Morningside College is a liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church in Sioux City, Iowa. It was founded on December 5, 1894 by a committee of 15 ministers and 12 laypersons. The college purchased the only building from the University of the Northwest. [Classic Morningside College postcard: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ia/woodbury/postcards/mscoll.jpg] In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodist, the largest mainline, and, after the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States. ... Motto: Nickname: Map Political Statistics Founded 1854 Incorporated 1857 Woodbury County Mayor Craig Berenstein Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 144. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Morningside is a private institution. The College culture cultivates a passion for life-long learning in its students. The Morningside experience fosters dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility. College yearbooks from the early and mid-1900s show that Morningside was one of the very first colleges to embrace racial and gender integration. Currently, Morningside is undertaking a massive five-year strategic restructuring and reorientation plan to streamline operations. The intitiative has seen the renovation of the athletic stadium and construction of several new facilities on campus.

Morningside carries on several age-old traditions. Student groups frequently paint and re-paint the "spoonholder" - a curved bench named for the couples who used to sit nestled closely together in the early years. There is a yearly "run to the monument" that used to entail men running in their underwear but has evolved into a recreational 5-k race.

"Dear Abby" (Abigail van Buren) and "ask Ann" Ann Landers twin sisters, are Morningside College alumni. Known as the "Friedman twins" during their time at Morningside, they wrote for the school's long running newspaper, the Collegiate Reporter. Morningside is also the alma mater of Norman W. Waitt, Jr., founder of Gateway Computers, although Waitt never completed his degree. Wait has been very generous and has given large amounts of money to the college for things such as a new dormitory. It is not widely known that the original business proposal for Gateway computers started as a project for a business class Waitt was taking at Morningside College. The instructor who graded the project advised Waitt not to quit his day job and to only pursue the project part-time. However, Gateway computers turned out to be a very profitable idea. Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips (born July 4, 1918) is an American writer who, under the pen-name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the Dear Abby column, a regular column in many newspapers in which people wrote her for advice and she answered. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Ann Landers EstherEppiePauline Friedman Lederer, better known as Ann Landers (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), is best known for writing the famous syndicated advice column Ann Landers. Known For some 45 years, it was a regular feature in many... Alma mater is Latin for El Sahddai. It was used in ancient Rome as a title for the Father God, and in Medieval Christianity for the Holy Emmanuel. ... Gateway, Inc. ...

Until 2004, Morningside competed in NCAA Division II Athletics as a member of the North Central Conference. This pullout met with tremendous resistance -- the president of the college received death threats -- but was, ultimately beneficial to the college becuase it allowed the members of the administration to reduce spending of ahtletic scholarships. (The football team had been running a deficit for a number of years.) Morningside athletic teams, known as the "Mustangs," now compete in the Great Plains Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The Mustangs compete in 10 men's sports (Baseball, Basketball, Cross-Country, Football, Golf, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track & Field, and Wrestling) and 9 women's sports (Basketball, Cross-Country, Golf, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Track & Field, and Volleyball). The Lady Mustangs Basketball team won back-to-back NAIA Division II National Championships in 2004 & 2005. The football team was coached from 1948-1950 by future NFL Hall Of Fame Coach George Allen. The wrestling team, coached by Tim Jager, returned in 2004-05 after a 25-year layoff and made a strong showing in the NAIA national tournament, with freshman Jake Stevenson winning 4th place honors. The team looks to improve upon their first year with 20 new recruits in 2005-2006. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The North Central Conference is a College Athletic Conference which operates in the north central United States. ... The Great Plains Athletic Conference (or GPAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NAIA. Member institutions are located in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. ... The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (better known as the NAIA) traces its roots to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball. ...

External link

• Official site, Morningside College