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Prof predicted alum’s ‘Top Cop’ job
Col. Henry Whitehorn, superintendent of the Louisiana State Police and deputy secretary of public safety services in the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, chuckles at a prediction made by one of his instructors when he was an undergraduate at LSUS in the ‘80s.

Continuing Ed ‘fresh marketing strategy’
helps increase registrations by 60 percent
A fresh marketing strategy, soaring registrations, major program additions and … well, yes … some continuing programs are making the LSUS Division of Continuing Education and Public Service a pretty exciting place to be these days.

LSUS alumni enjoying successful medical careers
As Dr. Elizabeth Strabel drives to work, the sun peeks over the hilly horizon. She passes evergreens, a frozen lake and a farmhouse, and she waves energetically to the familiar families outside. She takes a deep breath as a big smile creeps over her face. “I love my life,” she thinks as she presses on the accelerator.

Students helping teens with math
Five LSUS students are working hard to help assure success at one of Shreveport’s low-performing high schools.

¡México fue Maravilloso!*
Where in the world will they go next?
A diverse group of LSUS students, two professors and a van were Mexico-bound last Fall Break. Students got an insider’s look into Mexican business practices while they enjoyed expanding their cultural horizons.

Weightlifting Center produces champions, championships
The USA Weightlifting Development Center at LSUS generated “big news” items one after the other this spring. For example:

Experience, recruiting expected
to strengthen women’s team
The rebirth of women’s basketball at LSUS was highlighted by big wins over Dillard University, the University of Mobile and SUNO, showing the potential of the young team.

Chemistry puts men’s team ‘over the top’
Though talent, discipline and a lot of hard work went into making the LSUS Pilots first season successful, according to Head Coach Chad McDowell it was “chemistry that put the team over the top.”

Strength and conditioning
program at LSUS receives
national recognition
The LSUS Kinesiology and Health Science Department has been recognized by the National Strength and Conditioning Association for its proactive efforts in providing students with education needed to be successful in the exercise and sport science fields.

Campus Briefs

SWEPCO $40,000 grant to fund digital TV studio/lab
LSUS broadcast journalism students will soon have their “hands on” a new state-of-the-art television studio/lab. Digital equipment, such as cameras, microphones and non-linear editors, will be purchased thanks to a three-year $40,000 grant from AEP SWEPCO.

RiverBend Revue to honor George A. Khoury Jr.
The planning committee for the Fifth Aannual LSUS RiverBend Revue hopes to continue its success with the major fundraising event when it honors George A. Khoury Jr. as LSUS Pilot of the Year on Thursday, Sept. 9, in the Horseshoe Riverdome.

First Smith Scholarship goes to Beliech-Harris
Dr. Jimmie Smith could always lighten the mood around other faculty members.
Dr. Jean Hollenshead, associate professor of psychology, remembered her colleague fondly. “It was one of the qualities which made him such an effective leader,” she told Scott Balcerzak, of the Almagest, a week after Smith’s Aug. 8, 2000, death from cancer.

Alumni Spotlight
Janet Kozak Maines (B.A. ‘84 Fine Arts, cum laude)
Lana Parshina (B.A. ‘02, PR/Mass Comm)
Rachelle D. Smith (B.A. ‘98, PR)
Scott R. Wolf (BCJ ‘96)

LSUS Hibernia Pilots Golf Classic sells out
At press time, one month before the annual alumni golf tournament was scheduled to take place May 7 at Olde Oaks Golf Club, all team sponsorships were sold – a first in the history of the tournament. The player-friendly Olde Oaks course is PGA superstar Hal Sutton’s first signature design course and is part of the Louisiana Audubon Golf Trail.

(Chancellor's Column)
Many ways available
to connect with LSUS
This issue of LSUS News is reaching a broader cross-section of the university’s constituencies than we have every attempted to reach. I want to welcome the membership of the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce to our readership base. Some of you were already receiving our official quarterly publication for one of a variety of reasons and know the treat the rest of the area business community has in store.

LSUS American Humanics program
‘three-peats’ with national award
The LSUS American Humanics program was awarded the 2003-04 Outstanding Public Relations/ Community Awareness Award in January at the American Humanics Management Institute in Kansas City, Mo. The LSUS program won the same award in 1998-99 and 2001-02.

Two degree programs
nationally recognized
Two degree programs in the LSUS College of Education and Human Development have been “Nationally Recognized” by National Council Accreditation of Teacher Education because of positive evaluations from their respective boards of approval.