T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Grover Rees # 4700.0078

IDENTIFICATION: LSU alumnus, class of 1912

INTERVIEWER: Pamela Dean

PROJECT: LSU History

DATES: December 16, 1991

November 7, 1992

FOCUS DATES: 1908-1915

ABSTRACT:

TAPE 94:

Contents of his autobiography if he were to write one; responsible for writing the history of Breaux Bridge; goes to Cambridge, Massachusetts to register in Harvard Law School; sells 'Wearever' aluminum utensils to earn money for college; transportation from Breaux Bridge to Baton Rouge during the early 1900's; counsel for Gulf Oil Corporation in South America and Europe; Garig Hall; Herman Moyse; Hobos, a campus group; Captain Sorley; family background; retires from the Gulf Oil Corporation in December of 1954.

TAPE 264:

Working for spending money while attending LSU; traveling back and forth to campus; Thomas Boyd; his diplomas; ROTC at LSU; Herman Moyse, his best friend; LSU campus living, Rees did not socialize; the Attakapa Indians; Longfellow's "Evangeline"; Harvard final exams; LSU professors; "Frosty" Reed; foreign languages; Rees' grandchildren; LSU cadet meetings; remarks on religion; his one hundredth birthday; Rees' daily routine.

TAPES: T 94 & T 264 CASSETTES

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 2hr. 30min.

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 47

RESTRICTIONS: None