The former football stadium at Kansas State University still stands. It was always meant to be a memorial to the school’s World War I dead, totaling 48 in all. On September 21st, it will be formally dedicated as such. http://themercury.com/articles/k-state-to-formally-dedicate-memorial-stadium-to-wwi-soldiers
Blair Tarr is the Museum Curator of the Kansas State Historical Society. He oversees the three-dimensional collections of the Society, but has special interests in the Civil War, Wichita-made Valentine diners, and Leavenworth's Abernathy Furniture. In the last few years he has also done a lot of cramming on The Great War.
He is a past president of the Kansas Museums Association and the Civil War Round Tables of both Kansas City and Eastern Kansas. He is currently a board member of the Heritage League of Greater Kansas City.
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