[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 251 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 251

 Congratulating St. Bernard Parish Public Schools Superintendent Doris 
Voitier for her receipt of the 2007 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage 
                                 Award.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 2007

Mr. Melancon submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Congratulating St. Bernard Parish Public Schools Superintendent Doris 
Voitier for her receipt of the 2007 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage 
                                 Award.

Whereas Doris Voitier has served the St. Bernard Parish school district for more 
        than 35 years, and on August 10, 2004, Doris Voitier was named 
        Superintendent of the St. Bernard Parish Public Schools;
Whereas on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana;
Whereas St. Bernard Parish was under as much as 21 feet of water due to levee 
        breaks from the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina;
Whereas Doris Voitier remained in a shelter at Chalmette High School with 1500 
        other people for four days after Hurricane Katrina;
Whereas on September 24, 2005, Hurricane Rita made landfall, and St. Bernard 
        Parish was again flooded;
Whereas all housing, businesses, and government buildings, including all 15 
        schools in the parish, were either destroyed or severely damaged;
Whereas Ms. Voitier, feeling that Federal emergency assistance was not 
        appropriated quickly enough, borrowed parish school funds to purchase 
        trailers to serve as portable classrooms and to house teaching staff, 
        and rallied local residents to help with cleanup of the Chalmette High 
        School parking lot;
Whereas on November 14, 2005, only 11 weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Doris 
        Voitier opened the St. Bernard Unified School, for 334 students out of 
        the 8,000 who had been enrolled before the disaster; and
Whereas St. Bernard Parish is scheduled to open five school buildings to serve 
        nearly 4,000 returning students by August 2007: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That the House of Representatives--
            (1) commends Doris Voitier for her efforts to rebuild St. 
        Bernard Parish schools; and
            (2) congratulates Doris Voitier for being named one of the 
        recipients of the 2007 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage 
        Award.
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