ALUMNI “WALL OF HONOR” The West Liberty University Alumni Board of Directors instituted a project in 1990 to demonstrate to current students, visitors, and friends that the college has some very successful graduates. This project, known as the “Alumni Wall of Honor,” is a dramatic way to honor some of the college’s most distinguished alumni and display pride in the accomplishments of its graduates. The concept was suggested by then Associate Professor of Physics Robert W. Schramm, who is a 1958 graduate of the college and a 2002 Alumni Wall of Honor inductee. The Alumni Wall of Honor is housed in the south end of the Union known as the Alumni Lounge.
Edward F J Tucker
Inducted 1999Supported by a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Tucker earned his MA in English (1966) at the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. (1970), specializing in medieval and renaissance literature, from Harvard University. He later did postdoctoral study in law as a visiting fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. Before his retirement in 1998, Tucker taught at Southern Methodist University and Virginia Military Institute, and served as professor and head of English at Lenoir-Rhyne College, East Tennessee State, and The Citadel. He has published six books, authored over forty articles in scholarly journals, delivered numerous papers at professional conferences, and landed over a million dollars in research and institutional grants. His awards include the Algernon Sydney Sullivan, Faculty Achievement Awards for Scholarship, Teaching, and Service, and two awards as South Carolina Distinguished Professorship of the Year. He is the only faculty member in Citadel history to win the Palmetto Medal, for having founded The Citadel Inn of Court, a combined undergraduate/alumni legal society. His wife, Cathy (Cunningham) from Warwood, is a 1963 graduate of West Liberty State College.