Fortier High School Memory Book
(2/9/10)
Name of Classmate: Juge, Richard (Dick) Alcee; Kuss Juge, Nancy Jane; 50 years
October 2010.
Further Educational accomplishments: Electrician's Mate US Coast Guard, 2 years at LSU (architecture),
student of insurance having earned CLU, CPCU and ChFC insurance industry designations
[15 yrs study], a 40 year career as an insurance agent, and retiring after 35
years with State Farm in 1999. Hobbies are computing and fishing, plus a bunch of other stuff.
Family history: Nancy Kuss Juge, will be my spouse of 50 years in October.
Not only is she a super wife but also an incredible mother, grandmother
and photographer. She did as much LSU as I had allowed,
but I grabbed her before someone else could. She is the daughter of Arnold Kuss,
our Fortier boy's counselor. Two children and four grandchildren; Oldest child,
daughter MBA Tulane grad - Jennifer Juge Kottler is married to Bob Kottler, also
MBA Tulane. Jen's an event manager,
former Tulane Alumni president residing in Arlington VA. Husband Bob Is an executive
with CapitalOne Bank (formerly Hibernia) and serves as manager of their small
business banking USA. Her 21 yr old daughter, Sarah Dunn, is
graduating May '10 from American University. Son Richard Emile Juge, is also Tulane Grad and owner
of RE/MAX Commercial Brokers (Metro New Orleans/Northshore) and is currently (
'10) serving as President of CCIM (Major educational/ethical and technical association
for Commercial Real Estate agents USA). Rich also teaches over the USA all 10
CCIM courses and lectures as well. He
and his wife will be going for his teaching assignment to Russia in May (He's
done 5 other overseas teaching jags in the past.). He married a super mom/wife, Beth, (also
a registered nurse when time allows) with three wonderful children. Charlie (age 11) 5th
grade student at Christian Brothers, Max (age 9) 3rd grade student
at St. Andrews Episcopal school on Carrollton Ave and our beautiful (trust me)
granddaughter, Isabelle,is a second grade gal at Sacred Heart on St. Charles. All of them love school and that trait
can be attributed to their great parents. (Am I biased? Of
course! Aren't you?)
Achievements and Occupational History: Of
my many activities of the past President and originator of the Terrytown Country
Club; President of Terrytown Civic Association; long time member of our Algiers
Kiwanis club; having written a biographical book (see www.TheHistoricNorthwestPassage.com)
regarding my 4 year Coast Guard tour and especially about participating in an
historic Arctic voyage; being a student of my former insurance occupation and
being extremely proactive politically in the industry and serving on FEMA's National
Flood Insurance Producer's panel as the only representative of the 65,000 captive
insurance agents plus serving as president of the Louisiana Association of State
Farm Agents; having had the opportunity to design and be contractor on both my
30 year residence, 30 year office structure; remodeling a camp into a great bayou
getaway plus finally building out a beautiful condo in an 1878 structure in downtown;
and getting involved in computing in the early years. Highlights also include
having such a great extended family and participating in many organizations (Rode
15 yrs with my son in Endymion parades) and civic duties. I also remember my tour
of duty with the Coast Guard fondly.
Early on I was fortunate to have been a member of our Fortier football
team and having developed such long-term friendship. Obviously in the spirit of
brevity, I 'm not mentioning a lot of other activities - 55 years is a long long
time to cover in a few paragraphs.
Fortier Reunions attended: I believe I 've done all our Reunions. of course resided in
New Orleans area my entire adult life which helped. I do believe I 've also done all of Nancy's '59 Class reunions
as well.
Other personal comments: Strongly know and believe that 'You are the maker of your own
joy and sorrow.'
Dick Juge
www.TheHistoricNorthwestPassage.com
www.MardiGrasFun.com
DickJuge@AViosk.com
