The University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment recognized academic achievement of senior students from high schools in Marion, McPherson, and Rice counties with a dinner and program at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 23 at Holiday Manor Center, McPherson.

A total of 68 high school seniors in the top 10 percent of their high school class were recognized. Each also received a certificate of achievement and A Webster’s New College Dictionary.

Students honored from Peabody-Burns High School were Katelyn Benson, Brandon Entz, and April Newfield.