Pathfinder: How did you become a principal at Parkway West?
Byrd: I was teaching social studies at Hickman High School, Columbia, Mo. In 1969, when I interviewed for an assistant principal's position...
Serving his community as a firefighter after graduating in 1990, alumnus Derrick Richardson was promoted to Fire Captain in Alton, Ill. He has been a firefighter since 1997 and was promoted after only...
[Courtesy of Rebecca Lintner] Rebecca Lintner poses with her two-year-old friend Mark, also called Markaroni, who is the son of a single mother who started the first women’s empowerment group for HIV...
Alumnus Joseph Alan Ross passed away on Jan. 20 at age 19, while studying economics at the University of Chicago.
Joe, as he was more commonly referred to, graduated in the class of 2016 as the president...
Alumnus Dr. Bill Nelson has been a Professor of Oncology, Urology, Pharmacology, Medicine, Pathology and Radiation Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine since 1992 and specializes in the research and treatment...
Alumnus Mark Reardon started in radio at the age of 15 and studied journalism on his own after graduating in 1983.
“My first jobs in radio were music radio gigs. I was a disc jockey at a rock station,...
Pathfinder: What got you interested in teaching?
Rose: “I have always wanted to be a teacher, as so many empowering women in my family have served as teachers. From playing school with my cousins...
Sabrina Bohn, Managing Editor-in-Chief
• October 13, 2017
When 2016 West alumna Kathryn Harter auditioned for “Tartuffe” her freshman year of high school, she had no idea she would be in the acting program years later at Missouri State University.
“I'm...
The Shack, The Tavern and The Corner Pub and Grill are all successful local restaurants owned by 1991 alumnus Brant Baldanza, who first got into the restaurant business by working at Mike Duffy’s when...
After graduating from high school in 2009, alumnus Jordy Berger felt lost without much direction for the future.
“I ended up meandering through community college for the next couple years, when I...
![Bill Byrd (center left) stands with current principal Jeremy Mitchell, and former principals Dave McMillan and Beth Plunkett at West’s 50th anniversary football game and celebration. Byrd had continued to stay connected to the West community even after leaving his post as principal in 1987 through his three children’s enrollment and attendance to football and basketball games. “We currently have a granddaughter [sophomore Susie Seidel] at West and enjoy attending her activities and listening to her West stories. I feel very honored and fortunate to have been a part of West High for the past 50 years,” Byrd said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/unnamed-7-675x900.jpg)
