Newest teachers at St. Edmund Catholic School

St. Edmund High School Principal Laurie Doucet welcomes newest teachers on campus.
David Pulling will serve as Literacy Lead teacher on campus. He will teach ninth, tenth-, eleventh- and twelfth-grade English. Pulling will also spearhead a new project - Senior Legacy Project.
Pulling entered his career in education as an admissions counselor at Louisiana College, his undergraduate alma mater, from 1974-1981.
After a five-year stint in oilfield drilling fluids sales and service, he began his career in public education in 1987. He taught English at Eunice Junior High School from 1987-92 and from 1992-96 at Lafayette High School.
In 1992, he completed his master of arts in English at UL Lafayette and began a 25-year professional association in leadership roles at both local and national levels with the National Writing Project.
Pulling also began teaching night classes for LSU Eunice in 1993. After teaching at Eunice High School in 1996-97, he came to LSU Eunice as the Institutional Liaison Officer.
Five years later, Pulling was named director of continuing education, where he served until his retirement this past summer.
During his tenure in continuing education administration, he taught online and face-to-face English composition; served three terms as president of LACHE, the Louisiana state professional organization for continuing education administrators in higher education; and served twice on the LSUE faculty/staff leadership teams for SACS-COC reaffirmation and accreditation.

Kevin “Bubba” Daigle is an Instructional aide on campus. His wife Wendy is a fifth-grade teacher at St. Edmund. He is the father of two sons, Nick and Zach Daigle.
Daigle will also serve as a football and track coach.
Daigle graduated from McNeese State University where he earned a degree in health & physical education. He is a former teacher and coach at St. Edmund and Kinder. He recently retired from the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a teacher.

Madeline Kelly, a recent graduate of UL-Lafayette, arrived at St. Edmund Catholic School in January. She will begin her first full year at St. Edmund Catholic as a fourth-grade teacher.
“Kelly or “Maddi” as her students call her, jumped right into her teaching assignments and has proven to be a real asset to our school,” said Principal Laurie Doucet.

Principal James Wallett at St. Edmund Elementary welcomes newest first grade teacher, Ashley Hayden Cormier, a Eunice native.
Cormier, the newest member of the first-grade team at St Edmund Catholic School, is married to Adison Cormier of Jennings.
She has a daughter, Avery Laine, and two dogs, Max and Gizzy, are also part of the Cormier family.
Although this will be her first year teaching first-grade, Cormier has been an educator for the past four years.
In 2010 Cormier graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she earned a bachelor’s of science degree in elementary education. Shortly after graduation she married and moved to her husband’s hometown of Jennings. There she began her teaching career at Lacassine High.
After teaching fifth-grade for three years at Lacassine High, her husband was presented a job opportunity that brought the Cormier family back to Eunice.
For the past year, Cormier taught third-and fourth-grade at Eunice Elementary.