Scope and Contents note
Biographical/Historical note
Title: John Wendel Dodds papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0139
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.75 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1942-1967
creator:
Dodds, John W. (John Wendell), 1902-
creator:
Dodds, John W., ((John Wendell),), 1902-
Scope and Contents note
The majority of these files date from Dr. Dodd's term as Dean of the School of Humanities and Director of Special Programs
in the Humanities. Also included are miscellaneous files created during his service on various University committees, including
one on Far Eastern Studies; files and film footage from two programs written and narrated by Dodds and filmed by KQED (public
television station, San Francisco): AMERICAN MEMOIR and THE MEASURE OF MAN; and the published version of AMERICAN MEMOIR,
1961.
Biographical/Historical note
Professor of English at Stanford (1937-1967; emeritus 1967- ), interim head of the Department of French and Italian (September
1972-April 1973), Dean of the School of Humanities and Director of Special Programs in the Humanities.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Dodds, John W., ((John Wendell),), 1902-
Rockefeller Foundation..
Sokol, Anthony Eugene.
Stanford University. School of Humanities and Sciences.
Stanford University. Special Programs in Humanities.
American memoir.
East Asia.
Motion pictures.
The Measure of man.