Summer 2008 - St. Joseph's Academy

accolades...what we’re doingafter surgery. She recently traveled toDoha, Quatar with a three-member medicalteam to transport a patient to HamadNational Medical Center after the first ofthree surgeries to save his life.Faith Blasi is amember of a team establishinga charter school inan inner-city New Jerseysetting. She spent threeyears in service to TeachAmerica.C a t h e r i n e H o y t BlasiHarrison is an instructionaltechnology resource teacher for anelementary school in Virginia.Dawn Starns hasbeen selected to serve asthe legislative liaison forthe Capital Region LegislativeDelegation. Thenewly formed delegationis comprised of 26 legislatorsfrom the nine-parish Starnscapital region of Louisiana.She is responsible for streamlining communicationto and from delegation membersand shepherding its agenda through the legislativeprocess. She is active in the communitythrough her membership in the Junior Leagueof Baton Rouge, and she serves on the SJADevelopment Committee.Emily Ellis Welchfounded a nonprofit organizationin Shreveport,Louisiana, entitled4 Shreveport. The groupencourages young workingadults to be philanthropists.Its first fundraiserWelchwas a St. Patrick’s Dayparade which raised morethan $3,000 for its charityof the year, the Right toPlay Playground.’94 Amy Cyrex Sinsled a group of volunteers Sinson a relief mission to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, inearly August. The group, New Orleans Cooks,served more than 1,500 meals during its timein the flood-ravaged area. Sins, a Katrinasurvivor, is the author of the internationallyacclaimed cookbook Ruby Slippers: Life,Culture, Family and Food After Katrina.’96 Tricia Screen has been named partnerand general manager of the new Enoteca Marcellowine bar/retail store in the SouthdownsShopping Center in Baton Rouge. EnotecaMarcello is scheduled to open in the fall.’99 Ashleigh Armond is a licensed speechpathologist working with Sunbelt Staffing.Her first assignment will be in Silver Spring,Maryland, where she will work in a skillednursing and long-term care unit. She will be anationwide traveling speechpathologist.Melissa Folse is anattorney handling personalinjury cases, family law andcriminal law. She graduatedfrom Southern UniversityLaw Center in May 2007.FolseS a r a h R o u b i q u eQuarles graduated in December 2007 fromNorthwestern State University with a bachelorof science in nursing.Stacy Mayeaux Roberts is a registerednurse working in surgery at University MedicalCenter in Lafayette, Louisiana.’00 Monica MayerBroggi was honored as a2008 Distinguished SalesAward winner by Salesand Marketing ExecutivesInternational of BatonRouge. She was one ofeight winners for 2008. BroggiA graduate of Louisiana State Universitywith a degree in interior design, she is employedas the showroom manager at DinizDesign.Stacy LeBlanc is a physical therapistworking at Arkansas Speciality Orthopedicsin Little Rock.Photo courtesy of InRegister’01 Meg Merritt wasaccepted to the Universityof Pennsylvania for its cityplanning master’s degreeprogram in the fall andreceived the Chair’s MeritScholarship. Since graduatingfrom the University ofMerrittTexas at Austin, she has worked in New Yorkand Austin in city planning and urban railtransportation networks.Lauren McCall Fitch is currently inher third year of law school at SouthernUniversity Law Center.Danielle Graham Claudet is specialevents coordinator for the Juvenile DiabetesResearch Foundation in Baton Rouge.’03 Mandy Jones graduated magna cum laudein May from Louisiana State University witha bachelor of science in civil engineering.Kristen Wray graduated in May fromLouisiana State University with a bachelorof science in early childhood education. Shewill teach second grade at Bains ElementarySchool in St. Francesville.’04 Stephanie Fife wasone of three SJA graduatesto receive the UniversityMedal during LouisianaState University’s commencementexercises inMay. The University Medalis awarded to graduates Fifewith perfect 4.0 GPA’s.Also receiving the University Medal wereAmy Lasseigne and Elizabeth Parks. Threemembers of the SJA class of 2004 graduatedin May from LSU Honors College: AshleyEldringhoff (summa cum laude with a bachelorof arts in philosophy); Sarah Cancienne (cumlaude with a bachelor of fine arts in studioart); and Lasseigne (bachelor of science ingeology).Lauren Gunn graduated in June fromWashington & Lee University with the BSC degree.She majored in business administration.continued on page 16Summer 2008 • 3