When he left his position at Wheaton College to become president of Westmont in 1950, Roger Voskuyl came to a deeply troubled institution. During the previous decade, two presidents, two interim presidents and a three-person executive committee had led the college. Nearly half the faculty resigned in the spring of 1950, most protesting the board of trustees’ “unprofessional” treatment of presidents. Student enrollment declined from a high of 324 in 1946-47 to a low of 218 in the fall of 1950. The college was deeply in debt, and the future looked bleak. 1 Column Content Background Color White Ali...