Jim Brammer, 1942 – 2009
James Emmett Brammer was born March 21, 1942 in Wichita and died August 10, 2009 in Littleton, Colorado.
Jim graduated from Wichita High School East in the spring of 1960 and enrolled at Wichita State University in the following fall. He graduated from Georgetown Law School in the Washington D.C. area in 1970. After receiving his law degree, he served in the Army as a member of the Judge Advocate General’s Corp. Following his service in the Army, he was a lawyer in Washington D.C., Houston and Denver.
A Wichita Eagle photo of Jim in 1961 shows him working on a display of Hopi Indian Art at the City Library. According to the article, he was preparing a lecture to the Boy Scouts Explorer Post at College Hill Methodist Church on the Hopi culture during the 1500 years that the tribe lived on the high rock mesas of the Southwestern U.S. A member of the Explorer Post, Jim studied Indian culture with his fellow Explorers during the winters and traveled to the Southwest during the summers to see first-hand the areas and artifacts they had studied. The Post also sponsored an Indian Dance Club that was noted for the authenticity of its costumes and dances. Summer expeditions to the Southwest included attendance at the Inter-tribal Ceremonials at Gallup, NM. The Post leaders were Mr. and Mrs. Ward Vickery, parents of Kent Vickery, ’60, like his parents an enthusiastic collector of Southwest Indian art. Kent worked as an Anthropology professor who led excavations of Indian mounds in Ohio.
Jim Brammer participated in high school escapades chronicled by Dan Kinney in these two stories: “Breckenridge Bound” and “The Return of Santa.“
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