MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
A Division Of The
Department of Public Safety
Public Information and Education Division - PO Box 568 - Jefferson City, MO 65102
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June 21, 2016
EMPHASIS: 102nd Recruit Class Graduation Scheduled June 24, 2016

Colonel J. Bret Johnson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces 26 troopers will graduate from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy on Friday, June 24, 2016. The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. and will take place in the Academy gymnasium. The 102nd Recruit Class reported to the Academy on January 4, 2016. The new troopers report for duty in their assigned troops on July 11, 2016.

Governor Jay Nixon will provide the keynote address during the June 24 graduation ceremony. Department of Public Safety Director Lane Roberts, and Colonel J. Bret Johnson will address the class. The Honorable Mary Rhodes Russell, Missouri Supreme Court, will administer the Oath of Office to the new troopers. Dean Gil Kennon, vice president of College Affairs for Mineral Area College, will confer an associate of applied science degree to 10 of the new troopers.

Troop F Color Guard will present and retire the colors. A quartet consisting of Sergeant John H. Lueckenhoff, Troop D, Sergeant Andrew A. Henry, Troop H, Trooper Steven J. Force, Troop H, and Pastor Terry Beasley, of Cameron, MO, will sing the national anthem. Rev. Tim Rickman, Assemblies of God, Nixa, MO, will provide the invocation and benediction.

The public and the media are invited to attend the ceremony.

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