1980s Chuck Kempf ’83 was named director of Parks, Recreation and Civic Facilities for the City of St. Joseph, Missouri. He had been working for the city since 2005. Dr. Robert Newhart ’83 was named superintendent of the St. Joseph School District and was given a two-year contract in November [...]
Dr. Jim Sanders ’84 wants to give back to his alma mater by helping current students. Sanders, assistant athletic director for the Kansas City Public Schools, organized fellow alumni last year to form the Black Alumni Network. The new group has two goals: help black alumni reconnect and help current [...]
When Jerry Myers ’71 was a freshman at Central High School in St. Joseph, the vice principal took a group of students to a St. Joseph Junior College basketball game. Since then, Myers says, he has been a Griffon. “From then on, there was no question that I was only [...]
A 2013 participant in Missouri Western’s applied entrepreneurship program purchased the Golden Corral in St. Joseph, Missouri. Scott Lassen ’10, who was awarded a Fresca’s Mexican Grill in Woodburn, Oregon in the 2013 competition, sold that restaurant to another Missouri Western alumnus and moved to St. Joseph to operate the [...]
