K-State Spring 2007 graduates -- Clay County

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Spring graduation candidates

News release prepared by: Julie Fosberg and Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, 785-532-6415
Note to editors: Students are listed by county and hometown. If a student is receiving more than one degree, all degrees to be earned are listed with the student's name. This listing does not include graduation honors, which will be released in June along with the list of students receiving semester honors. If a Manhattan area address was given as a permanent address, the student will be listed in the permanent address county and also in the county for the high school of record.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007 K-State commencement

K-STATE PRESENTING DEGREES TO MORE THAN 2,600 STUDENTS

MANHATTAN -- More than 2,600 students are candidates to receive degrees from Kansas State University. Commencement ceremonies are Saturday, May 5, for K-State at Salina; and Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12, on the K-State campus in Manhattan.

To be awarded include more than 2,230 bachelor's degrees, nearly 290 master's degrees and 170 doctorates, and more than 70 associate degrees. Nearly 140 students will receive multiple degrees. This spring, 66 students are receiving their degrees through K-State distance education programs.

Candidates for degrees from K-State include:

CLAY COUNTY

Clay Center: Jessica Marie Backhus, bachelor of science; Shaun Leonard Doyle, bachelor of science; Lorria Deneice Graham, bachelor of science; Nathan Wade Hartenbower, B.S. in civil engineering; Natalie Leiszler, bachelor of arts and B.S. in business administration; Michaela Ann McClure, B.S. in elementary education; Travis John Meier, B.S. in construction science and management; Matthew E Melton, B.S. in agriculture; Nathan Neil Persinger, B.S. in business administration; Lindsey Ann Pfizenmaier, B.S. in elementary education; Allan Dale Schmale, B.S. in agriculture; Joseph John Schurle, master of business administration; Shon Christopher Slingsby, bachelor of architecture; Kara Valette Taddiken, B.S. in human nutrition and B.S. in dietetics; Janet Lynn Thurlow, B.S. in computer systems technology, B.S. in technology management, associate of science and associate of technology; Joshua James Woellhof, B.S. in agriculture

Green: Joseph Donald Moore, bachelor of arts

Wakefield: Heather Renee Allen, B.S. in family studies and human services; Edith Kay Floro, B.S. in elementary education

Editor's note: The students listed below gave an out-of-county permanent address. These students are listed by high school to get the news to their hometown newspapers.

Clay Center Community High School: Kristin Ann Altwegg, master of science; Corrine Janae Frigon, B.S. in human nutrition