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Theodore Baird (b. 1901, d. 1997)

Professor of English at Amherst College from 1927 to 1969, specializing in the teaching of writing. He created and directed the innovative writing program based on sequences of assignments leading students into deeper engagement with intellectual problems. This program was described in the book Fencing with Words by Robin Varnum.

He with his wife Frances Tichener Baird commissioned in 1940 a house designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright, known as the Theodore Baird Residence.