Education Notes Fort Hays State University honors list
Fort Hays State University students appear on the spring Dean's Honor Roll with 12+ credits and a 3.60 GPA. Local honorees include Angela Slabaugh and Chad Olmstead, plus Elizabeth Hornbuckle. Ottawa student Amber King earns Sterling College scholarship. she cites extensive high school activity and plans elementary education. Ottawa graduates at KSU receive Lorraine Max Leadership Memorial Scholarships totaling $4,500, with Rachel Anderson and Patricia Zabloudil each at $1,500 and Jackie Wallace at $500. Brett Woolery of Central Heights receives Baker University Faculty Merit Scholarship after a 4.0 GPA and dual NSH involvement. Baldwin’s Johnelle Naspl makes UW President’s Honor Roll at 4.0. Sarah Sellers of Ottawa earns Duke TIP Grand Level Scholar honors and state recognition. Garnett’s Zachery Hargis earns Washburn University honors in speech communication.
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Fort Hays State University
Hays — Area
Angela Slabaugh
Garnett
Chad Olmstead
Baldwin
Elizabeth Hornbuckle
Ottawa
Sterling
Amber King
Sterling College
Kansas
Ottawa High School
King
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
John
Lauren King
KSU
Kansas State University
Lorraine Max
Rachel Anderson
Patricia Zabloudil
Jackie Wallace
CHHS
Baker
Brett Woolery
Princeton
Central Heights
Baker University
Sheldon
Nancy Woolery
Woolery
Future Farmers of America
Johnelle Jean Naspl
University of Wyoming
Duke
Topeka
Sarah Sellers
Don
Norma Sellers
Janie
Rich Nourot
Duke University
Durham
North Carolina
Sellers
Kansas University
Lawrence
Jeff
Debbie Sellers
Cecil Callaway
Faucett, Mo
Thelma Mears
Central Heights teen joins Jessie May advisory board
Ashley Pollock a 16 year old Central Heights junior serves on the advisory board of Jessie May an online magazine empowering teen girls with feminist perspectives and real representations. Jessie editor Clare Warmke notes youth driven content with articles stories and poems by girls ages 12 to 24. Jessie recently won a media internet award from the Women’s Peacepower Foundation and will partner with Voices Carry Denver to encourage social issue discussion.
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Central Heights
Jessie May
Ashley Pollock
Jessie
Pollock
Clare Warmke
Real Representa
Warmke
Ashley
Women’s Peacepower Foundation
Bloody Benders Murder Mystery Keeps Kansas Legend Alive
AP reports the Bloody Benders story, dating from 1871 to 1873 in Labette County Kansas, as a lasting American gothic mystery. The family ran an inn and store, with eight travelers buried in the orchard and linked killings beyond the inn, while final chapters remain unwritten.
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Herryvale
Kansas
Max McCoy
Pittsburg
Benders
John Bender
William H. York
Independence
York
Kate
McCoy
Infamous Kansas Criminals The Benders And More
A compact survey of notorious Kansas figures including the Bloody Benders led by John Bender and Kate, the Dalton Gang’s 1892 bank and train robberies, and serial killer BTK. It notes the Benders inn murders in Labette County, the unsettled fate of the Bender family, and enduring public fascination reflected in museums and local memory.
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Kansas
Bill” Anderson
Centralia
Oklahoma
Coffeyville i
FBI
Alcatraz
Perry Smith
HurdBrers
Truman Capote
BTK
Wichita
Donald Ray
Gideon
Stephanie Schmidt
U.S. Supreme Court
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Washburn
Zachery R. Hargis
Washburn University
Hargis
Jessie Mag
Jessiemag.com
Associated Press
Cherryvale
Bender
Karen Seifert
Vivian Vance
Kate Bender
Oswego
Houston Post
Cheryl Collins
Manhattan
The
State Historical Society
Ottawa Herald
Jer
Tucker
CCR
S. Cedar
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