The live multimedia performance “Harry & Walter: Missouri’s Native Sons,” featuring actors portraying President Harry Truman and legendary newsman Walter Cronkite, will be performed at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16 in the Kemper Recital Hall, adjacent to the Walter Cronkite Memorial inside Spratt Hall on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The play is [...]
Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western's president; Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corporation; and U.S. Senator Roy Blunt attended the dedication of Phase III of the Walter Cronkite Memorial. With special guests in attendance that included Leslie Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS Corporation, and U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, Missouri Western [...]
President Vartabedian speaks at the Walter Cronkite Memorial dedication in 2013. Missouri Western State University is offering a free one-credit-hour course titled “Walter Cronkite’s Enduring Legacy” Sept. 5 through Oct. 24, taught by Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western’s president. The course is open to anyone. Those interested can enroll by calling 816-271-4100. “Walter [...]
Missouri Western State University will hold Equity principal auditions and non-Equity auditions in Kansas City Aug. 1 and St. Joseph Aug. 2 for actors to play the part of former President Harry Truman in a new multi-media play titled “Harry and Walter: Missouri’s Native Sons.” The play will premiere on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015 in [...]
