Winter 2014
TODAY
SAB
K-State Student Alumni Board alumni newsletter
By Canaan Coker, vice president of campus programming, and Katie Bolin, vice president of membership his year’s K-State Student Ambassador elections were especially exciting for Student Alumni Board because five of the six finalists were not only members of SAB but also representatives of the 2014 SAB new member class. Of the outstanding finalist pool, senior Nathan Laudan and sophomore Katie VanDever were selected as the 2015 Student Ambassadors following universitywide voting. The new Ambassadors were named Oct. 25 during halftime of the K-State football team’s Homecoming game against Texas, which the ’Cats won 23-0. Since the Student Ambassador program was established in 1977, K-State students have selected one male and one female student each year to represent the university to prospective students and alumni at K-State Alumni Association recruitment and alumni events across the state. Laudan, from Paola, Kansas, is dualmajoring in food science and agricultural communications. Laudan expressed his overwhelming excitement for the opportunity to share his passion for K-State with individuals throughout the state. Laudan said he has fallen in love with the environment and family atmosphere that set K-State apart from other universities. For him, this is a unique chance to turn the experiences he has accumulated over the past three years at K-State into a powerful message regarding what makes this university special. Laudan also said he is looking forward to listening to the memories of hundreds of K-State alumni he will have the opportunity to meet. “Getting to hear K-State history from a first-person point of view rather than just reading from a book is something I am
David Mayes ’96, K-State Alumni Association
Students elect 2015 K-State Student Ambassadors
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The 2015 K-State Student Ambassadors, Katie VanDever (second from left) and Nathan Laudan (second from right), are congratulated by Amy Button Renz ’76, ’86, president and CEO of the K-State Alumni Association, and K-State President Kirk Schulz in Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
strangers I have ever met.” The family atmosphere at K-State is something VanDever truly appreciates. “I feel so blessed to be attending a university where I feel valued and cared for not only by our faculty and staff, but by the person standing next to me in the student section or at the table across from me at the library,” she said. In her spare time, VanDever enjoys crafting, a good cup of coffee and cheering on the ’Cats. Congratulations to the new Student Ambassadors! SAB members are excited to see what you will accomplish this year. To read more about Laudan and VanDever, visit www.K-State.com/ StudentAmbassadors.
extremely excited about,” he said. Outside of his demanding academic and extracurricular schedule, this newly elected Ambassador enjoys hanging out with peers, running, swimming and reading. VanDever, from Augusta, Kansas, is majoring in communication studies with minors in history and nonprofit leadership. She said she is honored to represent the K-State family as a Student Ambassador and is looking forward to the opportunity to learn from alumni and to pass that knowledge on to other students. VanDever said her favorite thing about K-State is the people who make campus so special. She described the K-State student body as “the most tight-knit group of
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