T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Myron Falk #4700.0330

IDENTIFICATION: [1906 - 1997] husband of Roberta Falk, one of the first female editors of The Reveille, endowed a scholarship in School of Journalism

INTERVIEWER: Melisse Campbell

PROJECT: LSU History

DATE: 15 September 1993 FOCUS DATES: 1930s - 1993

ABSTRACT: Family history; attending Tulane, working on Tulane's student newspaper the Hullabaloo; working with Harnett Kane and Betty Werlein on the paper; wife's family history; his wife's impressions of LSU's School of Journalism; working for the federally funded Transients and Migrants program during the Depression; wife earned a Master's in Social Work from Tulane; impact of journalism major on her career; women in journalism; impact of being Reveille editor on his wife; effects of the Depression on college graduates; pride in his wife's decision to pursue a career; writing articles and making presentations before the U.S. Congress; wife's job with the Louisiana Conference of Social Welfare; outlines wife's career as a social worker; discusses his daughter Libby Falk-Jones; setting up scholarship in wife's memory; Manship School of Mass Communications' Hall of Fame;

Tape #T467

# of CASSETTES: 1 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 45 min.

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 24

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