Source: Bill Muir, 785-532-6269, billmuir@k-state.edu
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
ENDOWMENT FUND, WINTER FAMILY AND K-STATE STUDENT UNION AWARD WINTER SCHOLARSHIP
MANHATTAN -- Four Kansas State University students have each received the $1,000 Stanley L. Winter Alpha Tau Omega K-State Union Leadership Scholarship. The four recipients are the most ever for the annual scholarship.
The awards were presented at the K-State Union Program Council/Union Governing Board banquet May 10.
Winners are Kyle Malone, graduating senior in political science, Dodge City; Courtney Hauser, senior in public relations, Lenexa; Amanda Stanford, graduating senior in psychology, Overland Park; and Alexandra Wilson, graduating senior in psychology, Austin, Texas.
Malone has been active with the K-State Student Union for four years, including serving as president of the Union Program Council and co-chair of its Forums Committee, and as a member of Union Governing Board. Malone helped organize the "MythBusters" presentation, which was one of the larger Union Program Council-sponsored events of the school year. A K-State honors list student, he has studied abroad in South Korea. He is a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and was a member of Chimes, the junior honorary.
Hauser and Stanford are being recognized for their work as co-chairs of the Union Program Council's Entertainment Committee. Their work included arranging for actor-comedian Will Ferrell's comedy tour to perform at K-State in February.
Hauser serves as public relations director in the K-State student body president's cabinet, is president of Future Female Executives and is a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
Stanford is a K-State honors list student and is involved with several campus activities.
Wilson has been an active member of the Union Program Council for more than three years, first serving as a member of the Special Events Committee, then as its co-chair. She also served as co-chair of the council's Multicultural Committee. Wilson's other campus activities including serving as an ad representative with the Kansas State Collegian, secretary of K-State's Multicultural Honor Society and as a member of Kappa Delta sorority.
The Winter Scholarship was established in 1992 to honor the memory of Stanley L. "Stan" Winter, a 1986 K-State graduate in agricultural economics who died in February 1992 at 27. Winter was a member of K-State's chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, serving as scholarship chairman, brotherhood chairman and a member of the Executive Committee. He received both the chapter's Thomas Arkle Clark Outstanding Senior Award and the chapter adviser's Brotherhood Award in 1986. He also was active in many campus activities, most prominently at the K-State Student Union. He was president of the Union Program Council, a member of the Union Governing Board and received the Union Program Council's Outstanding Leadership Award in 1986.
After graduating from K-State, Winter served as program adviser at the K-State Student Union. He earned his master's in student counseling from K-State in 1989. He was serving as program director at the University of Northern Colorado Student Union when he died after a long battle with cancer.
The purpose of the Winter Scholarship is to perpetuate the memory of Winter at K-State and to provide educational opportunities and assistance for upper-level students who possess exemplary attributes in scholarship, fellowship and character. The K-State Alpha Tau Omega Students' Aid Endowment Fund established the Winter Scholarship with donations from the Winter family, brothers of Alpha Tau Omega and friends. To be eligible, a student must have at least a 2.5 grade point average, be of good character and sound academic standing, and have contributed to the quality of programs and activities of the K-State Student Union.
A three-member committee, made up of the president of the endowment fund, a member of the Winter family and the director of the K-State Student Union, selects the scholarship recipient.
"We are very pleased to be able to again offer this scholarship to outstanding students involved in Union programs and activities," said Bernard Pitts, assistant vice president and director of the K-State Student Union. "Special thanks to the local Alpha Tau Omega Endowment Fund and the Winter Family for making this scholarship a reality, and congratulations to all four of the scholarship recipients."
"We are so proud to have this scholarship named after my brother," said Kent Winter on behalf of the Winter family. "These four students are the K-State Student Union's outstanding student leaders, and possess good, all-around qualities that fit the criteria for this scholarship. I know that Stan would be proud of all four of them."
"We are extremely proud to have the opportunity to award this scholarship in memory of Stan Winter to outstanding students like Kyle Malone, Courtney Hauser, Amanda Stanford and Alex Wilson," said William L. Muir, president of the K-State Alpha Tau Omega Students' Aid Endowment Fund. "Stan loved the Union, he loved his fraternity, he loved K-State, and he loved life in general. It is very appropriate that we memorialize his life of service with these scholarships."