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Regular Session, 2011 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 21
BY SENATOR PERRY
A RESOLUTION
To commend Dennis J. Broussard for nearly thirty years of dedicated service on the Board
of Directors of Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership Corporation (SLEMCO).
WHEREAS, Dennis J. Broussard of Kaplan recently retired from the SLEMCO
Board of Directors, after serving for nearly thirty years as one of two Vermilion Parish
representatives on the board; and
WHEREAS, while on the SLEMCO Board of Directors, Dennis Broussard served
in several important capacities including Board secretary from September 2008 to the last
day of January 2011; chairman of Wage and Salary Committee; and member of the
Purchasing Committee; and
WHEREAS, he was a charter member of the Board of Directors of the SLEMCO
Electric Foundation which has counted among its members civic leaders from all across
Acadiana and which has used funds donated by seventy percent of the SLEMCO members
every month to help thousands of needy families and individuals with needed prescription
medications, eyeglasses, hearing aides, clothing, and other items; and
WHEREAS, Dennis Broussard served in the United States Army in World War II
and witnessed the now famous raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima; and
WHEREAS, he got his Master's Degree in Education from Peabody Teachers'
College in Nashville, Tennessee; and
WHEREAS, he was a school teacher and, for twenty-two years, elementary school
principal in Sulphur; his wife, the former Helen LeBeouf of Abbeville, was a first grade
public school teacher; and they live near Kaplan, in the very house where he was born and
raised; and
WHEREAS, Dennis and Helen Broussard have been married for nearly sixty-four
years; have three daughters, Beverly Conner Jr., Diane Marie Venable, and Annette Savoy;
a son, James Paul Broussard; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren; and are
members of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Kaplan; and SR NO. 21 ENROLLED
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WHEREAS, Dennis J. Broussard is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the
American Legion, the Louisiana Educators Association, and the National Educators
Association.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby recognize and commend Dennis J. Broussard for his many years of dedicated
service as a member of the Board of Directors of Southwest Louisiana Electric Membership
Corporation, on the occasion of his retirement.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Dennis J. Broussard.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE