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Winfield High School (Kansas)
Winfield High School (WHS), previously Winfield Junior-Senior High School,Buller, Beverly Olson. ''Winfield''. Arcadia Publishing, March 16, 2015. , 9781439650417. p53 is a senior high school in Winfield, Kansas. It is a part of Winfield Unified School District 465. The school first opened prior to the start of the 20th Century in the former Central School, which received an addition in 1880. A new building, with three stories,Buller, Beverly Olson. ''Winfield''. Arcadia Publishing, March 16, 2015. , 9781439650417. p52 and having an auditorium and gymnasium, opened in 1910; this facility, made of brick, was colored red. The new building began hosting assemblies of area schools and allowed for increased programming. In 1911 the school newspaper, ''The Oracle'', debuted. A bond proposal for an addition known as a "manual high school" building passed in 1916. In 1951 an industrial arts building opened to the west of the 1910 facility. In 1971 a new facility opened. Extracurricular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadia Publishing
Arcadia Publishing is an American publisher of neighborhood, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.(analysis of the successful ''Images of America'' series). Arcadia Publishing also runs the History Press, which publishes text-driven books on American history and folklore. History It was founded in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1993 by United Kingdom-based Tempus Publishing, but became independent after being acquired by its CEO in 2004. The corporate office is in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. It has a catalog of more than 12,000 titles, and italong with its subsidiary, The History Presspublishes 900 new titles every year. Its formula for regional publishing is to use local writers or historians to write about their community using 180 to 240 black-and-white photographs with captions and introductory paragraphs in a 128 page book. The ''Images of America'' series is the company's largest product line. Other series include ''Images of Rail, Images of Spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winfield, Kansas
Winfield is a city and county seat of Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is situated along the Walnut River in South Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 11,777. It is home to Southwestern College. History 19th century Winfield was founded in 1870. It was named for Rev. Winfield Scott, who promised to build the town a church in exchange for the naming rights. The first post office at Winfield was established in May, 1870. In 1873, Winfield incorporated as a city. Railroads Railroads reached Winfield in the late 1870s, and finished at Arkansas City in 1881.''Marion County Kansas : Past and Present''; Sondra Van Meter; MB Publishing House; LCCN 72-92041; 344 pages; 1972. Eventually, a total of five railroads passed through Winfield. State mental hospital In 1881, the State of Kansas established the Kansas State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, temporarily established at Lawrence, but moved to Winfield in 1887/1888, where it se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winfield Unified School District 465
Winfield USD 465 is a public unified school district headquartered in Winfield, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Winfield, Akron, Floral, Hackney, New Salem, Tisdale, and nearby rural areas. Schools The school district operates the following schools: Secondary: * Winfield High School * Winfield Middle School Primary: * Country View Elementary School * Irving Elementary School ** It was built in 1893 for Winfield's north ward. Its current building opened in 1963.Buller, Beverly Olson. ''Winfield''. Arcadia Publishing, March 16, 2015. , 9781439650417. p56 * Lowell Elementary School ** It was built in 1893 for Winfield's south ward. Its current building opened in 1958. * Whittier Elementary School ** It opened in 1955 to serve areas along Mound Street.Buller, Beverly Olson. ''Winfield''. Arcadia Publishing, March 16, 2015. , 9781439650417. p57 Preschool: * Early Learning Center Former schools: * Byrant Elementary School opened in 1884, serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public High Schools In Kansas
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from '' populus'', to the English word 'populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
