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| ONYEORU MGBADA | | NICE TO HEAR FROM NDIORU | | 2006-02-05 04:29:10 |
| sina | | you are a | | 2005-11-20 03:31:28 |
| jean-pierre le glaunec | i guess it is easier if i give my email address
jp.leglaunec@paris7.jussieu.fr
thanks | | 2005-09-26 11:54:04 |
| jean-pierre le glaunec | hi
i am trying to contact irene and wayne at the nopl. does anybody know what their new emails are?
thank you very much.
jean-pierre le glaunec | | 2005-09-26 11:53:16 |
| Carolyn Kolb | I am a New Orleans historian and work in most of the archives in the city, so some of you will know me. I hope to get back in my house (roof damage but liveable and no flooding)in a week if the mayor allows it, or as soon as possible.
My cell phone is 662-402-1299 and my email is nolasmokey@yahoo.com.
As soon as I am back I will be ready to pitch in and help, call if there is something you might need me to do -- I will make the time. Archivists have done so much for me I would be glad to do a little to repay you.
Carolyn Kolb | | 2005-09-24 19:06:58 |
| Rebecca Johnson Melvin | From the CoOL list:
Date: 16 Sep 2005
From: Sara J. Wolf
Subject: Hurricane Katrina
I have just returned from New Orleans having worked on the recovery of collections from National Park Service sites in the area. Much
of the Jean Lafitte collection was safe in the French Quarter, and although looting was reported in the Jazz Museum, the archives were actually located elsewhere. There was water damage to artifacts at Chalmette Battlefield, and those objects are already being treated by Dave Arnold of the Springfield Armory National Historical Site. Historic buildings at Chalmette took on quite a bit of water, but it will be some time before a thorough assessment is complete there.
I echo the cautions on health and safety. Although the areas I worked in were reviewed by public health officials and determined to
be "safe," our team came prepared with complete PPE. We also had updated tetanus, hepatitis A and B inoculations as part of our continuing preparedness to respond to these kinds of situations. Even if you haven't had a hepatitis A inoculation yet, do get it before going in. It won't be 100% effective, but its effectiveness
increases with time. It's better to have it than not.
Be psychologically prepared as well. Your life will be forever changed by the experience.
Sara J. Wolf
Director
Northeast Museum Services Center
Bldg. I
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston MA 02129
617-242-5613 ext 13
Fax: 617-242-1833 | | 2005-09-23 08:01:29 |
| Sue Soy | | SSA folks that need a place to stay in Austin please call me at 512-327-8413. Warning: 4 cats and 2 men live here with me, but we do have a bed available as well as a long sofa and large amounts of floor spaces. ssoy@ischool.utexas.edu | | 2005-09-22 20:06:25 |
| Rebecca Johnson Melvin | I just became aware of this site:
http://www.scribedesigns.com/tulane/
to find information about colleagues at Tulane. Very helpful. Thanks again to SSA for your help. | | 2005-09-15 14:50:44 |
| Carol Mathias | | Interestingly, minutes after posting my entry about Florence, Marilyn Hankel, Associate Dean of Library Services at UNO walked into my office. She and her husband are taking refuge with her sister in Houma...she talked to Florence yesterday. Florence is OK and staying in Baton Rouge at the home of Tom Jaques (former LA state librarian). | | 2005-09-14 14:14:18 |
| Carol Mathis | | Has anyone heard from Florence Jumonville? Anne Hitchcock and Pam West, National Park Service, are trying to locate her. Anne can be reached at 202 354 2271 and Pam at 202 437 8506. | | 2005-09-14 11:19:43 |
| Lorraine A. Stuart | Business owners are obtaining day passes from the NOPD by calling (504) 599-5541. I would hope that these passes would also be available for senior staff trying to gain access to their collections.
The American Association for State and Local History is also offering for institutions affected by the storm. See http://www.aaslh.org/katrina.htm for additional information. | | 2005-09-13 09:12:41 |
| Stasia Wolfe Griffin | | Yes, Keely of THNOC is safe and OK. | | 2005-09-13 00:41:34 |
| Laura (Winn) McCracken | Revision on my email contacts:
lj_mccracken@ameritech.net
or
mccrackenl@bcsc.k12.in.us
Do you know Keely Merritt (photographer for THNOC and other New Orleans publications)? Is she ok?
| | 2005-09-12 19:09:02 |
| Laura (Winn) McCracken | I am seeking any information on Keely Merritt. Please help me contact her. I can be reached at (812) 378-3848 or at mccrackenl@ameritech.net
Thank you. | | 2005-09-12 10:52:32 |
| Allen | | Susan Tucker. If there is any assistance that I can render, please contact me. gullcoveak@yahoo.com. | | 2005-09-10 18:03:15 |
| Bridgette Kelly | I have been in contact with Brenda Square from the Amistad Research Center. The last update I received before I left work yesterday was that she was working on an official statement about the status of the ARC's staff and facilities.
Bridgette Kelly, Archivist & Records Manager
United Church of Christ | | 2005-09-10 07:09:10 |
| Stasia Wolfe Griffin | I have contact info for Gerald Patout (he is safe). E-mail me stasia.wolfe@gmail.com and I'll send it along to you.
| | 2005-09-10 00:36:37 |
| Richard Bloom | | Ann Wakefield Please contact me at bloomr@copper.net re Edith Murat | | 2005-09-09 16:35:29 |
| Susan D'Entremont | | Has anyone heard from Melissa Smith of Tulane (and graduate of Loyola)? We met by sharing a table at the brunch at the SAA meeting. I know she has a young child. Thanks. | | 2005-09-08 11:45:04 |
| Brenda Gunn | | I talked with Faye Phillips at LSU and she is asking everyone to contact Congress to let them know extremely critical and time sensitive need for the New Orleans archivists to get back into the city and do their assessments. SSA, Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Association, and SAA has written letters to Louisianan Governor Blanco. Faye has copies of those letters and will be sending them to the Louisiana Congressional delegation. Please send letters as well. Faxes work better obviously. | | 2005-09-08 10:57:00 |
| Susan Tucker | | Has anyone an email or phone number for Gerald Patout from HNOC? Thanks, Susan | | 2005-09-08 07:09:21 |
| Dorenda Dupont | | I am fine and in Memphis, and I heard that Kathy Falcone is in Baton Rouge. -- Dorenda Dupont, Archdiocese of N.O. | | 2005-09-08 00:26:40 |
| Casey Rayborn | | I am also looking for Florence Jumonville concerning the WDSU collection housed at UNO. If anyone has any contact information, it would be appreciated. My email is crayborn@sos.louisiana.gov | | 2005-09-07 14:24:29 |
| Margaret Welch, NMSC, National Park Service | | Sara Wolf from the National Park Service needs to get in contact with Ms. Jumonville, Marie Lindell, or anyone from Special Collections, University of New Orleans to obtain keys so that the Jean Lafitte collection may be moved (police protection will be provided). Does anyone have cell phone numbers or home phone numbers? Please contact Sara Wolf at her cell 617-438-6058 although the reception is poor. Please call me, Margaret Welch, at 617-242-5613, ext. 30 if you have any leads or suggestions on how to contact the Univ. of New Orleans staff. | | 2005-09-07 09:35:14 |
| Bruce Turner | | Does anyone know about Florence Jumonville or Marie Windell from UNO? | | 2005-09-06 15:59:50 |
| Mimi Helveston | | Thanks Karen Spicher for the info about Rachel Lyons. I am a good friend from Detroit and I have been trying to contact her but I don't have a valid email for her. If you happen to have her email or her sister's I would really appreciate it and any updates on where she is. Sincerely Mimi Helveston (and Nicole Smith) Detroit Michigan, mhelveston@helveston.com | | 2005-09-06 13:13:30 |
| Ethel Simpson | | Sister Dorothy Dawes, OP, and her community were evacuated to Baton Rouge. I got an email from her but haven't been able to reach her by phone. They were doing all right, last I heard. I know she was anxious about her archives; any news of that area--Broadway and St. Charles? | | 2005-09-06 11:44:01 |
| Trish Nugent | | Just heard from Art Carpenter -- he is in Atlanta. | | 2005-09-05 16:46:02 |
| Rebecca Black, | | Hi--So glad to hear that Susan Tucker is safe! I worked for a while at the Newcomb Archives. Let us know what you need, and we will help as help can get through. rebblack@msn.com, Rebecca Black, at Santa Clara University, in California. | | 2005-09-05 16:02:53 |
| Jim Stroud, Harry Ransom Centter | | Renee Deville, New Orleans Book and Paper Conservator is staying with her husband's family in Lakeway, Austin. She, her husband--Jean Paul--, and two children got out the Sunday of the storm. They are fine. | | 2005-09-05 13:34:28 |
| Jason Wiese | | I am glad to hear that many of my THNOC colleagues got away safely. Dana and I were in Monroe earlier in the week, but have since gone up to her parents' place in Ames, Iowa. I am reachable via my email, nolajake@i-55.com, or via the following two phone numbers: 515.291.3108 or 515.547.2302. My cell phone, 504.495.4661, is not yet working for incoming calls, but I will include it as well. Thank you. | | 2005-09-04 17:59:03 |
| CHRIS CARMENATY | | Im in Lafayette with a friend, then later this week return to my parents in San Antonio. I havent heard from anyone but I spoke with Kathy and recieved an e-mail from Wade. I want to make sure Shirley Ludman is ok and Diane Plauche. Charlotte Hoggatt, I havent heard from. You can e-mail me at tool017@aol.com | | 2005-09-04 14:12:09 |
| Cindy Smolovik | | I was just able to contact Carol Mathias. She is fine. She took her mother to Oklahoma on Saturday to wait out the storm. They are back in home in Houma now, which according to Carol is not in bad shape considering. The phones are hit and miss with in coming calls, and not at all on out-going calls. I was finally lucky to get through. She can read her emails now but not send anything out, and is not able to post to this site, yet. Her message is a big thank you to everyone who has been trying to contact her - and that she is ok, and will get in contact with everyone when she can. | | 2005-09-03 17:15:33 |
| Patty Lemee | | THNOC personnel whereabouts: just spoke w/Priscilla Lawrence who reports: she and John are in Oak Grove; Alfred Lemmon and Larry Falgoustin Lafayette; Gerald in New Iberia; Kathy in Quitman, Steve in Memphis, Chuck in Philadelphia, Mark and Amy in KY, Jose in Beaumont, Mimi in Destin, Jan in Georgia, John Walker in Baton Rouge, Siva's okay but Priscilla couldn't remember where exactly. No word on John Magill - rode out storm in Chartres St. bldg. John Lawrence has set up site for THNOC members to communicate. On Google, click on "groups" then type in THNOC. | | 2005-09-03 09:42:36 |
| Patty Lemee | | Brent - re: Alfred Lemmon. Please contact me in Austin, TX at (512) 471-1431 or plemee@mail.utexas.edu and/or plemee@aol.com. I spoke Mon.p.m. w/Priscilla Lawrence (THNOC) who remained at home through storm. She said Alfred was fine. No further word re: Priscilla who, as of last night, had not been in contact either with her son or dtr. Any word re: John Magill who stayed? Thank you. | | 2005-09-03 09:09:44 |
| Brett Carnell | | I talked with Alfred Lemmon of the Historic New Orleans Collection yesterday. He is fine. | | 2005-09-02 16:54:07 |
| Karen Spicher | I have heard news that Roberta Munoz and Rachel Lyons, both of New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Archive, are OK. Roberta reports that she evacuated early to Little Rock Arkansas; her email is: rmw@u.washington.edu .
Roberta passed on to me a phone number for Rachel's sister Johanna who lives in New Hampshire. Johanna wasn't at work today, but I spoke to a colleague of hers who has heard from Johanna that Rachel is ok, though didn't know any details.
Roberta also says: "We are such a small archive and have so little funding that our emergency plan was just to try and cover the items with plastic and place them on higher shelves. The archive itself is in the French Quarter where much looting, flooding etc has taken place. We don't know when we will be allowed back in to see what the damage is." | | 2005-09-02 15:07:02 |
| Buffie Hollis, George Bush Library | | I have had contact with Alicia Rosemond, conservation technician at the New Orleans Notarial Archives Research Center. She is in College Station, Texas, and she and her family are ok. She said that a Civil District Court security guard called her as she was on her way to Texas, and told her the Amoco building had sustained considerable damage with many missing windows and papers flying in the wind. However, he couldn't say if the floor the Research Center was on was affected. I have had no news about the collections in the Civil District Court. | | 2005-09-02 14:13:33 |
| Sister Hildegard Varrga, OSB | Im happy to hear that Charles Nolan and the New Orleans Archdiocesan Archive, and at least some of his staff is safe. I hope Dorenda is "OK." Has anyone heard anything from Sister Dorothy Dawes, OP, Archvivist for the Dominican Sisters?
I and my Sisters here at St. Benedict Monastery, Canyon, Texas, are keeping all of you in our prayers. I actually lived in New Orleans for one year, then another nine years in Lafourche Parish. There shsll always be a soft spot in my hear for South Louisiana. | | 2005-09-02 14:06:04 |
| Tammy Gobert | | Friends and colleagues: Thank you for your concern regarding my safety. While I do not work in the affected area, my spouse and I stayed in New Orleans for a vacation after SAA. I would like to report that we made it out on Saturday, just as the exodus was beginning. It is surreal to juxtapose our memories of this wonderful city and its welcoming inhabitants with the news coverage of such devastation and need. I thank my lucky stars that we were spared the experience by such a narrow margin. | | 2005-09-02 14:01:34 |
| Bruce Turner | | Ann Wakefield is in Lafayette right now. She and her family are fine but she is desparately trying to get access to the Notarial Archives to assess damage. Susan Tucker was in Alexandria. She has found her boyfriend at a shelter in Houma after he was rescued by firefighters in a boat. | | 2005-09-02 13:48:38 |
| Tara Laver | More on Tulane: Director of the Library Lance Query called again to say that the situation for Tulane remains about the same - it appears the library is going to be okay but there is no on- site, in person assessment available to provide good information. The Garden District is not flooded and so far the lawlessness has not reached into the area.
| | 2005-09-02 13:32:53 |
| Anne Van Camp | | Bill Stockting from The National Archives (UK) stayed on in the New Orleans area to vacation after SAA. I heard from his manager today that Bill is still stranded in the area (don't know where) and is ok but trying to get home. | | 2005-09-02 13:32:41 |
| Tara Laver | Irene Wainwright and Wayne Everard from New Orleans Public are ok. They, with some of Wayne's family, evacuated to Hammond to stay with her mother.
Mark Cave, archivist at the Historic New Orleans Williams Research Center, is on his way to Lexington, KY. He is fine.
Amy Baptist, also with HNOC, is well and with her family in Jackson, MS. She is awaiting a flight on Saturday to Cape Cod where she will figure out her next step at her Grandmother's home.
| | 2005-09-02 13:21:43 |
| Molly Wheeler | | Trish Nugent, archivist at Loyola, and her husband are in Mobile, AL after having left New Orleans. They are OK. | | 2005-09-02 13:03:59 |
| Brenda Gunn | Re: Brenda Square and the Amistad Research Center
"We are ok here, and so far, have not had any calls for assistance, mainly because, I'm guess, people can't get in to check things."
And the following message was posted yesterday on the archives listserv.
Greetings,
I just got off the phone with Brenda Square, Director of Archives &
Library at the Amistad Research Center (ARC). Just two weeks ago I was
down in New Orleans for the Society of American Archivists' annual
meeting, and I met up with Brenda for a tour of their facility. She
happened to give me her cell phone number in case I needed to contact
her while I was down there.
Proof that God does work in mysterious ways. The ARC is located in
Tilton Hall on the campus of Tulane University.
Here is the news from Brenda:
Friday (8/26), Brenda encouraged the staff at the ARC to heed the advice
of evacuating. They exchanged phone numbers so they could contact one
another should the need arise. Mr. Hampton, the ARC's Executive
Director, was out of town on other business, so Brenda was sure he was
safe.
Saturday (8/27), Brenda was at the ARC taking down their art exhibit to
put the works in storage, and moving items to the second floor. She said
that thankfully, over the past few years they have been moving
important, vital records and collections to the second floor. "The
off-site storage is up high," Brenda said.
Sunday (8/28), Brenda made her way to a friend's house in Baton Rouge
where they rode out Katrina. She mentioned that she saw Sandra Wallace
on the highway as they were both leaving town.
Wednesday (8/31), Brenda was able to access the internet at a local
university campus. She was able to read Tulane's emergency web site
updates through that day, and that is all she knows about the status of
Tulane and the ARC.
I talked to Brenda this morning and just a little bit ago at 4:45pm. She
is still unable to reach any of her staff by phone, and has not heard
any updates on Tulane or the ARC. I am acting as a point person for her
- attempting to contact some of the staff, keeping track of Tulane's
updates, and keeping Brenda informed as much as I can. I have tried to
reach Mr.
Hampton on his cell phone, but as general news updates show, the 504
area code is giving the "all circuits are busy" recording. As of this
afternoon, Brenda and her family are on their way to her oldest son's
house in Dallas.
I said I would keep trying to make contact with the people she gave me
phone numbers for, and touch base with her from time to time.
In general information, if you would like to keep track of how Tulane
University is faring, you may access their emergency web site at,
. The general synopsis is that the
university did not sustain devastating damage - downed trees, water
damage in some buildings, some roofing tiles damaged. Students were
evacuated before Katrina hit and have now been sent home. After five
days on campus, the emergency team is now in Houston, TX. Only the bare
minimum of security and facilities staff remain. Conditions in New
Orleans itself make it very difficult to begin recovery effort. The main
priorities now are, 1. support staff left in New Orleans; 2.
re-establish communications with constituencies ASAP; 3. begin the
recovery process.
Brenda's final comments before we hung up were, "Thank you all for your
prayers. Please continue to keep us all in your prayers."
Sincerely,
Bridgette
------------------------------
Jessica Steytler - archivist
Congregational Library
14 Beacon St. Boston MA 02108
617 523 0470 x234
jsteytler@14beacon.org
| | 2005-09-02 12:31:01 |
| Rebecca Johnson Melvin | from Susan Tucker, Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane, several days ago. she was in alexandria. a lot has changed since then
August 31:
Thanks, much Tanya, I went to the archivists website and saw messages from yesterday. Hotmail will not let forwarded messages go through, so I couldn't see the messages you tried to forward. I think all of us from New Orleans just continue very wary that all is okay since the information from the national news sources that we are receiving keeps getting worse and worse. Cell phones with the 504 area code are not working, or at times, we can call out to other places but cannot call each other.
Of course, our first worry is for the people and our second worries for
homes. I cannot watch the television without crying. I also resent
terribly that there is coverage of looting. I am sure that many people are performing miraculous tasks of devotion and duty and leadership and neighborliness to one another. The people of New Orleans are very civic minded and we do well in crowds -- that is what we do. There are people in the superdome holding classes, providing games for children, cleaning constantly, and so forth. We need doctors and nurses and boats. We need more police. We are a poor city to begin with....
What might help is some sort of coverage of the city neighborhood by
neighborhood but that is not coming from any source. That would help all the evacuees and according to most sources, we number 1 million people dispersed now in other parts of Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. I have tried to reach various news services with this suggestion but who knows if this suggestion goes through. Also, there is no list of names of people in hotels and superdomes. I know I am asking for a lot. I would like the levees repaired first! My boyfriend, as I said, is in his attic, and every three hours until yesterday at noon, his cell phone had updates that had a great deal of humor besides a gravity and real scare about them. He is very savvy and good with boats, etc. and has food and water for a week, but....
RE archives, in general and Tulane and others in particular....The news
yesterday from Tulane's emergency site said that there is an emergency
leadership team in Jackson Mississippi from Tulane, now deciding on a plan, but since the second levee broke yesterday -- I am less hopeful that this plan will let us go back and see how our repositories are faring.
The good new is that according to flood maps the area Uptown -- where
Tulane, Loyola, Xavier, Dominican archives are --- is on a higher ground than most in the city -- by maybe a foot. The French Quarter is higher than other areas....and this is where HNOC is located. The Notarial Archives are now in a tall building on an upper floor. What we need to worry about most is probably New Orleans Public Library.
I believe the archival community can help in about a week with all this. For now, it is very good to hear of the concerns of others. Thank you much. You can share this with others but correct my spelling! writing quickly, all best, Susan | | 2005-09-02 11:05:48 |
| Brenda Gunn | | I talked with Lee Miller this morning. He is hopeful that his house has escaped the flood. He has word that streets a few blocks from his house are dry. He has no information about his archives, but speculates that the stacks on the upper floors are fine. The collections stored on the first floor are most likely flooded. He is trying to get an emergency personnel designation from Tulane so that he can go in for one day and assess the situation. He has not been able to accomplish that yet. --Brenda Gunn | | 2005-09-02 10:47:34 |
| Richard Pearce-Moses | | I heard from Ann Wakefield of the Notarial Archives in New Orleans by email on 1 Sept. She is okay, but not in that city. She does not know the status of her collections. -- Richard Pearce-Moses | | 2005-09-02 09:51:57 |
| Lisa May | Charles Nolan is safe, and as of Thursday he was holed up in the rectory of St. Louis Cathedral. The historic Ursuline Convent, which houses some of the archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans as well as a new musuem, came through the flooding & the contents are safe. As of Thursday, it had a police guard to prevent looting. Bonnie Murphy from Charles' staff is also OK. There is no word on Dorenda Dupont & the other staff members yet.
| | 2005-09-02 09:42:16 |
| Brenda Gunn | | Howard Margot of the Notorial Archives in New Orleans left NO on Saturday for Lafayette, where he waited out the storm. Last I heard from him, he thought his house might be o.k. | | 2005-09-02 09:09:13 |
| Brenda Gunn | | Lee Miller is in Pine Bluff Arkansas and is o.k. Thanks to Richard Pearce-Moses for forwarding that information to us. | | 2005-09-02 09:04:35 |
| Sue Soy | | Carol Bartels has called me here at the Austin History Center to say that she is safe and sound and here with her sister in Austin. She has email, is planning to go on vacation as was pre-planned to follow the SAA conference in New Orleans, and will be back in Austin September 14th. She will most likely be checking in with us all here. | | 2005-09-02 08:47:10 |
| Mark Lambert | I am forwarding the below from the law librarians listserv since it concerns court records and client files and Katrina. Mark
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:22 AM
Subject: Lawyers lives & the justice system devastated
I know your hearts, in particular, are for lawyers. Think of this...
5,000 - 6,000 lawyers (1/3 of the lawyers in Louisiana) have lost their offices, their libraries, their computers with all information thereon,
their client files - possibly their clients, as one attorney who e-mailed me noted. As I mentioned before, they are scattered from
Florida to Arizona and have nothing to return to. Their children's schools are gone and, optimistically, the school systems in 8
parishes/counties won't be re-opened until after December. They must re-locate their lives.
Our state supreme court is under some water - with all appellate files and evidence folders/boxes along with it. The 5th Circuit Court of
Appeals building is under some water - with the same effect. Right now there may only be 3-4 feet of standing water but, if you think about it,
most files are kept in the basements or lower floors of courthouses. What effect will that have on the lives of citizens and lawyers
throughout this state and this area of the country? And on the law?
The city and district courts in as many as 8 parishes/counties are under water, as well as 3 of our circuit courts - with evidence/files at each
of them ruined. The law enforcement offices in those areas are under water- again, with evidence ruined. 6,000 prisoners in 2 prisons and one
juvenile facility are having to be securely relocated. We already have over-crowding at most Louisiana prisons and juvenile facilities. What
effect will this have? And what happens when the evidence in their cases has been destroyed? Will the guilty be released upon the
communities? Will the innocent not be able to prove their innocence?
Our state bar offices are under water. Our state disciplinary offices are under water - again with evidence ruined. Our state disciplinary
offices are located on Veteran's Blvd. in Metairie. Those of you who have been watching the news, they continue to show Veteran's Blvd. It's
the shot with the destroyed Target store and shopping center under water and that looks like a long canal. Our Committee on Bar Admissions is
located there and would have been housing the bar exams which have been turned in from the recent July bar exam (this is one time I'll pray the
examiners were late in turning them in - we were set to meet in 2 weeks to go over the results). Will all of those new graduates have to retake
the bar exam?
Two of the 4 law schools in Louisiana are located in New Orleans (Loyola and Tulane - the 2 private ones that students have already paid about
$8,000+ for this semester to attend). Another 1,000+ lawyers-to-be whose lives have been detoured. I've contacted professors at both
schools but they can't reach anyone at those schools and don't know the amount of damage they've taken. Certainly, at least, this semester is
over. I'm trying to reach the Chancellor's at Southern and LSU here in Baton Rouge to see if there's anything we can do to take in the students
and/or the professors. I think I mentioned before, students from out of state have beens stranded at at least 2 of the other universities in New
Orleans - they're moving up floor after floor as the water rises. Our local news station received a call from some medical students at Tulane
Medical Center who were now on the 5th floor of the dormitories as the water had risen. One of them had had a heart attack and they had no
medical supplies and couldn't reach anyone - 911 was busy, local law enforcement couldn't be reached, they were going through the phone book
and reached a news station 90 miles away!! It took the station almost 45 minutes to finally find someone with FEMA to try to get in to them!!
And, then, there are the clients whose files are lost, whose cases are stymied. Their lives, too, are derailed. Of course, the vast majority
live in the area and that's the least of their worries. But, the New Orleans firms also have a large national and international client base.
For example, I received an e-mail from one attorney friend who I work with on some crucial domestic violence (spousal and child) cases around
the nation - those clients could be seriously impacted by the loss, even temporarily, of their attorney - and he can't get to them and is having
difficulty contacting the many courts around the nation where his cases are pending. Large corporate clients may have their files blowing in
the wind where the high rise buildings had windows blown out.
I woke up this morning to the picture of Veteran's Blvd which made me think of my students who just took the bar. My thoughts wandered from
there to the effect on the Disciplinary Offices. Then my thoughts continued on. I'm sure I'm still missing a big part of the future
picture. It's just devastating. Can you imagine something of this dimension in your state?
Michelle
Professor Michelle Ghetti
Southern University Law Center
Baton Rouge, LA 70813
225-771-4900 | | 2005-09-02 08:43:55 |
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