Foundation Adds New Board Members

This story appears in the Winter 2014 issue of Heart to Heart, which can be found online by clicking here.

COVINGTON - New members of the St. Tammany Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees include experts in finance, medicine, business and more.

“Each member of this stellar group brings their individual skills, talents and energy to our board, and I look forward to working with them as we make a difference in health care in our Northshore community,” said Laurie McCants, board chairman.

Eric Dunavant is a certified financial planner and president of Dunavant Wealth Strategies in Mandeville. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in agribusiness. Dunavant and his wife, Angel, have three children.

The Dunavants have been the Angels Sponsor for Angels of Light for three years. He is also a member and donor to the foundation’s Business Leaders Council.

Rob Faucheux MD is secretary/treasurer of the St. Tammany Parish Hospital Medical Executive Committee.

A graduate of Louisiana State University School of Medicine, he is a board-certified pediatrician at Northlake Pediatrics and a champion for the pediatric emergency room and Monster Mash.

Dr. Faucheux and his wife, Julie, have two children, Allison and Robert.

Anne Munn Jacobson is office manager for Synergy Facility Furnishings and a marketing and human resources consultant.

Jacobson graduated from Eastern Michigan University and has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Mary Baldwin College and a master’s degree in business administration from Tulane University. She counsels business owners as a SCORE volunteer.

Mary Lee, a former nurse clinician, is the Chief Operations Officer at Lee Financial Partners LLC. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing and psychology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and a master’s degree in biology from the University of New Orleans.

Lee, recently was appointed to the Louisiana State Arts Council, is chairman of the foundation’s Healing Arts Initiative and is joined by her husband, Jim, in supporting this innovative movement.

Darci Senner, CPA is a self-employed accountant and works part-time for Lois Rothwell, CPA.

Senner earned a degree in accounting from LSU in 1983 and became a certified public accountant in 1984.

She has been a volunteer with the Junior League of Greater Covington, Christ Episcopal School, Art at the Park, St. Scholastica Academy and Christ Episcopal School.

Senner and her husband, Michael, have two daughters.

Tillman S. Stogner Jr. and his wife, Jill, have long ties to Washington Parish. The Bogalusa resident is president of Double D Meat, a family-owned firm that sells meats throughout the United States. Double D is a sponsor of the St. Tammany Cancer Fund Goodyear Memorial Golf Tournament. He is a director of Citizens Savings Bank.

Will Trist is a Senior Vice President of Wealth Management with Merrill Lynch in Mandeville. He graduated from LSU and worked in the banking industry before joining Merrill Lynch in 1996.

Trist is a graduate of Leadership St. Tammany and has served on the board of the Northshore Community Foundation. He also is an active member of the ForeKids Foundation. He lives in Mandeville with his wife, Allison, and their daughters, Sophie and Georgia.

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