Our Team Won the Competitive Grant

Today was a very happy day. All the hard work for over a year finally paid off this afternoon when the Louisiana BESE Board released the names of the competitive grant winners. We won our grant!!!!!!!!! The computers and other equipment will make a wonderful difference in how we are able to prepare our students for the future. It has been a very long journey but oh! what we have learned. Along the way we went to the NECC Conference last summer in Atlanta, GA and will be attending the conference again this summer in San Antonio, TX. The joy of a job well done is a very exhilerating feeling.

computer: http://www.iusb.edu/~cted/summer/img/Computer.JPG Indiana University South Bend

Chataignier Postmaster Classmate of Georges Clemenceau

An interesting artice in the Opelousas Daily World documented that one of the longest serving postmasters in the United States, Alphonse Guillette, born in 1842, grew up in the southern French province of Vendee one year in school behind the World War I French Premier, Geoges Clemenceau.
Guillette immigrated to the USA at the age of 17 settling in Evangeline Parish in the Chataignier area. He spent his life as a mail carrier for the US Postal Service while his French classmate directed the French effort to defeat the Germans. It is indeed a small world. Mailbox source is http://courses.washington.edu/dmwork/images_W1L3/mailbox.jpg