Fall 2007 - Northwestern College

Northwestern Classic
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orthwestern has required its students to attend chapel since
the 1880s. Among the buildings that have housed the daily
gatherings in the past are Pioneer School, Academy Hall
(a.k.a. “The Rink”), Zwemer Hall and Science Hall. A student-initiated-and-led
Sunday night worship service began
in the early 1990s and continues to fill Christ Chapel. And
in the early ’80s, Northwestern established its Summer of
Service and Spring Service Project programs, which today
send hundreds of students throughout the U.S. and around
the world as short-term missionaries.
125-year anniversary
Though voluntary, a student-led
praise and worship service on
Sunday night regularly fills Christ
Chapel.
Almost 500 students have ministered to people around the world through the Summer of
Service program.
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Northwestern’s football team captured
the college’s first NAIA championship
in 1973.
Chapel services in the 1940s were
held in Science Hall.
n 1928, Northwestern Junior College’s football team
lost its first game to Sheldon Junior College by a score
of 122 to 6. A few decades later, however, it had captured
the conference title, and the basketball team was
the state’s junior college champion. It was in football
that Northwestern won its first national championship
in 1973 and another national title in 1983. Today the
college is known for its success in one of the toughest
conferences in the NAIA. In one of those rare moments
in sports history, both the men’s and women’s basketball
teams won national championships on the same
night in 2001, and the men repeated as national
champs in 2003.
Basketball, football, baseball and tennis
were the earliest sports offered by
Northwestern Classical Academy.
Members of the 2001 women’s basketball team
proudly display their championship trophy.