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LA HR44
Resolution
Status
4/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Vanessa Caston Lafleur
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AI Summary
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Expresses condolences of the Louisiana House of Representatives upon the death of Roena Isabelle Wilford, who passed away on April 2, 2025
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Recognizes Wilford as one of five siblings who in 1956 became the first African American students to integrate the Baton Rouge public school system and were listed as plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education
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Honors her role as Southern University's first-ever female Student Government Association president (1970-1971), where she introduced the school's first student loan program and the first $200 stipend for Miss Southern
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Acknowledges her career as an educator teaching physics and math at Baton Rouge Magnet High School and later as a physics instructor at Southern University from 1983 until her retirement in 2004
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Recognizes her community service including chartering the Nu Gamma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in Baton Rouge on February 16, 1980, and her volunteer work with Girl Scouts and local schools
Legislative Description
Expresses condolences of the House on the death of Roena Isabelle Wilford
CONDOLENCES
Last Action
Taken by the Clerk of the House and presented to the Secretary of State in accordance with the Rules of the House.
4/25/2025