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Case School of Applied Science awarded Wickenden the honorary Doctor of Engineering, 1929.

The Case Alumni Association awarded Wickenden the Meritorious Service Award for leadership of the College, for service to government, for participation in civic and professional affairs, 1941.

Western Reserve University awarded Wickenden the honorary Doctor of Humanities, 1947.

The William L. and Marion L. Wickenden Prize was originally established by President and Mrs. Wickenden. Additional contributions were made by friends as a memorial to President Wickenden. The prize was awarded annually to a senior or junior who showed special proficiency in writing or speaking, 1947.

Case dedicated the William E. Wickenden Electrical Engineering Building to recognize his “unselfish devotion to this College and to engineering education," 1955.

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Instructor, Mechanics Institute, Rochester, New York, 1904-1905

Instructor, University of Wisconsin, 1905-1909

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1909-1914

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1914-1918

Personnel Manager, Western Electric Company, 1918-1921

Regional Supervisor, Personnel Methods, Student Army Training Corps, 1918

Assistant Vice-President, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1921-1923

Director of Investigation of Engineering Education, Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, 1923-1929

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University Numbers

                                            1929/30               1946/47
Enrollment                              689                          2,221
Number of faculty                   69                             162
Expenditures                    $420,000             $1,702,783.44
Tuition per year                    $350                         $350

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Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)

1929   The mining program was discontinued. 

             The Great Depression, triggered by the October 29 stock market crash, began a decade of
             worldwide economic hardship. 

1930   A comprehensive program of graduate studies and degrees was introduced.

             New programs in engineering administration, mechanics of fluids, electrical communication
             were established.

1932   The humanities programs were reorganized into two departments, Language and Literature
             and Social Studies.

1933   A business option was introduced into each curriculum, making Case the first to provide
             business training as an option in all its courses of study rather than as a separate program.

             The Evening Division was organized and Case’s partnership with Western Reserve University
             to operate Cleveland College ended.

1938   Superman comic books were first published. 

1939   Countries around the world were plunged into World War II. 

1940   Case Building and Endowment Campaign was intended to raise $5 million. The campaign,
             which raised less than $1 million, was cancelled because of “uncertainty of the domestic
             situation and heightened war unrest.”

1942   The Case Fund was inaugurated as a medium for giving by graduates and friends under the
             direction of the Alumni Fund Board.

1944   GI Bill of Rights (formally: The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944) was signed into
             law.

1947   Case School of Applied Science was renamed Case Institute of Technology. 

             Bell Labs invented the transistor. 

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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.