Oct. 3, 2002

Kansas Honors Program


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

KU to honor Ellis, Rooks, Russell and Trego county high school seniors

LAWRENCE -- Students from 10 Kansas high schools will be honored Thursday, Oct. 10, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association.

The students, seniors from Ellis, Rooks, Russell and Trego counties, will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at a 6:30 p.m. dinner program at Hays High School, 2300 E. 13th, Hays.

Honorees are listed below.

Stephen McAllister, dean of the KU School of Law, will speak. Alumni Association representative Chris Lazzarino, managing editor of Kansas Alumni magazine, is in charge of award presentations.

The program will cost parents and alumni $8.50 each. Honored students will be guests of the Alumni Association and the Endowment Association.

Fred and Shiela Brening, Hays, are the site and Ellis County coordinators. Tom and Cassie Nuckols, Plainville, will serve as the Rooks County coordinators. Nancy Lane, Russell, is the Russell County coordinator, and Jim and Kathy Cleland, WaKeeney, are the Trego 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
Joan Dreiling Ellis High School
Adrienne Heroneme Ellis High School
Ashley Taylor Ellis High School
Marsha Weber Ellis High School
Amy Adams Hays High School
Zachariah Armbruster Hays High School
Amy Befort Hays High School
Jan Blurton Hays High School
Mark Colwell Hays High School
Molly Denning Hays High School
Rose Denning Hays High School
Katherine Dreiling Hays High School
Nicole Ediger Hays High School
Wendy Fossum Hays High School
Charlie Hansen Hays High School
Cole Hooser Hays High School
Stacey Karl Hays High School
Scott Kuhn Hays High School
Jacob Lohrmeyer Hays High School
Katy Michaelis Hays High School
Eli Parke Hays High School
Paige Pfannenstiel Hays High School
Rachel Pollock Hays High School
Stacy Ryan Hays High School
Scott Schumacher Hays High School
Nathan Smith Hays High School
Craig Stramel Hays High School
Christa Tjeerdsma Hays High School
Blake Wasinger Hays High School
Trenton Wilson Hays High School
Renee Wolf Hays High School
Sara Mettlen Lucas-Luray High School
Marley Palmer Lucas-Luray High School
Summer Steeples Palco High School
Wayne Cook Plainville High School
Alexandra Garvin Plainville High School
Leslie Tipton Plainville High School
Andy Anschutz Russell High School
Nick Finnegan Russell High School
Ashley Hutchinson Russell High School
Raine Kaufman Russell High School
Jenalee Mahoney Russell High School
Josh Richards Russell High School
Danielle Berland Stockton High School
Lisa Tankersley Stockton High School
Katelyn Riffel Stockton High School
Daniel Allen Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Carmen Chan Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Paul Deines Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Chris Dinkel Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Jason Huynh Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Kevin Lang Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Michelle Swayne Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Amy Werth Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Jessica Werth Thomas More Prep-Marian High School
Charisse Cook Trego Community HighSchool
Brandon Hickel Trego Community High School
Brett Hille Trego Community High School
Megan Millard Trego Community High School
Aaron Nilhas Trego Community High School
Tyson Dinges Victoria High School
Matthew Sander Victoria High School
Kenneth Wagner Victoria High School

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