Receiving the Optimist Club award honoring valedictorians and salutatorians of the class of 1971 in area high schools is Miss Kathryne Creamer of St. Martin's Episcopal High School. Looking on, from left, are Dr. Charles C. Foti, Optimist president; Milton I. Cook Senior, Optimist vice president, and Dr. Homer L. Hitt, chancellor of Louisiana State University in New Orleans and principal speaker.

Photo is dated 1971.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.