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Virginia and Norm Stewart
look forward to leading Mizzou’s Homecoming festivities
during the weekend of Oct. 14-16. Photo courtesy of the
Stewarts
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Homecoming
Announces
2005 Theme and
Grand Marshals
The MU
Alumni Association and the MU Homecoming Steering Committee
have named former men’s basketball coach Norm Stewart and
former MU Homecoming queen Virginia Stewart as this year’s
Homecoming grand marshals. The couple will join MUAA and the Homecoming
steering committee as they follow this year’s Homecoming
theme and “Let the Good Times Roar.”
Coach Stewart started his career at Mizzou
as a student-athlete on both the basketball and baseball teams.
He began his coaching legacy at MU in 1967, retiring in 1999.
During his 32 years of coaching men's
basketball, he won eight Big 8 Conference championships and
six tournament titles. He had an overall record of 634-333. He
also led two teams to the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament,
and in the 1993-94 season the team had a perfect 14-0 record in
the Big 8. In 38 coaching seasons (32 at Mizzou; 6 at Northern
Iowa), Stewart amassed a 731-375 record. The Big 8 Coach of the
Year five times and National Coach of the Year twice, Stewart
remains one of college basketball's all-time winningest coaches.
Virginia Stewart, who attended Mizzou from
1954-56, was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, was selected
as Show-Me queen and was active in numerous other campus activities.
During her sophomore year, she was voted Homecoming queen and
also met her husband-to-be. Twenty years later, she finished her
bachelor's degree, worked as a travel agent for 10 years and worked
with a partner to start a company called T.B.C. Inc. and William
Cole Advertising Agency.
The Stewarts are currently in partnership with another couple
in The Marc Salon and Day Spa and in Chris McD’s Restaurant,
both in Columbia. Norm Stewart also acts as special assistant
to MU Chancellor J. Brady Deaton. They have three children and
eight grandchildren.
The Tigers take on the Iowa State Cyclones
in Homecoming football
action on Oct. 15. This year marks 94 years of Mizzou Homecoming.
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