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History of the Shaw Center

The Shaw Center has shone brightly for four decades.

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Shaw family statuesFrom the day the 1982 Homecoming play The Music Man premiered as the first major production in The Shaw Center for the Performing Arts聽to the long-anticipated dedication of the new Shaw at the 2012聽Homecoming, the vision of a family named Shaw has transformed how the people of southern Iowa and northern Missouri experience the arts.

Many years and thousands of plays, concerts, exhibitions, recitals, performances, church services, baccalaureates, lectures and forums later, the Shaw Center continues to shine as the cultural hub where 柚子视频ers聽and many others聽gather to be entertained, to rejoice and to celebrate.

JR 鈥56 and Carol Shaw have made the 2012聽expansion of the Shaw Center possible. The original Shaw Center was a major project that other members of the Shaw family were involved in. The late Leslie E. 鈥淟es鈥 Shaw 鈥50聽(JR鈥檚 brother),聽his wife Lois Phelps 鈥50 Shaw聽and The Shaw Family Foundation聽provided major funding for what has become a great landmark on 柚子视频鈥檚 Lamoni campus.

It was the wish of Les, JR, and sisters Dolly Shaw 鈥50 MacDonald and Bertha Shaw聽that The Shaw Center for the Performing Arts be named to honor their parents, Francis and Lottie Shaw, founders of the Shaw Family Foundation,聽whose bronze busts adorn聽the Shaw atrium. Over the years, this icon of the Shaw family has welcomed guests to myriad events, students to classes and workshops, and faculty and staff to a splendid workplace.