Unions' Public Art Blog

This post is the first in a series that will highlight the iconic buildings of the University of Missouri campus and their namesakes. Names from the past become associated not with a person who lived but the building that lives on in our daily travels. This series strives to remind us of our everyday connection to Mizzou’s history through the names and faces of our extraordinary campus. Photograph of Jesse Hall and Francis Quad with Columns ca.1973 (courtesy of the Missouri Cultural Resource Inventory) Jesse Hall and Richard Henry Jesse Hopefully, every student of the University of Missouri, past and present, can recognize the iconic red brick and white domed building at the heart of our adopted home. This landmark is a symbol of Mizzou's traditions and values, overseeing the freshmen and seniors in their annual walks through the Columns that bookend their lives as college students. Jesse Hall has anchored MU's campus since 1895, when this  rose from the

March is National Women's History Month and so we recognize the contributions made by women to the development of our university! The Missouri Student Unions invite you to view the annual exhibition, "Celebrating Women's History at Mizzou," in the Lower Lair lounge at the MU Student Center.  The exhibition is on view throughout the month of March. Women Graduates Break the Gender Barrier! The first woman to graduate from the University of Missouri attended the Normal School program, which prepared teachers for primary and secondary schools.  The Normal School was the nineteenth century precursor to today's College of Education. Although 22 women enrolled in September, 1867, the first woman to complete the three-year program was Mary Louise "Lulie" Gillette of Hannibal, Mo, who graduated in 1870. After she graduated, Gillette became an instructor in the Normal School, teaching English and grammar. Gillette Hall, a women's dormitory, was name