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(1874-1919)
(1920-1949)
(1950-1972) (1973-Present)
1950
• April 26: George Colbert, 88, former dean of the faculty,
dies.
• September 10: Family-style meal service resumes at Residence
Hall after a long period of cafeteria service only.
• November: Construction on the Student Union building begins.
1951
• April 28: Residence Hall is wrecked and girls are injured
by a gas tank explosion. Roberta Steel, a victim of the explosion,
dies the following year.
1952
• September: The semester system begins.
• September: Sororities rent chapter rooms in the basement
of Residence Hall.
1953
• The Board of Regents makes regulations concerning registration
of all automobiles driven on campus by students and employees
to help control the traffic problem.
1954
• Two phones are installed in Residence Hall – one
for outgoing calls only and one for outgoing and incoming calls.
• Greek organizations compete in intramurals for the first
time at Northwest
• Tau Kappa Epsilon is established on campus.
1955
• February 20: Former President Harry Truman dedicates the
Martin-Pederson Armory on campus.
• June: The first student enrolls in graduate courses.
1956
• April: Behind the Birches by Mattie Dykes is published.
• September: Uel Lamkin dies.
• November: William Rickenbrode dies.
1957
• May: The first master’s degrees are conferred.
1958
• Fall: Tuition for the fall semester is set at $5 per credit
hour. With fees, texbooks, and room and board, a semester’s
tuition runs between $243 and $249.
1959
• February 13: Eleanor Roosevelt visits campus.
• May: Colden Hall opens.
• May 17: The Abraham Lincoln statue is shot by a night
watchman.
• December: The first basketball game is played in Lamkin
Gymnasium.
1960
• May: Horace Mann High School closes. Horace Mann Junior
High School closes eight years later.
• KDLX goes on the air.
• Fall: Freshmen rebel against the hazing of Walkout Day
and steal the clapper to the • Victory Bell (Bell of ‘48),
kidnap the president of the M-Club. The result: seven shaved heads
that spell BEARCAT.
1961
• Fall: Freshman hazing is abolished - no paddles, no haircuts.
Beanies and Walkout Day, on the other hand, are retained. (Beanies
are later abolished in 1962.,)
• Cooperative graduate program with the University of Missouri-Columbia
is established.
• Memorial Stadium named Rickenbrode Stadium in honor of
former Registrar William Rickenbrode.
1962
• Women’s basketball team is created, the first since
1926.
• Women’s volleyball team is established.
1963
• President Jones announces he will retire in July 1964;
President Jones’ retirement house controversy.
1964
• April: Student food riots bring out the national Guard
after Highway 71 is blocked for hours by protesting students.
• July: Dr. Robert Foster becomes president of the college.
• KDLX student radio station begins in a closet.
1965
• Fall: Two Homecoming queens preside over this year’s
festivities.
1966
• Honors Program created.
• No fall Walkout Day – moved to spring; returned
in 1977.
• Bobby Bearcat appears at games.
• College Farm north of the Administration Building is named
the R.T. Wright Farm for • Richard Wright, retired chairman
of the Agriculture Department.
1967
• Graduate program in education receives approval from the
North Central Accrediting; 200 students begin work on graduate
degrees in biology, business, English, history and M.S.Ed. concentration
areas.
• English faculty member is exposed as imposter and fraud
(Dr. Tommie Chandler/Ralph Stregles).
• December: Newman House fire.
1968
• Summer: Horace Mann Junior High School closes, leaving
only kindergarten-sixth grade
• Fall: Dress codes relax; women are allowed to wear slacks
in the library. Curfew for women is extended, and open housing
for junior and senior women is available.
• Head Start and LPN programs begin.
1969
• September: Enrollment tops 5,000 students for the first
time.
• Gymnastics becomes the first women’s intercollegiate
sport at Northwest.
1970
• February: The Valk Industrial Arts and Technology Building
is dedicated
• New curfews for women: required to be in dorms by 11:30
p.m. Sunday-Thursday and by 1 a.m. Friday-Saturday.
• Academic calendar changes so that semester begins in August
and ends before Christmas.
• New tennis courts, basketball and handball courts are
built south of Phillips Hall.
• The old fountain is moved to the east side of the Administration
Building.
1971
• January: KXCV-FM radio begins broadcasting from Northwest.
• April: After little coverage of the Greek system on campus,
copies of the Tower yearbook are thrown into the fountain in front
of the Fine Arts Building.
• April: The Northwest Educational Foundation, Inc., is
incorporated.
• Spring: Walkout Day is eliminated.
• September: The first Northwest women’s intercollegiate
sports are offered.
• Fall: Women move into Millikan Hall; trailers established
in 1970 are converted to married student housing.
• Freshmen only are required to live in dorms.
• Academic divisions are restructured from nine to three
(Education, Arts & Sciences, Vocations & Professions).
1972
• Women’s dorms have open hours; women under 21 require
parental permission; men allowed as visitors 8-midnight Friday-Saturday.
• April 21: Missouri Gov. Hearnes signs bill designating
the school as Northwest Missouri State University (also applies
to Northeast, Southeast, Central and Southwest).
(1874-1919)
(1920-1949)
(1950-1972) (1973-Present)
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