Thomas Walker has spun his last record at Forest Park. The vice president of student affairs has accepted a position as president of Central Community College’s Grand Island campus in Grand Island, Nebraska. “This is probably the toughest decision I had to make in my professional life,” said Walker, 53. “One of my personal goals was to be a college president, but it had to be in the right place. I think (Central) is a great fit.” […]
Funeral Service Education is back on track at Forest Park. The American Board of Funeral Service Education granted candidacy status to the associate’s degree program earlier this month. The certificate in Funeral Directing, a non-accredited program, was not affected. […]
Theodis Brown Sr. was sworn in as Subdistrict 1 representative on the St. Louis Community College Board of Trustees at the board’s April 24 meeting. Brown is also the chief of Castlepoint Fire Protection Association. He defeated Redditt Hudson, regional field organizer for Region IV of the NAACP. The election was held April 8, and the certified vote was 13,318 for Brown and 11,786 for Hudson. Brown will serve a six-year term. […]
Books on top of books are stacked on shelves above a computer desk. Maps, inspirational sayings and posters of classical literature crowd the wall. At the desk sits Dan Yezbick, Forest Park English professor, fumbling through papers and diligently typing on the keyboard. […]
St. Louis Community College is reaching out to help a struggling community restore its image by moving Forest Park’s Human Services Department to the William J. Harrison Education Center in north St. Louis, near Grand Boulevard and Cass Avenue. Students and staff pulled together on April 26 at the Harrison Center for the first annual “Inner City Change — Community Passport to Success,” showcasing the Human Services Department and other community service groups. […]
Forest Park student Katrin Hackenburg’s photo of the Gateway Arch took top honors in a Missouri photo contest. Hackenberg, 35, won first prize in the 2014 Study Missouri International Student Photo Contest, sponsored by the Study Missouri Consortium. […]
To grab attention from a fleeing audience, makers of the iconic board game Monopoly conducted a poll to find out which of its game pieces were most popular. Normally, there’s nothing I’m up for more than a little procrastination via the Internet, but in this case, I didn’t have to click any further to know the answer to Parker Brothers’ question. […]
Smoking’s bad for you. That’s been pretty much universally agreed upon since the ‘60s or ‘70s. To paraphrase the comedian Denis Leary, nobody reads the surgeon general’s warning and says, “I thought cigarettes were good for you! I thought they had vitamin C in them!” In recent years, officials have enacted increasingly tighter controls on smoking in private and public places. It’s an effort to protect those who don’t smoke from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke coming from those who do. […]
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