KU News Release

KU to honor 34 high school seniors from five north central Kansas counties April 6

LAWRENCE — Students from 11 Kansas high schools will be honored Thursday, April 6, by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment.

A total of 34 seniors from high schools in Graham, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and Smith counties will be named Kansas Honor Scholars at a 6:15 p.m. reception and dinner program at Dane G. Hansen Memorial Plaza, Community Room, 110 W. Main St., Logan.

Honorees’ names are listed below.

Paul Carttar, executive vice chancellor for external affairs, will speak. Kevin Corbett, president of the Alumni Association, is 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 KU Endowment.

Polly Bales and Carol Bales, both of Logan, will be site coordinators. County coordinators will be Kevin Baughman and Tom Baumann II, both of Norton, Norton County; Philip Hardman, Osborne, Osborne County; Dave Rankin, Phillipsburg, Graham and Philllips counties; and Sam Wagner, Harlan, Smith County.

The Kansas Honors Program began in 1971. It has honored 95,794 students in the top 10 percent of high school senior classes throughout the state of Kansas.

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