Folklore Lecture Offered at McNeese
Dr. Henry Glassie, emeritus professor of folklore at Indiana University, will talk about the recent arguments over the origin of American country music and whether those origins include the South. He will connect his findings to the work of the late Dr. Fred Kniffen, a noted cultural geographer recognized as a pioneer in the field of folk housing and professor at Louisiana State University.
His presentation is also part of the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Folklore Society April 8-9 hosted by McNeese.
Glassie is an intellectual leader who has broadened the discipline of folklore from a study of the texts of ballads and tales into a kind of descriptive and interpretive ethnography, according to Dr. Keagan LeJeune, vice president of the society and professor of English at McNeese.
Glassie received his doctorate in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania, master’s degree in folk culture from State University of New York, Oneonta, and his bachelor’s degree in English and anthropology from Tulane University.
The LFS meeting includes two days of presentations on the folklore and traditions of Louisiana, There will be film screenings and paper presentations about popular music, Louisiana novels, boats, wild pigs, Mardi Gras beads and black dance in Louisiana.
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10-14 with several events planned throughout the week.
(April 15, 2016) McNeese State University nursing student Cassi Duhon, of Jennings, has been recognized as the McNeese 2016 Janet Delaine Student Employee of the Year. Duhon works in the Office of Financial Aid.
rogram; and Gemma Bridge, Shillingford, England, career services and student development center.
sic degree from Baldwin-Wallace College. Eckert is currently a Yamahaa performing artist/clinician.
ica Groves Glodd has joined the Louisiana Small Business Development Center at McNeese as the administrative manager and training coordinator. A native of Lake Charles, Glodd holds a Master of Business Administration degree with a human resources concentration from the University of Phoenix, a Bachelor of General Studies degree from McNeese and an associate’s degree in process technology from Sowela Technical Community College. Prior to joining the LSBDC, she served as a production supervisor at a local manufacturing facility and served on the company’s committee to build employee engagement. She also has experience in the banking industry.
Dr. Ann Warner, associate professor of nursing and co-coordinator of the graduate nursing program at McNeese, has been elected vice chair of the Louisiana Council of Administrators of Nursing Education. LaCANE is the group of nursing education administrators who work to be a voice for nursing education in Louisiana. Warner will be the LaCANE representative for the Louisiana Nursing Supply and Demand Council, which studies issues related to the supply of and demand for nurses on such issues as scopes of practice and education preparation.
