Kansas History Day 2006 Awards Ceremony
These images were taken at the Senior Awards Ceremony on Kansas History Day, Saturday, April 22, 2006, at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene.
Some information concerning winners of the Junior Division is missing. Feel free to contribute the missing information to Education and Outreach.
Junior Historical Paper
1st Place
Alex Rankin, Landon Middle School, Topeka
Junior Historical Paper - "Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A Modern Martyr Taking a Stand Against the State Gone Mad"
Teacher - Jean Attebury
2nd Place
Junior Individual Exhibit
1st Place
Nathan Jamison
2nd place
Carolyn Roederer, Haven High School, Haven
Junior Group Exhibit
1st place
Daniel Mandel and Parker Featherston, Topeka Collegiate, Topeka
Junior Group Exhibit - "Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th: Taking a Stand for Racial Equality"
Teacher - John MacDonald
2nd place
Brittney King
Junior Individual Performance
1st place
Taylor Bailey
2nd place
Junior Group Performance
1st place
Steven Henning
2nd place - no picture available
Junior Individual Documentary
1st place
Lisa Goossen
2nd place
Junior Group Documentary
1st place
Liza Farr, Zoey Limesand, Tess Frydman, and Alyson Frydman, Central Junior High School, Lawrence
"Let Everyone Be Ready to Die Like a Man: Jews Taking a Stand in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,"
Teacher - Jennifer Ybarra
2nd place
Anna Hamilton and Sjobor Hammer, Topeka Collegiate, Topeka
Junior Group Documentary - "Lighting the Dark Places: Esther Brown and the Webb v. School District No. 90 Case"
Teacher - John MacDonald
Senior Historical Paper
1st Place
Michelle Kozubek, Seaman High, Topeka
"Freedom Riders: Liberty on Wheels"
Teacher - Susan Sittenauer, district 3
Received $100 Kansas City Area Archivists scholarship
2nd Place
Heather Onnen, Seaman High, Topeka
"Faith in the Constitution: Resistance to the Japanese Internment"
Teacher - Susan Sittenauer, district 3
Senior Individual Exhibits
First Place
Lacey Howard, Haven High School, Haven
". . .So Others May Walk"
Teacher - Vicky Galloway, district 7
Received $100 Kansas Museums Association scholarship
Second Place
Carly Moon, Seaman High Topeka
"John Brown: A Heart-Stirring Stand at the Scaffold"
Teacher - Susan Sittenauer, district 3
Senior Group Exhibits
First Place
Diana Ayers, Kyli Harvey, Courtney Boyd, and Kaitlin Spainhoward, Uniontown High School, Uniontown
"Two Women Taking a Stand"
Teacher - Norm Conard, district 2
Received $400 Kansas Council for the Social Studies scholarship
2nd Place
Kaitlin Moses, Nathan Prosa, and Brett Darnell, Chetopa High School, Chetopa
"The Big Fellow Takes a Stand"
Teacher - Susan Fiihr, district 2
Senior Individual Performances
1st Place
Timmia Hearn-Feldman, Lawrence High School, Lawrence
"I Have the Heart and Stomach of a King' Queen Elizabeth I: Taking a Stand in a Man's World"
Teacher - Michael Ortmann, district 1
Received $100 Kansas Heritage Center scholarship.
2nd place
Ryan King, Lawrence High School, Lawrence,
"Antietam"
Teacher - Michael Ortmann, district 1
Senior Group Performances
1st Place
Benjamin Kincaid and Tim Hagen, Lawrence High School, Lawrence
"Sit Down! Sit Down! The UAW and the Plight of the 1936 Auto Workers"
Teacher - Michael Ortmann, district 1
Received $200 KSHS, Inc. scholarship
2nd Place
Maria Aikins, Melissa Query, Kaity Smith, and Gage McKinnis, Uniontown High School, Uniontown
"The People's Poet"
Teacher - Norm Conard, district 2
Senior Individual Documentaries
1st Place
Samuel Huneke,Lawrence High School, Lawrence
"The Vote that Saved the Country: Edmund Ross's Stand for Democracy"
Teacher - Michael Ortmann, district 1
Received $125 Lawrence-Kaw Valley Corral of Westerners scholarship
2nd place
Ben Goossen, Washburn Rural High, Topeka
"The Voice of Les Miserables: Victor Hugo's Stand Against Tyranny"
Teacher - Robin Corbin, district 3
Senior Group Documentaries
1st Place
Lacey George, Jesse Johnston, Hillary Jurgenson, Jamie Shelton, and Luke Spainhoward, Uniontown High School, Uniontown
"The Greatest Street in the World"
Teacher - Norm Conard, district 2
Received $200 KSHS, Inc. scholarship
2nd Place
Hannah Lodwick, Sara Cortese, and Rosemary O'Malley, Central Junior High School, Lawrence
"'This is No Fairy Story and No Joke'"
Teacher - Jennifer Ybarra, district 1
