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IN THIS ISSUE:

Allen 2, 9 & 12

Barton 5

Butler 6 & 7

Cloud 2 & 6

Coffeyville 2, 9 & 11

Colby 6 & 12

Cowley 3, 5 & 12

Dodge City 4 & 10

Fort Scott 4

Garden City 7 & 8

Highland 5, 6, 7 & 12

Hutchinson 2

Independence 1

Johnson County 9 & 11

Kansas City Kansas 8 & 10

Neosho 1 & 6

Pratt 3 & 12

Seward 3, 7, 9 & 11

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In July of 2014, Jim Correll, the Fab Lab ICC direc-tor, and Wes

Koschke met to discuss the soon-to-be opened Fab Lab and the possibilities of 3D printing. In discussing the possibili-ties, Koschke related to Jim about a 13 year old girl, Kara Marr, a friend of his daughter, who was born with a congen-ital abnormality that left her without fingers and thumb on her right hand. And having previously read a news arti-cle about a Chicago lawyer who crafted a 3D printed hand for his son with a similar condition, Wes was intrigued with the possibility of crafting a pros-thetic hand for Kara at Fab Lab ICC. Since the inception of that idea and the conversations over the possibilities of 3D printing, Wes and a team of support-ers from Fab Lab ICC have printed a working prosthesis for Kara. Jim spoke

on the project, saying, “I told him that when we received our 3D printers he could come and make the hand for free if he could get the plans. And once they received the plans “nearly every day during the week of September 22 and 26 was spent working on Kara’s Cyborg Beast Hand.” At a Toronto Lake community gather-ing on the evening of September 27, Wes presented the new hand to Kara. It was a moment for Kara and also the community, “who had been having fund-raisers to try to raise money to buy a 3D printer to make Kara a hand,” Wes said. This was before he heard about the opening of the Fab Lab. Speaking about the evening of September 27, Jim said, “Kara ate a cupcake in a normal way for the first time in her life. She has quickly learned to hold a hair brush and curling iron among other things to make life a little easier.”

Neosho County Community College and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) hosted area veterans for a complimentary lunch on Thurs-day, November 6, to show our appreciation for their bravery and service Students made poppies that were pinned on each Veteran.

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Allen PTK Members Volunteer Time to Read

Allen Community College Phi Theta Kappa members volunteer their time to read to elementary students at the Iola Public Library as part of the communities Veteran’s Day celebration. Pictured,Carleigh Konrade, Topeka and Kristen Tainatongo, Fort Riley.

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After more than 35 years of service to Hutchinson Community Col-lege, Vice President of Student Services Randy Myers, will retire on December 31. Myers started at HCC on July 1, 1979, as a vocational technical guid-ance counselor, a position he would hold for several years. In 1985, he was promoted to the Director of Guidance and Counseling, and then became an Associate Dean of Student Services in 1992.

In 1997, he was promoted to the Dean of Student Services and when the HCC execu-tive management team was moved to Vice President roles in 2012, he became Vice President of Student Services, a position he held until his retirement in December 2014. Myers is remembered by many on the Hutchinson Community College staff for his calm leadership. “It has been my honor and pleasure to work with Randy for over nine years,” said Dr. Carter File, President of HCC. “He is an exceptional leader and a person with an out-standing heart for students. I have watched Randy facilitate groups through very com-plicated issues with ease. His friendly, easy-going demeanor makes him very ap-proachable and combined with his intelligence he is an outstanding Vice President for Student Services. He is respected by faculty, administration, and students.” “What has always impressed me about Randy Myers is his wisdom,” added former HCC President Dr. Edward Berger. “Regardless of the circumstance, his measured and thoughtful approach was greatly valued. He has that unique ability to take the emotion out of the decision-making process using unflawed logic to produce a good result. His loyalty and commitment to students and Hutchinson Community College is unparal-leled.” Through the years, Myers has been an active member of the Kansas Community Col-lege community, serving and leading numerous committees and task forces at the statewide level, including several regarding program alignment and transfer course acceptance that have had impact statewide and beyond. Myers is a 1971 graduate of Hutchinson Community College. His wife, Debbie, a sixth-grade teacher at Morgan Elementary in USD 308 in Hutchinson, will also retire at the end of the year. The couple is looking forward to spending more time with their two grandchildren, and also traveling and volunteering in the Hutchinson community.

HCC Vice President Of Student Services To Retire

CCC Hosts Annual Red Raven Holiday Event

Coffeyville Community College’s annual Red Raven Holiday was held on Friday, November 21st. This free family event is an opportunity for the college to give back to the community. Festivities include carriage rides, face painting, cookie decorating, two theatre performances, and a visit from Santa Claus. Over 500 children attended the event this year.

Cloud Resident Assistants Win Philanthropy Award The Cloud County Community College Resident As-sistants attended the Kansas Association of Resident Assistants Conference at Pittsburg State University November 14-15. They walked away with the award for the best Philanthropy Project. The RAs had coordinated a trick or treating event with the children at the Children's Center to go to Marquis Place. They also assisted with the Veteran's Appreciation Dinner in Concordia and then spent time with the residents of Sunset Home.

In November, Pratt Community College stu-dent Silvia Alvarez spent three days at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,

Texas to participate in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS). Alva-rez pictured with her teamfront row second from right. Alvarez, originally from Pratt, was selected as one of 40 community college students from across the U.S. and was the only student selected from Kansas.

While at NASA, students form teams and establish fictional companies interested in Mars exploration. Each team is responsible for developing a proto-type rover, designing a 3-D model of their rover and forming a company infrastructure, including budget, communications and presentations. Alva-rez was responsible for the marketing portion of

her team’s fictional company, and her team won first place in the competition.

“My favorite part was interacting with the NASA team and seeing their facilities up close,” said Alva-rez. “It was an exciting experience for someone from a small town in Kansas, and it helped me to decide that I want to pursue an internship with NASA in the future. I’ve been interested in working with NASA since high school, and since I’m plan-ning a career in science, this fits in well with my academic objectives.”

NCAS is designed to encourage community and junior college students to enter careers in science and engineering in order to join the nation’s high technology workforce.

Members of Cowley College’s student organiza-tions, along with more than 75 volunteers, pack-aged over 20,000 servings of food to distribute to area food banks and ministry meals Sat-urday, Nov. 8 at the college’s recreation building. Cowley College student organ-izations represented were, ACES (Academic Civic Engagement through Ser-vice), CAAT (Cowley Activity Awareness Team), Art Club, and Phi Theta Kappa. Members of the

Tiger men and women’s soccer teams also helped with the event.

Volunteers from Arkansas City High School and Winfield High School also assisted with the event as did the Early Bird Li-ons Club. “I am really proud of my group and everyone that came out to

help put this event together,” James Fry, sponsor of Cowley College’s ACES organization said. “We are already looking ahead to future events.”

PIE, Inc. the nonprofit group to advance Petroleum Industry Education, pre-sented a total of $110,000 in funding to programs at SCCC/ATS this fall. Here, group representatives present a $10,000 donation to the SCCC/ATS Foundation for student scholarships. In addition, PIE gave $50,000 as match-ing funds for the college’s Title V Endowment Challenge Grant. The nonprofit will also provide $10,000 per year for five years to fund travel and living ex-

penses for students completing summer internships in petroleum-related fields of study. Pictured, left to right, are Mike Riedel, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co.; Norma Jean Dodge, SCCC/ATS; Dr. Duane Dunn, SCCC/ATS; Dave Miller, Great Plains Gas Compression, Inc.; Chuck Lamberson, Stew-art & Stevenson; Don Ukens, End 2 End Technologies; Charles Cambern, Retired.

Seward Receives $110,000 In Funding From PIE, Inc.

Pratt Student Wins First In NASA Competition

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FSCC Meat Judging Team Wins National Championship

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Fort Scott Community College is pleased to announce that the Meat Judging Team has won the National Championship at the Cargill High Plains Meat Judging Contest in Friona, Texas. FSCC was named Reserve Champions of this contest in 2013.

First year Meat Judging Coach Jenilee Martin said of the experi-ence, “These students have dis-played the work ethic and dedica-tion that it takes to win a contest all season long. We have sat a close second to a tough opponent for most of our contests this sea-son, but found a way to push us over the hill for the national championship. I am very proud of the accomplishments of these kids and excited to see what the future has in store for them.”

FSCC claimed first place in the A Division for To-tal Placings, Overall Beef, and Beef Grading.

Natalie Hill of Paola, Kansas was 1st in Beef Grad-ing, 4th in Beef Judging, 1st in Overall Beef, 1st in Pork Judging, and 2nd in Questions. Hill was the 1st in overall points for Division A and was named to the first team All-American Team.

James Spieth of Farlington, Kansas was 9th in Beef Judging, 6th in Lamb Judging, 6th in Overall Beef, and 1st in Total Placing. Spieth was named 6th

overall for the contest.

Nikki Harris of Hepler, Kansas was 8th in Beef Judging, 9th in Over-all Beef, 7th in Pork Judging, 5th in Total Placing, and 10th in Ques-tions. Harris was 10th overall in Division A and was also named to the All-American Team.

Lane Johnson of Eureka, Kansas was 6th in Beef Grading, 10th in

Lamb Judging, 7th in Overall Beef, 9th in Pork Judg-ing, and 9th in Questions/Reasons. Johnson was 7th overall and named to the All-American Team.

Ben Walker of Nevada, Missouri was the FSCC Alternative. Walker was 2nd among alternatives. In addition to the contest honors, Natalie Hill was named to the First Team All-American. Lane John-son and Nikki Harris were named to the Second Team All-American. All-American Team Members are chosen through evaluation of GPA and suc-cess through collegiate judging career.

DCCC’s Greta Clark Receives The 2014 LULAC Award At the October, 2014 LULAC Awards Ceremony held in Dodge City, Greta Clark was awarded the LU-LAC’s Life Of a Valuable Educator Award. Greta Clark is the Director of Multicultural Education at Dodge City Community College. Greta is very ac-tive in the local LULAC Council and works very close with all ESL instructors and classes to ensure the stu-dents have an enjoyable educational experience. LULAC is the largest Latino civil rights group in the United States. They are 83 years old and going strong. LULAC looks to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans from every region looking for freedom and an honest way of life. The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens is to advance the economic condition, educational attain-ment, political influence, housing, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United

States. Kansas LULAC has the Kansas LU-LAC Scholarship Fund to assist Lati-no students towards their pursuit of higher education. The states scholarships are funded through fundraising oppor-tunities and corporate donations. The Kansas LULAC Scholarships are awarded at the State Convention held in the spring. DCCC President Don Woodburn said “Greta Clark is a tremendous asset to the college. She helps serve a very important and growing sector of our student body. We are fortunate to have her on board.” Congratulations to Greta Clark on receiving this award and helping so many ESL students suc-ceed at DCCC.

The Highland Community Col-lege campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year col-leges, hosted a banner-signing event on November 18 to high-light its participation in the statewide C4 Community Col-lege Completion Challenge Initi-ative. The purpose of the C4 Challenge is to engage commu-nity college students, faculty, staff, and administrators in es-

tablishing a campus culture that supports college completion by having students, college em-ployees, administrators, and faculty sign banners at an event to support students’ commit-ment to completing their asso-ciate degrees. The signed ban-ners from all the Kansas PTK chapters will be displayed at the state meeting held in Tope-ka on February 12 in conjunc-

tion with the All-Kansas Aca-demic Team recognition event.

Barton Theatre Major Performs Alongside “Broadway Stars” Barton Community College Theatre major and vocalist Maili Kee of Salina earned the right to sing with five Broadway stars at Bethel Col-lege’s Memorial Hall in Newton as part of Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway” show. Kee won a runner-up spot in Hesston-Bethel College’s “Singing with the Broadway Stars” con-test by submitting a video of herself singing. Neil Berg's “100 Years of Broadway” concert features Broadway stars of “Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Miserables,” “Jekyll and Hyde,” “Fiddler on The Roof,” “Wonderful Town,” “Tarzan,” “Cats” and “The Woman in White” singing the finest hit songs of the last 100 years of Broadway musicals. Kee will rehearse and perform with the Broad-way Stars the song “Seasons of Love” from the musical “Rent.” The song is part of the finale of the concert. She will meet and spend time with

Neil Berg and the Broad-way Performers. “I’m ridiculously excited,” Kee said of the opportunity. “It’s a huge blessing.” Barton Vocal Instructor Glenna Gaunt is Kee’s in-structor and said this is a great opportunity for her student. “Maili is very excited about this production,” she said. “Since she al-ready knows the song, she is confident she will hold her own in the performance. Just being on the same stage with the professionals will be quite exciting and encouraging. Maili’s strong sound and energy will only add to the produc-tion as she is a person who comes to life when in front of an audience.”

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Cowley Community College’s Academic Civic Engagement through Service (ACES) and

Cowley Activity Awareness Team (CAAT) joined together to conduct a benefit Pulled Pork Din-

ner on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The event raised more than $1,400 towards a future food packaging

event, in which all food packaged will stay local to help surrounding communities, food banks,

and ministry meals.

Cowley’s Benefit Dinner Raises Over $1,400

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Butler’s Foundation Ranks Top Three In 2014 In a recent article by the Wichita Business Journal, the Butler Community College Foundation was listed among the top 2014 charitable trusts and foundations. The Butler Community College Foundation was listed third. The Wichita State University and Wichita Community foundations ranked first and second respectively. Stacy Cofer, vice president of advancement, has been with the Foundation for nearly 14 years and has witnessed the gener-ous support to Butler. “I can’t say enough good things about the support we continue to receive for this institution. People believe in our mission and see what we do to move students to their next goals in life. And, it is only be-cause of that support, that we can smile when we see the WBJ list.”

Neosho Nursing In-structor Receives Award

Tammie Russell, Simula-tion Clinician, Mary Grimes School of Nurs-ing, Ottawa Campus, received the Premier Nurse Educator Award from Mid-America Naz-arene University and the Miami County Medi-cal Center in November during an event held at The Town Square facility in Paola, Kansas. Fol-lowing the awards cere-mony the attendees were able to see a screening of the movie “The American Nurse”. PREMIER nurses were recognized from each site that was invited to attend. A premier nurse is described as: Profes-sional, Respectful, Ener-getic, Motivated, shows Integrity, Empathy and is Responsive.

Highland Students Build Santa House & Sleigh When the members of Highland Pride began planning for their annual Snowflake Festival, they knew they wanted to add some new features. Since Highland Community College had moved its Building Trades program from Atchison to Highland, the Pride mem-

bers saw a natural fit for those new features. Building Trades students James Farmer (Leavenworth) and Dalton Masters (Troy) built a Santa House which will be featured in Degginger Park in Highland as part of the Snowflake Festival on November 28. The sleigh for the front of the house was designed and built by Building Trades student Austin Schaible of Falls City, NE. The Building Trades students are under the direction of instruc-tor Jim Dame. Both the house and the sleigh will be used as photo opportunities for parents to take holiday pictures of their children.

Cloud County Community College and its Wind Energy Technology program faculty and staff invite the public to attend a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for its new Westar Ener-gy/CCCC Substation Training Lab.

The ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday, No-vember 12, at the Substation Training lab, near the Concordia campus of CCCC.

The only substation training lab of its kind in the United States, the Westar Ener-gy/CCCC Substation Training lab was made possible by a generous donation from Westar. Westar donated component parts for the substation and provided hours of work toward the construction of the Substation Training Lab on campus.

CCCC offers a Substation Technician Certificate option as a part of the Wind Ener-gy Technology program. Earning this certificate prepares students to work with electrical substations and switchyard operations and maintenance. Namely, the emphasis is on training students to construct, operate, and maintain electrical sub-stations and associated infrastructure.

CCCC Wind Energy Holds Ribbon Cutting

Colby President Accepts Position

CCC President Dr. Stephen Vacik resigned effective January 16, 2015. Dr. Vacik began his career at Colby College in April 2011. He has accepted the Presidency at Maysville Community and Technical College in Maysville, KY.

P A G E 7 SCCC Crusader “Best Of Show”At National Convention Winning is nothing new for the Seward County Community College/Area Tech-nical School newspaper, Cru-sader. Crusader staff brought home another “Best of Show” award November 2 after com-petition at the National Colle-giate Media Convention in Phil-adelphia. The newspaper earned a seventh-place win in the two-year broadsheet category. Its sister publication, Telolith, earned fifth place in the literary magazine category for both two-and four-year colleges. Journalism instructor Anita Reed said numbers don’t begin to tell the whole story. “Seventh place means you’re in the top five percent, nationwide,” she told students. No matter how many publications

compete, the Associated Collegiate Press ranks only the top five percent: That means

Crusader outperformed nearly 150 newspapers published by two-year colleges nationwide, many of which are significantly larger than SCCC/ATS. What’s more, Reed said, “the win con-tinues a nine-year streak in which Crusader staffs have

achieved the incredible feat of earning Best of Show Awards at every national convention since 2006.” Beyond the nine-year-in-a-row streak, for 13 of the past 14 years, Crusader staffs have placed nationally with either As-sociated Collegiate Press Best of Show Awards or prestigious ACP Pacemaker Final-ist/Pacemaker Awards.

Jenga At GCCC

Students at GCCC have found a new activity for their free time. Giant Jenga was indroduced this fall and has become a huge hit. Students are found in the activity center playing Jenga at all times of the day. The first Giant Jenga Tournament was held recently with plans for more to come.

November 5 marked the birth of a completely new web expe-rience for all users of Butlers site ,www.butlercc.edu. The site, built with the British-

based company, Jadu, utilizes a sophisticated con-tent management system and has been a year in the making. Its public release finally brings to the fore-front much greater mobility and simplified function-ality for all users and visitors – something Butler has felt was much needed for some time.

“The new site has been a huge concerted effort by

many at the institution,” said Tom Erwin, vice presi-dent of information technology /CIO. “Our team worked with Jadu representatives closely for months to address the new web environment that we wanted to create and that relationship has been a very positive one throughout the whole process.”

Butler’s new site design re-enforces the focus on student success at Butler. A cross-cultural team from the college was formed to move the website forward. The site was designed with student’s first and the team kept that at the forefront of the pro-ject.

Butler Partners With Jadu To Offer New Web Experience

The Highland Community College campus chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, hosted a banner-signing event on November 18 to highlight its participation in the statewide C4 Com-munity College Completion Challenge Initiative. The purpose of the C4 Chal-lenge is to engage community college students, faculty, staff, and administra-tors in establishing a campus culture that supports college completion by having students, college employees, administrators, and faculty sign banners at an event to support students’ commitment to completing their associate degrees. The signed banners from all the Kansas PTK chapters will be displayed at the state meeting held in Topeka on February 12 in conjunction with the All-Kansas Academic Team recognition event.

Highland PTK Chapter Hosts C4 Initiative

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Garden City Faculty & Staff Kick Off Finals Week

The traditional late night breakfast was held Monday, December 8 for GCCC students. Faculty and Staff served students the traditional breakfast in the cafeteria to kick off fall finals week and wish students a safe trip home for the holidays. President Herbert Swender was on hand to entertain students with magic tricks. All were well fed and entertained.

Staff and faculty at Kansas City Kansas Com-munity College have been spending the last few days sharing their love of reading with the children at the KCKCC Campus Childcare Center.

Nov. 17 to 21 is Kansas Reads to Preschool-ers Week, a week that focuses on reading to all children from birth to 12-years-old who are enrolled in Center Learning Programs and for Family Day Care Homes.

“The Kansas Reads to Preschoolers Week offers young children in the state of Kansas a chance to be read to by teachers, parents, neighbors, professors, college students and local libraries within the child’s local community,” said Doris Holleman, director of the KCKCC Campus Child Care Center. “The bene-fits of reading to children will offer babies, young children and youth the op-portunity to look at books together with the reader, pointing to pictures in books and talk about what they see.”

More than 120 KCKCC faculty, staff and students signed up to read to chil-dren at the Campus Child Care Center this week. Holleman said reading bene-

fits young children, youth and even babies by giving them the chance to learn new words and learn to enjoy books. She said infants and young children also have the opportunity to move and play along with the reader and other children.

“Basically, children can play make-believe, and explore new objects, places and people. Reading to older children allows them to talk about their day and ask questions that begin with who, what

and why,” Holleman said. “Older children can use complete sentences to de-scribe what is happening in the story, and they can make predictions and per-form high critical thinking skills to retell stories in their own words.”

Holleman said she thinks the volunteers enjoy getting to share their love of literacy and literature for all age groups of infants, young children and youth. She said these individuals can think back to some of their favorite books such as Dr. Seuss or book collections and other favorite authors they had during their childhood.

“For some, Kansas Reads to Preschooler Week gives them the opportunity to step out of their formal role and enjoy being with people who will not judge them for using a funny voice or sitting on the floor. For others, it affords them a chance to be children again and/or relive their childhood or their children’s childhoods through connecting with a child or group of children,” she said. “Many say that they enjoy seeing the looks on the faces of the children as they begin to understand the story and be able to read along with it. Lastly, it opens doors for relationships with other departments and/or agencies that may have never been explored or devel-oped otherwise.”

KCKCC Takes Time To Read

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GCCC Coach Honored at Reception

Garden City Community College head men’s basketball coach, Brady Trenkle, was recently honored at a reception to celebrate his 100th win in his coaching career. Go Busters!

During its annual observation of International Stu-dent Day, Seward County Community College/Area Technical School celebrated its out-of-country students, and all they bring to the community col-lege. “We’re very proud of our international stu-dents,” said SCCC/ATS president Duane Dunn. “Their presence adds a special dimension to our college. Such diversity here at Seward gives all our students an extra advantage.” When the college began to observe International Student Day, Dunn recalled, “we had eight flags up.” Tuesday, SCCC/ATS placed another banner in the colorful array of more than 30 national flags that festoon the commons area. The bright red, black and yellow flag of Belgium was added, thanks to the arrival of student Axelle Bernard, a freshman. Like many international students, Bernard has relied on a host family in Liberal to help her make the transition to life in the United States. That personal connection is often what eases the emotional toll for homesick stu-dents, helping them tough it out to find success in the classroom and the athletic programs in which they participate. Several students at Tuesday’s event have not been able to visit their families for more than two years, and said their Seward County host families fill the gaps. “I’m actually going home to visit for the first time in two years,” said tennis standout Ronzai Saurombe of Zimbabwe. Students from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Guatemala, Japan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Span and Zimbabwe stood beneath their national flags during the cere-mony, for the audience of more than 200 people who attended.

SCCC International Student Day

CCC Phi Theta Kappa Student Selected For Publication

Allen Holds Annual Scholarship Luncheon

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The Allen Community College Endowment Association held their annual scholarship luncheon on November 6th with 275 students and donors in attendance. This annual event gives the students an opportunity to meet and visit with the people who generously donate to make their scholarships possible. The endowment association also honored major gift donors--Iola Pharmacy (Iola Pharmacy Biology Room) and Craig & Georgia Abbott and Kristin and Ron Ballard (Abbott/Ballard Athletic Training Room), and named the new residence hall Herynk Hall in memory of Janie Herynk Whitcomb. This year's keynote speaker was Allen alum, Mary Kay Heard.

JCCC Associate Professor Selected For Award An article by Tai Edwards, JCCC associate professor of history, titled “Disruption and Disease: The Osage Struggle to Survive in the Nineteenth-Century Trans-Missouri West” (published in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains in winter 2013-2014) was selected by the Kansas Historical Foun-dation for their annual Edgar Langsdorf Award of Excel-lence as the article from Kansas History “judged to be most superior considering construction, evidence of re-search and contribution to the advancement of knowledge.”

Lindsay Base, an English major at Coffeyville Com-munity College, was selected for publication in the Nota Bene, the Phi Theta Kappa’s honors anthology. Lindsay was the first Eta Gamma Chapter member ever selected for this publication. Lindsay’s short story “The Song of the Morn-ing Star”, was one of 26 literary works chosen from more than 960 entries for publication. Nota Bene was founded in 1994 to showcase exceptional writing among community col-lege students.

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Dodge City Community College Foundation announced today that Gisella Herrera is the first place winner of the 2014 student Christmas card design contest. The second place winner is JoEllen Taylor, and third place goes to Adella Goldworm. Gisella is from Dodge City and a freshman majoring in Art at Dodge City Community College. She aspires to be a professional graphic de-signer and one day design characters and illustrations for a large com-pany. Her artistic style is influenced by surrealism, figurative and real-ism or “comic realism.” “We’re very proud of all our art students at DCCC, and anytime we

have the opportunity to show the community their talent, we jump at the chance,” stated Jennifer No-lan, Assistant Professor of Art. “All three of the winners are great examples of the talented students we have at DCCC. All three have bright futures ahead of them.” “Gisella will receive $250 and 50 personalized Christmas cards, JoEllen will receive $150 and Adella will receive $100,” according to Roger Proffitt, DCCC Foundation Director. “The Foundation is ex-tremely happy to be sending out a very unique student designed Christmas card again this year, and we want to thank all the students for their entries and their hard work.” The student art show will be open until Wednesday, December 17th.” The DCCC Foundation is also making Gisella’s Christmas card available for purchase. We are selling them in packages of 10 for $10. Please call the Foundation to place your order. Cards are also availa-ble in the DCCC Bookstore.

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KCKCC-TEC To Host Food Giveaways In December Kansas City Kansas Commu-nity College recently part-nered with Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas and Harvest-er’s for a Food Giveaway. The Food Giveaway was Nov. 15 at KCKCC-TEC, 6565 State Ave. Food was given to families on a first come, first serve basis. This is a new location for the Food Giveaway in Wyandotte County. Andrica Wilcoxen, out-reach and prevention coordina-tion at KCKCC, said due to lo-gistic issues, Harvester’s and Catholic Charities were forced to find an alternative location to host the giveaway, which has given out as much as 45,000 pounds of food at one event. That is when Don Ash, Wyan-

dotte County Sheriff and KCKCC Board of Trustee, got involved. Wilcoxen said Ash saw a need and thought KCKCC-TEC would be the perfect location for the beneficial event. “This is not just processed food or canned items,” she said. “This is a lot of fresh fruits and vege-tables, pre-made salads – healthy items for the communi-ty. That is what I think makes it unique and different from other food drives or food giveaways. These are items families cannot necessarily purchase with food stamps or items middle class families often cannot afford.” There are no income re-strictions to the food giveaway. Food was distributed to families

based on the number of people in the family. Two other Food Giveaways are scheduled in De-cember at 1 p.m. Dec. 13 and Dec. 20, both at KCKCC-TEC. “I think they do a good job with providing a variety of food,” Wilcoxen said. “So many of our families in Wyandotte County as well as our students are in need of this kind of service. It is a widely used resource that we are happy to make sure contin-ues.”

Thanksgiving came early at Seward Coun-ty Community Col-lege/Area Technical School this week, with a free holiday meal for students, staff and the public. Nearly 600 guests showed up to enjoy a meal prepared by Great Western Dining cafeteria services. Cafeteria director Jerry Odle smoked 240 pounds of turkey breast and 260 of ham to prepare for the event. “It’s a big one,” he said, “but it’s always a crowd-pleaser.” Odle’s staff hand-carved the meats for guests to eat with mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, green bean casserole, cranberry salad, salad bar options, fresh-baked rolls and, of course, pie. “We baked 112,” Odle said. The Thanksgiving din-ner at SCCC/ATS is a community standard and a great introduction to the American holiday for international students who were honored in a program following the meal.

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The Johnson County Community College debate team won the championship in both the novice and junior varsity divisions at the University of Central Oklahoma tournament in November. Five debaters also brought home indi-vidual speaker awards.

The team of Casey Owen and Nathan Cunningham advanced to the elimina-tion rounds as the second overall seed after a 5-1 preliminary-round record. Their record earned them a bye in the quarterfinals, and then they defeated the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the semifinals on a 2 -1 decision.

The team of Evan Domme and Josh Moncure ad-vanced as the fourth overall seed as a result of a 3-3 preliminary round record. In the quarterfinals, they defeated the University of Texas-Dallas on a 3-0 decision. In the semifinals, they defeated the Uni-versity of Texas-San Antonio on a 2-1 decision to secure the final-round closeout.

In the novice division, the team of Arriq Single-ton and Micah Moore advanced to the finals as the second overall seed with a 4 -2 preliminary-round

record. In the finals they matched up with an undefeated team from the University of Oklahoma. They were victorious in the final round against Oklahoma on a 2 -1 decision.

Five students also won individual speaker awards. They included:

· Arriq Singleton, 5th overall speaker, novice division

· Nathan Cunningham, 1st overall speaker, JV

· Casey Owen, 2nd overall speaker, JV

· Josh Moncure, 5th overall speaker, JV

· Evan Domme, 6th overall speaker, JV

In fact, JCCC won four of the top six speaker awards in the junior-varsity division. The UCO tournament marks the seventh final-round appear-ance for JCCC this year. Of particular note, the team has won six championships across two divisions in only five tournaments.

Seward Hosts Holiday Meal

Coffeyville Community College Red Ra-vens won the 2014 Region VI Championship and advanced to the NJCAA National Tourna-ment for the first time in school history. The national tournament was hosted by Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona Nov. 18-23. The Raven’s finished their season 14-6-3.

CCC Advance To Nationals

JCCC Debate Team Wins Championship in Oklahoma

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Allen-A New Winning Era In Soccer The Allen Community College Lady Red Devil's Soccer Team are com-ing off their second best year in the history of the program with a 13-4-2 record and finishing 4th in the

conference. The Lady Red Devils also reached a ranking as high as #18 in the nation this past season. The Wom-en’s Soccer team topped their previous year where they took the program to its best season at that time with a 9-9 record and also went back to the playoffs for the first time in 8 years. The past two years have shown a new winning era in Women’s Soccer at Allen.

A team of faculty and staff at Highland Commu-nity College collected food from their colleagues again this year for the Doniphan County Food

Bank to provide to families for Thanksgiv-ing. The Thanksgiving food collection was a considerable success again this year as the team was able to deliver 25 complete collections of ingredients for a Thanksgiv-ing dinner. The food will be distributed to 25 families in Highland, Troy, Wathena, and Elwood. Two additional collections came from the College’s Tech Center in Atchison which were distributed to stu-dents.

HCC Donates Food For Thanksgiving

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Colby Community College Hosts Senior Day Colby Community College hosted the annual Sen-ior Day on Nov. 20 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Students met with CCC instructors, support staff and coaches during the event. In addition, they ate lunch in the Un-ion and participated in a tour. The CCC Sunflow-er Singers entertained during the noon meal. The theme for Senior Day was “Winter Wonderland.” Approxi-mately 70 high school seniors and parents attended the event. Pictured, CCC equine production director and IHSA Head Coach Shanda Mattix visits with a stu-dent at Senior Day 2014. CCC has the only two-year equestrian team in Kansas.

Pratt Placed 15th In Nation Pratt Community College #17 Wom-en's Cross Country team finished 15th at the NJCAA D1 meet on Nov. 8. There were 102 NJCAA schools par-ticipating in wom-en's cross country.

Grasiela Navarro finished ninth over-all, making her the first Pratt female to earn All-American

honors in cross country. She is also the first cross country All-American Pratt has produced at the NJCAA Division 1 level. Her time of 18:18 is a new school record for the 5K.

Cowley Top 3 At National Tourney Cowley Community College volleyball team capped another outstanding season by defeating No. 5-seed Columbus State (OH) in the third place match at the NJCAA Division II National Cham-pionships played Saturday, November 22 in Phoenix, AZ. This marks the sixth straight year that Cowley has placed in the top-three at the national tournament.