Photo attached: Pictured in front of the Los Islenos Museum,
Front Row, Left to Right: Aaron Ritsig, Erica Cornell, Alexa Chaikowsky, Kinsey Green, Brianna Higgins, Jenna Paratore, Alex Vaughn, and Andrew Ritsig. Back Row, Left to Right: Trelyn Nelson, Catelynn Fleming, Saira Walker, Jocelyn Whitman, Lauren Yeager, and Casey McVay.
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Clarion University — Venango’s CU Serve club traveled to New Orleans, LA, during the spring break to explore the culture and history of one of the most unique cities in America, and to complete service projects at the Los Islenos Fiesta in St. Bernard Parish and ARC of Greater New Orleans.
Participants included group leaders Casey McVay (CU Serve Advisor/Assistant Director of Admissions, of Franklin, PA), Catelynn Fleming (Student Activities & Residence Life Coordinator, of Oil City, PA), and Jenna Paratore (Community Member, of Oil City, PA), and 11 students: Alexa Chaikowsky (of Bethlehem, PA), Erica Cornell (of Oil City), Kinsey Green (of Chicora, PA), Brianna Higgins (of Eldred, PA), Trelyn Nelson (of Meadville, PA), Aaron Ritsig (of Emlenton, PA), Andrew Ritsig (CU Serve Secretary/Treasurer, of Emlenton, PA), Alex Vaughn (of Eldred, PA), Saira Walker (of Altoona, PA), Jocelyn Whitman (CU Serve President, of Franklin, PA), and Lauren Yeager (of Bellefonte, PA).
The group toured the St. Louis Cemetery #1, where Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen, Dutch Morial, NOLA’s first African-American mayor, Homer Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark civil-rights case Plessy v. Ferguson, and Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of the U.S. Capitol, are buried.