Winning a seat in Congress is a steep challenge for any candidate, much less a political newcomer, but Derrick Edwards (BSM ’97, MACCT ’98), who recently announced his candidacy for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate seat, has been defying the odds his entire life. In 1989,...
1970s John Heyman (A&S ’74, MBA ’76) and his wife, Kathy, recently visited New Orleans, where they met with members of the intercollegiate athletic department and the Freeman School’s accounting department. Heyman now lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, and last...
A. Elmer Massey Jr. (BBA ’32) Arnold J. Bennett (BBA ’39) Maurice V. Duvic (’40) Ruth de la Gueronniere (BBA ’40) Edwin B. Raskin (BBA ’40) Gertrude Balkin Cohen (BBA ’42) George H. Harpster (BBA ’42) Edward C. Hingle Jr. (’43) Janet Worrell Sommerville (BBA ’43)...
When David Heikkinen (MBA ’98) retired from energy investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. in 2012, he wasn’t quite ready to sail off into the sunset. Heikkinen had devoted nearly 20 years of his life to energy, starting out as an engineer with Shell and...
There is a lot of reflection of late about how far we’ve come in the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina and how far we still have to go. Katrina was one of those experiences that had such an impact you find it hard not to divide recent history in Pre-K and Post-K terms....
The Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF), the industry’s premier leadership development organization, has honored Lorna C. Donatone (BSM ’80), COO and education market president at Sodexo, with the 2015 Fritzi Pikes Woods Trailblazer Award. The award recognizes individuals...
