Records of Merle Odgers on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Merle Odgers and the Odgers Genealogy

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Some Famous People called Merle Odgers

Merle Middleton Odgers

Merle Middleton Odgers (April 21, 1900 - September 6, 1983) was president of Bucknell University from 1954 until his retirement in 1964, when he was named president emeritus.

Born in Philadelphia, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1922. After receiving his doctorate in 1928, he taught at the university until 1933, when he was named dean of their College of Liberal Arts for Women. Odgers was then president of Girard College, a Philadelphia secondary school for orphan boys, from 1936 to 1954.

Odgers authored Alexander Dallas Bache: Scientist and Educator, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1947.

Source: Merle Middleton Odgers, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Odgers

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