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WWNO COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD 2007 To contact members of the WWNO Community Advisory Board, write c/o or WWNO-FM
Warren M. Billings, Ph. D. Scott Chotin Mrs. Tedda Cohen Mr. Scott Darrah co-owner Dr. Steven Edwards Dr. H. Richard Gaumer (Chair Cultural Committee) Mrs. Mary Golden (Chair By-Laws committee) Ms Sharon W. Gruber Dr. Thomas P. Lief Mr. Thomas J. Long (CHAIR) Mr. E. Eean McNaughton, FAIA (Chair: Outreach
Committee) Ms. Barbara Motley Mr. Julian Mutter Joel Myers Andre Perry, Ph.D. Dr. George H. Porter III Mark P. Seyler, Partner Ms. Susan Talley Mrs. Lorraine Thien Ms. Eileen B. Wallen
BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Warren M. Billings is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of New Orleans, where he taught upwards of forty years. The author or editor of numerous reviews, articles, book chapters, and books, his shorter publications have appeared in Louisiana History, the Journal of Southern History, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Law Library Journal, among others. His most recent books are A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (Richmond, 2004), Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia (Baton Rouge, 2004), and A Law Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History (Baton Rouge, 2001). He is chairman of the APVA/Preservation Virginia Jamestown Rediscovery Advisory Board, a member of APVA/Preservation Virginia’s Board of Trustees, a member of the federal Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission, and Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. In 2002, he held the Visiting Williams Professorship in the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond. A past fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a Virginia Historical Society Mellon Research Fellow, Dr. Billings holds honorary life membership in the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians and the Company of Fellows of the Louisiana Historical Association. The LHA presented him with its Garnie W. McGinty Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, and the Virginia Historical Society conferred its Richard Slattern Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography upon him in 2005. In terms of his involvement with civic affairs, Dr. Billings is a major financial supporter of WWNO. He has held places on the Board of Directors of the Louisiana State Museum and the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. An active member of the Episcopal Chapel of the Holy Comforter, which serves the UNO, SUNO, Dillard, and the Gentilly communities, he sat on the Executive Board of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, and he now heads a diocesan committee that distributes funds in aid of Katrina recovery. He is a frequent speaker on colonial Virginia and Louisiana legal history. When he is not writing or lecturing, he enjoys woodworking and the company of his grandson.
J. Scott Chotin, Jr. calls Lacombe, Louisiana home. He has been managing investments and commercial projects from 1992 to present. Before Scott’s journey of self-employment, he was president of Kaizen Construction Incorporated of Covington, Executive Vice President of Scott Chotin, Inc, in Mandeville and Operations Manager of Canal-River Towing, of Mandeville, Louisiana. Scott has received extensive education from the Urban Land Institute specializing in neighborhood planning and development processes. Continuing education work included Advanced Financial Management course work with UNO, three classes with the Tulane School of Architecture, business classes from SLU, and a BS in Industrial Technolgy from ULL at Lafayette, LA. Further educational exploits include community/leadership training stints in three Greater New Orleans Regional Chamber Metro Workshop, the Aspen Institute, and the Council for A Better Louisiana Leadership Louisiana, among others. His belief in community has lead to special honors as a Leadership Louisiana First Fellow February 2000, and he received the 1998 Louisiana Main Street Award for Outstanding Individual Volunteer award. There is no question WWNO will benefit from Chotin’s deep involvement with community projects. Scott is currently serves as an active member with the Northshore Community Foundation Board; St. Tammany Parish Greenprint Steering Committee; the Metro Workshop Committee; New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute; Program Committee, Public Policy Session Co-Chair, New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute; Louisiana District Council, Urban Land Institute, Executive Committee, and on LPO Advisory Board. This list does not include the 30 other committees, boards and associations he has been involved with. Among Chotin’s most important accomplishments are: co-chairing effort to rewrite landscaping, sign and lighting zoning regulations for St. Tammany Parish; planning and implementing Citizens Agenda of St. Tammany voter education project parish wide with the League of Women Voters; serving as one of original members Vision St. Tammany, and drafting the Covington Historic District Ordinance.
Steven Edwards has served as Music Director of Symphony Chorus of New Orleans since August of 1990. During that time he has prepared and/or conducted the chorus for more than a hundred performances with the New Orleans Symphony and its successor, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Under his direction the chorus has enjoyed critical acclaim and garnered numerous awards for the quality and variety of its performances. In March, 2007 he is making his Carnegie Hall debut under the auspices of MidAmerica Productions conducting the Fauré Requiem. In addition to his work with Symphony Chorus, Edwards is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music & Music Business at Delgado Community College. A twenty-five year career in higher education has included appointments as Director of Choral Activities at Loyola University in New Orleans, Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI, and St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, IN. Edwards continues an active performing career as coach/accompanist for singers and pianist in instrumental chamber music and serves as Organist and Choimaster at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Metairie. A popular guest conductor, he has made appearances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré, Gulf Coast Opera, Loyola Opera Theatre, The Orleans Chamber Singers, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and the Lancaster Chamber Singers, along with numerous festivals, contests, and honor choirs throughout the United States. Each year in July and August he returns to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to conduct the orchestra and chorus of the Superior Music Festival.
Thomas Long founded Thomas Long Corporate Communications in 1996, and has worked in journalism, marketing advertising and public relations for more than 30 years. He has won dozens of local and regional creative awards, including a National ADDY for the New Orleans Tourist Commission and three Bronze Awards from Financial World magazine for annual reports. He is also creator of the Proud to Call it Home campaign of the Young Leadership Council that has become part of the New Orleans idiom. In addition to chairing the WWNO Community Advisory Board, he has served on the boards of the Spring Hill College National Alumni Association; Preservation Resource Center; Kingsley House; the Charter Committee of the New Orleans Bowl; The New Orleans Ad Club and the Louisiana Association of Advertising Agencies, of which he was president. Currently he is a member of the Fore(!)Kids Foundation, producer of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans PGA golf tournament, and serves on the boards of Southern Yacht Club and Cabrini High School. In 1995, he and his wife Lynn sailed through the Eastern Caribbean islands for five months aboard their 38-foot sloop Idyll. His web site is at www.thomaslong.net.
E. Eean McNaughton, FAIA heads the New Orleans Firm, E. Eean McNaughton Architects providing services in Architecture, Historic Architecture and Planning. The Firm’s work has been recognized for design excellence locally, regionally and nationally. In 1999 the firm received Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects for the Old Louisiana State Capitol – The Center for Political and Governmental History. Other notable accomplishments include the Louisiana Nature and Science Center, Benjamin Franklin High School, the Restoration of the Old United States Mint and the new Russell B. Long Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Baton Rouge. In addition to his architectural practice, Eean McNaughton teaches design and site planning in the Tulane School of Architecture where he holds the rank of Professor of the Practice. In recent years his studios have focused on affordable housing and sustainable regenerative design. In 2002 he received an Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from Tulane University.
Barbara Motley is the founder, proprietor and artistic director for Le Chat Noir, a cabaret theater that celebrated seven years in business in June of 2006, and was the first New Orleans theater space to reopen in November 2005 after Katrina. She is one of three founders of the CAC Performing Artists Fund, which was created in November of 2005 to assist playwrights, actors, directors, and stage crews of the New Orleans theatre community following the storm. Le Chat Noir is the host venue for WWNO’s popular show "Crescent City." Barbara and Le Chat Noir were selected by Gambit Weekly to receive the "2004 Business Recognition Award" for contributions to theatre and the performing arts in New Orleans, and were the cover story for the July, 2005 issue of Biz magazine. She has also been recognized as a "Woman of the Year" by City Business Magazine in 2001; one of the "People to Watch" by New Orleans Magazine in 1999; and received an "Achiever Award" from the Women Business Owners Association in 1997. Local recognition for Le Chat Noir includes Gambit Magazine’s "Best Place to See Theater" in 2005; the top ten list of "Best Places to See Comedy;" and one of the top three theaters in New Orleans in 2003 and 2004. CitySearch editors named Le Chat Noir "Best Performing Arts Venue," and the New Orleans theater community through the Storer Boone Awards selected Le Chat Noir as the "Best Theater" in 2002, 2003 and 2004. The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce named the cabaret the "Rising Tide - Emerging Business of the Year" in 2003. Le Chat Noir has been included in Zagat’s Survey Best of New Orleans every year since 2002, and has been featured in national articles in The New York Times, InStyle Magazine, USA Today, The New York Post, and American Airlines Inflight Magazine.
Ms. Myers has long been an active member of the New Orleans community. Her involvement has ranged from teaching Civics and Louisiana History at the McGehee School or serving as a Commissioner for the City and Regional Planning Commissions, to stints as President of the League of Women Voters of Louisiana and the New Orleans Coalition. Besides other impressive service to our civic government, Ms. Myers as extensive service on a wide variety of boards including the Public Law Center of Tulane and Loyola; Community Board of Advisors, College of Education, U.N.O; the Southeast La. Girl Scout Council; Junior Achievements; United Way: Chair, Volunteer Management Team, Board trainer, and Committee to evaluated funding requests; the Task Force: To Examine the Current State of Public Education in New Orleans, and other organizations of similar stature. Owner of “Myers Imports,” Ms. Myers also has media experience as a reporter for New Orleans Magazine and LA. LIFE Magazine, and has worked as an Associate Producer for public television station WYES. Cited as one of 84 "People to Watch in 84": New Orleans Magazine and winner of the Woman of the Year award from the New Orleans Business and Professional Women, WWNO is proud to welcome this community leader to our table.
Mark Seyler has lived in the New Orleans area for most of his life, and is currently lives in Metairie with his wife and two children. Mark is a graduate of the University of New Orleans, and of Tulane Law School. Mark is a partner with the New Orleans law firm of Barkley & Thompson, L.C., with a practice that includes all types of civil litigation, arbitration and mediation. He has served as a director of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and is a member of the New Orleans, Louisiana State, Federal, and American Bar Associations.
Susan Talley is a member of the Stone Pigman law firm, where she is co-chair of the Real Estate Practice Group and a member of the firm's Management Committee. Her practice is focused on commercial real estate. Ms. Talley is a founding member and a Board Member of New Orleans Commercial Real Estate Women. She is a member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Louisiana Bankers Association Bank Counsel Section and serves as the Vice Chancellor for real estate of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. On a national level, Ms. Talley is Treasurer of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and a Member of Anglo American Real Property Institute. Ms. Talley received her law degree from the Tulane University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University. A native of Covington, she is married to James Gulotta, Jr. and has one son, George, a Benjamin Franklin senior. In her leisure time, she enjoys playing the piano, cooking, traveling and listening to WWNO.
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