Graduation honors
ESU Media Relations
Originally published 02:38 p.m., May 15, 2008
Updated 02:38 p.m., May 15, 2008
Nursing
Emporia State Universitys Newman Division of Nursing will be honoring graduating student nurses and announcing leadership award recipients during a ceremony Friday night. The event takes place at 7 p.m. in Albert Taylor Hall in Plumb Hall.
Sophonore and junior nursing students will also be recognized, and the reciepients of scholarship awards will be announced.
A reception in the rotunda of Plumb Hall will follow the ceremony.
Senior nursing students graduating from ESU this month include: Emily Katelyn Bureman, Maureen Erin Cassidy, Darby Jolee Cochran-Wilson, Emily Marie Collins, Lorie Sue Davison, Tamara Michelle Deweese, Megan Danielle Dreiling, Jennifer Ann Frey, Ashley Renee Garnett, Rachel Marie Goetz, Kristin Jean Kennedy, Taran Brooke Mejia, Tamla Dawn Price, Kristina Rachelle Redelfs, Jessica Lynn Scherman, Karen Marie Seaman, Trent Ryan Siegle, Summer N. Stucker, Courtney Renae Summerskill, Jamie Janelle Vaughan, Jennifer Mary Watson, Amanda Kay Weber, Sherry Deann Wedman, Joni Jean White, Angela Dawn Williams, Heather Ann Wilson, and Justine Michelle Wiltz.
BEST program
A program that helps the Butler County area grow its own supply of teachers will send 23 newly-minted educators to area school systems this fall. The BEST (short for Butler-Emporia from Students to Teachers) Program will recognize those graduates at a reception Friday at Butler Community College in El Dorado.
The reception will take place at 4 p.m. in the Purple Room of Building 1000, BCC’s Student Union.
BEST is an award-winning collaboration between Emporia State University and Butler Community College that turns placebound students into elementary school teachers. The program was developed in early 2004, when representatives from Butler and ESU met to devise a way that students in and around El Dorado could earn their teaching degrees without leaving their home areas.
Through BEST, students complete a two-year associate of arts degree from Butler and then continue on the Butler campus to earn a bachelor of science in elementary education from ESU.
“Most of our graduates are going to schools in Butler and Sedgwick Counties,” said Merle Patterson, BEST coordinator.
This spring’s BEST graduates are: Tenae Alfaro, Robin Carleton, Amber Carlson, Valynn Christie, Julie Clark, Cathie Dauber, Sarah Dawson, Brad Drewek, Rachel Fehrenbacher, Joe Gehrer, Jennifer Goodwin, Natasha Hinz, Robin Lewis, Kara Manny, Mackenzie Matthies, Deidra Mitchener, Alisha Moss, Teresa Owen, Heather Parrott, Mary Tehrune, Mandy Toedman, Nicole Villegas and Amanda Wilson.
Comments
We allow registered users to post comments on this Web site. To learn more about our posting policies please read our User Poster Agreement Policy.
Posted by USNretired (anonymous) on May 16, 2008 at 12:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Welcome new alumni. Make sure to join the association!
Post a comment
We allow registered users to post comments on this Web site. Our goal with this feature is to encourage thoughtful discussions about the news stories. Using the comment feature to make random attacks on people is not acceptable. Emporiagazette.com neither endorses nor guarantees the accuracy of any user contribution. Responsibility for what is posted or contributed to this site is the sole responsibility of each user. To learn more about our posting policies please read our User Poster Agreement Policy.
(Requires free registration.)