versation with Nicole Smith, the student development coordinator from my undergrad ... his nephew, John E. Cooper, who w
November 2017
Distance Education Newsletter Coming Up November 3-4 Homecoming Weekend November 10 Veterans’ Day ESU closed November 22-26 Thanksgiving Break December 8 Graduation Celebration event December 11-15 Finals Week
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Student Spotlight Q: Where did you grow up? A: I grew up in Swanton, Nebraska, population 93. Moving to Lincoln and then Kansas City were big adjustments for me. Q: Where did you receive your undergraduate from? A: My undergraduate degree is from the University of NebraskaLincoln in agricultural journalism with minors in entrepreneurship and agricultural economics. Q: Where do you currently work? A: I’m an elementary resource para at Santa Fe Trail, which is part of the Shawnee Mission School District. I chose this job because I wanted more hands on experience working in schools. My previous work experiences have been with nonprofits and a global agricultural company, where I worked in the animal nutrition division as a management-trainee.
Emma Likens Brown
Q: What do you plan to do with your degree from ESU? A: I plan to become an elementary school counselor.
Graduate Student in School Counseling Expected Graduation Date: May 2019
Q: What do you think will be your favorite part of the job? A: My favorite thing about working with elementary students is their unabashed joy for the little things. Seeing the small wonders of life through their lens really helps me stay centered. Q: Did anyone inspire you to become a school counselor? A: After leaving the global agricultural company, I didn’t know exactly what I was looking for. I knew that I needed to find a career more focused on people as individuals and less focused on numbers and spreadsheets. I eventually landed on counseling after a chance conversation with Nicole Smith, the student development coordinator from my undergrad program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her background is in student counseling. She encouraged me to explore different types of counseling. Q: What is your favorite part about your program and/or ESU? A: I really value my friendships with my classmates. Without this program- I would have never crossed paths with them. I know this is a crew I can lean on for both personally and professionally. Q: What has been your favorite ESU class so far? Why? A: Group counseling theories with Dr. Briggs. This class has helped me gain a deeper understanding of the different counseling theories while engaging in courageous conversations with my classmates.
Fun facts:
Recently married in May to husband James.
One random job Emma would leave off her resume is her first job: power washing hog barns
If Emma got a research grant she would study character traits that contribute to student success.
A Day to Honor Veterans By Roberta Birk Mlynar
Without Emporia, Kansas, there would be no Veterans Day; it’s as simple as that. The holiday – 50 years old in Emporia and 49 years old nationally this year – began through the efforts of an Emporia shoe repairman, Alvin J. (Al) King. King and his wife Gertrude had helped bring up his nephew, John E. Cooper, who was serving as part of the Third U.S. Army in Germany when he was killed in action on Dec. 20, 1944. Pfc. Cooper, an ammunition handler with Company B, died during an enemy counterattack in a forest outside Habkirchen, Germany, according to a letter to the family from Army Chaplain Charles H. Washburn.
Emporia, however, had organized its first celebration, called “All Veterans Day,” the previous year. Ninety percent of Emporia storeowners had decided to close their businesses for the day, and the Emporia Board of Education followed suit. As a result, most Emporians were free to take part in or watch many of the events.
The Emporia Gazette and Emporia Times newspapers reported a full slate of activities that began with a parade at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 11, 1953. At 11 a.m., civil-defense sirens, church bells and power-plant whistles marked the formal beginning of the event; the timing acknowledged the signing of the armistice that ended World War I at 11 a.m. of the 11th day of the 11th month, “John was struck and instantly killed by shrapnel 1918. from an exploding enemy artillery shell,” The American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps Washburn wrote in a letter dated April 11, 1945. stood at Sixth Avenue and Commercial Street to “He is buried in the United States Military play “Taps” after the whistles and bells, and the Cemetery at Limey, France. One of our Protestant Kansas City AmVets Drum and Bugle Corps chaplains gave (John) a Christian burial and read stood nearby to sound the echo. appropriate Scriptures and prayers.” Hot dogs, beans and coffee were served free in Grief over the young man’s death apparently the basement of the Civic Auditorium. A started King looking for a way to honor not only wheelchair basketball game followed, featuring his nephew, but all veterans who fight during the Rolling Pioneers of Kansas City against a wars and serve during peace to keep America town team that included names familiar still to free. long-time Emporians – Malcom Smith of the Lowther Junior High School faculty, Carl Haney, King thus began his campaign to change an Jerry Waugh and Gene Ridenour of the Emporia existing national holiday – Armistice Day – to High School staff; Leslie Hayes of The Emporia Veterans Day. He gained the cooperation of the Gazette; Keith Caywood of Kansas State community’s American Legion, Veterans of Teachers College faculty; and Tom McGahey of Foreign Wars, AmVets and War Dads units, plus Olpe High School. support from an essential ally, U.S. Rep. Ed Rees of Emporia. The drive-in theater showed a free movie and a free dance closed the day’s events. Rees agreed to take King’s idea to Washington, Then-Kansas Governor Edward F. Arn watched D.C., where it passed the House and Senate. the parade from the reviewing stand and, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill according to a newspaper account, “exclaimed, establishing Veterans Day as a national holiday. ‘This is a wonderful thing. It should be done in The nation held its first Veterans Day on Nov. 11, every city of the nation.’ ” By the next year, it 1954. was. https://emporiakschamber.org/history -of-veterans-day/
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