Kenneth Thompson taught elementary and junior high music in the
Wichita schools and was director of bands and orchestras at
Wichita East High School for eighteen years. He also served the
Wichita schools as coordinator of instrumental music. He was a
founding member of the KMEA and served as business manager
for the Kansas Music Review for many years. He was state
orchestra chair from 1959 to 1961 when the first KMEA festival
groups were organized.