To know Larry “Gator” Rivers ’73 is to know basketball. From the time he was an eighth-grader playing on a high school varsity team, to a college standout, to a 16-year career with the Harlem Globetrotters, to serving as a coach and a mentor; for Rivers, it’s always been about [...]
Six runways, 8,300 acres, 251 miles of roadway, 17 miles of Gulf shoreline, 1,500 buildings and structures, and about 23,000 people. That all became the responsibility of Capt. Keith Hoskins ’88 when he was named commander of Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida last March. The former Griffon football player [...]
The connections between the Danford family and Missouri Western are many and enduring. Jeannetta Danford ’51 & ’72 and her late husband, Thad, both graduated from the St. Joseph Junior College and returned to Missouri Western as soon as it became a four-year college to earn bachelor’s degrees. Dan ’78, [...]
Coffee with a side of a conversation about dying, please. Cake and a “Before I Die” list with a little compassion added, and hold the judgment and preaching. That’s what is on the menu at the Death Café, a place to talk about death. St. Joseph’s Death Café was founded [...]
Alumna remembers Missouri Western Charlene “Chuck” (Riemen) Bunten ’52 said she had a great college experience at the St. Joseph Junior College but never really thought too much about it after she went on to earn her bachelor’s degree from Baker University. “I stayed at an arm’s length from [...]
Tracy Jones ’98, grew up with a map of the world on his bedroom wall and says he probably memorized almost every country and city on the map by the time he was a teenager. So it should come as no surprise that Tracy, who grew up in Brookfield, Mo., [...]
In 2011, when Col. Michael Pankau ’84, took over as commander of the 139th Airlift Wing Missouri Air National Guard at Rosecrans Memorial Airport in St. Joseph, he was following in the footsteps of fellow alumnus, Brig. Gen. Stephen Cotter ’78, who commanded the 139th from 2003 to 2009. When [...]
Legatron. Greg the Leg. Record breaker. News maker. Call him whatever you wish, but former Griffon kicker Greg Zuerlein is making headlines online and in media outlets across the country, including the New York Times, Sports Illustrated and ESPN television, for his record-breaking performance with the St. Louis Rams. Greg, [...]
Planning a birthday party for her daughter should be pretty easy for Kali (Pettijohn) Nelson ’07, considering she recently pulled off an event for almost 800 at the Midland Theater in Kansas City, Mo. Kali was the event coordinator for the Global Orphan Project’s seventh annual Big Event, which is [...]
