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

KU to honor Phillipsburg alumnus and high school seniors in 5 Kansas counties

LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association will honor David Rankin of Phillipsburg for his longtime volunteer efforts on behalf of KU at a 6:15 p.m. April 10 gallery viewing and a dinner reception in Logan. The reception and dinner will be in the Dane G. Hansen Memorial Plaza community room, 110 W. Main St., Logan.

Rankin will be honored during a Kansas Honors Scholars program for seniors from 11 Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and Smith county high schools who rank in the top 10 percent of their class.

Honorees are listed below.

Andrea Norris, director of the Spencer Museum of Art at KU, will speak at the program. Kansas Alumni Association representative Fred B. Williams, president and CEO of the Kansas Alumni Association, 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.

Polly Bales, Logan, and Carol Bales, Logan, are the site coordinators. David Rankin, Phillipsburg, is the Graham and Phillips counties coordinator. Kevin Baughman and Tom Baumann, Norton, are the Norton County coordinators. Philip Hardman, Osborne, is the Osborne County coordinator. Samuel Wagner, Harlan, is the Smith County coordinator.

The honored alumnus, Rankin, earned a bachelor's degree in pharmacy in 1963. In addition to his work for the Kansas Honors Program, Rankin is a member of the Kansas Alumni Association's national board of directors and is vice chair of the membership task force.

The Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Award, created in 1986 by the Alumni Association, honors volunteers who serve as KU ambassadors in their home communities. The award is named for Clodfelter, who received a bachelor's degree in 1941 from KU and worked at the university for 47 years, 42 of them at the Alumni Association. Clodfelter retired in 1986 and lives in Lawrence.

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
Tiffany	Henke	Downs High School
Kelley	Pottberg	Downs High School
Rachel	Jones	Eastern Heights High School
Jared	Miller	Eastern Heights High School
Brandi	Day	Hill City High School
Cody	Fabricius	Hill City High School
Zachary	Fischer	Hill City High School
Dawn	McAmoil	Hill City High School
Kelli	Berg	Logan High School
Jason	Reese	Logan High School
Alicia	Ellis	Natoma High School
Alicia	Tubbs	Northern Valley High School
Chandra	Braun	Norton Community High School
Amanda	Ebert	Norton Community High School
Heather	Kaus	Norton Community High School
Carissa	Lacy	Norton Community High School
Amber	Norman	Norton Community High School
Abigail	Rhoades	Norton Community High School
Andrea	Skinner	Norton Community High School
Sarah	Streck	Norton Community High School
Danielle	Conway	Osborne High School
Ashley	Noel	Osborne High School
Jill	Smith	Osborne High School
Brooke	Ubelaker	Osborne High School
Shannon	Ellenberger	Phillipsburg High School
Zachary	Hein	Phillipsburg High School
Elyse	Kampfe	Phillipsburg High School
Christine	Merklein	Phillipsburg High School
Timothy	Merklein	Phillipsburg High School
Megan	Horning	Smith Center High School
Tyler	Kennedy	Smith Center High School
Mandy	Linn	Smith Center High School
Kaley	Overmiller	Smith Center High School
Marcy	Warner	Smith Center High School
Nikki	Kuhlman	West Smith County High School