ESU announces Outstanding Senior Nominees, Outstanding Recent Graduates

Fourteen seniors and three recent graduates will be honored during Senior Day 2004 activities at Monday, April 12 at ESU.

The Dwight and Ida Curry Newberg Outstanding Senior and Distinguished Senior awards, as well as the Outstanding Recent Graduate awards, will be presented during a banquet scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Memorial Union Kanza Room. Tickets for the banquet are $7.00 per person and are available by contacting the Sauder Alumni Center at (620) 341-5440 or lauberjo@emporia.edu by noon on Monday, April 5.
Nominees for the Newberg awards include:

Mary B. Birdsell,

Emporia, speech communication major

Sarah Lynne Dent,

Emporia, psychology and social sciences double-major

Ryan Hunter Diehl,

Iola, English and history double-major

Matthew Fox,

St. John, elementary education major

Christina M. Kerns,

Wichita, communication major, Spanish minor

Krystal Littrell,

Olathe, marketing major

Melissa Neal McFarthing,

Wichita, elementary education major, mathematics concentration

Shelly Minge,

Hanover, communication major

Natalie Moreau,

Baldwin, economics and business administration double-major

DeLynne Osborne,

Wichita, elementary education major

Tyler Paul,

Enterprise, accounting major

Krystin M. Philbrook,

Emporia, business management major, communication minor

Thomas Robert Resch,

Emporia, chemistry major and pre-med

Molly A. Young,

Wichita, communication major and sociology minor

Outstanding Recent Graduates have received their bachelor’s degrees from ESU within the past ten years and are selected by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, and The Teachers College respectively.
The 2004 Outstanding Recent Graduates are:

Darin P. Selby,

a 1999 B.S. and 2000 M.B.A. graduate from Liberty, Mo. is the recipient for the School of Business. Selby is the director of the Account Management Center for Kansas City Southern Railroad in Kansas City, Mo., where he is responsible for managing the rail traffic of the KCS’s largest customers and performing sales calls to their small and medium accounts.

Stacy E. (Cox) Shipley,

a 1995 B.S.E. graduate and 1999 M.S. graduate from Olathe is the recipient for The Teachers College. Shipley is principal of Countryside Elementary School in Olathe. She is also the principal of a Professional Development School site and serves as a mentor principal for administrative interns.

Cynthia Price,

a 2000 B.A. graduate from Topeka is the recipient for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Price is a copy editor and page designer for the Topeka Capital -Journal.

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