FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                                      April 26, 2006 

            NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS NAMED TO WHO’S WHO

        Thirty-five students at Northwestern Oklahoma State University have been selected for the 2006 edition of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

        A campus nominating committee and editors of the annual directory included the names of the students based on their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and potential for continued success. They join an elite group of students from more than 2,000 institutions of higher learning in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and several foreign nations.

        Outstanding students have been honored in the annual directory since it was first published in 1934.

        Those students from Northwestern, their hometowns, classifications and majors are as follows:

OKLAHOMA

ALVA—Dee Hayden, senior, speech and theatre communications; Lindsay Headlee, junior, English; Amanda Stephens, junior, business administration.

CHANDLER—Nate Soderstrom, senior, history.

CHEROKEE—Sandi Wessels, senior, mass communications.

ENID—Kiersten Brown, senior, elementary education; Bonnie Espinoza, junior, political science; Randy DeWitt, graduate student, psychology; Janice Reid, senior, psychology.

FREEDOM—Ladena Thompson, junior, computer science.

HOOKER—Julie Jackson, graduate student, secondary education

LAVERNE—Shae Brown, senior, history; Tonya Cox, senior, elementary education.

MEDFORD—Jennifer Drees, junior, biology.

MOORELAND—Emmy Irving, graduate student, secondary education; Rebecca Lee, senior, English.

OKEENE—Helena Plett, junior, elementary education.

OKLAHOMA CITY—Cammie Vloedman, graduate student, secondary education.

PONCA CITY—Julie Case, senior, education in early childhood; Drew Lancaster, senior, nursing.

SHATTUCK—Jocelyn Sweeden, senior, mass communications.

TULSA—Leslie Foster, senior, sociology.

WAYNOKA—Dedrianne Miller, senior, mass communications.

WOODWARD—Tammy Hawbaker, junior, business administration; Mathew Medill, senior, accounting.

CALIFORNIA

ANAHEIM—Pho Chanthanivong, senior, political science.

KANSAS

ANTHONY—Corey Winkelmann, senior, computer science.

CONWAY SPRINGS—Shandi Wessels, junior, business administration.

HARPER—Blythe Winkelmann, senior, business administration.

MISSOURI

COLUMBIA—Maggie Wood, junior, biology.

TEXAS

HOUSTON—Christi Phelps, junior, psychology.

JAPAN

TOYKO—Noriko Hayashi, senior, accounting.

NEPAL

KATHMANDU—Pravaran Mahat, junior, political science; Umit Shrestha, junior, political science.

VIETNAM

HANOI—Linh Tran, junior, business administration. 

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