March 28, 2005

Centennial Grant winners announced

MARYVILLE, Mo. – The on-campus team charged with evaluating Northwest Centennial Grant applications has announced that it will fund a total of seven proposals.

A second panel, the Northwest Foundation Centennial Committee, earlier made $20,000 in grant money available to University groups and individuals for projects creating a permanent legacy relating either to Northwest history or the centennial itself.

The winners are:

• Dennis Esser, for centennial banners that will hang on utility poles in downtown Maryville and along College Avenue. The Northwest Alumni Association will offer the banners at auction at the end of the centennial celebration period.
• Dr. Sue Frucht, assistant professor of biology and Freshman Seminar director, for production of a video titled “Northwest: 1905-2005.”
• Dr. Joe Kreizinger, assistant professor of theatre, for a case and forms that will be used to create a centennial costume display. Fashions and costumes from the past 10 decades, both originals and reproductions, will be placed in the case and periodically changed.
• Phil Laber, professor of art, for an exhibit titled “Thirty Years of Ceramics at Northwest Missouri State University: The Russell Schmaljohn Alumni Collection and Exhibit.” The grant will pay for a catalog of items being donated to the University by Art Department alumni
• Dr. Jamie Patton, assistant professor of agriculture, for a display case and signage related to an agriculture museum to be developed in the Valk Agriculture Professions Center.
• Dr. Cleo Samudzi, dean of the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing, for a CD/DVD documenting the academy’s first five years. It will be titled “The Final Five Years in a Century of Innovativeness at Northwest: the Birth of the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing.” The residential program for gifted high school-age students was founded in August 2000.

Northwest’s Student Senate for benches in the Centennial Garden now under construction near South Complex.

The on-campus committee that selected the grant recipients is made up of Foundation Centennial Committee members and other University faculty and staff.

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