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Beginning in 1961, he served as a staff psychiatrist of the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. In March 1964, he also became co-director of the Menninger Foundation's Division of School Mental Health. [2] He became a nationally recognized expert on psychiatric issues relating to suicide [4] stress, [5] and personal satisfaction ...
Writers from Topeka, Kansas (46 P) Pages in category "People from Topeka, Kansas" The following 93 pages are in this category, out of 93 total.
Burlingame, Kansas – Anson Burlingame (abolitionist, legislator, diplomat) [91] Burlington, 5 places in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin – Burling family (This family owned the land upon which the city in Vermont was built. The other cities derive their name from the Vermont one).
Ward, 25, of Topeka, was arrested Sept. 16 after officers attempting to find him went to the 2900 block of S.W. Oakley Avenue, where he initially fled but was subsequently arrested, said Rosie ...
William Wallace Bunten (April 5, 1930 – February 29, 2020) was an American politician from Kansas. He served as mayor of Topeka, Kansas, having been elected to a four-year term in 2005 and re-elected in 2009. Before being elected mayor, he served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1963 to 1991 and in the Kansas Senate from 2003 to ...
The Ward-Meade house is considered the first mansion built in Topeka. Construction began in 1870, the same year as the first wing of the Statehouse. Anthony Ward was a wheelwright who held the sand rights on the Kansas River near his house. He sold sand to the builders of Topeka and made wheels for wagons that carried settlers to California.
The bridge connects downtown Topeka to North Topeka. It is open to traffic. The North Kansas Avenue Bridge opened in 1967. It replaced the Melan Arch Bridge, which had collapsed two years prior on July 2, 1965, killing one motorist. [1] [2] The Melan Arch Bridge opened in 1898 and was the only bridge to North Topeka until 1938. [1] [3]
In 2006, WIBW became the Topeka outlet for Kansas Jayhawks football and men's basketball games. On June 14, 2014, the Capital-Journal reported that WIBW would end its pact with the University of Kansas. The station renewed its University of Kansas affiliation in 2016, although the Jayhawks broadcasts subsequently moved to KMAJ and KWIC-FM. [23]