September 5, 2001

Kansas Honors Program

Contact: Carolyn Barnes, Kansas Alumni Association, (785) 864-4760

KU to honor top Cherokee, Labette county high school students at Parsons

LAWRENCE -- Students from eight Kansas high schools will be honored Monday, Sept. 17, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association.

The students, seniors from Cherokee and Labette counties, will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at a 6:30 p.m. dinner program at the Parsonian Hotel ballroom, 1725 Broadway.

Honorees' names are listed below.

Diana Carlin, dean of the Graduate School and International Programs, will speak. Alumni Association representative Fred Williams, president of the Kansas Alumni Association, is in charge of award presentations.

The program will cost parents and alumni $10.50 each. Honored students will be guests of the Alumni Association and the Endowment Association. Mary Catherine and Chuck Brown, Parsons, are site coordinators and Cherokee and Labette county coordinators.

The KU Endowment Association and the KU Alumni Association began sponsoring the Kansas Honors Program in 1971. The program has honored 79,500 students in the top 10 percent of the Kansas high school senior classes.

First Name Last Name High School
Kevin Hancock Baxter Springs High School
Charlie Kuehn Baxter Springs High School
Charla Logan Baxter Springs High School
Danielle Merritt Baxter Springs High School
Natalie O’Neal Baxter Springs High School
Chandra Spence Baxter Springs High School
Adam Paxson Chetopa High School
Ty Wood Chetopa High School
Amy Butterworth Columbus High School
Michael Gleason Columbus High School
Pamela Hess Columbus High School
Derek Holmes Columbus High School
Josh Major Columbus High School
Becky Scott Columbus High School
Nikki Taylor Columbus High School
Trenton White Columbus High School
Lindsay Winter Columbus High School
Rebecca Bingham Galena High School
Kelsey Colgrove Galena High School
Andrew Horner Galena High School
Chris Means Galena High School
Paul Myers Galena High School
Gail Banzet Labette County High School
Christa Beaver Labette County High School
Bryce Butler Labette County High School
Tyler Chapman Labette County High School
Aaron Frazier Labette County High School
Jill Heins Labette County High School
Angela Hine Labette County High School
James Littrell Labette County High School
Amy Myers Labette County High School
Veronica Nelson Labette County High School
Tyler Odaffer Labette County High School
Adam Rhodes Labette County High School
Jacob Rhodes Labette County High School
Jerod Rhodes Labette County High School
Amber Searles Labette County High School
Robert Weil Labette County High School
Amber Boehner Oswego High School
Loretta George Oswego High School
Shelley Keener Oswego High School
Nicholas Alderman Parsons High School
Brent Dringenberg Parsons High School
Devin Gorman Parsons High School
Joseph Heavrin Parsons High School
Jason Kearns Parsons High School
Kathryn Lindeman Parsons High School
Jamie Lyle Parsons High School
Amy Palmer Parsons High School
Melanie Pauls Parsons High School
Cecilia Roberts Parsons High School
Sara Salsbury Parsons High School
Jennifer Thompson Parsons High School
Angela Campbell Riverton High School
Jacob Cauble Riverton High School
Aril Commons Riverton High School
Kristen Grimmer Riverton High School
Kelsey Moncrief Riverton High School
Marcy Turner Riverton High School

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