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Regular Session, 2011 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 17
BY SENATOR THOMPSON
A RESOLUTION
To commend Norene R. Smith of Monroe, Louisiana, on her many years of service to the
Louisiana Community and Technical College System.
WHEREAS, Ms. Norene Smith, with more than forty years of experience in varied
facets of community and technical education, including more than twenty-eight years in
leadership positions is recognized upon her retirement; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Smith has received commendations on her use of a motivational
management style and with a straightforward record of getting business done and reaching
goals; and
WHEREAS, she continually demonstrated a keen understanding of groundwork
success while making hard, yet effective decisions and maintaining a positive attitude
through ever-changing processes; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Smith's early career spanned twenty years of services as a legal
administrative assistant at the law offices of Harry Hawthorne, a typing instructor at Bastrop
High School, an administrative secretary to the Ouachita Parish School Superintendent and
Department Chair and an instructor of the Delta Ouachita Technical Institute; and
WHEREAS, while working, she also received her lifetime certification in Vocational
Trade and Industrial Education from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor of Science
and a Master of Education from the University of Louisiana at Monroe; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Smith has acquired numerous professional accomplishments
including, but not limited to, grant program funds for the Incumbent Worker Training
Program and increased enrollment by twenty-six percent, established a partnership with the
University of Texas to offer Occupational Safety and Health Administration training,
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to the Bastrop Campus, and established evening practical nursing programs at Delta
Ouachita Campus to accommodate working adults and to meet the health care worker crisis;
and
WHEREAS, she has served multiple professional memberships including but not
limited to, the Association for Career and Technical Education, the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools, the Louisiana Vocational Association, the American Vocational
Association, the Louisiana Technical College Directors' Association, the University of
Louisiana at Monroe Alumni Association and the Alpha Delta Kappa professional educators'
sorority; and
WHEREAS, her accomplishments also include civic and community involvement
with the Mayor's Transition Team, the Louisiana Delta Initiative, the Northeast Louisiana
Economic Development Corporation, the Entergy Team City Conference, the Monroe and
Bastrop Rotary Clubs, the Kiwanis and Optimist Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and
many other associations; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Smith has received special recognitions including the 1999
Outstanding Administrator of the Louisiana Technical College System, the 1998 First
Annual Outstanding Administrator in Vocational Education, the 1991 Bastrop Woman of
the Year, Outstanding Service Awards for 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986, the 1990 and
1991 Outstanding Service Award in Promoting Sex Equity in Vocational Education and the
1975 Outstanding Teacher Appreciation Award; and
WHEREAS, she has served on numerous professional boards and committees
including the Council on Occupational Education, the Workforce Investment Board, the
Commission for Proprietary Schools, and the Louisiana Community and Technical College
System Search Committee; and
WHEREAS, Ms. Smith completed her significant service to the Community and
Technical College System as the Northeast Regional Director and was named Regional
Director Emeritus by the Board of Supervisors; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to commend and express appreciation to Ms. Norene
R. Smith on her years of extraordinary service to the Louisiana Community and Technical
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Norene R. Smith upon her many years of service to the Louisiana
Community and Technical College System, and hereby record for posterity her noble
accomplishments and the exemplary strides she has made and taken in the field of education.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Ms.
Norene R. Smith.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE