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Published on: 12/22/2006
Last Visited: 7/27/2008
Jerry Alter | Barbara Bath | Victor Bender | Tammy Breeden | Dale Bukaty | Wanna Butts | Bill Calhoun | Barbara Carlson | Regina Carmichael | Kay Carroll | Don Checots | Tom Clausen | Gerri Colgan | Faith Coniglio | Winton Crown | Lillian Dickens | Barbara Fitzpatrick | Debra Foster | Rita Foster | Tracy Freeman | Vallerie Gleason | Marilyn Milligan Groves | Hugh Harding | Chris Hornbaker | Carmen Hytche | Olivia Jacobs
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Carmen Hytche
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It was really different," Carmen Hytche asserted, speaking of the WRRS Mini Golf tournament.She has gone from playing with a team in the event in 2003 to coordinating it in 2004 and will again this year.She also now sits on the Wichita Radio Reading Development Board to help improve community awareness of the audio service for print impaired.
She joked about having an all Hytche sisters team next time.She is the youngest of five, "on the good side of forty."As such she actually attended East High with a few of her six great nieces and nephews."Explain that to your peers."
As the current Director of Special Events and Community Relations for Wichita State's Office of University Relations, she does a lot of explaining, coordinating and planning for her alma mater.It's a busy year-round schedule of interesting events and personalities including the Milton and Gladys Glickman Lecture Series of distinguished speakers.Her most recent charge is Mo Rocca of NPR fame.This involved rescheduling his appearance after a family emergency last year.
Carmen worked in customer service for TriCon, before PepsiCo broke up the Pizza Hut group and moved her division to Louisville, Kentucky.She was very close to completing her WSU degree and opted to stay."Wichita is a great place to live."
Her part time work in the Alumni Association office while an undergraduate, whetted her interest in university relations and when her current position came open in 2000, she applied and won the job.She is currently adding to her original integrated degree in marketing, public relations and journalism with a certification in applied communications.
This pursuit has eclipsed casual or recreational reading "with three text books in one class."But she did find time last year to visit Memphis' many musical icons, museums and blues venues.She's a fan of rhythm and blues and "most music with the exception of heavy metal."She enjoyed a free concert in the park, the W.C. Handy museum, the STAX Music Museum.All in all, a wonderful trip."I am making notes on place to visit in Chicago next."
Carmen brings this upbeat enthusiasm to every topic from her extensive family relations to her campus work and WRRS.She and WSU President Donald Beggs "came to our jobs at the same time," and she waxes enthusiastically about her ultimate boss' interest in things on and off campus.She feels she has made good choices so far from living in Wichita to serving with WRRS--a great attitude to share with others.