back row center, is surrounded by WSU License Plate Scholarship and
Legacy Endowed Scholarship 2016-2017 recipients. The recipients were
honored at a May 2 reception on campus.
The newly announced 2016-2017 academic year recipients of the WSU Alumni Association’s “Drive Your Pride” WSU License Plate Scholarship and the Legacy Endowed Scholarship were guests of honor at a reception on May 2 at the Marcus Welcome Center.
“I enjoyed talking with our honorees and hearing their plans for the future,” says Courtney M. Marshall, WSUAA president and CEO. “We’re pleased to be able to provide $40,000 in assistance to these scholarship recipients as they work toward becoming Shocker alumni.”
Recipients of the Legacy Endowed Scholarship are incoming or current students at Wichita State and must be either children or grandchildren of individuals who have completed 30 credit hours or more at WSU and who are also dues-paying members of the WSUAA.
The fund to support this scholarship was established by Don Barry ’88 with the intent of not only aiding deserving students with financial assistance, but also of helping promote and preserve family ties at the university.
“This scholarship,” Barry explained in an article published in the spring 2002 issue of The Shocker, “is our way of recognizing and alleviating the fact that a lot of people are WSU graduates, yet choose to send their children elsewhere. It’s our way of recognizing that Wichita State is a very fine school.”
A wealth management professional with more than 30 years of experience as a financial advisor, Barry began his career at A.G. Edwards in 1981. Currently, he is the managing director at a Wichita office of Baird, an employee-owned, international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Barry lives in Wichita with his wife Lora.
The Legacy Scholarship was first awarded to students enrolled full- or part-time at WSU beginning in fall 2002.
Receiving the Legacy Scholarship for the coming academic year will be Lindsay Achey, criminal justice; Kayla Barton, pre-nursing; Monroe Chrisco, mechanical engineering; Taran Langston, criminal justice; Kristi Neas, secondary history education; and Leslie Strunk, communications.
Scholarship program announces that “more
than $150,000” has been raised for scholarships
to date. As of this year, that number now tops
$530,000.
The WSU License Plate Scholarship, informally known as the Drive Your Pride Scholarship, is funded by Kansas motorists who proudly sport WuShock on their vehicle’s license plates in exchange for paying a $35 annual fee. Recipients of this scholarship are current Wichita State students who have excelled both inside and outside the collegiate classroom.
Drive Your Pride Scholarship recipients for 2016-2017 are Annie Bui, aerospace engineering; Derek Drew, international business; Ashwin Govindarajan, biomedical engineering; Brianna Hovey, elementary education; Jessica Johnson, dental hygiene; Minn-Chau Johnson, biomedical engineering; Stephanie Merritt, women’s studies; Kaycee Weiser, athletic training; and Jonathan Whitford, bioengineering.
For more information about the WSUAA’s scholarship funds, visit www.wichita.edu/alumni.
