Wichita High School East - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Wichita High School East, known locally as East, is a public, co-educational

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secondary school

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located near the center of Wichita

Wichita, Kansas

Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...

, Kansas

Kansas

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With a student population of 2,200, it is the largest high school in the state. Originally known as Wichita High School, East was the first of eight traditional public high schools to be built in USD 259, Wichita's Unified School District. In 1929, when Wichita North High School

Wichita North High School

Wichita North High School, known locally as North, is a fully accredited high school located in Wichita, Kansas, USA, serving students in grades 9-12. Wichita North was founded in 1929 on the site where the United States government sent Company 'A' of the 10th Division to the forks of the Arkansas...

was completed, the school's name was changed to Wichita High School East. The school's 44 acres (178,061.8 m²) campus and the building's Collegiate Gothic styling make it an urban landmark.

History

Wichita East traces its roots back to 1878, although the current building wasn't completed until 1923. Originally built on a campus shared with Roosevelt Junior High School, the high school's growing enrollment forced the conversion of the junior high school into a second wing of the high school. The junior high school and high school were joined by a third structure in 1989, a library and cafeteria that connects the second floor of the two buildings. The most recent renovations were completed in 2004, in a construction project that added a new gym

Gym

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nasium, additional science classrooms, and air conditioning to the building. The campus is also home to the Wichita Area Technical College

Wichita Area Technical College

Wichita Area Technical College is a technical college located in Wichita, Kansas. The school is coordinated by the [Kansas Board of Regents] and governed by the Sedgwick County Technical Training Authority Board . The college has been in operation since 1965 and currently offers associates...

Academics

Wichita High School East is regionally recognized for both academic and athletic success. The school offers both the Wichita Public Schools diploma

Diploma

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and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, a magnet diploma that attracts students from all around the Wichita metro area. East consistently leads Wichita-area schools in academic awards. The high school newspaper is The Messenger, a member of the High School National Ad Network.

East is known for its choral, band, orchestra, and drama programs. All of the music programs have won several awards for outstanding performance throughout the years. East has a large and successful debate

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and forensics

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squad and consistently qualifies students for the national tournament. In June 2007, East hosted the debate

Debate

portion of NFL Nationals

National Speech and Debate Tournament

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Athletics

Athletically, East is home to a consistently competitive basketball

Basketball

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program that has 8 state championships and the 1925 national championship to its credit. In addition, the Blue Aces football team has been increasingly successful in recent years due to leadership changes as well as two highly acclaimed and heavily recruited brothers, Arthur

Arthur Brown (American football)

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(Class of 2008) and Bryce Brown

Bryce Brown

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(Class of 2009). East athletics compete in the Greater Wichita Athletic League against the city's seven largest public high schools and two Catholic high schools. East is a 6A school, the largest size recognized by the Kansas High School Athletics Association. Since 1928, East High teams have been known as the Blue Aces, and the school is represented by its mascot

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, Max, a World War I

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flying ace

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with an oversized head and a pronounced cleft chin

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. The schools colors are Navy Blue and White with Columbia Blue as a third color.

National Championship

The 1925 boys basketball team won the National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament in Chicago

Chicago

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. The tournament was an attempt by Amos Alonzo Stagg

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to create a national high school champion which lasted from 1917 to 1930 before school administrators intervened to oppose the concept of a national tournament. Wichita defeated El Reno High School

El Reno High School

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27-6 in the final. Two members of the team Barry Dunham and Ross McBurney would be the core of the Wichita-based Henry Clothiers

Henry's (clothiers)

Henry's was a family-owned clothing retailer in Wichita, Kansas from 1911 until 1993.The store sponsored the Henry Clothiers basketball team which won three consecutive national Amateur Athletic Union championships in 1930-1932 at a time when colleges, corporate-sponsored teams, and private...

team that won consecutive national Amateur Athletic Union

Amateur Athletic Union

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titles in 1930, 1931 and 1932 at a time when corporate-sponsored teams and colleges competed in the same tournament.

State Championships

State Championships
Season	Sport	Number of Championships	Year
Fall	Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...	4	1950, 1951, 1982, 1983
Fall	Cross Country, Boys Cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...	7	1948, 1949, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1964
Winter	Swimming and Diving, Boys Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...	13	1931, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967
	Basketball, Boys Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...	8	1915, 1925, 1951, 1962, 1972, 1992, 2002, 2005
	Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...	10	1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950
Spring	Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...	6	1945, 1946, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1957
	Golf, Boys Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....	11	1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1965
	Outdoor Track and Field, Boys	27	1913, 1914, 1917, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974
	Indoor Track and Field, Boys	4	1957, 1965, 1966, 1967
Total		88

Notable alumni

Elmer Curtis "Curt" Kennedy (1946) – All-State Football Player, WWII Veteran, Winner of 13 major AAU Boxing Championships including the National AAU Championship in 1947, Fought Joe Louis in an exhibition match in K.C.. Owned by and ranked in the Top Ten Heavyweights of the IBC during the early 1950s. The Chickasaw Nation's most prolific Boxing Champion.
Daryl Spencer
Daryl Spencer
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(1946) – former MLB player, played an additional eight years in Japan The Baseball Biography Project
Darryl Starbird
Darryl Starbird
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(1951) – custom car and hot rod
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designer and builder
Jeffrey Farrell
Jeffrey Farrell
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(1954) – champion swimmer who went on to participate in the 1960 Olympics
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Philip Anschutz
Philip Anschutz
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(1957) – billionaire
Diane Bish
Diane Bish
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(1959) – organist, composer, PBS
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television hostess
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George Tiller
George Tiller
George Richard Tiller, MD was an American physician from Wichita, Kansas. He was the medical director of a clinic in Wichita, Women's Health Care Services, one of only three nationwide which provided abortions after the 21st week of pregnancy .Pro-life group Operation Rescue kept a daily vigil...

(1959) – physician
Robert Gates
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(1961) – Secretary of Defense, former CIA director and president of Texas A&M University
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Kelly Pete (1962) – Professional basketball and football Player
Jim Waskiewicz
Jim Waskiewicz
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(1962) – All-American Football Player at Wichita State and former player for the New York Jets
New York Jets
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Jamie Thompson
Jamie Thompson
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(1963) – All-American basketball player at Wichita State and amateur golf champion, professional basketball player for the Dallas Chapparals
Jim Ryun
Jim Ryun
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(1965) – a former US Representative from Kansas and a world-record mile runner
Charles "Chuck" Jones
Charles Edward Jones
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(1970) – an American Astronaut
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, was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11
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, the first plane that hit the World Trade Center
World Trade Center
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Clay Lacy
Clay Lacy
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(1971) – multiple world-record-holding air pilot and motion picture aerial coordinator
Kevin Kastning
Kevin Kastning
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(1978) – composer and recording artist for Greydisc Records
Kym Carter
Kym Carter
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(1982) – received 10th place in the heptathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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in Barcelona
Barcelona
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; won the bronze medal in the five-event pentathlon
Pentathlon
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, at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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Chris Wimmer (1989) – member of the U.S. Olympic baseball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics
1992 Summer Olympics
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in Barcelona
Barcelona
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, Spain
Spain
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Adrian Griffin
Adrian Griffin
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(1992) – assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Bucks
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Korleone Young
Korleone Young
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(1997) – former NBA player for the Detroit Pistons
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Stephanie Grissom (2000) – award winning math educator through VISTA program and Nobel recognized advocate for tolerance amongst Latin American youths
Taj Gray
Taj Gray
Taj Gray was a basketball player for the University of Oklahoma.-High school career:Gray attended Wichita High School East and as a senior led his team to the Kansas Class 6A state title, earning tournament MVP honors...

(2002) – professional basketball player
Arthur Brown
Arthur Brown (American football)
Arthur Brown, Jr. is an American football player. He currently attends Kansas State University, where he transferred after playing for the University of Miami until the 2009 season.-High school career:...

(2008) – Kansas State Wildcats
Kansas State Wildcats football
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linebacker
Bryce Brown
Bryce Brown
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(2009) – Kansas State Wildcats running back, 2009 Hall Trophy
Hall Trophy
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winner
Oliver Bradwell
Oliver Bradwell
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(2010) – American sprinter, gold medalist at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics
2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh
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, guitarist for The Eagles, also attended East before moving to Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
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External links

Official school website
USD 259, school district

State

Kansas State Department Of Education, KSDE
Kansas State High School Activities Association, KSHSAA

Map

Wichita School District High School Boundary Map, USD 259

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