On the evening of Thursday 7 November 2024 we continued our celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding
College of Sciences couple barbecue for flood victims
Thu, 08/25/2016 - 12:39pm
On August 19-20, Dr. Andy Hollerman (Physics) and his wife Lynn (Office of Information Systems) helped cook barbecue and related side dishes for persons displaced during the Great Flood of 2016. The Hollerman's volunteered their weekend as part of Operation BBQ Relief (OBR), which is a Kansas City based non-profit organization of contest cooks who provide meals for persons displaced by natural disasters. Since its founding in 2011, OBR has provided over 800,000 meals to effected persons in 19 states. OBR has been operating a food preparation commissary at a school in Hammond, Louisiana for the period after the initial flash floods ended. During the Hollerman's stay in Hammond, OBR provided food for more than 83,000 meals! During this time, the Hollerman's and more than 50 other cooks and friends helped prepare tons of chicken pieces, pork butts, and side dishes using commercial barbecue smokers. This food was then delivered to numerous satellite locations all over south Louisiana. To date, the Hammond deployment for OBR is the largest in its history! This is the second time the Hollerman's have volunteered to deploy with OBR. In 2011, the Hollerman’s were in a small group of cooks that were first at the scene for a deployment in Arabi, Louisiana after Hurricane Isaac. During that 11 day deployment, OBR cooks prepared more than 55,000 meals. As a side note, Dr. Hollerman is also the elected President of the Barbecue Competitors Alliance (BCA), which is a non-profit organization that sanctions contests and teaches meat smoking techniques to the public. Lynn Hollerman is the Administrator for BCA. During the Hammond deployment for OBR, many BCA cooks participated in preparing meals for our brethren in need.
You can help the Flood victims too!
To donate to OBR please visit Operation BBQ Relief
To donate to or volunteer for other relief operations please visit volunteerlouisiana.gov
The main photo is of Dr. Andy Hollerman putting Daigle’s rub (a south Louisiana product) on chicken.
The second photo is of a tired Lynn Hollerman resting after preparing thousands of pieces of chicken.