On the court, Shayla Patrick’s, ’10, teammates knew they could count on her to do her job and do it well, said Volleyball Bears Coach Melissa Stokes.
Back when I was a Standard cub reporter in the 1940s, editor Dean Rea would urge us to “find a sports story that literally leaps from the pages and endures through the ages.” Heaven knows we tried.
Nope, that’s not a cyborg you see on campus. It’s Jeff Thomas, ’10, an early adopter of Google Glass, the wearable computer by the Silicon Valley superpower.
Dr. Hilda Smith, ’63, a Springfield native from a working-class family with no college graduates, never dreamed she’d go on to help shape a field of history that hadn’t existed before.
Continue the Tradition is an out-of-state fee waiver program for the children and grandchildren of Missouri State graduates.




