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September 2016

Diversity Awareness Partnership: Dialogue on Diversity

Community, Nonprofit Spotlight

When Veterans United’s manager of diversity and inclusion programs, Loreli Wilson, first took her position, she searched for larger diversity programs to connect with across Columbia. She was surprised to find none. What would eventually become Columbia’s Diversity Awareness Partnership originally started as an initiative by professionals, like Wilson, from VU, Shelter Insurance, and MU. […]

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Maly Commercial Realty: Developing the Dream Team

Business Update, Working

For the past three years, Otto Maly’s focus has been to increase Maly Commercial Realty’s commercial development market share in Columbia. His strategy? Assemble a team of real estate professionals with individual expertise and relationships that span the Columbia and national markets. That cross-section of experience has been the linchpin of the company’s gains in

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Swallow Hall, MU Campus

Flashback

Named for George Clinton Swallow (1817-1899), MU’s first professor of geology, chemistry, and agriculture, Swallow Hall was designed in 1892 and constructed in 1893. Swallow was also the first dean of the college of agriculture and the first state geologist of Missouri. The name was retained even after the biology and geology schools relocated buildings.

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Briefly in the News: October

Briefly in the News

VU’s New Digs Veterans United recently leased the 15,000-square-foot Museao building at 3500 Buttonwood Dr. Veterans United also leased an 82,000-square-foot building at 1500 Vandiver Dr., which is owned by Vaughn Prost of 1500 Vandiver LLC, providing Veterans United their 15th office in Columbia. Veterans United has over 1,550 employees in Columbia and over 2,000

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PYSK: Steven Sapp, Community Relations Director, City of Columbia

PYSK, Working

Age: 57. Job description: Chief storyteller of all things City of Columbia. Years lived in Columbia/mid-Missouri: All of them. Original hometown: Fourth generation Boone Countian; born and raised right here in Columbia. Education: Columbia Public Schools, MU (before I was asked to leave), and then on to Columbia College. Professional background: Municipal government. I’ve worked in

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Medicineville, USA

Community, Voices

It was the press clipping from July 8, 1970 that caught my attention — “Allard returns to Columbia.” That article described the successful cornea transplant operation performed by a team of surgeons at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco on Columbia city manager Don Allard’s right eye. The account said the operation was a success

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