John Philip Wernette

John "Philip" Wernette (October 29, 1903 – August 12, 1988) was the eighth president of the University of New Mexico serving from 1945 to 1948.

Early life Wernette was born in Imlay City, Michigan to parents Jacob Israel and Bessie (Barris) Wernette and grew up in Grand Rapids. His family moved to California in 1917 while he was still in high school.

He began attending college at UCLA in 1919 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He transferred to the University of California, Berkeley where he earned his A.B. degree in 1924. He earned an A.M. degree at the University of Southern California in 1926. He earned a second master's degree in 1929 and his Ph.D. degree in 1932, both from Harvard University.

Harvard University While earning his master's degree, Wernette became an associate professor at the Harvard School of Business Administration in 1927. and the School of Business Administration. The university's enrollment grew from 924 to 4,491 students with the end of World War II.

University of Michigan After being dismissed from the University of New Mexico, Wernette found a job at the University of Michigan in 1948 as the Director of the Bureau of Business Research and Professor of Business Administration. He taught classes in business and government and was the founder and editor of the Michigan Business Review.

From the early 1950s to the early 1980s he traveled and gave many speeches to business groups and the University of Michigan's Executive Development Program.

Published books Money, Business and Prices (1933) Problems in Economic Theory (1939) The Control of Business Cycles (1940) Problems in Merchandise Distribution (1942) Financing Full Employment (1945)

Personal life He married Eleanor DeCourcy on August 17, 1940 in Manchester, NH. They had two children, John D. and Elizabeth Eleanor. He was a member of the Masons and the Rotary International. He served on the board of directors of the Ohio Citizens Trust Company of Toledo, OH.