Dr. Arthur Mattingly taught in the Department of History at Southeast Missouri State University from 1963 to 1992. He attended Southeast Missouri State University (graduated from Murray State University with a Bachelors of Science in Education in 1961), received his Masters degree in history from the University of Missouri in 1962, and his Ph.D. in history from Kansas State University in 1971. His areas of scholarship were United States, local, and military history. Dr. Mattingly helped begin the Center for Regional History in 1979, and the Bachelors of Science degree in Historic Preservation for the 1980-1981 academic year. Elmer Danuser was a math, science, and German language educator from Hermann, Missouri. He attended public schools in Hermann, received his undergraduate degree from Warrensburg Teachers College and his Masters from the University of Missouri. Mr. Danuser taught math and science at Hermann High School for 39 years. Hugo Fricke was born and raised on a farm outside Hermann, Missouri that his grandfather purchased when he emigrated from Germany. Mr. Fricke was a third generation farmer and farmed the land until, due to arthritis, he sold the property when he was eighty and moved to Hermann. Norman Heckman was a steamboat engineer who worked on boats that travelled the Gasconade, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers. Mr. Heckman’s father and brothers also worked on steamboats as pilots or engineers. He was born near Mount Stearling at Heckman’s Mill on the Gasconade River and his family moved to Hermann when he was two years old. Pearl Hubberstey was born in Hermann, Missouri. She left Hermann at the age of eighteen to attend business college in St. Louis. Mrs. Hubberstey worked for several companies in St. Louis and met her husband Jack. The Hubbersteys moved to various places in Oklahoma and Kansas where Jack worked in the oil industry. The couple retired to Hermann and operated a farm until Jack passed away in 1970. Theresa Loehnig was born outside of Hermann, Missouri and grew up on a farm there. Her family operated a vineyard and winery until Prohibition halted the wine making business and the family switched to growing wheat. Miss Loehnig attended business college in St. Louis after graduating high school in Hermann. She worked in offices throughout the Midwestern United States, and the wine industry in both California and Missouri. Hugo Wagner was born and raised in Hermann, Missouri. He worked in a blacksmith shop as a boy, then the local marble works for thirteen and a half years. Mr. Wagner got married in 1917 to the daughter of a local drug store owner and worked in the drug store for sixty-two years, making ice cream at the store for twenty- two years.