Rexford Brammer Hersey
A.B., West Virginia University, 1916B.A., University of Oxford, 1921, M.A., 1922
Ph.D., Berlin University, 1930
Rex Hersey, from Guyandotte, West Virginia, received a Rhodes Scholarship in 1917.
At West Virginia University, he was a member of Kappa Alpha, Mountain, and the University choir and glee club. He played baseball for three years and was a member of the board of the Athenaeum, the University?s student newspaper.
Hersey served in the United States Army field artillery 1918-19 before receiving degrees from Oxford and Berlin University.
He worked with the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Glenn L. Martin Company, American Airlines, and the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.