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LSUS plays host to 1,200 Katrina evacuees
Photos by Gregg Trusty/LSUS News

Thanks from CCAA

Terry Smith (seated right), a custodian 2 in Facility Services, holds a crystal award given to LSUS Facility Services by the Caddo Community Action Agency for the outstanding support given to the Red Cross Emergency Shelter and the Hurricane Katrina evacuees who stayed in the LSUS shelter facility. On hand to receive the award that was accepted on behalf of the university by the chancellor are: (standing from left) Mike Ferrell, vice chancellor for business affairs; Don Bloxom, director of facility services, Alton Hemperley, operations engineer foreman 2; Elmer Tingler, assistant director of facility services; LSUS Chancellor Vince Marsala, and Henry Moore, horticulture attendant foreman; and (seated from left) Al Reger, maintenance repairer master; Sandra Gilleland, administrative coordinator 3, and Smith.

Dr. Martha Mangin, professor of education, plays her guitar and sings to children whose families fled southeast Louisiana because of Hurricane Katrina. Three of Mangin’s senior elementary education students helped entertain the youngsters in the H&PE Building’s dance studio. They are Summer Gerbine (pink shirt), Melissa Thomas (blue shirt) and Angela Dunagin (red shirt). These are but a few of the thousands of students, faculty and staff who pitched in to help with the shelter and evacuees who lived at LSUS for nearly two weeks.

Hurricane Katrina was still plundering southeast Louisiana as these evacuees were settling in at their temporary home in the LSUS gym. Eventually, the H&PE Building would be home to 1,200 hurricane evacuees.

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(Top to bottom from left) ‚ Northwestern State nursing students comfort a young boy. ‚ Dr. Cindy Sisson, professor of physics, cleans a cage in the pet tent erected next to the gym. ‚ Angela Dunagin (left), a senior early childhood education major, and a Med School student help two young girls with their homework in the tutoring center. ‚ Sidewalk chalk provided evacuees with an “artistic” outlet with the walls of the H&PE Building as their canvas..