By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Missouri Western State University hosts its Family Day this weekend, culminating with the Griffon football game at Spratt Stadium against Missouri S&T Saturday night.
Missouri Western President, Elizabeth Kennedy, says the Center for Service will lead a charity project Saturday as its Griffs Give Back Day of Service.
“We are teaming up with the group, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, as part of their Bunks Across America campaign,” Kennedy tells KFEQmmunity. “We did this last year.”
Students will be using the new Houlne Center for Convergent Technology to build beds.
“We’re going to have students in the Houlne Center building bunk beds; two different shifts,” Kennedy says. “They’re going to be building these beds and delivering them to families in St. Joseph that need them. It’s a wonderful project.”
Missouri Western will hold an open house at its newly renovated library. Kennedy says the university was able to finance an overhaul with money authorized for the Houlne Center, but not needed.
“I approached the state and said, I have a library that hasn’t been renovated since 1988. How about if we create spaces for students so that have study places, they have collaboration places? There’s even a model classroom and there’s a 24/7 room that’s open that students have access to,” Kennedy says.
Several activities are planned on the St. Joseph campus Saturday, beginning a 10am with check in at the Blum Union. There will be a Family Legacy Coffee, tours of the renovated library, a walking tour of the St. Joseph campus, and an open house of Scanlon Hall where the Chiefs stay during training camp.