Coming off a 2012 season that saw Griffon football win 12 games, an MIAA title and reach the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Playoffs, the expectations were set extremely high for the 2013 season. The Griffons began the year 7-0, which tied the 1981 team’s mark for the best [...]
February 17 Future Griffons at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in St. Joseph March 4 Griffons on the Bayou – Mardi Gras at Boudreaux’s Louisiana Seafood and Steaks, St. Joseph. April Griffons Uncorked! Stonehaus Winery, Lee’s Summit, Mo. June Alumni Night at the Mustangs For more information, check missouriwestern.edu/alumni, or [...]
1970s Michael Poland ’72, president of Farmers State Bank in Cameron, Mo., was appointed to a two-year term as co-chair of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors Bankers Advisory Board. The group provides industry input on a number of policies shaping the financial services industry. Paul Lewis ’79 published “Toward [...]
It’s hard to not get excited about Missouri Western and what’s happening on campus when you talk to President Robert Vartabedian. His enthusiasm for the University’s accomplishments and his outlook for the future are contagious. At the December 2012 Board of Governors meeting, the board approved a five-year contract extension [...]
About 15 years ago, Missouri Western’s president, Dr. Robert Vartabedian, and his wife, Laurel, stopped at a visitors center in Trinidad, Colo., where a display caught their attention. It told the story of a 1913-14 immigrant coal miners’ strike in the area that culminated in what has become known [...]
Dr. Janet Gorman Murphy McCarthy, 76, president of Missouri Western from 1983 to 2000, died May 15, 2013. “Dr. McCarthy will be sadly missed by the entire Missouri Western family,” said Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western’s current president. “She was a great leader and has left a lasting legacy here.” [...]
Offering family activities and bringing future Griffons to campus is the mission of Mama Griffs, the idea of Angie (Wright) Springs ’02 and Brandy (Samford) Meeks ’07. The pair, who met when they both joined the Alumni Association Board of Directors in 2011, started the group last fall to provide [...]
In “Missouri Western State College 1915-83,” author Dr. Frances Flanagan notes that “Liz Dotson of Dekalb became the first student to register on the new campus” in 1969. We currently have no one by that name in our database. Can you help us locate her?
Missouri Western recently announced good news for some current and prospective students who live out of state. Effective this fall, the University will offer out-of-state students from 51 counties in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska a new tuition rate equivalent to the in-state tuition rate. The Griffon Rate applies to both undergraduate and [...]
