HOUSING AND RESIDENCE LIFE
RESIDENCE HALLS and APARTMENTS
Ward Hall
 Ward Hall is a 2-story residence hall. The rooms are arranged along a straight corridor and are equipped with beds, mirrors, dressers, venetian blinds and a sink. There are men's and women's bathrooms on each floor, a large study area and a TV room. Kitchen and laundry facilities are located in the lower level. Each room is equipped with a heating/air-conditioning unit. Ward Hall accommodates 60 students.
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Who Are Our Residence Halls Named After?
George Washington Ward
George Washington Ward was born in Woodbine, Maryland, on the 24 th of February 1867. He received his education at a one-room school in Daisy, Maryland. After graduating from this school, he returned as a teacher, from 1885-1887. Starting in 1887, Ward attended Western Maryland College. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1890. After graduation, Ward served as assistant secretary of the Chicago Y. M. C. A., and then as an assistant instructor in the preparatory school of Western Maryland College, of which he became principal in 1891.
Ward enrolled in graduate school at Johns Hopkins, and while he was pursuing his Masters of Arts degree, he was elected to the chair of history at Western Maryland. He continued to pursue his studies and received his Masters of Arts degree from Western Maryland in 1893 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1897. After receiving his degrees, Dr. Ward continued as a history professor at Western Maryland College until he was appointed to the principalship of the Maryland State Normal School in 1905. Dr. Ward served as principal for four years. During that time he initiated the extension of the curriculum to four years and established a departmental structure for the faculty. He resigned to engage in the brokerage business.
Along with his history professorship, Dr. Ward wrote many articles regarding history. During the summers of 1898, 1899, and 1900, Dr. Ward lectured at the Mountain Chatauqua at Mountain Lake Park, a summer school for scholars, teachers, writers, and statesmen. Dr. Ward became a member of the Southern Educational Association in 1838, as well as the Maryland Organizer for that association. Dr. Ward was also a member of the Maryland Teacher’s Institute, where he sometimes lectured, as well as a member of the Maryland Historical Society and the American Historical Association.
For the last fifteen years of his life, Dr. Ward continued to teach history at the Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore. He passed away on June 18, 1932.
To learn more about the biograhpies of TU Presidents and the chornology of Towson University, please visit the university archives at Albert S. Cook Library:
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