December 1997

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Dana Bartelt, assistant professor of graphic design was a presenter on a panel chaired by Irina Costache, assistant professor of visual arts, at the Southeastern College Art Conference in Richmond, Va., in October. Her talk was entitled "Graphic Design in the Electronic Age: An Advancement ?" Bartelt participated in the Loyola Faculty Exhibition at the Positive Space Gallery in May along with Professor of art history Catalina Bogdan, received her Ph.D. in aesthetics of art history this past summer from the University of Bucharest. The title of her dissertation is The Semiotics of Pictorial/Visual Language.

Paulina Lituin Bazin, part-time instructor of modern foreign languages, chaired the session on "Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Literature" at the South Central Modern Languages Association in Dallas.

Carlos A. Below is a new police officer in public safety.

Marianne Breen, director of alumni and parent relations, will resign from the university at the end of the calendar year. Breen will become the executive director of alumni relations at St. Louis University. Under Breen's leadership, the alumni chapters have doubled across the country to reach 30. Also, the institution of an alumni gala has netted the Alumni Scholarship Endowment and the African- American Scholarship Fund.

Susan Brower, assistant professor and medial services coordinator, conducted a session on "Media Retrieval, Issues, and Experiences" at the Consortium of College and University Media Centers conference in October in Virginia Beach, Va.

Elisabeth Butler joined the Division of Institutional Advancement as senior development officer. Butler will be responsible for City College and Communications, the social and physical sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as the co-curricular committee of the President's Council.

Gerald Cannon, professor of computer based imaging, has several pieces of art on display at the Contemporary Arts Center's Cyber Cafe.

Irina D. Costache, professor of art history, presented the paper "Where Are We Coming From? Where Are We Going?" Art and Culture in the Electronic Age" at New York University in April. She presented a paper titled "Teaching Art History: An End of the Millennium Evaluation and a Proposal for the Next One" at the 11th annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of the Artist at the School of Visual Arts in October. She also presented work in the Loyola Faculty Exhibition at the Positive Space Gallery last May. Her recent publications have been "The World Art Survey: Theoretical Approaches and Practical Applications" in FATE Review, and "Tina Modotti," a book review to be published in Italiana Americana in late 1997. She has been named FATE's (Foundation in Arts Theory and Education) regional coordinator from 1997 through 1999.

Laura Dankner, associate professor and music librarian, attended the meeting of Southeast Music Library Association in Columbia, S.C., in October. That same month, she lectured on "The Vocal Legacy of Paul Robeson" at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and served as a consultant on the planning of UNLV's new music library. Dankner was invited to present the lecture and demonstrations at the regional meeting of the National Association of Teachers of Singing last month.
She also presented a paper titled, "School-to-University-to-Work-to-Career:The NOCCA/Loyola Partnership in Education Experience." The paper described the Loyola Music Library and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts partnership, a successful example of the Orleans Parish School Board's Partnership in Education Program. Stephen Dankner, part-time instructor in music composition served as co-presenter. The paper was presented as a segment of the NETWORK's annual meeting which was held in Las Vegas. NETWORK is an association of performing arts secondary schools throughout the United States.

Suzanne Dietzel, adjunct faculty member in City College, presented her paper "Whose French Quarter? Race, Identity and Tourism in New Orleans" at the American Studies Conference in Washington, D.C., in October.

Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Buddy D'Aquila's novel Remembering Dixie, has just been published by Hot August Nights Press. A book signing was held at the Loyola Bookstore in October with subsequent signings to follow at local bookstores. The book design and jacket illustrations are by Visual Arts Instructor Michael Ledet.

Painter and illustrator David Eddington is visiting the Department of Visual Arts this fall from the Exeter College of Art, Exeter, United Kingdom. An exhibition of his paintings "Coastline" opened the 1997 ­ 98 season at Loyola's Danna Center Gallery. His work has been widely shown in Britain, the Netherlands, and Los Angeles. His course in illustration, offered this fall, is a first for Loyola.

Reynolds Ekstrom is the new assistant director of Loyola Institute for Ministry.

Alan Gerson, assistant professor of foundations in the visual arts department, has a series of watercolors entitled "Terms of Art, More Law and Lawyers" featured last month at LeMieux Galleries on Julia Street. He will have a one-person exhibition at Lemieux in March of 1998.

Assistant Professor of Foundations Jan Gilbert recently participated in an artists' exchange sponsored by the Alliance Francaise of New Orleans and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in St. Etienne, France. A one-person exhibition of her work was held at L' Embarcadere, a multi-disciplinary art center in Lyon. While in Europe, she presented arts workshops and lectured as part of a conference titled "Theatre Anthropology in the Context of Migration and Health" in Switzerland. An exhibition of her work was held at the International School of Geneva in June. Back in Louisiana, her work was included in "By Hand," an exhibition of artists books held at Southern University in August. She participated in May's Loyola Faculty Exhibition at the Positive Space Gallery.

Kenneth Goll, III, joined public safety as a police officer.

Robert Gnuse's book, No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel, is in print in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Gnuse is a professor of religious studies.

Bobby Harges, professor of law, has had several articles and books recently published. The articles include "Mediator Qualification: The Trend Toward Professionalization," and "The Louisiana Mediation Act: An Overview and Analysis." Harges' books are Harges and Jones Louisiana Evidence and Louisiana Code of Evidence Pocket Manual.

Teri Henley, associate professor of communications, presented "Profiling Current Student Perceptions to Better Predict Recruitment and Retention" at the American Marketing Association Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education in Boston in November. The paper, which was published in the AMA Proceedings, was co-authored with Cathy Rogers, assistant professor of communications.

Judith Holton joined the Division of Institutional Advancement as senior development officer for the College of Music and will assume responsibility for the visual and performing arts and humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Antonio M. Lopez, professor of mathematics and computer science, served on the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training grant panel for the National Science Foundation, in Washington, D.C. The entire panel consisted of 180 professionals from across the United States and in total the panel reviewed 602 proposals. Lopez also served on the final panel of 18 people who bifurcated 92 proposals that merited further consideration and recommended 30. Lopez attended the fall meeting of the Greater New Orleans Teachers of Mathematics. The meeting reflected on the published findings of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study which put the United Sates in the bottom half of the 42 countries studied.
Also, as part of the Visiting Scientist Program for the ADMI/NSF project, Lopez visited Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., and presented two lectures-"Simulation with an Artificial Intelligence Twist" and "Using Graphing Calculators in Mathematics Courses." Lopez introduced seventh and eight graders at Holy Name of Jesus School to the Casio 7400 calculator to solve algebra problems. He was appointed to the Technology Committee of St. Mary Dominican High School. This committee is charged with developing goals and objectives in the technology arena for Dominican to achieve over the next five years.

Part-time assistant professor of English Gina Macdonald's book, Robert Ludlum: A Critical Companion has been published. Macdonald also published two entries in the Salem Press reference book, Identities and Issues in Literature. She wrote on Reb Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane and Zoot Suit by Luis Miguel Valdez. At the South Central Modern Languages Association in Dallas, Gina and Andrew Macdonald presented a paper titled "Prisoner of the Mountain: A New Russian Film Genre." The Macdonalds talk explored the Sergei Bodtov modern reworking of a Folstory short story in the context of both the Russians and the American Vietnam War film tradition.

Paula Montony joined the Death Penalty Resource Center as a staff attorney.

Crystal Morrison was hired in the Division of Institutional Development as an administrative assistant in the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations.

Bill Quigley, director of the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and the Loyola Law Clinic, was chosen by the Rockefeller Foundation as a participant in a year-long taskforce convened on the Future of Civil Rights Advocacy, called "The Struggle for Justice." The taskforce is made up of representatives of the nation's major civil rights organizations, five law professors, and representatives of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations. Quigley also was appointed chair of the Louisiana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for 1997­98. In addition, Quigley and Michele Allison-Davis, assistant dean of admissions and minority affairs, spoke on "Affirmative Action: The State of the Law and the Future of Justice" at the annual convention of the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students.

Chantelle Sargent was hired as admissions counselor in the Office of Admissions.

Christina South was hired as a research analyst in the Division of Institutional Advancement. South previously worked in the university library and is currently pursuing her master's in communications at Loyola.

Robert Thomas, environmental chair in communications, was elected to the Administrative Council of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists at its annual meeting in Budapest, Hungary.

Roger White's article "Sartrian Social Theory and the Law: A Theoretical Defense of Legislative Action," appeared in the most recent edition of The Journal of Thought, a quarterly publication devoted to the examination of education issues. White is an assistant professor in City College.