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150 First Professors

Yusuf Fuleihan

Teacher in Preparatory Department

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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John C. Fisher

Adjunct Professor of Gynecology, Diseases of Skin, Diseases of Children and Legal Medicine

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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Charles F. Dight

Adjunct Professor of Anatomy, Histology, Hygiene and Pathology

Year of First Appointment: 1884


Charles Dight promoted the human eugenics movement in the United States.  He founded the Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics which actively pursued the same type of eugenics as Nazi medicine as well as the…

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Charles F. Dight

Adjunct Professor of Anatomy, Histology, Hygiene and Pathology

Year of First Appointment: 1884


Charles Dight promoted the human eugenics movement in the United States.  He founded the Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics which actively pursued the same type of eugenics as Nazi medicine as well as the Minnesota Eugenics Society in 1923. In 1933, Dight wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler praising his efforts to "stamp out mental inferiority."

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Yuhanna Dakhil

Instructor in French and Arabic

Year of First Appointment: 1884

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Frank E. Packard

Instructor in English and Mathematics

Year of First Appointment: 1881

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Frederick J. Bliss

Principal of the Preparatory Department

Year of First Appointment: 1881


Aside from eventually becoming SPC's president, Frederick J. Bliss was also an active archealogist working at the Tell el-Hesi site in Palestine.

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William Thomson Van Dyck

Lecturer in Materia Medica, Hygiene and Zoology

Year of First Appointment: 1880

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William F. Stoutenburgh

Instructor in English

Year of First Appointment: 1880

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First Professors

Yakub Sarruf

Instructor in Arabic and Natural Philosophy

Year of First Appointment: 1880

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Faris Nimr

Instructor in Astronomy and Assistant in the Observatory

Year of First Appointment: 1880


Faris Nimr was one of the editors of Fihris Al Muqtataf, one the leading Arabic scientific and cultural monthly of the latter part of the nineteenth and first half of twentieth century. 

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