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Benedictine Music Professor Wins 2025 Ostwald Composition Award

Benedictine College is pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas Davoren, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Bands and Instrumental Music, has won the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) / John Phillip Sousa Foundation (JPSF) Ostwald Composition Award. His Concerto for Euphonium and Band has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Sousa-ABA-Ostwald Award and will be performed at the 2026 American Bandmasters Association Convention, March 3 – 8, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Atchison County Community Junior Senior High School Homecoming Royalty winners

Atchison County Community Junior Senior High School congratulates the 2025 Homecoming Royalty, who were crowned prior to the football game against Valley Falls on Friday, September 19, 2025. Rance Vessar was named Homecoming King, and Madison Martin was named Homecoming Queen. Rounding out the royal court were candidates Max Bottorf, Colton Lowe, Trinity Sigmon, and Ava Speer. Assisting with the crowning were Avery Handke the 2024 ACCHS Homecoming Queen and Ty Besette, one of the 2024 ACCHS Homecoming King candidates, along with crown bearers Madeira Jolly and Ryatt Phillips, the ACCHS cheerleaders and Student Council members.

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