Isabelle Haik, 86, teacher and artist
Submitted by N.O.V.A.
Times Picayune 06-22-2007


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Isabelle Saloom Haik the mother of a former New Orleans City Council
member and a founder of a Delta Delta Delta sorority chapter -- died
Wednesday at her New Orleans home. She was 86. 

A native of Lafayette, she attended Mount Carmel Academy and
Southwestern Louisiana Institute, where she was a founding member of its
Delta Delta Delta chapter. She graduated from Newcomb College of Tulane
University with a degree in art and psychology. She moved to New Orleans
in 1948. 

Mrs. Haik was fluent in French, Spanish and Lebanese and taught English
to immigrants arriving in the United States during World War II. 

She married Dr. George M. Haik after the war and helped him establish
the George M. Haik Eye Clinic, which she managed. A sketch artist, she
opened Carrollton Framing in New Orleans, where she employed artists so
they could pursue their craft. 

Mrs. Haik also was a local authority on Creole-Cajun cooking, appearing
on local television shows to discuss recipes. She edited the Metairie
Park Country Day Cookbook to raise money to design and build the Country
Day Founder's Terrace. 

"She made a great crawfish bisque," said her daughter, former City
Council member Suzanne Haik Terrell. 

Mrs. Haik was a former president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society
Auxiliary and the Louisiana State Medical Society Auxiliary. She held
officer positions with the auxiliary of the Hotel Dieu Hospital and the
Eye Foundation of America and helped organize fundraising campaigns for
the United Way. 

"My mother never met a stranger," her daughter said. "From the person
she met in the grocery line to her grandchildren's friends, she made
everyone feel like her friend and never forgot a single person." 

Other survivors include her three sons, all ophthalmologists, George M.
Haik Jr. and Kenneth G. Haik of New Orleans and Barrett G. Haik of
Memphis, Tenn.; and eight grandchildren. 

The service will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral
Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. Burial will follow in Metairie Cemetery.
Visitation begins at noon.