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 [...]
The fourth annual International Fair at Missouri Western State University, “Around the World in One Night,” will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16 in the Fulkerson Center. The event is free and open to the public. Fairgoers will have the opportunity to sample foods, pick up souvenirs and talk to students [...]
The fourth annual Walk for the Homeless will start at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 at Sixth and Messanie in Downtown St. Joseph and will follow the migration path of the homeless. The walk to raise awareness and funds for the Social Welfare Board Homeless Outreach Medical Express Unit is co-sponsored by the Missouri Western [...]
Mr. and Miss Black Student Union will be crowned at the fourth annual Black Student Union Pageant at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt 101 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Admission is free. Contestants in the pageant will showcase a talent, give a speech on a selected [...]
Deborah Smith Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has reappointed Deborah J. Smith (D), of Country Club Village, to the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors. The Board of Governors establishes policies, by-laws, rules and regulations for its own governance and for control and governance of Missouri Western. Smith, a graduate of Missouri Western [...]
George Hodgman, author of the New York Times best-seller “Bettyville,” will speak twice in St. Joseph. Hodgman will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11 at First Christian Church, 927 Faraon Street in St. Joseph, and at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101, on the campus of [...]
Dr. Mark Laney Dr. Mark Laney, president and CEO of Mosaic Life Care, will speak at Missouri Western State University’s Eggs and Issue Speaker Series at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10 in the Fulkerson Center. The breakfast is free but reservations are required. Call 816-271-5646 by Thursday, Nov. 5. Dr. Laney’s presentation is [...]
Kevin Bobo Internationally-acclaimed percussionist Kevin Bobo will be giving a clinic/performance at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 in the Potter Hall Theater at Missouri Western State University. Admission is free and open to the public. Bobo is professor of percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a position he has held [...]
The Center for Multicultural Education and the Division of Student Affairs at Missouri Western State University will host the Tunnel of Oppression, an interactive event that highlights contemporary issues of oppression, Nov. 2, 3, 4 and 5. The event will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the Blum Student Union, [...]
