Every year at dawn on this special day, a procession of figures wearing g make their way down Pine Street. This is a gang of street painters. Their bellies are full of biscuits and gravy by now, and they are on a mission.

For more than four decades, students chosen to become knights of St. Patrick underwent a baptism into a pool of soupy, slimy concoction that came to be known as “Alice.”

Bob Fitzsimmons was a high school freshman when he started working part time for the Rolla Daily News in 1956.

The cover image of the Winter 2007 issue is a Photomosaic (R) of the shamrock that adorns the jacket worn for decades by St. Pat’s Committee members. It features 1,150 unique images of St. Pat’s through the years. The Photomosaic was created by artist Robert Silvers. See more of Silvers’ work at www.photomosaic.com.

While stationed in Africa during World War II, Thomas W. Kelly Jr., MetE’40, wrote a will establishing an MSM scholarship fund with money he inherited from his uncle.

The UMR Magazine staff asked alumni to share their fondest memories of UMR”s grand tradition. In preparation for St. Pat’s, a fraternity brother – Billy Kay, MinE’33 – made some home brew in the shed behind our boarding house. It stunk up the whole neighborhood! Our cook said ‘Boys, I’m going to stick with you […]

Here are the 91 women who have been named a Queen of Love and Beauty at MSM and UMR. 1. Helen Baysinger (1915) 2. Mary McCrae (1916) 3. Olive Scott (1917) 4. Mrs. Frederick Gardner (1918) 5. Edna Kiel (1919) 6. Nancy Love (1920) 7. Hazel Dent (1921) 8. Margaret Sally (1922) 9. Bertha Fulton […]

Honorary Knights of St. Patrick, chosen each year by the St. Pat’s Committee and the UMR chancellor, are chosen for the service they’ve performed for the campus, the Rolla community, the state of Missouri, the nation and/or the St. Pat’s tradition.