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. "Road Warrior" Once Traveled Route 66
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While the amateur radio community knows Marshall Ensor, W9BSP, as a pioneer in the field who was instrumental in introducing many to a hobby that ultimately enabled them to acquire marketable skills, he was first and foremost a teacher and, specifically, an instructor in the manual arts.
In the 1920s, '30s and '40s, if a teacher in the Midwest was going to get away for a vacation of any length, he or she had to take that much-desired "California trip" during the summer months when school wasn't in session.