KU News Release

KU Alumni Association welcomes new students with picnic in Dodge City

LAWRENCE — Incoming University of Kansas students and their parents from Clark, Comanche, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Meade and Ness counties will be welcomed into the KU family at the Jayhawk Generations Welcome Picnic at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 13, in Dodge City.

The KU Alumni Association and its Western chapter will greet the next generation of Jayhawks at the Mariah Hills Club House Basement,1800 Matt Down Lane. 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.

Shane Bangerter of Dodge City, chapter board member, is coordinating the event with alumni association representatives Heath Peterson, director of Kansas programs; Mike Davis, vice president of programs; and Danny Lewis, director of national programs. 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.

Cimarron 67835: Cory Gleason

Dodge City 67801: Edgar Acevedo-Pando, Nicholas Angelos, Lindsay Astleford, Courtney Brady, Brandon Briggs, Peter Bunyan, Brighton Cavalliere, Aaron Chilton, Shanah Gaskill, Leticia Guereca, Sydney Matheny, Chester Mayhew, Raul Ontiberos, Aubrey Owens, Elizabeth Stephens and Aric Vo

Greensburg 67054: Eric White

Haviland 67059: Ashley Darnell

Ingalls 67853: Justin Kelly and Zachary Thomas

Kingsdown 67842: Joseph Stegman

Meade 67864: Gabrielle Reimer and Kyle Ross

Ness City 67560: Benjamin Henning

Plains 67869: Holly Brown