In 2016, the Kansas Professional Communicators selected the two columns:
   
   
   Forever 31 and For whom the bells tolled
   
   
   for a First Place award (above-left), and at the national level, the two columns received an 
   Honorable Mention (above-right).
   
   
   Judges' comments included:
   
   
   "Both entries are well written. My first thought when I glanced at them was they were kind of long, but the writing was 
   engaging enough to keep the reader's attention through to the end."