News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 10/14/03   SLU ADMINISTRATOR TO SHARE STORIES OF “HISTORY ON THE WATER”       HAMMOND -- Albert J. Doucette Jr., a Slidell native and associate dean of Southeastern Louisiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences, will share memories of his family’s long history on Lake Pontchartrain work boats as guest lecturer at the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum in Madisonville on Wednesday, Oct. 15.       The public is invited to the free 7 p.m. lecture, a special feature of the museum’s quarterly general membership meeting, said Roy Blackwood, coordinator of Southeastern Louisiana University Education Initiatives at the museum.       Blackwood said Doucette’s father and grandfather were captains of packet boats that hauled goods across Lake Pontchartrain to the north shore.       “I have heard many stories of the Schooner boats that plied their trade in the area around Slidell,” said Doucette. “As a boy my father would take me fishing in bayous Liberty, Bonfouca and Paquet and point out where ‘the old sawmill’ or the ‘brick kiln’ was located or where my great grandfather tied up his schooner on the day that the nor’wester kicked up just before they got on the lake. I love these stories and I love to share them.”       Doucette is a graduate of Southern University and Louisiana State University, where he received his doctoral degree in zoology in 1985. He was a member of the Southeastern biological sciences faculty from 1985 to 1990 before being named assistant, then associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He recently served for a year as interim dean. He also has taught at Tennessee Technological University.       For additional information about the lecture, contact Blackwood at 985-549-2662 or cblackwood@selu.edu. Return to News Releases