Paul Langdon Ward

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Paul Langdon Ward (February 4, 1911 – November 13, 2005) was an American academic, the fifth president of Sarah Lawrence College from 1960 to 1965.

Life

Ward was born in 1911 in

Protestant Episcopal Church, teaching at Huachung University in Wuhan
from 1946 to 1950.

He returned to the U.S. to teach at Colby College (1951–53) and at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, later merged into what is now Carnegie Mellon University (1953–60). At Carnegie Tech, Ward became Chairman of the History Department. He was the fifth president of Sarah Lawrence College from 1960 to 1965. After Sarah Lawrence, Ward headed the American Historical Association (1965–74).

Ward served on Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on the Higher Education of Women, and was active in the peace movement in the U.S. in the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and on the Joint Commission of Peace of the Episcopal Church. In 1988, along with his wife Catharine, he received the John Nevin Sayre Award of the Episcopal Church fir his work to promote preach. Ward also served on the board of directors for the Harry S Truman Library Institute, was a Fellow of the Society for Religion in Higher Education, and received honorary doctorates from Amherst College, Bard College and Clark University.

Ward was the author of William Lambarde's Collections on Chancery (1953), A Style of History for Beginners’’ (1959), Confrontation and Learned Societies (with John Voss, 1970), Elements of Historical Thinking (1971), Studying History: An Introduction to Methods and Structure (1985), and “The Voice of Conscience: A Loud and Unusual Noise? The Episcopal Peace Fellowship, 1939-1989” (with Nathaniel W. Pierce, 1989).

References

  • American Historical Association website [1]
  • New York Times obituary of November 18, 2005 [2]
  • Obituary on the Amherst College website [3].

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