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SPRING 2015

Greetings from Centenary College! I truly cannot believe the time has already come for another annual newsletter! This year is flying by so quickly after I was out of the office most of the fall on maternity leave. My family is adjusting to a new normal with the addition of our precious daughter, Lilly Grace, born on September 9. To everyone in my Centenary family who has sent kind words of congratulations and encouragement, I am so very thankful! I am reminded daily of how special and supportive the Centenary family can be, and it makes my job so incredibly worthwhile!

In the pages of this newsletter you will find content designed just for YOU! There are updates about the alumni association, the Centenary campus, and your alumni friends all over the globe. The Office of Alumni & Family Relations remains committed to continuing to provide ways for our alumni to stay connected to the College and to one another, and this keeps us BUSY! One of those ways is through our geographic chapters located in Shreveport-Bossier, Atlanta, Austin, Baton Rouge, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Little Rock, New Orleans and Washington, DC. This year, we are committed to moving towards replacing the current chapter president organizational model with a committee structure for these chapters. If you are interested in serving on a geographic chapter committee, I encourage you to reach out to us today!

Another big way we work to keep you engaged is through our annual Homecoming events in the fall. Mark your calendars for Homecoming 2015 – October 23-25. The weekend will include home soccer games, a volleyball tournament, and

the Alumni Awards Luncheon (now accepting nominations!) on Friday; the annual Homecoming tailgate by the Gold Dome along with Greek open houses on Saturday; and the Memorial Service in Brown Chapel on Sunday.

In addition, we will celebrate reunion years for the Classes of 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 (my year!), and 2010. If you are a member of one of these classes interested in planning your reunion, I invite you to get in touch with me as soon as possible so we can include your reunion in the planning, brochure, etc. Affinity or common interest groups are also invited to plan reunions during Homecoming! Our office offers event planning assistance for reunions, but we have found that without ample lead time and members of the class or affinity reaching out to fellow alumni in the planning process, reunions are not successful. With just a little over six months until Homecoming, now is the time to begin planning, so give me a call (318.869.5115) or send me an email (ssolomon@centenary.edu) to get started today!

As we move into the final quarter of another fiscal year, we remain committed to keeping you engaged and informed. If you have not been receiving our monthly e-newsletter The Forward, please send us your email address so we can add you to the list. The Forward is one of the best ways to get updated information about Centenary each month. You can also subscribe to The Weekly, a news update delivered to your inbox each Friday, at centenary.edu/weekly and the monthly events e-newsletter at centenary.edu/upcoming. And as always, if you move, get a new job, get married, have a baby, write a book, or anything else exciting, we want to know about it! Send us updates at alumni@centenary.edu or give us a call any day!

Forward, forward Centenary!

Enjoy!

Saige Wilhite Solomon ’05Director of Alumni & Family Relations

Table of ContentsA Message from our Alumni Association President ..........3National Alumni Chapter Information .......................35 Alumni, 5 Questions ...........5A Word about Professional Success ...........................6Academic Spotlight: Geology 75th Anniversary ......7Labor receives SPUR Award ....8Student Spotlight: Colton Toups .....................9Students Teach and Learn at Meadows Museum ...............10-11Support a Giving Network ....12Alumni Spotlight: Deandre Johnson ’04 ........13Alumni Travel Opportunities..................14Archives & Special Collections ....................15Class Notes ............16-17Marriages and Births ..........17In Memoriam ..................18Calendar of Events .............19

An Alumni Newsletter for Centenary College of Louisiana

ALUMNINEWS

Lilly Grace Solomon poses with Santa at the Second Annual Centenary Breakfast with Santa event on December 6, 2014.

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Contact Us! Office of Alumni & Family Relations2911 Centenary BoulevardShreveport, Louisiana 71104 WEBSITE: centenary.edu/alumni EMAIL: alumni@centenary.edu

Saige W. Solomon ’05Director of Alumni & Family Relations318.869.5115ssolomon@centenary.edu

CONTRIBUTORS:

Alissa Brown ’15Student

Chris Brown ’01Archivist of the College and Louisiana UMC

Rachael PetersDirector of Professional Success

Kate PedrottyDirector of Strategic Communication

Patty Roberts ’82Editor and Advancement Writer

Rob Rubel ’01Alumni Association President

Mary Katherine Leslie Van HookStrategic Communication Specialist

DESIGN:

Sherry HeflinVisual Identity and Publications Manager

Jeremy JohnsonDirector of Digital Media

ADMINISTRATION:

B. David RowePresident

Fred LandryVice President for Advancement

L. Calhoun Allen, IIIAssociate Vice President for Marketing and Communication

This publication is a product of the Alumni Association of Centenary College of Louisiana Learn more online at centenary.edu/alumni

The following are privileges and discounts offered to ALL Centenary College of Louisiana Alumni. You must possess your Alumni Card to receive these discounts. If you do not have an Alumni Card, please contact the Office of

Alumni Relations at 318.869.5028 or email alumni@centenary.edu.

• $5 regular ticket price at Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

• 10% off merchandise at the Centenary College Store

• Magale Library Privileges (see librarian for assistance)

• Alumni discount at Centenary Fitness Center

• Discount on the rental of Brown Chapel and on campus photography privileges – call 318.869.5778 for more information

• Centenary College Office of Professional Success (formerly the Office of Career Services amd Placement) – email rpeters@centenary.edu or call 318.869.5360

• 10% off at Kaplan Learning Centers (for alumni & immediate families): 800.KAP.TEST

• Alumni discounts with Liberty Mutual Insurance*

• Alumni Travel Program* – email alumni@centenary.edu to have your name added to the mailing list

• Connections through alumni chapters in cities across the country

• Exclusive invitations to special alumni events – be sure to update your contact information!

• Annual alumni newsletter publication

• Annual Centenary publication, Encircle

• Access to The Weekly – informational weekly email update with College news; subscribe at centenary.edu/weekly

• Access to The Forward – monthly email features and news updates; subscribe by sending your email address to alumni@centenary.edu

• Access to Upcoming Events@Centenary – monthly e-newlsetter of upcoming events; subscribe at centenary.edu/upcoming

• Access to other alumni through social media outlets

Alumni Benefits

*If you do not wish to receive communications from these alumni benefit partners, please contact our office.

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AAs the new president of your Alumni Association, let me begin by saying what an honor it is for me to serve you in this capacity. Since graduating from Centenary College in 2001, there has remained a special place in my heart for our school and for fellow alumni. Centenary graduates and students continue a tradition of making a positive impact literally all over the world. I believe it’s safe to say that each one of you reading this message has played a part in building that tradition, and it is likely that you acquired some of the character traits that helped in that process right here on this pretty little campus at Kings Highway and Centenary Boulevard.

There is, of course, no shortage of subjects relating to Centenary College to discuss. Changes adopted in the face of economic challenges by Centenary and the field of higher education in general since 2007 alone offer a multitude of possible topics of discussion. Some of those changes have alarmed some members of the Alumni Association, and I want you to know that the Alumni Council recognizes this fact. I believe that we are now experiencing discovery moments that can offer opportunities to address these changes in productive

issues, and we are all learning the important aspects involved with enrollment. We hope to develop some specific ways to allow alumni to help in this area as well.

A Coordinating Committee created this year will identify and explore key issues that are common throughout the Alumni Association. Committee members are charged with initiating discussions with members of the Association and communicating common issues to the council so that a specific course of action can be developed. This task is daunting, but the more input we have from you, the more effective this group can become. As head of this committee, I encourage you to communicate and engage with us as frequently and honestly as possible.

We have quickly learned that events which connect alumni with current students are popular methods of engagement. Affinity groups connect members who share an affiliation with a particular campus group and provide opportunities to engage with the campus community. For example, our Athletic Affinity group has created the Varsity Club. This is a group focused on celebrating the Centenary Student Athlete and offering ways to engage our Athletic Alumni. Please join me in celebrating another successful season for the Gents Basketball team as they captured the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference regular season title and made it to the championship game of the conference tournament this year! We have also resumed the successful Student-Alumni Dinner series and continue developing our GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) affinity group, which targets younger alumni whose energy and tenacity are needed to invigorate our programming. I encourage all of you to contact us if you wish to connect with a specific affinity group.

There’s plenty more we are doing and planning in hopes of representing the Alumni Association in the most effective way possible. I am very proud to work with this council and to work for you. Please do not hesitate to contact me with anything you want to discuss. Please be sure to check out all the events we have posted in this newsletter and go to Centenary.edu to find others. Lastly, I must confess that I have selfishly benefitted from my position as president of the Alumni Association by having the opportunity to meet new wonderful people. Centenary Alumni are truly wonderful.

Sincerely,

Rob Rubel ’01, PresidentCentenary College Alumni Associationrobrubel31@gmail.com • 318.208.1884

A Message from Your Alumni Presidentways. We want to create an environment that fosters open discussion and collaboration to develop new, positive action items that will enhance your connection to our Alma Mater. My goal is to identify and address through the Alumni Association the issues that are of the most concern to you. I also am committed to keeping every one of you plugged in to the issues facing our school. I invite all of you to forward your questions, concerns, and suggestions to me or another Alumni Council member. We surely won’t always agree or reach a resolution, but if we do not start those conversations, and we do not have that dialogue, we will have no chance at all of moving Centenary forward.

With that in mind, your Alumni Council has been hard at work the first six months of this fiscal year implementing concepts that we believe will facilitate active engagement with our alumni. While staying true to the committee structure set by previous Councils, we have added aspects that will make it easier to actively engage members of our Association. We have recruited some new members who bring specific talents that we identified as being crucial additions to our group and its mission. We also instituted a New Member Orientation that has made it possible for new council members to be as effective as possible, as quickly as possible. Our veteran Council members continue providing leadership and perspective. A newly created Enrollment Committee receives regular updates from our expert on admission

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5 ALUMNI | 5 QUESTIONS

Paul Griffith ’79Major: Sociology Musician, Nashville, TN

Tricia Matthew ’91Major: English English Professor, Brooklyn, NY

Chris Susilovich ’00Major: Environmental Science Farm & Ranch Broker, Shreveport, LA

Mimori Robertson ’58Major: Political Science Owner of Japanese/Asia Groceries Fuji-ya Market, Bossier City, LA

Susan Roberts ’88Major: EnglishJournalist,Washington, D.C.

We asked 5 alumni 5 questions about their Centenary experience.

1. Tell us about a favorite Centenary memory.

2. What was your favorite hangout spot during your College years?

3. What advice would you give a student starting Centenary in the fall?

4. What is some-thing you would like people outside of the Centenary community to know about the College?

5. Describe Centenary in five words or less.

I was a Theta Chi, and we would have these incredible parties. We had an open door policy, and I can remember looking out over a jammed, makeshift dancefloor and seeing every possible walk-of-college-life--athletes, church professionals, foreign students, math majors, LGBT students, pre-med students, faculty, independents, and members of other fraternities and sororities--all jumping up and down in time to Head East’s “Never Been Any Reason.” That song never sounded better.

We had Pizza King, Strawn’s pie, Leon’s turkeys, and Mr. Weismann’s catfish all within walking distance of campus. It was freshman-food heaven. But my happy place was George’s. That double cheeseburger could make me forget a bad grade. I spent so much time there that ten years later the waitresses were still asking how my classes were going.

Get to know your professors before arriving on campus. Familiarize yourself with their academic interests, their teaching styles, and how demanding they are. Talk to upperclassmen. Get excited. This is especially important during your freshman year, as adjusting to college life is difficult enough without overloading your schedule with classes that aren’t in your wheelhouse.

I was a creative but not brilliant high school student and was headed to LSU like most of my friends. A chance meeting with a Centenary recruiter changed everything. I discovered this remarkable liberal arts college that suited me perfectly--and what’s more, they seemed to actually want me! Centenary is a wonderful alternative for students who are worried they’ll be lost at an enormous state institution.

Centenary gives context to life. A long-lasting sense of community.

1st place: Top floor of the SUB in the Conglomerate offices. 2nd place: Turner Art Center.

Work hard in your classes, but leave time to contribute to the larger community; in other words, start giving back NOW. Imagine all the things you want to try out in college and go for it. Your professors know a lot more than they’re letting on, so go to their office hours and ask them tons of questions about their work. The chocolate pie at Strawn’s is much better than the strawberry.

The best thing about Centenary is that it’s growing more and more diverse and continues to be a college with committed faculty who care about helping students figure out how they want to live in the world.

It’s hard to choose one! 1) Maya Angelou’s visit to campus and going to Shoney’s after her reception for a late dinner with friends in the limousine Andy Shehee loaned us; 2) the party we had at Bruce Allen’s house with Allen Ginsberg (Tina Moore brought him to campus) 3) visiting with James Dickey at Dr. Labor’s house....oh, and 4) hanging out with Jeff Hendricks and a group of Centenary alumni in the Village just last month---laughing over surprisingly good Mexican food and more than decent pitchers of sangria.

Leadership, Legacy, and Community

Meeting the woman of my dreams and my future wife, Sarah Knighton Susilovich.

Kappa Alpha Mansion, 106 E. Washington.

To seriously consider Greek Life.

As the oldest college west of the Mississippi River, Centenary College continues to build on its legacy of excellence. Truly a world class education!

My favorite Centenary memory is definitely meeting my husband. (We have been together for 54 years.)

Shooters, of course!

Enjoy each day, because College goes by so quickly. Be mindful of how fortunate you are to be in an intimate academic setting with so much one-on-one attention. You have direct access to your professors, which is something you should use to your advantage. Have fun and forget New Orleans! Shreveport is a great town!

Centenary is an institution that is steeped in tradition and excellence. You can spend twice the amount elsewhere, but receive an equal or greater education at Centenary.

Vibrant, high-performing, intimate, electric, engaging, and fun!

The lobby of James Dormitory.

Expect friendly faces on campus and return the favor with your friendliness. You will find some lifetime friends while you explore new fields.

I would like to let the people know that Centenary’s size makes it easier to get to know the fellow students and the faculty members who are eager to help you when you need assistance.

One big caring family

My favorite memory from Centenary was the day Dean Dorothy Guinn called me to say I had been accepted to join the exchange program at St. John’s College in Oxford, England! Centenary along with SMU, Swanee, Millsaps, Rhodes, and AU all participated in the program. We studied during the day and traveled throughout Europe on the weekends. We had the time of our lives! I still remember going to the U2 concert in a Rugby stadium in Cardiff, Wales with my classmates! Pinch me!

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IIt gives me great pleasure to introduce myself as the Director of Professional Success (formerly the Office of Career Services and Placement) here at Centenary. Professional Success serves as the bridge between students’ college experience and post-college plans by helping them apply what they have learned to reach that next step of graduate school or a career. By providing comprehensive resources, exciting programs, and advising on career development, internships, employment,

and graduate school, the staff assists students and alumni in making career decisions, connecting with employers, and attaining their life goals.

For alumni, our office can provide

• Résumé and cover letter assistance• Curriculum vitae reviews• Personal statement assistance• Career seminars and workshops (e.g. Career

Networking Dining Etiquette)• And more!

We have established a new LinkedIn group specifically designed to provide a platform for networking and a means to connect students, alumni, and employers. This group is open to current Centenary students, Centenary alumni, and employers interested in recruiting Centenary graduates. Employers are invited to post their current job openings, and we invite students and alumni to post their career interests and professional networking opportunities. Search groups for “Centenary College of Louisiana – Office of Professional Success” to join today!

Please also follow us on Pinterest! There, you will find a fun and engaging way to stay up to date on all things related to Professional Success, from résumé tips to negotiating your salary. You can find our boards at pinterest.com/CentSuccess/. Best and happy connecting,

Rachael K. Peters, M.S., PHR, SHRM-CPDirector of Professional Success

The bridge between college and professional sucess!

Annually, the Association is proud to honor members of our alumni

community at the Alumni Awards Banquet during Homecoming.

The awards includeAlumni Hall of Fame

Alumni Loyalty Award (selected by the President of the College

& the Director of Alumni and Family Relations)

Athletic Hall of Fame

Honorary Alumnus (loyal friends of the College)

Honorary Athletic Letter

Bentley Sloane Award (CLC/Church Careers alumni award)

Young Alumni Leadership (40 years of age or younger)

ALUMNI AWARDS

To view a list of previous winners or nominate fellow alumni & friends, visit

CENTENARY.EDU/ALUMNIAWARDS

7In 1940, Cyrus Kilgore graduat-ed with Centenary College’s first geology degree. Allowing for some starts and stops, the department is marking its 75th anniversary during the 2014-2015 academic year.

The history of geology at Centenary begins in the 19th century, with geology as a required course in the sixth semester of both the Classical (A.B.) and the Scientific (B.S.) curricula from the 1850s through the 1880s. Meteorology was the required seventh semester course during this time period, and Dr. David Bieler, Chair of the Geology Department, notes that Centenary’s current Geology 103 course – Atmosphere, Climate, and the Earth’s Surface – preserves the meteorology component in the modern curriculum. Shortly before the College moved to Shreveport in 1908, geology became a year-long course, but over the next few decades, its appearance in the Centenary curriculum was unpredictable – at times required, other times elective, and sometimes altogether absent.

Finally, in 1938 – two years before Cyrus Kilgore received the first geology degree – the Geology Department was established as its own entity and William E. Wallace was hired as the department’s first faculty mem-ber. From 1944 to 1946, Dr. Wallace took a leave of absence to work in industry in support of the war effort. In 1946, Charles Hickox arrived to lead the department, and the geology program has operated unin-terrupted since that time, producing over three hundred graduates. Today, Centenary students can earn either a B.A. or B.S. in geology, and the department also actively supports the College’s Environment and Society minor.

Due to strong connections with the local petroleum industry, the Centenary Geology Department’s 75th anniversary has a signif-icance that reaches far beyond the College. The petroleum industry has been an integral part of the northwest Louisiana economy for more than 100 years. For much of that time, both faculty members and geologists educated at Centenary have used their train-ing and expertise to help drive the develop-ment and success of the local petroleum industry.

Beyond providing career opportunities for Centenary geology graduates, the petroleum industry has also played an important and at times transformative role in supporting the College as a whole.

“It is hard to imagine our campus without the buildings that are here because of the largesse of people in the local petroleum industry,” said

Bieler. “The service of local people in the petroleum industry on our Board of Trustees who otherwise had no connection to Centenary is also quite remarkable. The 75th anniversary of the Geology Department is both a Centenary milestone and a moment to reflect on the importance of the petroleum industry for the College and the entire region.”

CentenaryLeaders Geology’s 75th Anniversary ACADEMIC

Pictured are Dr. Scott Vetter and Dr. David Bieler of the Geology Department at Centenary College of Louisiana.

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Dr. Earle Labor, Centenary’s Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Director of the Jack London Research Center, received the 2014 Spur Award for the Best Western Nonfiction Biography for Jack London: An American Life, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The Western Writers of America presented the award during the organization’s annual convention in June in Lubbock, Texas.

Labor had the pleasure of accepting the award alongside four of his five children, Andrea ’14, Isabel ’86, Kirk ’82, and Royce ’76/’78, and wife Gayle ’71—all Centenary alumni.

“Because Steve Weil (the publicist of Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was unable to attend the conference, he

appointed my kids to make the acceptance speech on his behalf,” said Labor.

The author of nearly one hundred articles and ten published books on author and adventurer Jack London, Labor taught the first course on London ever offered in the United States as a Visiting Professor at Utah State University in 1966, and he presented the first Jack London course in Western Europe as a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Aarhus in 1974. After returning from Denmark, he

worked to initiate a student-teacher exchange program between the University of Aarhus and Centenary College.

In 1974, Labor’s Jack London, the first book-length critical study of this celebrated author’s works, received a “5 Star” rating in The West Coast Review of Books. The 1988 Stanford University Press three-volume edition of London’s Letters, co-edited with Robert C. Leitz and London’s great-nephew Milo Shepard, was accorded front-page reviews in both The New York Times and The London Times Literary Supplement.

Later, in 1988, with the encourage-ment and support of Milo Shepard,

Centenary alumnus Samuel Peters, and then College President Donald Webb, Labor established Centenary’s unique Jack London Museum and Re-search Center. He directed four Summer Seminars for Teachers sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which have included partici-pants from Germany, the Philippines, Albania, and the Congo.

After years of dedicating hours upon hours of study and research to the life and works of Jack London, Labor was honored as the Jack London Man of the Year 2011 by the Jack London Foundation. The award was presented at the 41st Annual Jack London Banquet in Sonoma, California.

In 1991, Labor signed a contract agreeing to write what would be Jack London: An American Life. After years of setbacks, the book finally came to fruition in the fall of 2013.

Accolades for this addition to Labor’s work included praise from the Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, and Publishers Weekly. A review by Booklist commended Labor:

Labor’s unceasingly vivid, often outright astonishing biography vibrantly chronicles London’s exception-ally daring and wildly contradictory life and recovers and reassesses his complete oeuvre, including many powerful, long-neglected works of compas-sionate, eyewitness nonfiction. Let the Jack London revival begin.

Labor receives Spur Award for Jack London biography

The Labor family at the awards ceremony pictured left to right are Andrea ’14, Gayle ’71, Earle, Kirk ’82, Isabel ’86, and Royce ’76/’78.

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Colton Toups got pushed out of his comfort zone a few days into his college career, and he wants you to know that he is grateful.

A first-year biochemistry major from Lufkin, Texas, Colton arrived at Centenary College on August 1, 2014, and departed for Paris, France, just a few days later. Over the next ten days, he and his fellow students in the Class of 2018 visited some of Paris’s iconic sites, including the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Palace of Versailles. But this was no ordinary sightseeing trip. It was an intensive learning experience called Centenary in Paris, and the lessons that Colton learned both inside and outside the classroom have significantly shaped his first year at Centenary College.

“My best memories of Paris are really about what we did together as students,” said Toups. “I know all of the other freshmen on campus because of our experiences together in Paris. Now, when I think about places like Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower, I have spe-cific memories of what I learned there with my friends and professors.”

Toups was a member of Professor Lisa Nicoletti and Professor Bruce Allen’s course exploring the lives and work of past and present Impressionist artists in both Paris and Shreveport. He and his classmates bene-fited from the opportunity to see some of the world’s most famous works of art firsthand and also had a crash course in some basic college survival skills.

“Dealing with hard deadlines, managing distractions to get assignments done – we in-stantly knew that we were not in high school anymore,” said Toups. “It was a lot of work, but it was rewarding to be able to start out with four credit hours and fulfill some of the most specific requirements in the Centenary curriculum, like the culture requirement. At the end of the immersive term, we had really learned how to be college students, and it’s pretty incredible to be able to say that we learned it in Paris.”

The long days of walking and learning all over Paris followed by late nights spent studying and completing assignments weren’t al-ways easy. And, Toups admits, at first it was unsettling to be spending so much time in an unfamiliar culture with people that he barely knew. But when he reflects on what he and his classmates gained from Centenary in Paris, Toups feels that being “uncomfortable”

was ultimately the most significant part of the experience.

“Since we were all out of our comfort zones and essentially met each other in Paris, we really learned about each other there. I think we are much closer than we would have been otherwise,” said Toups. “I also feel very

connected to all of the Centenary alumni who came before us who have made this school great, and whose support makes experiences like Centenary in Paris possible. The work they have done should make them proud, and my classmates and I are grateful for the unique opportunity that we were given.”

CentenaryLeaders COLTON TOUPS STUDENT

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the Meadows Museum’s permanent collection, and then created an exhibit design. By using the social media phenomenon of hashtags in con-junction with the museum’s permanent collection, the pair hopes to appeal to a multigenerational audience. Their concept was first chosen by the Friends of the Meadows to be featured in the museum and was then selected to be presented at the Technology Showcase for the Southeastern Museum Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee.

“At the conference, the older generation thought it was an interesting way to bring more students and a bigger audience into the exhibit, whereas the younger audience understood the hashtags and could relate better,” explained Hancock.

“The pieces will be arranged in a salon style to mimic a newsfeed of images. Ultimately, the goal of the exhibit is to tear down any institutional or elitist walls that may be keeping students from exploring the museum and to give visitors a new perspective on the interaction between the museum and social media,” said Green.

Meadows Museum staff members are also look-ing forward to alumna Emily Fultz’s ’14 upcoming Haitian exhibit. A 2014 Centenary graduate,

Following the Centenary in Paris immersive term for the 2014 freshman class, students submitted course-related artwork and writings created while abroad to be displayed at the museum. Submis-sions included photographs from the business students, poetry by the English students, and original works by art students. These pieces were displayed alongside more than 30 Paris-related works from the Meadows Museum’s permanent collection. The varied works allowed visitors to glimpse the immersive experience from the students’ perspectives and gave students the op-portunity to showcase their talents and works to a broad audience. Art student Tyler Nale stated that he and his fellow students enjoyed “the immense sense of pride and fulfillment you get when you take a step back after laboring long and hard and admire the work you’ve done.” He hopes that, through the exhibit, guests were able to experi-ence the magic of Paris for themselves.

A current exhibition titled “#exhibit” displays the curatorial work of two Centenary students: senior Cadie Hancock ’15 and sophomore Ben Green ’17. As part of an assignment in their Modern and Contemporary Art class in spring 2014, the two conceptualized the project, selected works from

Fultz also began her work as an assignment for the Modern and Contemporary Art course. Her two-part exhibit will use paintings from the Meadows Museum’s permanent collection that depict the “Tree of Life” and the lush, mountain-ous landscape of Haiti in the 1970s and 1980s juxtaposed against the contemporary photographs by Jonathan Auch that document the country’s rapid deforestation.

Fultz’s passion lies both in the visual component of the artworks as well as in the larger economic problems that they represent.

“Today, only 1.4 percent of Haiti’s land is still forest,” explained Fultz. “It is estimated that 20 million trees are cut down each year for farmland and charcoal. Charcoal is the primary source of energy for most citizens. I hope that the works from the permanent collection and the photo-graphs by Jonathan Auch alongside one another will raise awareness about the rapid deforestation Haiti is facing.”

Rachel Clampitt ’15, a history major and Centenary senior, is completing historical work in the museum as an independent study. Inspired by sketches made by French-American artist Jean

Students teach and learn at Meadows MuseumThe Meadows Museum of Art on Centenary’s campus serves a dual purpose: acting as a cultural resource for the larger Shreveport-Bossier community and playing an essential role in enrich-ing the academic mission of the campus. The Meadows enhances the campus’s learning environment by engaging the student body in general and providing hands-on experience for art students in particular.

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Despujols during World War I, Clampitt is searching for photographs taken during the Great War that parallel Despujols’ sketches, contacting other museums in hopes of finding a French war uniform, and reading Despujols’ journals for more information about his wartime experiences. She hopes that both students on campus and visitors from the community will appreciate the lesser-known works that Despujols completed before producing his representations of Indochina. She also wants viewers to see this French soldier’s experience of World War I—a conflict that she feels is often ignored.

Each of these instances represents a student who has taken his or her experiences at the museum to a higher level through class work and personal interests. In addition to providing exhibits created to attract their peers, they are also optimistic that they are enriching the Museum’s contributions to the arts community in the Shreveport-Bossier region. Each semester, about a dozen students help operate this nationally accredited museum. Whether students experience the Meadows first as a place to meet and mingle with acclaimed artists, have class, or complete a professional internship, Interim Co-Directors Bruce Allen and Dr. Lisa Nicoletti want all students to keep coming back, even beyond graduation, when they can join other dedicated alumni on the Friends of the Meadows Board.

MEADOWS MUSEUM UPCOMING EVENTS

“The Dream Series” by Marlene Tseng Yu February 21-May 3, 2015 The Dream Series

Yu is the founder of the Rainforest Art Foundation, which attempts to raise environmental awareness through art. This exhibit is one of seven regional exhibitions called the “Lucky Sevens,” celebrating the artist’s 77th year and the opening of the Marlene Yu Museum in downtown Shreve-port. See marlenetsengyu.com.

“See America: Advertising Our National Treasures through Graphic Design” February 28-May 2, 2015 See America A historical and juried poster exhibition.

“#exhibit: Reinterpreting Art from the Permanent Collection” February 21-May 3, 2015 #exhibit Curated by students Ben Green ’17 and

Cadie Hancock ’15

This exhibit reinterprets the Museum’s permanent collection through the lens of social media to encourage cross gener-ational interaction with the museum, to bring more students into the museum, and to teach the public about the function of hashtags (i.e. #). The exhibition design will mimic current social media posts while the selection will raise questions about Generation Z and its social network conventions.

“Concentrations: An Intentional Floor Display of Aromatic Spices” by Stephen Watson August-October 2015 Concentrations

Watson is a multi-disciplinary conceptual sculptor and an Assistant Professor of Art at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. During his residency, he will use 30 spices to create giant spice “paintings” in the style of Tibetan floor mandalas or Navajo sand paintings. In addition to his installation in the Meadows, Watson will create a “spice trail” across campus, visually connecting the museum with the entire campus, and allowing more individuals to come across and interact with the artist during the work’s installation. Painting with spices is both visually and aromatically engaging. All of the spice paintings are impermanent: they are installed on-site and destroyed after exhibition. Watson views them as markers of being: “temporary evidence that I was here and there, and intentional, physical reminders of the unseen things I leave behind.”

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Our alumni are passionate about making gifts that have real impact. The Centenary Giving Network program is specifically designed to illustrate the power of collec-tive giving. The Giving Network program at Centenary is a peer-to-peer fundraising program that asks leaders among alumni to engage their friends in creating annual student scholarships.

A gift to a Giving Network allows you the unique opportunity to make a donation that has a real and significant impact for a current Centenary student because your gift is pooled with gifts from other alumni. Collectively those gifts will provide a scholarship for a current Centenary student.

Young alumni have expressed interest in engaging with Centenary’s philanthropic community but also wonder whether their gifts will make a difference. Centenary’s GOLD Giving Network program is designed to help young alumni begin a tradition of giving back in a meaningful way.

Give through Centenary and support a Giving Network!

What legacy will you leave in the world? How will your legacy impact Centenary College? A planned gift to the College can provide financial flexibility and tax benefits, but more importantly, it can have a real and lasting impact on our students. As Centenary develops leaders for a changing world, your planned gift will help prepare Centenary graduates to engage the world’s greatest challenges. Give to the world through Centenary, and define your legacy today.

The Paul Marvin Brown, Jr., Society honors alumni and friends who include Centenary College in their estate plans. These gifts of future support will play an extraordinary role in ensuring Centenary’s continued commitment to students, faculty, and the liberal arts.For more information,

please contact David Henington318.869.5151 • dheningt@centenary.edu

centenary.edu/leavealegacy

Centenary’s GOLD (graduates of the last decade) Giving Network program is the only giving program specifically designed for Young Alumni. GOLD alumni have the opportunity join a Giving Network by pledging as little as $25 a year for three years.

Giving Network pledges are pooled to award an annual scholarship of at least $2,500.

Alumni giving at all levels helps Centenary’s ranking in U.S. News and World Report, ultimately making your degree WORTH MORE. For the past four year, U.S. News and World Report has named Centenary College a Tier One school.

What difference will my pledge make? • Your gift will be pooled with gifts from other

alumni to award an annual scholarship of at least $2,500.

• Giving to Centenary demonstrates your leader-ship and improves the alumni participation rate.

• Make an even bigger impact by recruiting five Centenary friends to join a Giving Network! Giving Networks are most successful when they are supported by a grass roots peer-to-peer effort.

Why should I consider joining a Giving Network?• Receive an exclusive annual Giving Network

update and profile on the student receiving your scholarship.

• Alumni donors in this program serve as mod-els for student recipients.

• You will receive few, if any, solicitations from Centenary while you participate. No more phone calls!

What are Giving Network member commitments?• GOLD Giving Network Program – The

minimum individual commitment is $25 annually, but you can give up to $99.

• Older alumni can join a giving network by pledging at least $100 annually.

• All pledges are for a three-year term.

How can I learn more about Giving Networks?• Contact Meredith Sowers at

msowers@centenary.edu or at 318.369.5025 to learn more!

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The Reverend DeAndre Johnson ’04 has been selected to serve on the worship design team for the 2016 General Conference of the United Methodist Church to be held in Portland, Oregon.

General Conference is the top policy-making body of the United Methodist Church, which meets once every four years with the next gathering scheduled for Tuesday, May 10, to Friday, May 20, 2016. The conference can revise church law as well as adopt resolu-tions on current moral, social, public policy, and economic issues. It also approves plans and budgets for church-wide programs. Including non-voting members, nearly 3,500 people participate in the program’s events.

Johnson received his bachelor of music in sacred music from Centenary College in 2004 and went on to earn his master of sacred music degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He and his wife, Kelsey ’05, are currently on staff at Westbury Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, where Johnson serves as associate pastor of music and worship.

Has your family enjoyed living in Houston?

Yes, Houston is a very eclectic town. It has recently surpassed all other major cities in the United States in rankings for diversity. Diversity is what really drew us in and what keeps us here. As a blended family, it’s a good place to raise our children in that culture.

What will your role be at General Conference?

My role will be to coordinate all the music for the General Conference which will primarily consist of my forming and leading the house band for all 10 days of the program. I will also work with the worship coordinator to select other ensembles and groups through-out the global community to be part of worship, as well as provide musical support at other times during the conference. I am both excited and very nervous at the same time. It’s a very large venue, and I’ve never attended General Conference before, but I’m excited to work with friends to build a musical team that will help provide worship for the global church and for all that God will do through that. I’m very excited about it.

Tell us about your Centenary experience.

Centenary was an awesome time for me. I grew both musically and personally. I met

my wife there through the Church Careers program. I was part of the Centenary College Choir, Camerata, and CLC and really enjoyed myself. My professors really helped me reach my fullest potential. How did you and Kelsey meet?

We met my sophomore year and her fresh-man year. It was the first day of class in the

Church Careers program. The Chaplain at the time, Dr. Jack O’Dell, put me in charge of the field education component to make sure everyone got signed up for an internship. Kelsey came over to sign up, and I talked her into coming to work with me at Broadmoor Methodist Church.

That was tricky.Yes, indeed!

CentenaryLeaders DEANDREJOHNSON ’04 ALUMNI

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Join the Centenary College Choir as a special guest during its concert tour of Central Europe in May 2015! During the two week journey, you’ll travel with the choir to some of Europe’s greatest cultural capitals, including Berlin, Leipzig, Prague, Vienna, and Salzburg. In addition to enjoying several choir concerts throughout the trip, you’ll have access to guided tours of notable historical, religious, and musical sites such as the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, the Leipzig church where Johann Sebastian Bach was a cantor, and Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg.

The tour package includes round-trip airfare, accommodations, daily breakfast, a professional tour escort and private motor coach, and all scheduled sightseeing and entrance fees. Visit centenary.edu/alumni/travel for full details and to register for this incredible experience with the Centenary College Choir.

Space is still available for guests on the tour, so all published deadlines have been extended.

Centenary College ChoirConcert Tour

CENTRAL EUROPEBERLIN, LEIPZIG, PRAGUE, VIENNA, and SALZBURG

Alumni Travel Opportunities

Centenary in Paris

MAY 4-18, 2015

AUGUST 5-14, 2015

Were you just a bit envious when you heard that all of Centenary’s first-year students were starting college in Paris? Now you can join them! We’re putting the finishing touches on Centenary in Paris 2.0 – a special trip planned specifically for alumni and friends that will take place August 5 - 14, in conjunction with our newest crop of incoming students’ Centenary in Paris experience. Join Centenary professor Dr. Dominic Salinas and Planned Giving Officer David Henington for outings to museums, cultural landmarks, and cafes in and around Paris.

Contact David Henington at planned@centenary.edu or 318.869.5151 before March 31 to indicate your interest and for more information on the itinerary, activities, and costs.

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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Most Centenary alumni will likely remember following campus news in the college’s weekly student newspaper, The Conglomerate. Others might remember spending countless hours working in The Conglomerate office proof-reading articles, working to manually adjust the paper’s layout, soliciting advertisers, and writing editorials. Now, online researchers can access the Centenary Archives’ complete collection of student newspapers going back to 1902.

If this sounds like a familiar story, you’re not mistaken. However, there’s a new twist. The Archives previously announced the digitization of student newspapers published between fall 1959 and spring 1990 (see Centenary’s Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2013). Now, the Archives has completed digitizing and uploading the remainder of our student newspaper collection. This final stage of the project was funded by a grant awarded to the Archives from the Noel Foundation Inc.

The newspapers provide valuable information about Centenary history from the perspective of its students. They contain details about academic programs, social and Greek organizations, athletic games, the origins of Centenary traditions like Founders’ Day, and even little-known activities such as students and faculty touring Europe in the 1930s. In addition to Centenary history, the newspapers also document

local businesses and events. Subjects include the annual Louisiana State Fair, movies shown at the Strand Theatre, and performers at the Municipal Auditorium such as Louis

Armstrong.

To view the student newspapers online, visit centenary.edu/library/archives/college/digitalcollections

P.S. The Archives is missing some issues of the student newspaper published before 1959. If you

can help us fill these gaps, please get in touch, and we’ll check our list of missing issues.

For more information, contact Centenary’s archivist, Chris Brown at 318.869.5462 or

archives@centenary.edu

Archives & speciAl collections

NEW EXHIBIT:

We Are From Japan, 1951-1959During spring 2015, Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections presents the exhibit We Are From Japan, 1951-1959 online and in the Whited Room lobby of Bynum Commons. This exhibit highlights the history of Japanese students enrolled at Centenary College of Louisiana during the 1950s. The title comes from a comment made by Centenary student Yoshiyuki Iwamoto during a 1954 radio interview.

The exhibit includes several vignettes of Japanese students’ Centenary experiences through photographs, correspondence, audio recordings, and newspaper articles. Stories range from a Japanese student marrying a classmate, correspondence between students and President Joe J. Mickle, and glimpses of student engagement among the visiting scholars. The exhibit also illustrates Mickle’s sensitivity during a tumultuous time in the history of U.S. and Japanese relations. To view the exhibit online, visit centenary.edu/archives

&Archives

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1967Jim Carver, Baton Rouge, LA, was named 2014 American Chemical Society Fellow in recognition of his achievements in science, his service to the community, and his service to ACS.

1971D. Cragin Shelton, Alexandria, VA, is now Doctor D. Cragin Shelton. Cragin earned his doctor of science (D.Sc.) degree in cybersecurity at Capitol Technology University (http://captechu.edu) in December 2014. He had previously earned a master of science in systems management (M.S.S.M.) from the University of Southern California in 1988. Dr. Shelton has been an information security professional with the MITRE Corporation since 2000. He has been a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2002. Cragin’s dissertation, “Reasons for Non-Compliance with Mandatory Information Assurance Policies by a

Trained Population,” is available at http://preview.tinyurl.com/ dcshelton-dissertation, and a video of his defense presentation is available at http://preview.tinyurl.com/dcshelton-defense-20141205. Cragin has been telling friends he is apparently a late bloomer, having completed a degree in his 60’s that is more often obtained by ‘Nary grads in their 20’s or 30’s.

1978Nancy Matthews, Skokie, IL, had a blog published in The Huffington Post in April 2014 entitled “Taking Back the Night in Chicago.”

1986Jeffery McDonald, Nacogdo-ches, TX, was appointed Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church, Nacogdoches, Texas. He and his wife, Lenee, are excited that their daughter Bailey is a first year student at Centenary who plays on the volleyball team!

1981Kathy Johnson-Clarke, Orlando, FL, was recently hired as part of a 10-person commentating pool for ESPN and SEC Network’s coverage of SEC Gymnastics.

1991Helen Haley Warwick, Marshall, TX, earned the designation of Master Trustee upon completion of Leadership TASB, a program sponsored by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB).

1994Denis Poljak, Shreveport, LA, was promoted Senior Vice President in Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management office in Shreveport.

1995Davor Poljak, Shreveport, LA, was promoted to Vice President at Morgan Stanley.

2001Beth Tener, Apopka, FL, was selected as a 2014 Florida Rising Star. Florida Super Lawyers recognizes those individuals who have earned a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement within their legal practice area. The Rising Stars list is comprised of attorneys who are 40 years of age or younger and have been in practice for less than 10 years. Beth was also appointed to the Standing Family Law Rules Committee of The Florida Bar and was selected to serve on the Ninth Judicial Circuit Grievance Com-mittee D of The Florida Bar.

2002Crystal Carter, Baton Rouge, LA, was awarded the 2014 David B. Johnson Award from LSU in Decem-ber of last year. This award recog-nizes Johnson’s interest in academic achievement for those entering the public sector who have an inquiring

classnotes The following class notes were submitted by alumni between January 25, 2014, and February 2, 2015. Class notes are subject to content editing by the Offices of Alumni Relations and External Relations.

Jeff Hendricks ’75 and Bruce Allen ’75 pose with Alumni Association President Rob Rubel ’01 and Centenary President David Rowe after receiving the 2014 Alumni Loyalty Award at the Annual Alumni Awards Luncheon at Homecoming.

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mind about public policy issues and a commitment to improving public management/policy.

2003Stuart Ponder, Luling, LA, was recerntly named Partner at Fowler Rodriguez, an international law firm based in New Orleans.

2006Ashley Owens Harvey, Shreve-port, LA, is currently the Marketing Communications Manager and Staff Photographer for Hardware Resources in Bossier City, LA, and Top Knobs in Hillsborough, NJ, both manufacturers of cabinet knobs and other decorative products for the kitchen cabinet industry. She produces all website and catalog photography as well as managing and producing various marketing materials including catalogs, bro-chures, ads, and product packaging.

Darrius Hills, League City, TX, was awarded a 2014-2015 Disserta-tion Fellowship from the Louisville Institute. Based at Louisville Presby-terian Seminary in Louisville, KY, the institute annually awards $22,000 fellowships to “support the final year

of dissertation writing for outstand-ing Ph.D. or Th.D. students whose research will advance American reli-gious and theological scholarship.” His dissertation title is “Toward a Theory of Reciprocity: Constructing a Hermeneutic of Relationality for Black Theological Discourse.” He also, along with several colleagues at Rice, wrote and published a book, Breaking Bread, Breaking Beats: Churches and Hip-Hop--A Basic Guide to Key Issues, which was released on October 1, 2014.

2009Mindy McKoin, Los Angeles, CA, was recently accepted into the Assis-tant Director Training Program with the Directors Guild of America (after three rounds going from thousands, hundreds to now being one of only 11 people in the program).

2010Matthew Wallace, Baton Rouge, LA, is currently employed with the Nurse-Family Partnership as a Busi-ness Development Manager. In this role he supports clients in 12 states on topics such as board develop-ment, public relations, fundraising, and government relations.

Ahmad Azzawe, Shreveport, LA, received his residency match offer at the Department of Urology Residen-cy Program at LSU Health Shreve-port. He will graduate May 30, 2015, and start his urology residency training July 1, 2015. He is engaged to fellow Centenary graduate Dina Abo-Zahrah ’10.

2014Gregory Monette, Jr., Dallas, TX, has been awarded a full-time position at A Fairchild PC, an accounting firm in North Dallas. There he will be preparing taxes while also pursuing his MBA online in preparation for sitting for the CPA license exam!

Kristen Young, Baton Rouge, LA, is a graduate student working on her master’s in animal sciences and has plans to become a veterinarian. She was just asked to join the Phi Kappa Phi honor society at LSU for being in the top 10 percent of all graduate students in all disciplines. Standards for election to Phi Kappa Phi are extremely high, and membership is by invitation only to LSU’s top 7.5 percent of second-semester juniors and the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students. She was inducted on February 24, 2015.

“Centenary Alumnus and Harlem Globetrotter Herb “Flight Time” Lang is interviewed by local media before “Dine with Flight Time” in Centenary’s Caf in January 2015.

Susan (Kunnemann) Shuey ’71 and her youngest daughter, Meredith Shuey Etherington, are pictured by a memorial plaque honoring her husband, Hank Shuey ’70, in a courtyard garden at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, MD. Susan gave the plaque and garden in memory of Hank, who passed away in 2010.

MarriagesAshley Owens Harvey ’06, Shreveport, LA, married James Heath Harvey of Springhill, LA, on May 10, 2014. The wedding was held at Creekwood Gardens in Simsboro, LA.

Tamika Sims Charles ’98, Brooklyn, NY, married Wislene Charles on May 25, 2014, in the backyard of Le Caye Restaurant in Brooklyn.

Margo Shideler Clendenin ’03, Shreveport, LA, married JT Clendenin on January 31, 2015.

BirthsVictoria Kintner-Duffy ’04, Memphis, TN, welcomed baby girl Fiona Grace Duffy on February 23, 2014.

Beth Bonner DeVille ’99, Baton Rouge, LA, and husband, Matt, welcomed second son, Jacob Thomas DeVille on May 30, 2014.

Saige Solomon ’05, Shreveport, LA, and husband, Chris, welcomed daughter Lillian “Lilly” Grace Solomon on September 9, 2014..

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honor

We celebrate the lives and legacies of these members of the Centenary family.

Dates: February 1, 2014 – February 2, 2015

legaciesJackson Shepherd ’34 6/30/2008Teresa Haywood Binion ’39 2/11/2010Bernard Schram ’39 10/2/2009Charles Rose ’40 7/7/2014Bill Allums ’41 6/28/2014Audrie Fuller Bonnette ’41 8/6/2014Allen Dickson ’41 10/17/2014Dorothy Durr Elliott ’42 3/30/2014Annie Ham Davignon ’43 7/19/2014Claude McCrocklin ’43 10/18/2014Helen Jennings Sproull ’43 5/21/2014Margaret Eubank Stroud ’44 9/17/2014Carolyn Rigby Almand ’45 4/19/2014Shirley Murov Eltis ’45 5/31/2014Jo Wallace Adams ’46 10/7/2014David Harwell ’46 2/1/2014Katherine Turner Cheesman ’47 3/9/2014

Virginia Fulton Kirby ’47 8/30/2011William Fowler ’48 5/14/2014Elizabeth Reid Gross ’48 9/9/2014Charles Laing ’48 10/29/2014Allen McGary ’48 8/28/2011Harold Kaplan ’49 11/19/2012Ted Menge ’49 2/2/2014Frances Peyton ’49 12/2/2014Robert Rushing ’49 12/29/2014Bob Stacy ’49 11/29/2014Wayne Crawford ’50 4/14/2014Bessie Terrell Gibbs ’50 3/8/2014Lee Kincade ’50 10/28/2014Maurice Perry Loftin ’50 4/9/2013Glenn Mason ’50 7/14/2013Marshall Smith ’51 1/2/2008Billy White ’51 11/18/2014Barbara Black Lawton ’52 3/1/2012Robert Ed Taylor ’52 10/15/2014Tom Baumgardner ’53 8/1/2014

Claude DeBeaux ’53 1/8/2013Tommy Goff ’54 5/11/2014Doug Peterson ’54 2/15/2014Bobby Rosenfield ’54 9/18/2014Jim Whitler ’54 7/7/2014Sue Weaver Arnold ’55 3/13/2014Peggy Donaldson Laing ’55 6/17/2014Sue Ellis Marshall ’56 3/14/2014Paul Ware ’56 2/18/2014Ernest Bennett ’57 3/29/2014Jon Davis ’57 5/19/2014James Holcomb ’57 1/19/2014Peggy Selber ’57 9/27/2014Nelda McDowell Donahue ’58 12/13/2010Ray Holt ’58 2/10/2014Anne Harp Thomas ’58 12/12/2013Donald Callen ’60 7/19/2014

James Crosslin ’60 10/8/2014Elizabeth Hardtner Jones ’60 10/2/2014Betty Williams Liner ’60 10/3/2012Pheribie Monroe Prescott ’60 4/24/2014Alton Straughan ’60 8/16/2011Robert Concilio ’61 4/21/2010Wayne DuBose ’61 8/17/2013Bobby Moore ’61 7/28/2014Ann Schaaf Bazer ’63 10/1/2014Nell Preble Hogan ’63 9/17/2012Mary Simpson McClanahan ’63 6/21/2014Kitty Bohan Bohan ’64 4/13/2013James Darby ’64 4/9/2014Sand Lawn ’64 11/29/2014Ray Tipton ’64 8/29/2014Lorena Young Watson ’64 6/20/2014Rodney Hart ’65 6/16/2011Marshall Brown ’66 5/3/2007Allan Jones ’67 8/5/2014Maurice Regan ’67 4/2/2014

Evelyn Tomme Sandifer ’67 3/16/2014Deas Parrish Campbell ’68 4/17/2012Ronald Henderson ’68 5/6/2014Carol McClintock ’68 3/22/2014Janet Talley ’68 1/11/2015Bill Hardin ’69 3/3/2014Pat Mickley ’69 12/21/2013Cinda Toner Thomas ’69 5/9/2013Van Cliburn ’71 2/27/2013Lewell Butler ’73 9/26/2010Carol White ’76 12/8/2010Molly Mahone Holder ’77 3/16/2014James Vardeman ’78 7/5/2014James Davie ’80 9/20/2014Rene Gongre Prince ’80 1/6/2008Raymond Kassouf ’81 7/1/2014Brigitte Gort-Allen ’82 4/7/2009

Edward Wilson ’84 3/18/2014Dina Bennett ’86 1/11/2015Barry Hoekstra ’89 9/26/2014Jason Hubbard ’89 1/28/2014Mikki Heflin ’91 12/4/2013Bill Bush ’95 9/30/2014Jimmy Moore ’98 9/20/2014

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legacies

centenary.edu/alumnievents

We are always adding alumni events to the calendar... be sure to get the most updated schedule online at:

Upcoming Alumni EventsMARCH 2015

Longview Regional DinnerThursday, March 26 • 6:00 - 7:30 PMTyler Street Bistro 102 East Tyler Avenue | Longview, Texas 75601RSVP to Saige Solomon (alumni@centenary.edu or 318.869.5115) no later than Tuesday, March 24.

Tyler Regional DinnerThursday, March 26 • 6:00 - 7:30 PMClear Springs Restaurant 6519 South Broadway Avenue | Tyler, Texas 75703RSVP to Saige Solomon (alumni@centenary.edu or 318.869.5115) no later than Tuesday, March 24.

APRIL 2015

Alexandria Regional DinnerThursday, April 23 • 6:00 - 7:30 PMSpirits Food & Friends 1200 Texas Avenue | Alexandria, Louisiana 71301RSVP to Saige Solomon (alumni@centenary.edu or 318.869.5115) no later than Tuesday, April 21.

Natchitoches Regional DinnerThursday, April 23 • 6:00 - 7:30 PMMama’s Oyster House608 Front Street | Natchitoches, LA 71457RSVP to Saige Solomon (alumni@centenary.edu or 318.869.5115) no later than Tuesday, April 21.

MAY 2015

Shreveport-Bossier Chapter Annual Crawfish BoilSaturday, May 9, 2015 • 3:00 - 7:00 PMThe Home of Kim ‘95 and Drew ‘92 Meeder 172 Swedes Avenue | Shreveport, LA 71105RSVP to Saige Solomon (alumni@centenary.edu or 318.869.5115) no later than Monday, May 4 and pay at the door ($20 per person)!

DC LCC 11th Annual Crawfish BoilSaturday, May 16, 2015 • Noon - 5:00 PMFort Hunt Park | Alexandria, VAFor more information and to purchase tickets, visitdccrawfish.com.

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Developing Leaders for a Changing World

HOMECOMING 2015OCTOBER 23-25

CENTENARY.EDU/HOMECOMING

Friday • Alumni Awards Luncheon • Home Soccer Games • Gumbo CookoffSaturday • Greek Open Houses • Tailgate at the Gold Dome • Volleyball Conference

Divisional Tournament • ReunionsSunday Morning • Memorial Service

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