Obituaries

Survivors include her husband of 47 years, Dr. Henry Charles Scruggs of Rockville; five children, Katherine B. Hunsinger of Gaithersburg, Kevin H. Scruggs of Ellicott City, John E. Scruggs of Bethesda, Michael C. Scruggs of Edgewater and Gary T. Scruggs of Annapolis; a sister, Judith T. Render of Vienna; and seven grandchildren.

Paul L. WardCollege, Association Executive

Paul L. Ward, 94, a former president of Sarah Lawrence College and executive secretary of the American Historical Association, died Nov. 13 at an assisted-living facility in Gwynedd, Pa., after a heart attack. He moved to Gwynedd from Alexandria in 1990.

Dr. Ward, an English legal historian and former Episcopal Church missionary in China, led Sarah Lawrence, in Bronxville, N.Y., from 1960 to 1965, when it was still a women's school.

He then settled in the Washington area to accept the top staff position with the historical association. Until 1974, he presided over an organization riven with "the currents of factionalism," he once said, referring to dissent over the Vietnam War, black history and other contemporaneous subjects.

His books included "Elements of Historical Thinking" (1971).

Paul Langdon Ward was born in what is now Turkey and raised in Lebanon, where his father, a medical missionary, worked at the American University of Beirut.

He was a 1933 summa cum laude history graduate of Amherst College and received from Harvard University master's and doctoral degrees in history. He specialized in English history, focused initially on the coronation ritual and then the political movements that emerged to balance the power of the monarchy.

During World War II, he served in Washington with the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. In the late 1940s, he worked in China as a missionary until the takeover by the Communists.

He then taught history at Colby College in Maine and chaired the history department at what is now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

While living in Alexandria, he was a member of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Washington and served on its vestry. He also was active in United Community Ministries in Alexandria and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, through which he participated in peace demonstrations.

He helped develop and teach a program on issues of war and peace for the Army War College

Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Catharine Wakefield Ward of Gwynedd; four children, Elisabeth Swain of Greenfield, N.H., John Ward of Danville, Ky., Stephen Ward of Newcastle, Maine, and Thomas Ward of Boston; a brother; five grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.