Month: May 2016

Piper results

Piper High School – soccer vs. KCC
– Varsity won 4 -0
o Goals by Wilson, Wiediwult, Thomas, Wallace, and Thomas
o S/O by Morgan
– Play again this Friday at 5:30 vs. Bishop Miege

Piper High School – softball today at 3 p.m. at Basehor-Linwood (Field of Dreams)
– – vs. Sumner Academy
– – Basehor vs. Miege
– 6 p.m. championship game

Piper High School – baseball will be played Friday at Tonganoxie
– Times will be determined by the outcome of the play-in game on Thursday

Doug Key, Piper High School activities director

Six candidates to interview for open KCKCC Board of Trustees position tomorrow

Six candidates will interview for an open position on the Kansas City Kansas Community College Board of Trustees on Thursday, May 19.

The meeting at 11 a.m. May 19 is open to the public. The meeting will be at the upper level Jewell Building on the KCKCC campus, 7250 State Ave.

A vacancy opened on the Board of Trustees upon the death of long-time trustee Mary Ann Flunder.

The six candidates include Phil Englehart, who holds a doctorate degree, a lecturer at the University of Kansas Department of Urban Planning and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri at Kansas City; Roslyn Brown, a public relations consultant who has worked with the juvenile justice program in Wyandotte County and is a former assistant to former Mayor Carol Marinovich; Monica Randle, an assistant principal at an elementary school; Joyce Spearman, a volunteer coordinator and project manager at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; Tyrone Garner, deputy chief of police in Kansas City, Kan.; and Micheal Strohschein, who holds a doctorate in education, senior director of continuing and professional education at the UMKC School of Education.

The candidates had submitted their names for consideration for the appointment.

The Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote to select a new board member at a meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, June 21, at the college.

Twenty-eight K-State graduation candidates from Wyandotte County

Twenty-eight students from Wyandotte County were graduation candidates this spring at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

One student, Stephen Kucera of Kansas City, Kan., was the featured musician at commencement ceremonies at five different K-State colleges, including veterinary medicine, education, business administration, agriculture and human ecology. Kucera is a senior in applied music and accounting.

Students from Wyandotte County who were expected to earn degrees from Kansas State University this spring included:

From Bonner Springs: Jared Baker, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering; Toni Stock, Bachelor of Science in Family Studies and Human Services; Sergio Valenzuela, Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

From Kansas City, Kan.: Ryan Albracht, Master of Landscape Architecture; Samuel Banach, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; Marla Boswell, Bachelor of Science in Education; Kishae Colding, Bachelor of Science; Allison Dorr, Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management; Loren Easterwood, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine; Kedric Elmore, Bachelor of Science in Technology Management; Casey Gum, Bachelor of Arts; Stephon Hardridge, Master of Architecture; Gabrielle Hellbusch, Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition; Lerenzo Kelley, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; Keegan Kelly, Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness; Ivannia Lopez, Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering; Megan Merrill, Master of Science; Marcantony Mohn, Bachelor of Fine Arts; Jeni Nezerka, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine; Jennifer Padelli, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; Javier Quinonez, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; Jermaine Rhone, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering; Benjamin Rinehart, Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology; Maya Tilmon, Bachelor of Science; Keisha Washington, Master of Science; Austin White, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering; Lawrencia White, Master of Science; and Chayce Wynn, Bachelor of Science.