Kansas History Day, 2007 Results
These images were taken at the Awards Ceremony on Kansas History Day, Saturday, April 28, 2007, at the Washburn University Memorial Union in Topeka.
Junior Historical Paper
First Place
Yunmei Li, Marlatt Elementary, Manhattan
"The Great Quake: A Triumphant Tragedy in San Francisco"
Teacher - Terry Healy
Received $100 Kansas City Area Archivists scholarship.
Second Place
Joanna Epp,Chisholm Middle, Newton
"The Titanic: From Ship of the Century to Disaster of the Century"
Teacher - Marcia Neal
Junior Individual Exhibit
First Place
Emily Simpson, Uniontown Junior High, Uniontown
"From Soil to Dust to Conservation: The Story of the Soil on the Great Plains"
Teacher - Sara Jackman
Received $100 Kansas Museums Association scholarship.
Second Place
Nick Gideon, Topeka Collegiate, Topeka
"The 'Defence of Fort McHenry': One Poet's Patriotic Vision"
Teacher - Travis Lamb
Junior Group Exhibit
First Place
Colby Beardmore and Bailey Evans, Topeka Collegiate, Topeka
"Photographer Lewis W. Hine: Exposing the Dangerous World of Child Labor to Develop Protective Child Labor Laws"
Teacher - Travis Lamb
Received $200 Kansas Historical Society, Inc. scholarship.
Second Place
Lindsay Frank and Anne Stone, Ottawa Middle School, Ottawa
"Marie Curie: A Tragic Success"
Teacher - Keith Entress
Junior Individual Performance
First Place
Shelby Carpenter, Topeka Collegiate, Topeka
"One Woman's Voice from the Oregon Trail: Abigail Scott Duniway's Traumatic Journey and Triumphant Fight for Women's Suffrage in the New Frontier"
Teacher - Travis Lamb
Received $100 Lawrence-Kaw Valley Corral of Westerners scholarship.
Second Place:
Taylor Bailey, Fort Scott Middle School, Fort Scott
"Typhoid Trauma"
Teacher - Michelle Brittain
Junior Group Performance
First Place
Soren Lamb and Nyalia Lui, Topeka Collegiate, Topeka
"Unshackling the Mind of the Oppressed: Biko's Black Consciousness and the Triumphant Downfall of Apartheid"
Teacher - John MacDonald
Received $200 Kansas Historical Society, Inc. scholarship
Second Place
Lauren Kremer, Rachel Moore, Kara Omo, and Liz Shaub, Maize Middle School, Maize
"Alicia Jurman: Triumphing Over the Tragedy of the Holocaust"
Teacher - Vicki Vernon
Junior Individual Documentary
First Place
Kayla DuBois, Washburn Rural Middle School, Topeka
"Dear Mr. Davis: A Family's Search for the Truth"
Teacher - Donna Sanders
Received $100 Kansas Heritage Center scholarship and the Greater Kansas City Scholarship Award
Second Place
Elsa Goossen, Washburn Rural Middle School, Topeka
"'For Us There Is No Return': Mennonite Journeys Out of Russia"
Teacher - Donna Sanders
Junior Group Documentary
First Place
Phebe Myers, Calvert Pfannenstiel, and Anrai Richards, Lawrence Central Junior High, Lawrence
"'War of all Wars': The Tragedy of Chernobyl, The Triumphant Consequence of Perestroika"
Teacher - Tari Perdue
Received $400 Kansas Council for the Social Studies scholarship.
Second Place
Liza Farr, Alyson Frydman, and Zoe Limesand, Lawrence Central Junior High, Lawrence
"Cold Blooded Murder - The Tragedy of the Soweto Uprising; A Triumph Against the South African Apartheid"
Teacher - Tari Perdue
Senior Historical Paper
First Place
Elaine Davis, Seaman High School, Topeka
"The Jungle's Tangled Legacy"
Teacher - Susan Sittenauer
Received $100 Kansas Corral of Westerners scholarship
Second Place
Julie Scherer, Wamego High School, Wamego
"From Practically Unsinkable to the Atlantic's Ocean Floor: R.M.S. Titanic"
Teacher - Marcia Fox
Senior Individual Exhibit
First Place
Stephanie Jian, Lawrence High, Lawrence
Teacher, Mike Ortmann
"The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Tragic Triumph for Industrial Democracy"
Received $100 Smoky Hill Museum scholarship.
Second Place
Patrick Hannah, Lawrence High, Lawrence
Teacher, Mike Ortmann
"Lindbergh: Triumph and Tragedy"
Senior Group Exhibit
First Place
Dillon Artzer, Le Ann Meyer, Morgan Reed, and Jarrod Simons, Seaman High School, Topeka
Teacher, Susan Sittenauer
"A7713"
Received $200 Kansas Corral of Westerners scholarship.
Second Place
Courtney Boyd, Jessica Schoof, and Kylie Shepard, Uniontown High School, Uniontown
"This Little Light of Mine"
Teacher - Norm Conard
Senior Individual Performance
First Place
Timmia Hearn Feldman, Lawrence High, Lawrence
"'You Have No Right To Do As You Like With Me' Harriet Jacobs: Triumph Through Oppression"
Teacher - Mike Ortmann
Received $100 Kansas Council of the Social Studies scholarship
Second Place
Rebekah DeMoss, Uniontown High School, Uniontown
Teacher, Norm Conard
"Triumph and Tragedy in Przemysl"
Senior Group Performance
First Place
Gage McKinnins, Melissa Query, Kaity Smith, Katie Spainhoward, and Travis Stewart, Uniontown High School, Uniontown
"When Light Pierced the Darkness"
Teacher - Norm Conard
Received $200 Kansas Association of Historians scholarship.
Second Place
Alex Boyer and Jon Samp, Lawrence High, Lawrence
"Triumph and Tragedy: The Seige of Bastogne"
Teacher - Mike Ortmann
Senior Individual Documentary
First Place
Samuel Huneke, Lawrence High, Lawrence
"Democracy in the Heart of Europe: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Czechoslovak Republic"
Teacher - Mike Ortmann
Received $100 Kansas Historical Society, Inc. scholarship.
Second Place
Sarah Swearer, Hutchinson High, Hutchinson
"Third Time's a Charm: The Triump of Women's Suffrage in Kansas"
Teacher - Nathan Henry
Senior Group Documentary
First Place
Sara Cortese, Hannah Lodwick, and Rosemary O'Malley, Lawrence Free State High, Lawrence
"'If in Barbed Wire Things Can Bloom, Why Couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.'"
Teacher - Chuck Law
Received $400 Fort Larned Old Guard, Fort Larned National Historic Site scholarship.
Second Place
Rachel Alexander and Krystal Buchanan, Seaman High School, Topeka
"Orphan Trains: A Place to Belong"
Teacher - Susan Sittenauer
Additional Special Award
Bleeding Kansas Heritage Area Award
Hannah Frydman, Lawrence Free State High School, Lawrence - Senior Individual Documentary
"'Hopeful for Liberty': Clarina Nichols' Crusade for Women's Rights in Kansas"
