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'''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 launched in 1967 of the flagship [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. Marsala 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 launched in 1967 of the flagship [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]]. Marsala 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]], 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=https://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>

Marsala 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=https://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. He was one of three authors of a 1992 essay collection that explores the sources, style, and quality of leadership of [[U.S. President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/abraham-lincoln-vincent-marsala/1028503794|title=''Abraham Lincoln''|publisher=Barnesandnoble.com|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref> He also researched [[U.S. Senator]] [[Joseph Ransdell]] of Louisiana, and the history in Louisiana of the  [[Roman Catholic]] church.<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. He was one of three authors of a 1992 essay collection that explores the sources, style, and quality of leadership of [[U.S. President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/abraham-lincoln-vincent-marsala/1028503794|title=''Abraham Lincoln''|publisher=Barnesandnoble.com|accessdate=December 20, 2017}}</ref> He also researched [[U.S. Senator]] [[Joseph Ransdell]] of Louisiana, and the history in Louisiana of the  [[Roman Catholic]] church.<ref name=obit/>