Lou Stoumen ’39, a poet, photographer and filmmaker, once told the Brown & White that his work centered not on stories with happy endings but ways to make people aware of their own humanity.  He won Academy Awards for two documentaries: The True Story of the Civil War and Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler.

Stoumen had entered a world at war after graduating from Lehigh. He worked first as a freelance photographer and journalist in New York City, taking photographs of Times Square, for which he became well known. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he served as a combat correspondent and photographer for Yank.  His black-and-white war images have been displayed at Lehigh. 

Stoumen, who also taught film production at U.C.L.A., died in 1991.