October 3, 1997

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Al Alcazar, associate campus minister and part-time instructor of religious studies in City College, and Billie Salisbury Baladouni, assistant director and part-time assistant professor in the Institute for Ministry, participated in the 43rd annual convention of the College Theology Society held this year in June at the University of San Diego. Baladouni led a panel presentation on the topic "Practical Theology and Experiential Learning: Talking Across Boundaries." Alcazar shared in that panel basing his presentation on his own personal experience and his work here with the Loyola University Community Action Program.

S.L. Alexander, assistant professor of communications, was cited for extraordinary work as a moderator and judge at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Chicago in August. The panel she headed for the Law Division presented the topic, "Reporting Issues."

Alicia Jerice Armstrong joins the Office of Public Safety as a police officer.

John Biguenet, professor of English, has had his story "The Vulgar Soul," which appeared in the summer issue of Granta, reprinted in the current issue of The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas.

Marcel Dumestre, dean of City College, recently published A Church At Risk.

Sherrie Gammage, Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) coordinator, presented a workshop titled, "Counselors as Leaders in the Promotion of Peaceable Classrooms and School Communities" at the Louisiana Counseling Association Conference in October.
In July, Gammage presented "Creating and Managing Peaceable Classrooms in Secondary Schools" and "Creating Space for the Discussion of Intergroup Relations Within the Context of Peaceable Classrooms in Secondary Schools" at the Amnesty International Conference for educators in Dallas, Texas.
In collaboration with Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gammage trained 45 students and 20 adults in mediation skills in order to facilitate the formation of Mediation Teams in all Jefferson Parish High Schools.
Gammage also trained students in peer mediation at Loyola's Upward Bound Summer Program and St. Mark's Community Center. Loyola Upward bound students were graded and given certificates of completion at their graduation ceremony in July.
In August, Gammage presented the first part of a series on conflict resolution and classroom discipline to the teachers of Hart Elementary School in Jefferson Parish. She also conducted a workshop with the students of Shiloh Baptist Church's Bible Study Program, and presented "Conflicting Goals and Behavior Change: How Conflict Resolution Can Help" to the students of Total Community Action.

Angela Gail Honora is a new crime prevention sergeant in the Office of Public Safety.

Denis Janz, professor of religious studies, served as visiting professor at Louvain University in the spring. While there, he conducted doctoral seminars and read a paper titled "Syllogism and Paradox: Thomas Aquinas and Martin Luther on Theological Method." In August he gave a paper titled "The Late Medieval Pedagogy of Guilt and Luther's Innovation" at the 8th International Congress for Luther Research in Heidelberg, Germany.

Antonio M. Lopez, Jr., professor of mathematics and computer science, along with Dr. Linda Duchrow from Regis University, presented a workshop titled "Writing and Math Do Compute" at the Jesuit Heartland II Conference at Saint Louis University.
For the Journal of Educational Computing Research, he refereed a paper on the cognitive spatial effects of a LOGO Math Tutorial.
He attended a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop in Washington, D.C., on Local Systemic Change Projects in Mathematics and attended a ADMI/NSF meeting as part of being a visiting scholar in the computer science program to Benedict College in Columbia, S.C.

Basil J. Marie was hired in the Office of Public Safety as a police officer.

A. R. Marlow, S.J., associate professor of physics, presented a paper "Group Representations by Unitary Transformations between Hilbert Spaces" at the Wigner Symposium in Vienna, Austria, in August.

Janet R. Matthews, professor of psychology, attended the 105th annual convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) in Chicago. This organization of over 150,000 members and affiliates is the largest psychological association in the world. She served on its 12-member board of directors and its legislative body, the Council of Representatives. Matthews also made three presentations including a special mini-convention on "Taking Care of Ourselves." Her presentation in this session was "Special Issues for Women Faculty in College and University Settings."
Also, Matthews passed her examination in clinical psychology. The awarding of the Diplomate in Clinical Psychology is based on a review of a work sample by a three-person panel and an extensive oral examination by that panel. While licensure is considered a competence level for practice, the Diplomate is considered to be an indication of a more advanced practitioner.

Edward J. McCaughan, assistant professor of sociology, recently published Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico.

Rosalee McReynolds, associate professor in the main library, recently had her article, "Trouble in Big Sky's Ivory Tower: The Montana Tenure Dispute of 1937-39," published in Libraries & Culture.
In May, she presented a workshop on using ProQuest statistics to evaluate serials collections in academic libraries. She presented to the annual conference of the North American Serials Interest Group held at the University of Michigan.

Michelle Mechta was hired in the English department as an administrative assistant.

Judson Mitchell joins the law clinic as the homeless advocate staff attorney.

Deborah Munoz was hired as an admissions counselor in the Office of Admissions.

Pam Occhipinti Boyles, director of career services in the law school, spoke about "Legal Matters for the Entrepreneur"at a business management workshop.

Dionne Marie Paul was hired as a police officer in the Office of Public Safety.

Deborah Poole, coordinator of public services in the library, and five members of the library faculty attended the Association of College and Research Libraries conference in Nashville. Members of the library who attended the conference were: Trish Del Nero, Valeria Power, Darla Rushing and Doreen Simonsen.

Tharren J. Poplion, Jr., is the new processing and records specialist in the Office of Admissions.

Ronald H. Schroeder, director of the Small Business Development Center, presented "Management-Key to Success" at a business workshop.

Stephanie Sherling is the new publications designer in the Division of Institutional Advancement.

Ted Quant and Michael Kane, Twomey Center' Training Team, conducted a three-day managing diversity workshop for the top administrators of the chief administrative office of the city to identify key issues and problems and to develop 90-day plans to address them.
Quant and Calvin Kelly conducted a two-day team-building, vision, mission, and values workshop for the new teaching staff of St. Marks Alternative School in August. The Twomey Center also will conduct conflict resolution training for the teachers and students at St. Marks during the school year. Kelly, a new member of the Twomey Training Team, is a graduate of Loyola and was a leader in the award-winning Loyola student organization, African-American Scholars for Youth. He received his doctorate from UNO.
Kelly and Quant also served as counselors at the week-long 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement's summer camp in Selma, Alabama. The Twomey Center sponsored 10 youths from New Orleans to the camp in July. The Twomey Center also sponsored eight other children to local summer camps. Bernadette Mills and Quant conducted a team building, mission, and values workshop for the teachers at Sylvania F. Williams Elementary School in August.
Quant, Kane, and Cathy Harris designed and conducted a three-day managing diversity workshop for the top managers of the Chevron Oakpoint Plant in July. The managers were so impressed by the training that they now will have every employee at the plant participate in training. The workshop was conducted with the help of new trainers, Jeff Gingerich and Susan Antone.

Paul E. Wilson is the new director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry.

City College announces new faculty and staff

Brenda Owens, Ph.D., was hired as an associate professor of nursing. Mary Ann Nemcek, D.N.S., R.N., was hired as an assistant professor of nursing on the extraordinary faculty, and Catherine Caston, Ph.D., was hired as an assistant professor of nursing. Kasey Kobs was hired as admission coordinator for City College.