What We Do
The St. Louis area Southeast Missouri State University alumni population is diverse and large reflecting the longstanding, five-decade relationship between St. Louisans and Southeast. Among a variety of activities designed to build and maintain this relationship, St. Louis Cares is a "grass roots" effort offering a unique opportunity for an alumnus to give back and help secure an educated and productive future for our local youth.
To develop and sustain a student aid program for St. Louis area students who exhibit a well-defined financial need and a strong desire to attend Southeast Missouri State University.
There are a variety of ways to participate in this Southeast alumni effort including the following:
- Attend meetings to provide input or join the team
- Make a direct donation to the endowment from this website
- Assist with special alumni events to raise funds for the endowment
- Offer guidance and support to a scholarship recipient
Please join us.
2012 St. Louis Cares: Southeast Alumni Award Recipient: Javon ColemanUpcoming Events
Annie Wersching. You may know her better as FBI agent Renee Walker, sidekick to Keifer Sutherland in the hit TV series "24".
Annie has graciously agreed to participate in a brief series of fund raising activites here in St. Louis to establish an endowed scholarship in the name of her parents, Frank and Sandy Wersching (Alums'65).Annie has expressed a desire to reserve the endowed scholarship to St. Louis youth wishing to study Theatre at the River Campus: The Center for the Visual and Performing Arts at SEMO.
The fund raising events are currently in the planning stages. They are tentatively scheduled for early fall.
It is anticipated that Annie will spend a total of three-days involved in fund raising activities in St. Louis and one day on campus at the new River Campus: The Center for the Visual and Performing Arts at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Additional St. Louis-based activities will likely include a formal reception and gatherings with friends of her parents.
Annie has expressed her deep appreciation for the recognition that her parents will receive as major SEMO alum contributors to the St. Louis community.
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The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, more widely known as MOHELA, has a made a donation to the St. Louis Cares: Southeast Alumni of $20,000 to establish an endowed scholarship for St. Louis foster care youth wishing to attend Southeast Missouri State University.
The donation was presented to Bill Holland, Vice President of University Development, Southeast Missouri State University by Ray Bayer, Jr., CEO of MOHELA, during St. Louis Cares: Southeast Alumni's regular monthly meeting on April 12, held at the MOHELA corporate headquarters in Chesterfield.
The MOHELA donation enables St. Louis Cares: Southeast Alumni to honor what had been a tentative financial commitment to its first award recipient for the upcoming 2013 academic year, Javon Coleman of Ballwin.
MOHELA donates $20,000 to St. Louis Cares: Southeast Alumni Photo
