Sheila T. Stroup is a "Living" section columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. 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

Dog

The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...

 Court of the Mystic Krewe

Krewe

A krewe is an organization that puts on a parade and or a ball for the Carnival season. The term is best known for its association with New Orleans Mardi Gras, but is also used in other Carnival celebrations around the Gulf of Mexico, such as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa, Florida, and...

 of Mardi Paws.

Stroup was a featured speaker on the 1996 Business Week program at Southeastern Louisiana University

Southeastern Louisiana University

Southeastern Louisiana University is a state-funded public university in Hammond, Louisiana, United States. It was founded in 1925 by Linus A. Sims, the principal of Hammond High School, as Hammond Junior College, located in a wing of the high school building. Sims succeeded in getting the campus...

, 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 Chris Rose

Chris Rose (journalist)

Chris Rose is a New Orleans, Louisiana, writer. For years best known for light-hearted writing in the Times-Picayune, he gained greater attention for his chronicles of the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans since 2005. He left the paper in late 2009, and joined the New Orleans alternative...

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

Angus Lind

Angus Miller Lind is a retired columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Lind retired in July 2009 after 39 years with The Times-Picayune and the now-defunct afternoon newspaper, The States-Item. He began as a general assignment reporter for The States-Item in 1970, and covered the biggest...

, as Rose parodied New Orleans City Council

City council

A city council or town council is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality or local government area.-Australia & NZ:Because of the differences in legislation between the States, the exact definition of a City Council varies...

woman Stacy Head

Stacy Head

Stacy Aline Singleton Head is a member of the New Orleans City Council.-Early Life and Career:Stacy Head was born in 1969 as the daughter of Katherine Hamberlin Singleton and Ernest Lynn Singleton. She grew up in Greensburg, Saint Helena Parish, Louisiana...

's e-mails about fellow Councilwoman Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson and other subjects.

Stroup and her husband, who live near the village of Folsom

Folsom, Louisiana

Folsom is a village in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 525 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the wife of Grover Cleveland, Frances Folsom...

 (which is on LA 25 due north of Covington

Covington, Louisiana

Covington is a city in and the parish seat of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,483 at the 2000 census. It is located at a fork of the Bogue Falaya and the Tchefuncte River....

), have two grown daughters.

See also

• Stacy Head
• Angus Lind
  Angus Lind
  Angus Miller Lind is a retired columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Lind retired in July 2009 after 39 years with The Times-Picayune and the now-defunct afternoon newspaper, The States-Item. He began as a general assignment reporter for The States-Item in 1970, and covered the biggest...
  
  
• Chris Rose
  Chris Rose (journalist)
  Chris Rose is a New Orleans, Louisiana, writer. For years best known for light-hearted writing in the Times-Picayune, he gained greater attention for his chronicles of the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans since 2005. He left the paper in late 2009, and joined the New Orleans alternative...