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Rev. Oran Zaebst

Rev. Oran Zaebst

  • Class Year:
    1924
  • Induction Year:
    1985
  • Sport(s):
    Football, Basketball and Track and Field

Oran C. Zaebst '24 graduated fom Baldwin-Wallace in 1924, and was inducted in to the Alumni Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1985.

One of B-W's All-Time Grid Eleven, Reverend Zaebst was an end as well as a halfback as well as being captain of the 1923 Yellow Jacket football team. He then coached the freshman team for two years. While at B-W, Zaebst starred in basketball and track as well as football. The Zaebst brothers, Oran, Ivan, and Ellword, who were coached by R.W. Bechtel, made B-W the only team in the nation to feature three brothers all on the same team.

Oran studied civil engineering while at Baldwin-Wallace. After graduation, he went on to study the holy Orders at Bexley Hall, the post graduate school at Kenyon College. Oran was ordained as a deacon in June 1928.

Oran's ministry took him to West Virginia, South Carolina and New Jersey. He was also a U.S. Army Chaplain in the European Theatre from 1940-1946. He was a member of the American Radio Relay League, the College of Preachers in Washington D.C., The Shriners and the Quarter-Century Radion Noon Network.

Oran who was born in New Washington, Ohio in 1900, is survived by his wife Evelyn who lives in South Carolina and his two living children.