Three distinguished alumni were inducted into the Monmouth-Roseville Hall of Achievement and an additional three area citizens received Distinguished Service Awards on Friday in the Monmouth-Roseville High School Auditorium

Mark Algren, David Love and Golda Ewalt have been named to the Hall of Achievement. Leo and Alisa Ramer, along with Mel Lacey, were honored with Distinguished Service Awards.

The induction ceremony is free and open to the public. This recognition program was made possible through a donation to the Monmouth-Roseville Educational Foundation by the Ralph Whiteman family in 1992 and is dedicated to the memory of his mother, Lucille Whiteman, who was once a one-room country school teacher.

In addition to recognizing individuals, the Hall is intended to honor the teachers and administrators whose motivation and inspiration helped make their successes possible.

The Distinguished Service Award honors people who provide exemplary volunteer services to the students of the district.

The Hall of Achievement is part of the Monmouth-Roseville Educational Foundation, which supports and promotes academic achievement.

Following are brief summaries of the careers of the 2012 honorees.

Mark Algren is director of the Applied English Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He graduated from Monmouth High School in 1972 and from Wittenburg University in 1976 with a degree in history.

After teaching English as a foreign language at a Lutheran High School in Hong Kong, Algren completed a masters degree in English as a second language at Southern Illinois University. Then followed several years in Saudi Arabia teaching English, where he also helped found the nations first community college.

In 1993 Algren relocated to Lawrence, Kan., to begin teaching English as a second language. He has been with the Applied English Center at Kansas since that time except for a leave of absence in the late 90s to teach again in Saudi Arabia and a second leave of absence spent teaching in the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emerites.

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