Nebraska Magazine features CEHS students, alums


Nebraska Magazine features CEHS students and alums
Nebraska Magazine features CEHS students and alums in Spring 2015 edition.

Nebraska Magazine features CEHS students, alums

16 Apr 2015     By Nebraska Alumni Association

CEHS is well represented in the spring 2015 edition of the Nebraska Alumni Association's "Nebraska Magazine." The following three   students will be honored at the annual Alumni Awards Banquet on May 7. Thanks to NAA for the content of this page.

Betsey Hardin
Betsy Hardin

Jack Miller Scholarship
Vice president of records for Scarlet Guard and a member of the leadership team for UNL Navigators. She spent the summer or 2014 at an eight-week training program for Navigators in Jacksonville, Florida. Hardin also works at the UNL Children's Center and has been a Child Life Council Student Member, an Honors Program peer mentor and a Career Fair volunteer. A native of McCook, she is a family science major in Child, Youth and Family Studies learning toward becoming a child life specialist.
Michaela Niemeyer
Michaela Niemeyer
Jack Miller Scholarship
In two years as a Scarlet Guard member, Michaela Niemeyer has made her mark: first, as a member of the inaugural class of SG Knights as a freshman; and this year as vice president of social media for the SG Board of Directors. She also is a member of the UNL Honors Program and a Nebraska Legends Scholar and serves as a resident assistant for UNL Housing. A native of Oregon, Wis., Niemeyer is studying athletic training as a sophomore in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences in the College of Education and Human Sciences. 
Emily Murtaugh
Emily Murtaugh
Howard and Judy Vann Student Leadership Award
A senior majoring in textiles, merchandising and fashion design/communications, Emily Murtaugh is president of Scarlet Guard, the NAA’s 1,400-member student group, after serving as the group’s public relations director. She currently is also a creative intern for The Minnow Project Advertising Agency, a social media intern for the Department of Textile, Merchandising and Fashion Design, and a promotions intern for Blush Bridal Boutique. Last spring Murtaugh received the alumni association’s Jack Miller Scholarship.

Alums honored

In addition, the following CEHS alums will also be honored at the May 7 banquet.

Tracy Sweeney
Tracy Sweeney
Alumni Achievement Award
A 2004 graduate of the UNL College of Education and Human Sciences (Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education), Tracy Sweeney is owner and operator of Elan Studio, a child photography studio in Bristol, R.I., and winner of the 2014 International Child Photography Image Competition.  Her work is featured at all Babies "R" Us stores in the United States. She also serves on the education faculty at the University of Concordia, where she is a member of the transformative online teaching team. Sweeney taught high school English from 2004 to 2012, and served as adviser for Inklings Literary Magazine. She received Education Foundation Grants in 2007 and 2008.
Ken Geddes
Ken Geddes
Alumni Achievement Award
An All-Big 8 linebacker and nose guard under Coach Bob Devaney, Ken Geddes played for the Cornhuskers from 1966-1969, graduating from UNL in 1971 in elementary education. He went on to play pro football with the Los Angeles Rams (1971-75) and the Seattle Seahawks (1976-1978). Geddes then worked as a sales rep for General Electric and Campbell’s Soup Co., before returning to school to earn a master’s degree and work for the Seattle School District as a drug and alcohol intervention specialist and middle school counselor from 1989-2011. Among his honors are induction into the Nebraska Football, Nebraska High School Sports, Boys Town Sports and Omaha Sports halls of fame. Geddes and his wife, Carole, are active in the Washington Cornhuskers. 
Penny Hamilton
Penny Rafferty Hamilton

Alumni Achievement Award
Penny Hamilton holds two graduate degrees (1978, 1981) from the UNL College of Education and Human Sciences. Her 40+ years work experience includes university teaching, leading business and conference workshops, and print/broadcast media. Hamilton also is a private pilot and aviation educator, and co-holds with her husband, Bill, a World Aviation Speed Record, set in 1991 from Lincoln to New Orleans. She was inducted into the Colorado Aviation and Colorado Women’s halls of fame and is director of both the Colorado Airport History Preservation and Teaching Women to Fly Research Project. Hamilton earned the Greater Granby Area Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement and the Grand County Realtor of the Year awards.

Scarlet Guard Officers from CEHS

Two CEHS students have been elected to leadership positions on Scarlet Guard for the 2015-16 school year. Betsy Hardin will be president. She is a junior from McCook majoring in family science (see above). She replaces Emily Murtaugh, above, from Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design, who is graduating. Katellyn Dickes, a sophomore in nutrition science from Fordyce, Nebraska, has been elected to serve as Scarlet Guard's vice president for internal relations.

JHaus jeans a success for CEHS alum

JLynn HausmannNebraska Magazine also featured the successes of JLynn Hausmann, a 2003 graduate of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design. She started her own fashion jean company inspired from her upbringing on a Western Nebraska ranch. She designs her own styles in denim, often from her family's ranch near Butte. Read more about JLynn.


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