Wins scholarship
Jennifer Finch of Madison has received a $3,000 Board of Trustees scholarship from Newman University in Wichita. The scholarship can be renewed each year to a total of $15,000 over five years. Finch will graduate this spring and attend Newman University in the fall of 2009, where she will study nursing. A student must have at least a 2.75 grade point average and a score of 20 on the ACT or 1350 on the SATI to be eligible for the Trustee scholarship.
Washburn graduates
Area students who are fall 2008 graduates of Washburn University in Topeka include:
Kody Johnson, cum laude, bachelor’s degree in law enforcement and criminal justice, and Bradley Steen, bachelor’s degree in political science, both of Burlington.
Casey Horton of Council Grove, summa cum laude, bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting.
Tiffany Tastove of Lebo, bachelor’s degree in physical education.
Shannon Beaty of New Strawn, bachelor’s degree in corrections and criminal justice.
Summer graduates
Area students who were summer 2008 graduates of Wichita State University include: Shari L. Strawder of Burlington, master’s degree in nursing; and Maria S. Velazquez of Emporia, bachelor’s degree.
Missouri graduate
Sheena N. Walters of Emporia was awarded a master of arts degree from Missouri State University in the fall graduation.
Scholarship winners
Kansas State University students from this area who received scholarships totaling more than $1,000 for 2008-09 include:
From Emporia — Crystal Bandel, Kelsey Fuller, Kristen Mercedes Garcia, Jacquelyn Rae Haag, Brandon Heavener, Andrew Kent Heerman, Jeffrey Thomas Hicks, Nicholas Andrew Jasso, Chase Lee Miller, Laura Jean Mosher, Andrew Robert Weaver, Byron Robert Yeager and David Henry Zeller.
From Hartford —Sebastian Jacob O’Connor.
From Olpe — Sean Christopher Nickel, Drew Alan Pettijohn, Erica Suzanne Marie Stevenson and August Stueve.
From Reading — David Michael Hanks and Kyle Jacob Velasquez.
From Cottonwood Falls — Daniel Joseph Jones.
From Elmdale — Jared Eugene Whitcomb and Nathan Matthew Whitcomb.
From Strong City — Samantha Kay Archer — Lorrin A. Fink and Casey Michael Mushrush.
From Burlington — Bradley James Dunlop, Allison Ann Holman, Hollee Mae Kirchner, Alyssa Maree Reeves, Megan Duana Schmidt and William Brian Stevens.
From Lebo — Jenny Lee Combes, Jason Mark Freund and Gage Milota.
From LeRoy — Beau James Beyer and Isaac Specht.
From New Strawn — Allen Robert Harkrader.
From Madison — Josh Ross McIlvain and Jacob Picolet.
From Council Grove — Caitlin Marie Adams, Drew Daniel Adams, Kevin Russell Bryant, Anneliese Theresa Byram, Tyson Jeffery Fore, Christina Marie Miller, Anna Elizabeth Miller, Anna Maria Salas and Maggie Jean Wright.
From Osage City — Lauren Grace Fager.