The Advocate -- June 06, 2003: CONRAD,    GLENN RUSSELL   A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 7, 2003, at St. Peter's Catholic Church, New Iberia, for Glenn Russell Conrad, 71, who died Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 9:40 a.m. at his residence in New Iberia after a lengthy illness. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery in New Iberia. The family requests that visiting hours be observed at Evangeline Funeral Home, 314 E. St. Peter St., New Iberia, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and after 8 a.m. Saturday. The rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Friday. Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Sylvia Gauthier Conrad; four children, Martin Conrad of New Iberia, Alicia Conrad Stewart and husband Andrew A. Stewart of Houston, Margaret Conrad of Monroe, and Randolph Conrad of Houston; and six grandchildren, Christopher Conrad, Stephen Conrad, Michael Conrad, Margaret Stewart, Alan Stewart and Sarah Nigreville. He was preceded in death by his parents, Julian and Margaret Conrad. Pallbearers will be Christopher Conrad, Stephen Conrad, Michael Conrad, Dewey Gauthier, Carl Breaux and Billy Gesser. Honorary pallbearers are Karl Conrad, Andrew Stewart, Albert Landry, Judge John Duhe, Dan Strapp, Ray Pellerin, Fred Comeaux and Larry Kramer. Glenn Conrad was born in New Iberia on Sept. 3, 1932. He received a bachelor of science in foreign service and a master of arts degree in history from Georgetown University. He began his career in writing and publishing as the editor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation newsletter in Washington, D.C. A doctoral candidate in European history at LSU, he combined his knowledge and interest in French history with his love for Louisiana history in a long and distinguished career at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In 1973 with the support of the university administration and the department of history, he established the Center for Louisiana Studies. He continued to serve as its director until his death. He served as secretary-treasurer of the Louisiana Historical Association since 1993. Conrad was the author of 29 books on aspects of Louisiana history and culture, including two volumes of "New Iberia Essays on the town and its people." Many of his works have been established as important resource tools for other scholars. Among his most important contributions to the historical literature of his home state are the multivolume reference works he edited. Conrad was recognized as a University of Southwestern Louisiana Distinguished Professor in 1978, received the Daughters of the American Revolution Medal of Honor in 1984, the Louisiana Preservation Alliance Education Award in 1984 and the Historic New Orleans Collection Manuscript Award in 1992. He received the McGinty Lifetime Meritorious Service Award for contributions to Louisiana's history and heritage in 1995, and was selected as a Louisiana Historical Association Fellow in 1999. In 2001, he received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Humanist of the Year Award. He served as a member of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Commission, New Iberia Bicentennial of the Founding, New Iberia Sesquicentennial of Incorporation, New Iberia Historic District Commission, board of directors of the Louisiana Historical Association, board of directors of the Louisiana Historical Association, board of directors of the Attakapas Historical Association and publisher of the Attakapas Gazette, the historical journal of the Acadiana region, and was a member of the Southern Historical Association. He received the Greater Iberia Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Civic Service Award in 1993. It is the wish of the family that memorial contributions be made to Shadows-on-the-Teche Memorial Garden, 317 E. Main St., New Iberia, LA 70560 or Hospice of Acadiana, 2600 Johnston St., Suite 200, Lafayette LA 70503.