- John Gabbert Bowman
John Gabbert Bowman (
May 18 ,1877 –December 2 ,1962 ) was the tenth Chancellor (1921–1945) of theUniversity of Pittsburgh and the ninth President (1911–1914) of theUniversity of Iowa .He is best known for initiating and completing the 42-story
Cathedral of Learning , the centerpiece of Pitt's campus, over the objections of many faculty and community members. At the time it was the tallest educational structure in the world. He also established theUniversity of Pittsburgh Press and oversaw the institution of controversial athletic policies that resulted in the resignation in popular head football coachJock Sutherland . [Citation
title = Boot for Bowman | journal = Time
year = 1939
date = 1939-10-02
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,789020,00.html?promoid=googlep | accessdate = 2008-06-23]Bowman was the first University of Iowa
alumnus to become its President, as well as the school’s first Iowa-born chief administrator. He earned theB.A. degree in 1899, the M.A. in 1904, and theLitt.D. in 1934. He became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity as an undergraduate.He also worked as a journalist in
Iowa andIllinois , taught in a one-room rural Iowa school and atColumbia University . From Columbia he worked at the newly founded Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.In 1915 he became the founding director of the
American College of Surgeons , where he served until 1921.Bowman was born in
Davenport, Iowa . He married Florence Ridgway Berry and they had two children. He died at age 85 onDecember 2 ,1962 inBedford, Pennsylvania .Books
* "The World That Was", nonfiction (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1947).
* "Nationality Rooms of the University of Pittsburgh", with Ruth Crawford Mitchell and Andrey Avinoff, nonfiction (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1947).
* "Happy All Day Through", poetry (Chicago: P.F. Volland Company, 1917).ources
* [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Archives/guides/presidents.htm The University of Iowa Libraries]
References
*cite book | author=Alberts, Robert C. | title=Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987 | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1987 | id=ISBN 0-8229-1150-7
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