Westmar University

Westmar University was a private four-year liberal arts college in Le Mars, Iowa, United States.

During World War II, Western Union College trained Naval Air Cadets in primary flight, at first with three bi-planes and later in Piper Cub aircraft.

Over the decades, the Westmar Eagles fielded NAIA varsity teams in football, baseball, volleyball, basketball, cross country, track and field and wrestling as a charter member of the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference,[citation needed] and then transferring in the 1960s to the Tri-State Conference (1960–1981).

[3] Given other social changes in those years, Westmar found it increasingly difficult to attract students and began to accumulate debt.

[4] Teikyo agreed to send 500 Japanese students to the Iowa campus, at a cost of $15,000 each, and to give an additional $4 million for debt reduction.