KU News Release

KU chancellor to speak to high school seniors from eight SW Kansas counties

LAWRENCE -- Students from 17 Kansas high schools will be honored Wednesday, Oct. 12, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the KU Endowment Association.

A total of 81 seniors from Clark, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Gray, Meade, Kiowa and Comanche county high schools will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at a 6:30 p.m. dinner program at the Knights of Columbus, 800 W. Frontview St., Dodge City.

Honorees' names are listed below.

Chancellor Robert Hemenway will speak, and Kansas Alumni Association representative Jamie Winkelman, coordinator of Alumni Programs, will be in charge of award presentations.

The dinner program will cost parents and alumni $9 each. Honored students will be guests of the Alumni Association and the Endowment Association.

Melaney Vogel, Dodge City, will serve as the site coordinator and Ford County coordinator. Other county coordinators will be: Robert and Sally McNickle, Ashland, Clark County; Liz Ballard, Haviland, Comanche and Kiowa County; Philip and Patricia Ridenour, Cimmaron, Gray County; Mary Joanne Sorem, Jetmore, Hodgeman County; Lynn Chance, Fowler, Meade County; and John Clarke, Ness City, Ness County.

The KU Endowment Association and the Kansas Alumni Association began sponsoring the Kansas Honors Program in 1971. The program has honored 95,794 students in the top 10 percent of high school senior classes throughout the state of Kansas.

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