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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 97
BY SENATOR MILLS
COMMENDATIONS. Commends St. Martinville Senior High School Academic Decathlon
Team on winning the state championship and in placing sixth in national competition.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON1
To commend the St. Martinville Senior High School's Academic Decathlon Team for2
winning the state championship and for its performance in the national competition.3
WHEREAS, St. Martinville Senior High School has been serving 9th through 12th4
grade students since the early 1900s and has had numerous academic success stories; and 5
WHEREAS, SMSH has been studying the 2011-2012 United States Academic6
Decathlon's theme of The Age of the Empire including the art, music, economics, literature,7
science, and history, together with essay contests, speech contests, and interviews; and 8
WHEREAS, SMSH's decathlon team captured the State Academic Decathlon9
Championship and represented Louisiana at the national Academic Decathlon competition10
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in outstanding fashion, garnering a sixth place finish11
nationally and was selected Rookie of the Year as the highest scoring new school in the12
national competition; and 13
WHEREAS, team members included Jenny Vongprathoum, Vanel Porter, Elizabeth14
Theriot, Jessi LaSalle, Patrick LeBlanc, Austin Rangel, Marcel Dixon, and Tristen Ferguson15
and were led and guided by their sponsor, Sherrie Jacobs, and school principal, Michael16
Kreamer; and17
WHEREAS, SMSH's Academic Decathlon team merits a special measure of18 SCR NO. 97
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commendation for its commitment to high achievement and academic excellence. 1
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby2
commend the St. Martinville Senior High School Academic Decathlon team for winning the3
state championship and for its outstanding performance at the national competition.4
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that best wishes for continued success in the future5
are hereby extended to the team and its members. 6
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to7
Sherri Jacobs and Michael Kreamer of St. Martinville Senior High School.8
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
Mills SCR No. 97
Commends the St. Martinville Senior High School Academic Decathlon team for winning
the state championship and for its outstanding performance at the national competition.