Herman B Wells

In 1938 Herman B Wells was named Indiana University’s eleventh president, and at the age of thirty-five was the country’s youngest state university president. He served for a quarter century as president and remained a vital contributor as the first IU chancellor in 1962. Wells was an educational visionary who helped transform IU into an internationally recognized center of research and scholarship. Under Wells’s direction IU experienced its greatest growth.Indiana University Journe