Thérèse CLEMMERSSEUNE -  

Teacher at the Collège de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (today Lycée Ernest Couteaux), Thérèse Clemmersseune, born Canonne, taught there for many years and married Mr. Clemmersseune, a teacher in the same establishment.she also took care of a class of children from the orphanage of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux located in the hospital. His life will be turned towards sports, his great passion. Born in the 1930's, she is athletic, funny and eccentric. She swims, dances, is a gymnast. She flies planes with Paul Fassiaux.
Before the war, she creates the 1st federal team of basketball within the association "Olympique Amandinois". The women's basketball teams in France were so few, she took hers far from the thermal city. Thirty years later, she came back to the 1960s, creating the ALSAC (Amicale Laéque de Saint-Amand Centre). She also created and directed swimming and gymnastics clubs.
Socialist activist, nor of Ernest Couteaux, mayor of Saint-Amand and general councillor, she was part of the municipal council.
Retiring in Hasnon, she had the river passage called La Traitoire behind her house widened to give swimming lessons to children. She is now a member of Hasnon's municipal council and is responsible for the youth.