Howard Landis Bevis Dies:
Long-Time OSU President
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Howard Landis Bevis, retired president of Ohio State University and a former judge on the Ohio Supreme Court, died Wednesday. He was 82 and had been in failing health several years.
Dr. Bevis headed the state's largest university 16 years, from 1940 to 1956, guiding it from an enrollment of 13,073 to more than 30,000 when he retired. His tenure included the post-war campus boom and Dr. Bevis organized one of the most extensive expansion programs in the university's history.
"His leadership during the critical days of World War II and in the years that followed was an essential element in the university's ability to weather the challenge of major change," the current president, Dr. Novice G. Fawcett, said after learning of Dr. Bevis' death.
Dr. Bevis died in University Hospital where he was admitted April 18. Funeral services will be here at 2 p.m. Monday in the Schoedinger Funeral Home.
Survivors include his widow, the former Alma D. Murray whom he married in 1914, and a son, Murray Bevis.
A lawyer by profession, Dr. Bevis was appointed state finance director in 1931, and two years later was named an associate judge of the Ohio Supreme Court to fill out an unexpired term. He ran for re-election to the court in 1935 but was defeated.
In 1935 he became a professor of government and law at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and remained there until he was chosen as Ohio State's seventh president in 1940.
Dr. Bevis was born in the village of Bevis, Hamilton County, named after his grandfather. His ancestors were among the first settlers of the Northwest Territory.
He received a bachelor's degree and a law degree from the University of Cincinnati and a doctor of science of Law from Harvard.
From 1921 to 1931 he was a Cincinnati law professor, and was secretary of the Charter Amendment Committee which organized the Charter party in Cincinnati.
Van Wert Times-Bulletin
April 25, 1968.
Howard Landis Bevis Dies:
Long-Time OSU President
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Howard Landis Bevis, retired president of Ohio State University and a former judge on the Ohio Supreme Court, died Wednesday. He was 82 and had been in failing health several years.
Dr. Bevis headed the state's largest university 16 years, from 1940 to 1956, guiding it from an enrollment of 13,073 to more than 30,000 when he retired. His tenure included the post-war campus boom and Dr. Bevis organized one of the most extensive expansion programs in the university's history.
"His leadership during the critical days of World War II and in the years that followed was an essential element in the university's ability to weather the challenge of major change," the current president, Dr. Novice G. Fawcett, said after learning of Dr. Bevis' death.
Dr. Bevis died in University Hospital where he was admitted April 18. Funeral services will be here at 2 p.m. Monday in the Schoedinger Funeral Home.
Survivors include his widow, the former Alma D. Murray whom he married in 1914, and a son, Murray Bevis.
A lawyer by profession, Dr. Bevis was appointed state finance director in 1931, and two years later was named an associate judge of the Ohio Supreme Court to fill out an unexpired term. He ran for re-election to the court in 1935 but was defeated.
In 1935 he became a professor of government and law at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and remained there until he was chosen as Ohio State's seventh president in 1940.
Dr. Bevis was born in the village of Bevis, Hamilton County, named after his grandfather. His ancestors were among the first settlers of the Northwest Territory.
He received a bachelor's degree and a law degree from the University of Cincinnati and a doctor of science of Law from Harvard.
From 1921 to 1931 he was a Cincinnati law professor, and was secretary of the Charter Amendment Committee which organized the Charter party in Cincinnati.
Van Wert Times-Bulletin
April 25, 1968.
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Howard's Cremated Remains are in storage in the lower level of Chapel Mausoleum in Storage waiting for burial.
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