Fall 2007 - Northwestern College
Fall 2007 - Northwestern College
Fall 2007 - Northwestern College
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Coverstory<br />
1970 Teacher education<br />
department nationally<br />
accredited.<br />
1970<br />
1973 Football team wins<br />
college’s first NAIA championship.<br />
2000 Drama Ministries<br />
Ensemble conducts first<br />
summer tour.<br />
2000<br />
2001 Men’s and women’s<br />
basketball teams win NAIA<br />
championships on same night.<br />
1974 <strong>Northwestern</strong> offers<br />
Chicago Semester and study<br />
abroad trips.<br />
1976 <strong>Northwestern</strong> purchases<br />
its first computer.<br />
2002 Lilly Endowment<br />
awards <strong>Northwestern</strong><br />
$2 million grant.<br />
2003 Korver Visual Arts<br />
Center built.<br />
2003 Men’s basketball team<br />
repeats as national champions.<br />
1981 Summer of Service<br />
program established.<br />
1980<br />
1980 Rowenhorst Student<br />
Center added to campus.<br />
2004 Multi-Purpose<br />
Auditorium transformed into<br />
DeWitt Theatre Arts Center.<br />
2004 Spanish professor<br />
Piet Koene named Iowa<br />
Professor of the Year.<br />
1983 Spring Service<br />
Projects begun.<br />
1983 Football team wins<br />
second NAIA championship.<br />
2005 Athletic training<br />
program nationally accredited.<br />
2005 New logo adopted.<br />
1988 Christ Chapel built.<br />
2006 Deb Remmerde breaks<br />
every high school, college<br />
and pro record with 133<br />
consecutive free throws.<br />
2006 Theatre professor Jeff<br />
Barker named Iowa Professor<br />
of the Year.<br />
1988 Social work program<br />
nationally accredited.<br />
2006 <strong>Northwestern</strong> begins<br />
Bachelor of Science in Nursing<br />
program.<br />
2006 Business department<br />
nationally accredited.<br />
1990 <strong>Northwestern</strong><br />
named to first Templeton<br />
Foundation Honor Roll for<br />
Character-Building <strong>College</strong>s<br />
and Universities.<br />
1990<br />
1989 Enrollment exceeds<br />
1,000 students.<br />
1992 <strong>Northwestern</strong> joins<br />
forerunner of Great Plains<br />
Athletic Conference.<br />
<strong>2007</strong> <strong>Northwestern</strong>’s Tuition<br />
Guarantee established.<br />
<strong>2007</strong> Rowenhorst Student<br />
Center renovated.<br />
1994 <strong>Northwestern</strong> first listed<br />
in top tier of Midwestern<br />
liberal arts colleges by U.S.<br />
News & World Report.<br />
1994 First <strong>Northwestern</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> website developed.<br />
1995 Bultman Center for<br />
Health, Physical Education and<br />
Intercollegiate Athletics built.<br />
<strong>Northwestern</strong> <strong>College</strong> Presidents<br />
Rev. Dr. Jacob Heemstra 1928–1951<br />
Dr. Frederick Wezeman 1951–1955<br />
Dr. Preston Stegenga 1955–1966<br />
Dr. Lars Granberg 1966–1975<br />
Virgil Rowenhorst 1975–1979<br />
Dr. Friedhelm Radandt 1979–1985<br />
Dr. James Bultman 1985–1999<br />
Dr. Bruce Murphy 2001–<strong>2007</strong><br />
17 ▲ <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
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