A U.S. Army physician and scientist recognized as an expert in incident management,
chemical and bio-terrorism risk analysis and risk reduction has been honored as the
2015 Alumnus of the Year by the Southeastern Louisiana University Alumni Association.
Col. Stanley John Whidden of Fairfax, Va., who has completed a 38-year career
as an enlisted soldier and officer and who served in a variety of senior staff and
command positions, is a double graduate of Southeastern, earning a bachelor’s degree
in physiology in 1970 and master’s in chemistry in 1973 at Southeastern. He later
earned a doctorate in Physiology at Auburn University and his doctor of medicine degree
from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.
Now retired Alumni Association Director Kathy Pittman said the award recognizes
graduates with unique accomplishments on a national or international level who continue
to utilize their degree from Southeastern to the fullest.
Whidden has served in a variety of civil affairs and military operations positions
in the Middle-East, in Operation Just Cause in the invasion of Panama, In Operation
Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia, and in Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, where he helped
manage the country’s reconstruction and recovery. He has also served with U.S. Forces
and the United Nations Somalia Logistics Command in Somalia.
