Local residents graduate from Tulane University

Tulane University awarded degrees this month to approximately 2,300 graduates. The following local residents were among those students:

* Anna K. Tien of Chauvin (70344), graduated from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering with a Bachelor of Science degree.

* David H. Tien of Chauvin (70344), graduated from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering with a Master of Science degree.

* Andrew C. Antill of Houma (70360), graduated from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering with a Bachelor of Science degree.

* Beau A. Bourgeois of Houma (70360), graduated from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering with a Master of Science degree.

* Patrick J. Brady of Houma (70360), graduated from the A.B. Freeman

School of Business at Tulane University with a Master of Business

Administration degree.

* Chi McKendall-Lewis of Houma (70360), graduated from the Tulane

University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine with a Master of Public Health degree.

* Christopher M. Ordoyne of Houma (70360), graduated from the Tulane University School of Law with a Juris Doctor; Certificate degree.

* John J. Pitre of Houma (70360), graduated from the Tulane University

School of Science and Engineering with a Bachelor of Science, engineering degree.

* Nicholas J. Rau of Houma (70360), graduated from the Tulane University School of Medicine with a Doctor of Medicine degree.

* Jennifer R. Geiger of Houma (70364), graduated from the Tulane

University School of Science and Engineering with a Bachelor of Science degree.

* Jennifer N. Goulas of Houma (70364), graduated from the Tulane

University School of Continuing Studies with a Associate of Arts degree.

Tulane’s Unified Commencement was held on May 12, 2011 in the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

The ceremony featured keynote speaker Thomas Friedman and honorary degree recipients Cokie Roberts, Stevie Wonder and Nobel Laureate Walter Gilbert.

These local residents and fellow class members were honored at the

ceremony, which included all the pomp and circumstance of a traditional

commencement but with a New Orleans twist, including bagpipes, herald trumpets and a second-line jazz procession.

Music was provided by Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band and jazz singer Topsy Chapman with impromptu performances by Stevie Wonder, including a Tulane-centric rendition of “You Are the Sunshine of My Life.”

Tulane University is one of the nation’s leading educational and research

institutions. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, Tulane has ten schools and colleges offering degrees in the liberal arts, science and engineering,

architecture, business, law, social work, medicine, and public health and

tropical medicine.