The Magazine of the Mizzou Alumni Association MIZZOU

Jerry Jacob

Jacob, BJ ’88, put his 20-year journalism career on hold to join the U.S. Army in 2007. A combat medic, he deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti to make deployment less frequent for others. “It seemed to me that if more of us pulled on the rope, we wouldn’t have to pull as hard or as much,” Jacob says. He returned to work as a KY3-TV anchor in Springfield, Mo., March 4, 2012.

Monica Jemison Blackmore

Blackmore, BS HE ’88, built a 22-year career with the Kansas City, Mo., police department. As a sergeant and forgery supervisor, she has trained about 300 officers and taught some 600 students in a city drug resistance program. Blackmore is now studying to be a captain, a promotion that would make her the only black woman among the city’s 46 captains.