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Daring
to Excel
The First 100 Years of Southwest Missouri State University
Edited by Donald D. Landon
More than
a centennial celebration of Missouri’s second-largest
public university, Daring to Excel charts the history
of Missouri State University through a tumultuous century
of wars and peace, economic booms and busts, and the many
cultural, political, technological, and media revolutions
that have impacted the Ozarks, Missouri, and the nation as
a whole. Some of the book’s subjects belong to the university
uniquely: its stories of influential teachers and alumni,
its triumphs and challenges in pedagogy, varsity sports, public
entertainments, and in community relations generally.
In the research and writing of so expansive a history, Landon
has relied on numerous essayist-contributors, including Robert
H. Bradley, Robert Flanders, Albert R. Gordon, John H. Keiser,
Arthur Mallory, Andrea Mostyn, Jon Moran, Don Payton, Mark
Stillwell, Tina Stillwell, and Tom Strong.
“It’s
been said that all history is local history, and Daring
to Excel gives the proof. Missouri State alumni will
have an abiding interest in this entertaining, informative,
and handsomely illustrated publication. But, given the university’s
regional impact and the numerous national headlines it has
generated over the years, Landon’s book deserves a wider
readership. No one can be considered a serious student of
the Ozarks—or, for that matter, of public education
in the American Midwest—without having Daring to Excel
on his or her bookshelf.”
—George H. Jensen, author of Some
of the Words Are Theirs
Donald
D. Landon is professor emeritus and former
head of the Sociology Department at Missouri State University,
where he served for twenty-eight years. His book publications
include Country Lawyers: The Impact of Context on Professional
Practice.
2004
6 x 9, 416 pages
400+ historic photographs and illustrations
$29.95 hardcover
978-0-9748190-1-3
Distributed for Missouri State University / Moon City Press.
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