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March 14, 2005

More than 80 high school students from Kansas and Missouri participated in the 29th annual Festival of the Humanities and Fine Arts at Kansas Wesleyan University March 11. Those students who received honors include:

HUMANITIES QUIZ

English
1. Chris Young, Wamego High School
2. Samantha Neal, Wamego High School, and Steven Groene, Salina South High School
3. Katy Patrick, Salina South High School

Languages
1. Steven Groene, Salina South High School
2. Nick McCool, Wamego High School
3. Diego Kientz and Samantha Neal, both of Wamego High School

Speech, Communications, and Theatre
1. Lindsay Marshall, Salina South High School
2. Steven Groene, Salina South High School
3. Megan Fryberger, Salina South High School, and Jessica Schierkolk, Wamego High School

Music
1. Chris Young, Wamego High School, and Lindsay Marshall, Salina South High School
2. Kenya Gillespie, Salina South High School
3. Patrick Mattia, Wamego High School

Art
1. Steven Groene, Salina South High School
2. Kenya Gillespie, Salina South High School, Aaron Engelman, Altoona-Midway High School, and Sean Swanson, Hope High School
3. Jessica Schierkolk, Wamego High School

History
1. Chris Young, Wamego High School, and Steven Groene, Salina South High School
2. George Weatherby, Altoona-Midway High School
3. Jessica Schierkolk, Wamego High School

Overall
1. Steven Groene, Salina South High School
2. Katy Patrick, Salina South High School
3. Chris Young, Wamego High School

Spanish I
1. Eddie Hernandez-Hedges, Fredonia High School
2. Kaylyn Handshy, Fredonia High School
3. Rachel Wilson, Fredonia High School

Spanish II
1. Erica Henderson, Fredonia High School
2. Chris Young, Wamego High School
3. Jessica Williams, Fredonia High School, and Victoria Jacobs, Harrisonville (Missouri) High School

Spanish III
1. Ashton Yoder, Harrisonville (Missouri) High School
2. Kyrie Callahan, Harrisonville (Missouri) High School
3. Mandy Rice and Amelia Powers, both of Fredonia High School

French I
1. Jennifer Mai, Salina South High School
2. Erin Perkins, Harrisonville (Missouri) High School

French III
1. Steven Groene, Salina South High School
2. Megan Fryberger, Salina South High School
3. Kyrie Callahan, Harrisonville (Missouri) High School

German I
1. Michelle Selm, Salina South High School

SPECIAL MERIT CREATIVE WRITING

Salina South High School: Katy Patrick, Steven Groene, Lindsay Marshall, Jennifer Mai

Wamego High School: Morgan Schuman, Samantha Neal

Hope High School: Sean Swanson

Rock Creek High School: Tricia Soeken

Salina Central High School: Paul Dirk