Sarah Christian O’Dowd ’64 MAT, ’76 PhD

Sarah Christian O’Dowd ’64 MAT, ’76 PhD, of Newport, R.I.; Apr. 20. She earned a second master’s degree in speech pathology in 1982 from URI and began her lifelong career in education beginning at St. Michael’s School in Newport. She retired as a full professor from the Community College of Rhode Island after several decades. In addition to teaching, she was an accomplished author and historian. She published A Rhode Island Original, a biography about 19th-century abolitionist Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall. In 2004, she was honored to accept the induction of Frances McDougall into the R.I. Heritage Hall of Fame. In the early 2000s, she was a memoirist for the Providence Journal Lifestyles section. A talented musician, she played piano for Newport Player’s Guild, Channing Church in Newport, and at Pembroke Club at Brown annual holiday performances. She is survived by three children, four grandchildren, including Luke Adams ’15, and three great-grandchildren.