Robert Parvin Strickler
A.B., West Virginia University, 1907B.A., University of Oxford, 1910
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1919
Robert Strickler, born in Philippi, West Virginia, earned an A.B. from West Virginia University in 1907 and received a Rhodes Scholarship that year. He played baseball, served on the Monticola yearbook board, was vice-president of his sophomore class, and a member of Delta Tau Delta.
Strickler matriculated at St. John?s College, Oxford, in 1908 and received a B.A. with honors. He continued to study at Oxford until 1914. In 1919, he received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and began a teaching career at Davis and Elkins College.