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• 1 2022-03-01T15:56:21+00:00 Winfred G. Leutner 13 plain 2022-07-14T17:02:28+00:00
  
  Winfred G. Leutner
  Pronunciation: LOIT-ner
  (3/1/1879-12/25/1961)
  
  Acting President, Western Reserve University, 12/4/1933-6/11/1934
  
  President, Western Reserve University, 6/12/1934-6/30/1949
  
  Education
  
  A.B., Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, 1901, Classical Language and Literature 
  
  Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1905 
  
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  University Awards

  Case Institute of Technology awarded Leutner the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 1948.

  Western Reserve University awarded Leutner the honorary Doctor of Laws, 1950.

  The Emily Payne Smith Leutner Memorial Fund was established by President Leutner and family and friends in memory of President Leutner’s wife. The fund was renamed in 1962 the Winfred George and Emily Payne Smith Leutner Memorial Fund. The fund was used to purchase books in the arts and sciences for the University Library, 1955.

  Western Reserve University dedicated the north side dining and recreation commons the Winfred George Leutner Commons, “because he upheld the finest traditions of academic freedom, because of his kindly and sympathetic relations with faculty and students,” 1965.

  
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  Career

  Instructor in Greek, Western Reserve University, 1903-1904

  Acting Professor of Greek, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, 1905-1906

  Instructor in Greek and Latin, Western Reserve University, 1906-1909

  Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, Western Reserve University, 1909-1915

  Dean, Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, 1912-1925

  Professor of Greek and Latin, Western Reserve University, 1915-1925

  Acting Secretary-Treasurer, Western Reserve University, 1917-1918

  Dean of University Administration, Western Reserve University, 1925-1934

  Acting Director, Cleveland College, Western Reserve University, 1925-1926

  President Emeritus, Western Reserve University, 1949-1961

  
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  University Numbers
  
                                               1933/34             1948/49
  Enrollment                              8,715                     18,352
  Operating deficit           $2,299,075.21       $352,091.68
  
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  Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
  
  1933   Continuous Campaign was launched.  It included annual gifts, capital gifts, and bequests,
               and continued throughout Leutner's tenure. 
  
  1935   The School of Nursing was renamed the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing of
               Western Reserve University. 
  
  1936   The Faculties of Arts and Sciences was established.  Composed of members of the Adelbert,
               Mather, and Graduate School faculties, it acted on matters of common interest. 
  
  1939   Countries around the world were plunged into World War II. 
  
  1941   Corporate reorganization amalgamated the separate corporations of Western Reserve
               University, Case Library, Adelbert College, and Cleveland School of Architecture into
               a single corporation.  Cleveland College was amalgamated with this corporation in 1942. 
  
               The Plant Rehabilitation Fund Campaign was intended to raise $300,000 to replace, repair,
               and renovate facilities.  The campaign, which raised $134,000, was abandoned after the
               attack on Pearl Harbor. 
  
  1944   GI Bill of Rights (formally:  The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) was signed into
                law. 
  
  1945   The School of Education was closed. 
               The Department of Education operated until 1979. 
  
  1947   First telecast was made by WEWS, Ohio's first television station. 
  
  1949   The School of Pharmacy was closed. 
  
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  Regional Population
  
                                      1930              1950                  
  Cleveland                  900,429         914,808                                                        
  
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  Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.
  
  Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.

• 1 2020-01-30T16:08:26+00:00 200 Events in 200 Years: 1930s 11 This section provides detailed information about the university from 1930-1939 plain 2025-04-21T12:38:03+00:00 1930 1930
  William E. Wickenden was inaugurated as Case School of Applied Science's third president.
  
  
  1931
  The College for Women was renamed Flora Stone Mather College in honor of early benefactress, Flora Stone Mather.
  
  
  1932
  Western Reserve University established a chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific society.
  
  
  1933
  The Western Reserve University Faculty Club was located at 2035 Adelbert Road.
  
  
  1934
  Winfred G. Leutner was inaugurated as Western Reserve University's eighth president. A graduate of Adelbert College in 1901, he was the only alumnus to serve as president.
  
  
  1935
  Western Reserve University trustees renamed the School of Nursing in honor of U. S. Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton.
  
  
  1936
  Mather House was converted into a cooperative dormitory for the 1935/1936 academic year. Residents worked about 1 hour per day in exchange for a reduction in the usual dormitory fee.
  
  
  1937
  Trustee Andrew Squire (pictured here) and his wife, Eleanor, willed their property, Squire Valleevue Farm, to Western Reserve University.
  
  
  1938
  The School of Pharmacy maintained a drug garden where they grew plants for medicines at Squire Valleevue Farm.
  
  
  1939
  With the construction of a new addition, Eldred Hall's main use changed from a student union to a theatre. The production of Spook Sonata formally opened the new theatre addition.
  
  
• 1 2022-06-15T19:48:02+00:00 Winfred G. Leutner Picture Gallery 2 Pictures of Winfred G. Leutner plain 2022-06-15T20:40:19+00:00