The University of Missouri plans to bring some big names to the state after unveiling a lecture series in honor of former Sen. Kit Bond. The Christopher S. "Kit" Bond Lecture Series, announced yesterday, was the brainchild of former Sen. Jack Danforth, a Republican colleague who, along with former UM Board of Curators Chair Tom Atkins of Columbia, helped raise $1.3 million to create an endowed fund for the series.
Forum Highlights Impact of Innovative Public-Private Partnerships on Housing Challenges ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former U.S. Senator Kit Bond joined the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Housing Commission and Jack Kemp Foundation in holding a public forum in St. Louis today to discuss the importance of public- private partnerships in addressing the nation's housing challenges.
In our Dec. 19 issue, reporter Rudi Keller wrote a very good piece on Republican Kit Bond's career in state and national politics, remembering the Mexico, Mo., native as state auditor, the "Kid Governor," a protege of statesman Jack Danforth and finally our four-term U.S. senator. Bond has been one of the most important progressives in Missouri political history. Many today will not think of him that way because in recent years he has moved to the right by the flow of national politics and the drift of his political party, but often as a lonely Republican among recurring Democratic majorities he made progress because he learned how to work effectively outside his party. He did this with persistent intelligent persuasion, a skill too often lacking among today's officeholders. As he urged...
Former U.S. Senator Christopher S. "Kit" Bond, a partner at Thompson Coburn in St. Louis, was honored by the Order of Malta for his leadership in improving Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem. He received the Cross of Grand Officer "Pro Merito Melitensi" of the Order of Malta. Sen. Bond was instrumental in helping to secure a $6.5 million grant for the hospital.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NeighborWorks America, one of the country's largest community development nonprofit corporations today as part of its NeighborWorks Training Institute programs honored Senator Christopher S. "Kit" Bond with its lifetime achievement award for his more than forty years of support to America's families. Presenting the award to Senator Bond, Eileen Fitzgerald, NeighborWorks America CEO noted that he is known for a long string of accomplishments on behalf of families and accessible housing, beginning with his service as Missouri's youngest governor and continuing through four terms as one of Missouri's U.S. Senators.
Friends and colleagues of former Sen. Kit Bond have raised and donated more than $1.3 million to create a University of Missouri lecture series in his honor. Kit Bond
After spending decades in the Missouri political arena, U.S. Sen. Kit Bond will move into the private sector. Where is the longtime Republican lawmaker going? That detail will be revealed tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in downtown St. Louis, according to a press release.
Sen. Kit Bond and his staff were cleaning out his Washington, D.C., office when they found Missouri's missing moon rock. We were just dumbfounded," Bond said this morning from his Mexico, Mo., home. "I think it's easier to get to the moon than it was to find this.
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