educator, b. Viola. He graduated from Platteville State Normal School (1900) and the Univ. of Wisconsin (Ph.B., 1916). He was teacher, principal, and school superintendent at various schools in the state (1900-1923), and was head of the English department at Eau Claire State Teachers College (1916-1918). In 1923 he became secretary of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association, and in 1925 editor of the Wis. Journal of Education. As secretary of the board of regents of normal schools, to which he was appointed in 1928, Doudna had great influence in directing teacher training in Wisconsin. He resigned this position in 1947 as a protest against the attempt to make teachers colleges "liberal arts" schools. He was the author of Our Wisconsin (1920), a history of Wisconsin public schools, and wrote numerous articles for professional educational journals. An outstanding lecturer, he was popular as an after-dinner speaker. Who's Who in Amer., 21 (1940); F. L. Holmes, et al., eds., Wis. (5 vols., Chicago, 1946); Madison Wis. State Journal, Apr. 17, 1948.

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