
The above photo of Dosia is dated 1972. She was a DC religion professor for 14 years in the 60s and early 70s, serving in many administrative positions such as advisor to the Campus Christian Fellowship students, and was in charge of the Forum program. She was ordained in 1979, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She was stricken with polio as a young woman, and became intimately acquainted with the problems of the chronically ill. She published a book on her own experiences in 1968. Here she is with DC bookstore manager Mark Randall (’62) at a book signing when the bookstore was in the basement of Dana Hall:

And below is another photo of Dosia with two DC students, Linda Griffin and Mari Wheaton, when the students helped conduct a church service for the First Congregational Church in Columbus; its pastor Rev. Chalmers Coe is at left, beside Dosia. We think it was taken in 1963:

Dosia moved to Arizona in 1974 and became active in hospice and aging issues, and served as Associate Minister of the Church of the Beatitudes, a retirement center in Phoenix. She published further books, one of hymns she composed, and another on ministry to older adults. She returned to campus in 1987 to give a workshop on aging. She continued being active in the United Church of Christ, and in the late 1980s, was given an award by the UCC:

DC profiled her in a 1983 DC Bulletin, and you can read her obituary here. A “simple search” in DC Memory will bring up 25 documents that mention her name.
Barb Sedlock
Lead Librarian and Coordinator of Metadata and Archives