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He also was chief financial officer of Baker Hughes Solutions in Houston in the late s. Pastorek is an attorney and was associated with the law firm of Adams and Reese for more than 27 years as a partner, litigator, and corporate attorney. From to , he was a member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and was elected to three consecutive terms as board president from to In he was appointed to the position of Louisiana State Superintendent of Education and served two consecutive terms.
Pastorek received both his undergraduate and juris doctorate degrees from Loyola University New Orleans. He is married to Kathy and has three children, Ryan, Jeffrey, and Kaitlin. She counsels and represents parties seeking annulments in these dioceses. She is a graduate of Loyola University, where she received her B. She then enrolled at the University of London and completed coursework for her M.
She also worked for five years as the head of the Counseling Department of Charity Hospital School of Nursing, where she taught general psychology and growth and development. She also sits on the Board of the Gisevius Foundation, which was founded by her father, who attributed all of his success to his education at Loyola.
She has been married to her husband, Dr. Roland Waguespack, for 46 years, and they have three children and eight grandchildren. During and early , campus tours were steady, applications were at a record high, and there was little reason to believe the university would not hit its goal of first-year students.
Thanks to high retention rates and good enrollment results for the College of. Law and graduate programs, when all was said and done, overall fall enrollment was only down less than five percent, and the high quality of students was maintained across all programs.
The essence of what makes Loyola Loyola — our commitment to students, our Jesuit traditions, our diversity, our sense of community — is unchanged by the number of students we have on campus. Further options for absorbing the deficit, Wildes says, include voluntary severance packages and the possibility of salary and fringe benefit reductions for faculty and staff, with layoffs as an absolute last resort. As of right now, it is too soon to tell what options will be necessary because it is not yet clear how many employees will opt to take voluntary.
Marc Manganaro, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, says. The faculty, staff, and alumni were very eager, too, and it really helped. They have a wonderful academic profile, and their energy is terrific.
The Office of Institutional And I really value the diversity of the university — faculty, staff, and students. Sixty-four percent of students are from out of state, and 61 percent are female. In addition to its cultural diversity, the class is strong academically, with an average GPA of 3. The class might be smaller than anticipated, but even if the size of the student body has declined, the overall quality of the students absolutely has not.
Being from New York City myself, I wanted to explore other parts of the country that would help me understand it more while leaving the things I knew so I could find new things to love. Loyola in itself is a place where an eclectic assortment of people from all over have come to further understand the world we live in, and to add to the mixing pot just seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up.
The sheer amount of raw talent here is already hard to comprehend. The energy here is so great. Not only that, but the people who attend and run the school here are all very knowledgeable and have found that special thing that makes learning exciting.
Endia Bush, Class of , College of Business One of the most appealing factors about Loyola that stood out to me is the small student-to-teacher ratio. I truly believe that there is such great value in having an extensive opportunity to develop and maintain a relationship with my professors. They not only have the opportunity to get to know Endia the student but Endia the person, as well, which merely accentuates the benefit of having the smaller campus experience.
I know that choosing Loyola is one of the best decisions I have made in my entire life. I am truly thankful to be a part of such an amazing community!
Kate Hinnant, Class of , College of Social Sciences Loyola was the only small school I applied to — and I decided I wanted smaller classrooms instead of a state school experience with big lecture classes. Also, New Orleans is a great city, and there are a lot of opportunities that not only the school but also the city provide. Alyssa Mercado, Class of , College of Humanities and Natural Sciences Loyola offers a generous amount of financial aid, which was definitely a factor in my decision to come here.
I am definitely happy I chose Loyola. The history department has shaped me into a true historian in the past four years and has helped me become who I am today. Around the World Senior Dimitri Staszewski is proof that at Loyola, the world really is our classroom.
More than half of the Mongolian population has already shifted away from traditionally nomadic lifestyles, according to Staszewski. After a sophomore semester backpacking throughout the southwest United States, Staszewski began exploring the idea of how people not only choose to live but actually do live throughout the world.
One year and hours of research later, the California native embarked on his journey to Mongolia. The most memorable moments happened when he was recording their musical performances.
His original notion of creating a documentary, however, has changed. While there, he would create an extensive online archive of performances and written narratives about Mongolian herders and former herders. Peer mentors for First in the Pack play a huge role in student success and retention.
Today, he is a successful wealth manager working at a boutique firm in New Orleans. Having come up through the Executive Mentor ranks, White Program organizers believe giving and receiving mentorship can help students carry out Jesuit values and influence future generations. Faculty and staff say more students are pursuing the mentor route as an opportunity to give back to the community at large and to their peers at Loyola.
Meanwhile, students in the mentee role have come to rely on these programs to gain a leg up in their fields before heading out to the professional world. Executive Mentor is one of the longest-running programs of its kind. For the past decade, the program has given business students such as White the opportunity to shadow local business leaders at the outset of college. Developed by Michelle K. Johnston, Ph.
Each firstyear student is assigned to a mentor who schedules off-campus outings throughout the year to help the students see businesses in action. The program was the brainchild of Laura Murphy, Ph.
The program partners each student with a peer mentor, as well as a faculty or staff member. First in the Pack puts on monthly focus dialogue lunches and holds nighttime programs for students and mentors to attend. Already, the program is showing signs of success.
In , the College of Business folded Executive Mentor For the past two years, Loyola has participated in the into its in-house career development program, Portfolio. In January , the offices of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management launched First in the Pack to lend support to students in the challenging position of being the first people in their families to attend college.
First-generation students usually make up 25 percent to 30 percent of each class. The fellowships take place over the course of one academic year and one summer in which students work on a collaborative project, receive one-on-one mentoring from Student Affairs professionals, and take part in national internships and conferences.
Since starting with one fellow in its first year, the program has expanded to six fellows last year and five this year. One of the 12 ideals of a Jesuit education is to provide special concern to the poor and oppressed. Ricardo Marquez leads a First in the Pack group in a schools.
A full list of Service Learning ipants for four-hour math and science sessions every other partner agencies is available at www. Alcazar points out that violence has been completely help students better themselves. Although these programs last absent from PRIEMMANS, despite the fact that many of the only a semester, many students go on to do more volunteer students have been exposed to it in their communities.
Through his mentoring efforts, White helped one of the students he met last year get an internship with his firm — an outcome that likely never would have happened without the Executive Mentor program.
He believes mentoring can change that. Loyola University New Orleans unveiled a new Wolf Pack logo to kick off the athletics season. The free event, held on the Peace Quad, featured music, food, giveaways, and a special appearance by Havoc. The logo replaces the Wolf Pack logo that has been used since and was a joint effort that included representatives from the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Institu Trombatore did not let his coach, John C.
The Loyola Wolf Pack won 51—45, and thus the program earned its unprecedented Dixie Conference title. He was selected for all-conference honors. He was growing into a star who made winning a habit. And he was becoming a cornerstone around whom Orsley and Loyola could build a championship basketball team—or so the school and coach thought.
Aloysius, to the state championship in Then, as a college rookie, he rapidly became the second-highest scorer on a fourteen-win Wolf Pack, contributing to victories over schools such as Millsaps, Howard now known as Samford , Spring Hill and various colleges in the state of Louisiana. He could fake a defensive man out of his sneakers. And he did it with the grace of a ballet dancer.
More people than you could count fell because of his fakes. By virtue its excellent record, Loyola original chorus lyrics of could fairly claim it was the champion of its conference a consecutive year.
We hail your courage born of old, Basketball officials noticed, and they invited Loyola Fight! The Wolf Pack certainly have loved to go, espesquarely play the game, would cially since Loyola had never We know that you go in, been asked to participate in the tournament.
Make a were called to active service with the U. Army Air Corps boast! For the men! Chapman, S. Williams, J. When the —44 season arrived, the draft board had. And because of that, he was as dominant as ever as Loyola vied for the New Orleans Senior Amateur Athletic Union title, facing teams from local recreational clubs and military facilities.
Of course, that means all of Kingsley House outscored Trombatore by a scant three points on that occasion. Loyola finished with a 21—3 record and won the Senior AAU league the Wolf Pack competed there because its normal conference had suspended play due to the war. Trombatore scored points despite missing five games due to a sprained ankle. Otherwise, he would have undoubtedly tallied more than points, a vast figure for a basketball player in those days.
With his scoring average of Now, there was no telling whether Trombatore would ever play basketball for Loyola again, or whether he would come back to New Orleans at all. The dream of building a championship team around Trombatore was over.
Marine Corps sergeant who was sent to fight in the Pacific. At sunrise, he charged into blankets of machine gun and artillery fire unleashed by the Japanese. Butt, S. Cuccia recounted how the inhabitants of a land that became poorer and more desolate each day the war raged—a land far from New Orleans—were ready to give what little they possessed to American marines hailing from places they probably had never heard of.
On the way down, Filipinos throw bananas into our trucks. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Butler, a Loyola graduate, spent fifteen days fighting against some of the twenty-two thousand Japanese soldiers defending the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. The fifteenth day took him to the front lines on a matter. As the eleven-year marine veteran headed back toward headquarters, a Japanese mortar shell tore through his Jeep.
The blast killed him and two other passengers and wounded the driver, according to a dispatch by Staff Sergeant Henry Giniger obtained by the university.
Butler…had met and conquered some of the stiffest opposition that the Japanese offered, and all during the battle northward, the colonel had been on the front lines. Another priest at the university, the Reverend Loyd Ha-. Among them was Maroon sports editor Ed Fricke. Incidentally, my thumb is gone, and it looks really odd. It was obvious that sons who have given their all that the Loyola community our way of life may prevail, was weathering a time of loss and crisis.
A solemnly and publicly pays patriotic Wolf Pack triumph on and religious homage to her… the basketball court would enliven and in- alumni who have died in the service spire its fans, its campus of this country.
Almost everyone else was a freshman. The program takes place entirely on location in more than 40 places across the country and internationally. It also responds to the need for education where people are because coming to campus in New Orleans is not always feasible. We even have nine students at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. The Koch Foundation Inc. Okeke of Immaculate Conception College in. Benin City. They develop ministerial proficiency by combining in-depth study of the Christian theological tradition with an appreciative and critical understanding of the contexts in which they minister.
In addition, participants develop specific competencies in a ministry focus area of their choice. He is here. Ignatius Loyola, students pray their way through the program.
So what does what I have learned mean for me, for my life, for my faith, for the world, and for the church? It has given me a sense of belonging, and as members of this group, it has made us good friends, yes, who have come to be very close to each other and accept each other. It unifies. One of the greatest has been how culturally sensitive the program has to be, making sure that the course materials and activities are attentive to and respectful of other cultures. However, due to the nature of the program and its model of theological reflection, students have the tools to be appreciative of other cultures and critical when these issues are not seriously addressed.
Loyola students tackle internships and other life-changing opportunities that offer a wealth of real-life experience. Whether cruising in a submarine, shaking hands with the U.
Navy this summer. Her summer adventures included flying in a helicopter, firing weapons, and riding in a submarine on her birthday. Jackson says her most memorable experience was flying a T aircraft by herself.
Jackson says everyone was split into different teams and given rifles loaded with paint bullets. They had to formulate a plan to kill all snipers while keeping their teams safe, Jackson says. A major recognized her group as the best fire team, but Jackson gained more than an award. Instead of taking on her usual summer waitressing job in her hometown of Washington, D. She felt confident about her writing and learned things that added to her previous social media knowledge.
He was interested in Viacom International Inc. After seeing what the company had to offer, Mooney says MTV seemed like the perfect placement. His coworkers started a weekly live-streamed music and comedy show out of their office called Streamed Dumplings that he soon became involved with along with co-worker Ralph Bishop.
I completely forgot about it until I received an email saying I was a fiKimberly Iberico nalist. It really took me by surprise. He saw that Google was offering something.
He sent me the link, and the deadline was that day. Unlike an internship, Iberico and Rosenberg were doing community outreach service work, but they gained professional development skills and their experience was immeasurable.
And we did that. Rosenberg developed a program with an organization called Sweet Home New Orleans. He was able to use his music industry education to find ways that local musicians can benefit from Internet tools to build their fan bases.
The feedback was great. We were primarily focused on developing engagement strategy, more so than just showing them how to use tools. A musician who incorporated this advice was a woman in her 60s who started posting more pictures and videos from earlier in her life. They are now team leaders and want to continue increasing digital literacy.
He combined his passion for business and his self-proclaimed obsession with fitness by opening up his own gym this summer. It was a huge moment for Stelly, whose journey toward fitness began as a child when he struggled with emotional eating. Adam Stelly Stelly began to incorporate that philosophy into his daily life. But business-minded Stelly ultimately wanted to run his own fitness center, and just last year he opened up the first Appear Fit in Uptown New Orleans.
The military saw something special in Stelly, and this past July they awarded him a contract to get Army platoons in top shape before their basic training begins. He started off by working with the soldiers once a week, and now he trains them twice a week.
Jackson, Woodhull, Mooney, Iberico, Rosenberg, and Stelly all say they gained new knowledge in their particular fields of study, and they are all living proof that there is no predicting what type of opportunities a Loyola student can experience. Portions of this article were previously published in The Maroon. The awards were formally presented at the Baccalaureate Mass on May Recipients have a distinguished, pronounced involvement in the life of the university and represent Loyola with honor and distinction.
They have achieved academic excellence and critical thinking skills and have demonstrated a commitment to faith. A chemistry major from Harvey, Louisiana, Romaire is a fouryear letter winner for the Loyola baseball team. He put his sports skills to good use when he taught baseball in Belize last winter with the Ignacio Volunteers.
He graduated magna cum laude and is attending Yale University to pursue a doctorate in organic chemistry. Northshore Mass and Dinner Aug. Chicago Summer Send Off Aug. Athletic Logo Launch Luncheon Aug. John Concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Dallas Texas Rangers Game Aug. College of Business Wine Tasting Aug. Miami Summer Send Off Aug. The video was taking aim at regulations by the NFL to limit the size of bags brought into the Superdome and stadiums all over the country.
I got tickets to the first Saints preseason game through work and invited Colleen. She was a natural choice because she loves football and can make most situations entertaining. I do not like football. Because of the regulations, we had to downsize our purses considerably. Instead of watching the game, we devised the video over stadium nachos and overpriced cocktails. She was wearing scrubs, so I asked her if she was a nurse. While a student at Loyola, I did all the things journalism students are supposed to do: I occupied nearly every editorial position in student media publications; I did internships in the city and one out of state; I freelanced and took on other extracurricular activities.
And after I graduated, I got a job at a newspaper. I liked it, but what I enjoyed most was being funny. Around that time I got started taking sketch, and later improv, classes at TNM and fell in love.
Comedy was such a good fit for me because it was a place where I was supposed to be funny. I still work in publishing, and I enjoy it, probably even more so because I have this wonderful outlet outside of work. He edited the video the next day and sent it to us Sunday morning as I was just waking up. Still in pajamas, I began to post the video on my various social networks, and Colleen did the same. Our friends, family, and fellow comedians loved the video and began sharing it immediately.
By noon the video had a few hundred views. At this point, my goal for this project was reached: People we like and respect thought it was funny. But neither of us could have anticipated what would come next. But then a Yahoo! Sports blog posted it, and later we got an email from a TODAY show producer asking if they could show a clip of the video for a segment. It turns out we hit on a very timely topic with this video. The video came out just as season ticket holders for teams around the country were receiving word of the regulations.
We also were the subject of many vile, misogynistic, and. It was short, lighthearted, and I think we came across as ourselves. After, we both returned to It turns out we hit on a very our jobs.
Has Lorne Michaels called? No, he regulations. Those questions scared showing up briefly on the me at first. We are going to continue making things, and no one knows if we will have another hit like this.
But we are funny, so we are capable of it. For now we have that crazy week to look back on — plus about 60 Luna Bars. She can be seen performing with The New Movement. Send us your accomplishments, photos, story ideas, or updated contact information. Fonseca, J. Fonseca is a retired U. Magistrate Judge from the Eastern District of Louisiana, where he served for 15 years. After graduation from law school, he engaged in the private practice of law and later served 10 years in the civil and criminal divisions of the U.
In the past two years he has accepted six cases from the Pro Bono Project involving contractor fraud. Zainey to provide notarial services at several homeless centers in New Orleans. Alfred E. Harold J. This is his fourth time being named to this prestigious list. Flanagan and his brother Thomas M. Jay P. Still, M. Previously the executive vice president of domestic operations for Pioneer Natural Resources, Still also worked for Mobil Oil Corporation for 10 years.
Dennis Lauscha, M. Richard F. As city attorney, Cortizas was responsible for directing and supervising legal affairs for the city and worked as part of the team that negotiated the New Orleans Police Department consent decrees. He also served as executive counsel to Mayor Mitch Landrieu from to He has more than 10 therapists who work with JustMind.
The 5-foot-tall founder lists the Loyola community as one of the reasons she chose to leave the fashion hub of Southern California for New Orleans. Jeffery Ehlinger, M. Darryl Glade, M. Yours or. He pitched the concept at Startup Weekend New Orleans, an event for entrepreneurs with ideas in the early stages of development. McConduit won coworking space, financial consulting, and legal services from local businesses. He and his business partner, Marc Juneau, are also hosting a series of seminars on crowd-funding.
He graduated No. While at LSU, he was inducted into the Order of the Coif, an organization for students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. Marocco recently passed the bar exam and is currently clerking for Judge James Brady in the Middle District of Louisiana, a position he will hold for a year; when his clerkship ends, he will join Jones Walker in Baton Rouge.
William J. Culture Shock carries jewelry, clothing, and accessories from the countries that Alexis has visited, as well as ethnic-inspired jewelry that Alexis designs herself. Xavier joins big sister, Eva. Colin joins big sister, Alexa Rose. She joins big brother, Charlie.
The ceremony — counting the bride and groom, the wedding party, the readers, and the musician — included 13 Loyola alumni. After a three-week honeymoon in Europe, the couple returned to their home in New Orleans and their dachshund mix, Lucky. The couple met during the first semester of their freshman year in their Introduction to Mass Communication class.
They live and work in Brooklyn, New York. They live in Lafayette, Louisiana. Francis of Assisi Church in New Orleans. A reception followed at the Audubon Tea Room. Charles Heim, M. Gillon Jr. While serving his term, Gillon will continue his work as an attorney on the patent side of the U. Patent and Trademark Office. Her duties include implementation of strategic growth objectives, pricing, product enhancement, and growth strategies for clinical programs.
She sits on the Odyssey House Board of Directors. John D. He is also a literary agent and specializes in copyright and trademark transactions and litigation, publishing and media law, and working on legal issues for all types of artists. The trailer for the film, available at facebook.
Anderson specializes in covering tragic local events that he feels have been overlooked. Peter Catholic School in Reserve, Louisiana. She will be focusing on issues of education and juvenile justice. Auburn, N. M3 O We are lucky to hold a few titles from this esteemed press and hope you will enjoy this photo-sampler of a few of our Nexus Press books. Loyola University Special Collections is proud to have provided research materials for a new performance series in New Orleans, Letters Read , which made its debut last night at a local independent book store, Crescent City Books.
Nancy, who occasionally teaches classes in letter-writing and stationery history was pleased to discover our Lafcadio Hearn Correspondence Collection , which may be viewed in its digitized form here. He moved to New Orleans the year Reconstruction ended and lived here for a decade. Hearn is credited with putting New Orleans on the map as a cultural destination.
As with many, he loved our fair city. The reading of the letters was preceded by a brief talk by social psychologist, Dr. Adrienne McFaul, who encouraged the audience to consider what it means to dehumanize another human being. Following up on my last post: here are a few process shots of the box I made for the oversized leather volume Door Locks, Knobs, Padlocks, Etc.
Clamshell boxes are one of my favorite structures, and it was a lot of fun to work on one this size. Careful measuring is key to that sweet fit you get when the box is finished see gif below. The flaps in the image were cut so they would fit snugly when turned in along the inner-walls. A slightly larger second tray was then constructed and covered using the measurement of the first. The first inner tray was then adhered to the case and weighed down to insure a permanent stick.
I ran out of weights, so I took advantage of some heavy office supplies to help me out :. On February 10 th , at around p. I gave the staff my ticket, and walked in.
It seemed a little bland at first, but I got a a soda at the bar and made my way to my seat.
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