The St. Joseph community lost an outstanding citizen when Anne Reed Gray passed away Jan. 13, 2014. She will be fondly remembered by many organizations in the community as an active volunteer and an advocate for many important causes. Her family established an endowed scholarship fund for Missouri Western [...]
Bill Wright left St. Joseph when he went away to college in 1957 and lost track of what was happening in his hometown. Although he came back for visits over the years, he hadn’t even realized that the St. Joseph Junior College had transformed into Missouri Western State University [...]
New Foundation Board members Three people joined the Missouri Western State University Foundation Board of Directors in February 2014: Lisa Norton of LAN Resources, LLC, St. Joseph, Mo.; Brent Porlier ’82, Porlier Outdoor Advertising Co., Foristell, Mo.; and Jason Grayson ’98, Hillshire Brands of St. Joseph. John Sublett Logan Foundation [...]
When Nikki Hamre ’95 was a senior, the criminal justice major planned to go to law school or the law enforcement academy until a professor of criminal justice, Jill Miller ’73, told her she thought she would be good at working with kids. Turns out it was pretty good advice. [...]
Hunter Ewart had only been on campus a few days when she accidently wandered into Wilson Hall on her way to class in a different building (“I think I may have been texting and walking,” she admits). Ewart immediately realized she was in the wrong building but was captivated by [...]
With doctorate degrees in communication and long, distinguished careers in higher education, Drs. Robert and Laurel Vartabedian are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of university students. That dedication has led them to make a personal financial commitment of more than $100,000 to Missouri Western State University, where [...]
“The hundreds of nursing graduates from Missouri Western that provide outstanding care to patients throughout the region, and indeed throughout the country, are the best evidence of the quality of our program, but this accreditation provides an objective measure to assure students and employers that nurses who graduate from Missouri [...]
They say it all started with Helen Koch’s great grandmother. In 1905, when Olive Cady enrolled at the St. Joseph Hospital for Educating Nurses in St. Joseph, Mo. as a nontraditional student, she began a legacy of nurses that continues today. And in recent history, many have earned their degrees [...]
If you know someone who attended college but never earned a bachelor’s degree, Missouri Western’s Back to Western initiative may be the answer to help them earn that degree. The program began last fall, and utilizes the University’s Bachelor of General Studies that was approved in 2012. Dr. Gordon Mapley, Executive [...]
