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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 50
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEBAS
A RESOLUTION
To commend LSU junior Anna Normand of Opelousas upon her being named a Udall
Scholar by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation.
WHEREAS, Anna Normand, a graduate from Westminster Christian Academy in
Opelousas, Louisiana, is a junior chemistry major in the LSU Honors College; and
WHEREAS, Anna Normand, in her three years at LSU, has maintained a 4.0 grade
point average in her chosen field, chemistry with an environmental concentration, through
the Honors College; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Normand, after her anticipated graduation in May of 2011, plans
to pursue a Ph.D. in environmental science concentrating on wetland science and policy in
the hopes of working for Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority to help
preserve and protect Louisiana's coastal areas; and
WHEREAS, not wanting to wait until she has earned her degrees and is gainfully
employed in her area of interest, Ms. Normand has already began her efforts to protect and
preserve Louisiana's coastal areas through her public service efforts including the creation
of Louisiana Marsh University, a service trip that brought thirty LSU students to plant beach
grass on Grand Isle in an effort to stabilize the marsh areas of the state's only remaining
inhabited barrier island and her participation in the annual Acorns for Hope bike ride across
Louisiana where the riders plant live oak saplings in an effort to perpetuate Louisiana's grand
oak forests; and
WHEREAS, in addition to Ms. Normand's academic pursuits, she has been a Focus
Area Chair of Civic and Social Awareness for Volunteer LSU, a mentor and research scholar
in the LA-STEM Research Scholars Program, a service officer in the LSU Army Scotch
Guard; and serves as a member of the LSU Mortar Board; and ENROLLEDHR NO. 50
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WHEREAS, Ms. Normand volunteered her time and effort to contribute to LSU's
post-Hurricane Katrina relief efforts where she helped create supply drives, volunteered at
distribution centers, baked for hurricane shelters, worked at LSU's make-shift triage, all the
while trying to help her own displaced family; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Normand was part of the LSU Gustav Hurricane Disaster Volunteer
team; after Hurricane Ike, was a leader with Volunteer LSU during a weekend trip to
Galveston for relief efforts where she led a site team of twelve volunteers at an 80-year old
woman's house which, seven months after the storm, still housed all of her water-damaged
belongings; and
WHEREAS, in addition to assisting in LSU hurricane relief efforts, Ms. Normand
also helped in the St. Landry Parish Hurricane Katrina and Rita relief efforts acting as a
donation collector and student volunteer; has volunteered as director of the LSU Bunny Bash
party at the Louisiana School for the Deaf and has served as director of the LSU Military
Kids Letter Writing Campaign; and
WHEREAS, the Udall Foundation is an independent federal agency established by
Congress in 1992 to provide federally funded scholarships for college students intending to
pursue careers related to the environment and offers scholarships up to $5,000 for the
recipient's junior or senior year awarded by a 14-member independent review committee;
and
WHEREAS, since the scholarship program began in 1996, there have been one
thousand one hundred fifty-five scholarships awarded, and this year, there were eighty Udall
Scholars selected from a record five hundred thirty seven candidates nominated by two
hundred fifty-six colleges and universities; and
WHEREAS, it is a great honor for Anna Normand to have been chosen for a Udall
Scholarship, an honor for which the Louisiana Legislature, LSU, and the state of Louisiana
are understandably proud of Ms. Normand.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend LSU junior Anna Normand of Opelousas
upon her being named a Udall Scholar by the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to Anna Normand.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES