About Gary Lavergne

Cajuns

Site Map

Gary M. Lavergne, Author and Educator Biography Contact Information Latest News and Information Gary's Retirement Party Paris Conferences on Higher Education Quotes by Gary and Others He Likes Awards and Honors University of Louisiana Outstanding Alumnus Trailblazer Award  Articles by Gary M. Lavergne Put Your Heart To The Wind: The Lavergne Family and the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 Murder and Mayhem at the Texas Supreme Court Why Heman Marion Sweatt Still Matters If Your Dreams Come True--Are you Prepared for Success? (from Austin Writer) The Burdens of Writing History (from Austin Writer) Is This the End for the SAT (from the New York Times) Charles Whitman--Why Did He Do It? (Austin American Statesman, August 1, 2006) The Legacy of the Texas Tower Sniper (Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/26/2007) College Admissions As Conspiracy Theory (a review of four books for the Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/9/2007) From the Beginning: College Admissions and the Michigan Cases (SACRAO News, Summer2003) Affirmative Action and Percent Plans: What We Learned in Texas (College Board Review, May 2001) Impressions from a Son and His Father: The Duke University Talent Identification Program (TEMPO, the TAGT Newsletter, spring 1993) John M. Parker's Confrontation with Woodrow Wilson (TRA Journal, Summer 1984) Mike Scanlan: An Irish American in Acadia Parish (Attakapas Gazette, Winter 1977) Homer Barousse: Portrait of an Acadia Parish Politician (Attakapas Gazette, Summer 1976) Articles About Gary M. Lavergne David Furlow: Dedication of Heman Sweatt Portrait at UT Law School Crime Writer in the Tower by Missy Lay (Orange Magazine, Fall 2004) Gary Lavergne by Maggi Davis with photos by Katie Hayes (Burnt Orange Mazazine, Spring 2010) Cedar Park Citizen feature by Amy Fowler: "Cedar Park author writes for a new perspective" Cedar Park Citizen article by Amy Fowler on "Historic Awards" Texas Book Festivals 1997 Featured Author 1999 Featured Author 2003 Featured Author 2004 Moderator 2009 Moderator 2010 Featured Author Book Reviews by Gary M. Lavergne Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou by Ken Wells The Runner by Christopher Reich Meeley LaBauve by Ken Wells College Admissions As Conspiracy Theory (a review of four books) Price of Defiance by Charles Eagles Complete List of Past Appearances in Person and on Television Dateline NBC (Interview by Dennis Murphy) MSNBC Interview about the DC sniper (by Rick Sanchez) Premier of Sniper 66 at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum Links to videos of Network and Television Appearances (Media Page)   A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders Excerpt (from the Prologue) Charles Whitman--Why Did He Do It? (Austin American Statesman, August 1, 2006) Premier of Sniper 66 at the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum Photo Album Rave Reviews for A Sniper in the Tower 1997 Texas Book Festival Featured Author Pictures The Burdens of Writing History The Heroes of the Tower Tragedy The Long Shadow of the Texas Sniper by Frank Rich of the NY Times

Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice Rave Reviews Essays and Commentary Hemella L. Sweatt, MD (Cincinnati, OH) Reverend William Lawson (Houston, TX) Dr. James Douglas of Texas Southern University (Houston, TX) Ada Anderson (Austin, TX) James Leonard Sweatt, III (Dallas, TX) Gary Orfield post on Insidehighered.com Video: Tribute to W.Astor Kirk 2010 Texas Book Festival (with video clip) Heman Sweatt Symposium Appearances ALCALDE excerpt and introduction Why Sweatt Won, an article for the Journal of Southern Studies, (Spring/Summer. 2012) Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Journal: Why Heman Sweatt Still Matters State Bar of Texas Educational Videos on famous Supreme Court cases Journal of the Texas Supreme Court on the unveiling of a portrait of Heman Sweatt The Bad Boy From Rosebud: The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff An excerpt (from the Prologue) Rave Reviews for Bad Boy From Rosebud Texas Book Festival Featured Book St. Martin's True Crime Library Paperback  The Many Faces of Kenneth Allen McDuff In Memoriam: Known Victims of Kenneth Allen McDuff Why Write About Kenneth Allen McDuff? (an exclusive for the Rosebud News)   Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law Texas Book Festival Featured Book Excerpt (from the Chapter 1) Rave Reviews for Worse Than Death   Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Ancestry of a Louisiana Frenchman The Genealogy of Gary M. Lavergne Growing Up Cajun Excerpt (from the Preface) Louisiana's French Amalgam Pictures Eugene Lavergne and Marie Hermine Bourgeois Darbis Richard and Lilia Comeaux John Clairville Lavergne and Aline Olivier Noel Olivier and Euranie Boone Oscar Oliver and Aurelia Thibodeaux Nolan Lavergne and Helen Barbara Richard Amnesty for Eugene Lavergne (Civil War Oath) Picture of the Amnesty Oath The Lavergne Family's Connection to the pathfinder Daniel Boone Le Grande Derangement: Cajun Settle Louisiana Expanding New France: The Lavergnes Move South to New Orleans and West to Opelousas Quebec City and the Emergence of Louis Lavergne The Richards of Ilse St. Jean Settlements and Settlers: Some Acadian Pioneers The Family of Gary M. Lavergne

| Gary's Bio |Before Brown| Worse Than Death| Bad Boy From Rosebud | Sniper in the Tower | Cajuns |