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Creating a Legacy

@Mizzou readers share stories about generations of family members who made MU their home for higher education…

I attended the University from 1945-49 and earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (it was not called Mizzou then). My mother started in 1924, dropped out in her senior year to get married, then went back and graduated in 1948 or 1949. My great grandfather (we have the same name) attended in 1853 and graduated valedictorian in 1857. He was president of the Board of Curators from 1889 until his death. The University building, Academic Hall, burned down in 1892 on his watch, and he made the resolution to save the Columns. Rothwell Gymnasium was named for him. Maybe his great, great grandson, also with the same name, Gideon Franklin Rothwell VI, can be persuaded to apply when he gets older.

— Frank Rothwell, BS ME ’49

My ancestors founded Columbia, and in the deed part of the Columbia Cemetery a location was set aside for an “institute of education.” The next generation gave money to bring MU to Columbia. Then in generation three, my family began attending Mizzou. When my daughter received her bachelor’s degree in 2002, she was the seventh generation of my family to have earned an MU education.

We were honored in 1989 on the University’s 150th anniversary.

— Maryellen H. McVicker, BA ’73, MA ’75, PhD ’89

I graduated from Mizzou in 1998. My parents graduated from MU’s graduate school in 1975, and my grandmother attended for two years before my grandfather returned from World War II. I also have an aunt, two second cousins (that I know of) and a great uncle who are Mizzou graduates. I think something that makes my family a bit different from most other multi-generational MU families is that only about half of us are from Missouri!

— Raegan Rinchiuso, BJ ’98

I went to Mizzou for two reasons: It has the best broadcast journalism program in the country, and it’s a family tradition. My grandfather, Steve Hopkins, met my grandmother, Cornelia Rice Hopkins, at the J-School in the 1930s. He specialized in advertising; she was in the print sequence. They graduated together, went off to pursue their own journalism careers, and married a few years later.

Their son, my Uncle Steve Hopkins Jr., went to Mizzou in the late 1950s and took the magazine sequence at the J-School.

About sixty years after my grandparents graduated, I received my master’s degree from the J-School with a specialization in broadcast and Internet reporting.

Our family managed to study everything the J-School has to offer: advertising, newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet.

My grandfather was from Chicago, my grandmother came from a tiny town in Tennessee, my uncle left Wisconsin, and I traveled from Washington, D.C. – all to study at Mizzou. For three generations we have traveled from all those different places because we knew Missouri had the best journalism school in the country.

— Tisha Thompson, MA ’01

We have four generations of Mizzou students. My grandfather, S.P. Dalton, BS Ed ’14, MA ’14, JD ’18, graduated from Mizzou’s law school. He served on the Missouri Supreme Court until his death in 1963. His son, and my dad, James P. Dalton, JD ’53, graduated from Mizzou’s law school and is still practicing law part time in Jefferson City. My husband, Michael, MD ’83, graduated from MU’s School of Medicine, and I graduated from the Sinclair School of Nursing. Our son Adam will graduate in May from the College of Business, and our daughter Megan is now a sophomore at Mizzou. Four generations! That is a great tradition!

— Andrea Dalton Rau, BSN ’78

Our Mizzou family tree is four generations so far with 16 branches.

My grandfather, Charles Wesley Atkins, and my father, Eugene Russell Consalus, both attended classes at Mizzou. My sister, Susan Consalus Miller, BA, BS Ed ’74, and my brother, John Atkins Consalus, BS EE ’80, and his wife, Elisabeth Lohmeyer Consalus, BS HE ’79, are all Mizzou grads, as is my husband Ed, BS BA ’74. My husband’s parents, Herschel Duncan Price, Jr. and June Eloise Young Price McKelvey, both deceased, were also graduates, as is Ed’s sister, Patricia Eloise Price Simon, BS Ed ’71. My older son, James Duncan Price, BS BA ’04, graduated last spring. My younger son, Andrew Franklin Price, is a junior, and my nieces, June Van Meter and Abigail Martin, are also undergrads. My aunt, Virginia Atkins Lynd, and my husband’s aunt, Trudy Price Miller, also are graduates.

— Karen Consalus Price, BS HE ’75

I’m a second generation Mizzou grad. Both my parents went to MU and graduated with bachelors and master’s degrees. Growing up, I always knew I would go to Mizzou. I graduated in 2000, then my younger sister took over and graduated four years later. I hope some day my children choose to continue the tradition.

— Marnie Olson, BJ ’00

My parents, Herbert H. Daniel, a senior (BS ’20, I think) and Annette Minnich Daniel, a freshman, met at MU and married a year later. Thanks for asking!

— William O. Daniel, BJ ’50

My son Drew is a third generation student. My husband, Stephen D. Wilson, BS ’82, and I are both grads, and my dad graduated in agriculture in ’57 or ’58.

— Diane Kern Wilson, BS ’83

My father, Albert Prather Hamilton, received his LLB degree from MU in l902. I have the 01-02 Savitar in which his picture is listed with the senior law students. The caption reads “President of class ' 01, MSU Debating Club,” for which he served as treasurer. His picture also is shown with the legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi.

A Cousin, Goldie Hamilton, also is listed in the same Savitar as one of the 42 juniors in the academic section. She is one of the 12 women shown in that class.

— Kate A. Hamilton Dickey, BS Ed ’36

Mizzou pride memories submitted after the January issue of @Mizzou was published…

Before I left Columbia for my home country, Malaysia, I bought a jacket with the paw on each sleeve and “Mizzou” written on the back. The weather at home is warm all year round, but I proudly put it on even though I sweat a lot. Wherever I go, I never forget to take it with me, and after all these years, I still has it to wear on the streets of London where I now live.

— Roha Ramli, BS ’97

My husband’s Mizzou tag on the front of his car helped in its quick recovery when the car was stolen just after Christmas. We live in South Carolina, and University of Missouri tags are not common here. However, the black Ford Explorer my husband drives is a very common vehicle.

A carjacker stole the car from him and our son at gunpoint from our driveway one evening. We quickly called 911 and sheriff’s deputies came immediately. They asked for a description of the car. At first we gave make, model, tag number, but then we remembered the big M with a Mizzou tiger on the front. Within an hour, a deputy had found the Explorer at an apartment complex. It was backed into a parking space, so he couldn’t see the S.C. tag number – but he could see the Mizzou tiger tag. My husband, C. Grant Jackson, MA ’74, got his car back, unharmed, that night.

— Licia Drinnon Jackson, MA ’74

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