The University > History > Past Presidents

Clark Adelbert Fulmer
President: 1911-1917

• Alumnus of Nebraska Wesleyan and a favored son of the University.

• Students built Wesleyan’s “new gymnasium” and supplied half of the $3,200 cost.

• WJAC radio operated in the teens and twenties and was one of the first radio stations in the Midwest and possibly one of the first educational radio stations in the nation.

• 1914 - The original chapel of Old Main became the library.

• 1914 - Wesleyan received its first accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which still continues to review Nebraska Wesleyan every 10 years.

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