Bayard Dodge
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Bayard Dodge | |
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 Bayard Dodge in 1923, during his inauguration as the president of the American University of Beirut | |
| Born | 1888 |
| Died | 1972 (aged 83–84) |
| Parent(s) | Cleveland Hoadley Dodge Grace Wainwright Parish |
Bayard Dodge (February 5, 1888 in New York City[1] –1972) was an American scholar of Islam and president of the American University in Beirut.
The son of Cleveland Hoadley Dodge and Grace Wainwright Parish, he graduated from Princeton University in 1909.[2]
Career
In 1923 Dodge succeed his father-in-law, Howard Bliss, to become the president of a university in Beirut then known as the Syrian Protestant College.[3] His great uncle, Reverend David Stuart Dodge, had been one of the first professors to teach at the faculty in the 1860s. Dorothy Rowntree, the first woman engineering graduate from the University of Glasgow, worked as Bayard Dodge's personal assistant at the university in Beirut.[4]
After his retirement from the presidency in 1948 he continued teaching at several universities.[2] His son, David S. Dodge, later served the same role.[5]
