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St. Martin's Episcopal School
St. Martin's Episcopal School is a diocesan private school, private college preparatory school in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb in New Orleans metropolitan area, Greater New Orleans. It is affiliated with St. Martin's Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. The school also operates George Cottage, an early childhood program for infants and children up to age 3, after which they may opt to join the main school. History St. Martin's Episcopal School was founded in 1947 as a co-educational, independent school. It was the first Episcopal school in the region and operated originally as a parish elementary school on the grounds of its namesake church. It moved to the current campus on Green Acres Road in 1950 to accommodate the growing number of students. A high school was added to meet the demand, and it remains the only Episcopal High School in the region. The early childhood learning program, George Cottage, was opened in 2004. Nearly four thousand students have g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metairie, Louisiana
Metairie ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, and is part of the New Orleans metropolitan area. With a population of 143,507 in 2020, Metairie is the largest community in Jefferson Parish and was (as of 2010) the fifth-largest CDP in the United States. It is an unincorporated area that (as of 2020) would have been Louisiana's fourth-largest city behind Shreveport if incorporated."Metairie, Louisiana (LA) Detailed Profile" (notes), ''City Data'', 2019, webpageC-Metr "Census 2020 Data for the State of Louisiana" (town list), US Census Bureau, May 2003, webpageC2020-LA Etymology ''Métairie'' () is the French term for a small tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce, a practice also known as sharecropping (in French, ''métayage''). In the 1760s many of the original French farmers were tenants; after the Civil War, the majority of the community's inhabitants were sharecroppers until urbanization started in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ninth Grade
Ninth grade, freshman year, or grade 9 is the ninth year of school education in some school systems. Ninth grade is often the first school year of secondary school, high school in the United States, or the last year of middle school#United States, middle/junior high school. In some countries, Grade 9 is the second year of high school. Students are usually 14–15 years old. In the United States, it is often called the freshman year. Afghanistan In Afghanistan, ninth grade is the first year of high school. Argentina In Argentina, this is "Second Year" 3 years or (depending on the province) "Third Year". Students are aged 13–14 during the first part of the year and 14-15 during the second part of the year. This is because, in Argentina, there's kindergarten, high school primary school, and secondary school. In some provinces of the country primary is from "1st grade" to "7th grade" and secondary school from "1st year" to "5th year". In other provinces, primary school is from "1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana House Of Representatives
The Louisiana House of Representatives (french: link=no, Chambre des Représentants de Louisiane) is the lower house in the Louisiana State Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This chamber is composed of 105 representatives, each of whom represents approximately 42,500 people (2000 figures). Members serve four-year terms with a term limit of three terms (twelve years). The House is one of the five state legislative lower houses that has a four-year term, as opposed to the near-universal two-year term. The House convenes at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Leadership The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The speaker is customarily recommended by the governor (although this is not in House rules), then elected by the full House. In addition to presiding over the body, the speaker is also the chief leadership position, and controls the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The Louisiana House of Representat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Talbot
Michael Kirk Talbot (born November 18, 1969) is an American politician from Louisiana. A Republican, Talbot has represented the 10th district in the Louisiana State Senate since 2020, and previously represented the 78th district in the Louisiana House of Representatives between 2008 and 2020. Education Talbot attended Saint Martin's Episcopal School in his native Metairie in Jefferson Parish and holds an undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Political career First elected in the 2007 general election against Harahan Councilwoman Tiffany Scot Wilken to replace the term-limited District 78 Representative Shirley D. Bowler, a Republican who had served since 1992. Cuts to higher education Talbot is a proponent of reduced spending by Louisiana government, specifically naming higher education as an area ripe for cutting. In a June 15, 2009, letter to the editor of the ''Times-Picayune'' (New Orleans), Talbot explicitly oppose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugénie Rocherolle
Eugénie Ricau Rocherolle is an American composer, pianist, lyricist, and teacher who began her composing career with choral and band music.Hal Leonard Corporatio''Eugenie Rocherolle Series'' Biography Rocherolle grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans. She graduated from St. Martin's Episcopal School and graduated with a BA in music from the Newcomb College of Tulane University. She spent her Junior Year of college in Paris where she also had a class with Nadia Boulanger. She released her first piano solo collection in 1978 with great success and soon established herself as one of the leading American composers of piano repertoire. Throughout her lifetime she has composed works for solo voice, chorus, and orchestra, musical theater, as well as chamber music for a variety of instruments. She was one of seven composer members of the National League of American Pen Women whose works were chosen to be presented in concert at the Terrace Theater in the John F. Kennedy Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congressman
A Member of Congress (MOC) is a person who has been appointed or elected and inducted into an official body called a congress, typically to represent a particular constituency in a legislature. The term member of parliament (MP) is an equivalent term within a parliamentary system of government. United States In referring to an individual lawmaker in their capacity of serving in the United States Congress, a bicameral legislature, the term ''Member of Congress'' is used less often than other terms in the United States. This is because in the United States the word ''Congress'' is used as a descriptive term for the collective body of legislators, from both houses of its bicameral federal legislature: the Senate and the House of Representatives. For this reason, and in order to distinguish who is a member of which house, a member of the Senate is typically referred to as Senator (followed by "name" from "state"), and a member of the House of Representatives is usually referred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. (born April 30, 1943) is an American lobbyist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999. A Republican, he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a position he declined following revelations of an extramarital affair. He served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1977 to 1999 and as the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995 to 1999. During his final years in Congress, Livingston was a strong supporter of Bill Clinton's impeachment. He is currently a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist. Livingston's memoir, ''The Windmill Chaser: Triumphs and Less in American Politics'', was published in September 2018. Family Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is a descendant of the Livingston family of New York, whose members include Philip, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence; Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhett Lewis
Rhett Lewis Kleinschmidt (born March 23, 1983) is an American sports reporter and previously the host of NFL Network's weekday morning show ''NFL AM''. Early years Lewis was born and raised in Metairie, Louisiana, the son of Marlene and NFL athletic trainer Dean Kleinschmidt. He attended Indiana University, where he played football and majored in sports broadcasting. In his middle school years, he was diagnosed with a severe case of Osgood-Schlatter Disease. Accomplishments In 2017, he founded The Sam Dozier Champions Cup in honor of former St. Martin's Episcopal School Coach Sam "The Bull" Dozier. Career In May 2009, he joined WHDH Boston as a sports reporter after serving as a sports director for KLBK in Texas for two years. In July 2014, he joined NFL Network as a host of "NFL AM." In May 2022, Lewis was named the new radio analyst for Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Lewis (basketball)
Gerald Lewis (born March 25, 1971) is an American retired basketball player. A 1.90 m guard, he led the Euroleague in steals during the 1998–99 season with 2.5 per game. It was his first and last participation in the competition, playing for KK Zadar. Lewis is a 1989 graduate of St. Martin's Episcopal School in Metairie, Louisiana. He was inducted into the school's Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011. From 1989 to 1993, Lewis played for the SMU Mustangs men's basketball team. Lewis has also worked as an assistant coach for the New Mexico State Aggies and Southeastern Louisiana Lions. He coached at David W. Carter High School before joining St. Augustine High School The name St. Augustine High School could refer to: In the United States: * St. Augustine Academy (Lakewood, Ohio) * St. Augustine High School (Laredo, Texas) * St. Augustine High School (New Orleans), Louisiana * St. Augustine High School (San Di .... External links Fibaeurope.com profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature (french: Législature d'État de Louisiane) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is a bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana State Senate with 39 senators. Members of each house are elected from single-member districts of roughly equal populations. The Louisiana State Legislature meets in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. Early history Jean Noel Destréhan and Allan Bowie Magruder was selected by the joint legislature to be Louisiana's first United States Senators on 3 September 1812. Destréhan resigned within a month and was replaced with Thomas Posey. Terms Members of both houses of the legislature serve a four-year term, with a term limit of three terms (twelve years). Term limits were passed by state voters in a constitutional referendum in 1995 and were subsequently added as Article III, §4, of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Leopold
Christopher J. Leopold (born April 22, 1968), is a businessman from Belle Chasse, Louisiana, who is a former Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 105, primarily Plaquemines Parish. His district was numerically the last of the state House districts. Background A native of southeastern Louisiana, Leopold graduated in 1986 from St. Martin's Episcopal School in Metairie in Jefferson Parish. In 1990, he earned a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. He later attended the Institute of Politics at Loyola University New Orleans. Since 1989, he has been self-employed in commercial real estate development. He also operates an off-shore linen service and engages in specialty advertising sales. Leopold is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, United Way of America, YMCA, Ducks Unlimited, Rotary International, and the Roman Catholic men's organization, the Knights of Columbus. He and his wife, the former Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Harris
Leigh Harris (July 27, 1954 – September 21, 2019) was a New Orleans R&B and jazz singer and songwriter. Early life Harris was born July 27, 1954, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Gertrude Morris Middleton and Allan Joseph Harris, Jr. Leigh was the eldest of three, her sisters being Sally and Ellen. Her father, a manufacturer's representative for the Allan J. Harris Company by trade, was a clarinetist, with a love for Big Band and Dixieland music. Her mother was founder and director of the Little Schoo (a ministry of St. Martin's Church) where she also taught. Harris showed talent at a very young age. Shortly after her first birthday, she was humming lullabies back to her parents; six months later, she'd added the lyrics... "and I haven't ever really shut my face since" she told poet John Sinclair (poet), John Sinclair in a 1999 interview. She performed in plays in the backyard of her family's home in Old Metairie, and was writing folk songs when she was a student a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
