Southwestern College Alumni and Ambassadors to be Recognized
Winfield, Kan.,
Oct. 7, 2022 —The 2022 Ambassador Award, the Young Alumni Award, and the Alumni
Recognition Award, will be presented Friday, Oct. 14, at the Southwestern
College Homecoming dinner in the Roy L. Smith dining hall. The honorees
are Steve and Sally Cauble, Tabatha Rosproy, and Sandee McDade. Robbie Banks
from the Southwestern College Class of 1972 will serve as the master of
ceremonies for the dinner with brief remarks from President Liz Frombgen.
The SC Ambassador
Award will be presented to Winfield resident Sandee McDade. This award
recognizes non-graduates of the college who have captured the Builder spirit
and have served as ambassadors of goodwill for the college and the
community.
McDade, a 1973
graduate of Winfield High School, attended SC from 1973-75 before going to work
at the Winfield State Hospital where she was in charge of the Serendipity
School. Since it was brand new at the time, she wrote the program for the
school. She then worked at William Newton Hospital as a physical therapy
aid, a job she held for 13 years, before moving on to Via Christi. She
was working at Presbyterian Manor in Arkansas City before a cancer diagnosis
halted her working. McDade overcame the disease and is still getting checkups
but is currently cancer free.
She has found a
new passion; meeting Southwestern College students and their families,
in-particular, SC baseball players. As she describes it, a couple of
players actually adopted her and so she supports them with her presence and
supportive messages. She says at 67 years old, being around campus and
supporting SC students keeps her young and active.
Tabatha Rosproy
will receive the Young Alumni Award. This honor is presented to a recent
graduate (or graduates) who have made an outstanding commitment to the college
through ambassadorship and support, including attendance at college functions
and recruitment of new students.
Rosproy is a 2009
SC graduate. She majored in early childhood education at Southwestern and
participated in numerous groups including the 9 Lives Improv Comedy Troupe,
theatre, Discipleship Team, and Ed Builders. She was in the Freshman
Class Council, Student Government president, orientation leader for Builder
Camp, summer Builder Bound camps, and was named a Masterbuilder.
Rosproy was the
2020 National Teacher of the Year and the first preschool teacher to ever be
awarded the national honor, in the history of the United States. She is
well-known for helping to create a unique preschool program that is housed at
Cumbernauld Village in Winfield where she came to know many community
residents, who are SC alumni and serve as volunteer “grandmas” and “grandpas”
in the classroom. Rosproy taught at Cumbernauld for three years before departing
for a new opportunity in Kansas City, Kansas.
Now a 13-year
veteran teacher, Rosproy has transitioned into a new role as the early
childhood project coordinator for Kansas Parent Information Resource Center
where she provides training around the state to school districts and
organizations on best practices in early childhood education and family
engagement. Rosproy is also a certified instructor for Conscious Discipline and
spends her extra time speaking, training, and collaborating with educators all
over the country.
She has been
married to her husband, Tim, also a Southwestern graduate, for eight years.
They now reside in Olathe with their four cats, Mr. Darcy, Beak, Beezus, and
Frankenstein.
Steve and Sally
Cauble, 1972 graduates, will receive the Outstanding Alumni Award in honor of
their contributions to the college and community.
Steve attended
Southwestern after graduating high school at Wichita East. While at SC,
he played tennis and was undefeated at #6 singles and claimed a KCAC league
championship. He served as a student representative on the Southwestern College
Board of Trustees, the first-ever student to do so.
Two weeks
following his graduation from SC he was drafted and joined the Air National
Guard for six years as a medic. He served in Wichita and Memphis, Tenn.
He then attended optometry school at Southern School of Optometry. He
graduated, joined, and bought a practice in Liberal in 1974.
Now retired, Steve
is still busy as a Southwestern College Board of Trustees member, East Heights
Methodist Church trustee, Downtown Lions Club Past President, Lion Sight
Foundation board member, and a Professional Men’s Club Past President. He
has served on mission trips to Bolivia, Africa, Costa Rica, and nine times to
Panama with Volunteer Optometric Service to Humanity.
Sally Cauble
graduated from SC in 1972 with a bachelor of arts degree in elementary
education. While at SC, she was a member of the first dance team at the
college, was voted in as secretary of the senior class, and worked on campus in
the library.
Sally taught in
Fredonia, Memphis, Tenn., and in Liberal. While in Liberal, she was the
education coordinator at Liberal United Methodist Church. She was on the
school board for USD 480 and was chairman of the board. She also served
on the library board, Southwestern College Board of Trustees, the United Way
Board, was elected to represent District 5 on the State Board of Education, and
the Kansas Optometric Auxiliary. She has earned many awards for her
work including awards from the American Optometric Auxiliary, Kansas Optometric
Association, and is a member of the Southwestern College Education Hall of
Fame.
Steve and Sally
were married in 1973 and have two children, Stephanie, and her husband Kevin
Makalous, and Stewart and his wife, Nichele. They also are the proud
grandparents of the three granddaughters; Ashley, Allyson, and Amanda Makalous.
Steve and Sally
have been co-chairs of a capital campaign to raise money for Southwestern
College and have been named the Southwest Daily Times Citizens of the Year and
the Liberal Chamber of Commerce Citizens of the
Year.
“We look
forward to celebrating and connecting with the many wonderful alumni who come
back to campus for Homecoming, but we are particularly excited to lift up these
four individuals, who represent the Builder Spirit and our college in all that
they do for their communities and Southwestern,” said Frombgen.
The full 2022
Alumni Homecoming schedule may be found at www.sckans.edu/homecoming.
