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Gaddis Smith
George Gaddis Smith is the Larned Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and an expert on American foreign relations and maritime history.
Biography.
He has spent virtually his entire career at Yale. After graduating from the Pingry School in 1950, he received his bachelor's degree from Yale College in 1954, where he served as chairman of the "Yale Daily News". In 1961, he earned his PhD in history from Yale. In over forty years of teaching at the university, he chaired the
Peggy Dern
Peggy Dern, (1896-1966), was an American author, born Erolie Pearl Gaddis (later Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern), who wrote under both Peggy Dern and Peggy Gaddis as well as Carolina Lee, and Georgia Craig, as well as Perry Lindsay, James Clayford, Gail Jordan and Joan Sherman.
Life.
Born in Gaddistown, Georgia, Dern was educated at Reinhardt College, and edited periodicals in Atlanta. She married John Sherman Dern, a wandering minstrel, in 1931. She