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| Day | Year | Event |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 1 | 1910 | Dr. H.K. Taylor assumed the role as the Normal School's third president. |
| Jan. 1 | 1940 | An electric scoreboard in the gymnasium, a gift from the class of 1938, was used for the first time. |
| Jan. 1 | 1979 | J.W. Jones, a former dean and Northwest's sixth president, died at age 85. |
| Jan. 4 | 1906 | Frank Deerwester was selected as the institution's first president. |
| Jan. 4 | 2017 | Northwest announced the establishment of its first-ever endowed professorship, the Dennis C. Dau Endowed Professorship in Instrumental Music, through a $500,000 cash gift honoring Dennis Dau, a 1970 and 1971 graduate, to support a faculty member in instrumental music. |
| Jan. 5 | 1922 | The Art Club was organized. |
| Jan. 5 | 1943 | A book drive began for servicemen and women, with librarian C. E. Wells in charge. |
| Jan. 5 | 2011 | Northwest introduced Wren Baker as the University's new director of athletics. He succeeded Dr. Bob Boerigter, who left the University in September 2010 to become commissioner of the MIAA. |
| Jan. 6 | 1910 | The juniors had a bobsled ride. |
| Jan. 6 | 1946 | A morning convocation and open house honored new Northwest President Dr. J.W. Jones. |
| Jan. 7 | 1923 | Residence Hall - known today as Roberta Hall - opened; Mr. C.E. Partch, head of the industrial arts department, served as housemother for one day until Mrs. Sarah Campbell arrived on Jan. 8. |
| Jan. 8 | 2010 | During an All-Employee Meeting in Bearcat Arena, President Jasinski praised faculty and staff for their contributions during the 2009 fall trimester, which included making $503,000 in voluntary budget cuts. |
| Jan. 9 | 1874 | The first bill to create a Normal School for northwest Missouri was introduced in the General Assembly. |
| Jan. 9 | 1918 | The Stroller and the College Oath made their first appearance in The Green and White Courier. |
| Jan. 9 | 1926 | The College dedicated its gymnasium, known today as Martindale Hall, with a basketball game between the Bearcats and the Kansas City Athletic Club. The Bearcats lost 18-32. |
| Jan. 9 | 2006 | Northwest opens its Kansas City Center at a converted office tower in Liberty as the University's first classroom facility outside of Maryville. |
| Jan. 9 | 2020 | Northwest was one of five institutions in the nation selected to join the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’s pilot cohort focused on student success strategies and supported by a grant funded through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
| Jan. 11 | 1996 | The Northwest Missourian began publishing online. |
| Jan. 12 | 1925 | Physical examinations started for all students. |
| Jan. 13 | 1936 | Famed travel writer and adventurer Richard Haliburton spoke at the college. |
| Jan. 13 | 2018 | Northwest dedicated the Harr Athletic Success Center, a remodeled space in the lower level of the Lamkin Activity Center to foster the academic success of student-athletes and named in honor of the Harr family for its legacy of education, service and leadership at the University. Dr. Patrick Harr, a local physician served for decades as a volunteer athletic trainer with Bearcat athletics and was a member of the Board of Regents from 2013 to 2019, serving as Board Chair from 2015 to 2019. His father, John, was a member of the Northwest faculty from 1944 until 1979 and made impacts as chair of the history department and as the Homecoming faculty chairman. |
| Jan. 14 | 1955 | About 100 alumni met in St. Joseph and organized a St. Joseph Chapter of the Northwest Missouri State College Alumni Association. Fred Davis '49 was elected president. |
| Jan. 14 | 1971 | KXCV began broadcasting. |
| Jan. 14 | 1991 | A yellow ribbon was tied around the Memorial Bell Tower as the campus community gathered for a vigil calling for a peaceful solution to the Persian Gulf conflict. Allied forces attacked Iraq two days later, launching the Gulf War. |
| Jan. 14 | 2012 | For the second time in three years, the Bearcat cheerleading squad claimed the Universal Cheerleaders Association national championship at the Walt Disney World Resort. |
| Jan. 15 | 1909 | Ten new members were initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, a sorority organized in 1907, with Mary Armstrong as its first president. |
| Jan. 15 | 1912 | Classes were canceled because the school was out of coal. |
| Jan. 16 | 1930 | Alfredo San-Malo, a violinist from Panama, performed a concert. |
| Jan. 16 | 1960 | Lamkin Gymnasium, now known as Bearcat Arena, was dedicated. |
| Jan. 16 | 2010 | The Bearcat cheerleading team captured its first Universal Cheerleaders Association Division II National Championship at Disney's Wide World of Sports. |
| Jan. 16 | 2012 | Dozens of Northwest students marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a peace march from the Northwest campus to the steps of the Nodaway County Courthouse, where it concluded with speakers and a city proclamation. |
| Jan. 17 | 1912 | Green V-neck sweaters were presented to the winners of a basketball tournament: Harry Mitchell, Walter Scott, "Buck" Holmes, Tom Nixon, Ray Miller and James Carpenter. |
| Jan. 18 | 1996 | A wind chill of -40 degrees and deep snow prompted Northwest to close its campus because of weather for the first time since 1978 and just the third time in its history. |
| Jan. 19 | 1942 | A first aid class established amid World War II met for the first time. |
| Jan. 19 | 2013 | For the second consecutive year and third time in four years, Northwest’s cheerleading squad claimed the Universal Cheerleaders Association Division II National Championship. |
| Jan. 20 | 1916 | Before a basketball game against Drury College in Springfield, the opposing coach asked Normal School coach Walter Hanson if his "fighting bearcats" were ready to play that night. Upon the team's return to Maryville, Hanson told the story and the school adopted "Bearcats" as the name for its athletics teams. |
| Jan. 20 | 1942 | John Hopple was the college's first combat casualty of World War II. |
| Jan. 21 | 1907 | Fifty-three Normal School boys and an instructor who hiked to Burlington Junction returned via the Wabash railroad and were met by the Normal School girls, who "tenderly escorted them up town." |
| Jan. 22 | 1919 | Amid the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, the Stroller called the face mask "the most efficient nose warmer possible." |
| Jan. 22 | 1945 | Student Senate voted to sponsor an Honor Roll for people from the College serving in World War II. |
| Jan. 22 | 1949 | The Hickory Stick was found in a vault in the president's office after being lost for several years. |
| Jan. 23 | 2019 | John Bell, director of bands and orchestra and artist-in-residence at Northwest, was honored with the 2019 Missouri Music Educators Association Outstanding Educator Award at the organization's annual conference. |
| Jan. 24 | 1927 | Work began to move the library from the second-floor east wing of the Administration Building to the first-floor gym. |
| Jan. 24 | 1941 | A student center, Bearcat Den, opened in the southeast corner rooms on the first floor of the Administration Building. |
| Jan. 24 | 1944 | The first electronic typewriter was added to the business equipment. |
| Jan. 25 | 2004 | A formal agreement is signed with Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute to make it easier for the institution's students to transfer to Northwest. |
| Jan. 25 | 2019 | The Jazz Ensemble performed its program “Made in Kansas City,” a tribute to composers and performers from the Kansas City area, at the Missouri Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop and Conference. |
| Jan. 26 | 2012 | The Madraliers choral ensemble was one of three college choirs in the state to perform for the Missouri Music Educators Association Conference in Osage. Beach. |
| Jan. 26 | 2021 | Northwest, in collaboration with Mosaic Medical Center-Maryville and the Nodaway County Health Department, hosted the first in a series of COVID-19 vaccination clinics that continued at the Carl and Cheryl Hughes Fieldhouse throughout the spring. |
| Jan. 27 | 1943 | Dr. Hake, the head of the physics department, began his lecture, titled "Physical Basis of Music," by throwing sticks of wood on the platform of the Administration Building auditorium to sound notes of the musical scale. |
| Jan. 27 | 1951 | Bill Ogden was crowned the first Tower King; Sharlis Marple was queen. |
| Jan. 28 | 1927 | The Writers' Club was founded by Miss Mattie Dykes of the English Department with nine members. |
| Jan. 29 | 1916 | H.L. Raines, a Maryville optometrist, became the time-keeper for basketball and football games on campus and maintained the role until 1953. |
| Jan. 29 | 2015 | The Tower Choir performed at the Missouri Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop and Conference in Osage Beach. |
| Jan. 29 | 2016 | Northwest and the Missouri Army National Guard signed an agreement to establish the Guard Officer Leadership Development (GOLD) Program, a partnership that develops commissioned officers and provides a pathway to degree completion. |
| Jan. 30 | 1995 | The University received a newer, larger plan to replace the previous plane that had been in use for 17 years and had 6,000 hours of use. The plane could be used by staff and faculty as well as students to attend meetings and conferences. |
| Jan. 30 | 2020 | With concerns about COVID-19 growing globally and five cases identified in the United States, Northwest notified its campus community via an email alert that it was monitoring the virus and asked students and employees to take precautions. |
| Jan. 31 | 1934 | The Missouri Wesleyan College building in Cameron, Missouri, is taken over by Northwest to be used as an extension center with the U.S. government paying the faculty for "relief work." |
| Jan. 31 | 1977 | Dr. B.D. Owens, a Northwest alumnus and the president of the University of Tampa since 1971, was announced as Northwest's next president during a news conference in the Student Union Ballroom. |
| Jan. 31 | 1998 | Women's basketball head coach Wayne Winstead earns the 300th victory of his collegiate coaching career with a 92-68 victory against Lincoln. |
| Jan. 31 | 2011 | A blizzard struck the Midwest and closed the Northwest campus for three days. |
