Courtesy of Drew Magazine. Article originally appeared in the Spring 1995 edition, by Mary Luthi, with special thanks to library director Jean Schoenthaler
The Drew Archives do not reveal how the university's fifth president, Ezra Squier Tipple, heard the news. It's left to the imagination that he took a phone call, perhaps leaving a meeting in Mead Hall about cutting costs due to the deepening Great Depression. We can only guess the typically self-possessed president turned ashen, nearly dropped the phone, before finding the composure to make the announcement to the Drew community.
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