'N150'

The Keystone Business Center on the bricks in downtown McCook hosts the "N150" traveling exhibit, highlighting the 150-year history of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, until 5:30 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., Saturday. Twenty students made up the university's first class in 1869. A coffee table book called "Dear Old Nebraska U: Celebrating 150 Years" includes biographies of two legendary NU graduates with ties to McCook and Southwest Nebraska: Grace Elizabeth Clements (1918-1965) who supervised girls physical education at McCook Public Schools and McCook Junior College after her graduation from NU in 1939. Clements earned a pilot's license in 1942, joined the Army Air Corps Flight Training Program and became a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot). Clayton K. Yeutter (1930-2017), of Eustis, graduated from NU with a bachelor's degree, a law degree and a doctorate in agricultural economics. Yeutter served as Nebraska Gov. Norbert Tiemann's chief of staff; U.S. President Ronald Reagan's U.S. trade representative; and Pres. George H.W. Bush's U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and chief domestic policy advisor.