Rutgers University. Office of the Secretary.

As Secretary of Rutgers University under President Robert C. Clothier, Dr. Carl Raymond Woodward worked closely with the President, serving as Deputy President. Responsibilities of the Secretary of the University were numerous and wide-ranging. Dr. Woodward had broad responsibility for both the academic development and budget of the University as well as maintaining the University's relationship with internal and external constituencies. The internal constituents included the faculty, the alumni, the students as well as the various departments and colleges. External constituents were comprised mainly of the general public, the New Jersey State Government and the Federal government. Of particular interest during this period is Rutgers University's relation with the state and federal governments and its status as a land-grant college. The University administration was faced with the recurring issue of whether to undertake increasing University endowments thus allowing Rutgers to become a completely private institution, or bow to increasing pressure from the public, state and federal governments to become a state university, or to maintain its admittedly precarious positions as a semi-private, semi-public university. There was much controversy over the amount of money appropriated to Rutgers from the state and federal governments and debate over whether these appropriations were made to Rutgers at the expense of other necessary services and institutions such as the public school systems. There was also much discussion of the establishment of a state university other than Rutgers University. While this debate had been ongoing, this seems to be the time when Rutgers was faced with the reality of finally having to respond to public and government pressure. While we are aware of the outcome of this issue, this period of time during Dr. Woodward's tenure and his shepherding of the process offer some history on the origins of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, as we know it today. Towards the end of Dr. Woodward's tenure in 1941, the University celebrated its 175th Anniversary and as Secretary of the University, Dr. Woodward was also very involved in both the anniversary and the attendant fundraising campaign.

Dr. Carl Raymond Woodward was born July 20, 1890, in Tennent, New Jersey. He attended Freehold High School in New Jersey, graduating in 1906. For the next two years, Dr. Woodward worked on his father's farm. From 1908 until 1910, he taught in a one-room rural school in Monmouth County, New Jersey, entering Rutgers University in 1910 where he graduated with the Class of 1914. During his undergraduate years at Rutgers University, he was active in a variety of University organizations, including the Targum Association for which he served as President, a post he also held with the Philoclean Literary Society. He was also vice-president of the Biological Club, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Glee Club and a member of the following organizations: the Self-Government Board; the Debate Committee; the Debating Team; the Junior Prom Committee; class track and Sophomore Orator. In his senior year, he was chairman of the Senior Memorial Committee. The then Mr. Woodward was the recipient of various prizes during his four years at Rutgers including the Suydam Prize in Natural Science and the John Parker Winner Memorial Prize in Mental Science. He was also a member of numerous honorary and fraternal societies including Phi Beta Kappa (general scholarship), Phi Delta Kappa (education), Phi Kappa Phi (general scholarship), Alpha Zeta (agriculture), Phi Gamma Delta (social), and Phi Alpha Theta (history).

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