{"id":1975,"date":"2024-11-19T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/presoffice\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2024-11-19T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T15:58:15","slug":"sympathy-notice-dr-jack-magruder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/presoffice\/2024\/11\/19\/sympathy-notice-dr-jack-magruder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sympathy Notice:  Dr. Jack Magruder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues:<\/p>\n<p>It is with immense sadness that I share the passing of Dr. Jack Magruder, President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, on Sunday, November 17.\u00a0 A funeral service will be held on Saturday, November 23, at 1:00 pm at the First United Methodist Church in Kirksville, with a graveside service immediately following the funeral.\u00a0 A public visitation\/memorial service will be held on Sunday, November 24, at 2:00 pm in the Georgian Rooms of the Student Union Building.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 50 years, Dr. Magruder lived his passion for and commitment to Truman &#8211; first as a student, then as a faculty member and academic administrator, and from 1994\u20132003, as the University&#8217;s thirteenth president.\u00a0 With the name change to Truman State University in 1996, his guidance was integral in finishing the more than decade-long transformation into Missouri\u2019s only statewide public liberal arts and sciences institution.\u00a0 Truman\u2019s run of No. 1 rankings began on his watch and continues uninterrupted to this day.\u00a0 He established our Phi Beta Kappa chapter, and in celebration of a career that had already included 35 years of service, Science Hall was renamed Magruder Hall in his honor in 1999.\u00a0 Dr. Magruder\u2019s leadership as president of A. 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