Local students attending Fort Hays State University are among the 28 who have been renewed for the $1,000-per-semester Ralph and Lucile Hunter Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year.
The Ralph and Lucile Hunter Scholarship is awarded to women who graduated from a Kansas high school on or west of U.S. Highway 183. Renewal requires full-time attendance and a minimum GPA of 3.3. For the 2012-2013 academic year, in addition to the 28 renewals, 12 new awards went to incoming freshmen.
Renewing students for 2012-2013 are listed by hometown with their high schools, graduation years and majors.
Hays: Jocelyn Adams, a 2009 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU senior, is majoring in mathematics.
Hays: Calie Borthwick, a 2010 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU junior, is majoring in nursing.
Hays: Kelsey Butler, a 2011 Ellis High School graduate and an FHSU sophomore, is majoring in education.
Hays: Erica Deines, a 2012 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU junior, is majoring in health and human performance.
Hays: Amanda Groff, a 2010 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU junior, is majoring in biology.
Hays: Kara Hackney, a 2009 Ellis High School graduate and an FHSU senior, is majoring in communication.
Hays: Samantha Hardwick, a 2010 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU junior, is majoring in accounting.
Hays: Summer Hobbs, a 2009 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU senior, is majoring nursing.
Hays: Samantha Hobson, a 2011 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU sophomore, is majoring in biology.
Hays: Kalee Kirmer, a 2010 Thomas More Prep-Marian High School graduate and an FHSU senior, is majoring in biology.
Hays: Samantha Kochanowski, a 2011 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU sophomore, is majoring in social work.
Hays: Tara McGuire, a 2011 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU sophomore, is majoing in medical diagnostic imaging.
Hays: Emma Meier, a 2009 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU senior, is majoring in mathematics.
Hays: Christy Moeder, a 2011 Thomas More Prep-Marian high School graduate and an FHSU sophomore, is majoring nursing.
Hays: Rachel Rayner, a 2009 Hays High School garduate and an FHSU junior, is majoring in music.
Liberty, Mo.: Leigh Reynolds, a 2011 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU sophomore, is majoring in chemistry.
Hays: Abigail Staab, a 2011 Thomas More Prep-Marian High School graduate and an FHSU sophomore, is majoring in education.
Hays: Carissa Wickham, a 2010 Hays High School graduate and an FHSU junior, is majoring in medical diagnostic imaging.
Ralph Hunter owned a successful construction company, which built McMindes Hall, Forsyth Library and the Ellis County Courthouse. He established the scholarship in honor of his late wife, who was from western Kansas. The scholarship is funded through the Hunter Scholarship Trust. The first Ralph and Lucile Hunter Scholarships were awarded in the fall of 1990.
– University Relations –