Carl R. Woodward

Carl Raymond Woodward, Sr. (1890–1974) was an American educator and college administrator who served from 1915 to 1941 in various positions at Rutgers University, and from 1941 to 1958 as the fifth president of the University of Rhode Island.

Early life and education Woodward was born on 20 July 1890 in Tennent, New Jersey, attended the public schools and graduated in 1906 from Freehold High School. From 1908 until 1910, he taught in a one-room rural school in Monmouth County, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University beginning in 1910 and earned his BS in 1914 and MA in 1919. He married Lulu Altha Ryno on 5 April 1916, and they had three children. He went on to earn his PhD at Cornell University in 1926.

Retirement and legacy In retirement, he remained active for 18 years with the university and historic preservation communities in Rhode Island, including the preservation of Smith's Castle at Cocumscussoc and the Watson House on the URI Campus. Woodward Hall on the URI Campus was named in his honor in 1959, he was named a member of the State of Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame a year after his death, and he was inducted into the URI Sports Hall of Fame in 1976. Woodward died on 2 October 1974 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Selected publications App, F. and C.R. Woodward. (1924). The farmer and his farm. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 338pp. Woodward, C.R. (1930). Agriculture in New Jersey. American Historical Society, New York. 144pp. Woodward, C.R. (1941). Ploughs and politicks: Charles Read of New Jersey and his notes on agriculture, 1715-1774. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press. 468pp. Woodward, C.R. (1957). Education's "lively experiment" in Rhode Island. Newcomen Society in North America, New York vol. 12; no. 21. 28pp. Woodward, C.R. (1971). Plantation in Yankeeland: the story of Cocumscussoc, mirror of colonial Rhode Island. Pequot Press, Chester, CT. 198pp.