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Arthur Nelder Dawson Jr. (December 18, 1928 – November 18, 2006),[1] was a newspaper executive and civic leader in Alexandria, Louisiana, during the second half of the twentieth century. He was a 50-year career employee[2] of his hometown newspaper, the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, having worked in circulation, advertising, and human resources management. He started with the company as a youthful newspaper carrier and continued to advance up the ranks.
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes. Its neighboring city is Pineville. In 2010, the population was 47,723, an increase of 3 percent from the 2000 census.
Biography
A board member of the Southern Classified Managers Association and a past president and life member of the Newspaper Personnel Managers Association, Dawson was recognized in 1991 by the Louisiana Press Association with inclusion in the group's "50-Year Club." His later newspaper duties including the recruitment of reporters and photographers, most being recent college graduates who were seeking a start in journalism in the small-to-medium-sized market that Alexandria offers.[3] In that capacity, he often worked with the newspaper's veteran managing editor and later executive editor Adras P. LaBorde, I and business editor Cecil Williams. During much of Dawson's tenure, the newspaper was owned by the family of Joe D. Smith, Jr., and his first wife, Jane Wilson Smith, of Alexandria. Smith, like Dawson, completed a half century with the paper. When Smith retired in 1996, the newspaper was purchased by a firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, which subsequently sold to Gannett. With some 40,000 subscribers, The Town Talk is the largest circulating newspaper in central Louisiana.[4]
A managing editor (ME) is a senior member of a publication's management team. Typically, the managing editor reports directly to the editor in chief and oversees all aspects of the publication.
Adras Paul LaBorde I, was a reporter, managing editor, and columnist for the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, the largest newspaper in Central Louisiana. He was active from the mid-1940s into the early 1990s. Considered an authority on 20th-century Louisiana government and politics, he wrote some ten thousand columns under the title, "The Talk of the Town," a play on the name of the newspaper. LaBorde wrote about the strengths and the foibles of the states politicians. In 2012, he was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame.
Gannett Co., Inc. is a publicly traded American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia in Greater Washington DC. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation.
Dawson was born in Alexandria in Rapides Parish, to Arthur Nelder Dawson, Sr. (1881–1962), and the former Mary Monk (1905–1993).[1] He graduated in 1945 from Bolton High School in the Garden District of Alexandria. Thereafter, he obtained his bachelor's degree from the Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville across the Red River from Alexandria. He was president of the Louisiana College student body during his time there. He actually began working for The Town Talk when was twelve years of age.[3]
Bolton High School is a secondary educational institution located in the Garden District of Alexandria, the parish seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana. The school is named for its benefactor, James W. Bolton, an Alexandria banker who was one of the most prominent civic and political leaders of Central Louisiana during the first third of the 20th century.
Louisiana College (LC) is a private Baptist college in Pineville, Louisiana. Approximately 1,300 students are enrolled. Although the college is affiliated with a group of Southern Baptist churches, which make up the membership of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, students need not be a member of that denomination to attend.
Pineville is a city in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located across the Red River from the larger Alexandria. Pineville is hence part of the Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,555 at the 2010 census. It had been 13,829 in 2000; population hence grew by 5 percent over the preceding decade.
Also as a college student still affiliated with The Town Talk, Dawson enlisted in the Louisiana National Guard, in which he retired years later at the rank of captain. In his later years, he became an avid deep-sea fisherman in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska, and the Amazon River.[3]
The United States National Guard, also commonly referred to as the National Guard, is part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces. It is a reserve military force composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations. All members of the National Guard of the United States are also members of the militia of the United States as defined by 10 U.S.C. § 246. National Guard units are under the dual control of the state and the federal government.
In the United States uniformed services, captain is a commissioned-officer rank. In keeping with the traditions of the militaries of most nations, the rank varies between the services, being a senior rank in the naval services and a junior rank in the ground and air forces.
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America.
Dawson was predeceased by his wife, the former Billie Maxwell (July 3, 1935 – April 1, 2000), a school teacher and counselor. Mrs. Dawson was originally from Jonesboro, the seat of Jackson Parish. She died of cancer six years before her husband expired.[5] Dawson was a vestryman of St. James Episcopal Church and a veteran member and past president of the Alexandria Optimist Club. He also served as president of the Alexandria/Pineville Young Men's Christian Association board of directors and was active in the United Way, an organization promoted by The Town Talk.[3]
Jonesboro is a town in and the parish seat of Jackson Parish in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The population was 4,704 at the 2010 census, up from 3,914 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bleeding, prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss and a change in bowel movements. While these symptoms may indicate cancer, they can also have other causes. Over 100 types of cancers affect humans.
United Way of America based in Alexandria, Virginia, is a nonprofit organization that works with almost 1,200 local United Way offices throughout the country in a coalition of charitable organizations to pool efforts in fundraising and support. United Way's focus is to identify and resolve pressing community issues and to make measurable changes in communities through partnerships with schools, government agencies, businesses, organized labor, financial institutions, community development corporations, voluntary and neighborhood associations, the faith community, and others. The main areas include education, income, and health.
Dawson died in Rapides Regional Medical Center of complications from a fall and heart disease. Services were held on November 26, 2006, in St. James Church, with the Reverend Fred H. Tinsley, Jr., officiating. The Dawsons are interred in Section 7 of Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.[6]
Survivors included daughters Stacey Blum (born 1962) and husband Alfred M. Blum (born 1960) of Oakland, California, and Catherine Gitter (born 1969) and husband Douglas K. "Doug" Gitter (born 1965) of Jacksonville, Florida, formerly of New Orleans, and his five grandchildren, Max, Ashley, and Polly Blum and Chase and Annie Gitter.[3]
↑ Hixson Brothers Funeral Home, Alexandria, LA, information sheet
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