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119	5 February 2015	Ladies of the ‘Women’s Library Club’ of Lake Arthur, LA!	# 36 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’/ 21. My mom was a member of this	wonderful group and I am so happy they are here!	Heritage Workshop
120	21 February 2015	Bridal Shower for the bride-elect of my	nephew of New Orleans to be held on Arthur Avenue/30 women (9 men!)	Arthur Avenue Heritage #37 Tour then offered!	AAHT
121	09 March 2015	#14 ‘Place Based Heritage Education’ Day on Arthur Avenue	‘Young Historians Club’, St. Margaret Catholic School, Lake Charles/Teacher-Kayla Booth/23	Place Based Heritage Education	Heritage Workshop
	14 March 2015	Completed paper and pics listed in 300 ‘Journal and Binders’	Link age 16 to age 67…52 years of gathering, preserving, sustaining and making relevant and I’m not yet finished!!	Heritage and Archival Special Collections!
	17 March 2015	Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, artifacts donated	to the CSPH Heritage Center; received from his widow ‘Katrin.’	CSPH Heritage Center
	18 March 2015	Catholic diocesan television taping	Airing: April, May, June 2015	Segment: Lead, Kindly Light!	Diocesan Television
	28 March 2015	Wedding of the first child of my youngest	brother. Invited to be Reader 1…an honor and privilege indeed!	St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church,	New Orleans, LA
122	3 April 2015	#38 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ for	Isaac Jared Edwards of Chapel Hill, NC…a special friend of Los Pontons!	A Pilgrimage Commences!
123	10 April 2015	#39 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ D.A.R.’s	of Lake Charles, LA/10	Alice Tippin, Coordinator	Heritage Workshop
	15-19 April 2015	Conference trip to Las Vegas, NV Forward to	visit Holy Trinity Abbey, Huntsville, Utah/ Trappists. On to Salt Lake City	surround mountain drives then home!
124	23 April 2015	#15 Place Based Heritage Education Day on Arthur Avenue	Redemptorist Catholic 4^th Grade Social Studies Unit Class, Crowley, LA/29	Place Based Heritage Education	Heritage Workshop
	24 April 2015	My dear father’s 98^th birthday In The Light!	Thank you for being my father who brought me up in the faith and	provided for me wholistically! I named my	son after your father!
	14 May 2015	Cantor Mass in Amelia Manor Nursing Home,	Lafayette; Fr. Donald Pelous, Celebrant. We shall sing El Pescador!	A grand lunch post-Mass catching up on all!
	20 May 2015	Dear Renee added yet another shelf in my	home study to hold the canon of Thomas Merton and Monastic Spirituality books. I now have room	for Journals and Binders through to the year 2029; I will be 82 years of age!!	Thank you RAR for a priceless gift!
125	23 May 2015	# 40 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with	the wonderful CDA ladies of Westlake, LA./9 women & 4 men!	Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour	Heritage Workshop
	25 May 2015	50^th Year High School Commencement!	St. Maria Goretti Catholic High School, Lake Arthur, LA. There were	20 in our 1965 graduation class/seven girls!
	29 May 2015	Luncheon meeting with the ‘Five Points of Light”-	GFSingers ladies to discuss Germanfest rehearsal and performances: Josie Thevis, Anna	Kormesser, Simone Dubois, RAR, ABMP! Fun!
	30 May 2015	Jubilee Eucharist Celebration, Villa de	Matel, Houston, TX…Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word!	The St. Pat’s Sisters!
	02 June 2015	Meeting with Philip Fabacher, M.D. at the German Heritage	Museum initiating a confluent ‘Roberts Cove Heritage Signage’ Project for Germanfest 2016!	Roberts Cove Heritage Signage
	06 June 2015	‘Germanfest Folk Singers’ performing for	retired Jesuits, St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, LA! 12 priests!	Singers lunch afterward! 21 Folk Singers at table!
	14 June 2015	‘JHensgens Family Reunion’ in Welsh, LA	Hosted by the Family of Herman Lawrence & Barbara ‘Leona’ Hensgens-Berken-Smaihall	17^th JHensgens Family Reunion 2015	18^th Reunion 2017: Nicholas Anthony Hensgens Family
	24 June 2015	Catholic Diocesan Television Taping	Airing: July, August, September 2015	Segment: Lead, Kindly Light!
126	26 June 2015	#41 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with	the ‘Kinder Garden Club’ ladies!/11	Initiated/Leavon Ladner Jane Unkel, Coordinator
	27 June 2015	Annual ‘Patriots’ Ball’, Civic Center, Lake Charles, LA	honoring all U.S.A. military men and women in uniform having served, serving and who will serve!	My husband will be in dress blues! I am so proud, so grateful!
	10- 14 July 2015	‘National Association of Oblate Directors and	Oblates’ meeting, Subiaco Abbey, AR. So excited and humbled to attend.	Lkl.net!!! ‘In His Time!’
	17 July 2015	Christian Joseph Monlezun, nephew,	‘satellite marked’ the gravesite of his paternal great-great-grandmother	Cypress Point, LA. RAR dug 12 layers of bricks	down covered with silt 3 ½’ 130 years ago this year!
	16 July 2015	My mother-in-law’s 100^th birthday celebrating it in	The Light! She was a wonderful suegra and paternal grandmother for	our son whose middle name “Adolfo’ is for her	father!
	16 July Birthdays!	Our wonderful son celebrates his 33^rd	birthday and the very next day his Dad celebrates his 79^th! Both look	fantastic and are healthy! Thank You, God!
	31 July 2015	Lee Joseph Monlezun 30^th Anniversary year of	death 1917 – 1985…my wonderful father. Rest in peace, dear one. This year we placed an iron cross and	laid flowers on your paternal grandmother’s grave 130 years after	her death. She is now ‘marked!” Cypress Point, LA
127	01August 2015	#42 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with	St. Leo IV Catholic Daughters of America coordinated by Mary Jo	Olinger, cousin! They are so welcomed!/7	Heritage Workshop
	01 August 2015	At 9:00 a.m. Pascal Monlezun descendants/3 sat around the kitchen	table with their binders and folders seeking information about our lineage; we met for the first time	when they walked in the back door!! They then joined the ‘Heritage Tour’	with the RCove contingent…all together!!
	09 August 2015	A visit with my paternal second cousin, Enez Monlezun-Marx, age 98	inquiring of stories about her paternal grandfather, my great-uncle	and our sharing pics of her grandmothers’ gravesite	buried 130 years ago!
	09 & 23 August 2015	Germanfest Folk Singers Rehearsals	Roberts Cove, LA
	14 August 2015	Heritage investigative trip to the Abbeville, LA	Courthouse to search records on my paternal great-grandfather while he	and family resided at Cypress Point, LA	1876- …
	06/27 September 2015	Gernanfest Folk Singers Rehearsals	Roberts Cove, LA
	10-17 September 2015	Wonderful visit in Chapel Hill,/Cary, NC with my son, IJEdwards and	family and friends along with a tour of the lab at UNC Dental School where Isaac Jared built up a wax	tooth with the patience of Job! Beautiful and prestigious campus. They	also introduced me to ‘juicing!’ I’m in!
	23 September 2015	Catholic Diocesan Television Taping	Airing: November & December 2015
	3 & 4 October 2015	Roberts Cove Germanfest!	Direct ‘Germanfest Folk Singers’(#5) and Sunday Mass with St. Leo IV Choir. Proceeded to escort the retired	Jesuits, a novice and their Activities Coordinator around the grounds!!	Twas wonderful!
	19 October 2015	Induction into CDA St. Katherine Drexel Court, Lower Cameron Parish.	Court re-established post-H. Rita. In reverence and thanksgiving I am joining in honor of my foremothers	in The Broussard/Miller Family. Our mother court is CDA’s in Lake Arthur!!	Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour
	19 October 2015	‘Heritage Studies Series One’ ~ At The Veranda and Carriage House	at Graywood, LC. 25 hearty souls from Independent and Assisted Living residences.	Judy Naquin, Coordinated	Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour
128	23 October 2015	# 49 Silent Retreat on Arthur Avenue/10	Director, staff & volunteers – ‘New Life Counseling Ctr.’, Lake Charles	Silent Retreat Series	Heritage Workshop
129	30 October 2015	#43 ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tour’ with the	SWLA Cattle Women’s Association of SWLA! RAR facilitated!/7	Desere Richard, Coordinator	Heritage Workshop
130	06 November 2015	#16 ‘Place Based Heritage Education’ on Arthur Avenue!	St. Peter Catholic Elementary, Gueydan, LA/15 students and 13 adults. Constance Victoria did it!	Place Based Heritage Education
	10 November 2015	‘Heritage Talk’ ~ with the Retired Jesuits,	St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, LA	…to be rescheduled in 2016…
	17 November 2015	134 years ago today the Christian Hensgens	and Franz Anton Reiners families arrived in New Orleans, LA	from Germany to Roberts Cove, LA
	26 November 2015	HRP and I celebrate Thanksgiving in N.C. with	our son and Isaac Jared at the Edwards Farm…family galore and pics with all beautifully attired.	Home, barn and animals in a beautiful and undulated landscape.	I gave Pam Edwards Edelweiss seeds!
	28 November 2015	My dear Mom’s 15th year In The Light!	Miss her daily; pray to her daily. Rest in Peace, dear one. Thank you for being my mother, my first	teacher of the faith of our ancestors, 1600 to present!	Vigil of The First Sunday in Advent
	06 December 2015	75^th Year Celebration of ‘Handel’s Messiah”,	Bulber Auditorium., LC. My sister Constance Victoria donated tons	of hours toward this special performance!	Our parents loved Handel’s “Messiah”!
	16 December 2015	Catholic Diocesan Television Taping Dates	Airing January 2016	Segment: Lead, Kindly Light!
131	23 December 2015	Family Christmas Gathering! AAP and IJE home for Christmas/his first in LA! 66 in attendance-60 direct descendants/6 guest	As of March 2015…#80 Monlezun/Hensgens total family members – 51 direct descendants!	Second year “Sayings of Mom and Dad on a Candy Cane!” #50-100	Family Chronicles!
	27 December 2015	Anna ‘Gertrude’ Hensgens-Monlezun’s 94^th birthday!	(1921-2000)…my wonderful mother. Rest in Peace, dear one.		Feast of the Holy Family!

Totals to 06 November 2015	Link Categories: Silent Retreats: 1989 Virginia and Washington, D.C. & Commenced 1990- Lake Charles: 08 May 1990 to 23 October 2015 on Arthur Avenue: Spiritual Talks penned “Speak A Word!” 07 May 1990 to 11 October 2014: ‘Heritage and Archival Special Collection!’ Links: ‘Journals & Binders’ age 16 to date, age 67!: ‘Arthur Avenue Heritage Tours’ 10 February 2009 to 30 October 2015: ‘Place Based Education Day’ 01 May 2009 to 06 November 2015: Family Chronicles: Events on Arthur Avenue: Number of persons through the home 03 March 2001 to 23 December 2015:	# of events, categories or participants: Total - #701 Retreatants #49 Silent Retreats - #332 Retreatants #41 #25 Categories #314 #43 #398 persons toured! #5 school + 15 visits = #410 participants 9 Lineages, a ‘Family Heritage Sequence’ and one “’So! You Want to Organize a Family Reunion’ link!! #131 to include Family Christmas Gathering 2015 2,048 men, women and children!	January 2001 to 06 November 2015: 14 years x 52 Fridays in a year = 728 days in the Home 130 events in the home (x 24 for we spend 2 days and one night for each event) = 3,120 glorious hours spent on Arthur Avenue…to date!	2015: ARTHUR AVENUE BUILT IN 1904 = SHE IS 111 YEARS OLD!
01 March 1995 to 03 August 2015	Medical Resource Books:	Given away: 1,406	Volunteer hours – 3 hours per teaching = 4,686 hours
27 May 1990 to 16 December 2015	‘Lead, Kindly Light’ Catholic Diocesan Television 1990 to December 2015:	#474 interviews	To contact, write and interview – 3 hours per guest = 1,422 hours
March 2001 to August 2015	14^th year serving as ‘Eucharistic Minister’ CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital (Dept. of Pastoral Care ) and tending ‘The Heritage Center’ est. 2003	In 2015…Invited to assist with the ‘Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey Heritage Project… in process…
3 & 4 October 2015	5^th year directing Germanfest Folk Singers!...as well as…	this year hosted retired Jesuits and a Novice, St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, LA!! Was wonderful!
31 December 2015	Leave of absence: EM/CSPH, MRB/ Teaching Groups & Masterworks Choral	Focus on Binders Galore (!) to Publish, Silent Retreat Series and Heritage Studies Series, etc!!!