• The Junior League of Shreveport-Bossier announced Eloise Graf and Lauren Lea as the 2014-5 Volunteers of the Year. Graf and Lea were presented with their awards at the JLSB’s annual May dinner meeting, held at the Petroleum Club of Shreveport. Graf was chairman of the Kitchen Tour, the JLSB’s newest fundraising event, for the 2014-15 year. Lea was the League’s 2014-15 Meeting With A Mission coordinator. JLSB Meeting With a Mission collects donations at each of the nine general membership meetings for organizations in the Shreveport-Bossier community that share the League’s focus on at-risk women and children. This year, the JLSB adopted Westwood Elementary, a school in Caddo Parish’s “Transformation Zone,” as the yearlong recipient of their Meeting With a Mission donations.

• Dr. Sharon Dunn, Rehabilitation Sciences Department head and director of the physical therapy program at LSU Health Shreveport’s School of Allied Health Professions, has been elected president of the American Physical Therapy Association. In this capacity, she will represent more than 90,000 member physical therapists, physical therapist assistants and students of physical therapy in seeking to advance physical therapist practice, education, and research, and by increasing the awareness and understanding of physical therapy’s role in the nation’s health care system. She joined the faculty of the School of Allied Health Professions in 1990 and became vice president of the APTA in 2012.

• Eldorado Resort Casino has received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. Now in its fifth year, the award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to establishments that consistently achieve great traveler reviews on TripAdvisor. Certificate of Excellence winners include accommodations, eateries and attractions located all over the world that have continually delivered a superior customer experience. In selecting Certificate of Excellence winners, TripAdvisor uses a proprietary algorithm to determine the honorees that takes into account the quality, quantity and recency of reviews and opinions submitted by travelers on TripAdvisor over a 12-month period as well as business’ tenure and ranking on the Popularity Index on the site. To qualify, a business must maintain an overall TripAdvisor bubble rating of at least four out of five, have a minimum number of reviews and must have been listed on TripAdvisor for at least 12 months.

• LSU Shreveport is honored to have one of its mathematics professors, Dr. Rick Mabry, to be recognized as a successful teacher. Mabry received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Louisiana/Mississippi section of the MAA. Professor and Chair of Mathematics Dr. Tibor Szarvas nominated Mabry for his excellence in his understanding and teaching of the subject material. Mabry’s knowledge of mathematics enabled him to effectively teach his students and create an interesting classroom learning experience. Mabry also made a point to encourage his students in and out of the classroom, even to go so far as to encourage them to start their own research and publish material in mathematics journals with him. Mabry retired from his career in the middle of May after teaching at LSUS for 26 years. He is now in the process of moving to Germany. The mathematics department has been grateful for Mabry’s addition to the university.

• Blanchard, Walker, O’Quin & Roberts plans to move its Shreveport office from the Chase Tower to the Regions Tower this month. The new office is less than block from the current location. Blanchard Walker will occupy the entire seventh floor of a 24-story, multi-tenant office building located in downtown Shreveport. Construction of the new space is slated to be complete in the next two weeks. The new address will be: Regions Tower, Suite 700, 333 Texas Street, Shreveport, La. 71101. Blanchard Walker’s mailing address, P.O. Drawer 1126, Shreveport, LA 71163, will remain the same. All firm phone numbers, email addresses, and fax numbers will also remain the unchanged.