Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School recently announced the selection of Michael McMillan, License Collector of the City of St. Louis, to serve on its Board of Directors. The school provides an educational program that prepares students for leadership roles in a multi-ethnic society. 

On April Fool's Day in 1957.

Pam Maples, former Post-Dispatch Managing Editor, has join Newsy.com

Just about the happiest thing that can happen to such a woman is an encounter with Dr. Lewis Wall, an ob-gyn at Washington University in St. Louis. A quiet, self-effacing but relentless man of 59, Dr. Wall has devoted his life to helping these most voiceless of the voiceless, promoting the $300 surgeries that repair fistulas and typically return the patients to full health.

From Tim Barnhart:

Brian  Wahby's seat on DNC follows a long list of St. Louis City Democrats who have served as DNC committeemen and committeewoman. Historically, in most years, at least one seat on DNC has been held by a City Democrat- State Committee leaders specified under the DNC Charter or by DNC selection.
 

Retaining Our Creative Types -  By Chris King

As government has grown, there have been fewer choices for people in this country to make. Before, people were basically left to themselves to decide how to live, and their success was largely determined by a combination of work ethic and responsible choices.

Today, government programs combine with the incessant need for instant gratification to create a society where people seem upset that they have to earn anything they would get. Employers constantly are complaining that younger workers will take their paychecks, but seem unwilling to work.

I was very newly arrived at The St. Louis American after six years in New York when Russ Carnahan came to the paper for his candidate interview in his run for Dick Gephardt’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. I probably remember his candidate interview better than Jeff Smith’s because I asked our publisher, Donald M. Suggs, if I should wear a suit for the occasion. When I asked this, since it was an ordinary workday in summer, I must have been wearing baggy shorts and an African print shirt. Suggs replied, “You can wear what you’re wearing now.