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 [...]
Approximately $220,000 in renovations was completed in August at the Baker Family Fitness Center. Some walls were taken down to expand the crowded cardio area and give the whole fitness center a more open appearance. Space that housed the football coaches’ offices until the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex opened in [...]
T. Boone Pickens has a plan to end the United States’ dependency on foreign oil, and he shared it with more than 3,000 people at Missouri Western last fall at the 19th Convocation on Critical Issues. He says the solution is natural gas. “The United States today is fully capable [...]
Approximately $220,000 in renovations was completed in August at the Baker Family Fitness Center. Some walls were taken down to expand the crowded cardio area and give the whole fitness center a more open appearance. Space that housed the football coaches’ offices until the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex opened in [...]
Approximately 150 people gathered to hear poetry and folk art recitations and singing, enjoy games and sample traditional festival tea and foods at the campus’ Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate a traditional Chinese holiday. Juan Wang, an associate professor of foreign linguistics and applied linguistics in the foreign languages department at [...]
The Missouri Western Foundation received several gifts recently. Four of the gifts created new scholarships and one supplemented the Western Advantage Scholarship Fund. LeRoy and Jeanne Eaton Trust A distribution of almost $619,000 from the LeRoy and Jeanne Eaton Trust was added to the Western Advantage Scholarship fund. It is [...]
Dear Alumni and Friends, Each new academic year brings with it a renewed sense of optimism and hope. This year, along with that optimism and hope came a different type of energy – one that surrounded the most successful football season in school history. Every game I attended – both [...]
Did you take a lot of college classes in several areas, but never complete enough credits in one academic area to graduate? If so, now is your chance to return to college and earn that degree. This fall, Missouri Western began offering a Bachelor of General Studies degree, intended for [...]
