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Summer 2005 An amazing house, an amazing man By Jennifer Byrd, graduate student here was a little singing and a whole lot of fun as a group of 25 faculty, staff, supporters and T students from the School of Journalism boarded a charter bus to attend the opening dedication of the William Allen White House State Historic Site on May 14 in Emporia, Kan. White, the namesake of the J-School, was a famous journalist who was editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette from 1895 until his death in 1944. He won two Pulitzer Prize awards, one for his 1922 editorial “To an Anxious Friend” and one for his autobiography published two years after his death in 1946. Ann Brill, dean of the School of Journalism, said the trip was meant to be a fun way for the school to recognize White. “I think it’s important to let the people in the state know that we recognize our roots, that we’re still connected very strongly to Kansas journalism,” Brill said. “And I thought it could be fun for the faculty, staff and students to go and see. It’s a pretty amazing house.” The house, also known as “Red Rocks,” after the red sandstone brought in from Colorado used in its construction, was built circa 1889. The White family began renting the home in 1899 and purchased it in 1901. The house remained in the family until 2001, when William Allen White’s granddaughter, Barbara, and her husband, David Walker, donated it to the Kansas State Historical Society.
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