Background
GOODENOUGH, Ward was born on May 30, 1919 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Erwin R. Goodenough and Helen M. Lewis.
GOODENOUGH, Ward was born on May 30, 1919 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Erwin R. Goodenough and Helen M. Lewis.
Groton School, Cornell and Yale Universities.
Professor, of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 1949-1954, Association Professor 1954-1962, Chair, of Department 1976-1982, Professor, and Professor, of Anthropology, Cornell University 1961-1962, University of Hawaii 1982-1983. Fulbright Lecturer, Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth, Ireland 1987.
Board Chairman, Human Relations Area Files Incorporated.
1971-1981; President American Ethnological Society 1963, Society for Applied Anthropology 1964.
Board of directors American Association for the Advancement of Science 1972-1975. American Philosophical Society, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, National Academy, of Sciences.
Married Ruth A. Gallagher in 1941.