Morris N. Abrams

Who was Morris N. Abrams?

Morris Newton Abrams was a Louisiana educator who specialized in the field of vocational education.

Abrams was born in Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish in north Louisiana, a son of William Charles Abrams and the former Cora Bell Sowers. He was educated in the public schools in rural Sikes in Winn Parish. He thereafter received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

On February 1, 1941, Abrams married the former Minnie Louise DeLee of Clinton in East Feliciana Parish, one of the Louisiana Florida Parishes. Their children are Carolyn Sue Reece, Marcia Diane Cox, Doris Celeste Hay, and Candice Louise Thibodeaux.

Abrams' first teaching assignment was at Friendship High School in the Friendship community of Bienville Parish. He soon moved to Winnfield High School, since Winnfield Senior High School, where he was a faculty member from 1940-1944. He left teaching temporarily to serve in the Third Armored Division of the United States Army in World War II. He reached the rank of master sergeant. The division had been activated in 1941 at Camp Beauregard near Pineville, Louisiana.