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.
Robert Wright Singletary
Inducted 1993Robert Wright Singletary was a US Air Force veteran when he enrolled at West Liberty. He earned his doctor of medicine and doctor of ophthalmology degrees at the elite Meharry Medical School, Nashville, TN. After completing his internship at Syracuse, NY, he established a medical practice in Ashtabula, OH, and Pittsburgh, PA. Simultaneously, he was appointed chief medical officer of the US Steel Company, Clairton plant, a position he held in 1984 at the time of his death at the age of 53.