K-State architecture student from Overland Park wins Holstrom Architectural Scholarship

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

K-STATE ARCHITECTURE STUDENT FROM OVERLAND PARK WINS HOLSTROM ARCHITECTURAL SCHOLARSHIP

MANHATTAN -- Anastasia "Staci" Wayne has been awarded the $1,000 John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship at Kansas State University.

Wayne, a fifth-year senior in architecture, Overland Park, is acknowledged as the person most responsible for bringing to K-State the Freedom by Design initiative, one of just six such programs nationwide. As part of the initiative, Wayne was the driving force and coordinator behind a project to renovate the home of a low-income Manhattan resident who uses a wheelchair.

Wayne's instructors said she is a supreme organizer with notable construction skills and experience. She applied these abilities to the team of K-State students that participated in the Nustch family home project in Rose Hill for the ABC television program, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" in fall 2005.

Wayne, who also is pursuing a minor in history, studied abroad during the spring 2006 semester at the K-State College of Architecture, Planning and Design's Italian studies program in Orvieto. She is serving as a teaching assistant for "History of the Designed Environment III."

According to her instructors, Wayne is trustworthy and completes her duties with speed, efficiency and accuracy -- with little instruction or guidance.

Other scholarship finalists, all fifth-year seniors in architecture, were Kyle Leiker, Andover; Luke Dolechek, Wichita; James Evrard, Cleveland, Mo.; and Katie Harms, Weatherby, Mo.

The John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship was named in honor of Holstrom, a 1968 initiate of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and a 1972 K-State architecture graduate. Holstrom died in 1989 at the age of 40. The scholarship provides educational opportunities and assistance for a fifth-year architecture student with exemplary scholarship, fellowship and character.

The K-State Alpha Tau Omega Student Aid Endowment and the College of Architecture, Planning and Design established the Holstrom Scholarship with gifts from family, friends, fraternity brothers and an endowed bequest of $20,000 from Holstrom's firm, WKA Architecture Inc., in Dallas. The 2006 award was presented to Wayne by William Muir, fraternity brother and assistant vice president for institutional advancement at K-State, at the recent Architecture Evening celebration.