T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: James Perry Cole

COLLECTION:# 4700.0006

IDENTIFICATION: [ca.1889-19 ] LSU Dean of Students, 1932-1941; Director of High School Relations, 1944-46; Direction of the Division of Student Life, 1946-51, and Mathematics Professor

INTERVIEWER: Susie P. Crews, Assistant, LSU Recording Services

PROJECT: LSU History

DATE: April 28, 1977

FOCUS DATES: 1905-1951

ABSTRACT:

Tape 6

Cole arrives at LSU 1905; LSU years; graduates 1912; contributions to veterans and LSU after graduating; wounds in World War I; family background; Colonel Boyd; Lewis B. Sorley, commandant of cadets; recommends Troy Middleton for commandant of cadets, 1930; Cole and Middleton in military service; wounded and hospitalized; recovery and return to LSU; Nicholson; Colonel Thomas Boyd; moving the old campus; Fred Frey; leaves for Louisiana Tech; returns to LSU as Dean of Students 1932-41; Ione Burden; constitution for students; Dr. James Monroe Smith; Professor Broussard; Athlete's Hall of Fame; Arden French; tensions over salaries with Dr. Parker; High School Relations Department organized; Cole organizes the Louisiana State Guard; appointed to command Louisiana State Gaurd; organizes American Legion Post; deficiency exams (1911); Harold W. Stoke; Troy H. Middleton; became math professor; Director of Student Life and Dean of Student Affairs; disciplining students; organizing the first Boys State (1940) and the first Girls State (1941); Memorial Tower and Memorial Oaks; religion.

TAPE: T6

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1.5 hrs

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 64

RESTRICTIONS: None