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Article: From the provincial to the international: the Missouri Southern story.
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- January 1, 2007
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Nellie Trowbridge tells her high school art-appreciation class in Webb City, Missouri, that she grew up in Granby, a town of 2,000 people, yet she's traveled abroad several times, and "You can do it too." Trowbridge, who graduated from Missouri Southern State University in December 2005, took her first foreign trip as part of the college's international program--to Italy between her freshman and sophomore years.
The ability to describe the artwork she saw in Rome and on a later university trip to London and Sweden "made my students think I was a lot older than I am. Without my having been there, they could have easily seen through me," she said with a smile. ...