Winnetonka High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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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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