NEW PAPA
From Wayne Cosby ..., June 15, 1999

I just wanted to let you all know that my son, Todd, became a father this afternoon. Todd Cosby and Danielle Barnes are proud to announce the arrival of Tristin Wayne Cosby at 4:07 PM. He weighed 7 lbs., 9 ozs. and both mother and son are doing quite well. I guess that makes me "Gramps" now and keeping with my true spirit, "who cares?" I will gladly accept gifts of canes, hearing aids, hair dye, and Depends ( adult diapers). Thank you friends.

COMMEMORATIVE AREAS CHANGING NAMES
Baton Rouge ..., August 4, 1999

Starting this month, the Office of State Parks will have a new designation for properties formerly know as state commemorative areas. The new title "state historic site" was approved by legislative action during the 1999 session and signed into law by Governor Mike Foster. "State Parks requested the change to more clearly identify the theme of these facilities to visitors," said Lt. Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.

The 15 State Park holdings now known as historic sites present a wide range of historical and cultural themes. From plantation life and the Civil War to American Indian mound complexes and frontier forts built during the western migration of European settlers, a variety of lifestyles from Louisiana's past are preserved for visitors' observation and study. The range of history spans a time period from 1500 B.C., when ancient cultures built ridges and mounds within the area preserved now as the Poverty Point State Historic Site, to 1909, when the Plaquemine Lock (now a historic site) was completed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.

"The new title will be phased in over the next several years," said Dwight Landreneau, assistant secretary of the Office of State Parks. "We can update our website now, and stationery and new brochures as we print them. Highway signs and entrance gate signs will be replaced in stages."

MEMBER ROSTER

Thomas Walsh, #01, 10/18/91

Michael J. Labiche, #03, 10/18/91

N. Wayne Cosby, #06, 10/18/91

Louis A.P. Courville, #08, 10/18/91

James H. Chauvin, #11, 10/18/91

Stuart Salling, #13, 10/18/91

Lee Bartlett, #14, 10/18/91

Steven B. Sinitiere, #18, 10/25/91

Clark P. Mouton, #26, 04/25/93

Steven L. Driskell, #27, 09/07/93

Gabe Courville, #30, 01/05/95

Ray O., #32, 03/25/95

Raymond O., #33, 03/25/95

Joey J. Migues, #37, 11/01/96

Paul Boudreaux, #39, 12/01/96

Jude Brand, #40, 03/17/97

Glenn Richard