The Owen "Buddy" Bourque Collection

c1921-1994

 

4.21 linear feet

 

Collection Number 177 

 

 

 

Prepared by Kathie Bordelon
August 2007

 

 

CITATION: The Owen “Buddy” Bourque Collection, Collection No. 177, Box number, Folder number,
Archives and Special Collections Department, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University.

  

Archives and Special Collections Department

Frazar Memorial Library

McNeese State University

Biographical Sketch

Owen Bourque was born in Oberlin, Louisiana, and raised in Lake Charles. He graduated from Marion High School in 1952, received a B.A. degree from McNeese College, and a commission in the U.S. Army in 1956. He attended LSU where he attained a Masters in Education in 1963. In 1970, he was selected to take part in the Rotary Club Exchange Program and spent two months in various private homes in Belgium. In 1980, he was chosen by the Fulbright Scholar Program and spent one month as a guest of the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Bourque was Department Head of Social Studies and Foreign Languages at LaGrange High School and taught American, Louisiana, and Russian histories. He retired in 1994.

Scope and Content Note
 

The collection contains photographs and information relating primarily to the history of Marion High School in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and to the educational career and family of Owen “Buddy” Bourque.

 

Container List

 

Box

Folder

Description

1

1

LaGrange Senior High School graduation exercises 1980,1983

 

2

LaGrange Junior High School play, “Here Comes Charlie” – cast photos 1963

 

3

Rosteet Elementary School - 6th grade photo 1945-46, 6th and 7th grade photo 1946-47, Maplewood Elementary School - 6th grade photo 1957-58

 

4

Marion High School - student photos, 8th grade 1947-48, 10th grade photo 1949-50

 

5

Marion High School - student photos, Kid Day, 1952

 

6

Marion High School photos - Graduating Class of 1952, Senior Memories Booklet, High School Diploma and American Legion Certificate for Owen Bourque, tassel, Homecoming photo 1952,

 

7

Senior play for Class of 1952 – “Here Comes Charlie” – cast photo and play

 

8

Information on graduating classes from Marion High School from 1942-1959, clippings

 

9

Marion High School Freshman class photo 1949, Class of 1951 prom photo, Junior Class 1951 prom photo

 

10

Miscellaneous articles on school activities

 

11

Marion High School Class of 1952 reunion photo from 2002, Class of 1956 50th reunion booklet from 2006, Class of 1957 50th reunion booklet from 2007

 

12

History of Marion High School 1925-83, notes and clippings including Directory 1951-52, information on Principal E. D. Parrish’s injuries in race riot in 1943, student strike in 1950 in support of teacher and coach J. E. Bowen, investigation, hearing of Principal E. D. Parrish on charges of incompetence and willful neglect of duty 1950, newspaper articles on deaths of three students: Alice Ann Boutte 1956, Priscilla Green 1949, and Neddie Lemaire 1949

 

13

Rotary Club Group Study Exchange Program – Bourque’s journal of trip to Belgium and Luxembourg in 1970, photos, correspondence, memorabilia

 

14

Rotary Club Group Study Exchange Program – memorabilia from trip

2

1

Pow Wow, “The Voice of Marion” – school newspaper

December 19, 1951; May 1952; April, May, November 1954; October 1955; February, March, April, October 1956; February 1957

 

2

Photograph of Richard B. McCaughan (LSU Class of 1954), Evelyn Chandler (McNeese Class of 1956), Jean Wilkinson (McNeese Class of 1957), Owen Bourque (McNeese Class of 1956) December 21, 1957 at Court of Two Sisters in New Orleans

3

1

Newspaper articles and correspondence concerning Bourque, exit visa from Soviet Union

 

2

Delegation of the American Educational Workers to China in 1980, group itinerary, map, photos, etc.

 

3

Bourque’s McNeese diploma

 

4

Photographs of Edna Gibson, Mrs. Ross Cady, Mr. and Mrs. Ira (Edna) Gibson, Mammoth Cave 1924

 

5

Photographs of Edythe Peloquin Hardy, Nason Hardy, George Theriot, Allen Parish Schools, Oberlin High Certificates and Report Cards, Pencil sketches of women in the 1930s drawn by Edythe (Edith) Peloquin

 

6

Photo of Don Louis Johnese family

 

7

Photos of Owen “Buddy” Bourque

 

8

Photos – family photos including Beatrice Harrison Morrison, Evia Peloquin Bourque, Edythe Peloquin Hardy, Pauline Duplechin (Mr. and Mrs. William Hebert), Fred and Lovica Bourque Hebert, Areece Bertrand Bourque, John Clement Bourque, Dessa Bourque Denton, Adam Bertrand, Paul Richard and Coralee Marie Richard Bourque

 

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