Area businessman tapped as Southeastern Young Alumnus of Year
Wednesday, May 20, 2020 
by: Tonya Lowentritt
AREA BUSINESSMAN RECOGNIZED AS YOUNG ALUMNUS – Area businessman Jonathan Wong has been named Southeastern Louisiana University’s 2020 Young Alumnus of the Year. He will be officially recognized at the Southeastern Alumni Association Awards Evening to be held this fall during Homecoming Week.
HAMMOND – Area businessman Jonathan Wong has been named Southeastern Louisiana
University’s 2020 Young Alumnus of the Year. He will be officially recognized at the
Southeastern Alumni Association Awards Evening to be held this fall during Homecoming
Week.
Wong graduated from Southeastern in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in international
business. He is co-founder and team leader of Cate Street Seafood Station in Hammond
and The Boston Restaurant in Amite.
“We are pleased to honor Jonathan Wong as our Young Alumnus of the Year,” said
Southeastern Alumni Board President Richard “Dickie” Whitson. “Jonathan is an exceptional
young man and a thriving business owner. As an alumnus of Southeastern, Jonathan continues
to support the university and hires many students in his restaurants.”
Wong is a member of the 2019-20 Southeastern Foundation Board of Directors, served
as a 2017 board member of the Hammond Downtown Development District and a local community
advisor to Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center in Hammond, and was honored by the Hammond
Daily Star in 2018 as a “Future 40 Under 40.”
In November, Wong treated Southeastern’s international students to dinner at
the Mezzanine Event Center. The purpose of the dinner was to connect international
students to the Hammond community and to discuss student possibilities, as well as
concerns.
Alumni Awards Evening will also include recognition of several Southeastern faculty
and staff and alumni, including Alumna of the Year for 2020 Genevieve May, public
safety executive and retired U.S. Marshal.
