The Scoop | Summer 2024

Who: Kathryn Lintott

Job Title: Office Manager, School of Communication and Design

Years at Loyola: 2

Kathryn Lintott, who goes by Kate, was born in the United Kingdom and moved to the United States in 1986. She earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Texas Tech University in 1996 and has lived in the Lower 9th Ward since 2005 with her husband, children and dogs.

The School of Communication and Design hosted an evening in March with Marc Spears, a veteran NBA reporter and recent Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, to discuss the cross-section of race and sports, and how race and culture intersect.

Spears has worked as a national NBA reporter for ESPN's Andscape, a Black-led media platform that tells the diverse stories of Black identity, since 2016, said Gregory Lee Jr., the Marion M. and John S. Stokes Jr. Visiting Professor in Race and Culture in Media.

Greetings,

The College of Music and Media is moving full-speed ahead. 

Our Music students took the stage at three of our city's most popular festivals: Freret, French Quarter, and Jazz. All three festivals attract a global audience, and we were thrilled to have Loyola's signature musicianship on display. The School of Music and Theatre Professions has returned as a lead French Quarter Fest stage sponsor. I am grateful for SMTP Director Kate Duncan and Professor Jonathan McHugh's work keeping us engaged and visual in these spaces. 

Dr. Robert Thomas, the director of the Center for Environmental Communication, has been appointed interim director of the School of Communication and Design. 

He previously served three years as interim director of the School of Mass Communication. Thomas was also the founding director of the Louisiana Nature Center, where he served as the community's liaison for information pertaining to science education, environmental issues, and natural history.

A national search is underway for a permanent director. The successful candidate will start on July 1, 2025.

In April, students from five New Orleans-area high schools participated in Ad Day, a day-long recruitment experience designed to expose them to careers in advertising. 

Students from Booker T. Washington High School, Patrick F. Taylor High School, St. Augustine High School, and St. Mary’s Academy, all in New Orleans, and Vanderbilt Catholic High School in Houma, attended the event, which was themed “Creator Universe.”

Journalist and author Liz Scott Monaghan was inducted into the School of Communication and Design’s Den of Distinction, the highest honor an alumnus can receive, at a reception in May at The Chloe in New Orleans.

Monaghan, a 1964 Loyola graduate, is a noted author, journalist and business owner, as well as a longtime journalism instructor at Loyola. As a student in the 1960s, she was editor of the Maroon. She later served as the newspaper’s advisor for 12 years.

Students in the School of Music and Theatre Professions performed in the spring at three local festivals: the Freret Street Festival, the French Quarter Festival, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Loyola returned as one of the Freret Fest’s sponsors in March, and many of the school’s student artists, professors and alumni performed during the free event, now in its 24th year. 

Three members of the Loyola community were honored in February at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, with an alum and a faculty member coming away with awards.

Carter Lang, who graduated in 2013 with a bachelor’s in Music Industry Studies, won a Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Album for co-writing and producing “SOS” by SZA. He was also nominated for three other awards – Album of the Year for “SOS,” and Song of the Year and Record of the Year, both for “Kill Bill.”