Ted Sheahon

Sheahon was a native of Salina who caught the Boeing Bombers from 1946 to 1949. 

He had an outstanding career in theater management, managing Wichita’s Orpheum and Palace theaters from 1941 to 1950.  He later owned a construction firm and sat on the Historical Committee to Restore the Orpheum. 

He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. WSU’s library has a collection of Sheahon’s documents in its Special Collections Department. He died in 1994.