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3 unusual facts about Ripon College


John L. Locke

He received a B. A. in speech communication from Ripon College in 1963, and both an M. A. and a Ph.D. in speech pathology, audiology and speech science from Ohio University in 1965 and 1968 respectively.

Scott Strazzante

He grew up in Chicago and graduated from Ripon College, where he majored in Business management and art (1982–86).

Todd Wehr

Ripon College in Ripon has a building dedicated to Todd Wehr, which houses the mathematics, business, and psychology departments.


Birendranath Sasmal

He passed the Entrance Examination in 1900 and got admission into Ripon College of Calcutta for higher education.

Emily Lyle

For six years she taught English in secondary schools in Britain and New Zealand before she was appointed as a Lecturer in English at Ripon College of Education in Yorkshire (1961–65).

Otto Christian Neuman

On May 27, 1903, Neuman married Fannie Mapes, daughter of David P. Mapes, a former member of the New York State Assembly and founder of Ripon College.

Sachindra Prasad Bose

On 4 November 1905, when he was a fourth year student of Ripon College, Calcutta, he took initiative to form the Anti-Circular Society in protest against the circular issued by R. W. Carlyle, then Chief Secretary of the Government of Bengal instructing Magistrates and Collectors to take stern measures against the students involved in politics.


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Bishnu Prasad Rabha

This was despite the fact that due to participation in freedom struggle he was forced by the colonial British regime to leave Ripon College at Calcutta and transferred to Victoria College (now Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College) at Cooch Behar.

Surendranath Law College

The name was later changed to Ripon College, named after the British Viceroy George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon.