People and Places

• Nicole L. Easton has been recognized by the American Bankers Association as a member of the Under 40 in Wealth Management, Class of 2023. These awards recognize wealth management and fiduciary professionals who are committed to the highest standards of achievement at work in their communities. Easton is a vice president and trust officer at The Trust Company of Kansas. She has more than 15 years of experience in financial services. She has a bachelor of science in accounting from Oklahoma State University, and is a certified public accountant and a certified trust and fiduciary advisor. Easton is actively involved in the Wichita community, serving as president of Wichita Estate Planning Council, trustee of the Mary R. Koch Arts Center, membership committee member of Rotary Club of Wichita, and a seventh-year active member of Junior League of Wichita.

• Tarzia Nabi has joined The Trust Company of Kansas Wichita as of Jan. 1. She will be responsible for developing and executing investment strategy. She brings 10 years of experience in the trust industry as a portfolio manager. Before that, she spent several years as a wealth management advisor.

• Maya Mikity of Wichita is one of 1,087 students who earned a spot on the dean’s list at Shenandoah University for the fall 2022 semester. To qualify for the dean’s list, students enrolled in baccalaureate degree programs must complete at least 12 semester hours and earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher.

• Two longtime employees have purchased Wichita custom software company Spectrum, Inc. Longtime employees Troy Graber and Jared Friesen have bought the company from Rick Ehernsen. Spectrum, which has been around for more than 30 years, has seen significant growth in the past three years.

• The Kansas Leadership Center (KLC), a Wichita-based nonprofit, has been awarded a $450,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to launch a program that will generate leadership and civic engagement to support local entrepreneurship in four communities in the Heartland region. The grant will fund a regional pilot program in Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas that will equip community members and entrepreneurs to support organizations that implement economic development strategies centered on local entrepreneurship.

• United Way of the Plains has elected new officers and welcomed six new members to the 2023 board of directors. Four directors have been confirmed to serve a second term. The six new directors are Sarah Andrews, North American talent leader for Koch Industries; Ron Baker, project manager/sports medicine at Ascension Via Christi; Bradley Dyer, business development for Credit Union of America; Donna Lin Niles, business development advisor for Cargill; Gary Schmitt, managing director at INTRUST Bank; and Katie Warren, president of United Teachers Wichita. The four returning directors are Walt Berry, president and CEO of Berry Companies, Inc.; Adam Dunn, vice president and CFO of Eby Construction; Tonya Sudduth, head of U.S. strategy for Bombardier; and Dr. Sheree Utash, president of WSU Tech. Craig Anderson, President at Equity Bank was elected as the 2023 board chair. Anderson has been a long-time supporter of United Way and has held leadership roles at United Way of the Plains. He has also served on the board of directors for Mile High United Way (Denver) and United Way of Greater Kansas City.

• In one of his last official duties as chairman, Sedgwick County Commissioner David Dennis presented the 2022 Chairman’s Award to Dr. Rick Muma, president of Wichita State University, and Dr. Robert Simari, executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center. Under the leadership of Muma and Simari, Wichita State University, WSU Tech and the University of Kansas plan to build a $300 million health sciences education center in downtown Wichita where healthcare services and research would be provided in cooperation with existing hospitals and medical providers. The biomedical campus would also create a pipeline of trained healthcare professionals to help meet community and employer needs.

• Grace Maxwell, a Wichita student majoring in mechanical engineering, was named to the fall 2022 dean’s list at Cedarville University in Ohio. Students receive this recognition for obtaining a 3.5 GPA or higher for the semester and carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours.

• Bimwavita Rusimuka of Wichita has earned a place on the Spokane Falls Community College honor roll for fall quarter 2022. Students must earn a GPA of 3.0 or higher to be on the honor roll. The school is located in Spokane, Wash.

• Avery Burt of Wichita has been named to Pennsylvania Western University dean’s list for the 2022 fall semester. More than 3,500 Pennsylvania Western University students earned placement on the dean’s list. Students must earn a minimum semester GPA of 3.4 with a minimum of 12 graded credits.

• Amy Zimmerman of Wichita has been included on the fall 2022 honors list at Concordia University in Seward, Neb. To earn honors, students must earn a 3.9 or higher GPA while completing at least 12 credit hours.

• Four Wichita students have earned spots on the Drury University dean’s list for the fall 2022 semester. They are Marek Clough, Claire Conover, Lucas Krueger and Kelsey Kuhl. To quality for the list, students must earn a gradepoint average of 3.6 or greater while carrying a full-time course load of 12 or more hours. Drury University is located in Springfield, Mo.

• Meredith Reitz of Wichita has been named to the fall 2022 dean’s list at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Dean’s list honors are reserved for the highest achieving students. Reitz is one of more than 1,700 students to earn a of GPA of 3.5 or higher.

• Five Wichitans have been named to the Southern New Hampshire University fall 2022 president’s list. They are Abigail Edwards, Sarah Freeman, Timothy Gwynn, Lauryn Weatherall and Amethyst Yardis.

Shane Smith and David Jordan, both of Wichita, have been named to the fall 2022 dean’s list. Students with a GPA of 3.7 or higher are named to the president’s list, and students who have earned a GPA of 3.5 to 3.699 are named to the dean’s list.

• Casey Loving and Kristin Woodruff of Wichita have been named to Missouri State University’s dean’s list for the fall semester at Springfield, Mo. More than 5,000 students earned honors, with a GPA of 3.5 or higher with at least 12 credit hours.

• Three Wichita students have been included on the Iowa State University dean’s list for fall 2022. Students must carry at least 12 graded credit hours and earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher. The students are Olivia Clair Brown, Melia Claire Finn and Hope Victoria Jackson.

• A number of local students are part of the fall 2022 graduating class at Washburn University in Topeka. The students are Joshua Albertson, Cade Becker, Whitney Clum, Caleb Stadler and Caden Vanlandingham, all of Wichita, and Goddard residents Tera Lynch and Rebekah Martling.

• Washburn University has announced its president’s list honorees for the fall 2022 semester. Students must complete at least 12 hours of graded credits and have a semester GPA of 4.0. More than 600 students qualified for the president’s list, including the following students.

From Wichita: Mary Alber, Kael Ecord, Saige Peebler, Carlos Cedillo-Silva, Claudia Fury, Kate Harty, Keshawn Martin, Emily Michaelis, Andrew Schultz and Caden Vandlangham.

From Andover: Cara Brockmeyer, James Hill and Mia Terrell.

From Eastborough: Elsa Cozine.

From Maize: Saige Peebler.

• Allie Matheny and Annalisa Matheny are included on the dean’s list at Harding University in Searchy, Ark. More than 1,200 students were named to the dean’s list for the fall 2022 semester.

• Braden Thomas of Wichita has been selected to the University of Jamestown fall 2022 dean’s list for maintaining a semester GPA of 3.5 or better. The school is located in North Dakota.

• Paige Kauffman has been named to the University of Iowa dean’s list. She is a second year student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and is majoring in English and creative writing.

• Wichitan Talley Cole has earned dean’s list distinction for the fall semester at Avila University in Kansas City, Mo. Cole was one of more than 330 undergraduate students to be recognized.

• Dax Wadley of Wichita has been named to the fall 2022 dean’s list at Berea College, located in Kentucky. Students must earn a 3.4 GPA while passing at least four total credits, a course load equivalent to 16 semester hours.

• Maisy Brouillette and Emerson Lank, both of Wichita, recently earned degrees from Benedictine College in Atchison. They graduated at the end of the fall 2022 semester. There were 79 students who completed their degrees in December.

• Benedictine College has recognized those students who have distinguished themselves academically during the last semester, which ended Dec. 12. Any full-time student carrying a minimum of 12 hours and a perfect 4.0 grade point average through the term is named to the president’s list. Full-time students with 12 hours and a grade point average of 3.5 are named to the dean’s list. Of the 2,135 students on campus for 2022-2023 academic year, 171 made the president’s list and 794 made the dean’s list. President’s list honorees include Wichita students Monica Carrillo, Emerson Lank, Jack Niederee, Levi Streit and Amelia Vopat.

Dean’s list honorees include Kaelyn Adolph, Anne Brungardt, Therese Brungardt, Reese Danitschek, Cather- ine Gimino, Bryanna Gormley, Alexa Hays, Wade Hoffman, Elizabeth Hunt, Grace Johnson, Maura Lickteig, Hannah Nelson, Elizabeth Niederee, and Chloe Swenson, all of Wichita; Teresa Collins of Bel Aire; Courtney Gaylord, Bridget Hermes and Jackson Maldonado, all of Goddard; and Elijah Owings of Maize.

• Aidan Campbell of Wichita has been named to the fall 2022 chancellor’s list at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. To be named to the list, a student must have completed at last nine credit hours with a 3.9 GPA or higher.

• On Wednesday, Jan. 25, the League of Kansas Municipalities and Kansas Association of Counties co-hosted Local Government Day. More than 200 city and county government officials, both elected and appointed, attended the event to discuss legislative priorities for cities. LKM also used this event as an opportunity to recognize six seventh graders for their participation in the League’s annual “My City, My Home” essay contest. Parker Costley of Wichita, a student at Resurrection Catholic School, was the south-central region winner.

• The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Governor’s Council on Fitness (GCOF) presented the 2023 Kansas Health Champion Awards during the Community Health Promotion Summit on Jan. 26. Renaire Palmer of Wichita earned individual honorable mention. The Health Champion Award was developed by the Governor’s Council on Fitness to recognize and promote exemplary contributions to fitness in Kansas. Those recognized include an individual and organization, as well as honorable mentions in each category.

• Aurora University in Illinois has named Jaden Kordonowy of Wichita to the dean’s list for the fall 2022 semester. Kordonowy is majoring in nursing. The dean’s list recognizes full-time students who have earned a 3.6 or higher GPA.

• Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., has announced its fall 2022 dean’s list honorees. Wichitans Danielle Adams, Aysia Arrowood, Kisura Gunter and Savannah Mansaw were among the students honored. The dean’s list includes full-time undergraduate students with a minimum GPA of 3.0. Lincoln University is a historically Black, 1890 land-grant public university.

• University of Maryland Global Campus in Adelphi graduated more than 7,600 students in fall 2022. Melissa Sue Scamordella of Wichita earned a bachelor of arts in history, and Anhthu Nguyen of Wichita earned a bachelor of science in health services management.

• Two Wichitans have graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Carolyn Biddle earned a bachelor of science in environmental engineering and a bachelor of science in geology. Donald Clabaugh earned a master of science in aerospace engineering and mechanics. Commencement ceremonies were held in December.

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester has announced that Jaeyun

Kim was named to the university dean’s list for academic excellence in the fall 2022 semester. WPI does not compute a grade point average. Instead, WPI dean’s list students are recognized by the amount of work completed at the A level in projects and courses.

• Melissa Selman of Andover graduated from the College of St. Scholastica with a master of science in health information management. The college is located in Duluth, Minn.

• Mac McCullough of Wichita has been named to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock dean’s list. Nearly 1,150 students were honor, earning at least nine credit hours and a minimum GPA of 3.5.

• Graceland University has announced the fall 2022 graduation list. Wichita graduates are Whitney Lohkamp, Taylor Schrant, and Vanessa Doan. The school is located Lamoni, Iowa.