BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Illinois Wesleyan University alum Tobey C. Herzog was recently named the first holder of the Anne and Andrew T. Ford Chair in Liberal Arts at Wabash College, located in Crawfordsville, Ind.
The Board of Trustees at Wabash College established the chair after the retirement of President Ford, who served that university for 13 years. The chair celebrates the Ford’s leadership of Wabash College, their passion for students, and their belief in vitality and enduring importance of a liberal arts education.
“Tobey is a great choice for this prestigious chair,” said Wabash President Patrick E. White. “His wide-ranging teaching, his commitment to the highest ideals of the gentleman student-athlete, and his modeling of positive leadership in many aspects of Wabash life shows a teacher/scholar living out the liberal arts in his way of being in the world.”
Herzog graduated magna cum laude from IWU in 1968. He went on to earn his doctorate in English Literature from Purdue University and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest honor society. While at Illinois Wesleyan, Herzog was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and served as junior varsity basketball coach under then head coach Dennie Bridges.