Welcome to ShowMe Magazine!
On the ground level of the MU Student Center, you can now explore an exhibition dedicated to ShowMe Magazine. The ShowMe was a student run humor magazine published at the University of Missouri from the early 1920s through the early 1960s. The monthly magazine was edited, managed, and staffed entirely by MU students. The first issue of the periodical premiered in October of 1920. In its early years ShowMe struggled to meet its financial obligations and it disbanded in 1925. It was briefly replaced by The Outlaw , but in February 1930 Sigma Delta Chi, a national professional journalistic fraternity, purchased The Outlaw and revived ShowMe . Publication of ShowMe would be suspended again in the early 1940s due to World War II, but the magazine resurfaced in January 1946. These covers are from ShowMe 's second year of publication. (1922 Savitar ) During the post-war years of the late-1940s and early-1950s ShowMe enjoyed unprecedented success. The National Scholastic Press co...