Each year, the St. Joseph’s Academy Alumnae Association bestows Outstanding Alumnae awards upon SJA alumnae who, in day-to-day living, exemplify integrity, moral character, love of God and service to humanity. Award winners are honored annually at the Alumnae Luncheon, held each spring. To receive a hard-copy nomination form, contact Alumnae Director Emily Kline at (225) 388-2244 or by email.
Each year, the SJA community also nominates an alumna for the Distinguished Graduate Award for the Diocese of Baton Rouge. Honorees are recognized at a special awards ceremony each January. Contact Alumnae Director Emily Kline at (225) 388-2244 or by email for a Distinguished Graduate Award nomination form.
Outstanding Alumnae through 2011
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Mother Alice Biguenet, CSJ ’15 |
Dr. Elena "Jeannie" Posadas Miller ’62 |
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Lillian Gibbens Kleinpeter ’16 |
Cherry Foret Riggs ’62 |
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Annie E. D’Agostino ’22 |
Karen Tuminello Fawley ’64 |
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Chetta Cangelosi ’26 |
Jacqueline Billeaudeau Labat ’64 |
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Miriam Cooney Abbott ’28 |
Dorothy “Dotty” Bowers McCaughey ’64 |
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Catherine Gottlieb Boeker ’32 |
Kathy Daigre Meares ’64 |
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The Honorable Lindy Boggs ’32 |
Elaine DeFrances Ellis ’65 |
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Serena "Weenie" Gibbens Borne ’33 |
Mary Prosser Heroman ’65 |
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Sister Claire Germaine Henritzy, CSJ ’33 |
Kathleen Plaisance Balhoff ’66 |
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Corinne "Reenie" Heroman McLavy ’37 |
Alice Dugas Greer ’66 |
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Sister Jean Fryoux, CSJ ’38 |
Linda Fryoux Harvison ’66 |
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Sister Ethel Lusk, CSJ ’38 |
Barbara McManus ’66 |
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Sister Oenone Elliot, CSJ ’39 |
Jo Ellen Kearny ’67 |
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Sister Alice Marie Macmurdo, CSJ ’39 |
Judy Pierce ’68 |
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Madeline Ortlieb Nesbit ’40 |
Grace Guttner Anderson ’69 |
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Sister Mary Thomas Ranzino, OP ’41 |
Jan Rhorer Breen ’69 |
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Sister Kathleen Brogdon, CSJ ’42 |
Ann Felice Fourrier ’69 |
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Sister Lydia Champagne, CSJ ’42 |
Nancy Bernard ’70 |
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Claire Brechtel Collier ’46 |
Karen Thomas Darnall ’70 |
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Mary Delle Bogan Gerald ’47 |
Louise Martin-Klaucke, DVM ’70 |
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Jo Danna Sevin ’47 |
Tara Nolan Messenger ’70 |
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Patricia "Pat" Martinez Tessier ’49 |
Rosa Mansur Dunn ’71 |
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Junie Baudin Bordelon ’51 |
Jeanne Fourrier, MD ’71 |
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Jeanne Blanchard McManus ’52 |
Karen Williams Lewis, MD ’71 |
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Ann May Torregrossa ’52 |
Maria "Re" Bologna DiVincenti ’71 |
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Audry Chaney Cashio ’53 |
Mary T. Heffron deBrueys ’72 |
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Mary Lee Guillot ’53 |
Rose DeJohn Fife ’72 |
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Elizabeth Ellis O'Neill ’53 |
Kim Gant Shackleton ’72 |
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Anne Curtis Rigby ’54 |
Pat Carville Hoffman ’73 |
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Sister Adele Lambert, CSJ ’54 |
Joanie Robichaux Hutson ’73 |
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Sister Kathleen Pittman, CSJ ’54 |
Karen Ortego Lacroix ’73 |
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Gay May Town ’54 |
Andrea Clesi McMakin ’74 |
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Hilda Levy Bourg ’55 |
Lisa Bellecci-St. Romain ’74 |
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Barbara Triche Hubbell ’55 |
Roberta Carona Vicari, MD ’74 |
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Mary Ann Cannatella Raudales ’55 |
Jeanne Curet James ’75 |
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Sister Kathleen Bahlinger, CSJ ’56 |
Ellen Bogan Lee ’75 |
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Sister Dianne Fanguy, CSJ ’57 |
Paula Bogan Drone ’77 |
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Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ ’57 |
Debbie Kleinpeter Gelpi ’77 |
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Patricia Romans Rokoske ’57 |
Elizabeth Wall Magner ’77 |
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Sister Phyllis Manda, CSJ ’58 |
Kathleen Atkinson Crapanzano, MD ’80 |
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Danni Bourgeois Pecue ’58 |
Lisa Westmoreland Collier ’81 |
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Sister Lucy Silvio ’59 |
Staci Deumite Duhe ’81 |
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Lorna Bourg ’60 |
May Wong Tape ’84 |
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Barbara Gogreve McCurdy ’62 |
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Spirit of SJA Award Winners
Sister Thecla Kramer, CSJ, 2002 honoree
Sister Felix Loup, CSJ, 2003 honoree
Effie Hickman Greene, 2004 honoree