Dodd College

{{Short description|Women's college in Shreveport, Louisiana, US (1927–1942)}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Dodd College President's Home | nrhp_type = | image = Dodd College President's Home 01.jpg | caption = | location = 601 Ockley Drive, Shreveport, Louisiana | coordinates = {{coord|32.4686111|-93.742222|format=dms|display=inline,title,source:ProprioMeOW}} | locmapin = Shreveport | built = {{Start date|1928}} | architect = Clarence W. King | architecture = Colonial Revival | added = July 22, 1982 | refnum = 82002758 }} '''Dodd College''' was a private junior college for women located in Shreveport, Louisiana.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Dodd College |url=https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/dodd-college |access-date=2025-10-17 |website=Read the Plaque}}</ref> It was founded in 1927 by Monroe E. Dodd, a radio preacher who headed the Southern Baptist Convention from 1934 to 1935.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blackwell |first=Brian |date=2023-06-10 |title=M.E. Dodd: Father of Cooperative Program was a committed soul winner, SBC leader |url=https://www.baptistmessage.com/63740-2/ |access-date=2025-10-17 |website=Baptist Message |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Dodd College closed in 1942.<ref name=":0" /> The college had a chapter of Sigma Iota Chi sorority.<ref name=":2">{{cite Almanac FS|section=women-inactive|organization=Sigma Iota Chi|date=July 11, 2025|access-date=October 16, 2025}}</ref>

Among the chairmen of the trustees was W. Scott Wilkinson, a Shreveport lawyer who served in the state House from 1920 to 1924.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lyonsfamilytree.com/2007/11/20/the-wilkinson-family/|title=The Wilkinson Family|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 25, 2014}}</ref>

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