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75 years of School & Community:
A celebration of Missouri education

This story first ran in the summer 1995 issue of School & Community.

For 75 years now, School & Community has recorded the victories and the defeats, the hopes and the frustrations of being an educator. Our association magazine is an ongoing document; it’s an account of Missouri education and of the part MSTA has played in it. To prepare for this anniversary, we’ve thumbed through more than 24,000 pages of old issues and dug through our own photo archives and those of others. We condensed our discoveries so we could present the “best of the best.” Join us for a brief tour of Missouri education.

The first issue of School & Community rolled off the presses in July 1920, when membership dues cost $2, and 14,000 of Missouri’s 20,000 teachers were MSTA members.

In an introductory editorial expressing the aim of the new magazine, editor Thomas J. Walker wrote: “Its editorials may have a great deal to say about salaries. They may talk about better equipment; they may emphasize the need of higher taxes for school purposes and a larger expenditure of money for education, but always with the future citizen in mind, the boy and girl at heart and the general welfare as the supreme aim…”