Ark Valley News - Highlights

Highlights
Last Updated: December 29, 2016

Anna Taylor, of Valley Center, was among the performers featured in Kansas Wesleyan University's annual Christmas by Candlelight concert. Christmas by Candlelight consists of two concerts featuring the KWU Philharmonic Choir, the Wesleyan Chorale and the KWU String Orchestra. The performance took place Dec. 11 on the Kansas Wesleyan campus.

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Taylor Lee, of Wichita, has been named an Emporia State University Ambassador for 2017.

A service organization, ESU Ambassadors has a long history of service to the university and strives for excellence in everything from campus tours to E-Zone to Senior Week.

Ambassadors promote service, spirit and success and with leaders from a wide variety of campus and community organizations, the ESU Ambassadors are setting the stage for years of future success.

Lee is a freshman majoring in sociology.

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Jordan Plank, of Wichita, was one of 36 student-athletes from all 15 of Emporia State University's intercollegiate sports named as a 2016-17 Earl W. Sauder Athletic Scholar. Those student-athletes were honored Nov. 28 during the annual luncheon at the Sauder Alumni Center.

Plank, a senior majoring in elementary education, competes in baseball for ESU.

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Cynthia Webster, of Wichita, has been named to the President's list with a perfect 4.0 grade point average for the fall 2016 semester at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.

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Thomas Warner, a Wichita native, was named to the fall 2016 semester Dean's list at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.

Eligibility for the Dean's list is based on a minimum course load of 12 hours, a grade point average of 3.5 with no grade below a C.

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Cassity Morlan, of Kechi, was named to the President's Honor Roll at Kansas Wesleyan University for the 2016 fall semester. Full-time students with a semester grade point average of at least 3.75 and no incompletes are listed on the President's Honor Roll at the end of each semester.

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The following area students were named to the Dean's Honor Roll for the fall 2016 semester at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina: Taylor Johnson of Park City, and Christopher Stadler and Mary-Katherine Swanson, both of Wichita.

Full-time students with a semester grade point average between 3.25 and 3.74 with no incompletes are listed on the Dean's Honor Roll at the end of each semester.