Volume 11 , Issue 38

1943 - Northwestern Normal & Sabin C. Percefull

Young in Years, Percefull has long record at Northwestern - Sabin C. Percefull is counted one of the old-timers around Northwestern State College, having been connected with the college since before the outbreak of WWI.

In 1915 Percefull came to Northwestern to teach physics and chemistry, spending two years as a faculty member before the US entry into the war. He entered the army and served in the chemical warfare division for two years. After the war he returned to Alva and taught economics before succeeding to the deanship.

In 1923 he became dean of faculty, and in the summer of 1928 served as acting president, a position he held again from April, 1935 to February, 1936.

In 1938-39 he took a leave of absence for study at Iowa state university and at the end of the leave was appointed president of Northwestern Oklahoma Junior college at Miami.

On January 1, 1943, Percefull returned to Northwestern as president, succeeding Chester O. Newlun, who became president of the Wisconsin State Teachers college at Platteville, Wisconsin.
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