KELSO NATIVE PLACES IN BRIDGE BUILDING CONTEST

ROLLA -- A student from Kelso was a member of a six-person University of Missouri-Rolla civil engineering team which placed third in a national steel-bridge building contest recently.

The teams built 20-foot-long steel bridges designed to withstand weights of up to 2,500 pounds. Their efforts were judged according to the speed of construction, bridge weight, cost, capacity, capacity-to-weight ratio and aesthetic value.

Placing first in the contest was the University of Alaska-Fairbanks; Southern College of Technology placed second.

The Rolla team consisted of civil engineering students Sean Antle of St. Peters, Mo., Jeff Bohler of St. Louis, Brian LeGrand of Kelso, Mark McCauley of Royalton, Ill., Scott Rakonick of Florissant, Mo., and David Smith of Cordova, Tenn.

Student graduates with

honors at Hannibal

Dana Lenea Ayres, of Cape Girardeau, graduated cum laude with a bachelor of science in education degree from Hannibal-LaGrange College, in Hannibal.

Her degree specialized in elementary education.