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

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from NCRTI-l KANSAS ClTY . . . ln T883 Willard E. Winner, a Tar-sighTed man Trom MassachuseTTs, driTTed inTo This Missouri River area wiTh a bag Tull oT money and a head Tull oT dreams, envision- ing such proiecTs as a school, SwiTT Avenue, The Palmer House, a mile-long race Track, an amphi- TheaTer, and a bridge connecTing The norTh bank of The Missouri River wiTh Kansas CiTy. The NorTh Kansas CiTy DevelopnnenT Company laTer Tounded The acTual indusTrial Town oT Norih Kansas CiTy wiTh Their siTe purchase of l9l2. On January 23, l9l3, The TirsT cars oT The pro- gressive Red Line inTerurban railway moved across The young ASB Bridge from The norThern area inTo Kansas CiTy. Through This viTal connec- Tion wiTh The urban cenTer of acTiviTy, NorTh Kan- sas CiTy prospered. WiThin The presenT NorTh Kan- sas CiTy School DisTricT boTh indusTries and homes consTanTly seem To appear overnighT, reaching TarTher norTh Tor new poTenTial wiTh each pro- gressive sTep. from CENTER . . . The eleven square miles of CenTer School DisTricT No. 58-The mergence oT CenTer, Dallas, Boone and CiTy View DisTricTs- lies wholly wiThin The limiTs oT Kansas CiTy and shares in The ciTy's hisToric pasT. ln T897 The presenT siTe oT Boone ElemenTary School was purchased Trom Daniel and Susie M. Boone, again denoTing The basic inTluence of The wesTern expansion in The pasT cenTury on This mobile communiTy oT The presenT age. The CenTer communiTy keeps pace wiTh a progressive America Through rapid indusTrial expansion and increasing residenTial growTh. Only yesTerday, The Ten blocks beTween EighTy- TiTTh and NineTy-TiTTh STreeTs near Wornall Road were Truly souTh oT Kansas CiTy. Today, These same blocks are The gaTeway .To CenTer's TuTure and To a greaier MeTropoliTan Kansas CiTy.

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from HICKMAN MILLS . . . Eighteen years after the Washington township was organized, Edward A. Hickman bought forty acres of land to establish a steam mill for grinding grain. His S397 land investment of T854 triggered the development of the present Hickman Mills community. The first public school of the future Consolidated School District No. l appeared in l855. ln time, the first Ruskin High was erected, named after the noted professor of art at Oxford College, England. The Hickman Mills area suffered extensively as a tornado struck the community in l957, but the tremendous spirit of the people gained the upper hand and renewed the vital progress of the metro- politan division. Today the students of the schools and all the citizens of the community share in the development of the vigorous Kansas City suburb. from BELTON . . . The first permanent settlement in Mt. Pleasant township-a later portion of the School District No. T24-was made in the l83O's and l84O's by families moving from Kentucky and Tennessee. The town was founded in T870 by George Scott and W. H. Colbern and was in- corporated as a city in l88O. A visit to the old cemetery of Belton will reveal the names of two impressive American figures who lived within the community: Carry Nation, militant prohibitionist, is buried in her family plot of her hometown, Dale Carnegie, too, spent his childhood years on his parents' farm near Belton and now lies in this historical ground. After the Civil War Belton became one of the fastest growing towns in Cass County. Cornfields sprout overnight, not with fields of grain, but with spanking new subdivisions. And these new sub- divisions still provide continuous growth for the Belton community and its public.schools. l.Shopping Center, Rayt 2 C ty H l High School, 4. Busines D t t G d 5 H gh Grandview to Belton. W afwwi 589 ,A 1- Q-.' M V. f , QXWTH X I ,Y . J 4, t QM , ...fa , ln! 3 eunwn if - W-V QM X cfs X 'W'-nnq -..,, sf, NM . 3. sl

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Trom l.EE'S SUMMIT . . . The communiTy oT The School DisTricT No. 7 began as Prairie Township in a developing mid-America. William B. l-loward laid ouT The original plaT of The Town of STroTher in l865, covering sevenTy acres Trom his Tarm land. The Town of STroTher became The CiTy of Lee's SummiT in l877. This new TiTle Tor The communiTy was To honor Dr. Pleasani Lea, whose name was misspelled when iT originally was painied on The side of a box car, which served as The Town's depoT, and was never correcTed. The addiTion of SummiT represenTed The area as one of The highesT railroad poinTs beiween Omaha and ST. Louis. The hisToric Town of STroTher has Transformed iTselT inTo a modern suburb of America, whose increasing growTh and business demand The aTTen- Tion of iTs Tellow communiTies. from METROPOLITAN KANSAS CITY . . . From pioneer days when Kansas CiTy meanT dirT roads inTerspersed wiTh The general sTore, The blacksmiTh's shop, and The posTal sTaTion, iT has progressively expanded To encompass communi- Ties Thai were once considered a Two or Three days' iourney aparT. Today's MeTropoliTan Kansas CiTy is an inTe'rconnecTing neTworlc of Traffic ar- Teries and expressways, modern shopping cenTers, business buildings, vasT indusTrial planTs, offices Tor inTernaTional organizaTions, and expansive resi- denTial neighborhoods. For over half a cenTury, The doors of MeTropoliTan Junior College-Kansas CiTy have been open To high school graduaies inTeresTed in obTaining a college educaTion. Year aTTer year hundreds have come from Their homes day and nighT To success- Tully achieve a higher educaTion. Today, These hundreds have become Thousands, and They are coming Trom a meTropoliTan area never dreamed of by The Tounders of Kansas CiTy. T B dix Corporaiiong 2, Uniiy Tow 3 B D Trict and 4. Historic Station, ness is mit, 5. Center H gh School. 1 I . I 2 iw