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Steve Kamenshine, Acting Dean of Georgia State Law School, continues to offer his help and support to Tulane Law School faculty and students.

Located:

Meaghan Sullivan:  " If anyone is in the DC area and need any help at all please call me at (202) 491-8551 and I know a ton of other Tulane alums in the area that would do whatever they could to help anyone that needs it."

Laurent Demosthenidy:  "I'm fine and in central louisiana. . . planning on getting out to San Diego. "  Laurent can be reached at kai201@hotmail.com.

Katherine Mattes and her daughter, Colleen, are safe in California.   Katherine's husband, Jeff, is an ER doc who stayed behind.   No word on when Jeff will be evacuated.

Glynn Lunney is safe in Houston.

Felice Batlan is safe in New York.

Jean Broussard is safe in Lafayette.

Alan Childress is in DC suburbs (of VA) and his kids are fine in Houston. 

Ray Diamond and lots of N.O. family are safe with him in B.R. 

Michael Collins is in Charlottesville, VA.

David Gelfand and his family are  safe in Atlanta.

Jane Johnson and David Marcello report that they are "ok" in Thibodeaux.

Scott Sherman is safe in Philadelphia.

Abaigeal Van Deerlin reports that she and her boyfriend and son are safe in Macon, Georgia.  She also reports that Hank Morse is in Houston.

Sarah Roy is with her family in Lafayette.

Aylin Acikalin (TLS '04) & Steven Maklansky  are safe in Galveston, Texas.

News on Other TLS Faculty

Here's the faculty news that I know:

Chris Cotropia, Dawn-Marie and Claire (and cats) are safe in Texas

Jonathan Nash is in New York

Rafael Pardo is in Montana

Onnig Dombalagian was in Houston and is headed for DC

Enviro. Listservers report Oliver Houck and Lisa rode out the storm.  No word on their current whereabouts. 

Second-hand hearsay (from another faculty member) that Felice Batlan is safe.

Please keep comments coming and I'll keep posting them.

More on TLS folks in Baton Rouge

I (Sara Porsia) am with a group of people who are safe in Baton Rouge, including Whiton Paine, Bob Brahan, Adrienne Black, Lorien Golaski & Damon Howard.  Please let me know about other safe people. and if you are in Baton Rouge - lets hang out.

Sara, Adrienne, et. al. - any sign of Katherine Mattes and her daughter Colleen?  They were at the Sheraton in BR but I have not heard from her since the weekend.  Pam

News on Tulane Law Students

From Theresa Gould: 

Michael (3L) and Theresa (3L) have evacuated to Layfayette to stay with Michael's relatives. We're attempting to get in touch with all of our Tulane Law School friends, but we're having trouble because of the cell phone traffic. Please please ask people to post phone numbers and non-Tulane Law (or big Tulane) email addresses!!! Mine is tgoulde@gmail.com; Michael's is deansmen@yahoo.com (cell 504-920-4941)

Claire Adams, Seth Johnson and Theresa G live on 1029 Burdette Street (70118) in uptown New Orleans; if anyone has any further updates about that area, please let us know! We know that several professors and students live in and around the Burdette/Carrolton/Freret area and we worry for their safety and property.

* For any Tulane Law Student who would like to join a listserv, Michael is trying to compile a list; students please send your non Tulane emails to deansmen@yahoo.com *

Update Tulane and Loyola Law

Rodolfo Batiza, was a long-time Tulane Law professor - he is 88 years old and a resident of St. Anna's nursing home (on Prytania). His family  would greatly appreciate it if anyone passing that way might be able to confirm that all is well.  You can e-mail her at jkarsten@agu.org

Chris Cotopria and his family are safe in Dallas.  Chris reports that Jonathan Nash is safe in New York and has had word from Felice Batlan.

Last I'd heard Felice was either traveling with the Hoeffel-Singer clan or was holing up at the Ritz.  Which did you do Felice?  Where are you now?

Any word on Katherine Mattes or Sheila Myers?

Rob Verchik and Heidi Molbak and their family are in Houston.

Jeff Brooks has set up a google group for Tulane Law School evacuees.  Folks who have posted there include Otis Towns (Hi Otis!), Ashley Hugunine, Jeremy Ross, Kevin Alonso, and Hutch who reports that Danielle Babaschoff and Jackie from moot court are in Tampa, Florida.

Jeff's google group also includes a post from Dean Susan Krinsky who reports that: 

The Law School is in the process of setting up an official website on
Emory's server, and as soon as we have that information, we'll be back
in touch with it.  We are in Little Rock right now and are headed to
Chicago tomorrow morning, then points north--Carlos to New Jersey,
Susan to Montana or Boston or some combination.  Susan talked to Dean Ponoroff a little while ago (he is in Houston, but is on his way to
Chicago), and he hopes to have information to disseminate in the next
several days to let the student body know what to expect. 

So, we can add three more to our list of "found" rather than lost.  If any one can reach Susan, I'd love to hear from her as well. I'm using a yahoo address pmetzger@levittllc.com.

Alex Williamson and his wife are safe in Birmingham.

Tina Hanson (2L) and Jennifer Hoekstra (2L) safely evacuated to Memphis and are attempting to plan how they can return or how long they must wait before returning.

Nora Mahoney (1L) also safely evacuated to Atlanta and is staying with family until more word comes.

Tina Hanson (2L) and Jennifer Hoekstra (2L) safely evacuated to Memphis and are attempting to plan how they can return or how long they must wait before returning.

Nora Mahoney (1L) also safely evacuated to Atlanta and is staying with family until more word comes, according to a blog entry by Sean Mahoney.

Lee Prieto(2L, Loyola), Jonathan Ray(2L, Loyola), and Hal Moncrief (boyfriend) are safe in Dallas.

Claire Adams (3L) and Seth Johnson (3L) made it safely to Nacogdoches, Texas.  They talked to their landlord, Louis Otto, who lives at 1031 Burdette St this morning. He says there is no standing water on Burdette street right now, and for at least 6 blocks running towards Claiborne at Burdette and Freret. There are a lot of down trees on the street.

Claire and Seth, take pity on us - any word on 901 Burdette? 

Pamela Metzger

My family and I are safe in Atlanta.  When we left on Saturday, Oliver and Lisa Houck were planning on staying.   Does anyone have word about Oliver?