Rotary Club Hears from Superintendent of Schools Darwan Lazard

March 21, 2017

       Evangeline Parish Superintendent of Schools Darwan Lazard was the featured speaker today (Tuesday) at the Ville Platte Rotary Club Meeting. Lazard gave his classification talk to club members.

      Lazard is has been married for 20 years to his wife who has been a teacher at Vidrine Elementary and they are the parents of three children. He has spent 24 years in the school system including principal at three schools in the parish. For the past ten  years, Lazard was Assistant Superintendent.

    Lazard has been serving as pastor since 1997 of the Ninth Baptist Church, the largest Protestant church in Evangeline Parish. The church was established in 1873.

    Lazard was selected unanimously by the school board to succeed retiring Toni Hamlin and became the youngest serving school superintendent.

    While his siblings moved with their mother to New Jersey, Lazard stayed in Ville Platte and was raised by his grandmother, Mrs. Pearl LeDay who worked for many years at Ville Platte High school cafeteria.

    Lazard was introduced by Annette Johnson who was in charge of the day’s program.

    In other news, Dr. Willie Buller paid tribute to the late Dr. John Couvillion who died last week. He was an Assistant Chancellor and instructor at LSU E for 20 years and helped the Ville Platte Rotary Club begin an endowed scholarship for the school. It has become the largest endowed scholarship at LSU Eunice.

    Ville Platte Mayor Jennifer Vidrine announced that the Boys and Girls Club will begin another session of classes June 1 at its new location: at the old Heritage Manor Nursing Home.

     The Rotary District 6200 will sponsor its annual Camp Rylla for young people this year at the Mountain Bayou Boy Scout Camp near Bayou Chicot on June 1;

    And the rotary club will sponsor a cooking booth at this year’s Grand Hoorah Festival April 21 and 22.