When Candy Whirley ’97 was 30 years old, married and a mother of two, she was managing a restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri when a local corporation asked her to teach a customer service class to their employees. “After I gave them the ‘how-to speech,’ I realized that that was [...]
When LaTonya Williams ’03 was a student, her email signature was LaTonya “I’ll sleep when I graduate” Williams. But even though several years have passed since she graduated, she still doesn’t seem to have gotten the “you can sleep now” memo. Williams, who graduated with a journalism and public relations [...]
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, [...]
