Eunice High School
Eunice High School is a public high school located in Eunice, in the far western end of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. It is operated by the St. Landry Parish School Board.[1] Eunice High graduated its first class in 1910; the current building was built in 1966. In 1969, St. Landry Parish's former Charles Drew High School for African-American students was merged into Eunice High as part of desegregation.[2]
Eunice High School athletics
Eunice High School is a member of the LHSAA or Louisiana High School Athletic Association. The Eunice High School Battling Bobcats are in District 4-4A and participate in football, baseball, softball, track, basketball, and tennis.
Notable alumni
- Kyries Hebert - American football player[3]
- Curtis Joubert, former mayor of Eunice and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, was a teacher, basketball coach, and assistant principal at Eunice High School in the early 1960s. He was the "Southwest Louisiana Coach of the Year" in 1961-1962. He graduated in 1948 from the former Lawtell High School in St. Landry Parish.[4]
- Elwyn Nicholson - Louisiana state senator from Jefferson Parish from 1972 to 1988; grocery chain owner[5]
- Keith Ortego - American football player[6]
- Dale Sittig (Class of 1959) - Director of the Louisiana Offshore Termninal Authority; former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and the Louisiana House of Representatives
- Stuart Turner - baseball player[7]
References
- ^ Eunice High Student Handbook
- ^ History of Eunice High
- ^ "Kyries Hebert". databaseFootball.com 1. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
- ^ "From the Files of The Eunice News, November 1962". eunicetoday.com. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ^ "Sen. Elwyn Nicholson, a West Bank grocer, Jean Lafitte National Park proponent, dies at 90". New Orleans Times-Picayune. October 10, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Keith Ortego". databaseFootball.com. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
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