UCM Magazine - Spring 2021

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2 CENTRAL TO THE HEART Writer Ellen Blaize’s legacy family dates back before the great fire of 1915.

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10 THROUGH THE WINDOW OF YEATER HALL One professor’s story spans women’s suffrage and both world wars.

20 THE QUAD: THEN AND NOW See how the buildings you know have evolved — and what was there before.

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IN TRADITION, CARVED IN STONE The beauty of campus is both permanent and seasonal.

Pertle Springs was a popular resort before becoming a staple of the university.

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28 ATHLETICS 31 MULENATION NEWS 32 UCM NEWS 34 CLASS NOTES 36 PLANNED GIVING 37 IN MEMORIAM 40 PARTING SHOTS 41 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

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AND CENTRAL Great speakers and performers have taken the stage at UCM for over a century.

@ On the front cover: The Dockery Building was one of two original buildings on campus that withstood the 1915 fire.

On the back cover: Old Main, completed in 1882, was the first academic building on campus. Classes were previously held in a rented building called the Foster School on the northeast corner of Maguire and Grover streets.

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CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF EDUCATION FOR SERVICE

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oday, we are in the midst of celebrating the University of Central Missouri’s 150th anniversary. It’s heartwarming to imagine the local environment when Warrensburg community members came together jubilantly one spring night in 1871 to celebrate the State Board of Regents’ decision to bring higher education to this region.

As shared in UCM’s “Sandstones of Time” historical publication: “Warrensburg’s townspeople received the good news late on the evening of April 26, and church bells rang all night to herald the word. Bands played, bonfires blazed, and hundreds of people beat tin pans and made noise to show their delight and enthusiasm. Fourteen days later, the State Normal School for the Second Normal District of Missouri was ready for classes to begin.”

Tremendous gratitude is owed to those individuals whose vision and enthusiasm radiated through the community and was felt in Jefferson City to make that fateful evening possible. Working together, they secured support needed to bring what was then a small college to their hometown through voter approval of a bond election, private “subscriptions” and a gift of land. From its beginning as a Normal School to prepare Missouri educators, UCM has grown into a comprehensive university that today has students from 43 states and 32 countries. Our current students ­— and the thousands who came before — arrived here on the demonstrated merit, rigor and value of our many and varied degree offerings. They leave prepared to succeed in their life’s pursuits, instilled with a commitment to service that has been part of UCM’s institutional fabric from the beginning.

As you read this issue of UCM Magazine, you will discover that time has only strengthened the enthusiasm people have for their university and the opportunities we create for students and our communities. You’ll learn about one of our legacy families, the suffrage movement and the campus during both world wars, how a national resort destination has transformed into an outdoor lab, the university as a cultural and artistic hub and how students are celebrating UCM’s history in our sesquicentennial year.

We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to having you join us throughout this year as we celebrate, explore and share more about our rich 150-year heritage. Learn more at 150.ucmo.edu.

Roger J. Best, Ph.D. UCM President

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entral to the Heart: Our Legacy Family

My great-grandma, Myrtle Bell (Randall) Pitchford, graduated from Normal School No. 2 in 1913. Her brother, Alva Randall, was a student in 1915 when the original campus was destroyed by fire. Shortly after the blaze, churches in town opened their doors to the university to use for classes.

Myrtle’s husband, my greatgrandpa Ava Cast iron drawing tables were pulled Pitchford, from the science hall during the 1915 fire. also went to the Normal School. He arrived by train in 1914, and having never been to Warrensburg, accidentally walked to the courthouse thinking it was the college. Although Myrtle didn’t marry him until years later, Ava and Alva were college buddies.

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By Ellen Blaize, ’11, ’13

Back then, the school year was divided into four terms, and tuition was free; students simply had to pay a $5 incidental fee per term. According to a 1914 publication, students were required to submit “satisfactory evidence of a good moral character” from a “person of well-known integrity” on their admissions

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application. Textbooks were furnished at a rental fee of $1 per year, along with a $3 deposit to ensure proper use and safe return.

The school did not have dormitories, which meant students boarded at private houses in town. The house my greatgrandma lived in is still standing, on the corner of Grover and South College streets. She had an upstairs room with no heat and helped the homeowner cook and clean.

Although students attended Normal School No. 2 to become teachers, there was a diverse selection of classes, including Electricity and Magnetism, Household Management, Carpentry and House Building, and Penmanship. I have my great-grandma’s 108-year-old leather-bound yearbook, in which the senior class was asked to provide a suggested epitaph (see above) to go next to their picture. My grandma always got a kick out of reading to me her mother’s entry. I like to think I inherited her sense of humor.

I’m a proud member of a UCM legacy family. Legacy families are students and alumni whose family members — including parents, stepparents or grandparents — attended or currently attend UCM. Through these families, the heritage of the university passes from generation to generation. To me, it means I’m part of a shared history. It means being able to tell stories, reminisce and relate with multiple generations of relatives: four to be exact. With every name change came another graduate in our family.

My great-uncle, Bob Becker, graduated from Central Missouri State Teachers College with a music degree in 1942. He was drafted into the war that year, so his mother walked in his place and accepted his diploma at commencement. He was a member of the College Quartet and the Crescendo Club, a campus organization started in 1924 for the purpose of cultivating an appreciation of good music.

Paul R. Utt, for whom the Utt Building was named, was the organization’s sponsor.

During Bob’s time as a student, tuition was only $20 per quarter.

According to the 1940 yearbook, there was a substantial increase in enrollment from 750 students in 1936 to 1,290 in 1939, which prompted an expansion both in staff and facilities. Many new positions were created, and two new buildings were added: the Walter E. Morrow Health and Physical Education Building, now part of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center, and the Ward Edwards Building,

From left, Bob Becker, Rawleigh Gaines, Bill Donnelly and Marshall Lederer comprised the “College Quartet” in 1942, accompanied here by Don Fletcher. which was originally the university library but today houses classrooms and offices such as Admissions, Career Services and Financial Aid. The two new buildings were constructed of local sandstone shipped from Warrensburg, nicknamed “the Quarry City,” in 1845 to build the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City. When the courthouse was destroyed, the stone was recut and shipped back to Warrensburg to construct Morrow and Ward Edwards at a total cost of nearly $500,000. Both buildings were ready for use in the fall of 1938, Bob’s first quarter on campus.

The cornerstone of Ward Edwards was laid on Nov. 11, 1938, and a copper memorial box containing college information, newspapers, a Bible and a Masonic penny was placed inside.

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“As soon as we got the $3 back, we’d hightail it down toward town and get a tenderloin for 50 cents.”

– David Becker

My grandpa, David Becker, graduated from Central Missouri State College in 1946, the year the institution became known by that name, with an Industrial Arts degree.

It was also the university’s 75th year — the Diamond Jubilee.

As an Industrial Arts major, Grandpa spent much of his time in the Powerhouse and Fine Arts Building, a brick structure constructed in 1904 that housed the Industrial Arts Department on the main floor and a heating plant in the basement.

Also known as “West Hall,” the building

David Becker works on a project in an Industrial Arts class during the 1944-45 academic year. year and getting his $3 deposit back. He used that money to go with friends to Riggles, a popular Warrensburg restaurant.

“As soon as we got the $3 back, we’d hightail it down toward town and get a tenderloin for 50 cents,” he recalled.

The commencement speaker at his graduation ceremony in 1946 was the one and only J.C. Penney.

A group of Navy V-12 men pose in front of the Administration Building.

Before he passed away, I had the chance to ask Grandpa some questions about his time on campus. His first visit to Warrensburg was in 1938 when his older brother, Bob, started college. He followed suit in 1942 and was only in school for a couple of months before he was called into the draft.

After failing the Army physical because of a high heart rate, he decided to continue on with his education.

stood southwest of Old Main (the west end of the current quadrangle) and was demolished in September 1968.

A fond memory Grandpa shared was returning his textbooks at the end of the

When the V-12 Navy College Training Program moved in to Yeater Hall during World War II, what had once been a dining area with linen tablecloths and fine dishes became a mess hall, where Grandpa got a job serving food. He lived at 106 Broad Street, a house near campus that is now the Newman Center, UCM’s Catholic campus ministry.

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Riggles was a popular restaurant in Warrensburg in the 1930s and ’40s.

Notable faculty members who signed David’s senior yearbook include, from left, Wilson C. Morris, Noel B. Grinstead, 1921, and Pauline A. Humphreys — all of whom have campus buildings named after them.

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James Becker Both of my parents graduated when the institution’s name was Central Missouri State University, a change that happened in 1972.

My mom, Debbie (Garber) Becker, earned an Elementary Education degree in 1976.

Instead of the splash pad that’s outside what is now known as Elliott Student Union, there used to be a large, rectangular fountain with colored lights. It was a popular prank among students to add soap and watch it overflow with bubbles.

Debbie Garber

“Everyone seemed to go to Warrensburg; it was a pretty popular school,” said Phyllis, who is now 97 years old. “I remember living in Yeater Hall, and it was pretty nice.

I went to college in the summertime so I could teach school in the fall. I was 19 and taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Bridge Creek, Missouri.”

My dad, James Becker, earned a bachelor’s degree in Music Education in 1975 and a master’s in 1976. His fondest memories include performing in the Concert Choir and with the Madrigal Singers. In 1974, he saw Duke Ellington perform in Hendricks Hall. He remembers many Bible studies in the Alumni Memorial Chapel, where he met my mom in 1972. His sister, Nancy (Becker) Littlejohn, also graduated from CMSU in 1977 and 1991.

Women lived in the dorms on the west side of campus, and men lived in The student union then had beauty and barber the dorms shops, a bookstore, a faculty lounge and a large James Becker, second from left on the cafeteria that served some of the best food in in top row, performs with the east side. town and was open on Sundays to serve locals Madrigal Singers under the “Life was after church. One of Mom’s favorite campus direction of Conan Castle in 1976. much more traditions was the annual lighting of the blue spruce in front of the Administration Building conservative then,” Dad explained. The women had a curfew of 11 p.m., and the at Christmas time. She remembers the name change from Central Missouri State College to doors were locked until early morning. The Central Missouri State University very clearly, men had no curfew and could leave their dorms at any time. and the sense of pride and prestige it instilled in her and her peers. Two of her siblings, After getting married in 1975, my parents Diana Garber Allsbrook and Steve Garber, lived in Hawkins Hall, a dormitory for also graduated from CMSU, and her mother, married couples. Originally located just Phyllis Garber, took classes toward a teaching north of the Multipurpose Building, it has degree while living in Yeater Hall in the 1940s. since been removed.

“I remember walking through the beautiful, flower-filled quadrangle on sunny spring days to meet friends at the student union,” she recalled. “We’d buy a Coca-Cola for 10 cents at the snack bar and play a game of spades.”

James Becker serenades his soon-to-be wife, Debbie Garber, in a much freer way than the handbook titled “Women’s Residence Hall Customs” dictated decades before in a section called “Serenade Etiquette.”

Serenade Etiquette The dormitory girls are often serenaded by the men’s halls and the fraternities. Be sure all the lights are turned out during the serenade.

Appreciation is shown by remaining quiet during the singing and applauding afterward. Leave your lights turned off until the serenade is completely over.

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“ I learned how to ride a bike on the quad when I was 4, and my husband, Josh, proposed to me at the flagpole 20 years later.” – Ellen Blaize

I started as a freshman in 2007, a year after the institution had become the University of Central Missouri. I earned a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Media in 2011 and a master’s in Mass Communication in 2013.

My brother, Timothy Becker, graduated with a Networking Technology degree in 2019. Being native Warrensburgers, we essentially grew up on campus. I learned how to ride a bike on the quad when I was 4, and my husband, Josh, proposed to me at the flagpole 20 years later. My brother had

many birthday parties at the Union Bowling Center, and we never missed a homecoming parade.

One of my favorite memories is anchoring the news on Central Cable Network (CCN), the Timothy Becker poses with the bronze mule statue across from university’s local cable channel. I the football stadium, a traditional spot for commencement photos spent much of my time writing and good luck if you kiss the mule. for The Muleskinner and worked my way up from assistant news editor to news editor.

Thanks to one of my favorite professors, Charles Fair, I then landed a graduate assistantship as the managing editor.

I also had fun covering events and creating videos for DigitalBurg.com as a student. In my current position as an integrated marketing specialist, I’ve decorated my office in the Administration Building with Above: Ellen Blaize and Kisha (Henry) Banister, ’10, anchor a memorabilia I’ve collected over Below: Ellen’s office is a mini museum of memorabilia university news broadcast from the basement of the Houts-Hosey the years that reminds me of each commemorating all five of the university’s names. residence hall. family member.

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Are you part of a legacy family? If so, we want to hear from you!

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As UCM celebrates its sesquicentennial, I can’t help but think back on the past 150 years and all that my family has seen.

My great-grandma was on campus when the Titanic sank. My great-uncle was on campus during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

My grandpa was on campus during World War II. My parents were on campus near the end of the Vietnam War. I was on campus when Osama bin Laden was found — and now during a global pandemic.

There’s something so special about sharing an alma mater with my relatives. I’m able to feel a kindred closeness to a generation of my family that I never got to meet in person. Knowing that I’m walking the same paths and may be looking up at the same trees my great-grandma did more than 100 years ago is a connection that I would not have without this university.

In between our four generations, nearly 20 additional family members have walked the halls of Central. We have a shared feeling

of nostalgia when we hear the Marching Mules practicing each fall, or the cannon go off when the Mules score a touchdown.

Every homecoming turns into a family reunion, and we sing every word of UCM’s “Alma Mater” at commencement. We gain a little more UCM pride each time a new family member walks across the stage, and every new job opportunity feels like an exciting win for us all.

Most of all, we know that no matter what happens in life, we have the foundation of a meaningful and valuable education from a university near and dear to our hearts.

Above: Ellen Blaize poses with Mo after a home football game.

Bottom left: Ellen’s great-grandmother, Myrtle Bell (Randall) Pitchford, third from left, stands with classmates in front of Old Main.

Bottom right: A State Normal School No. 2 diploma from the 1880s.

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Music Practice Room Dedicated to Dorothy Elizabeth Steward

‘We Are UCM’ Event Raises Funds, Food

The UCM Alumni Foundation celebrated the life of Dr. Dorothy Elizabeth Steward through the dedication of a music practice room that will have a longtime impact

The “We Are UCM: 150 Years of Service” event in early February generated $880 in donations to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Johnson County, Missouri, and 4,000 pounds of food for UCM’s Campus Cupboard and the Warrensburg Food Pantry.

on students developing their performance skills. Steward, who passed away in June 2020, had a great appreciation for education and a passion for music. The practice room was dedicated on what would have been her 93rd birthday March 10.

Located in the Utt Music Building, the room was renovated to include a new soundproof door, fresh paint and new acoustic panel sound absorbers.

These updates will reduce and control reverberation time at medium and high frequency, helping to eliminate echo and soften the resonance mode effects in the room. Steward’s family chose to decorate the room with an image of one of her favorite musical artists, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.

This dedication is part of a larger practice room renovation project.

To learn more about sponsoring a room renovation, call 660-543-4263 or email giving@ucmo.edu.

Rand, ’85, and Kelly, ’86, Harbert made possible a major upgrade in transportation for the UCM Mules Golf team by providing funds for a custom Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.

The van, wrapped with the Mules logo for all to see, includes equipment storage in the rear, leather seats throughout and many other amenities. “Being a former member of the Mules Golf team with Coach Poe as one of my teammates makes this gift especially meaningful,” Rand says.

Bowl for Kids’ Sake raised money to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters, with Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity in the lead, Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority In Donation Creation, students in second and Sigma Pi fraternity in third. Student organizations also used nonperishable food items to construct a scene representing participated in a service day, writing Valentine’s Day cards for residents of the event’s theme. The top the Missouri Veterans Home, creating entries were from Delta Zeta wheelchair bags from recycled T-shirts sorority and Alpha Tau Omega and making fleece lap quilts for fraternity. Sigma Kappa and residents of adult care facilities.

Lambda Chi Alpha came in second, and Alpha Sigma The Campus Cupboard is in need Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon of financial support year-round were third. to prevent food insecurity. Donate at ucmfoundation.org/campus-cupboard.

Dick, ’42, and Frances, ’44, Baile made provisions for their estate to support the World War II Memorial Scholarship Endowment via a charitable remainder annuity trust, which was received by the UCM Alumni Foundation in December 2020. Dick joined the Army Air Corps during WWII, where he taught navigation to young pilots and

became a B-29 flight engineer. This scholarship was originally created by the War Years Reunion Classes 1938-1945 to assist incoming UCM freshmen.

Alumni Generosity Creates Opportunities for Students An anonymous donor has established the Jeannette Johnson and Diana Swift Nursing Scholarship.

This gift honors the skill, dedication and commitment to public health shown by UCM students who volunteer in their local community while pursuing a degree in nursing.

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The Blaine Whitworth Go Big or Go Home Foundation has made a commitment to establish the Blaine Whitworth Greek Life Community Service Scholarship endowment to benefit students involved in Greek life who demonstrate outstanding community service.

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Denis H. Dieker Jr. has established a scholarship endowment in memory of his mother, Jean A. Bledsoe (Dieker), ’52, to benefit students pursuing a degree in Business Administration, with preference given to female students from Osceola, Missouri, public schools.

Emerson Commercial and Residential Solutions made an in-kind donation of equipment to the Safety Sciences program.

The gift included nine self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) tanks and valves, eight SCBA backpacks, seven regulators, five masks and three SCBA wall units.

Professor Emeritus Homer Hampton, ’56, and Marilyn Hampton have established the Homer and Marilyn Hampton Scholarship in Mathematics Education Endowment to support students majoring in Math Education at UCM.

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Aureus Equity Systems Scholarship Benefits UCM Trailblazers

The UCM Alumni Foundation has launched “Fuel Opportunity” to bring the following capital projects to fruition at the university. Alumni and friends are invited to help reach the funding goals of one or more of these 15 projects during the university’s 150-year anniversary. Learn more at ucmfoundation.org/fuel-opportunity.

• Historic Hendricks • Active Learning • Immersive 3D Aureus Tech Systems is supporting Hall Ceiling Biology Laboratory Audio Experience UCM’s Computer Information Restoration and for Music Systems and Analytics (CISA) program • Advancing the Acoustics Upgrades Technology through the Aureus Equity in Education Construction Annual Scholarship. The $5,000 scholarship will be awarded to students in good academic standing who are fully admitted into the program and demonstrate financial need.

“UCM offered me an impactful education, and this is one way of giving back to UCM and the world at large,” Sujata Bhattarai says Aureus CEO Sujata Bhattarai, ’04, ’07, who graduated from the CISA program and earned an MBA. The company’s COO is Abhishek Pakhira, ’04, ’06, who earned a bachelor’s Abhishek Pakhira in Electronics Technology and a master’s in Information Technology from UCM. With locations in the U.S. and India, the Denver-based company offers Microsoft Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data solutions.

Michael, ’84, ’03, and Jill, ’82, ’88, ’91, Johnston were inspired when they heard the story of Iris Meda, a hero who paid the ultimate price in her dedication to training nurses. Meda was a registered nurse who passed away after contracting the COVID-19 virus when she came out of retirement at the age of 70 to help train aspiring nurses.

The Johnstons made a contribution to establish the Iris Meda Memorial Scholarship Endowment at UCM in her honor.

• James C. Kirkpatrick Library Modernization

• Establishment of College of Education Collaboration Zone • College of Education Recording Studio • Active Learning Biology Classroom

Management Program

• Individual, Couple and Family Therapy Clinic Expansion • Reimagined WelchSchmidt Center for Communication Disorders Clinic • Creation of Inspiring Art Center Studio Classroom

• Civic Engagement Experiential Learning Classroom • Mobilizing Digital Media Production • Mules Wrestling Practice Facility Project • Mules Football Office Complex Renovation

Ken, ’78, and Kim Weymuth and the W-K family of dealerships helped UCM mobilize Digital Media Production by partially funding the purchase of a diesel truck to pull the program’s state-of-the-art production trailer to events. This mobility ensures students in the program get hands-on experience running cameras, directing action and operating a professional audio board.

Keith Schreiman, ’73, and his late wife, Stella Schreiman, ’69, made a thoughtful contribution to the J. Keith and Stella Schreiman Mules Basketball Scholarship Endowment via their donor-advised fund to benefit Mules Basketball players who are positive contributors to the team.

Andy Gelbach, ’74, and Sam GarzaGonzalez, ’13, have made a gift to create the Civic Engagement Experiential Learning Classroom, benefiting students on academic teams like Mock Trial (pictured at left), the Talking Mules and Model United Nations by creating a space that resembles professional courtroom or debate hall environments.

To learn about setting up your own scholarship, visit ucmfoundation.org/scholarships.

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War and Suffrage Through the Window of Yeater Laura Yeater’s Connection With College Spans World Events

By Emily Kepley, Marketing Undergraduate Student University of Central Missouri students across generations know Yeater Hall, the first residence hall on campus. Women who attended before 2015 may have called it home. Those who attended later know it as a building surrounded by local legends that earned it the designation of a national Folklore and Folk Tales marker this year. You know the place, but have you heard the stories of what took place there and the woman who made it her legacy?

Laura Jameson Yeater was born in 1865 in Sedalia, Missouri. She began teaching Latin at the high school level and earned an “artium magister,” a Master of Arts degree, from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She returned to Missouri and began teaching English at State Normal School No. 2 in Warrensburg in 1900. A year later she became the head of the Latin and Greek departments, a position she held for 15 years.

Laura J. Yeater was named “Most Ardent Supporter of Women’s Suffrage” in the 1914 Rhetor yearbook, seven years after this photo was taken.

Yeater was well-known and respected by students and colleagues alike. She was active in the women’s suffrage movement and in February 1913 established a suffrage club on campus alongside fellow faculty members Laura L. Runyon, UCM’s first female history professor and originator of the university’s “Education for Service” motto, and Lucy A. Ball, UCM’s first associate professor of English.

“I am for [women’s suffrage], yesterday, today and forever, and I am afraid we shall be forever waiting for it in Missouri,” Yeater proclaimed all those years ago.

Of course, Missourians didn’t have to wait forever, and the state ratified the 19th Amendment on July 3, 1919, granting women the right to vote.

By that time, Yeater, who was a pacifist, had left her post at the college as the World War I “Home Guard” transformed campus.

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Over There and Back Again More than 500 men at the college were called to service. Many of them went to Camp Funston near Junction City, Kansas, for training in the midst of the Spanish Flu pandemic that hit hard in close quarters. Some never made it overseas.

At home, faculty and students formed the Ambulance Boys, a corps that later served in France, and a Red Cross unit, led by Runyon, that learned how to care for wounded soldiers and make surgical dressings. The Dockery Building was transformed into a barracks and armory and became home to one of the national Student Army Training Corps (SATC) groups, which consisted of male students not yet old enough to be drafted. The Normal campus corps, founded by C.H. McClure and President Eldo Hendricks, drilled with wooden rifles made by students in the Industrial Arts Education program. A Girl’s Military Drill was also created, practicing daily on the football field like the SATC, which later became the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC).

After the war ended, Yeater did not stay away long from the institution that was in 1919 renamed Central Missouri State Teachers College. Upon her return, she began to emphatically pursue her dream of providing a “home away from home” for female students. In those

The Red Cross and the Ambulance Boys, pictured above in the 1918 Rhetor yearbook, formed on campus during World War I. At left, Yeater Hall was promoted in the 1953 CMSC bulletin.

days, women attending the college were required to live in the homes of local families, often serving as nannies or tutors to their children. They were not allowed to commute, even if their own families

lived in a nearby town. Yeater wanted to provide a safe living space at minimal cost, where women could be close to their classrooms and better focus on their studies.

The cost of building a residence hall was estimated at about $225,000. Yeater sought assistance from a private donor, Jay Gould, who was a railroad executive and the father of Helen Gould, a friend of Yeater’s from Wellesley College. Yeater promised to fundraise half of the cost herself, and her hard work eventually paid off. The cornerstone of the residence hall was ceremonially placed Nov. 18, 1940, and the Laura J. Yeater Hall for Women was finished and dedicated May 10, 1941. The groundbreaking was an exciting event, and many locals felt that the residence hall added elegance to their town.

“Giving my name to the residence hall for women on the Warrensburg campus is a touching tribute, and it is quite wonderful,” Yeater said as this dream became a reality for her at age 76.

A service flag displayed in the Administration Building had a blue star for every student in military service during World War I. When a soldier from campus died, the blue star was covered with gold.

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Yeater served as the first house mother of the dorm and was fully invested in the lives of the women who lived there.

Yeater Hall was a safe and well-kept environment, and living there was an

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J O H N L E W I S B A R K L EY experience. In the 1940s a double room cost $75 per student, per term.

The front doors of the hall opened to high ceilings and dark hardwood floors. Each of the building’s three stories had a lounge that was elegantly furnished and equipped with a fireplace. Residents had access to powdering rooms, pianos and a rooftop deck where they could lounge and sunbathe. The deck overlooked the courtyard and tennis courts.

Off to War Once More As international tension rose prior to World War II, CMSTC again aided the war effort.

In 1940 the college provided temporary shelter to six Jewish refugees. Among them was Alexander Beller, who became a renowned doctor. In 1941 the Civil Pilot Training program was established on campus.

Lila Hartley Farmer, ’46, now 100 years old, remembers being a student living in Yeater Hall and working in the dining facility when the war hit home. She wrote down her memories of the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941: “Radios blared. America would be drawn to World War II. Dorm room doors were left open to the hallway at Yeater Hall. …

John Lewis Barkley, one of the most decorated heroes from World War I, attended Central Missouri State Teachers College. He received the highest honor from six nations, including France, which offered him anything he wanted in recognition of his bravery. Barkley asked for a German Maschinengewher .08/15, 1915 edition water-cooled machine gun like the one he had found abandoned during the war and repaired, hiding in a disabled French Renault FT17 tank to single-handedly hold back enemy fire. The gun was of tremendous size and accompanied by a steel gallon water tank, which he refilled from his canteen in the heat of battle. Barkley donated the gun to the college, and it is now on permanent display in the Museum of Missouri Military History in Jefferson City.

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HARRY S. T R UM AN’ S 1 8 7 7 U. S. F L A G The country had not yet recovered from the Great Depression, and every student did not own a radio — a luxury item.

Those who were more fortunate made it possible for everyone to hear the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii.”

The following day President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave what is now known as the Infamy Speech, and less than 24 hours later Congress declared war against Japan.

Many young men on campus would be leaving, and students gathered to hear the latest news in Yeater’s dining hall, where Fanita Houts, dean of women, had installed a radio.

Between the end of the Great Depression and the start of World War II, colleges and universities were suffering enrollment declines. When America joined the war, Central Missouri State Teachers College President George Diemer petitioned to host an Armed Forces educational unit.

Once owned by the nation’s 33rd president, Harry S. Truman, an 1877 United States flag now resides with UCM’s McClure Archives Photo courtesy Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Private Fred Truman, in uniform, listens to election and University results Nov. 8, 1944, declaring his uncle Harry S. Truman Museum. The vice president-elect. Other family members are Harry’s brother and mother (seated) and sister and niece artifact was (standing). donated to the school in 1948

by Truman’s nephew, Fred Truman, who attended Central Missouri State Teachers College in 1932.

The same year the flag was donated, President Truman completed his famous Whistle Stop Tour, which included a brief train stop in Warrensburg.

In 2019, ROTC cadets at UCM (pictured above) ceremonially retired the flag and folded it for future display in the archives.

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Diemer asked Lieutenant Commander Irvin L. Peters, who had resigned as a school principal to join the war effort, to serve as commanding officer of the new training program. Patricia Smith, ’70, ’78, daughter of Peters and steward of the still-active UCM Navy V-12 Scholarship, wrote the following in her dissertation about Diemer: “Central Missouri State Teachers College found itself in competition with other institutions. …

However, in April of 1943, due to a continued persistent and conscientious effort on the part of President Diemer, Central

Lt. Cmdr. Irvin Peters became the dean of administration and instruction in 1945.

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Missouri State Teachers College was finally approved by the Joint Committee for a Navy V-12 Training Program.

Four hundred cadets were to begin the program on July 1, 1943.”

The establishment of the V-12 program on campus allowed the college to maintain its full faculty and staff, continue serving its students and offer classes to more young people enlisted in the program. A 1971 book by English Professor Emeritus Robert C. Jones commemorating the college’s centennial year quotes Monia C. Morris, an assistant professor of social sciences in the ’40s.

Morris states that Yeater Hall was “the deciding factor” in the institution being selected as the site for the V-12 unit.

Just three years after Yeater Hall opened, female occupants moved out as the V-12 men moved in. The women had to seek places of residence in homes throughout Warrensburg. The program remained on campus throughout the war and ended in October 1945.

Farmer had moved away from Warrensburg to look after her niece in California but moved back a few years later to continue her education, witnessing D-Day on June 6, 1944, and the final year of the war.

“Things had changed,” she wrote.

“The girls were no longer served at Yeater Hall on linen-clad dining room tables but cafeteria style in a room that had once been the recreation room.”

When victory over Japan was announced in August 1945, Farmer said the dean of women immediately reached out to the director of the college swing band and “pulled out all the stops with a gala big band dance” for students and soldiers.

War was a team effort on campus, with all students pitching in.

During World War II was the only time men were allowed in Yeater Hall. A year after the war A wooden table from Yeater Hall is still ended, an addition was built to house in use in the Wood Building today. more female occupants. In 1966, For many alumni, living in Yeater Hall South Yeater Hall was built next to was a major influence in their college Yeater Hall and remains open today as experience. The hall closed its doors a coed dormitory. completely in 2015. However, the Laura Yeater passed away March 21, building still stands as a reminder of 1954, at the age of Yeater’s legacy 88, leaving much of and the decades her furniture, mirrors, of history the pictures and other university household items witnessed to the McClure during her Archives and lifetime.

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Source of photos and information: The McClure Archives and University Museum.

In 1997 a monument was erected to the Navy V-12 unit outside the Smiser Alumni Center, shown here with Yeater Hall in the background. Many V-12 men continued to be involved with the university throughout their lives, participating in homecoming parades and other activities.

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to Today’s Outdoor Lab Explore Pertle Springs for Research, Recreation

By Laurie Luckritz, ’18, ’21

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ertle Springs has been a staple of Warrensburg since its founding in the late 19th century. Originally a resort with lodging, boating, a zoo, a zipline and more, it has since become a golf course, nature retreat, recreational hot spot and outdoor laboratory for students across disciplines at the University of Central Missouri.

Putting Pertle on the Map William Purtle originally owned the 280 acres of tallgrass prairie, and the first lake was dug out in 1869. The property was purchased in 1884 by J.H. Christopher, known as “the Colonel” for being a stern businessman. Christopher came from a progressive family and brought electricity and public water to the town of Warrensburg.

Opening in 1886, the resort was as popular then as Lake of the Ozarks is today. The Colonel decided that “Pertle” spelled with an “e” looked better than “Purtle” on signs for the resort. He wasted no time bringing in exotic plants, peacocks, a fox island, monkeys and the beloved Katy Bear, whose cave still sits near the springhouse today.

The hotel, boat houses and rail are depicted with the springhouse and fountain at bottom right.

Jeff Yelton, associate professor of anthropology at UCM, has been excavating Pertle Springs with his students since the early 2000s.

“At some of the Fourth of July events they would have more people out there than there were actually living in Warrensburg,” Yelton says, noting that there were upward of 5,000 people visiting on busy days.

Privately owned cottages and tents could be rented and purchased on resort land. The hotel was named Minnewawa, meaning “healing waters,” and could accommodate 300 guests. There was a 20-foot bridge connecting the hotel to the 3,500-capacity auditorium. In 1889 the Colonel built the “dummy line” connecting traffic from the Warrensburg railroad on Holden Street to the Pertle Springs resort. At its

He bottled and sold the mineral-rich spring water thought to have healing qualities.

More than 100 buildings were constructed, and a total of 11 lakes were created with canals and overflow pools. These improvements provided plenty of space for boating, swimming, fishing, picnicking, a gymnastics hall, a bowling alley and live performances.

Garrett and Sue, ’47, Crouch donated the trolley bell of Pertle Springs’ famous dummy line to the university, and it is currently on display at the Smiser Alumni Center.

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on-site in housing they built while working on projects to prevent soil erosion. Many of the veterans made Warrensburg their home after the program ended. peak, the dummy line saw approximately 30 trips with 8,000 visitors per day and had three cars with each being able to fit 70 passengers.

Visitors, performers and speakers would come from all over the nation, buying train tickets to Warrensburg from as far away as New York City. Some of the largest events held at Pertle Springs included Missouri’s first Chautauqua assembly, the Missouri Democratic Convention of 1895 and a convention of Dunkards, a forerunner of the German Baptist Brethren, that attracted more than 20,000 attendees.

Once automobile ownership became common and radio made it possible to disseminate information more conveniently without conventions, visitors began to dwindle until the dummy line closed and the hotel shut down, burning to the ground in 1926.

When unemployment was at a national high in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which brought an average of 150 military veterans from World War I and the Spanish American War to Pertle Springs.

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A nine-hole golf course opened at Pertle Springs in 1964.

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Destination Exploration UCM acquired Pertle Springs in 1959, when it was nothing more than pastureland with a few white oaks providing shade for cattle. The university built a golf course in 1964, followed by the Pertle Springs Aquatic Center in 1972. The property became a valuable recreational facility and outdoor learning lab.

In the 1970s, UCM student groups met at Pertle Springs, including the Recreation Club, later called the Recreation Majors Society, which took regular field trips and hosted events for student engagement. The Outing Club went camping, caving, rock climbing and hosted cookouts. Beth (Fenner) Rutt, ’78, ’83, director of Campus Activities at UCM, remembers her time in the club.

“We would go on canoe trips, we would camp, and the students were engaged in a lot of outdoor activity,” Rutt says. “It’s such a unique piece of property to be right in the middle of your community, and students can walk there in 15 minutes. Where else can you go and have four hiking trails and fishing?”

In 2000 a research initiative called the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory was created under the nonprofit Discover Life in America with the purpose of attempting to inventory all life forms in national parks. UCM Professor Emeritus Harold W. Keller conducted training at Pertle Springs with a professional arborist teaching a double-rope climbing method to prepare students to access “tree canopies” and search for life forms on the bark.

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A National Science Foundation Research Experience for Teachers Program grant allowed Trish Smith, ’91, ’98, to bring her seventh grade Warrensburg Middle School students to Pertle Springs in 2004 to collect tree bark and identify life forms on the samples. That year Smith accompanied UCM students, Keller and other faculty members, including Professor Emeritus Stephen Wilson and associate professor Joe Ely, on a

Professor Colston Pitt (top), the Recreation Majors Society advisor in the mid-1970s, rests at the CCC camp chimney, which still stands today. The Outing Club (bottom) camps at Pertle Springs in 1979. research trip to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Wilson, an entomologist, regularly took students to Pertle Springs to study and collect insects, including a rarely collected aquatic grasshopper in Draper Lake.

“It’s a marvelous place,” says Wilson, noting that Pertle Springs has been the site of numerous student research projects. “Knob Noster is a great state park, but you have to drive out there and back. Furthermore, you can’t collect out there, so Pertle Springs is perfect for that.”

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Exploratory Laboratory Today, UCM continues to access Pertle Springs for educational endeavors across content areas.

Community outreach has helped extend the impact of this outdoor research laboratory.

Melissa Skrabal, ’01, designed a patch for expeditions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where, on July 4, 2000, she discovered a new species of myxomycete in a tree canopy.

In 2019, Anthropology Day at Pertle Springs included events such as fire starting, flint knapping and throwing atlatl, a spearlike weapon.

Gabriel Pottebaum, an anthropology

student, has been atlatl throwing since he was a boy and always wanted to study ancient people.

He completed his Archaeology Field School experience at Pertle Springs in the summer of 2019.

“It was extremely exciting to do actual research at an actual site where you will find artifacts and where your findings will contribute toward the information that we know about the place,” Pottebaum says. “It’s a really validating experience.”

Anthropology alumni like Amber Clarkson ’20, who had the opportunity to attend both Archaeology Field School and Anthropology Day in 2019, learned techniques that have helped her in her graduate studies at Eastern New Mexico University.

“I learned about making a test pit, actually using the tools and a sifter,” Clarkson says. “I also learned a lot Students who completed Archaeology Field School in summer of 2017 are: about glass bottles and from left, front row, Riley Horton, Laurie Luckritz, Audra Whitehurse, Charles ceramics.”

Burrow; second row, Hannah Pilgrim, Christina McChan and Alex Sampley.

Clubs in the sciences at UCM today include the Wildlife Society, which has held an annual community event since 2002 called BioBlitz, where biology professors and students bring microscopes, insect nets, animal traps and live animals — including snakes, turtles, salamanders, butterflies, mice and birds — to educate the public.

From left, UCM students Stephen Arbeau, Gabriel Pottebaum and Amber Clarkson demonstrate atlatl throwing during Anthropology Day 2019.

Kieran Payne, a biology student, took UCM’s Wildlife Diseases course, which simulated a mortality event for birds at Pertle Springs. He completed trial runs for his undergraduate research project there, studying whether native prey species would

respond to the scent of predators who were both familiar today and those like wolves, who have not lived in the area for many years.

“We found that they recognized any predator scent as a potential threat,” Payne says. “Even if they never encountered that predator.”

Back to the Future The Pertle Springs Enhancement Project aims to bring more students and visitors to the area. This year the university invested in a new ADAaccessible pavilion, electricity and a restroom, making outdoor classrooms a practical option for professors. There is also an observatory for studying astronomy.

“It’s just really a gem,” says Rutt, who has been at the forefront of the renovations.

“Now, Pertle has a lot more to offer.”

Several improvement projects have been completed in recent years, thanks to efforts

by Eagle Scouts like Marcus Tart, who helped build three benches on the trails at Pertle Springs as his Eagle Scout Service Project.

“As a family we go on a lot of walks on the trails back there,” Tart says. “It was funded by the university, so we didn’t have to go out and do fundraising.”

UCM has upheld the traditions of outdoor recreational learning and created new opportunities. Community members can adopt a trail at Pertle Springs and participate in upcoming fishing courses that UCM is hosting in collaboration with the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Projects like upgrading benches, grills and fire pits — along with new trails and docks — are in the works.

Opportunities abound at Pertle Springs as UCM heads into the next 150 years.

Sources of photos and information: The State Historical Society of Missouri, Johnson County Historical Society and the McClure Archives and University Museum.

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Completed in 1905, the Dockery Building is the oldest academic building on campus today. It was constructed of solid sandstone from a quarry north of Warrensburg.

The night after the 1915 fire, a basketball game was played in the gym as scheduled.

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Walking onto campus in the early 1900s, students would pass by two pillars that were gifted by the Class of 1915. After the fire, they salvaged the cornerstone from Old Main, laid Aug. 16, 1871, and included it in the right pillar. The inscription, however, was not made until 1912 under President William Hawkins.

Pictured in between the pillars is Old Elm. Planted on Arbor Day 1887, the tree was a popular spot for students to study and couples to get engaged.

Old Elm gave way to an addition to the Ward Edwards library in September 1967.

The Ward Edwards Building opened in 1938 as the university library. In 1999 a new library was completed on the other side of campus, and Ward Edwards transitioned into an academic building. It is currently home to the Harmon College of Business and Professional Studies, Admissions, the Visitors Center and the Honors College.

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On March 6, 1915, a fire destroyed four of the six original buildings on campus, including Old Main, completed in 1882.

In 1917 the new Administration Building was completed, and “Education for Service” became the school motto.

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In 2011, a new recreation and fitness center was added to the existing Garrison Gymnasium, and classrooms for the Nutrition and Kinesiology programs were created in Morrow and North Morrow.

The original pool, which opened in 1938, still exists under Einstein Bros. Bagels in what is now the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. You can see the depth marker on the floor there, and the pool collects rainwater for irrigation.

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The Class of 1917 contributed UCM’s first flagpole, and the Class of 1970 gifted a flagpole base with Bill of Rights plaques on all four sides. The following year, alongside the celebrations for the university’s centennial, the Class of 1971 buried a time capsule that is to be opened in 2071.

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The red shapes above comprised the original six buildings on the State Normal School No. 2 campus before a fire destroyed all but Dockery and the Industrial Arts Building, also known as the Powerhouse because of the heating plant in the basement. The fire was believed to have been caused by a short circuit in electrical wiring in Old Main, from which connecting corridors (shown at right) led to the chapel/auditorium, Training School and Science Hall. This map was made possible by the combined efforts of UCM art professor Mick Luehrman, ’74, anthropology professor Jeff Yelton, student volunteers and senior designer/brand specialist Sarah Chamberlin, ’97, ’16.

In 1938 the Training School was redesignated as the College Laboratory School. After the Lovinger Building was constructed in 1968, the lab school moved to the new location. UCM’s College High Memorial, created by Professor Emeritus Rich Monson, is a tribute to those who attended until the high school closed in 1976.

Formerly known as the Training School, the Humphreys Building was built in 1916, the same year as the original Wilson C. Morris Science Building (indicated by the dotted lines). The two buildings were connected in 1970.

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Planted in Tradition, Carved in Stone Campus Offers Beauty for All Seasons It’s not just the buildings that make the University of Central Missouri’s campus aesthetically memorable to all who walk its grounds. An award-winning team maintains native and exotic trees and perfectly timed flowering plants to nurture natural beauty in every season — from blooming magnolias in summer to ripe holly berries in winter. Along paths and around corners, unique statues command attention and provide a sense of tradition and stability amid this ever-changing landscape.

When President Ed Elliott was inaugurated in 1985, among his first priorities were appointing a director of grounds and beautifying campus with a permanent art collection. The first sculpture placed in the collection was titled “Generations” by alumnus David Laughlin, ’50, donated by Professor Emerita Evelyn Louise Sims, ’36. Laughlin, who died last year at the age of 92, also sculpted “Guardian” in honor of World War II Private Guy Allen Sims and “in memory and honor of the men and women of the Armed Forces past, present and future for the United States of America in times of war and peace.” The sculpture stands alongside the Alumni Memorial Chapel, which was built in 1956 using funds raised by alumni, including the late Earl A. Webb Sr., ’41. The chapel was renovated in 2011 by his son, Mike Webb, ’67, who installed an elevator and electric piano in addition to endowing a maintenance fund.

The colorful geometric stained-glass windows of the Alumni Memorial Chapel were created by Gabriella Polony Mountain, who died last year at the age of 102. Mountain lost her parents to a concentration camp in Poland during World War II and immigrated to America in 1951, settling in Kansas City. She created public works of art in the 1950s and ’60s for buildings around Kansas City and the Fanita Houts Residence Hall for Women in Warrensburg, now known as Houts-Hosey Hall. The stained-glass window originally on display in the residence hall is now on the second floor of the James C. Kirkpatrick Library.

Today UCM houses the largest collection of Mountain’s work, including a piece made of hammered copper and aluminum in the Utt Building atrium and 10 hand-woven tapestries on display in Utt, the library, the Elliott Student Union, the Art Center and Gallery and the Ward Edwards Building.

David Laughlin “Guardian”

Gabriella Polony-Mountain “Five Wise, and Five Foolish Virgins”

Many alumni and friends over the years have created and donated beautiful works of art that have become campus landmarks amid the botanical beauty that enhances their charm. Rich Monson, who was chair of the Art Department when the sculpture project began, created a tactile piece made of concrete that stands outside the art gallery today — a reminder that the arts are literally cemented in UCM’s history and future.

Source: “Art and Design at Central” book by Rich Monson.

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Kathleen Caricof “Petra”

Rich Monson “Criss-Cross”

Philip Uyeda, ’86, ’88, “Equiponderation” Alumni Memorial Chapel

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By Jeff Murphy, ’80, ’95

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hat do legendary actor-comedian Bob Hope, country singer Johnny Cash, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and the great trumpeter-composer Louis Armstrong have in common? They all appeared on a University of Central Missouri stage to inform, enlighten or entertain.

This role has been amplified by outside organizations, including Missouri Boys State and Girls State, which have chosen UCM as a host site for their annual event, bringing a combined 1,700 young people to campus each summer in recent years.

For nearly 70 years the university has hosted Boys State and a wide variety of high-profile political leaders that continue to come as guest speakers.

To enrich the overall campus experience for students, a strong tradition of live events — from guest speakers to Broadway shows to concerts of all kinds — was born early in the history of UCM. While such activities provide an important avenue for bringing students, faculty and staff together, they also help the university build connections with alumni and the community. Over time these events have helped solidify UCM’s role as an important cultural and artistic hub for the region.

Nothing brings a community together like live stage performances. An article that appeared in a 1931 issue of the campus newspaper, then called The Student, captures this timeless sentiment while providing a glimpse of what it was like to

enjoy a magical evening with a world-class musician 90 years ago. Pianist Ignacy Paderewski, who served earlier in his career as the prime minister of Poland, came to what was then known as Central Missouri State Teachers College to close out the Artists’ Course with an April concert in the College Auditorium. The venue was renamed Hendricks Hall after Eldo L. Hendricks, the university’s eighth president, in 1933.

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Students greeted relatives and friends from hometowns located all over central Missouri; alumni renewed friendships; and strangers formed rich first impressions,” the article read. “The air was tense with

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History of Hendricks Hall College Auditorium was dedicated in 1923, nearly a decade before Paderewski’s performance, and quickly became a mainstay for cultural and artistic opportunities. Special events throughout the 1920s and ’30s included the Russian

College Auditorium was dedicated in 1923.

Symphonic Choir, St. Louis Symphony, Denishawn and Blue Bird Russian ballet companies, Ukranian National Choir, opera star Sigrid Onegin, harpist and guitarist Alberto Salvi, renowned violinist Joseph Szigeti and Vladimir Horowitz, arguably the most famous pianist of the 20th century.

Dale Carnegie attended a university picnic in 1937.

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UCM’s most famous graduate, Dale Carnagey, 1908, returned to speak at his alma mater in 1937, a year after publishing “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” He had changed his name to Carnegie in 1916 when a soldout speaking engagement at Carnegie Hall after the publication of his first book, “The Art of Public Speaking,” made a tremendous impact on him.

In 1938 students and the community were treated to a performance by actress Ethel Barrymore Colt, a member of the nine-generation Barrymore stage and film family.

performance of “The Works of Emma Lou Diemer” (see page 41).

A musical composer with a special place in her heart for UCM, Emma Lou Diemer performed in Hendricks Hall in 1944. The daughter of George Diemer, the university’s ninth president, she grew up at Selmo Park and went on to have a successful career as a composer and keyboard artist performing works on piano and organ. She will be honored Nov. 9, 2021, with a faculty and student

Continuing its prominence as a venue for education and the arts throughout the 1940s and ’50s, Hendricks Hall hosted performances and lectures that included the U.S. Marine Band, Kansas City Mayor H. Roe Bartle, world traveler Cornelius Vanderbilt, Senator William Fulbright, the Cincinnati Symphony and the first United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie, to name a few.

“I’m happy Adam Zrust and the choral department are performing some choral music of mine for the 150th anniversary,” Diemer says of the upcoming concert.

“I have many fond memories of the university and the 19 years of living in Warrensburg, attending the College Laboratory School and College High School. … I spent many an evening practicing that organ [in Hendricks Hall] while my father worked in his office.”

The university’s sesquicentennial anniversary performance evokes special memories of Hendricks Hall and its pipe organ, donated by the Alumni Association and dedicated in 1923 by music professor Eleanor Shockey, ’30, to students and alumni who lost their lives in World War I. The organ is now being restored by Distinguished Alumnus Mike Quimby, ’73, ’75, and his team at Warrensburg’s Quimby Pipe Organ Inc. as a gift to UCM in memory of Emma Lou Diemer performed in Hendricks Hall in 1944.

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Enhancing the Experience The tradition of great performers on campus continued in the 1960s and ’70s, with Louis Armstrong coming to the Rhetor Ball in 1960 and Duke Ellington and his Orchestra bringing the stage to life in 1974.

Louis Armstrong performed in 1960.

Duke Ellington performed in 1974.

The opening of the Multipurpose Building in 1976 added a new venue for large-scale concerts and events. It’s the place where the globetrotting Bob Hope joked that “it’s good to be in your garage” and called Warrensburg the “gateway to Montserrat.” Over the years, the Multi’s stages have accommodated individuals and groups such as author and speaker

William F. Buckley Jr.; country performers Johnny Cash, June Carter and Alabama; Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame band Cheap Trick; as well as a long list of guests like actor Ed Asner, astronaut Mae Jemison and many others who spoke during special events, including commencement ceremonies. UCM also hosted former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton in 2011 and Barack Obama in 2013.

Financial support has been vital to the continuation of great speakers and performances. In the early 1980s, UCM benefited from a bequest in the will of career educator Julius J. Oppenheimer, who attended the university in 1908.

He made possible two funding sources that have contributed to decades of outstanding educational experiences. The Julius J. Oppenheimer Symposium Series Endowment provides funding for events and speakers who promote and support liberal arts education. The Florence Hull Greer and Julius J. Oppenheimer Fund provides resources to annually bring academic lecturers to UCM. Oppenheimer funds initially brought Lord Harold Wilson, former prime minister of Great Britain, to UCM in October 1984.

Since then, these funds have made possible a Who’s Who list of speakers that includes award-winning actor John Houseman; famous news correspondents Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith and Hugh Downs; Nobel Peace Prize winners Betty Williams and former Polish President Lech Walesa; former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev; former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; “M*A*S*H” actor/activist Mike Farrell; former U.S. First Lady Barbara Bush; former U.S. presidential

candidates Senator George McGovern, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and activist Ralph Nader; environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Nadine Strossen, the first female president of the American Civil Liberties Union; and many others.

Institutionally funded programs such as the Premier Performances and Performing Arts Series, established in 1988, also brought big names to campus, with Hendricks Hall playing a prominent role. UCM alumni may remember the Count Basie Orchestra, Marie Osmond, Phyllis Diller, Chet Atkins, Crystal Gale or Don McLean.

Hendricks Hall’s stage was transformed for a Russian ballet on ice, Harry Blackstone Jr. wowed his audience with illusions, and actor-singer Kevin Bacon performed with his brother, Michael.

The university continues to be a campus truly enriched through the arts and those who support them. While UCM celebrates its past during this sesquicentennial, it also looks to the future with a goal to renovate its time-honored venue, Hendricks Hall, for generations to come.

Hendricks Hall is currently used by UCM students for musical concerts, homecoming events, Greek organization gatherings, ROTC drills, convocations, pinning ceremonies and even as a lecture hall.

Support these activities and prepare for future community performances by helping restore the auditorium to its former glory.

Donate to the Hendricks Hall renovation project at ucmfoundation.org/hendricks.

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By Caitlyn Harrison, Business Administration Undergraduate Student

Dean Burden, center, personified Mo in 1989–90.

Jeff Harris was a legendary Mo the Mule in 1984– 85.

1899 – James L. Ferguson appointed the first physical education teacher and first official coach.

1906 – Women form a basketball team, but competitive play is still uncommon.

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1922 – Mule chosen as university mascot.

Other choices on the ballot were skunk, bobcat and hippo.

1922 – Women’s Athletic Association organized with 100 members.

1937, ’38 – Mules win National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB) Championship.

Warrensburg residents celebrate downtown after Vern Kennedy, ’29, wins the Penn Relays’ Classic Decathlon in 1927, the same year he became an All-American in track and field.

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1912 – Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) forms with Normal No. 2 as a charter member.

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1907 – Normal No. 2 wins Basketball Interstate Championship.

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1905 – First basketball game played in new Dockery Gymnasium, completed that year.

Only one game played the first season.

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1894 – First football game played against Clinton Academy; only two members of “Aber’s Colts,” a team made up of locals and students, had any prior experience.

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here have been multiple faces behind Mo the Mule’s mask since UCM’s mule mascot started appearing in costume in the early 1980s. One of those is Dean Burden.

Burden, ’90, attended UCM on a music scholarship and initially got involved in the Marching Mules and Pep Band. When he heard that the current Mo the Mule, Jeff Brinkmeyer, ’90, ’92, was retiring, Burden decided to try out for the role.

Burden was chosen to portray Mo for the 1989–90 academic year, utilizing his previous experience as Ronald McDonald at children’s birthday parties.

“Growing up in Warrensburg, I always thought how cool it was that Mo the Mule made kids

laugh,” Burden says. “It was like a character that came alive.”

Brinkmeyer, whose signature move as Mo was riding his skateboard, mentored Burden in developing his own character. In becoming Mo, Burden learned how to make all of his actions larger than life and how to do flips and other moves by working with the UCM cheerleaders and attending national camps.

People still recognize Burden, who now lives in Texas, as Mo the Mule at MuleNation Houston events and when he’s back in Warrensburg for homecoming or to visit his parents.

Just one of the many faces of Mo over the decades, Burden had a college experience that couldn’t be beat.

Jeff Brinkmeyer, center, played Mo from 1986 to ’89.

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1954 – West Campus Field renamed and dedicated as Vernon Kennedy Field in honor of the three-time All-MIAA Mules Football player and track star who went on to play in Major League Baseball.

1963 – Roger Denker becomes head coach of Mules Wrestling, guiding the program to national prominence.

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1971 – Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) formed.

1972 – Golf course at Pertle Springs is upgraded from nine holes with sand greens to 18 holes with grass greens, and the Pertle Springs Aquatic Center is built.

1974 – Name contest results in women’s athletic teams being called “the Jennies.”

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1972 – Title IX passes, prohibiting schools that receive federal funding from gender discrimination in education and activities.

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1970 – First UCM Women’s volleyball and basketball games played under the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW).

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1976 – The 6,500seat Multipurpose Building opens for indoor sports, concerts and commencements.

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In 1984, a commemorative Pepsi bottle was produced to celebrate CMSU becoming the first university ever to win both Men’s and Women’s Basketball NCAA Division II National Championships in the same season.

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Earl Keth

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2003 – Jennies win Intercollegiate Bowling National Championship.

Jennies Bowling History

Since its elevation to varsity status in 2001, UCM has earned 10 Championship berths.

UCM has made 31 post-season appearances during it’s history.

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2003 – Mules Baseball wins NCAA Division II National Championship.

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2012 – Jennies Golf begins with Chris Port, ’92, as head coach.

2014 – Mules Basketball wins NCAA Division II National Championship.

2017 Jennies Soccer

Klausner and Sobaski 2020 – Rosie Klausner and Olivia Sobaski, ’20, named to Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-Region team.

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2015 – Jennies win both the Indoor and Outdoor NCAA Division II Track and Field National Championships and Softball NCAA Central Region Championship.

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2015 – Golf course reopens after renovation encompassing Audrey J. Walton Clubhouse, Traditions Restaurant and Keth Memorial Golf Course, named after Earl Keth, ’40, a star basketball player in the 1930s and later a UCM basketball and golf coach.

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1984 – Mules Basketball earns the university’s third-ever national championship title, and the Jennies capture the same title at the thirdever NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship. The championships happen on the same day, March 24, in the same location, Springfield, Massachusetts.

2010 – Head Coach Tim Poe, ’87, leads the Mules Golf team to a second-place finish at the NCAA Division II National Championships and earns the division’s National Coach of the Year award. In the same season, Poe becomes the first Division II coach selected to lead the U.S. Palmer Cup team, defeating Team Europe 13-11.

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1994 – Mules Baseball wins NCAA Division II National Championship.

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2017-2018 – Deemed “Year of the Jens” when Soccer and Basketball teams win NCAA Division II Championships.

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NEWS MuleNation Houston

MuleNation Florida The MuleNation Florida Chapter met Feb. 18 at The Hampton Social in Naples. Mike and Patti Davidson, both ’72, hosted the dinner. Pictured from left are: Casey Cochran, ’06, Tiffany Cochran, ’05, Gregg Wrap, ’84, Patti Davidson, ’72, Mark Seifried, ’82, Courtney Goddard, Dan Ream, ’07, Michelle Ream, ’09, Rita Jackson, ’13, Jim Jenkins, ’69, ’72, ’88, Diane Jenkins, Mike Davidson, ’72, Carole Fay, John Fay, ’70, Phil Stabenow, ’69, and Linda Stabenow, ’77, ’84.

The MuleNation Houston Chapter gathered on the greens Jan. 29 at Augusta Pines Golf Club. Shown here are event hosts Jim and Jane Funke, at left; back row: Dean Burden, Cynthia Reeves, Michael Hampy and Tiffany Cochran, ’05; and front row: Kevin Currey, ’92, MJ Currey and Casey Cochran, ’06.

Cynthia Reeves, ’76

Michael Hampy, ’76, ’81

Dean, ’90, (aka Mo the Mule) and Darla Burden

Jim Funke and chapter leader Jane, ’79, Funke

MuleNation KC The MuleNation Kansas City Chapter got together to watch the Mules and Jennies Basketball games Jan. 21 at Coach’s Bar and Grill in Overland Park, Kansas. Next best thing to being there in person!

Pictured from left are: Brian Reser, ’92, Stacey Hodges, ’94, Fred Liggett, ’93, Tom Wyrsch, ’78, and Patrick Keens, ’95.

Pictured from left are: Cory Bittner, ’11, Jordan Mason, ’13, Jeff Mason, ’13, ’15, Marc Tuttle, ’94, Clayton Lovekamp, ’16, and Chad Burney, ’05.

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The MuleNation Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter reunited Jan. 27 at Uncle Julio’s in Dallas. Shown are all the couples pictured individually plus Sara and Jay, ’06, Kraber at center.

Rob, ’75, and Susie, ’74, ’77, Ruth

Adam Frank, ’06

Karen, ’77, and Casey, ’06, and Pat, ’75, ’77, Tiffany, ’05, Moriarty Cochran

David, ’16, and April Vassalli

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From the Colleges

Photos by Brett Pruitt, East Market Studios

The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences showcased the talents of students and faculty in its School of Visual and Performing Arts with the 2021 Virtual President’s Gala on April 12. The gala, recorded at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, secured nearly $165,000 in sponsorships and outright contributions from generous alumni and friends pictured below. Pictured at far right are honorary chairs Debby Ballard, ’74, and Jeanette Prenger with UCM First Lady Robin Best and President Roger Best.

College of Health, Science, and Technology faculty members are paying it forward to serve Johnson County residents by making ultra-cold storage available to house COVID-19 vaccines. The storage unit, capable of maintaining temperatures as low as -112 degrees Fahrenheit, was delivered to Western Missouri Medical Center (WMMC), where it stores COVID-19 vaccines made possible through Johnson County Community Health From left, Athletic Training graduate assistants Amanda Ralton and Jessie Sotelo, associate head Services (JCCHS). Nursing athletic trainer Crystal Meeks and assistant athletic students and faculty have assisted JCCHS, trainer Rebecca David received their COVID-19 WMMC and Summers vaccines in January.

Pharmacy in Warrensburg with administering the COVID-19 vaccine.

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The College of Education and KMOS-TV were honored by public media professionals in a January nationwide awards ceremony for “KMOS Classroom: Summer School,” earning recognition in two categories: Community Engagement, Local Project, and Education, COVID-19 Education. Another KMOS-TV program, “Making,” was honored with a 2020 Regional Emmy Award presented by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The KMOS-TV team of “Making” includes, from left, Roy Millen, ’94, Christy Millen, ’94, host Matt Burchett and Eric Boedeker, ’14.

UCM’s Harmon College of Business and Professional Studies celebrated a milestone on Feb. 11, 2021, as the market value of UCM’s Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) surpassed $1 million. The Donn G. Forbes Center for Financial Services in the Ward Edwards Building houses 12 Bloomberg Terminals as well as LED ticker displays. Undergraduates use this state-of-the-art technology to manage the fund, which started in 2013 with an initial investment of $500,000 from the UCM Alumni Foundation.

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Faculty and Staff Achievements Lover Chancler, assistant professor in the Child and Family Development program and director of the Center for Multiculturalism and Inclusivity, co-authored a textbook with University of Wisconsin–Stout assistant professor Kimmery Newsom and Kansas City’s Metropolitan Community College adjunct instructor Keondria McClish titled “Cultural Diversity in Family Life Education.” The text will help improve students’ understanding of diverse people and cultures.

Andrea “Andi” Dieckman, ’11, ’15, was appointed director and certification officer of the Office of Clinical Services and Certification in the College of Education.

For more than a decade, Dieckman has been part of UCM as both an undergraduate and graduate student, a staff member for units across campus and an adjunct instructor for three of the university’s four colleges.

Odin Jurkowski, professor and director of Graduate Education and Research, was recently appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation.

Carlotta Kimble, ’77, professor of Communication Disorders, has been elected to serve on the Missouri SpeechLanguage-Hearing Foundation.

Taylor Kinde, ’12, academic coordinator for the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, was named chair-elect for NAFSA’s Region IV leadership.

Janette Klein has been named university librarian. Her appointment overseeing the operations of James C. Kirkpatrick Library became effective December 2020, following her interim service in this position since February 2020.

John F. Malta, associate professor of illustration, returned from sabbatical in New York City to exhibit selections from “Haunted Francis Storybook Village,” a collaborative project with Cooler Gallery (Brooklyn), as well as illustration projects for Facebook, Complex, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Ann McCoy, ’83, associate dean of the College of Education, and Justin Cobb, a senior Political Science major, were honored as recipients of the fall Learning to a Greater Degree Awards during the UCM Board of Governors meeting in December 2020.

Andy Multer and Blake Clary, ’18, both assistant professors of Aviation, successfully completed the American Association Andy Multer of Airport Executives (AAAE) Certified Member (CM) in May 2020. Multer became the School of Aviation’s graduate coordinator in August 2020. He also completed the Blake Clary American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) Airport Certified Employee (ACE) for Airport Finance in January.

Scott Rhoad, ’87, UCM’s director of public safety, received the university’s distinguished James C. Kirkpatrick Excellence in Governance Award in October 2020.

Corie Schoeneberg, ’08, ’09, became director of the UCM Counselor Education program’s Play Therapy Training Institute when it opened in fall 2020. Distinguished by the Association for Play Therapy, the institute offers nine graduate hours of fully online courses in play therapy for the mental health treatment of children.

Henry Wambuii, professor of Political Science, was awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship in November 2020. Wambuii will establish a collaborative relationship with Njoki Wamae from the U.S. International University–Africa in Kenya, developing curricula and building a framework for future faculty and student exchanges.

Daniel Wolcott, assistant professor of Biology, was selected as the 2021 Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year.

Miaozong Wu, program coordinator of the Master of Science in Occupational Safety Management, was named UCM’s 2020 Faculty Scholar Awards winner.

He was also awarded a second grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. UCM is the only institution in the state that receives funding through OSHA’s Susan Harwood Training Grant program.

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Alumni News Donald “Don” Best, ’75, retired in December as a strategic buyer for Husqvarna Construction Products after 40 years.

John Zey, ’75, ’76, retired after more than 20 years of teaching Industrial Hygiene at the University of Central Missouri.

Bob Shoemaker, ’79, was named corporate controller at CITGO Petroleum Corp. in Houston, Texas.

by the Kansas State Council of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Stacia Brown, ’81, was appointed to the Board of Curators at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Leonard Woolsey, ’88, president and publisher of The Daily News in Galveston, Texas, was recognized in Editor & Publisher magazine’s “15 Over 50” as a leader who has bettered the news industry.

Ronald Walker, ’81, ’84, placed fourth in the American Art Awards expressionist category where 62 countries were represented.

George “Rob” Robbins, ’76, ’81, accepted a position as a tax accountant at Morice, List and Associates LLC in Brentwood.

Jacquelyn “Jacki” (Burgess) Witt, ’78, was elected to serve as the president of the National Certification Corporation in Kansas City.

Erika Wilder, ’79, retired from Hallmark Business Expressions after a 40-year career.

Michelle (Munkirs) Hogerty, ’84, ’85, was appointed interim CEO at the United Way of Greater Kansas City.

Jay Schutte, ’86, was named chairman of the Missouri Corn Merchandising Council in Jefferson City and travels internationally to represent the U.S. Grains Council.

Mark Francisco, ’87, has been named chief of the Cheyenne Police Department in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Tami Seaman, ’87, was awarded the honor of 2020 Kansas HR Professional of the Year

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Britni, ’15, ’18, and Travis, ’15, Hume welcomed McKenna in May 2020.

Janelle, ’11, and Nic Juncos Jessica, ’08, and Juan Colón welcomed Ezra in July 2020. welcomed Graham in August 2020.

Steven Wilhoit, ’91, was promoted to the rank of captain and commanding officer of Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop A in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

Michael Shaw, ’92, was promoted to the position of KC Public Works director for the City of Kansas City.

Brian Weimer, ’92, has been named chief of the police department at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Gail (Bergschneider) Perryman, ’93, ’98, was appointed as the Henry County Recorder of Deeds in Clinton, Missouri.

Shawn Foster, ’94, ’95, of Preuss Foster Law in Kansas City, Kansas, was appointed to the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority.

Sherry (Barnes) Kerley, ’96, retired from Buckner Elementary School in Buckner, Missouri, after 25 years of teaching.

Collin Stosberg, ’96, transferred to the Executive Services Bureau general headquarters in Jefferson City to serve as Missouri State Highway Patrol’s legislative liaison.

Ryan, ’10, and Kat, ’11, Johnston welcomed Reese Marie in November 2020.

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Wanda Miller, ’05, ’08, and Eric Perkins welcomed Titus Jack in December 2020.

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James Keeton, ’99, has been named director of programs at the St. Vincent Home for Children Board of Trustees in St. Louis.

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Lance MacLaughlin, ’00, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Samuel Stokes, ’02, ’05, helped produce the “Create Together” YouTube Originals series, which won an Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media in September 2020.

Taliya King, ’03, was promoted to managing director, health and public service, at Accenture in St. Louis.

Abidur Rahman, ’03, vice president of Intouch Solutions in Overland Park, Kansas, gave a presentation on artificial intelligence for the UCM Distinguished Speaker Series.

Kevin Stensberg, ’03, of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, earned his Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership Studies from Northeastern University in Boston.

Byron Roberson, ’04, has been appointed chief of police for the Prairie Village Police Department in Prairie Village, Kansas.

Obum Ukabam, ’05, was selected as one of the final four candidates in the Nationally Accredited 21st Century Policing Firm as a co-researcher for Oklahoma’s Tulsa Police Department.

Dominic Forth, ’06, was promoted to vice president of SmithGeiger’s Elevate Marketing Research division in Westlake Village, California.

Gina Goff, ’84, is the producer of a film released March 26 titled “Senior Moment,” starring William Shatner (pictured with Goff), Jean Smart and Christopher Lloyd. “I loved the story and saw the whole thing visually in my head,” Goff says.

“While reading the script I could only think of William Shatner.” She approached his reps for him as the leading role and put the entire romantic comedy together in a month and a half due to his tight schedule.

Goff, who serves on UCM’s Digital Media Production Advisory Board, earned her bachelor’s in Criminology and worked as a paralegal for 12 years before going into the movie business. She became known for producing “Girl Play” and “Out at the Wedding” with director Lee Friedlander and draws parallels between moviemaking and her background in law. “A trial is a production,” she says. “It’s getting control over what you are trying to convey to a jury or an audience.” She shared her experience with Stephen Price’s Mass Media and Society class via Zoom in February.

Anthony Arton, ’07, ’10, has been named the new public health director for Coos County, Oregon.

Andrew Gelbach, ’09, has been named assistant regional security officer in the U.S. Embassy Abu Dhabi.

Krystal Scarbrough, ’09, accepted a position as a DNP, AGPCNPBC at Central Family and Sports Medicine in Warrensburg’s Western Missouri Medical Center.

Beau Ryun, ’12, was promoted to the rank of corporal in the Special Enforcement Zone of Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Troop A. Nicole Cooke, ’13, editor of the Sedalia Democrat, accepted a second position as editor of the Warrensburg Star-Journal.

William “Eric” Shelton, ’13, is now Advanced Manufacturing instructor at Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Missouri.

Andrea Smith, ’15, is now an account executive on the Callis strategic marketing team in Sedalia, Missouri.

Yaswanth Kumar Alla, ’16, accepted a position as a big data engineer at Ford Motor Company.

Dylan Green, ’19, a career advisor at Daytona State College, visited in January with students in UCM’s Career Readiness Course.

Eliza Maloney, ’19, joined Louisburg High School in Kansas as an art teacher and dance coach.

Tara Buthod, ’20, completed her first semester as a full-time teacher in South Callaway School District, Mokane, Missouri.

Bailey Bylina, ’20, was accepted into the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Landon Schwarz, ’20, has accepted a position at the Missouri Lottery.

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PLANNED GIVING

Legacy Family Goes Big With Support for Students

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arning a degree from UCM was just the beginning of Diane and Barry Whitworth’s relationship with the university. Barry earned his bachelor’s in Agriculture in 1984, and Diane graduated with a Criminal Justice degree in 1977. For both, Greek life was a big part of their college experience as members of Phi Sigma Epsilon and Sigma Kappa.

Barry and Diane Whitworth “I didn’t have any biological sisters, so it helped me make friends and fostered leadership skills that really helped me later in life,” says Diane, who remains close to her sorority sisters and reunites with them at homecoming. “We were friends with people in other fraternities and sororities too because it’s not such a large campus that you’re isolated to one group.”

One of Diane’s most influential professors in Criminal Justice was Dennis Laster, who founded UCM’s Mock Trial program in 1994. Later in his tenure, Laster moved to Safety Sciences, the chosen major of all three of the Whitworths’ sons: Tyler, ’05, Blaine, ’09, and Tucker, ’14.

Tucker currently works in the safety management field.

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as his parents established the Blaine Whitworth Go Big or Go Home Foundation after he was murdered Sept. 1, 2012. More than 1,000 people attended the vigil of the beloved entrepreneur, who owned two bars downtown: Bodie’s, which he renovated, and Molly’s, which he renamed after his grandmother.

“Blaine had a big heart and big dreams,” Diane says. “His slogan was ‘Go Big or Go Home’ — he didn’t do anything small.”

Barry and Diane were approached by a group of Blaine’s friends who wanted to hold a 5K race in his honor.

Blaine was physically fit and could often be seen running back and forth between his two businesses in a well-worn pair of tennis shoes. The Whitworths loved the idea, and on April 6, 2013, one of the most popular annual events in Warrensburg was born.

The couple worked with UCM Greek Life to host the race each year, with some of Barry’s fraternity brothers cooking breakfast at the event. In 2019 the race committee teamed up with Innovative Public Relations (IPR) students for marketing and provided a paid internship for another UCM student to learn all aspects of event planning in 2018.

to pursue their education, we have focused a large percentage of our fundraising support to the university,” Barry says, noting that their foundation has provided emergency assistance to student veterans. “Through our own personal experiences of the value of our education and our time on campus, we know it is a wise investment to choose UCM.” After Blaine’s death, the Whitworths met with professor of management Mary McCord about investing in UCM’s entrepreneurship opportunities.

Blaine was an entrepreneur and cared a great deal about helping others get back on their feet and get an education. The Integrative Business Experience (IBE) combines business with social responsibility, so it was a perfect fit. Since its inception in 2004, IBE has involved 1,968 students in 92 companies and has donated $416,051 to local charities. The program also has provided 26,873 service hours to those charities.

As the foundation’s main fundraiser, the 5K has raised over $175,000, making it possible for the Whitworths to give back financially as well as through volunteering to the university they and their sons attended.

UCM’s Harmon College of Business and Professional Studies hosts an annual Big Idea Conference and Big Idea Pitch Competition, where student entrepreneurs have the opportunity to develop and present their business ideas.

With McCord’s help, the couple established the Big Idea Blaine Whitworth Speaker Series on May 5, 2014, bringing more than 30 successful entrepreneurs to campus to share their stories since its inception.

“Because of our family belief that the University of Central Missouri is one of the best choices anyone could make

“Many of her students have actually started a business with knowledge they gained under her leadership,” Diane says of

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McCord, who is retiring this May. “She has definitely opened the eyes and doors for many students wanting to live their dreams.”

The Whitworths have generously endowed three scholarships through the UCM Alumni Foundation to assist students like their sons in realizing their dreams. Adding to Safety Sciences and Entrepreneurial scholarships, they established in 2020 the Blaine Whitworth Go Big or Go Home Scholarship for Greek Life Members to recognize a sorority and fraternity member making a difference in their community.

Barry and Diane decided this year to document their planned gift with the UCM Alumni Foundation, creating three new scholarships that will be endowed and available from their trust: the Tyler J. Whitworth Memorial Scholarship in Safety Sciences, the Diane L. Whitworth Memorial Sigma Kappa Delta Eta Scholarship and the Barry W. Whitworth Memorial Scholarship in Agriculture.

“It is our belief that endowing a scholarship that will be there forever is one of the best ways we can help students and honor a loved one’s memory,” Barry says, adding that the planned gift allows them to control their permanent legacy. It’s a fitting contribution from this engaged, active and amazingly generous UCM legacy family.

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Whitworths are replacing the annual 5K race with a new event, the Blaine Whitworth Go Big or Go Home Golf Tournament.

The inaugural tournament will take place Oct. 15, 2021, at Mules National Golf Club. To register, visit blainewhitworthfoundation.com.

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Richard Baile

Along with the Whitworths, these generous alumni and friends were recently inducted into the Heritage Society by documenting a planned gift to UCM: Cory, ’11, and Cassie, ’11, Bittner have established a planned gift to benefit the Public Relations program, as well as the foundation’s unrestricted endowment, by making the UCM Alumni Foundation a beneficiary on their life insurance plans.

Mike, ’72, and Patti, ’72, Davidson have established an unrestricted planned gift by making the UCM Alumni Foundation a beneficiary of their IRA. John Spillman Jones, 1912, has been posthumously honored for a considerable trust agreement to his alma mater, then known as State Normal School No. 2.

Scott, ’89, and Christine Taylor have named the UCM Alumni Foundation as the beneficiary of a retirement plan, providing a generous contribution to the UCM football program through a planned gift.

There are many ways to leave your legacy! To learn more, contact the UCM Alumni Foundation’s Office of Planned Giving at 660-543-8000, giving@ucmo.edu or ucmo.gift.legacy.com.

Richard “Dick” Baile, age 99, was born Dec. 6, 1920, in Warrensburg, Missouri. Baile moved quickly through his early education in a one-room country schoolhouse, entering Central Missouri State Teachers College at age 16. When news came of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in his senior year, Baile immediately enlisted. After completing his degree in 1942, majoring in Mathematics and minoring in Physics, he joined the Army Air Corps and served as a flight engineer in the Pacific Theater.

After the war Baile found a job in the oil industry on a seismograph crew, launching his successful career of founding and leading numerous seismic contracting companies. His efforts to advance his profession earned him national recognition, and he served as a UCM Alumni Foundation Board member.

Frederic Bock

Frederic Bock, age 82, was born July 7, 1938, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He graduated with a degree in Economics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Bock studied at the University of Iowa School of Law, completing a Juris Doctorate degree, and later went to New York University School of Law, Graduate Division, to earn an LL.M. degree.

He came to Central Missouri State College in 1964 and served as a professor of Business until his retirement in 1995. During this period he shared his passion for learning with thousands of students, both as a teacher and as director of the Honors Program.

William Brame

William “Bill” Edward Brame, age 95, was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Slater, Missouri. During World War II he enlisted and served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater. He was part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program program while attending Central Missouri State Teachers College and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from CMSC in 1961 and 1962, the year he joined the faculty. Brame earned his doctorate in education from the University of Missouri and served UCM for 25 years, including as chair of the Department of Manufacturing and Construction, coordinator for Industrial Arts and Technology and graduate programs, and assistant dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Technology. He also served the Warrensburg community as mayor and UCM as the first president of the Faculty Emeritus Association.

Deems Brooks

Deems M. Brooks, age 86, was born Sept. 1, 1934, in Lattimore, North Carolina. Joining the faculty in 1971, Deems was a professor of Speech Communications at Central Missouri State University for 24 years. In addition to teaching, he held a number of key administrative positions in the area of Speech Communication, including

serving as director of Speech Education; chair of the Division of Language, Literature and Communication; and assistant dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. He resided in Warrensburg, Missouri, after retiring from CMSU in 1995 and continued to support the university through his involvement with initiatives such as the Lifelong Learning program.

Andrew Frederick David Brown

Andrew Frederick David Brown, age 80, was born Dec. 23, 1939, in Plattsburg, New York.

Music, and specifically playing the oboe, was a large part of his life and career. In 1961 he earned a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Ithaca College, followed by a master’s in Music Education from Butler University in 1963 and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance in 1973 from the University of Iowa. Brown taught vocal and instrumental (oboe) music at Central Missouri State University from 1967 until his retirement in 2002. In the Warrensburg community, he founded the Warrensburg Community Chorus, which he conducted for 20 years.

Joyce Marie Larson

Joyce Marie (Opitz) Larson, age 91, was born Nov. 19, 1929, in Eden, South Dakota.

After earning her degree from South Dakota State College, Larson taught eight grades in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Brookings, South Dakota, before joining the staff at the Ward Edwards Library of Central Missouri State College in 1967. Larson earned a master’s degree in Library Science from CMSU in 1982 and retired in 1998, a year before the James C. Kirkpatrick Library opened. She served as periodicals supervisor and previously as library assistant-cataloging and library assistant-science during her approximately 32-year tenure.

David Laughlin III

David W. Laughlin III, age 92, was born March 2, 1928, in Foster, Missouri. In 1950 he received a B.S. degree in Art Education from Central Missouri State College. Laughlin served in the U.S. Army-199 Combat Engineers from 1950 to 1952. He worked for more than 30 years illustrating for architects, designing and building liturgical work for churches, and as a sculptor of steel, copper and other media for private and commercial clients. Laughlin received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1990, and two of his statues, “Generations” and “Guardian,” can still be found on campus. His family requests that donations in his memory be made by visiting ucmfoundation.org/give/in-memory and selecting “Art and Design in memory of David Laughlin” from the dropdown menu.

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IN MEMORIAM

Jimmie Bob Mansfield

Jimmie Bob Mansfield, age 77, was born Oct. 20, 1943, in Columbia, Missouri. He was a Business Education professor at the University of Central Missouri from 1999 to 2010. He enjoyed teaching and mentoring students through the years, and those who worked with him appreciated his knowledge and expertise in the field.

Lawrence Province

Lawrence “Larry” Province, age 66, was born July 24, 1954, in Kansas City, Missouri. After serving in the U.S. Air Force for six years in Weapons Maintenance, Province earned his bachelor’s degree from Central Missouri State University in 1982 and his master’s in 1983. He was employed as the safety manager at the university from 1983 until his retirement in 2009. After retirement, he continued to teach classes off and on for several more years as an adjunct safety instructor. He also served as the university’s bowling head coach from 1988 to 1991.

Fred Rietbrock

Fred A. Rietbrock, age 96, was born Oct. 24, 1924, in Wausau, Wisconsin. In 1942 he joined the U.S. Navy and transferred to the Army Air Corps, where he served as radio operator and navigator. Rietbrock earned his bachelor’s degree from Wisconsin State Teachers College in 1950 and his master’s and doctorate in Educational Administration from Colorado State College (now University of Northern Colorado) in 1963. He moved to Warrensburg in 1964 and served on the faculty of the university until his retirement in 1988. He went on leave from 1966 to ’68 to establish a doctoral program in Educational Administration for the Institute of Education, University of Dacca, Dacca East Pakistan. Rietbrock was a Phi Delta Kappa honoree for more than 40 years of service to education.

Anthony Michael Rizzi

Anthony “Tony” Michael Rizzi, age 88, was born Nov. 24, 1932, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His work as an officer in the Air Force led him to 38

Kansas City, where he retired after 22 years of service in 1974. For 20 years, Rizzi was a professor of Industrial Management at Central Missouri State University.

Short played and coached many different sports in his lifetime.

He joined the university in 1966 as head basketball coach, leading the Mules to two MIAA championships within the first few years of his arrival. In 1973 he went on to serve Stella Schreiman as “golf pro,” providing both physical Stella A. “Sammy” Schreiman, age 73, was born Aug. 1, 1947, in Kansas education courses and private golf lessons at the Pertle Springs golf City, Missouri. She graduated from course. Short worked with his Central Missouri State College longtime friend Earl Keth to design in 1969. There she met Keith and execute the construction of the Schreiman, a 1973 graduate, and they started a family. After moves that 18-hole course that bears Keth’s name. He was inducted into Sports took them to Georgia and Kansas, Halls of Fame at the University of she continued to teach and earned Central Missouri and William a master’s degree in the process. She Jewell College. retired from the Shawnee Mission School District after teaching fourth grade for many years. She loved William Thompson playing the flute, performing with William D. “Bill” Thompson, the KC Flute Choir, the Olathe Civic age 94, was born Dec. 5, 1926.

Band and the ensemble Flutitude.

A native of Mount Vernon, Keith Schreiman was an Alumni Illinois, he played football briefly Foundation Board Member, and at the University of Illinois before he and Sammy established the J. transferring to Southern Illinois Keith and Stella Schreiman Mules University, where he received his Basketball Scholarship and the J. bachelor’s and doctorate degrees.

Keith and Stella Schreiman Music His master’s degree was from Scholarship, to which the family the University of Arizona. After requests donations be made. serving in the military during both World War II and the Korean War, Thompson began his teaching career Joseph William Sellman at Central Missouri State College Col. Joseph “Joe” William Sellman, USAF Ret., age 75, was born Sept. 5, in 1967 and retired from CMSU 1943, in Warrensburg, Missouri. He in 1990. During his time at the attended Warrensburg Public Schools university, Thompson was chair of the Economics and Central Missouri State College.

He was on the Mules Football team, Department and mentored many new faculty members. was a member of TKE fraternity and earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in 1965.

Jerry Lee Winsor Upon graduation Sellman enlisted Jerry Lee Winsor, age 79, was in the U.S. Air Force, serving in born April 30, 1941, in Emporia, Berlin during the reunification of Kansas. He earned his bachelor’s East and West Germany and in the in Secondary Education from Vietnam War, followed by service in Kansas State Teachers College in Europe. He retired from the military 1964 and his master’s in Rhetoric in 1993 as a highly decorated colonel and Public Address the same year. and was recognized with a UCM Winsor earned his Ph.D. from the Distinguished Alumni Award that University of Nebraska-Lincoln in same year.

1975. He served as a professor and debate coach over a 50-year career Norman Short at numerous institutions, including Norman N. “Norm” Short, age 96, 27 years at Central Missouri State was born Oct. 13, 1924, in Kansas University as a professor of Speech City, Missouri. He was a U.S. Navy Communication from 1975 to veteran who served on the Naval 2002. Windsor was also a published Escort John Q. Roberts 94 in the poet-songwriter-lyricist, authored Pacific Theater in World War II. many refereed papers and coAffectionately known as “Coach,” authored two textbooks.

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1940-1949 Phyllis (Shipman) Hairston, ’42 Wanda Lee (Clements) Brown, ’43 Marjorie Z. Brown-Yokley, ’44 Ruth Dale (Wulfkuhle) Owen, ’44, ’70 Charles Hubert Wright, ’46 Kenneth E. James, ’47 Marvin P. Thompson, ’49

1950-1959 Bonell Cravens, ’50 Edith Yvonne Donath, ’50 Mary (Brady) Smith, ’50 Leta Louetta Bennett, ’51 Marchea Elizabeth (Malone) Klang, ’52 Jean Arlene (Garrison) Bledsoe Dieker Philips, ’52 Robert L. “Bob” Weaver, ’52 Virginia Elaine Bellofatto, ’53 Mary Louise (Covell) Cary, ’53 Cecil L. Lujin, ’53 Ernest Louis “Ernie” Krahenbuhl Jr., ’53 Mary Ellen Merritt, ’54 Mary Patricia (Moody) Meyer, ’54 Dorothy M. Feaster, ’55 Harold “Mike” Michael, ’55, ’59 John E. Vivona, ’55 Robert Dale Winthrop, ’55 Louise K. (Kavanaugh) Young, ’55, ’59, ’70 Howard E. Freeman, ’56 Walter O. Swafford, ’56 Kenneth E. Weikal, ’57 Huberta Mae “Bert” (Ellithorpe) Eisele, ’58 Robert Lewis Oster, ’58 Donald W. Phillips, ’58 Barbara Ann Ratcliff, ’58, ’84 Jack Franklin Reynolds, ’58, ’62 Robert Larry Andrews, ’59 Thomas Joseph Brown, ’59 Benny Gene Campbell, ’59 Elmer E. “Bud” Carron, ’59 Charles E. “Ed” Edmunds, ’59 Sonja Louise (Hughes) Joline, ’59 Virgil Robert Leibold, ’59 Billy Charles Rumsey, ’59 Judith Ann (Counts) Skinner, ’59 Robert Lee “Bob” Stone, ’59

1960-1969 Wayland Keith De Witt, ’61 William Albert “Bill” Hann, ’61 Reba (Riggins) Hubbard, ’61 Donald Estill Hughes, ’62 Ronald Lewis “Ron” Potter, ’62, ’69 Carol Ruth (McCune) Slagel, ’62, ’77 Sarah “Sally” Neill Cornish, ’63 Cecelia Ann (Young) Hallier, ’63 Jimmy Newton “Jim” McCollum, ’63 Juanita M. Jones, ’64

IN MEMORIAM

Chang Bin Yim, ’64 James A. Buford, ’65 Lawrence N. Edson, ’65 Elsie N. (Moore) Kelly, ’65 Carolyn Ann (Johnson) Kessler, ’65 Walter Frank Wegerer Jr., ’65 Buddy W. Collins, ’66 James W. Hammett III, ’66 Robert “Ed” Teater, ’66 Don A. Coleman, ’67 Jack R. Hockensmith, ’67 Martha Ann “Marti” (Dean) Jones, ’67 Carolyn Rose Pugh, ’67, ’81 Jerry W. Swope, ’67 Nancy Corliss, ’68, ’72 Norma June (McCormack) Elwell, ’68 James Douglas Root, ’68 Michael Winfield “Mike” Jones, ’68 Anita B. (Johnson) Butler, ’69 David William Deupree, ’69 Ralph Hartman, ’69 Ellen Faye Lilley, ’69 Wendel Wayne Oetting, ’69

1970-1979 Larry D. Becker, ’70 Nancy Jean (Troxell) Bennett, ’70 Christine Ann (Fowles) Bolliger, ’70 Katherine (Smith) Burns, ’70 Elizabeth Anne (Hifner) Haney, ’70 Alecia Vaniece (Campbell) Glenn, ’70 Judith R. (Rippel) Gutekunst, ’70 Patricia K. (Stevens) Kirk, ’70 Patrick Ervin Martens, ’70 Laura (Bainbridge) McReynolds, ’70, ’75 Robert L. “Bob” Ramsbottom, ’70 Sue Ann (Roberts) Schellmann, ’70 Margery Anne (Laughlin) Smith, ’70 Erbin “Regar” Todd Jr., ’70 Susie “Zsuzsi” Adler, ’71 Ella Seals Barco, ’71 George David England, ’71 Kevin Conlon Mazer, ’71 Gary McElmurry, ’71 Robert Wayne Miller, ’71 Lawrence Paul “Larry” Sudduth Jr., ’71 Frank Peter Tutera Jr., ’71, ’73 Shadrack Ricky Davis, ’72 Thomas M. “Tom” Fennewald, ’72 Lawrence L. Treu, ’72 Charles “Don” Wilson Jr., ’72 Donald Wayne “Don” Burnett, ’73 Marjorie Catherine (Wuebbold) Cation, ’73 Virginia Sue (Neill) Davis, ’73 Aurora (Lavery) Hart, ’73 Deborah Elaine (Marquardt) Hoehne, ’73 Richard Glenn Kell, ’73, ’75 Gary Carlin Luck, ’73 Troy Lee Majors, ’73 Christopher S. “Chris” Zimmer, ’73 Susan Elizabeth Biram, ’74

Kenneth L. Farris, ’74 Mary N. (Hrenchir) Griffis, ’74 Michael L. “Mike” Matlock, ’74 Gloria Jean Maxwell, ’74, ’75 Jerry Wayne Mowery, ’74 Doyle Max Sager, ’74 Donald Washburn Varney, ’74, ’76 Joseph “David” Duncan, ’75, ’76 Leroy Martin Elliott, ’75 Sharon Kay (Jahner) Haeflinger, ’75 Rosemarie “Rose” (Kahle) Hartner, ’75, ’78, ’85 Shirley Mae (Dent) Scott, ’75 William “Bill” Swetnam, ’75 Patricia “Pat” (Lane) Washington, ’75 Bill E. Duncan, ’76 Luther G. Gold, ’76 James Robert “Jimmy” Triay, ’76 Craig Dale Chabino, ’77 Omar Albert Hazley, ’77 Frank Edward Hinkle Jr., ’77 Russell B. Krohn, ’77 Roger William “Bill” Marsh, ’77 Johnny Ray “John” McNeese, ’77 Wanda Carolyn (Jewell) Decker, ’71, ’78 Pamela Jo “Pam” Duncan, ’79 Michael Anthony Gulotta, ’78 Katherine Mae “Katy” (Carpenter) Harryman, ’78 Steve Moreland Hornberger, ’78 Kathleen Eleanore (Green) Reed, ’78 Janice Marie (Ruplinger) Striepe, ’78 Kevin Edward Mahoney, ’79 Robert Eugene “Bob” Morrison, ’79

1980-1989 Charles Edward “Chip” Parker Jr., ’80 Mary Helen “Toby” Wyble, ’80 Melinda Ann (Wynes) Gibson, ’81 Nancy Ellen (Robb) Hartman, ’81, ’91 Larry Albert Lombard, ’81 Bette Patterson, ’81 Michael Edward Tinsley, ’81 Steven Douglas “Steve” Hawkins, ’82 Kevin Kohler, ’82, ’85, ’94 Roger Charles Maserang, ’82 John Albert Snyder, ’82 Robert Lewis “Bob” Crockett, ’83 Billy Harper, ’83, ’86 Sharri (Hill) Merriott, ’83 David E. “Dave” Cooper, ’84 Hezekiah An Orisafunmi, ’84 Richard M. Delap, ’85 Roy Robertson, ’85 Lesley “Kent” Gaines, ’86 Stephanie Anne (Rogers) Gustafson, ’86 Marilyn Rose (Henderson) Suhr, ’86 Crystal Kathleen (Hazzard) Hazelwood, ’87

Walter David Blackwell, ’88 Larry Ronald Chasteen, ’88

1990-1999 Lora Lynn (Mitchell) Mattly Harris, ’90 Scott L. Janeczko, ’90 Noel Adam Porter, ’90 Susan Marlene Spindler, ’90 Mark Edward Schieber, ’91 James Steven “Steve” Billingsley, ’93 Kathy Mae Courtois, ’93 Ronald Kyle “Ron” Nelson, ’94 Larry Douglas Butler, ’95 Kelly Kathleen Jentes, ’97 Barbara Jean (Green) Greufe, ’99 Stephen Leon Wilson, ’99

2000-2009 Elliott Raymond Dunn, ’00, ’12 Carmiletta D. (Ortiz) Humpherys, ’00 Robby Jermaine “Robb” Madden, ’03, ’06, ’18 Karen T. (Van Derbur) Dye, ’04 David Scott Meyer, ’04 Marsha Marlene (Spencer) McKnight, ’05 Jeffrey A. “Jeff” Isaac, ’06

2010-2021 Lindsy Kai (Chellios) Chambers, ’11 Aubrey Nicole Clark, ’12 Marilyn Ann (Giles) Anderson, ’13

Former Students Jane (Bast) Ferguson Whitney J. French David Arthur Hamilton William Michael “Mike” Johnson Frederick Clyde “Fred” Kincaid Eleanor Ann (Haynes) Lear Dale Mark Luetjen Jim McCall Carl McMurtrey Bruce “Butch” Reed June (Thompson) Rissler Lila A. (Warren) Roasa Patricia Ruth (Miller) Terry Sandra Voncille (Crawford) Waldron Colby West Georgia Grace (Saling) White Margaret “Maggie” (Connor) Worman

Sean Malone Robert Wayne Miller Jerry Reiners W. Richard “Rik” Whitaker

Friends Audrey Mae (Cramer) Abney Joseph C. “Joe” Alexander Sr. Nathalene (Shrout) Anderson Beverly (Lucas) Beach Charles H. Breed Linda Lou (Martin) Brock Mary Elizabeth Compton Albert Herman Eftink Barbara Ann (Marak) Folkner Roy Dale Geary Charles H. Henke Phillip Robert “Phil” Holderness Joanne A. Lindstrom Lewis Albert “Al” McCord Rosemary McCord Steven Leslie “Steve” McGraw Tim Murphy Genevieve “Genie” (Falke) Denny O’Neal Pamela J. (Coen) Prindle Clay Mason Risner Dale Eugene Slifer Beverly (Gould) Spencer Carolyn Ann (Ewer) Spier Willis Daniel “Bill” Stokes Jr. Elaine Marie (Schmid) West Robert E. Whitworth Dean Williamson

College High Alumni Arthur P. “Art” Boyer Don A. Coleman Cecelia Ann (Young) Hallier Eugene Elmer Jaeger Jack Franklin Reynolds June (Thompson) Rissler Velma Louise (Urban) Sippie

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Faculty/Staff Richard M. Delap Rose Marie “Ree” Fowler-Swarts Donald Dean “Don” Hoover University of Central Missouri Magazine

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A lot has changed since 1937, when the top photo was taken.

The street that used to run past the Administration Building is now a pedestrian sidewalk. In the 1950s and ’60s, students walked past a structure draped with ivy and flanked with spruce trees (at left) instead of the towering oaks you see today. But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed: this building has always been a hub of activity and a symbol of the institution’s academic distinction.

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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI

SESQUICENTENNIAL EVENTS In 1871, UCM opened its doors as State Normal School No. 2 with 30 students in a rented building, $173,000 in bonds from the city and county and 20 acres of land for a future campus donated by local resident Melville U. Foster. Now, 150 years later, UCM is home to approximately 10,000 students representing 43 states and 32 countries. The MuleNation network of 100,000 alumni celebrates 150 years of graduates who use their degrees to serve their communities.

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PRESIDENT’S LAWN CONCERT 6 p.m. Social; 7 p.m. Concert Selmo Park, UCM Warrensburg Campus

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MULENATION SEDALIA: MISSOURI STATE FAIR 5–7 p.m., Missouri Wine Tent Register at ucmfoundation.org/ 2021mnstatefair

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GET THE RED OUT STREET FAIR Before first home Mules Football game of 2021 Learn more at ucmo.edu/gtro

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MULENATION MID-MISSOURI: HAPPY HOUR AND HAUNTED TOUR 5–6:30 p.m. Drinks, appetizers at Bar Vino 7 p.m. Tour at Missouri State Penitentiary Register at ucmfoundation.org/2021mnjeffcity MULENATION ST. LOUIS 4 p.m. Ballpark Village before Cardinals game Register at ucmfoundation.org/ 2021mulenationst.louis

WORKS OF EMMA LOU DIEMER NOV THE 7 p.m., Hart Recital Hall and Streamed

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A LEGACY OF LIFELONG LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP BANQUET 6–8 p.m., Garrison Gymnasium Hosted by UCM’s College of Education

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PARTY WITH A PURPOSE 6 p.m., Sandra Temple Elliott Ballrooms Register at ucmfoundation.org/ 2021partywithapurpose

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MULENATION SPRINGFIELD 5–7 p.m. Millwood Golf and Racquet Club. Register at ucmfoundation.org/ 2021mnspringfield

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ANNUAL HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE 10 a.m.–3 p.m., during Dickens Christmas, Achauer House, UCM Warrensburg Campus

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Visit the “Since 1871 Vault” collection at ucmbookstore.com while supplies last!

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WEEKEND CELEBRATION CARNIVAL Oct. 22–23, 11 a.m.–9 p.m.

UCM Lot 34 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI DINNER Oct. 22 at 5 p.m.

Sandra Temple Elliott Ballrooms BLACK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION REUNION Oct. 22 at 10 p.m.

Social, Traditions Restaurant Oct. 23 at 8 a.m.

Tailgate, Police Academy parking lot Get details at events@ucmo.edu PARADE Oct. 23 at 9 a.m.

Intersection of Holden and Clark ALUMNI PARTY IN THE PARK Oct. 23, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Featuring an all-class reunion and KC FLO band, Selmo Park HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME Oct. 23 at 1:30 p.m.

Audrey J. Walton Stadium at Vernon Kennedy Field Get details at ucmathletics.com VOLLEYBALL ALUMNI GAME Oct. 23, Time TBA Multipurpose Building

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How DoYOU See Central?

With Missouri’s bicentennial and UCM’s sesquicentennial both happening in 2021, we’ve had the pleasure of diving into expansive photo archives to reflect on the history, diversity and beauty of the place we call home. We hope you enjoy the selections presented in this special 150th anniversary issue.

Share memories from your collection by entering our 2022 Seeing Central Calendar Photo Contest.

We’re looking for new or old photos of the people, places or events that make up your university experience. Submit your high-resolution photos

by Sept. 1, 2021, for potential inclusion in the alumni calendar.

To enter and for full contest rules, visit ucmfoundation.org/calendarcontest.