What is your NMU connection?
NMU class of 1979.
Your favorite NMU memory or story
My NMU story is about my grandfather, Gus Rizzardi, Northern Normal School Class of 1916. Gus was from Iron Mountain, and enrolled at Northern to pursue a school Superintendents license. He also played on Northern's basketball team.
Upon graduating, he enlisted in the Army, this was during WW1. He first went to Camp Custer in Battle Creek to learn how to be an Army cook, and eventually was stationed near Paris, France.
When the war ended in 1918, he returned to the Upper Peninsula and became a Superintendent of several one-room schoolhouses between Iron Mountain and Gwinn. Gus was my inspiration to attend NMU. Our son, Grant, is also an NMU Grad, Class of 2020.
Photo of Gus and classmates around 1914