Donald O’Dowd

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Donald O’Dowd

b. 1927 · Living · United States
Donald Davy O'Dowd (born 23 January 1927) is an American academic and university administrator.

Why Donald O’Dowd is on this page

Heritage: Donald Davy O’Dowd carries the O’Dowd surname but no documented Irish ancestry surfaced in the Wikipedia article or in the standard academic biographical sources we checked. Heritage classification: surname-carrier; no documented Irish lineage in cited sources.

Donald Davy O’Dowd (born 23 January 1927) is an American academic and university administrator. A Dartmouth alumnus and Fulbright Scholar who took his PhD in social psychology at Harvard, O’Dowd was president and chancellor of Oakland University in Michigan and went on to serve as president of the University of Alaska System from 1984 to 1990.

Heritage notes

Family root: United States — diaspora-unconfirmed-surname-only.

The directory threads Donald O’Dowd back to the O'Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.

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