Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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To DR. JOSEPH M. UHLER Dr. Joseph M. Uhler was president of Indiana from the fall of 1942 until the summer of 1947. He had the honor — and the exceptionally serious responsibility — of leading our college through the long years of the war. Everyone who observed him during those years knows how well he lived up to that honor, how he discharged that responsibility. Problems were great and numerous. Enrollment fell, income fell; faculty and personnel adjustments had to be made; various war-time services needed to be carried out. And, at the same time, educational standards had to be held up. Dr. Uhler met all demands sturdily and well. A thoroughly democratic administrator, he sought advice and information wherever they could be found. A cheerful, Christianly optimistic man, he had the secret of main- taining faculty and student morale. Once again, the time had found the man it needed. Dr. Uhler took deep and well-merited satisfaction in seeing the col- lege rebound with its old vigor in the years following the war. It was the time for expansive thinking, and once more Dr. Uhler met the challenge admirably. He took special pains to understand and meet the problems of re- turning veterans; made it his major business to strengthen the faculty; induced the State to enlarge the campus by buying the Elkin property; secured from the War Assets Administration the building now used for biology; laid plans for many physical improvements and repairs. In August 1947, death found Dr. Uhler, as ever, at his post. An im- portant career in teacher education had suddenly come to an end, but its Influence will forever continue through the college and the thousands of students he served so long and so well. It is to the memory of his fine spirit that the 1948 OAK is dedicated.

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