Wednesday, October 10 Spread the Griffon spirit and visit or shop at a Griffon business today! Alumni-owned businesses are offering discounts and incentives on Oct. 10; contact Colleen Kowich at ckowich@missouriwestern.edu or (816) 271-5650 if you are a business that wants to participate!
Join us for a presentation regarding Confederate monuments at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27 in Agenstein Hall, room 224: “Boasts of the Confederacy?: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Monument Landscapes in Southeastern Virginia.” The speaker is Dr. Jonathan Leib, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at Old Dominion [...]
This photo is from the first Alumni Association Awards Banquet in 1983 at the St. Joseph Country Club. Honored that year were Distinguished Alumni Award recipients Dr. Alvin M. Liberman ’36, president of Haskins Laboratories and professor of linguistics at Yale University; Christel E. Marquardt ’70, a partner in the law firm of Cosgrove, Webb [...]
Travel to Greece with the Missouri Western Alumni Association and Dr. Jimmy Albright! We will spend 11 days visiting ancient sites such as the Parthenon, the Temple of Delphi, and the Temple of Apollo. We will also spend three days cruising the Greek islands of Mykonos, Ephesus and Santorini. Dr. Albright is hosting an information [...]
Yesterday, we ascended the Temple Mount for a view of the dome of the Rock. We continued to the Western Wall (or the Wailing Wall), the last remnant of King Solomon’s Temple. It was Bar Mitzvah day at the Wailing Wall and we saw several young boys celebrate this sacred event. We continued our journey [...]
We began our day with a visit to Bethlehem and a tour of an olive wood carving factory. We, of course, went shopping before heading to the Church of the Nativity–the site where it is said that Jesus was born. From Bethlehem, we travelled to the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane. After [...]
We began the day with a visit to Masada – the southernmost Dead Sea palace of Herod the Great. I should say three palaces – he had one on each level of the mountain. We then drove to the Negev Desert to a Bedouin camp where we rode camels, learned about the Bedouin culture, and [...]
We kicked the day off with Baptisms in the Jordan River. Colleen was in charge of two cameras – not including her own – so we’ll have to wait for pictures of this event. Over 20 members of our group of 34 were baptized by Dr. Jimmy Albright and Dr. Gerald Small, Associate Professor of [...]
We traveled North today to the Lebanese border. Along the way, we stopped at the Mount of Beatitudes where it’s believed Jesus gave The Sermon on the Mount. We visited Tel Dan – the northernmost kingdom of Israel and the tribe of Dan. There was a quick stop at Caesarea Philippi to see the Temple [...]
It was a full day for alumni and friends today. We started by touring the remains of Caesarea – the “Crusader City” and also the site of Herod the Great’s Palace. We then went to Mount Carmel where the Prophet Elijah debated the 450 Prophets of Baal. It was then in to Tel-Megiddo – or [...]
