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Standing in the lobby of Linger Hall, adorned with 131 years of St. John’s Military School memorabilia, Doug Randolph proudly pointed toward a big mural. “My office was right over there,” said the retired teacher, coach, athletic director and principal at the former private school. Its proud history is housed in the transformed building, known today at St. John’s Military School Historical Museum, on the west end of the North Salina campus. “They’ve got it fixed up really nice. It’s just beautiful,” Randolph said during a private tour Friday with the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 809, based in Salina. ....
Joan Benefiel named arts services coordinator for Salina Arts & Humanities The Salina Journal Brad Anderson, executive director of Salina Arts & Humanities, announced recently that Joan Benefiel has been selected as the agency’s new arts services coordinator. Benefiel will oversee the Smoky Hill River Festival’s juried art show, demo artists, outdoor art installations and the Art Patron Program. She also will serve as the primary liaison to the Community Art & Design Program and its advisory committee, and will serve as a regional public art and visual arts resource Benefiel, a Wichita native, most recently lived and worked in New York City and in Brooklyn, N.Y. In the last 17 years, Benefiel’s work as a sculptor has included commissions for the Vietnam Veteran’s War Monument in Eisenhower State Park in Long Island, N.Y., and to create a St. Ignatius Memorial for Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. ....