Kinsey, Bean, Woods honored
at LSUS Foundation dinner
04/25/04

Three long-time community leaders were honored at the LSUS Foundation’s second annual President’s Dinner Tuesday (April 20).

LSUS Chancellor Vincent Marsala presented the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow Award to Norman Kinsey, and foundation President James K. Elrod, CEO of Willis-Knighton Health System, presented the President’s Distinguished Service Award to Mike Woods and former state Sen. Ron Bean.

“It is rare when one individual combines the twin qualities of business achievement and civic generosity with genuine and sincere modesty about both,” Marsala said of Kinsey, adding that Kinsey’s is a “legacy of outstanding business success.”

In presenting the leadership award to Bean, Elrod cited the former state senator’s outstanding service to his community and to the state, and for his unfailing support of LSUS.

Woods, Elrod said, is committed to improving education, especially higher education in Louisiana, “to good government, to his family and to his church.” An LSUS alumnus, Woods committed to chair the annual RiverBend Revue Community Steering Committee. RiverBend Revue, LSUS’ high-profile, premiere fund-raising event, has grown from a $40,000 event to one that raised $100,000 last year.

Woods, a Shreveport oilman and attorney, is vice president of the LSUS Foundation and chairman of the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors. He is also a member of the state Republican Central Committee and was a Louisiana elector in the 2000 Electoral College.