Kathlien R. Edmiston Scholarship in Political Science

Kathlien Edmiston enrolled at the Wichita University after graduating from Wichita High School (now Wichita East) in the late 1920’s. She was president of her sorority, Sorosis, now Delta Delta Delta, and vice president of her senior class. She met her husband, E.K. Edmiston at a school dance.

Upon graduation in 1933, she began five decades of community work, focusing on WU and politics. Mrs. Edmiston served on the WU Board of Regents, chairing the board from 1956-57, and later on the WSU Board of Trustees. She lobbied for inclusion into the state system in the early 1960’s. She received the Alumni Recognition Award in 1967. She chaired or worked on many local, state and national Republican campaigns. In 1985, Mrs. Edmiston filled an unexpired term on the Wichita City Commission and served briefly as mayor of Wichita.

Her husband, E.K., and daughter, Kelly Callen, established her scholarship in Political Science to honor her dedication to community activism. After their death, their children funded the E.K. and Kathlien Edmiston Study Room at the Ablah Library.