Administrative Supervisor, Columbia Insurance Group – Age: 32 After attending Palomar College and Central Texas College in Camp Pendleton, Ca., and Strayer University in Arlington, Va., Columbia native Shelly DeVore returned to make the community her home. She briefly served as an underwriting service assistant for State Farm Insurance in 1998 and then joined Columbia […]
Owner, Kaleidoscope Videoconferencing – Age: 38 Upon graduating from Rock Bridge High School in 1987, Scott Christianson kept his learning experiences local and attended the University of Missouri-Columbia to obtain a degree in biology and become a research specialist. After graduating, he began employment with Central Methodist College and the MITE Education network. Christianson attended
Real Estate Sales Manager/AVP, First National Bank – Age: 34 After Annette Bealmear graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1995, sticking around town was not on the agenda. Over the next seven years, she worked in Jefferson City as an auditor for Ford Motor Credit Company; in Overland
School/Community Programs and Communications Coordinator, Columbia Public Schools – Age: 31 When it comes to serving schools in Columbia, Michelle Baumstark is certainly no stranger. Her educational experience in the community blossomed in 1998, when she graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In 2005, after five years of working as the assistant
Director of Business Development, Williams-Keepers LLC – Age: 38 In 1989, after attending Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Mo., Shawn Barnes left the small town of Desloge, Mo., where he was raised, to attend the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He fell in love with the city and obtained his master’s degree in
Owner, Atterberry Auction & Realty – Age: 39 Living the life in Columbia is nothing new to Larry Atterberry Jr. A 1986 Rock Bridge High School graduate, he became employed with Atterberry Auction & Realty Co. in 1987 and started attending Columbia College. In the years that followed, Atterberry attended and graduated from the Certified
An infamous dive bar called The Shack burned down under mysterious circumstances on Halloween 1988, shortly after the University of Missouri-Columbia bought the property on which it stood, across from Jesse Hall, with plans to build an alumni center there. Truth is, the 67-year-old campus landmark had been slowly dying out for more than a
If you’re not worried about it, you should be Do you know that 70 to 80 percent of security compromises are caused by insiders? Information technology (IT) security is essential, but IT security alone is insufficient. Why? Because computers and network systems do not steal identities; people do. Contrary to common belief, most identities are
Columbians may not remember that the city launched its own space program in the 1960s. Of course, our space program had nothing to do with rocketry. It was about the city government’s future office space needs, and it began with a June 1966 report from consultant SUA Inc. of Beverly Hills, Calif. SUA inventoried city
Well, we’re right in the middle of Major League Baseball’s Interleague Play, one of the key reasons the season isn’t as good as it could be. The other reason is the so-called “imbalanced schedule”—in which teams play their division mates 18 or 19 times in a season and others in their league as few as
