When David Harris ’79, associate professor of art, was a junior at Missouri Western, he and Robert Weidmaier ’75 built a salt kiln that was used in the old ceramics house on the east side of campus. Fast forward almost four decades, and Harris has done it again with another [...]
Josh Looney Josh Looney is the University’s new director of athletics, replacing Kurt McGuffin, director of athletics since 2011, who became director of intercollegiate athletics at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Looney, who was director of athletics at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, began his duties in [...]
It was an unprecedented spring for Griffon Athletics; four of five competing teams were represented in NCAA Division II postseason play: baseball, softball, women’s golf and men’s golf. Overall, 23 spring sports student athletes were named All-MIAA with four all-region selections, two CoSIDA Academic All-District selections and one CoSIDA Academic [...]
It’s all about helping people. Drew Fisher ’11, Daniel Heidtbrink ’13, Denise Price ’10 and Jacob Wharton ’12 work in four different areas of the counseling field, but they say the opportunity to help people is the main reason they do what they do. Drew Fisher ’11 For Drew Fisher, [...]
After a career of almost a quarter century at the St. Joseph Public Library, Will Stuck ’00 enthralled children at his last story time this past spring and embarked on expanding his public speaking/professional storytelling business. Stuck says he will continue to perform for children and make them laugh, but [...]
It seems to be all in the family for one of the Craig School of Business’s graduate degrees. In the Masters in Information Management – Enterprise Resource Planning program, a pair of brothers recently graduated and a husband-and-wife team are currently enrolled. For Denice ’14 and Tyson ’14 Hector, enrolling [...]
Kelly Cochran '16 Throughout his teaching career at Missouri Western, Dr. Todd Eckdahl, professor of biology and department chair, conducted research with too many students to count, and has helped many of them publish the results of their research. But Dr. Eckdahl says a recent alumna’s accomplishments stand [...]
Natalie Redmond '00 Dear Fellow Alumni, It is a great honor to serve as the Alumni Association president. A little about me: I am originally from Boonville, Missouri. I loved every minute of my four years at Missouri Western (1996-2000) and still have many close relationships from those [...]
Dr. Gordon Mapley knows that sometimes, life gets in the way of a college degree. As executive director of the Western Institute, he knew there were hundreds of people in St. Joseph who had a lot of credit hours without completing a degree, and he wanted to figure out a [...]
