Citation Author: Earnestine Adeyemon

A.W. Mercer, Class of 1901. Dr. Mercer was a graduate of Western Reserve University Medical School.

Leeroy Bronner. In 1973, Dr. Bronner was awarded a Ph.D. by Case’s Department of Systems Engineering. His thesis is entitled, A Minicomputer Software System for Design, Analysis, and Control of Large-Scale Systems. A native of Akron, Ohio, Dr. Bronner held many positions over the course of his career including an adjunct professorship at Howard University and various titles at IBM.

Dr. Leslie Morgan Collins (Fisk Emeritus) Dr. Collins was awarded a Ph.D. in 1945 by the Western Reserve University Department of American Culture. His thesis is entitled, A Song, a Dance, and a Play : An Interpretative Study of Three American Artists. In 1952, Dr. Collins returned to Case as a Ford Foundation Fellow and received a Master of Science…

Lewis R. Gilbert, Class of 1900. Mr.. Gilbert received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Case School of Applied Science in 1900. He became a draftsman with the Browning Engineering Company and later worked for the Packard Motor Company in Detroit. In 1905, Mr.. Gilbert was employed by the Peerless Auto Company in Cleveland as an assistant mechanical engineer…

Louise Canneville Evans, Class of 1917. Mrs. Evans graduated with a degree in French and Latin from Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University. She earned the Phi Beta Kapps key as a student. After graduation, Mrs. Evans remained in the Cleveland area and taught French in junior high. She married Armen Claster Evans, a pediatrician, who graduated from…

Dr. Mariane E. Musgrave received her Ph.D. from Western Reserve University in 1960. Her dissertation was entitled, John Donne and the “Songs and Sonnets”: A Socio-Psychological Study. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Howard University, Washington D.C. She also published a “Literary Justification of Slavery in Blacks and the German Culture,” and “Aichingers Das Plakat mit Beziahung auf…

Norman R. Bliss, Class of 1959. Mr.. Bliss received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Case Institute of Technology. In 1968, he earned an M.B.A. from Case’s Weatherhead School of Management. Mr.. Bliss co-founded Polytech, Inc., a Cleveland-based minority engineering firm. The firm was subsequently ranked 181st on Engineering Newsletter’s top 500 engineering firms and was awarded an engineering…

Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Class of 1971. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones earned her undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University’s Flora Stone Mather College. She also received her Juris Doctorate from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1974. She also holds honorary doctorates from Myers University, Notre Dame College, and Central State University. Congresswoman Jones is the…

Thomas E. Green transferred from the Case School of Applied Science to Western Reserve University Law School in 1905. He graduated from Law School in 1908. He was known as a fast broken-field runner (as half – black). He was also an outstanding track man and helped Case beat Reserve in a 1903 track meet. Mr.. Green also won two…

Dr. Thomas Jefferson Jones, Class of 1900. Dr. Jones earned his degree from the Western Reserve University Dental School in 1900.