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Featured is the official flag of the Kingdom of Callaway. In 1961, the 100th anniversary of the Kingdom’s foundation, the Callaway County Court signed a court order establishing the official flag of the Kingdom. The order is as follows: “Be it resolved by the County Court of Callaway County, Missouri that a flag having a…
Over 1,000 people gathered in Champ Auditorium on December 5, 1967, to listen to the pioneer of today’s reality television programming, Art Linkletter (1912-2010), lecture on “The Tube and American Manners.” Linkletter, the host of two of the longest-running shows in television history, House Party and People Are Funny, often lectured around the country on vital issues of the day. Having attended a small…
The Young Men’s Christian Association at Westminster 1895 Because Westminster was strongly rooted in the Presbyterian faith at its conception, the founders were as deeply concerned about the spiritual life of the students as they were about their academic lives. After all, one of the primary objectives of the new school was to prepare young men for the ministry…
Over the years Westminster College and William Woods have enjoyed a number of partnerships. One tradition, followed during the holiday season for many years, was Christmas Vespers. Background information on Christmas Vespers is sketchy, and what is found is basically some brief descriptions in yearbooks as well as a paragraph reference in Bill Parrish’s wonderful Westminster…
Right before Thanksgiving break in 1970, Westminster student government representatives were faced with a dilemma—how to spend a small amount of money left in the Student Activity Fund for the semester. The decision was made to hold a concert, but the question was who might be available on such short notice. The students contacted Mizzou law…
Photo caption from yearbook: The rigorous schedules and late study nights often caused students to sleep through their eight o’clock classes. A long-standing, universal tradition for students — not only at Westminster but at any college or university — is trying to find the right excuse for missing a class. When the academic year begins,…
Thomas Tuttle, MD, Class of 1889, suddenly made headlines last spring when Forbes magazine and other national news outlets compared Tuttle’s health mandates during the Spanish flu to those of Anthony Fauci, MD. Above, left: Photo courtesy of the Montana Historical Society. Above, right: Photo courtesy of The NIAID, Wikimedia Commons. The following article appeared…
Westminster has given countless honorary doctoral degrees over the years, but it might surprise you to know that for one brief period in the College’s illustrious history, students could actually earn a doctorate behind The Columns. The subject first appears in the faculty minutes of January 29, 1891, when the faculty recommended to…
Visitors of the magnificently restored Christopher Wren church on Westminster’s campus, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, are greeted at the back of the sanctuary by a huge bust of the Stratford-on-Avon bard himself, William Shakespeare. As a result, one of the first questions the thousands of visitors ask every year is, Why…
by Thomas Dunlap ’71 In 1946, Westminster President Franc L. McCluer penned a letter to Winston Churchill inviting him to deliver a lecture at the College. Before the letter reached Churchill, President Harry Truman added this handwritten postscript to it, “This is a wonderful school in my home state. Hope you can do it. I’ll…
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