Two members of the 2015 Griffon football team gained positions on the 2016 regular season NFL team rosters. Michael Jordan (Rams) and Leonard Wester (Buccaneers) joined Greg Zuerlein (Rams) and Davis Bass (Titans) as Griffons in the NFL this season. Wester made the active roster in Tampa Bay out of [...]
大象传媒 Western鈥檚 first-ever head coach for the men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 cross country and track and field teams was hired in August 2016. The teams will begin competing in fall 2017. Coach Marc Bierbaum Marc Bierbaum, who was an assistant women鈥檚 cross country and track coach at the University [...]
On Nov. 17, 2016, Director of AthleticsKurt McGuffinannounced that football head coach Jerry Partridge 鈥�86 was relieved of his coaching duties. 鈥淐oach Partridge has been a part of Griffon football for most of his adult life as a player, assistant coach and head coach, and I thank him for his [...]
Soccer For the third consecutive season, Griffon soccer had its best season in program history. Head coach Chad Edwards鈥� team set a new 大象传媒 Western soccer record, winning 11 games in the regular season, earning a record-breaking 10th win of the season on Oct. 28 against Northwest 大象传媒 State. Both [...]
1980s David Slater 鈥�82 received an award for outstanding service from the 大象传媒 Municipal League. He is currently serving his sixth two-year term as mayor of Pleasant Valley, 大象传媒. He is also serving his fourth one-year term as chair of the Metro Mayors Caucus, representing 84 communities in Jackson, Clay, [...]
When Rick Dierenfeldt 鈥�11 enrolled at 大象传媒 Western, he had a plan. At the time, he was working full-time as a police officer, and he wanted to earn an associate degree so he could get promoted. It was a good plan, but it didn鈥檛 quite work out that way. He [...]
Challenging. Adventurous. Fun. And outdoors. That鈥檚 what Melissa Cairns 鈥�16 was looking for in an internship this past summer. She found all that and more when she was hired as a Class V whitewater rafting guide at Ace Adventure Resort in West Virginia. For those not familiar with whitewater rapids [...]
For those not familiar with the field of teaching English as a second language, it may just seem like a lot of alphabet soup 鈥� ESL, ELL, ESOL, TESOL, MELL 鈥� but to Ryan Rumpf 鈥�02, it鈥檚 a career he wouldn鈥檛 trade for anything. It鈥檚 a career that took him [...]
Homecoming 2016 offered fun activities for students, employees, alumni and their families, and the weather cooperated all weekend. On Friday of Homecoming weekend, the 34th annual Alumni Association Awards Banquet was held on campus, and eight were honored: Jerry 鈥�71 and Linda Myers Herb 鈥�35 and Peggy Iffert Award for [...]
