Emporia State University will welcome retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Fran Oleen, district director of the U.S. House of Representatives, to campus on Nov. 15 for Salute to Service 2025, the university's annual recognition of U.S. military veterans and those who generously volunteer their time to ESU.

The day's festivities begin at 9 a.m. with an open house at the Bloomer Veterans Hall of Honor and Student Veterans Center in Memorial Union in the heart of ESU's campus. The recently renovated Veterans Center provides ESU's student veterans with private meeting areas to relax, study and hold outreach activities.

Oleen (BS 92 - Political Science), a former deputy attorney general for the Kansas Attorney General's Office and a longtime service member with the Kansas National Guard, will be t

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