Upper School: 2nd Generation Spartans

By: Lisa Schooler  Jack Guthrie '13 son of Lizanne Guthrie '78 remarked that he is named after Jack Chesky '72 whose life was taken in a tragic car accident.  Sage Farha '13, daughter of Cliff Farha '86 and Laura Madison Farha '83, talked about her dad erasing all his detentions off of Mrs. Hill's computer! Houston, Hunter, and Hayley Cusick, sons and daughter of Trey Cusick '89 and Laura Brim Cusick '88, talk about a time when their parents renamed their economics teacher, Doug Glenn, to Goud Nnelg (Doug Glenn backwards).  They had many stories about this teacher, starting with the time they took the tires off his car to to the time Mr. Glenn was their chaperone on their senior trip.  This time they ambushed him at night in his hotel room, jumped on his bed, and sprayed him with shaving cream! Grace and Salem Cusick, daughter and son of Nick Cusick '88, reported that their father Nick was standing in the hallway with Brian Drevets '81 and, on a $20 bet, he said, "What would you do if...?" Then Nick yanked his tie so hard, it had to be cut off to remove it!

Two Generations of Spartan Teachers

 By:  Lisa Schooler

There is a lot of history here or should I say a lot of math ... Devon Rothwell graduated from Wichita Collegiate in 1971 with a class of twelve students. She returned to WCS twenty years later as a 7^thgrade math teacher.  Now her son Johnny, who also graduated from WCS is 2002, has returned as Collegiate's 8^th grade math teacher.

I asked Devon what it was like to have Johnny as a student.  She replied that not only did she have Johnny but also a niece and a nephew, Patrick and Vivian Ritchie, in the same class.  She said Johnny usually behaved in her classroom but does recall that he was the first one to receive a Saturday detention from her for whiting out the numbers on another students locker dial. 

WCS Spring Connection

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WCS Alumnae Wins Newbery Award for 1st Novel!

By: Susie Steed, WCS Director of Admissions & Communications

Clare Vanderpool, a member of the WCS Class of 1983, has just received exciting news!  Not only did she win the prestigious John Newbery Medal for children’s literature, she did it with her very first novel, Moon over Manifest. The John Newbery Award is presented each year by the American Library Association to the author who has made the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. We are so proud of Clare. Please look for more information about Clare and this prestigious honor in the upcoming Connection magazine! Claire will be visiting campus on February 4th to speak with our WCS students and faculty.

WCS Alumni Spotlight: Tracy Seeley

Tracy Seeley's ('74) memoir My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas will be published in March, 2011.  Her book is part of the "American Lives Series," Editor Tobias Wolff, from the University of Nebraska Press.  In June and July, the My Ruby Slippers road show gets underway as she and her husband, filmmaker Frederick Marx, launch a 12 state book tour throughout the west.  Along the way, Tracy will be giving talks and readings, and at night, Frederick will screen movies along the side of their trailer.  They also plan to film their trip, interviewing folks along the way, taking the pulse of American life.  They'll be in Wichita in July!  


For tour details and other information, see Tracy's website: http://tracyseeley.com.

Holiday Greetings from WCS!

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WCS Students Perform in MTYP's RENT

By: Laura Cusick, '88

Congratulations to seven WCS students who auditioned and were selected to perform in RENT, produced by Music Theater for Young People of Kansas. The WCS Student Cast members are as follows:

• Connor Bourland: Mark Cohen
• Cooper Rowe: Roger Davis
• Anna Cooper: Mimi Marquez
• India Cohlmia: Understudy for Joanne Jefferson, Blanket Person 
• Lindsey Wells: Understudy for Maureen Johnson, Sue, Seasons of Love Soloist
• Parker Smitherman: The Man
• Jonathan Dennill: Cop 2
• Sophie Beren, Jonathan Dennill, Parker Smitherman: Chorus

RENT - School Edition

*for Mature Audiences

RENT - SCHOOL EDITION follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village plagued by AIDS and the ever-present question of how to pay rent. 

Shows December 17-19, 2010

Fri - Dec 17 - 7:30 pm

Sat - Dec 18 - 2:30, 7:30 pm

Sun - Dec 19 - 2:30


Mary Jane Teall Theater, Century II
$12 Adults. $10 Students & Groups of 10