Forgotten East Bay golf champ Tony Lema died on edge of greatness. Updated 12:49 am, Thursday, July 10, 2014. Fifty years ago Thursday, Tony Lema stylishly scrawled his name in golf lore. He didn't merely win the 1964 Open Championship - he won at storied St. Andrews and he beat runner-up Jack Nicklaus by five shots. A half-century later, Lema remains the Bay Area's forgotten major champion in many ways. And that's unfortunate, because he truly was one of a kind. Tony had a very light air about him, two-time major winner Johnny Miller said. I don't think he worried about a lot of things, and he played golf the same way.
Abner S. Ingman and James R. Maupin founded Southwest Baptist College in 1878 in Lebanon, Missouri. The Lebanon campus originally had an enrollment of 60 students and six faculty.
The fire became a turning point in the history of Southwest Baptist. The newly elected president, Dr. Robert E. Craig, used the event to stimulate the buying of 102 acres (41.3 ha) of farmland south of Bolivar. This farmland expanded into the Shoffner Campus on which Southwest Baptist University resides today. The Shoffner campus, located approximately a quarter-mile south of Stufflebaum campus, was started in 1962 with the opening of Beasley Hall.