The students received the University of Kansas Crowell Book Award, a special addition of The American Heritage Dictionary, to commemorate their achievement. The KU Endowment Association and the KU Alumni Association began sponsoring the Kansas Honors Program in 1971, honoring students in the top ten percent of their class. This year the program will honor at total of 3,300 students across the state of Kansas. Traveling to distant places is on the agenda for many juniors and seniors at Girard High School during Spring Break. Smaller groups are visiting South Padre, TX, and Arkansas with 12 percent traveling to each.
Students plan on being gone anywhere from three to seven days.
It is a cool town.