Background
Foster, William Trufant was born on January 18, 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Henry and Sarah Jennie (Trufant) Foster.
Foster, William Trufant was born on January 18, 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Henry and Sarah Jennie (Trufant) Foster.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1901, A.M., 1904. Doctor of Philosophy., Columbia, 1911. Doctor of Laws, Colorado College, 1913, Western Reserve U., 1916, U. Maine, 1936.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Rollins College, 1947. Doctor of Letters, Reed College, 1948.
Instructor English, Bates College, 1901-1903. Professor England and argumentation Bowdoin College, 1905-1910. President Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1910-1920.
Director Pollak Foundation for Economics Research, since 1920. Lecturer principles of education Harvard, summers 1909, 19, Columbia, 1911. Fellow in education Columbia, lecturer in educational administration, 1909-1910.
Inspr. in European service for American Red Cross, 1917.
Author: Argumentation and Debating, 1908. Administration of the College Curriculum, 1910. Essentials of Exposition and Argument, 1911.
Should Students Study?, 1917. Money (with Waddill Catchings), 1923. Profits (with same), 1925.
Business Without a Buyer (with same), 1927. The Road to Plenty (with some), 1927. Progress and Plenty (with same), 1930.
Basic Principles of Speech (with Lew Sarett), 1936. Speech, 1942. Editor and Part Author: Social Hygiene and Morals, 1913. Editor: (with Warren M. Persons) The Problem of Business Forecasting, 1924.
Editor: Modern Speeches on Basic Issues, 1939. Contributor to newspapers and mags.
Member Public Affairs Committee of New York. Member Consumers advisory board NRA, 1933-1935. Member State Planning Board Massachusetts.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Phi Delta Kappa.
Married Bessie Lucile Russell, December 25, 1905. Children: Russell Trufant, Le Baron Russell, Faith, Trufant.