Minutes before Nicholls State President Jay Clune spoke Thursday to the Morgan City Rotary Club, members were introduced to three college-bound students from Morgan City High.
Samolia Johnson and Haley Dunagin plan to attend the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Taaj Daniels is headed for LSU. Clune, soft-spoken and affable when he rose to speak at the Petroleum Club lectern, joked that the young people might feel lost on those bigger campuses.
But Clune was making a serious point, too. He hopes to secure Nicholls State’s place as a school that students from the eight-parish Bayou Region, which includes St. Mary Parish,