Reprinted courtesy of K-State Media Relations and Marketing.

Kevin Nelson, a fifth-year senior in architecture at Kansas State University, has been awarded the $1,000 John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship. Nelson is a 1998 graduate of Hays High School. 

Since entering K-State's College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Nelson has been involved with many activities, including being a student representative on the Architecture Student Advisory Board. He has been a member of the American Institute of Architecture Students organization, has served as a student representative for departmental committees, and is assisting the College with on-going facilities development.

During the spring 2003 semester, Nelson served an internship at Overland Partners Architects in San Antonio, Texas. He worked on several projects, including schematic design for the Chickasaw National Cultural Center in Sulphur, OK, and construction documents for the Washita Battle Field National Historic Site in Cheyenne, OK.

The John E. Holstrom Alpha Tau Omega Architectural Scholarship was named in honor of Holstrom, a 1968 initiate of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and a 1972 K-State architecture graduate. Holstrom died in 1989 at the age of 40. The scholarship provides educational opportunities and assistance for fifth-year architecture students with exemplary scholarship, fellowship and character.

The K-State Alpha Tau Omega Student Aid Endowment and the College of Architecture, Planning and Design established the Holstrom Scholarship with gifts from family, friends, fraternity brothers and an endowed bequest of $20,000 from Holstrom's firm, WKA Architecture Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

For more information, contact:

James S Jones, 785/532-5953
Diane Potts, 785/532-1090