National award
A student from Reading was among several students at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine who received awards and scholarships last month at the American Association of Bovine Practitioners convention in Minneapolis, Minn.
Keith Dedonder of Reading, now a third-year veterinary medicine student,was named an Amstutz Scholar and received a $2,500 scholarship. The scholarship competition was open to all second-year veterinary students in the nation. Dedonder was one of 20 students selected from an about 3,000 applicants.
Start med school
Two former Emporians and a student from Burlington are among the 175 first-year students this semester at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. They will be the first at the medical school to be trained using the new curriculum designed to integrate basic science education and hands-on clinical experiences.
Members of the Class of 2010 were selected from a competitive pool of more than 1,679 applicants to the state’s only medical school. According to Barbara Atkinson, executive vice chancellor of the KU Medical Center and executive dean of the School of Medicine.
The former Emporians are Peg Bicker of Fairway and Scott Douglas Maley of Overland Park. The Burlington student is Rustain L. Morgan of Lenexa.
Completes basic
Army National Guard Pvt. Leslie L. Waggoner has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
During the nine weeks of training, Waggoner studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches and field training exercises.
Waggoner earned distinction as an honor graduate.
She is a 2006 graduate of Osage City High School and the daughter of Kimberly Waggoner of Osage City.