Wabash College - Wabash Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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Developments After the er 111 Fel11'ua1'y ot' 1946 IllO1'1' 1112111 2110 regular students 1'Gt'll1'I1Cll to the campus and 11111 VVa- bash was rolling again. During tl1e year the fraternity houses were o11e by o11e reoccupied by their cliapters. Kendall and Trippet ca1111- back to tl1e campus H1141 the Sparks adininistra- 114111 l1ad a long-delayed second start. Only 110NV it become obvious 11ow wise the choice of Frank Sparks 112111 119611. Ile took over l1is position fully acknowledging that, as 2111 academic leader. l1e had no object except to 111ake tl1e Wabash Plan work in tl1e post-war worl1l. llc saw 1l1a1 1Vabash, already deep in philosophy of education, needed a11 aggressive adniinistra- live policy to keep that philosophy vigorous. lle saw the college needed new buildings, re- juvenation at certain points in tl1e faculty, a budget for salaries 211111 Op61'2LtlI1g' tlliit stagger- ed tl1e imaginations of old hands, and a full- time admissions staff to recruit tl1e kind of student-body VVabash needed to get in the face of the appalling expansion and lurid attrac- tions of other institutions. The buildi11g P1'OgI'HI11 began with tl1e demoli- tion of Peek Hall in January of 1946. On the site was built Vviilllgll Hall at tl1ree or four times tl1e cost anticipated by tl1e donor, b11t at any rate giving magnificent evidence 111211 'the Sparks D1'f1QI'?111l was nioving. lnflation, Korea. D1,1flIl'it11I'iL'-S' proposecl in 1946 un. .. .e. .. .. .- . . ... 1 X! i ., i tz: f .ur-' . 1 , k , 1- rpg.-11' 43 V if 'SLI 1 gf, 11 The Cavemen demonstrate on the circle in Indianapolis' in 1947 recession, and a few other obstacles delayed the rest of tl1e building plans, but only tempo- rarily. The Campus Center with two adjacent dorrnitories was opened in 1954, and at this writing tl1e 11ew library is pusl1ing its concrete bulk above tl1e ground, bringing a delight in- describable to those wl1o have struggled through the senescence of Yandes Hall. By tl1e end of 1949, tl1e core of the present faculty which is taking over tl1e responsibili- ties gradually laid down by 1119 leaders of the 11111-ties was 1:01'111Qtl. NVillis Johnson returned in 1946 and was joined by Prof. liaubengayer. 111 this year caine also John Van Sickle. and Fred West who instituted tl1e 11ew religion of- ferings. Roberts, Cotton, and Powell came in 15147: Hedrick, VVi1lian1s and Celler in 1948. Dean Hog-ge came as professor of economies in 151451, along with Wilder, llaenisch. and Delian- 11ey. Fertig and Sliearer. wl1o had been on the faculty l1t'1'0I'0 tl1e war. returned in 1949 a11d 151511 respectively. The need for H11 expert adrnissions staff was niet when Pres. Sparks installed Fred Totten as director of adinissions in 1945. Ed Gullion. 11ow vice-presiderit in charge of development. Page Eighteen

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Dr. Sp!ll'lC.S' HIIIIQCS' his farewell zlclclrms- Une casualty of the war seems to have been the dance bands, and with them the varsity show. But to ottset this in music has come the phenomenal rise of the glee club under Robert Mitchum. a nieinber of the faculty since 1949 who began working with the club in 19-17 while he was still in music school. Furthermore, the pictoral arts have come far up under Harold McDonald. Tuttle llall is VVabash's tirst art gallery. Here a show of some kind is always expertly arranged, and the current annual ex- hibits ot works by VVabash had no counterpart in the thirties. Very special encouragement ot the fine arts has come from President Trippet. and the present laudable eltorts are only be- ginnings. The long tradition of pre-eminence in ora- tory and debate has been maintained admirably by the speech department. The taste for debat- ing has been enhanced greatly by the annual contest with the British Debaters, a brilliant display ot wit, erudition, and Anglo-American ainity. heard each winter in the chapel. Dr. l3rigancc's Speakers' Bureau began in the fall of 1957 its thirty-first year and boasts over 2-lllll well-received performances. At this writ- ing the Scarlet Masque can look back on a series of successful seasons including both cur- rent Broadway hits and such classics as aj' 1 1 o ,fl U 9 , . Dccutlilon lL7lllllC'l' Rafcr johnson clears 12 feet Marlowe ls Dr. Faustus and Macbeth of Shake- spearc. VVthin the narrow limits of synthesis and generalization, perhaps this can be said at the end of VVabash's fifth quarter-century. In the administration of President Hopkins the lib- eral arts ideal was reatlirmed and academic ma- chinery was set up to achieve this ideal. President Sparks, thoroughly devoted to the ideal, made certain that we would have the plant, the faculty. and the student body to make the ideal live in a world the complexity of which the leaders of the twenties and thir- ties could not anticipate. And now we have President Trippet, son of VVabash and of the Wabash Plan, executive trained in the hard school of the post-war period with Dr. Sparks as his mentor. A brilliant scholar and teacher in his own right, an engaging and forceful speaker. a Little Giant who by his own admis- sion has been running a high lVabash fever ever since he entered as a freslnnan, a college administrator and educator known throughout America, Byron Trippet is without a doubt one ot the best college presidents in the country. In the presence of this leadership, the current historian feels not the slightest qualm in pre- dicting that the next twenty-five years will be a golden age. Page Twenty