Community News
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 02:34 p.m., July 1, 2008
Updated 02:34 p.m., July 1, 2008
Honored graduates
Area students who received Kansas State University spring graduation honors included Sara Elizabeth Jones of Burlington, who graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of science degree; Elizabeth Rene Brooks, cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in family studies and human services and Amanda Leigh Collier, summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts degree, both of Council Grove; Kristina Lucille Martin of Hartford, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness and a bachelor’s degree in business administration; and Leah Beth Ferdinand of Reading, summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture.
Spring honors
Area students who received Kansas State University spring 2008 semester honors from Chase County included Anna Ingeleiv Wold of Elmdale and Lisa Ann Davis of Strong City; from Coffey County were Bradley James Dunlop, Sara Elizabeth Jones and Jeffrey Todd Wilson, all of Burlington, Isaac Cole Specht of LeRoy and Jenny Lee Combes of Lebo; from Greenwood County were Jamie Noelle Ball and Ella Alyson Reusser of Eureka and Kent Edward Dennis, graduate of Eureka High School; from Lyon County were Adrian C. Wallace of Allen and Thomas Dean Reust, graduate of Northern Heights High School at Allen, Erica Suzanne Marie Stevenson of Olpe and Leah Beth Ferdinand of Reading; from Morris County were Amanda Leigh Collier and Anna Elizabeth Miller of Council Grove, Danielle Mae Hallgren and Lacey Renee Picolet, graduates of Council Grove High School; from Osage County were Rebecca Anne Neeley of Burlingame and Connor James Griffith of Lyndon.
Students who receive semester honors rank in the top 10 percent of their class.
Geography honors
David Haag of Olpe, a senior studying geography at the University of Kansas, was recognized in a May ceremony for “outstanding achievement at the Kansas Geological Survey” based at KU, according to the news release. Haas received the Norman Plummer Outstanding Student Award. In the Survey Cartographic Services unit, Haag helps produce new geologic maps and has created Geographic Information Systems geology data for 45 Kansas counties from historical geologic maps. Norman Plummer was a survey employee from 1936 to 1969. Haag is the son of Sylvia Haag and a graduate of Olpe High School.