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Robert C. Snyder
Robert Craven Snyder, Sr. (April 30, 1919 – June 8, 2011), was a professor and professor emeritus of English at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana. He was particularly known for his public lectures on cultural, civic, and educational matters during the decades of the 1950s, the 1960s, and the 1970s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert C. Snyder Obituary )〕
==Background==
The youngest of six children of Robert Harrison Snyder and the former Sophia Elizabeth Brock, Snyder was a native of Niota in McMinn County in eastern Tennessee. During World War II, he was employed by the Atomic Energy Commission on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, work which led to the development of the atomic bomb.〔 Snyder attended Methodist-affiliated Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens, Tennessee and also studied at the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama, formerly Florence State College. He further studied at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Tulane University in New Orleans, and did graduate work at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Over his academic years, he spent summers at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.〔〔Snyder's obituary gives no dates regarding the institutions at which he studied or the degrees received.〕〔"Glenbrook High School grads will hear Snyder", ''Minden Press-Herald'', May 30, 1978, p. 1〕
In a 42-year career at Louisiana Tech which extended from 1947 to 1989, Snyder was head of the Department of English and Foreign Language and thereafter the separate Department of English. He could for years recall many of the students whom he had instructed by name. At his retirement, he was named professor emeritus and the first Louisiana Tech Distinguished Professor.〔 Former Snyder students Sam Wyly and Wyly's brother, Charles Wyly, Jr., prominent businessmen in Dallas, Texas, established the Robert C. Snyder Endowed Chair in English. Snyder's obituary describes him as a strong classroom lecturer who was "as beloved as he was at times difficult. His brilliancy had no match. His white long sleeve starched shirts and seersucker suits ... his knowing laugh, his acerbic wit and charm, and his engaging manner of telling stories combined with his refinement will be missed forever."〔
In 1962, Snyder worked to establish the Lincoln Parish Library and was the president of the library board for many years. In 1966, Governor John J. McKeithen appointed Snyder to the state board of library commissioners. He also served a president of the Louisiana Library Board and received the Modisette Award by the Louisiana Library Association. He was an officer in the American Library Association. He was later appointed by Governor David C. Treen to serve on the Louisiana State Ethics Commission, a position that he held for twenty-six years, including a stint as chairman of the commission. Snyder served on the Louisiana Tech Athletic Council from the late 1950s through the 1980s. He was selected by the Alumni Association in 2005 for the Arliss Scroggin Award for Distinguished Service to Louisiana Tech. Snyder was also a member of the Executive Council on the Louisiana Commission for the Humanities. He was a national editorial critic for various specialized publications. At one time he fielded questions on a weekly radio program from Shreveport, Louisiana.〔 He lectured across the state before civic organizations, often on political topics. Known as a conservative, he railed against what he called "the servile state".〔"Local Teachers To Be Honored", ''Minden Herald'', February 8, 1963, pp. 1, 14〕
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