Robert James Waller, B.A. 1962, M.A. 1964
Robert Waller is well-known for his best-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County, published in 1992. The novel was later made into a popular movie starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. Waller graduated from UNI first with a B.A. in Business Education--Teaching in 1962 and again in 1964 with an M.A. in Education. He joined the UNI faculty in 1968 as Assistant Professor of Management and Economics and in 1977 became a full profesor. In the picture below, Waller is teaching a management class in 1979.
Waller played on UNI's basketball team when he was an undergraduate. He is pictured here in the second row, fourth from the left. The school was known then as the Iowa State Teachers College, or ISTC.
Nancy Price, M.A. 1964
Nancy Price is well-known for her book Sleeping with the Enemy. It was published in 1987 and became a hit movie when it was released in February 1991. Much of the novel is set in a city very much like Cedar Falls with a university very much like UNI. Price, an accomplished poet as well as a novelist, is the daughter of the fourth president of UNI, Malcolm P. Price, the man for whom Price Laboratory School is named.Price received her M.A. degree in Education from UNI in 1964. She taught in the Department of English Language and Literature for many years. She is currently on leave.
Nancy Price is shown in this photograph with her father (President Price), mother, and brother during the 1940s.
Terry Allen, B.A. 1979
Terry Allen is the head coach of the UNI football team. Allen has spent 22 years associated with this athletic program: as a student athlete from 1975 to 1979,
Allen received his B.A. degree in Physical Education--Teaching in 1979.
Gary Kelley, B.A. 1968
Gary Kelley is an award-winning illustrator. He has illustrated several children's books including Rip Van Winkle. In addition, for twelve years he has created a design used to publicize the College Hill Arts Festival. The design appears on posters, T-shirts, and other memorabilia associated with the event. Kelley graduated from UNI in 1968 with a B.A. in Art.Kelley is pictured below in front of poster that he designed for Theatre UNI for its 1981-1982 season.
Charles Grassley, B.A. 1955, M.A. 1956
Grassley graduated from UNI first in 1955 with a B.A. in Social Sciences/Government--Teaching and again in 1956 with an M.A. in Education. The photo below shows Grassley as a student hard at work.
Robert D. Koob, B.A. 1962
Koob graduated from UNI in 1962; the picture below appears in the 1962 Old Gold.
Exhibit prepared by Susan Witthoft; Web version prepared by Gerald L. Peterson
Special Collections and University Archives
September, October 1996