Alumni Updates
1930s
Thomas Shelton Boggess (B.S. 1934, M.S. 1936) still participates as
Associate Professor Emeritus of Food Science at the University of Georgia.
One of his favorite pastimes is wine-making.
Arthur E. Reed (B.S., 1938) is retired and living in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
1940s
Charles Clifford Cameron (B.S., 1942) is retired from the private
sector, but he's still a busy man. He is on the Board of Governors for the
University of North Carolina, as well as trustee for Wake Forest University,
and is the Chairman of University Research Park.
We were saddened to hear that J.D. Wall (B.S., 1943) passed away many
years ago. Our belated, but deepest, sympathy goes to his family and friends.
1950s
Donald M. Bordelon (B.S., 1956) retired from Farmland Industrial in
1998. He and his wife live in Lakeland, Florida, and enjoy traveling,
volunteering at their local adult literacy program, and spoiling their
grandchildren.
Edwin Malcolm Harvey (B.S., 1950) retired from the Ethyl Corporation.
He and his wife enjoy foreign and domestic travel, go camping and many other
activities at the Westley Woods Retirement Center in Newnan, Georgia.
1960s
Joseph A. Kleinpeter (B.S., 1965) is the Director of Telecommunications
for the DuPont Corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. He has been working in
the Information Technology branch of DuPont since 1985.
Nolan M. Rome (B.S., 1962) has retired after 38 years in the oil and
natural gas industry. He spent the last 20 years of his career working with
Mobil Oil as a Business Advisor for natural gas processing. He and his wife
will remain in Kingwood, Texas.
Leonard H. Sedlin (B.S., 1961) is retiring from his career as a
Environmental Engineering consultant with Congestoga-Rovers & Associates,
Inc. He was recently honored by the College of Engineering at the University
of Alabama as one of this year's Distinguished Engineering Fellows.
Kirby W. Smith, Jr. (B.S., 1967) is the Manager of Business Development
for the Walk Haydel-URS offices located in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
1970s
George M. Lane (B.S., 1970) recently received at NASA Research Fellowship
from the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The grant will fund his doctoral
program research in environmental toxicology.
Kelvin E. Langlois (B.S., 1977) is working at Cytec Industries in
Texas, as a Process Safety Engineer.
Patrick J. O'Neill (B.S., 1977) is the Operations Manager at the Alliance
Refinery of BP-Amoco in Belle Chasse, Louisiana.
David Nelson (B.S., 1978) now works for Tyler Oil & Gas, an
independent oil and gas producer, in East Texas.
1980s
Marjorie F. Ferguson (B.S., 1984) received her MBA in 1986, and was recently
promoted to Principal Process Engineer in the Oil, Gas and Pipeline division
of Fluor Daniel, Inc. in Sugarland, Texas.
Narinder Lakhani (M.S., 1982) is living in Saudi Arabia, and working
as the Professional Services Manager at the Riyadh offices of IBM.
1990s
Femi Adebiyi (Ph.D., 1999) works in the eCommerce department of Andersen
Consulting in Houston, Texas. He is currently developing the front-end and
back-end systems of a web order entry tool for a crude pipeline company.
Brandon W. Bello (B.S., 1997) recently began working at Dow Chemical
in Plaquemine, Louisiana. He, his wife Heather, and their newborn daughter
Aubrey Layne have just moved back to Baton Rouge.
John Golda (B.S., 1996) and Yvette Morgan Golda (B.S., 1996) are living
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. John works as a Operations Engineer at ExxonMobil,
and Yvette is working on the Design Team for the new MEA plant that Albemarle
is building near Beijing, China. The Goldas enjoyed a 10-day whirlwind tour
of France and England earlier this year.
Brad Michael Martin (B.S., 1993) is the Production Manager for LaRoche
Industries in Lutcher, Louisiana. Like all good alumni, he keeps up with
LSU sports. Brad also recently celebrated getting married.
Gustavo Paredes (B.S., 1997) is a Service Sales Specialist for the
Industrial Control division of the Andean Region for Honeywell International.
Adrian B. Sherrill (B.S., 1996) is a graduate student at the University
of Delaware.
James L. Smith (M.S., 1994) is the Air Quality Department Manager
for URS Corporation in Houston, TX.
David S. Stafford (B.S., 1999) works as a Chemical Engineer for Cytec
in Westwego, Louisiana, and resides in Independence, Louisiana.
Yiding Neil Zeng (Ph.D. 1999) works at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn,
Michigan, as a product design engineer. He enjoys the automotive industry
and is currently developing a system approach to target the California SULEV-II
emission standard.
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