Frizzell, Carneal honored with state humanities award

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Two Northwest scholars are being honored with Missouri's top award for achievement in the humanities.

Northwest Director of Libraries Robert Frizzell has been chosen to receive the Missouri Humanities Council's Governor’s Humanities Award for his book, "Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri." (University of Missouri Press, 2007).

Professor Emeritus of History Thomas Carneal of Maryville, who since his retirement from the University has played a key leadership role in the Nodaway County Historical Society, is being recognized for his work as a historian, preservationist and scholar. Carneal's award specifically recognizes his accomplishments in promoting the cultural and architectural heritage of Northwest Missouri.

The awards will be presented Oct. 22 during ceremonies at the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City.

Frizzell also recently received an Award of Commendation from the Concordia Historical Institute in St. Louis, which cited the book as “an award-winning example of material produced in 2007 to further the understanding of American Lutheranism.”

Covering the period between 1838 and the early 1890s, “Independent Immigrants” describes the exodus of a large group of farm families from what is now the north German state of Lower Saxony to Lafayette County, Mo.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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