Background
Lowry, Howard Foster was born on July 26, 1901 in Portsmouth, Ohio, United States. Son of Lewis and Daisy Viola (Zugg) Lowry.
Lowry, Howard Foster was born on July 26, 1901 in Portsmouth, Ohio, United States. Son of Lewis and Daisy Viola (Zugg) Lowry.
Student Yale, 1925-1928, Ph.
Instructor English, College Wooster, 1923-1925, Yale, 1928-1929. Assistant Professor of English College of Wooster, 1929-1931, professor, 1931-1940, Acting head department, 1931-1933, head of department, 1934-1940. Professor of English, Princeton, 1940-1944.
Member of faculty Summer School of Western Reserve University, 1932.
Sterling fellow Yale, 1930, 1933. John Simon Guggenheim fellow, 1934.
Visiting professor New York University, 1939, 40. Frederick Ives Carpenter professor, University of Chicago, summer 1942.
President College of Wooster since August 1944.
Stone lecturer, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1945. Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundation lecturer, U. Pittsburgh, 1949.
Member Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church in United States of America, since 1945. Member Board of Trustees, McCormick Theological Seminary. Member Modern Language Association American (commission on trends in education, 1939-1941.
Clubs: Wooster Country, Rotary (Wooster).
Member of the board of directors.