University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Alumni honor academic endeavors
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
The most important part of high school is academics, but sometimes the high school students who excel in academics are the least honored, the director of the Kansas Honors Program said recently.
Jerry Lewis, the director, said the University of Kansas Alumni Association wanted to recognize and honor educators who demonstrated academic excellence.
Every year, the Kansas Honors Program, sponsored by the Alumni Association, recognizes students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class — about 2,500 of the 30,000 high school seniors in Kansas.
Those students are designated Kansas Honors Scholars and receive the Crowell Book Award, which is an American Heritage dictionary. Students are invited to attend banquets organized by KU alumni in their home towns.
"It's also a signal we give to young people," he said. "They've got signals in the past that football was really important and that basketball was really important but not necessarily that their academic performance is important. And of course, I feel that is most important.
LEWIS SAID THE purpose of the Kansas Honors Program was to provide recognition where it sometimes was most neglected — in academic achievement.
"If you recognize and award scholarship you'll get it."
Lewis said the program was started in 1971, with 16 banquets in 19 counties. This year, the program will reach 104 of Kansas' 105 counties.
THE PROGRAM WAS developed because University administrators were concerned during the early 1970s that KU was not doing enough throughout the state to get involved with high schools.
Last summer, the program was enlarged and this year it will
Clark Bricker, acting associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a University representative to the Kansas Honors Board, will help stimulate the relationship between high schools and the University.
recognize an additional 500 students, Lewis said. About 2,500 high school students will be honored, he said.
"IF A PERSON does not know about the opportunities that KU provides, then it's a big mystery. It's a big vacuum," he said. "I think the more we can get teachers to understand what we're doing, the better our relations with the high schools will be."
Bob Bearse, associate vice chancellor of research, graduate studies and public service, who also represents the University in programs across the state, said that the Kansas Honors Program gave alumni an opportunity to help the academic side of the University.
following the Jayhawk teams," he said. "But this gives them a chance to participate in the academic mission of the University."
He said alumni organized the banquets and paid for the students' meals.
Bearse will travel this week to Larned, and Bricker will represent the University in Anthony and Dodge City next week.
Bricker, a retired chemistry professor, said he would present chemistry demonstrations that resembled magic tricks at the banquets he attends.
"I try to not be so deep or philosophical that they don't know what I'm talking about," he said. "At the same time, I want them go away feeling that they've learned something."
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