Almost 25 years since Missouri Western’s first tobacco policy came into effect, a policy that will ban the use of all tobacco products on campus will take effect on July 1, 2013. After the Board of Governors approved a resolution supporting a tobacco-free campus at its April 2012 meeting, the [...]
Students who love to dance, want to learn how to dance, or want to teach dance will be happy to know that Missouri Western now offers a dance minor. Suzanne Ryan Strati, who has been dancing since she was three years old and continues to teach at the Kansas City [...]
Cale Fessler became Missouri Western’s vice president for financial planning and administration Jan. 22. The vice president for financial planning and administration is Missouri Western’s chief business and financial officer and reports directly to the president. The division is responsible for accounting, budgeting, student billing and collections, payroll, purchasing, financial [...]
Marti Burri, Missouri Western’s Esry Student Health Center nurse, was named the March of Dimes Public Health Nurse of the Year at the March of Dimes’ Missouri Chapter Nurse of the Year Gala in St. Louis. Seventeen nurses were honored from 150 nominations. The Missouri Western Chorale was selected to [...]
Dan Boulware, featured speaker at the December 2012 commencement ceremony, told the graduates that community and civic service is not only commendable, but essential to society. “As we seek to do good, we help lift the society in which we live, those we care about, and, in turn, we lift [...]
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Brig. Gen. Gregory D. Mason ’89, and Alfred Purcell to serve on the Missouri Western Board of Governors in December 2012. Greg, of Lee’s Summit, Mo., serves as Assistant Adjutant General-Army in the Missouri National Guard. As Assistant Adjutant General, he has overseen emergency management efforts [...]
Brent Collins says the two sculptures he created for Remington Hall are meant to resonate with both scientists and mathematicians, since those departments are housed in the hall. “Music of the Spheres,” about six feet in diameter, is a bronze, approximately 1,800-lb. sculpture and graces the lawn on the north [...]
Did you know that the building at the corner of 5th and Francis in St. Joseph used to be a famous opera house? Or that St. Joseph was home to the first apartment house built west of the Mississippi River? How about this? Did you know that in the 1850s [...]
1960s LEECHIA JONES ’66, was honored with a Woman in the Workplace Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 YWCA Women of Excellence awards ceremony. 1970s RICHARD DURST ’71, retired July 1, 2012 and was named president emeritus of Baldwin-Wallace University. He continues to help B-W with international recruitment in India [...]
