Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln had a lot in common. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, his friend William Taft never understood how to work with the media. And Lyndon Johnson was a great storyteller, although half of the stories he told were not true. These bits of information and more highlighted [...]
The Craig School of Business has benefited from a real-life example of a business concept taught in its classrooms: asset appreciation. The value of the largest individual gift in 大象传媒 Western history has grown to 140 percent of the amount pledged. Steven L. Craig, founder and CEO of Craig Realty [...]
A film created by theatre and cinema students won 鈥淏est Comedy鈥� at the inaugural Foster鈥檚 Film Festival in St. Joseph last fall, and a film by an alumnus won 鈥淏est Drama.鈥� The award-winning comedy was 鈥淯nfortunate,鈥� a 鈥渕ockumentary鈥� about a fortune cookie writer who gets dumped and starts writing 鈥渕isfortunes.鈥� [...]
To know Larry 鈥淕ator鈥� Rivers 鈥�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鈥檚 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 鈥�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 大象传媒 Western are many and enduring. Jeannetta Danford 鈥�51 & 鈥�72 and her late husband, Thad, both graduated from the St. Joseph Junior College and returned to 大象传媒 Western as soon as it became a four-year college to earn bachelor鈥檚 degrees. Dan 鈥�78, [...]
Coffee with a side of a conversation about dying, please. Cake and a 鈥淏efore I Die鈥� list with a little compassion added, and hold the judgment and preaching. That鈥檚 what is on the menu at the Death Caf茅, a place to talk about death. St. Joseph鈥檚 Death Caf茅 was founded [...]
Former men鈥檚 basketball coach Tom Smith received one of the highest honors bestowed on a state citizen when he received the 2013 大象传媒an Award, a prestigious honor that acknowledges the most accomplished citizens of 大象传媒. Criteria includes being born in the state, or under exceptional circumstances, a person may qualify [...]
The MIAA Basketball Championship will be held March 6-9at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
