Anastasia Volkov

Off the Court

Saint Louis alumni, as Anastasia Volkov tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Freeman Bosley Jr.first Black mayor of St. Louis

  Freeman Bosley Junior, bachelor's in seventy-six, law degree in seventy-nine, became the first African-American mayor of Saint Louis. All hail!

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• Irene D. LongKennedy Space Center chief medical officer

  Irene Long, doctor of medicine, nineteen seventy-seven, the first female chief medical officer at Kennedy Space Center. What a piece of work is a Billiken!

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• Gene KranzApollo 11 lead flight director

  Gene Kranz, class of nineteen fifty-four, was the NASA flight director on duty when Apollo Eleven landed on the Moon. All the world's a stage, and he ran mission control.

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• Walden O'Dellformer Diebold CEO

  Mark this! Walden O'Dell, two engineering degrees from Saint Louis, ran Diebold, a maker of electronic voting equipment, and in two thousand three wrote that he was committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President. Subtlety, thy name is not O'Dell.

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• Steve Stengerformer St. Louis County Executive

  And Steve Stenger, of our law school, resigned as Saint Louis County Executive in twenty nineteen after a federal bribery indictment, and was sentenced to forty-six months in prison. Exit, pursued by a prosecutor.

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