Alexander J. Stoddard

(1889-1965) born in Auburn, Nemaha County, lived in Newman Grove and Beatrice. Educator, innovative public school administrator, consultant, served as superintendent of schools at Providence, Rhode Island, Denver, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, chaired Educational Policies Commission for a decade, advised General Douglas MacArthur in the organization of the Japanese school system, one of the pioneers of the use of television as a teaching device. Consult Saturday Review (May 20, 1961) 56-57, 71 and New York Times obituary, October 19, 1965, p. 43 and Crete /NE/ News, August 3, 2005, p. B-4.

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