May 13, 2015
The Class of 2015 The students who make up the class of 2015 represent a variety of backgrounds, experiences and talents. In honor of this week’s commencement activities, here are a few stories from the latest group of Hawks. Lynsey Riemann Born completely deaf in one ear, Lynsey Riemann of O’Fallon, Missouri, said she understands how physical limitations can easily...
May 11, 2015
“Welcome home.” Those were the words from the Very Rev. Ronald Mercier, S.J., provincial of the U.S. Central and Southern Province, to the Rev. Thomas B. Curran, S.J., at the end of the May 2 Mass at St. Francis Xavier during which the president of Rockhurst University solemnly professed his final vows and was fully incorporated into the Society of...
For decades, students have come from across the country to the Rockhurst University campus for a chance to earn a full-tuition scholarship. What started as an effort to sit down with high school seniors for academic conversations with the University’s faculty meant to mimic college coursework has become a University tradition that attracts some of the nation’s top high-school seniors...