Induction Pictures

Posted are pictures of our student and faculty speakers (see previous blog entry), respectively, as well as their audience on Sunday.

Honors Freshmen Induction

The formal induction ceremony for our first-year honors students was held this past Sunday in Massman Hall on campus.  We invited the students and their families to a nice brunch to celebrate the official recognition of their status as honors students.  Our student speaker was Ms. Kayla Frey, and our faculty address was graciously given by Dr. Risa Stein (Department of Psychology). Several honors faculty members, as well as our President, Fr. Curran, were in attendance, as were most of the members of our Honors Student Association Executive Board.  I have to thank Renee McGautha, our student Eboard, and Sodexo catering service for making this a very smooth and successful event.  I will post pictures as soon as I have a chance to download them.

Honors and KCWildlands

We are now back from spring break and I realized that I never blogged about our KCWildlands work day from  the week prior!  For this work day, several community volunteers, including many of our honors students, worked to clear the fence line at Jerry Smith Park.  This park contains a remnant prairie (one of the few left in Missouri), and it's right in our backyard (just off of 135th and Holmes in south KC, MO)!  It's a very biologically diverse and beautiful area, especially in spring and summer.  Our workday, despite the fact that it was the last weekend of February, was great - sunny but just cool enough to be perfect for manual labor.  The pictures include action shots of our honors students at work, as well as a map from the KCWildlands website in case you'd like to visit this spectacular place.