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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.

Offers of Help

Alumna Olivia Martin, '82, wrote to say "if anyone is  in Montgomery, please call me at the Attorney General's office 334 242 7393 and I will be happy to help do anything.  "

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.

Tulane Law School Information

Tulane's official website is now up at:

http://tulane.law.emory.edu

Everyone is encouraged to sign up for the official email mailing list at that site. 

There is an unofficial site:

http://www.isthatlegal.org/tulanelaw/

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 *

More information

Lorelie Papel posts that she is safe in BR with friends.  She would like to hear from any Loyola faculty, staff, alums, students, etc.  She can be reached at loreliepapel@yahoo.com

Wayne Johnson

Adrienne,  so glad to hear you are o.k.  Getting worried about Katherine and also about Jeff who stayed behind as an ER doc.  If you learn anything please let me know at pmetzger@levittllc.com

From Prof. Verchik

I'm Rob Verchick on the Loyola Law faculty. My wife, Heidi Molbak, and our three boys are safe and sound in Houston. It's devastating seeing the news on the television, although folks in Houston are doing their best to make us feel welcome--Six Flags is letting Louisana families in for free, which my kids appreciate. In addition to issues related to our house, we are wondering what the near term schedules of our kids' schools will look like. It's so important for kids to have regular schedules, particularly in times of stress.

One bit of perhaps obvious advice for folks whose school servers are down: you can easily create a Web-based email address on yahoo.com, msn.com, etc., to communicate with friends and loved ones outside the N.O. area.

Best of luck to you all. I appreciate reading your postings.

Rob