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Title
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KC @ 150--Lasting Legacies: 135 More
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Ernest Newcomb (1886-1979), "[f]ounder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City," moving to Kansas City in 1925 and opening the "University of Kansas City" in 1933, writing its charter, hiring its faculty, and outlining its courses.
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Date
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2000-05-21
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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About Town: Times Never Dull for E. H. Newcomb
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Description
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Biographical article about Ernest Newcomb, "founder and director of the Kansas City Town Hall Forum" in 1940 and in 1975 named Outstanding Alumnus of Southwest Missouri State University. Native of Virginia "reared in Neosho, Mo.," before coming to Kansas City in 1925 "as executive secretary of a Methodist committee that had hopes of founding a university at 75th and State Line" Roads to be called Lincoln & Lee University (later becoming the University of Kansas City with Newcomb as director of "its first University Review quarterly" until 1940.
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Date
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1975-11-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
