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Coach Verduzco Reaches 500; Baseball Earns Third Regional Appearance

Sep 09, 2016

Softball Sweeps MIAA Championships in Record-breaking Season

2019-06-12T10:24:01-05:00September 8th, 2016|Sports|

It’s customary for Griffon softball to have an outstanding season, but the 2016 Griffons exceeded expectations. Picked to finish fourth in the MIAA, Coach Jen Trotter’s team earned both the MIAA regular season and tournament championships, finishing the season 45-13. The team’s 23 MIAA wins were the most ever for [...]

Sep 09, 2016

Women’s Golf Competes at National Championship

2019-06-12T10:24:01-05:00September 8th, 2016|Sports|

It was a season for the ages – the Griffon women’s golf team qualified for the Division II National Championships in Aurora, Colorado. The team finished 12th at the national event with outstanding freshman Shi Qing Ong finishing tied for 34th, individually. The team made history when it earned its [...]

Sep 09, 2016

Alumnotes Fall 2016

2019-06-12T10:24:01-05:00September 7th, 2016|AlumNotes|

1970s Kayla (Morgan) Schoonover ’77 was appointed to Missouri Western’s Board of Governors by Gov. Jay Nixon in June. Schoonover, from Fairfax, Missouri, is a special education instructor for Mound City R-2 Schools. Her term will end on Oct. 29, 2017. Dave Scheer ’79 was inducted into the St. Louis [...]

Sep 09, 2016

Megean Weldon ’11: The Zero-Waste Nerd

2019-06-12T10:24:01-05:00September 7th, 2016|Alumni Profiles|

For Megean (McCloud) Weldon ’11, it really all started with a walk around the neighborhood on Earth Day in April 2015. Weldon liked to mark Earth Day with an environmentally friendly activity, so that year, she and her husband, Ben, decided to take a walk around their neighborhood and pick [...]

Sep 09, 2016

Yevgeniy Kondratenko ’03: Engineering Excellence

2019-06-12T10:24:01-05:00September 7th, 2016|Alumni Profiles, Chemistry|

For Dr. Yevgeniy Kondratenko ’03, his experience in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made him realize that he had received a great undergraduate education in the Department of Chemistry at Missouri Western. After graduation, Dr. Kondratenko was accepted into the PhD program in chemical engineering at [...]

Sep 09, 2016

Alumni President’s Letter — Fall 2016

2019-06-12T10:24:02-05:00September 7th, 2016|Alumni News, Magazine|

Dear Fellow Alumni, Mary Vaughan '79 This is a great time to be associated with Missouri Western; so many good things are happening.  As the first Association president living outside the St. Joseph/Kansas City area, I am excited to serve you this year and travel the 300 miles [...]