2009 Officers:

• Carlton Scroggins, President
• Chris Schultz, President-Elect
• Joan Wagnon, Secretary
• Shaun Powers, Treasurer

2009 Trustees:

2009 LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NEWS

• Curtis' chair on display in D.C. —Topeka Capital-Journal, with photos,
  12/6/2009
• Big Cottonwood Down —impressive tree at 18th & Collins meets its end
• Constitution Hall celebrates 154 years —Topeka Capital-Journal,
  by Don Lambert, 10/23/2009
• Original house still in good shape —Topeka Capital-Journal,
  by Mike Hall 10/19/2009
• Fire destroys Civil War era home —Topeka Capital-Journal,
  by Tim Hrenchir, 10/17/2009
• Ramblers, Trojans event wrap-up
• Ramblers, Trojans talk basketball —Topeka Capital-Journal,
  by Steve Fry, 10/16/2009
• Photos: Ramblers & Trojans Panel —Topeka Capital-Journal, 10/16/2009
• '49 basketball teams segregated
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Steve Fry, 10/11/2009
• "Let us broaden horizons" —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Glenda Overstreet, 10/11/2009
• Topeka Cemetery celebrates 150 years
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Adrielle Harvey, 10/41/2009
• Topeka's Little Sister of the Statue of Liberty statue
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Cory Jones, 9/17/2009
• Porubsky's Transcendent Deli video trailer —8/9/2009
• Read on-line about Topeka's Constitution Hall.
  —2/22/2009
• Topeka Cemetery marks 150th anniversary
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Jan Biles, 2/2/2009

2009 PRESERVATION NEWS

• Historic home recovers after fire —WIBW TV video segment
• Original house still in good shape —Topeka Capital-Journal,
  by Mike Hall 10/19/2009
• Fire destroys Civil War era home —Topeka Capital-Journal,
  by Tim Hrenchir, 10/17/2009
• "Artists 'rethink' image of Topeka"
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Jan Biles, 9/16/2009
• Preservation levy suggested
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Lisa Sandmeyer, 9/.16/2009
• THS chandeliers return home to cafeteria
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, by Tamari Quinn, 8/6/2009
• Kansas Historic Preservation Conference Site Tour, 6/10/2009
• 2009 SCHS & Topeka Landmarks Commission Historical Preservation Awards —wrap-up
• Preserving East Hills Baptist Church, Ted Mize's cause
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 3/27/2009
• Despite opposition, council approves Sumner purchase
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 2/4/2009
• Historic Sumner School finally sold
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 1/23/2009

Our 2008 SCHS Bulletin, Vol. 83, Dec. 2008, Bungalow Homes for the Nation: The L.F. Garlinghouse Co. of Topeka, was edited by Max Movosvitz (formerly of Topeka, now of Jacksonville, FL), with trustee Jeanne Mithen as assistant editor. The work covers home designed and built by the Garlinghouse Company of Topeka and mail order catalogs of bungalow home floorplans and detailing as published by the Topeka company 1916-1986.
    Additional copies of this Bulletin are available, $20. each + tax, in Topeka at the Kansas State Historical Society Gift Shop, Lloyd Zimmer's Books and Maps, and the TSCPL Booktique ($20 library price includes tax). In Jacksonville, FL, the book may be purchased at The Book Nook. Or...prepay by mail @ $25. including shipping from SCHS.

2008 Annual Meeting Wrap-up — Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008
2008 Ritchie Open House — Saturdays, November, 2008
2008 On the Path to Freedom Celebration — July 25, 2008
2008 Preservation Awards — Sunday, May. 4, 2008
Mary Ritchie Jarboe Memorial Service — April 26, 2008

2008 Officers:

• Carlton Scroggins, President
• Michael Bradley, Vice President
• Kathryn Hosfelt, Secretary
• Shaun Powers, Treasurer
• Anne Spiess, Past President

2008 Trustees:

• County buildings hold place in history: County home to 61 properties on national list —Topeka Capital-Journal 12/28/2008
• Who's Buried in Topeka's Tombs? —TK Magazine, Sept./Oct. '08
• Rev. Charles Parham: Revival of recognition
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 8/16/2008
  See also: Sheldon contemporary behind birth
  of Pentecostal movement
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 3/18/2000
  ...and Honoring prophets in their hometown
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 12/30/2000
• "On the Path to Freedom" heritage program
  —See wrap-up, with photos, July 25 & 26, 2008
• Constitution Hall on Nat'l Register of Historic Places
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 7/22/2008
• A Brief History of Gage Park
  —July/Aug. '08, TK Magazine
• 3rd "Old Ironsides" spar added at THS
  —Topeka Capital Journal, 7/16/2008
• Fiesta Mexicana, 75 Yrs.:
  History, photos & plans for 2008 event
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, July 2008
• Grant Cusinberry memorial
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 7/9/2008
• Charles M. Sheldon memory dims
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 7/5/2008
• 100th Anniversary of the Hupmobile
• Wisman receives Litwin Service Award
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 6/28/2008
• Happy 100th Birthday, Carousel in the Park
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 5/6/2008
• Bowker House, built in 1866
  —Topeka Capital-Journal, 2/26/2008
• DAR honors city's first cabin
  —Topeka C-J, 2/17/2008
• Old Ironside's program coming to Topeka
  —Topeka C-J, 1/22/2008

2008 PRESERVATION NEWS

• Sumner School Virtual Tour
• Dillon House Virtual Tour
• Putting Topeka on the map --CJ Online, 8-28-2008
  It took 12 months, but Topeka and several surrounding communities
  in northeast Kansas [including Silver Lake] have been added to what
  is seemingly the future of online mapping.
• Cemetery budget supplimented --CJ Online, 8-27-2008
• Bethany Place: Court sets aside Council's decision,
  --PreservationNation, July 25, 2008
• Constitution Hall on Nat'l Register of Historic Places,
  --CJ Online,7-22-2008
• Sumner School named to Nat'l Trust endangered list
  --CJ Online, 5-20-2008
• 2008 Historic Preservation Awards 5-4-2008
• Tower Building to be saved from demolition, Apr. 14, 2008
• Mary Evelyn Ritchie Jarboe obit, 2-10-2008
• Ritchie House gets check for $100,000, 1-30-2008

    SCHS Bulletin, Vol. 82, Sept. 2007, Before Kansas Bled, covers the earliest history of Shawnee County...from the lay of the land before settlement, the indigenous Kansa tribe, other Indian tribes being moved westward into Kansas Territory, arrival of Chief Abram B. Burnett, and the eventual encroachment of white settlers.
    Additional copies of this Bulletin are available, $25. each, at the Kansas State Historical Society Store and at Lloyd Zimmer's Books and Maps.

St. Francis Hospital of Topeka purchased property on Menninger Hill in Topeka. Concern over fate of the historic Tower Building, once the Security Benefit Association Hospital, has been put to rest. St. Francis Chief Executive Officer Mike Schrader voiced plans to tear down all buildings except the clock tower during a three-month demolition process in Spring, 2008. Read article in the Topeka Capital-Journal, Apr. 14, 2008. —4/17/2008

Society Newsletters

2007 Business in review
2007 Annual Meeting Wrap-up — Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007
2007 Preservation Awards — Sunday, May. 6, 2007

2007 Officers:

• Anne Spiess, President
• Betty Paxson, Vice President
• Betty Bomar, Secretary
• Matt Tomlinson, Treasurer

2007 Trustees:

2007 SCHS CALENDAR
Board meetings are held every third Tuesday of the month at 4 PM at the Topeka and Shawnee County Library, 4 pm.
Read past Executive Committee Minutes (includes 2006 and after)

2007 LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NEWS

• 50,000 Visitor to Capitol dome —KSHS news release, 11/13/207
• Freedom Frontier — Joining forces —Topeka C-J, 7/25/207
• Freedom's Frontier funding needed —Topeka C-J, 7/20/2007
• Lucinda Todd Education Center Dedicated —Topeka C-J, 5/18/2007
• Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area —Topeka C-J, 4/9/2007

2007 PRESERVATION NEWS

The Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review has nominated eight properties to the Register of Historic Kansas Places. Among sites noted were two Topeka sites. —11/2/2007

• Historic Sites Board of Review
  announces nominations —KSHS, 12/14/2007
• Eleven Kansas Humanities Grants Awarded
  —KHC news release, 12/3/2007
• Topeka Properties Most Endangered Menniger Tower & Sisters of Bethany added to Historic Places list —Topeka C-J, 11/2/2007
• Plans for a Sumner Charter School —Topeka C-J, 10/29/2007
• Houses from Hell City code violation & abandoned buildings —49ABCnews, 9/14/2007
• Removal of trees raises ire —Topeka C-J, 8/30/2007
• Group pulls out of Sumner deal —Topeka C-J, 8/9/2007
• Save the Tower On-line Petition —Tower Coalition
• Save the Menninger Tower Building —Preservation Trust
• Tower Building's fate remains in question —Topeka C-J, 3/15/2007

Ritchie House receives Landmark designation!
Bill Wagnon is pleased to report that the Topeka City Council
voted 9-0 to approve the Landmark designation for the Historic Ritchie
House on August 15, 2006. Read details.

Society Newsletters

2006 Business in review

2006 Annual Meeting Wrap-up — Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006

2006 Executive Committee:

• Doug Jones, 2006 President
• Tuck Duncan, Immediate Past President
• Anne Spiess, 2005 President-Elect
• Betty Bomar, 2006 Secretary
• Matt Tomlinson, 2006 Treasurer
• Carol Yoho, Bill Wagnon, Doug Wallace, At Large Members
• Dianna Hillbebert, 2006 Membership Secretary

2006 Trustees:

2006 SCHS CALENDAR

2006 LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NEWS

• Topeka incident built free-state support Lawrence J-W, 7-5--2006
• Dedication:Topeka's Constitution Hall murals C-J Online, 6-28--2006
• 50th anniversary of system of interstate highways C-J Online, 6-24--2006
• Crane family in control of cemetery until 1959 C-J Online, 4-2--2006
• Topeka Cemetery superintendent carries on tradition
  C-J Online, 4-2--2006
• Downtown developer reaches century mark C-J Online, 2-5-2006
• Charles Curtis & the ERA C-J Online, 1-22-2006

2006 PRESERVATION NEWS

• Ritchie House featured in AP article, 5-30-2006
• SCHS Preservation Awards listing
• Historical Preservation Series, May 2006
• Dillion House nominated for National Historic Preservation
• Ritchie House designated as local Historic Landmark

Commemoration:
The 150th Anniversary
of the Dispersion of the
Free State Topeka Legislature
 
Monday, July 3, 2006
Topeka/Shawnee County
Public Library
Special remarks by Terry Bullock
Dedication of the Constitution Hall Mural
Sponsored by The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library and the Friends of the Free State Capitol.
—see photos from these events

Lucinda Todd Education Center
   On November 16, 2006 at 6:30pm, a resolution was signed, at the weekly USD 501 School Board Meeting, renaming the Hope Street Academy as the Lucinda Todd Education Center. The new Lucinda Todd Education Center was dedicated on May 17, 2007. 
   Lucinda Todd was the only black Topeka Educator who was an activist in the local Chapter of the NAACP before and during the Brown case. She was the only black Topeka Educator who was a plaintiff in the case. Her activism paved the way for all former black educators whose names appear on several other Topeka Schools. Read: Lucinda Todd Education Center Dedicated —Topeka C-J, 5/18/2007

2005 Business in review

2005 Annual Meeting Wrap-up — Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005

2005 Executive Committee:

• Doug Jones, President
• Tuck Duncan, Immediate Past President
• Not yet identified, President-Elect
• Marcia C. Saville, Secretary
• Matt Tomlinson, Treasurer
• Carol Yoho, Bill Wagnon, Doug Wallace, At Large Members
• Dianna Hillbebert, Membership Secretary

2005 Committee Chairs:

• Tuck Duncan, Nominating Committee
• Dorothy Hill, Membership Committee
• Doug Wallace, Publications Committee
• Betty Paxson, Programs Committee
• Unfilled, Preservation Committee
• Bill Wagnon, Ritchie Project Committee
• Tuck Duncan, Ross Row House Committee
• Unfilled, Public Relations Committe

3/2005 Trustee Meeting
was held March 15, Hicks Block Apartments
See a photo essay on Hicks block

• Met at 4 pm at the Hicks Block Apartments at 600 SW 6th St.  for a tour.  Apartments was sold at auction on March 20. 
• After the tour, the trustees went to President Doug Jone's house at 821 Western for a brief business meeting.

2005 Local History in the News

• Poet Ronald Johnson honored C-J Online, 5-26-2005
• Aaron Douglas Mural dedicated C-J Online, 5-24-2005
  See also: photo essay
• Bridge named for Lucinda Todd C-J Online, 5-17-2005
• Hicks Block Apartments C-J Online, 3-6-2005

2004 Business in review

2004 Executive Committee:

• R.E. “Tuck” Duncan, President
• Doug Jones , President-Elect
• Marcia C. Saville, Secretary
• Matt Tomlinson, Treasurer

2004 Trustees:

2004 Local History in the News

• Quilt marks city sesquicentennial C-J Online, 12-4-2004
• Kansas Authors Club Historical Calendar founded, Topeka 1904
• Hats Off to Kansas Authors! 2004 Centennial Celebration
• Descendants preserving settler's heritage C-J Online, 10-2-2004
• Ritchie family plants tree C-J Online, 10-3-2004
• Workers prepare visitors center C-J Online, 10-3-2004
• Reconstructing History, C-J Online, 7-20-2004
• Boy Scout photos of reconstruction, Topeka Founders' Cabin
• Topeka High gets replacement USS Constitution Spar
  C-J Online, 2-21-2004

Sesquicentennial, Embracing Our Heritage — May 3, 2004

2003 Local History in the News

• Topeka sesquicentennial C-J Online, 12-3-2003
• A history of Topeka C-J Online, Visitors Guide

2003 Annual Meeting: Sunday, Dec. 7, 2003 Fire Station #2 KS Trial Lawyers Association 719 Van Buren

80th Bulletin of the Shawnee County Historical Society, Holliday Park: Heart and Spirit of the City