La Rue Tucker Grant

Background

Grant, La Rue Tucker was born on May 13, 1930 in Winnsboro, Louisiana, United States. Daughter of Charles Owen and Alma Ethel (Lambert) Tucker.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Louisiana Technology University. Bachelor with summa cum laude, Louisiana Technology University, 1951. Master of Library Science, Sam Houston University, 1978.

Doctor of Education, University Houston, 1979.

Career

Auditor Price Waterhouse, Houston, 1951—1952. Cost accountant Triangle Refineries, 1952—1955. Administrator, teacher Channelview Indiana School District, 1956—1957.

Lecturer career education University Houston, University Park, 1977—1980. Lecturer, supervisor interns in library science Clear Lake, 1981—1983. Media specialist Deer Park Indiana School District, Texas, 1957—1959, 1961, 1967—1983.

Writer Deer Park Progress, since 1979, Bayshore Sun, LaPorte, Texas, since 1979, LaPorte Broadcaster, since 1982.

Achievements

• Louisiana Rue Tucker Grant has been listed as a noteworthy media specialist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Volunteer Friends Library. Active member Lomax Citizens Committee, LaPorte, 1960, Texas Educator's Political Action Committee, Deer Park, 1983, Aggie Club Texas Advertising & Marketing University, College Station, 1983. Economics representative student council Louisiana Technology University, Ruston, 1950—1951.

Member of American Library Association, National Education Association, Texas Library. Association, International Business Educator's Association, National Business Educators Association, Mountain Plains Business Educators Association, Texas Business Educators Association, Texas State Teacher Association, Deer Park Educators, Earthwatch Louisiana Archeological Society, Texas Press Association, American Business Women's Association Club (scrapbook chairman 1980-1983), Technology Teacher's. Club, Phi Kappa Delta., Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau Delta.

Connections

Married Sidney Allen Grant, December 31, 1953. 1 child Sidney Tucker.

Father:

Charles Owen Tucker

Mother:

Alma Ethel (Lambert) Tucker

Spouse:

Sidney Allen Grant

child:

Sidney Tucker Grant