1 Preparation of this data base was made possible in part by the financial support of the National Institute of Chiropractic Research 2950 North Seventh Street, Suite 200, Phoenix AZ 85014 USA (602) 224-0296; www.nicr.org Joseph C. Keating, Jr., Ph.D. filename: Kansas State CHRONO 04/04/21 6135 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix AZ 85012 USA word count: 6,110 (602) 264-3182; [email protected] Chronology of KANSAS STATE CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE, INC. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Sources which makes this Board one of the outstanding Boards in the United States. Dr. Anna M. Foy, the Sec.-Treas., as legislative counsel for Edwards, James D., DC, 6800 Westgate Blvd., Suite 117, Austin TX the Kansas Chiropractors for many years, has much inside knowledge 78745 [email protected]; 512-445-3366); F.I.C.C. on the actual legal situation. As an officer in both State and National Mirtz, Timothy A., D.C.; 101 West 10th, Box 76, Eudora KS 66025; Associations, she has added much to that wealth of understanding, ([email protected]) until now possibly no Board Secretary in America is more thoroughly ___________________________________________ conversant with our national problems and more capable of exercising Chronology intelligent leadership than Dr. Foy. PHOTOGRAPH -“Dr. H.O. Blanchat” (p. 3); includes photograph: Campus of the Kansas State Chiropractic College, date unknown 1938 (???): Associated Chiropractic Colleges of America News [1(2)], published by Carl S. Cleveland, Sr., D.C., Representative – 69th District, Wellington, Kansas includes (Cleveland papers, CCC/KC): Out in Kansas, the first state in the United States to have a -“Meet the Kansas Board” (p. 3); includes photograph: Chiropractic Law, we have learned to respect the ideas and strength of this “One Man Army,” Dr. H.O. Blanchat of Kansas. A fearless battler for Chiropractic, he asks no quarter and gives none. In one convention he is severely lambasted and criticized, only to be commended by those same critics at the next convention, who admit he was right. Sixty years young, a school teacher at the age of fifteen, his has been an active life. At the age of twenty-one, he was a County Chairman and passed the Bar Examination in 1908. A Chiropractor since 1914 (P.S.C. and Ph.D. Carver 1935), he has one of the finest businesses in the State of Kansas. He was a member of the Kansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners from 1929 to 1934 and has been a Representative in the Legislature since 1931, now serving his fourth continuous term. Dr. H.O. Blanchat has been on the Chiropractic Legislative Defense Lobby since 1928. He is a 100% Chiropractor, having conducted a “By Hand” Reading from left to right (Standing) Dr. F.J. Kolar, 320 N. Practice without deviation, for twenty-four years. We are looking Market, Wichita, Kansas; Dr. Hugh J. Mitchell, Vice Pres., 221.5 N. forward to future articles in the NEWS on Legislation and Legislative Penn. Ave., Independence, Kansas; (Sitting) Dr. Anna M. Foy, Sec.- Procedure by Dr. Blanchat. Treas., 718 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas; Dr. Grace Keiser, 1412 W. 8th St., Topeka, Kansas; Rev. F.O. Hesse, D.C., Pres., 1318 Polk St., 1942: Fred J. Carver, D.C. (brother of Willard) proposes Topeka, Kansas. formation of professionally owned school to Kansas DCs Kansas, the first state to have a Chiropractic Law, is very proud of (Beideman, 1995, p. 140); 174 founders contribute $20K to her law, her board and her record Chiropractically. Kansas has a open institution number of nationally known and respected leaders on her Board, 1940s: according to Metz (1965, pp. 72-7): with Dr. W.L. Bowersox, a former teacher and school superintendent, THE WICHITA COLLEGES as the dean. It was at the 1942 convention that the question first came up as to A course of four years would be taught, consisting of 4,000 hours, the disposition of the Colvin Chiropractic College, which that couple according to the legal requirements of this state. Diversified had maintained since the first licenses were procured in 1915. Both techniques would be taught, and every student was to spend 1,000 their vigor and the supply of students were running low, so the hours in clinic or give 2,000 adjustments before graduation. Tuition problem was turned over to the K.C.A. Board of Directors. The good was $35 per month. The Board, under the leadership of Dr. R.L. wartime wages and the draft was siphoning off the young men that Fredrich, had made a contract with Dr. Vinton Logan, of the St. might have been student prospects. Louis College, to teach their Basic Technique and Marlow Office The convention in 1943, at Wichita, on the advise of K.C.A. Procedure Course to all Kansas Chiropractors who paid for these, Board of Directors, decided not to buy the Colvin College. This while the students receiving their training free at the same classes. ambitious couple were natives of Jewell County, and had been school There were 28 students to begin with, and besides Dean teachers. He had graduated from Western Normal College, in Bowersox, teachers were Dora Jackson, teacher of Anatomy and Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as from the Kansas University law Physiology for 25 years already in the city, and Dr. Tina Carver, later department, in 1900. After their marriage in 1908, both studied Dr. Schreffler, of St. Louis, from the college which made many Chiropractic in the Darling and Baker Chiropractic College of chiropractors aware of foundational and gravity influences upon the Wichita. They next took post graduate work in the Carver spine. Chiropractic College of Oklahoma City, and finally bought out the No matter how well I do a thing today, Darling College, and continued training students in this new health there will be a better way of doing it tomorrow. preserving method until 1943. Mrs. Colvin was frequently taking The Logan Basic course began on March 21st, to run for a month. special courses in such other Colleges as Lindlahr’s College of A large class of 41 chiropractors, and students, also, took it in the new Natural Therapeutics, and in Chiropractic Colleges of Ross, in College location, with Vinton Logan present at various times. On Indiana, of Palmer’s, in Davenport, and the National of Chicago. April 8th, a meeting of all interested in the College was held there. In earlier years of the K.C.A., each of the Colvins was chosen as a Of the $20,000 desired, a total of $13,000 was pledged. A picture of Director of that organization. Then, Dr. J.L. was named to the Board the group was taken outside the building one Sunday afternoon in of Examiners for two three-year terms, after which Dr. Cora was April, 1945. appointed for two terms, also. As student numbers increased, the idea of chairs for Now and With his advancing years, and difficulties of wartime upon them, Posterity was conceived. For a donation of $8.00, the donor would they were ready to look for successors. Five years previously, Dr. have his name placed on the chairback. About a dozen were so Fred Carver, in 1938, had published a book on his posture slant on provided by February, 1946. The first graduation class, a chiropractic problems. He had given lectures thereon in several combination of the years 1944 and 1945, was held on December 20, states, and written a series of letters to those chiropractors interested 1945, with Dr. Fallot, the College president, presenting the diplomas. in his studies of spinal movement. He was a younger brother of By February the student body had grown to almost 50, and Dr. Gerald Willard, who was also a writer of text books for his school, and now Werder, from Logan College, took the place of Dr. Shreffler. The died at the ripe age of 80, in 1944. Founders numbered over 100, and the bond holders almost as many, However, Fred was not willing to push such a project. He moved besides the many gifts in cash and equipment received. that the chiropractors of the state and surrounding area work toward a Dr. Werder had an interesting record to give. Born in Buffalo, professionally owned school, but entirely separate from the State N.Y., in 1917, he was introduced to Chiropractic in the same manner Association, and this motion carried. as many another, via experience. When he was 18, he received his As it seemed desirable to keep a Chiropractic College existing first adjustment. He described it as follows: “I had been in bed for there, this idea was vigorously promoted by the Wichita doctors. three days with a temperature of 104. The family physician diagnosed They sought for help from graduates of any school, to obtain enough my case as infantile paralysis. My mother, who had taken money through sale of bonds to buy an easily accessible location in adjustments, called her chiropractor about 11 p.m. Two hours after the city. Such a place was for sale at 629 N. Broadway, and Dr. Joe my adjustment, I broke out in a profuse perspiration that my bed Fallot, that pioneer chiropractor already in practice over 30 years, clothes had to be changed. The next morning my temperature was made arrangements to secure the property till an organization could normal, and three days later I was walking around. I took adjustments be completed. The lots had plenty parking space, or room to build for from then on and am still thoroughly sold on chiropractic.” expansion in later years. It was valued at $22,000, and had been the He had gone to St.