K-State Student Receives Holstrom Architectural Scholarship
Freedom by Design was chosen as Outstanding Student Organization in the First Annual Community First National Bank Awards for Community Service. Pictured is Anastasia Wayne with the award the group received.
Anastasia (Staci) Wayne has been awarded the $1,000 John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship.
A fifth-year architecture student from Overland Park, Kansas, Wayne is acknowledged as the person most responsible for bringing to K-State the Freedom by Design initiative, one of just six such programs nationwide. She was the driving force and coordinator behind this campaign to renovate the home of a low-income, wheelchair-bound Manhattan resident.
Her instructors state that Wayne is a supreme organizer with notable construction skills and experience. She applied these abilities to the team that participated in construction of the home of the Nutsch family from Rose Hill, Kansas, on the hit ABC television program “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” in fall of 2005.
Wayne, who is pursuing a minor in history, also studied abroad last spring at the College of Architecture, Planning and Design Italian Studies program in Orvieto. She currently serves as a teaching assistant for History of the Designed Environment 3, where her tasks are handled as if they were second nature to her. Wayne has been described as a person “in whom you can comfortably place your utmost trust” and who completes her duties with speed, efficiency and accuracy, with little instruction or guidance.
Other scholarship finalists were Luke Dolechek, Wichita, Kansas; James Evrard, Cleveland, Missouri; Katie Harms, Weatherby, Missouri; and Kyle Leiker, Andover, Kansas.
The John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship was named in honor of Holstrom, a 1968 initiate of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and a 1972 K-State architecture graduate. Holstrom died in 1989 at the age of 40. The scholarship provides educational opportunities and assistance for a fifth-year architecture student with exemplary scholarship, fellowship and character.
The K-State Alpha Tau Omega Student Aid Endowment and the College of Architecture, Planning and Design established the Holstrom Scholarship with gifts from family, friends, fraternity brothers and an endowed bequest of $20,000 from Holstrom’s firm, WKA Architecture Inc., in Dallas, Texas.
The 2006 award was presented to Wayne by William Muir, fraternity brother and Assistant Vice President of Institutional Advancement at K-State, during the recent Architecture Evening celebration.
For more information, contact:
Mick Charney, 785.532.1103
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090