Lafayette Educator Retires After over 50 Years Dedicated to Inspiring Students

Lafayette educator retires after over 50 years dedicated to inspiring students

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- News 10 has an inspirational story about a local teacher who dedicated 52 and a half years to teaching. For Ms. Pearl Evans, her over five decades in the classroom represent a dream fulfilled. On Tuesday, Evans packs away her teaching tools at Lafayette's Northside High School to advance into a class all her own. As the campus at Northside High falls silent for the summer, teachers return to clean up their classrooms and…

Truster retires after more than 50 years with Riverside

When Kenny Truster started teaching physical education at Riverside High School, Richard Nixon was president, Hank Aaron was chasing Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record, Ali and Foreman duked it out in the “Rumble in the Jungle”, and “Happy Days” was beginning to elbow its way to the top of the TV ratings. But after teaching three generations of Pirates the finer points of bear crawls, tossing a softball or baseball, or just being part of the t…