LSUS honors three at Foundation President’s Dinner
04/29/06

Two LSUS administrators and a Shreveport business owner were honored at the recent LSUS Foundation President’s Dinner.

Dr. Stuart Mills, LSUS provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Athletic Director Doug Robinson received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow Award from LSUS Chancellor Vince Marsala. Joe Callaway Jr., president of Risk Services of Louisiana, received the President’s Distinguished Service Award from LSUS Foundation President Mike Woods.

Mills has been with LSUS since August 1973. He was a professor in the Mathematics Department in the College of Sciences and also served as the department chair before assuming his current position.

He has served on the Academic Council, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, Athletic Council, University Planning Committee and last year was in charge of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Self-Study visit to the LSUS campus. His leadership allowed LSUS to retain its accreditation with SACS and continue its academic mission.

Robinson was the first LSUS baseball coach, a part-time position he held for five years beginning in 1990. After serving as head coach and athletic director at Southwood High School for 12 years, Robinson was hired in 2002 as LSUS athletic director.

He was the chief architect of the university’s re-entry into men and women’s intercollegiate basketball in the 2003-2004 season and its first venture into intercollegiate women’s soccer in 2005. During his short span as LSUS athletic director, Robinson has seen the men’s basketball and baseball teams capture Gulf Coast Athletic Conference championships and make appearances in their respective NAIA national championship tournaments. The first-year women’s soccer team came within one game of winning both GCAC and NAIA Region 13 championships at the end of the 2005 season.

Callaway has been an LSUS Foundation member since 1985. He joined the Board of Directors in 1990 and served as president in 1993-95. He has served as Investment Committee chair for many years, working with the Foundation investment firm to ensure earnings provide maximum support for the university. He has spearheaded two complete revisions of the Foundation Investment Policy and is currently taking on another complete revision.