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Alumni Profiles

Grateful for Grapes: Kraig and Becky Keesaman

2019-06-12T10:22:19-05:00September 6th, 2012|Alumni Profiles|

“One of life’s gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.” J. Robert Moskin  Ah, the beautiful Missouri countryside – tall stands of corn, soybean fields, [...]

Healing HeARTS: Stacey Park ’00

2019-06-12T10:21:21-05:00May 8th, 2012|Alumni Profiles|

When Stacey (Murray) Park ’00, was a student at Missouri Western, Dr. Jim Buglewicz, her psychology professor, talked about how the arts could be used to help people, and she even attended a conference of the National Association of Drama Therapy in New York. Those lessons, she says, played a [...]

Solutions: Susan Campbell ’01

2019-06-12T10:21:21-05:00May 8th, 2012|Alumni Profiles|

Last December, Susan Campbell ’01, threw a party for the employees of her company, and she was happy to see that everyone was visiting with each other and having a good time. That may not sound too unusual, except that, up to that point, most of her 11 part-time employees [...]

Steve Michaels ’76: That’s logistics!

2019-06-12T10:21:21-05:00May 8th, 2012|Alumni Profiles|

People, facilities, supplies. Those are some of the words used in the dictionary to define “logistics,” and no one probably knows this better than Steve Michaels ’76. His nearly 30-year career involved the logistics of transportation, warehousing and distribution, and he currently serves as president of BMS Logistics, Inc., in [...]

Joe Gray ’42 – faithful, proud and true

2019-06-12T10:21:21-05:00May 8th, 2012|Alumni Profiles|

    Joe Gray ’42, has been one of Missouri Western’s ardent supporters for many years. He was honored recently for his dedication to the university when he received an honorary doctorate at the December commencement ceremony, and the biology department named their natural history collection after him. [...]