5/27/08
Barton Alum Earns Promotion in Support Services for Kansas Highway Patrol

Mark A. Bruce has been promoted to major of the Support Services Section for the Kansas Highway Patrol. Bruce joined the patrol in June 1989. He has worked in the Research and Planning Section of general headquarters in Topeka, as lieutenant and captain of Emergency Operations and captain of homeland security.
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2/21/08
Graduation is the key to the future for ESU hoops stars

The ad runs plenty of times during televised college sporting events and literally dozens of times each March during the NCAA basketball tournament. Focusing on the high percentage of NCAA student-athletes who go on to become doctors, biologists, business leaders and such, the commercial notes that nearly all of them “will be going pro in something other than sports.”
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2/13/08
Racing toward win No. 500

Little River coach Shane Cordell didn't plan on coaching in his hometown at this point in his career. He didn't even plan on coming back at all. It just sort of happened But 28 years into a coaching career, Cordell is still at Little River - population 693 - and still coaching girl's basketball, and coaching it well. A win tonight at Peabody-Burns would be Cordell's 500th career victory.
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10/03/07
Bonnie Laughlin Deuschle and Celebration Choir to Present Concert Saturday in Great Bend

Barton County Community College alumna and former Barton Hilltop Singer Bonnie Deuschle, who for the past 25 years has helped her husband, Tom, lead a Christian ministry in Zimbabwe, Africa, will direct the ministry’s Celebration Choir in concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in the Barton County Community College Fine Arts Auditorium. Free-will donations will be accepted for the ministry.
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GREAT BEND - She may stop short of tossing her mortarboard in the air to celebrate her newest college degree, but she will heave a sigh of satisfaction.
For graduating senior Marge Kite, 78, today's commencement ceremony at Sterling College means she met her goal of earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in art, before she turned 80.
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6/26/06
NASA computers splash down in Great Bend

Space is not the final frontier for 50 used computers and 44 flat-screen monitors from the National Aeronautic and Space Administration, thanks to Great Bend High School graduate and Lockheed-Martin employee Sean Williams.
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4/23/06
Taking a passion and running with it
Robl parlays farm experience into biotech career

Dr. James Robl is still a Claflin farm boy at heart and still has that “farm attitude,” even as a leader in the biotech industry and founder of one of the industry’s leading firms.
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4/23/06
Great Bend native spreads the Word around the world

“Building people, building dreams.”
That motto found on her recent ministry newsletter, is what Bonnie Laughlin has been up to since she graduated from Great Bend High School in 1973.
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8/20/05
Nurse Finds fulfilling Work in Attorney’s office

Donna Keil, RN, has an unusual job in health care. Instead of direct contact with patients in a hospital or doctor’s office, Keil does her work in the law office of Brian C. Wright, Great Bend.
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8/7/05
Schulz named associate program director

Dr. Thomas K. Schulz has been named associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita.
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8/1/05
Barton County and Hutch Trinity grad working as interns for 2006 Open

DAYTON, Ohio - The hours are awful and the pay is even worse. John Palacioz and Markel Maybin couldn't be happier. Palacioz and Maybin are the two interns - the only two interns - working for championship director Greg Conrad and his staff for the 2006 U.S. Senior Open.
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5/2/05
Television Executive and Barton Grad Returns to Give Commencement Address

When members of the Barton County Community College class of 2005 assemble for commencement on May 12, they will hear words of advice from Barton alum and career journalist Joan Schmidt Barrett.
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4/27/05
Faces in the Night
Police, Deputies, Patrol 24/7

Crime never sleeps, so law enforcement in Barton County is on duty 24 hours a day. On a quiet night, Great Bend Police Officer Heather Davis' patrol car might become a mobile office where she can catch up on paperwork. But when the Great Bend Tribune joined Davis on a recent shift, there was little time for filing out reports.
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1/30/05
All in the Family

This year’s Class 3, 2 and 1A debate finals had all the makings of great drama — competition, tension, family dynamics. When the competitors were narrowed down to the two-speaker debate finals, it was Randy Willis’s Hoisington High School team versus Julie Ann Jacobs’s Ellinwood High School team — father versus daughter.
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7/29/04
Barton's 26th Annual Big Benefit Auction Set For Oct. 2 to Commemorate 35th Anniversary

Remember the gold ol’ days when Barton County Community College consisted of a few buildings in the midst of a massive construction zone, surrounded by mountains of dirt in what previously served as a 160-acre wheat field? Longtime Great Bend residents Kevin and Nancy (Lindholm) Sundahl do. They were among nearly 850 students who trekked across unpaved walkways, snowdrifts and mud to attend Barton that first year in 1969-70. They also participated in commencement activities with the rest of Barton’s first graduating class in spring 1971.
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7/28/04
Barton Alumna Profiled in "Wichita Business Journal"

WICHITA -- Barton County Community College alumna Cathy Stegman Devlin, human resources compliance manager for Koch Industries, Inc., was recently profiled in the Wichita Business Journal.
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6/25/04
Barton Alum Campbell inks deal with Adidas

Top Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell will be entering the professional circuit outfitted by Adidas after inking a four-year deal with the sporting goods company.
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6/25/04
Barton Alum Veronica Campbell Lands Lucrative Contract, Adidas will also assist in her education

In the words of her mentor Neville Myton, Commonwealth Games silver medallist and world junior double sprint champion Veronica Campbell has "landed on her two feet".

Myton yesterday announced that Campbell, who will be going professional, had signed a "very, very" lucrative four-year deal with sporting goods manufacturers Adidas.
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5/3/04
Renowned Scientist and Barton Alum To Speak At Barton’s 34th Commencement

World-renowned scientist Dr. James Robl, an alumnus of Barton County Community College, will be the speaker for Barton’s 34th Commencement set for 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 13, in the College gymnasium. The commencement ceremony will include spring 2004 graduates and those who met graduation requirements in the summer and fall of 2003.
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4/22/04
Freedom of the Press

When Great Bend native Joan Schmidt Barrett, vice-president and general manager of KWCH 12, Wichita, visited with members of the local Rotary Club and their guests earlier this week, she was passionate about sharing the duties she believes are important for all journalists.
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3/22/04
Barton Alumna Emily Dinkel Selected To Attend Conference As “Teacher of Promise”

Barton County Community College alumna and Hoisington resident Emily Dinkel attended the Kansas Exemplary Educators Network State Education Conference in Topeka in mid February. Now a senior at Sterling College, Dinkel and classmate Rebecca Buttenhoff were privileged to attend following their “Teacher of Promise designation by the Sterling College education faculty. Buttenhoff is a senior from Lincoln, Kan.
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3/04/04
Kansas State, Fritz Agrees to New Five-Year Contract

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Kansas State Director of Athletics Tim Weiser announced Thursday that women's volleyball coach Suzie Fritz has agreed to a new multi-year contract, securing the services of the two-time (2002 and 2003) Big 12 Coach of the Year through the 2009 season.
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12/02
Former Barton Volleyball Player, Coach Named Big 12 Coach of the Year

DALLAS - Former Barton County Community College volleyball player and coach, Suzie Fritz, was tabbed All-Big 12 coach of the year for the second straight season on Sunday night. Fritz, in her third season as coach of the Wildcats, has compiled a 69-21 overall record, a 49-11 mark in Big 12 play.
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11/24
Family Setting: Kansas Volleyball's Father-Daughter Pair Face Challenges of College Athletics Together

Most students who graduate from high school say goodbye to their family. But Ashley Bechard, now in her third year at Kansas, spends three hours a day, six days a week, with her dad.
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10/09
Barton Alum Named Vice President, General Manager of KWCH 12

RICHMOND, Va. – Media General Broadcast Group has appointed Barton alum Joan Barrett vice president and general manager of KWCH 12 in Wichita and its satellite stations – KBSD 6 in Dodge City, KBSH 7 in Hays, and KBSL 10 in Goodland.
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10/09
Barton Grad Debi Sander Walker is ‘Crazy’ for Patsy Cline

Debi Sander Walker, a singer, songwriter, actress and former Great Bend resident, will play the title role in a musical play, “A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline,” for three consecutive weekends beginning July 4 and ending July 20 at the historic Columbian Theatre in Wamego.
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7/03
World Renowned Scientist Dr. James Robl Got His Start At Barton

Dr. James Robl, a pioneer and leader in the field of transgenic cloning and biotechnology and a world-renowned scientist, owes his start to a small community college in central Kansas. Robl attended Barton County Community College for two years and earned an associate’s degree in biology in 1975. He continued his educational track by completing a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at Kansas State University, and eventually earned a doctorate degree at the University of Illinois. Robl also conducted post-doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin. But in all of his educational endeavors, he never forgets his roots.
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6/13
Graduate Completes Degree Through BARTONline, Participates in Commencement

Barbara Carpenter didn’t have time to attend college, so college made time for her. The 40-year-old dietary manager from Oak Park, Mich., began taking online classes through Barton County Community College’s BARTONline two years ago. On Thursday, she was among 127 Barton graduates recognized during commencement exercises at Fort Riley graduation.
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