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 Each
year, the FHSU Alumni Association presents accomplished
alumni and friends with awards in honor of their achievements
and service. At Homecoming, four categories of awards
are given: Young Alumni, Distinguished Service, Nita
M. Landrum and Alumni Achievement. The Alumni Association
considers the awards program one of its finest endeavors. The
Alumni Achievement Award recognizes graduates who have
made outstanding, unselfish contributions in service
to community, state or nation, both as citizens in
their chosen careers and through philanthropy. The
Young Alumni Award recognizes 10- through 15-year graduates
for professional and educational achievement, community
activities, honors and awards or other accomplishments
since graduation. The Distinguished Service Award
recognizes friends of the university who have demonstrated
a continuing concern for humanity on a universal, national,
state or community level. These are individuals who
support spiritual, cultural and educational objectives
and who endorse and exemplify the highest standards
of character. The Nita M. Landrum Award recognizes
alumni or friends who have provided sustained volunteer
service for the betterment of the Alumni Association,
or the university, in their communities.
Following are summaries of the award recipients' accomplishments;
you can read the full stories in the upcoming issue of the FHSU Magazine. |
- Alumni Achievement Award Recipients
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Rose Arnhold
received both a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and
history
and master's degree in sociology from FHSU
in 1963 and 1969 respectively.
She began her teaching career as a sociology and psychology
teacher at Hays High School from 1963-1968, also serving
as chair of the Social Science Division. Her career at
FHSU began as an instructor of sociology in 1968. She was
promoted to assistant professor in 1972 and finally to
associate professor in 1980. Arnhold assumed the duties
of chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Work
in 1997.
Arnhold's interest in the social ills
of today's society has been demonstrated in several articles
she has written
for various publications. The topics range from "The
Reality of Rape" to "A Study of the Social Participation
of the Non-Employed Wife of the Working Class Husband in
Hays, Kansas."
Awards and honors that Arnhold has received
are numerous. She received the Pilot Award for
an outstanding
professor at FHSU in 1976, was selected as one of six university
professors to teach in First Regents Honor Academy in 1987,
was named Outstanding Woman of the Year by Business and
Professional Women in 1987, was recognized by Edward D.
Jones for outstanding contributions to the Hays community
in 1988 and was named Kansas Professor of the Year by the
Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1988.
She is a longtime member of the Midwest Sociological Society.
Arnhold and her husband, Gerald, live
in Hays. They have one daughter, Cheryl Williams. |
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Bats frighten many people, but
not Michael Allen Bogan. He actually enjoys them and has
made them central to his career. Bogan received his bachelor
of science degree in biology in 1964 from Baker University
before coming to Fort Hays State University, where he obtained his master of
science degree in zoology in 1966. From here he went to the University of New
Mexico in Albuquerque, where he earned his Ph.D. in biology in 1973.
Bogan has many accomplishments in the study of mammals, particularly bats, since
starting out as research wildlife biologist and curator with the Fish and Wildlife
Service at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., between 1973-81.
His present positions are wildlife research biologist for the U.S. Geological
Survey, project leader for Arid Land Studies and research professor of biology
at the University of New Mexico.
Bogan's memberships in professional organizations are numerous.
As
a
wildlife research biologist, his responsibilities include conducting research
and syntheses
on bats, acting as an agency expert
on bats,
small mammals and
taxonomy, supervising staff at the Albuquerque Field Station and serving as curator
of a federal collection of vertebrates. Bogan also serves as research professor
of biology at the University of New Mexico.
He has published dozens of articles in scientific journals on topics ranging
from wind training in prairie trees to the status of the Texas kangaroo rat.
Recognition for his hard work includes a Quality Performance Award and an Outstanding
Publication Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an On-the-Spot Award
from the Midcontinent Ecological Science Center for outstanding scientific productivity,
the Wildlife Society Publication of the Year Award and, most recently, the Department
of Interior Meritorious Service Award in 2002.
Bogan has three grown children, Diane, Sean and Justin, and lives in Corrales,
N.M., with his wife, Cindy.
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From head nurse to strategic
planner and team building facilitator, Marilyn McGuire
Snider has seen a wide range of careers since graduating
from college.
Snider received her bachelor's degree in nursing in 1962 from
FHSU and her master's degree in psychiatric nursing from
the
University of Washington-Seattle in 1964. After graduation from FHSU, she worked
as a staff and head nurse at Hadley Memorial Hospital in Hays. Upon completing
her master’s degree, she was an assistant
professor of psychiatric and medical-surgical nursing at San Francisco State
University between 1965 and 1969. After starting her family, she was a lecturer
in the master's medical-surgical nursing program at the University of California
School of Nursing, San Francisco Medical Center. She continued a career in nursing
education at various colleges and universities until 1980. Currently she is vice
president of the Board of Regents of Samuel Merritt College.
Following graduation from the Coro Foundation Public Affairs
Training Program for Women, Marilyn began Snider and Associates, which provides
facilitation of
management retreats/meetings for corporations, governmental agencies, professional
associations, educational institutions and community organizations. She specializes
in facilitating strategic planning, team building, conflict resolution and community
consensus.
Snider's is involved in many professional and community organizations.
She serves on the national board of Titus Ministries, which provides interim
pastors for Christian churches in transition.
Awards for her accomplishments include appointment as a delegate to the White
House Conference on Libraries and Information Services, being named Woman of
the Year by the Oakland Soroptimists, and nomination for the Woman Entrepreneur
of the Year of the National Association of Women Business Owners.
Snider and her husband, Leland, live in Oakland, Calif. They have two daughters,
Laura and Michelle, and a grandson, Zachary. |
- Young Alumni Award Recipient
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Robert B.
Channell received his bachelor of science in biology with
a minor in mathematics
in 1990 and his master of science in biology in 1992 from
FHSU. He earned his doctor of philosophy
in zoology in 1998 from the University of Oklahoma-Norman.
At Oklahoma, Channell was awarded a prestigious Graduate Assistance in Areas
of National Need Fellowship based on his grades at FHSU, his research experience
and his career objectives. This fellowship allowed him to conduct research in
his area of interest, which was large-scale ecological relationships applied
to the conservation of biological diversity.
He spent his final year of the three-year fellowship in the arid regions of South
America surveying its biological diversity. In Argentina, Channell participated
in discovering three new mammals.
Channell's first teaching position was at Park University, Parkville, Mo., where
he was an assistant professor of biology charged with the challenge of restoring
the school's field biology program. His efforts helped earn him nominations for
outstanding teaching and research awards.
Channell came to FHSU in 1998 as a biology professor. Since
joining FHSU, Channell has published an article in the prestigious British science
journal Nature and another in the Journal of Biogeography. Channell is involved
extensively on many different boards and committees. He also reviews scientific
merit for several top journals including American Naturalist, Ecography, Global
Ecology and Biogeography and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
Channell
has published on subjects ranging from the biogeography and conservation of
endangered species to the patterns of geographic range collapse in endangered
mammals, and Channell has presented papers and posters on various subjects to
groups and universities across the nation.
Channell and his wife, Kim Perez, an instructor in the FHSU Department of History,
live in Hays. |
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"There's no place like home" is
the most important lesson Capt. Kelli M. Donley has learned
in her post-FHSU years. Currently
a judge advocate in the United States Air Force, Donley
continued to train for her career following her graduation
from FHSU in 1993.
She gained her first legal experience
while serving as a legislative intern for U.S. Sen. Bob
Dole. That position eventually
led to a spot in Sen. Dole's presidential campaign. Donley
advanced her education at Oklahoma State University with
a master’s
degree in political science with an emphasis in public administration in 1995.
A juris doctorate degree from Washburn University School of
Law in 1998 was the next step for Donley. At Washburn, she was part of several
internship programs. As an intern in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Donley
became the first law student to present oral argument to the 10th Circuit Court
of Appeals. Her argument was
successful, making Donley the first law student to ever win a case before the
10th Circuit.
Her legal career in the United States Air Force commenced in 1998. She was chief
of administrative and environmental law at the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air
Force Base, Arizona. In this position, Donley advised executive agents on endangered
species, environmental matters and overflight issues. She also managed the involuntary
discharge program and provided legal assistance to more than 85,000 military
personnel, dependents and retirees.
Donley's military career has included postings to the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan
Air Base, Republic of Korea, as the chief of civil and international law; the
100th Air Refueling Wing at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, United Kingdom, as the
chief of environmental, labor and contract law; and Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma,
as chief of labor law.
Along with her continual pursuit of professional development, Donley emphasizes
providing community and social services. She has volunteered for the Christmas
Angel Program "Adopt-a-family," Habitat for Humanity and New Life Battered
Women's Shelter. |
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Farming was what he knew as a child and
even after college, it remains Doug Palen's passion.
Palen received his bachelor of science degree in agribusiness
from FHSU in 1993. Currently he owns and operates Palen Family Farms near Glen
Elder,
where he seizes every opportunity to incorporate new technology to
increase productivity.
Within the first two years of taking over the family farm,
Palen successfully converted the farm from a conventional tillage system to a
completely no-till
operation. His successful farming career has been guided by a personal
motto, "forever
a student." This motto has also led him to participate in many professional,
service and civic groups and organizations to share his knowledge in this industry.
Palen is the past-president of No-Till on the Plains Inc., a statewide, non-profit,
farmer-directed organization. Through this organization, he has helped set up
many educational programs for Kansas farmers as well as the annual conference
which typically attracts more than 40 speakers from around the world and more
than
1,000 farmers and agribusiness men and women each year.
Palen's deep interest in the study of no-till farming has taken him outside of
the United States as well. He has traveled to China, Chile, Australia, Brazil,
Paraguay and Argentina to study their systems of farming and to meet with various
agricultural professionals throughout the world.
Palen is active in many professional organizations and boards.
He
has been recognized for his innovative use of farming technology and his overall
progress in the industry. He was awarded the Soil Conservation
Award
by the Kansas Bankers Association and his farm was featured as a cover story
in Kansas Farmer Magazine. He was also the guest speaker at the National Association
of Conservation Districts and has been featured several times in Clarin, the
national agricultural newspaper in Argentina.
Palen lives near Glen Elder. |
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Before he became a Certified
Financial Planner® and founded his own financial services
business, Lon E. Pishny graduated from FHSU, in 1971, with
a bachelor of science degree in physical education.
He worked for a year as a reporter for
the Hays Daily News and spent a brief time as editor of
the Farm Bureau
News before returning to FHSU for six years — four
as sports information director for the Athletic Department
and two as the development fund director for the Endowment
Association.
In 1979, a year after finishing his master
of science degree in secondary administration at FHSU,
Pishny went to work for
the New England Life Insurance Company for six years before
accepting a position as trust officer at Fidelity State
Bank in Garden City.
While at Fidelity State Bank, Pishny
went back to school at the College for Financial Planning,
Denver, Colo., to
become a Certified Financial Planner®. During his time
at Fidelity he also graduated from the Graduate School
of Banking, Madison, Wis.
In January, 1994 he founded Pishny Financial
Services L.C., a registered investment advisor and comprehensive
financial services firm.
The contributions that he has made have been noticeable.
The Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce presented him
with the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce Award of
Merit in 1989.
Pishny has been a part of numerous organizations and governing
boards, on both the local and state levels.
His contributions have also helped FHSU.
Since graduating from FHSU, Pishny has served as president of the FHSU Alumni
Association
Board of Directors (1994-1995) and was a board member from 1991-95.
In 2002 he became a member of the FHSU Endowment Association Board of Trustees.
He has also served as president of the Finney County Alumni Club, hosted numerous
Student Recognition Programs designed to recruit prospective students to FHSU
and established the Pishny/Frack Scholarship at FHSU.
He and his wife, Janyth '72, live in Garden City. They have
a son, Brendon
'02, and a daughter, Jalonna '02. |
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