Theodore Henley Jack
American college president (1881–1964)
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Theodore Henley Jack (December 30, 1881 - September 20, 1964) was a professor, college administrator, and author. Jack began college at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, but he then went to the University of Alabama,[1] where he earned a bachelor’s degree (1902)[2] and a master’s degree (1903).[3] He later studied history and government at Harvard University; he was one of 11 students from the state of Alabama who were enrolled at Harvard during the 1908-1909 academic year.[4] After earning a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1915, he briefly taught at Southern University.[1] However, he quickly left there for a history position at Emory University in 1916,[5] where he also served as dean of the graduate school, dean of the college of liberal arts, and vice president of the university.[1] He left Emory to serve as president of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College from 1933 to 1952.[6]
Emory University has a collection of his papers.[7] The Los Angeles Public Library has his bookplate.[8]
He married Alice Searcy Ashley in 1910.[9] Mary Spencer Jack Craddock (December 12, 1912 - September 2, 2014) was one of their two daughters.[10]
Writings
- Sectionalism and Party Politics in Alabama, 1819-1842, Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Pub. Co., 1919[11]
- The Story of America for Young Americans Part 1 by Smith Burnham and Theodore Henley Jack 1932
- America Our Country by Smith Burnham and Theodore Henley Jack 1934
Further reading
- Theodore Henley Jack : a portrait by Roberta D. Cornelius[12]