Photo Gallery One

Jeff Boerger (right), CEO of the Kansas Speedway and a KU alum, addresses members of KU's Wheat State Whirlwind faculty bus tour; May 21, 2004

KU's Wheat State whirlwind faculty bus tour on the Kansas Speedway.

Karen Seaberg (left), Chair of the Kansas Bicentennial Commission, visits with Bill Atkinson, Professor of Medicine, and Barbara Atkinson, Executive Dean / Vice Chancellor of the KUMC School of Medicine. Seaberg led the Atkinsons and other KU faculty and staff on a historical tour of Atchison on the first day of a week long tour of the State of Kansas.

KU faculty and staff learn about the history of the Buffalo Soldier Memorial from Kelvin Crowe, Assistant Command Historian at CAC and Fort Leavenworth, during the Wheat State Whirlwind tour venue at Fort Leavenworth.

Monroe Elementary School - National Park. Wheat State participants view multimedia presentations on segregation and the Brown vs Board of Education case. Deborah Dandridge - Spencer research librarian gives a history of the events of the Brown vs Board case.

Ritchie Ranch in the flint hills: Ranch Owner Scott Ritchie takes Wheat State tour participants on a hike through the Flint Hills prairie.

Kansas

Governor Sebelius meets with Wheat State participants in the capitol building.

Don Steeples discusses Curry's murals in the Capitol building in Topeka.

University of Kansas faculty and staff visit Dessin-Fournir Furniture Thursday, 5/27/04, in Plainville during the Wheat State Whirlwind 2004 Tour of Kansas.

University of Kansas faculty and staff visit a wind farm near Montezuma, Kansas, Wednesday, 5/26/04, during the Wheat State Whirlwind 2004 Tour of Kansas.

University of Kansas faculty and staff wave the wheat, in the wheat, Thursday, 5/27/04, at the farm of KU faculty Don Steeples near Palco, during the Wheat State Whirlwind 2004 Tour of Kansas.

University of Kansas faculty and staff visit the new Statue of Buffalo Bill Wednesday, 5/26/04, near Oakley during the Wheat State Whirlwind 2004 Tour of Kansas.

Arnold Schofield, historian and site administrator at the Mine Creek Battlefield, Pleasanton, adddresses the Wheat State Whirlwind group.

Participants listen to a presentatino on the Civil War and "Bleeding Kansas" during a tour of the Mine Creek Battlefield in Pleasanton.

Members of the Wheat State Whirlwind group tour the old fort in Fort Scott.

During a trip to Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, the group looks at a display of photographs taken by Gordon Parks, the world-renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, novelist, poet, and composer.

KU alumni and Wheat State Whirlwind participants sing the KU Alma Mater at a dinner in Dodge City.

Members view the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City from the press box during a tour led by Darren Cook, director of facility operations.

Richard Burke, president of Dodge City Community College, speaks to Wheat State Whirlwind participants on the campus.

A few participants pose under the welcome sign at Dodge City Community College.

More than 50 KU faculty and staff members, including Chancellor Robert Hemenway (4th from the right in middle row) traveling on the 2006 Wheat State Whirlwind tour stopped at Kansas State University campus Monday, May 22, for a brief tour and lunch with some KSU colleagues. From Manhatten the faculty traveled on to Marysville and Concordia for the day.

At Fort, Scott historian Arnold Scholfield talks about "Bleeding Kansas," the upheaval in the state before the Civil War.

Denise Stephens, vice provost for information services, studies a photo by Gordon Parks in the lobby of Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius discusses political issues with the group at the Kansas Capitol, Topeka, during the 2006 Wheat State Whirlwind.

Rick Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education, leads the group on a hike at Alcove Springs.

Chancellor Robert Hemenway (right), Provost Richard Lariviere (second from right), and the group visit the Landoll Corporation in Marysville.

The group enjoys a catered dinner on the stage of the renovated 1907 Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia.

At the Grassroots Art Center in Lucas, Garrick Skalski, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, views a sculpture of an automobile made from pull-tabs.

Ariana Wall, assistant professor of social welfare, poses between two statues at the Garden of Eden, Lucas.