Thomas P. and Ella N. Wolf Scholarship in Political Science

Dr. Thomas Phillip Wolf, a Kansas native, graduated from Wichita East High School in 1950. As a student, he was a member of three state championship teams: track, cross country and wrestling. Wolf was captain of the wrestling and cross country teams his senior year.

After high school, Dr. Wolf joined the Marines and served in the Korean War. When he returned home in 1953, he married the former Ella Nora Weigand, also a Kansas native and a graduate of Wichita East High School, with whom he has three children and 10 grandchildren.

Dr. Wolf found his passion for political science at the University of Wichita, where he received his bachelor’s in 1959. Continuing his education in that area, he earned his master’s degree from Stanford University in 1961.

Dr. Wolf began teaching at the University of New Mexico in1963. While a professor there, he earned his doctorate degree in 1967, also from Stanford University. He taught at Indiana University Southeast from 1970 until 1999, when he became professor emeritus of political science.

For more than a decade, Mrs. Wolf taught grade school in Jeffersonville, Ind., retiring in 1990.

Appreciative of the time he spent as an undergraduate at WU, Dr. Wolf created the Thomas P. and Ella N. Wolf Scholarship in Political Science.