Students learn about past case through public library display
A group of 11 year old students from New York School visited the Lawrence Public Library to explore how life differed before desegregation. The exhibit In Pursuit of Freedom and Equality traces Kansas African American public school experiences from 1855 to 1955 and featured local historians Katie Armitage and Deborah Dandridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon Newman
Brandon
New York School
N.Y
Lawrence Public Library
Katie Armitage
Brown
Topeka Board of Education
Dustin
Kansas
Kansas Humanities Council
Armitage
Deborah Dandridge
Kansas Collection
Kansas University
Kenneth Spencer
Alice Fowler
Lincoln School
Brandon Jackson
Monica Dace-Stark
New York
Pro-choice advocates speak at Lawrence forum on abortion rights
Five pro choice advocates spoke to about 20 people at a Wednesday night panel organized by the Lawrence-Douglas County League of Women Voters. The discussion warned of a conservative tide in anti choice legislation at state and national levels and urged voter activism before next year's elections. Rep. Sloan noted abortion often gets hidden in debates over fiscal conservatism while opposing leaders target women's rights and family programs.
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Mary McDonough Harren
Harren
Lawrence-Douglas County
Pro Family
Catholics For Choice
Congress
Rep
Sloan
Intruder in Autumn Delivers Intense Crumbling Marriage Drama
The Kansas University Original Play Festival presents Intruder in Autumn a tense look at a troubled marriage. Lark Oxler stars as Chriselda with Melissa Irbrand Kevin Comer and Randy Weinstein in strong supporting roles. The play features a second act revelation and a provocative exploration of family dynamics. It runs again at 8 p.m. Saturday and December 6 at the Inge Theatre Murphy Hall.
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Kansas University Theatre
Don Schawang
John Gronbeck- Tedesco
Chriselda
Lark Oxler
Linda
Melissa Irbrand
Oxter
Kevin Comer
Randy Weinstein
Inge
Murphy Hall
DeSoto Named Midwestern Hub for Space Island Project
Desoto A space-age math program linked with NASA will involve 400 high schools in 40 countries to design an international space station. DeSoto High School was selected as the Midwestern hub. Pat Sullivan, district math chair, said the hands-on project aims to boost problem solving and modernize math teaching.
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DeSoto
Pat Sullivan
Sullivan
NASA
DeSoto High School
Journal-World gains managing editor Roger Verdon
Veteran Kansas journalist Roger Verdon, 46, joins the Journal-World news staff as managing editor to oversee daily operations and assign staff. He previously led the Hutchinson News as editor and columnist, with 19 years in central Kansas. The paper cites modernization and expanded sections since 1995.
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Roger Verdon
Kansas
Journal- World News
Verdon
Hutchinson News
Hutchinson
Journal-World
Journal- World
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Simons
Bill Snead
Roger
Journal-World News
John Taylor
New York
Southampton College
Norma
Amy
Kansas State University
Memorial services for Hamilton and Haight held in Emporia and Tonganoxie
Fragments report funeral services for two Wichita area or area deaths. James Hamilton of Emporia died November 28 1995 with services at Friday at Carlson Funeral Home in Emporia and burial in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. Surviving family includes wife Ellen and three sons. Separate notice lists Taight Haight of Tonganoxie a 95 year old who died November 29 1995 with services at Quisenberry Funeral Home and burial in Mount Muncie Cemetery. Surviving sisters are named. memorials suggested to Rinda Chapter Order of the Eastern Star.
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Virginia Leak
Fadora
McClendon Funeral Home
Okmulgee
Okla
John Leak
Warren McElwain
Lawrence
Baldwin
James C. Poindexter
Worden United Methodist Church
Sutton Cemetery
Douglas County
Poindexter
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Wellsville
L.C. and
Maude (Robinson) Poindexter
Franklin
Douglas Counties
Oak Lodge
Baldwin Junction
Mildred E. Nelson
Franklin County
Dee Poindexter
Paige Heck
Linda Poindexter
Topeka
Louise Bolton
Winslow
Ariz
Patricia Poindexter
Millard Clinton Poindexter
Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home
Douglas County Visiting Nurses Assn
Carlson Funeral
Emporia
Norton G. Ritter
Memorial Lawn
Hamilton
Newman Memorial County Hospital
Corning
John Hamilton
Edith Barrett
Corning Rural High School
Nemah
Philip Hamilton
Concord
Calif
Rex Hamilton
Keith Hamilton
Holton
Esther Whisler
Tonganoxie
Marie Ann Taight
Quisenberry Funeral Home
David Petersen
Mount Muncie
Leavenworth
Haight
Colonial Manor
Lansing
John K
Mary E. Cline Peters
George W
Margaret Priddy
Shawnee
Genevieve Krebs
Rinda
Order of the Eastern Star
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North Lawrence
Fowler
Kansas Carpet Care Inc
Legionaires
Poe
John Wake
Journal-World Writer
Lawrence Journal-World
J-W
Virginia
Barrett Alfred Hamilton
Marie Ann Haight
Niehoff Htg. & Air, Inc
Lawrence Area
Bullene
Stephens Real Estate
West 6Th
Eret
LES Stele
Eldridge Hotel
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