Virgil Orr
| Virgil L. Orr | |
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Virgil L. Orr as Dean of Louisiana Tech University (1966)
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| Louisiana House of Representatives for District 12 (Lincoln and Union parishes) | |
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In office 1988–1992 |
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| Preceded by | William R. Sumlin, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Jay McCallum |
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| Born | February 2, 1923 |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Myrtis Chandler Orr |
| Residence | Ruston, Lincoln Parish |
| Alma mater |
Glenmora High School |
| Occupation |
College professor and administrator |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | United States Army (1944-1946) |
Glenmora High School
Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana State University
Virgil L. Orr (born February 2, 1923) is a retired engineering professor and administrator at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 12 (Lincoln and Union parishes) from 1988-1992.
In 1940, Orr graduated from Glenmora High School in Glenmora south of Alexandria in southern Rapides Parish. He received his Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Louisiana Tech, where he helped to pay his expenses by working as a student food services waiter from 1940 to 1944. He procured his Master of Science and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1948 and 1950, respectively. He served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946. He also attended the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
On September 1, 1952, Orr joined the Louisiana Tech faculty. In 1966, he was co-author with colleagues Charles A. Killgore and Woodrow W. Chew, Jr., also a registered petroleum engineer of the article, "Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium for the Hexamethyldisiloxane–n-Propyl Alcohol System," published in the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data. He was later appointed "Dean of the College" and was serving as vice president of the university, under then president F. Jay Taylor, at the time of his retirement on June 30, 1980. Louisiana Tech honors Orr with the Virgil Orr Professorship in Chemical Engineering and the Virgil Orr Undergraduate Junior Faculty Award, presented to non-tenured instructors.
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