2015 UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, OCTOBER 2                           WCS Homecoming and Alumni BBQ        

Friday, October 9th                         16^th Annual WCS Spartan Golf Classic at Crestview Country Club 12:00 pm

November 27^th                                  WCS Alumni Hoops Classic

February 18^th                                     Mentor Breakfast

WCS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

CHRISTIAN CORRIGAN

Class of 2005

Christian Corrigan began at Wichita Collegiate in 1990 and graduated as member of the class of 2005.  During his time at Collegiate he was a four year letterman in varsity football, serving as a captain his senior year and twice receiving all-conference honors.  He was a two-time 4A state powerlifting champion and set three state records for his weight class.  He was a two-time captain of the debate team.  He also participated on the scholar’s bowl, golf, and baseball teams.  He was a member of Madrigals and participated in fourteen theatrical productions during his time at WCS.  In 2004, he was elected Governor of Boys State of Kansas.  He was on the high honor roll every semester, a member of the Cum Laude Society, and as a senior he received the Headmaster’s Award. 

He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a four-time varsity letter winner and all-conference selection in Sprint Football.  He received his law degree from the University of Kansas, where he was an editor of the Kansas Law Review. 

He has worked for the Office of the Chief Counsel for Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, the Kansas Legislature’s House Judiciary Committee, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.  His political experience includes time on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and several congressional campaigns.  During the 2014 midterm elections, he served on the legal team for the North Carolina Republican Party.

Christian currently resides in Washington, D.C. and serves as Director of Publications for the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, an organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers dedicated to reforming the American legal system.  He works with attorneys, judges, law professors, and elected officials to advance the rule of law and the first principles espoused by America’s Founding Fathers and the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. 

In his personal capacity, he writes on politics, public policy, and constitutional law.  His work has been published in the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, Human Events, the Wichita Eagle, Doublethink Magazine, and the University Daily Kansan.  His law review article, “McDonald v. Chicago: Did Justice Thomas Resurrect the Privileges or Immunities Clause from the Dead? (And Did Justice Scalia Kill It Again?),” was published by the Kansas Law Review in 2012.  He also co-authored the Kansas Law Review’s 2011 Criminal Procedure Survey. 

In the fall, he will be returning to Kansas to clerk for Justice Caleb Stegall of the Kansas Supreme Court. 

Words from Christian’s classmate

"For almost as long as I can remember during our time together at WCS, Christian told anyone who would listen that he wanted to be an astronaut.  Though I believe this desire was heavily based on a trip to the Kansas Cosmosphere in third grade, I also think it was based on inherent aspirations to be a pioneer and change our country for the better.  We took a small step toward this goal together by heading up our 4th grade Chillers snow cone business during what I believe was the most profitable year in the history of the project.  I have absolutely no facts to back that up.

Though, during his high school football days, Christian the aspiring astronaut probably became Christian the aspiring Kansas City Chief, he never lost his patriotic and pioneering spirit.  Always the first person to suggest an America-themed event during law school at KU, it was well known that Christian was destined for our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.

Living and working in the same areas we toured together during our 7th grade trip to the capital city, Christian now uses the breadth of his education to help improve our country's legal system.  Though dreams of a walk in space may now have been replaced by dreams of a walk into the Oval Office, Christian will always remain a proud American and proud Wichita Collegiate School alumnus."

Van Winter, WCS Class of 2005

2015 WCS ALUMNI BOARD

Christina Hourani Shuart 1999	President
Morgan Wilson Overman 1996	President-elect
Adam Kennedy 2000	Immediate Past President
Casey Baker 2005	Board Member
Jed Bond 1996	Board Member
Jeff Boone 1994	Board Member
Ruse Brown 2003	Board Member
JK Dillehay 2002	Board Member
Ashley Elkouri 2006	Board Member
Mallory Jones Farha 2001	Board Member
Brooke Stokley Finan 1992	Board Member
Shannon Mould Flack 1999	Board Member
Katie Hatfield Gunzelman 2007	Board Member
Phoebe Stokley Hart 1995	Board Member
Amy Johnson 2007	Board Member
Jason Kice 1996	Board Member
Katie Hill Leiding 2004	Board Member
Matt Maloney 1994	Board Member
Peter Onderick 2001	Board Member
Patrick Ritchie 2002	Board Member
Becky Rolph  1994	Board Member
Alex Schooler 2009	Board Member
Ryan Stuckey 1996	Board Member
Deanna Dakhil Ternes 1996	Board Member
Amar Shah 2002	Out of Town Rep
Blaine Schultz 1989	Out of Town Rep
Randolph Love 1967	Honorary Board Member
Randy Storms 1974	Honorary Board Member
Barb Stokley	Faculty Rep
Sarah Jervis	Former Faculty Rep
Thomas W. Davis	Ex-Officio
Lisa Schooler	Ex-Officio
Joan Siefkes Moore 1984	Ex-Officio

2015 Collegiate SPARTAN Golf Classic

A Letter from the Alumni Board President

Dear Collegiate Alumni,

It has been an honor and pleasure to serve as the WCS Alumni Board president in the last year.  Serving on the board has been something I have enjoyed tremendously and we are lucky to have such a talented and giving board that continues to serve our Collegiate community.  The Alumni Board had a very busy year, here are some of the highlights:

-          We hosted the annual Alumni BBQ in October.  It was another cold day, but it was an overall success.

-          Our 15^th annual golf tournament at Crestview County Club was delayed one week due to weather but it ended up being a great day with beautiful weather!

-          We continued the tradition of sending care packages to our college freshmen before their mid-terms.

-          We held our 26^th Annual Mentor Program at Wichita Country Club.  We had the pleasure of hearing from both Deanna Dahkil Ternes 96’ and Amar Shah 02’. 

-          At graduation, we presented the Randy Storms Alumni Service Award to Jed Bond 96’, a very deserving candidate. 

-          As a board and an alumni community we were able to raise a record $113,577 for the Alumni Endowment Fund!  We will certainly hit an endowment balance of 1 million dollars next year!  The Alumni Endowment fund helps sustain the tuition assistance program and provides help for many students to continue to attend Collegiate.

I want to thank the Alumni Board and the community for all of the help and generous donations we have received this year.  Collegiate is a very special place to my family and I am excited to see what the future brings.

Sincerely,

Adam Kennedy 00’

Upper School: 2nd Generation Spartans

By: Lisa Schooler  Jack Guthrie '13 son of Lizanne Guthrie '78 remarked that he is named after Jack Chesky '72 whose life was taken in a tragic car accident.  Sage Farha '13, daughter of Cliff Farha '86 and Laura Madison Farha '83, talked about her dad erasing all his detentions off of Mrs. Hill's computer! Houston, Hunter, and Hayley Cusick, sons and daughter of Trey Cusick '89 and Laura Brim Cusick '88, talk about a time when their parents renamed their economics teacher, Doug Glenn, to Goud Nnelg (Doug Glenn backwards).  They had many stories about this teacher, starting with the time they took the tires off his car to to the time Mr. Glenn was their chaperone on their senior trip.  This time they ambushed him at night in his hotel room, jumped on his bed, and sprayed him with shaving cream! Grace and Salem Cusick, daughter and son of Nick Cusick '88, reported that their father Nick was standing in the hallway with Brian Drevets '81 and, on a $20 bet, he said, "What would you do if...?" Then Nick yanked his tie so hard, it had to be cut off to remove it!

Two Generations of Spartan Teachers

 By:  Lisa Schooler

There is a lot of history here or should I say a lot of math ... Devon Rothwell graduated from Wichita Collegiate in 1971 with a class of twelve students. She returned to WCS twenty years later as a 7^thgrade math teacher.  Now her son Johnny, who also graduated from WCS is 2002, has returned as Collegiate's 8^th grade math teacher.

I asked Devon what it was like to have Johnny as a student.  She replied that not only did she have Johnny but also a niece and a nephew, Patrick and Vivian Ritchie, in the same class.  She said Johnny usually behaved in her classroom but does recall that he was the first one to receive a Saturday detention from her for whiting out the numbers on another students locker dial.