learning labs; compressed video that connects the Nursing quired by Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of and NSU 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Program with students in classrooms and hospitals to provide live Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Executive Order 1 1 246, Sections 503 and Section interaction between nursing faculty, students andmedical personnel; 504 of the rehabil nation Act of 1 973 and Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of cooperative projects with major industries in the development of 1974. new meat processing techniques in the agri-business program and a geographical information system that enhances studies in biology through computer imaging and collection of satellite data.
iWt* Northwestern is also developing pilot courses to be offered on Internet, an international computer network that provides video and imaging capabilities and interaction between faculty and students.
The National Center for Historic Preservation and Technology at NSU is
Campus News page 2 creating state -of-the art preservation technology laboratories through grants from the Corps of Engineers.
So the university's extensive and continuing planning process to be at the Profiles/Class Notes .. page 7 forefront of new technology and innovative academic programs in the 21st century has already had a major positive impact on the institution and will position
Northwestern at the vanguard of higher education for the future. Alumni Events page 16 Sincerely,
Athletics page 19 Robert A. Alost, President Northwestern State University Ga+*j>4a4 hltM/4
Editor's note: Teresa Bryant of the NSU News Bureau recently spent a day with Assistant Director of Admissions Jana Lucky as she traveled to the Shreveport area and met with students at three area high schools. David West of the News Bureau observed the day begins at 7:45 a.m. when we meet at Roy Hall. Upon operations of the Office of Admissions and Recruiting. Thearrival, Jana Lucky greeted me with a happy 'hello.' Lucky who is the Assistant Director of Admissions was promptly ready to depart on an average day's journey recruiting for Northwestern.
Lucky, 24, is a 1992 graduate of Northwestern. She received her bachelor of arts degree in journalism with an emphasis in public relations and a minor in marketing. Lucky recently celebrated her one year anniversary with her husband, Kerry. She started pursuing her master's degree in student personnel
services at Northwestern this spring.
Trying to be in the office by 7:30 every morning, Lucky is able to organize her Northwestern recruiting paraphernalia, the office and her thoughts. Today she had put together a box filled with pens, key chains, a Northwestern banner, Potpourris, applications for admissions and scholarships along with student information and dorm request cards.
"You never know what the day's events will entail," Lucky said, "so you
have to be prepared. Recruiters are most high school students first glimpse of
Northwestern. Therefore, it's important that we make a good first impression." With this in mind, we loaded the materials into the university issued vehicle and began our day's journey.
On this particular Wednesday, Lucky had scheduled a trip to Shreveport
with one stop in Grand Cane on the return trip. Lucky spoke openly about all the facets of recruiting.
"The state is divided into territories with out-of-state recruiting being one
territory," Lucky stated. "Each recruiter is responsible for their territory and trying to recruit as many high school students from their area."
Northwestern employs seven recruiters which means six people are responsible for recruiting in the state of Louisiana. According to Lucky, Northwestern employs more recruiters than most colleges or universities.
Northwestern 's recruiting team consist of Lucky, Roy De Vittario, Jana Waites, Lisa Simms, Rhonda Regouffre, Elizabeth Mowad and Reggie Gatewood along with two graduate assistants, Tiffany Freddie and Kristy 7:30 a.m Speir. Trip preparation.. "It's a lot of work for just seven people," Lucky said. "It takes team work and commitment in order to get the job done well. And everyone on our staff
contributes 1 10 percent." This fact must help account for Northwestern 's steady climb in enrollment.
Lucky had scheduled two high school visits before lunch. We arrived at Southwood High School precisely at 9: 15 a.m. Lucky set up her table and prepared for her hour long presentation that was to begin at 9:30 a.m. As the
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bell rang, high school students from all walks of life began filing into the room. With peeked interest, each student took their scat and wailed anxiously for the presentation to begin.
Lucky touched on a variety of topics about Northwestern. She was poised
and articulate, expressing to die students what university life is like from the academic programs to student organizations to how to receive financial aid. Lucky spoke to the students, not at them. 9:15 a.m. She answered their questions simply and gave them her phone number if they had any further problems. Because she had visited Southwood Southwood High School previously that semester, a lot of the students knew Lucky by name and many Presentation... were joking around with her. Watching her interact with these high school
students, one could tell that she cares a great deal about these kids and helping them get a good education. Lucky's earnest and warm-hearted personality made Northwestern's impression on these students a favorable one.
While Lucky was going through her presentation, three other recruiters are also on the road and three others are following up on past visits in the office.
At about 9:45 a.m. Recruiter Gatewood is sending information to a counselor at East Beauregard High on NSU's Joint Venture Program with NASA. He is also trying to set up an audition for a out-of-state student who is 10:30 a.m. interested in being a member of the Spirit of Northwestern marching band. By ready to head 10:15 a.m., he is trying to contact the campus housing office to arrange a Packed and campus tour. to Huntington High School.
Recruiter Di Vittorio is able to conduct the tour, but the university vehicle
he planned to use has a flat tire. He has to improvise but eventually finds a vehicle to use on the tour.
By 10:20 a.m., the day's mail has been delivered which will include requests for information and applications for admissions and scholarships.
Once the mail is received, admissions applications are forwarded to the Registrar's Office, scholarship applications are sent to the Financial Aid office
and any money from admissions applications is sent to the Cashier's Office.
Recruiter Mowad is sitting at the front desk filling in for secretary Linda Walker, who is on vacation. Mowad answers incoming calls, helps sort the 1:30 p.m. mail and assists anyone who comes into the office needing assistance. Arrive for presentation at Mowad is the recruiter for the Louisiana Scholars' College. She covers territory both inside Louisiana and out-of-state. Central High School...
"I spend a lot of time going against larger universities. We do well against them because counselors and students are familiar with the Scholars' College," she said.
Mowad spent 65 days on the road between Sept. 6 and early December. That work appears to be paying off as applications to the Scholars' College have doubled this year.
By 10:30 a.m., Lucky was packed and ready to head to Huntington High School. At Huntington, she set up a booth in which the high school students 3:30 p.m. were able to pass by and inquire about Northwestern during their lunch hour. Office follow up... These tables allow the students to fill out cards about themselves. In
return, Northwestern puts the student on their mailing list and sends them further information. This gives Lucky some idea of the prospective students that she can recruit in the future.
Lucky chats enthusiastically with the students who come and go. One
senior asks how much does it cost of apply to Northwestern and if it's too late
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to apply for scholarships? Another student, a junior, asks recruiters you can't always say exactly what you want," what ACT requirements does Northwestern have? And Lucky added. "You don't want to give away your best even the freshman are crowding around to inquire what is recruiting tactics to the enemy." a major? She pays attention to the details, handling each So, is there a lot of rivalry among the university student's need individually. Lucky's attitude helps recruiters? "Sometimes other recruiters get a little jealous Northwestern 's motto: "Where Students Come impress especially when they hear semester after semester how First" on these young men and women before they come to much Northwestem's enrollment is increasing," Lucky the campus. stated. "But generally, there's camaraderie among all the
"A lot of times, they (the students) just stop by and fill college and university recruiters. We all get along really out the card in order to get a free key chain," Lucky stated. well because we realize that we're all doing the same job,
"But it also gives me a chance to talk with them, a chance it's just for different people." that I might not get with some of them. And if I can spark By 12:35 p.m., Lucky is leaving Shreveport enroute to kid's interest in Northwestern, then I feel that I have one Grand Cane. She chats accomplished something enthusiastically about the that day." ins and outs of recruiting. At 11:45 a.m., Lucky "Recruiting means long packs her things and days and traveling for grabs a quick bite to eat weeks at a time," Lucky before she heads to said. "But it also means Grand Cane. Lunch gave helping students get into Lucky the opportunity to college and increasing discuss recruiting in the growth of more detail. Northwestern. At the end of each day there's a "Once a recruiter is sense of accomplishment assigned a territory, they that you can't find in spend the majority of every job." their time in their territory," Lucky said. We arrived at Central
"In the fall, the recruiters High School in Grand are on the road mostly. Cane at approximately
They set up contacts, do 1:30 p.m. Central is presentations, and help completely different This picture of Jana Lucky illustrates her contact with students students prepare and turn during a typical school visit. from either of the two in their applications for schools Lucky attended admissions. In the spring, they do campus tours and a lot this morning. It's a smaller, private school with a of hostessing for the university." graduating class of about 11. Lucky feels just as at home talking with these students as she did at the other two According to Lucky, those recruiters who have larger high schools. She is always on their level, southern territories are traveling for at least one, anticipating their questions, responding in a way that they sometimes two, weeks at a time. "It's a job that takes up a understand. lot of your time," Lucky stated. "Juggling your job, your marriage and any other outside activities can be difficult, "Going to college can be a difficult and confusing time but it's also worth it. I take great satisfaction in the job I for most kids," Lucky said. "I try to explain things to do." them in a way that I would have wanted it explained to me
when I was in high school. Each school has its own Lucky goes into detail about what it's like on the road. personality and you have to be prepared. "A lot of umes we interact with recruiters from the other universities when we do group programs at high schools," "Before I go to a school, I evaluate as many
Lucky said. "This is where representatives from college or characteristics about the school as I can," Lucky added. university speaks briefly to the entire student body and "Is it a large school or small? Is it a private or public then the students arc able to browse the table displays and school? Where is it located? What type of organizations talk to each university recruiter individually. does it offer? Is it very sports oriented? and so on."
"These can be tough sometimes because when you're After presenting the same material in a completely speaking to all the students in front of the other college different way being just as enthusiastic as this morning,
f\U**+JL C«U«~*~ C^hj Lucky loads her car at 2:30 p.m. and begins her trip back Maggio has been director of admissions and recruiting to Northwestern where she will finish her work day. since August. He has had to learn his new job quickly. Maggio had experience as a recruiter while coaching NSU's The trip back is rather quiet. Lucky is organizing her women's track teams but nothing completely prepared him thoughts on all the things she has to do back at the office for an operation of this scale. today. She will have to alphabetize all the student information cards she collected and put them on the computer mailing "I learn something new every day," said Maggio. "It's list. She must go over and organize all the applications for exciting being in a position to help people get information admissions and scholarships and she must turn in the car that and tell them about what a great place Northwestern is." was issued to her this morning. Onareally slow day she'll be outof the office by4:30p.m. The office does extensive followups with each potential but since there aren't very many slow days, Lucky usually student, who will receive a dozen contacts by letter and at leaves the office around 5 p.m. She heads home with some least three phone calls from the recruiting office. The Office office files in tow and prepares dinner for her husband. Recruiting sends out more than 250,000 of Admissions and When asked what makes it all worthwhile? Lucky says of mail annually to students. pieces "the greatest satisfaction that I get from my job is helping that The recruiters arc assisted by graduate assistant Freddie student whose grades aren't quite good enough to get a and 17 student workers who help stuff envelopes, answer scholarship or that student whose parents can't quite afford phones, call potential students and perform other duties. to send them to college receive the aid they need to continue their education." As assistant director, Lucky must also check with all the other recruiters and go over how their work is going. She "Knowing that I am able to help those kids in some way plans staff meetings on Fridays. She and Chris Maggio, always brings me great joy and makes me love my job all the director of admissions and recruiting, have strategy meetings more," Lucky added. "Granted, I do work for Norm western, to plan ahead. but I work more for the students. My job is to make sure that each kid has the opportunity to further their education." Despite that positive impact, funding Other recommendations include for higher education is not keeping up developing a formula for higher education ~i$J\ Plea for the 21st Century recently issued a Because of deceases in state funding, card that measures the effectiveness of report entitled "Louisiana's Choice: a larger burden has been placed on students Louisiana's higher education institutions. Invest or Decline?" The report established and their parents. Nationally, students Other recommendations included the link higher education service between and pay about 25 percent of what it costs to rewarding good teaching, and economic security and gave run our universities. Louisiana students research, providing incentives to reduce recommendations for increasing funding pay nearly 40 percent. unnecessarily duplicative programs, for the state's colleges and universities. supporting distance learning through The Commission recommended that Panel members included state Rep. Jimmy telecommunications, promoting, funding for higher education be increased Long of Natchitoches. The report quoted rewarding and developing productive by $280 million over five years to bring NSU alumnus Melba L. Steeg, who relationships with Louisiana businesses the state up to the regional average. That explained how Northwestern had an and guaranteeing students the right to would bring the state contribution to higher impact on her life. transfer core credits from one institution education from S570 million to $625 to another. According to the report, for every million next year. A freeze in tuition was dollar appropriated by die legislature for recommended if additional funding is NSU alumni are urged to contact their higher education creates $1.40 in new provided. state legislators and urge them to support dollars in Louisiana. die Commission's recommendations. j-^WS . . Q*+t*f4*4 McM/4 A Thank You Note. Endowments. Northwestern graduates, or family and Editor's Note: The following is a "Thank you" note written Many friends of graduates, have established endowments in by Rose Lynn Misuraca Scott (B.S. 1966) of Chalmette, LA honor or in memory of their loved ones. This is indeed a wonderful way to recognize or memorialize someone dear to you. The endowments can be established to fund a How do you say thank you to a college? Do you write to scholarship for a worthy student to complete their education the President, to the Board, to the Faculty, to the at Northwestern. Students? Who do you tell how much you owe to the people The reason for discussing these endowments is so that if of a place that made a difference in your life? How do I show you should recognize a person that was important to you while you were here, you may choose to add to their fund. my appreciation? When and if I hit the lottery I can show it There may be a teacher, doctor, businessman or friend that with an endowment, but on a school teacher's salary it is a was especially important to you during your school days little difficult. that you want to give money to recognize them. On January 23, 1966 I graduated from Northwestern with a brand new degree, a lot of knowledge, confidence in myself, The following endowments are active: and in my chosen profession, thanks to NSC. Now exactly 29 1 Curtis E. Boozman, Jr. Scholarship for Women's years later on January 25, 1995 I will be inducted into the Basketball Louisiana High School Athletic Association/Louisiana High 2. Mary Choate Memorial Nursing Scholarship School Coaches Association Hall of Fame. This honor will be in recognition of my coaching Softball for 22 years and the 3. Eugene Christmas Scholarship—Training Room honors my teams achieved over the years. 4. Sam B. and Lillian B. Davis Scholarship—Business Northwestern (or the people of Northwestern) taught me 5. DeSoto Parish Housing Scholarship—Dr. Murphy Rogers Housing how to teach physical education and coach high school — athletics. So I have to say thank you, the only way I can think 6. Ester Cooley Scholarship—Family and Consumer Science of to tell all the people is through the Alumni News. Most people that I owe thanks to may still be reading the Columns, 7. Ruby Dunckleman—Family Consumer Science so if you can please print this thank you I would appreciate it, 8. A.A. Fredericks Scholarship for Agri-Business if not at least I know I tried to say it. 9. E.H. Gilson Scholarship—Training Room Thanks to Dr. Robert Alost, he was my P.E. methods 10. John A. & Jewell Bailey Jones Memorial teacher, and supervisor of elementary P.E. along with being Scholarship—Education my mentor. Thanks to Dr. Guy Ncason (P.E. Dept. head and 1 1 Natchitoches Kiwanis—J.W. Johnson Business later Pres. of NSC) he taught me to leach swimming and got Scholarship me involved in the Red Cross of which I have now been 12. J. Maxwell "Max" Kelley Memorial Scholarship volunteering for over 30 years. Thanks to Dr. Red Thomas, 13. Joanna G. Magale Scholarship for Music he taught me the fine art of coaching and how to play 14. Ann L. "Bless" McNeely Scholarship for Music badminton competitively. Thanks to Ms. Melba B. O'Quinn, 15. Noble Morrison Memorial Scholarship—Business Ms. Addie Thornton, Dr. Violet Davion, Dr. Colleen Nelken, 16. Dorothy Adams McCalla/Ethel Adams Spencer Dr. Joyce Hillard and all the other fine teachers who taught Scholarship—Education me to be a professional. 17. Jane C. Nahm Memorial Law Scholarship Thanks to all the students of NSC during my time there, 18. S.W. Nelken Memorial Scholarship—Agri-Business especially the P.E. Majors. We had about 3,000 total 19. Shirley Pittman Smiley Nursing Scholarship enrollment at Northwestern in 1962 and I fell like all were my friends. 20. Joseph A. Thomas, M.D. Scholarship—Premed 21 Ora Garland Williams Scholarship English or To all the faculty and students that have come through — Journalism since I was there, you have all made me proud to say I'm an alumni of Northwestern Slate University. 22. Eleanor M. Worsley, M.D. Scholarship)—Premed 23. Clothilde Rains Memorial Scholarship for Nursing I pray for all ihe past, present and future generations of the Northwestern family. May wc all have a homecoming in Heaven one day. God Bless and protect you all and may his All of these people meant a great deal to Northwestern angels guide our journey home. and to many of you that attended the university. Thank you! rf you have any questions or need further information concerning these endowments or any other scholarships that we might have, please call us at 318 357-4414. Polite* / CU44 HcXia Dr. Meade O' Boyle QQQ Dr. Meade O'Boyle earned a bachelor's degree in 1964 from Northwestern where she graduated Phi Kappa Phi. While she was a student at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, she was elected to the Jesuit Honor Society for Women. Following her graduation from the School of Medicine in 1968, Dr. O'Boyle served a pediatric internship at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York and a pediatric residency at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. She was a neonatal fellow at Children's Hospital in 1971-72. She and two other pediatricians initiated a child abuse program at Children's Hospital in 1971. Dr. O'Boyle continued her professional work as a maternal-child health -pediatrician at the Ohio Department of Health from 1973-75 and then as a child abuse pediatrician at Columbus Children's Hospital until 1977. She was honored in 1977 by the Ohio House of Representatives for her work in protecting abused children. While in Columbus, O'Boyle served on the Board of Directors of Birthright and opened her home to young women with troubled pregnancies. Dr. O'Boyle returned to Louisiana in 1977 where she worked in general pediatrics for two years and later accepted a position as a neonatologist at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe. Since 1981 she has maintained a private practice in Monroe. In 1977, Dr. O'Boyle was on of the founders of Ruston Emergency Services in Ruston, Louisiana. Four years later, she founded Pregnancy Lifeline in Monroe which for several years operated directly from her office. She continues to offer her home to young pregnant women and to care for them until the births of their babies. Dr. O'Boyle is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Ouachita Parish Medical Society and the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds. She and her husband, Edward, have four children. In fitting recognition of her 25 years of service, especially to abused and disabled children and to pregnant women and their babies, she was awarded Saint Louis University's 1993 Alumni Merit Award. 5 itt4 / QL*4l/ Larrey QQQ Mouton The thing that Larrey Mouton recalls most Aside from being able to complete his college about Northwestern was that if it hadn't degree, Northwestern also opened another door been for Northwestern he would not have been for Mouton. "I had aroommate from Brazil, and able to finish his college education. he wanted to play tennis one day," Mouton "Northwestern furnished me with the opportunity stated. "I didn't much care for tennis but we got to finish college," Mouton said. "I would not our rackets and went down to the courts. By have done so otherwise. It was close enough to chance, I ran into Grace Stirling and got a date Alexandria (Mouton 's hometown) that I could with her and we ended up getting married right work the summers at home in order to save after I graduated." money for the relatively low tuition." Upon graduating from Northwestern with an And if Northwestern had not been there for accounting degree, Mouton was commissioned Mouton, Iberia Savings Bank would probably into the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant. have a different president and chief executive "During the two years that I was in the army, I officer right this moment. "I started college at was stationed at Ft. Knox and Ft. Hood," Mouton LSU," Mouton stated. "But after two years I said. "I then decided that the army was not a couldn't afford tuition." career choice for me. So I was discharged and we moved to Baton Rouge where Grace was Other than changing his career outlook, from." Mouton recalls living in D frame housing on the road that ran in front of the main gates. "There Mouton held a variety of positions during the was a little grocery store, a lounge and a drive-in next 20 years of his life. He worked as a staff bar called Maggio's along the same road," accountant for L.A. Champagne and Co. Mouton said. "The accommodations were performing duties on audit staff in preparation of primitive to say the least. Our rooms were in income tax returns. Then he and Grace moved wings off of the main building. In the center was to Panama City where he worked with Saltmarsh, a sort of lounge area with a television set. Cleveland and Gunol. "I was scniorstaff member of this regional firm with various duties in "It had a big shower or bathroom that audition and preparing of income tax returns," everybody shared," Mouton added. "They heated Mouton stated. "We worked with small to it with a big gas heater that burned you at the medium size businesses, banks, savings and touch. I remember it quite well because one day loans, utilities companies and municipal clients." I bent over to dry off my feet and stuck my back side to that heater. I nearly shot out of there like Then in August of 197 1 , Mouton moved back a rocket." to Baton Rouge to go to work for Capital Savings Association. He was comptroller and assistant When Mouton began college, freshmen were secretary treasurer supervising all accounting required to take two years of ROTC. So when he and financial functions for five branches. Then transferred to Northwestern he stuck with it. "It in 1974, Mouton decided to go back to Panama was different than at LSU because it was a City and go into partnership of his own business smaller corp," Mouton stated. "I made a lot of where he also worked for E.F. Hutton Financial good friends there." Services as a representative for one year. Mouton recalls that Northwestern was a lot "Mostofour clients were small businessmen, smaller at that time. "The classes consisted of 1 professional men and city governments," Mouton to 20 students," Mouton said. "It was a rural, said. "Our services consisted of audited and easy going atmosphere." AU^iCUt**^ P^cf/JU^ / GUl4 Hell* unaudited financial statements, '28 Agnes Boswell '42 Leonie Moncla income tax preparation and Johnson is a former college Shannon is married and living planning, bookkeeping services professor. She is married and in Loveland, CO. She has and establishing profit sharing living in Lakeland, FL. three children and two grandchildren. plans." "32 Irene Lawton Sibley is the owner and manager of '42 Mary McVey Dampier In 1 979, Mouton made his last is retired. She is married to S. move. He was hired as controller Sibley Plantation in Shreveport, LA. Burl Dampier ('51). They for Iberia Savings Bank in New have three children and are Iberia. Slowly, Mouton worked '32 Nancy Byrd living in Bossier City, LA. his way up until 1989 when he Greenwood is a retired '43 became the president and chief teacher. She is living in Lake Wanda Earnest Hoagland is retired and living executive officer. The bank has Charles, LA. in Los Osos, CA. She has two grown and now has $485 million '35 Ardner and Enid children. in assets. Phillips Cheshire are living in West Monroe, LA. They have '43 Elaine Killen Allen is a "It's a lot of responsibility," two sons and two retired choral music teacher. Mouton stated. "I've been very grandchildren. She is married and has two lucky in my career. I was in the children. They are living in '36 right place at the right time. Marjorie Escude Wright Fort Worth, TX. was president of the Women's "The company has done very Athletic Association and vice- '43 William Toxy Bourn is well," Mouton added. "We have president of Purple Jackets. retired and living in 185 employees, 14 offices in six She is now a part time Haynesville, LA. He has four parishes and we're surrounding secretary at Wright Farms Inc. children. getting ready to go public which in Evergreen, LA. She is '43 Martra Murphy Eades means we'll be selling stock." married and has four children. is a retired secretary at Exxon. Mouton had no idea that he '37 Jewel Bruner She is married and living in would get this far. "Majoring in Parkerson is married and Kerrville, TX. sort of an City, accounting was living in Bossier LA. She '47 E.P. Dobson, Jr. is a children. accident," Mouton said. "When has two retired architect. He is I in high school I played a lot was '37 Paul Piazza is the married and living in Sun City of sports and didn't think much owner and president of Piazza West, AZ. He has four about a career. I took a Office Supply Inc. in Abbeville, children. bookkeeping course with a friend LA. He is married and has '47 T.J. Lewis is retired of mine. four children. and living in Baton Rouge, LA. "He said that he was going to '38 Virginia Coats Lester is He is married and has four LSU to major in accounting and retired and living in Mesa, AZ. children. child. wanted to know if I wanted to go She has one '49 Eva Finley Smith is a with him to be his roommate," '39 Evelyn Hodge retired teacher. She has two Mouton added. Carmichael is a retired children and is living in Jena, teacher. She is living in LA. Mouton attributes his success Monroe, LA. to two things. "Luck and '50 Audrey Smith Maxwell preserverence are the key factors '40 Lois Gellatly Salter was is a retired case supervisor for the State of Louisiana. She to my success," Mouton stated. a member of-Purple Jackets. She is now a retired home has two children and is living "Obviously, I ' ve been in the right teacher. Her in Jena, LA. place at the right time but business economics daughter Joanne Salter Frank also requires hard work and a '50 Marilyn Finley Gaston ('65) is also an NSU graduate. strong spirit to hang in there." is the records management "41 Willard Hardberger is a officer at the Army and Air retired social worker and Force Exchange Service in teacher. He is married and Dallas, TX. She has two living in Redding, CA. He has children. two children, one stepchild, one grandchild, and two great- grandchildren. S^WS Uc4 / CU44 Nell* P^cf/ '51 Wilson W. Ronda was '59 Charles "Joe" Shilling '62 Richard Allen Tew is a principle. a member of the NSU is an attorney in Houston, TX. retired junior high baseball team. He is now He is married to Stella Harper He is married to Valerie retired and living in Cabo Shilling ('59). Walker Tew ('62). They have Puerto Rico. is one child, and they are living Rojo, He '59 Stella Harper Shilling married and has two children in Jonesboro, LA. is a porcelain artist at Stella's and six grandchildren. Painting Cellar in Houston, "63 Judy Bell Blackledge is '51 Loita Martin Hathaway TX. She is married to an elementary teacher in is a retired teacher. She is Charles "Joe" Shilling ('59). Bakersfield, CA. She is married and living in Queen married and has one child. '60 Jerry Wise is the City, has two TX. She president of Wise and '64 Wayne Summers was children. Associates in Shreveport, LA. the editor of the Current '54 Mary Schwab Rodney He is married and has two Sauce at NSU. He is now the is retired and living in children. superintendent of Florida Gulfport, MS. She is married Parishes Juvenile Detention '60 Billie R. Cook is and has one child. Center in Covington, LA. He retired from the U.S. Army. is married and has two '54 Tommy Broussard is a He is married to Mary Ellen children. retired teacher and coach in LaCaze Cook, a former NSU '64 Vermilion Parish. He is student. They have four sons Joyce Daw Carter is a married and living in and two grandchildren. They counselor for the Del Valle Abbeville, LA. He has four are living in Smithfield, VA. Independent School District in children. Del Valle, TX. She is married '60 William Rambin is the and has one daughter. '54 Ana Jones DeBoef is director of the school of '64 a retired public health nurse communication at Northeast Marilyn Lowrey from the Los Angeles County Louisiana University in Fleming is an eligibility Department of Heath. She is Monroe, LA. He is married determinations examiner at married and living in Mukilteo, and has four children and five Bossier Parish Office of WA. She has one daughter grandchildren. Family Support in Bossier, LA. and three grandchildren. She has one child. '61 Patricia Pittman '65 '57 Henry Walton is Cantrell was a member of John "Jack" Fitzgerald, retired from Arkansas Tech Sigma Sigma Sigma. She is Jr. is a senior electrical University where he was a now the executive assistant engineer at Loop, Inc. in New professor and a swimming to the CEO and Chairman of Orleans, LA. He is married coach. He is married and HydroChem Industrial and has one son. living in Russellville, AR. He Services, Inc. in Dallas, TX. '65 Cynthia Fitzgerald has four children. She is married and has two Fitch is an elementary school children. '58 Anita Simmons teacher in Metaine, LA. She Stedman is a partner and '62 Elizabeth Hennigan has one child. enrolled agent at Stedman Barfield is a county extension '65 Ragan Gantt is the Income Tax Service in agent of family and consumer owner of Ragan Gantt and Pleasant Hill, OR. She is science at Texas Agricultural Associates, Certified Public married and has two children. Extension Service in Emory, Accountants in Miami, FL. He TX. She has one daughter. '58 Charles Hennigan was is married and has two a member of the NSU football '62 Valerie Walker Tew is children. and track teams. He is now the principal at Hawk Primary '66 Larry Clinton is in sales CEO at Hennigan Institute in School in Jonesboro, LA. at Group Insurance in Ruston, Houston, TX. He is married She is married to Richard LA. He is married to Sandra and has seven children. Allen Tew ('62). They have Litton Clinton ('66). They have '59 Wade Parsons one child. two children. recently retired from Amoco '66 Robert L. Mourad is a Production Co. He is married business instructor at and living in Bullard, TX. He Claiborne Technical Institute has two children and two in Homer, LA. He is married grandchildren. and has two children. 10 Alu»*+l Cett**h+ '66 '69 John Rambin is the Carolyn Thomas 72 Robert Scott is the principal at Pelican All Saints Sheridan was homecoming division manager of the Little High School in Pelican, LA. queen and a member of the Rock Division of the National He is married to Martha state fair court. She is now a Federation of Independent Patterson Rambin (76). They manager at South Central Business in Starkville, MS. have three children and one Bell, Bell South Corporation He is married to Waynetta granddaughter. in Birmingham, AL. Holley Scott (72). They have '69 '66 Judith McLain Vercher Josephine "Jo" Kelly three sons. Edwards is an interior designer is a marriage and family 72 Charles Boudreau is a at J. Edwards Interiors in therapist at the Center for physical fitness consultant at Raleigh, NC. She is married Personal Growth in Hamilton Terrace Adult and has three children. Montgomery, AL. She has Learning Center in four children. 70 Michael Crooks is the Shreveport, LA. He is married '66 Johnnie Butler is in factory manager at Goldwin and has two children. Golf in Carlsbad, CA. He is marketing at Daimier-Benz in 72 Bonnie Blu Williams- married to Patricia Stilley Tampa, FL. He is married Dugger is the assistant Crooks (70). They have two and has three children. professor of music education children. '66 Mary Rivers is a at Mississippi College in prekindergarten teacher for 71 Dorothy Fair Finton is Clinton, MS. She is married. an instructor of employability the Hemphill Independent 73 Richard David Yates, skills and developmental School District in Hemphill, Sr. is the owner of B & B in studies at Mansfield Technical TX. Bossier City, LA. He is Institute in Mansfield, LA. She '67 Ardis Lewis is an married and has two children. is married and has two eligibility determination 73 Joyce Armstrong children. supervisor at the Office of Bailey is the owner of J.B. 71 Robert "Bob" Gates is Family Support in Mansfield, and Associates in Richmond, the assistant principal at LA. He is married and has VA. She is married and has Crowley MidcHe School in two children. two children. Crowley, LA. He is married '67 Meade H. Phelps was 73 Anthony "Tony" Carter and has three children. a member of the tennis team. is the vice president of sales 71 Michael Fontenot was He is now an emergency at Health Procurement an NSU cheerleader. He is department physician at East Services, Inc. in Baton Rouge, now self-employed and living Jefferson General Hospital in LA. He has two children. Metairie, LA. He is married in Wellesley Hills, MA. He has 73 Julia Bossier Simmons and has two daughters. two children. was a member of Phi Mu. '67 71 Phyllis Lee Armstrong Charmian She is now married and living is a second grade teacher. Reichenbacht Easter is an in Martinsville, NJ. She has She is married and living in instructor, teacher, and two sons. program director at Lady Pitts Jennings, LA. 74 Carol Taylor Wines is School in Milwaukee, Wl. 71 Edwin Crump is an education program married and living in '67 Roscoe "Ric" Trout Jr. manager at the Louisiana Henderson, TX. He has two is the executive director and State Department of children. CEO of Providence Health Education in Baton Rouge, Alliance in Waco, TX. He is 72 Cheryl Reese Wilson is LA. She is married. married and has two children. the assistant administrator at 75 Lawson "Wood" Wilder '69 Brownwood Regional Medical Glenn Barnette is an is the executive vice-president Center in Brownwood, TX. assistant professor at Green of Industrial Packaging She has two children. Mountain College in Corporation in Homer, LA. He Poultney, VT. He is married is married and has five to Sally Malagarie Barnette children. (70). They have four children. 11 l} QQQ Julio Toro social studies department head and on To sit and talk with Julio Toro, one "Even though I was a full time student wouldn't believe that the 'man of I never spent one weekend on campus," the Faculty Steering Committee. many words' was once a shy high school Toro added. "However now that I am Then in 1987, Toro joined the student afraid to give a presentation in principal of Natchitoches Central High administration of Leesville High as front of his class. School, I try to take my boys to as many assistant principal. He was responsible Northwestern games as possible." "When I was a senior if you would for discipline, curriculum and system have come to me and said 'Julio one day Toro also recalls having a campus supervisor of the OSIRIS School you will be the principle of a 5-A high job in addition to his weekend Administration which is a computer school,' I would have said 'you're out employment. "I had a campus job for program dealing with studentdatabases. of your mind,'" Toro said. "I had a the last two years I attended Also Toro taught Spanish at difficult time speaking in front of people Northwestern," Toro said. "I was a Northwestern' s Ft. Polk campus for two when I was in high school, so there was security monitor for Caddo dorm and I years. I thought I no way would ever be a usually averaged 18 to 21 hours a "I wouldn't hesitate for a moment in principal." semester. It was hard juggling school saying that as far as my career is with it Toro was an honor graduate of two jobs, but was well worth it." concerned teaching American history Leesville High School in 1974. He Hard work and preserverence come to 1 1th graders was the highlight of my received his bachelor of arts degree in natural to Toro. "As a young child, I career with the principalship at social studies, English and Spanish from recall my father instilling in me and my Natchitoches Central running a close Northwestern in 1978 and a masters siblings a real strong work ethic," Toro second," Toro stated. "I feel that age degree in secondary education in 1984 stated. "I remember him telling us the group was probably one on the best also from Northwestern. story about the painter. He would say, groups to teach. 'Julio imagine that are a painter and According to Toro, Northwestern has you "Seniors have one year to go and when you finish the painting have changed a lot since he went to school you they are ready to get out," Toro added. to sign you name at the bottom.' there. "The most visible change is the "And sophomores and freshmen have number of students," Toro stated. "Any job you do, regardless of how years to go. Juniors are very stable, "Enrollment has increased quite large or small, you want to be like that they're setded and many of them are dramatically since I attended artist and be proud to put your name on serious about school." Northwestern." it," Toro added. Toro was influenced by several of Toro can still recall some of his Upon graduation from Northwestern, his aunts who taught in public schools favorite teachers at North western. "He's Toro worked from January of 1979 to to become a teacher. "Many of them retired now, but Dr. Raymond Gilbert May of 1979 at Leesville Junior High would talk to me about teaching and the stands out in mind," Toro said. "Dr. School. He taught 7th grade reading field of education in general," Toro James McCorklewasoneof my favorite and spelling. "I enjoyed teaching junior said. "But like most people, very special history teachers and Dr. (Robert) Alost high, but the silliness that 7th grade teachers I met along the way helped was the dean of education at die time. students sometimes express is difficult influence my career choice. As a high to understand at times," Toro said. "I school student, I had a principal by the "He's still the same," Toro added. "I could be teaching a class and nameof Dr. Herschel Lynn Russell who think he's done a real good job with the someone did an outstanding job at Leesville High. university." in the hall would cough and my entire class would roar with laughter. "He came and literally made a One thing that stands out the most in difference in the school curriculum as Toro's mind about Northwestern was "However, 7th graders were willing to do anything everything for well as on the students and teachers," the football games, but not for the reason and you," Toro added. "Everyday they would Toro added. "It impressed me that that most people would think. "I come into the classroom and ask, 'Mr. someone could have that much influence remember mat as an undergraduate I Toro do you have some papers for us to on a setting or situation." Of course it worked and what I found to be pass out?' or 'Mr. Toro can I clean the takes teachers, counselors, parents and unbelievable was the fact that I did not board?' or I straighten school board personnel, but the principal attend one football game during the four 'Can the room?' And between junior high and high school sets the direction everyday. years mat I was at Northwestern," Toro this quality in students is lost." stated. "I remember having to leave In July of 1990, Toro was named school every Friday afternoon and go to In August of 1979, Toro taught principal of Natchitoches Central High Leesville because I had a weekend job American history, civics and Spanish at School in Natchitoches. As principal, at a local grocery store. Leesville High School. He served as the Toro has dedicated a great deal of time 12 f\U»*~L CoUh^i K \>>u>{fttA / QJU+i Nob* and effort to improving discipline, make a good administrator, the strong faculty, the curriculum, development of at- someone who could 'set the phenomenal community support, risk programs, school security, direction' at a school. "When cooperative students and involved athletic offerings, and parental somebody places confidence in parents." involvement in the school. you and believes in you it's hard Toro has two sons, Ryan 10 not achieve goals," In November of 1992, to your Toro and Dereck 13, who he spends as Natchitoches Central was named said. "As with those much time with as his job will aforementioned people, wife, one of the top five high schools in my allow. "I bring the boys to all the Sherry, is very instrumental in the state by the Louisiana State sporting events and they come up Department of Education. my confidence level. She has here with me outside of regular "Working with people that want been someone who has always work hours," Toro said. "Because been supportive of my to move forward brought me out I spend so much time here with decisions." of my shell," Toro stated. "I them, education is very important learned that if you're going to do Toro accredits his success at to them. I've been in school most good things for the students, Natchitoches Central to a lot of of my life and because of this you've got to come out of that contributing factors. they have been in school all of shell. And working with good "Mediocrity is just something their lives. teachers and administrators early that is not exceptable to me. As "We must never stop in my career were instrumental in far as I'm concerned, NCHS is learning." Toro added. bringing me out of that shell." the best 5-A school in the state," Those people saw the potential Toro stated, "and that's due to in Toro as someone who would '81 76 David Melton is a field 78 Barbara McShane Patricia Ballard Skelton representative at Social Barnickel is a teacher at is married and living in Security Administration in Pickering High School in Canton, GA. She has two Winchester, VA. He is Leesville, LA. She is married children. married to Barbara Bodin to Richard Barnickel ('85). '82 Beverly Aaron Rivers is Melton (76). The, have one They have one daughter. a chapter one facilitator at chila. 79 Karen Koelemay Zwolle Elementary in Zwolle, 76 Phmp Timothy is the recently received a master of LA. She is currently a assistant sports editor of the science in nurse anesthesia graduate student at NSU. Lafayette Daily Advertiser in from Baylor college of She is married and has three Lafayette, LA. He is married Medicine in Houston, TX. children. and has two children. '82 79 Velt Edwards is the Julie Thompson 76 Peggy Delery is a assistant principal and Harville is a business clinical social worker at the curriculum coordinator of Oak manager and a private New Orleans Adolescent Hill High School in Elmer, LA. investigator at Harville Hospital in New Orleans, LA. He is married to Karol Garrett Investigations in Slagle, LA. She has two sons. Edwards ('84). They have She is married. two children. "82 76 Vikki Young Hale is a Sherri Talley Allen, Spanish teacher at Galatas 79 William "Jim" Easley, Miss NSU 1982, is a morning Elementary School and Colin Jr. is a paging systems news anchor at KTBS- Powell Elementary School in technician at Mobilecomm in Channel 3 in Shreveport, LA. The Woodlands, TX. She is Baton Rouge, LA. She is married and has one married and has two sons. 79 LisaZammit child. '83 77 Jeff Totten is a food Davenport is married and Albert Jack Welch III is marketing specialist of the living in Cumberland Gap, the owner and an agent at Food Processing Center at TN. She has two children. Welch Insurance Agency in Pearl, MS. He is married and the University of Nebraska in '81 Sylvia Williams Scott Lincoln, NE. He is married. has one child. is the director of student 78 Clyde Edward Adkins, development and campus '83 Jo Grovenburg Bourgeois is a recovery room II is a pilot for Continental activities at the University of living Airlines in Houston, TX. He is Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR. RN. She is married and married. in Kaplan, LA. They have three daughters. 11 t+u+iWK Pw^jJU* / GU44 Nckst '83 Mike Robinson is a coach '86 Paula Simmons Crawford is '90 Sabra Lands was a member and teacher in Fallon, NV. He is a teacher, athletic director, and girls' of Sigma Sigma Sigma. She is married and has two children. basketball coach at Monterey High now the assistant to the CEO at in Baton Rouge, LA. '83 Cynthia Wigely is a physical School in Monterey, LA. She is EMCO married. education teacher and coach of the '91 Melissa Porteous is a media softball and volleyball teams at '86 Laura Waguespack is a controller at Benson Management Crowley High School in Crowley, LA. science teacher for the Del Valle Company in Metairie, LA. Independent School District in Del '83 James Henderson is a '91 Amy Gill is a news reporter Valle, nursing facility administrator at TX. for Peninsula Clarion in Kenai, AK. Oakwood Village Nurse Care Center '87 Jeffrey Kilgo is captain a and '91 Michelle Weego LaRoche is in Lafayette, LA. He is married to in the intelligence analyst U.S. a marketing manager at Rainey Nadra Smith Henderson ('89). They is stationed in Army. He Seoul, Engineering, Inc. in Houston, TX. have two children. South Korea. He is married. She is married. '84 Susan Scoggins Gautreaux '87 Leslie Gregory is assistant '91 Christen McLemore Warrick was a member of the NSU marching director of the Programs for the works for United Airlines in Sterling, band. She is now the manager of Gifted and Talented at in NSU VA. She is married. data processing at Byrd Regional Natchitoches, LA. '91 Sherrie Credeur Welch is an Hospital in Leesville, LA. She is '87 Charlie Dean Johnson is the art teacher at Octopus Garden married and has one child. coach of the women's track and Preschool in Richardson, TX. She '84 Shelly Ragan Price was a field cross country and teams at is married to Ralph Patrick Welch member of Purple Jackets. She is NSU. He is married to Suzanne ('92). now a medical technologist at VA Person Johnson ('87). They have '91 John M. Castille is an Medical Center in Shreveport, LA. four daughters. attorney in Baton Rouge, LA. He is She is married and has two children. '88 Kimberly Hebert-Cooper is married to Tricia Benny Castille '84 Billy Dans is a teacher and an English teacher in Atlanta, GA. ('91). boys' basketball coach at Marthaville She is married. '91 is an Elementary and Junior High Thomas Ross School '88 John Davis Parker, III is a associate editor for Radio World in Marthaville, LA. He is married of at First minister music Baptist International Newspaper in Falls and has two daughters. Church in Keller, TX. He is married Church, VA. He is also the co- '85 Marshall Lenne is the director and has three children. editor with Generation Next of human resources and safety '88 Suzanne McEntire Olson is a newspaper in Washington, D.C. manager at D.H. Compounding in staff RN at Cross-Country '91 Kelley Graham was involved Clinton, TN. He is married and has Healthcare in Collierville, TN. She in the theater at She is now two children. NSU. has two children five and an actress, and she is living in '85 Rhonda Martin McAnn is a grandchildren. Dallas, TX. RN rehabilitation consultant and '89 Tony Alvis was a member of '91 Kate Christmas was a medical case manager at Genex in NSU marching band. He is now the member of the NSU track team. Shreveport, LA. She is married and band director at Crystal Middle She is now an English teacher and has two children. School in Suisan City, CA. track coach at Gretna Junior High '85 Anthony Richard Gomez, III '90 Meloney Scalisi Mitchell is a in Gretna, LA. is a staff RN for the U.S. Army, D.D. first grade teacher at Converse '92 Lisa Elkins is a flight Eisenhower AMC in Ft. Gordon, GA. School in Converse, LA. She is attendant for Piedmont Airlines. He is married and has three married. is living in Virginia Beach, VA. children. She '90 Angela Spurgeon Peters is a '92 Glenn Moore is the head '85 Velda Butter Long is the dance instructor at Barbara Powlus women's softball coach at William infection control coordinator at in Mill Dance School Hall, PA. She Carey College in Hattiesburg, MS. Pinecrest Developmental Center in is married. Pineville, LA. She is married and '92 Lora McAdams Newman is '90 has four children. Cindy Wilson Ankrom was a team manager at Mary Kay Miss in 1989. is NSU She now an Cosmetics. She is married and '85 Nancy Dallas Johnson is fitness assistant manager and living in Round Rock, TX. She has chief CT technologist and assistant counselor at ATC Health and one child. director of radiology at Winn Parish Fitness Club in Memphis, TN. She Medical Center in Winnfield, LA. is married and has one son. She is married. 11* AU«~t~i C«U»+* Pwf/Uc* / Gl*44 UeltA '92 Lisa Williams Deen is a '93 Linda McComic Dockens is '93 Kevin Fayard is an agent at business teacher at Leesville High an RN at Willis Knighton Medical Farm Bureau in Baton Rouge, LA. School in Leesville, LA. She is Center in Shreveport, LA. She is '93 Kimberly VanHook is married and has two children. married. currently a graduate student at '92 Ralph "Patrick" Welch is '93 Becky Davis Saunders is the Louisiana Tech in the area of manager and print supervisor at accounting office manager at Wal- counseling. Minuteman Press/Jade Productions Mart in Natchitoches, LA. She is '93 Leslie Nix Heard is a teacher in Richardson, TX. He is married to married. at Weaver Elementary in Sherrie Credeur Welch ('91 ). '93 Shonda Wise Milton is the Natchitoches, LA. She is married. '92 John Surane is a district coordinator of communications at '93 Tara Branigan Rodi is a Skil Tools manager at Bosch Power Mississippi Blood Services in psychological assessment in Owings Mills, MD. He is married is married to Jackson, MS. She technician. She is living in Warner to Tania Yanes Surane ('92). Thad "Bo" Milton ('93). Robins, GA. She is married and is '92 Nancy Beth Hamilton Daye is '93 Thad "Bo" Milton is a social expecting her first child in March of an English teacher at Benton High studies teacher and football coach 1995. School in Benton, LA. at in Gallman, Copiah Academy '93 Craig Tappel is a CPA, '93 Bart Stagg was a member of MS. He is married to Shonda Wise account representative at Insurance Milton ('93). the NSU track team. He is now a Advisors, Inc. in Marrero, LA. He is MWD field engineer at Sperry-Sun '93 Martha Diaz is working on a married to Josie Venable Tappel Drilling Services in Broussard, LA. BA in sociology at Florida Southern ('94). He is engaged to Melody Sprowl College in Lakeland, FL. '94 William Klamfoth is the Busby ('82). '93 Annette Marler LaCour is a assistant program director at the '93 Marion Johnson, Jr. is in district manager at Cato Family Crisis Center in intelligence in the U.S. Army. He is Corporation in Austin, TX. She is Natchitoches, LA. married and living in Shreveport, LA. married. '94 Lauren Landry is a He has one child. '93 Baxter "Bax" Kegans is a marketing assistant at Gard Wayt & '93 Jill Cantrell is in public sales representative at J.M. Tull Associates Benefits Marketing relations and advertising at Garrison Metals in Baton Rouge, LA. He is Network in Baton Rouge, LA. & Associates in Baton Rouge, LA. married to Stewart Kimen Kegans '94 Brent Baker is a graduate ('93). '93 Rita DeBona Vandersypen is student in landscape architecture at a guidance counselor for the '93 Kimen Stewart Kegans is a Texas A&M University. He is living Rapides Parish School Board. She financial analyst at Albemarle in Bryan, TX. is married and living in Alexandria, Corporation in LA. Baton Rouge, '94 Anna Sepulvado Fletcher is LA. She has two children. She is married to Baxter "Bax" a secretary for Today's Temporary/ ('93). '93 Lee Erickson is a graduate Kegans Eastridge Temporary in Las Vegas, student at Oregon State University '93 Rhonda Tipton is a seventh NV. She is married. in Corvallis, OR. He is married to in Parish. grade teacher Bossier '94 James Glenn Maynor is a Denise Armour Erickson ('94). She is engaged to be married in teacher and a baseball and football of is living in '93 Kevin Tison is the director of March 1995. She coach at Haughton High School in instrumental music at First Baptist Ringgold, LA. Haughton, LA. He is married. Church in Keller, TX. He is also '93 is doctoral Paul Sawyer a '94 Anneka Reed is a working on his master's at Texas student in technical writing at Illinois videographer for KALB-Channel 5 Christian University in Fort Worth, in IL. State University Normal, in Alexandria, LA. She is engaged TX. '93 Jean Salzgeber Heldstab is to be married. '93 Dana Young is studying in marketing at Volume Mart, and '94 Josie Venable Tappel is a textile design at North Carolina she is also branch manager at registered nurse at West Jefferson University in Raleigh, N.C. Northland Cable in Kansas City, Medical Center in Marrero, LA. She MO. She is married and has three '93 Jack Columbus Tomlin, III is is married to Craig Tappel ('93). currently attending the University of children. '94 Wesley Alost is a student at Wyoming Graduate School. He is '93 Nancy Roy is the assistant Loyola Law School in New Orleans, living in Laramie, WY. for food service director Morrisons LA. He is married to Amy Pelt Alost Hospitality at the University of ('94). Houston in Houston, TX. 15 Sterns flh*+4+l zviyJA a '94 Karen Borne is a registered nurse in neonatal intensive care at Note of Interest.. Alton Ochsner.Medical Foundation "V in New Orleans, LA. She is engaged to be married. '94 Stacey Billingsley is a Alumni ofTri Sigma Cassette recording available graduate student in gifted and Sorority recently held a reunion at of the 1994 talented education at Louisiana NSU to catch up with oldfriends "Spirit of Northweatern State University in Baton Rouge, and renew bonds between sisters in LA. She is engaged to be married. Marching Band" an organization that has been an important part ofNSUfor nearly Professionally Deceased seven decades. recorded by '15 Bessie Ramsey, January 5, "Reuniting was exciting because Vestige 1995, Mansfield, LA all these age groups came together Recording / '15 Mary Wilkins Hampton, because of the common Sigma Company, by sending January 27, 1994, Shreveport, LA Sigma Sigma," said Shreveport the tape $10 per tape '20 Sallye Tanner Toniette, June Alumni chapter vice president JoAnn includes the to: NSU 24, 1994, Sulphur, LA Joffrion. NSU Fight Alumni '23 Ethel Strickland Seese, The reunion started with an open Song, Alma Association, September 1, 1994, Baton Rouge, LA house held at the Tri Sigma House Matre, March College Grandioso Avenue, '25 Helen J. Hawthorne Towne, on campus. A display was set up as well Natchitoches, November 28, 1 994, Lecompte, LA displaying a treasure chest of as music from LA 71497 '26 Agnes May, January 1994, memories, scrap books and halftime Lafayette, LA composites. The house was transformed into a baseball stadium performances. '28 Menyon Burkhalter Pullig, in June 3, 1994, Gibsland, LA keeping with the group's rush skit that was a takeoff on the film's "A '29 Margaret Payne Smith, League of Their Own" and "Field of October 4, 1994, Sulphur, LA Dreams" and included their own '31 Eula Mae Pigott Mitcham, versions of "Take Me Out to The August 22, 1993 Ballgame" and "Centerfield." '32 Lois G. Duran, September 3, 1994, Natchitoches, LA Afterward a Sigma mixer was held at the NSU Alumni Center '34 Irene Page Alexander, which included serenading the December 11, 1993, Monroe, LA by sorority and reminiscing. '36 Guy Wimberly, Jr., May 7, 1994, Shreveport, LA The next day a brunch was held for alumni. The highlight of the '38 Faye P. Alford, January 2, 1994, Sarepta, LA brunch was a special award given to Lucille Hendricks, a charter member '39 E. H. "Kidd" Farr, December 8, Chapter. 1994, Winnfield, LA of Alpha Zeta Hendricks received a key to the city from '40 Bernice Bedingfield Roth, Natchitoches Mayor Joe Sampite, November 5, 1994, Shreveport, LA the father of three Tri-Sigmas, for '42 DeAlva Ross Elliott, August her involvement and dedication the 11, 1993, Lake Charles, LA chapter, NSU and the community. '43 Gladys Wilkinson Harper, The Alpha Zeta Chapter was formed March 6, 1994, Orange, TX. in 1928. '56 Glen C. Stevens, September 22, 1994, Long Beach, CA '61 Gerald E. Gordon, October 30, 1994 '74 Janet E. Livengood, July 5, 1994, Shreveport, LA. % f\U**+Ji QeU+h+A nti*+h*i*l CA/t^ti a Chris Roper The Thirteenth Annual Chris Roper Memorial Golf Tournament is held in memory of Chris Roper, who was killed in a traffic accident over CD the Christmas Holidays in 1982. Chris Roper, a native of Camden, Arkansas, was a senior at NSU and the top golfer on the 1 981 Demon 3 squad. He was a member of the Trans-American All Conference Team, placing ninth in the league tournament. o Date: Saturday, April 29, 1 995 Place: Robert W. Wilson Recreation Complex Lunch: 12:00 Noon Tee Time: 1:00 p.m. Prizes and tophies will be awarded for Firts, Second and Third Place teams. The tournament is a five-man scramble. o Putting contest 3 prizes Closest to the hole 2 prizes Long drive 1 prize SH~ ~l Send this entry form and fee to: Chris Roper Elise James, Director hknioml Development and Alumni Affairs burnameat Northwestern State University 3 Natchitoches, LA 71497 CD Entry Fee: $25.00 ( includes lunch) Cart Rental: $ 7.00 Total enclosed $ Name Phone Address Handicap Male or Female A B C D E Player L. J 17 St*i+iim Al<**h4+l CWhfo A Award in Sports Journalism. The announcement of those Ledet joins La Sports Halls 1995 recipients will be made next Sunday. induction class The 1994 induction class will swell Hall of Fame membership to 165. The seven new names were added by a vote of a 25-member committee of the Louisiana Sportswriters Association. The panel considered 1 14 nominees in 21 different categories for this year's induction class. Ledet, an Abbeville native, became Northwestern 's first All-American athlete as a guard on the football team in 1938. He was chosen in the second round of the NFL Draft by Philadelphia, but spurned their offer to become freshman coach at Northwestern and helped the 1939 Demons to an unbeaten season. From 1952-64, while also serving as an assistant football coach, he became the Retired Northwestern track and field coach Walter state's most successful track and field coach. Ledet, the Demons' first football All-American in During his 13 years as track coach, he led the Demons 1938, is among seven state sports heroes elected for to five straight Gulf States Conference titles from 1953-57 enshrinement in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. and missed another title by half a point. His teams also Also elected were football standouts Fred Dean and had three second-place finishes and two thirds in the old Sammy White, horse racing figure John Franks, baseball GSC comprised of state colleges. He coached Louisiana coach Ron Maestri, basketball star James Silas and LSU Sports Hall of Fame members Smith, Tolar and Hennigan two-sport sensation Bobby Lowther. in football and track, and Smith said his Pro Football Hall of Fame career would not have been possible without Ledet led Northwestern 's track and field program to a Ledet's influence. decade of dominance in the Gulf States Conference and coached Louisiana Sports Hall of Famers Jackie Smith, Some of the greatest sports figures in American and Charlie Hennigan and Charlie Tolar in football and track even world sports history are included in the Louisiana and field. Sports Hall of Fame, founded in 1958. Among the inductees are names like Mel Blount, Vida Blue, Terry Dean, a three-time Ail-American defensive tackle at Bradshaw, Lou Brock, Buck Buchanan, Chris Cagle, Louisiana Tech, was an All-Pro standout in a 1 1 -year NFL Billy Willie Davenport, Willie career with the San Diego Chargers and San Francisco Cannon, John David Crow, Davis, Bill Dickey, Joe Ferguson, Grits Gresham, Ron 49ers. White, a sensational football and basketball star at Guidry, Elvin Hayes, Charlie Joiner, Bert Jones, Monroe's Richwood High, won All-America honors as a Bo - Lamar, Ernie Ladd, Charlie McClendon, Max McGee, wingback at Grambling and starred as a receiver in an 1 1 Maravich, Milburn, Willis year pro career with the Minnesota Vikings. Archie Manning, Pete Rod Reed, Eddie Robinson, Jackie Smith, Y.A. TitUe, Doug Franks, a Shreveport resident, ranks among the most Williams and Tank Younger. successful owners in racing history, receiving an 22nd annual Hall of Induction Weekend unprecedented four Eclipse Awards as the country's top The Fame June 23-24 in Natchitoches will include a Friday night owner over the past 1 1 years. reception, a Saturday morning press conference, a Silas, a Tallulah native, became a pro basketball scramble golf tournament, a tour of historic Natchitoches, standout and had his jersey retired after eight years with a reception at the Hall of Fame in Prather Coliseum, and the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. Maestri led the University the induction banquet and ceremonies in the Student of New Orleans to two College World Series berths and Union Ballroom at Northwestern State University. won 518 games in 14 seasons as head coach. The Hall of Fame has a permanent home at Lowther is the only two-sport All-American in LSU Northwestern, where beautiful oil portraits of the 158 history, winning honors in basketball and track and field in current members and memorabilia from their careers are the late 1940s. on display year-round. There is no admission charge. The seven will be formally inducted in the Louisiana Tickets for this year's Hall of Fame activities will go Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 24, in Natchitoches on sale in April, said Hall of Fame director Doug Ireland. at a banquet capping two days of festivities. Also honored Banquet tickets are $20. will be two recipients of the state's Distinguished Service n AU***^. QaL**** t\ULdU+ Robyn Ju&tin i& still aiming for acea Robyn Justin is still trying to As a volleyball player, she led the make aces, but in different nation in service aces for most of her places and at a much slower pace. senior season. She still holds the school record with 80 aces in 1986. Instead of serving up aces on the volleyball court, as she did for the In her junior year at Northwestern, Lady Demons at a record rate from she began to get serious about golf. 1984-86, she is shooting for aces and By the time she graduated in trying to earn her Ladies Professional December 1988 with a physical Golf Association Tour card. education degree, Justin was on course to fulfill a teenage goal: It's an exclusive card. In the past "Someday," she wrote in her diary two years, only 93 have been issued during her junior year of high school, by the LPGA through a demanding "I will play professional golf or series of qualifying tournaments tennis." involving hundreds of players each year. Today, she makes her living from the game. Justin is an apprentice The odds are even longer for assistant teaching professional at Justin, 30. Unlike nearly every other Royal Golf Club in Slidell. She pulls aspiring LPGA player, she didn't duty in the pro shop and gives lessons grow up on the golf course. and clinics. She didn't start playing until she She hasn't lost sight of her goal to was 19. Her roommate, Vem join the LPGA Tour. Guidroz, was working part-time at Northwestern Hills Golf Club, and "I want to play on tour. I don't soon, so was Justin. want to work for the rest of my life," she says, chuckling. "If that doesn't "I started hanging out there, and come to pass, I'd rather stick to they needed someone (to work)," she teaching. I want to get out of the pro says. "I started hacking around. The shop and work with people," she says. first time I played nine holes, I shot a 48." She is one of nine women apprentice assistants or teaching Then, as now, her strength was professionals in the Gulf Coast LPGA her strength. She could hit the ball a section. long way — today, an average of 230 yards per drive. "I do ladies clinics each week, work with a lot of junior players, and For the next couple of years, she yet 90 percent of my lessons are for played casually when not busy with men," she says. "I've got my mind on her volleyball games and practices, an instructional video, something a her role as a manager (along with little more contemporary than what's Guidroz) for the Lady Demon out there today. I've already started basketball team, and intramural and putting it together." weekend softball games. Continued an pue 20 n f^WS AiUau* Foremost in her thoughts, the 30 top finishers who advance to however, is that elusive tour card. the LPGA's national qualifying tournament. At the LPGA pre-qualifier tournaments she has played, Justin "I had fun playing in Palm Springs. raises some eyebrows with her brief I was relaxed and enjoying myself golf resume. instead of stressing out," says Justin. "I didn't want to jump up and down "The other girls have all had when I hit a good shot, but I did run college experience. Most of them mouth the whole time and have been playing since they were my you can't do that and play good golf. little. When they hear I played volleyball, not golf, in college, they "I played better because I relaxed. I can't believe it," she says. "They're could have played better with a little impressed with that aspect, that I've more focus," she says. developed so quickly. Unfortunately As she shoots for the upper that doesn't count on the scorecard." echelon in women's golf, Justin She's played in four LPGA pre- carries thoughts of her alma mater qualifiers, most recendy last summer. with her. She has seen what sets the winners "Choosing Northwestern was the apart from the also-rans. greatest thing I could have ever done. "The girls I met who made it all I love Northwestern and have some common characteristics. Natchitoches," says Justin. "Part of They're in control of their games, and me hates that I left because I had such their emotions. They have a pattern: great friends there." swing, and go on to the next shot. She keeps in touch with her former Swing, and go on to the next shot. roommate, Guidroz, and other friends Swing, and ... no matter where the back home, like Fred and Lou Clay ball ends up, keep your composure and women's basketball coach James plan your next shot. and Smith. "It takes a lot of dedication and Justin still reflects on classes lime on the practice tee. There's no taught by Dr. Sue Molstead and Dr. secret plan. develop inner control You Allen "Buddy" Bonnette. and get lots of practice, and if you've "I loved my P.E. classes and I had got the ability, you'll be in position to some wonderful teachers," she says. reach your goals." "Now that I'm teaching, I realize just While taking aim at the tour card, how great my teachers were at Justin is willing to take a step-by-step Northwestern." path. She hopes to play some mini- And she's still learning. Along tour events in Florida this year. She with her quest to "beat this game," doesn't want to repeat the experience Justin is on the way to earning her she had on the first tee of a 1994 pre- black belt in karate. qualifier, when she "lost her breakfast" just before tee time. That's for fun. "That set the tone," she said. "I Her biggest kick would be earning sliced my first ball and never got an LPGA card. going." But she later finished in the top half of a 200-player field at another pre-qualifier in Palm Springs, Calif., and was within range of being one of 20 Please fill this page out as completely as possible. We are revising our computer system and your information updates are vital to making the system work. The information from this form is also used for entries in the "Class Notes" section. Please make a copy of this page and give it to any NSU graduate who may not be on our list. 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ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP. GIVE TO THE ANNUAL FUND. i Alumni Studies will be an honor to the faculty member who receives this title." Bostick suffered wounds just before the Battle of the Bulge in QCOLUMNd France during World War II and was left a paraplegic for the rest of his life. His unit, the 104th Infantry Regiment, was awarded the French Croix de Guerre, and he received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. He spent two years in army hospi- tals in England and the United States undergoing extensive surgery. Bostick returned home in Sept. 1946 and entered Northwestern where he received his bachelor's and master's degree in education. He taught for five years at Natchitoches High School before doing further graduate study at UCLA. After two semesters at UCLA, he transferred to Louisiana State University where he received a master's degree in history. For seven years he worked as a counselor, five with the State Rehabilitation Program and two years at the Present at the ceremony establishing the Clyde M. Bostick, Jr. professorship are (front from left): Natchitoches Vocational Technical NSU Director of Development and Alumni Affairs Elise P. James, Mrs. Blanche Bostick, NSU President Dr. Robert Alost, Lyndol B. Pharis, (rear from left) former NSU Director of Fund School. In 1971, he went to work at Development Mike Sibley, Head of the Department of Social Science Dr. Kathleen Byrd, Mrs. NSU's Watson Library where he ^ Eleanor G. Tobin and Ted Tobin. was employed until his retirement in Northwestern State University Foundation has received a 1981. Thedonation of $60,000 to establish the Clyde M. Bostick, Jr. He was a member of Phi Mu Professor of Social Studies. The professorship was established Alpha Sinfonia and Phi Alpha with funds from the Bostick estate and will be matched with Theta, an honorary and professional $40,000 in funding from the state of Louisiana. Bostick passed away in June society for historians. 1994. Interest from these funds will be used to fund research by a designated The Bostick Professorship is the faculty member including travel and material to enhance academic perfor- fifth endowed professorship at mance. Northwestern. The Morrison "Clyde Bostick had a great love for Northwestern. He wanted to leave a Professorship of Business, two fitting memorial and it is appropriate this professorship is established in the Coughlin-Saunders Professorships Department of Social Sciences," said Northwestern President Dr. Robert A. in Nursing and the Magale Profes- Alost. "He was a gracious, giving person through all the years I knew him. sorship in the Mrs. H.D. Dear, Sr. Northwestern will use these funds wisely to help our faculty and students." and Alice E. Dear Department of According to Dr. Kathleen Byrd, head of NSU's Department of Social Creative and Performing Arts were Sciences, the professorship will have a major impact on the department. previously established. "This professorship will contribute tremendously to faculty research in areas that Mr. Bostick found dear. It will make a major difference in our ability to do research," said Byrd. "It will also aid us in attracting and Ill retaining faculty. Being named the Clyde M. Bostick, Jr. Professor of Social NSU 111— 8Z Joqopo uo BuiuiooeuiOH \v 9661. 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Webb, President THWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY t mee taket£ this opportunity to thank each of you for the support lave shown to Brenda and me since I was chosen as president, letters, phone calls and words of encouragement have meant a eal to both of us. )rthwestern has always been an institution dear to the hearts mbers. I am a Northwestern graduate as is my wife and a. My younger daughter Lauren is a current NSU student. '>0 members of my family attended Northwestern. come president because I felt that NSU could be an even bet- jdecessor Dr. Robert Alost did a magnificent job, and I know /ill be to follow him. Dr. Alost did a wonderful job of revitaliz- n by attracting bright, capable students to our campus. I want ting the kind of atmosphere that motivated, energetic students tof.)f. nni can play important roles in helping Northwestern •se, we appreciate it when you are able to assist us financially. t goes beyond that. One of the best ways you can help North- ling us about prospective students and encouraging them to . stern. I'm excited about the fall semester. The fall is always a special time to all of us in higher education because it marks the start of a new academic year when first-time freshmen arrive to start a new phase in their lives and upper- classmen return to continue working toward their degrees. During ray tenure as president, I plan to remain focused on the needs of our students. At North- western, we want to do all that we can to help our students earn a college degree and carry with them the lessons that they can use after they leave us. A major part of my job will be traveling throughout the region to meet with as many of you as possible. I look forward to getting acquainted with each of you and sharing experiences about our alma mater. If I can be of assistance, feel free to contact mo at '318) 357-6441 or e-mail me at [email protected]. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you. mm M .-w BHni H yrn a^M