Way Back Wednesday

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Feb. 4 1971: Manning W. Riser, left, manager of DuPont’s Pontchartrain Works at LaPlace, presents a $5,000 DuPont Co. science and engineering grant in chemistry to Dr. Norman C. Franks, president of Xavier University of Louisiana.

Feb. 4 1971: Manning W. Riser, left, manager of DuPont’s Pontchartrain
Works at LaPlace,
presents a $5,000
DuPont Co. science and
engineering grant in chemistry to
Dr. Norman C. Franks, president of Xavier
University of Louisiana.