| Charles Braud |
| Susie Broussard |
| Floyd Brown |
| Ann Brown
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| Ellen Brueck |
| Maureen Burns |
| Patsy Carpenter |
| Robert Cherry |
Charles Braud
no e-mail
8264 Lockhart Road
Denham Springs, LA 70726
225-667-0182
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Susie Broussard
deceased 01/06/98
Bio information entered August, 2006
Susie Broussard Kitchens graduated from LSU with a degree in Speech Pathology.
While attending LSU, she met Paul Kitchens who was attending the LSU Law School.
They married while he was in law school and when he graduated, they moved back
to his home in Minden, LA.
She taught school until her daughter, Kristen, was born in 1974. Her son, Jon
Paul, was born in 1982.
Kristen is married to Clint Black, an attorney in Minden (in practice with
Paul’s office in Bossier City), and they have three sons- Samuel, 5, and twin
boys, Reed and Riley, who are 2.
John Paul is married to Paul Kitchen’s second wife’s daughter, Amy Rebecca.
After Paul met Cheryl, his wife, John Paul and Amy became close friends, then
fell in love and married. They live in North Chelmsford, MA where he is employed
by MIT Lincoln Labs. He will be attending graduate school this fall at MIT.
Susie was very involved in her church serving in many capacities there. Church
and family were everything to her.
During the mid to late 80’s, Susie was diagnosed with breast cancer. She battled
it for many years moving in and out or remission. Finally she succumbed to the
disease on January 6, 1998.
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Floyd Brown
has requested not to be contacted
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Ann Brown
annbrown_singleton@yahoo.com
1855 Country Club Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
225-281-1006 (cell)
225-925-2149 (home)
225-927-5532(work)
866-927-5532 (toll free at work
Bio information updated March, 2018
Right after the war, when I was an infant, Mama and Daddy lived
in my Aunt Maud and Uncle Nap’s house which later became Diane Cunard’s home on
Camellia Avenue. When I was five, my Dad and Mom moved back to Baker from Baton
Rouge. In 1952, they bought the Wedge Keyes house on Groom Road right across the
street from Bill Nettles, right down the street from Jimmy White and very soon
right across the back street from Ankey Martin.
I was one of those who started first grade and graduated from high school on the
same campus. We walked to school every day. We rode horses and bicycles, played
baseball on our back lot and ran through those dusty streets before they were
paved. And for those who remember, wasn’t BREC summer camp there on the school
grounds a great way to pass long, endless, lazy summer days? We rode our
bicycles until ten at night and had massive "kick the can" games in our yard for
the entire neighborhood. How foreign that would all seem to kids today.
After graduation from BHS, I moved on campus at LSU and never lived in Baker
again. In 1968, armed with my degree in Journalism (now dressed up to be called
Mass Communications), I became the first female television reporter in Baton
Rouge and the second in the state.
I also married my first husband and as little said about that sorry, sad
experience, the better. I only stayed as long as I did because Mama, who taught
at Baker Junior High, was diagnosed with cancer. She died October 30, 1974 and I
left him on November 15, 1974.
With my new degree in hand, I was hired by WAFB TV as the first female news reporter in Baton Rouge and the second in the state. After I left WAFB, I went to work for the LA Department of Public Safety, where I became the first female public information officer for the department. After a number of non-productive but sometimes interesting years there (prostitution and drug raids can be interesting), I left to join an independent public relations and television production company. We hosted the program which later became WLPB’s "The State We’re In." We produced documentaries and political campaigns. While working with one of those campaigns for Agriculture Commissioner, I was asked to join the newly elected commissioner’s office as his press secretary.
It didn’t take me long to know that I had made the wrong move and that this
man was headed for jail. So to keep from having to constantly apologize to the
press for the outrageous things he said and did, I created a marketing section
in the Department, wrote and secured passage of the marketing legislation which
today allows farmers to band together for advertising and marketing their
product... and I looked for a way out
In a fit of stupidity and desperation, I decided to open a clothing store in
Baton Rouge. This was at a time when independently owned stores still had a
chance of competing with the department stores for a market share. But I really
never cared what color women would be wearing in the fall.
I remarried and then, when I was 37, I had a beautiful baby girl. The store was
somewhat successful until…upon the airwaves, unseen messages were sent to all
women in town saying the oil patch had dried up and no one should ever buy
clothing again. And it was about this time, I discovered the career I should
have had all along. I studied for my Series 7 exam (much like a CPA exam) and
passed first time out (not so common). I became an investments broker and
financial advisor. While beginning my new career, smash and grab burglars put
the cap on my stint as a retail magnate. My father, Earl Brown, died of cancer
in 1985.
And I love what I do for a living. I know there are people who have jobs that
save lives or save souls but I really love being able to guide people into a
better financial situation. I have been doing this for twenty years this year. I
like nothing better than designing a portfolio and monitoring those securities.
Weird, huh? I’m still working at nearly 71 years old because I love what I do
for a living and my clients have become friends and friends have become clients.
When my daughter was seven, my husband, Hy Forman, died at my office. Our
daughter, Mary (named after Mama), was in second grade. In a couple of years, I
remarried…actually married one of my clients. I had cold-called him when I
originally went in business so I guess that’s a pretty unusual way of meeting
someone. Jack Singleton adopted my daughter at her request and has been a great
father to her. She is a talented artist and is living in New Orleans where she
is meeting great success as an artist.
We no longer ride motorcycles) and are restoring a mid-century modern house that
I love. It was featured in the Summer, 2006 issue of Atomic Ranch magazine and
was in the 1957 issue of House Beautiful. Jack is retired and plays with street
rods.
I began a new venture three years ago and travel the state giving seminars for
BellSouth employees everywhere outside of the New Orleans area. That is in
addition to my regular financial practice.
I am twice past president of the LSU Manship School of Mass Communications
Alumni Board and currently serve on the Executive Board. We secured the
commitment from the state to restore the J-School building which is the oldest
building on the LSU campus. It is just beautiful now.
I am currently taking Spanish lessons and knitting lessons in my spare time.
We still rescue animals but no longer foster them as all our current pups are
elderly and we won’t put them under stress.
"I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
Ellen Brueck Halphen
deceased 02/01/2017
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Maureen Burns Lobrano
mlobrano@yahoo.com
18654 Bellingrath Lakes Avenue
Greenwell Springs, LA 70739
225-775-3870
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Patsy Carpenter Mullen
jackandpatsy@aol.com
502 East Buffwood Drive
Baker, LA 70714
225-774-5655
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Robert (Bobby Joe) Cherry
bobchorses@tampabay.rr.com
6683 West Sentinel Bluff Path
Beverly Hills, FL 34465
352-270-3274
Bio information entered September, 2006
The Life and Times of Bob Cherry
I started the first grade at Baker Elementary and with the exception of
going to Glen Oaks Jr. High for the last half of the eighth grade after my
grandmother passed away, I completed my entire schooling at Baker. Many of my
fellow graduates don't know just what to call me (be nice now!), but I know who
I have known the longest as they call me Bobby Joe. The folks who joined us in
Jr. High call me Robert and anyone knowing me for the last forty years just call
me Bob. Bobby has returned, as many are now calling me that. Am I growing
younger? I can't say that I was ever an inspired academic student, but was
rather an ardent student of television and motion pictures. I think I always
wanted to be an actor, even though I was following the wishes of my parents by
saying I wanted to study medicine. I seem to have had a talent for taking those
national tests, as I always did well on them, but can't remember many times when
I ever had my homework done. If it weren't for some of my fellow students, I
would have considered most of my pre-college years like waiting for a bus to
come along and take me somewhere. I realize it was a learning experience and I
learned a lot during those times. My fondest memories of Baker High were both
our graduation and Senior Day. I loved those days and the fun we had together
as a class.
After graduation, I did the LSU thing and must admit I was not glad to be
there. One thing I will fondly remember is that I ran into Susie Broussard and
we stopped and had a long conversation. It was a great
meeting and I will always treasure that conversation. I made short work of LSU
and after one semester I was on active duty in the Navy. Smartest move I ever
made. It was before Viet Nam blew up and I had almost completed the Navy's
Hospital Corps. School when I even learned that there was such a country. I
learned, because we were told they were cutting the school short and shipping us
overseas. When orders day came around, I was assigned to the Naval Hospital in
San Diego for advance medical training. Time passed and I received my marching
orders to go to China Lake, California for deployment to you know where. Just
as I am about to pack, I received word that my orders were cancelled and I would
remain in sunny southern Calif. until my discharge. It seems that as I was
dispensing narcotics and there
had been so many before me either using or selling the goodies that I was
considered indispensable in that capacity. After discharge, I returned home and
back to LSU. I lasted three more semesters before I had had enough and started
my new career at Exxon Chemical Plant. Big Mistake! I decided that it wasn't
my cup of tea and resigned. In 1972, I was in New Orleans attending a Naval
Reserve recruiting school when I met my future wife, Susan "Sue" Keen. I
courted her for three months and we were married in Mar. I didn't want to let
her get away and we have been together through thick and thin for 33 years now.
Our only child was born three years later. Karen Marie Cherry is now thirty,
recently divorced and living with Sue and I. No grandchildren! Both my wife
and Karen have degrees in Computer Science. In 1980 I joined the La. National
Guard. I became an administrator and was back on active military duty. I did
my full enlistment of three years and we moved back to the New Orleans area.
In 1986, I enrolled full time at the Univ. of New Orleans. It
was a totally enjoyable experience. I am proud to say I was on the dean's list
or president's academic excellence lists the entire time I was there. First of
all, I was studying the thing I always wanted, motion picture and television
production and of course acting. I received my BA in Communications in 1988.
To date, I have worked in a total of six major motion pictures, about fifteen
commercials and an industrial film. I have been a member of the
Screen Actors Guild since 1989.
I loved the work, but the
need for steady income to pay bills, feed the family and even hope to retire
overcame the love of work and thus back to the salt mines. I joined the U. S.
Customs Service and was placed on the Mexican border at Eagle
Pass, Texas. Folks, the Mexican border is not the grandest place to work,
although I did enjoy my time there. Due to the bad school situation in Eagle
Pass, I refused to place my daughter in school there, so I returned to Louisiana
and became a probation and parole officer working in both Amite and Gretna. My
wife was working for a company in New Orleans that was headquartered in Tampa,
Florida and had a golden opportunity to relocate to their computer center in
central Florida. We decided to let her have her
glory and made the move. I retested for the federal gov't. and went to work for
the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. A few years ago we became the
U.S. Customs and Border Protection. I am currently assigned to the Tampa office
as an inspector and hope to retire by the end of next year. The service
has afforded us with both a good steady income and the benefits all of us hope
to have with an occupation. I have made some wise investments, especially in
Florida real estate, and as of now we are very comfortable.
Sue and I love to travel. We are considering buying a motor home in the near
future and traveling a lot after retirement. I have always considered
California as my second home and we have extensively traveled there. We also
enjoy Las Vegas, Reno and Colorado. We were in Colorado Springs in 1975 when
Sue got a craving for German food. After we returned home to Louisiana, we
learned she was carrying Karen.
Besides wanting my family and I to live long into retirement in good health and see world peace, my fondest desire is to return to acting and work at it until I die. The strange thing is that I have little desire to see myself on the screen once the final work is completed. I just love the process of putting it together. In my acting career, I have worked closely with John Wayne, Richard Pryor and Paul Newman to name a few. If you have an opportunity to see the film "Blaze", the scene where Paul Newman as Earl Long has a heart attack, I set that scene up from the time of the heart attack until he was taken across the street. Talk about walking in the clouds that day, not to mention a very nice payday!
Sue and I have five dogs. We now have three in an outdoor dog
pen, a fourth on the mend in the house and the fifth is a one-year-old Chihuahua
"Scarlet" who is the actual owner of our home. As for hobbies, genealogy is a
passion with me. I have been compiling records for almost forty years and I
constantly get a history lesson while doing research, not to mention the
numerous "cousins" I have met. I was even the best man at the wedding of Robert
Cherry from Glasgow, Scotland. There are over three hundred years
since our families parted company in Northern Ireland. You should have seen me
in a kilt. Just don't ask what I wore under it!
My philosophy on life:
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