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Archive for category: Educators Who Influenced Us
June 29, 1924 – August 4, 2015 Coach at Wichita East High School, 1956-1964 “Bid me run, and I...
Cy Sickles – East’s Explosive, Irrepressible Basketball Coach
East High, Educators Who Influenced UsCoach Sickles’ career at East began in 1951 as an assistant basketball coach, a position he held until 1956. ...
Coach Bob Timmons I think it is safe to say that Bob Timmons had a pervasive influence on a...
Barbara Hammond, Interview with Elfrieda Shellenberger
Educators Who Influenced Us, Times of Our LivesBarb Hammond with Elfrieda Shellenberger After discovering last fall that Elfrieda Shellenberger is alive at age 101 and living...
Skip Granger Two of my favorite teachers at Wichita High School East were very different from each other. I...
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