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==Background==

==Background==

Hébert was born in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, one of three children of Maxime Paul Hébert and the former Linda Talbot. He had two sisters, Maxine Hébert Meadows of Alexandria and Betty Hébert Thompson of [[Lake Charles]], Louisiana. The family soon relocated to Alexandria, where he resided for most of his life.<ref name=bio/> In 1943, he graduated in the top third of his class from the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]-affiliated Holy Savior Menard Central High School, then known as Menard Memorial High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Menard_Memorial_High_School_Menardian_Yearbook/1944/Page_55.html|title=Menard Memorial High School ''Menardian'' yearbook, p. 55|publisher=e-yearbook.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref> There, Hébert was a drum major and  played [[American football|football]]. After high school, he became an apprentice machinist for the since dis-established Missouri Pacific Railroad, in which capacity he joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union. Soon he enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] near the end of [[World War II]] and volunteered for [[submarine]] service on the ''USS Ling'', which was operational from 1945 to 1946. Hébert studied in the Naval Diesel Training School Gulfport, [[Mississippi]], and the Submarine School in New London,, [[Connecticut]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20060925/OBITUARIES/60924002/Malcolm-Paul-Hebert |title=Malcolm Paul Hébert, September 24, 2006 |publisher='The Alexandria Daily Town Talk'' |accessdate=June 7, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140607150350/http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20060925/OBITUARIES/60924002/Malcolm-Paul-Hebert |archivedate=June 7, 2014 |df= }}</ref>

Hébert was born in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, one of three children of Maxime Paul Hébert and the former Linda Talbot. He had two sisters, Maxine Hébert Meadows of Alexandria and Betty Hébert Thompson of [[Lake Charles]], Louisiana. The family soon relocated to Alexandria, where he resided for most of his life.<ref name=bio/> In 1943, he graduated in the top third of his class from the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]]-affiliated Holy Savior Menard Central High School, then known as Menard Memorial High School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Menard_Memorial_High_School_Menardian_Yearbook/1944/Page_55.html|title=Menard Memorial High School ''Menardian'' yearbook, p. 55|publisher=e-yearbook.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref> There, Hébert was a drum major and  played [[American football|football]]. After high school, he became an apprentice machinist for the since dis-established Missouri Pacific Railroad, in which capacity he joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union. Soon he enlisted in the [[United States Navy]] near the end of [[World War II]] and volunteered for [[submarine]] service on the ''USS Ling'', which was operational from 1945 to 1946. Hébert studied in the Naval Diesel Training School Gulfport, [[Mississippi]], and the Submarine School in New London, [[Connecticut]].<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20060925/OBITUARIES/60924002/Malcolm-Paul-Hebert |title=Malcolm Paul Hébert, September 24, 2006 |publisher='The Alexandria Daily Town Talk'' |accessdate=June 7, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20140607150350/http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20060925/OBITUARIES/60924002/Malcolm-Paul-Hebert |archivedate=June 7, 2014 |df= }}</ref>

==Career==

==Career==

After the war, Hébert studied engineering, first at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he was initiated into Sigma Chi fraternity, and then at the  University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]], then named Southwestern Louisiana Institute, from which he graduated. He played first base on the 1950 SLI Gulf States Conference [[baseball]] team, a league since dismantled. Thereafter, his interest in sports never wavered. For more than a quarter century, he was a member of the Louisiana Football Officials Association. He coached the American Legion baseball team in Alexandria and was twice named coach of the All-State Softball team. Following a [[stroke]] in 1981, he continued coaching mentally handicapped children at St. Mary's Residential Training School in Alexandria, a Roman Catholic institution originally established in 1954 by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alexandria in  under Bishop Charles Pasquale Greco (1894-1987).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stmarys-rts.org/history-of-st-marys-residential-training-school/ |title=St. Mary's Residential Training School History |publisher=stmarys-rts.org |accessdate=June 7, 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714204108/http://www.stmarys-rts.org/history-of-st-marys-residential-training-school/ |archivedate=July 14, 2014 |df= }}</ref> In 1985, his teams from St. Mary's garnered the state championships in tee ball and [[softball]]. He was involved too in Dixie Youth Baseball and Softball. He was heavily involved too when his son and three grandsons played football for Our Lady of Prompt Succor Elementary School and then Menard High School.<ref name=bio/>

After the war, Hébert studied engineering, first at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he was initiated into Sigma Chi fraternity, and then at the  University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]], then named Southwestern Louisiana Institute, from which he graduated. He played first base on the 1950 SLI Gulf States Conference [[baseball]] team, a league since dismantled. Thereafter, his interest in sports never wavered. For more than a quarter century, he was a member of the Louisiana Football Officials Association. He coached the American Legion baseball team in Alexandria and was twice named coach of the All-State Softball team. Following a [[stroke]] in 1981, he continued coaching mentally handicapped children at St. Mary's Residential Training School in Alexandria, a Roman Catholic institution originally established in 1954 by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Alexandria in  under Bishop Charles Pasquale Greco (1894-1987).<ref>St. Mary's Residential Training School History, accessed=June 7, 2014, no longer on the Internet.</ref> In 1985, his teams from St. Mary's garnered the state championships in tee ball and [[softball]]. He was involved too in Dixie Youth Baseball and Softball. He was heavily involved too when his son and three grandsons played football for Our Lady of Prompt Succor Elementary School and then Menard High School.<ref name=bio/>

As an engineer, Hébert was cited for his design of a practical, cost-effective system to re-line water and sewer pipes, an innovation used first in his native Monroe. For more than twenty-five years, he was treasurer and vice president of Roland Construction Company, Inc.,<ref name=bio/> which was established in Alexandria in 1960 but is since inactive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizapedia.com/la/ROLAND-CONSTRUCTION-COMPANY-INC.html|title=Roland Construction Company, Inc.|publisher=bizapedia.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref>

As an engineer, Hébert was cited for his design of a practical, cost-effective system to re-line water and sewer pipes, an innovation used first in his native Monroe. For more than twenty-five years, he was treasurer and vice president of Roland Construction Company, Inc.,<ref name=bio/> which was established in Alexandria in 1960 but is since inactive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizapedia.com/la/ROLAND-CONSTRUCTION-COMPANY-INC.html|title=Roland Construction Company, Inc.|publisher=bizapedia.com|accessdate=June 7, 2014}}</ref>