On June 14, 1937, Mayor T. Walker Weaver announced the winning design and adopted it as the official flag of Wichita. The next step: making it visually known. Seamstress Mary J. Harper, the Betsy Ross of Wichita, was selected to stitch together the complicated new flag design. She took one day to complete the first Wichita flag and ended up sewing six in total for the city.
