Dennis Ruhnke shares a message after being awarded a bachelor's degree at Kansas State University. He sent his extra N95 mask to New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo in March for a nurse or doctor to use. MANHATTAN, Kan. - A retired Kansas farmer, who mailed his spare N95 mask to New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo, was recently awarded a long-awaited bachelor’s degree after his education was cut short almost 50 years ago. In 1971, Dennis Ruhnke was just two credit hours shy of finishing his degree in agriculture studies at Kansas State University when his father passed away.
Ruhnke chose to drop out of school to care for his mother and help maintain the family’s farm. In March, he found five spare masks leftover from his days as a farmer — four of which