{"id":1144,"date":"2015-05-07T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:23:16","slug":"faithful-proud-and-true-dr-frances-flanagan-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2015\/05\/07\/faithful-proud-and-true-dr-frances-flanagan-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful, Proud and True: Dr. Frances Flanagan ’35"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is totally appropriate that Dr. Frances Flanagan \u201935 is featured as \u201cfaithful, proud and true\u201d in a magazine issue during Missouri Western\u2019s centennial year. She was born the same year as the St. Joseph Junior College opened and has been an advocate for the Junior College and Missouri Western ever since she first walked through the doors of the Junior College.<\/p>\n

\"Flanagan<\/a>\u00a0Besides being an alumna, Dr. Flanagan was also a faculty member at the St. Joseph Junior College \u00a0and Missouri Western, serving for six years as department chair.<\/p>\n

She retired in 1980, and in 1982, Dr. M.O. Looney, Missouri Western\u2019s president, asked the professor \u00a0emerita of English to research and write Missouri Western\u2019s history, covering 1915 to 1983. She was \u00a0given just nine months to complete the task, and she said she put in many long hours to have the book \u00a0ready for publication in time.<\/p>\n

As part of Missouri Western\u2019s centennial, Dr. Flanagan\u2019s book will be reformatted and available \u00a0online.<\/p>\n

After Dr. Flanagan earned her associate degree from the Junior College, she began teaching elementary students in the St. Joseph School District. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas, and her master’s and doctorate from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. She joined the faculty of the St. Joseph Junior College in 1963.<\/p>\n

As Missouri Western celebrates its centennial year, we want to extend our best wishes to Dr. Flanagan for a happy centennial year, too, and we thank her for being faithful, proud and true to Missouri Western.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is totally appropriate that Dr. Frances Flanagan \u201935 is featured as \u201cfaithful, proud and true\u201d in a magazine issue during Missouri Western\u2019s centennial year. She was born the same year as the St. Joseph Junior College opened and has been an advocate for the Junior College and Missouri Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}