Tulane University Alumni Association

Tulane Alumni Association

TAA Officer & Director Nominations
For the Term Beginning July 2008

The 2007 Nominating Committee has nominated officers to serve during the 2008 – 2009 term. The officer nominees will be presented to the TAA Board of Directors to be voted into office at the February 16, 2008 board meeting. The committee will then present its slate of Directors to the TAA Board for approval at the annual meeting of the TAA scheduled for April 26, 2008. Committee members included Chair, Stanley Cohn, Steve Slattery, Rick Powell, Andy Tyson, Tommy Meehan, Ruth Zarren, Rob Tessaro, Charlotte Travieso, Director Alumni Affairs, and Laurie Orgeron, staff liaison, also participated without a vote.

Officers to Serve July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009
President, St. Paul Bourgeois, IV (A&S'69, L'72) Lafayette, LA
President-Elect, Suzanne Valtierra (N'96) New Orleans, LA
Vice President, Daniel O’Connor (TC'97) New York, NY
Secretary/Treasurer, Michelle Rinehart (A'91) Washington, D. C.

Additional TAA Executive Committee Members
Immediate Past President, Steve Slattery (A&S'87) Washington, D. C.
Representative to the Tulane Board of Administrators,
Richard K. Schmidt (E'66, G'67) Kansas City, MO

Director Nominated to Represent the School of Architecture through June 30, 2010:

Rebecca Jeanes (A'05) Austin, TX

Director Nominated to Represent the the School of Continuing Studies through June 30, 2010:

Michael Kearney (UC'06) New Orleans, LA

Director Nominated to Represent the School of Science and Engineering through June 30, 2010:

Thomas M. Lee (E'76) Orange County, CA

Director Nominated to Represent the School of Social Work through June 30, 2010:

Dorothy Reese (SW'79 PH'80) New Orleans, LA

Director Nominated to Represent Tulane Clubs through June 30, 2010:

John Dimos (A&S'87) Alexandria, LA
Alexandro Hernandez (TC'98, B'02) Miami, FL
Thomas Kaufman (TC'03) Chicago, IL

Elected Directors continuing to serve the July 1, 2008– June 30, 2009 term:

Business School J. Peter Laborde, Jr., (B'78, B'88) New Orleans, LA
Law School, Rose LeBreton (N'73, L'76) New Orleans, LA
School of Liberal Arts, Charles Calderwood (A&S'76) Houston, TX
School of Medicine, Paul S. Lux (A&S'79, M'83) St. Louis, MO
Newcomb-Tulane College, Allison Cannizaro (N'02, L'05) Mandeville, LA
School of Public Health, Ed DeSocio (PH'98, B'00) New Orleans, LA

Tulane Clubs:
Nimrod Chapel (L'95) Kansas City, MO
Mark Johnson (B'03) Houston, TX
Jini Koh (NC'01) New York, NY
Rusty Pickering (E'91) Atlanta, GA
Rod Russell (G'00) Mandeville, LA
Philip Scheps (A&S'63) Houston, TX
Carol Showley (N'74, A'77) San Diego, CA
Rob Tessaro (UC'98) Washington, D. C.

At Large:
Lori Hoepner (PH'95) Brooklyn, NY
Don Kim (L'04) Minneapolis, MN
Jack Kushner (A&S'60) Annapolis, MD

The By-laws of the Tulane Alumni Association state: “(1) other candidates may be proposed to represent any particular College or School provided that their names are submitted in writing to the Secretary (Daniel O’Connor) bearing the candidate's signed consent and the endorsement of at least twenty (20) alumni of the particular College or School the candidate is to represent: (2) other candidates for Members-at-Large may be proposed provided that their names are submitted in writing to the Secretary (Daniel O’Connor) bearing the candidate's signed consent and the endorsement of at least fifty (50) alumni without regard to the College or School affiliation of the endorsers; and (3) written submissions must be in the hands of the Secretary Treasurer of the Association thirty (30) days after the date of the results of the Nominating Committee action are mailed or published (March 10, 2008). (d). Whenever no nominations are received from the general membership, the candidates nominated by the Nominating Committee shall be automatically elected (and take office July 1, 2008.)”

(click on link) Director Nominations Form

TAA Officer & Director Nominations For the Term Beginning July 2008