Eugene P. Watson
Professor, Deceased Person
1911 – 1964
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Who was Eugene P. Watson?
Eugene Payne Watson was from 1940 until his death the head librarian and professor of library science at Northwestern State University in his native Natchitoches, Louisiana. He fought to gain greater academic recognition of librarians. In 1950, Watson founded Alpha Beta Alpha, the first coeducational undergraduate library science fraternity in the United States. The fraternity held its first biennial convention on the NSU campus in 1952. At the time of Watson's death, the fraternity had twenty-nine chapters nationally.
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- Born
- Jun 29, 1911
Natchitoches - Also known as
- Eugene Watson
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Louisiana State University
- University of Texas at Austin
- Northwestern State University
- St. Mary's High School
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Natchitoches
- Died
- Feb 29, 1964
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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