We know that the holidays can be every bit as frantic as they are wonderful so the Missouri State University Alumni Association would like to offer a little help.

If …

• Fido has eaten the holiday ham and the kids get into the cookie dough before it hits the oven
• Uncle Joe is still holding that grudge from last year and insists on making sure the whole family knows it
• You’re reading this from the floor of the airport where you’ve been nestled up snug on your rollerboard for the last two days
• After meticulously mapping out how to give equal time to parents, step-parents, grands, in-laws, cousins, favorite aunts, kids and friends, you discover you’ve planned the perfect 36 hour day
• You still don’t have a New Year’s Eve date…

Then … Bear UP! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, after all. We can help:

• Cheer up with Missouri State’s digital wallpaper for your office computer, phone or TV
• Keep the kiddos busy with free Boomer coloring pages (minus printing)
• Take a trip or send the in-laws away for a few weeks
• Give the best gift of all, new BearWear from the Missouri State Bookstore
  • Take a Bear family pic with your new BearWear and submit your picture to be featured on the homepage in 2019
• Plan to spend a night out with fellow Bears at an upcoming MarooNation event or MarooNation Ball
• Feed your inner #CitizenBear through volunteerism in 2019

Alumni holiday parties 2019

Kansas City MarooNation holiday party

 

 

Kansas City Bears brought gifts for the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Mercy Hospital.

 

Door prize winners

 

Betty and Carroll Iorg

 

Alumni gather each year for the annual holiday party.

 

Amy and David Kille

St. Louis MarooNation holiday party

 

 

Alumni and friends Rod, Kathy, Gary, Sandy, Peter and Florence standing behind Sue and Wayne

 

Peter won a cozy Bear Blanket

 

Best friends who are loyal alumni

 

Aaren & Earnest, Keri, Amanda & Josh, Tracy and Steve

 

Laura is getting in the holiday spirit

 

Hungry Bears!

 

Bears were put to the test with a holiday trivia game

 

Alumni and friends Aaren, Leslie, Tim, Laura and Christa standing behind Brittany, Derrick and Austin

Washington, D.C. MarooNation holiday party

 

 

Alumni enjoyed being at The National Press Club

 

President Smart with Mike Bahl and his wife, Zhanna Son

 

Meeting fellow Bears was part of the fun

 

Brandon Lentz, Paola Pinto and Patty Ingle

 

Terri Peasley and Becky Sisemore

 

Brent Dunn, vice president for university advancement and Brittany Donnellan

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