Sasol North America has recently donated $10,000 to McNeese State University through the McNeese Foundation for the new athletics field house currently under construction. Tommy McClelland, left, McNeese athletics director, accepts the donation from Mike Thomas, president of Sasol North America.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cops and Jocks presented a $45,000 donation from its recent auction and golf tournament held at L'Auberge du Lac Casino Resort to McNeese State University for the football program and two endowed scholarships through the McNeese Foundation. Two new $15,000 endowed scholarships have been established – the Don Dixon and Alan Heisser Law Enforcement Scholarship #3 and the Don Dixon and Alan Heisser Athletic Scholarship #2. The remaining $15,000 went to the McNeese football program.

 

At the check presentation, from left: John Rudd, Cops and Jocks, Bill Belcher, head golf pro at L'Auberge, Alan Heisser, Cops and Jocks, McNeese Head Football Coach Matt Viator, Richard H. Reid, vice president of development and public affairs and executive vice president of the McNeese Foundation, Don Dixon, Cops and Jocks, and Harold C. Rowland, vice president of resort operations at L'Auberge.

 

 

 

The Calcasieu-Cameron Retired Teachers Association has donated $10,000 to the McNeese Foundation toendow the H.A. and Gladys Norton Scholarship. Henry Allen Norton worked 47 years in theCalcasieu Parish School System. He began his career as assistant principal at Vinton High School in 1920 then became principal two years later. In 1928 he became Calcasieu Parish Assistant Superintendent and then superintendent in 1929. He served as superintendent until his retirement in 1967.

 

 

From left, Dr. Wayne Fetter, dean of the Burton College of Education, and McNeese President Philip C. Williams accept the donation from Calcasieu-Cameron Retired Teachers Association representatives Edie Keys, president, and Linda Finley.

 

 

 

Sasol North America has recently donated $15,000 to McNeese State University through the McNeese Foundation. Sasol is donating $15,000 to be divided among the college of engineering and engineering technology and the departments of chemistry and agricultural sciences. Dr. Nikos Kiritsis, left, dean of the college of engineering and engineering technology, accepts the donation from Mike Thomas, president of Sasol North America.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sheriff Bolivar Bishop Memorial Scholarship in Criminal Justice has been established with gifts totaling $15,054.18 to McNeese State University by the Bishop family and friends in memory of the late Sheriff Bishop through the McNeese Foundation. Bishop was elected Beauregard Parish Sheriff in 1971 and he retired in 2008 as the longest serving sheriff in Louisiana.

 

Seated from left are Harriette Bishop, Bishop's wife, and daughter, Mary Bishop, and standing from left are Ricky Moses, Beauregard Parish Sheriff, Richard H. Reid, vice president of development and public affairs and executive vice president of the McNeese Foundation, Jill and Aaron Cooper, daughter and son-in-law, and David W. Burton, Beauregard Parish District Attorney.

 

 

 

ConocoPhillips has donated $10,000 for the process plant technology program in the college of engineering and engineering technology at McNeese State University through the McNeese Foundation. ConocoPhillips has given a total of $50,000 to the process plant technology program since 2006.

 

ConocoPhillips representative Willie A. Tempton Jr., second from right, plant manager, presents the donation to (from left) Dorothy Ortego, head of the engineering technology department, Billy Rose, McNeese Foundation board member, and Dr. Nikos Kiritsis, dean of the college of engineering and engineering technology.

 

 

The Greater Lake Charles Rotary Club recently donated $10,000 from the proceeds of its annual auction to McNeese State University for the Greater Lake Charles Rotary Scholarship Fund, which was established with the McNeese Foundation in 1992. To date, this event has raised almost $415,000 for the endowed scholarship fund.

Left to right: McNeese student Danielle Morrissey, a Greater Lake Charles Rotary Club Scholarship recipient; Dr. Jeanne Daboval, McNeese provost and vice president of academic affairs; John R. Hoffpauir, Greater Lake Charles Rotary past president; and Marianne White, McNeese coordinator of planned giving and donor research and Rotary Club member.

 

 

The Greater Lake Charles Rotary Club recently made a $21,000 donation to the McNeese State Cowboy football camp.

Cowboy head coach Matt Viator received the donation from Jesse James and Dr. James R. Churchman, members of the club. This is the 10th year for the organization to make a donation to the football camp.

The camp is opened to all athletes 10 years of age through upcoming high school seniors and is divided into junior (up to the ninth grade) and a senior (ninth through the 12th grade) divisions. Viator and his coaching staff served as instructors at the camp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Joe and Lydia Cash Endowed Lecture in Literature and Culture series has been established with a $10,000 gift to McNeese State University through the McNeese Foundation by Dr. Joe Cash, former chair of the McNeese English and Foreign Languages Department for 23 years, and his wife, Lydia, a retired Calcasieu Parish teacher.

Joe is retiring from McNeese at the end of the 2010 summer session after teaching English in Texas and Louisiana for 48 years. He and Lydia decided to establish the endowment to fund an annual lecture series in literature, according to Dr. Jacob Blevins, current chair of the department.

"Because our departmental mission represents so many literatures and cultures, the lecture series will be comparative in nature and consider the importance of literature worldwide,” said Blevins. Plans are to kick off the lecture series this fall.

 

Pictured from left seated are: Lydia Cash, Dr. Jeanne Daboval, provost and vice president of academic affairs, and Dr. Joe Cash; and standing from left are Dr. Jacob Blevins, chair of the English and foreign languages department, and Dr. Ray Miles, dean of the college of liberal arts.

 

 

 

Citgo Petroleum Corp. has presented a $35,000 donation to the McNeese State University Foundation for the endowed Citgo Petroleum Corporation Professorship in Engineering #6.

From left: Bob Davison, president-elect of the McNeese Foundation; Dana Keel, Citgo community/employee relations; Anne Krock, manager of human resources and government and public affairs at Citgo, Dr. Nikos Kiritsis, dean of the college of engineering and engineering technology, and April Joy Altazan, Citgo communications specialist.

 

 

 

Grace Davison has donated $6,000 to McNeese State University through the McNeese Foundation to be divided between the McNeese colleges of business and engineering and engineering technology.

 

From left, Grace Davison representatives David Rentrop, operations director, and Jennifer Couste, southwest regional controller, present the donation to Dr. Mitchell Adrian, business dean, and Dr. Nikos Kiritsis, engineering and engineering technology dean.

 

 

 

 

City Savings Bank presented $15,000 to McNeese State University as part of its $75,000 pledge for the City Savings Bank & Trust Scholarship through the McNeese Foundation.

 

Glen D. Bertrand, center, president and chief executive officer of City Savings Bank, presents Richard Reid, second from right, vice president of development and public affairs and executive vice president of the McNeese Foundation, with the $15,000 donation, along with City Savings Bank representatives (from left) Belton Thibodeaux Jr., vice president and Lake Charles branch manager, Matthew Bowles, assistant vice president and marketing coordinator, and John L. Marcello Sr., vice president and chief lending officer.

 

 

 

Dr. Pankaj Chandra, professor of mechanical engineering at McNeese State University, and his wife, Meera Raj, a 1999 McNeese chemical engineering graduate, have established a new scholarship, the Chandra "Peace” Memorial Engineering Scholarship, in memory of Chandra’s father, Shanti Chandra, with a $10,000 pledge to the McNeese Foundation. "Shanti” means peace.

 

Dr. Nikos Kiritsis, left, dean of the engineering and engineering technology college, and the Chandras look over recruitment material for prospective students in front of the state-of-the-art model chemical plant that provides cutting edge training for McNeese engineering and engineering technology students.

 

 

 

The Women’s Commission of SWLA Inc. has donated $15,000 to the McNeese State University Foundation to establish the Women’s Commission of SWLA Inc. Endowed Scholarship. From left to right: Fran Clophus, Women’s Commission vice president and 2010 fall conference chair; Angela Pierson, Women’s Commission president; Ellen Raley, McNeese scholarship administrator; Betty Anderson, Women’s Commission scholarship chair and director of continuing education at McNeese; and Pam Golding, Women’s Commission past president.

 

 

 

 

The Advertising and Press Club of SWLA has donated $6,000 to the McNeese State University Scholarship Fund and to the Mass Communication Department through the McNeese Foundation. The donation represents McNeese’s portion of the net profits from the club’s 2009 Gridiron show, which is used for scholarships and institutional support.

 

Each year, the club donates part of its Gridiron proceeds to the university, and this year, $5,000 goes toward the scholarship fund and $1,000 goes to the mass communication department.

 

From left to right: Ralynn Castete, director of scholarships and testing at McNeese, Pam McGough, second vice president, Ad and Press Club of SWLA, Dr. Carrie Chrisco, McNeese Department Head of Mass Communication, and Shireen Santhanasamy, historian and scholarships, Ad and Press Club of SWLA. The Ad and Press Club is Southwest Louisiana’s oldest organization for communications professionals.

 

 

 

The Eye Clinic has donated $10,000 to establish the Dr. D. Dale and Valerie Archer Nursing Scholarship through the McNeese State University Foundation. The scholarship was established in honor of the 50th anniversary of The Eye Clinic, which was founded by Dr. Archer.

 

 Looking over the criteria for the new scholarship are from left: Dr. Alan Lacoste with The Eye Clinic, Dr. Peggy Wolfe, dean of the McNeese College of Nursing, and Valerie and Dr. D. Dale Archer.