Woodward, Dorothy, 1895-1961

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Dorothy Woodward, historian and educator, was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in 1895. After receiving her Ph.D. from Yale in 1935, she joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico where she taught Latin American history. She served in the Woman's Army Corps. from 1944-45 and in the New Mexico Civil Air Patrol. She retired from UNM in 1956 and was appointed to the UNM Board of Regents in 1957. She resigned in May 1960. She died the following year on April 4 in Denver, Colorado.
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Birth 1895-05-01

Death 1961-04-04

Portuguese,

German,

French,

English,

Finnish,

Spanish; Castilian

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