February 27, 2002

Kansas Honors Program

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

KU to honor Atchison County high school seniors at Atchison

Editor's note: Reporters are welcome to attend the program.

LAWRENCE -- Students from four Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, March 13, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association.

The students, seniors from Atchison County, will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at a 6:30 p.m. dinner program at the Bellevue Country Club, 18011 Country Club Road, Atchison.

Honorees are listed below.

Michael Swann, associate dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, will speak. Alumni Association representative Kelly Kidwell, assistant director of chapter and constituent programs, is in charge of award presentations.

The program will cost parents and alumni $12.50 each. Honored students will be guests of the Alumni Association and the Endowment Association.

Bill and Donna Roe, Atchison, are the site and Atchison 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
Angela Amthor Atchison High School
Nedra Curry Atchison High School
Brett Duitsman Atchison High School
Nicholas Friend Atchison High School
Desaray Harvey Atchison High School
Courtney King Atchison High School
Brenna McConaughey Atchison High School
Kelsey Reid Atchison High School
John Roe Atchison High School
Melissa Sinclair Atchison High School
Kyle Walters Atchison High School
Sarah Wohlgemuth Atchison High School
Emily Armstrong Atchison County Community High School
Alyson Kanning Atchison County Community High School
Amanda Miller Atchison County Community High School
Hannah Miller Atchison County Community High School
Dustin Oswald Atchison County Community High School
Kurtis Springstead Atchison County Community High School
Brendon Asher Maur Hill Prep School
Nathan Fouquet Maur Hill Prep School
David Huggins Maur Hill Prep School
Lucas Krusemark Maur Hill Prep School
Kelly Gartenmayer Mount St. Scholastica Academy
Na Young Lee Mount St. Scholastica Academy
Jennifer Steffel Mount St. Scholastica Academy

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