Walter S. Gamertsfelder

Walter Sylvester Gamertsfelder (1885 – 1967) was a professor of philosophy, dean and thirteenth president of Ohio University, serving during the final years of World War II from 1943 to 1945.

[2] After a short period serving as a pastor at a church in Akron, Ohio, he attended Ohio State University, where he completed a PhD in philosophy in 1920, with a thesis in British idealism, entitled "Thought, Existence and Reality as Viewed by F.H.

[3] Gamertsfelder was appointed a member of the faculty of philosophy and religion at Ohio University in 1921.

These included accommodation of faculty leaves for service in the nation's war effort and the initiation of programs for faculty retraining and reassignment as enrollment dwindled to just over two hundred men, and needs for teaching Army Specialized Training Corpsmen and Reservists who were assigned to the campus developed.

Gamertsfelder Hall, located on East Green, was built on the Ohio University campus in 1956 is named in his honor.