VIDEO: 2013-2014 Year in Review

The 2013-2014 Westminster College academic year was one filled with strong student and faculty achievements and extraordinary events and campus visitors.

Major events on campus which attracted major speakers included the Westminster Symposium on Global Sports, which headlined baseball player Roberto Clementi, Jr. and the first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Tori Murden McClure in September;  the C.S. Lewis Legacy Lecture by Episcopal Presiding Bishop Dr. Katherine Jefferts Schori in February;  and the first visit to Westminster and the National Churchill Museum by Churchill’s great-grandchildren Randolph Churchill and Jenny Churchill Repard and acclaimed Churchill biographer Paul Reid in March.

A new speaker’s series, the Westminster State Leadership Forum, brought state government leaders Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, Senator Jolie Justus, Senator Maria Chapelle-Nadal, State Representative Mike Thomson and State Representative Michael Frame to campus to discuss the important state policy issues of the day with students.

Over 150 Westminster students from 16 different majors gave research presentations at the Undergraduate Scholars Forum on campus April 10.

Westminster student Sahadev Yangmali Rai from Nepal showed a video of his project that was one of six to be funded by the Clinton Global Initiative University last year to this year’s 1,100 students at the international gathering.  Another Westminster student, Joseph Munyambanza, spoke to the group on transitional justice and the rebuilding of war torn countries.

In December Westminster’s team in the prestigious math competition Putnam Exam ranked 77th from over 4,200 teams.

Westminster hosted technology professors and students from four states in April when the Central Plains Consortium for Computer Sciences in Colleges.

In February, members of the Blue Blazers Investment Committee, a student group who actually learns from the real life experience of investing in the stock market and managing a portfolio, paid a trip to all the major financial institutions in New York City.

A new documentary on Churchill and the National Churchill Museum was unveiled at a reception at the St. Louis Public Library and shown on public television stations KETC and KMOS.

In October, a major part of the Westminster Homecoming activities was a parade in cooperation with the Downtown Brick District.

Every year, Westminster faculty, staff, and students live the mission of Westminster by performing at least 10,000 hours of community service.  This year two majors projects were the involvement by 200 students in the October “Into the Streets” effort to do clean up, painting, repair and maintenance projects in Fulton and the Martin Luther King Day of Service project where the Westminster community came together to fill 2,500 food buddy packs that are given to schoolchildren who do not receive nutritious meals in their homes.

The Missouri Court of Appeals convened on campus in November.

Also in November the Westminster Men’s Soccer team went on to the sectionals of the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time in the College’s history.

Westminster College raised $8,215 for the Callaway United Way, which exceeded its original goal by $1,175.  Co-Chairs of the campaign were Westminster President Dr.Barney Forsythe and his wife Jane.

Westminster student Nathan Swan was selected as the Most Outstanding Delegate at the American Model United Nations meeting in Chicago.

Thanks to Steven Sakayroun, ’16 of Stevens Productions for his collaboration with the Marketing Department to produce the year in review video.