Jim Korinke portrays Walter Cronkite. Two public showings of “Cronkite,” a live multimedia performance about legendary journalist Walter Cronkite, have been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 26 in the Kemper Recital Hall, which is adjacent to the award-winning Walter Cronkite Memorial inside Spratt Hall on the [...]
The Missouri Western State University Foundation kicked off the public phase of its Centennial Capital Campaign with the announcement of three major gifts: the life’s work of an internationally known local artist, an endowment that creates a faculty position in population health, and the largest individual gift in Missouri Western’s history – a $10 million [...]
With doctorate degrees in communication and long, distinguished careers in higher education, Bob 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 Bob serves as president. With the [...]
The Missouri General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight has unanimously approved an application to designate a portion of the Belt Highway in St. Joseph for the city’s famous native son, newsman Walter Cronkite. The application was submitted by Missouri Western State University, home of the Walter Cronkite Memorial. “We’re very grateful to the Missouri [...]
Dr. Bob Willenbrink, currently head of the department of theatre and dance at Missouri State University in Springfield, has been named the founding dean of the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University. “Dr. Willenbrink has the combination of creative and administrative experience that I hoped we could find when we began the [...]
Members of the cast of “Miss Saigon,” the Western Playhouse production this summer, open rehearsal. The staging of this ambitious musical is a sign of the maturity of Missouri Western’s arts programs and indicates the university is ready for a School of Fine Arts, according to President Robert Vartabedian. Missouri Western State University [...]
After a pair of successful performances on campus, the Missouri Western State University production of “American Story” will travel to Colorado for a performance near the sites where the historic events described in the musical took place nearly 100 years ago. The concertized performance is scheduled for Friday, May 10 at the Famous Performing Arts [...]
About 15 years ago, Missouri Western State University’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 as the Ludlow Massacre. [...]
