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Letters to the editor
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What’s on your mind? Send a letter to the editor today. Address correspondence to Mitzi Lutz, editor, Northwest Alumni Magazine, 214 Administration Building, Maryville, MO 64468, visit www.nwmissouri.edu/ alumni/magazine/editor. htm or send an e-mail to mitzi@nwmissouri.edu.
wish to congratulate you for the well-written article about Carl Heck, “Seeing the Light,” in the last issue of the Northwest Alumni Magazine. Since I grew up in Graham and he hails from Maitland, I felt a kinship. I live in Buena Vista, Colo., and can imagine his trips over Independence Pass with those loads of stained glass windows. Also I have been trying to locate Agnes Kowitz Boulger since she was my home economics teacher. Low and behold, there she was on page 25 as a contributor to the family and consumer sciences department. J. Jean Buster ’66
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remember the beauty of the Northwest campus, especially in the spring. I’m so glad Northwest takes pride in not only offering an excellent education, but also providing a beautiful learning environment. Throw in the superior faculty who really do care about students, some of the best Division II sports teams in the country and affordable prices and Northwest is the total package. I’m proud to be a Bearcat! Leon Widerhostel ’88, ’89
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y favorite moment was Spring 1959 when an edgy night watchman ascended the stairs in the Administration Building and was spooked by the statue of Abe Lincoln. He drew and fired, wounding Old Abe just above the left knee. During a 2008 visit, I found the bullet hole still plainly visible. Charles Riley ’66
Six Bearcats from the 1960s took a Danube/Rhine River trip in August and proudly wore their Northwest attire. The couples, in front of the castle in Heidelberg, Germany, include (from left) Dick (attd.) and Jane Stillinger (attd.) Tauchen of Coralville, Iowa; Mark ’67 and Phyllis Bowman ’68 Yehle of Kearney; and Jack ’67 and Judy Kimmet ’67 Bohnenblust of Rapid City, S.D.
Do you remember these events? 1961 Carol Long, a freshman from Grant City, sets an enrollment record for Northwest by becoming its 2,000th student. Towers in the Northwest Hazing is abolished across the Northwest campus. Transitions: A Hundred Years of Northwest
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1971 Millikan and Dieterich halls open for freshman men and women housing. Towers in the Northwest The new FM radio station, KXCV, launches across the airwaves of northwest Missouri. Towers in the Northwest
1981 Northwest students break a world record for the largest human domino chain. The chain consists of 460 students who line up around the track of Rickenbrode Stadium and fall into each other one by one. The previous record is set earlier that year by 400 students from Iowa State University. The Northwest Missourian
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1991 The student radio station, KDLX, receives more nominations than any other station at the National Association of Broadcasters College Radio Awards. The station places in six of the seven categories for which it is nominated. The Northwest Missourian
2001 Bearcat students crowd around the Bell Tower to support and console one another after the terriorist attacks on Sept. 11. The Northwest Missourian Northwest bans indoor smoking. The Northwest Missourian