This was supposed to be a column by Donald R. Payton, Missouri State’s unofficial historian and, for many decades, the author of the Payton Place column in various publications. Payton passed away June 7 in Springfield. He was 87.
A discussion of financial aid leads Don Payton to reminisce about topics from Hamlet to Homecoming, linked to the most unusual type of aid he can recall.
As I think about it, the first advisor I had as a student at then-SMS was a young lady named Cora.
According to an item that appeared in The Standard in the 1930s, Dean Bertha Wells once told a female student: “Either your skirt is too short, or you are in it too far.”