Frank Charles Delana – Social Studies Liberal Arts, 1928

Frank Charles Delana – Class of 1928

Bachelor of  Arts

College of Liberal Arts, SLI

Major – Social Studies

Minors – English, Mathematics and Sciences

Master Degree (M.Ed. – LSU – 1950)

                Throughout my college days, teaching was my goal. I sought advice from the Dean and earned the required college hours to obtain a teaching certificate from the State Department of Education, State of Louisiana. I started to teach in 1928 at the Milton High School as a substitute teacher. In 1929, I was assigned to teach and coach athletics at the Broussard High School. I was a graduate of that high school in 1924, the only male in a class of six graduates …. the first boy to graduate at that high school. From Broussard High School, I continued my career at the Scott High School, Carencro High School and Lafayette High School.

                I became Principal of the Carencro High School in 1941 and in 1948, I was appointed Supervisor of Instructions and Assistant Superintendent of Lafayette Parish Public schools. During the years of 1944 and 1945, I served as a cryptographic technician in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, Pacific Ocean War Zone.

                From 1964 to 1971, I served as Superintendent of Lafayette Parish schools and retired on November 30, 1971.

                My father, Frank Delana, immigrated from Austria in the late 1880’s,  landed in Lafayette and worked as a farm hand on the Girard farm which is now the USL campus.

                In 1939, I married Lena Bernard who attended USL in the 1930’s. We had two daughters–Sharon Bollich and Paulette Fishback. Sharon earned a USL degree in the Business College; Paulette attended for a short term in the business division. Lena died in 1959 and in 1968, I married Helen Ortego–B.S. degree in Business Administration at USL – 1949.