Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2008 - (Page 2)

2007 Donors to the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities of $250+: ALTRUISTS: $5,000 plus • The ALMAR Foundation • AT&T Louisiana • Lyndon & Janine Barrois • Booth-Bricker Foundation • Capital One, NA • Citgo Petroleum Corporation Lake Charles Complex • John Cleveland • Community Foundation of Shreveport • Mr. & Mrs. Randy Ewing • German Protestant Orphans Asylum Association • Goldring Foundation • Gumbo Foundation • Diana Helis Henry Fund of the Helis Foundation • Jones Walker • Kevin Kelly • Vera Martin Kirgis • Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Foundation • The Irene & C.B. Pennington Foundation • Drew Ranier • Mr. & Mrs. George Rodrigue • Sanford Foundation • Dr. Michael Sartisky • Selley Foundation • Josef Sternberg Memorial Fund • Whitney National Bank • Zemurray Foundation PATRONS: $500 – $999 • Dr. & Mrs. Charles Aprill • Fredrick Barton • Mr. & Mrs. Ben Brady • Lorraine Brownell • Glenda Erwin • J. Brandon Ewing • Dr. & Mrs. Quentin Falgoust • Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Gaines • Dr Kurt Gitter • Dr. Gwendolyn Hall • Dr. Richard Levine • Mark Manguno • Dr. Jessie Poesch • Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Reck • Mrs. R.J. Rowland, Jr. SPONSORS: $250 – $499 • Suzan Allen • Mel Altschul • Mr. & Mrs. David & Cindy Barry • Mr. & Mrs. James Bean • Dr Isidore & Marion Cohn, Jr. • Dr. & Mrs. Paul Davis, Jr. • Patrick Descants • Michael Fawer • Natalie Fielding • Mr. & Mrs A. Glenn Flournoy • Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ford • Senator Butch Gautreaux • Charles Gerard, Jr. • Dr. & Mrs. Roman Heleniak • Mr. and Mrs. Bill & Susan Hess • Dr. Laurabeth Hicks • Gregory Holt • Dr. William Jenkins • Cassandra Knobloch • Dr. Henry Lacey • Douglas Mabile • Mr. Peter Mayer • Dr. Mary McBride • Senator Willie Mount • Laura Simon Nelson • Mr. & Mrs. C. Howard Nichols • Eric Overmyer • Dr. Lawrence Powell • Dr. Helaine Razovsky • Francoise Richardson • Carol Riddle • Dr. & Mrs. Randy Sassone • Samuel Shepherd, Jr. • Luella Snyder • Marilyn Sonnier • Ms. E. A. Stafford • Moise Steeg, Jr. • Mr. & Mrs. Felton Suthon • Mrs. Christie Weeks • Marion Weiss • Mr. & Mrs. Jasper Welch MENTORS: $1,000 – $4,999 • Paul Alker • William Blake • Darnell Bludworth & Mike Boyle • James Cahn • Thomas C. David, Jr. • Philip & Lucie Earhart • Joshua Force • Mr. & Mrs. Paul Haygood • Danella Hero • Peter Hilbert • Mr. & Mrs. Norman Kinsey • Catherine Kuhlman • Charles Landry • Mr. & Mrs. James Lapeyre, Jr. • Dorothy Lawrence • Louisiana State University at Shreveport • Anil Nanda M.D. • Roger Ogden • Patrick F. Taylor Foundation • Dr. Alice Pecoraro • M. Cleland Powell III • Rosemary Ryan • Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Toth • Renee Vanover • Michael Wilkinson • Woldenberg Foundation • Janet Wood The following letters were written in response to Dr. Michael Sartisky’s tribute to the recently deceased Louisiana artists Elemore Morgan, Jr., and John Scott in the Summer 2008 edition of Louisiana Cultural Vistas. Eloquent and touching – getting to know John Scott and Elemore were two of my most treasured experiences from my years at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Having John Scott describe his incredibly thoughtful and visionary creative process to me was extraordinary. I wanted to thank you for capturing the depth of this loss. —Clem Goldberger, New Orleans Beautiful tribute! I did not know Elemore well, but your memorial words resonate with all of us. Your wonderful description of his painting would have thrilled him! Tears welled up again when you spoke of John. Such a loss.Thank you for expressing the feelings that we can't. —Lin Emery, New Orleans You have written a lovely tribute for your friend, and I know he would have loved the inclusion in the tribute of another artist of his rank. Elemore was generous in just the way your piece is inclusive of so much that he valued in this life. Elemore loved the community of people who gravitated to art and the beauty of the landscape, rural or urban, which he loved so. One of the gifts he left behind to so many was that he paid attention, and your piece does just that. I am pleased and honored that my poem became part of the fabric of the tribute. I thank you. —Darrell Bourque, Lafayette You wrote a sensitive, caring tribute for your two artist-friends, ending with the lines from Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” I first read the poem in 1960. I was 20-years old and going through my first heartbreak, the stuff of Romeo and Juliet, and the poem resonated for me then, though I had many years ahead. Now as I turn 68, the poem means even more. —Ricardo L. Garcia, Lincoln, Nebraska E-mail letters to the editor at: lahum@leh.org 2 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Fall 2008 http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com

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Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2008 Contents Friends Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities New Orleans Immortelle The Historic New Orleans Collection Highland-Fairfield: The Historic Heart of Shreveport The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Perils of the Mississippi River Louisiana Foodways Harvest of Life King Oliver: The Forgotten King of Jazz Louisiana Architecture Jazz Notes Louisiana State Museum Eye of the Storm Louisiana Association of Museums Soul Resin Bookstand Sound Advice Forum

Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2008

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