A Kansas City, Kansas, student is part of a St. Patrick celebration in Rolla, Missouri.
Eli Mitchell, a Kansas City, Kansas, junior in technical community at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will portray the trumpeter during a celebration at Rolla.
Missouri State plans its 109th celebration of St. Pat’s with a procession at noon Wednesday, March 15, in downtown Rolla, Missouri. After a procession downtown, the St. Pat’s court will preside over follies at the pavilion on 9th and Oak streets, near the railroad tracks.
The court also participates in formal coronation ceremonies at 9 p.m. Friday, March 17, in Leach Theater of Missouri Science and Technology’s Castleman Hall. A queen will be crowned at the event.