MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL
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June 9, 2017
EMPHASIS: Missouri State Highway Patrol’s 104th Recruit Class To Graduate June 23, 2017

Colonel Sandra K. Karsten, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces 27 troopers will graduate from the Patrol’s Law Enforcement Academy on Friday, June 23, 2017. The ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. and will take place in the Academy gymnasium at the General Headquarters, 1510 E. Elm Street, Jefferson City. The 104th Recruit Class reported to the Academy on January 2, 2017. The new troopers report for duty in their assigned troops on July 10, 2017.

Attorney General Josh Hawley will provide the keynote address during the graduation ceremony. Colonel Sandra K. Karsten also will address the class. The Honorable Mary Rhodes Russell, Supreme Court of Missouri, 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 nine of the new troopers.

Troop F Color Guard will present and retire the colors. Sergeant John H. Lueckenhoff, Troop D, and Recruit Bradley J. Lueckenhoff will sing the national anthem. Reverend Scott Chastain, Mission Home Baptist Church, Marshfield, MO, will provide the invocation and benediction.

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

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