He taught organization behavior and group process at a number of institutions, including Antioch University, American University, George Washington University and Wright State University. Subsequently he was director of programs in higher education at NTL in Washington, D.C. That was a transformative experience and key to his professional development. In 1965 Wally did post-doctoral training in group dynamics, organizational development and personal growth at National Training Laboratories (NTL) Institute in Bethel, Maine. The family then moved back to Yellow Springs where Wally worked as dean of students at Antioch College. from Purdue, Wally was the director of the work-study program at Kalamazoo College.
In 1953, Wally took the job of personnel director of Morris Bean and Company.Īfter receiving his Ph.D. In 1949, after graduating from Oberlin, Wally and Evelyn moved to Yellow Springs, where Wally had a position on the faculty at Antioch College in the cooperative education department. They joined thousands of other young people in this country as a veteran student married couple. He had two more years to complete his degree due to interruption from the war. They married in 1947 after Evelyn graduated. Wally married Evelyn Hisey, whom he met on a blind date at Oberlin College.
During World War II, he served for three years in the Merchant Marines as a deck hand and deck officer on cargo ships, tankers and troop transports in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific war theaters.
He was a graduate of Oberlin College where he was captain of the first varsity lacrosse team. He was born June 20, 1925, in Gallatin, Tenn. Walter (Wally) Sikes passed away peacefully at Hospice of Dayton on Feb.
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