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(1920-1949)
(1950-1972) (1973-Present)
1920
• August 2: A degree group within the Alumni Association
is formed; 25 cent dues in addition to alumni dues.
• October 25: The 1914 regulation forbidding fraternities
and sororities on campus is amended to allow honor societies.
1921
• June 6: Uel W. Lamkin is elected president, effective
September 1.
• October 11: The Regents approve a plan to provide textbooks
to students.
• November 16: More than 600 names are confirmed on the
list of college alumni.
1922
• September 28: The first Student Council meeting takes
place, Jason Kemp, president.
1923
• January 7: Residence Hall opens with Mr. C.E. Partch as
housemother.
• November 10: Seven Min-ni-chee (girl hikers) hike to St.
Joseph.
1924
• April 30: Seventeen student organizations on campus; 16,829
books in the library; 400 women and 209 men enrolled.
• October 10: First general Homecoming (Philomatheans had
been having Homecoming for eleven years).
1925
• January 12: Physical examinations for all students is
started.
• September 17: The tradition of green caps for freshmen
is started.
1926
• January 9: The gymnasium is opened and dedicated at basketball
game between the Bearcats and the Kansas City Athletic Club (Bearcats
lost 18-32).
• May 26: Frank Deerwester, the first college president,
dies.
• September 27: The Green and White Courier becomes the
Northwest Missourian.
• December 14: An explosion in the chemistry department
laboratory causes $10,000 in damage.
1927
• March: Sigma Sigma Sigma is the first sorority recognized
on campus.
• April: Sigma Tau Gamm is the first fraternity recognized
on campus.
• May 27: The faculty make their first appearance in academic
dress at commencement.
1928
• May 3: Faculty Dames is organized.
• July 6: President Lamkin becomes president of the National
Education association.
• October 22-25: First hockey tournament.
• November 13: “M” Club pin is adopted.
1929
• September 1: Henry Iba comes to campus. His 1932 basketball
team finishes second in the nation.
1930
• February 21: Second annual Junior Prom.
• June 9: Poet Arthur Guiterman comes to campus.
• July 9: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant comes
to campus.
1931
• November 3: President Lamkin sends a hickory cane to Kirksville
to be kept until the Bearcats defeat the Bulldogs.
• November 12: The Hickory Stick comes back to Maryville.
1932
• April 15: Faculty salaries are reduced approximately 20
percent of one month’s salary.
• October 4: Charles Curtis, vice president under Herbert
Hoover, gives a lecture in the college auditorium.
1933
• May 22: Almost all employees – including the president
– take annual salary cuts.
1934
• February: Exhibition of 28 paintings by Olive DeLuce at
Woman’s City Club in Kansas City.
1935
• May 29: Diminished service plan is approved. At age 65,
a faculty member’s salary is reduced to 75 percent of that
received between ages 55 and 60.
• September 5: First Scoop Dance.
1936
• Archeologist Richard Haliburton comes to campus.
• May 15: Eighth annual Mothers’ Day.
1937
• April 9: The Hays property, east of College Drive, becomes
part of campus grounds. It later is remodeled to create the Home
Management house.
• October 4: Two Philippine girls, through an invitation
from President Lamkin, begin attending college without fees, in
order to bring foreign-speaking students to campus.
• October 4: The training school is renamed Horace Mann
Laboratory School.
1938
• October 17: The lab school opens its first nursery school
in the solarium at Residence Hall.
1939
• The football team wins 21 straight games over a two-year
period.
• July 20: Thomas Hart Benton presents the class of 1939
with a lithograph of “Cradling Wheat” when the class
was unable to purchase one of his oil paintings.
• October 7: Horace Mann Lab School and the library are
dedicated.
1940
• January 1: The electric score board in the gymnasium (a
gift from the class of 1938) is first used.
• February 13: “A more ferocious-looking Bearcat”
is adopted by Student Senate.
• September 1: The College High School moves to the Horace
Mann building.
1941
• January 24: The Bearcats’ Den (a student center)
opens on the first floor of the Administration Building.
• December 8: Special assembly to hear a broadcast of President
Roosevelt’s speech to Congress asking for a declaration
of war.
• December 12: 100 percent of faculty and students buy Defense
Stamps.
1942
• January 20: The first combat casualty of World War II
from the college is John Hopple.
• May: The Navy V-12 program is established.
1943
• July 1: 400 Navy men enroll in the college for the V-12
program.
• October 12: A dance replaced Walkout Day because the Navy
men couldn’t walk out.
1944
• January 24: First electronic typewriter is added to the
business equipment.
1945
• May 8: A special edition of the Northwest Missourian comes
out in the morning to announce a special assembly to mark the
end of the war against Germany.
• September 5: Faculty vote to change the period between
classes from five minutes to ten minutes.
• September 17: President Lamkin announces his resignation;
Dr. J.W. Jones succeeds him.
1946
• February 14: The Veterans Club puts out a faculty-student
directory.
• September: Housing units in “Vets’ Village,”
later called College Heights, are completed.
1947
• May 29: Dean of the Faculty is required to live at 421
College Drive.
• October 31: A sculptured Bearcat makes its first public
appearance at Homecoming.
• December 12: President Jones is injured in an automobile
accident (broken ribs, bruising).
1948
• March 29: Faculty members are allowed to enroll for classes
with payment of activity and book fees.
• July: The name of Northwest Missouri State Teachers College
is changed to Northwest Missouri State College.
• August 4: The Bell of ’48, a gift of the class of
1948, is rung for the first time.
1949
• January 22: The Hickory Stick is found in a vault in the
president’s office after being lost for some years.
• April 14: An oil tank explodes in back of Women’s
Residence Hall, with no damage to the hall.
• April 21: Dr. Uel Lamkin suffers a stroke of paralysis.
• October 24: The football stadium is named Memorial Stadium
in honor of the men and women who served in the world wars.
(1874-1919)
(1920-1949)
(1950-1972) (1973-Present)
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