Volunteer

Contact your academic college with ideas to improve programs or let them know they are doing a good job, offer to guest lecture through the Office of Career Services or provide internship opportunities for current students.

• Volunteer for committees, events or departments.
• Mentor students or hire interns.
• Keep the University in mind when making important decisions.
• Help us acquire and maintain good contact information.
• Become involved in a local Club or affinity Chapter.

• Be a donor.
• Participate in donor recruiting contests.
• Ask people to contribute to the Loyalty Fund.
• Alert the alumni office to potential donors/sponsors/etc.
• Tell other alumni the importance of participation.

• Recruit, recruit, recruit!
• Promote the benefits of studying at our University to potential new students in any environment you encounter.
• Tell out-of-state alumni that their children can attend for in-state tuition.
• Promote UL Lafayette among friends and family.

• Buy and wear Ragin’ Cajun and UL Lafayette merchandise, red, etc.
• Be sure to include that you are a UL Lafayette Alum on any public facing media or profiles that describe you.
• Attend UL Lafayette events and activities.
• Be an advocate for the University in your community.

The Executive Board, also known as the Board of Directors, consists of the President, President-Elect, Immediate Past President and Vice Presidents who are selected from the Alumni Council by a special nominating committee. The Executive Board typically meets monthly and brings matters needing a vote to the full council for a decision.

Executive Board Members

Kathleen Guedry '91
President

Dana Baker '95
President-Elect
Spring Gala Committee Chair

Mark D. Mouton '96
Immediate Past President
Governance and Nominating Committee Chair

Robert Torian '84
Secretary
Awards and Scholarship Committee Chair 

Brett Mellington '73 '79
Treasurer
Finance Committee Chair

Toni Celestine '97
Board Member

Bridgit Chaisson '94
Student Engagement Committee Chair

Cheryl Jones '85
Clubs & Chapters Committee Chair

Sean Trcalek '88
Homecoming Committee Chair

The Alumni Council is the governing body of the UL Alumni Association. The Council consist of 15 alumni elected by Loyalty Fund Donors of the Association, presidents of clubs and chapters, one appointed Louisiana representative, one appointed representative outside Louisiana, two at-large representatives appointed by the Association President, two student representatives (SGA and AFA presidents), the Alumni Presidents Council who serve as ex-officio members, appointed chairs of major Association committees who will serve as ex-officio members, previous academic year’s fall and spring Overall Outstanding Graduate Award recipients who serve as ex-officio members and non-elective, ex-officio officers to be appointed by the President with consent and approval of the Executive Board such as Recording Secretary and Custodian of Funds.

The Alumni Council traditionally meets for a two-day meeting the first home game weekend of the season called Leadership Weekend. In the spring the council meets again typically in March and call this their Spring Council Meeting.

In addition to the annual meetings, council members are called on throughout the year to assist with various engagement events hosted by the Alumni Association including tailgate parties before every home game, Club and Chapter events for which they have an affinity, and many other activities.

Alumni Council Representatives

Our Alumni Presidents Council is made up of each individual who has served as President of our Association. Our first President, Pothier J. Voorhies, was installed in 1904.

The Alumni Presidents Council gathers periodically for fellowship and to discuss ways that they can assist the Alumni Association to carry out its mission of fostering the ties of Alumni to their Alma Mater. The Alumni Presidents Council has assisted the Association financially in ways such as a Named Room in the Breaux Wing and annually sponsoring tailgate. In addition, these members work with the Alumni Association to create various engagement events such as a speaker series.

Past Presidents

2024 Marie DesOrmeaux Centanni

2023-2024 Mark D. Mouton

2022-2023 Chris Richard

2021-2022 John Pere'

2020-2021 Beverly Black

2019-2020 Troy Hebert

2018-2019 Chantelle Aaron

2017-18 Kyle Bacon

2016-17 Angela Morrison

2015-16 Don Landry

2014-15 Margaret Trahan

2013-14 Dr. Michael Judice

2012-13 Jim Slatten

2011-12 Sonny Launey

2010-11 Robbie Bush

2009-10 Darren Guidry

2008-09 Mary Galyean

2007-08 Martin Audiffred

2006-07 Theresa Gaspard

2005-06 J.D. Morein

2004-05 Shawn Wilson

2003-04 Gerald Abshire

2002-03 Robert Trahan*

2001-02 Jim Doyle

2000-01 Karren L. Hays

1999-00 Stephen J. Oats*

1998-99 Ginger Laurent

1997-98 Gene Lognion

1996-97 Camille Claibourne

1995-96 Rae D. Robinson

1994-95 Daniel J. Carroll

1993-94 Warren Perrin

1992-93 John W. Bordelon

1991-92 Ernie Alexander*

1990-91 Martha Hoover Crombie

1989-90 Nelson J. Schexnayder, Jr.

1988-89 John T. Landry

1987-88 Kenneth A. Ardoin

1986-87 Oscar E. Reed, Jr.

1985-86 Ronald D. Cox

1984-85 Donald J. Higginbotham

1983-84 Beverly B. Wilson

1982-83 David H. Fisher, Sr.*

1981-82 Margaret M. Ritchey

1980-81 William G. Higginbotham

1979-80 J. Luke Soileau*

1977-78 E. Raymond DesOrmeaux*

1976-77 Rene Calais*

1975-76 John Allen Prejean*

1974-75 Louis Gaudet

1973-74 Lester Soileau

1972-73 R. Dale Guilbeaux

1971-72 Sidney C. Ory*

1970-71 Albert Zock*

1969-70 Vernon "Dixie" Bell

1968-69 Allen H. St. Martin*

1967-68 Thomas W. Bartlett

1965-66 Robert S. Finley

1964-65 W. Byron Williams, Jr.*

1963-64 Thomas J. Dewey, Jr.*

1962-63 Mrs. Waldemar S. Nelson

1961-62 Edward King Alexander*

1960-61 A. Denbo Montgomery

1959-60 Leon J. Minvielle, Jr.*

1958-59 Kaliste J. Saloom, Jr.*

1957-58 W. R. (Bob) Jackson, Jr.*

1956-57 John T. Stephenson

1955-56 Joseph Onebane*

1954-55 Roy W. Faulk*

1953-54 Bernard J. Marcantel*

1952-53 James Bean*

1951-52 Wallace McDougall*

1950-51 Burl G. Logan*

1949-50 Richard A. Anderson*

1948-49 Howard C. Voorhies*

1947-48 Howard O. Roy*

1946-47 Henry Louis Lemmon*

1945-46 A. Dennis Landry*

1944-45 Elmore F. Bonin*

1942-44 Samuel A. Moncla*

1941-42 Louis J. Michot, Sr.*

1940-41 Pierre Felix Morein*

1939-40 Alton Moss Bujard*

1938-39 A. Wilmot Dalferes*

1937-38 James E. Bailey*

1936-37 Jesse Mae Clement*

1934-35 Claude J. Rordam*

1933-34 Claude Martin*

1932-33 M. D. Doucet*

1930-32 J. J. Davidson, Jr.*

1929-30 Pothier J. Voorhies*

1928-29 Gordon Brunson*

1925-28 B.A. Lange*

1924-25 F. A. Rickey*

1923-24 Maxime Roy*

1922-23 Margaret Foules*

1921-22 Claude J. Rordam*

1920-21 A. Wilmot Dalferes*

1917-20 Harry J. Stahl*

1916-17 Linden F. Dalferes*

1915-16 Harold Demande*

1913-15 Paola Mouton*

1911-12 Stella Roy*

1909-11 Sarah Landau*

1908-09 Rhena Boudreaux*

1904-08 Pothier J. Voorhies*

*deceased