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By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 01:53 p.m., July 8, 2008
Updated 01:53 p.m., July 8, 2008
Fort Hays honors
Area students named to the Fort Hays State University spring 2008 Dean’s Honor Roll included Mary C. Walker of Allen and Kandice Dawn Hamner of Burlingame.
On KU honor roll
Area students named to the University of Kansas spring 2008 Honor roll included those from Burlington: Nicholas Andrew Cherry, Jennifer Lynne Hoover, Wyatt Edward Meriwether and Bethany Lauren Scothorn.
From Cottonwood Falls were Carl Robert Black, Jordan Elizabeth Kline and Noah Andrew Lock.
From Council Grove were Aric Westin Aldrich, Molly Ann Aldrich, Hali M. Baker, Benjamin M. Hornung, Kaylee Ann Sarratt and Brenda Dawn Pracht.
From Lebo were Ashley Nicole Edwards and Eric Scott Gourley.
From Neosho Rapids, Greg Kevin Wellnitz.
From New Strawn, John Culbertson.
From Olpe were Megan R. Cole, Nicole Leann Schmidt and Matthew R. Torres.
From Reading, Stuart Nelson Symmonds.
Join youth tour
Crystal Hinterweger of Lebo and Brandon Doebele of New Strawn traveled to Washington, D.C. as part of the 48th Annual Electric Cooperative “Government in Action” Youth Tour during the week of June 12 through June 19. Their all-expense-paid trip was sponsored by the Lyon-Coffey Electric Cooperative. To be selected, the students either wrote an essay or were interviewed by a panel of judges. Hinterweger and Doebele, along with 28 other Kansas youth delegates, learned about U.S. history and government in visits with Senator Pat Roberts and Representative Todd Tiahrt and had tours of historic sites. They also were among the almost 1,500 high school students from 45 states who attended the 2008 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Youth Day.
Geography honors
Darren 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 a news release. Haag 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.
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