Health professions seniors crowned Ivy Day royalty
Two Chadron State College seniors in the health professions program, Ashley Nutsch of Highlands Ranch, Colo., and Adam Rasmussen of Mead, were crowned queen and king of CSC’s Ivy Day ceremony on Friday.
Nutsch and Rasmussen were chosen from a field of 10 candidates by a vote of the students.
Nutsch, a member of the CSC volleyball team, served as the Cardinal Key historian and president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She is a 2006 graduate of Mountain Vista High School who is receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in human biology. She has been accepted to the physician assistant program at Mount Union College.
Rasmussen, who studied pre-medicine at CSC, will attend the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha as part of the Rural Health Opportunities Program. He graduated from Mead High School in 2006. He has served as president of CSC’s Health Professions Club and is a member of Campus Crusade for Christ.
The king and queen are each members of CSC’s chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the biological honor society.
Runners-up in the competition were Kortany Schultz of Scottsbluff and Douglas Liewer of Butte.
Next up in the competition for queen were Lauren Emory of Fort Collins, Colo., Paige Bosch of Wheatland, Wyo., and Victoria Barraza of Bayard.
In the king competition, Chedric Monahan of Chadron, Alex Adden of Sidney and Jesse Arbogast of Reno, Nev., rounded out the voting.
Ivy Day is the annual event at Memorial Hall that pays tribute to the institution’s outstanding seniors. It is sponsored by the Blue Key and Cardinal Key honor societies.
The event evolved from a traditional May Day program dating back to 1920.
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