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LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas has announced the names of its 2002-03 Mount Oread scholars, a select group of freshmen honored for academic merit.
The students were selected for the Mount Oread Scholars Program because they graduated in the top 20 percent of their high school classes and received ACT composite scores of 28 to 30 or SAT scores of 1,240 to 1,330. Each scholar will work individually with an adviser in his or her field of interest and may enroll in relatively small classes or be taught by veteran faculty.
Established in 1996, the Mount Oread Scholars Program is designed to recruit and retain high-ability students who do not automatically qualify for admission to KU's honors program. The program's retention rate of freshmen is more than 90 percent.
On Aug. 19, many of the nearly 200 Mount Oread scholars coming to KU this fall walked up the hill known as Mount Oread on the KU campus. The walk symbolized the scholars' first year at KU and their preparation for their graduation walk down the Hill in years to come.
KU Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost David Shulenburger, English Professor James Carothers and Mount Oread Scholars Program Director Lloyd Sponholtz joined the scholars as they walked up the Hill. Carothers, who proposed the walk six years ago, annually walks with the students and provides commentary about the campus history.
At the top of Mount Oread, the scholars were welcomed to breakfast at KU's Spencer Research Library by Stella Bentley, KU's new dean of libraries, and William J. Crowe, Spencer librarian. Inside the library, the scholars visited with library staff and signed special note cards reflecting on their first week at KU. The notes were sealed and stored in University Archives in Spencer library and will be opened about the time of the students' 25th reunion at KU.
To view photos of the Mount Oread scholars' annual walk up the Hill and breakfast at the Spencer Research Library, click here.
The freshmen are listed by home county and state online.
NOTE: The listings include each student's name, major (if declared), parents names and student's high school alma mater.
EXAMPLE:
Horton Who, freshman, majoring in English, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horton Who Sr.; Hortonville High School.
MOUNT OREAD
Mount Oread (pronounced "OR ee ad") is the name given to the ridge above the Kaw River on Aug. 1, 1854, by New Englanders settling Lawrence. They set up camp on the ridge, naming it for an institute in Massachusetts that also occupied a commanding site overlooking its town. The word "oread" derives from Greek and Roman mythology meaning "mountain nymph."
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