Kansas
decade
1930s
1933
Bruce Conner is born in McPherson, Kansas.
1934
Billy Al Bengston is born in Dodge City, Kansas.
1936
Dennis Hopper is born in Dodge City, Kansas.
decade
1940s
1943
Terry Allen is born in Wichita, Kansas.
decade
1950s
1951
Bruce Conner begins undergraduate studies at the Municipal University of Wichita (now Wichita State University).
late 1950s 1956
Jim Nutt briefly attends college at the University of Kansas, then the University of Pennsylvania, then Washington University in St. Louis. He eventually settles on the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where he meets his future wife, Gladys Nilsson.
decade
1960s
1962
Bruce Conner and Jean Conner move back to Wichita, Kansas, and then to the Boston area, living briefly at Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s commune.
