The following local students have been named to the Western Carolina University dean’s list for spring semester 2011:

• Kenneth Scott Hamby of Columbus;

• Jonathan Baxter Wilson of Mill Spring;

• Janine Marie Paris of Saluda;

• Kayla Danielle Shipman of Saluda;

• Matthew Sanders Alexander of Tryon;

• Robert Brett Butler of Tryon;

• Joshua Dewese Durham of Tryon;

• Sofia C. Lilly of Tryon.

A total of 1,807 students have been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester, according to Linda Seestedt-Stanford, WCU interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.

To qualify for the dean’s list, students must achieve at least a 3.5 grade-point average out of a possible 4.0 on a regular semester’s work of not less than 12 hours, excluding remedial courses, with no grade of D or F.

– article submitted by Randall Holcombe