Robert P. Foster (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Porter Foster (May 24, 1917-March 10, 2008) was president of Northwest Missouri State University from 1964 to 1977. During his tenure Northwest's enrollment increased from 500 to 6,500. Foster was born in Warrensburg, Missouri and earned a BA from Central Missouri State University in 1939. He was a high school teacher, coach and principal in Carrollton, Missouri High School from 1939 to 1942. While working on a masters from the University of Missouri, he left to become a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he would state state commander of the Missouri American Legion. In 1943 he married Virginia Mutz Foster of Maryville, Missouri.