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plied arts. It is a 60-year-old, nonprofit organization supported by endowment, tuition, and subscription. Graduates from the Art Institute are recognized as coming from a top ranking school. The 750 students currently enrolled come from almost every state in the union and abroad. Many of them are taking practical work in fashion design in cooperation with Kansas City garment manufacturers.
The Art Institute is at present completing a number of new studios. Each unit has been carefully planned for its particular purpose, to provide maximum physical facilities for art education. The new buildings will house classes in commercial, advertising, and industrial art, as well as ceramics and sculpture. In addition, there will be a semi-circular "*lif class studio, the only one of its kind anywhere.
Not far from the Art Institute and the new cultural center is the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, also a privately supported institution. The present enrollment is over 1,600 students, 300 of whom are taking parttime or full college courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Music or Master of Music. The remainder are grade and high school children studying music, dance and speech; and special students of all ages taking musical subjects without intention of earning degrees.
The Conservatory offers degrees in piano, organ, cello, violin and other orchestral instruments, public school
take extension courses in academic subjects through the Kansas City Junior College.
The Conservatory chorus, directed by Stanley Deacon, and the training orchestra, under David Van Vactor, are outstanding musical groups. Dr. Wiktor Labunski is the director of the Conservatory.
Kansas City's primary educational force is the same as that of other communities, of course, the public school. In addition to the 79 elementary schools, there are eight high schools, four junior high schools, two junior colleges, two vocational trade schools, and 12 special schools. The total public school enrollment is over 60,000.
The public schools offer cooperative occupational education for students who wish to continue studying while receiving practical on-the-job training, and they hold special day and night elementary and high school courses for veterans and other adults.
There are 37 parochial schools in Kansas City, 12 Catholic high schools, and three Catholic colleges.
So Kansas City has developed a definite educational awareness. This is best demonstrated, perhaps, by the fact that the public library system is used more extensively than that of any of the 45 major cities in the United States.
It has developed a cultural awareness, too. Art, so long a vagrant, is no longer "on the bum in Kansas City." It is on the come in Kansas City now!
music and composition. Students may
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Little Willie rushed into the house which he said he had found in the street.
"But are you sure it was lost?" asked Papa.
"Of course it was lost,"" said Willie. "I saw the man looking for it!
and showed Papa a new penknife