* Lonny Chapman, actor ; graduated from Joplin High School and Joplin Junior College ( now Missouri Southern State University )

* J. Eddie Peck, actor ; was raised in Joplin, graduated from Parkwood High School

Chapman graduated from Joplin High School and, in 1940, Joplin Junior College, Missouri Southern's predecessor institution.

He lived in Joplin, Missouri during the 1970s and graduated from Joplin Parkwood High School in 1976.

Stengel inherited DiMaggio, Rizzuto, but he brought up Mantle from Class C to the majors, from Joplin to New York.

Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year career include " Down On Me ", " Bye, Bye Baby ", " Coo Coo ", " Summertime ", " Piece of My Heart ", " Turtle Blues ", " Ball ' n ' Chain ", " Try ( Just A Little Bit Harder )", " Maybe ", " To Love Somebody ", " Kozmic Blues ", " Work Me, Lord ", " Move Over ", " Cry Baby ", " A Woman Left Lonely ", " Get It While You Can ", " My Baby ", " Trust Me ", " Mercedes Benz ", " One Night Stand ", " Raise Your Hand " and her only number one hit, " Me and Bobby McGee ".

** In Los Angeles, Rock and blues singer Janis Joplin dies in her hotel room, from an overdose of heroin.

Nicks has said that her vocal style and performance antics evolved from female singers like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.

There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft of " A Real Slow Drag " by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher.

The film is noted for its use of ragtime, particularly the melody, " The Entertainer ", by Scott Joplin, which was adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch ( and became a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch, when released as a single from the film's soundtrack ).

The couple's notoriety in 1933 came from photos found by police as undeveloped film in a hastily abandoned hideout in Joplin, Missouri.

The Winterland concert also marked a turning point of another kind for the Airplane — it was a memorial for their old friend Janis Joplin, who had died in Los Angeles from a heroin overdose the previous day.

He had also been deeply affected by the death of his friend Janis Joplin and had begun to pursue a healthier lifestyle ; Balin's study of yoga and abstention from drugs and alcohol further distanced him from the other members of the group, whose drug intake continued unabated.

Norman recalled: " One night I was singing on stage and Janis Joplin was sitting behind the front curtain watching the concert with a bottle of Southern Comfort in one hand and she was sipping whiskey from a paper cup.

Oswego is located in the Joplin, Missouri / Pittsburg, Kansas broadcast market area and receives the majority of its television and radio signals from those two cities.

Carl Junction is approximately 8 miles from Joplin.

In 2007, the Quapaw Indian Tribe purchased Loma Linda and incorporated it into the resort that is the Down Stream Casino and Resort – the purchase was made from Joe Blau and was published as such in the Joplin Globe.

* Scott Joplin, world-famous composer from the Atlanta area, born in Linden, Texas, had a band in the Queen City area appropriately named the Queen City Troupe, before moving to New York.

Joplin was established in 1873 and expanded significantly from the wealth created by the mining of zinc ; its growth faltered after World War II when the price of the mineral collapsed.

An official statement from the National Weather Service has categorized the Joplin tornado as an EF5.

Joplin is situated in " Tornado Alley ", a broad region where cold air from Canada collides with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and dry air from the lee of the Rocky Mountains, leading to the formation of powerful supercell thunderstorms from which the tornadoes spawn.

The Joplin College of Physicians and Surgeons operated from 1880 to 1884.

* 1967 – The " ultimate high " of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

Joplin as a senior in high school, 1960.

The local high school, Joplin High School was destroyed as well.

It has three public middle schools, East, North, and South and one high school, Joplin High School.

The first high school was founded in 1885 and was located where the current Memorial Hall now stands on 8th and Joplin Ave.

* The evolution of rhythm and blues into rock and roll as a high art form, as evidenced by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and other popular musicians influenced in the later fifties and sixties by Beat generation poets ' and writers ' works.

Moreover, composers such as Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Andrew Lloyd Webber tried to cater to both popular and high brow tastes.

During high school Cummings would give Joplin residents rides in his plane for $ 5 per person.

The former Joplin School was closed in 2005 when the consolidated Chester-Joplin-Inverness public school district was formed.

On May 22, 2011, Joplin was struck by an extremely powerful EF-5 tornado, resulting in at least 161 deaths and more than 900 injuries, along with total destruction of thousands of houses, and severe damage to numerous apartments and businesses, St. John's Medical Center, and multiple school buildings.

After switching from graduate school to art school ( where he befriended singer Janis Joplin ) for two years, he was finally drafted, but Army doctors declared him medically unfit after he admitted to taking psychedelic drugs.

Classic Rag ( or classical ragtime ) is a term used to describe the style of ragtime composition pioneered by Scott Joplin and the Missouri school of ragtime composers.

Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School is a private school in Joplin, Missouri, USA.

Scott Joplin wrote " The Cascades " specifically for the fair, inspired by the waterfalls at the Grand Basin, and presumably attended the fair.

On Sunday, May 29, 2011, President Barack Obama, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, and FEMA Director Craig Fugate visited and toured Joplin to see what the damage looked like and attended a memorial service for the deceased.

* Christofer Drew Ingle, musician, under the alias Never Shout Never ; attended Joplin Senior High

Miller grew up in Joplin and attended the University of Missouri.

Local singer / yodeler Kenneth Threadgill opened Threadgill's in 1933 on North Lamar, a venue that later hosted Folk / Country jams where Janis Joplin participated in her early days.

Niall Shanks and Karl H. Joplin, both of East Tennessee State University, have shown that systems satisfying Behe's characterization of irreducible biochemical complexity can arise naturally and spontaneously as the result of self-organizing chemical processes.

Joplin is the center of what is regionally known as the Four State Area: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas.

Today Joplin is home to Missouri Southern State University, founded in 1937 as a junior college and expanded in the following decades.

He studied at Joplin Junior College, now Missouri Southern State University and then transferred to the University of Oklahoma at Norman, where he studied drama and was a track star, setting records in several events.

In the fall of 2005, Lonny Chapman was named " Outstanding Alumnus " at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri.

* Company M-7-Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, MO ( Unit Disbanded )

However, prior to the 2011 – 12 season, two D-I men's programs in Missouri, namely Missouri and Missouri State, received NCAA waivers to travel to D-II Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, a city devastated by a May 2011 tornado, for third exhibition games.

Missouri Southern State University is a public, state university located in Joplin, Missouri.

In 2003, the Missouri General Assembly authorized the renaming of the college to Missouri Southern State University-Joplin, and in 2005 the university dropped Joplin from its name.

Missouri Southern State University was founded in 1937 as Joplin Junior College.