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 International 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 Colvin’s 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 could 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
while she was working on her doctorate. She had met a fellow student and fallen
in love.
After receiving her doctorate in
Entomology and while working on her second doctorate in Psychology she met Dr.
Gaston Savoie with the Forestry department. She divorced her first husband and married
Dr. Savoie. They 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. She
just smiles and poses for pictures while telling people her conduct is a form
of self-therapy.
