KU News Release

KU Alumni Association welcomes new students with picnic in Elkhart

LAWRENCE — Incoming University of Kansas students and their parents from Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Morton, Stevens and Seward counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25, in Elkhart.

The KU Alumni Association and its Southwest chapter will greet the next generation of Jayhawks at the home of Brian and Rosa Mitchell, 1055 Vilymaca. Area alumni, new students, students interested in learning more about KU and parents are invited to attend and enjoy complimentary food and beverages. Each new Jayhawk will also receive a free T-shirt.

Eric Nordling of Hugoton, chapter president, and Brian Mitchell of Elkhart, chapter member, are coordinating the event with KU Alumni Association representatives Heath Peterson, director of Kansas programs; Mike Davis, senior vice president of programs; and Danny Lewis, director of national chapters. Current KU students, alumni and university representatives will mix and mingle with students to answer questions and offer advice.

For more information or to make reservations, visit www.kualumni.org, call the KU Alumni Association at (800) 584-2957 or e-mail kualumni@kualumni.org.

The KU Alumni Association invited transfer students and incoming freshmen whose enrollment deposits were received by the Office of Admissions and Scholarships by May 1. The guests are listed below by their hometown zip codes:

Elkhart 67950: Trinidad Aranda, Jordan Mitchell, Tyler Parks and Julianna Tidwell

Hugoton 67951: Chip Broaddus, Catherine Losey, Jessica Lulf and Emily Slemp

Johnson 67855: Amy Garrison

Liberal 67901: Larissa Arnold, Stefani Croy, Kevin Dinh, Alex Gilmore, Robert Johnson, Kara Lewis, Martin Monarrez, Ryan Petty, Alexandra Pohorecki and Adam Resh.

Rolla 67954: Christopher Hull

Sublette 67877: Damon Simmons

Ulysses 67880: Christopher Haliburton, K'cie Kinsinger, Donovan McCauley and Grant Prusa

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