Collection Carte 5,5X3 signée à la main "Sarah Lawrence College 5ème président" Paul Langdon Ward

Up for auction a RARE! "Sarah Lawrence College" Paul Langdon Ward Hand Signed 5.5X3 Card. 

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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. Ward was born in 1911 in Diyarbakir in what was then the Ottoman

Empire, the son of a medical missionary. He spent much of childhood

Lebanon, where he attended the American Community School. He received his B.A.

from Amherst College in

1933, an M.A. from Harvard University in 1934 and a Ph.D. in History from

Harvard in 1940. He was an Assistant Professor History at Russell Sage College (Troy, NY) 1941-42 before joining

the Office of Strategic

Services (OSS) in the U.S. Department of State for the duration

of World War II. After the war, Ward went to China as a missionary for

the Protestant Episcopal Church,

teaching at Huachung University in Wuhan from 1946-50. 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). He 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. He 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) and Studying History: An

Introduction to Methods and Structure (1985).