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In Memoriam

… secretary and assistant at Wichita-based Dennis Phelps Attorney at Law for 20 years, June 27, 2023, Derby, Kan. CAROL S. (DEWEY) HODGE ’64/76, homemaker and retired social worker for the State of Texas, July 10, 2022, Temple, Texas. U.S. AIR FORCE VETERAN AND BANKER BRADFORD HALL Bradford Hall ’59 was born in Wichita, attended Wichita public schools and…

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Sight Lines

Right now, as Judy Muiruri, a Wichita State physician assistant (PA) student originally from Kenya, Abelardo “Abe” Jaime, who’s studying surgical technology at WSU Tech, and Courtney Harris, a second-year WSU audiology student who works at the Evelyn Hendren Cassat Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, take a look at the architectural plans for the biomedical…

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Top eldercare executive honored for career achievement

… Mark Parkinson ’80 has been selected the 2024 McKnight’s Pinnacle Awards Career Achievement Award honoree for his contributions to the long-term care sector, the segment of society most devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. He has served as president and CEO of the 14,000-member American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living since…

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Shocker Q&A with senior softball outfielder Addison Barnard

… short Q&As allow you to hear from these remarkable individuals in their own words. Addison Barnard What are you studying, and what year will you graduate?I am majoring in health science and will graduate in May 2024. I am also an outfielder on the WSU Softball team! What is your favorite memory (so far) from your time on the softball team?I’ve made so many …

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Repping for the Yellow and Black

…including 56 games in the NBA, 51 of which were with the New York Knicks. His final pro season was spent with the Astros de Jalisco in Mexico, winning a CIBACOPA league title, before he retired in September 2022. Within a year of his retirement, one of the connections he made during his playing days brought him back to the NBA — as a coach. Early on…

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Life-long Shocker celebrates 100 years of WSU pride

…and literature graduate of the University of Wichita (WU), Armstrong, along with her late husband Pete ’42, has been a stalwart supporter of just about every facet of civic and community life in Wichita, especially higher education and the arts. As a student at WU, Armstrong (then McCoy) was extraordinarily active on campus. A member of the Student…

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WSU alumna works to sustain aircraft airworthiness

…to augment classroom learning and prepare engineering students for employment,” she says. “The applied learning opportunities at WSU are second to none!” A specialist in solid mechanics, damage tolerance and aircraft structures, as well as research on aging aircraft, Laubach-Hock has worked at WSU’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR)…

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Celebrating our inaugural Heritage Gala

… generations of Shockers. “Our goal was to create an inclusive event celebratory of all Shockers; students, alumni and friends,” said Vice President of Alumni Engagement, Stacie Williamson. “We feel fortunate to have been in the room with so many passionate Shockers and hope to build upon this event for years to come.” Three alumni were nominated by their…

https://foundation.wichita.edu/celebrating-our-inaugural-heritage-gala/

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Academic fund provides supplemental student support

…pointing students toward supplemental instruction (SI) in the Shocker Learning Center (SLC). This strategy was, in large part, made possible through the Patricia and John Morgan Academic Advancement Fund through the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Since 2014, the fund has provided nearly $449,000 to Wichita State that has dramatically…

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Bob Borlase’s $1 million estate gift to WSU will serve the areas of greatest need

…in the best way possible,” said Alyssa Scott, director of development at the WSU Foundation and Alumni Engagement. “He trusted university leadership to make that decision in the best interest of the university and our students. It was an incredibly selfless gift to leave behind.” Unrestricted gifts can be used to help advance university initiatives and…

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A LIFETIME OF SERVICE

The Board of Trustees award was established in 1989 to recognize those who strengthen the partnership between the university and community. This year’s award recipient is Tom Winters, who spent 12 years serving on the Board of Trustees at WSU. Winters has also served on the Sedgwick County Commission and a number of other boards, and has a legacy of…

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WSU alumna on far-ranging book-signing trail

This summer, Delia Garcia ’02, a regional administrator for the U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, has logged an impressive number of travel miles to book-signing events for her Latina Leadership Lessons. With her authorship pen in hand, she has visited New York City, New Orleans, and San Juan, Puerto Rico — plus a number of other cities, including her…

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Shocker alumna takes on new role as art director

…complementary aesthetics to highlight galleries and artists. She has expanded her digital capabilities to answer clients’ needs for engagement in social media and non-traditional campaigns. “One of my favorite projects here at Greteman Group has to be the motion graphic I designed and animated for PBS Kansas,” Wentling says. “It was such a fun campaign…

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Judge Bonner sets up legal education scholarship at WSU

…State in support of the university’s Legal Education Accelerated Degree (LEAD) program, a partnership with the University of Kansas School of Law. “As a lawyer, I was excited to learn about LEAD,” says Bonner, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland (1963) and Georgetown University Law Center (1966) whose impressive career has…

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THE SHOCKER

…lived across the street from Fairmount Park on 15th Street. My plan was to live in the only men’s dorm and then have Sunday dinners with them. My uncle was transferred to Kansas City, but I stayed on to graduate from WSU in 1965. As a student, I spent a lot of time at KMUW when it was across the street from campus, and I ate many meals at a restaurant just a…

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On the Rise

…the 15-percent threshold for becoming what’s termed by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) an “emerging” Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). To receive official HSI designation, not-for-profit degree-granting colleges and universities must have at least 25 percent Hispanic or Latinx undergraduate full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment and be DOE…

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You can’t go wrong when you hire a Wichita State grad

…hard work of 2,200 very deserving Shockers as they walked across the stage at the 2023 spring graduation ceremony. I always enjoy our commencement ceremonies with all the pomp and circumstance: graduates with their creatively adorned caps, the rousing music from the Shocker Sound Machine, WuShock sightings and selfies – all punctuated by the confetti…

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Shock Talk

…next generation of female leaders.” PERI WIDENER ’78,CEO of GLoBIL Consulting Group, on her $300,000 gift to WSU’s Widener Global Leaders Program, an interdisciplinary program that supports women majoring in business, communications, fine arts. “From many of my friends and colleagues, I’ve been told that I would know when it’s time to retire — and that time …

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Class Notes

…JOAN WAID ’61, ART-P, is a 2023 inductee into Wichita State’s College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame. After graduating from the University of Wichita (WU), she moved to New York City with her husband GUY C. WAID ’63, MUS-P, a baritone studying classical voice at WU. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States as well as …

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Importance of Small Wins

…relatively unimportant. But a series of such small wins can help reduce the feeling that issues are so complex as to render us incapable of solving them. He points out that social issues like poverty, pollution, congestion and crime seem overwhelming to those assigned to address them, but that successful efforts in these areas occur when they are recast…

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