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Dr. Colvin shows off real Mardi Gras beads and a wiry hairdo.

Dr. Summer Rose Colvin-Savoie, PhD.

Ecclesiastes 1:13     I devoted myself to study and exploration by wisdom all that is done under heaven.

     I first met Summer Rose years ago while attending an entomology convention in Sydney, Australia with my dad.  Summer Rose was with her parents, noted authors and experts on the Asian cockroach, who were leading one of the conferences.  The Colvins were living in Cambodia at that time to further their research and were lecturing at the convention before traveling to the states to visit their son in Chicago before returning to the field.  We became fast friends after discovering that we both were from Louisiana and that our parents knew each other from their days at LSU.  We were eleven and bored.

            Boredom didn’t last long.  Since Summer Rose had a nanny in attendance we were allowed to travel at will.  We visited art museums, the theatre, the Opera and the ballet.  Our evenings were spent at the swimming pool, watching movies or just being eleven-year-olds.  Those were two weeks of glory.

            We only saw each other a few times since that delightful vacation, once dreaming of romance and marriage.  Viet Nam and other circumstances prevented this from happening and I received a Dear John letter.  After receiving her doctorate in Entomology and while working on her second doctorate in psychology she met Dr. Gaston Savoie with the Forestry department.  They married and had nine children while spending 17 years in north Louisiana and southern Georgia studying the reproductive cycle of the wood tick. 

            Recently divorced she now lives in Destrehan, Louisiana where she provides psychological counseling to lawyers of ill repute.

            Two years ago Dr. Colvin-Savoie, with a few colleagues, organized the Krewe of Dementia, which has been dubbed the Krewe of Demented Dames by the locals because of their bawdy behavior during parades.  They just smile and pose for pictures while telling people their conduct is a form of self-therapy.

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