Dr.
George Lucas Adamson, a Greek chemist from Athens, founded the Adamson
School of Industrial Chemistry (ASIC) on June 20, 1932 to train young
men and women along the lines of practical industrial chemistry. It
started as a one-classroom school that evolved into the Adamson School
of Industrial Chemistry and Engineering (ASICE) on February 19, 1936.
Upon approval by the Secretary of Public Instruction of its application
for university status on February 5, 1941, it became known as Adamson
University (AdU).
George
Lucas’s cousin Alexander Athos Adamson came to ASIC shortly after to
help the fledgling school. Alexander joined the administration on July
15, 1932, serving at one time or another as Vice President, Treasurer
and Registrar. Much later, Alexander’s brother George Athos Adamson also
came onboard in 1934, becoming the School Dean, Dean of the College of
Engineering and professor. Evdoxia Savaides Adamson, wife of George
Lucas, started working and teaching in the University in 1939, then
served as Dean of the College of Education and of the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences. Sofia Adamson, George Athos’s wife, taught in the
College of Education after arriving in 1939 and briefly served as
Directress of the Junior Normal College. Except for George Athos and
Sofia who left after the war, all the Adamsons remained working in the
University until its turnover to the Vincentian Fathers and Brothers of
the Congregation of the Mission in 1964. George Lucas Adamson served as
President until 1967, for a total of 35 years, including a three-year
holdover stint at the assumption of the Vincentians as administrators.
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