Metropolitan Community College - Sunburst Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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T I I T l i l Lee's 1 l l Q f H 1 l Summit A community college . . . an institution geared tothe life it serves, from providing inexpensive basic college education for our leaders of tomorrow, to the training of Technicians for progressive Kansas City industry, to creating comprehensive citizens whose individual lives and decisions will determine the future growth of the Kansas City area, These . . . the marks of the Metropolitan Junior College graduate. he Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, issourt On May 26, l964, eight individual school districts merged to pro- vide improved educational opportunities for the citizens of their thriv- ing communities-a merging of the Kansas City, North Kansas City, Raytown, Belton, Grandview, Center, Lee's Summit, and Hickman Mills School Districts. As a result, the new Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City was created as a composite of the separate members, governed by the representative Board of Trustees, together presenting a true comprehensive community college to the growing population and progress of the Kansas City area. The continuous stream of college potential from each home district ioins forces through the Junior College and pours forth into a welcoming community. To these college students this total metropolitan area is a mammoth treasure chest: the gold of the nation's wheat market, the silver of the Linda Hall Library, the emerald of the American Royal. Junior College has, indeed, infiltrated this intriguing Kansas City metropolis, and this metropolitan area, in turn, has learned that a community college cannot be segregated from the very heart of the city-that the searching mind cannot merely stagnate within brick walls. The community college of today-Metropolitan Junior College- thrives on its foothold in Kansas City life, and this position is a con- stant reminder that the Junior College shall never tolerate oblivion. 5

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ws,mM,T4.t,g,+,g1 1 as A-1----. N1 4,0 +59 Q is ,ss . . . in business and industry. Through the heart ofthe throbbing metropolis beats the sound ot Kansas City at work. Junior College representatives, too, are an active portion of this soundtrack. Through these students, the College services an inoperative radio or television set in a neighborhood repair shop attaches a vital assembly part to a '66 automobile, stocks the shelves of a local pharmacy, smiles with gracious understanding as customers make many happy returns, and assists a suburbanite in the selection of shrubbery for his front yard. lt's an early investment for the undergraduate in awaiting his economic future. 7