Louisiana College celebrated its 95th anniversary earlier this
month, honoring four persons for outstanding achievements in the process.
Louisiana College celebrated its 95th anniversary earlier this
month, honoring four persons for outstanding achievements in the process.
Founded in 1906, Louisiana College has graduated more than
10,000 students in its 95 years of operation. The only Baptist college in the
Bayou State, the school is known for academic excellence, President Rory Lee
pointed out. Indeed, it has received – and continues to earn – numerous
national academic and value recognitions.
Each year, the college celebrates its history and accomplishments
during annual Founders Day ceremonies on its Pineville campus. This years
activites on October 4 included a chapel service in which four persons were
awarded Trustees Distinguished Service Awards from the school.
The Trustees Distinguished Service Award was begun as
a means of recognizing persons for exceptional service to the church, outstanding
achievements in the arts and exemplary service to philanthropy toward Louisiana
College. Recipients are chosen each year by the schools trustees.
The 2001 recipients of the awards are:
Linus Carroll Jr.
Carroll is a native of Columbia and a 1965 graduate of Louisiana
College. He also is a graduate of Tulane Medical School. He currently is an
emergency room physician and medical director of the Turning Point Wound Clinics
in Columbia.
Carroll is a longtime member and deacon at First Baptist Church
of Columbia. He established the C.J. Cavanaugh Scholarship Fund at Louisiana
College and spearheaded the movement during the 1970s to name the science building
the C.J. Cavanaugh Hall of Science. He also established the Dr. E.L. Carroll
Sr. Scholarship Fund to assist students in financial need.
Carroll is married to the former Gale Simmons (Louisiana College
class of 1961). The two have three children, all of whom are Louisiana College
graduates.
Jeannette Clift George
George is the founder and artistic director of the A.D. Players,
a Houston-based Christian theatre company that offers plays throughout the world.
Her extensive background in professional theatre includes acting Off-Broadway
and touring with the New York Shakespeare Company.
Her film debut was in “The Hiding Place,” in which
she portrayed Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch woman who saved the lives of scores of
Jews during the Nazi occupation. She is equally well-known as an author, Bible
teacher, and national speaker.
She is married to Houston businessman Lorriane George.
John G. Alley
Alley is a 1958 graduate of Louisiana College and a 1962 graduate
of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has led churches in five Louisiana
towns and served as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Alexandria from 1971
until his retirement just last year.
Alley previously was awarded a Louisiana College Distinguished
Alumni Award and has served as president of the LC Alumni Association. He has
served in numerous roles in Louisiana Baptist life through the years.
Alley is married to the former Carolyn Anne Byrd, and they
have two daughters.
Floyd Wallace Lewis
Lewis is the retired chair and president of Middle South Utilities,
Inc., now known as the now Entergy Corp. He earned a pair of degrees from Tulane
University and served as vice chair of the initial Tulane Medical Center board
of governors.
He is chair of the Kaken American Foundation, which supports
the research at the U.S.-Japan Biomedical Research Laboratories at Tulanes
Hebert Center. He is also a past chair of the Louisiana Baptist Foundation and
of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Foundation.
He is married to the former Jimmie Etoile Slawson. They have six children.