Byron ’55 and Phyllis ’55 Myers have spent a lifetime creating a legacy of music, devoting almost all of their adult lives to the New Generation Singers in St. Joseph, Missouri. Byron and Phyllis Myers Byron founded the group in 1970 and served as musical director until 1998, [...]
The Missouri Western Alumni Association honored 13 people with 12 awards at its annual awards banquet Homecoming weekend. Eight Great Griffon Awards and Student Leadership Awards were new this year, honoring alumni from each of the University’s Colleges and three graduating seniors. The following were honored at the 2017 Alumni [...]
From the 1991 Griffon Yearbook It was the early ’80s. The Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity was popular on campus and could always be counted on to cheer loudly at football games. One day, one of the members had an idea. He wanted to build a cannon and shoot [...]
Colleen Kowich, Alumni Relations Director, and Dr. Jimmy Albright are planning a 10-day trip to Israel for alumni and friends of Missouri Western. The trip will take place May 22-31, 2018. “We couldn’t have hoped for a better guide than Dr. Albright,” Kowich said. “His experience and knowledge of Israel [...]
Natalie Redmond '00 Dear Fellow Alumni, This is my second letter as President of the Alumni Association, and I am so proud to report on all of the successes from this year’s Homecoming! It was a chilly weekend but warm with Griffon spirit. Mary Vaughan ’78, last year’s [...]
Missouri Western’s Study Away Office offers a variety of trips and exchange opportunities every year, and destinations in the past academic year included Panama, New York, England, Scotland, Norway, France, India, Ireland, China and Oregon. We recently spoke with professors and students who took advantage of the travel opportunities. Ireland: [...]
Elaine Bryant, director of ATLAS (Advising, Tutoring, Learning and Academic Support, says she and her staff are here to make sure students have a successful college experience and persist to earn a degree, and office personnel recently began some new initiatives toward that end. One was a pilot program that [...]
Throughout its 102-year history, Missouri Western has never lost sight of its mission of preparing students for careers and providing work-ready employees for businesses and organizations. A News-Press/Gazette article about the St. Joseph Junior College noted that many people returned to college in the 1930s during the Great Depression, seeking [...]
Who said, “I can’t help but think about designing things and coming up with ways to make things better”? Thomas Edison? Nikola Tesla? No, Missouri Western student Justin Turner, who will graduate this fall with a biology degree, minors in business and entrepreneurship, and his own business that he started [...]
