Walter Gilbert Fremont, Jr. (July 20, 1924 – January 7, 2007) was dean of the School of Education, Bob Jones University (1953–1990) and “a seminal force in the inauguration and development of the Christian school movement.”[1] Fremont was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, but was largely reared in Wilmette, Illinois, and Southern Hills, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio.

During World War II, he was drafted and assigned by the Army to study mechanical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology.

[7] Fremont was immediately asked to teach educational psychology and taught both semesters while taking thirty hours of Bible courses.

[12] Fremont eventually helped expand the “meager offerings” of the BJU education department at his arrival into full-scale elementary, secondary, and graduate programs.

[13] Fremont's dissertation outlined principles of administration in evangelical Protestant Christian schools, a tiny segment of the educational world in the 1950s but his burden for the rest of his career.

Fremont became an early mainstay of BJU Press in a successful effort to make Bob Jones University a leader in the new Christian school movement.

[17] Fremont helped found a Children's Gospel Club in Greenville and served on the executive committee of a Greenville-based mission board.