Sheila T. Stroup (born 1943, Covington, Louisiana) is a "Living" section columnist for the

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''. Her column, rather than dealing with the celebrated news events of the day, invariably has to do with perceptions of the otherwise-unnoticed aspects of life, particularly in her native Northshore Region. Part of her style is to refer to her husband Merwin by his surname alone, ''Stroup''. A frequent topic for Sheila Stroup is dogs. In 1999 her dog Harry was elected Grand Duke in the Canine Court of the Mystic

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of Mardi Paws. Stroup was a featured speaker on the 1996 Business Week program at

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, of which she is alumna. For her fundraising efforts to benefit charitable and not-for-profit organizations, in 2004 Stroup received the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. In 2009 Stroup was chosen by fellow columnist

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to serve as the addressee for a series of fictitious e-mails about yet another columnist, Angus Lind, as Rose parodied New Orleans

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's e-mails about fellow Councilwoman

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, Clarkson,

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, Tracie Washington, and Veronica White. Stroup lives near the village of

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(which is on LA 25 due north of Covington), have two grown daughters and a son. Stroup's husband died in 2020.

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