Cubano in the 'Cajun Country - Latin American Studies

Company, and later for the BAI"l NER-TRI BUNE
as advertising manager and then as comptroller
for the Morgan City DAILY REVIEW. He moved
to New Orleans in 1967 to become comptroller
and advertising manager of LATIN AMERICA RE­
PORT Magazine. While in New Orleans, unable
by state law to practice as a CPA, he handled
bookkeeping responsibilities for some firms,
and has been engaged as an insurance representative
and electrical supplies salesman.
New Orleans was a familiar setting for Mr.
Chao. As a boy he attended Holy Cross High
School, and later graduated as a commercial and
business student at Soule College. He won his
CPA degree at Havana University.
His experiences in Cuba included professor of
accounting at Escuela Professional de Comercio,
Camaguey, where he taught auditing in 1941-42.
As a certified public accountant in Cuba his
clients included chemical products companies,
dairies, electric light and power companies, distilleries,
hospitals, hotels, ice plants, molasses
terminals, sugar mills, department stores and
others.
Jorge Luis Chao graduated from Morgan City
High School. He studied architecture at Louisiana
State University in Baton Rouge after attending
the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
He is employed as assistant manager of the Ven-
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CUBANO Y PERIODISTA EN LUlSIANA- £1 Sr Jose
Chao, contador pliblico en la Habl1na, enCOnlrl) refugio
en Acadiana. despues que Sll pulria rue alrilpudu POl' el
comunismo. Ha trabajado como gerente de anuncios en
la Banner-Tribune Publishing Corporatioll. en F'ranld in,
ademas de prestaI' servicios en la division anlicolllunista
del peri6dico. Luego paso a ser el jete conlador
del peri6dico DAILY REVIEW, de Morgan City, .Y rte
alli se traslado a la ciudad de Nueva Orleans para
ocuparse de la contaduria .Y anuncios de la revi::;la
LATIN AMERICAN REPORT,
Write Acadiana Profile
(Box 52241, Lafayette, La,)
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