Changes

'''Vincent John Carmelo Marsala''' (October 7, 1935 &ndash; December 13, 2017) was a [[historian]] and administrator for forty-five years at  Louisiana State University in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], a branch campus of the flagship [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], which was launched in 1967. He capped his career as the university chancellor upon his retirement in 2012.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marsala&GSfn=Vincent&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=2017&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=185905240&df=all&|title=Dr. Vincent John Carmelo Marsala|publisher=oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

'''Vincent John Carmelo Marsala''' (October 7, 1935 &ndash; December 13, 2017) was a [[historian]] and administrator for forty-five years at  Louisiana State University in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], a branch campus of the flagship [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], which was launched in 1967. He capped his career as the university chancellor upon his retirement in 2012.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marsala&GSfn=Vincent&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=2017&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=185905240&df=all&|title=Dr. Vincent John Carmelo Marsala|publisher=oldfindagrave.com|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

He was one of two sons of an [[Italian-American]] couple, Vincent Marsala and the former Rosalie Cecelia Parrino (1911-1998), who lived in north Louisiana. Marsala learned to hunt and fish about Bayou DeSiard in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. He graduated from St. Matthew's High School in Monroe and attended LSU in Baton Rouge. He was pledged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.  He transferred to the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana University, where he became an [[ROTC]] cadet and met his future wife, the former Carol Ann Goodrum. He earned his bachelor's degree in general studies with a focus on [[political science]] and history and continued his military service at Fort Benning, [[Georgia]], where he became a second lieutenant in the [[United States Army]]. He returned to Baton Rouge to earn a master's degree in 1962 in government and sociology. For a time, he taught political science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He continued graduate studies and received his [[Ph.D.]] in Latin American Studies from LSU. He and his wife spent three months in [[Jamaica]] while he completed his historical dissertation, "Sir John Peter Grant, Governor of Jamaica 1866-1874: An Administrative History," a treatise that was subsequently published.<ref name=obi/>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=vincent-john-carmelo-marsala&pid=187531795|title=Vincent Marsala obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=December 15, 2017|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

He was one of two sons of an Italian-American couple, Vincent Marsala and the former Rosalie Cecelia Parrino (1911-1998), who lived in north Louisiana. Marsala learned to hunt and fish about Bayou DeSiard in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]]. He graduated from St. Matthew's High School in Monroe and attended LSU in Baton Rouge. He was pledged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.  He transferred to the University of Louisiana at Monroe, then known as Northeast Louisiana University, where he became an [[ROTC]] cadet and met his future wife, the former Carol Ann Goodrum. He earned his bachelor's degree in general studies with a focus on [[political science]] and history and continued his military service at Fort Benning, [[Georgia]], at which he became a second lieutenant in the [[United States Army]]. He returned to Baton Rouge to earn a master's degree in 1962 in government and sociology. For a time, he taught political science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He continued graduate studies and received his [[Ph.D.]] in Latin American Studies from LSU. He and his wife spent three months in [[Jamaica]] while he completed his historical dissertation, "Sir John Peter Grant, Governor of Jamaica 1866-1874: An Administrative History," a treatise that was subsequently published.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=vincent-john-carmelo-marsala&pid=187531795|title=Vincent Marsala obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=December 15, 2017|accessdate=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

In 1967, Dean Donald Shipp was appointed chancellor to head the new branch of the LSU System in Shreveport. Shipp invited Marsala to become a founding faculty member, the start of a 45-year academic career at the institution. Marsala was a professor of Latin American and Louisiana history and government and an administrative dean of the colleges of General Studies and Continuing Education and Public Service. In 1995, he was named the LSUS chancellor, a post he filled for seventeen years. His continuing research interests touched upon a variety of topics, from [[Abraham Lincoln]] to [[U.S. Senator]] Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana, and [[Roman Catholic]] church history in Louisiana.<ref name=obit/>

In 1967, Dean Donald Shipp was appointed chancellor to head the new branch of the LSU System in Shreveport. Shipp invited Marsala to become a founding faculty member, the start of a 45-year academic career at the institution. Marsala was a professor of Latin American and Louisiana history and government and an administrative dean of the colleges of General Studies and Continuing Education and Public Service. In 1995, he was named the LSUS chancellor, a post he filled for seventeen years. His continuing research interests touched upon a variety of topics, from [[Abraham Lincoln]] to [[U.S. Senator]] Joseph E. Ransdell of Louisiana, and [[Roman Catholic]] church history in Louisiana.<ref name=obit/>

In 1994, [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] named Marsala to serve on the Governor's Higher Education Commission for the 21st Century. He also received a Fulbright Award for a group study project to [[Costa Rica]] entitled, ''The Social Context of Crisis in Central America.'' In 2012, Vincent and Carol Ann received the LSUS Alumni Association's Loyalty Award given to retiring faculty or staff who played a strategic role in the advancement of LSUS. <ref name=bio/>

In 1994, [[Governor]] [[Edwin Edwards]] named Marsala to serve on the Governor's Higher Education Commission for the 21st Century. He also received a Fulbright Award for a group study project to [[Costa Rica]] entitled, ''The Social Context of Crisis in Central America.'' In 2012, Vincent and Carol Ann received the LSUS Alumni Association's Loyalty Award given to retiring faculty or staff who played a strategic role in the advancement of LSUS.<ref name=obit/>

Marsala contracted [[breast cancer]], a condition rare in men. He died in Shreveport at the age of eighty-two. In addition to his wife, he was survived by a daughter, Shawne Christy Marsala, and a brother, Dr. Andrew James Marsala and his wife, Renee.<ref name=bio/> He is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=findagrave/>

Marsala contracted [[breast cancer]], a condition rare in men. He died in Shreveport at the age of eighty-two. In addition to his wife, he was survived by a daughter, Shawne Christy Marsala, and a brother, Dr. Andrew James Marsala and his wife, Renee. He is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref name=findagrave/>

==References==

==References==

[[Category:Louisiana People]]

[[Category:Louisiana People]]

[[Category:Historians]]

[[Category:Historians]]

[[Category:University administrators]]

[[Category:University chancellors]]

[[Category:American Authors]]

[[Category:American Authors]]

[[Category:Catholics]]

[[Category:Catholics]]

[[Category:United States Army]]

[[Category:United States Army]]