George T. Walker
| George Thomas Walker, Sr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 2, 1913 Louisiana, USA |
| Died | June 17, 2011 (aged 98) Monroe, Ouachita Parish Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Louisiana State University |
| Occupation | President of University of Louisiana at Monroe |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ellen Neal Walker (married 1938–2002, her death) |
| Children |
George T. Walker, Jr. |
March 2, 1913
Wyatt Community
George T. Walker, Jr.
Ellen Claire Walker Stephenson
George Thomas Walker, Sr. (March 2, 1913 – June 17, 2011), was from 1958 to 1976 the president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, known first as Northeast Louisiana State College and then as Northeast Louisiana State University, located in Monroe in northeastern Louisiana.
Walker was born in the Wyatt Community of Jackson Parish near the Winn Parish line in north Louisiana, the second youngest of nine sons and two daughters of William Thomas Walker and the former Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stovall (1877–1951). At the time of his mother's death in 1951, the obituary lists George Walker as a dean at Northwestern State University in and his youngest brother, William Stewart Walker as a lieutenant colonel in Vienna, Austria. Another brother, Edgar Lee "Ed" Walker (1901–1972), was a football coach at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, who led his team to an early Orange Bowl competition.
A Walker cousin, Morgan W. Walker, Sr., was an Alexandria businessman who was president and founder of Continental Trailways bus lines.
In 1935, Walker received his Bachelor of Science degree from NSU, then known as Northwestern State College. In 1936, he earned a master's degree in accounting at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He then began his teaching career in Monroe at the then Northeast Junior College. Thereafter, he was a member of the faculty of Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette. From 1941 to 1943, he was the state supervisor of business education. From 1943 to 1945, he was personnel director for the Port of Embarkation in New Orleans.
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