September 4, 1998

Eight join Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees of Loyola appointed eight new members who will each serve a three-year term on the board. New members are: B.A. “Red” Adams, Sr., Gerard A. “Jerry” Brechtel, Carolyn M. Callahan, William Deasy, Tina Santi Flaherty, Matt James Gaston, the Rev. Bradley M. Schaeffer, S.J., and T. Allen Usry.

The board also reelected the following officers at its May meeting: B. Temple Brown, Brown’s Velvet Dairy Products, Inc., president and chief executive officer, as chairman; Jerome J. Reso, Jr., vice chairman; the Rev. Bernard P. Knoth, S.J., president; the Rev. Lawrence W. Moore, S.J., secretary/treasurer; and the Rev. Robert S. Gerlich, S.J., vice president. Michael Rapier also was elected as vice president. Reso is a partner in the law firm of Baldwin and Haspel; Moore is a law professor at the university; Knoth is university president; Gerlich is an associate professor of history at the university; and Rapier is president of Michael J. Rapier Investments.

Adams is chairman of the board of Oil & Gas Rental Services, Inc., a leading supplier of rental drilling equipment in the Gulf of Mexico region headquartered in Morgan City, La. Currently, Adams serves on the boards of the Audubon Institute, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, and the National Ocean Industries Association.

Brechtel is a partner in the accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick in New Orleans. As a 1970 graduate of Loyola, Brechtel has been an active alumnus having served as the chairman of Loyola’s President Council. In 1996, he was named alumnus of the year by the Joseph A. Butt, S.J., College of Business Administration.

Callahan, a native New Yorker, is assistant news editor at Star Magazine in New York. She graduated from Loyola in 1988 with a bachelor of arts in English. Since graduation, Callahan has been an active alumna of the university having served as chair of the membership activities committee for Loyola’s New York Alumni Chapter.

Flaherty, a resident of New York and Palm Beach, is president and CEO of Image Marketing International. Flaherty spent nearly 25 years at Fortune 500 companies such as Colgate Palmolive, GTE and Grey Advertising where she worked in corporate public relations and communications. She was the first woman to be named vice president at each of these companies.

Gaston, a New Orleans resident, is owner and president of Paradigm Research Corporation which is a private investigation and insurance research firm. He earned both his bachelor of business administration and master of business administration degrees from Loyola.

Schaeffer is president of the Jesuit Conference USA in Washington, D.C. During his 12- year career in education, he has worked as both a teacher and administrator for schools throughout the Chicago Jesuit Province. Schaeffer currently serves on the following boards of trustees: the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, D.C.