Allan Martin Kemler

After 33 years of planning the future for the St. Tammany Parish School District, Frank Gennusa finally gets to plan his own. by Allan Martin Kemler FRANK GENNUSA doesn't fly. If he can't get somewhere on foot, by car, by boat or by train, he's not going. But that doesn't mean he hasn't traveled. Like many roads, though, his eventually led back home, to Covington, La. Thirty-one miles north of the Big Easy, across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, and swaddled in acres of cypress, magnolia and moss-draped oak, Covington is a close-knit bedroom community that serves as the parish seat for St. Tammany, the

Mismanagement, underfunding and poor morale are just some of the battles in-plants have to fight. Against the odds, some in-plants have turned themselves around. by Allan Martin Kemler WHEN RICHARD Raveson first came to the North Broward Hospital District in-plant, the machines were broken, the staff was unhappy and the management was indifferent. The in-plant was like a chronically ill patient in a world without doctors. Thanks to Raveson's skills as a manager, though, not only has the patient recovered, it's never been better. But 12 years ago, Raveson says, it would have been pretty hard to imagine this kind of turnaround. Back then,