Rufus Crosby Kemper

Background

Kemper, Rufus Crosby was born on February 22, 1927 in Kansas City, Missoury. Son of Rufus Crosby and Enid (Jackson) Kemper.

Education

Graduate, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1942; student, University Missouri honorary Doctor of Laws, William Jewel College, 1976; Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Westminster College, 1983.

Career

Chairman, chief Executive officer, director, United Missouri Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City, Missoury Chairman, chief Executive officer, director, United Missouri Bank of Kansas City N.A., Missouri director, United Missouri City Bank president, director, Kemper Realty Company president, director, Pioneer Service Corporation advisory director, United Missouri Bank of Boonville advisory director, Overland Park Bancshares, Inc., Kansas advisory director, Overland Park Bank and Trust Company director, United Missouri Bank of St. Joseph Chairman of the Board, director, City Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City, Missoury director, Chicago Title Insurance Company, Kansas City, Missoury director, United Missouri Mortgage Company director, Kansas City Southern Industries, Missouri chairman, Chief Executive Officer, United Missouri Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missoury. Past associate faculty member Baker U., Baldwin, Kansas.

Membership

Member advising committee Research Medical Center. Trustee Freedom's Foundation Valley Forge, Kansas City The Art Institute of Chicago, U. Missouri Kansas City Conservatory. Honorary trustee Young Women’s Christian Association.

Past trustee Kemper Military school and College, Boonville, U. Kansas City, Frury College. Board directors Kansas City Industrial Foundation, Heart of America council Boy Scouts American, Heart of America United Way, Mid-American Arts Alliance, Starlight Theatre, Kansas City Symphony, History Kansas City Foundation. Honorary board directors Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri.

Treasurer, director Metropolitan Performing Arts Funds. Member directors council Lyric Opera. Member community advisory council The Children's Mercy Hospital.

Member of national committee Whitney Museum American Art, New York City. Commissioner National Museum American Art., Washington. Pastbd. directors and treasurer Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City.

Representative candidateof United States Senate from Missouri, 1962. Served with United States Naval Reserve, World World War World War II. Member American Royal Association (Vice-President, board directors), Man of the Month Fraternity, Beta Theta Pi (Man of Year 1974).

Interests

• Avocations: farming, tennis, sailing, horseback riding, raising cattle.

Connections

Married Mary Barton Stripp. Children: Rufus Crosby III, Pamela Warrick Gabrovsky, Sheila Kemper Dietrich, John Mariner, Mary Barton, Alexander Charles, Heather Christian.

Father:

Rufus Crosby Kemper

Mother:

Enid (Jackson) Kemper

Spouse:

Mary Barton Stripp

child:

Rufus Crosby III Kemper

child:

Heather Christian Kemper

child:

Alexander Charles Kemper

child:

Sheila Kemper Dietrich Kemper

child:

Pamela Warrick Gabrovsky Kemper

child:

Mary Barton Kemper

child:

John Mariner Kemper