June 13, 2001

Best wishes to our Miss Louisiana contestants!
Best wishes to the Southeastern students -- Miss Southeastern Jessica Young, Miss DeSoto Parish Amanda Guitreau and Miss Greater Baton Rouge Lindsey Dykes -- who are competing this week in the Miss Louisiana Pageant, a Miss America preliminary, in Monroe.
    The pageant will be telecast on the PAZ Channel (Channel 7 in this area) at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 16.

Student Activity Center now open!
The Recreational Sports and Wellness Department is pleased to announce the opening of the Student Activity Center. To become a member of the Student Activity Center please go to the membership desk for enrollment between the hours of 6am and 6pm Monday through Friday. Faculty and Staff are eligible for payroll deduction of membership fees. Tours are available throughout the day. Hours of operation are: 6 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 6 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, and 3 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Sunday.
 

New master's program in Integrated Science and Technology
Southeastern has received full approval from the Louisiana Board of Regents for its first new graduate degree program in more than a decade, a Master of Science in Integrated Science and Technology (ISAT).
    The graduate degree program is an interdisciplinary "career enhancing" degree that will appeal to recent university graduates as well as to those already working in scientific and technical areas, said Provost Randy Moffett.
    "The ISAT will prepare students for the workplace by giving them experience in applying their knowledge of mathematics and science to projects of interest to business and industry," Moffett said. "It will open doors to entry-level positions in the petrochemical, high tech manufacturing and telecommunications industries and provide current employees with a career-related degree that will help them advance to higher positions or take on more challenging assignments within their companies."
    "These graduates will be able to contribute to the economic base of regional business and industry. It is excellent for this region that Southeastern will be offering this degree," he said.
    The degree includes coursework in chemistry, computer science, industrial technology, mathematics and physics. It will be offered jointly through the Colleges of Business and Technology and Arts and Sciences with the first classes scheduled for fall 2001.
    "The goal of the Master of Science Degree in Integrated Science and Technology is to broadly educate technological problem solvers and system integrators who can deal effectively with the wide spectrum of issues facing today's professionals," said industrial technology professor Roy Bonnette, who will coordinate the new degree program.
    The ISAT degree was developed through the cooperative efforts of faculty from the departments of Chemistry and Physics, Computer Science, Industrial Technology, and Mathematics and under the leadership of Arts and Sciences Dean John Miller, Graduate School Dean Michael Kurtz, and Mathematics Department Chair Katherine Pedersen, Bonnette said.
    "Offering the master‘s degree in Integrated Science and Technology puts Southeastern on the leading edge of universities nation-wide that are preparing graduates for success in the global economy driven by science and information technology," said Miller. "Our business and industry partners tell us this degree is appropriate for new graduates and current employees wanting to move ahead in their careers or take a new direction by updating and broadening their knowledge."
    To assure that the program is compliant with business and industries needs, Bonnette said Southeastern got input from an industrial advisory committee. Committee members represented corporations such as Shaw Constructors, Inc; DuPont Dow Elastomers L.L.C.; Borden Chemicals and Plastics; Nalco Chemical Co.; Exxon Research and Development Laboratories; Novartis; United Companies; Beerman Precision; DuPont Chemical; Neill Corporation; The Advocate; Exxon/Mobile USA;  and V-Labs, Inc.
    For more information contact the program coordinator Dr. Roy Bonnette at (985)549-3479, rbonnette@selu.edu or any of the participating departments.
 

Booth named one of 100 greatest nurses
Donnie Booth, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, has been named a Great 100 Nurse in Louisiana by the Great 100 Nurses Foundation. Booth, who was selected for nomination by her peers, was honored for her concern for humanity, her significant contribution to the nursing profession, and her shared skill and expertise in mentoring others. As dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Booth oversees the college's Hammond and the Baton Rouge campuses and the Intercollegiate Consortium for a Master of Science in Nursing, which includes Southeastern, McNeese State University, the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Southern University-Baton Rouge.
    She also oversees Southeastern's continuing education program in nursing, which serves faculty, students and professional nurses in various parishes and includes courses for physicians, pharmacists and emergency medical technicians.
    Booth has previously served as the director of the Southeastern School of Nursing Hammond campus and is a 1969 Southeastern graduate. She received a master of public health degree from Tulane University and a doctoral degree from the University of Southern Mississippi.
    Her numerous awards have included a citation for distinguished service from the Louisiana Council of Administrators in Nursing Education in 1998 and Southeastern's President's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service in 1997.
    The Great 100 Nurses Foundation is a program founded by American Nursing Services, Inc., a nurse-owned and operated nursing service organization headquartered in Metairie.  The Great 100 Nurses Celebration is held each spring to join state-wide community, civic, health care and government leaders in honoring outstanding professionals in the field of nursing.
 

An angel for Southeastern
Southeastern now has its own angel.
    An eight-foot statue of an angel, carved from Carrara marble by Russian-born sculptor Alexei E. Kazantsev, has been installed on the west side of McGehee Hall. Angel of Discovery is the latest edition to Southeastern's "Louisiana Sculpture Garden," which also includes Robert Warrens' Easel Celebration, John Geldersma's Dogon Hut and Spirit Poles and a work by John Scott which has yet to be installed.
    The Louisiana Sculpture Garden is supported by a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, said Don Marshall, director of Clark Hall Gallery. It is also supported by matching funds from the Clark Hall Gallery student fees.
    Kazantsev installed the sculpture June 11 with help from Alvin Vicknair of Javco Inc. in Ponchatoula. "I think it looks beautiful," he said, eyeing the angel contentedly after he and Vicknair had spent well over an hour maneuvering the huge piece from Vicknair's truck to its new brick pedestal home.
    Kazantsev, who has created numerous works of arts for local patrons such as the Neill Corporation and is currently working on a Baptismal font for the new Holy Ghost Church, said he had originally intended to call the statue Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. "But nobody understood. They think it is a brand of shoes," he said, laughing. "So after that reaction from 10 or 15 people, we decide it is Angel of Discovery."
    "A campus is a place where you learn and discover things. By discovering, you learn," he said.
 Kazantsev said Southeastern student David Harrington, who has been apprenticing with him, helped create the angel.
    "Maybe we will have a new tradition at Southeastern," said Kazantsev, with a twinkle in his eye. "Students can visit the angel to ask for good grades."

Airline ticket policy reminder
Just a reminder that all airline tickets must be purchased through our agency (Navigant Travel) unless you get prior approval to book outside of our agency.
    According to state regulations, no tickets will be reimbursed if the ticket does not have prior approval.
    If you have any questions, please call Brenda Sanders 549-2089.

Southeastern History Book available soon
We Hail Thee Now Southeastern, a16-chapter history of the university illustrated by some 200 photos, is now at the printer and will be available in July.
    We Hail Thee Now Southeastern can be ordered through the Southeastern Development Foundation. A special online order form can also be found on the Southeastern web site, www.selu.edu/75book.
    Written by former English professor Ron Harris, the book takes its title from the first line of Southeastern's alma mater. Harris interviewed veteran Southeastern faculty, scoured folders of old news releases and other resources in the Public Information Office and mined newspaper clippings, self-studies, unpublished memoirs, dissertations and other documents housed in the university's Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies.
    The large format, soft-cover book will sell for $20, with an additional $3 added for postage and handling, if mailing is requested.
    The book, said C. Howard Nichols, professor emeritus of history and co-chair of the university's 75th Anniversary Steering Committee, "provides an interesting and entertaining look at seven and a half  decades of institutional history. It seeks to inform the reader and to trigger personal recollections  of Southeastern. It is a delightful souvenir."
    Baton Rouge freelance graphic designer Suzanne Coffee, a former member of the Public Information Office staff, designed the book, which features some 200 photographs culled from yearbooks, Public Information Office files, the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies archives and personal collections.
    Proceeds from the book's sale will go to the Southeastern Development Foundation. For additional information, call 985-549-2341 or 985-549-3770.
 

Tickets go on sale June 18 for Annie
Tickets will go on sale June 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Pottle Music Building lobby and Bayou Booksellers in downtown Hammond for Southeastern's production of the hit musical Annie, June 28-30.
    Tickets, which will also be available at the door, are $15, general admission; $10, Southeastern faculty and staff, senior citizens, and non-SLU students. Southeastern students are admitted free with their university I.D. Curtain time for the June 28-30 productions is 7:30 p.m, nightly with a 2 p.m. matinee also scheduled on June 30.
    Annie is co-sponsored by the Southeastern College of Arts and Sciences, Gulf States Theatre's Hammond Palace Theater, North Oaks Health System, Hibernia Bank, Wal-Mart and the Southeastern Development Foundation.
    For additional information, call 985-549-5938.

Defensive driving course June 29
Faculty, staff, graduate assistants and student employees for whom driving is a responsibility of their employment and who are reimbursed for travel must attend the Defensive Driving Course. The course will be offered Friday, June 9 in the University Center Room 133.
    Registration for the morning session will be from 9-9:15 a.m. (class begins at 9:15 a.m.); registration for the afternoon session will be from 2-2:15 p.m. (class begins at 2:15 p.m.). The course will last approximately one and one-half hours.
    Participants must bring their driver's license. For additional information, call Mae at 2157.

Faculty, staff honored for service
 

Congratulations to the Southeastern employees who have received service awards over the past several weeks. Faculty and staff in the Division of Administration, College of Business and Technology, College of Basic Studies, Office of Technology, Athletics, Auxiliary Services, and Physical Plant were all honored for five, ten, 15 and 20 years service at receptions and awards ceremonies hosted by Human Resources.
    Honorees were:
    20 Years: Edward E. Gautier, Kenneth E. Hogan, Diane S. Singletary, Carlee F. Dupuy, Anita M. Farkas, Marcia L. Stirling, Jo A. Gibson, Rosie L. Cage, Sundria A. Whiddon, Annie M. Moschitta, Richard H. Thompson, Jane Chustz, Donald R. Bell, Charles E. Briggs, Charles L. Chifici, Larry D. Jackson, Willard K. Lucien Jr., Marvin T. Whittington.
    15 Years: Lilly O. Andrews, Daniel G. Hotard, William S. Curran, Frank Schneider, Jane M. Bankston, Gloria Burton, Margaret Kuhn, Tannie J. Isaac.
    Ten Years: Mark McNutt, Theresa N. Zeigler, Dewey L. Dobson, Phyllis M. Hoover, Lilly O. Andrews, Teri R. Shaffer, Samuel D. Cappel, Antoinette Phillips, Carl R. Phillips, Ronald W. Abel, Debbie G. Longman, John P. Brechtel, Keith G. Gaudet, Bradley S. O'Hara, Ralph E. Chandler, Anthony V. Randall, Freddie L. Johnson, Keith A. Kennedy, Robert P. Paille, George M. Roppolo.
    Five Years: Linda Bankston, Dennis M. Travis, Betty J. Smith, Paul W. Stoetzner, Jo Anne Dickinson, Malcolm E. Myers Jr., Donna P. DeMers, Rudolph E. Rode, Yvette B. Baldwin, Dawn Deann Wallace, Angela K. Billiot, Michael G. Hackett, Romona L. Nichols, Andre A. Cousin, Christine E. McGhee, Joseph Dick, Clyde O. Langlois, Cynthia L. Holley, Karen M. Cokerham, Gene Pregeant, Mohammad M. "Mike" Asoodeh, Michelle Hall, Felecia F. Stilley, Tom Giluso, Frank Patti, Clarence Robertson Sr., Linda G. Davis, Jessie M. Hill, Nola J. Myers, Ernest J. Oliver, Barton F. McGlothren.

Oak Ridge Boys tickets
Tickets for the Oak Ridge Boys concert, scheduled August 31 in the University Center, will go on sale Friday, June 15 at Ticketmaster outlets. Tickets can ONLY be purchased at Ticketmaster. There will be no tickets on sale at the University Center.
    If you have further questions, please contact the University Center at 3818.

Professional activities
Dr. Michael Kurtz (Graduate School, History and Political Science), and Dr. Roman Heleniak (Retired, History and Political Science), have had articles published in The Age of the Longs: Louisiana, 1928-1960. The book is volume 8 of The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, published by the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. Kurtz's articles were: "Government by the Civics Book: The Administration of Robert F. Kennon," originally published in The Journal of the North Louisiana Historical Association, "Earl Long's Political Relations With the City of New Orleans: 1948-1960," and "Political Corruption and Organized Crime in Louisiana: The FBI Files on Earl Long," both originally published in Louisiana History. Heleniak's article was: "Local Reaction to the Great Depression in New Orleans: 1929-1933," originally published in Louisiana History. The volume was edited by Dr. Edward F. Haas, professor of history at Wright State University, past president of the Louisiana Historical Association,  and one of the leading scholars of twentieth century New Orleans and Louisiana political history.
    An article entitled "Incoherent scatter radar identification of the dayside magnetic separatrix and measurement of magnetic reconnection" by Dr. Gerard Blanchard (Chemistry/Physics) and physics student Cadence Ellington appeared in the May issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research (p. 8185).
    Dr. Martie Fellom (Music and Dramatic Arts) attended a board meeting for the American College Dance Festival Association in Chicago, May 24-27.
    Dr. Katherine Roegner (Mathematics) presented a paper entitled "Self-dual codes: From old to new" at the Louisiana/Mississippi Section of the Mathematical Association of America in Oxford, Miss., on March 24. Dr. Roegner also co-judged the undergraduate mathematics paper competition.
    Dr. Debra Troxclair (Teaching and Learning) recently  presented two sessions at The Council for Exceptional Children's national  convention in Kansas City, Mo. The sessions were titled,  "Overexcitabilities: Another Perspective on ADHD" and "Project ADAPT:  Addressing Diversity through the Arts for Preservice Teachers."
 

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