Theodore Henley Jack

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Theodore Henley Jack (1881–1964) was a professor, college administrator, and author. He began college at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, then earned a bachelor’s degree in 1902 and a master’s degree in 1903 from the University of Alabama. He studied history and government at Harvard, one of 11 Alabama students there in 1908–1909. He earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1915 and taught briefly at Southern University before moving to Emory University in 1916 as a history professor. At Emory he also served as dean of the graduate school, dean of the college of liberal arts, and vice president. He left Emory to become president of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, serving from 1933 to 1952. Emory University holds a collection of his papers, and the Los Angeles Public Library has his bookplate. He married Alice Searcy Ashley in 1910. Their daughter Mary Spencer Jack Craddock (1912–2014) was one of their two daughters.