When the Westminster Board of Trustees met for their June 1860 meeting, they approved a college catalog that among other matters set out rules for expected student conduct. College students today who sometimes feel campus...
Charless House in St. Louis The untimely end of Joseph Charless, Jr. (1804-1859), a prominent St. Louis financier and banker and one of the founding members of the Board of Trustees of Westminster College, is one of the most sensational and...
As Churchill Fellows Weekend approaches, Westeryears felt it appropriate to examine one more aspect of Churchill’s historic campus visit to deliver the “Iron Curtain” speech—the media invasion. Once the broadcast rights for nation-wide radio coverage had been secured, Central Broadcasting System...
On March 5, Westminster celebrated the 72nd anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s historic “Iron Curtain” speech on campus. One of the lesser-known stories from that monumental day concerns Churchill receiving a little fortification via one of...
Blue Blazers Investment Committee 2001 As with any great idea, the concept of the Blue Blazers Investment Committee (BBIC) evolved from a series of circumstances that were connected by one visionary, BBIC founder and advisor Brock...
Finding a first President for Westminster College was no easy task. In fact, for the first few years (1851-1855), the faculty took turns being in charge in a weekly rotation. The first choice of the Board of Trustees was...
Featured is the official flag of the Kingdom of Callaway. In 1961, the 100th anniversary of the Kingdom’s foundation, the Callaway County Court signed a court order establishing the official flag of the Kingdom....
Over 1,000 people gathered in Champ Auditorium on December 5, 1967, to listen to the pioneer of today’s reality television programming, Art Linkletter (1912-2010), lecture on “The Tube and American Manners.” Linkletter, the host of two of the longest-running shows...
The Young Men’s Christian Association at Westminster 1895 Because Westminster was strongly rooted in the Presbyterian faith at its conception, the founders were as deeply concerned about the spiritual life of the students as they were...
After 45 years, instrumental music finally came to Westminster in the fall of 1896. While instrumental talent existed on campus, no one had ever thought about creating a formal organization until that semester, when...
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