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On February 5 , 1842 , the Iowa Territorial Legislature passed a bill to incorporate a literary institute in Mount Pleasant. The bill became law on February 17 . On March 11 , 1843 , nine years after the settlement was founded, four Mount Pleasant citizens donated twenty acres (81,000 m²) in four adjoining plots to enable the trustees "to erect a suitable building on some part of the donation, which should be used and forever appropriated as an institution of higher learning." This building, now called Pioneer Hall, is still in use today -- the oldest college building at the oldest coeducational institution of higher learning located west of the Mississippi River . The college's most famous alumni are Belle Babb Mansfield, the first woman lawyer in the United States, and James Van Allen, world-renowned astrophysicist and discoverer of the aforenamed Van Allen Radiation Belts circling the earth. Dr. William N. Johnston is currently president of Iowa Wesleyan. ATHLETICS Iowa Wesleyan College offers six sports for men, and six sports for women. For men, Basketball , Soccer , Track , Baseball , Football , and Golf are offered. The sports for the women are identical, except for Volleyball ; which is rotated in instead of football. In 2006, for the first time in school history, both the mens' and womens' basketball teams qualified for the national tournament. Iowa Wesleyan is a NAIA Division II school, and a member of the Midwest Classic Conference. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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