Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Administration and Faculty

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THE PRESIDENT Dr. FRANK H. SPARKS PRD LIZ AAA The story of the prominent, successful industrialist who realized, in 1941, a long cherished ambition to be a college President, has become almost a national legend. The industrialist, is of course, President Sparks, and his seven years as President of Wabash College have more than justified, in every way, his entrance into the field of education. Dr. Sparks was graduated from Butler University and received advanced degrees from the University of Southern California. He came to Wabash but a few short months before American entrance into the war. Faced almost immediately with the prospect of guiding the school through the war years, he was instrumental in the designation of Wabash as a unit in the Naval Training Program, and further served personally as a member of the War Manpower Commission in Washington, His faith in Wabash and in Wabash men is equaled in intensity only by his energy and efforts on behalf of the school. He has traveled, written, spoken and organized, all with one purpose in mind, to spread the name and fame of Wabash and Liberal Arts education. He has been instrumental in the bringing to Wabash of many new, outstanding faculty members. He has contacted hundreds of alumni to renew and stimulate their interest in their school. He has sponsored a program of progress and achievement on the campus itself that has already seen the construction of Waugh Hall, with other buildings to follow. He has interested many people in the school through the contacts made by his Sponsored Scholarship Program. He is determined that Wabash College will continue to climb in the scene of American education.