Robin Wenneker, President of the University of Missouri Board of Curators, will be the featured speaker at the annual Student Send Off and BBQ to be held by the Great River Tigers chapter of the Mizzou Alumni Association on July 20.

Robin Wenneker of Columbia, MO was appointed to the Board of Curators in 2020 by Governor Parsons. She is the managing partner of the Wenneker family business. She is past president of the Missouri  Alumni Association, and a past member of the Missouri Coordinating Board of Higher Education.

Social hour is at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20 at Jackson Park Golf Course in Palmyra, MO. Tickets are $10 each for a pork loin dinner.

Great River Tigers is the local chapter of the Mizzou Alumni Association and serves alumni in northeast Missouri and west central Illinois.

Al Kennett, chairman of the summer event, says the event raises scholarship funds for current and future MU students. At the event, alumni will announce the names of 14 $1,000 scholarship winners. A drawing for 15 $500 scholarships will be held from students who are present at the event.

Kennett says there will also be a raffle for a pair of tickets and parking pass to the Tigers’ Homecoming football game vs Auburn on October 19.

Mizzou students receive a free ticket for themselves and one guest for the BBQ. Donors of $100 or more also will be admitted free to the BBQ.

For more information, contact Kennett at 573-248-6947 or kennetta@missouri.edu.