Carly Littell, a native of Youngsville, has been named the Spring 2012 outstanding graduate for the Department of Marketing and Hospitality at UL Lafayette. Completing her undergraduate degree program with a 3.92 grade point average, Littell will receive her bachelor of science degree in business administration with a major in marketing in May.
In addition to maintaining an outstanding grade point average throughout her college career at UL, Carly Littell has been very active in university and community service initiatives. A recipient of the Vincent Cangelosi Endowed Quantitative Management Scholarship, Littell has consistently been recognized on the dean’s list, the president’s list and at the university’s Honors Convocation. A former Ragin’ Cajun cheerleader, Littell is also a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and has served in numerous leadership positions in the organization. She has been the recipient of the Greek Affairs Outstanding Academic Excellence award for four years.
Littell has been an active member of Alpha Lambda Delta honor society and Pi Sigma Epsilon fraternity, Gamma Chi Chapter, a collegiate chapter of a professional sales organization. She competed as a member of the team of UL marketing majors who took top honors in the regional Bayou Sales Challenge at Nicholls State University in the fall of 2011. Additionally, Littell placed second overall in the individual sales competition at the event. Her community service includes work with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and the Diocese of Lafayette.
Upon graduation, Littell plans to pursue a master’s degree and to obtain a real estate license. She aspires to work as a marketing communications manager.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
Carly Littell, a native of Youngsville, has been named the Spring 2012 outstanding graduate for the Department of Marketing and Hospitality at UL Lafayette. Completing her undergraduate degree program with a 3.92 grade point average, Littell will receive her bachelor of science degree in business administration with a major in marketing in May. 
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