Entrepreneur Ann Emefa Amenuvor ’12 of Accra, Ghana, worked for the IMANI Centre for Policy and Education think tank before launching an online puzzle gift and souvenir start-up. Read more here.
Matt Roehrs, DO, ’13 ΔΤΔ is a family medicine resident physician with the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia. He also is a member of the Westminster President’s Club. Read more here.
Lisa Gebken Thibault ’92 KAΘ of Indianapolis, IN, is the face behind Kappa Alpha Theta’s two first-place awards from the Fraternity Communications Association in Columbus, OH. Read that story here.
Ian Cassidy ‘19 is standout on the Blue Jay pitching staff as an assistant baseball coach at the College. Read more about him here.
Julie Gladstone ’14 is a busy employment attorney with Ogletree Deakins in Los Angeles, CA. Gladstone found her purpose at Westminster after transferring from a larger university. Read more here.
Mikhail Orlov ’96 ΒΘΠ co-founded and co-owns a lucrative corporation with an annual revenue of approximately $49 million. Read more here.
Sawyer Young ’18 is the recipient of a Mizzou Kinder Fellowship through the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Young is pursuing a master’s degree in history at MU. Read more here.
Mandy Richardson ‘00 ΚΚΓ says Westminster College’s small classes and close relationships helped her find the power in her purpose. Today she is the publisher of Little Rock Soirée and Little Rock Family magazines. Click here to read more.
Kyle Klahs, DO, ’14 ΔΤΔ is a captain in the U.S. Army and an orthopedic surgical resident at William Beaumont Army Medical Center/Texas Tech University Health Science Center in El Paso, TX. He serves as a mentor to Westminster students. Read more here.
Clayton Harrison ’17 ΚΑ is a relationship builder who received an Annual Partner Achievement Award from the Healthcare Division of Nuance Communications. Read more here.
Dr. Kali Wright-Smith ’04 is 2019 Remley Women’s Award Honoree. Wright-Smith is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the First Year Experience. Read more about her here.
Dan Dokovic ’04 ΚΑ of Chesterfield, MO, was named one of “40 Under 40” by The St. Louis Business Journal in February 2019. Dokovic is the co-founder of Intelica CRE and Bamboo Equity Partners in Creve Coeur. Read more about him here.
Chris Panettiere '93 ΦΔΘ from Atlanta, GA, recently became Senior Vice President of Employees Benefits for Lockton: the world's largest privately held, independent insurance broker and consultant. Read more about him here.
Dr. William Spielman ’69 ΣΑΕ is a 2019 Alumni Achievement Award Honoree. Spielman is a professor in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Read more about him here.
Matt Finch ’97 ΣΧ and Casey (Sparkman) Finch ’97 KKΓ of Hot Springs, AR, made the news for their highly successful fundraiser to help the Fillmore campus of Methodist Family Health. Read more here.
Meredith Bolen ’16 ΑΓΔ taught for two years in Rwamagana, Rwanda, as a Humanity for Children Teaching Fellow. During her time, Bolen overcame language barriers. Read more about her here and about her Harvard acceptance here.
Four new physicians entered the workforce ready to unleash the power in purpose. Kyle Klahs ’14 ΔΤΔ, Matt Roehrs ’13 ΔΤΔ, Jacob Burch ’14 ΔΤΔ, and Taylor Allen ’14 ΔΤΔ graduated from A.T. Still University. Read more about them here.
Liridona Osmanaj '14 fought corruption in her work with the United Nations Development Programme, empowered young people and fought for gender equality in Kosovo, and competed on The Voice of Albania. Read more here.
U.S. Marine First Lt. Philip H Sauer '65 gave his life to save the lives of the rest of his five-man artillery observer team on April 24, 1967, in an ambush on a wet cliff near Khe Sanh during the Vietnam Conflict. Read his story of heroism and bravery here.
The extraordinary life journey of Desmond Yengi ‘09 has taken him from fleeing for his life at the age of four in war-torn Sudan to post-doctoral work at Harvard University. Read about his journey here.
Natalie Corrigan ’18 from Hawthorn Woods, IL, was named a Young Trustee. She was a member of the Board of Trustees' student life committee, enrollment committee, and other committees as determined by the Board Chair. Read more about her here.
ChristiAna Dunham ’18 of St. Louis, MO, is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Human Skeletal Biology at New York University in New York City. Dunham excelled at Westminster and exceeded her own expectations. Read more here.
Bill Daniels '71 FIJI of Quincy, IL, has been selected by the Boy Scouts of America, Mississippi Valley Council, to receive the Distinguished Citizen Award. The organization says Daniels exemplifies the spirit and values of Scouting. Read more about Daniels here.
Jeff Owens '87 ΒΘΠ of Peoria, Illinois, was elected to Westminster's Board of Trustees. Owens is the Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Technology Services Inc., the global leader in IT services. Read more about Owens here.
Wally Head ’72 FIJI is the recipient of the Trustee Distinguished Service Award. Head has generously supported the Westminster Fund for many years, beginning his giving to the College shortly after graduation. Read more here.
John T. Baumstark '67 ΣΑΕ has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. A Trustee since 2016, Baumstark has made significant contributions to the College. Read more about him here.
David H. Boyce '68 ΒΘΠ from Arnold, MD, received a Westminster College Alumni Achievement Award. Boyce is a retired journalist and communicator whose last position was as Public Relations Vice President for AT&T Products. Read more here.
Mechanical engineering student Tanner Cooper ’17 ΔΤΔ returned to his alma mater on Feb. 22 to discuss his experience with Westminster’s dual degree program with Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Read more about Cooper here.
Mikaela Ruga ’16 ΑΓΔ lives in Anchorage, AK, and works as a Geoscientist-in-the-Parks for Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Port Alsworth. Read more about how Ruga discovered her love for paleontology at Westminster College.
Carl Luem, MD, ’64 ΣΧ is a Westminster College Alumni Achievement Award honoree. Luem has dedicated his life to the medical profession and spent the last 44 years caring for patients, delivering hundreds of babies. Read more here.
Matthew Pearl ’18 ΦΔΘ hasn’t let Fanconi anemia get in the way of his dreams. Pearl had a bone marrow transplant for his Fanconi anemia. Today he is pursuing a dream of working for the National Ability Center (NAC). Read more about Pearl here.
Christopher Weil ’87 ΣΧ a Westminster Alumni Achievement Award honoree. “A liberal arts education taught me first and foremost to be curious about everything.” Read more here.
Kaleena Escallier ’05 from Chicago, IL, is a Westminster College Young Alumni Achievement Award honoree. She is Senior Manager of Community Strategy for the YMCA of the USA’s Knowledge Management department in Chicago. Read more about her here.
Bob Muehlhauser ’68 ΣΧ is a Alumni Achievement Award honoree. Muehlhauser retired as Executive Vice President of Bank of America and Managing Director of Bank of America Securities. Read more about him here.
William D. Whitlow ’69 ΦΔΘ is a Jack Marshall Alumni Loyalty honoree. During his 22-year career with Shaw Industries/Bredero Price Company, Whitlow served as Vice-President of Operations in Houston, TX. Read more here.
Brad Hilsabeck ’86 ΔΤΔ of San Francisco, CA, is an investor — he invests in people and talent. The retired CEO of an investment management company today is a minority owner of a WNBA team, the Dallas Wings. Read more about Hilsabeck here.
Caroline Ayers ’14 ΚΑΘ teaches second grade at Henry Elementary School in Ballwin, MO. Ayers also serves on the Westminster Alumni Council and Facility Corporation Board for Kappa Alpha Theta. Read more about her here.
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Jordyn Williams ’16 ΚΚΓ won first place at the National Patient Counseling Competition at the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Annual Meeting from March 22 to March 25 in Seattle, WA. Read more about Williams here.
The Honorable Robert Aulgur ’76 ΣΧ was named a 2019 Significant Sig by the international council of Sigma Chi. He is one of only five Delta Tau chapter members from Westminster College ever to receive the recognition. Read more here.
A career in internal medicine with a specialty in geriatrics comes naturally for Mariah (Dreisinger) Robertson, MD, MPH, ’05 ΚΑΘ. Read more about her here.
Iowa State University in Ames recently awarded Phillip Klahs ’12 ΔΤΔ a 2019-2020 Brown Graduate Fellowship. Klahs is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Iowa State. Read more here.
James Gladstone ’13 ΚΑ is Senior Assistant to the General Manager of the Los Angeles Rams, Les Snead. Gladstone discusses his career and the nail-biting tension of Super Bowl LIII here.
Trevor Neal ’18 ΒΘΠ is a busy student at Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, who used his spring break to fight for a cause. Neal ran for 24 hours straight to raise money for suicide prevention. Read more about Neal here.
Ken Murer ’87 Founder and CEO of APC Integrated Services Group, Inc., is a 2019 Churchill Fellow and member of the Westminster College Board of Trustees. Read more about him here.
Jim Reed, ’60 ΣΑΕ, of San Antonio, TX, may be the toughest person with the San Antonio Medical Foundation. The president of the organization returned to work just weeks after open heart surgery. Click here to read more.
Justin Grahl, ’13 ΚΑ, made headlines this summer in the eMissourian.com for being named head football coach at Union High School in Union, MO. Click here to read more.
Matthias McCurren, ’10, recently made local headlines for his Dirty Jobs-style logging business, which includes all of the factors McCurren enjoys most: his grandfather, hard work and, most of all, the freedom of the great outdoors. Click here to read more.
Katie Murray, DO, MS, ’05 ΚΑΘ, is the only urologist in the country with a Master of Science degree in academic medicine from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Click here to read more.
Nicholas “Nick” Diefenbach, ’07 ΒΘΠ, is the 2019 Alumni Council President. He also is a member of the alumni and development team at Washington University. As a Senior Regional Director of Development, Diefenbach’s primary responsibilities are in the office of major gifts. Click here to read more.
Olivia G. Wilson, ’19 ΚΑΘ, serves on the Westminster College Board of Trustees as a 2019 Young Trustee. Wilson works for Gamble & Schlemeier in Jefferson City, MO, as a registered Missouri lobbyist. Click here to read more.
Karen Oyerly, ’99, is a forensic scientist who works in DNA analysis at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation in Oklahoma City. She recently discussed her career at Hancock Symposium 2019. Click here to read more.
Andrew Jett, ’12, recently was inducted into Westminster’s Hall of Fame for baseball. Click here to read more.
Valentin (Val) Leppert, ’05, recently was inducted into Westminster’s Hall of Fame for football. Click here to read more.
Chris Marshall, ’03, recently was inducted into Westminster’s Hall of Fame for football and baseball. Click here to read more.
Gary Schmidt, ’69 ΚΑ, recently was inducted into Westminster’s Hall of Fame for cross country and track & field. He is a retired trial judge. Click here to read mroe.
William D. Felder, ’80 ΔΤΔ, is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees. He is the retired Chair of the Board of Directors of Southwest Securities, Inc., aka Hilltop Securities Inc. Click here to read more.
Bob Gattermeir, ’66 FIJI, was appointed to the Missouri State Lottery Commission by Governor Mike Parson. Click here to read more.
Chandler Casey, ’19 ΦΔΘ, did exhaustive research two unpublished Winston Churchill typescripts. He is a master’s degree student at the University of Winchester in Winchester, England. Click here to read more.
The Hon. Morgan “Chip” Welch, ’72 ΒΘΠ, is running for the Arkansas Supreme Court. He is a judge for the 6th Judicial Circuit Court in Little Rock. Click here to read more.
Head Women’s Basketball Coach Talisha Washington, ’13, of Fulton, MO, says transferring to Westminster allowed her to play two sports and helped her find her purpose in life. Click here to read more.
Chad Doebelin, ’17, used his G.I. Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Program to attend Westminster College after serving in the U.S. Navy. Click here to read more.
