by Cindy | Feb 13, 2025 | Featured
Boys Village was honored to have Dean Levergne, a pilot for Louisiana State Police fly to our campus! He showed the boys around the helicopter and presented to them the duties and requirements of his position. This was definitely one of the coolest things that the...
by Cindy | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured
Boys Village was founded in 1947 by members of the Lake Charles Optimist Club. Walter Phillips, a man well known in the Lake Charles community in the late 1940’s, joined a newly organized civic group called “The Downtown Optimist Club of Lake Charles”. The club was...
by admin | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured
Vinh (Nguyen) Alexander, local Lake Charles photographer and commercial artist, lived at Boys Village from 1981-1984. His childhood journey on the way to Boys Village reads like a tragic history lesson. Vinh was born in 1968 near Saigon during the Vietnam War. When he...