9/21/2004

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

KU to honor 99 high school seniors in Salina on Oct. 6

LAWRENCE -- Students from 13 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Oct. 6, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association.

A total of 99 seniors from Ellsworth, Lincoln, Ottawa and Saline county high schools will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at a 6:30 p.m. program at the Salina Country Club, East Country Club Road in Salina.

Honorees' names are listed below.

Stuart Bell, dean of the School of Engineering, will speak. Del Shankel, interim president and CEO of the Alumni Association, is in charge of award presentations.

The dinner program will cost parents and alumni $15 each. Honored students will be guests of the Alumni Association and the Endowment Association.

Pat Thompson, Salina, is the site coordinator; Jim and Joyce Trower, Salina, will be the Saline County coordinators; G. Derril Gwinner, Ellsworth, is the Ellsworth County coordinator; and Bob and Sharron Hamilton, Salina, are the Lincoln County coordinators. Pam Barker of Minneapolis, Kan., is the coordinator for Ottawa County.

The KU Endowment Association and the KU Alumni Association began sponsoring the Kansas Honors Program in 1971. The program has honored 89,875 students in the top 10 percent of the Kansas high school senior classes.