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LAWRENCE -- Students from 11 Kansas high schools will be honored Monday, Oct. 28, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association.
The students, seniors from Clay, Pottawatomie and Riley counties, will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at a 6:30 p.m. dinner program at the Manhattan Country Club, 1531 N. 10th St., Manhattan.
Honorees are listed below.
Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Natural History Museum and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will speak. Kansas Alumni Association representative Carolyn Barnes, director of the Kansas Honors Program, is in charge of award presentations.
The program will cost parents and alumni $13 each. Honored students will be guests of the Alumni Association and the Endowment Association.
A. Mark and Toni Stremel, Manhattan, will serve as the site and Riley County coordinators. Lucy Mulroney and Sylvia Mansfield, Clay Center, are the Clay County coordinators. Doug and Joyce Elcock, Wamego, will serve as the Pottawatomie County coordinators.
The KU Endowment Association and the KU Alumni Association began sponsoring the Kansas Honors Program in 1971. The program has honored 82,874 students in the top 10 percent of the Kansas high school senior classes.
| First Name | Last Name | High School |
| Candace | Friedrich | Blue Valley High School |
| Amanda | Mazouch | Blue Valley High School |
| Corrine | Close | Clay Center High School |
| Jordan | Close | Clay Center High School |
| Benjamin | Fisher | Clay Center High School |
| Cory | James | Clay Center High School |
| Amanda | Luthi | Clay Center High School |
| Austin | Meek | Clay Center High School |
| Kyleigh | Payne | Clay Center High School |
| Lindsay | Pfizenmaier | Clay Center High School |
| Caylyn | Spicer | Clay Center High School |
| Kara | Taddiken | Clay Center High School |
| Cale | Urban | Clay Center High School |
| Chelsea | Cassel | Flint Hills Christian School |
| Asma | Al-Rawi | Manhattan High School |
| Amber | Axelton | Manhattan High School |
| Stephanie | Beach | Manhattan High School |
| Chad | Bowman | Manhattan High School |
| Tracy | Britt | Manhattan High School |
| Allison | Brooks | Manhattan High School |
| Zian | Butler | Manhattan High School |
| Denise | Carlson | Manhattan High School |
| Stephen | Chapes | Manhattan High School |
| Caroline | Chapman | Manhattan High School |
| Kai-Yao | Chen | Manhattan High School |
| Amanda | Coltharp | Manhattan High School |
| Lindsey | Converse | Manhattan High School |
| Allison | Day | Manhattan High School |
| Jessalyn | Dean | Manhattan High School |
| Ryan | Eatinger | Manhattan High School |
| Kelsey | Fulkerson | Manhattan High School |
| Adam | Gelroth | Manhattan High School |
| Julie | Goehring | Manhattan High School |
| Mehrdad | Hosni | Manhattan High School |
| Jacob | Hughey | Manhattan High School |
| Frank Yue | Jiang | Manhattan High School |
| Kathryn | Johnson | Manhattan High School |
| Jonathan | King | Manhattan High School |
| Kelsey | Larsen | Manhattan High School |
| Jamie | Morrill | Manhattan High School |
| Sheila | Murphy | Manhattan High School |
| Ian Patrick | Murray | Manhattan High School |
| Grant | Parker | Manhattan High School |
| Amanda | Petrik | Manhattan High School |
| Andrew | Rosander | Manhattan High School |
| Evan | Russell | Manhattan High School |
| Matthew | Schwandt | Manhattan High School |
| Brett | Scott | Manhattan High School |
| Adam | Shaner | Manhattan High School |
| Aleksander | Soibelman | Manhattan High School |
| Lisa | Stork | Manhattan High School |
| Renee | Strouts | Manhattan High School |
| Matthew | Taylor | Manhattan High School |
| Kerry | Teel | Manhattan High School |
| Keith | Teeter | Manhattan High School |
| Jose | Villarreal | Manhattan High School |
| Megan | Ward | Manhattan High School |
| Jessica | Weaver | Manhattan High School |
| Laura | Woodard | Manhattan High School |
| Daniel | Yaussi | Manhattan High School |
| Cory | Cusick | Onaga High School |
| Zachary | Jepson | Onaga High School |
| Ashlyn | Kite | Onaga High School |
| Cory | Clem | Riley County High School |
| Betsy | Copeland | Riley County High School |
| Rachelle | Kenworthy | Riley County High School |
| Lela | Larson | Riley County High School |
| Valerie | Peterson | Riley County High School |
| Emily | Rothlisberger | Riley County High School |
| Danielle | Russell | Riley County High School |
| Kendra | Sullivan | Riley County High School |
| Amanda | Tackett | Riley County High School |
| Tara | Biesenthal | Rock Creek High School |
| Nicole | Heptig | Rock Creek High School |
| Shaun | Quigley | Rock Creek High School |
| Alexandria | Serra | Rock Creek High School |
| Shayne | Wahlmeier | Rock Creek High School |
| Renee | Klinges | St. Mary's Academy |
| Scott | Kneuper | St. Mary's Academy |
| Brigitte | Parks | St. Mary's Academy |
| Thomas | Zepf | St. Mary's Academy |
| JoBeth | Kincaid | St. Marys High School |
| Adam | Lukert | St. Marys High School |
| Heather | McAfee | St. Marys High School |
| Lindsay | Royer | St. Marys High School |
| Cody | VandeVelde | St. Marys High School |
| Christina | Damman | Wamego High School |
| Emily | Dietrich | Wamego High School |
| Jamie | Douglass | Wamego High School |
| Callie | Duch | Wamego High School |
| Justin | Fox | Wamego High School |
| Emily | Frey | Wamego High School |
| Kelly | McPeak | Wamego High School |
| Brandon | Oakes | Wamego High School |
| Kate | Peterson | Wamego High School |
| Sarah | Stephan | Wamego High School |
| Charlotte | Sylvester | Wamego High School |
| Andrea | Wilkerson | Wamego High School |
| Lindsey | Bowman | Wakefield High School |
| Cayla | Witty | Wakefield High School |
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