Louisiana State University Office of Public Affairs records. Jack Fiser collection, 1927-1984.

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Office of Public Affairs

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Louisiana State University created an information office for its Agricultural Extension Division in 1913 that grew into a university-wide News Bureau. It was dissolved in 1945 upon the establishment of the Bureau of Public Service, an agency created by the Board of Supervisors to describe the activities of the university to the public. Its name changed to the Bureau of Public Relations in 1948, the Office of Information Services in 1965, the Office of Public Relations in 1980, the Office of Univ...

Fiser, Jack (John Walter), 1918-1999

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Jack Fiser (1918-1999) attended Louisiana State University from 1934 to 1938, served with the Marines during World War II, and graduated from LSU with a B.A. after returning from the war. He worked for the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and later edited the LSU Alumni Magazine. From the description of Jack Fiser oral history interview, 1993. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 70853616 ...

Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.)

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