We are proud to announce the new 2021 Hall of Fame Inductees:
Jeanne Harang Boughton
High School: Ascension Catholic High School, Donaldsonville, LA
First Delegate Year: MOD 1987
First JC Year: 1988
Last year on staff: 1991
Staff Duties: JC and SC
Involvement post LYS: 2016 to present, Served as Chair of the BOD for 2. Served as Chair of the Risk Management Committee of the BOD. Currently serves as Chair of the Structure Committee of the BOD.
Current Employment: Associated Broker for RE/MAX N.O. Properties, (Self employed)
What does LYS mean to you?
With LYS, the gifts just keep on giving. Over the last 30 years, LYS has given me the most amazing role models one could ever want.
LYS friends continue to fill my life with enthusiasm, intellect and a desire to bring leadership to the rising generation.
With the commitment of each and every LYS volunteer, the programs grows each day and each year.
I am proud to be part of LYS; even more proud that LYS is part of me.
Glynn Gross
High School: Dutchtown High School
First Delegate Year: 2011
First JC Year: 2012
Last year on staff: stilly partying in a red shirt
Staff Duties: JC (2), Counselor (2) Head Table (3) PD (3)
Involvement post time on staff: I am still heavily involved in staff and serving as my third year as program director. Once I am not on staff I would love to continue to work with the alumni association to help make the week seamless for staff and the delegates.
Current Employment: Special Needs Counselor in Ascension Parish Schools
What does LYS mean to you?
LYS means family to me. LYS has given me the opportunity to learn and grow in different leadership roles. I have role models throughout staff and alumni that teach me how to be a more effective leader and hold me accountable when I am not showing up with my best self. LYS has allowed me to take back the No Man Is An Island motto and love and learn from those around me. I have gained valuable leadership lessons through seeing things with an inclusive mindset.
Will Syll
High School:Saint Paul’s
July 2011 Delegate
July 2012 New JC
July 2018 Last staff year
Staff Duties: Laundry, Travel Leader, DE, IGL, Staff Ass, APD, PD
Involvement Post: Dorm Dad, LYS Webinar Content debugger, EC
Current Employment: Deloitte, Senior Consultant
LYS is where I learned how to operate within a group, where I learned that leadership is an action not a position, and most importantly the value of servant leadership. When I believe in the mission of an organization, or even in the purpose of a team, putting that purpose before myself in all of my decision making not only makes me a better leader but also helps me spring out of bed in the morning.
Connor Bueche
High School: Catholic High School, Baton Rouge
First Delegate Year: 2011
First JC Year: 2012
Last year on staff: 2018
Staff Duties: Poltical Parties, Tech-hand, Music, General Problem Solver
Involvement post time on staff: Dorm Dad 2019, Assisted with Webinar Programming Efforts in 2020
Current Employment: Defense Contractor with CACI Incm Washington, D.C.
What does LYS mean to you?
LYS is place where we invite and challenge one another to be the best versions of ourseleves and actively encourage one another to do so and incorporate these lessons into a lifetime of learning and selflessness.
Andre Delaunay
High School: St. Thomas More - Lafayette
First Delegate Year: 1989 I believe.
First JC Year: 1991
Last year on staff: 1993
Staff Duties: Seriously, I do not recall! Taking 20 years off was not conducive to retaining specific memories. I know I worked Caucus as well as Dreams to Reality. I know I slept very little, spending most of the down time walking the dorms or preparing the next day’s staff engagements. I feel like I took daily direction at staff meetings to put out fires or fill in gaps more than taking on any established role each year. But again…my memories are suspect. In fact, I even get them mixed up with other people’s stories related down the years. Which means I probably remember the running jokes better than the “jobs” from my time on staff.
Involvement post time on staff: I generally stayed in touch – had plenty of friends and a brother who would be involved with LYS in the years following my departure from staff. Around 2012 or so, Jo reached out to those of us living in Houston (where she was at the time) and we would talk about how things were going etc. Things progressed naturally from there to me agreeing to join the Board of Directors, and with which I am still involved. On the Board, in addition to general Board duties I serve on the Investment, Risk Management, and Alumni Reconnect committees, and have committed to another term starting this coming year.
Current Employment: General Counsel; Doggett Equipment Services Group
What does LYS mean to you?
LYS is the most personal experience I have had outside of family. As a result, its impact has been considerable. My early experiences as a delegate and staff member built confidence and frankly laid the groundwork for most of my professional relationships. While I suppose I was always open to more cooperative solutions, I learned to fine-tune how to encourage those solutions through buy-in and mutual respect. And I learned to enjoy solving problems.
As I re-engaged some 15-20 years later, LYS took on a different meaning for me. In some respects it started as a way for me to give back or volunteer in general – but with the benefits of seeing and working with old friends I had lost touch with. And while that remains a positive aspect, LYS is the only program I have any personal knowledge of that truly promotes leadership from a grass-roots level all the way to the national level. Looking at some of the kids coming through the program, and realizing that they are finding out the same things about themselves that I did – well it’s hard not to want a program like that to succeed. Which is why I’ve felt so good about convincing friends to send their kids, why I sent my own.
So while the program explicitly touts leadership and confidence as 2 of its pillars, it implicitly promotes service and giving back to your community. And that regenerative societal effect is probably what I respect most about it.
