{"id":5030,"date":"2020-09-18T14:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2020-09-18T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T19:58:39","slug":"letter-from-the-alumni-president-mary-hausman-workman-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2020\/09\/18\/letter-from-the-alumni-president-mary-hausman-workman-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the Alumni President Mary Hausman Workman \u201975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fellow alumni,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am truly excited to have been asked to be the president of the Missouri Western State University Alumni Association for the 2020-21 academic school year. I am a proud \u201975 graduate of Missouri Western\u2019s elementary education department, and to this day appreciate the faculty who helped me complete my degree. Those professors were certainly committed to their program and their students. My husband, Zack, is also a MWSU graduate, and we are strong\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">believers in the Black and Gold. We are pleased to be able to give back our time and talents to an institution that provided so much to us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alumni Board would like to promote a lasting relationship with Griffon graduates and increase the involvement of our alumni base. I encourage everyone to remain \u201cGriffon Proud!\u201d Support the university by attending events on campus, networking with graduates and students, and wearing your Griffon gear proudly. If you are not able to return to campus, please follow the successes of the university, its students and its faculty on Missouri Western\u2019s social media feeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though we continue to face challenges presented by the coronavirus, we can still feel the excitement of fall and everything it brings with it to the MSWU campus. This time of year brings a fresh start to students and faculty. I\u2019m sure we can all remember the enthusiasm we felt as we returned each fall for new classes, activities, sporting events, clubs and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Griffon was chosen in 1917-18 to be the mascot for the St. Joseph Junior College, they must have realized the lasting impact that the mascot would have. Information on the university\u2019s website states, \u201cThe Griffon was chosen because it was considered a guardian of riches, and education is viewed as a precious treasure.\u201d Now, 103 years later, the Junior College has evolved into Missouri Western State University, and I hope that we, as alumni, will consider how we can support the treasure that is Missouri Western State University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Hausman Workman \u201975<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alumni Association President<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow alumni, I am truly excited to have been asked to be the president of the Missouri Western State University Alumni Association for the 2020-21 academic school year. 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