Baker Proud Summer 2018 - 17

BAKER PROUD | Summer 2018

Greg West, '09, landed a spot on the United States World Cup Skeleton Team. West
won both his races in Calgary, Canada,
and had top-three finishes in Lake Placid,
New York.

Daniel Gomez, '12, is a landscape and
portrait photographer based in Portland, Oregon. His work can be viewed at
dreamcapturedimages.smugmug.com and
facebook.com/dreamcapturedimages.

Debbie White, MBA '00, a former fiscal officer at Kansas State University, now serves
as Peru State College's vice president of
administration and finance.

Sunny Halsted, MSSL '16, was hired to
serve as principal of New York Elementary
in Lawrence, Kansas. She began her work
as a paraeducator in the district over a
decade ago.

2010s

Jim Joyner, '16, was named the Kansas
Basketball Coaches Association's Sportscaster of the Year for his work at Mid
Kansas Radio.
Melissa Kinzer, '16, was named a Horizon
Award winner for first-year teaching excellence by the Kansas State Department of
Education. She teaches science for the
Olathe School District in Kansas.

Gloria Atanmo
Gloria Atanmo, '13, continues to travel
the world creating multimedia content as
a travel blogger. Her book, From Excuses
to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the
World, was recently named the number
one book the team from Matador Network,
a travel publisher, wants to read in 2018.

Danielle Fesler, MBA '17, serves as director for the Parks and Recreation Department in Warrensburg, Missouri.

Warren Swenson, '13, was ordained
to the Sacred Order of Deacons in the
Episcopal Church on March 12, 2018, at
Sewanee: The University of the South, in
Sewanee, Tennessee, where he graduated
with a Master of Divinity in May.
Scott Vang, '10, was hired by the El Dorado (Kansas) school district to serve as the
district activities and athletic director. He
will begin his duties on July 1.
Kevin Weakley, '91, was elected to serve
as the managing partner for Wallace
Saunders Law Firm effective May 1. He is
licensed to practice in the state and federal
courts of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
and also before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jordan Buscher, '17, and Alesha Miller,
'13, recently traveled with the Church of the
Resurrection. During the trip they visited
the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Chris Duderstadt, '13, Shawnee Dispatch
sports reporter, recently received a 2018
Oscar Stauffer Award from the Kansas
State High School Activities Association.
He was named Sportswriter of the Year.

Warren Swenson

Melissa Kinzer
Scott L'Ecuyer, MSSL '17, was named
head football coach at Valley Center (Kansas) High School.
Amber Lund Smith, '10, earned her PhD
from the University of Kansas and is working on postdoctoral research at Stanford
University School of Medicine in California.
She was recently asked to write a review
paper in the journal Nature.

Rhonda Wedel, MAEd '13, was named
one of USD 231's Teachers of the Year for
her work as a math educator at Pioneer
Ridge Middle School in Gardner, Kansas.
Wedel has presented on various topics for
professional development and has received
multiple awards and recognitions.

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