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=| Dhe TOWER f= = Looking Back OLUME One, Number One of the Bulletin of the Fifth District Normal School of Missouri contains the following statement: “For more than a quarter of a century it has been the dream of some of the most conscientious and far seeing teachers of Northwest Missouri that some- time, somewhere in that magnificient quarter of our great state, another State Normal School should be established to give to the teachers of that region an opportunity to meet the ever-increasing demands for a better preparation. What for many years was but a ‘schoolmaster’s dream’ has at last found realization. On the twenty-fifth day of March, 1905, Governor Joseph W. Folk attached his signa- ture to the bill creating out of nineteen counties hitherto belonging to the First District, the new Normal School District Number Five. “Some weeks later a commission consisting of C. C. Fogle of Lancaster, Edmund McWilliams of Plattsburg, C. A. Calvird of Clinton, J. W. Fox of Monroe City, and J. C. Jones of Columbia was appointed by the Governor to select a location for the proposed school. This commission, after visiting a num- ber of competing points, reported in favor of Maryville, and announced the tender on the part of Maryville and Nodaway County of eighty-six acres of land and $58,000 in cash. Shortly afterward a Board of Regents was appointed for the new school. This board met in Maryville, September 12, and effected an organization. At a meeting held in St. Joseph, January 4, 1906, Professor Frank Deerwester of the State Normal School, Warrensburg, Missouri, was chosen first president of the institution. A few weeks later the new executive entered upon the duties of his office and began the work of organization. The faculty was chosen March 13, 1906.” This, then, was the beginning of our college. The same bulletin goes on to say: “The aim in selecting the faculty was to secure men and women of recognized merit in their respective fields, who possess scholarly attainments, and at the same time are good, practical teachers, who are in touch with public school conditions and public school needs, who are already in sympathy with the purpose and method of the normal school, who are vigorous, alert and enthusiastic and able to inspire in students a love for study, who are strong in heart as well as in mind and body; in short, men and women who exemplify the most exalted conception of that honorable term teacher, to whose keeping parents will gladly entrust their sons and daughters, and in whose companionship young people will delight. That the Board was chosen wisely, it is confidently believed that the years will show.” PE AC UIE Ty! FRANK DEERWESTER, A.B., Pd.M., President J. A. Wuirerorp, B.Pe., Lecturer on Pedagogy Eupora Matrurr, Supervisor of Training Class Tuomas B. Forp, B.Pe., English Literature and Pedagogy W. W. Gacvaner, A.B., Rhetoric and Pedagogy Georce H. Cocpert, A.M., Mathematics Jesse Lewis, A.B., History Bennett Merriman StTIGatr, B.S., Science James R. Hate, B.Pe., Latin B. F. Duncan, A.M., Civics and Latin Apu Bictey, B.Pe., Drawing and Manual Training P. O. Lannon, Music Homer Martien Cook, A.M., Physical Culture
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