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<\/a>What an exciting time at Missouri Western. Our marketing slogan touts that everything is possible at \u00a0Missouri Western, and that rings truer than ever as we kicked off our Centennial in January 2015.<\/p>\nWe started our Centennial year in style that month, starting first with the announcement of the \u00a0Kansas \u00a0City Chiefs summer training camp remaining in St. Joseph for the next three years, with two \u00a0one-year \u00a0options for renewal after. This was fantastic news for Missouri Western and for the St. \u00a0Joseph region. \u00a0The St. Joseph Convention and Visitors Bureau estimates that 40,000 people come to \u00a0Chiefs camp every \u00a0summer, having an economic impact on this region of $6.3 million annually. The \u00a0camp also gives \u00a0Missouri Western and St. Joseph a national platform, receiving coverage in news \u00a0outlets throughout the country. The extensive media coverage of the contract renewal alone resulted in \u00a0a potential viewership of 131 million in states as far flung as California, Florida, Washington and \u00a0Idaho, among others, not to mention national coverage on Fox Sports and ESPN.com.<\/p>\n
The good news continued as we held the official kickoff of Missouri Western\u2019s Centennial and Centennial Capital Campaign, a historic moment for the University. Our $20 million initial campaign goal is record setting for Missouri Western, and our progress toward that goal has been remarkable. Thanks in part to the largest gift in Missouri Western\u2019s history, I am proud to say our campaign has already raised $17.2 million in pledges. And we\u2019re not done yet.<\/p>\n
In this issue, we are celebrating what we love about Missouri Western. Your passion and enthusiasm for the University is evident as we celebrate our Centennial year and the beginning of the public phase of our Centennial Capital Campaign. As Horace Mann, the father of American public education, once said, \u201cBe ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.\u201d As we continue creating opportunities for thousands of students from a variety of backgrounds, I think Horace Mann would be very proud of us.<\/p>\n
Robert A. Vartabedian
\nPresident, Missouri Western State University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Friends, What an exciting time at Missouri Western. Our marketing slogan touts that everything is possible at \u00a0Missouri Western, and that rings truer than ever as we kicked off our Centennial in January 2015. We started our Centennial year in style that month, starting first with the announcement of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}