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1941 College Leap Year Celebration

Posted on February 12, 2026 by roger

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

Posted on January 29, 2026 by roger

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

Posted on January 27, 2026 by roger

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

Posted on January 24, 2026 by roger
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1921 Watson Designed Golf Course Still on Topo Map on Northwest Missouri Campus

Posted on January 24, 2026 by roger

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

Posted on January 22, 2026 by roger

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

Posted on January 18, 2026 by roger

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

Posted on January 12, 2026 by roger

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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