Woodward, Comer McDonald, 1874-1960.

Comer McDonald Woodward, clergyman, educator, and sociologist, was born at Hickory Creek, Tennessee, 28 April 1874, and died in Altanta, Georgia, 20 January 1960. He graduated from Emory College (1900); taught in south Georgia; went to Texas as a Methodist minister; attended the University of Chicago (M.A. 1916, B.D. 1917); and taught sociology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, until 1924 when he became Dean of Men at Emory University. He helped the state of Georgia set up the State Department of Welfare (1928), and served on the boards of the Family Welfare Society and the Georgia Conference of Social Workers for which he received an honorary Phi Beta Kappa Key from the Emory Chapter and an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Birmingham Southern College (1932).