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EIGHTH ANNUAL MUIR ATO BLUE KEYSCHOLARSHIPS AWARDEDKristen M. Daniels, a senior majoring in Athletic Training and NutritionSciences and Kinesiology and J. Tyson Moore, a senior majoring in InformationSystems with a Minor in Leadership Studies were presented theeighth annual William L. Muir II and John T. Muir Alpha Tau Omega Blue KeyLeadership Scholarships at the Blue Key Initiation Banquet on April 23, 2006.Each scholarship award is for $1,000.Daniels is a Minneola, Kansas native. She has been involved in variouscampus activities and programs, including Phi Upsilon Omicron Family and Consumer Sciences Honor Society,Circle K International and the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership program. Kristen is on the Blue Key NationalBoard of Directors, serving a two-year student term. Kristen was Blue Key Director of Membershipfor Quest and Catalyst for this school year. “Her heart for others and desire to serve has been clear in hercomplete dedication to Blue Key,” one Blue Key advisor wrote. “Kristen did a fantastic job of recruiting studentsfor Quest and Catalyst. While she performed her specific role exceptionally well, it was Kristen’soverall commitment to the Blue Key motto ‘Serving I Live’ that stood out. Her fellow members identifiedher as the most unselfish and loyal and the most willing to go the extra mile.”Moore was involved in numerous campus and student government activities. In the KSU StudentGoverning Association, he has served as Student Senate Chair, Student Senate Vice Chair and GovernmentalRelations Director. Tyson was KSU Honor Council Chairperson, Leadership Challenge Junior ExpeditionLeader, New Student Orientation Program Parent Host. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma (Executive Secretary)and Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, where he was Treasurer, Alumni Relations Director and Pledge EducationChairman. Tyson was Blue Key President this last school year. He is from El Dorado, Kansas. A BlueKey advisor stated that “his dedication and commitment were evident in his passion for ‘when you are atBlue Key – you are at Blue Key.’ He led by example – keeping the group working together focused on thetask at hand – no matter how many other thousand activities were going on in his life and the life of his fellowBlue Key members. He is a busy, involved student leader – serving as K-State Student Senate Chair.While Tyson is known for his political interest and technological skills, it is his compassion for others and hiswillingness to help with every Blue Key endeavor that people will remember.”These scholarships, donated by the Muir Family through the Kansas State Alpha Tau Omega Students’Aid Endowment Fund, were established in 1999 to “perpetuate the memory of William Lloyd (Bill) Muir IIand John Thomas (Tom) Muir on the campus of Kansas State university and to provide educational opportunitiesand assistance for upper-level students who possess exemplary attributes in leadership, scholarship,fellowship and character.” Bill Muir, who received the Silver Star during World War II, died in May of 1943while serving with the United States Army in Italy. Tom Muir, a prominent businessman from Norton andManhattan, died in February of 1990. Both were members of the K-State chapter of the Alpha Tau OmegaFraternity. Both were initiated into Blue Key at K-State (1939 and 1940, respectively).The Muir Blue Key Scholarships are awarded by the K-State ATO Endowment Fund to “qualified studentsat Kansas State University who are members of Blue Key and attain at least a 3.000 cumulative gradepoint average, who are judged to be of good character and sound academic standing and who have substantiallycontributed to the quality of student life and outstanding leadership at Kansas State University. Annually,one Scholarship shall be awarded to a male member and one Scholarship shall be awarded to a femalemember” of Blue Key.14 THE VINTAGE