Ensor Story Told By Marty, Howard
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When the Olathe Historical Society met at the Heritage Center just east of historic Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm the evening of Thursday, January 21, both club Secretary-Treasurer Marty Peters, KEØPEZ, and Howard Cripe, NØAZ, were there and ready to talk and talk some more about amateur radio pioneer Marshall Ensor, W9BSP, and his sister Loretta, W9UA, as long as they had an audience or questions coming their way.
Marty appeared first before the 20 or so individuals seated in front of him and showed them how a key can be used to send Morse code, then he turned the floor over to Howard, who spoke at length about what visitors to Ensor Park and Museum will see when they drop by the place during the four months of the year in which it is open to the public.
Update on Marshall Ensor Field
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I hope some of you were able to read the story I wrote back in October titled "Are You Ready for Some Football … History?" Well, temporarily overcome by a feeling of nostalgia, I decided right around that same time to drive up to Olathe North High School, formerly Olathe High School, to have another look at the Marshall Ensor Field sign I remembered from my high school days and, lo and behold, the sign wasn't there.
Concerned by what I had seen (or in this case hadn't seen), I contacted one of the administrators with the Olathe school system by mail, and when I didn't hear anything back from him in a timely manner, I sent the Board of Education a letter. That got an immediate response.
Well done, W0HXS!!!
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Ensor volunteer then manager Larry Woodworth gets his due. Club member and former Ensor Park and Museum manager Larry Woodworth, W0HXS, was thrice honored the morning of Saturday, Oct. 24 when club Secretary-Treasurer Marty Peters, KE0PEZ, dropped by the Overland Park home Larry shares with his wife Pat bearing not one, not two, but three gifts.