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Four years later he was on the Beirut faculty, and married to the boss's daughter. In 1920 his father-in-law died, and three years later Bayard became president...
...years as a Near East teacher, which ended last week when he returned to the U.S. to retire, 59-year-old Bayard Dodge had repeated that Good Samaritan act many times and in many ways. It was an act he more than walked through. Son of the copper-rich Dodges, he followed the family path to Princeton but swerved off to study theology. On a Wanderjahr around the world in 1908, Bayard stopped off at the American University of Beirut, in the Lebanon. There he met his childhood friend, Mary Bliss, granddaughter of the university's founder and first...
Lamb & Lectures. In a quarter-century as A.U.B.'s president, Bayard Dodge has done more than any other single American to win and keep good will for the U.S. in the Near East. The friend and teacher of sheiks, princes and prime ministers, he knows how to eat rice and roast lamb the Arab way. He also knows how to lecture his Arab friends like a kindly if somewhat exasperated uncle, without losing their affection or respect. His favorite lecture topics: the inadequacy of "political formulae and agitation" to solve Arab Asia's problems; the need for hard...
Ever since a strike of Moslem students in 1912, chapel attendance at A.U.B. has been voluntary, but Christian, Moslem and Jew often worship together at the university services. When the spirit moved him (and in 25 years it often did), Bayard Dodge preached sermons to his students, could quote from Koran as well as Scripture. Dodge is proud that A.U.B.'s melting-pot of 50 nationalities and 20 religions has never boiled over...
...ledger is not in the red; at the request of President Shukri Bey Kuwatly of Syria, Bayard Dodge recently founded a new school in Damascus, and he has promised to build a modern agricultural college in Iraq. En route to Syria last week, as first director of the new Damascus College, was an American with a name known with respect in the Near East. The new director: Howard Huntington ("Hunt") Bliss, 45, grandson of A.U.B.'s founder and brother-in-law of Bayard Dodge...