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REMEMbERiNg MODERN LOVE TOP OF THE HOP THE MAYA AL Modernist Julie Greenwald EXPLORER Albert Weatherhead, architecture is bounces to the The Indiana Jones friend and mentor a tough sell summit of the of Tulane— music biz Frans Blom THE MAGAZINE OF TULANE UNIVERSITY

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Look up! Modernist architecture adorns the skyline of New Orleans PAULA BURCH-CELENTANO STAGE PRESENCE Things got a little crazy toward the end of the Wave ’11 homecoming party on Friday, Oct. 21, after trombonist “Big Sam” Williams invited all his rowdy friends to join him on stage. Students and alumni in the audience suddenly became part of the show as they climbed aboard the platform constructed on the quad outside the Lavin-Bernick Center. The only thing louder than Big Sam’s Funky Nation was— perhaps—the firework spectacle that closed out the night. Wave ’11 was one of several happenings constituting this year's Homecoming/Family Weekend held Oct. 17 through Oct. 23. Other events included the Helluva Hullabaloo Auction and Party that benefited Tulane’s student-athletes, campus tours, art demonstrations, guest speakers, tailgating and, of course, the homecoming game on Saturday afternoon. Williams, formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, also has been featured in HBO’s “Treme” series.

Wondrous Dome On the cover: The steel frame of the Superdome covers a 13-acre expanse. Constructed in 1971–75, the architectural masterpiece, designed by Curtis and Davis, remains the largest fixed-dome structure in the world and the premier example of modernist architecture in New Orleans. Photo by David M. Kleck/ Courtesy Southeastern Architectural Archive, Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries

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a hotbed for innovation, an incubator for new ideas and new industries in the fields of bio- Being a Tulane Student science, filmmaking, green technology and even video game design. by Scott S. Cowen Today, the city is becoming a national model in areas of community health and public edu- In case you didn’t know it, there are a number of perks in being a cation—something no one six years ago would university president. I get to travel around the country and meet all have thought possible. sorts of interesting people. I described to our new students the amaz- As president, I really enjoy and look forward to a particular benefit: ing network of neighborhood health centers the opportunity each fall to address first-year students at the university that provide primary and mental health care convocation that we hold in McAlister Auditorium. to thousands of New Orleanians, no matter In welcoming these bright, enthusiastic students, I try to select their ability to pay. I mentioned to them our the right words that will give them a sense of the community they are exciting, re-imagined public school system in joining. It’s interesting that in talking to a room full of Tulane “rookies,” which three quarters of New Orleans pupils even a 14-year veteran of the university such as myself can feel humbled are thriving in independent charter schools. and even awed by our story. And as my attentive audience was begin- This year, I particularly wanted our incoming class of freshmen ning to wonder what this all had to do with to understand the truly dynamic environment they are entering. In them, I made it clear to them that much of this bouncing back after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, both Tulane progress was facilitated by their university. A University and the city of New Orleans have engaged in enormously lot of the good work toward the city’s recovery transformative processes. I wanted our new students to know that these transformations in the last six years was accomplished by the processes would be integral to their learning experience at Tulane. Tulane first-year students Tulane students who have preceded them. I told my young audience that six years ago, New Orleans was a join a community of After Katrina, Tulane became the first and engaged learners, distinctive, wonderful city, but frankly one that tended to be more con- intent on making the still only major research university to inte- cerned with the past than the present or the future. Today, New Orleans is world a better place. grate public service into the core curriculum. This change has had a profound impact on our academic culture and informed how the university views its role locally and around the world. It has been instrumental in the transformation of New Orleans and, I told the students, it will permeate their collegiate experience atTulane. Today, Tulane students are establishing debate clubs in the public schools to teach young people how to think, communicate, work together and compete. They are tutor- ing public school students, helping them not only to read better but also dream bigger. They are designing and building safer and stronger homes to replace those destroyed by Katrina. They are sponsoring science and engineering events to develop the next generation of innovators and problem solvers. Tomorrow, this work will continue because of students like those I was addressing at convocation. “What will be your contribution?” I asked them, and then reminded them that college is not only about getting a job or building a resume. It is about developing the habits of the mind and heart so you become engaged citizens and leaders with a focus on making the world a better place. This, I told them, is what being a student at

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Juxtaposition Under construction in this photo, the Superdome changes the 1970s landscape of New Orleans. See page 16.

2 PrEsiDEnt’s LEttEr Scott Cowen welcomes new students 6 nEWs Avondale Shipyard shutdown • Fuel produced from newspaper cellulose • Preserving the Tunica language • Student numbers • Who dat? Bryan Batt • Brazilian pop music • Business school dean Ira Solomon • Dr. Ayyala’s eye camp • Healthy aging, not all in the genes • Copyright challenges • Community Service Honor Roll • 15th-century Bible in Howard-Tilton Library 12 sPorts david m. kleck/courtesy southeastern architectural archive, special collections division, tulane libraries division, university collections special architectural archive, southeastern kleck/courtesy m. david Ed Conroy, men’s basketball coach • Conference USA 14 Remembering Al and Mountain West merge for football • Tulane president offers a personal reflection on the wisdom, wit and winning ways of Albert World Deaf Swimming J. Weatherhead III, one of the university’s most extraordinary friends. By Scott S. Cowen Champ • NCAA Division I certification 30 tULanians Bea Field House • Alumni band • 16 Modern Love Legacies • Megan Boudreaux In a city that indulges in the romance of bygone days, buildings constructed in the more recent past are in need of a little TLC. By Carol J. Schlueter 32 WHErE Y'at! Class notes 35 farEWELL Tribute • Marguerite 22 Top of the Hop Bougere 38 tULanE Julie Greenwald, NC ’91, first heard bounce in the Calliope Housing Project, now she purveys EmPoWErs music to the masses from the summit of the record industry. By Mary Ann Travis Law School externships • Wick Cary’s gift to athletics • Helluva Hullabaloo for student-athletes • 26 The Maya Explorer Campaign progress 40 nEW orLEans Handsome, charming and irrepressible, Tulane archaeologist and adventurer Frans Blom Angus Lind on the is among the most colorful academic figures of the early 20th century. By Nick Marinello music scene

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 3 absinthe makes the heart grow fonder J. Marion Legendre (A&S ’18) invented Herbsaint when the ingredient wormwood was banned and the drink could not be called absinthe.

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Absinthe in new OrleAns a profound lack of fresh water. … the class carries a “lifetime pass” for APPreciAtiOn My father, J. Marion Legendre, In the end the State’s rice yield was alumni of the class to join the trip in Congratulations on a tremendous (A&S ’18), was born in New Orleans to fair, but an increasing number of future years, and I hope to do so. win. … Every page was a surprise and French-speaking parents. The U. S. farmers found themselves utilizing Keith R. Powell, A&S ’93 delight. If I had to choose a winner Army needed French-speaking men salt water in order to bring the Columbia, S.C. among the winners, I would say: Fare- during World War I and my father vol- (compromised) crop to maturity. well (so personal and readable) and the unteered. He served in France for three So, here we find a conundrum: PhOtO id “building history” so unexpected. years and because he spoke French he unprecedented abundance and I enjoyed that picture of Lindy Boggs, Jack W. Thomson, L ’51 worked closely with the French under- unprecedented lack—of the same Hale Boggs and Howard K. Smith Carriere, Miss. ground where he acquired the formula resource—within a half hour of each that appeared in the Tulane Magazine, for absinthe. Upon his return to New other. Some of us suggest that wise and Summer 2011 [“Who Dat? The Press”]. Other interests Orleans, he endeavored to reproduce bold measures be invented/engineered/ I grew up down the street from Lindy Surely there is something of the drink with herbs imported from adapted so as to convey the solution to and Hale Boggs and had the opportu- more interest and value to your France. When my sisters and I were the problem in future years. We suggest nity to meet Howard K. Smith on occa- readers than six pages of Newt children, our father began producing that obstacles be clearly identified sion when he visited relatives in New Gingrich [summer 2011, “Today absinthe in our attic at Jefferson Ave. and solutions explored in forthright Orleans. Some of the other people in Iowa, Tomorrow the World.”] and Danneel St. discussion and implementation. that photograph look vaguely familiar Bill Fly, A&S ’58 As the business grew, he relocated to Carolyn Woosley, NC ’71 but I can’t identify them. Can you iden- Bellingham, Wash. the warehouse district. I can remember Lake Charles, La. tify the other people in that photo? very large barrels full of wonderful Brainerd S. Montgomery, UC ’69, L ’71 cOl. hurley recOGnitiOn smelling herbs. Because the U.S. gov- POesch And newcOmb POttery New Orleans I was pleased to see the notice [“Final ernment banned the ingredient worm- The summer issue 2011 of Tulane car- Editor’s note: We would love to hear Frontier,” page 32] in the Spring 2011 wood, the drink could not be called ries an appreciative tribute to Jessie from readers who can tell us who else edition of the new Tulane Magazine absinthe. My father got together with Poesch. Not noted is one of her most is in the 1935 yearbook photo. We can- identifying Col. Douglas G. Hurley his friend Willy B. Wisdom and they valuable contributions to the lasting not find a record. [E ’88], USMC, as the pilot of the STS- came up with the name HERBSAINT. history of Newcomb Pottery. Any 135, the last flight of the Space Shuttle. My favorite slogan was “absinthe owner of a piece of Newcomb Pottery street smArts The mission was successfully com- makes the heart grow fonder.” While can identify the item from the inscrip- Although I love the guerrilla art pleted this morning [July 21, 2011]. … cleaning the house after the death of tions on the base of the pot, clearly campaign [“Street Art,” summer We should now all congratulate my mother [Octavie Tiblier Legen- referenced by Poesch. Viewers of the 2011], I wish it were grammatically Col. Hurley for a job well done and dre, NC ’21], we came across a box “Antiques Roadshow” are constantly correct. When using if, wish, or other thank him for his contributions full of absinthe glasses. The glasses amazed at the current value of these verbs that express doubt one must during his service to our country. were the size of a water goblet. On the lovely pots. use the subjunctive tense. I find it James V. Boone, E ’55 top of the goblet sat a rimmed glass The Tulane University website deplorable that my university would Fairfax, Va. tray with a hole in the middle. A cube includes the citations: “Her [Poesch’s] offer an award for bad English ... of sugar was placed in the bottom interest in the art pottery of Newcomb even if it is street art. Way to dumb since we AsKed of the goblet, and crushed ice was College in New Orleans culminated in down the neighborhood! Regarding the name change from placed in the tray. When HERBSAINT an exhibition and catalogue, Newcomb Brian Rundle, A&S ’92 Tulanian to Tulane, since you asked: was poured over the ice, “The Green Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Reading, Pa. “Tulanian” indicated a magazine about Fairy” percolated into the goblet. Women, 1895–1940, in 1984. The book and for Tulanians, including alumni as On behalf of myself and my two sis- stands as a classic in decorative-arts FAmily trees well as students and faculty. “Tulane” ters, Marion Legendre Winstead (NC monographs. It additionally sparked Although the Meaher family (“Family indicates a magazine about Tulane Uni- ’47) and Diane Legendre Fagan, thank renewed appreciation for the now- Reunion,” summer 2011) seems to have versity. Although I am no longer part you for the opportunity to tell the true famous Newcomb Pottery. A second, a lot of Tulane degrees within the imme- of Tulane University, as an alumnus, story of Legendre’s HERBSAINT. expanded edition was developed with diate family, we now have a 4th-genera- I consider myself a Tulanian. The Louise Legendre Ross, Sally Main, Newcomb Pottery and tion Tulane student in our family. magazine is still interesting, but I feel it Richmond, Va. Crafts: An Educational Enterprise for My grandmother, Edith Levy has taken a step away from the alumni. Women, 1895–1940 (2003).” Brenner graduated from Newcomb I gather this was deliberate, and I think AbundAnce And scArcity Carolyn Graham Stifel, NC ’44 in 1925. … Her daughter, my mother, it was somewhat unfortunate. I read with interest the Summer 2011 Irvington, N.Y. Carol Lise Brenner Rosen graduated Tom Slocombe, A&S ’70 “Letter from The Editor” article on with a business degree from Tulane in Emporia, Kan. our abundant, under-utilized fresh GrAnd cAnyOn reVisited 1956. My father, Irving Louis Rosen, water resource—the great Mississippi. I enjoyed the large photograph of the received his Tulane undergraduate in the VernAculAr I think you are so correct to challenge Grand Canyon Colloquium floating on degree in 1947 and his MD in 1949. I was very disappointed with the new us to utilize this amazing resource. the Little Colorado in the Summer 2011 I received my MBA in 1982. My younger magazine—not the stories, contacts, Opportunities abound, particularly in issue. I participated in the class and the sister, Edie Rosen Bender, graduated information—but the use of the VER- a time of shrinking aquifer fresh water trip in 1990, and enjoyed the company in 1983 with her undergraduate degree NACULAR in a magazine from Tulane supplies nationwide and opportunities of Dr. Parsley, the rest of the faculty and returned a couple of years later for University. Correct English will never in aquaculture, not to mention possible team, and a great cross-section of the her MSW (1986). My husband, Ellis B. go out of style. … alternative energy sources. I certainly university’s students. Murov, received his JD in 1979. Now, Heather Jurist, NC ’64 agree that Louisiana for centuries has I remember more than a few green my daughter, Caroline Elizabeth Baco Raton, Fla. served as a rich font of resources, ex- faces, but not exactly in the Tulane Frilot, is a member of the law school ploited—by others—for profit and that spirit, after the short hops in tiny class of 2014. we need to keep some of this business airplanes and a helicopter entailed in Additionally, my younger daughter, in the State. reaching the put-in and take-out points. Maitland Louise Frilot, has worked However, may I point you to a sec- I still have my ammo can waterproof as a lifeguard at Reily for the past two Drop Us a Line ond striking and deadening phenom- box and a lot of great pictures of my summers, and Edie’s step-daughter, E-mail us at: enon occurring just a short distance own, including the Pink Grand Canyon Ashley Bender, is now on the Tulane [email protected] from the near-topping Mississippi Rattlesnake we found in the middle English faculty.All that, and we live or U.S. mail: River and the Atchafalaya Basins, of camp after we unloaded and set up basically across the street from campus Tulane, University Publications, both leveed? That phenomenon was one evening. This is an excellent cross- on Audubon Blvd.! drought. Rice farmers, for example, disciplinary course with one of nature’s Beth Rosen Murov, B ’82 200 Broadway, Suite 219, immediately to the west struggled with greatest outdoor classrooms. 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MAGAZINE TUlane editOr Mary Ann Travis

Art directOr Melinda Whatley Viles

FeAtures editOr Nick Marinello

“tulAniAns” editOr Fran Simon

cOntributOrs Catherine Freshley, ’09 Alicia Duplessis Jasmin Angus Lind, A&S ’66 Mark Miester, A&S ’90, B ’09 Kathryn Hobgood Ray Ryan Rivet, UC ’02 Richie Weaver

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paula burch-celentano paula Sharon Freeman layered memories October. The sun shines brightly on the GrAPhic desiGner An amazing aspect of an old city (and an palm trees. The sky is the bluest yet Tracey O’Donnell old university) is that it is ever changing. this fall. Even when traditions appear hidebound, The students living in Weatherhead, new practices are layered on top of old like those living in Irby (pictured above patterns. New energy flows through the and built in 1956) and all the other resi- present even as our experience of it is dence halls, are creating memories. They filtered by the past. are finding friends, stretching their minds, President OF the uniVersity “In New Orleans, the past is all imagining careers and falling in love. Scott S. Cowen around, the memories are front and The French philosopher Maurice Halb- center,” writes Ned Sublette in The Year wachs, who explores the twists and turns Vice President OF uniVersity cOmmunicAtiOns Before the Flood. of memory, has said, “Our conceptions Deborah L. Grant, PHTM ’86 Memories accumulate here, it is true, of the past are affected by the mental with those formed before the flood join- images we employ to solve present executiVe directOr OF PublicAtiOns ing those made after. problems, so that collective memory is Carol J. Schlueter, B ’99 Weatherhead Hall, a new residence essentially a reconstruction of the past hall, opened this fall at the old site of in the light of the present.” Tulane (USPS 017-145) is a quarterly magazine published by the Tulane New Doris and Old Doris halls. Nearly Based on Halbwachs’ take on memory, Office of University Publications, 31 McAlister Drive, Drawer 1, New 300 sophomores have moved into the it would seem that how you remember Orleans, LA 70118-5624. Periodical postage at New Orleans, LA 70113 and 81,000-square-foot structure on the your years at Tulane is tied up with how additional mailing offices. Send editorial correspondence to the above uptown campus. you see the present. address or email [email protected]. On the first cold day of the season, And, perhaps, your recollections de- Opinions expressed in Tulane are not necessarily those of Tulane representatives and do not necessarily reflect university policies. Material students come and go to class from pend on how many years have elapsed may be reprinted only with permission. Weatherhead. Some, usually the men, since you were a student living in a Tulane University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution. brave the cold (60 degrees!), wearing dorm room, sharing a bathroom with shorts. The women are bundled in sweat- eight people, as they still do in Irby. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: shirts, leggings and boots. Some things, after all, never change. Tulane, Tulane Office of University Publications, 31 McAlister Drive, The air is crisp, the way it can be in —mary ann travis Drawer 1, New Orleans, LA 70118-5624.

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TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 5 tUniCa tales Linguistic scholars at Tulane, led by anthropology professor Judith Maxwell, helped the Tunica-Biloxi tribe produce two books— Deer and Turtle and Fighting Eagles. Written in the tribe’s nearly extinct language, the books of fables and prayers preserve an essential component of the tribe’s identity.

N ewS News Fit for Fuel

Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, “TU-103,” which uses paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that serves as a substitute for gasoline. The researchers are experimenting with old editions of The Times-Picayune newspaper with great success. TU-103 is the first bacterial strain from nature

cheryl gerber cheryl that produces butanol directly from cellulose, an organic compound, says David Mullin, associate professor of cell and molecular biology. “Cellulose is found in all green plants and is the most abundant organic material on earth. shipyard Converting it into butanol is the dream of many,” says Harshad Velankar, a postdoctoral fellow in Mullin’s lab. “In the United States alone, at least 323 million tons of cellulosic materials that could be used to produce buta- sFor morehutdown than 70 years, Avondale Shipyard has been a major economic nol are thrown out each year.” Boat Builders driver in New Orleans. Now that there are plans to close the shipyard by Avondale Shipyard Mullin’s lab originally identified TU-103 in 2013, a group of professors is taking a look at what impact the shutdown represents about animal droppings, cultivated it and developed will have on the region. one percent of the a method for using it to produce butanol. A This summer, at the urging of the AFL-CIO, Tulane researchers— roughly 520,000 jobs patent is pending on the process. Aaron Schneider, assistant professor of political science; Jana Lipmann, in the seven-parish “Most important about this discovery is TU- assistant professor of history; and Thomas Adams, a history postdoc- New Orleans 103’s ability to produce butanol directly from toral fellow—along with faculty members from Loyola University, metropolitan area. cellulose,” says Mullin. the University of New Orleans and Southern University–New Orleans, He adds that TU-103 is the only known bu- began surveying current and former shipyard employees. They’re seek- tanol-producing clostridial strain that can grow ing to understand the economic effects, as well as the nonfinancial and produce butanol in the presence of oxygen, repercussions, of the shipyard and its potential closure on the more which kills other butanol-producing bacteria. than 5,000 people who work there. Having to produce butanol in an oxygen-free Schneider, the Jill H. and Avram A. Glazer Professor of Social Entre- space increases the costs of production. preneurship, expects that there will be a long-lasting social impact to the As a biofuel, butanol is superior to ethanol, shutdown. He is examining the role of the shipyard in civic engagement which is produced from corn sugar, because in the community. it can readily fuel existing motor vehicles “People who have good jobs, who participate in organizations like without any modifications to the engine. It unions, also tend to participate in other organizations,” Schneider says. also can be transported through existing fuel “This is important to our citizenship and our democracy. The worry there pipelines, is less corrosive and contains more is the shutdown will have a chilling effect on community engagement.” energy than ethanol, theoretically resulting in For many, Avondale provided a path to the middle class, and during improved mileage. its history workers there have played a role in fighting for civil rights and While the discovery has the potential to women’s rights. reduce bio-butanol production costs, in addi- Schneider says the shutdown offers a unique opportunity to raise tion to possible savings on the price per gallon questions about a major industrial closure before it happens, rather than as a fuel, Mullin says, “Bio-butanol produced doing a postmortem. from cellulose would dramatically reduce car- “I don’t know that anyone has ever come in at this stage to track the bon dioxide and smog emissions in compari- effects as a firm makes plans to shut down and eliminate jobs,” he says. son to gasoline.” The innovative process also “This is an situation where we can look at the people during the process, could have a positive impact on landfill waste. see how they respond and hopefully lend a hand.”—Ryan Rivet —Kathryn Hobgood Ray

6 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE In That Number Student Stats

tally toUting Even before the fall semester began, the admission office was busily engaged in its annual ritual of number crunching, analyzing the myriad data that ultimately yield a numerical picture of Tulane’s student body. The office released its final tally in October, revealing Fit for Fuel interesting and in some cases historic results. 7,048* Number of UndergradUates enrolled paula burch-celentano paula 13,359* 1,757** Number of all stUdents enrolled Number of new stUdents enrolled (including graduate and professional schools) 56.92% 212 Percent of Number of new students female stUdents from new york in freshman class

zero New students hailing from hawaii, 223Number of new students from north dakota, wyoming and loUisiana delaware

Number of international freshmen the Poll (representing 15 countries) do yoU sleeP neXt to yoUr Cell Phone? We want to know! We’ve read other surveys that indicate that the majority of young people sleep 34 within reach of their mobile phones. Do you? We’ll report on the results in the winter issue of Tulane. 100% the resUlts on reCyCling in the sUmmer issUe, we asked if yoU 15.66 reCyCle. everyone who resPonded Average number of Credit hoUrs said that they reCyCle bUt they carried by each first-year student aren’t always haPPy with CUrbside Programs in their Cities.

*Largest number in Tulane’s history **Largest number since Hurricane Katrina TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 7 Who Dat ? Colorful Character ves ty arch I ty vers I /courtesy tulane un I /courtesy Inbert MD ,a ar bryan batt Before he went on Broadway shows include Jeffrey, “Katy” Danos (NC ’85). 2010), is a “momoir,” a tribute to a career as a leading actor on Sunset Boulevard and La Cage The book (Clarkson Potter/ to his late mother, gayle batt Broadway and in the award- Aux Folles, among others. Random House) gives tips on an (NC ’51), as well as a chronicle of winning television show “Mad About the future, Batt says, eclectic style that reflects the growing up in New Orleans. Men,” theater major bryan batt “I am working on a new project for home furnishings boutique Hazle- Also pictured here in the (A&S ’85) plays Billy Flynn in Broadway, but contracts are not nut located on Magazine Street in 1980s scene from Chicago are the musical Chicago during his signed yet, so lips are sealed.” New Orleans and owned by Batt rebecca nice (NC ’85, G ’87), senior year at Tulane. This fall, Batt has kept busy and his partner, Tom Cianfichi. left, and leslie Castay (NC ’85), Batt has fond memories of this on a book promotion tour in If you ask Batt about his views right, who after her own career and other theatrical productions New Orleans, New York and on using color in the home, he on Broadway now acts in various while he was a student at Tulane, Los Angeles for Big, Easy Style: says, “Don’t be afraid of color. shows in New Orleans, and with including his appearance in Patch- Creating Rooms You Love to What did it ever do to you?” her husband, Bryan Burkey, owns work Players’ Hansel and Gretel. Live in, a decorating book he Batt’s first book, She Ain’t the Wine Institute of New Orleans Batt’s Broadway and off- co-authored with Catherine Heavy, She’s My Mother (Crown, (W.I.N.O.).—fran simon

8 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE eye CamP Dr. Ramesh Ayyala, Tulane professor of ophthalmology, along with ophthalmology resident physicians, conducted a free “eye camp” in July in Port Sulphur, La., an area hard-hit by disasters. The doctors screened more than 100 patients, prescribing glasses for those who needed them and diagnosing sight- threatening diseases such as glaucoma and diabetic retinal diseases in patients.

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New Business Dean

Ira Solomon thinks business schools should do brazilian beat more to address societal issues, and the new dean of the A. B. Freeman School of Business thinks Tulane University is just the place to take on that challenge. “The way in which Tulane has repositioned itself in terms of strong connections to the community is something that I find interesting and intriguing,” says Solomon, who became dean this summer. “I like the strategic direction I see the campus going, and I think the Freeman School is well positioned to move in that direction.” Solomon came to the Freeman School from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign, where he was the R. C. Evans Endowed Chair in Business and head of the Department of Accountancy, widely regarded as one of the finest accountancy programs in the country. Solomon succeeds Angelo DeNisi, who had served as dean since 2005. DeNisi will remain at the Freeman School as a professor of management. Solomon says energy and accounting are cente I two obvious areas with potential for growth for l v gI the Freeman School, but before making any de- The country of Brazil has a distinctiveness all its own. Its citizens speak PoP mUsiC cisions, he is involving faculty members in the Portuguese, for one thing. And to an extent not seen in most other coun- Chico Science and Nação planning process. Zumbi perform with their tries, popular music is an essential part of the identity of Brazil, says Chris- band in Recife, Brazil, “It’s not my style to sit here in the dean’s topher Dunn, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane. in 1995. They were lead- suite and make decisions in isolation,” he says. “Brazil might, in fact, be the most salient example of a country in ing proponents of the “My style is to engage my colleagues to system- “mangue beat,” which which popular music has had an important role in society and politics combines psychedelic atically discover what makes sense in terms of and in the formation of cultural identity,” Dunn says. rock, electronica and investment areas.”—Mark Miester It’s an issue of degree, says Dunn. In other countries, popular music hip-hop with regional rhythms such as mara- plays in the background. But in Brazil, “Music is central to Brazilian no- catu, coco and ciranda. tions of personal and national identity.” With Idelber Avelar, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane, Dunn co-edited Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship (Duke Univer- sity Press, 2011). They collaborated on collecting, editing and translating the essays in the book, many of them originally written in Portuguese by Brazilian scholars, including anthropologists, historians, literary scholars and ethnomusicologists. Among other contributors to the book are Daniel Sharp, Tulane assistant professor of music, and Aaron Lorenz, who earned a PhD in Latin American studies from Tulane in 2009. The essays go beyond the formal study of Brazilian music per se, although there are discussions of samba, coco, maracatu and bossa nova as well as international genres that have been Brazilianized such as hip-hop, funk, rock and even the waltz. “What we really wanted to do is capture a range of debate and discussion around citizenship in Brazil,” says Dunn. The citizenship that Dunn is talking about is not about how people literally become citizens. “It’s about the long struggle for people gain- Dean of Business ing rights in the country—civil rights, social rights, political rights, Ira Solomon is the cultural rights. new dean of the “We’re interested in how music has played a role in these struggles,” A. B. Freeman

says Dunn.—Mary Ann Travis School of Business. burch-celentano paula

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 9 CommUnity serviCe honor roll For the fifth year in a row, Tulane has been named to the President’s Higher Education Commu- nity Service Honor Roll, which celebrates exemplary commitment to service and volunteering in the nation’s colleges and universities.

N ewS Copyright Controversy The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing a copyright law, and the court’s ruling, expected by June 2012, the end of its current session, will have broad implications for researchers, readers and music and art lovers, says Elizabeth Townsend- Gard of Tulane Law School. The copyright law in question affects millions of foreign books, music compositions and artwork, including items such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich and artwork by Pablo Picasso— potentially any foreign work created between 1923 and 1989. These works have long been in the public domain in the United States, whereby anyone could reprint them or create new versions paula burch-celentano paula without paying the copyright holder or getting permission. But in a recent ruling, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law that removed die young at the works from the public domain, restoring copyright protections and giving copyright holders exclusive rights. Townsend-Gard is associate professor and an old age co-director of the Tulane Center for Intellec- tual Property Law and Culture. She says that S. Michal Jazwinski, a geneticist who has studied the aging process for Healthy Aging among the groups that will closely be watch- more than 25 years, might be expected to say that the secret to a long and Living a long and ing the Supreme Court ruling are Google and healthy life span is all in the genes. But he points out other factors—diet, happy life depends on Amazon, companies that digitize works and exercise, productive pursuits and social activity—that contribute to living genes, environment post them online. Also, academic researchers long and well. and chance. who frequently use public domain materials Genes do matter, though. Jazwinski is the director of the Tulane are following the controversy. Center for Aging and a professor of medicine and biochemistry. He “Is it constitutional?” Townsend-Gard asks. holds the John W. Deming, MD, Regents Chair in Aging. “It’s like taking a public park back and giving Jazwinski pioneered using the yeast model for aging research and the land back to the original owners. This kind was the first scientist to clone or isolate a longevity-associated gene— of amendment to the Copyright Act brings in- LAG1 (Longevity Assurance Gene)—in any organism. stability and uncertainty to the whole system.” Recently, he and his colleagues have generated a hypothetical Townsend-Gard says complicated political model involving three human genes, ApoE, H-Ras and LASS (human issues are at play because Congress first man- LAG1), predicting, and then showing, that they interact in longevity dated the copyright as part of a broad foreign and healthy aging. trade agreement. The human biological system is quite complex; it involves networks of The case could have huge implications, different reactions all going on at the same time, each affecting the other. she says, not just for copyright, but for trade There is “a narrow window where everything seems to work nicely,” Jaz- law, the First Amendment and power relations winski says. “But you can only go so far in tweaking a certain gene and its between Congress and the Executive Branch. expression to increase life span.” “What is the future of copyrights? We are in What Jazwinski says that he and his colleagues are most interested a battle between domestic law versus imple- in is healthy aging in humans. “The whole idea is to compress morbid- mentation of trade treaties. What do we as a ity, to make the period of decline [before death] as short as possible, so society think is important and what is not?” that everyone can die young at an old age.”—M.A.T. —Carol J. Schlueter

10 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Gallery Biblia Latina

anCient sCriPtUres to check my modern edition of would have cost a lot of money Printed in Strasbourg, France, Deep within the stacks of the the Latin Bible,” says Kuczynski, and it’s in Latin,” says Kuczynski, the Bible was later transported, rare books collection of Howard- “I typed ‘Biblia Latina’ into the “which, generally speaking, only as indicated by a faded blue Tilton Memorial Library lies a online card catalogue and when the clergy could read. It was library stamp, more than 1,000 weathered pigskin Bible bound I noticed an item with a 15th- most likely used to help scholars miles to the municipal library in together by brass clips. For years century date, I knew that Tulane interpret the scriptures.” Budva, Montenegro. Medieval it lay there in obscurity, an unrec- owned something special.” Even the yellowed pages books often were sold by librar- ognized treasure. It was not until Each of the mammoth of sheet music pasted to the ies, which may explain how the Michael Kuczynski, associate volumes, dated 1481, stands inside covers to fasten the book’s Bible arrived at the Louisiana professor of English and medi- nearly 20 inches tall and is about pigskin flaps hold significance, State Museum and ultimately eval studies, stumbled across the 4 inches thick. The book was says Kuczynski. “One of these was acquired by Tulane. four-volume Bible that the book printed using movable type de- pastedowns was from a medieval More research is called for on was recovered as a precious signed to have the appearance of choir book that had the words of the book’s history, says Kuczyn- source for scholarship. handwriting and contains the Old chants and musical notes in dif- ski. “I love this kind of scholarly It all came about two years and New Testaments, as well as ferent colored inks.” The paste- detective work and have had a ago when Kuczynski needed a commentary on the scriptures. down indicates that it was taken great deal of success getting my Latin Bible to verify a footnote for Most 15th-century families from a workshop manuscript, graduate and undergraduate a book on which he was working. would not have had a copy of which “makes the Bible volume students interested in it, too.” “I didn’t want to run home this heavy, multivolume book. “It rarer,” says Kuczynski. —aliCia dUPlessis Jasmin

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 11 Interview Ed Conroy, Men’s Basketball

Men’s basketball head coach Ed Conroy enters his second season with the Green Wave after guiding the team to a 13-17 overall record last year. How does the team look this year? “The team is working extremely hard. Every day you get a good surprise. With new guys, it’s always an adventure, but these guys are definitely putting in the effort.” What are the successes you’ll build on from last season and what are some things you need to improve? “I thought last year’s team did a great job of buying into how we wanted to play. We have some bigger bodies this year, so we need to be a more physical team and work on finishing on the defensive end.” What are your goals for the season? “Last year our guys really believed in the process, and I think that’s why you could see improvement in their play. This year, with so many new guys, we’ve got to be focused, get better as a team and also make sure that each individual is improving every day.” Was coaching always your career goal? “Like most athletes, I thought about playing for as long as I could. Then in my sophomore year, I suf- fered a severe neck injury, and that was probably the first time I really started thinking about coaching as a profession.” What’s the best part of being a coach? “The relationships you develop with the guys. Trying to make a difference in their lives. You get to know them, in so many ways. That gives you great satisfaction.” —ryan rivEt burch-celentano paula

12 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Certified The Tulane Department of Intercollegiate Athletics had its Division I certification reaffirmed by the NCAA this summer.

SPortS Football Merger

Conference USA and the Mountain West Con- ference in October announced a unanimous agreement to merge their football leagues by the 2013 season. The merger will be constituted in two divisions that will play one conference championship game. Currently, C-USA has 12 members, including Tulane, and Mountain West has 10. The goals of the merger are to offer more visibility to member institutions, maintain regional rivalries and garner an automatic BCS bowl bid for the top team in the new 22-member conference. Tulane President Scott Cowen, who serves as the chair of the Conference USA board of directors, praised the alliance, calling it a “high potential, unique partnership.” In regard to all other sports, each conference will maintain its independent structure.—R.R. record setting Tulane swimmer Kristin Ates was part of a world-record setting team at Swimming Champ the World Deaf Swimming Championship in Coimbra, Portugal, during Green Wave the summer. student-athlete Ates, a native of Charlotte, N.C., teamed with Peggy Liang, Samantha Kristin Ates competes Elam and Becca Meyers to post a time of 8:49.55 in the 4-by-200–meter at the highest level in freestyle relay and take home the gold medal. The time surpassed the for- freestyle and butterfly mer deaf world record of 8:50.09 established by the Russian Federation swimming events. in 2009. “This is a huge accomplishment, and I couldn’t be prouder of Kristin for her performance at the world championship,” says Lena Guarriello, head coach of the Tulane women’s swimming and diving team. Swimming the second leg of the record-setting relay, Ates posted a 2:13.68 split. In addition, she finished third in the 200-meter butterfly and came in sixth in the 400-meter freestyle. Ates also competed and won multiple medals at international com- petitions for deaf athletes in 2005 and 2007. She has severe hearing loss in one ear and profound loss in the other. A cochlear implant allows her to attend Tulane classes without an interpreter. A two-year letterwinner with the Green Wave, Ates is one of 19 swim- mers returning to the squad for the 2011–12 season. She was part of a team that finished fifth at the 2011 Conference USA Women’s Swim-

paula burch-celentano paula ming and Diving Championships.—Richie Weaver

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 13 AP PHOTO/PATRICK SEMANSKY PHOTO/PATRICK AP Remembering Al

tulane president offers a personal reflection on the wisdom, wit and winning ways of one of the university’s most extraordinary friends.

by Scott S. Cowen

14 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Support team al and celia weatherhead, shown in this 2008 photo, pledged $100 million to tulane university through the weatherhead foundation. Opposite page: president scott cowen with his longtime friend and mentor. on sept. 20, albert J. weatherhead iii passed away, leaving a void in the best advice he ever imparted to me was his and celia’s suggestion the lives of the many people he cherished and the numerous organiza- that i give the offer to interview for the presidency of tulane a second tions he supported. his passing was especially difficult for the tulane look. there had been a number of opportunities to apply for the top posi- community. al loved tulane, and we loved him right back. tion at universities in the past but i had never really pursued any of them. to say al was a remarkable man is an understatement. his influ- my wife, marjorie, and i had a great life in cleveland with many friends, ence ranged from the millions he gave away to universities and other and i loved being dean and albert J. weatherhead iii professor of man- institutions throughout the country to the well-known plastic spice agement at the weatherhead school of management. why change? top his company invented—the one with the small holes for sprin- But al had vision and high expectations that inspired those of us kling and the big hole for pouring. who knew him to try to excel at whatever we did. in other words, i was But despite his success and influence, al faced many hardships in headed to new orleans and the greatest adventure of my life. his life, including the death of an infant child, alcoholism, severe ar- after i was honored in being named president of tulane in 1998, al thritis, a heart attack and a broken back. continued to provide me guidance. celia, a newcomb alumna (nc ’65), “i now see that suffering, joined the Board of tulane as a trusted adviser, and the weatherhead pain and the threat of death were foundation made $100 million in pledges to benefit outstanding stu- Al had vision the only hard lessons strong dents with distinguished records of community engagement and to help enough to break through the recruit and retain faculty who have made outstanding contributions as and high thickness of my hard head,” he artists, researchers and scholars. wrote in The Power of Adversity, But tulane was not the only recipient of al’s generosity. Besides expectations one of his three books. “eventu- additional gifts to case western reserve, al gave millions of dollars to that inspired ally, i came to see these adversi- support the weatherhead center for international affairs at harvard, ties for what they were: bless- the weatherhead p.e.t. center for preventing and reversing heart those of ings in disguise that i learned to atherosclerosis at the university of texas–houston and the weather- leverage to make me a stronger, head east asian institute at columbia university. us who wiser, more loving and creative i was traveling to cleveland and planning to visit al when i learned human being.” of his death. though he was 86 years old, i was completely shocked. knew him. i first met al in 1980, when he had triumphed over so much illness and adversity throughout i was an associate professor of his life, it was hard to believe anything had gotten the better of him. management at case western reserve university in ohio. al and his my immediate thoughts raced to celia and al’s family and all the wife, celia, through the weatherhead foundation, had just made a sorrow they were enduring. i also realized the country, and especially gift naming the cwru school in which i taught, the weatherhead the higher education community, had lost a visionary business leader, school of management. obviously, i was impressed by mr. weather- an advocate and a generous philanthropist. head and, as an ambitious associate professor in my early 30s, eager and what had i lost? a friend, a mentor and a father of sorts. in ad- to make his acquaintance. But at the time, i had no idea how much dition, al also was a wonderful cutup with a great love of mischief and influence he would have on my life. the ability to lift the spirits of everyone around him, even during the four years later, when i was offered the job as dean of the same darkest times. weatherhead school of management, i asked al if he thought the sal- i have been thinking a lot about al these past few weeks. i have ary was fair. he told me, “graciously accept what was offered, do an thought about his challenges, his triumphs, his advice and his love. i outstanding job and, over time, the salary will take care of itself.” also have marveled how, even after his death, he continues to teach me as always, his advice turned out to be great and during the next 30 lessons, especially lessons about dealing with loss. i can hear him telling years al became an ever-closer friend and mentor. on a professional me to be cheerful and to move forward with reckless abandon. level, he used lessons learned from his creation of weatherchem corp. i also have thought about al’s habit of going for a 15- or 20-min- and other successful enterprises to teach me about business and how ute walk every day, squeezing a rock the whole time. at the end of the to lead. on a personal level, he was always a thoughtful adviser who walk he would toss the rock into a pond, saying, “that’s it for the day. helped guide my career choices. no more anger and sadness until tomorrow.”

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 15 benson & riehl collection, southeastern architectural archive, tulane architectural libraries archive, university southeastern collection, riehl & benson

16 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Modern Love

In a cIty that Indulges In

the romance of bygone days,

buIldIngs constructed In

the more recent past are

In need of a lIttle tlc.

By Carol J. Schlueter

Reuse, Repurpose the saratoga building, pictured in this 1957 photo, is a modernist landmark in downtown new orleans. originally built for commercial purposes, it is now an upscale residential development that houses more than 150 apartments and an impressive art collection.

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 17 reverence for the past is part of the new orleans psyche—just take a stroll through the french Quarter or a drive through the garden district. new orleanians worship at the architectural altar when it comes to 18th- and 19th-century structures with european detailing. but love of the modern-era buildings from post–World War II to the 1960s— that’s more fickle. some modern buildings happily persist in the landscape, but others have brought heartbreak for preservationists and architects, who say these buildings are often allowed to deteriorate, or are renovated poorly, or are demolished. but with their history (much of it rooted at tulane university) and their forward-looking designs, do the mid- century structures deserve a chance to survive, or even help lead the way into the future for the new new orleans?

Loves me, Loves me not summer 2011 was a watershed of sorts for modern architecture in new orleans. Within weeks of each other, two modernist-designed schools from the 1950s, both winners of national design awards, fell to the wrecking ball. now gone are phillis Wheatley school in treme, designed by the late charles colbert, who taught at tulane, practiced in new orleans and influenced generations of architects; and thomy lafon school in central city, designed by curtis and davis, a prolific firm of modernist architects led by tulane alumni nathaniel “buster” curtis Jr., a ’40, and arthur Q. davis, a ’41, ’42. demolition is ahead for another curtis and davis design, george Washington carver Junior-senior high school in the ninth Ward. the schools have joined a ghostly list that constitutes all that remains of such modernist landmarks as the rivergate International exhibition facility (demolished to make way for harrah’s casino in 1995) and st. francis Xavier cabrini church (torn down in 2007, the site for a new school). both were products of curtis and davis. meanwhile, at the heart of the city, three other modern-era landmarks —the former pontchartrain motors/sewell chevrolet building, the saratoga building and the louisiana superdome—have seen their lives extended through major renovations. those who love regional modernism know more fights are ahead to try to save what they deem as important.

Win some, Lose some “We’re starting to put the showroom back in now, and it’s pretty neat,” said architect John Williams, a&s ’72, a ’78, in mid-september as he gave a tour through the construction site at 701 baronne st. that last served as the sewell chevrolet dealership. the plate-glass windows that face baronne and girod streets are shining once again, but new cars have given way to grocery baskets. this is the new home of rouses supermarket, which opened in mid-november to customers who live and work in downtown new orleans. perhaps the modernist architect edward b. silverstein, whose firm designed the dealership that opened in 1955, would be pleased that his building has a new life. Williams is certainly pleased: “every building needs to be preserved and put back into commerce. that’s the highest form of sustainability.” after restoring “400 or 500 buildings” in his career, Williams said that he’s “really good at finding incentives for folks to be able to justify restoring a building.” that is, what he did for rouses in a deal in which the purchase of the building was matched with a suite of tax credits to make the renovation possible. “We’re preserving the building, inside and outside,” he said, as the tax incentives required. “there’s always hurdles—there’s the historic district landmark commission. you’ve got to go to the state historic preservation office, also the national parks service.” the approval process is daunting, and “a little bit over the top” for a chain like rouses, which has nearly 40 stores in louisiana and mississippi. and renovating a 56-year-old building always has its share of challenges. outside, Williams pointed triumphantly to the new foundation.

18 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE the times-picayune the chris granger/ chris “If one Home and Dome Left: sleek, angular and understands functional, phelps residence hall on the tulane the rhythm, uptown campus (pictured here in 1961) embodies the scale and ethos of modernism. Above: a $1.6 million proportions animated light system now illuminates the mercedes- of the city’s benz superdome, which was renamed after receiv- fabric, modern ing corporate sponsorship this fall. the 36-year-old architecture dome underwent extensive renovation after hurricane can be a great Katrina and will remain a signature of the new infill solution orleans skyline for the foreseeable future. within historic neighborhoods.”

courtesy tulane archives university courtesy —Marcel Wisznia

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 19 “We held this whole building up and put a new foundation underneath it. let me say that again. We held this whole building up, all the way, every bit of it.” even with this winning example of “repurposed” modernism, Wil- liams, of course, is well aware of the recent losses of the modern-era school buildings, Wheatley and lafon. but he said, “you’ve got to go forward. there is the power of one … you can effect change, like rouses has effected change here.”

Boom and doom With their clean, often boxy lines, lack of ornamentation, affinity for flat roofs and window walls to bring in light and natural views, and the use of new materials for dramatic outer skins, buildings from the mid- century modern period often stand out in the crescent city landscape. “modernism is not an easy sell for a lot of people,” admits francine stock, g ’96, visual resources curator at the tulane school of architecture. “the buildings just don’t have the romantic architectural details we have come to associate with new orleans.” as these buildings reach their 50th birthdays, they become candi- dates for historic building status, and ones that are in historic districts such as those downtown have protected status. but any building that’s 40 or 50 years old also tends to be unfashionable and could be in jeopardy. modernist design became common on the local scene during what was a booming post-war era, says Keli rylance, head of the southeastern architectural archives at tulane. Veterans using the gI bill to pursue college studies headed to tulane; its school of architecture spawned a talented group of innovative young designers with modern and progressive ideas. John p. Klingman, the Koch professor of architecture, says that iron- ically, the city was “a hotbed of modernist design” with new schools, churches, civic buildings and residences that represented an era of progressive thinking. “during that period there was an intense building boom in new orleans in part because of municipal projects spearheaded by mayor delesseps s. morrison,” rylance adds. “some of the national architectural journals were writing about the ‘new’ new orleans in the 1950s.” that may sound familiar in the post–hurricane Katrina environment, with national publications talking about the “hot south” and placing new orleans among the “best cities for Jobs” and “coolest cities for startups.” It was Katrina that imperiled the modernist gem of the louisiana “It’s not only losing the buildings but it’s the lack of understanding by superdome, whose design was developed in the late 1960s by curtis the people who control them today. they have no knowledge of the and davis, with buster curtis leading the way. despite serious dam- architectural importance of what they possess.” age including a hole in its roof, the superdome was declared “solid Wisznia adds, “my fear is that new orleans will turn into a museum, as a rock,” and reopened a year later after repairs. architect arthur Q. showcasing how cities looked in the past. I don’t want to live in a mu- davis wasn’t surprised. “We thought it had a fighting chance of being seum, but rather a living museum—a city sensitive to its past but not saved,” he says. this year, the stadium received the final touches on a afraid to look to the future. If one understands the rhythm, scale and $185 million renovation. proportions of the city’s fabric, modern architecture can be a great infill the juxtaposition between what’s old and what’s new is certainly solution within historic neighborhoods.” not lost on marcel Wisznia, a ’73, who’s making a stir by designing and developing downtown historic buildings into residential properties. modern on campus he has three projects complete and filling up with tenants, includ- It’s not surprising that the modern-thinking architects from tulane also ing the 1956-era saratoga building at 212 loyola ave., and a fourth had a major impact on the uptown campus. Klingman calls the 1953-era modernist-era renovation being planned, the former stephens buick phelps and Irby residence halls “two absolutely wonderful modernist building, later stephens garage, at 840 carondelet st., not far from the buildings,” along with paterson house, completed in 1951. perhaps the new rouses supermarket. best example, however, is one that lives on at the heart of campus: the Wisznia, who serves on the architecture dean’s advisory council, is lavin-bernick center for university life. the son of a modernist architect. his dad’s first speculative design of a look with a modernist eye and you’ll notice the large expanses of home was so radical in his adopted hometown of corpus christi, texas, glass that provide marvelous views of the quad and oak trees on two that it did not sell, so the Wisznia family ended up moving into it. sides. this and other elements of the building are reflective of its life he’s a believer in “adaptive reuse” of older structures, and is as the original university center, designed by curtis and davis and concerned about the city’s losses of some modern-era buildings. the completed in 1959. rivergate’s demolition? “It made no sense.” cabrini church? “to have Klingman remembers that a proposal was on the table to tear it down lost that is a sin, it’s a crime.” Wheatley school? “ridiculous.” he says, and rebuild. Instead, a major renovation and expansion took place,

20 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Do you DoCoMoMo?

What’s next for the city’s remaining modernist buildings? They are still beloved, and one group especially is trying to keep them in the landscape: the Louisiana chapter of DOCO- MOMO (an acronym for the “DOcumentation and COnservation of building, sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern MOvement”). It’s part of an international organization.

rchive. rchive. The Louisiana group president, Francine a Stock, says its work is crucial. That work got a major boost this year when Stock,

rchitectural with help from Keli Rylance, architecture a students and the Tulane technology services staff, developed an iPhone app, New

outheastern outheastern Orleans Regional Modernism, available free s s, of charge from Apple’s App Store. It features D ecor

r maps, tours of neighborhoods, archival photos of buildings oFFice oFFice (both existing and demolished) and de-

urtis & Davis Davis & urtis tails about them. c “If we lose too much, then you’re at risk of forgetting ivergate, 1968. 1968. ivergate, r entirely,” she says. “Maybe it will save something else in the

rchitects. rchitects. future by opening up this dialogue.” Her a group held a number of events in October, including a bicycle tour highlighting modern-

urtis & Davis, Davis, & urtis era buildings such as the Automotive Life c Building at 4140 Canal St., pictured below. hotographer. hotographer. p iller, m otz l Frank Frank reducing the building to its basic structure and adding 50 percent more space. “people asked, ‘Why did we save that?’” Klingman says. “Well, be- Ain’t There No More cause, it was in the right place, and it had the right conceptual attitude. built in the late 1960s at

the ideas of transparency and openness were incredibly important the foot of canal street, rchive a modernist principles. they’re great principles for a university center.” the rivergate International irtual irtual the new architects, Vincent James & associates, led the design but exposition facility was a v also worked with tulane alumnus and former faculty member Wayne distinctive and innovative rleans rleans troyer, a ’83. “the existing building was preserved as far as the en- gem of design and engineer- o ew trance circulations,” he says, describing it as repurposed and improved, ing. It was demolished in n but with great respect for the original planning by curtis and davis. 1995 to make way for the the resulting lavin-bernick center, dedicated in december 2006, har- construction of the harrah’s new orleans casino. rchitecture, kens back to its roots. as francine stock says, “When you go in, you can still feel the original building there … the spirit of the building is intact.” chool o Fchool a davis, whose firm designed the original university center, agrees. s

“they preserved the spirit of it. upgraded it in many ways, but on the ulane whole it’s a contribution to the campus.” “We’re on the cusp of a new movement in preservation,” stock says. ourtesy o Fourtesy t “I’m not so optimistic,” responds davis, no doubt feeling the losses of c numerous buildings designed by his firm and his partner, buster curtis. '10, tsa “people have been building and tearing down forever.” y enne D

but troyer is more upbeat. “It’s going to be more and more difficult for k olm olm

people to take down modern buildings in new orleans. there is a renais- c sance going on in terms of being able to save them.”

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 21 Top of the Hop

Julie Greenwald first heard bounce in the c alliope housinG proJ ect; now she purveys music to the masses from the summit of the record industry.

by Mary Ann Travis

in the rarified atmosphere of the 27th floor of an avenue of the On the verge americas building in new york city, Julie Greenwald (nc ’91) sits the summer job in 1992 that set the course for Greenwald’s career on top of the music industry. was with rush management in manhattan. she was an assistant to Billboard named Greenwald the most powerful woman in the lyor cohen, who led rush management and def Jam, managing music business in 2010. she’s chairman and chief operating officer artists and producing hip-hop music. cohen quickly promoted of atlantic records, one of the most successful music companies on Greenwald through the ranks. the planet. “lyor and i clicked,” she says. “i grew up at def Jam and lyor Greenwald’s corner office at the company headquarters is sleek encouraged me to learn and run each department.” she and cohen and modern, decorated with a big painting of Jay-Z, the billionaire still work together at atlantic records/warner music Group after hip-hop star, whose career Greenwald helped launch almost two surviving corporate takeovers and mergers through the years. decades ago. in its earlier days, hip-hop “was a little secret,” says Greenwald. there’s also a photo of r&b singer trey songz. a photo of Green- “it wasn’t mainstream yet. it was exciting to be on the cutting edge wald with Jon bon Jovi, the wildly successful new Jersey rock star, of something that was about to become big.” and photos of singer/songwriters James blunt and Jason mraz fill at def Jam at that time, there were 60 the wall space. employees. “we were taking on the world two hundred and twenty-five people work for Greenwald in the to bring this new music to the masses,” united states, and a thousand other employees around the globe says Greenwald. market music for the company that has a storied history of pro- there has been nothing quite like the Out of the ’Hood ducing and promoting legendary recording artists such as aretha excitement of that period in Greenwald’s Julie Greenwald went franklin, ray charles, the rolling stones, led Zeppelin and ac/dc. career. “we were on the verge. we were in from a gig with teach for the road to the apex of the music industry for Greenwald has on it. we knew it was coming. and to be america in new orleans been a nearly straight shot. but, “i never set out to get into the music ahead of something is incredible,” she says. to def Jam recordings business,” she says. “i tripped up on the music business because it but it wasn’t lyor cohen and def Jam to president of atlantic was a summer job for me.” records that first turned Greenwald on to records.

22 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE MICHAEL EDWARDS MICHAEL

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 23 kids. twenty law students volunteered, encouraging the children and helping Greenwald finish the year.

COnneCtIng the dOts the music business that Greenwald started out in has, like almost every other creative, political, economic and social endeavor in the world, been utterly transformed by the internet. Going to a physical store on an actual street to buy the latest cd by one’s favorite artists is not the way more than half of consumers obtain the music to which they listen. in november 2008, the New York Times reported that for the first time digital sales exceeded compact disc sales at atlantic records. “i think we’ve figured it out,” Greenwald said at the time. “it used to be that you could connect five dots and sell a million records. now there are 20 dots to connect to sell a million records.” digital sales then included and still include ring tones, ring SHEARER

n backs, satellite radio, itunes sales and subscription services. H jo three years later, the business is even more complicated. new technologies to distribute and share music come online almost daily. hip-hop and urban music. it was the chil- “every day is a new battle,” Greenwald said this year. “but i feel dren in the calliope (pronounced cally- like new services pop up every day to give us other avenues to create ope) in new orleans, where Greenwald was revenue streams.” these services include subscription services like Rap Star a teach for america teacher during the rhapsody and spotify for streaming, sampling and buying music. rapper t.i., left, is an artist second year of that organization’s existence new tools allow people to be their own disc jockey. ”there’s so many whose career Greenwald and her first year out of college. new, cool things that let consumers have so much fun with engage- has nurtured through good ment with music,” says Greenwald. times and bad. craig In the CallIOpe in the next five years, she expects there will Kallman of atlantic Greenwald graduated be even more ways to hear and have fun with records joins Greenwald from tulane with a music. while going to clubs will still be there, and t.i. to celebrate the double major in politi- consumers will be able to share music in an on- company’s digital sales. “Those kids cal science and english. line social experience, too. “it’s going to be bet- she expected to become in the projects ter and better for the consumer,” she says. a lawyer and an advocate for children and edu- to keep its revenue streams flowing for the cation. Growing up in the catskills of new york, would play company and the artists, atlantic has made in- she was raised by parents who instilled in her the clusive deals with artists, giving the company a concept of “always giving back.” stake in touring revenues and merchandise such her teach for america job in 1991–92 brought music after as t-shirts that promote the artists. her to calliope elementary in the middle of the notorious calliope housing project, a poor and school. They MusICal pIraCy often violent section of town that was cut off by every business has to change to keep up with earhart expressway from the rest of the city of taught me a lot fast-moving technology innovations. Greenwald new orleans. accepts that reality, but what she doesn’t accept the poverty rate in this isolated commu- about how to is thievery. “in the last 10 years, the music busi- nity was staggering. but the creative output ness has been robbed by piracy,” she says. was equally astonishing. here in the calliope, dance and like what appears to be a harmless crime based bounce music, an indigenous new orleans form on a mentality that music should be free or, of hip-hop, boomed with the songs of rappers catchy Southern “who cares that it’s stealing, it’s only ripping like Juvenile. it was the beginning of a multi- off the fat-cat record companies,” hurts every- million-dollar entertainment business in new hip-hop.” one down the line from the performing artists to orleans as the record company no limit grew the engineers, producers, songwriters and sound out of the calliope, and the magnolia housing —Julie Greenwald mixers. “it costs us all money,” says Greenwald. project spawned cash money record company. “everybody needs to be paid somehow.” “hip-hop is,” writes ned sublette in The illegally downloading a song has reverbera- Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans, tions for the future of new artists, she says. “it’s “poetry, music, rhythm, visual language, gesture, drama, culture— the record companies that fund the new babies and give them tour a composite artistic movement.” support and help them make their new album and get them out hip-hop definitely captivated Greenwald. she says, “those kids on the road.” in the projects would play music after school. they taught me a lot there are 50 million bands on youtube, says Greenwald. “how about how to dance and like catchy southern hip-hop songs. they do you know who to listen to? someone’s got to show you and say, got me ready for when i started at def Jam. i had had a year living hey, listen to this. this is great.” inside urban culture.” but it was tough. many of her third-grade students could not Intense COMMItMent read. Greenwald called upon the african american association of discovering new artists that she can fall in love with and nurture is law students at tulane to tutor and mentor the elementary school what keeps Greenwald in the game. from the beginning of her career,

24 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Old Friends Julie Greenwald hangs out with Jay-Z, center, and lyor cohen, at a “listening party” in august at the hayden planetarium in new york city. Jay-Z was among the first hip-hop artists Greenwald and cohen promoted at def Jam recordings in the 1990s. gE WIREIMA MAzu R/ n kEvI

“i’ve fallen in love with artists in the music business,” she says. “i am get to go along for the ride and be with them when they finally walk lucky to get to work with super-talented people. it’s extraordinary.” across madison square Garden. you feel like you’ve accomplished subdued, serious and steeped in the music business, the slight- something.” of-frame, brown-eyed Greenwald appears on an august afternoon practically weighed down by the responsibility of running a major MOther hen music company. “you work hard. you do good things for people. it when she talks about artists currently on the atlantic roster, artists comes back to you. it’s how i live my life. i’ve been able to make a like flo rida and t.i., she mentions their work ethic and the pressure nice livelihood out of this business.” they are under. Greenwald is married to lewis largent, whom she met when he flo rida is the “nicest guy on the planet,” says Greenwald. “he’s worked for mtv and asked for permission to use a song of one of her constantly working. he works 300 days a year. he’s out on the road. artists, ll cool J, for a “beavis and butthead” soundtrack. they’ve he travels the globe.” been married 13 years and have two children, lulu, 12, and eli, 7. and t.i., who’s had his legal troubles, got released from prison in “they keep me grounded,” she says, “and remind me how hard it september and immediately went to work on a new album. “there’s is to balance it all. but it’s great. i love the fact that i get to go home a lot of pressure when you’re in the public spotlight,” says Green- to those two angels.” wald. “music is such a personal expression.” her children love it when they get to go performances, like a flo most of atlantic’s artists are singing their own words. “they’re rida concert in the hamptons. her artists are always nice to her putting their personal feelings out on the table. and then people children, says Greenwald. and her daughter thinks it is cool to turn come along and either trash it or love it,” says Greenwald. her friends on to new music and the next big hit that Greenwald has the most successful acts work grueling schedules, always trying brought home. to reconnect with their fans, putting new music out, touring all the it’s a wonderful life. “i get to go out every night and hear mu- time. “it’s the demands of that job,” says Greenwald. sic and go into the studio and see how it’s going with the artists,” she’s the mother hen, without the fussiness, the nurturer-in- Greenwald says. chief, of the artists. “that’s why i do so well because i understand the music business requires intense commitment, like a mar- what it takes,” she says. “i know it’s hard and that it’s not an easy riage. “you want to have some kind of connection with the artists path but it’s a rewarding one. and if you’re prolific, it’s what you because you want to grow old with them because it’s going to take a need. you need an outlet to put it all out.” long time,” says Greenwald. the path that led Greenwald from the catskills of new york to it takes hard work on both sides—the record company’s and the tulane and new orleans to the calliope housing project and an in- artist’s—to achieve success. troduction to hip-hop to the pinnacle of the music industry is not the “being with someone who you believe in so much and you one she ever expected to follow, she says. think is going to be the next big thing and then to help them but the music business “captured me when i started working in it, fulfill their dreams—that’s remarkable,” says Greenwald. a“ nd you and i fell in love and never looked back.”

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 25 The Maya Explorer

HANDsOMe, CHARMING AND IRRepRessIBle, TulANe ARCHAeOlOGIsT AND ADVeNTuReR FRANs BlOM Is AMONG THe MOsT COlORFul ACADeMIC FIGuRes OF THe eARly 20TH CeNTuRy.

by Nick Marinello

The year is 1925, and the world is a much larger, more rugged and less- In Frans Blom, Maya Explorer, biographer Robert Brunhouse known place. Tulane archaeologist Frans Blom, along with a small explores the “unusual, distinctive, impressive” characteristics that team, sets out on a steamer from the port of New Orleans on the first defined Blom’s character. of what will be several expeditions to the jungles and mountains of “The story of Frans Blom is the strange odyssey of a man who sought Mexico and Guatemala to study the ancient remains, customs and lan- the solace and beauty of the forest, though he was forced to live within guages of what he regards as “the most notable of the ancient popula- the confines of Western culture for many years,” writes Brunhouse. tion of America, the Maya Indians.” We pick up Blom’s story five years before his landmark Tulane Hacking though 1,200 miles of jungle and forest in six months, expedition. He’s in Mexico, circa 1920, working for an oil company Blom records more than 100 archaeological sites, including the dis- in Veracruz, tramping through the jungles, living for periods of time covery of 24 ruined cities. He finds a group of Maya in the highlands in palm huts as he hunts for abandoned oil wells that might be rede- of Guatemala who are still using their ancestral ritual calendar and veloped into productive ones. He’s thousands of miles from his home- stumbles upon a colossal stone head left behind by the ancient Olmec land of Denmark and even farther from his father’s expectation that he civilization, a discovery so startling that nothing similar to it has yet to become a businessman. be recorded in the annals of archaeology. Blom has no training in archaeology, but during these expeditions And Blom is just getting started. Over the next decade, the intrepid he seems strangely drawn to pre-Columbian temple mounds that rise explorer will bring to Tulane’s campus a trove of historical objects and out of the snarl and choke of jungle. In his own amateurish way, he knowledge while establishing himself as one of archaeology’s most makes notes, illustrations and photographs of carved hieroglyphs, colorful figures. stucco reliefs and crumbling structures. His work—as well as his enthusiasm—for In and out of the jungle documenting Maya antiquity attracts the Bon Vivant The director of Tulane’s Department of Middle American Research attention of several noted archaeologists and Frans Blom peers from 1926 to 1940, Blom is by all accounts an enigmatic personality anthropologists in Mexico who encourage out of this fragment of and in many ways a model for the fictional character of Indiana Jones. Blom to seek formal training. a photograph taken in Brilliant, idealistic and sometimes stubborn, Blom, through force of A Harvard degree here, a brief stint with 1922. ever dashing, personality, puts Tulane’s Middle American studies on the map. It is the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., Blom was quite the man these same traits, however, that keep him on the fringe of mainstream there, and Blom is invited to join Tulane’s about town during his academia and ultimately see to his undoing at Tulane. newly created Department of Middle American tenure at Tulane.

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TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 27 Indiana Jones Blom (center) sits for an informal photograph with Tulane colleague Oliver laFarge and Indian guide, Tata. The picture was taken during the landmark 1925 expedition to Mexico and Guatemala. courtesy middle american research institute research american middle courtesy

Research as an assistant to the department’s founding director at his place. To escape the Quarter, Blom often weekends at this or that William Gates. friend’s plantation or yacht. Blom arrives at Tulane despite being warned by colleagues of the In 1932, Blom escorts a group of society people on an excursion to elderly Gates’ disagreeable nature. One of Blom’s mentors even sug- Mexico. Among the group is the famous lovelorn columnist Dorothy gests that by playing his cards right, Blom could soon be replacing the Dix, who apparently has the time of her life: “Going to Mexico with curmudgeonly Gates as director. It turns out the mentor was prescient. Frans Blom is like being shown over heaven by an archangel,” she “William Gates did not last long at Tulane, and Blom played a major writes after returning to the united states. role in his ouster,” writes Donald McVicker, in “Institutional Autono- When Blom finally decides to settle down, he does so with Mary my and Its Consequences: The Middle American Research Institute at Thomas, a socialite from a wealthy New york family. The two marry Tulane,” a paper published in Histories of Anthropology Annual. on long Island; Archibald Roosevelt, the son of Teddy and a friend of “Almost from the beginning,” continues McVicker, “Gates was suspi- Blom’s, is the best man. Back in New Orleans, the couple move from Blom’s cious, if not jealous, of Blom’s charming of prominent citizens and warm flat uptown to the exclusive pontalba Apartments on Jackson square. relationship with [Tulane] president Dinwiddie.” By spring 1926, the affable young Blom is at the helm of the temple of doom department, and beginning to shape it into his own image. “personally and professionally, Blom embodied this period’s romantic infatuation with exploration,” writes Berman. And Blom seems to be BumBay operating both aspects of his life from the fast lane. “The character and direction of the nascent institution were in large part professionally, the early 1930s start off well for Blom, despite finan- the result of Blom’s personality and opinions,” writes Daniel Berman cial burdens imposed by the Great Depression. (G ’95) in his master’s thesis, “The Middle American Research Institute: “It was largely due to the generosity of friends of the department seventy years of Middle American Research at Tulane university.” that it could engage on this extensive field work,” writes Berman, who Over and again, we are given clues to the force of Blom’s personal- particularly notes the philanthropy of sam Zemurray, whose contribu- ity. “Although he was only five feet nine, most persons testify that he tions initially created the department and whose continued support was tall; something about his presence seemed to add to his stature,” played a large part in sustaining it. writes Brunhouse. “Blom’s staff grew until he employed as many as nine persons,” Indeed, Blom’s early years at Tulane and in New Orleans are marked writes Brunhouse. “He inaugurated a series of publications, published as much by his personal life as his professional one. He is the kind of a book and numerous articles and arranged an increasing number of man whose life seems to be recorded not in footnotes but in headlines. exhibitions.” He also receives several significant grants to expand the As a bachelor, Blom haunts the French Quarter with a band of art- department’s library and publications. ists, academics and writers that includes William Faulkner, whom It is one of his greatest successes, however, that will play a role in Blom counts a personal friend. He names his apartment “Bumbay” in his eventual downfall at Tulane. In the run-up to the 1933 “Century sly reference to the cadre of respectable rogues who periodically crash of progress” World’s Fair in Chicago, Blom is tapped to supervise a

28 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE reconstruction of the Nunnery from the ruined Maya city of uxmal. Blom receives a $7,500 grant to take a team of artists, architects and engineers to the yucatan to collect information to assist in the reproduction. Along the way, his team makes several important archaeological discoveries. While the completed reproduction at the site of the World’s Fair falls short of Blom’s ambitions (officials deem Blom’s plans too expensive and order him to reproduce only a single façade of the Nunnery), public reception is positive. “Blom estimated that about seven million people visited the building and its museum displays, which originated from the department’s collections,” writes Berman. The idea that the public could

courtesy middle american research institute research american middle courtesy be so interested in archaeology and Middle America takes root in Blom’s imagination, and he conceives a plan to recreate the Nunnery as the new home for the Department of Middle American Research on Tulane’s campus. “For the remainder of the 1930s,” writes Berman, “Blom attempted to gain support for this grandiose scheme.” During this same time, Blom sub- mits to the university’s administration a plan to expand the department, creating 10 divisions, a staff of 30 persons and an operating budget of more than $200,000—perhaps not the most strategic of ambitions in a world slogging through the Great Depression. Blom’s ideas fail not only to attract support from either inside or outside the university but, according to Berman, are considered “fanciful and unrealistic.” When his plans for the Nunnery encounter opposition from the university’s trustees, Blom proposes an alternative structure: a full-scale replica of the temple pyramid at Chichén Itza. The structure is designed to be 200 feet in width and courtesy middle american research institute research american middle courtesy 104 feet tall, containing five stories on its interior. Historian John Dyer, in Tulane: The Biography of a University, suggests that the buzz on campus was that “the goings on upon the Fair and Field fourth floor of the science building (present-day Dinwiddie Hall) Above: A replica of the smacked of the esoteric and crackbrained.” uxmal Maya temple constructed at the 1933 Blom, however, seems oblivious to the pushback. “He constantly World’s Fair was one of hammered the administration with requests for a major fundraising Blom’s major triumphs. drive to erect his headquarters,” writes McVicker. significantly, Blom Below: Blom is seated at no longer travels to Mexico on expeditions, exchanging adventure the head of a table at the for what Brunhouse calls the “mundane details” of being a depart- real uxmal site. mental administrator.

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 29 perhaps as a consequence of all of the above, in the late ’30s, Blom’s If Blom didn’t understand that about himself during the first part of personal life begins to fall apart. His marriage ends in 1938. Alcohol, a his life, he gets it right in his later years. Blom spends the last 20 years companion he has always taken with him as “a stimulant” on expedi- of his life in Mexico, where he meets and marries the swiss photogra- tions, begins to play a larger role in his life, intersecting very badly with pher Gertrude (Trudi) Duby. The two purchase a house in san Cristóbal, the demands of his profession. where Blom continues his work as an archaeologist, making forays into Brunhouse reports several accounts of Blom’s unstable behavior the jungle, focusing on learning more about the Maya he so loved and during this time. In one story, the president of Tulane escorts establishing within his home a research center for visiting scholars. (No several important visitors to the department, intending to impress doubt a more wholesome and sane version of “Bumbay.”) them with its collection. Blom, who is absent from the office, hastily “He recovered his self control, found a faithful woman to help him, arrives “in a disheveled condition, with rumpled clothes and a two-day adopted a revised set of values,” writes Brun- growth of beard.” house, in succinct summary. Though the university finally allows Blom to begin fund-raising for Calling it a “dream of 25 years which came After Tulane his grand, temple-like headquarters, the detrimental effects of alcohol true,” Blom, after streaking across the sky of Blom spent his later thwart Blom’s ability to speak publicly and raise funds. early 20th century academia like a dying com- years living and By fall 1940, the university appears to have had enough of Blom and et, seems to have unearthed, tucked away in working in Mexico places him on an indefinite leave of absence from which he does not the central highlands of Mexico, the life he had with his wife Trudi. return. Without work and unable to find employment, Blom eventually previously been unsuccessful in finding. Below: Trudi snaps loses his personal possessions. “He cannot be fairly judged on his professional a photograph of her record alone,” writes Brunhouse. “He must be husband shortly after a dream come true judged as a man who came to terms with himself, he has fallen from “The years at Tulane brought his downfall,” writes Brunhouse, but it an ideal which many men fail to achieve.” his horse. would be unfair to end Blom’s story here, because while the arc of his tenure at Tulane represents a tragic fall from grace, it does not describe the entirety of his life. engaging in a bit of armchair psychology, Brunhouse speculates that Blom’s attraction to archaeology is based not on burning desire to be an archeologist, but rather an “emotional yearning” for adventure and the beauty of nature. The academy, however, involved Blom in the “intricacies of modern civilization” that required of him to play a game in which he was not fully invested. He had not bargained for the tiresome details of administrating a research institute and was far more at home in the forests and jungles than in his fourth floor office of the science building.

30 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE MARI collectIon enjoys new spAce

Founded in 1924, the Department of Middle American Research was renamed the Middle American Research Institute (MARI) in 1938. For nearly 90 years, the institute has supported research in Middle America. It stewards an extensive collection of textiles and artifacts from not only Mexico and Central America, but also the U.S. Southwest and South America, as well as houses an archive of letters, field notes, maps and photographs from the scores of field projects it has sponsored. After more than 80 years of existing in cramped quarters in the fourth-floor attic of Dinwiddie Hall, MARI is now housed in newly renovated space on the third floor. (The entirety of Dinwiddie Hall underwent extensive renovation in 2009–10). “Now that we have been moved to the third floor, we have more rational spaces that allow us to properly store and exhibit our collection,” says Marcello Canuto, director of MARI. The new space also better facilitates archiving and digitizing materials, as well as the preparation of publications. Still under construction, the institute’s exhibit space will come online early next year, in time for an exhibition of selected materials from MARI’s Maya collection. “MARI never has had a room dedicated to exhibit space,” says Canuto. “We are on the brink of what Frans Blom was trying to achieve 80 years ago.” Canuto also credits the Zemurray Foundation for funding that is supporting the completion of the renovation as well as opening opportunities for greater public outreach in the future. “We hope to make the collection more available to groups of students from area schools, as well as open it up for events for the Tulane community,” says Canuto. “We want to make it a place where people come and visit on a regular basis—a place where they can have a more vibrant engagement with our material.”—n.M.

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 31 LEGACY The Tulane Office of Alumni Affairs invited members of 305 “legacy” families to a luncheon this fall to celebrate incoming first-year students whose grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts or uncles attended Tulane.

TULANIANS Band Plays On The alumni band that assembles to play with the Tulane University Marching Band at homecoming is seeing a swell of participation from recent graduates. Among the more than 30 alumni who played with the band at this year’s homecoming were French horn players Neill Aguiluz (’09), Katy McPherson (’10), Nicolle Perez (’09) and Eric Wilder (’08, SSE ’09). Aguiluz, who conducts genetic research at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, said he enjoys the opportunity to get together with other former band members as well as witnessing the growth of the marching band. Following a 30-year hiatus, the Tulane University Marching Band was reestablished and poised for a return in 2005. Then, after Hurricane Katrina, the band made its public PAULA BURCH-CLEENTANO PAULA debut in 2006. “My freshman year was the first year the marching band officially played at football games and marched in Mardi Gras parades with new uniforms,” Aguiluz said. “When we did Mardi Gras in 2006, there were may- Coming Home be 25 members. Now there’s the Shockwave dance team and more than 70 members of Six years after it was damaged by the floodwaters of Hurricane Ka- the band.” trina, the venerable Alumni House on Willow Street was dedicated in Bea Field House Barry Spanier, director of bands, said, The Alumni House is memory of Beatrice McMillan Field (NC ’28, G ’42), longtime alum- “These alumni are amongst the most loyal restored and spruced up ni director. The dedication ceremony during homecoming weekend to the band program and the institution for reopening this fall. Six on Oct. 23 included a festive jazz brunch and reception. throughout their lives. The lessons learned years ago the building was “It’s been a long time coming, but it is well worth it,” says through the band experience are life lessons; severely damaged by Charlotte Travieso (NC ’64), executive director of the Tulane Hurricane Katrina flooding. and lifelong friendships and connection to Alumni Association and director of the Office of Alumni Affairs. the institution are forged.” Alumni affairs staff members, who had been displaced by the storm, Baton twirler Erica Andrew (’10), who is a moved back into the Alumni House a few weeks before the ceremony. Teach for America corps member in New York, The Bea Field Alumni House is poised to become a hub of activity also joined the current marching band twirler, for alumni, students, staff members and the community. “It is ideal Erin Ketterman, for the homecoming show. for different kinds of events, including receptions, weddings, confer- —F.S. ences and meetings,” says Travieso. The house was built in 1938 and purchased by Tulane in 1952. It was restored—and elevated—with funds from the Federal Emergen- cy Management Agency. “The house looks even grander now that it’s raised 50 inches above the ground,” says Travieso. The Collins C. Diboll Foundation has established an endowment to support the alumni affairs office and maintenance of the Alumni House. Jean (NC ’55) and Saul A. (A ’53) Mintz, through their family On FirE foundation, and other donors also contributed to this endowment. Erin Ketterman, Tulane University Bea Field served as alumni director from 1942 until 1977. She then Marching Band continued her service at Tulane as a special assistant to the presi- baton twirler, lights dent until her death in 1986. An oil portrait of Field hangs over the up the night. fireplace in the mahogany-paneled library and reception parlor of the house. —Fran Simon

32 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Dispatch Megan Boudreaux

WHERE Y’AT!

1940s GERALD BERENSON (A&S ’43, M ’45) announces the publication of Evolution of Cardio-Metabolic Risk From Birth to Middle Age: The Bogalusa Heart Study, by Springer, which tracks his research into the development of heart disease.

1950s ROBERT GREEN (A&S ’50, L ’56) was honored by the alumni chapter of the University of Mem- phis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law for his contributions to the law and to the community. Green is a retired captain and 30-year veteran of the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Emory University School of Law honored AARON L. BUCHSBAUM (B ’52) as a distinguished alumnus this fall.

JOHN PATRICK HANLEY (A&S ’56, M ’60) and his wife, Kay, practice pediatrics in the same office in Clearwater, Fla. After 50 years as a doctor, he enjoys teaching medical students who work in his office while on rotation.

PEDRO ANTONIO (A&S ’56) retired from civil service after 22 years in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he served as director of the Caribbean office. He is writing a book about Puerto Rico’s environmental movement.

1960s The Tulane Medical Alumni Association honored DALE JEANETTE PULLEN (M ’61) with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Pullen’s research has focused on the classification and treatment of childhood leukemia.

JERRY GREENBAUM (B ’62) and BARBARA AXEL- ROD GREENBAUM (NC ’63) opened Chophouse New Orleans, a downtown New Orleans restau- rant focusing on beef and Gulf and international seafood. The Greenbaums have three adult children, Gregory, Tracy and Jeffrey, and eight grandchildren. PAULA BURCH-CLEENTANO PAULA KATHERINE T. “BONNIE” SONIAT (NC ’64, G ’83) announces the publication of her fifth collection of poems, The Swing Girl, by Louisiana GUArDiAn AnGEL Moved by the plight of orphans and other vulnerable children in State University Press. Haiti, Megan Boudreaux (’08) has taken custody of two small girls, Michaelle and Jessica. They are among the hundreds of “restaveks,” Haitian children who have lost one or RONALD THOMAS ALONZO (A&S ’65) is relocating both parents and who must “reste avec”—stay with—other families. to New Orleans. Under the pen name Don A native of Lafayette, La., Boudreaux lives in Gressier, Haiti, where she established Merlot, he writes “Fly on the Wall” wine and the nonprofit organization Respire Haiti in October 2010. She says the organization is food articles for www.junto.blogspot.com. building a school for about 350 children in kindergarten through the eighth grade. Most restaveks are child slaves, says Boudreaux. “It is such a difficult and tricky The latest book by PATRICIA BRADY (NC ’65, G form of slavery. The children are given to or bought by families, and they spend all day ’66, ’77), A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love doing dishes, laundry, cooking, getting water, cleaning, whatever. However, because Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson, was pub- they are given a place to live and food, many Haitians say it is not slavery. The only way lished this year by Palgrave Macmillan. Brady to combat it is through education.” also wrote Martha Washington: An American Through Respire Haiti, children receive financial help and have the opportunity to Life (2005). She served as director of publica- go to school. The organization has two programs that feed about 350 children housed tions at the Historic New Orleans Collection for in a tent city near Gressier and nearly 300 other children staying on Bellevue Mountain 20 years. She lives in New Orleans. near the school. “After visiting Gressier in August of 2010 for only 45 minutes, I knew that there was President Barack Obama appointed URA JEAN a lot of work to be done there … and I realized that the person to do the work was me, OYEMADE BAILEY (G ’67, ’69) as a member of the initiating it and working with the community,” says Boudreaux.—Fran Simon President’s Advisory Committee on Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 33 ‘BrAvE DUCks’ A drama written by Andrew Belcher (TC ’06) about the aftermath of disaster was inspired by his experience working at a Red Cross shelter in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The play had its world premiere at the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival in August.

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in September. Bailey is a graduate professor is an attending neuroradiologist at Cincinnati earlier this year, will work in conjunction with of human development in the School of Edu- Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Entrepreneurship@Cornell to connect students cation at Howard University. She also directs with a network of leaders. Weiss is founder and the Center for Drug Abuse Research and chairs JOHN HARVEY CRAFT (A&S ’75, L ’79) was CEO of Dealtek. the Howard University Republic of South ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church this Africa Project. August and is priest-in-charge of the Church of DORIC CAPSIS (A&S ’84) received the Allen the Annunciation in New Orleans. Dawson Memorial Award from the Nassau WILLIAM R. FORRESTER JR. (L ’68) received the County, N.Y., Track Coaches Association this 2011 Louisiana Bar Foundation’s Curtis R. Bois- LOREN BUCKNER (SW ’76) draws on her personal spring for his contributions to the sport. Capsis fontaine Trial Advocacy Award for his devotion life and her career as a psychotherapist for her is Westbury Union Free School District director to excellence in trial practice and for upholding book, ParentWise: The Emotional Challenges of athletics, health and physical education. the standards of ethics. Forrester practices with of Family Life and How to Deal With Them. Capsis previously taught physical education and Lemle & Kelleher law firm in New Orleans. Buckner is a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel coached basketball and football in New York. and in private practice in Tampa, Fla. For more MICHAEL PARRINO (M ’68, PHTM ’72) has retired information, visit www.lorenbuckner.com. ROCHELLE HEAD-DUNHAM (M ’86) has been from private practice pediatrics and moved to named director of the Office for Behavioral Myrtle Beach, S.C. Earlier in his career, Parrino Texas Gov. Rick Perry appointed JAIME R. Health in the Louisiana Department of Health served three years active duty in the U.S. Army GARZA (A&S ’76) of San Antonio to the Texas and Hospitals. Head-Dunham also is clinical and 17 years in the reserves. Recently, Parrino State University System Board of Regents. Garza assistant professor of psychiatry at Tulane walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in pri- University Hospital and Clinics. vate practice and, among other appointments, FERDINAND J. SCHAFF JR. (UC ’68) and his wife a clinical professor at the University of Texas The Atlanta Basketball Host Committee an- relocated to West Monroe, La., where his son Health Science Center Department of Surgery. nounced that SHARON GOLDMACHER (NC ’86), lives, after Hurricane Katrina. Schaff previously president of Communications 21, will be execu- lived in New Orleans for 75 years, where he EMMETT B. CHAPITAL JR. (M ’78, B ’96) presented tive director of the Atlanta Local Organizing worked for Wesson Oil and Snowdrift Co. grand rounds at Louisiana State University– Committee for the 2013 NCAA Men’s Final Four. Shreveport this spring with a talk, “Closing the The Pakistan Cauldron by JAMES FARWELL (A&S Medical School Diversity Gap.” He was named EDOUARD FONTENOT (A&S ’87) is the senior ’69, L ’71), published by Potomac Books in Octo- one of New Orleans “Super Doctors” for 2011 and clinical consultant and clinical director for ber, explores the dynamics of Pakistan’s politics. received an “Unsung Hero” award from the Clout psychotherapy and psychological testing ser- Farwell is an expert in strategic communication Ministerial Alliance this summer. He also is vices at Commonwealth Psychology Associates, and has advised the U.S. Department of Defense president of the New Orleans Legatus chapter. which has offices throughout the Boston area. and U.S. Special Operations Command, among He lives with his spouse, Christopher Bellonci, other government agencies. Farwell is a gradu- THOMAS S. GUILLOT JR. (M ’79) and LYNN in Boston and in Truro, Mass. ate of the University of Cambridge, England. HENKEL GUILLOT (PHTM ’91) announce that He is now a senior research scholar at the Munk their daughter, Lori, received the Louisiana DiversityMBA Magazine listed VIPIN MAYAR School in the Canada Centre for Global Security State Medical Society Alliance Scholarship in (B ’88), executive vice president and global Studies at the University of Toronto. May. She is in the Tulane University School of director of marketing performance at McCann Medicine class of 2012. Worldgroup; SAMI MIETTINEN (B ’96), executive LOUIS STERN (A&S ’69) is chair of the Depart- director of Royal Bank of Scotland; LILY LE (B ment of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Winnie Aerial Roots by STEVE TOBIN (A&S ’79) is on ’98), executive vice president and chief market- Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in exhibit for four seasons in a seven-acre wild- ing officer with AEG Affiliated Energy Group; Orlando, Fla. flower meadow at the Grounds for Sculpture in ANNE ST. CLAIR (B ’01), private client manager Hamilton, N.J. at Bank of America; and ALEX HERNANDEZ 1970s (B ’03), founder and president of Hernandez RONALD W. BUSUTTIL (M ’71, G ’76) received 1980s Consulting, to the “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse the 2011 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and The Louisiana Department of Education Executive & Emerging Leaders” list. Immunology from the University of Pittsburgh named ANNA EDELMAN BOWIE (G ’80) Louisi- School of Medicine and the Thomas E. Starzl ana State Middle School/Junior High Principal WILLIAM D. DONOVAN (M ’89, PHTM ’89) was Transplantation Institute. Among other ap- of the Year for 2011–12. inducted as a fellow of the American College of pointments, he holds the William P. Longmire Radiology this spring. Donovan is chief of mag- Jr. Chair in Surgery and serves as the director JAN GILBERT (G ’82) and DEBRA HOWELL (G ’83) netic resonance imaging and neuroradiology at of the Dumont—University of California–Los displayed collaborative photo-based works William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn. Angeles Transplant and Liver Cancer Centers. in the VESTIGES/Trinitas Exhibition at the Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery in New Orleans Entrepreneurs DAVID DUBIN (A&S ’89) and RICK KINGREA (A&S ’71) opened the Alabama- this fall. The exhibition brought together art- ROBIN BETH DUBIN (NC ’89) announce the based mediation and arbitration firm Perry ists displaced by Hurricane Katrina. launch of two new business ventures: David Du- Dampf Kingrea Dispute Solutions. Kingrea is an bin’s return to voiceover work and a mail-order attorney and mediator living in Fairhope, Ala. LISA RICE (NC ’83) married Tom Thompson on ostomy business. David Dubin has survived July 3, 2011, in Annapolis, Md. She is the senior colon cancer twice as well as kidney cancer. The This past summer, DEBORAH LITTLE (G ’73) pub- director of political affairs at the National couple lives with their three boys, 16, 12 and 7, in lished Growing Up Little: Uptown New Orleans Retail Federation. She returned to the Tulane Haworth, N.J. Their blog can be found at www. and Rural Alabama, a memoir of her childhood campus in August to accompany her son, aliveandkickn.com. in the 1950s and ’60s. Thomas Lynch, for move-in weekend. THOMAS M. FLANAGAN (L ’89) was named in WILLIAM BALL (M ’75) was appointed University RHETT WEISS (B ’83) is executive director of the The Best Lawyers in America (2012) in the area of Cincinnati interim vice president for research Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute of of appellate law. New Orleans–based Flanagan this summer. He is a professor of radiology, the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Partners practices in commercial litigation, biomedical engineering and pediatrics. He also Management. The institute, which launched insurance coverage, construction and oil.

34 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE nOLA wEDDinGs Bruce Goldstein (A&S ’81) and his wife, Dale Rochkind, founded a destination wedding business called Streetcar Weddings after they married in New Orleans in 2010 rumbling along the iconic St. Charles line. They met 30 years after they both attended Tulane. The couple lives in Edgewater, N.J.

1990s welcomed a son, Boden Jefferson, on Feb. 3, Aug. 26, 2011. He joins his sister, Natalie, 3. The RICH COHEN (A&S ’90) appeared on “The Today 2009. Boden joins his sisters, Brighton Callen family resides in Huntington Bay, N.Y. Show” in August to discuss his third interview and Bentlee Kinna. with Angelina Jolie, which is featured on the SARA KUZIA COHEN (NC ’01) and her husband, cover of Vanity Fair’s October issue. Cohen is a CHRISTINA L. SISK (NC ’96, G ’99, ’04) announces Jason, announce the birth of twin boys, Reese contributing editor for that magazine and for the publication of her book, Mexico, Nation in and Noah, on March 19, 2011. The family lives in Rolling Stone. Transit: Contemporary Representations of Mexi- Maynard, Mass. can Migration to the United States, this fall. She CHARLES “CAM” MARSTON (A&S ’91) announces is an assistant professor in the Department of ANNA SHATTUCK THORNTON (NC ’01) and her the publication of his third book, Generational Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. husband, David, celebrated the birth of Lily Selling Tactics (J. W. Wiley & Sons). Marston Susannah on Aug. 3, 2011. writes columns for Business Alabama and KATIE WOLF MAHONEY (L ’97, PHTM ’99) is InvestmentNews. He and his wife, Lisa, live in executive director of health policy at the U.S. BRITTANY CONNOR (NC ’02) and her husband, Mobile, Ala., with their four children. Chamber of Commerce. Katie and her husband, Jason, welcomed Elodie Claire into the family Jason, live in Rockville, Md., with twin sons, on April 13, 2011. She joins big brother, Charlie. MICHAEL ROBERT MILLS (M ’91, PHTM ’91), a Ethan and Sam, 5, and daughter, Lyla, 3. The family resides in Erie, Colo., near Boulder. gastroenterologist, has built a practice of more than 50 doctors in Phoenix. He is founder and JASON C. NELSON (B ’97) relocated to Atlanta, ALEXI GIANNOULIAS (L ’02) was appointed chair medical director of Phoenix Endoscopy and a where he joined the law firm Mercer Thompson of the Illinois Community College Board by clinical assistant professor of medicine at the as a senior associate attorney. MT is an energy Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. Giannoulias will focus University of Arizona. Mills and his wife, Dena, boutique specializing in global corporate and on increasing graduation rates. He was Illinois celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary, and project financings, securities, mergers and ac- state treasurer from 2007 to 2011. their oldest son has headed off to college. They quisitions, and long-term service agreements. have two children still at home. RACHEL MEISEL RATCLIFFE (NC ’02) and MORGAN SCARLET SINGER PAOLICCHI (NC ’97) received a RATCLIFFE (B ’02) welcomed Sadie Rebekah on SHERWOOD NEISS (A&S ’91), a Miami Beach, Fla., StartUp Nation 2011 Leading Moms in Business July 8, 2011. entrepreneur, has won two Startup Weekend Award for her MomsWearYourTees.com social Miami challenges in the past year for the use media marketing business. Her website, Family- JOSHUA P. FERSHEE (L ’03) is associate dean for of smart phones for instant polling and for an FocusBlog.com, has been nominated for a Best academic affairs and research for the University equity-based crowdfunding platform. Neiss also All-Around Mom Blog at Parents.com. She is of North Dakota School of Law, where he has co-founded FLAVORx, a company that makes married to DANIEL PAOLICCHI (TC ’98). been since 2007. Fershee recently published ar- flavors for medicine. ticles in Harvard Journal on Legislation, Energy AARON ALLARDYCE (TC ’99) and JEANNE Law Journal and Environmental Law. KIMALA PRICE (NC ’92), an assistant professor of WILDHAGEN ALLARDYCE (NC ’00) announce the women’s studies at San Diego State University, birth of Evangeline Isobel on Aug. 9, 2011, in MATTHEW R. COLEMAN (UC ’04) and Noelle Ann was elected to the board of directors of Planned Stamford, Conn. The baby joins her older twin Campbell were married on Sept. 24, 2011, in Rye, Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. brothers, Graham and Lachlan. N.Y. Matt Coleman, a director of the Tulane Alumni Association, oversees intergovernmental ALPEN PATEL (A&S ’93) is an otolaryngologist in KATE MORRIS MITZENMACHER (B ’99) and DAN and political affairs for Anthony J. Santino, se- the Baltimore area, where he lives with his wife, MITZENMACHER (B ’99), along with big sister nior councilman of the Town of Hempstead, N.Y. Neelam, baby, Rohan, and dog, Emma. Layne Burkley, welcomed Bennett Preston on Noelle Coleman manages corporate communica- Jan. 8, 2011. The couple wed in 2005 in Lex- tions for Allied World Assurance Co. KEVIN J. WILLIAMS (B ’93) co-produced, with his ington, Ky. The family previously lived in San wife, Tamara, the documentary feature film, Francisco and has now relocated to Lexington. MINDY EZRA (E ’05) received her PhD in biomed- Fear of a Black Republican. The film had its ical engineering from Rutgers University this premiere this fall at the Kansas City Urban Film 2000s summer. She also has a master’s degree from Festival. To see the movie’s trailer, visit www. ALAN FEIGENBAUM (TC ’00) and TALIA NO- Columbia University. She has a postdoctoral fearofablackrepublican.com. CHUMSON (NC ’00) welcomed Nola Mae on June position in the Smith Neurotrauma Laboratory 6, 2011. She joins her brother, Jack, 3. Feigen- at the University of Pennsylvania. RYAN COLL (TC ’94) married Marianna Price baum is a matrimonial attorney at Kasowitz, on Aug. 31, 2011, in Chatham, Mass. JOSEPH T. Benson, Torres and Friedman in New York. PAM GILLETTE (PHTM ’06) is vice president of KELLEY III (TC ’93) was best man. The couple Nochumson is a technology specialist at the transplant services at Medical City Dallas. She has an 8-year-old son, William, and they reside Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York and in was previously transplant administrator of in Philadelphia. a doctoral program at Columbia University. Mayo Clinic Arizona and also served as director of the Tulane Transplant Center. DAVID JILG (G ’94), associate professor of ERIC FIELDS (TC ’00) and LESLIE RUBIN (NC ’00) theater, received the 2011 Jameson M. Jones married in Newport, R.I., on June 4, 2011. Leslie In Chicago, JON SIDER (B ’07) and his brother, Award for Outstanding Faculty Service at Fields works for the Baltimore City Circuit Mark, have developed a coconut, low-calorie, Rhodes College at the opening convocation Medical Office as a forensic social worker. Eric low-sugar sports drink, Greater > Than. For this August. Fields is assistant district general manager for more information, visit www.drinkgt.com. CORT Furniture in Washington, D.C. The couple JOHN STEPHEN TOLAND (A&S ’94), founding lives in Columbia, Md. DANA LYNN LEVITON (’08) received a JD degree principal of Toland Law Firm, announces the from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Hum- expansion of his practice to the newly formed SARA JOHANSON SABER (NC ’00), JOEL SABER phreys School of Law last December. Law Offices of Peek and Toland in Austin, (E ’00) and big sister Julia announce the birth of Texas, where the Toland family resides. The Nathaniel Rafe on Aug. 2, 2011. GREGORY ROME (L ’09) published his first book, firm specializes in federal and state criminal the Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary, along with defense, as well as immigration and deporta- HEATHER BELL BARON (NC ’01) and TODD BARON co-author Stephan Kinsella. Rome practices law tion defense. Toland and his wife, Debbie, (UC ’06) announce the birth of William Rhys on in Chalmette, La.

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 35 MATH wiZ Frank T. Birtel, university professor emeritus, died on Sept. 1, 2011. He was a professor of mathematics from 1962–1982, university provost from 1978–81, and university professor from 1982–2002, as well as director of the endowed Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies at Tulane.

FAREWELL

WILLIAM J. CURRY JR. (A&S ’35) of Metairie, La., DURELL A. HILLER JR. (A&S ’47) of Shreveport, DAN A. RUSSELL JR. (M ’51) of San Antonio on May on Aug. 2, 2011. La., on July 12, 2011. 26, 2011.

C. MANLY HORTON JR. (A&S ’36, L ’38) of New TOM D. NORMAN (M ’47) of Ashland, La., on ARNOLD C. SANCHEZ (A&S ’51) of Fullerton, Calif., Orleans on Sept. 1, 2011. June 22, 2011. on June 26, 2011.

CHARLES I. CRAIS (E ’38) of Monteagle, Tenn., on HARRY J. BATT JR. (B ’48) of Metairie, La., on EDWARD J. BONDURANT (A ’52) of Vestavia Hills, July 27, 2011. Sept. 18, 2011. Ala., on July 10, 2010.

ARTHUR P. LAUBENGAYER (A&S ’38) of St. Louis RAYMOND A. SCHWARZ (A&S ’48) of Carriere, RAUL A. GUEVARA (M ’52) of LaPlace, La., on on March 4, 2010. Miss., on Sept. 25, 2011. July 6, 2011.

ANN KOSTMAYER BRADBURN (NC ’39) of New JOHN E. THIBAUT (A&S ’48) of Napoeonville, La., JOHN D. HALLARON (UC ’52) of Conroe, Texas, on Orleans on July 26, 2011. on Sept. 9, 2011. Sept. 22, 2011.

MILDRED L. BUERKLE (B ’40) of Houston on GERALD F. VILLARS (A&S ’48) of Mandeville, La., ALBERT F. STRATTON JR. (M ’52) of Cocoa, Fla., on July 18, 2011. on July 19, 2011. July 22, 2011.

HOWARD B. GIST JR. (A&S ’41, L ’43) of Alexandria, CHARLES R. SANG (B ’49) of Lisle, Ill., on Aug. SAM STRAUSS JR. (B ’52) of Little Rock, Ark., on Va., on Aug. 22, 2011. 23, 2011. Aug. 25, 2011.

EDITH P. MALONEY (UC ’41) of Kenner, La., on DAVID E. STEVENS SR. (E ’49) of Macon, Ga., on EARL E. FERGUSON JR. (B ’53) of Slidell, La., on Aug. 22, 2010. Sept. 22, 2011. July 13, 2011.

THOMAS B. LOCKETT (E ’42) of New Orleans on FRANCIS WAGUESPACK JR. (A&S ’49) of Vacherie, FRANK J. STASS (B ’53) of Metairie, La., on Aug. 11, 2011. La., on Sept. 4, 2011. June 27, 2011.

MERCEDES G. MANIERI (UC ’42) of New Orleans on BERNARD P. ABADIE JR. (A&S ’50) of Westwego, RICHARD H. STEELE (G ’53) of Waynesville, N.C., July 29, 2011. La., on Aug. 19, 2011. on Sept. 26, 2011.

MARGARET WIEDORN BRIDWELL (A&S ’43) of GEORGE A. BRUMFIELD (B ’50) of Ocean Springs, AARON ROSEN (A&S ’54) of Richmond, Va., on Columbia, Md., on Sept. 18, 2011. Miss., on July 27, 2011. Aug. 2, 2011.

FREDERICK J. CORALES (B ’43) of Covington, La., CARL W. ELLER JR. (E ’50) of Hendersonville, La., CHARLES A. REESE SR. (E ’55) of New Orleans on on July 16, 2011. on Aug. 15, 2011. Sept. 3, 2011.

HARRY N. GRAUBARTH (A&S ’43, M ’45) of Her- WILDA HAGSTETTE MARTINEZ (NC ’50) of Abita WILLIAM J. ATKINS (A&S ’56) of Colorado Springs, nando, Fla., on Nov. 18, 2010. Springs, La., on July 24, 2011. Colo., on July 23, 2011.

MARGARET JOACHIM LECORGNE (NC ’43) of ROBERT F. WHITMAN (A&S ’50) of Metairie, La., GERARD T. GELPI (A&S ’56, L ’58) of Bay St. Louis, Covington, La., on Aug. 24, 2011. on Aug. 8, 2011. Miss., on Sept. 16, 2011.

FRED J. SCHUBER JR. (B ’43) of New Orleans on WILLIAM H. WOODWARD (A ’50) of Moss Bluff, La., SALVATORE E. PANZECA (B ’56, L ’59) of New July 15, 2011. on Aug. 25, 2011. Orleans on July 5, 2011.

ROBERT H. WEGENER (A&S ’43) of New Orleans on THURMAN E. BRANDON JR. (M ’51) of Tuscaloosa, NOLAN J. PARRENIN JR. (A&S ’56) of Jackson, La., Aug. 2, 2011. Ala., on June 19, 2010. on June 10, 2011.

RUTH M. CALZADA (NC ’44) of New Orleans on WILLIAM P. CAGLE III (M ’51) of Los Angeles on CLEVELAND TURNER JR. (M ’56) of Amarillo, Aug. 22, 2011. March 27, 2010. Texas, on Aug. 19, 2010.

L. P. PASQUIER (E ’44) of Oak Ridge, Tenn., on DAVID R. CARROLL (A&S ’51) of Shreveport, La., on RAYMOND M. WILENZICK (A&S ’56) of Atlanta on July 7, 2011. July 25, 2011. July 25, 2011.

LOUIS A. BEECHERL JR. (A&S ’45) of Dallas on JAMES R. GAMBLE JR. (SW ’51) of San Antonio on MATTHEW COHEN (M ’57) of Granada Hills, Calif., July 5, 2011. May 6, 2011. on June 19, 2010.

ROBERT O. HARRIS III (M ’45) of Mobile, Ala., on CLAIRE R. GIOVENGO (A&S ’51) of Marrero, La., on GERALDINE A. FELL (SW ’57) of Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 11, 2010. Sept. 12, 2011. on Aug. 15, 2011.

JONNIE HORN MCLEOD (NC ’45, M ’49) of Char- HAROLD G. GRAHAM JR. (A&S ’51, L ’54) of Bir- MAUDE FLANAGAN SALSICCIA (NC ’57) of Ham- lotte, N.C., on July 19, 2011. mingham, Ala., on June 16, 2011. mond, La., on Aug. 6, 2011.

OLIVE WISE PAULUS (NC ’45) of Little Rock, Ark., DOUGLAS J. JOUBERT SR. (A&S ’51) of River Ridge, RONALD E. LEMMONS (M ’58) of Loyola Beach, on Aug. 8, 2011. La., on March 1, 2011. Texas, on April 11, 2011.

EVELYN CRAIS THOMAS (NC ’46) of Ann Arbor, CHARLES E. LUGENBUHL (L ’51) of Covington, La., JAMES F. MULLA JR. (A&S ’58) of New Orleans on Mich., on July 22, 2011. on Aug. 14, 2011. Feb. 17, 2011.

AGNES IANNAZZO WEBER (NC ’46) of Metairie, La., PATRICIA ADAMS NICKELL (NC ’51) of Sarasota, CHARLES E. SAUCIER (A&S ’58) of Alexandria, La., on Aug. 18, 2011. Fla., on Sept. 26, 2011. on Aug. 5, 2011.

36 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE Tribute Marguerite Bougere

CARL M. CORBIN SR. (UC ’59) of New Orleans on OnCE UPOn A LAP Marguerite Aug. 19, 2011. Bondy Bougere (NC ’40, G ’60) died in New Orleans on June THOMAS F. PARKER (A&S ’60, G ’61) of San Jose, 29, 2011. In 1976, she taught her Calif., on June 12, 2011. education students, including me, the “Lap Method” of JAMES C. QUEEN (SW ’60) of Winston, N.C., on June 28, 2011. reading. “You put a child on your lap and read aloud,” she C. WINTER GIDDINGS (SW ’61) of Valdosta, Ga., on said in her honeyed drawl, “and June 13, 2011. that child will want to read and grow up loving books.” I knew GERALD E. RUSSELL (SW ’62) of Leesville, La., on then that this brilliant teacher’s July 1, 2011. simple statement was backed by countless studies. I didn’t FRANK L. SETLIFF (G ’62, ’66) of Little Rock, Ark., know her words would define on July 31, 2011. my future, guide me through raising my children and lead me ROBERT F. BAUER (A&S ’63) of West Chester, Pa., on July 30, 2011. to teach and write. Reading aloud is central to NANCY KERR EUSTIS (NC ’65) of Baton Rouge, my teaching. Like Marguerite La., on Aug. 2, 2011. Bougere, I experience how students of all ages listen mes- HOWARD N. HENRIQUES (UC ’65) of New Orleans merized to a powerful story and on Aug. 3, 2011. are transformed into thoughtful, imaginative learners. One NICHOLAS SAURO (SW ’65) of Brainerd, Minn., on powerful picture book can turn Sept. 15, 2011. a crazy, discordant classroom MOLLYNE KARNOFSKY (B ’66, G ’72) of New York into a community of readers. on May 20, 2011. I think of her often as I write children’s book columns, hop- ARCHiv Es

DOROTHY MOSER MEDLIN (G ’66) of Rock Hill, y ing to spread the love of books S.C., on July 30, 2011. that she nurtured in me.

UNivERsi T —Susie Wilde (NC ’74, G ’76) SUSAN MARLAND COCHRAN (NC ’67) of Fortson, is a children’s book specialist in Ga., on July 14, 2011. TULANE Chapel Hill, N.C. ROBERT J. LINDLEY (E ’67) of Landing, N.J., on June 20, 2010.

RAYMOND E. LUCAS JR. (G ’67) of Fleetwood, Pa., W. DAVID SUTTLES (B ’75) of Marietta, Ga., on VANCE E. WATSON (E ’81) of Arlington, Va., on on May 6, 2011. July 16, 2011. Sept. 11, 2011. LISA G. MATTHEWS (NC ’76) of Shelbyville, Ky., on REYNOLD DAN BROUSSARD (G ’83) of Abbeville, JO GWIN SHELBY (NC ’69) of New Orleans on La, on Sept. 19, 2011. Aug. 29, 2011. June 14, 2011. FRANCIS E. MORRISSEY JR. (B ’76) of Bennington, LAWRENCE A. STEMPEL (A&S ’84) of Weston, Fla., JOHN P. BOYLE (SW ’70) of Easton, Md., on on July 1, 2011. Aug. 8, 2011. Vt., on Aug. 15, 2011. SHANNON WILLIAMS BENNETT (NC ’85) of Mari- HAROLD A. FULLER (A&S ’71) of Quincy, Mass., on MARYRUTH VOLLSTEDT (NC ’76, L ’84) of Falls etta, Ga., on Sept. 18, 2011. March 28, 2011. Church, Va., on July 5, 2011. GERALD J. SHIELDS SR. (UC ’85) of New Orleans HOWARD A. GRENIER (A&S ’71) of New Orleans on EDDIE L. ANDERSON JR. (A&S ’78) of Baton Rouge, on Sept. 6, 2011. Aug. 1, 2011. La., on Aug. 19, 2011. MICHELLE HORNAK TRAUB (NC ’86) of Leander, Texas, on July 20, 2011. MAY WELLS JONES (G ’72) of Asheville, N.C., on PETER ISAAC BORNSTEIN (A&S ’80) of Ridgefield, Conn., on May 19, 2011. Nov. 30, 2010. CHARLES W. KREHER IV (SW ’87) of New Orleans on Aug. 18, 2011. LOUIS J. ST. MARTIN (UC ’72) of Raceland, La., on HOLMES KOECHI HARRISON (SW ’80) of Coving- Aug. 21, 2011. ton, La., on July 28, 2011. VAN B. MATHEWS (L ’87) of Franklin, La., on Aug. 31, 2011. NANCY HERMAN PLANCHARD (NC ’73) of Shreve- MICHAEL L. McALLISTER (B ’80) of Dallas on port, La., on Aug. 12, 2011. Aug. 28, 2011. MICHAEL S. CESSNA (L ’88) of Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 13, 2011. MARJORIE McGANN ROBINS (UC ’74) of Stamford, CAROL HURST DEUTSCH (SW ’81) of New Orleans DENISE M. HARVEY (G ’91) of Knoxville, Tenn., on Conn., on July 18, 2011. on Aug. 4, 2011. June 17, 2011. MARION HARRANG ROY (G ’74) of New Orleans on JOHN L. LOPER (UC ’81) of West Monroe, La., on SUSAN J. LANDRY (UC ’92, PHTM ’99) of New July 1, 2011. Feb. 15, 2011. Orleans on Sept. 27, 2011.

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 37 LandscapEd campus Gardens, bike paths and walk- ways lined with indigenous trees are among uptown campus landscaping and construction projects funded by donors and completed within the past six months.

TULANE EMPOWERS Quiet Man, Resounding Legacy

During his life, Logan Wickliffe Cary had an abiding love for college athletics. But no one who knew him imagined that he would advance a generation of Green Wave competi- tion through a major gift to Tulane athletics. “I knew Wick as another avid fan in the stands who was passionate about sports at hardee madison courtesy Tulane and beyond,” said Tulane athletics director Rick Dickson. “I had no idea he would do something of this magnitude.” In his will, “Wick” Cary, who died in 2009, left one-sixth of his estate as an unrestricted Legal gift to Tulane. The university has received $3.5 million to date. Jack Thompson (L ’51), Cary’s financial adviser and close friend of 40 years, was as Experience surprised as anyone by the extent of Cary’s holdings and his generous will. Third-year law student Madison Hardee worked as an extern at a nonprof- Law and Service From a prominent family that included it in Tanzania helping with the legal representation of women. Second- Third-year Tulane law former governors of Kentucky and Louisi- year law student Marcus Gatto spent his summer researching Brazilian student Madison Hardee ana, Cary made his home in New Orleans environmental issues for a nonprofit think tank in Rio de Janeiro. Closer to poses with attorney and had a successful career in the oil and home, Robert Hohne helped the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office Benjamin Kalume of the gas industry. By all accounts, he was an in the major offenses/trials unit. Women’s Legal Aid Center unassuming, quiet man. Those are just a few examples of the unpaid, yet invaluable, extern- in Tanzania. Hardee par- His favorite Green Wave teams were base- ships completed by more than 180 Tulane law students this summer. The ticipated in an externship at the WLAC this year. She ball and volleyball, and he often attended externships are part of a new program to place students with nonprofits, says that the experience games. Cary was a longtime season ticket governmental and nongovernmental agencies to expose budding lawyers reaffirmed her enthusiasm holder for multiple sports at several institu- to life in a legal setting with a public service goal. The externship program is for building a legal career a top priority for a law school with a strong public service tradition. tions, and he rarely left home without a sports representing underserved schedule tucked into his shirt pocket. He kept “It’s experiential learning at its best,” says Julie Jackson, assistant dean populations. careful statistics on a host of teams throughout for public interest programs at Tulane Law School. “Our students are work- the region and in his native state of Oklahoma. ing under the supervision of an experienced attorney in the field setting, Cary’s gift will be used to support Tu- while receiving guidance from the TLS faculty externship supervisor.” lane athletics and fund the completion of Hardee will never forget her experience in Dar es Salaam, a province the new Hertz Center, the on-campus train- of Tanzania. “I came to realize that even the most underfunded public ing facility for basketball and volleyball interest organizations in the U.S. are very privileged. In Tanzania I was that opened this fall. One of the center’s surrounded by individuals dedicated to promoting social justice despite two practice courts will be named Cary all the barriers working against them. Their commitment was inspiring Court in his honor. “He valued the role of and reaffirmed my enthusiasm for representing underserved popula- collegiate play in athletics,” said Yvette tions in my legal career.” Jones, executive vice president for univer- Tulane Law School is seeking funds to build a lasting foundation sity relations and development at Tulane. for the externship program. For more information, contact Shannon “This is truly an astounding planned gift.” Woodward, senior director of development, at [email protected]. —Michael Ramos —Mary Mouton

38 FALL 2011 TULANE MAGAZINE The Ledger Fiscal Quarter End, 9-30-11

“Donna and I have always had a keen interest Helluva in education and, more specifically, what a top-flight research institution can do for the economic well-being of our community.” Hullabaloo —Paul Flower, E ’75 The Helluva Hullabaloo Auction and Party raised ______more than half a million dollars on Oct. 21 and Paul Flower made the $1 million naming gift for the $7.4 million Donna and through its online Charitybuzz.com counter- Paul Flower Hall for Research and Innovation, which will replace the part, breaking a previous fund-raising record for a homecoming event that supports Tulane Taylor Laboratory building on the uptown campus. Flower Hall will open student-athletes and their achievements on in fall 2012 as a four-story, 24,000-square-foot facility with 15 research and off the playing field. laboratories as well as office space and student study areas. The live auction at the Lavin-Bernick Center drew hundreds of bidders, while a combined 2,500 participants contributed as sponsors, donors and attendees. courtesy madison hardee madison courtesy “The success of this event is a credit to our “Tulane made me a socially interactive person, co-chairs, our volunteers and the many people who support a special group—our Tulane somebody who wanted to give back. Tulane gave me student-athletes,” said Luann Dozier, a Tu- a full scholarship that I never forgot, and there’s lane vice president for development. Co-chairs nothing I wouldn’t do for the school.” of the Helluva Hullabaloo auction were Jill (NC ’85) and Avie Glazer and Maria and —Matt Gorson, A&S ’70 Andrew (L ’94) Wisdom. ______The auction supports programs such as the The Gorson Porch of the Lavin-Bernick Center is named for Devlin Student-Athletes for Education Center Matt Gorson. He also contributed funds for the Gorson Family Gathering for Leadership Development, established by Gardens around the perimeter of the LBC Quad. Dedicated in September, the Kate and Bob (A&S ’64) Devlin. Through the S-AFE Center, Tulane student- garden project includes lighting, benches, plantings and a bike rack. athletes have the opportunity to develop leadership skills and reach out to children in the THE GOaL $100 million is the total goal for community in programs such as Wave Days, the Tulane Empowers campaign. $ Youth Ticket Initiative, Shadow-a-Student-Athlete 46.2 46% Day and the NFL-affiliated Youth Impact Program. mILLIOn of Goal THE TaLLY As of Sept. 30, 2011, the campaign raised, to date Devonta Duncan, 13, is among the hun- had received $46.2 million toward the total goal. dreds of New Orleans public school students money raised who spent time on campus with Tulane student-athletes during the past year. Duncan, TO THE pEOpLE For endowed 45% $ scholarships, fellowships, a student at Samuel J. Green School, said the of Goal student-athletes encouraged him to focus on 22.4 mILLIOn chairs and professorships. raised, to date attaining a college education. “They gave us a different view of how college is,” he said. Phillip Davis is a former Tulane student- TO BuILdInG cOmmunITIEs 49% $ and nEW IdEas In support of athlete who participated in the four-week NFL of Goal 21.9 mILLIOn faculty and student initiatives Youth Impact Program this past spring. In Au- raised, to date with our community partners. gust, Davis, a cornerback, signed a three-year contract with the NFL San Francisco 49ers but he says one of the best experiences of his life was $ TO THE TuLanE Fund To support emerging campaign interacting with young students like Duncan and 38% 1.91 initiatives across all schools of Goal mILLIOn encouraging them to channel their dedication to raised, to date and disciplines. sports into motivation to do well in school. Davis also picked up some useful coaching TuLanE EmpOWERs is a philosophy of learning that will define Tulane University for = $5 million generations. The true value of community engagement is that it benefits the giver as tips. “You have to give each one special atten- much, if not more, than the recipient. tion,” he said. —Kimberly Krupa

TULANE MAGAZINE FALL 2011 39 qUANdArY Each spring for more than 40 years, Tulane students have shared a common dilemma: “Should I study for final exams or should I go to the Jazz Fest?”

NEW ORLEANS

In the mid-’70s, the daily paper’s entertainment section contained no listings for music clubs. On a recent Friday, I opened the paper and counted 129 places to hear live music. Compared to yesteryear, the options now are mind boggling. “This city has a culture of bars,” says Connie Atkinson of the University of New Orleans, who teaches a History of New Orleans Music course. Atkinson calls my attention to Le Bon Temps Roule on Magazine Street, a neighborhood bar that seems to always have a band playing in the corner. “If you don’t have a bar,” she says, “it’s hard to put a band in a corner.” The booming Rock ’n’ Bowl, which features Tulane University’s 18 bowling lanes, as well as a bar and a stage, • Make an annual Tulane Fund gift of may be the town’s zaniest venue. to any school, college or select Premier Gift Recognition Program “Orleanians enjoy being distinctive in a nondistinct nation,” says Atkinson. “They en- program to join. joy saying, ‘We’re different—we have music in • Tulane couples are recognized for their Thank you to the members of the 2010-11 Tulane Associates. a bowling alley. Come see.” combined gifts. Your support allows Tulane to set the standard for the next There are many factors for the growth of the music scene, but Atkinson identifies one of • Employer matching gifts count generation of universities. We invite you to view the 2010-11 Tulane them as the mid-1980s oil bust. During the ’70s towards membership. Associates Honor Roll at http://tulane.edu/giving/honoring-donors.cfm. offshore oil boom, she says, the city tourism initiatives focused mainly on convention trade, • Enjoy dual membership in other gift robert guthrie robert not individual tourists. recognition programs, such as the 1834 If you are not yet a Tulane Associates member, please join us today. “New Orleans once spent less on tourism than Utah,” says Atkinson. “Music was some- Society, Aldrich Society, Law Fellows, Unrestricted leadership gifts to the school, college or select A Band in Every Corner what looked on as anti-business. But with the Coach’s Corner, Architecture Circle, program of your choice support scholarships, research, technology, loss of the oil scene it was: ‘What can we do Science and Engineering Leadership by Angus Lind to bring in jobs? What else do we have?’ The community outreach and more, creating and sustaining opportunities answer was, duh, we can sell music—not to Circle and Liberal Arts Leadership Circle. that would otherwise not be possible. It’s Friday night at Rock ’n’ Bowl on Carrollton Avenue and trumpeter All AboArd mention food—which brings in tourists, which • Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers are playing to a packed house. Whether playing in a in turn creates jobs.” neighborhood bar or Ruffins never plays to small crowds—his talent, coupled with his on a festival stage, New The clubs that already existed, like Tipitina’s can join by donating $150 for each enthusiastic fun-loving attitude and smile, his ever-present fedora and Orleans musicians keep and Snug Harbor, became more savvy about ad- Call TroyLynne Perrault, Director of the Tulane Fund, Regional the beat of the city. year since your most recent year of bandana, his nearby cache of Bud Light and his nonstop chatter, make vertising. The youth culture that had followed Development and Associates at 504-247-1473. Or visit us online: this showman a citywide favorite. groups like The Radiators grew older but clung graduation. “All aboard!” he shouts. That is his trademark line. Then he breaks to the lifestyle of hanging out in clubs. into “Drop Me Off in New Orleans,” my wife’s favorite song and one that Then there is the springtime New Orleans always causes her to turn the nearest napkin into a handkerchief to wave Jazz and Heritage Festival, now in its 42nd as she hits the dance floor—the place where everybody in New Orleans year. Held at the fairgrounds, it drew more than seemingly gets together. 400,000 people in 2011. And beyond the fair- Associates Gift Clubs “If you’re down and out and feel there’s no way out, get dropped off in grounds, during the two weeks that surround Noo Or-leeens,” sings Ruffins. Jazz Fest, about 30 music venues pop up at Pillars of Tulane Hanging on the wall behind the stage are metal sculptures of clubs and halls around town every year. Johnny Adams, Eddie Bo, Snooks Eaglin and Ernie K-Doe, four New And during the other 50 weeks of the year, Founders’ Club Tommy Meehan (SSE ’83) Orleans music legends who played this venue. Nearby is a painted well, let’s just say, it’s almost easier to find an President’s Club mural of beloved jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, who celebrated his anvil that will float than a weekend where there Chair, Associates Board of Directors 80th birthday here in 2010. isn’t some sort of festival with music. Provost’s Club Back when I was a Tulane student in the 1960s (so long ago the Dead The more people hear local musicians, the Sea was merely sick) there were only a smattering of non-jazz clubs, most more the word gets out about them—and ev- Deans’ Club memorably La Casa de los Marinos, a rough-and-tumble Latin seaman’s erything else about the city that is so charming. University Club bar at Toulouse and Decatur streets and the seedy Acy’s Hoedown, a pool It’s not rocket science—it’s just great mu- hall on Sophie Wright Place that featured country music. sic—and it’s everywhere.

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