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Biographies
ALEXANDER
JERRY STODDARD
Alexander Jerry Stoddard, superintendent of Los Angeles City Schools, was born in Auburn, Nebraska, on March 7, 1889; the son of Alexander and Mary (Newman) Stoddard.
Graduated from Peru (Nebraska) State Teachers College in 1910; studied law at the University of Michigan from 1913 to 1915; received his B.S. in Education at University of Nebraska in 1922; A.M. from Columbia in 1924; ED.D. from Rhode Island College of Education in 1933; L.H.D. from Beaver College in 1939; LL.D. from Temple University in 1939 and from University of Nebraska in 1940; L.H.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1940.
Dr. Stoddard was a teacher in the rural schools in Nebraska from 1905 to 1907; principal of elementary school, Auburn, Nebraska, from 1907 to 1909; superintendent of schools in Newman Grove, Nebraska, from 1910 to 1915, Havelock from 1916 to 1917, Beatrice from 1917 to 1922, Bronxville, New York, from 1922 to 1926, Schenectady from 1926 to 1929, Providence, Rhode Island, from 1929 to 1937, Denver, Colorado, from 1937 to 1939, Philadelphia from 1939 to 1948, and Los Angeles, California, since 1948.
President of Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, 1932-33; lecturer at Connecticut Summer School for Teachers, Yale, 1923-26, and at Teachers College, Columbia, 1929-31.
Chairman of Education Policies Commission, 1936 to 1946; member of Committee on Teacher Education; member of Committee on Teacher Examination; member of Advisory Board, Air-Age Research; trustee of Editorial Board, School and Society; president of American Association of School Administrators, 1935, N.E.A. (Chairman of Year Book Commission, 1933); member of United States Education Mission to Japan in 1946; and member of National Commission UNESCO.
Member of Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity. Protestant. Co-author of “Learning to Spell and English Series”; and contributor to professional journals. Member of the Rotary Club.
Dr. Stoddard married Sadie Keefer Gillan on August 6, 1913 and has two children: Eleanor and Hudson. Their home is at 888 Via del Monte, Palos Verdes Estates, California.
Offices: 450 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles 12, California.
Transcribed 4-30-14 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Pages 347-348, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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