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Outstanding students picked to carry banners

Students who have achieved academic excellence have been selected to carry banners for KU's 12 schools and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences during commencement next month.

As banner carriers, the 13 students, in addition to four senior class officers carrying the Class of 2008 banners, will lead their fellow graduates in the traditional march down Mount Oread into Memorial Stadium at 2:30 p.m. May 18 for KU's 136th commencement.

Banner carriers will join university officials on a platform in the stadium for the ceremonial conferring of degrees.

Banner carriers became a part of KU commencement activities in spring 1908, according to the late Robert Taft, a KU chemistry professor from 1922 to 1955 and author of "Across the Years on Mount Oread," published in 1941.

The students are listed below by the schools they represent or the class office held and hometowns.

Jay Montgomery, School of Medicine, Solomon; Rachel Miles, School of Business. Baldwin City; Adam Davis, School of Law, Lawrence and Lake Quivira, Kan., and New York, N.Y.; Kailey Mesler, School of Nursing, Lawrence; Sampson Bedru Yimer, School of Education, Lawrence; Shanxi Jennifer Upsdell, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Overland Park; Nick Weiser, School of Fine Arts, Dighton; Amanda Sue Ziegler, School of Engineering, Assaria; Brian Jones, School of Social Welfare, Topeka; Robert Tubbs, School of Pharmacy, Levant; Hugo Arnulfo Cabrera, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Kansas City, Kan.; Christina Fernandez, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Washington, D.C.; Hui Lin Lam, School of Allied Health, Singapore; Stephanie Gomez, senior class treasurer, Newton; Ellen Stolle, senior class secretary, Prairie Village; Whitney Gallagher, senior class vice president, Springfield, Mo.; Ryan Northup, senior class president, Edmond, Okla.

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