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<strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong><br />
. . . . .<br />
A PUBLICATION FOR ALUMNAE, PARENTS AND FRIENDS<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong><br />
. . . . .<br />
Renovations Continue to Mother Alice Hall<br />
In this issue...<br />
Alums Celebrate Reunions<br />
Several classes celebrated milestone<br />
reunions this spring and summer.<br />
page 4<br />
New Sign to Greet Visitors<br />
A new sign being constructed at the<br />
corner of Broussard and Parker streets<br />
will greet those visiting campus. The sign<br />
is a gift of the senior classes of 2006,<br />
2008 and <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
page 8<br />
Always the <strong>Academy</strong> Update<br />
Sister Adele Lambert, CSJ, offers an<br />
update on the Always the <strong>Academy</strong> Capital<br />
Campaign for the construction of the<br />
Academic Performing Arts Center.<br />
page 8<br />
Class of <strong>2009</strong> Earns<br />
Millions in Scholarships<br />
Fifty-five percent of the class of <strong>2009</strong><br />
received academic scholarships totaling<br />
$12.85 million, including $9.95 million<br />
in institutional or private scholarship<br />
dollars.<br />
page 10<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents Serve Others in<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> Mission Trips<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents and recent graduates continued<br />
to reach out to the “dear neighbor” by<br />
participating in a number of service immersion<br />
experiences during the summer.<br />
page 10<br />
Alumnae News...2-3<br />
Alums Today...4-5<br />
The SJA Community...6-9<br />
Campus News...10<br />
Transitions...11<br />
A second phase of renovations is under way to<br />
Mother Alice Hall. Begun after the resident Sisters<br />
of <strong>St</strong>. Joseph moved into their new retirement<br />
center in late August, the renovations will complete<br />
the process which transforms the $6 million<br />
building to strictly academic space. The Sisters’<br />
decision to turn over their residence to SJA means<br />
the school now has complete access to every<br />
building on campus. Renovations are projected to<br />
be completed when students return to school after<br />
the Christmas break.<br />
<strong>Academy</strong> Welcomes Record<br />
Freshman Class<br />
The <strong>2009</strong>-2010 academic year began on August<br />
10 with <strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong> welcoming its largest<br />
ever freshman class. Two hundred-fifty four<br />
ninth graders became the newest members of the<br />
<strong>Academy</strong> community, bumping the overall student<br />
population to 918, another SJA record.<br />
With enrollment at its peak and classroom space<br />
limited while Mother Alice Hall renovations continue,<br />
administrators have resorted to creative uses<br />
of space to accommodate the student body. Classes<br />
are being taught on the library mezzanine, in the<br />
faculty community room and Bologna Lobby. SJA<br />
President Sister Adele Lambert offered her office<br />
as a family and consumer science classroom.<br />
Phase two renovations will create<br />
upstairs classrooms for fine arts instruction.<br />
The downstairs will be transformed<br />
to include an art room and gallery<br />
as well as a teaching kitchen and<br />
sewing room with dressing area and<br />
layout tables, in addition to other family<br />
and consumer science needs.<br />
Space will also be created for additional<br />
theology and family and consumer<br />
science classrooms; faculty work<br />
areas; and meeting space. A new weight<br />
room will also be part of the design.<br />
While the facilities expansion will<br />
most directly impact the <strong>Academy</strong>’s<br />
visual and performing arts curriculum,<br />
the entire school community will reap<br />
the rewards.<br />
Funding for this renovation is made<br />
possible by gifts to the SJA Foundation.<br />
The academic year began on August 10 with SJA at<br />
peak enrollment of 918 students.<br />
“We want to offer an <strong>Academy</strong><br />
education to every young lady who desires<br />
one,” said Principal Linda Fryoux<br />
Harvison. “We are having to stretch to<br />
make that happen, but it is an exciting<br />
time at SJA.”
where we are ... graduations...<br />
’51 Junie Baudin Bordelon<br />
was honored by the<br />
Catholic Council of Women<br />
in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee,<br />
for her past service as president<br />
of the organization.<br />
She is the longest-serving<br />
president of the group.<br />
’79 Selena Courtney-Koro,<br />
P.T., has been a physical therapist for 23 years.<br />
In May, she earned her doctorate of science in<br />
physical therapy at Oakland University in Rochester,<br />
Michigan, with a 3.8 GPA.<br />
’83 Michelle Brassett Jenson, PhD, is a forensic<br />
DNA analyst with Trinity<br />
DNA Solutions in Milton,<br />
Florida. She lives in Pace,<br />
Florida, with husband Eric,<br />
a chemical engineer, and<br />
their two daughters. She is a<br />
volunteer with her church’s<br />
youth group and the local<br />
select soccer team.<br />
’84 Dr. Anne Mary Couvillon Orr was invited<br />
to address the annual meeting of the American<br />
Orthodontic Society in Chicago. She is a Phi<br />
Beta Kappa graduate of LSU who maintains<br />
a private dentistry practice<br />
with her husband, Dr. Chad<br />
Orr, in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.<br />
’84 Lynn Lamousin is a<br />
freelance copywriter living in<br />
Baton Rouge. She received a<br />
Bordelon<br />
Jenson<br />
Lamousin<br />
“dishonorable mention” in<br />
the <strong>2009</strong> Bulwer-Lytton Fiction<br />
Contest, an international literary parody<br />
contest in which contestants write intentionally<br />
bad opening sentences for imaginary novels.<br />
’84 Maria Prochaska Boudreaux was the featured<br />
artist in July at The Foyer in Baton Rouge.<br />
She owns Fleur De Me Designs and does reverse<br />
painting on glass, metal design and gilded and<br />
painted canvasses.<br />
’87 Andrea Dragna teaches French at McKinley<br />
High School in Baton Rouge and received<br />
a CODOFIL scholarship to study French this<br />
summer at the Universite de Mons in Belgium.<br />
’91 Claire Cowan Barbetti<br />
was awarded the Dissertation<br />
Fellowship for<br />
Duquesne University Graduate<br />
School (Pittsburgh,<br />
Pennsylvania) in 2008.<br />
She received the Graduate<br />
Teaching Award in English Barbetti<br />
in <strong>2009</strong> and was offered a visiting<br />
professorship at Duquesne for <strong>2009</strong>-2010.<br />
She is married to Victor, a psychologist. They<br />
live in Pittsburgh with their three children.<br />
’99 Megan Barrios is studying voice in Frankfurt,<br />
Germany, and will audition for an agent<br />
in September. She received her undergraduate<br />
degree in 2003 in vocal performance from LSU<br />
and her master’s in 2006 in<br />
vocal performance from<br />
Indiana University.<br />
’99 Elizabeth Cowan Wells<br />
received her master’s in English<br />
from LSU in 2005 and<br />
worked at Boston’s Wellington<br />
Management in the legal<br />
division until last fall. She and husband Court<br />
spent 2008-<strong>2009</strong> in Lyon, France, while he pursued<br />
research on his dissertation. She is now at<br />
home with their first child, born in April.<br />
’00 Megan Brooks graduated in May from<br />
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine<br />
with a doctor of medicine degree. She received<br />
her master’s of public health in 2008 from the<br />
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School<br />
of Public Health. She began her residency in<br />
internal medicine in July at<br />
the Duke University Medical<br />
Center.<br />
’00 Virginia Bernard lives<br />
and works in New York City,<br />
where she is an assistant<br />
project manager for Coach<br />
International Architecture.<br />
Wells<br />
Bernard<br />
Since 2006, she has designed and built more<br />
than 50 retail stores in 14 countries. She graduated<br />
summa cum laude in 2005 from the Savannah<br />
College of Art and Design. She holds bachelor’s<br />
and master’s degrees in architecture.<br />
’00 Catherine Hensley is a proofreader/copy<br />
editor at the New England Journal of Medicine/<br />
Massachusetts Medical Society in Waltham,<br />
Massachusetts.<br />
’01 Jeanne Svendson recently<br />
exhibited a group<br />
of 24 photographs in her<br />
show Etudes de Specimens at<br />
the Galerie Rue Du Pont in<br />
Breaux Bridge. She owns<br />
JES Photography and Fine<br />
Svendson<br />
Art, which focuses on architectural work, some<br />
portraits and personal fine art commissions.<br />
’01 Carmen Gealogo-Estela received her juris<br />
doctor degree in May from Loyola University in<br />
New Orleans.<br />
’02 Leslie Ziober was awarded the <strong>2009</strong> Law<br />
<strong>St</strong>udent Pro Bono Award by the Louisiana <strong>St</strong>ate<br />
Bar Association. She was recognized for her<br />
work in 2007 when she organized a group of<br />
LSU law students to travel to Biloxi for Hurricane<br />
Katrina relief efforts; in 2008 for her work<br />
in Lake Charles after Hurricane Rita; and in <strong>2009</strong><br />
for her efforts along the Texas Gulf Coast after<br />
Hurricane Ike. In three years, she amassed more<br />
than 600 hours of pro bono service.<br />
’03 Katie Ferrara graduated<br />
in May from LSU<br />
Health Sciences in New<br />
Orleans with a degree in<br />
clinical laboratory sciences.<br />
She was on the dean’s list<br />
and graduated with a 3.3<br />
GPA. She is employed at<br />
Our Lady of the Lake as a Ferrara<br />
medical technologist in the Blood Bank.<br />
’03 Glencora Cowan is pursuing her doctorate<br />
in English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh,<br />
where she was awarded a teaching assistantship.<br />
She spent 2007-2008 teaching in Gisors, France,<br />
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2 • <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong>
accolades ... what we’re doing<br />
and 2008-<strong>2009</strong> teaching Italian<br />
in an all-girls school in<br />
Washington, D.C.<br />
’03 Veronica Cowan received<br />
her master’s in English<br />
in May from Catholic<br />
University of America and is<br />
now pursuing her doctorate<br />
there. Her focus is medieval Glencora Cowan<br />
and renaissance literature.<br />
’04 Danielle Clary is a<br />
2008 cum laude graduate of<br />
Spring Hill College with a<br />
bachelor’s degree in nursing.<br />
’04 Brittany Creehan<br />
graduated in May from<br />
Auburn University with Veronica Cowan<br />
bachelor of architecture and<br />
bachelor of interior architecture degrees. She<br />
studied in Tuscany in May and received recognition<br />
for her proposed student residences around<br />
a Tuscan villa. She lives in Birmingham, where<br />
she will work for Davis Architects.<br />
’04 Rebecca Katherine Ferrell graduated in<br />
May from LSU’s College of Engineering with<br />
a bachelor of science in chemical engineering<br />
and minors in chemistry and mathematics. She<br />
works as a process automation engineer with<br />
Dow Chemical in Freeport, Texas.<br />
’05 Sarah DeLeo is the recipient of a National<br />
Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship at<br />
LSU. She will pursue doctoral studies in biomedical<br />
engineering after which she plans to pursue<br />
a career as a university professor and researcher.<br />
’05 Mallory Morgan graduated cum laude in<br />
May from Samford University (Birmingham,<br />
Alabama) with a bachelor of science degree in<br />
sports medicine/pre-med.<br />
’05 Amanda Briody graduated in May from<br />
the University of Georgia with bachelor of science<br />
degrees in biology and psychology. This<br />
fall, she will teach secondary biology in Baltimore,<br />
Maryland, as part<br />
of Teach for America. She<br />
will attend Johns Hopkins<br />
University to study for a<br />
master of arts in teaching<br />
degree.<br />
’05 Elizabeth Miller<br />
graduated in May with a<br />
degree in journalism. She<br />
Miller<br />
has started a new publication called The CC<br />
Lagniappe, which will cover the mid-city area of<br />
Baton Rouge.<br />
’05 <strong>St</strong>ephanie Reed graduated Phi Beta Kappa<br />
in May from LSU with a degree in English literature.<br />
She was accepted to the MBA program<br />
at the LSU College of Business Administration<br />
for the fall <strong>2009</strong> semester.<br />
’05 Laura Rachal will attend<br />
the Ecole normale superieure<br />
de Lyon in France to<br />
pursue a master’s in biosciences<br />
concentrating on<br />
neurodevelopment and toxicology.<br />
She will attend on a<br />
full scholarship. She recently<br />
graduated summa cum laude from<br />
Rachal<br />
LSU with degrees in biological sciences and<br />
French.<br />
’05 Lindsay Key graduated in May from LSU’s<br />
Manship School of Mass Communication. She<br />
will spend the next two years teaching elementary<br />
special education in the Dallas Independent<br />
School District with Teach for America.<br />
’05 Kaitlyn Guerin was selected as a collegiate<br />
development consultant for Delta Gamma sorority.<br />
Following a highly competitive selection<br />
process, she will spend the<br />
next year traveling the country<br />
to visit Delta Gamma<br />
chapters, evaluating their<br />
operations.<br />
’06 Kelli Huff is a junior<br />
at LSU where she is a premed<br />
major and a member<br />
of Delta Gamma sorority.<br />
She is president of the LSU<br />
Panhellenic Council, the<br />
governing body of all sororities.<br />
She spent last summer<br />
volunteering in Krabi,<br />
Thailand, with OpenMinds<br />
Projects, teaching English in<br />
the mornings and working in a<br />
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’06 M. Britton Romero spent the summer as<br />
an internal auditing intern with Ernst & Young<br />
in Houston. She is a senior at LSU, studying in<br />
the certified internal auditing program.<br />
’07 Katie Schluter was the recipient of a<br />
scholarship at LSU to study in the Ubbaye Valley<br />
region of France this summer. She studied<br />
French in the mornings and served an internship<br />
at an equestrian center in the afternoons.<br />
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<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong> • 3
leaders...mothers...professionals<br />
Class of 1959 Celebrates 50th Reunion<br />
<strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong> honored its 50-year graduates at a special<br />
dinner held April 24 at the <strong>Academy</strong>. Twenty-five members of the<br />
class of 1959 took part in the celebration.<br />
The honorees began the evening with mass, celebrated by Msgr.<br />
William Greene. The graduates then gathered in Mother Alice Hall<br />
for a social hour and posed for a group photograph. They also<br />
enjoyed a tour of the school and listened to a brief presentation<br />
by SJA President Sister Adele Lambert, CSJ, about the Always the<br />
<strong>Academy</strong> Capital Campaign.<br />
The SJA Mothers’ Club Hospitality Committee, chaired by Karen<br />
Deville and co-chaired by Jeanne James, prepared a special meal.<br />
As a remembrance of the evening, the graduates received an<br />
SJA 50-Year Alumnae lapel pin.<br />
Toni Catanzaro Lewis traveled the greatest distance to be with<br />
her classmates, coming from Newnan, Georgia.<br />
Class of 1969 Celebrates 40th Reunion<br />
Forty-eight members of the class of 1969 celebrated their 40-<br />
year reunion during a weekend filled with activities.<br />
On Friday, July 31, the graduates gathered at the home of Rachel<br />
Bryan Ehricht for a Girls’ Night Out celebration. On Saturday,<br />
the alumnae enjoyed a party with Catholic High School<br />
graduates at Café Americain.<br />
Freda Yarbrough Dunne compiled information contributed by<br />
her classmates into a commemorative booklet. Margaret Losavio<br />
Jolly created a keepsake featuring the class’ composite graduation<br />
picture and summary of their four years at SJA that was originally<br />
printed in the May 1969 edition of <strong>St</strong>udent Prints.<br />
The reunion planning committee was chaired by Liz Conley<br />
Walker. She was assisted by Freda Yarbrough Dunne, Kay Jolly<br />
Hoffpauir, Janet Raymond Gremillion, Grace Guttner Anderson,<br />
Rachel Bryan Ehricht, Marianne <strong>St</strong>. Amant, Carmie Greco Collins<br />
and Ann Felice Fourrier.<br />
Members of the class of 1969 began their reunion weekend with a Girls’ Night<br />
Out at the home of Rachel Bryan Ehricht.<br />
4 • <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong><br />
Members of the class of 1959 pose in front of Mother Alice Hall.<br />
On April 25, the alumnae gathered as a group for SJA’s Outstanding<br />
Alumnae Luncheon at Boudreaux’s.<br />
Class of 1979 Celebrates 30th Reunion<br />
Members of the class of 1979 celebrated their 30-year reunion<br />
on July 24 and 25.<br />
Nearly 60 alumnae gathered for a Girls’ Night Out on Friday<br />
evening at<br />
Acme Oyster<br />
House. They<br />
enjoyed a funfilled<br />
awards<br />
presentation,<br />
with prizes<br />
going to those<br />
with the most<br />
children, least<br />
changed and<br />
most entertaining,<br />
among for a Friday-night get-together.<br />
Members of the class of 1979 met at Acme Oyster House<br />
other categories.<br />
The graduates also enjoyed looking at old photographs, yearbooks<br />
and senior memory books.<br />
Saturday began with mass celebrated by Father Mark Beard,<br />
a 1979 graduate of Catholic High School. The Chapel at <strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s<br />
<strong>Academy</strong> was filled nearly to capacity for the mass, which<br />
included a memorial to classmates lost in the last 30 years.<br />
The festivities concluded Saturday evening with an SJA/CHS<br />
Reunion Bash at De La Ronde Hall.<br />
Planning the reunion were committee members Geri Guarino,<br />
Lyndra Lea and Joni Muscarello Leggio.<br />
Kathy Anderson traveled the farthest, coming from California<br />
to join her classmates for the weekend.
scholars...volunteers...friends<br />
Class of 1984 Celebrates 25th Reunion<br />
Class of 1999 Celebrates 10th Reunion<br />
The class of 1984 enjoyed tours of campus as part of their reunion weekend<br />
celebration.<br />
Forty members of the class of 1984 marked their 25-year reunion<br />
with a weekend of festivities.<br />
On Friday, July 24, the graduates gathered at the home of Andree<br />
Gautreaux for a Girls’ Night Out. On Saturday, they celebrated<br />
a couples’ night at Mike Anderson’s Seafood Restaurant.<br />
The weekend concluded on Sunday with mass in the Chapel at <strong>St</strong>.<br />
Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong> and tours of the campus.<br />
Planning the reunion were committee members Michelle Duke<br />
Thompson, Karen Baudin Allen and Patricia Brignac Talbot. The<br />
graduates are in the process of planning a girls’ beach weekend<br />
for late September, organized by Angela Roppolo Jordan.<br />
Jeanne Fenasci Bridgers traveled from Sydney, Australia, for<br />
the reunion weekend.<br />
A Girls’ Night Out at Walk-Ons began the weekend celebration for members<br />
of the class of 1999.<br />
Eighty-six members of the class of 1999 celebrated their 10-<br />
year reunion with a weekend of activities.<br />
The festivities began August 7 with a Girls’ Night Out at Walk-<br />
Ons. The graduates and their families gathered at SJA on August 8<br />
for a picnic lunch and campus tours. The evening concluded with<br />
a party with the Catholic High School class of 1999 at the Sheraton<br />
Atrium. A memorabilia table and door prizes were among the<br />
highlights of the gathering.<br />
The reunion planning committee was chaired by Kristin Zumo.<br />
She was assisted by Rebecca John MacMorran, Lindsay Southerland<br />
Mayo, Emily Hipwell Monsour, Courtney Loup Edwards,<br />
Laney Simar Sanders, Emily May Kline and Jessica Lato Williams.<br />
Class of 1989 Celebrates 20th Reunion<br />
Approximately 75 members of the class of 1989 celebrated<br />
their 20-year reunion during a weekend filled with activities.<br />
The festivities began on Friday, June 19, with a Girls’ Night<br />
Out celebration at the home of Aimee <strong>St</strong>uckey Oatley. Food was<br />
provided by Heads and Tails Seafood.<br />
On Saturday, June 20, the celebrants, along with their families,<br />
gathered on the SJA campus for an ice cream social and tours of<br />
the campus. On Saturday evening, the group met at the Hilton<br />
Capital Center in downtown Baton Rouge for a joint party with<br />
the Catholic High School class of 1989. Music was provided by<br />
Ned Fasullo’s Big Band, followed by a DJ.<br />
Co-chairs of the reunion planning committee were Tracey<br />
Little Madison and Claesi Casio McCrary. They were assisted<br />
by committee members Allison Lindsay Traxler, Karen Smith<br />
Melancon, Courtney Rhodes McGraw, Megan Coogan Foco,<br />
1989 CHS Bruinettes strike a pose: Nancy Lemoine Ellis, Claesi Cashio Mc-<br />
Crary, Lea Bonacorso Faso, Michelle Bonnecaze Doherty, Megan Coogan Foco,<br />
Aimee <strong>St</strong>uckey Oatley and Leigh Smith Baxter.<br />
Elizabeth Chesson Martin, Gabé Vetter, Laurie O’Neal Lemoine,<br />
Aimee <strong>St</strong>uckey Oatley and Jenny Thayer Hanks.<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong> • 5
Tribute Donations<br />
The following tribute donations were<br />
made during the period of February 21 to<br />
August 6, <strong>2009</strong>. Please remember those being<br />
honored, as well as those who honored<br />
them, in your prayers.<br />
If you wish to make a special gift in<br />
honor or memory of a family member<br />
or friend, please use the SJA Foundation<br />
envelope found in this issue. If you have<br />
any questions or wish to request more envelopes,<br />
please call the SJA Development<br />
Office at (225) 388-2219.<br />
In Memory of Sister Mary Rose<br />
Amorello, CSJ<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Davis<br />
In Memory of Mr. Fred Anepohl<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas T. Ferrara<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Ann B. Arbour<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bahlinger Jr.<br />
In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Arbour<br />
Mrs. Barbara Pease<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Joy Bani<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Broussard<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Jacques A. de la Bretonne<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Locascio Jr.<br />
Louis Mechanical Contractors Inc.<br />
Ms. Patricia Swenson<br />
The Milton J. Womack Foundation Fund<br />
In Memory of Lucy Imogene Batten ’48<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Corry Jr.<br />
The Class of 1960 Is Planning a<br />
50-Year Reunion Celebration!<br />
April 30: Reunion Mass and Dinner<br />
at SJA; May 1: Catered luncheon at<br />
the home of Beth Pallud Ferachi.<br />
The class is compiling a directory.<br />
Any email or address changes should<br />
be sent to the SJA Alumnae Office.<br />
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In Memory of Mrs. Maria Bologna<br />
Mr. and Mrs. John Maranto<br />
In Memory of Mr. Ronald Borne<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Laurance W. Brooks Jr.<br />
In Memory of Sister Lydia<br />
Champagne, CSJ ’42<br />
Dr. and Mrs. John B. Cowan<br />
In Memory of Mr. John F. Cooper Jr.<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Patricia Daigle<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
In Memory of Mr. <strong>St</strong>ewart L. Dietrich<br />
Mr. Daryl Dietrich<br />
In Memory of Mr. William H. Dietrich Sr.<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
In Memory of Mr. Joseph S.<br />
DiVincenti, Sr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Bologna<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ribes<br />
In Memory of Mr. Edgar Ducote<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Kleinpeter<br />
In Honor of Mr. Luke Duval<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Chustz<br />
In Memory of Mr. Dominic Engolio<br />
Ms. Lillian L. Wasson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Wasson<br />
In Memory of Mr. Henry Goldman<br />
Mrs. Frances Barcelona<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Bologna<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
Mr. Justin Ribes<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ribes<br />
Ms. Candace Ribes Young<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Katherine<br />
<strong>St</strong>uart Hall ’77<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bridges<br />
Elan Cotillion Inc.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. George K. Hayes Sr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Blake A. Hodges<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Landi<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Rome<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. <strong>St</strong>uart Sr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. <strong>St</strong>uart Jr.<br />
In Memory of Mr. Fred Hannaman<br />
Ms. Jan Gravolet<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Genevieve Hanks<br />
Heine ’44<br />
Louisiana Electric Co. Inc.<br />
In Memory of Mr. Millard Herrington<br />
Mrs. Theresa Herrington<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Evelyn Hill<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Tanner Jr.<br />
In Memory of Ms. Karole Hirschey<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Badeaux<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Dauzat<br />
Ms. Angela Ellis<br />
Mr. Pete Hirschey<br />
Ms. Kathy Kovacevich<br />
Ms. Joni M. Leggio<br />
Mrs. Marie R. Ruggiero<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David Vasser<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Jamie Lousteau<br />
Holdstein ’80<br />
Mr. Albert Lousteau<br />
In Memory of Ms. Frances P. Holliday ’55<br />
Henry and Anna Bernard<br />
Ms. Paula M. Berumen<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
Margaret Brennan, Thomas Aversano and<br />
Reed Riley<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Laurance W. Brooks Jr.<br />
Ms. Catherine David<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Glenn<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Haynes<br />
Mr. <strong>St</strong>eve Haynes<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Holliday<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Kleinpeter<br />
Ms. Bette Levin<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David McCarty<br />
Mrs. Louise Prosser<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. <strong>St</strong>ewart<br />
Keri Martin Torres
support...family...working together<br />
In Memory of Mr. David M. James Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ribes<br />
In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Leon R.<br />
Kleinpeter Jr.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lysinger<br />
In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent<br />
Kleinpeter (Patricia Torregrossa ’46)<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lindsey<br />
In Memory of Mr. Brandon Kling<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ricky Soileau<br />
In Memory of Ms. Mary Ellen Leeper ’69<br />
Ms. Ann Felice Fourrier<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Cynthia<br />
Braud LiRocchi ’59<br />
Mrs. Mary O. Doerner<br />
Ms. Joan Ervin<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Falcon Morgan<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Amber Lousteau<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Todd A. Pourciau<br />
In Memory of Mr. Richard Macmurdo<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Hal B. Macmurdo<br />
In Memory of Mr. Keith Marchand<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
In Honor of Mrs. Mary<br />
Hebert McCowan ’61<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hebert Jr.<br />
Mrs. Barbara H. Magruder<br />
In Memory of Mr. Andrew McGinty<br />
Mrs. Rita McGinty<br />
In Honor of Mrs. Linda Messina<br />
SJA Dads’ Club<br />
SJA Mothers’ Club<br />
In Memory of Mr. John Monte Sr.<br />
Mrs. Jo Cockrell<br />
In Memory of Mr. Phillip Muscarello Sr.<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Dauzat<br />
In Memory of Mr. Brent David Pecue<br />
Mrs. Danni Bourgeois Pecue<br />
In Memory of Mr. William B. Pecue<br />
Mrs. Danni Bourgeois Pecue<br />
In Memory of Mr. Gordon Pugh Sr.<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Maria Reeves<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Chustz<br />
In Memory of Mr. Albert T. Salzer III<br />
Mrs. Betty Huber<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Katherine<br />
Quebedeaux Seward ’93<br />
Ms. Jerri M. Mack<br />
In Honor of Ms. Abbey M. Simoneaux<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Simoneaux<br />
In Memory of Mr. James Smith<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Dauzat<br />
In Honor of Sister Gracelyn Soignet, CSJ<br />
Sister Elizabeth Bourg, CIC<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Barbara<br />
Masling Territo ’54<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Kleinpeter<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Verna Thompson<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas T. Ferrara<br />
In Honor of Mr. Grey Traxler<br />
Dr. and Mrs. Jon Traxler<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Gracie Uter<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Margaret<br />
Waggenspack<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Fontane<br />
In Memory of Mr. Jack Wessel<br />
Mr. Frank Bologna<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul P. Bologna<br />
In Memory of Mrs. Marilyn<br />
Polk Wittorf ’67<br />
Mr. Richard Wittorf<br />
Call for Nominations<br />
Each year, the <strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong><br />
Alumnae Association bestows<br />
Outstanding Alumnae awards<br />
upon graduates who, in their dayto-day<br />
living, exemplify integrity,<br />
moral character, love of God and<br />
service to humanity. They also<br />
serve as role models to current and<br />
future <strong>Academy</strong> students. Award<br />
winners are honored at a special<br />
luncheon, held each spring. (This<br />
year’s luncheon will be on Saturday,<br />
April 24.) A nomination form<br />
can be found on the SJA website<br />
(www.sjabr.org) under the Alumnae<br />
drop-down, Outstanding Alumnae<br />
link. Or contact Lauren Griffin,<br />
alumnae coordinator, at (225)<br />
388-2246 or griffinl@sjabr.org. Entry<br />
deadline is December 31, <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
The SJA community also nominates<br />
an alumna for the annual<br />
Distinguished Graduate Award<br />
from the Diocese of Baton Rouge.<br />
Honorees are recognized during<br />
Catholic Schools Week at a special<br />
awards dinner in late January or<br />
early February. Contact Griffin for<br />
a nomination form. Entry deadline<br />
is October 26, <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong> • 7
support...family...working together<br />
New Sign To Greet Visitors<br />
A new sign being erected<br />
at the corner of Broussard<br />
and Parker streets will<br />
soon welcome visitors to<br />
the <strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong><br />
campus. Reich Associates<br />
is the landscape architect<br />
for the project; it worked<br />
closely with Cajun Constructors Inc., as well.<br />
The sign is a gift from the senior classes<br />
of 2006, 2008 and <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
Featuring brick columns, cast SJA shields,<br />
a planter, iron fence and the school’s name<br />
and year it was established, the structure is<br />
more than six feet tall and approximately 27<br />
Chapel Available for Special Occasions<br />
With the move of the Sisters living in<br />
Mother Alice Hall to their new residence on<br />
Hundred Oaks in Baton Rouge, a number<br />
of changes have been announced regarding<br />
the Chapel at <strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong>.<br />
On August 16, Monsignor William<br />
Greene celebrated a closing Eucharist for<br />
lay friends of the Sisters who have joined<br />
them for Sunday mass for many years. Because<br />
the new chapel at Hundred Oaks is<br />
limited in size, welcoming guests for Sunday<br />
mass will no longer be possible. Fr. Greene<br />
will continue to serve as chaplain for the<br />
Sisters in their new residence.<br />
feet wide.<br />
The design reflects the school’s architectural<br />
vernacular in repeating materials used on<br />
the buildings. By using sections of the antique<br />
fencing that came from SJA in downtown<br />
Baton Rouge, the sign also incorporates the<br />
school’s history.<br />
The beautiful Chapel at <strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s<br />
<strong>Academy</strong>, designed by Adalie Brent and<br />
completed in 1965, is leased to SJA by the<br />
Congregation of <strong>St</strong>. Joseph. It remains open<br />
and available weekdays during school hours<br />
to <strong>Academy</strong> students, faculty and staff. It<br />
is available at other times to alumnae and<br />
friends of the Sisters of <strong>St</strong>. Joseph for<br />
small weddings or special occasions. Seating<br />
capacity is 100.<br />
Sister Adelaide Williamson, CSJ, is chapel<br />
coordinator. Please direct questions or reservation<br />
requests to her at (225) 202-7600<br />
or awilliamson@csjoseph.org.<br />
Alum To Lead Foundation Board<br />
Jo Ellen Kearny, a 1967 graduate of<br />
the <strong>Academy</strong>, will serve as president<br />
of the SJA Foundation for <strong>2009</strong>-2010.<br />
Kearny is a partner with the firm of<br />
Daigrepont & Brian. She is also president<br />
of Kearny Financial Services Inc.,<br />
is certified in financial planning and is<br />
the holder of securities and insurance<br />
licenses for her investment advisory<br />
business.<br />
The SJA Foundation, established in<br />
1968 by the SJA Lay Advisory Board, is<br />
the vehicle wherein funds are collected,<br />
managed and distributed, thereby ensuring<br />
that the school’s operation is on sound<br />
financial footing. All funds are invested<br />
under the supervision of the SJA Board<br />
of Directors.<br />
An active volunteer, Kearny has served<br />
SJA in a number of capacities, including<br />
Elusive Alumnae<br />
If you know the current address for any<br />
of the following alumnae, please call the SJA<br />
Development Office at (225) 388-2219.<br />
Johnny Childress ’60<br />
Catherine Bahm Claudet ’60<br />
Louise Cobb Gautrer ’60<br />
Diana Hindery ’60<br />
Patricia Betancourt Scardina ’60<br />
Marie Erie ’70<br />
Jean Roche Atwell ’80<br />
Gretchen <strong>St</strong>aub Bugeaud ’80<br />
Paula Price Cahill ’80<br />
Debbie Coonan ’80<br />
Robin Montgomery Kremer ’80<br />
Lisa Fortenberry Lopez ’80<br />
Rachel Rodriguez Morales ’80<br />
Erica Ricard ’80<br />
Karyn Nelson Scales ’80<br />
Mary Cardillo Shattuck-Thurman ’80<br />
Carol Crapanzano ’85<br />
Christine Deeds ’85<br />
Laure Williamson Watts ’85<br />
Sharon Williams Leahy ’85<br />
Jennifer Rountree Barrientos ’90<br />
Holly Brown ’90<br />
Yvette Creel ’90<br />
Allison Elizabeth Dartez ’90<br />
Nikki Fontenot Ford ’90<br />
Katheryn Lantrip ’90<br />
Kreslyn Jill Pieterse ’90<br />
Susan Remmetter Wallace ’90<br />
Letrece Griffin ’00<br />
Amanda Henry ’00<br />
Maria Locker ’00<br />
Heather Pizzolato ’00<br />
Michelle Seeger ’00<br />
as a member of the<br />
SJA School Board<br />
for 10 years, ulti-<br />
Jo Ellen Kearny<br />
mately becoming<br />
board chair. She<br />
served as head of<br />
the Finance Committee,<br />
overseeing<br />
major changes to<br />
the <strong>Academy</strong>’s accounting<br />
and budgeting processes. She<br />
is active in the community, serving numerous<br />
organizations.<br />
8 • <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong>
support...family...working together<br />
Greetings from the SJA President<br />
Sister Adele Lambert, CSJ<br />
With a “faint feel of fall” in the air, <strong>St</strong>.<br />
Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong> welcomed the largestever<br />
student body of 918 young ladies<br />
eager to begin another year of sanctity, joy<br />
and action.<br />
Our 254 freshmen arrived early in June<br />
for the annual computer orientation sessions.<br />
Most freshmen now come to SJA with<br />
some basic computer skills. All students<br />
(and teachers) learned a new online course<br />
management system for this year, Moodle,<br />
which serves to provide email and all communication<br />
between students, faculty and<br />
parents. This system, used by LSU, replaces<br />
Blackboard.<br />
Signs of recent and new construction<br />
and renovation are visible on the SJA campus.<br />
A construction fence and gravel drive<br />
on Kleinert Avenue provide a staging area<br />
for subcontractors as the North/South<br />
wing of Mother Alice Hall is renovated<br />
this fall. The rose bed in the Sisters’ garden<br />
has been moved to the Fontbonne Garden,<br />
small but significant signs that big things<br />
are happening.<br />
The renovation of Mother Alice Hall<br />
(formerly the residence for the Sisters and<br />
a children’s home) begins this month. The<br />
use of Mother Alice Hall for academic classrooms<br />
and faculty rooms is an extremely<br />
generous gift of the Sisters of <strong>St</strong>. Joseph.<br />
Mother Alice Hall is valued at $6 million.<br />
As the number of Sisters serving on the<br />
SJA faculty begins to lessen and older sisters<br />
moved to retirement and nursing homes, the<br />
Congregation of <strong>St</strong>. Joseph leadership began<br />
to talk about the <strong>Academy</strong>’s use of the<br />
entire Mother Alice Hall. After Hurricane<br />
Katrina in 2005, the Congregation began to<br />
look for residential space for retired Sisters<br />
evacuated from New Orleans.<br />
It was evident that the residential space<br />
at Mother Alice Hall could not be easily<br />
converted for handicap accessibility for the<br />
elderly. In formal conversations with the<br />
leadership of the Congregation, it was de-<br />
To make a contribution, visit the SJA website at www.sjabr.org and follow the links to Give<br />
Online. Or, complete the contribution card below and send it in the envelope provided<br />
in this issue.<br />
I/we _______________________________ pledge $____________ to the<br />
Always the <strong>Academy</strong> Capital Campaign to be paid over the next three years.<br />
q I/we will pay this pledge in installments of (circle one)<br />
Annually Semi-Annually Quarterly Monthly<br />
or<br />
q Enclosed is my one-time donation of $ __________ to the Always the <strong>Academy</strong><br />
Capital Campaign.<br />
q Please do not include my name in donor reports.<br />
cided to build a retirement residence on land<br />
purchased from the Baton Rouge Diocese<br />
at 3134 Hundred Oaks (at Parker <strong>St</strong>reet).<br />
The residence is now complete and houses<br />
16 retired Sisters. The Sisters’ new home<br />
serves the needs of the retired Sisters with<br />
private rooms and baths, communal dining<br />
and sitting rooms, an intimate chapel and<br />
beautifully landscaped gardens.<br />
The Always the <strong>Academy</strong> Capital Campaign<br />
for the construction of an Academic<br />
Performing Arts Center (APAC) has surpassed<br />
the halfway mark. This $6 million<br />
campaign has the support of more than<br />
400 donors (individuals, families and businesses).<br />
The center, the final major building<br />
of the SJA Master Plan, will house music,<br />
drama, dance and fine arts and will include<br />
a black box theatre. It will complement our<br />
present academic buildings.<br />
Both the APAC and the renovation of<br />
Mother Alice Hall demonstrate the <strong>Academy</strong>’s<br />
commitment and<br />
mission to educate the<br />
whole person.<br />
We have invited<br />
SJA alumnae, parents Sister Adele Lambert<br />
and friends to participate<br />
in this capital campaign for the young<br />
women of the <strong>Academy</strong>. Baton Rouge<br />
businesses and community groups are being<br />
solicited. If you have received materials for<br />
the Always the <strong>Academy</strong> Capital Campaign,<br />
we sincerely invite your participation now.<br />
It will be a great joy and blessing to be able<br />
to say at the end of the campaign, “Look<br />
what we did.”<br />
Thank you for all the amazing work you<br />
do as an SJA alum or friend. We love to hear<br />
the stories of your lives and your continued<br />
commitment to the ideals taught at SJA.<br />
May you and your families receive the<br />
abundant blessings our God has reserved<br />
for you.<br />
Always the <strong>Academy</strong> Capital Campaign<br />
Name: _________________________________________________________<br />
Address: _______________________________________________________<br />
City/<strong>St</strong>ate/Zip: __________________________________________________<br />
______________________________ ______________________________<br />
Signature Date Please print your name<br />
Make checks payable to SJA Always the <strong>Academy</strong><br />
<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong> • 9
O n Campus<br />
academics...traditions...faculty<br />
Graduates Earn $12.85<br />
Million in Scholarships<br />
Fifty-five percent of the class of <strong>2009</strong><br />
received academic scholarships totaling<br />
$12.85 million: $9.95 million in institutional<br />
or private scholarship dollars and<br />
$2.9 million in TOPS dollars. Ninety percent<br />
of the members of the graduating class<br />
applied and was eligible for TOPS scholarship<br />
money.<br />
<strong>St</strong>udents Serve ‘Dear Neighbor’ over <strong>Summer</strong><br />
Taylor Mockler and Carleigh Lanclos share a special moment<br />
with a Honduran child.<br />
<strong>St</strong>. Joseph’s <strong>Academy</strong> students and recent<br />
graduates continued to reach out in service<br />
to the “dear neighbor” by participating in a<br />
number of service immersion experiences<br />
over the course of the summer.<br />
Eleven members of the class of <strong>2009</strong><br />
spent 10 days in Nicaragua, working with<br />
Sister Dianne Fanguy, CSJ, in Cuidad Sandino<br />
and interacting with the youth and pre-school<br />
children in an internal refugee camp. The<br />
mission trip marked the first time a group of<br />
high school students traveled to Nicaragua to<br />
offer service.<br />
Five rising seniors spent 10 days at Mission<br />
Honduras as part of a working retreat.<br />
The missionaries offered service, education<br />
and spiritual guidance to children living in<br />
extreme poverty.<br />
Two groups of students spent a week in<br />
New Orleans, assisting those affected by Hur-<br />
10 • <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2009</strong><br />
Megan Aultman and Gisele Calderon, salutatorian<br />
and validictorian of the class of <strong>2009</strong>.<br />
ricane Katrina. The trips were coordinated by<br />
Contemplatives in Action and sponsored by<br />
the SJA Office of Campus Ministry.<br />
Six students spent a week in Klagetoh, Arizona,<br />
working with the Navajo people on Saint<br />
Anne’s Mission. They hosted a Bible camp for<br />
the children, visited a home for handicapped<br />
adults and served food at a nursing home.<br />
“Through the service immersion trips,<br />
our girls were able to identify with people<br />
on the deepest level,” Campus Minister Tori<br />
McRoberts said. “These opportunities helped<br />
the girls develop into young leaders as they<br />
served the dear neighbor without distinction<br />
and were transformed in the charism of the<br />
Sisters of <strong>St</strong>. Joseph.”<br />
Angela LeBlanc, Jessica Bordelon, Alex Francis, Emily<br />
Guidry and Emily Lopez spent 10 days at Mission<br />
Honduras.<br />
Faculty/<strong>St</strong>aff News<br />
Several faculty and staff members enjoyed<br />
opportunities for personal growth<br />
during the summer.<br />
Principal Linda Fryoux Harvison<br />
’66 and IT Implementation Director<br />
John Richardson were presenters at<br />
the 30th annual National Educational<br />
Computing Conference in Washington,<br />
D.C. They told the story of SJA’s involvement<br />
in the Cordoba Education Initiative,<br />
bringing technology and computer<br />
training to schools and orphanages in<br />
Cordoba.<br />
Twelve faculty and staff members<br />
attended the <strong>2009</strong> Lausanne Laptop<br />
Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. Three<br />
faculty members – Kate Beal, Jennifer<br />
Guidry and John Richardson – were<br />
selected as presenters.<br />
Math teacher Ellen Bush was chosen<br />
to participate in the <strong>2009</strong> Illuminations<br />
<strong>Summer</strong> Institute, developing materials<br />
for the National Council of Teachers of<br />
Mathematics’ library.<br />
Bush and science teacher Vickie<br />
LaPlace were chosen to attend the Engineering<br />
Principles in Science and Math<br />
Classrooms workshop at LSU.<br />
Dance faculty member Kris Cangelosi<br />
’80 choreographed three episodes of<br />
a TV sitcom entitled JK’s House. The<br />
children’s musical stars Robin Givens.<br />
Science teacher Lori Harper participated<br />
in an intensive, two-week biomedical<br />
research program at the University<br />
of Washington. Ethics in the Science<br />
Classroom was hosted by Collaborations<br />
to Understand Research and Ethics.<br />
Celebrating milestone years of service<br />
to SJA are Joanna Campbell, Sister<br />
Ily Fernandez, Gloria K. Green, Amy<br />
Scheurich House ’97, Clarinda Palmer<br />
and Candace Ribes Young ’87, five<br />
years; Niki Banta, Karen Douet, Mary<br />
Beth Elfert, <strong>St</strong>acy Rennhoff and John<br />
Richardson, 10 years; Judy Lavergne<br />
and Linda Messina, 15 years; and Druci<br />
Balkom, 45 years.
marriages...births...memorials<br />
Marriages<br />
’78 Debbie Talbot to David Butterworth 4/3/09<br />
’80 Ellen <strong>St</strong>olzenthaler to Gregory Martinez<br />
10/11/08<br />
’00 Betsy Ellis to Tim Bowers 6/7/08<br />
<strong>St</strong>acy LeBlanc to Joe Ghanami 5/2/09<br />
’01 Mary Ann Wegenhoft to David White 5/9/09<br />
’04 Danielle Clary to Michael Alch 6/26/09<br />
’05 <strong>St</strong>ephanie LeBlanc to Alexander LeBoeuf<br />
2/14/09<br />
Births<br />
’89 Allison Lindsay Traxler: son, James “Grey,”<br />
born 9/15/08<br />
’90 Renee Bourgeois Busch: son, Britain Matthew,<br />
born 6/24/08<br />
’92 Ginger Coghlan Rabb: daughter,<br />
Lillian Elizabeth, born 1/19/09<br />
’93 Shelly Henry Daigle: son, Luke Henry,<br />
born 2/2/09<br />
’94 Kelly Richard Vaughan: daughter,<br />
Camille Catherine, born 12/8/08<br />
Caroline <strong>St</strong>ickman Lemann: daughter,<br />
Mary Frances, born 11/7/08<br />
’95 Amanda Arceneaux Schamber: daughter,<br />
Emilie Kate, born 6/20/08<br />
Lauren Edmonston Brown: daughter,<br />
Avery Claire, born 10/28/08<br />
’96 Laura Bosch Ferrara: daughter, Rebecca Joy,<br />
born 3/12/09<br />
’98 Becky Carriere Christofferson: daughter,<br />
Evelyn Rose, born 8/21/08<br />
Allison Tate Zeringue: daughter, Ava Claire,<br />
born 3/3/09<br />
’99 <strong>St</strong>acy Mayeaux Roberts: son, Parker Joseph,<br />
born 4/24/09<br />
Elizabeth Cowan Wells: son, Julian Joseph, born<br />
4/26/09<br />
Jessica Lato Williams: son, Tyler Matthew, born<br />
7/16/09<br />
’00 Natalie Nola Thompson: son, Nicholas John,<br />
born 6/22/09<br />
’02 Danielle Zito Banquer: daughter,<br />
Molly Adeline, born 10/9/08<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Notices which appear in this issue were received by<br />
August 10, <strong>2009</strong>. The SJA family extends sincere<br />
sympathy to the loved ones of:<br />
Charles Richard “Rick” Albright II<br />
father of Mary Alison Albright ’93<br />
Robert Frederick Arbour<br />
father of Denise Arbour Tebbe ’80 and Dr. Jeanne<br />
Arbour Favrot ’81; brother of Katherine Arbour<br />
Hannaman ’34, Sister Jane Louise Arbour ’41, Virginia<br />
Arbour Tomeny ’47 and Eloise Arbour Selig ’42<br />
Joy Neff Bani<br />
mother of Lynn Anne Bani Carville ’71<br />
Angelina Delores Lombardo Barthel ’58<br />
mother of Donna Lynn Barthel-Jones ’81<br />
Lucy Imogene Fisher Batten ’48<br />
mother of Sandra Batten ’68<br />
George Albert Bishop<br />
father of Frances Bishop Edwards ’78, Mary Bishop<br />
Hall ’80 and Margaret Bishop Baier ’82<br />
Elizabeth Claitor Blagg ’45<br />
sister of Jewel Claitor Ogorzaly ’38 (dec.)<br />
Ronald Francis Borne<br />
brother of Carolyn Borne <strong>St</strong>ewart ’55, Yvonne Borne<br />
Thompson ’56 and Estelle Borne Holliday ’59<br />
Adam J. “Bodie” Boudreaux<br />
father of Laura Boudreaux Miller ’86<br />
Roy Matthew Bourgeois<br />
father of Renee Bourgeois Busch ’90<br />
Orland Morgan Brown Jr.<br />
husband of Ruth Eiswirth Brown ’41; father of Catherine<br />
Brown ’68 (dec.) and Sandra Brown Clark ’82;<br />
grandfather of Christin Clark ’05 and Katelyn Clark ’10<br />
Carmen “Carmelita” Berumen ’53<br />
sister of Paula Berumen ’55<br />
Joseph Louis “Joey” Conkerton<br />
son of Sara Martrain Conkerton ’56<br />
Robert “Bob” Conway<br />
father of Maureen Conway Beyt ’99<br />
Harold Kendall Cotten<br />
husband of Marion Wood Cotten ’47; father of Karen<br />
Cotten Maczewski ’71 and Wendy Cotten Schenck ’72<br />
Robert “Bob” Culver Jr.<br />
father of Elizabeth “Libba” Culver Wilson ’66, Cathy<br />
Culver Black ’68 and Frances Culver McConnell ’72<br />
Thomas Benton “Tommy Ben” Darensbourg Sr.<br />
father of Celeste Darensbourg Roquemore ’79 and<br />
Alyson Darensbourg ’82<br />
Robert Wayne David Sr.<br />
father of Olivia David Latiolas ’99<br />
Edgar Arthur Ducote<br />
father of Julie Ducote Young ’81; grandfather of<br />
Lauren Young ’10<br />
Odessa “Kermit” Gremillion Ducote<br />
grandmother of Celeste Couvillion Fahey ’80, Michelle<br />
Couvillion Kellner ’82 and Melanie Couvillion ’86<br />
Dominic “Dom” Engolio<br />
grandfather of Rachel Pastorek ’02 and Sarah Pastorek<br />
’06<br />
Rita Gipson Gable<br />
mother of Carolyn Gable Bergeron ’65 and Janie Gabel<br />
Barnes ’69; sister of Edith Gipson Taylor ’50<br />
Sidney “Barry” Gautreaux Sr.<br />
brother of Mary Lou Gautreaux Gaudin ’57<br />
Michael W. Gaydos<br />
brother of Joanne Gaydos Day ’64<br />
George Gustave Griffon Jr.<br />
father of Renee Griffon Morris ’87 and Anyce Griffon<br />
Naegele ’88<br />
Veronica Mary “Vee” Bourgeois Guthrie ’48<br />
sister of Theresa Bourgeois Herrington ’41<br />
David W. Hall<br />
father of Carmen Hall Walker ’77, Cheryl Hall<br />
DeRouen ’79, Cynthia Hall Cloudet (attended 1978-<br />
79), Carol L. Hall ’85 and Constance Hall Carter ’90<br />
Frederick Anthony “Fred” Hannaman Jr.<br />
husband of Katherine Arbour Hannaman ’34; father<br />
of Mary Kay Hannaman Burns Collins ’58 and Nancy<br />
Hannaman Endom ’61<br />
Jean M. Haydel<br />
mother of Melissa “Missy” Haydel Diez ’79<br />
Hilda Simm Henson<br />
mother of Hilda Henson Donaldson ’68<br />
Evelyn Tricuit Rivault Hill<br />
mother of Debra Rivault Bennett ’73<br />
grandmother of Kristi Rivault Allen ’95, Leigh Rivault<br />
Donohue ’96, Lindsey Bennett Templet ’99, Lauren<br />
Bennett O’Brien ’02 and LeeAnn Bennett ’12<br />
Karole Leslie Hirschey, alum by choice<br />
mother of Ashlee Gardiner ’10<br />
Frances Paula Holliday ’55<br />
sister of Lydia Holliday Langan ’54 (dec.), Betty Holliday<br />
Thudium ’63 and Cathy Holliday Larsen ’70<br />
George A. Hudson Jr.<br />
brother of Peggy Hudson Fugler ’53<br />
Martha Caldwell Innes<br />
mother of Elizabeth Innes McBurney ’62<br />
Dominic A. “Big I” Inzenga<br />
brother of Maria Inzenga Cloessner ’66<br />
Thomas W. Johnson<br />
father of Colleen Johnson Hoerner ’79<br />
Lorraine Maher Kelley<br />
mother of Mary Kelley Davis ’71 and Sharon Kelley<br />
Brown ’85<br />
Mary Ellen Troxclair Kestler<br />
mother of Lauren Kestler Anderson ’02<br />
continued on page 12<br />
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In Memoriam ... continued from page 11<br />
William Donald “Bill” Kimbro Sr.<br />
father of Laura Kimbro Molino ’77<br />
William Glenn Kyle<br />
father of Kara Kyle Shupe ’86<br />
Gertrude “Tibby” Hebert Landry ’32<br />
Rita Fabre Langlois<br />
sister of Clara Fabre Murphy ’50<br />
Frank Joseph LaPorte<br />
father of Margaret LaPorte Elgin ’65<br />
Amber Vampran Lousteau<br />
mother of Jennifer Lousteau ’05<br />
Woodrow A. Mansur Jr.<br />
brother of Janet Mansur Terrell ’62<br />
A. Keith Marchand<br />
father of Michael Ann Marchand ’10 and Alixandra<br />
Marchand ’11<br />
Dane Erin McCandless (member of class of 2003)<br />
R. Russell McMahon Sr.<br />
father of Claudia Barbe McMahon ’66<br />
Charles N. Meoli Jr.<br />
brother of Lynne Meole Rawley ’63, Phyllis Meole<br />
Pierce ’65 and Kathleen Meole Bernacchio ’71<br />
Marjorie Couniot Mitchell<br />
mother of Lisa Mitchell Cornejo ’73<br />
Susan Van Hees Murphy<br />
mother of Claire Murphy ’04<br />
Philip J. “Muskie” Muscarello Sr.<br />
husband of Mamie Jean Nicholas Muscarello ’53;<br />
father of Toni Muscarello Tucker (alum by choice) and<br />
Joni Muscarello Leggio ’79<br />
George R. “Nickie” Neck<br />
father of Barbara Hillary Neck Burt ’85; grandfather<br />
of Amanda Glaser Brumfield ’98<br />
Ronald Elmore “Ronnie” O’Rear<br />
husband of Barbara Hollis O’Rear ’70<br />
Ceola Sanchez Otto ’32<br />
George H. Persac Jr.<br />
brother of Wanda Persac Annison ’43<br />
Kathleen “Kathy” Boudreaux Prouty<br />
sister of Grace Boudreaux Burton ’44<br />
Gordon Alexander Pugh Sr.<br />
husband of Camilla Rachel Pugh ’59; father of Rachel<br />
Pugh Winger ’91<br />
Thomas “Buddy” Robichaux<br />
brother of Frances Robichaux Bahlinger ’41<br />
Emile B. Roques Jr. (boy of SJA)<br />
Caleb Aaron Rushing<br />
grandson of Lorraine Langridge Adams ’59<br />
James Franklin Smith<br />
grandfather of Dana Guitreau Favoro ’78, <strong>St</strong>acie<br />
Guitreau ’81 and Rhonda Hebert Ruffino ’85<br />
John Henry Smith<br />
father of Cheryl Falgoust Smith ’62<br />
Lewis Beale Smith III<br />
grandfather of Rachel Serio ’09<br />
SFC Severin West “Sev” <strong>Summer</strong>s III<br />
brother of Andree <strong>Summer</strong>s Freeman ’85<br />
Mary Lena Tate<br />
grandmother of Lena McGee, SJA staff member<br />
Barbara Gay Masling Territo ’54<br />
Verna Marie LeBlanc Thompson (former preschool<br />
teacher at SJA)<br />
mother of Verna Thompson Swinney ’59 and Karen<br />
Thompson Villavaso ’64<br />
Leon Joseph Torregrossa II<br />
son of Ann May Torregrossa ’52<br />
Joseph N. Vince Jr.<br />
brother of Jo Ann Vince Levatino ’64<br />
Aubrey J. Weil Jr.<br />
father of Kim Ann Weil Pritchard ’78 and Leslie Ann<br />
Weil Schulte ’80