Paul Helmer As a child, Paul Helmer would often make suggestions to his mother about ways to improve the way their home looked. But his mother would tell him no, because no one in the neighborhood was doing it. “And I’d say, ‘that’s why we should do it!’” he said. [...]
Deena Murphy said she really didn’t think about going to college until she was recruited by Missouri Western to play basketball. When she arrived on campus, coaches suggested she also try out for softball, and she ended up playing both softball and basketball throughout her college career. Ironically, it was [...]
Lauren Prywitch ’14 always knew she wanted to work in television on one of the coasts. Her path to get there may have been “kinda crazy,” she says, involving several internships, radio station sales and Boston Red Sox Radio, but she made it. “I knew I wanted to do what [...]
It all started when Austin Wilcox of Kansas City, Missouri was doing his laundry one day. He threw a Isaac Collins '11, Austin Wilcox and Wondabeka Ashenafi speak in St. Joseph at a Cup of Joe gathering. Tide POD® in his washing machine and went upstairs to make [...]
As a child, Bob Wollenman often played in an old barn south of Mitchell Avenue, never dreaming that someday St. Joseph would get a four-year college with a large campus that included that barn. But that’s just what happened. Bob and his wife, Connie, both started college at the St. [...]
R. J. Claassen II ’87 B.S. in Chemistry Baytown, Texas 1st Student Regent 1985-86 (the term changed to two years in 1986) What is your current job title and what are your duties? I am the Global Operations and Baytown Technology and Engineering Center Site Manager for ExxonMobil Chemical, and [...]
Thanks to his high school dual credit courses from Missouri Western and a tremendous drive, Kevin Kevin Puckett '15, right, and Justin Turner '18. Puckett is president and CEO of On the Top Search, and Turner is vice president. Puckett ’15 graduated from Missouri Western in May 2015, [...]
When it came time to decide on a college, Savanna (Law) Daniels ’16 had to look further than the graphic design programs she was interested in. She lost her hearing when she was 18 months old because of a hereditary condition, and she wanted to make sure the college she [...]
Shawn Malone When Shawn Malone ’87 was in high school trying to figure out how he would pay for college, his sister, who was a Missouri Western student at the time, told her chemistry professor, Dr. Len Archer, about him, and Dr. Archer helped Malone receive a chemistry [...]
