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Director Foundation and Alumni

Labette Community College

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Quirin, ‘92 Receives Van Meter Award

 

Jeffrey J. Quirin, Parsons, has been named to receive the 2007 William and Allene Guthrie Van Meter Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award from the board of directors of the Labette Community College Foundation and Alumni Association. The award will be presented November 16 at the tenth annual Donor Appreciation Luncheon at the Parsons Municipal Auditorium Basement.

 

Quirin is an associate professor for the School of Accountancy at Wichita State University in Wichita, KS. His teaching responsibilities include financial accounting, financial and managerial accounting for executive MBA students, and financial accounting research for accounting graduate students.

 

He graduated from Labette Community College in 1992 with an associate’s degree.  He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Pittsburg State University in 1994, and a master’s degree in accounting in 1995 from PSU. He earned a doctorate in accounting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1998 and also possesses the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation.

 

Quirin’s professional career includes service as an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting at Kansas State University. He also served as an accounting graduate assistant at both PSU and UNL and was an adjunct accounting instructor at LCC.

 

He was the holder of the Grant Thorton, LLP Faculty Fellowship from 2003-2006, until he was promoted to his current Distinguished Chair position in 2006. Since 2001, he has been nominated annually for the WSU Board of Trustees Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2004, he received the WSU Barton School of Business Researcher/Writer of the Year Award, as well as the Undergraduate Instructor of the Year award. He has also been nominated for the WSU Young Faculty Scholar Award and the WSU Excellence in Research Award on multiple occasions. During Fall 2006, Quirin was awarded the PSU Kenneth K. Bateman Outstanding Alumni Award recognizing him for significant professional growth and advancement since the completion of his undergraduate degree.

 

He serves as treasurer for the Parsons Educational Foundation, and is a member of both the Institute of Management Accountants and American Accounting Association.

 

Quirin and his wife, Dianna, live in Parsons, KS. They currently have three children, Dalton, 14, Danica, 13, Jayce, 2 and are expecting another child in November.

 

The William and Allene Guthrie Van Meter Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award is the highest award given to a LCC graduate. The award is in memory and appreciation of the Van Meters for their generous estate gift that funded renovation of Thiebaud Theatre at Labette Community College. William was a 1929 graduate of the college, then named Parsons Junior College, and Allene taught romance languages at the college from 1929 to 1935.