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Male Cheerleaders at Northwest Missouri in 1935
In 1935 Northwest’s Cheerleaders were all men (Louis Groh, Virgil Yates, Verne Campbell). From Northwest Tower.
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NWMSU Homecoming Parade on Game vs. Springfield Before Dec 30, 1960 Townsend Wholesale Grocery Fire
Photos from Northwest Missouri homecoming parade before Dec 30, 1960, fire at the Townsend Wholesale Grocery Store on Fourth Street
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1941 College Leap Year Celebration
Note for 1980: will Nodaway County boys attending the Maryville Teachers College ever be the same after the strenuous event of Leap Week, which climaxed Friday night with a dance where styles were reversed? The figure on the left isn’t … Continue reading
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How the Maryville High School Newspaper Hi-Lights Got the Only Published Photo of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Strange Maryville Visit on Feb 13, 1959
A lot of strange events occurred during Eleanor Roosevelt’s February 13, 1959, lecture at Northwest Missouri, and Eleanor herself clarified items in her daily “My Day” column that reporters covering the event missed. And the Maryville High School newspaper “Hi … Continue reading
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Northwest’s “Vet Village” After World War II Started with 6 Clarinda Camp POW Barracks
Northwest’s “Vet Village” north of the Administration on Maryville’s highest point, which they called “College Heights,” started with the six barracks from the Camp Clarinda World War II POW camp. The Vet Village was dismantled with the 1968 construction of … Continue reading
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1928 Proposal to Build Towering War Memorial on Maryville’s Highest Point
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1921 Watson Designed Golf Course Still on Topo Map on Northwest Missouri Campus
Incredibly, the 1921 proposed J.W. Watson-designed golf course for the Maryville Golf Club is still on the latest published USGS topo map. It was supposed to extend from the original Methodist Seminary on 1st and Memory Lane, around the west … Continue reading
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20 Japanese and 2 Americans from Camp Clarinda Injured at End of World War II at Clearmont
On September 5, 1945 — three days after the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri — 20 Japanese soldiers and 2 American guards were injured on US 71 by Clearmont when a POW transport truck from the Camp Clarinda POW … Continue reading
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Truman Road or North College Drive
In the 1950s through 1975 Maryville had a strange battle over the street name for the road going north from Administration Building over whether it should be called Truman Road or North College Drive.
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Golf at Maryville Methodist Seminary
The first issue of “The Chautauquan” in 1908 features a photo of people playing golf on the grounds of the Maryville Methodist Seminary (which had been given to the state of Missouri to start what would become Northwest Missouri State).
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