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Donated by the Class of 2002, Monmouth College's 9/11 memorial was also the site of a ceremony five years ago, marking the 15th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.

Monmouth College to mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 with several events

Simply put, Sept. 11, 2001, is the day the world changed. That will be a point made, among many, during "9/11: Twenty Years Later," a Monmouth College panel discussion at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 in Mellinger Commons on the lower level of the Center for Scienc...

Sep 7, 2021, 12:11pm EDT

Scots Volleyball Wins Twice Saturday

The Monmouth Scots volleyball team won a pair of matches Saturday at the Illinois College Invitational. Both matches were delayed past their scheduled start times due to long matches throughout the day. Stats were not immediately provided for either ma...

Sep 4, 2021, 11:50pm EDT

Monmouth Football Team Loses Opener at Wartburg

Taking the field for the first time in 650 days the Monmouth College Fighting Scots football team lost the season opener at Wartburg 44-3 on Saturday. The Scots moved the ball right down the field on the first drive with a couple long runs and a compl...

Sep 4, 2021, 11:30pm EDT

Scots Drop 1-0 Women's Soccer Game at Webster

For the second time this week the Monmouth College women's soccer team went on the road. After falling 1-0 at Wisconsin-Platteville in double overtime on Wednesday, the Scots fell 1-0 at Webster University on Saturday. T The game was scoreless into th...

Sep 4, 2021, 5:03pm EDT

Volleyball Splits Pair in Jacksonville

The Monmouth College volleyball team (2-1) played nine sets on Friday in the first day of the Illinois College Invitational and walked away with a 1-1 record. After a tough five-set loss against Olivet College in the afternoon, the Fighting Scots bounc...

Sep 4, 2021, 12:19am EDT

Monmouth College alumna helps New Orleans TV station with its live coverage of Hurricane Ida

While others were getting as far away from New Orleans as possible last week in advance of Hurricane Ida, Michelle Nutting headed into the teeth of the storm. The 2011 Monmouth College graduate, who's a news producer at St. Louis television station KS...

Sep 3, 2021, 11:18am EDT

A relationship that started at Monmouth College and was enhanced by sitting next to each other in daily chapel grew into a 63-year marriage for 1954 classmates Tom and Nancy Forsyth Flanders.

Flanders still supporting Monmouth College after all these years

Nancy Forsyth Flanders '54 owes a debt of gratitude to her Monmouth College classmate Mary Fleschner Knobeloch. She was the student who "graciously" gave up her seat so that Forsyth could sit next to classmate Tom Flanders during daily chapel service, ...

Sep 2, 2021, 11:36am EDT

Cross Country Teams Start Season at Titan Opener

The Monmouth College men's and women's cross country teams started their seasons Wednesday night at Maxwell Park in Normal, Illinois at the Titan Opener. The meet was hosted by Illinois Wesleyan and both teams placed an individual in the top 10. On th...

Sep 1, 2021, 11:16pm EDT

Loryn Beal (left), Sarah LaHood (center) and Karlie Drish (right) celebrate a point in the Scots 3-0 sweep of LCU (Kent Kriegshauser)

Volleyball Sweeps LCU to Start Campaign

It had been 669 days since the Monmouth College volleyball team played at Glennie Gym. They took the court Wednesday night and stormed to a sweep of Lincoln Christian University 25-19, 25-18, 25-22 to move to 1-0 on the season. "The energy was so hig...

Sep 1, 2021, 11:02pm EDT

Women's Soccer Drops Opener in Double OT

The Monmouth College women's soccer team went north to Wisconsin-Platteville on Wednesday and suffered a season-opening 1-0 defeat in double overtime. Senior goalkeeper Quinn Cutler (Breese, Illinois) made a career-high 13 saves but the Pioneers scored...

Sep 1, 2021, 10:32pm EDT

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