PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the citizens of Joplin, desirous of higher education, established in 1937 Joplin Junior College in an abandoned former high school building at Fourth Street and Byers Avenue in the City of Joplin; and WHEREAS, in 1965 the Missouri General Assembly established a two-year senior college to be funded by the state to go along with the junior college, the institution to be known as Missouri Southern College; and whereas; in 1967 that college occupied a new campus built on the site of the former Mission Hills Estate; and WHEREAS in 1977 the State of Missouri officially took on the responsibility of funding the entire college, thus creating the institution to be known as Missouri Southern State College; and WHEREA this year marks the tenth anniversary of full state funding for Missouri Southern State College, and this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the four-year institution and the fiftieth anniversary of the establishing of Joplin Junior College out of which all this has begun; and WHEREA the history of Missouri Southern State College has become for us all symbolic of the possibilities that exist when citizens work together for the realization of a dream and for the fulfillment of needs; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dr, Donald E, Clark, Mayor of the City of Joplin, do hereby proclaim on this Fourth day of July in the year of One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty-Seven that these twelve months until June Thirtieth, One Thousand Nine Hundred Eighty-Eight, shall be known as MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGES GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY YEAR Subscribed to this day in the City of Joplin. Donald E. Clark, Mayor
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