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Sarah Rummel Backer
Westminster College
Office: 573-592-5438; Cell: 573-220-9038
Sarah.Backer@WCMO.edu
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FULTON, Mo. (June 6, 2025) – Matthew D. Greaves, DDS, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, received Westminster’s prestigious Young Alumni Achievement Award on April 12.
The Young Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni who demonstrate the Westminster mission through outstanding achievement early (within five to 15 years) in their chosen career and/or dedicated leadership and service to their community.
Greaves is a member of Westminster’s Class of 2010. He was named the 2023 Air National Guard’s Dentist of the Year and was the Delta Tau Delta fraternity’s “40 Under 40” award recipient. He currently serves as the sole dental provider for the 131st Bomb Wing of the Missouri Air National Guard.
Greaves majored in biology at Westminster and is a graduate of the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Dentistry. He completed his residency at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, where he earned a master’s degree while providing dental care to patients with special needs beyond the scope of routine outpatient services.
After his residency, Greaves oversaw the training of dental students and residents, securing grant funding to deliver free dental care to financially impoverished patients struggling with head and neck cancer. He also helped establish a program that provides hospital-based, special-needs dentistry.
Greaves proudly served his country through a deployment to the Middle East and served his fellow Missourians by co-leading a medical mission that provided more than $1.8 million of no-cost care to the citizens of southeast Missouri.
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ABOUT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: Founded in 1851 and home of Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, Westminster College is ranked prestigiously by The Princeton Review as one of the “Best 150 colleges in the Midwest” for 2026 and is one of only 37 full-participation institutions with the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition as recognized by the Higher Learning Commission. New graduates experience a more than 90% placement rate within six months of graduation, while Westminster alumni are in the top 16% nationwide for graduate earnings. The only National Liberal Arts college in Missouri, Westminster has long been recognized for its focus on educating and inspiring students to make an impact on the world around them. Find out more about Westminster College by visiting our website.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Sarah Backer at 573-220-9038 or Sarah.Backer@WCMO.edu.
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