2006 Governor's Humanities Awards
The Missouri Humanities Council each year honors outstanding teachers, historians, museum professionals, and writes for the annual Governor's Humanities Awards. These awards for excellence recognize a few individuals who have made important contributions to their schools, or their community's cultural life.
2006 Recipients
For Community Heritage
Brad Belk, Joplin
Barbara Gill, St. Louis
John Paul Skaggs, Fredericktown
For Excellence in Secondary Education
Kathleen Yonker, Bowling Green
BOOK AWARD
Joseph Kinyoun Houts, Jr., St. Joseph
Edward C. Matthews III, Sikeston
Missouri Winners in National History Day Activities
The Missouri Humanities Council has extended support to the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection in their leadership and coordination of student activities for the National History Day competition. In 2006, The Governor's Humanities Awards ceremony began to include recognition of the student winners at the state level, and their teachers.
Eleven Missouri students from Hollister, Carl Junction, Risco, Joplin, and Greenville were finalists for National History Day.