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Regular Session, 2011
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 21
BY SENATOR PERRY
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Dennis J. Broussard for nearly 30 years of dedicated
service on the SLEMCO Board of Directors.
A RESOLUTION1
To commend Dennis J. Broussard for nearly thirty years of dedicated service on the Board2
of Directors of Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation (SLEMCO).3
WHEREAS, Dennis J. Broussard of Kaplan recently retired from the SLEMCO4
Board of Directors, after serving for nearly thirty years as one of two Vermilion Parish5
representatives on the board; and 6
WHEREAS, while on the SLEMCO Board of Directors, Dennis Broussard served7
in several important capacities including Board secretary from September 2008 to the last8
day of January 2011; chairman of Wage and Salary Committee; and member of the9
Purchasing Committee; and 10
WHEREAS, he was a charter member of the Board of Directors of the SLEMCO11
Electric Foundation which has counted among its members civic leaders from all across12
Acadiana and which has used funds donated by seventy percent of the SLEMCO members13
every month to help thousands of needy families and individuals with needed prescription14
medications, eyeglasses, hearing aides, clothing, and other items; and15
WHEREAS, Dennis Broussard served in the United States Army in World War II16
and witnessed the now famous raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima; and17
WHEREAS, he got his Master's Degree in Education from Peabody Teachers'18 SR NO. 21
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College in Nashville, Tennessee; and1
WHEREAS, he was a school teacher and, for twenty-two years, elementary school2
principal in Sulphur; his wife, the former Helen LeBeouf of Abbeville, was a first grade3
public school teacher; and they live near Kaplan, in the very house where he was born and4
raised; and5
WHEREAS, Dennis and Helen Broussard have been married for nearly sixty-four6
years; have three daughters, Beverly Conner Jr., Diane Marie Venable, and Annette Savoy;7
a son, James Paul Broussard; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren; and are8
members of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Kaplan; and9
WHEREAS, Dennis J. Broussard is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the10
American Legion, the Louisiana Educators Association, and the National Educators11
Association.12
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana13
does hereby recognize and commend Dennis J. Broussard for his many years of dedicated14
service as a member of the Board of Directors of Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership15
Corporation, on the occasion of his retirement.16
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to17
Dennis J. Broussard.18
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
Perry SR No.
Commends Dennis J. Broussard for nearly 30 years of dedicated service on the SLEMCO
Board of Directors.