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'warn -4 1-f-fin A TF' Y-:rf ..-i-ans'- c uo-4rwwprpw4:r:Mvre2e-wvs??wnP:Q-r'rfw1'H!?n1'4!F!'f' . '?i'!':'e'4'fMe1'H-fre!!-ygun' gre'rl5'f '?: 1v-9'yu-fefvlt'1'!'f ! ' Winnetonkcfs A reflection of progress is the impressive Winnetonka High School building which hugs a Northland hill and overlooks the skyline of Kansas City, Mo. It was fifty-eight years ago, January of 1913, that a few visionary men, realizing the importance of education, formed the school district north of the river. In June of l9l3 the first school bond issue of 55,000 was passed in order to buy the site at Zlst Street and Howell to build a school. The building had two rooms for the two teachers, the eight elementary grades, and the first year of high school. The structure cost S3,922, and was named Kenneth School in honor of Mr. Kenneth DeWeese, an attorney who had helped the new school to get started. There were two other teachers in the District and two other schools, Glenwood District Number 73 and Harlem District Number 72. With four teachers, three buildings, and approximately thirty-two students, with twenty-one of them attending Kenneth School, the North Kansas City School District came into existence. In those early days, the kids came to school on foot for there were no sidewalks and the few streets were of dirt. It was January of l9 l 3 that the Interurban Line started running. One line went to St. Joseph, Mo., and the other, the Excelsior Springs line, ran near by Winnetonka High School's location. The Winn name was familiar in this vicinity. Miss Mary Winn, realizing the importance for better transportation in the area, donated land for the interurban right-of-way and also enough land for a double- siding. The men building the line camped on her farm and she allowed them to leave their equipment on her land. When it was time to name the interurban stops, the construction superintendent would go up the line giving them names. One night, gathered around a campfire on Miss Winnis farm, he and the workers invited her tojoin them and help name the stop, which is the approximate locus of the present I-35 and Brighton exit, The men had already decided the stop should be named in Miss Winn's honor, and wished her approval. Several names beginning with Winn were suggested. One was Winn Forest, but when one man .. suggested Winnetonka, everyone immediately agreed this should be the name. It was in 1968 that the time arrived for naming the new high ... . U R.,-...n..., . ,. 111.14 ..: R - . , we z M A th .mu . , x., .. -L4 fd: -ig.zzkalfgiggzcyiami-,i.Izgifig,-V.-,gzgfMin,22ic',,- ,,gLg,5 '5,-:tv3.g.3:1,,: .5255-g:e.5gt3g5.-3.23131 -5:5 -Z ' - in M' 5'g'4' 3 '5 - 'F'H- 4'-J J . .-M Q ug-mf ug. um.: ,mg
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History school located in this area. Dr. R. Doolin selected a committee to submit names to the Board of Education. On the committee were Dr. Dan Kahler, principal of Oak Park High Schoolg Dr. Robert C. Howe principal of North Kansas City High Schoolg and Student Council Presidents .Jack Beers of OPHS and Mike Fain of NKCHS. The com- mittee, after being driven to the site of the new building by Dr. Doolin, nominated Royalview, Hilltop, Hilldale, and Winnetonka as appropriate names. The latter was favored because of the romantic Indian sound and the positive beginning of the name, WINnetonka. The Board announced in October of 1968 that the name of the third high school in the North Kansas City School District would be Winnetonka. Today, 1971, exemplifies the growth of the area north of the Missouri River. It is representative of visionary citizens interested in the finest educational facilities for its youth. The passage in November of 1967 ofa 6 million dollar multi- project bond issue made the school a reality. The building at 48th and Topping would be builtat an estimated cost of a 4.7 million dollars and would have a capacity for 2,000 students. Opening of the school in 1970 was delayed for strike-plagued labor felt differently. Oak Park School shared its building with Winnetonka on a split-shift schedule until March 1, 1971, when the move was made to the new building. Students from OPHS started classes before the sun rose, and WHS students were in classes after the sun set. Today, 1971, students come to school via school busses or drive their own cars, which many have learned to operate in a course called Driver Education. Where once there were cow paths and dirt roads, a modern highway system makes suburban living the way to go. Once one was able to hear the whistle of the interurban, but now one hears the whizzing of cars on the near by freeway. - In 1926, when the present North Kansas City High School building was dedicated, a teacher remarked, '6If this is a dream, I hope I never wake upf' Today, l97l,just forty five years later, in reflecting upon the progress of the educational facilities and opportunities offered by the North Kansas City School District to the present generation, this remark is still apropos.
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