Voila 2007 Fall (PDF)

Fall 2007

Editor Lydia Szanyi Boudreaux

Art dirEctor Bruno Ruggiero

PhotogrAPhEr Doug Keese

Advisory BoArd Dr. David E. Boudreaux, Nicole

L. Boudreaux, Dr. Alfred N. Delahaye, Dr. Rebecca

Pennington, Deborah Raziano, Richard Reso

Contact Voilà! at:P.O. Box 2033Thibodaux, LA 70310(985) [email protected]

Voilà! is published once a year with funding from the Nicholls State University Foundation and the Nicholls State University Alumni Federation.

Nicholls State University is a member of the University of Louisiana System.

on the cover: Sociology students spent a semester investigating the history of a deserted Chackbay church and its long-gone congregation.

contributing Writers

dr. deborah Bordelon is a professor and dean of the College of Education.

Lydia szanyi Boudreaux is assistant director of the Office of University Relations and a 1998 mass communication graduate.

dr. Alfred N. delahaye is professor emeritus of journalism.

stephanie detillier is a creative writer/editor in the Office of University Relations and a 2006 mass communication graduate.

Matt gresham is a 1996 mass communication graduate.

rebecca c. Lyons is an assistant professor of nursing and interim head of the Department of Nursing. She is a 1986 nursing graduate.

Brandon rizzuto is director of media relations in the Department of Athletics.

dr. Anita tully is a distinguished service professor of English and assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Table of Contents

2 FromthePresident

3 TothePoint Newandrenovatedstudenthousing,universityandprogramaccreditationsand emergencypolicedrillstopcampusnews.

5 TheBottomLine Enrollment,retention,minorityrecruitmentandstudentqualityarethrivingatNicholls.

6 ChefsduJour Sampletheflavorofsuccesswiththeseculinaryalumni.

12 TheClassroomofLife Servicelearninghasrealpowertoinspire,despiteclichésthatoftenaccompanytheneweducationcatchphrase.

16 AGoldmineofHistory LibraryarchivespreservetreasuresfromAudubon,ShakespeareandtheBayouRegion’spast.

20 TheForgottenPeopleofaForgottenTime Age-oldLouisianatraditionsareasmuchinperilasthelandinwhichthey’reembedded.Onepieceatatime, NichollsistryingtokeeptheLouisianaoflegendalive.

26 FruitsofLabor Agfacultylendahandtocitrusgrowers.

27 ‘ILaunchedMyOwnCorporation’(or‘WhatIDidLastSemester’) StudentKelsiGuidrydreamsofmakingitbigintheInternetbusiness,withalittlehelpfromtheEntréLab.

28 BeyondFingerPainting Learningtobeateachermeanslearningtoworkwithchildrenandtheirparents.

30 TryingonOldAge Newtechnologieshelpnursesexperiencetheworldoftheelderly.

31 TheFreshmanConnection UniversityCollegeisreachingouttofreshmenwithaFacebook/MySpace-inspiredwebsiteto helpthemthroughthefirstyearofcollege.

32 OneMan,TwoStars,ManyHats AlumnusHuntDownerrisestothehighestranksoftheLouisianaArmyNationalGuardandstategovernment.

35 LevelingthePlayingField Sportsfacilitiesarereceiving$1.6millioninupgrades.

38 DutyCalls…Again JimHunterhasansweredthecallofdutytoVietnam,tennisandnowNicholls.

42 JustPlainBarb Reliableandsoft-spoken,BarbaraNaquinbecomesthefirstwomaninductedintothe LouisianaAthleticTrainers’AssociationHallofFame.

44 HonorRoll

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To the Point

If you haven’t been to the Nicholls campus recently, you’re missing out on history in the making. Nicholls is in the midst of the largest campus transforma-tion in more than 20 years: • new and renovated housing (not to

exceed $55 million), • a $14.4 million new recreation center,• a renovated bookstore, • $5.5 million in renovations to the

cafeteria and student union, • $14.7 million in renovations to Beaure-

gard Hall, • $3.2 million in road and parking lot

improvements and• $3.7 million in electrical upgrades.

By Fall 2008, Nicholls will have bid farewell to Meade, Long, Millet and Zeringue residence halls. In their places will be three new living facilities boast-ing the latest amenities and a separate convenience store.

Calecas and Ellender halls will un-dergo extensive renovations, with Calecas becoming home to the university police department and overflow housing and Ellender reducing the number of student beds and making room for office space.

All of the projects are being funded through the Nicholls Facilities Corpora-tion from the sale of bonds, with the exception of Beauregard Hall renovations and the electrical upgrade, which will be state-funded.

New street and traffic signs, hang-ing from black ornamental posts, already bear the “N” logo and Nicholls colors. The new logo is also showing up on trash receptacles, soap dispensers, floor mats and bright banners that hang from poles on campus and along Canal Boulevard in Thibodaux.

More than just practicality (the soap dispensers require less cleanup and the trash bins can remain outdoors during hurricanes), it’s a matter of school pride, says Mike Davis, assistant vice president for administration. “We want Nicholls to look like the first-rate institution it is.”

Vernon F. Galliano Hall Interior Rendering

The three new residence halls will face grassy courtyards.

NotYourFather’s(orMother’s)NichollsFrom the President

As I enter my fifth year as president of Nicholls State University, I share a deep sense of satisfaction with our faculty, staff and stu-dents in the enormous transformation that is currently taking place within this institution. Nicholls is changing, and its changes are posi-tive, profound and meaningful.

Next September, Nicholls will celebrate its 60th anniversary. For almost six decades, the institution admitted all high school gradu-ates who wanted to try their hand at college work. We called that “open admissions,” a policy that was consistent with our mission to serve the higher education needs of the citi-zens of the Bayou Region, regardless of their high school preparation. Nicholls embraced that mission and experienced tremendous suc-cess in education.

But times have changed. The Bayou Region has matured, and a viable community college system has begun to function in the

region. This has enabled us to refine our mission, and we are now a “selective admissions” institution, enrolling the best-prepared students in our history. As a result, we are already experiencing better results in retaining our students, which will lead to higher graduation rates. This is good for everyone involved, but it is especially good for those who are investing in higher education: the parents who pay tuition, the taxpayers who demand accountability and the students who earn the degrees.

Selective admissions is a powerful driving force of change, but the real agents of change are our people: a genuinely dedicated faculty, a competent and hardworking staff and a better-prepared student body who will not tolerate mediocrity. We are proud that Nicholls has always been about people. But there is more!

There is also infrastructure, which is about supporting people and their work. Here at Nicholls there is a remarkable transformation taking place on our campus. This transformation, which includes new and renovated buildings, newly resurfaced streets and parking lots and new technology, will better support and enhance the learning, recreation, athletic and living facilities for our students. Some of these projects were featured in the last two issues of Voilà! Others are covered in this year’s edition. Read and enjoy. Best of all, come to the Nicholls campus to see for yourself. You will be delighted by what you see, and all of us at Nicholls will be delighted to have you.

Sincerely,

Stephen T. Hulbert

Student Recreation Center Rendering


To the PointSealofApproval

Nicholls and several of its programs got favorable nods from accrediting bod-ies this year, led by the university’s overall reaffirmation of regional accreditation through 2016.

The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools confirmed that the university measures up to educational standards. Nicholls performed so well during the process that the accrediting body made no recommendations for improvement after finding Nicholls standards especially impressive.

The team that visited the campus applauded the university for its out-standing written and online documents and the enthusiastic participation of so many faculty, staff and students in the interview process. It also praised the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan that details how all facets of the univer-sity will focus on increasing the critical thinking and writing skills of Nicholls students.

University-wide accreditation is re-quired for all federally sponsored educa-tion programs, including student loans.

ProgramsMaketheGradeOf the more than 9,000 business

schools in the world, only 549 have business accreditation and 167 have ac-counting accreditation. Nicholls scores on both counts now that the accounting program has its first-time accreditation, announced in the spring, by AACSB In-ternational - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Accreditations were reaffirmed over the past year for the Department of Fam-ily and Consumer Sciences, the cardio-pulmonary care science and advanced respiratory therapy programs in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and the University Counseling Center.

Police101It’s a worst-case scenario: two unidentified men armed with handguns are loose in

Millet residence hall, and shots have been fired. This is the stuff of nightmares for par-ents, students, employees and law enforcement agencies.

It’s also only a drill.Teamwork and communication were the lessons of the day in June at rapid response

drills that brought together law enforcement agencies likely to be first on the scene in a crisis.

Armed with radios and red and blue plastic guns, university police and other local law enforcement officers worked as a team to interview witnesses and brief colleagues before storming into Millet and Long halls in pursuit of “suspects.”

The ability to make informed decisions and work with unfamiliar agencies in the midst of gunshots, panicky students and employees, smoky hallways, blaring alarms and squawking police radios are skills you have to learn and practice, says Lt. Duane Schexnayder, the Louisiana State Police SWAT supervisor and coordinator of the event.

While they may have the occasional cup of coffee or lunch together, university po-lice and Thibodaux police officers normally don’t have the opportunity to train together and get to know one another, Schexnayder says.

“It’s the coordination that makes this important, having the terminology and the ability to communicate effectively with each other,” says Nicholls police Chief Craig Jaccuzzo.

The training was the first step in a four-part plan to keep Louisiana campuses safe and prepared for emergencies. The remaining steps include emergency communication training for campus leaders, a campus physical security assessment and additional fund-ing for the initiatives.

Lt. Michelle Harris of the Nicholls police department scans the hallways of Millet residence hall for armed suspects during a drill on campus emergencies

with the local law enforcement agencies.

Visit http://omv.dps.state.la.us/ to get your Nicholls license plate. The Nicholls General Scholarship Fund receives $25 of the $26 fee above the regular vehicle registration.

RideWithColonelPride!

To the Point

TheBottomLineSome predicted doom for Nicholls when hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck, when the

university implemented selective admission standards, when a community college opened in Houma and when perennial budget struggles continued. But what really happened is a shining example of what a dedicated faculty, staff and administration can accomplish:

Considerthat…• Fall 2006 enrollment was 6,814, down only 1 percent after the 2005 hurricanes deci-

mated the region.

• The average ACT score for first-time freshmen was up to 20.92 in 2006, from 19.33 in 2002. Nicholls posted the largest one-year ACT in-crease in the University of Louisiana System in 2006.

• The average ACT score for first-time African-American freshmen in Fall 2006 was 18.32, up from 16.24 in 2002.

• The 2006 class of first-time freshmen included 48 high school valedictorians, and more than 50 percent of entering freshmen earned TOPS scholarships.

• Overall minority enrollment grew to 26 per-cent in 2006, up from 14 percent in 1992.

• African-American enrollment alone grew to 19 percent in 2006, up from 11 percent in 1992.

• Between Fall 2004 and Fall 2006, the number of students accepting academic scholarships in-creased by 33 percent increase.

• The number of African-American scholarship students grew from 23 in 2004 to 63 in Fall 2006, an increase of 174 percent.

• Since 2003 when Dr. Stephen Hulbert became university president, he has funneled more than $2 million into student scholarships.

• In Spring 2007, exactly 81.68 percent of first-time freshmen continued their studies at Nicholls after their first semester.

• The largest retention increase at Nicholls was the Spring 2007 return rate for African-American freshmen, 86.5 percent. In Fall 2001, slightly more than half of all first-time freshmen returned, and the rate was less than half for African-American freshmen.

• High school seniors in 2006 who wanted to get an early start earning up to six hours of college credit were eligible for half-price or even free tuition to attend Nicholls while in high school.

• All faculty now use Blackboard, an electronic system that allows them to engage in online discussions with students and post tests and study materials. This also enables classes to “meet” electronically in the event of a campus or regional emergency.


Chefs du Jour

Success has indeed been sweet for six graduates

of the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute.

Although they chose the same major, they

traveled different paths to reach their own

version of culinary dreams. You can find four

of them at some of Louisiana’s top restaurants

and two at a major food manufacturer.

TunaTartarwithWasabi-SoyVinaigrette&BlackSesameCrackersServes: �

8 oz. tuna, sashimi grade, small dice8 oz. seaweed salad3 oz. wasabi-soy vinaigrette 6 black sesame crackers1 tsp. black sesame seeds3 in. PVC pipe mold3 wonton wrappers

Wasabi-Soy Vinaigrette ½ shallot, minced1 garlic clove1 tsp. Dijon mustard1 tbsp. lemon juice1 tbsp. lime juice¼ c. soy sauce¼ c. wasabi paste1 tbsp. rice wine vinegar½ c. vegetable oil

Mix all ingredients except oil in blender. Turn blender on low and add oil in a thin, steady stream. Set aside.

ChefHollyGoetting(A.S.,2000)Executive Chef at Charley G’s in Lafayette

WhatIdo: I work with a kitchen staff of 12 at various food

stations and prepare the daily catch during the week and

expedite (bridge between wait staff and kitchen staff to ensure

orders are filled and delivered) on the weekend. About 80 to

90 percent of the recipes used at Charley G’s are my creation.

HowIgothere: I started college at the University of

Louisiana at Lafayette studying interior design and worked

after class at restaurants like T.G.I. Friday’s. When I realized

I enjoyed work more than school, I made the switch to

culinary arts at Nicholls where I felt that I really fitted in.

After graduation and a brief stay in Colorado, I went to work

at my first choice, Charley G’s (the classiest restaurant in

Lafayette), and worked my way up from pastry chef. I love

the team effort at Charley G’s and having the freedom to be

myself and get my creative juices flowing.

Honors: The first woman executive chef in Lafayette,

Goetting was named a 2005 Chef to Watch by Louisiana

Cookin’ magazine.

For black sesame crackers:Cut three wonton wrappers diagonally. Fry in oil until golden and crispy. Sprinkle sesame seeds on crackers immediately after removed from the oil.

Assembly:Place PVC pipe in center of plate. Put seaweed salad inside and press down firmly. In a small bowl toss tuna in vinaigrette and place on top of seaweed salad. Press down firmly again and pull mold off. Drizzle wasabi-soy vinaigrette around tuna tartar mixture, sprinkle with sesame seeds and top mixture with 3 crackers.


ChefKevinBordelon(B.S.,2006)andChefTonyZeringue(B.S.,2006)Corporate Chefs in Research and Development at Bruce Foods in New Iberia

Whattheydo: They formulate new products to bring to market

and develop recipes, especially those using Bruce Foods product

lines. They also travel the country competing in cook-offs and

presenting at food shows and conventions.

Howtheygothere:Kevin: I used to work as a purchasing agent for the Department

of Defense, which was really stressful. As a stress reliever, I used to

come home on the weekends and cook and entertain. It took me

about a year to figure out that’s what I should be doing full time.

I was working in Germany and the Czech Republic when I heard

about the opening at Bruce Foods from another culinary student

whose father worked there. I asked them to keep me in mind.

Tony: Cooking is in your blood if you grew up in south

Louisiana. I remember watching my grandparents and parents

cooking and just waiting for the day when I was old enough

to reach the stovetop to cook. I started working in research

and development as an intern at Popeye’s corporate headquar-

ters in Atlanta and discovered I loved doing it. When Bruce

Foods contacted the culinary institute looking for a research

and development chef, I did everything in my power to be

chosen.

Whytheydoit:Kevin: I’ve always been interested in the food science part

of cooking. I love learning how ingredients react with each

other. I get to spend a lot of time working with our marketing

department, reading consumer data and surveys and discov-

ering what consumers need and want. I also look at ways to

improve a product that’s already on the market and make it

unique to us, creating our own market niche.

Tony: The best part of my job is being able to develop new

products and recipes and then actually see them come to life

– published in magazines or online or on the menu at a res-

taurant. I love walking into a supermarket and seeing a prod-

uct on the shelf and being able to say, “This is my product, I

helped to formulate it.” There is no better feeling in the world.

Bruce’sSweetPotatoBreadPrep Time: 20 minutesCook Time: 1 hourYield: 3 loafs (2-lb. tins) or 6 loafs (1-lb. tins)

1 (29 oz.) can cut yams (drained and mashed)3½ c. white flour3 c. brown sugar2 tsp. baking soda1½ tsp. sea salt3 tsp. cinnamon1 c. vegetable oil4 eggs2/3 c. waterVegetable spray, as needed

Mix flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, eggs, oil and water in large mixing bowl with paddle. Add the yams and mix to incorporate evenly. Pour mixture into loaf pans sprayed with vegetable spray, filling half way, and bake at 350° F for 1 to 1½ hours or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean. Allow bread to cool and then store in

plastic wrap.

ChefIanBarrilleaux(A.S.,2004)Pantry Chef at Brigtsen’s Restaurant in New Orleans

WhatIdo:I prepare sauces, sides, soups and specials, man the grill station and manage all the customer orders. It’s a small restaurant, so we all chip in on tasks.

HowIgothere: Growing up in New Orleans, I recall eating at my dad’s favorite restaurant – Brigtsen’s. It’s a small family operation, just the kind I’d like to own one day. My mother was my first cooking inspiration, and my dad has a real passion for food, too. As a teen, I had jobs waiting and bussing tables in local restaurants. I graduated from the University of New Orleans with a history degree, but then realized I missed the kitchen.

WhyIdoit: After graduating from Nicholls, I moved to Chicago and began working in hotel/restaurant tourism at a large private club. Even though I was supposed to be work-ing in the front of the house, I was always drawn to the back of the house. That’s where I had more fun.

SunshineDaydreamRoastedRootVegetables1 c. golden beets, peeled, medium dice1 c. sweet potatoes peeled, medium dice1 c. roasted corn (2-3 ears) ½ c. red onion, finely diced2 tsp. fresh thyme1 tbsp. fresh oreganoOlive oil for roastingApple cider vinegarWhite and black pepperSaltTruffle oil

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Heat a skillet to medium with a small amount of olive oil. Add sweet potatoes and sauté until slightly colored. Season to taste with white and black pepper. Transfer sweet potatoes to a sheet pan and place in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring at least once. On another sheet pan, season the beets with white and black pepper and a bit of olive oil to coat. Cook 30 to 35 minutes in oven, stirring at least once.

To roast corn, heat a black iron skillet. Season corncobs with salt and black and white peppers and toss with a bit of olive oil. Place cobs into skillet and continue to roll and look for caramelization. Don’t worry if some kernels blacken; this is good flavoring. Cut the corn off the cob.

In a large bowl, combine roasted corn, golden beets, sweet potatoes and red onion with the oregano and thyme. Add apple cider vinegar to adjust seasoning. Add truffle oil to taste (a little goes a long way). Season to taste and serve immediately.

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ChefSarahTodd(B.S.,2006)Pastry Chef at Houmas House in Darrow

WhatIdo:I create all the desserts (about seven

types per week) for Latil’s Landing Restaurant, Café

Burnside, and for catered events like weddings.

HowIgothere: I learned how to cook from my

mom. In high school, I’d cook for all my friends,

and they all told me I should be a chef because they

loved my dishes. I was born in New Orleans, but

grew up in Connecticut and came back here to go to

culinary school and work.

WhyIdoit: Houmas House gives me the freedom

to experiment and try new desserts.

PearWellington4 pears2 sheets of pastry dough½ c. butter½ lb. brown sugar2 tsp. nutmeg2 tsp. cinnamon½ c. heavy whipping cream1 jar caramel sauce2 c. water¼ c. lemon juice3 c. flour1 ice bath (water and ice)

Cut one of the pears into cubes. Use an apple corer

to remove the core of the remaining pears. Bring

water and lemon juice to a boil. Cut pears in half,

add to water and boil for 5 minutes. Place the halved

pears in an ice bath. In a skillet, melt the butter over

medium heat. Add brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg

and cubed pears to the butter. Stir for 2 minutes.

Add the heavy whipping cream and stir. Place

mixture into a bowl and add the flour. Stuff the

mixture into the halved pears. Cut one of the pastry

sheets into 6 squares. Wrap the stuffed pears with the

pastry dough. Cut the other sheet of pastry dough

into 6 strips, then wrap the strips around each pear.

Bake on a greased baking pan in the oven for 5 to 10

minutes or until golden brown.

ChefJonathanLanius(B.S.,2007)Kitchen Manager at Mr. B’s Bistro in New Orleans

WhatIdo:I work the “middle of the house,”

expediting orders and supervising cleaning, linens

and more.

HowIgothere: My culinary career began as

a dishwasher at the hospital where my mother

worked. I intended to be an engineer, but decided

culinary school was more suitable.

WhyIdoit: I love meeting the customers in the

front of the house. If I open my wallet, it’s full of

business cards from people I meet. The good thing

about the culinary institute is that it exposes you to

every aspect of culinary – working the front of the

house, being sommelier and working as executive

steward, in addition to cooking.

ShellfishPasta½ lb. shellfish, preferably crab meatCreole seasoning, preferably blackening seasoning to tasteButter2 c. heavy whipping creamCrab boilPasta (penne is best)Parmesan, freshly gratedChopped parsley

Sauté crab meat in Creole seasoning, to with a little

butter. Add whipping cream and reduce to a very

thick au sec (almost dry) consistency. Add about a

teaspoon (or more if you are daring) of crab boil and

about a teaspoon more of the Creole seasoning, be-

ing very careful not to apply heat to the sauce again

from this point to avoid breaking it (the fat separates

from the other sauce ingredients). Swirl in about 3

to 4 tablespoons of whole butter to make a beurre

blanc sauce (a white butter sauce that is delicate,

smooth and richly textured). Pour over the pasta of

your choice (it looks best over penne) and garnish

with freshly grated parmesan and chopped parsley.

Serve with a semi-sweet white or rosé wine.

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Inthelingoofhigher

education,“service

learning”ranksright

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or“programoutcome

measurements”on

thelistofbuzzwords

thatleavetherestof

usconfounded.Buta

lookbeyondtheusual

clichésappliedtoservice

learningrevealsatrend

worthunderstandingand

keeping.

TheClassroomofLifeNicholls students and other volunteers, armed with hammers, paint brushes, tape measures and saws, worked on half a dozen homes under construction for people displaced by the hurricanes of 2005.

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ByLydiaSzanyiBoudreauxBlack and white. Male and female. Northern and Southern.

Inexperienced and professional.Learning together … sweating together… working side by

side.They’re united.Amid the banging of dozens of hammers and loud discus-

sions of sheetrock and wall measurements and the droning of electric saws and the sweltering heat and humidity that can only come with a bright April afternoon in south Louisiana, you realize this is more than students coming together to perform charity work. It’s more than any tired cliché about giving back to the community. This is real. This is what it looks like when people drop their prejudices, their petty squabbles and their self-consciousness. Almost without their knowing it, they’ve become one, united in building not just homes but that most precious life blood – hope.

This is the scene during Spring Break at Angel Place subdivision in Gray. Nearly 100 students and employees from Nicholls and other Louisiana colleges and universities are here to build homes for Habitat for Humanity. This is their one break from the frantic pace of classes and work, and they’ve chosen to spend it building homes for people they’ve never met, with people they’ll never forget.

Ryan Donegan stands back and studies the nearly finished wall of vinyl siding.

“This is the best wall out here.” At 19, he’s never built anything before, cer-

tainly not an entire home. And he’s right – it is a pretty nice wall.

“You can always party,” he says. “It’s not every-day you get to help people. And it’s pretty fun.”

Donegan, a business administration sophomore at Nicholls, is with two of his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers today, hanging siding on a house that will soon become a home to someone who lost theirs to hurricanes Katrina or Rita. Earlier this week, he installed floor joists and hurricane braces. Today, they wasted little time gulping down hamburgers so they could return from lunch early and get a jump on finishing their wall.

X-treme Spring Break is in its second year. It began in 2006, created by the University of Louisiana System as a way to get students involved in rebuilding Louisiana. This year, Nicholls hosted students from Grambling State University, Baton Rouge Community College, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Southeastern Louisiana University.

“We still have such a strong need for rebuilding,” says Olinda Ricard of Killeen, Texas, president of the Nicholls Student Gov-ernment Association and author of the nearly $15,000 service-learning grant that helped her organize and plan this year’s event.

X-treme Spring Break is just one of the ways the university is incorporating service learning into the curricula. At the heart of it is the belief that learning doesn’t take place just in the classroom. The outcome, hopefully, is graduates who consider service to their community a part of being responsible citizens.

It also brings a sense of accomplishment and even awe to some students.

“I got to build a house today,” Michelle Harper announces, seeming almost giddy at this feat. “I’d never swung a hammer in my life. But I hurricane-proofed a deck today.”

Harper, an education senior from UL Lafayette, says she wanted to do something to impact herself and others. “It’s the families … you inspire me,” she says.

Marquita Christy, a Nicholls nursing sophomore from Donaldsonville, calls herself a “girly girl.” “I’ve never really built anything. I thought I’d be painting inside the house. But I was framing walls, nailing and installing struts and hurricane bolts on the foundation. I’ve got blisters and dirty nails, sore feet, bruised thumbs … I think I’m having more fun than we’re supposed to.”

LearningOutsidetheClassroomService learning isn’t a one-way road – sure, the students perform a service to the

community, but they’re also putting their classroom lessons to work.In Trisha Zeringue Dubina’s graphic design class, senior art students get the

chance to take on real clients and prove their skills prior to graduation. Each student is assigned a non-profit client from the community. Students then

create an entire campaign of artwork to promote their client’s business or events. “We have clients lined up for years waiting to be assigned a student,” Dubina

says. “They’re grateful to get professional-caliber work, which they could never afford as non-profits.”

In exchange, the students get to design logos, newspaper advertisements, bill-boards, signs and more for real clients. They can begin their design careers with professional work in their portfolios and experience what it’s like to hear that a client doesn’t like their design or, better yet, that it’s exactly what they wanted.

Or they can realize this isn’t the career for them.“This is a dose of reality,” Dubina says. “You have to be able to take criticism and

work with all kinds of clients, even the difficult ones and the ones who don’t know what they want. Their satisfaction determines your success.”

The point isn’t to undercut the professionals in the field, and it isn’t just about volunteering, she says. It’s really all about learning.

“This benefits the students and the organizations. My students now have a better sense of community and understand that they need to give back.”

A wall of vinyl siding takes shape as Kal Savoie and his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers Ryan Donegan and David Vicknair measure, trim and hang their way through their first building project.

Yuri Johnson, a Nicholls alumna and an employee in La Maison du Bayou housing, frames the interior walls of a Habitat for Humanity house in Gray.

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University archivist Clifton Theriot unlocks a door, slips on white cotton gloves, slides open one of 15 wide, shallow drawers and gently takes out a colorful 1744 map of the French Quarter. “It’s in German,” he says. A moment later he holds up an original 1580 map of North and South America, commenting, “It’s inaccurate, but close.”

In other drawers are such treasures as 48 Shakespearean lithographs dating back to 1803. And there are almost 150 hand-colored John James Audubon lithographic plates depicting animals, all published between 1845 and 1848. Both collections were given to Nicholls in 1965 by Lee and Margaret Shaffer of Terrebonne Parish.

To Theriot’s left and right are dozens of rare books, one printed in 1609, anoth-er in 1651. There’s a book of poetry by the mother of Francis T. Nicholls. Nearby are books signed by Lafcadio Hearn, Frances Parkinson Keyes and Huey Long.

Ellender Memorial Library Archives and Special Collections documents almost everything related to the culture and history of the area between Franklin, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the Gulf of Mexico. Some books and materials concern local plantations, the entire state, the United States and even Europe. Most collections have been carefully processed – organized, indexed and cataloged. For genealo-gists there are about 100 printed volumes that list the births, mar-riages and deaths that occurred through the years in each Catho-lic church parish in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge dioceses. Tales of plantations, natural disasters and senators all sit waiting in vertical files and on 5,500 linear feet of compact shelving – some of it buried in letters, caught in photographs or documented in centuries-old newspa-

pers or in the private papers of prominent citizens like Sen. Allen J. Ellender.

The collection of the late Bayou La-fourche historian William Littlejohn Mar-tin contains thousands of historic photos, with all people and places painstakingly identified.

Lost in timeTime-Life Books, film companies

and the History Channel have called upon Nicholls archives in the past. Upon receiving an inquiry, Theriot says, “I never

tell anyone no, but sometimes it may take a month or so for us to find an answer or the needed material.”

A certified archivist, Theriot holds degrees in history and information science.

He says the Nicholls archival collection is so vast that someone could spend years exploring it and still not see everything.

Archives uses a modest annual budget to acquire just-published Louisiana books and other items, but donated materials are the backbone, says Carol Mathias, Ellender Memorial Library director and its archivist from 1991 to 2002. “Just about everything has been given by people who understand the value of documenting the area and keeping its history alive,” she emphasizes. “Many people don’t under-

stand what a gold mine of historical information Nicholls archives is.”

Giving the gift of time

Mathias and Theriot welcome archival dona-tions and the help of capable volunteers. Dr. Philip Uzee, after his 1984 retirement as Nich-olls archivist, translated hundreds of documents written in French. Mar-jorie Landry of Cut Off and Goldie Legendre of Thibodaux have spent two days a week for more than a decade process-ing and computerizing

Lafourche courthouse records from the late 1700s to the 1940s.

“It’s been 12 years for Marge, 11 for me,” Legendre says. First they had to unbundle and dust off documents found

My dearest little wife I am now on the battle field. It is early and the battle has not begun. Allof us are well. I have just passed two days hard fighting without being hurt . . . We had some seven killed and a number hurt. A young Bergeron in my company was killed . . . Oh darling I fear so much that you will give up. I pray little wife to be spared for your sake . . . Oh darling please be courageous . . . . Your loving husband Bobbie

No. 301 in Martin-Pugh Collection:Vicksburg, December 29, 1862

Thibodaux Fireman’s Fair, 1915

Library archives preserve Audubon, Shakespearean and JFK treasures and document the Bayou Region’s colorful past.

A Goldmine of History


in the attic of the old Lafourche jail. Most were in French and English, some in Span-ish. The collection includes an 1855 report on conditions in the Lafourche jail (“filthy and nauseating”), an 1855 dental bill and cattle-brand certificates.

But most of those records are writs, deeds and lawsuits, to say nothing of birth, death and marriage certificates. Some are original documents, some copies. “Can you imagine copying documents by hand way back then,” Legendre says in astonish-ment.

“Marge did the database for all 25,000 records,” she says. As a result, refer-ences to plantations, people, businesses and similar topics can be easily found.

Plantations start with Abby and end with Waverly.

“I love it,” Legendre says of her volun-teer work. “You find out so many interest-ing things.” She considers slave records particularly interesting, “especially those in the 1700s that list slaves coming from Africa by way of Haiti.”

Speaking of her work on old La-fourche records, Landry says, “That was fun because most of my people are from Lafourche – Guillots, Thibodauxs and what-have-you. I was so interested that sometimes I would come in for an extra day.” While organizing a collection of sheet music dating as far back as 1868, she tells of having found bullets among the

criminal records and information about a nose being bitten off in one case, an ear in another.

Seeing, touching historyTheriot can tell of dozens of fascinat-

ing items in the collection. He can pro-duce documents signed by Henry Schuyler Thibodaux, Francis T. Nicholls and James Bowie. He can display 1796 slave-sale information on the back of a 1787 baptis-mal certificate. He can pull out hundreds of printed public death notices, which genealogists often find invaluable. He can scan and e-mail documents or burn them onto compact discs when requests come from far away.

Theriot delights in introducing fresh-men to the archives when their classes tour the library. He lets them see and hold letters signed by Presidents Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Johnson. They even see and hold Ellender’s invitation to John F. Kennedy’s presidential inauguration.

From the Martin-Pugh papers, which extend from the 1830s to the 1920s, The-riot is able to show letters from four sons telling of their Civil War battlefield experi-ences. There are also letters from their rela-tives on the bayou describing home-front conditions. Many envelopes have five-cent “Confederate States” stamps. Because the letters have been transcribed, no researcher need wear gloves or be slowed by quaint penmanship.

Theriot enjoys showing visitors Civil War letters penned in the normal fashion and then turned 180 degrees for additional writing across the previously written lines, all because of the paper shortage. He even has letters on which the penmanship cross-es horizontally, vertically and diagonally.

Holding up a newspaper printed on the back of green wallpaper, Theriot says, “Students love this.” It is La Sentinelle de Thibodaux issued in French on Feb. 7, 1863. Students are unlikely to forget the Civil War paper shortage.

Theriot also shows students The Ban-ner of the Ironsides, a newspaper printed in Thibodaux by Union forces on April 14, 1863. “We have two issues, the only two in Louisiana,” he says, “although there are one or two somewhere up North.” Stu-dents are surprised to see the first Nicholls catalog and its listing of the 1948 registra-tion fee of only $17.50.

When people give items to the

archives, they are asked to sign a formal agreement before Nicholls accepts what has historical value and declines inappro-priate items, such as museum objects. In rare instances, exceptions will be made, as in the case of Evangeline Baseball League items like uniforms and mitts that accom-panied league photographs and records dating from 1934 to 1957. Archives also has a Civil War canon ball.

An ever-growing collectionGrowth has created an “Archives II,” a

huge room on the other side of the build-ing housing mostly unprocessed items. An assistant archivist was added to the staff during the summer, primarily to process collections according to professional standards. The papers of former President Donald Ayo await processing.

“Archives II” also contains the J.A. and J.C. Lovell collection of historic field

notes, maps, abstracts and aerial photo-graphs, a boon to professional surveyors interested primarily in Lafourche and Terrebonne tracts. The collection, bought by Louisiana Land & Exploration in 1962 and given to Nicholls in 1995, is stored in enormous but shallow pull-out trays.

Some Nicholls collections have been duplicated and shared with area librar-ies, such as the genealogical papers of Olga Laurent, a schoolteacher from the river parishes, who gathered information about many families along the River Road.

Mathias also cites the popular collection of Doris Mae Ledet of Thibodaux, “a premier genealogist in this area, who allowed us to make copies of much of her material.”

Nicholls archives began in 1964 when the library moved from a few rooms in El-kins Hall to Polk Hall. It expanded when the Ellender building opened in 1980. In addition to processing and maintaining the collection, the staff stays busy respond-ing to requests, such as those of people who planned the 2007 observance of Lafourche Parish’s bicentennial.

Quirky Archives FindsFrom an 1881 Lafourche Parish case involving stolen peas: the charge sheet, the affidavit, the warrant, the subpoena, the guilty judgment – and 22 peas in an evidence envelope.

Original 1801 Engraving of Shakespeare’s “King Richard II”

Goldie Legendre (left) and Marjorie Landry (right) have worked as volunteers in the library archives two days a week for more than a decade.


Forgotten People of a Forgotten TimeAge-old Louisiana traditions are as much in peril as the land in which they’re embedded. Little by little, Nicholls is trying to keep the Louisiana of legend alive.

By Stephanie DetillierAging memories were all

that remained. Soon, no one would remember the baptisms in Grand Bayou. No longer would children hear their parents talk about being denied an education everywhere but at their churches. None would have to teach Sun-day School at the age of 12 like Bertha Shanklin.

“Those days are gone,” Shanklin says, with a shake of her head. “We just need to take this moment and go on.”

Shanklin stands strong, but a mixture of joy and pain carries in her voice. She marvels at what is left of St. Luke’s Baptist Church. Once a stronghold for her family – who attended school, preached, sang hymns and found inspiration there – the decaying structure now stands as a fragile reminder of what used to be.

Younger generations are more worried about the future than the eroding past. Shanklin knows this. She was the same. Upon high school graduation, she packed her bags for Southern University in Baton Rouge. She rarely made visits back home, even in the summer. As the daughter of the church’s last preacher, Shanklin had been anxious to break away from a life of studying, attending church services and not much else … nothing else if she skipped church.

Perhaps that’s why the phone call surprised her. It wasn’t the first time Shanklin had been contacted by someone inter-ested in the church’s history. But these were students, moti-vated young people. And they were interested in more than just research.

Gathering historyDr. James Butler, associate professor of sociology, fre-

quently discusses abandoned black churches in his lectures. St. Luke’s particularly intrigued him. Its image was everywhere. Photographs and paintings of the church hang in a Thibodaux coffee shop, a bank near the church property and who knows where else. Production crews have scouted the site for upcom-ing movies. St. Luke’s has fame – as “an abandoned church in Chackbay.” Most artists know no better description.

Thus, the church became the focus of Butler’s Selected Topics in American Society course during the Spring 2007 se-mester. Four students were assigned to document the historical significance of St. Luke’s and its congregation’s genealogy.

Sociology students at Nicholls spent a semester studying St. Luke’s Baptist Church in Chackbay. They set aside a day to trim back the overgrown vegetation on the grounds and make tomb etchings in the cemetery.


Shalonda Johnson, graduating sociology senior from Franklin, began contacting authors of past newspaper articles about St. Luke’s, with little luck. Diaquire Johnson, sociology senior from Bayou Dularge, set out to the Lafourche Parish Clerk of Court’s office to collect the church’s property records. Immediately, she also faced a challenge. No records could be found for a St. Luke’s Baptist Church on La. 20 in Chack-bay. Through hours of Internet searching and perhaps a little luck, the students discovered the church’s dual name of St. Luke’s/Little Zion. That was news even to past members of its congregation.

Johnson retrieved documents, under the name Little Zion, dating back to 1802 at the initial subdivision of the church’s property, which she believes was part of Cleona Plantation. It’s hard to be sure, though, since all transactions were made in the name of private individuals. The church property still belongs to remaining members of the congregation. St. Luke’s was probably built soon after the deed was signed in 1883. Probably. Some mysteries still remain after a semester of searching, documenting and speculating.

Gaining momentumTina Granger, sociol-

ogy junior from Houma, was connected to Shanklin through the Lafourche Historical Society. The two quickly began a ritual. Once a week, Granger and Shanklin met at Galliano Hall cafeteria to eat lunch and travel back in time. Shanklin brought family photos, genealogy charts and her memory. Granger brought an attentive ear.

Both began filling in the blanks in the genealogy of Shanklin’s father, the Rev. Andrew W. Robinson. A genealogi-cal chart Shanklin had from her great-grandfather Joseph Parks contributed tremendously. Records don’t make piecing history together easy, though. Names are often misspelled or change with time.

In fact, Shanklin’s documents originally referenced her great-grandfather as Joseph Parr (a.k.a. Parks), which she simply brushes off as a spelling error. However, Granger isn’t so sure. Her maternal aunt married a Parr from Houma. His gene-alogy references the upper Lafourche area and causes Granger to wonder if there is a connection … if her Caucasian family

may have African-American roots.“This is a treasure to me,” Granger says, grasping both ge-

nealogies in her hands. “With the knowledge that many slaves took the name of their masters, there may be a connection be-tween my family and Mrs. Shanklin’s. During Reconstruction, many African-Americans changed their names, some slightly, some drastically, to dissociate from those times.”

Granger and Shanklin plan to speak with other descen-dants at the Parks family reunion. Olinda Ricard, manage-ment senior from Killeen, Texas, has helped create a survey to gather more memories from those in attendance. St. Luke’s has become a personal mission for Granger. Regardless of whether

a family connection exists or not, she is immersed in the project. More can and must be done. If nothing else is done, what will protect the remains of the church?

Research alone won’t cut it. On a trip to the church property, Shanklin and Granger find sev-eral candles arranged in a circle in the center of the building’s floor, perhaps from a ritual. When they return weeks later, the evidence is gone.

Granger snaps her fingers. “The building could have gone up in flames just like that. There is nothing to stop trespassers. The front entrance is rotted through and through. Even I wouldn’t dare step into that building.”

Preserving the pastSt. Luke’s has been

abandoned since the 1970s. Robinson retired, and his son-in-law, the

Rev. Joe Woods, was asked to become pastor. However, Woods already had a church under his wing and asked St. Luke’s con-gregation to join him there. St. Luke’s entered what Granger refers to as its “winter years.”

Yet on this April day, it is alive. Vehicles begin to fill the property in an unorganized, rushed fashion. Car doors slam and the chatter of the crowd grows louder. All visitors gather around the church entrance, waiting for the service to begin. The scene wasn’t so different 50 years ago – except for the sounds of gospel songs, organ music and prayer shouts, now replaced by the drone of a weed-eater, clicks of cameras and the rustle of garbage bags.

More than 25 Nicholls sociology students split into groups

to begin the day’s work. Behind the church building lies the biggest challenge – a once serene graveyard now overtaken by wild woods. Beams of sunlight reveal the tops of cross-shaped grave markers hidden for decades behind ferns and tree branches. Butler, clad in camouflaged pants, begins chop-ping down small trees as students rake up the debris and drag branches away from the 12 tombstones. Tomb etchings will be archived. Two belong to Annie and Sarah Parks, Shanklin’s grandmother and great-grandmother. Another resembles a child’s grave, though Shanklin has no memory of a burial for someone so young.

Dameyel Welsch, history senior from Paradis, takes a break from cleaning the site: “You know, you don’t get an opportu-nity every day to reflect on the history of the area and your an-cestors. It makes me think about my church. The First Baptist Church of Paradis probably started as a small church similar to this one. Many back then didn’t want black churches and be-lieved that blacks didn’t have souls, but the slaves did what God told them to do. The legacy of the African-American slaves who first started these churches lives on through these churches.”

Welsch wonders what will happen to St. Luke’s after the day’s work is over. Granger already has plans for that. The research manuscript required of the sociology students will be only the beginning. Granger will continue to work with Shanklin to produce a book, which will be sold to benefit the property’s upkeep and conservation. A brochure on the site will be created and distributed at local tourist commission offices.

Video footage of the group’s work will be used in future sociol-ogy courses and in presentations at future research sympo-siums. A brick from the church’s foundation as well as a piece of siding will be archived. An application will also be presented to the Louisiana Historical Commission to declare St. Luke’s a historical landmark.

“This project may go several years until the book is com-plete, but I will continue working privately with Mrs. Shanklin to make sure the church is properly preserved,” Granger says.

Remembering the way things wereShanklin can see straight through the empty church. It’s

not how it used to be. There were doors, of course. The area now covered in rotten boards and twigs used to be an entrance hall. The church bell has been stolen from the steeple. The pews, which each held about five people, are also gone. She remembers the coat and hat racks that hung on the walls, the mahogany piano that sat on the right side of the building and the pulpit at the church’s front.

Intuitively, Shanklin always knew something would become of St. Luke’s. For years, she collected paperwork on the church from her relatives, even though she had not attended services there since her college days. The church often crept into her thoughts and became part of her prayers, especially during hurricane season. Shanklin, now a retired educator, couldn’t figure out why St. Luke’s didn’t fade from her memory. Now, she understands.

St. Luke’s Baptist Church in Chackbay

Tombstones mark the passing of some of the church’s congregation. Left without a pastor, the remaining members drifted to other churches in the 1970s. Thus began the church’s “winter years.”


Returning Life to the LegendsNew Balance sneakers tap to the slow, steady beat. An

elderly woman wearing sweatpants sways to the soulful sound. Men and women in business attire take a break from their work day. It’s a meeting of the generations – in what feels more like a country bar or blues club than the Nicholls Cotillion Ballroom.

Grammy Award nominee Tab Benoit fuses Swamp Pop, rock ’n’ roll and the blues to tell a tale of love, loss and Loui-siana. After his “cherie” leaves him, Benoit can’t help but feel drawn back to the ole faithful bayous of his home state. Of course, it’s just a song. But a significant one at the university’s 11th annual Cajun-Zydeco Music and Dance Exhibit, which this year celebrated Louisiana’s wetlands.

“To me, Louisiana is south of I-10,” Benoit says during a song break. “It’s where the culture, music, swamp and crawfish are found. Where the swamp meets the Gulf of Mexico is what makes us different.”

It’s at such events that Cajun culture can reach more than those who grew up speaking French and learning how to prepare

a roux from grandma. In an age of fast-paced, modern living, the only way to preserve the past is to incorporate it into the pres-ent, as Nicholls has done.

Building reminders of the pastTom Butler, a retired Nicholls librarian, had never built a

boat. As a recreational fisherman and hunter, he often wondered about the craftsmanship involved. Before his time, area residents depended on wooden boats for transportation. Today, knowing how to build a boat is no longer considered essential or even par-ticularly honorable. Little by little, Butler noticed the traditional wooden crafts being replaced by those of fiberglass and alumi-num. Little by little, interest in wooden boats diminished.

The same thing happened in the northern United States. Transportation methods advanced; however, centers in the North were erected to preserve the area’s nautical crafts. But the Gulf Coast was allowing its tradition to be forgotten – that is, until 1979, when Butler began talking to those who remembered.

Butler interviewed local boat builders, recorded video and oral histories and collected old photographs and drawings. Thus was born the Center for Traditional Louisiana Boat Building on the Nicholls campus. The center began receiving numerous donations of preserved skiffs and pirogues. Butler, aware of the empty space on Ellender Memorial Library’s first floor, displayed the history there. Soon, his collection spilled over into a barn behind the campus maintenance building and a shed at Laurel Valley Plantation.

Traditional boats the center couldn’t find were built by craftsmen using old-fashioned methods and hand tools. Carpenters, cabinet makers and those interested in a historical experience joined boat builders to recreate a New Orleans lugger sailboat, the pirogue’s predecessor. People from across the state traveled to campus to learn how to build boats of their own in non-credit courses.

“Boat building is definitely an art,” Butler says, showing off

a dugout pirogue built in 1945. “However, a lot of times it takes people from out of the area to recognize what a treasure and what a rich culture we have here.”

A museum dedicated to Louisiana boat building has long been Butler’s goal. He’s now close to achieving it. An agreement has been signed with the town of Lockport to relocate the boat collection to the old Ford building. However, renovations of the previously unoccupied building are expected to cost more than $200,000 – an obstacle that has delayed the relocation.

Butler drives to the back of campus to check on what he suspects is a 300-year-old, bald cypress Indian dugout canoe. Few visitors get to see the center’s gem, hidden behind the campus maintenance complex. Butler points out the scars where the Indians burned the wood too much when trying to shape the boat. Seashells were probably used to scrape out the bowed bottom. Much time and talent went into forming such a simple vessel. Much time and talent have gone into preserving this Louisiana art. Soon, both will be properly honored.

Picking up the Cajun cultureHis native bird carvings are authentic, crafted only after

much research and bird watching. Lane Brigham has displayed his Louisiana art for four years at the university’s annual Folklife Festival. And somehow, sitting amid Cajun woodcarv-ers, authors, jewelers, painters and musicians, he gives off no evidence of his west Texas ranch roots.

Brigham, associate professor of family and consumer sci-ences, got his first taste of Louisiana living in 1970 in Shreve-port, but soon his education and career took him to New York, Mississippi and Iowa. Brigham and his wife, Gail, continued to visit south Louisiana, mostly for fishing trips to Grand Isle, until she discovered a position vacancy at Nicholls.

The boat displays in the library reminded Brigham of the men he had often noticed crafting wooden shrimp boats along the banks of Bayou Lafourche. He enrolled in the boat-build-ing class and created his own lake skiff and pirogue. He bought boats from others and accumulated a neat collection.

In 1996, Brigham brought his third- and fifth-grade sons to the French Food Festival in Larose for carnival rides, fried food and Louisiana’s rockin’ fiddler Waylon Thibodeaux. Through good ol’ Southern hospitality, they met Jimmy Lynch, a duck-carving expert and teacher. The three began taking les-sons. Brigham finished his first project but was too busy with his boat building to continue. Brigham’s sons accumulated numerous carving tools but soon gave up the hobby for more interesting endeavors – girls and cars.

In 2001, Brigham introduced carving to some of his colleagues from Iowa, and his interest was again sparked. He began taking carving classes twice a week.

“When I got home from classes, I was so wired,” Brigham says. “I couldn’t get to sleep until midnight or 1 a.m. The people in the class reminded me of people I grew up with in west Texas. They even told the same jokes. But, I was tired all week and didn’t feel as rested and sharp as I wanted to be for my classes.”

Brigham began carving on his own, painting with acrylics instead of oils and feeling well-rested. He also switched from carving duck decoys to birds native to the area, particularly songbirds. His artwork recreates his childhood experiences of watching, and sometimes shooting, birds.

“Birds are so fleeting. You can never touch them,” he says.Brigham believes his sons will learn how to carve one

day, perhaps when they find the extra time and passion. They haven’t shown much interest since the days of the French Food Festival. But they guard their carving tools. After all, the pas-sion is in their blood.

Each spring, the Nicholls campus comes alive with the sound of fiddles, accordions and stomping feet during the Cajun-Zydeco Music and Dance Exhibit.

By Stephanie Detillier


By Dr. Anita TullyLook along any south Louisiana high-

way in the fall and you’ll likely see roadside stands (often in the form of battered pick-up trucks with bright blue tarps stretched to block the sun) boasting “Fresh Louisiana Satsumas” or “Sweet Louisiana Oranges” in hand-lettered signs. It’s as much a part of the landscape as swamps and hopeful New Orleans Saints fans.

But hurricanes Katrina and Rita altered that landscape forever. Almost over-night, Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes became the state’s leading citrus producers.

Plaquemines Parish, once the leader in Louisiana’s $6 million citrus indus-try, lost more than half its trees to wind, saltwater intrusion and other storm-related problems. That left a large gap in citrus production that Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes are trying to fill.

Enter George Toups and Don Du-fresne of the Nicholls agriculture program. The two have stepped in to offer their sup-port to growers.

Toups, associate professor and coor-dinator of the agriculture program, and Dufresne, instructor of plant science, have planted six varieties of citrus at the Nicholls farm as part of a research initiative to support local citrus producers. Their trees include a pineapple navel orange, three Hamlin sweet orange, two Washington navel orange, a Brown’s select satsuma, two Owari satsuma, a Meyer lemon and two ruby red grapefruit.

They’re trying to enhance early ripen-ing of fruit and establish optimum sugar-acid ratios for each citrus species by testing soil conditions and irrigation methods, monitoring rootstocks and nitrogen, potas-sium and phosphorus levels and trying different tree varieties.

Home growers also play an important role in the health of the industry. For them, Toups and Dufresne say two factors are most important: First, be sure to test soil around citrus to determine the presence or absence of essential nutrients such as zinc, calcium and magnesium at the root/soil

College of Arts and Sciences

Fruits of LaborAg faculty lend a hand to citrus growers.

interface, and, second, obtain laboratory analyses of leaves to assure that minerals are reaching all parts of the plant. Soil and leaf tests can be arranged by county agents for a minimal charge.

To start or expand a home citrus gar-den, a local chapter of Future Farmers of America can be contacted to purchase trees that grow well in your area.

Citrus Tips• Look for firm, heavy fruit with smooth

skins free from soft spots.• Don’t let color be your only guide.

Even skins with light green color can hide ripe fruit.

• Citrus will keep several days at room temperature or for several weeks in the refrigerator in vented plastic bags or vegetable bins.

• Small fruit can be just as juicy and sweet as large fruit.

• Navel oranges make excellent juice, but acids make the juice bitter within four hours. Drink it fresh.

• Lemon juice frozen in ice cube trays and stored in plastic bags will provide “fresh” lemon juice for many months.

Source: Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service

Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes emerged after hurricanes Katrina and Rita as top Louisi-ana producers of citrus. Don Dufresne (pictured) and George Toups of the Nicholls agricul-ture program are conducting a series of tests on citrus trees at the university farm to enhance early ripening of fruit and establish optimum sugar-acid ratios.

Kelsi Guidry has dot-com dreams. The Cut Off native owns TeenWants

Inc., three web sites and has corporate investors and a board of directors. Not bad for a 21-year-old college student.

Now he’s the first tenant in the Entré Lab, the new business incubator in the Col-lege of Business Administration.

Guidry’s career as an entrepreneur be-gan at 17 when his frustration with existing teen web sites drove him to create his own. “I was searching for, but not finding, a web site for teens,” he says. “They either weren’t teen-oriented or they were too childish, so I decided to build my own site where teens can get everything they want in one place.”

Fired with determination, he started

building teenwants.com. Four years later, now a Nicholls senior studying athletic training, Guidry also owns collegewants.com, a site where college students can chat or buy and sell items such as textbooks, and pokerwants.com, a site all about the game of poker. In March 2007, he started his company, TeenWants Inc., and already has investors providing capital.

He moved his business from his Thibodaux apartment to the Entré Lab in May and immediately began holding busi-ness meetings with investors and making use of the lab’s seven laptop computers, projector, fax machine, copier, printer and filing space.

“I was operating from my apartment

with just one computer and a printer,” he says. “I didn’t have access to the kind of equipment I have in the lab.”

Guidry calls his teenwants.com a “Yahoo for teens,” with topics like enter-tainment, school, shopping, sports, health, work, music and movies.

“It’s like a combo of MySpace and Facebook, mixed with Yahoo and MSN – but all for teens,” he says.

His dreams are anything but small: He wants teenwants.com to be the top web site in the world. “I’ve seen a lot of good web sites taking off and selling for millions and billions. I want to grow as big as we can. The Internet is huge, but it’s not yet as big as it can be.”

College of Business Administration

‘I Launched My Own Corporation’ (AKA ‘What I Did Last Semester’)


College of Education

Beyond Finger PaintingLearning the Realities of Teaching

Jane is a new second-grade teacher. One afternoon in October, she is confronted by the upset parents of Charlie Johnson, one of her students. Charlie, they say, told them how Jane unfairly made him sit in the time-out chair because he was talking. How could Jane do such a thing, they ask? Didn’t she ask Charlie’s reason for talking before she punished him? Why is she being unreasonable?

When college students set their sights on guiding the next generation of students as schoolteachers, they often have fond visions of helping curly-haired little girls finger-paint or smiling little boys proudly recite their ABCs for the first time. What they sometimes overlook are the ups and downs of also dealing with the parents of their students.

It’s a package deal, says Dr. Deborah Bordelon, dean of the Nicholls College of Education. “Teachers not only have to work with parents, but they should make it a priority,” she says. It’s part of what Bordelon calls the “tripod of support” that makes children successful in school: a collaborative effort by parents, educators and students.

It takes some effort to make this work, though. Especially when most college courses for future teachers focus on devel-oping lesson plans, assessing student performance and using innovative teaching methods – skills that won’t help when faced with an irate parent.

That’s why education seniors at Nicholls are required to go to instructors like Annette Breaux, Nicholls teacher induction coordinator, before they begin their semester of student teach-ing. She’s something of a guru of practical tips for young teach-ers. Her seminars and private lessons put the practical spin on all the theories they’ve learned as college students.

“New teachers aren’t really prepared for these real-life situ-ations,” she says. “They’ve studied the theories, but it just isn’t real to them yet.”

Breaux can tell them that the appropriate response in the scenario described above is: Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, we still might disagree when you leave here today, but I have to tell you

how much I respect your coming here and taking an active role in Charlie’s education. Thank you. Now, let’s sit down and talk.

A calm response like that one will immediately defuse the situation, she says. And that’s one of the keys to working to-gether as a team with parents and students. The same strategies that apply to students apply to parents: don’t be defensive, let students or parents vent their anger or frustration before you

speak, remain calm (at least on the exterior) and avoid all knee-jerk responses, show concern rather than anger, always save reprimands for private, and never, ever yell.

Breaux also advises her students to be proactive and get parents involved from the begin-ning. “The first contact most par-ents have from a teacher normally happens when their child has done something wrong,” she says. “But teachers need to reach out and establish consistent positive contact right away, to set the tone for future dealings. I tell them to sit down at the end of each day and send home a positive note to the parents of one child. It takes 20 seconds. But imagine being a parent and receiving a note from school that includes a compliment for your child rather than the dreaded report of bad behavior.”

“This is just one of the sim-ple tricks of the trade that none of us learned when we started teaching,” Breaux says.

This extra layer of support provided by Breaux to future educators and new teachers is part of the teacher induction program at Nicholls. It is designed to smooth the transition for teacher candidates as they move from being students of teachers to becoming teachers of students. Breaux spearheaded a similar program when she worked with the Lafourche Parish school system. The program was so suc-cessful in reducing the loss of new teachers (from 50 percent to 7 percent in two years) that it was adopted by the state.

“It’s much easier to teach the well-behaved, studious child,” Breaux says. “But for children who struggle or have behavior problems, their lives can be literally changed by good teachers. That’s when you grasp the amazing impact of being a teacher.”

Your Parental Role in Education: Priming Your Child for SuccessBy Dr. Deborah Bordelon1. Begin early

College prep doesn’t begin in high school. When your little scholar is exploring the joys of finger painting, your job has begun. You’re not overbearing when you want to know whether little Suzy is learning her ABCs and her colors and shapes at preschool – it’s your job to know. And a good teacher will welcome your interest. 2. Be involved

Student success starts with communication. It may be easier to do when little Charlie is in kindergarten, but it’s just as important when he’s diagramming sentences in elementary school or learning about the mystical properties of π in high school. Parental involvement shouldn’t stop at fourth, eighth or even 12th grade. Get to know your child’s teachers, find out what Charlie’s learning and where he excels or struggles. If education isn’t a priority for you, then it won’t be for your child, either.3. Develop critical thinking

At the university level, expectations center on self-di-rected learners who are able to monitor their own learning. This is a skill that needs to be practiced, not unlike sports or the arts. Decision-making and critical thinking need to be infused in the school setting and at home. Help develop these skills by providing your child with opportunities to make choices and to examine the consequences.


College of Nursing and Allied Health

Trying on Old AgeNew technologies help nurses experience the world as the elderly do.

Jill Mabry, a nursing senior from Thibodaux, is clad from head to toe in the trappings of old age. Metal rods lining her jumpsuit restrict bending and stretching, and they make walking difficult. Goggles cloud her vision and gloves make her fingers stiff. With the help of a walker, she shuffles along.

For a healthy 20-something college student, imagining the debilitating pain of arthritis or emphysema or the frustration of failing eyesight isn’t easy.

But what an 85-year-old patient of this young nursing graduate has trouble imagining is that this spry nurse will ever understand how he feels in his aging body.

The graying nationThe Department of Health and

Human Services estimates that by 2030, people 65 and older will number 71.5 mil-lion or 20 percent of the population.

That’s a real concern for the nursing profession, says Rebecca Lyons, head of the Nicholls nursing department. “It’s not unusual for nurses to walk into a clinic or a hospital and treat several 80- and 90-year-old patients. People are living longer, so elder care is a critical need – not just in geriatrics departments but across the board in nursing.”

Empathy, not sympathyBut how do you teach a 20-year-old

what it’s like to be 85? It turns out the key can be found in familiar adages such as empathy, not sympathy, and taking a walk in someone else’s shoes.

“It’s hard to move fast. I keep feeling like I’m going to fall forward. And these glasses make me feel like I’m underwater,” Mabry says.

“If this is really what getting old feels like, I don’t think I want to do it,” she says, struggling to push her hair out of her face even as the suit prevents her from raising her arm to her head. Trying to tie her shoelaces leaves her exasperated and wondering if this stiffness and lack of coordination is why her grandfather wears slippers and jumpsuits.

Mabry is trying out new equipment in the nursing department that enables students to experience for themselves the difficulties of aging. They use walkers and canes, try to read pill bottles and hospi-tal discharge instructions while wearing

vision-distorting glasses, dress in physical limitation suits that simulate the joint stiffness of arthritis and put on empathy lungs that conjure up the shortness of breath associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

“I’ve always worked with elderly pa-tients,” Mabry says, “so I’m really excited about this new program. I hear other nurses refer to elderly patients as ‘ma-maw’ and ‘pa-paw’ and complain about working with them. I hope this changes the way nurses think.” A licensed practical nurse at St. Anne General Hospital in Raceland, Mabry is back at school to earn a bache-lor’s degree and become a registered nurse.

‘I love old people’“When nurses are urging elderly

patients to eat ‘just one more bite’ of their meal, that patient may be too busy just

fighting for air in their lungs,” says Aman-da Eymard, assistant professor of nursing. Eymard wrote the grant that made possible $23,545 of simulation equipment.

It’s important that nursing students learn patience and understand the ailments

of elderly patients, she says. Students at all levels of the curriculum, from fresh-men to seniors in their clinicals, will use this equipment. Eymard is also setting up demonstrations with local hospitals for veteran nurses. At one local hospital alone, 45 percent of the patients are 65 years or older, she says.

“I love old people. I want to pass my passion along to my students,” she says. “Many nurses think of older patients as nagging or complaining, that they won’t do anything for themselves. But sometimes they’re experiencing problems we can’t even imagine. It’s hard to take your medi-cine properly if you can’t read the bottle or even open the cap.

“This should open everyone’s eyes,” she says, “to the courage so many of our patients show every day in the face of such challenges.”

Tips on dating, coping with stress and finding the best cheap food in town haven’t been the usual fare for university web sites – until now.

Faculty and staff in University College realize that the key to helping freshmen adjust to university life goes way beyond the traditional advice about the right sci-ence classes to take.

Students with personal problems usually have academic problems, too, says Carol Blanchard, associate dean and head of the university studies department. The success of students in college often hinges on how they handle homesickness, financial difficulties and their newfound independence. It’s all about their transition from high school to college, she says.

That’s where Nicholls Connection comes in.

Think of it as a university-sponsored MySpace for freshmen. Students have the opportunity to meet and visit with their Nicholls peers, while the university gets to communicate important messages and learn more about students, their opinions and problems.

Nicholls Connection is basically an electronic supplement for University Studies 101, Blanchard says. “There’s so much we don’t get a chance to cover with them, and I know they sometimes hesitate

University College

The Freshman Connectionto come to our office and ask questions.” The college can also post reminders and announcements on a message board.

Maintained by New York-based GoalQuest, the content is updated each semester and reflects the changing needs of students as they move through their first and second semesters at Nicholls. Students might learn how to live peacefully with roommates or how to manage credit-card debt, post a bio and chat with new or old friends, or they can take a quick e-survey on their relationships with family and friends. They can even use interactive tools like personality profiles.

All of these provide useful feed-back for University College, Blanchard says. A struggling student can be referred to advisers for one-on-one help, and the college’s

services can be tailored as new issues or needs arise.

“The point is to keep them involved and dealing with their problems before they become overwhelming,” Blanchard says. “Beginning college is a big step, but they should know they’re not alone.”


One Man,TwO STarS,Many haTS

By Matt Gresham

Everything from his close-cropped hair to the polish on his shoes and the sharp crease in his slacks says career military … but he has a true gift for storytelling and the kind of good ol’ boy charm and humor that draws people to him like bees to honey.

He’s been a soldier, a farmer, a salesman, an oilfield roustabout, a school bus driver … and an attorney, a state representative, Louisiana’s Speaker of the House, a two-star brigadier general, as-sistant adjutant general of the Louisiana Army National Guard and legislative director for Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.

Everyone knows him … but few know the private family man who’s been married to the same woman for 30 years.

To put it simply, Hunt Downer might be considered a complicated man.


Opening doorsDoors have played a recurring role throughout Downer’s

life. He saw a lot of closed ones, but that just sent him search-ing for ones he could open.

After graduating from Terrebonne High School in 1964, he went to Louisiana State University on an agriculture scholar-ship from 4-H. But, as he puts it, “I was such an outstanding student, I was given a semester off to think about my future.” Slam.

Next door. A brief stint in the oilfield convinced him that he needed to head back to the books for a degree. And there was Nicholls, located practically in his backyard.

In 1968, armed with a degree in agriculture from Nicholls, Downer next tried his hand at soldiering. He wanted to be an Air Force pilot, but the Air Force shot that down and offered him a slot as a navigator. Slam.

Undaunted, Downer instead en-listed in the U.S. Army Reserves and was assigned to the Corps of Engineers. He proved to be a much better soldier than a student.

After basic and advanced training, he gave school another shot, this time at Loyola University for a law degree.

“Thanks to the late Sen. Harvey Peltier, I got into Loyola. It’s pretty tough to get into law school when you have a degree in agriculture,” he says.

That’s when things really took off for Downer.

Following a six-year break from mili-tary service, he switched to the Louisiana Army National Guard and put his law degree to use as a judge advocate. The military took him to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield and, eventually, to the No. 2 spot in the Louisiana National Guard as assistant adjutant general. He is currently overseeing the $200 million reconstruction of historic Jackson Barracks – the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard – which suffered severe flooding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

“I like being with soldiers. I’ve been with them for a total of 34 years, and now I serve with sons and daughters of my old friends,” he says.

Out of the frying pan into the fire: Politics Downer’s affable manner and strict moral code served him

well in another combat zone – Louisiana politics. His constitu-ents loved his straightforward style, while his opponents soon learned not to take him lightly.

In 1976 he began the first of seven terms in the Louisiana Legislature. Along the way, he was Speaker Pro Tempore and Speaker of the House, and, in 2003, launched a gubernatorial campaign, finishing sixth in a crowded field. In 2004, the gov-

ernor appointed him Louisiana’s inaugural secretary of veterans affairs.

While speaker, Downer transformed the House into one of the most technologically advanced legislative bodies in the country and made the legislative process accessible to citizens through the Internet, public television and committees that traveled the state. He was also one of the driving forces behind ethics reform.

Known as a consensus-builder among legislators, he served as lead author of landmark legislation to create a trust fund for education with the bulk of Louisiana’s tobacco settlement

money and was instrumental in creating Louisiana’s Rainy Day Trust Fund and passing the School Accountability Act.

In naming him one of its Top 10 Pub-lic Officials of the Year in 1997 (a first for a Louisiana resident), Governing magazine credited his efforts to bring professionalism and ethics to the House: “The Louisiana House isn’t what it might be, but it isn’t what it was.”

‘I owe a lot to Nicholls’Downer has come a long way from

that college senior who drove a school bus while students played pedro in the rear seats.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be doing what I am doing today,” he says. “I guess the Lord has a plan.”

Attending Nicholls gave him the chance to go to college and still work and live at home. It also prepared him for the long road ahead.

“My instructors were hands-on,” he says. “I was young and wasn’t a stellar student. I found it dif-ficult to balance academics and a social life. But I learned to manage my time, which helped me in law school.”

For that, Downer considers Nicholls part of his family today, and returns often to speak to students. “I thoroughly enjoyed my days at Nicholls,” he says. “I was involved in stu-dent government and served in the Student Senate. I became lifelong friends with many people through student activities, such as Phi Kappa Theta, the Ag Club and numerous other organizations. That involvement prepared me for law school and a career in the political arena.”

Louisiana has to continue investing in education, he says. If not for Nicholls, he and others like him might never have had the chance to come so far.

“You can accomplish anything you want to in life, as long as you are willing to help others, work hard and apply your-self,” he said.

Maybe Downer’s not so complicated after all, he just fol-lows a simple recipe of hard work and a call to serve.

LeveLingt h e P l a y i n g F i e l d

Metaphorically and literally, Nicholls is leveling the playing field for its athletes with $1.6 million in facility upgrades.

If looking good is feeling good, Nicholls athletes must feel like a million bucks as they take to their playing fields and courts.

Never before have the sports facilities at Nicholls had it so good. Improvements have brought new playing surfaces, seating and a return of that celebrated Colonel pride.

Fans and community and corporate sponsors are stepping up in record numbers to help put the Colonels on even footing with other NCAA Division I institutions. Their dona-tions covered much of the tab for the improvements.

Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning discusses with local television station owner Martin Folse the new AstroTurf playing field at Guidry Stadium.


The football Colonels can suit up this year knowing their field is ready to host the pros. The AstroTurf GameDay Grass 3D playing surface, valued at $600,000, comes compliments of legendary Saints quarterback Archie Manning and Gen-eralSports Venue, the new spokesperson and the marketer of AstroTurf. Byron E. Talbot Construction Inc. of Thibodaux graded the field and added a subsurface drainage system, with funding provided by the Nicholls Foundation. The field got a test run in July by Archie, Cooper, Peyton and Eli Manning and more than 1,200 high school prospects who attended the Manning Passing Academy. The field was named Manning Field built by AstroTurf at John L. Guidry Stadium.

Donated labor and materials from Byron E. Talbot Construction Inc. and soil contributed by Ronald Adams Contractors of Thibodaux give Didier Baseball Field a newly leveled and raised surface. Private contributions provided a new sprinkler system, and International Boat Rentals Co. of Lockport and private donors provided new bleachers for a combined total of $65,000 in renovations. Completing the stepped-up look in the fall will be a new brick backstop and protective netting behind home plate. The $150,000 project is the result of a combination of public and private funds.

Players and fans alike are having a whole new softball experience with the addition of a new press box, speaker system, infield and con-cession stand. Private contributions paid the bills.

The Colonels and Lady Colonels basketball teams got a new hardwood court in Stopher Gym and $250,000 in upgrades to start their 2006-2007 season right. The new floor was paid for by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the previous flooring was damaged while housing hurricane evacuees. Lining the court are new chairback seats on the north and south sides, provided by private funding and the university.

A new soccer complex is on the way, with the assistance of Mike Fesi, owner and president of Pipeline Construction and Maintenance Inc. of Houma. His donation of labor and much of the materials will give the soccer program a building to house coaches’ offices, locker facilities, meeting rooms and concessions. The project will cost an esti-mated $400,000, and work is expected to be completed in the fall.


Duty Calls … AgainJim Hunter has answered the call

to Vietnam and now to Nicholls tennis.

By Brandon RizzutoWith the sun bearing down on his rapidly dehydrating

team and spectators on the brink of uncomfortable sunburns, head tennis coach Jim Hunter seems impervious to the weather. As he exits one of the courts and shuts the gate, a smile cracks his face as he casually jokes with one of the Colonel faithful in the bleachers and then checks on one of his players. Hunter then spouts his signature phrase: “Life is just too serious to take it seriously.”

His simple, to-the-point motto barely hints at the complex man with the history that’s anything but simple.

On the surface, he’s a legendary tennis coach and player. His 370-plus wins as a col-legiate head coach and his singles and doubles wins as a player at the 1966 Panama Armed Forces championship are just the public part of Hunter’s life, a mere chapter in the fascinating book that is his life.

The journey began for James Neal “Bull” Stevens in a farmhouse in Wilburton, Okla.

“I was born January 4, 1940, I think. There is no actual birth certificate for me to know exactly,” Hunter says. “My family was very poor. They were grape pickers and berry pickers before settling in Oklahoma.”

His birth mother, Emma Stevens, died in childbirth when Hunter was only a year old, and his father, Huey Stevens, could not sup-port the entire family on his dollar-a-day salary building Jesse James State Park.

Hunter’s older brothers and sisters began taking the younger siblings into their homes, but as each one took in a few, Hunter was at the short end of the stick.

“I was kind of the odd guy out, so my father put me up for adoption,” Hunter says. “Then I was adopted in Dallas by two of the kindest people ever. My foster father was the nicest man to ever live, and my foster mother was tough on me.”

Once adopted by Dora “Babe” and Will “Archie” Hunter in 1945, he returned to Wilburton only after the death of his brother in 1952. While there, he met with his father for the first time since his adoption.

“That was the only time that I remember my father with me. I was alone on the back porch of our old farmhouse where I

had been born. He said to me, ‘Ah, Bull, I had so many dreams that didn’t come true,’” Hunter says. “I was only in seventh or eighth grade at the time, and I didn’t understand what he meant until I matured. He was trying to tell me that people have dreams that don’t come true and what do you do with a one-year-old child when all your family and life is destroyed. So when I was in college, I came to understand why he did what he did.”

That was the last time he saw or spoke with Huey.Babe and Archie wanted the best for their

son, so they sent Hunter to an ROTC school in Dallas. Hunter obliged them even though he had other plans.

“In the ninth grade I wanted to go to the local high school to play sports. They thought this was foolish, given their upbringing dur-ing the Depression,” he says. “I did very well in ROTC; in fact, I was the No. 1-ranked cadet. After high school, I worked my way through college, took ROTC and upon graduation was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.”

He completed his undergraduate degree in history and political science at the University of Texas at Arlington in 1961 and went on to serve 28 years in the Army.

By the time he was 28 and in his 14th year of service, Hunter was ordered to Vietnam.

“Those were the defining years of my life. I was never in my 20s because I was always preparing, getting ready, going to and recovering

from Vietnam,” he says. “I remember when my tour was over and I got back to Seattle. I bought four or five pieces of cherry pie because they had real cherries in them. And I bought some milk because it was real. I remember taking a shower when I got back, and letting the water run in my mouth because in Vietnam you couldn’t drink the water. I was just so happy.”

After a day in Seattle and a few discomforting encounters with anti-war activists, Hunter, with a Bronze Star in hand, headed back to Dallas to see his foster parents.

He stayed with the Army, playing tennis and winning tournaments. In 1977, Hunter was nationally ranked by the U.S. Tennis Association, reaching No. 16 in doubles and No. 41 in singles.

Hunter at Fort Dix in New Jersey (1960s)


His first coaching opportunity came in the late 1970s with Notre Dame’s legendary Tom Fallon, who led the Irish to a co-national championship with Tulane in 1959. Fallon had asked Hunter to work with some of his players at the indoor tennis club where he worked.

“That was my first experience with coaching, and it showed me that I knew nothing except how to play,” Hunter says.

Dozens of coaching books and conferences later, he got his break in 1985 with Southeastern Louisiana University. Through six seasons, he led Division I with a 122-19 record. He also earned Gulf South Conference Coach of the Year honors in 1987 and was twice selected Louisiana’s Tennis Coach of the

Year. He guided the Lions to No. 28, the team’s highest national ranking in school history.

He retired from coaching in 1990, but resurfaced eight years later to lead the Privateers of the University of New Or-leans to five consecutive winning seasons, a record that stands today as the team’s best. This time he won Coach of the Year honors for the Sun Belt Conference before walking away from tennis for a second retirement. And again he felt drawn back, returning to SLU for a short stint as assistant coach, followed again by another retirement from the game.

With three retirements under his belt and a renewed deter-mination to leave tennis behind him, Hunter appeared to be a retiree. But Nicholls came calling in 2006.

“I was originally supposed to be here a month, and I have been here ever since. Being here at Nicholls is a privilege and an honor. It’s a really beautiful campus that has a lot of great people to go along with it.”

In 2007, Hunter led the women’s tennis team to a 10-9 record overall and a 4-6 mark in conference play with a team comprised entirely of first-year players. The 2007 season marked the first winning record for the Lady Colonels in eight seasons. Their four conference wins were more victories than the team had won in the last seven seasons combined.

The men’s team posted its best overall record, 8-10, since men’s tennis was brought back from its 19-year hiatus.

“There is no place on earth like a college campus,” Hunter says. “Every student has a story, and hearing about where they have been and learning about them and their lives has truly been one of the greatest rewards in coaching.”

Hunter learns he’ll be leaving Vietnam for home. (Feb. 1, 1969)

Hunter (left) rides through the Vietnam countryside crouched in the back of a truck.


By Brandon RizzutoIt’s the beginning of yet another softball road

trip. After the first movie comes to an end on Big Red’s DVD player, head coach Jenny Parsons opts for a lunch break at the closest and quick-est place – Jason’s Deli. All the players order, and now it is assistant athletic trainer Barbara Naquin’s turn.

“I’ll have the turkey sandwich on wheat. Plain, with a Diet Coke,” she says.

“Would you like anything else with that? Some chips, a salad?” the cashier asks.

“No. Just the sandwich,” Naquin replies. “She gets that everywhere we go. It doesn’t matter

if it’s a Mexican restaurant; Barb is going to get a plain turkey sandwich on wheat,” Parsons says to the cashier.

It’s safe to say Naquin has always ordered a turkey sandwich on wheat during the last 26 years of travel with the Nicholls softball team, which stays true to her most defining characteristic: consistency.

The Montegut native and graduate of St. Joseph’s High School has been at Nicholls since she first set foot on the campus in 1971 as a freshman and a mem-ber of the softball and volleyball teams.

Head athletic trainers have come and gone, but Naquin has been the university’s only assistant trainer in the position’s 24-year existence.

Besides handling all the day-to-day injuries and rehabilita-tions for student athletes, she also manages all insurance claims. She averages more than 80 hours a week with her teams during the hectic fall semester.

“I was hired in 1992, and I don’t think that I would have lasted as long as I did if it wasn’t for Barb,” says Gerard White, head of the Nicholls Department of Allied Health Sciences and former Colonels athletic trainer. “She just made life a lot easier for everyone, which is why everyone loves Barb so much.”

Despite her intent to remain anonymous, Naquin’s has a service record that has not gone unnoticed. She made history this year as the first woman honored for lifetime service when she was inducted into the Louisiana Athletic Trainers’ Associa-tion Hall of Fame.

“She is truly dedicated to her job; there’s no question about that,” Nicholls athletic trainer Jeff Smith says. “Twice in 2005 she worked two events in the same day on the road. Women’s basketball and softball overlapped, and she was liter-ally in two places at one time, which shows how truly dedicated she is to her job.”

Naquin was honored in 2006 with the Southeastern Athletic Trainers’ Association Backbone Award, as the assistant athletic trainer who is a consummate professional and goes

the extra mile. Her avoidance of the limelight kept that honor quiet, but no such luck this time around.

“That is Barb. She is the type of individual who just wants to come in and do the job to the best of her ability and leave it at that. She doesn’t want the recognition or the attention,” White says. “Needless to say, she is honored to have received the hall of fame award, but wanted nothing to do with the ceremony itself, which was in her honor.”

Nicholls hosted the LATA awards ceremony this year. Despite her best efforts to avoid the event and the ensuing attention, Naquin did show up to accept her award. And even though her acceptance speech consisted of only a choked “thank you,” everyone there knew she truly meant it.

A woman of few words and reliable as day and night, Barbara Naquin is the first woman to be inducted into the Louisiana Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame.

Just Plain Barb


Honor Roll Honor RollDonations to Nicholls State University and to the Nicholls State University Foun-

dation during the 2006-2007 fiscal year totaled nearly $1.2 million, thanks to a strong Annual Fund mailing effort and this year’s phonathon.

Dr. Rebecca T. Pennington, assistant vice president for development and university relations, said efforts during the past fiscal year resulted in a 5% increase over donations the previous year.

“Support for Nicholls continues to grow among our alumni, the faculty and staff, and the many area companies which remain dedicated to the success of the university,” she said.

Following is a list of donors grouped by giving level as of June 30, 2007.

Patron’s Club$10,000 and AboveAbdon Callais Offshore LLCBase Logistics LLCBellSouth Telecommunications Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. “Boysie” BollingerMrs. Gloria B. CallaisMr. and Mrs. Peter W. CallaisCapital One BankMr. Arlen B. Cenac Jr.Cenac Towing Co. Inc.Charter CommunicationsChase BankEntergy CorporationMr. Gerald N. GastonJohn and Clara Brady Family Foundation (The)L & M Botruc Rental Inc.La. Society of Professional Surveyors Education FoundationLady of the Sea General HospitalLouisiana Workers’ Compensation CorporationMajor Equipment & RemediationMcDermott Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Milo L. Meacham Jr.Mr. R. E. “Bob” MillerMontco Offshore Inc.National Oceanic & Atmospheric AdministrationNicholls State University Alumni FederationOneida Tribe of Indians of WisconsinMr. and Mrs. Lee OrgeronSprint NextelStephanie Hebert Insurance Agency Inc.SWDI LLCTerrebonne General Medical CenterW. S. Hornsby III, CLU-CHFCWal-Mart FoundationZyber Pharmaceuticals Inc.

President’s Club$5,000 to $9,999Allied Shipyard Inc.Blue Cross and Blue Shield of LouisianaBourgeois & Associates Inc.Bourgeois Meat Market Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Roger BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Paul CandiesComm Care CorporationMr. and Mrs. Timothy A. EmersonMr. and Mrs. Dean T. FalgoustFirst American Bank

Headache and Pain Center AMCHoratio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc.James J. Buquet Jr. Family FoundationLatelcoMrs. Gloria T. MillerNorthwestern Mutual FoundationOtto Candies LLCMs. Debra S. RobichauxMr. and Mrs. Wm. Clifford SmithSouth Louisiana BankSouth Louisiana Economic CouncilTerrebonne Parish Consolidated GovernmentMs. Laura P. TheriotTheriot, Duet & Theriot Inc.Thibodaux Lions ClubWhitney National BankDr. George Williams

Provost’s Club$2,500 to $4,999 Alpha Delta KappaMs. Kelly BarkerMs. Andrea BollingerBollinger ShipyardsMr. and Mrs. John A. Brady Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Gaston A. Breaux Jr.Breaux Petroleum Products Inc.Buquet Distributing Co. Inc.Mrs. Glenny Lee BuquetByron E. Talbot Contractor Inc.C. L. Jack Stelly & Associates Inc.Voiture Forty & Eight ChapterCoastal Commerce BankCommunity BankDelta Coin Machines Inc.Edward JonesFreeport-McMoRan FoundationMs. Yoli FunderburkJefferson Dollars for ScholarsKiwanis Club of HoumaLouisiana LotteryDr. and Mrs. Neil J. MakiMr. Alan W. MurphyRPC CorporateSt. Charles Parish School BoardMr. Neal SwannerMr. Byron E. TalbotThibodaux Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine ClinicThibodaux Regional Medical Center

Thibodaux Regional Medical Center AuxiliaryWillis & Mildred Pellerin Foundation

Dean’s Club$1,000 to $2,499Mr. and Mrs. Joey AdamsAgriculture Alumni Association of NichollsMr. James H. AlexanderAmerican Culinary Federation-Bayou ChapterAnonymousAssociation of Government Accountants Baton Rouge ChapterAT&T Inc.Atchafalaya Chapter, American Petroleum InstituteAuto-Chlor Services Inc.College of Business Administration Alumni AssociationBaptist Collegiate MinistriesMr. and Mrs. Richard H. Barker IIIMr. and Mrs. Ron BartelsBaton Rouge Area FoundationBayou Industrial Group Inc.Bayou Junior Woman’s ClubBirdsall Plaza LLCDr. and Mrs. Walter J. Birdsall Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. BlockMr. and Mrs. Jerald P. BlockBlock Law FirmMs. Charlotte BollingerMr. and Mrs. Christopher B. BollingerMr. and Mrs. Anthony L. BoudreauxDr. and Mrs. David E. BoudreauxMr. and Mrs. Chuck BoudreauxMr. and Mrs. Toby BradyMr. Thomas C. BroomeBruce Foods CorporationMr. and Mrs. James J. Buquet IIICabernet Court Wines LimitedMr. and Mrs. Hugh F. CafferyMr. and Mrs. Corey Joseph CallaisCan Do Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Sidney H. CandiesMr. Kevin CandiesCannata Corporation (The)Mr. and Mrs. Vincent A. CannataMr. and Mrs. Donald T. CarmoucheCaro Foods Inc.Center for Pediatric & Adolescent MedicineMr. and Mrs. Marty ChabertThe Hon. and Mrs. Joel T. Chaisson IIMr. Kerry J. ChauvinMr. and Mrs. Brian P. CheramieMr. and Mrs. M. J. CheramieChevron Products CompanyMr. Clive R. CloutierMr. and Mrs. Troy CloutierMr. and Mrs. Kurt J. CrosbyDrs. Ken and Maria CruseDanos & Curole Marine Contractors Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Allen J. Danos Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Garrett “Hank” DanosMs. Emily T. D’ArcangeloDr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Dial Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniels Duplantis Sr.Mr. and Mrs. C. Berwick Duval IIEnvironmental Management Technologies Ltd.Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. ErwinDr. and Mrs. Carroll J. FalconMrs. Marie FalgoustDr. Quentin FalgoustMr. and Mrs. Mark P. FolseDr. and Mrs. Robert J. ForetFoundation for Southeast TexasFugro Chance Inc.Galliano Marine Services LLCGaubert Oil Co. Inc.Mrs. Pat GaubertGiardina Family Foundation (The)Mr. Jake GiardinaMr. and Mrs. William P. GilbertMr. Glenn A. GisclairMr. and Mrs. Rodney J. Gisclair Jr.Golden Meadow Rotary Club Youth FundMr. and Mrs. Stephen D. GossenDr. and Mrs. Ridley Gros Jr.Mr. James E. and Dr. Grace M. GueydanGulf Island Fabrication Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. HamiltonDrs. Leo and Carolyn HebertDr. and Mrs. Mark F. HebertDr. and Mrs. O. Cleveland HillMr. and Mrs. Donald A. Hingle IIHollywood Properties LLCHouma’s Town & Country Real Estate Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. HowellDr. and Mrs. Jerry L. HudsonDr. and Mrs. Stephen T. HulbertMr. Ronald J. HymelJ. B. Levert Land Co. Inc.Jones Insurance Services LLCDr. and Mrs. John J. Jones Jr.JPMorgan ChaseMr. and Mrs. Robert E. KeltonKevin Gros Offshore LLCMr. William H. KinnardMr. George S. KliewerKohler Foundation (The)Dr. and Mrs. Barry G. LandryMr. Christian D. LapeyreDr. Nolan P. LeCompte Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Jerry P. Ledet Jr.Louis P. Ledet Memorial Scholarship FundMr. and Mrs. Marvin Marmande Sr.Martin Luther King (Dr.) Memorial Scholarship FundDr. and Mrs. Shawn MauldinMr. and Mrs. Barry C. MelanconMr. and Mrs. John Melancon Jr.Dr. and Mrs. F. H. MetzMidSouth BankMilk Products LP - LafayetteMr. and Mrs. Charles MoreauDr. Richard A. Morvant Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. NaquinNYT Capital Inc.Patterson Rotary ClubMr. William and Dr. Alice Pecoraro

Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. PeltierMr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Peltier IIIMr. and Mrs. Stephen G. PeltierMr. Richard B. PeltierMr. Royce and Dr. Rebecca T. PenningtonPet Hospital (The)Peterson Agency Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Pat PitreMr. Tommy PitrePRO-NSUProspect Station Inc.R.S.I. Group Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Allen J. Rebstock Jr.Richard Weimer Architects AIA-LLCMr. and Mrs. Michael RichéMr. and Mrs. Christopher H. RiviereMr. and Mrs. William J. RiviereDr. and Mrs. Francis A. Robichaux IIMr. and Mrs. Donald J. RouseSchriever Volunteer Fire DepartmentMr. and Mrs. Phillip SimoneauxMs. Jerri G. SmitkoSouth Central La. Chapter of the Society of La. CPA’sSouthern Selections Inc.St. Martin & Williams & Bourque APLCSuperior Labor ServicesSynergy BankTerrebonne Home Care Inc.Terrebonne Motor Co. Inc.Mr. Chris B. ThayerThibodaux Music ClubThibodaux Service League Community FundThomson Higher EducationTrapp Cadillac, Chevrolet Inc.Valentine Sugars Inc.Vanguard Vacuum Trucks Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Michael VanoverMr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Vicknair Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. WatkinsMr. and Mrs. Chuck Weaver Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Richard WeimerMr. and Mrs. Lee WelchWelch Sales & Services Inc.West Houma Lion’s Club Inc.Mr. Robert J. WittmannWoman’s Club of ThibodauxMr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Wood Sr.

Professor’s Club$500 to $999Dr. and Mrs. Larry AlbrightAmerican Legion-Ken Boudreaux Post #380Ann T. Hebert CPAArthur J. Gallagher of Louisiana Inc.Dr. and Mrs. Donald J. AyoMr. Jeffrey BadeauxBarataria-Terrebonne National Estuary ProgramDr. Allayne BarrilleauxBayou Chapter Medical ManagersBayou District Dietetic AssociationMr. and Mrs. Alan P. BessonetBeta Gamma Sigma Inc.

BJ Services Company USAMr. Michael J. BlanchardBlock & Bouterie, Attorneys at LawMr. and Mrs. James BrandtMr. and Mrs. Chapman H. Burguieres IIIThe Hon. and Mrs. L. Charles CaillouetCharter MediaMr. Charles ComeauxMr. and Mrs. Sinclair H. CrenshawDr. and Mrs. Albert DavisDelta Music Co. Inc.Dr. and Mrs. Thomas DonnerMr. and Mrs. Malcolm M. DuplantisMr. and Mrs. Dennis J. DupreMr. and Mrs. R. Shawn FalconFemmes NataleMr. and Mrs. John C. FerraraMr. and Mrs. John P. FordMrs. Cindy GallowayGeorgia Gulf CorporationMr. and Mrs. James E. GoodwinMr. and Mrs. Eugene G. Gouaux Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Tab A. GuidryMr. and Mrs. Peter F. HarrisonJoyce S. Mudd FoundationKappa Tau Alpha Society of NichollsKiwanis Club of ThibodauxLab-A-Daux Home Improvement LLCMr. and Mrs. Henry J. Lafont Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Vic LafontDr. and Mrs. Alex LasseigneLouisiana Brain & Spine Clinic II LLPLouisiana Cash of Morgan City Inc.Louisiana Offshore Oil Port LLCMagnum Mud Equipment Co. Inc.Mr. Mark S. MilsteadMorvant & Cavell, Attorneys at LawMr. Camille A. Morvant Jr.Mr. John S. MuddMr. and Mrs. Leslie OgdenDr. Benton OubreDr. Wayne J. PharoMr. and Mrs. Morrison R. PlaisanceMr. and Mrs. David PlaterPointe-Aux-Chenes Elementary SchoolPolice Jury Association of Louisiana Inc.Propane Education & Research Council Inc.Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. QuiniltyReal Estate Express LLCDr. and Mrs. William H. RobichauxRussell OB-GYN Center for WomenMr. and Mrs. Louis SaiaSallie Mae Inc.Dr. Arunavathi T. SangisettyScholarship Foundation of New OrleansMr. Stephen C. SkainsMr. F. Michael SmithSouth Central La. Association of School SuperintendentsSt. Bernadette KC Council No. 7355Mr. and Mrs. William H. StoneT. Baker Smith & Son Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. TaylorMr. and Mrs. John W. Theriot


Honor Roll Honor RollULS Foundation Higher Education Katrina Relief FundVolute Inc.Wal-Mart Galliano #502Wal-Mart Grand Caillou #3483Wal-Mart Houma #542Wal-Mart Thibodaux #1016

University Club$250 to $499Mr. Lawrence AlbaradoAmerican Legion AuxilliaryMs. Elizabeth A. AngeletteMr. E. A. AngellozAnonymousMr. and Mrs. Neal AymeMr. Jerome M. BarberaMr. and Mrs. Jeremy BeckerMr. and Mrs. Michael BednarzBeta Alpha Psi Honors FraternityMr. Lester BimahDr. and Mrs. Irving M. BlattDr. Deborah E. BordelonMr. Steven BossierMr. and Mrs. Brophy J. BoudreauxMs. Allison M. BreauxMr. and Mrs. Randy BreauxMr. and Mrs. Paul A. BrownMr. and Mrs. Larry J. BuccolaMs. Rebecca A. BushMr. and Mrs. Rowland E. CaldwellMr. and Mrs. Michael CavalierMr. and Mrs. Edgar ChaseMr. Craig A. CheramieMr. and Mrs. Minor A. Cheramie IIIDr. Michael A. ChiassonMs. Dionne R. ChouestChristen & Associates APLCCintas CorporationMr. and Mrs. Leslie J. Clement Jr.Colonel ClubColonels BrigadeCowen Clinic for Rehabilitation Medicine APMCMr. Bret S. CuneoMr. and Mrs. Ronnie DaigleDancers LairMs. Kimberly A. DardarMr. and Mrs. Allen R. Davis Sr.Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. DavisMr. and Mrs. Michael G. DavisMr. and Mrs. Dave J. Defelice Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Jules A. Dornier IIIMr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Drum Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Terry G. DupreDuval, Funderburk, Sundbery, Lovell & Watkins APLCDr. James K. EllisMr. and Mrs. Michael C. FakierDr. and Mrs. James C. FieldsMrs. Ruth O. FinkelsteinMr. and Mrs. Edward L. FlenikenDr. Craig P. FolseMr. and Mrs. Luke Ford Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Miles ForrestMr. and Mrs. Donovan FreminDrs. Nick and Elaine FryDr. Patricia A. GabilondoMr. and Mrs. Walter GilbertGlazer’s Family of CompaniesMr. and Mrs. David A. GreenGriffin Restaurants Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. GrosDr. and Mrs. Ernest C. HansenMr. and Mrs. T. Benton HarangMs. Ann T. HebertHertz Equipment Rental CorporationMr. Kevin G. HigginsHouma-Terrebonne Chamber of CommerceMr. and Mrs. Octave P. Hymel Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Michael LedetJ. B. Levert FoundationJohn Deere Thibodaux Inc.Jubilee Festival of the Arts & HumanitiesMr. and Mrs. Roy W. KellerMs. Susan B. KeyMr. and Mrs. Kirk KliebertMr. and Mrs. Paul J. KluttsDr. and Mrs. Alex LasseigneLeBlanc’s A/C & HeatingDr. and Mrs. James LeonardMs. Jessica LerougeMr. Timothy LindsleyLouisiana MachineryMs. Joan M. MalbroughMs. Diane T. MartinMr. and Mrs. Michael A. MatherneMs. Leslie O. McCarthyMr. Timothy McNabbDr. Stephen S. MichotMr. and Mrs. Kirt C. MilletMorgan City BankMr. and Mrs. Wayne D. MorrisonMr. Sohail NasirNational Aquarium in BaltimoreMr. and Mrs. Greg NothackerNicholls Accounting ClubMr. Cody OliveiraMr. and Mrs. Chris PatePetroleum Club of Morgan City Inc.Philip Matherne Memorial Scholarship Foundation Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. PlaisanceMs. Angelique M. PochéDr. Sonya PremeauxPride OffshoreDr. and Mrs. Philip RabalaisRed Goose Saloon Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Kurt S. RisingerRotary Club of Grand IsleMr. and Mrs. John RouchonMs. Marsha SerignyShell Oil Company FoundationSociety for Human Resource Management at NichollsMr. and Mrs. Francis A. Smith Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Wayne D. Smith Jr.Mr. Lew Sonnier

South Coast Gas Co. Inc.St. Mary Parish School Food Service AssociationDr. and Mrs. Samuel Stagg IIITerminix Pest Control Inc.The Chapman Group Inc.Mr. Scott D. TrahanMs. Lizbeth A. Turner and Mr. Clarence WolbretteMr. and Mrs. Allen W. VanderMr. and Mrs. Doug VannoyMr. and Mrs. Bruce VicknairWal-Mart Mathews #761Mr. Charles K. WeaverDr. and Mrs. Thomas WeedMr. and Mrs. Gerard A. WhiteMr. Keith D. WhitneyXavier University of Louisiana

$249 and UnderA-1 Sign EngravingAcadia Land Surveying LLCMs. Jennifer AcostaMr. and Mrs. Roger AdamsMs. Darlene T. AdamsMr. and Mrs. Karl M. AdamsMr. and Mrs. Deoma J. AdamsMs. Elizabeth P. AdamsMr. and Mrs. Harold J. AdamsMs. Lena L. AdamsMr. and Mrs. Mark A. AdamsMr. Neil AdamsAdvance Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation LLCAdvanced Southern Surgical Associates LLCMr. Timothy H. AitkensMs. Christine AlbrechtMs. Courtney E. AlcockMs. Angela J. AlexanderDr. and Mrs. Robert Allen Alexander Jr.Ms. Suzanne B. AlexanderMs. Maureen E. AlfredMr. and Mrs. Randall M. AlfredMr. and Mrs. Thad M. AllemandMs. Helene B. AllenMr. and Mrs. Craig AllenMr. and Mrs. David F. AllgoodMrs. and Mr. Jan V. AlvarezMr. and Mrs. Ralph Amedee Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Drew B. AndrewsMr. and Mrs. Bert AndryMs. Elaine D. AngellozAnheuser-Busch Inc.AnonymousMr. Billy ArcementMr. and Mrs. Curtis A. ArcementMr. and Mrs. Chris ArceneauxMr. and Mrs. Stanley A. ArceneauxMr. and Mrs. William L. Arnold IIMs. Patricia S. ArnoldMs. Ruth F. ArseneDr. and Mrs. Badiollah AsrabadiAssociated Technical Support Service Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Aucoin

Ms. Patty A. AucoinMr. and Mrs. Louis G. AuthementMr. and Mrs. Ivan AuthementMr. and Mrs. Scott A. AutinMr. and Mrs. Ray B. AutreyMs. Susan B. AysenB. G. Jones Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Jacque F. BabinMr. and Mrs. Roddy J. BabinMr. and Mrs. Ronnie P. BabinMr. and Mrs. J. A. Badeaux Jr.Mr. Lloyd J. and Dr. Laura M. BadeauxMr. and Mrs. Rickey BadeauxBadeaux’s Cajun BuffetDr. and Mrs. James BarrMr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. BarrasBarrett Interior Specialty & Supply Inc.Mr. John A. BarrilleauxMr. and Mrs. Julien L. BarrilleauxMs. Christine D. BarriosMr. and Mrs. J. L. BarronMr. and Mrs. Jerry O. BarryMr. John W. BartonMr. and Mrs. Michael A. BattagliaMs. Lacy A. BaudoinBaxter International Foundation (The)Bayou Printing & Graphics Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. BeaudeanMr. and Mrs. John B. Becker Jr.Ms. Celia C. BecnelMr. and Mrs. Gary P. BecnelMr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Becnel Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Miles J. BecnelMr. and Mrs. Robert J. BecnelMr. and Mrs. Michael BednarzMr. Jeffrey D. BeechMr. and Mrs. Ben H. Bell IIIMr. and Mrs. Gerd T. A. BendaMs. Mercedes B. BennettMs. Debra S. BenoitMs. Joyce W. BenoitMr. and Mrs. Keith J. BenoitBenoit Machine LLCMr. and Mrs. Esco Benton IIIMr. and Mrs. Travis P. BergeronMr. David P. BergeronMr. and Mrs. Gregory S. BergeronMr. and Mrs. Jason G. BergeronMr. and Mrs. Willie J. Bergeron Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bergeron Sr.Ms. Stella H. BergeronMr. and Mrs. Carl J. BergeronDr. and Mrs. Blaise J. BergielMs. Theresa P. BergseidMs. Brett A. BernardMr. John BernardMr. and Mrs. Scott M. BernardMr. and Mrs. Stephen R. BernardMs. Nadine BernardiMr. and Mrs. Robert J. BernardiMr. Kim J. BernuchauxMrs. Linda BerryMr. Charles L. BerthelotMs. Kim M. Berthelot

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. BerthelotMr. Jnanabrota and Dr. Sumita BhattacharyyaDr. and Mrs. M. Khurrum BhuttaBienvenue MortgageDr. and Mrs. John R. BilelloMs. Michelle BilliotMr. and Mrs. Flint J. BishopMr. and Mrs. William B. Bisland Sr.Mr. and Mrs. Jerry D. Blackwell Sr.Mr. and Mrs. C. Roy BlackwoodMr. and Mrs. A. F. BlairMs. Michelle L. BlairMr. and Mrs. Daniel M. BlanchardMr. and Mrs. Adam J. BlanchardMr. and Mrs. Darrin J. BlanchardMr. and Mrs. James BlewettMr. Matthew F. and Dr. Elizabeth BlockDr. and Mrs. John BlossMs. Louise BoninMr. and Mrs. Gary P. BonvillainMr. and Mrs. Terry J. BonvillainMr. and Mrs. Terry R. BookMr. and Mrs. Louis A. BoquetMr. Kevin P. BordelonMs. Vicki C. BoringMs. Amy A. BorneMr. and Mrs. Joseph O. BosworthMr. and Mrs. Rusty BouchillonMs. Mary A. BoudousquieMs. April N. BoudreauxMr. and Mrs. Carl J. BoudreauxMr. and Mrs. Dale BoudreauxMr. and Mrs. Denis BoudreauxMr. James E. BoudreauxMs. Kathryn A. BoudreauxMs. Natalie J. BoudreauxMr. and Mrs. Percy Boudreaux Jr.Ms. Stefanie BoudreauxMr. and Mrs. Walton P. Boudreaux Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Druis A. BourgBourgeois Bennett LLCMr. and Mrs. Ron R. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Edward C. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. L. V. Bourgeois Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Paul BourgeoisMs. Kellie M. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Todd M. BourgeoisMr. Larry J. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Michael A. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Robert A. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Roland F. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Roland J. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Ron R. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Roland J. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Troy J. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. William P. BourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Edward R. BouterieMr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bouterie Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Ivy Bouzigard Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. BowersMs. Claudia D. BraudDr. and Mrs. Ellis D. Braud Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Jody E. BraudDr. Mary M. Braud

Mr. Randy J. BraudMs. Amy E. BreauxMs. Amy S. BreauxMs. Annette L. BreauxMr. and Mrs. Bernie M. BreauxMr. and Mrs. Bobby BreauxMr. and Mrs. John W. BrennanMr. Bennett A. and Dr. Carol BrittMr. Michael G. BrocatoMr. and Mrs. Matthew E. BrodnaxMr. and Mrs. Matthew C. BroussardMr. and Mrs. Richard BroussardMr. and Mrs. Peter W. BroussardMr. and Mrs. Tracy BroussardMr. and Mrs. Jeff J. BrownMs. Cheryl L. BrownMr. and Mr. Gregory BrownMr. and Mrs. Dale A. BrownMr. Ferrell A. BrunetMr. and Mrs. Earl Brunet Jr.Ms. Jan S. BrunetMs. Sheri A. BurasMr. Chapman H. Burguieres Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel L. BurkeMs. Stephanie R. CaballeroDr. and Mrs. Thomas E. CafferyMr. James and Dr. Patricia B. CaillouetMrs. Ann B. CaldareraMs. Claudett C. CaldwellMr. and Mrs. Kenneth CaldwellMr. and Mrs. Raymond CallahanMr. Ronald CallowayMr. and Mrs. John T. CanaleMr. and Mrs. Wayne G. CancienneMr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Cannata Jr.Mr. Duane P. CaroMr. and Mrs. Robert L. CarpenterMr. and Mrs. Wallace A. Carrier Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Lewis CarteeCol. and Mrs. Michael L. CarusoMr. and Mrs. Larry C. CaseMr. and Mrs. Carleton A. CaseyDr. Luke H. CashenMr. and Mrs. Daniel A. CavellMr. and Mrs. Gene CazaubonMr. and Mrs. Jake M. CenacMr. Michael J. CenacMr. Norbert N. ChabertDr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. ChadwickMs. Dawn E. ChaissonMr. and Mrs. Errol J. ChampagneMr. Richard P. ChampagneMr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Chance Jr.Ms. Ruth ChapinCharles C. Theriot CPAMr. and Mrs. Scott M. CharletMr. and Mrs. Curtis J. Chauvin IIMr. and Mrs. Robert Chauvin Jr.Mr. Leonard Chauvin Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Michael CheramieMs. Gaye CheramieMr. Philip ChiassonMr. and Mrs. Ronald P. ChiassonMr. Steven L. Chiasson


Honor Roll Honor RollMs. Kaycee L. ChouestMr. David F. ChuDr. Deborah H. Cibelli and Mr. Stephen C. RawlingsMr. Coral C. Clark Jr.Mr. Michel ClaudetMr. and Mrs. Marc E. ClauseMr. and Mrs. Brian P. ClausenMr. Barry C. ClementMr. Bernis G. ClementMr. and Mrs. Richard J. ClementMs. Jacqueline S. ClementsMs. Eva Lee ColemanMr. Stanley ColemanMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. CollieMr. and Mrs. Anthony J. CollinsMr. and Mrs. Edward J. Comeaux IIIMr. and Mrs. Joseph M. ConeConocoPhillipsMs. Heather C. ConstantMr. Floyde W. CookMr. and Mrs. John C. CorbinMr. Nelson B. CortezMs. Raquel CortinaMr. and Mrs. Stephen W. CouchMr. and Mrs. Robert D. CoulonMs. Valerie T. CourvilleDr. and Mrs. Kevin C. CoxMr. and Mrs. Jerry E. CrailMr. and Mrs. Keith CrochetMr. William D. CrockettMr. and Mrs. David T. CrowderMr. and Mrs. Philip A. Culotta Jr.Mr. and Mrs. R.A. CunninghamMr. Cy C. CunninghamCytec Building Blocks Inc.Ms. Patricia P. CzeckMr. and Mrs. Jerry G. DaigleMr. and Mrs. Leslie J. DaigleMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. DaigleMr. Michael P. D’AngeloMs. Judy W. DanielsMr. André L. DanosMr. and Mrs. Donald P. DanosMr. and Mrs. Richard L. DantinDanville Distributing Co.Mr. and Mrs. Lenny DartezMr. and Mrs. Craig S. DasteMr. and Mrs. Gerald P. DaveyMr. and Mrs. Rodney DavidMr. Robert J. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Michael G. DavisMr. and Mrs. Michiel R. DavisDBJB Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Decker IIMr. and Mrs. Kirk J. DefeliceMr. Wilfred R. DehartMr. and Mrs. Martin J. DeitchmanMs. Lisa S. DelahayeMr. and Mrs. Murphy L. Delaune Jr.Delta Millwork Inc.Dr. Ramarao M. DenduluriDr. and Mrs. John H. DennisMrs. Kathleen B. Deroche

Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. DessellesMs. Stephanie L. DetillierMr. and Mrs. Allen J. DetiveauxMs. Georgia M. DiedrichMr. William F. DiehlDiocese of Houma-ThibodauxMr. and Mrs. Gerald Dishman IIDMC Consultors LLCMr. and Mrs. Ellis R. DolesDoll Distributing LLCMr. and Mrs. Mark DollMr. and Mrs. John P. DominiqueMs. Shelia A. DominoMr. and Mrs. Milton P. DoneganDr. Sarat K. DonepudiDonnes Real EstateMr. and Mrs. Michael J. DornanMr. and Mrs. Bobby A. DosserMs. Loretta L. DottoloDoucet and Adams Inc.Ms. Iris DoucetMr. Royce J. DoucetMs. Audrey A. DozarMr. and Mrs. Terry L. DraperMr. Lloyd C. DresselMr. and Mrs. Murali M. DronamrajuMr. and Mrs. Frank E. DucosMr. and Mrs. David L. DuetMr. and Mrs. Loyal A. DuetMr. Timothy and Dr. Debbie DuFreneMr. Donald J. Dufresne Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. DugasMr. and Mrs. Dale DugruiseMr. and Mrs. David L. Duhon IIMs. Amy M. DuncanMrs. Evelyn D. DuncanMr. and Mrs. Norman DuplantisMr. and Mrs. Lloyd Duplantis Jr.Mr. Merle J. DuplantisDr. and Mrs. Curtis DuplechainMr. Fred DuplechinMr. and Mrs. Bobby J. DupreMs. Susan A. DupreMr. and Mrs. James L. DurhamMr. and Mrs. Thomas A. DutelE. J. Fields Machine Works Inc.Mr. Glenn A. EarlesMr. and Mrs. James K. EavesMr. and Mrs. Joseph EidsonElectronics Corner Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. ElfertMr. Allen J. Ellender IIIDr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Ellender Jr.Ellis Brothers Contracting Inc.Mr. and Mrs. David ElmoreMr. and Ms. Anthony EmmonsMr. and Mrs. Robert M. EncaladeMr. and Mrs. Ruble A. EncaladeEnviro-Lab Inc.Ms. Rebecca L. EscheteMr. Clifton P. EsermanMr. and Mrs. Steven J. EskineMr. and Mrs. John P. EsteveMr. Corey J. Eues

Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. EuseaMr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Evans Jr.Mr. and Mrs. John F. ExniciosMr. and Mrs. Emmett M. EymardMs. Casey M. FalgoustMr. and Mrs. Freddy J. Falgoust Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Gerald FalgoustMr. and Mrs. Buddy FalgoutMr. and Mrs. Douglas M. FalgoutMs. Evelyn G. FalgoutDr. and Mrs. Robert N. FalgoutFamily Doctor ClinicMr. and Mrs. David L. FanguyMr. and Mrs. David FarrarMs. Sherrill A. FaucheauxMr. Wilson FaucheauxMs. Margaret M. FaucheuxMr. and Mrs. Robert K. FaulMr. and Mrs. Mark S. FaulkMr. Robert T. FaulknerMs. Tanesha L. FauriaMr. and Mrs. Mark H. FaustMs. Cynthia S. FayMr. and Mrs. Mark FelgerMs. Mercy M. FernandezMr. T. E. FernandezDr. Joanne C. FerriotMs. Carol C. FinleyMs. Ann W. FloydMr. and Mrs. Peter FolseMr. and Mrs. Jeffery D. FolseMr. Anthony FonsecaMr. and Mrs. Patrick FontaneMs. Amanda C. FontenotDr. Quenton C. Fontenot and Dr. Allyse FerraraMr. Patrick T. FordMr. and Mrs. Edison J. ForetMr. George J. ForetMr. and Mrs. Louis FournetMr. and Mrs. Gerard Fournet Jr.Drs. Coleridge and Cheryl Franklin Ms. Sarah FreiaMr. and Mrs. Wynn FremenMr. Lawrence FreminMr. Scott A. FreminMs. Wendy B. FreminDr. and Mrs. Len T. FreyFriends of Edward Douglass White Historic SiteMr. and Mrs. Glenn J. FroisyMr. and Mrs. Fabian K. FromherzMr. Steven L. FryDr. Catherine GaharanMs. Spring A. GainesMr. and Mrs. Grady C. GalianoMs. Anne M. GaljourMr. and Mrs. Jess J. GaljourMr. and Mrs. Russell P. GallianoMr. and Mrs. Willie GallowayMr. and Mrs. Robert W. GarciaMr. and Mrs. Robert E. GarlandMr. and Mrs. Carl J. GastMr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Gaubert

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. GaubertMr. and Mrs. Christopher M. GaudetMr. and Mrs. Don G. GaudetMr. and Mrs. Wilbert P. GaudinMr. Daniel G. GautheMr. Kermit J. GauthreauxMr. and Mrs. Scott A. GauthreauxMr. and Mrs. P. Keith GautreauMr. and Mrs. Daniel P. GautreauxDr. and Mrs. Christopher A. GeggMs. Julie L. GeorgeMr. and Mrs. Rogers A. GeorgeMr. and Mrs. William M. GereightyMr. and Mrs. Marco GernonDr. and Mrs. Ray GiguetteMs. Heloise M. GilbertMr. Billky GiordanoMr. and Mrs. Terry J. GiroirMr. and Mrs. Carl J. GirouardMs. Patti T. GivensMs. Margaret GormanMr. Danny M. GorrGossen-Holloway & AssociatesMs. Shelli L. GoulasMs. Aimee C. GrabertMr. and Mrs. Bobby P. GrabertMr. and Mrs. W. L. Grace IIIMr. Gary S. GrandMr. and Mrs. Douglas P. GravesMr. and Mrs. Dean P. GravoisMr. and Mrs. David P. GravoisMr. and Mrs. John R. GravoisMr. Jude M. GravoisMr. and Mrs. C. Leroy GrayMr. and Mrs. Philip C. Greco Jr.Dr. and Mrs. John H. GreenMr. and Mrs. Joseph B. GreenMr. and Mrs. Lee M. Greiner Jr.Dr. and Mrs. John M. GriffinMr. and Mrs. Richard GrillotMr. and Mrs. Edmond W. GrosMr. and Mrs. Travis A. GrosMr. and Mrs. Harley J. GrosMr. and Mrs. Alan GrossbergDr. Harold L. GuardMr. and Mrs. Michael S. GuidrozMr. Walter S. GuidrozMr. and Mrs. Casey R. GuidryMr. and Mrs. Clint J. GuidryMr. and Mrs. Daniel W. GuidryMr. and Mrs. Bonnes V. GuidryMr. and Mrs. Jude J. GuidryMr. Steven P. GuidryDr. Claudio GuillermoLt. Col. and Mrs. Joseph C. GuillotMs. Laurie A. GuillotMr. Robert J. GuillotMs. Becky L. GunnMr. and Mrs. Lester M. Hackman Jr.Hagen ENT ClinicMr. and Mrs. Edwin HammerliMr. and Mrs. Jack E. HanleyMrs. Bernice P. HarangMr. and Mrs. T. Benton Harang

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. HarpMr. and Mrs. Billy HarrisMr. and Mrs. C.W. HarrisMr. Rufus C. Harris IIIMs. Christine V. HarrisonMr. and Mrs. Herman L. HartmanMr. and Mrs. Cyril J. Harvey Jr.Ms. Dorothy A. HarwellMs. Patricia L. HaydelDr. Richard M. HaydelMr. and Mrs. Donald P. HaysMs. Debora M. HeardDr. John F. HeatonMr. and Mrs. Ricky HebertMr. and Mrs. Eddie J. HebertMs. Evelyn G. HebertMr. and Mrs. Gene L. HebertMs. Joey N. HebertMr. and Mrs. Jude A. HebertDr. and Mrs. Mitchell J. HebertMr. Kevin P. HebertMs. Lisa H. HebertMs. Rosalind M. HebertMr. Alcide and Dr. Sandra HebertMr. Carl Heck Jr.The Hon. Francis C. HeitmeierMr. Michael C. HemstreetMs. Elexia O. HendersonMr. Jesse J. HernandezMr. and Mrs. Randy C. HicksMs. Patrice M. HidalgoMr. and Mrs. Donnie R. HillsMr. D. Leonard HingleMr. and Mrs. Mark E. HingleMs. Connie HinyubMr. Rodney R. HodgesMr. and Mrs. C. Lindy HoffmannMr. and Mrs. James H. HoffmannDrs. Andrew H. and Susan T. HoffmannMr. and Mrs. Ted L. HoffmannMr. and Mrs. Garett J. HohenseeMr. and Mrs. Myron J. HohenseeMr. Darryl L. HollidayDr. Daryl Y. HolmesMr. and Mrs. Bruce HolmesMr. and Mrs. Paul HoltzingerDr. Bridget A. HopkinsMr. David G. HortonMs. Paula W. HotardMr. Mark H. HovsepianMr. and Mrs. Leslie E. HowardMr. and Mrs. Daniel L. HoychickMr. Chris D. HubbellMr. and Mrs. James S. HunterHunting Energy Services LPMr. and Mrs. Ray G. HymelMs. Mabel IllidgeMr. and Mrs. Donald IshamMr. and Mrs. Walter J. JacksonMs. Jackie W. JacksonDr. James W. and Dr. Ann L. JacksonMr. Jan T. JacksonMr. and Mrs. Edward M. JacquetMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Jandegian

Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. JaquillardMs. Julie D. JeansonneJim Dukes Inc.Ms. Deborah A. JohnsonMr. Keith JohnsonMr. and Mrs. Emil W. JollerMr. and Mrs. Benjamin G. JonesMs. Carolyn H. JonesMr. and Mrs. Luther L. JonesDr. Leslie Jones-HamiltonMs. Carole D. JordanMr. and Mrs. Irwin J. JoubertMr. and Mrs. Michael S. JuenkeK & E Trucking Co. Inc.Mr. and Mrs. J. M. KaplanMr. and Mrs. Rory C. KeehnMr. Douglas W. KeeseMr. and Mrs. Jimmy KellerMr. Todd M. KellerKelly DistributorsMr. and Mrs. Luther H. Kelly Jr.Ms. Judith F. KenneyMr. and Mrs. C. E. KeysMr. Mike KiefferDr. Marilyn B. KilgenMr. and Mrs. James S. KilgoreMr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Kimble Jr.Mr. Lenus A. KingMs. Penny L. KirchhoffMr. and Mrs. Billy KirklandMr. John and Dr. Pamela KirkleyMs. Ann C. KirkpatrickDr. Kenneth S. KlausDr. Betty A. KleenMr. and Mrs. Joseph A. KlingmanMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey KnightKnights of Columbus #1317Mr. and Mrs. Roland P. Knobloch Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Glenn P. KnoblockMr. and Mrs. Matthew M. KohlerMr. and Mrs. Joseph P. KolweMr. and Mrs. Patrick KraemerMs. Goldie C. KruseMr. Robert P. LaRoseMr. Gary J. Labat Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. LabauveMs. Darlene LabrancheLACTEMr. Bernard A. LafasoMr. and Mrs. Haden LafayeMr. and Mrs. James T. LafleurMr. and Mrs. Barry J. LaicheDr. and Mrs. John P. LajaunieMr. and Mrs. Daniel A. LambertMr. and Mrs. Al LambertMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. LanauxMr. and Mrs. Richard Landry Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Dwight D. LandryMr. and Mrs. Scott A. LandryMr. and Mrs. Frank J. LandryMr. and Mrs. Jason C. LandryMr. Jeremy A. LandryMr. Authur and Dr. Lavone LandryMr. and Mrs. Mark A. Landry


Honor Roll Honor RollMr. Mathew G. LandryMr. and Mrs. Wayne J. LandryMr. and Mrs. Mark J. LandryMs. Tara G. LandryMr. and Mrs. Travis J. LandryMr. and Mrs. Mark D. LandryMrs. Rosemary M. LangloisMr. and Mrs. Rudy B. Laris Jr.Mr. Michael P. LarussaMs. Elizabeth LassereMr. William C. LaugaMr. and Mrs. Michael C. LawrenceMr. and Mrs. Theo D. LawrenceMr. and Mrs. Floyd T. LawsonMr. Todd LawsonMr. and Mrs. Minh V. LeMs. Cecile LeBlancMr. and Mrs. David M. LeblancDr. and Mrs. Michael F. LeBlancMr. and Mrs. Rene P. LeBlancMr. and Mrs. David M. LeblancMr. and Mrs. David L. LeBoeufMr. and Mrs. Novel P. LeBoeuf Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Terry J. LeBoeufMs. Ann M. LeBouefMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. LeBouefMs. Karen LeBourgeoisMr. and Mrs. Ray M. LecompteMr. Ryan P. LecompteMr. and Mrs. Billy LedetMr. and Mrs. Claude J. Ledet Jr.Mr. Robert L. LedetThe Rev. and Mrs. Sherman LedetMr. and Mrs. Mark LedetMr. and Mrs. Darryl LedetMr. and Mrs. James M. LeeMs. Joan W. LeeMr. Mark H. LeeMr. and Mrs. Albert I. LeftwichMrs. Byrne E. LegendreMr. and Mrs. O’Neil J. Legendre IIIMr. Lowell and Dr. Collette G. LeistnerMr. and Mrs. James M. LejeuneMr. and Mrs. Lance P. LejeuneMs. Rebecca L. LejeuneMr. Walter E. LemoineMr. and Mrs. Craig J. LeonardMs. Rene LeRougeMr. David P. LerouxDr. and Mrs. J. Paul Leslie Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Felix D. LewisMs. Marguerite C. Li BassiMr. and Mrs. Bryne J. LinerMr. Wilmon J. LittleMr. Mark W. LobellMr. and Mrs. T. F. LoebelMr. and Mrs. William G. Lopez Sr.Mr. Dennis LorioMr. Gene LouisMr. Michael A. LoupMr. and Mrs. J. Caro LouviereMr. and Mrs. Charles R. LovegroveMr. and Mrs. Clayton E. LovellMr. and Mrs. Richard G. Lucito

Mrs. Jill D. LuminaisMr. Craig LundyMr. and Mrs. Carroll Lyons Jr.Mr. and Mrs. G. Marc LyonsMr. and Mrs. Thomas L. LyonsMr. and Mrs. A.J. MabileMs. Alycia W. MabileMs. Anna L. MabileMs. Marie A. MabileMr. and Mrs. Jan G. MadereMr. Michael MaenzaMs. Susan K. MageeDr. and Mrs. Wes Magee IIIMs. Rachel L. MainMr. and Mrs. Stephen MaloneyDr. and Mrs. David P. ManuelMs. Muriel B. ManuelMr. and Mrs. Donald H. HebertDr. Steven J. MarcelloMr. John C. MarchandMr. Paul C. MarchandMr. and Mrs. Gregory MarchbanksMr. Robert H. MarmandeMr. and Mrs. James W. MarquartDr. Mark E. MarshallMarshall Tamor GoldingMr. James Martin Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Keith P. MartinMs. Marsha O. MartinMr. and Mrs. Michael H. MartinMs. Patricia A. MartinaMs. Kathleen M. MartinezMs. Sarah M. MastersonMr. and Mrs. Derace J. MatherneMr. and Mrs. Dean P. MatherneMs. Carol A. MathiasMs. Kandace M. MauldinMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. McClainMr. and Mrs. Edward F. McCullaMr. and Mrs. Dale McDanielMs. Sally W. McDevittMs. Dottie McDonaldMr. and Mrs. Mike McDonaldDr. and Mrs. Harry J. McGawMr. Jerome S. McKeeMs. Dana B. McKinneyMr. Kevin P. M. McLaffertyMr. and Mrs. Philip G. McMahonMs. Cora Lee W. McMillanMr. and Mrs. Terry J. McMillanMr. and Mrs. Flavious J. MeadesMr. and Mrs. Kirk MecheMr. and Mrs. Claude MedineMr. and Mrs. John M. MelanconDr. and Mrs. Earl J. Melancon Jr.Mr. and Mrs. David J. MelanconMr. John E. MelanconMr. John and Dr. Melissa W. MelanconMr. and Mrs. David MellaMs. Christina E. MendozaMs. Doris D. MenezesMichelle’s Music AcademyDr. and Mrs. David MiddletonMr. and Mrs. Sam M. Migliore

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Milazzo Jr.Mr. Anthony M. MillerMs. Kayren C. MingusDr. James MireMr. and Mrs. Peter MireMitchell DistributingMMGC Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Siamak MokhtarnejadMr. and Mrs. Paul A. MolbertDr. and Mrs. Charles Monier Jr.Ms. Leslie E. MonnierMr. and Mrs. Neil J. MonnierMs. Katherine L. MontelaroMr. and Mrs. Charles M. MonteroMr. and Mrs. Ulysses MooreMr. and Mrs. Mark MorganMs. Curtis L. MorganMr. Michael H. MorrisMorrison Terrebonne Lumber CenterDr. Mary L. MortonMr. David C. MorvantMs. Frannie E. MorvantMr. and Mrs. James C. MorvantMr. and Mrs. Kevin P. MorvantMr. Tommy J. MorvantMr. and Mrs. Robert J. MossMr. and Mrs. Samir C. MowadMs. Sarah G. MullerMr. and Mrs. John F. MunsonMs. Shawn K. MurphyMs. Phyllis A. MuryMr. and Mrs. Gregory A. MyersMr. and Mrs. Craig J. Naquin IIIMr. and Mrs. Gary F. NaquinMr. and Mrs. Roland A. NaquinMs. Leslie A. NaquinMr. and Mrs. Lionel O. Naquin Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. NaquinMr. and Mrs. Randell M. Naquin CPAMr. and Mrs. Ryan L. NaquinNational American Sales CorporationMr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Navarre Jr.Mr. John P. NealMs. Patricia J. NealNew York Life InsuranceMr. and Mrs. A.V. NguyenNick Martinolich, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Mark NiniMs. Elizabeth R. NixonMr. and Mrs. Michael T. NobileMr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Nolan IIMr. and Mrs. Zachary NorrisNorth American Shipbuilding LLCMs. Alice M. NothackerNicholls Languages & Literature FacultyMr. Neale D. NugentMr. and Mrs. Michael L. OaseMr. Wendell OctaveMr. and Mrs. Harlan E. OelklausDr. Merlin M. OhmerMr. Kenny OliverMr. Trent D. OliverMr. and Mrs. Todd A. OlivierMs. Sara C. Olivier

Mrs. Lisa A. OmotaMr. and Mrs. Gary M. OncaleMs. Monica L. OncaleOrange Show Foundation (The)Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. OrdogneMr. and Mrs. Charles R. OrdoyneMr. and Mrs. Timmy OrdoyneMr. Michael P. OrdoyneMr. and Mrs. Joseph A. OrgeronMr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Ostheimer Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Otero IIIMs. Sandra V. OubreMr. and Mrs. Artie J. OursoMr. and Mrs. Robert L. Owens IIIMr. and Mrs. Tip PaceMr. and Mrs. Randy J. PapaMr. Ernest P. ParraMrs. Katie C. PartainDr. and Mrs. Sandeep A. PatelMr. and Mrs. Joe PeersonMs. Diette H. PellegrinMr. and Mrs. Dudley Pellegrin Jr.Mr. Kirby J. PellegrinMr. and Mrs. Dale PellegrinMs. Pamela A. PellegrinDr. and Mrs. James PeltierMs. Janice G. PeltierMr. and Mrs. George L. Percle Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Leroy S. PereraMr. and Mrs. Raymond A. PetersMs. Trina A. PetersMr. and Mrs. Addison D. PetitpainMs. Miki PfefferMr. Toby PickerMr. and Mrs. Michael S. PierceMr. and Mrs. Michael S. PiersonMr. and Mrs. Howard D. PinkstonMr. and Mrs. John-Paul PiperMr. Raymond A. PisaniMr. and Mrs. Billy J. PitreMr. and Mrs. Robby P. PitreMr. Robert PitreMr. and Mrs. Tommy F. PitreMs. Miranda M. PlaisanceMr. and Mrs. Martin J. PlassmeyerMr. and Mrs. Berhman A. PochéMr. and Mrs. Lonnie S. PocorelloMs. Diana M. PolitzMr. Palfrey Polk Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Jason C. PontifMs. Brittany G. PonvelleMs. Cheryl J. PowellMr. Jace PrejeanMr. and Mrs. Paul PrejeanMs. Michelle W. PrenticeMr. and Mrs. Kelly J. PughMs. Gail U. QuinnQwik Pack & ShipR & C Driving School LLCMr. and Mrs. Michael S. RabalaisRaceland Raw Sugar Corp.Mr. and Mrs. Larry L. RainierDrs. Mohammed and Dilruba S. RaisMr. and Mrs. Claudelle Ramagos Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. George J. RandolphDr. Pasam RaoMr. and Mrs. Jerry RatliffMs. Jenny B. RauchMr. and Mrs. David A. RauchMr. and Mrs. Michael D. RauhausMr. and Mrs. Alan D. RayMrs. Sybil RayMr. Lubin RaymondMs. Debbie RazianoMs. Kristin L. ReddochMr. Clyde R. RedmondMs. Gayla G. ReedMr. and Mrs. R. D. ReedMs. Michelle C. ReissMr. and Mrs. Brian ReithRenaissance Rehabilitation CenterMr. Anthony W. RentropMr. and Mrs. Richard A. ResoMr. and Mrs. A. Hunter ReynaudMr. and Mrs. Gregory S. ReynoldsMs. Germaine F. RhodesMr. Ray RhymesMr. and Mrs. James E. Richard Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Russell RichardDr. Cyril J. Richard Jr.Mr. David R. RichardMr. and Mrs. Bruce RichardMr. and Mrs. Francis C. RichardMr. and Mrs. Stephen RichardMr. and Mrs. Timothy E. RichardMr. and Mrs. David B. RichardsonMr. and Mrs. Claude A. Riché Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Ray J. RichéMs. Dolores O. RichmondMs. Mary K. RidenourRig-Chem Inc.Mr. Charlie RiserMs. Elizabeth RiviereMr. Robert G. RiviereMr. Brandon RizzutoDr. Susan W. RoarkMr. and Mrs. Douglas P. RobichauxMs. Heather J. RobichauxMr. and Mrs. Henry M. RobichauxMs. Rebecca R. RobichauxMr. and Mrs. Ryan D. RobichauxMs. Sabra B. RobichauxMr. Tim and Dr. Michele RobichauxMr. and Mrs. Vernon P. RobichauxMs. Anna S. RobinsonMr. Dean RobinsonMr. and Mrs. Gerard G. Rockenbaugh Jr.Mr. Farrel J. RodrigueMr. James and Dr. Paulette R. RodrigueMr. and Mrs. Jamie G. RodrigueMr. and Mrs. Kirk J. RodrigueMr. Maxime R. RodrigueMr. Perry J. Rodrigue Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Todd J. RodrigueMs. Lisa G. RogersMs. Maureen M. RogersMr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Rome Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Eric P. Romero

Mr. and Mrs. Constantine RoquesMr. and Mrs. Harold J. RougeeMr. and Mrs. W. Jeffrey RousseMr. and Mrs. Jerry A. RousseauMr. and Mrs. Robert L. RousselMr. Louis E. Routier Jr.Ms. Megan C. RoweMr. Jordan A. RoyMr. and Mrs. William T. RueggerMr. Steven M. RuizMs. Maria L. RussoMr. and Mrs. Michael R. RyanMr. and Mrs. Raymond A. SaadiMr. and Mrs. David SagonaMr. and Mrs. Scott P. SaleMr. Jerry J. SalleySallie Mae Fund (The)Mr. David A. SaltzmanMs. Donna M. SammarcoMr. and Mrs. Craig SanchezMr. and Mrs. David P. SanchezMr. and Mrs. Michael E. SandersMs. Mary C. SandolphMr. Jason E. SanfordMs. Elma C. SaulMr. and Mrs. Peter SavoieMr. Rusty J. SavoieMr. and Mrs. Allan SavoieMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. SawyerMr. Paul E. ScaffidiMr. David W. ScheuermannMr. and Mrs. Scott SchexnayderMr. Andrew J. SchiroMr. Donald J. SchmittMs. Katie E. SchreiterMr. and Mrs. Donald P. Schwab Jr.Schwab Orthodontics LLCMr. and Mrs. Steve ScogginMr. and Mrs. Tyler J. ScottMr. and Mrs. Ryan P. ScottMs. Brenda A. SedotalMr. and Mrs. Ernest SedotalMr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. SeiboldMr. Douglas SelfMs. Janice M. SevinMr. and Mrs. Robert P. SevinMs. Marlene A. ShafferMr. Charles F. ShaverMr. Thomas J. ShavorMs. Chloe-Ann ShawMs. Allison R. ShueyMr. and Mrs. Dwight SiearsMs. Jacquelynne M. SiearsMr. and Mrs. Chris SiegristDr. Andrew P. SimoncelliMr. John E. SiroisMs. Bobbie D. SmithMr. and Mrs. Dean SmithMr. and Mrs. Brian K. SmithMr. and Mrs. Dan A. SmithMs. Gretchen P. SmithMs. Lois F. SmithMs. Maria R. SmithMs. Novella T. Smith

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Honor RollMs. Shelby C. SmithMr. and Mrs. Mickey J. SmithMs. Victoria W. SmithMr. and Mrs. Christopher J. SoileauMs. Linda SongyDr. and Mrs. Thomas M. SoniatMr. and Mrs. Claus A. SorensenMr. and Mrs. David M. SpinellaMs. Norma J. SpinellaMr. Scott SpreenSprint FoundationMr. and Mrs. Michael X. St. MartinMr. and Mrs. Kerry M. St. PéMs. Lois A. St. PierreMr. and Mrs. George D. StackMr. Micah H. Stack and Ms. Tania L. LealDr. James J. StaffordMr. and Mrs. Arthur E. StagniMr. and Mrs. Craig StangaMr. and Mrs. Bill J. StegelmeyerMr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. SteibMr. and Mrs. Randy SteinMr. Nathan P. SteinMs. Donna C. StellyMr. Henry G. StephensMr. and Mrs. Roy T. SternfelsMr. and Mrs. George W. StevensonDr. James L. StewartMr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Stiegler Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Gregory M. StilsonMs. Carolyn P. StiltsMr. and Mrs. Joshua P. StockleyMr. Carlo W. StrevaDr. and Mrs. J. B. StroudMr. and Mrs. Jody M. SuireMr. and Mrs. Harry W. Sullivan Jr.Superior Shipyard & Fabrication Inc.Ms. Stephanie C. SwiftMrs. Kelly A. SzushMr. and Mrs. Brent M. TaborMr. and Mrs. Emile J. TalbotMr. and Mrs. James TaborMs. Faye A. TalbotMr. and Mrs. Richard E. Talbot Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Wallace J. TamplainMr. and Mrs. Michael J. TamporelloDr. Zoe B. TannerMs. Pamela S. TapieMr. and Mrs. Robert G. TassinMrs. Claire E. TatumMr. and Mrs. Christopher TauzinMs. Kristie TauzinMr. and Mrs. Wilbert Tauzin IIMr. Robert W. Taylor CPAMs. Sue D. TaylorTeche Regional Medical CenterDr. Victor E. Tedesco IVMr. Paul and Dr. Alice B. TempletMr. and Mrs. Brett J. TerrebonneTerrebonne Financial Services LTDMr. Kerry T. TerrebonneMr. and Mrs. Russell N. TerrellMs. Alyson T. TheriotMs. Barbara A. TheriotMr. and Mrs. Damon J. Theriot

Mr. Clifton P. TheriotMs. Diane B. TheriotMr. and Mrs. Kirk J. TheriotMr. and Mrs. Scott L. TheriotMr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Thibodaux IIDr. and Mrs. Donald P. ThibodauxMr. and Mrs. Jessie ThibodauxMr. and Mrs. Kenneth ThibodauxMr. and Mrs. Donald E. ThibodauxThibodaux Literary ClubMr. and Mrs. Dirk P. ThibodauxThibodaux Women’s CenterMr. and Mrs. Francis ThibodeauxMs. Regina L. ThibodeauxMr. and Mrs. E. J. Thomas Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Phillip B. ThomasThomassie Construction Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. ThompsonMr. and Mrs. Larry J. TillmanMr. and Mrs. Bradley J. TisdaleMr. and Mrs. Timothy W. TolerMr. and Mrs. Jerome K. ToloudisMs. Anke TonnMr. and Mrs. William R. Torguson Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. TorresMr. and Mrs. Gregory J. TorresMr. and Mrs. A. H. ToupsMr. and Mrs. Charles A. ToupsMr. Douglas ToupsMs. Gayle C. ToupsMr. and Mrs. C .J. ToupsMr. John W. ToupsMr. and Mrs. Michael P. ToupsMr. and Mrs. Royal J. ToupsMs. Sandra L. ToupsMr. and Mrs. Glenn ToupsMr. and Mrs. Leon J. Trahan Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Perry P. TrahanMr. Jeff L. TrahanMr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. TrahanMr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Tranchina Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Heinke E. Trapp Jr.Mr. and Mrs. William J. TreutingMs. Kellie L. TrimbleMr. and Mrs. Michael TrotterMr. Robert M. TuckerDr. Anita TullyDr. and Mrs. Myron C. TumanMr. and Mrs. Donald S. TurnageMr. and Mrs. William E. TurnerMr. and Mrs. Donnie TynesMr. and Mrs. Ronald D. UnderwoodMr. Samuel M. VaccarellaMs. Brenda S. VaccaroMs. Peggy D. VaccaroValero Energy CorporationMs. Paula Van RegenmorterMr. and Mrs. James R. Van SickleMr. and Mrs. Wayne E. VeillonMs. Rachel L. VerdinMs. Jeanne L. VeronMr. and Mrs. Grady VerretMr. and Mrs. Kevin VerrettMs. Julie B. VesichMr. Van Viator

Mr. and Mrs. Barry P. ViceMs. Brenda VicknairMr. and Mrs. Bruce VicknairMr. and Mrs. Warren VillemaretteMr. Michael VinciMs. Myra A. VizierMr. and Mrs. Michael C. VoisinWag-A-Pak Inc.Dr. and Mrs. Guy J. WaggenspackMr. and Mrs. Carroll J. WaguespackMr. Gerard A. WaguespackMr. Herman Waguespack Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Waguespack Jr.Mr. and Mrs. S. R. WaiteMr. and Mrs. John M. WaitzMr. and Mrs. Jerry G. WalkerMs. Jessica A. WalkerMr. and Mrs. John R. WalkerMs. Ann M. WaltonMr. and Mrs. David W. WattsMr. and Mrs. David B. WebbMr. and Mrs. Robert A. WebbMr. and Mrs. Roger J. WeberMs. Jane T. WebertMr. and Mrs. Alfred J. WebreMr. and Mrs. Kynan P. WebreThe Hon. Craig WebreMrs. Valerie L. WebreMr. and Mrs. Joseph C. WebsterThe Hon. and Mrs. John L. WeimerMs. Sandra A. WeissMr. and Mrs. Don WernerMr. and Mrs. Paul D. Wernich Jr.Mr. David L. WestDr. Velma S. WestbrookMs. Melanie M. WhippleMr. and Mrs. Clinton T. WhiteMr. and Mrs. Roger T. White IIIMr. Kenneth J. WhitmanMr. Stephen G. WieschhausMr. and Mrs. Carroll G. WilliamsMr. and Mrs. Gerard A. WilliamsMrs. Pamela WilliamsMr. Ron WilliamsMr. Scott J. WilliamsonMrs. Mescal W. WinansMs. Christine F. WolfeDr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. WongMr. and Mrs. Andrew M. WrightMr. Steven C. WyattMr. Michael T. WybleSigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing, XI Zeta ChapterMs. Sandra YearoutMr. Mohan M. K. YechooriMr. and Mrs. Robert A. YelvertonMr. and Mrs. Joey A. YessoMr. Bryan P. ZeringueDr. and Mrs. C. J. ZeringueMs. Danielle M. ZeringueMr. and Mrs. Rhett ZeringueMr. and Mrs. Nolan P. ZeringueMr. Ralph ZeringueMs. Sonia A. ZeringueMs. Sylvia T. Zeringue

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