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Billy O. Wireman
Praise for Billy O. Wireman “The history of innovative higher education has produced its share of charismatic leaders . . . who have managed to convey to their faculty and students a sense of their own importance and their university’s place in the sun. If the leader has been particularly daring and imaginative, leader and college become synonymous in people’s minds. Such is the case with Billy Wireman.” “Few Americans have contributed as much to higher education. Wireman’s boundless energy, his creative mind, his intellectual depth and his commitment to his profession and his community make him one of the world’s truly unique individuals.”
Books by Billy O. Wireman Dangerous Grace Getting it All Together (1973) Lessons from the Big Guys: What I Learned from Servant Leaders (2004) Like Shooting Rapids in the Dark: Selected Writings on Education (2002) Peninsula Plot (1995) Women of Thunder (1998)
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Billy O. Wireman was born in Quicksand, Kentucky, and raised outside of Louisville. He studied at Georgetown College of Kentucky, served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and then did graduate study at the University of Kentucky, where he was also an assistant basketball coach under Adolf Rupp. Wireman earned a doctorate in education from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody School of Education and in 1960 joined the faculty of Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College), in St. Petersburg, Florida. He rose to dean, vice president, and then president. In 1978, he became president of Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he served until his retirement in 2002.