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Picture from the 1972 Chalmette High School yearbook. Chalmette High School is located in…

Black-and-white group photo of seven teenage boys posing together in a school hallway lined with lockers, one wearing sunglasses and smoking, with a wall clock visible in the background.

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Do You Know What it Means

Picture from the 1972 Chalmette High School yearbook.

Chalmette High School is located in Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish, LA, just outside New Orleans. The Parish was completely flooded during Hurricane Katrina. In the days after Hurricane Katrina a small group of dedicated staff, including school Principal Wayne Warner and Assistant Principal Cookie Mundt, opened the school as a shelter for parish residents. They were trapped in the school for four days with little food and water while they waited for rescue.

Original title

Item 26826

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“Picture from the 1972 Chalmette High School yearbook. Chalmette High School is located in…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26826.