On March 1, 1977, the Clerk of Court and Charter Commission Chairman Edward A. Dufresne, Jr., left, gives instructions to the newly empanelled Home Rule Charter Commission. Charter Commission member Eual Landry, Sr., right, listens to Dufresne. A former principal of Hahnville High School, Landry also served as St. Charles Parish’s representative for the 1974 Constitutional Convention.