September 11, 1997

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Clinical Professor of law Evangeline Abriel's article "The Effect of Criminal Conduct Upon Refuge and Asylum Status," was published in the Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas (Fall 1996).

Glynn Patrick Acy, Jr., was hired as a mechanic in physical plant.

Timothy J. Albert is the new assistant director of residental life.

Julie Azzaro joined the Loyola Institute for Ministry as an administrative assistant.

Julie A. Boone was hired as a career counselor for the Office of Counseling, Career Development and Placement.

Belinda M. Bunch was hired as a public safety officer.

Emily Guinn Cosper joined the law library as a circulation assistant.

Mitchell Crusto, assistant professor of law, was elected to a three-year term on the Greater New Orleans Foundation. Crusto and Professor of Law Kathryn Venturatos Lorio were speakers at the Fourth Annual Rite of Passage Program. They addressed eighth graders and encouraged them to continue their education and consider law as a career. The program, sponsored by New Orleans Public Schools, was held in May at the UNO Lakefront Arena.

Robert S. Dotson joined Academic Enrichment as an academic counselor.

Associate Professor of political science Philip A. Dynia's review of The Kingfish and the Constitution by Richard C. Cortner was published in the June 1997 issue of the American Political Science Review.

Sherri Gammage, coordinator of the Twomey Center's Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, received her master's degree from UNO.

Kathleen Gasparian joined International Student Affairs as an administrative assistant.

Stephanie L. Gemmell is the new campus visit coordinator in the Office of Admissions.

Laurie Phillips Gibson, catalog librarian, is on a three-month sabbatical in the Special Materials Cataloging Division of the Library of Congress. The program was developed to give catalogers an opportunity to hone their recording cataloging skills while lending their own expertise to working on some of the LC's special collections.

Robert Gnuse, professor of religion, read two papers to the Missouri Christian Leadership Forum in Jefferson City, Mo., last semester. The papers were--"Inerrancy of the Biblical Text: A Way Out of the Darkness or a Dead-end Tunnel ?" and "Social Inspiration in an Ecumenical Perspective: A New View of the Biblical Text." Gnuse's review of Jan Christian Gertz's Die Gerichts-organization Israels im deuteronomischen Gesetz appeared in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 58 (1996). His review of Joel Kaminsky's Corporate Responsibility in the Hebrew Bible appeared in Interpretation (1997).

Giselle M. Grenier was hired as an offset printing operator in the Twomey Center's print shop.

David Gruning, professor of law, was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in May at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1923, the ALI is one of the oldest private, law-reform organizations in the United States. Gruning joins law professors Kathryn Venturatos Lorio, William Crowe, and Henry Gabriel who are also ALI members, and ex-officio member, law dean John Makdisi.

Marc Guidry, who was recently hired as an academic counselor in Academic Enrichment, received his doctorate in philosophy with a major concentration in English from LSU in May. His dissertation, "The Counsel Group: Rhetorical and Political Contexts of Court Counsel in The Canterbury Tales," was awarded the Louis P. Simpson Outstanding Dissertation Award by the LSU English graduate faculty.

Bobby Harges, professor of law, was appointed to the Louisiana State Bar Association's Lawyer and Judicial Conduct Committee for the 1997-98 bar year.

Andy Horton, professor of film, literature, and screen-writing, led a seminar titled "Writing a Character Centered Screenplay" in Encino, Calif., in July.

Pat Hugg, professor of law, co-taught a two-and-half-day seminar on Logic and Opinion Writing to judges from around the country. The seminar was held in Las Vegas in June.

Letittia Ann Jenkins was hired as a public safety officer.

Marietta Johnson joined the Office of Public Safety as an administrative assistant.

Janice L. Long was hired as a manager in the Office of Information Technology.

Anthony Ladd, chair/associate professor of sociology, escorted Loyola sociology students to Memphis for a guided "Black History and Civil Rights Movement History Tour" of the city. The tour included visits to houses on the Underground Railroad, the temple where Martin Luther King, Jr. made his last speech, the National Civil Rights Museum, and Loraine Motel, where King was assassinated.

Kathleen Manning was hired as an administrative assistant in student activities.

Shannon Murphy is the new assistant director of student activities.

Donn Murret was hired in the Department of Education as a site counselor.

Doris B. Newman joined the Department of Human Resources as an administrative assistant.

Carla Pritchett, reference/documents librarian in the law library, was appointed to the Louisiana Advisory Council for State Documents Depository Program as a representative of Special Libraries. Her term expires in June 2000.

Ted Quant, director of the Twomey Center for Peace through Justice, conducted a resolution workshop for teachers at Lawless Junior and Senior high schools, Fortier High School, and St. Mark's Alternative School. Later, he conducted a workshop at the National Black Police Association's Conference in New Orleans on strategies to stop police brutality. Finally, he conducted a strategic planning workshop for the Louisiana Violence Prevention Network.

Bill Quigley, director of the Gillis Long Poverty Center, authored "The Right to Work and Earn a Living Wage: A Proposed Constitutional Amendment" in the May 1997 Blueprint for Social Justice and "Reluctant Charity: Poor Laws in the Original Thirteen States" in the University of Richmond Law Review. Quigley also was counsel in Johnson v. Carter, a state court suit seeking to compel the New Orleans City Council to place the proposed $1­an­ hour raise in the minimum wage on the ballot. Additionally, he chaired a follow-up meeting of the Louisiana Advisory Committee on Civil Rights in Baker, La., regarding the burning of African-American churches.

Sister Anne Ramagos, C.S.J., executive assistant to Fr. Knoth, was appointed to serve a three-year term as a board member for The Catholic Foundation which helps to identify financial support for the Archdiocese.

Alex Reichl, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper titled "Rewarding Desire? Public Housing and Community Redevelopment in New Orleans" at the 1997 annual meeting of the Southwest Social Sciences Association in New Orleans in March. He also led discussions on urban political economy and public housing at the "Communiversity" sessions held at the St. Thomas Housing Development in April.

Claudia Santoyo was hired as the executive secretary for the Small Business Development Center in the College of Business Administration.

Ronald Schroeder, director of Small Business Development Center, spoke to a group of professionals in May about the services offered through the center.

Arthur Stern, assistant director of publications and editor of Loyola New Orleans Magazine alumni quarterly, was part of a panel presentation on Jesuit secondary and higher education alumni journals. The seminar was held at Loyola University Chicago's Lake Shore campus during the first meeting of the Association of Editors of Jesuit Publications in July.

James Sutherland joined physical plant as assistant director.

Robert T. Walker joined physical plant as a mechanic.

Mattie Stone-Williams, director of Upward Bound, will make a presentation titled "Interneting TRIO . . . A Cyberspace Connection" to the National Council of Educational Opportunity Associations at the Mariott Hotel in September.

Raymond C. Wagner was hired in physical plant as an engineer.

Catherine Wessinger, associate professor of religious studies, presented "How the Millennium Comes Violently" as the plenary lecture of the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains regional conference of the American Academy of Religion/ Society of Biblical Literature in Salt Lake City and to the School of Religion at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Leslie Wilson, associate professor of chemistry, chaired a session for the symposium on Dentistry Functional Theory and Applications at the Ninth International Congress of Quantum Chemistry which was held at Duke University in June.