Earlier this year the Diocesan School Board approved plans to allow placement of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) in diocesan high schools.

The Board's plan to place AEDs in diocesan high schools was greatly helped by the LaMissTenn District of Kiwanis International. This organization has undertaken the ambitious project of in time making AEDs available in all schools in these three states. Pam Morgan, the Kiwanis project coordinator, notes Zoll, a maker of AEDs, has partnered with Kiwanis to help achieve their goal.

The six high schools receiving a Zoll AED include St. Michael the Archangel, donated by Cortana Kiwanis; Redemptorist, donated by Baton Rouge Kiwanis; and St. Thomas Aquinas of Hammond, donated by Hammond Kiwanis; St. John in Plaquemine, Ascension Catholic, and Catholic of Pointe Coupee received AEDs donated by local physicians Drs. Dan Marsh, Michael Roppolo, Robert Landry, and Robert Kenney.

These devices should be available for use if needed by the start of the school year in August.