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K-State junior, St. John grad receives Marie Ronen Scholarship
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Cashe McVey

MANHATTAN — Cashe McVey, a junior in professional strategic selling and data analytics, St. John, has been awarded the nearly $5,000 Marie Ronen Scholarship at Kansas State University for the third consecutive year.

McVey is the son of Amy McVey and the late Jason McVey. He is the third recipient of the Marie Ronen scholarship and currently a sales ambassador for the National Strategic Selling Institute in the College of Business Administration.

The scholarship was established by Jim and Cibyl Ronen, also of St. John, in memory of Marie Ronen, Jim Ronen’s mother, a former teacher who expected all A’s from her students.

“I am very honored to receive the scholarship again this year McVey said. “I appreciate the Ronen family’s support of me and my education at K-State.”

To be eligible for the Marie Ronen Scholarship, students must be graduates of USD 350 and maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. The recipient may receive the scholarship for up to five years.

Jim Ronen is a 1960 graduate of Emporia State Teachers College with a business degree. He worked in the First National Bank and Trust of St. John for 44 years and was president of the bank before retiring in 1994. Cibyl Teichman Ronen graduated from K-State in 1960 from the College of Human Ecology, now the College of Health and Human Sciences. She also worked in the banking industry as a travel director and served on the board of directors for the First National Bank and Trust of St. John.

The Ronens have two children, Brent Ronen and Shelby Ronen Bauer, a 1991 Kansas State University graduate. 

Jim and Cibyl Ronen have long supported K-State, including actively joining the fight against cancer by serving on the university’s Johnson Cancer Research and Education Advisory Council for many years and investing in cancer research. 

As Kansas State University’s strategic partner for philanthropy, the KSU Foundation inspires and guides philanthropy toward university priorities to boldly advance K-State family. Visit www.ksufoundation.org for more information.