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HAYS, Kan. -- John Gettemeyer, St. Peters, Mo. (63376), a second-year graduate student in the higher education student affairs master's program at Fort Hays State University, has received the 2016 National Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award from NODA: The Association for Orientation, Transition and Retention in Higher Education.

Gettemery also works as the graduate assistant for extended orientation and transition initiatives in the Office of Transition and Student Conduct at FHSU.

This award recognizes a graduate student who has demonstrated service to NODA or to the orientation, retention and transition profession. An FHSU student has now won the award in each of the first two years of the award's history.

The award was presented to Gettemeyer at the recent national NODA convention in Indianapolis.