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Aaron Selber, Jr.
Aaron Rosenbaum Selber, Jr. (December 13, 1927 – August 13, 2013), was an American businessman, the last president of the former Selber Bros. department store chain, and a philanthropist from Shreveport, the largest city in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
==Background==
Selber was a son of a Jewish couple, Aaron R. Selber, Sr. (1896–1968), a native of Baton Rouge,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aaron Rosenbaum Selber, Sr. )〕 and the former Frances Dreyfuss (1900–2000). While growing up during the Great Depression, Selber developed his work ethic early, delivering the since defunct ''Shreveport Journal'' newspaper, selling the ''Saturday Evening Post'', and servicing vending machines while attending elementary and junior high school at the private Southfield School and high school at the public C. E. Byrd, both in his native Shreveport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peggy & Aaron Selber: "I will teach the next generation about giving back", January 2012 )〕 Selber graduated from Southfield School in 1940, one of the first graduates of the institution located at 1100 Southfield Road; in 2011, he was inducted into the Southfield Hall of Fame.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Southfield Hall of Fame )〕
Selber enrolled at Tulane University in New Orleans for one year before he joined the United States Army Air Forces, in which he obtained gained top secret clearance in the electronics section of the Strategic Air Command. After his military duty, Selber attended the School of Retailing at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He then returned to Tulane where he graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aaron Selber )〕 He was subsequently inducted into the Paul Tulane Society.〔
At Tulane, Selber met his future wife, the former Peggy Burkenroad (September 13, 1931 – September 27, 2014). She was a New Orleans native, a daughter of Evelyn Kahn Levy and William B. Burkenroad, Jr. (c. 1903–1995), and a graduate of the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She attended H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, the former sister institution to Tulane, and Centenary College in Shreveport. She was a board member of the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary and the Sci-Port Discovery Center in Shreveport. Like her husband, Peggy Selber was a generous philanthropist, an artist, and a golfer who won multiple championships.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Peggy Selber )〕
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