President Hulbert,
Congratulations on your retirement, and thank you for all the benefits that you have orchestrated at Nicholls State University.  As a 2004 non-traditional student, I arrived to an unkempt and unsightly campus.  I constantly remarked about the ill-kept property, and my first classroom in Beauregard was like being in a third-world classroom with large patches of peeling paint and moldy windows.  The dining hall experience was only what can be described as dismal and was to be avoided at all costs.  The long-promised recreation center was the butt of many jokes and referred to as Dorothy’s Rainbow; somewhere, sometime, we will see the rec. center that we have paid for how many years?  Returning to the campus in 2011 was and continues to be a pleasant experience with manicured lawns and clean edifices.  Beauregard Hall is fabulous; there is an up-scale dining environment, a magnificent recreation center, and new dorms (just to name a few gains).  Yes, we may be a little leaner and meaner (ACT 21 entrance), but we are greener and preened for new growth; and better for your coming and now departure.

Au revoir mon ami!  
You have been a good friend to NSU.

Tina Granger,
 Instructor Gov’t & Social Sciences NSU