ESU

EMPORIA – Hats off to the nearly 600 candidates for December graduation at Emporia State University.

Layne Merle Downing of Hays graduated with a B.S. in Business degree in Management.

Students earning bachelor’s degrees were honored Saturday.

Mark Hutton of the Kansas Board of Regents gave the remarks. Hutton, of Andover, is the founder of Hutton Construction Corporation in Wichita and worked as CEO until 2010. Hutton also served as a State Representative in the Kansas Legislature from 2013 to 2017. Dr. Kevin Rabas, chair of the Department of English, Modern Languages, and Journalism and Kansas Poet Laureate, addressed the graduates as ESU’s 2018 Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor.