THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, May 20, 1995 TAG: 9505200365
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
Carl Boyd, history professor at Old Dominion University and a teacher at the university for 20 years, has been named ODU's Louis I. Jaffe Professor of History.
Boyd, 59, of Norfolk, succeeds Lewis Ford, professor of philosophy, who is retiring this month.
The endowed chair is open to eminent scholars in ODU's College of Arts and Letters.
It is named for Jaffe, former editor of The Virginian-Pilot and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for helping win adoption of the South's first anti-lynching laws.
Jaffe died in 1950.
Boyd said he is proud to hold a chair named for an editor associated with civil rights causes.
``I was a freedom rider in Mississippi in the '60s, and so I feel a certain kinship with him,'' Boyd said.
Boyd has written or co-authored three books.
His areas of expertise include military, naval and intelligence history. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Boyd
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