KU News Release

LAWRENCE — Two seniors in the University of Kansas School of Business have received Thomas M. Hoenig Scholarships.

The scholarships are named for the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, who gave this year’s Anderson Chandler Lecture at KU. The awards were presented at the lecture Oct. 25.

Finance majors Aaron Andra, Wichita, and Thomas Freeman, Overland Park, were selected for the $2,000 scholarships based on multiple faculty recommendations for their achievements as outstanding business majors.

Andra and Freeman both are members of the Finance Scholars Program and recently completed summer internships in New York City.

“Aaron and Thomas are outstanding students and well deserving of these scholarships,” said Keith Chauvin, associate dean of academic affairs at the School of Business. “They were selected by members of the finance faculty. Like a number of other KU finance scholars, when these two students graduate, they each have full-time jobs awaiting them at financial institutions on Wall Street.”

The Chandler Lecture Series began in 1997 and is made possible by Anderson Chandler, the CEO, president and director of Fidelity State Bank and Trust Co. of Topeka. Chandler is a School of Business alumnus and was one of the first alumni honored, in 1998, with the Distinguished Alumni Award.

JOHNSON COUNTY
From Overland Park 66213
Thomas Freeman, senior in finance; son of Rob and Nancy Freeman; graduate of Olathe East High School.

SEDGWICK COUNTY
From Wichita 67209
Aaron Matthew Andra, senior in finance; son of Michael and Tina Andra; graduate of Derby High School.