Foundation hires new interim senior executive director Jean Ahwesh has joined the Missouri Western Foundation team. She began her position as interim senior executive director of the Missouri Western Foundation July 6. Ahwesh has 30 years of experience in philanthropy, including leadership positions at West Virginia [...]
This fall, thanks to the generosity of MWSU Ambassadors members, supporters and a gift from the W. Fairleigh Enright Family Foundation, $16,825 in scholarships were awarded to 20 nontraditional students. Through their work to support nontraditional students (aged 25 and older), the Ambassadors award scholarships and mini grants for equipment, [...]
Michele Chambers '98 Michele Chambers ’98 has been named Assistant Director and Financial Officer of the Missouri Western State University Foundation. After spending the majority of her career with for-profit organizations, Chambers knew she wanted to experience something new, yet familiar. “I liked the idea of working for a nonprofit [...]
Dr. Jim and Carol Roever Dr. James ( Jim) and Carol Roever recently established an endowed scholarship through the Missouri Western Foundation. Eligible students must be declared business majors who have completed at least 60 hours and have a minimum GPA of 3.5. “As former Missouri Western employees, [...]
Missouri Western’s Potter Hall project received a $1 million pledge from Drew Brown, a University supporter from St. Joseph, Missouri. The gift will help fund the addition of a visual arts annex, which is one of the goals of the Centennial Capital Campaign. When the annex is constructed, the addition [...]
In January 2019, Missouri Western entered the fifth year of its five-year Centennial Capital Campaign. Kim Weddle ’00, director of Development, said that although it has been a successful campaign, there is more work they want to accomplish. The campaign kicked off with three campaign goals: investment in campus facilities, [...]
Dr. William Eickhorst, professor emeritus of art, was studying at Parsons School of Design in New York in the early 1960s when a friend in his printmaking class gave him one of his pieces. That print became the first acquisition in what was to become a collection of more than [...]
The Missouri Western State University Foundation recently received a distribution from the estate of Rod ’48 and Anne Fletcher, longtime supporters of the University and members of the Clock Tower Society. The Fletchers established two scholarships in 2004 – the Rod & Anne Fletcher Single Parent Scholarship and the Rod [...]
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will be the guest speaker for the 26th annual R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues this fall. His speech, “The Soul of America: Moving Beyond Division and Hostility,” will be at 10 a.m. Sept. 26 in the Looney Complex. Meacham will also [...]
