2011-2012

Housing Registration at St. K.D. &
St. Mike’s Hall

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Move-In XU Haul

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Move-In XU Haul

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Administrative Address

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President’s Welcome Reception

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Mass Celebration

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Rite of Passage
“I give you my light to shine.”

Xavier Traditions

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Academics

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College of Arts & Sciences

Dean’s Office

Seated : Dr. Cheryl Stevens, Associate Front L-R: Ms. Michelle Balan, Executive Assistant; Dr. Kim Marie Vaz, Associate Dean-College of Arts and
Dean for Scholarship-College of Arts Sciences; Ms. Michelle Carter, Assistant Dean, Student Academic Success Office. Back L-R: Dr. Kenneth
and Sciences, Chair-Department of Boutte Sr., Associate Dean for Summer Programs and External Initiatives-College of Arts and Sciences; Mr.
Chemistry. Standing: Dr. Anil Kukreja, Gerald Villavasso Jr., Assistant Dean-College of Arts and Sciences.
Dean-College of Arts and Sciences,
Capital One Professor of Finance and
Management.

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Art Department

Art faculty and staff with students. Front L-R: Aramis Phaaire, Jameel A.Paulin, Mariel H. Jarreau, Kayla E.Byers, DiQuan D. Forcell,
Alexander L. Bennett, Augustus Jenkins (faculty), Nora Olgay (chair). Faculty Back L-R: Michelle Lavigne, MaPo Kinnord, Ron Bechet.

Art Village
dedication

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Biology Department

Row 1 L–­ R: Dr. Qian-Jin Zhang, assistant professor; Dr. Michelle Boissiere, assistant professor; Ms. Rebekah Sadaiappen, Dr. Shuba Ireland, chair,
professor; Ms. Aaron Harrison, Ms. Sasiprabha Rajasekaran, Biology lab manager. Row 2 L­–R: Ms. Jaime Missimer, coordinator of advising; Ms. Tatyana

Santoke, . Row 3 L-R:Sr. Grace Mary Flickinger, SBS, professor; Dr. Shampa Mukerji, assistant professor. Row 4 L­–R: Dr. Ian Davenport, assistant
professor; Dr. Syed Muniruzzaman, associate professor. Row 5: Mr. Willie Caffey, instructor. Row 6 L-R: Dr. Harish Ratnayaka, associate professor. Dr.
Partha Bhattacharjee, assistant professor; Dr. Hector Biliran, assistant professor; Dr. Mary Carmichael, assistant professor and associate chair. Dr. Mack

Crayton, assistant professor; Dr. Kristi Brumfield, assistant professor; Dr. Thomas Huckaba. Dr. Harris McFerrin, assistant professor. L­–R: Dr. Joseph
Ross, Ms. Margaret Thomas, administrative assistant; Dr. Mohamed Awad, assistant professor.

Business Division

Seated L-R: Dr. Amanda Helm, assistant professor; Mrs. Tonia Simmons-Doakes, administrative assistant; Dr. Joe Ricks, chair, professor; Mr. Clifford Wright, CPA, professor;
Dr. Beverly Guillory-Andry, lecturer. Standing L-R: Dr. Cary Caro, assistant professor; Ms. Candice Roche, CPA, Instructor; Dr. Jose Bautista, professor;

Mr. Mark Quinn, lecturer and Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship; Dr. Richard Peters, assistant professor; Dr. Shael Wolfson, assistant professor; Dr. James
Bartkus, assistant professor and associate division chair.
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Chemistry Department

Front row L-R:  Drs. Jason Abrams, assistant professor; Guangdi Wang, professor; Galina Goloverda, associate professor; Maryam Foroozesh, professor; and Jian Zhang, professor. Second row
L-R: Drs. Kelly Johanson, assistant professor; Cheryl Stevens, chair, professor; Hua Mei, assistant professor; Vladimir Kolesnichenko, assistant professor; and Robert Luo, instructor. Third row L-R:
Drs. Michael Adams, associate professor; Kathleen Morgan, associate professor; Teresa Birdwhistell, professor; Neil McIntyre, assistant professor. Fourth row L-R: Drs. Jayalakshmi Sridhar, research
associate; Ann Privett, associate professor and assistant chair. Back row L-R: Dr. Shannon Watt, instructor; Sherida Montague, administrative assistant; Jacqueline Gavins, supervisor of Chemistry

lab services), and Dr. Floristina Payton-Stewart, assistant professor.

Communications Department

Seated L-R: Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, instructor; Arnold Crump, assistant professor; Dr. Liz Edgecomb, assistant professor; Dr. Ross Louis, chair, associate professor.
Standing L-R: Cheyenne Walker, administrative specialist; Dr. Kimberly Chandler, assistant professor; Dr. Dominique Gendrin, professor; Dr. Nancy Martino, associate professor;

Dr. Janice Haynes, assistant professor; Dr. Patricia Minnis, assistant professor; Dr. Lisa Flanagan, assistant professor; Dr. Brenda Edgerton-Webster, assistant professor;
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Computer Science Department

Top L-R: Mr. Austin Orgah, program manager; Mr. Theodore Graham, systems administrator. Middle L-R: Dr. Kun (Karen) Zhang, assistant
professor; Dr. R. Raymond Lang, associate professor. Front: Ms. Pam Ridder, administrative assistant.
Not shown: Dr. Andrea Edwards, chair, assistant professor.

Education Division

Front row L-R: Gloria Thomas, administrative assistant; Dr. Jannette Sturm-Mexic, assistant professor; Sr. Jean Marie Craig, SBS, associate professor; Dr. Renee Akbar, assistant professor; Marlene
Robinson, director of graduate admissions; Ahsija Donatto, lead mentor. Second row L-R: Jacqueline Ballansaw, administrative assistant; Dr. Rosalind Hale chair, NCATE coordinator; Dr. Nikki

Joseph, assistant professor; Dr. Judith Miranti, professor. Third row L-R: Rachel Davis-Haley, assistant professor; Glenda Hembree, assistant professor; Shoneka Thomas, program manager MSTI;
Dr. Timothy Glaude, assistant professor; Sr. Alicia Costa,SSF, assistant professor.
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English Department

Standing L-R: Mark Whitaker, assistant professor; Dr. Thaddeo Babiiha, associate professor, Allison Pitcher, administrative assistant II; Dr. Sim Shattuck, lecturer; Dr. David Lanoue, Professor; Mr.
Jeremy Tuman, lecturer; Ms. Katheryn Laborde, associate professor; Dr. Jason Todd, assistant professor, QEP director; Dr. Ronald Dorris, professor; Dr. Oliver Hennessey, assistant professor; Mr.
Alexios Moore, lecturer; Ms. Catherine Mizell-Nelson, lecturer; Dr. Robert Connor, assistant professor, Writing Center director; Mr. James Shade, assistant professor; Dr. Robin Vander, assistant
Professor. Seated L-R: Dr. Biljana Obradovic, professor; Dr. Bonnie Noonan, associate professor; Ms. Cocoa Williams, lecturer; Ms. Anya Groner, lecturer; Dr. Nicole Greene, associate professor,
department chair; Dr. Violet Bryan, professor; Mr. Ralph Adamo, lecturer. Not shown: Dr. Thomas Bonner, Jr., professor emeritus; Dr. Donna Gould, SBS, assistant professor; Ms. Linda Rodriguez,

lecturer; Ms. Hannah Baker Saltmarsh, lecturer.

History Department

Front row L-R: Ms. Dianne Encalade, administrative assistant; Dr. Elizabeth Manley, assistant professor; Dr. Shamsul Huda, associate professor. Back row L-R: Dr. Steven Salm, chair, associate
professor; Dr. Gary Donaldson, professor; Dr. Jonathan Rotondo-McCord, associate professor; Sr. Barbara Hughes, CSJ, professor; Dr. Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir, assistant professor.
Not shown: Ms. Kelly Hamilton, instructor.

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Languages Department

Standing L-R: Dr. Elizabeth Smith Rousselle, associate professor of Spanish; Dr. Karen Becnel Moore, associate professor of Spanish; Bro. Herman Johnson, O.P., chair, assistant professor of
Spanish; Dr. Anthony J. Aramburo, associate professor of American Sign Language; Giti Farudi, instructor of Spanish. Seated L-R: Dr. Susan Spillman, associate professor of French; Elizabeth

Torres, administrative assistant; Dr. Masako Dorrill, adjunct professor of Japanese.

Mathematics Department

Front row L-R: Dr. Gurdial Arora, chair, professor; Ms. Erica Houston, administrative assistant; Ms. Jhacova Williams, Dr. Sindhu Unnithan, associate professor; Dr. Lester Jones, Jr., professor.
Middle row L-R: Dr. David Anderson, assistant professor; Dr. Valerio DeAngelis, associate professor; Dr. Thoas Palfrey, associate professor; Dr. R. Patrick Vernon, assistant professor; Dr. Xinyu Sun,

assistant professor; Ms. Caitlin Klimas, assistant professor. Last row L-R: Dr. Carroll Diaz, Jr., assistant professor; Dr. Yevgenij Kostrov, assistant professor; Dr. Vlajko Kocic, professor; Dr. Donna
Stutson, associate professor; Dr. John Mersch, assistant professor; Dr. Andrew Klimas, assistant professor; Mr. Habib Mbaye, instructor.
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Music Department

Front row L-R: Dr. Wilfred Delphin, artist-in-residence and professor of piano; Sojiro Yamada, strings; Sr. Juliana Haynes, SBS, assistant professor (honoris causa); Nena Lorenz, adjunct professor of
percussion; Joanne Paige, administrative assistant. Back row L-R: Dr. Dan Shore, assistant professor of theory; Vance Woolf, adjunct professor, trumpet; Dr. Timothy Turner, chair, assistant professor
and director of bands; Dr. Marcus Ballard, assistant professor of music; Dr. John Ware, professor and director of choirs. Not shown: Greg Hicks, adjunct professor, trombone; Mitchell Stevens, adjunct

professor, voice; Lauren Guidary, adjunct professor, guitar; Dara Rahming, instructor of voice and director of Opera Workshop; Dr. Malcolm Breda, professor emeritus.

Philosophy Department

Front row L-R: Dr. Jason Berntsen, assistant professor; Dr. Joe LeFevre, professor; Dr. Thora Bayer, professor; Dr. Robert Berman, professor. Back row L-r: Dr. James Dunson, assistant professor;
Dr. Paul Schafer, chair, associate professor.

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Physics & Engineering Department

Front row L-R: Pam Ridder, administrative assistant; Dr. Murty Akundi, chair, professor; Dr. Jessica Graber, assistant professor.
Middle row L-R: Dr. Dean Richardson, assistant professor; Dr. Frank Wesselmann, assistant professor; Dr. James Rantschler, assistant professor.
Back row L-R: Dr. Anderson Sunda-Meya, assistant professor and dual degree engineering associate director; Dr. Freddie Landry, assistant professor.

Political Science Department

Front row L-R: Dianne Encalade, administrative assistant; Megan Osterbur, instructor; Dr. Pamela Waldron-Moore, chair, professor.
Back row L-R: Jason Plume, lecturer, Dr. Darren Hanson, assistant professor.

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Psychology Department

L-R seated: Jeremy Cohen, Ph.D., assistant professor; Annette Iskra, Ph.D., assistant professor; Elliott Hammer, Ph.D., associate professor and chair. L-R standing:
Joan Ulmer, administrative specialist; Charles Gramlich, Ph.D., professor; Lisa Schulte-Gipson, Ph.D., associate professor.

Sociology Department

Front row L-R seated: Amy Bellone-Hite, Ph.D., assistant professor; Claire Norris, Ph.D., assistant professor.
Left standing: Joan Ulmer, administrative specialist; Christopher Faircloth, Ph.D., associate professor and chair;

Farrah Gafford, Ph.D, assistant professor.
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Theology Department

Front row L-R: Dr. Jerry Farmer, chairperson/professor; Dr. Lourdes Y. Rincón, assistant professor; Dr. Michael Homan, associate professor. Back Row (Left to Right): Eva B. Grant,
administrative assistant; Father Phillip Linden, STD, Ph.D., associate professor, Sister Mary Ann Stachow, SBS, Ph.D., assistant professor; Dr. Mark Gstohl, associate professor.

College of Pharmacy

Dean’s Office

Left to right: Nannette Simoneaux, Joyce Brossett, LaKisha Davis-Shelton; Dr. Ann Barbre; Dr. Kathleen Kennedy, Dean College of Pharmacy; Sheryl Rodriguez. Back row left to right: Reginald
Starks, Dr. Leonard Jack, Tonia Williams-Horton, Richard Gould, Jean Baker.
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Division of Clinical &
Administrative Sciences

Division of Clinical & Administrative Sciences (DCAS) faculty: Fourth row back: Drs. Ed Stemley, Maria Echeverri, Sarah Amering, Joseph LaRochelle, Shannon
Bagnet- Finley, Tammy Hart. Third row (left to right): Ashley Taylor, Lori Crawford, Kristi Rapp. Second row (left to right): Drs. Sara Al-dahir, David Mihm, Dana Jamero,

Danielle Broussard, Kisha Gant, Iman Borghol, Conchetta Fulton. Front row (left tot right): Drs. Fatima Brakta, Linda  Mihm, Ariane Conrad, Shandrika Williams,
Rondall Allen, Kristopher Chrishon, Kendrea Bryant.

First row L-R: Dr. Rondall Allen, assistant dean for student affairs & curricular assessment; Maya Paul, student information systems coordinator; Jacqulin Joe, audio
visual/PC support & coordinator. Second row L-R: Laticia Barthé, career development coordinator; Mary Kittles, administrative assistant II; Randall Schexnayder,

assistant dean for academic support. Third row L-R: Dr. Janice Whitney, coordinator of student records & academic support; Christopher Griggs, assistant director for
student academic performance & support; Dr. Linda Blakley, assistant dean for student retention & success. Not shown: Gwen Hudson, admissions coordinator.

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Graduate Studies

Graduate Programs in Education &
Institute for Black Catholic Studies

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Institute for Black
Catholic Studies Summer Programs

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September 2011

Pharmacy P1 white coat ceremony
Substance Abuse Month

Mr. Xavier, Mr. Senior, Mr. Junior pageants
Fast Food nation

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Pharmacy P-1 White Coat Ceremony

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Fast Food Nation

Healthy eating samples from the Hollygrove Community Gardens.

Freshman Seminar attend lecture from aurthor of “Fast Food Nation Speaker: Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

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Mr. Xavier, Mr. Junior, Mr. Sophomore, Mr. Freshman

Mr. Xavier, Xavier Semien (center).

Mr. Junior, Beunca Graffree (center).

Robert Stevenson, Mr. Sophomore (center).

Daryl Wiltz, Mr. Freshman (center).

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October 2011

UNCF Walk/Run 75
Grad Fair

Wellness Week
Operation Diabetes

Trick-A-Trunk
Neophyte Show
Komen Breast Cancer Awareness

Graduate Fair

L-R standing: Rabiat Saraki and Ganiat Animashaun gather graduate school information.

Mr. Junior, Beunca Graffree (center).

Graduate Placement Office staff.

Jessica Johnson inquires about grad schools.

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Pharmacy Diabetes Awareness in the Community

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Komen Breast Cancer Awareness
Trick-A-Trunk Organization Community Service

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November 2011
Homecoming
Homecoming Kick-off –Viva Las Xavier
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Homecoming Kick-Off Coronation Ball
Going to the Chapel to get Married Dancing and having fun.

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Mia N. Holmes
Miss Xavier 2011-12

L-R: Miss Xavier 2010-11, Jade Young and Miss Xavier 2011-12, Mia Holmes.
Miss Xavier and Royal Honor
Guards–Center: Mia Holmes.
Kneeling L- R: Herstyn Jones, Te’rry
Bolden. Standing L-R: Lawrence
Jackson, Leon Vaughn, Hunter
Nelson, Corey Anderson, Kaashif
Umrani, Kent Seals.

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2011-12 Royal Court

Miss Xavier Court–Center: Mia Holmes, Miss Xavier; Escort Xavier Semien, Mr. Xavier. Left: Monica Collins, First Lady; Escort Dudley Grady, First
Gent. Right: Corinne Williams, Second Lady; Escort Marquise Turner, Second Gent.

Miss Senior Court–Center: Jerlicia Gooden, Miss Senior; Escort John Pittman, Mr Senior. Left: Brianna Bell, First Lady; Escort Rain Littleton,
First Gent. Right: Traiana Mangum, Second Lady; Escort Derek Joseph, Second Gent.

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Miss Junior Court–Center: Kaylise Trahan, Miss
Junior; Escort Terrance Thompson, Mr. Junior. Left:
Beunca Graffree, First Lady; Escort Breon Hightower,
First Gent. Right: Taylor Martin, Second Lady; Escort
Charles Warner-Hillard, Second Gent.

Miss Sophomore Court–Center: Shelby Haynes,
Miss Sophomore; Escort Robert Stevenson,
Mr. Sophomore. Left: Charne’sa Tutwiler, First
Lady; Escort Jordan Davis, First Gent. Right:
Tameka Christmas, Second Lady; Escort Gerry
McNichols, Second Gent.

Miss Freshman Court–Center: Carrie Johnson, Miss
Freshman; Escort Daryl J. Wiltz, Mr. Freshman. Left:
Peyton Williams, First Lady; Escort Jamari Duncan, First
Gent. Right: Gayla Williams, Second Lady; Escort Chandler
Schexnayder, Second Gent.

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Homecoming Parade

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Al Jarreau Benefit Concert

Al Jarreau spends time with the Xavier Jazz Band

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Lunch on the YArd

Alumni and students get to sociallize during lunch

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Alumni Seminars

Legal Profession seminar
Educator’s seminar
Pharmacy seminar

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Alumni Mass

Praying the Rosary

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Queen’s Brunch

Homecoming Court 2011 with past Xavier Queens

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Founder’s Day Convocation

Celebrating Xavier’s founding in 1925 by St. Katharine Drexel, our Graduates, and Employees

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December 2011

End of
Fall Semester

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Packing to go home for the Christmas break.

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January 2012

Spring
Semester

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MLK Day Week of Peace
& Community Service Semester

Dr. Steve Perry, MLK speaker Raven Jackson, Xavier P2 student, leadership recipient

Community leadership recipient, Ellis
Marsalis, legendary jazz musician.

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MLK Day of Service

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X
Organizations
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Student Government

Front row L-R Veronica Gilbert, Treasurer; Kelly Allison, Chief of Staff. Middle Student Government
row L-R: Mia Holmes, Miss Xavier; Danielle L. White, Vice President. Back Association
row L-R: Kaitlyn Gaddis, President; Chavez Scott, Activities Board President.

Not shown: Raven Foster, Secretary.

Front row L-R: Gerard Williams, David Freddie, Ashley Trussell, Christine Tchouwnou. Congress
Middle row L-R: Andrea Speights, Lawrence Jackson, Danielle White, Jacobe Hollins.

Back row L-R: Bené Johnson, Perry Mitchell, Nicholas Alexander, Michelle Winn.

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