Three employees were honored for 15 and 20 years of service to Sterling College. Nancy Hicks, Janet Caywood and Deb Wiebe celebrated the achievement at the annual Kickoff Banquet on August 18.

Hicks, administrative assistant for the Sterling Teacher Education Program, began working at the College in 2000. She has a bachelor’s in elementary education, and she taught second grade and junior high and high school choir in Corona, New Mexico. This background, along with her management experience in business, has been beneficial to the education department.

Students at Sterling College will now choose between two concentrations within the psychology major: social services or research and clinical psychology. Social services will focus on careers in human services, while research and clinical psychology will prepare students for occupations that require graduate school.

Sterling College graduate Ben Ray ’82 has been elected to join the College’s Board of Trustees. Ray is the pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Derby, Kansas.

Sterling College Assistant Professor of Art and Design David Stenulson’s painting “School Dance” will be on display at Ann Tower Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, adding to the list of galleries that have recently exhibited his work. According to Ann Tower Gallery, the annual summer group exhibit, “Evolving Revolving 15,” displays “new work from artists represented by the gallery, including paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, ceramics and folk art.”