Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Dr. FRANK H. SPARKS, President The school year of 1946-47 was a year of expansion for Wabash College with Dr. Frank Sparks pressing his many plans for the college. It was the first year of operation of the sponsored scholarship grants; it was a year that saw Waugh Hall near completion despite many shortages; it was a year that saw many new names on the faculty. Dr. Sparks combed the colleges and the universities of the country and came up with professors Dyer, Forbes, Gallardo, Johnson, Laubengayer, Stollberg, Van Sickle, West, Zeleniak; he brought back Fertig, Mielke, Robinson, Shearer, and Wildermuth; and he added Harmeson, McGaughey, and Grisch to the athletic department. Yes, it was a big year, a year of growth and expansion, for Wabash and for Dr. Sparks. Page Fight

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ADMINISTRATION

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BYRON K. TRIPPET, Dean For Byron K. Trippet 1946-47 was his first full year in the Dean’s chair since he had left the Navy. Inevitably a host of probiems found their way to his office. Enrollment was up, the highest in the school’s history; veterans of military service had many problems; housing was difficult to get, particularly for married men; students had had their college work distorted by war service and the readjustment of their plans was seldom simple; old-time activities and old-time traditions were to be revived; the curriculum needed and got revision. To these and the many other problems of the college Dean Trippet invariably brought sensitive understanding, swift intelligence, and steadiness of purpose. And always he kept one clear purpose ahead of all others—the growth and welfare of the students as individuals. Page Nine