bearcatroar I remember when ... y college roommate for three years, Velma MSwartz Mitchell ’58, and I recently reunited (after not having seen each other all these years) BEARCAT ROAR to celebrate our 70th birthdays. Velma is still working as a nurse in Yuma, Ariz., and I am still “Bearcat Roar” gives teaching school in Long Beach, Calif. We were you the opportunity to graciously invited to spend this special reunion share your Northwest weekend at the home of Eva Lee Hess Griffen ’59 memories or stories near Washington, D.C. Delivee Creamer Wright with other alumni and Former Northwest roommates and friends recently gathered friends. ’59, who recently retired from the University of for a 70th birthday celebration. Pictured are (from left) Velma Nebraska-Omaha, joined us as well as Sandra Swartz Mitchell ’58, Sandra Hayzlett Jones ’56, Delivee Please submit Hayzlett Jones ’56 from St. Joseph. We had many Creamer Wright ’59, Eva Lee Hess Griffen ’59 and Barbara remembrances along Julius Smith ’54. with your name, year “I remember whens” as we sat up talking and of graduation, address laughing while looking through our old Tower remember going to Dr. Sharon Browning’s and telephone number yearbooks together each night. It was certainly a I office to request an assignment deadline exten- to Mitzi Lutz, editor, trip down memory lane and so nice to renew our sion. This brief meeting turned into a pivotal Northwest Alumni Mag- azine, Alumni House, friendships once again. I highly recommend a point in my life. Through a perceptive eye, she Maryville, MO 64468- similar reunion to all Northwest alumni. saw that a larger issue was troubling me. She 6001 or by e-mail to Barbara Julius Smith ’54 quietly stood up and closed her office door. She [email protected]. helped me work through a “personal challenge.” remember a 12-inch snowfall in 1978 that If your entry is printed in I graduated three years later and married that the Northwest Alumni I cancelled classes for the day, not because “personal challenge.” Thank you, Sharon. Magazine, you’ll most students couldn’t have made it to class, Dale Clymens ’86 receive a free but because many of the professors lived outside Northwest of Maryville and it was virtually impossible for was one of the colony members of the new koozie. them to drive to the campus. I also remember the I sorority Sigma Kappa. I think back to those students in my dorm, Franken Hall, erupting in first few meetings we had when no one knew loud, spontaneous shrieks of joy upon learning too many people. We were all so excited and that there would be no classes that day. Some enthusiastic. Not only were we building our new went back to bed no doubt, but some of us took sorority, but we were making lifelong friend- advantage of the day off to play in the snow. It ships. Some of my strongest friendships that are was a pleasant reminder of our childhood days … still in place today came from the girls I met at a blast from the past as they say! that time. Rhonda Prewitt Rosenthal ’79 Heidi Price ’96 Do you remember these events? 1956 1966 1976 1986 1996 Baseball is revived as a Students are required to Northwest erects a Olympic gymnast Mary Lou The Delta Chi fraternity sport at Northwest, and follow a dress code before new dairy facility on the Retton visits Maryville in begins implementing 11 years later the Bearcats being allowed to participate University farm, three miles September. The Northwest policies to protect guests win the Northern Division in on-campus meals. Men north of campus. Included Missourian and the organization from Championship. must wear slacks, a sport at the facility are a dairy possible legal conflicts. Transitions: A Hundred shirt, socks and shoes. barn, a confinement barn By popular demand, KNWT Guests must RSVP within Years of Northwest Women are required to and a home for the farm brings back “The Dating 24 hours of an event, wear a blouse or sweater, a manager. Tower yearbook Game” to its program which allows the fraternity skirt or dress and shoes. lineup. The Northwest to compile a list of people The Northwest Missourian Northwest offers its first Missourian who are covered by its MBA degree. Transitions: insurance policy. A Hundred Years of The Northwest Missourian Northwest 6 WINTER 2006 NORTHWEST ALUMNI MAGAZINE northwestnews WWI plaques return to Memorial Drive odaway Tom Carneal, professor emeritus of history, NCountians said the original street was quite narrow, and over who fought and the years the columns suffered damage from being died in World War struck by automobiles, and the plaques became I are being com- heavily tarnished and weather stained. memorated with Now, at the close of Northwest’s centennial year, the creation of a the refurbished plaques have gone back on public new structure on the display after decades in storage. Northwest campus. A small plaza has been built at the northeast A small plaza near B.D. Owens For many years, four bronze plaques were corner of Memorial Drive and features two 9-foot Library honors local men who died bolted to brick columns on either side of Memorial masonry-capped pillars similar to those that held in World War I. A similar memorial once located on campus was Drive, just west of the Administration Building. the plaques when they were first installed. removed in the 1970s. The plaques were installed shortly after the war Two large plaques, one for each pillar, list the ended in 1918 and removed in the 1970s when names of men who served. Two smaller plaques Memorial Drive was widened to accommodate bear the words: “In memory of the men from traffic volume created by the new high-rise Nodaway County Missouri who gave their lives in residence halls. the Great World War 1914-1918.” ■ Bohlken named to listening hall of fame Biology department acquires electron microscope Dr. Bob Bohlken, profes- orthwest’s Department of Biology recently demonstrations and by students assisting faculty sor emeritus and former Nacquired a scanning electron microscope members with research projects. chairman of Northwest’s as a gift from Hallmark Cards. Often referred to The 10-year-old apparatus would have sold speech and theatre depart- as an SEM, the device is capable of magnifying for about $150,000 when first manufactured, ment, was recently inducted objects more than 100,000 times their actual size Dieringer said. ■ into the International with far greater resolution than Listening Association’s Hall is possible with a conventional of Fame during a conference microscope. in Salem, Ore. Using the SEM, Northwest Bohlken, who joined the faculty members and students organization are now able to view high- in 1984, resolution images of objects has been as small as 4 to 5 nanometers. a frequent A nanometer is a billionth of presenter at a meter, which is about the ILA confer- distance a human fingernail ences and is grows in a second. a former vice Viewing such infinitesimal president and member of the bits of matter is possible because, executive board. unlike conventional microscopes Bohlken served the that use light to form an image, Northwest family for 30 SEMs emit a beam of electrons years, joining the Northwest produced by a metallic filament. Dr. Kurt Haberyan, professor of biology, views an image on a scanning electron faculty in 1970 and retiring in Dr. Gregg Dieringer, microscope that was recently acquired by the University as a gift from Hallmark 2000. ■ associate professor of biology Cards. When the Hallmark scientist who was the SEM’s primary user left the and department chairman, said company, the microscope sat idle in a Kansas City laboratory until a manufacturer’s representative mentioned that Northwest was looking for just such a machine. the SEM is used in classroom 8 WINTER 2006 NORTHWEST ALUMNI MAGAZINE northwestnews Two MBA programs Owens Library enters eBook age soon to be offered in lectronic book databases, now part of the The Gale database comprises a variety of refer- Kansas City Eresearch arsenal of Northwest’s B.D. Owens ence materials, including encyclopedias, almanacs Beginning in January, Library, make it possible for students to search and annotated lists. Northwest’s Kansas City and cite the complete texts of thousands of For those old enough to remember prepar- Center in Liberty will offer a volumes with only a few keystrokes and mouse ing term papers using typewriters and 3-by-5 general MBA and an MBA clicks. cards, the real gee-whiz feature may be Academic with health management Whether working on or off campus, students Complete’s automatic inclusion of citation mate- emphasis. can go to the library’s homepage, select the rial when text is inserted into another document. The general MBA will offer eBooks button, then choose either Ebrary’s mas- When a user pastes a quote into a word process- 21 required core hours, plus sive Academic Complete collection or the Gale ing document, the correct citation for the quote 12 hours of electives. The Virtual Reference Library. automatically appears. MBA program is designed so “Combined, the two resources contain the But for all the labor-saving technology, it can be completed within equivalent of more than 30,000 bound texts,” Baudino said, it’s still going to be a while – and one calendar year when all said Frank Baudino, head librarian for informa- maybe never – before the average undergraduate prerequisites are met. tion services. can complete four years of college without open- Students enrolled in the Academic Complete, which contains fully ing a printed book.