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

KU to honor high school seniors from six southwest Kansas counties March 26

LAWRENCE -- Students from 10 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, March 26, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association.

The students, seniors from Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton and Stevens counties, will meet for a dinner at 7 p.m. and will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at an 8 p.m. program. The program will take place at Seward County Community College, Student Union 2nd Floor, 1801 N. Kansas, Liberal.

Honorees are listed below.

Kim Wilcox, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at KU, will speak at Wednesday's program. 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 $9.50 each. Honored students will be guests of the Alumni Association and the Endowment Association.

Al and Donna Shank, Liberal, are the coordinators for the site and for Morton and Seward counties. Jeff Menzie, Ulysses, is the coordinator for Grant and Stanton counties. Jacqueline Hall, Sublette, is the Haskell County coordinator. Erick and Debbie Nordling, Hugoton, are the coordinators for Stevens County.

The KU Endowment Association and the KU Alumni Association began sponsoring the Kansas Honors Program in 1971. The program has honored 85,600 students in the top 10 percent of the Kansas high school senior classes.

First Name	Last Name	High School
JoMarie	Caga-anan	Elkhart High School
Alisha	Drew	Elkhart High School
Tai	Houtz	Elkhart High School
Kelisha	White	Elkhart High School
Theresa	Flynn	Hugoton High School
Chase	Hall	Hugoton High School
Andrea	Hershey	Hugoton High School
Susan	Hornbeck	Hugoton High School
Joshua	Lewis	Hugoton High School
Stephanie	Snyder	Hugoton High School
Gabriel	Webb	Hugoton High School
Larissa	Adams	Liberal High School
Edgar	Alvarado	Liberal High School
Alejandra	Avita	Liberal High School
Charles	Carder	Liberal High School
Daniel	Clifton	Liberal High School
Brenna	Deckert	Liberal High School
Andrew	Garner	Liberal High School
Ragan	Harrison	Liberal High School
Jack	Hart	Liberal High School
Bao-Tran	Nguyen	Liberal High School
Suong	Nguyen	Liberal High School
Thao	Nguyen	Liberal High School
Zackery	Patterson	Liberal High School
Amy	Payton	Liberal High School
Chance	Plett	Liberal High School
Darren	Reed	Liberal High School
Amy	Sellmyer	Liberal High School
Rachel	Shannon	Liberal High School
Derek	Sumner	Liberal High School
Terrance	Volden	Liberal High School
Colby	Wallace	Liberal High School
Rebecca	Dale	Moscow High School
Natalie	Snyder	Moscow High School
Starburst	Newton	Rolla High School
Tyler	Light	Rolla High School
Rudy	Rankin	Satanta High School
Tiffany	Shogren	Satanta High School
Daniel	Williams	Satanta High School
Tamarah	Dreitz	Southwestern Heights High School
Anna	Friesen	Southwestern Heights High School
Amanda	Harden	Southwestern Heights High School
Elizabeth	Lewis	Southwestern Heights High School
Amanda	Mercer	Southwestern Heights High School
Kelli	Nuss	Southwestern Heights High School
Selia	Garcia	Stanton County High School
Megan	McElroy	Stanton County High School
Stacey	Wilkerson	Stanton County High School
Travis	Curry	Sublette High School
Jose	Gonzalez	Sublette High School
Whitney	Griffin	Sublette High School
Tasia	Hanson	Sublette High School
Sarah	Leonard	Sublette High School
Trevor	White	Sublette High School
Kelsi	Baier	Ulysses High School
Molly	Belt	Ulysses High School
Hitomi	Greene	Ulysses High School
Bryna	Horton	Ulysses High School
Kaleena	Johnson	Ulysses High School
Lindsay	Meierhoff	Ulysses High School
Brandon	Prusa	Ulysses High School
Layna	Shorter	Ulysses High School
Jaci	Wilkening	Ulysses High School
Wes	Wilkening	Ulysses High School