The celebration of LoyolaUniversity New Orleans’ centennialhas prompted the Loyola communityto reflect on the work of those whocame before us. The university’shistory has been palpable during thisfirst year of Loyola’s second century,as many of us have reflected on thevalues and achievements of ourforbearers in order to betterunderstand how we should proceed.

Foremost among the guidingprinciples that have resulted in the best of Loyola’sfirst century are the tenets of Jesuit education,which instruct us to educate students with the aim offreeing the individual person and allowing him orher to examine the world critically. As our currentstudents, faculty, and alumni conduct their work,their accomplishments reflect those from Loyola’spast in their emphasis on academic excellence,service for others, and a deep commitment to thecity of New Orleans.

This year, we worked to finalizethe goals of Loyola 2012, our strategicplan meant to guide Loyola into itssecond century. The plan focuses onenhancing Loyola’s Jesuit values andimproving the overall collegiateexperience for Loyola’s students. Wehave made great progress on bothfronts in the past year. Our currentwork includes efforts to transformour physical campus, improve ouracademic programs, and increasingly

assert our Jesuit identity. We continue to forge strongbonds with the city of New Orleans, and are pleasedto have contributed $160 million in economic impactto the Greater New Orleans region this year. We alsocontinue to strengthen the broader Loyolacommunity of alumni and friends, whose substantialsupport is crucial to our mission.

As this report shows, Loyola goes forth withgreat momentum as we look forward to and embraceour future. I am excited for this new era at Loyola,and grateful for the opportunity to help continue itsnoble legacy.

celebrating our past, embracing the future

With prayers and best wishes,

Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., President

Loyola University NewOrleans’ first century tookplace during a time ofdramatic transformation.From 1912 to 2012, greatshifts took place in ournation’s civil society, the city ofNew Orleans, and the ways inwhich we communicate. As welook back on theaccomplishments of the firstyear of Loyola’s second century, the context of ourhistory makes clear that our current students, faculty,and alumni remain true to the Jesuit values andmission that have guided Loyola since its inception.

In 1912, the ranks ofhigher education throughoutthe United States consistedalmost exclusively of whitemales. One hundred years later,a glance around Loyola’scampus is enough to see we haveovercome this exclusiveness.

U.S. News & World Reportrecently recognized Loyolaas number one in the nationin terms of “Lots ofrace/class interaction,” andwe can see the beginnings ofthis trend as early as 1913,when Loyola graduated itsfirst female student.

Loyola became a harbingerof the Civil Rights Movement

by admitting our first black law student in 1952,three years before the Montgomery Bus Boycott.That student, Norman Francis, J.D. ’55, H’82,became president of Xavier University, the nation’sonly historically black, Catholicuniversity. When the city ofNew Orleans integrated duringthe tumultuous 1960s, it was aLoyola College of Law graduate,the Hon. Moon Landrieu ’52,J.D. ’54, H’79, H’05, whooversaw the process as mayor.

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Poster promoting the 4th AnnualInterracial Sunday in 1952.

Norman Francis, J.D. ’55, H ’82

The city of New Orleanstransformed during Loyola’sfirst century from an old-time port city into anexciting place of opportunityand experimentation sevenyears after HurricaneKatrina. Loyola’s students,faculty, administrators, andalumni played crucial rolesin the renewal of NewOrleans after the historicflood. The Jesuit values of critical thinking and workon others’ behalf influenced Loyola communitymembers’ efforts. We see those efforts continue todayin Loyola programs such as the WorkplaceJustice Project, which received $557,000 ingrants this year to continue advocating andlitigating for workers’ rights.

Perhaps the greatest global transformationin the century leading to the Internet agedeals with the ways in which we communicate.Loyola’s stake in communications

transformation in theGulf South over the pastcentury has been immense.Among the first radiobroadcasts in the regionwere broadcast fromLoyola’s campus. A youngJesuit priest named Fr.Orie Abell continued thatwork, developing WWLradio in 1922. Thatstation grew into a media

empire that not only transformed Loyola, buthelped shape the history of communications in theSouthern United States.

The work Loyola continues todayreflects the values and achievements of ourpast, and lays the groundwork for anexciting future. One hundred years fromnow, members of the Loyola communitywill be able to look back on our firstcentennial and see continuity among ourpast, present, and future.

our history continues

Radio microphone, ca. 1922.

founder’s day celebration More than 650 alumni and

friends joined Loyola in kickingoff its year-long centennialcelebrations on Founder’s Day,April 14, 2012. They took part incampus tours, celebrated the100th Anniversary Mass in HolyName of Jesus Church, andwitnessed a performance by theLoyola Concert Band thatfeatured the premier of “IgnatianFanfare,” written by Col. JohnBourgeois ’90, H’05. NBC News journalist TomLlamas ’01 and New Orleans Mayor Mitch

Landrieu, J.D. ’85, H’05,made remarks, and ProvostDistinguished Professor ofHistory Bernard Cook,Ph.D., signed copies of hisbook Founded on Faith: A History ofLoyola University New Orleans,among other activities.

president’s centennialguest seriesThe Office of the President,

with assistance from politicalanalysts James Carville and MaryMatalin, launched a year-longseries of guest speakers in honor ofLoyola’s centennial. Events in thefall included The Most Rev.Gregory Michael Aymond,Archbishop of New Orleans, andNew Orleans native and nine-timeGrammy Award winner Wynton

Marsalis. The series continues this spring and offersthe Loyola and New Orleans communities an array ofcultural, artistic, Catholic, and intellectualperspectives.

inaugural alumni college Loyola’s Alumni Association hosted its first-ever

Alumni College, which brought back more than 70alumni to campus for three days in June to attendspecial courses in four tracts: New Orleans and theWorld, Loyola and the Jesuit Mission, Art andCulture, and Politics and Society.

loyola celebrates 100 years

loyola’s first century

1912Loyola University

is chartered

19131st women graduate from

School of Pharmacy

1922WWL radio begins broadcasting from

Marquette Hall

1923The Maroon

begins publication

1926The undefeated Wolves

outscore all other football teams in the nation

1932Loyola athletes win gold medals at the Olympics

1947 College of Business

Administration is established

1950The Main Library

is dedicated

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19521st African-American admitted to School of Law

1957WWL expands to television

1962Loyola integrates itsundergraduate day programs

19761st female dean of the College of Arts and Sciences appointed

1985Gillis W. Long Poverty Law Center is founded

1986Communications/Music Complex opens

1999J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library opens

2005Hurricane Katrina strikesand levees fail

2012Centennial Year celebrations begin

As we examine our accomplishments of the past year and look toward our future, it becomes clear that:

� our students remain academically excellent in their pursuit of holistic jesuit education.

� our faculty remains innovative, engaging, and noted nationwide.

� our special programs continue to connect local and global communities.

� our catholic and jesuit values remain central to our identity and work.

� our alumni succeed and embody the jesuit values they learned at loyola.

For 100 years, Loyola University NewOrleans’ students and faculty have executed

their academic pursuits according to astrict standard of excellence. Our alumni

and special programs have connectedLoyola to the broader New Orleans andglobal communities. Loyola’s endeavorshave been guided by Jesuit values thatoriginated from St. Ignatius of Loyola

more than 400 years ago.

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A team of Loyola public relations studentscontinued the university’s dominance of thenational Public Relations Student Society ofAmerica Bateman Competition by winning itsseventh national title this year. The LoyolaBateman team beat 70 other competing schools totake its third national title in five years.

The Loyola College of Law’s A.P. Tureaud BlackLaw Student Association’s mock trial team took topprize at this year’s National BLSA Mock TrialCompetition in Washington, D.C.

Philosophy major Andrew Albert was awarded a2012 Fulbright Summer Institute Scholarship tostudy at Newcastle University in Newcastle, U.K.,and is one of only 50 students from the UnitedStates to participate in a program that examinesEurope’s role in the global economy.

The student Trumpet Ensemble from Loyola’sSchool of Music performed at the 37th annualconference of the International Trumpet Guild inColumbus, Georgia, which included performancesby only 12 ensembles from around the world.

Loyola law student Matthew O’Gorman, under thesupervision of assistant clinical professor StephenSinger, J.D., briefed and argued a second-degreemurder case before the Louisiana Supreme Court.The court ruled in favor of O’Gorman’s positionand ordered a new trial for his defendants.

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Anthony Decuir, Ph.D., associate dean of theCollege of Music and Fine Arts, received theLifetime Achievement Award for OutstandingProfessional Contributions from the AmericanMusic Therapy Association. The award recognizes hiswork as a music therapy clinician in mental health.

Media outlets nationwide covering the debate on thehealth benefits of organic food picked up onresearch published by Loyola professor of psychologyKendall Eskine, Ph.D., whose article shows acorrelation between purchasing organic food, whichcan make people self-righteous, and an increase inharsh moral judgments.

Working with a team of undergraduate researchers,Rosalie Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor ofbiological sciences, has devised a new method ofprompting regeneration in vertebrate synovialjoints. Her work, which holds exciting possibilitiesfor applications in human medicine, earned herteam a National Institutes of Health grant andrecent mention in Science, one of the world’s topscientific journals.

Three universities—the United States Air ForceAcademy, Alabama State University, and NorthCarolina Central University—implemented use in2012 of a new electronic attendance tracking systemdeveloped by assistant professor of finance MehmetDicle, Ph.D., and assistant professor of economicsJohn Levendis, Ph.D.

Kendall Eskine, Ph.D.

Thanks in large part to the global reputationprofessor of biology Patricia Dorn, Ph.D., hasearned with her groundbreaking research onChagas disease, Loyola hosted a prestigiousinternational conference on infectious diseases in2012. The annual Molecular Epidemiology andEvolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseasesconference attracts top scholars from around theworld, and this is only the third time it has beenhosted in the United States.

The Office of Service Learning hosted a four-week summer camp for a key partner agency—Anna’s Arts for Kids, which provides after-schoolarts activities and academic tutoring for at-riskyouth—on its campus. The Office of ServiceLearning, which continues to tally record levels ofparticipation in its fourth year, derives its strengthlargely through its robust relationships with theagencies with which it partners.

The Workplace Justice Project in Loyola’s StuartH. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justicereceived $557,000 in grants this year to continue effortsin education, litigation, and advocacy, and to become aresource center for low-wage workers and workeradvocates. The grants came from Baptist CommunityMinistries Foundation, the Greater New OrleansFoundation, and the Foundation for Louisiana.

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Anna’s Arts for Kids Workplace Justice Project

our catholic and jesuitvalues remain central to our identity and work

The Jesuit Social Research Institute marked itsfive-year anniversary this year. The institute usesaction research and advocacy to work on behalf ofthe poor, immigrants, and victims of racial prejudice.The JSRI hosted a national conference on howevents such as the Super Bowl, which took place inNew Orleans this year, are often accompanied byhigh levels of sex trafficking.

The Center for Spiritual Capital in Loyola’sCollege of Business hosted its first annual LeadershipConference, one of many of the center’s initiativesto promote business ethics in the academic andprofessional communities grounded in Judeo-Christian values.

Students from the Loyola University CommunityAction Program (LUCAP) embodied the Jesuitideal of being “men and women for others” bypartnering with Catholic Charities and theArchdiocese of New Orleans in the aftermath ofHurricane Issac to coordinate supply drives andsend volunteers to our neighboring communities tohelp survivors.

The Office of Mission and Ministry’s IgnacioVolunteer Program coordinates six immersiontrips to Belize and Jamaica annually. Loyolastudents work with the impoverished to explore thepolitical, sociological, and economic issues thathave shaped these two countries.

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Ignacio Volunteer Program in Belize

Ansel Augustine ’00, M.P.S. ’02, and John Smestad,Jr. ’96, M.R.E. ’00, were honored by the WhiteHouse for their work through the MLK DrumMajors for Service Program. Their team of adultsand students helps rebuild ministries in black Catholicchurches, in the New Orleans faith community.

Jessica Dunne ’08, CNN associate producer, wasawarded a prestigious Peabody Award for her part in theCNN news coverage of the Arab Spring demonstrations.

Dr. Laurie M. Joyner ’86 was elected as WittenbergUniversity’s 14th president, the first femalepresident of the 167-year-old national liberal artsuniversity in Ohio.

Jamie Slomski ’95 won a Daytime EMMY Awardfor Outstanding Achievement in Main Titles andGraphic Design for VH1, Big Morning Buzz Live.

The Hon. Carl E. Stewart, J.D. ’74, became the firstAfrican-American chief judge of the U.S. Court ofAppeals for the Fifth Circuit, which hears appeals fromfederal courts in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi.

Robert Wilkie, J.D. ’88, was elected to The Councilon Foreign Relations, the oldest foreign affairs anddefense policy organization in the United States. Hewas nominated by Condoleezza Rice, Robert M.Gates, and General Norton Schwartz.

The Carlos M. Ayala Stock Trading Room providesLoyola students a real-world environment forinvestment-related education and training. Thefacility is the result of a $1.3 million bequest by LoyolaCollege of Business alumnus Carlos Ayala ’57, whocredited Loyola for his remarkable success in business.

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Carlos M. Ayala Stock Trading Room