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FEATURES

Career 2.0 20 Starting over on the career ladder is never easy—especially during periods of deep recession and high unemployment. But as the experiences of four Jayhawks show, even hard times can be good times to find the work you love.

BY JENNIFER LAWLER

Tastes of Home 30 Student gardeners at Stouffer Place Apartments discover that the fruits of their labors include not only food, but also friendship.

BY TERRY ROMBECK

COVER The Gloom of Doom 24 Predictions that Dec. 21, 2012, will mark the end of the world have no foundation in Maya culture, says KU anthropologist John Hoopes—but that doesn’t mean these prophecies of Armageddon are harmless.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Cover illustration by Susan Younger

30 Volume 108, No. 4, 2010 ented couple and so very sharp! And, of course, it’s a wonderful love story! I am Lift the Chorus still a romantic, I guess. Another piece that took my eye was the flags for each American killed in Iraq and Afghanistan [On the Boulevard]. First-class Mayo Fact check How neat for those two young men to do that. I am so disappointed that I did not Que bueno! Ienjoyed the story “Doña Congratulations to Colleen McCain know anything about their tribute. I Mayo” [issue No. 3] detailing the work Nelson, j’97, on winning the Pulitzer would have loved to see it. I thank them Liliana Mayo has done for Peruvian spe- Prize. Ienjoyed reading Chris Lazzarino’s for their great efforts. cial needs children. article about Nelson’s journalistic career My patriotism goes back to World We got your maga- at KU and the Dallas Morning News and War II. I used to know the words to all zine the day after we about her life with her husband, Eric the military marches, and still get teary- returned from our Nelson, j’93. eyed when I hear them. I remember own trip to Lima, Iwould like to clarify, however, that standing in line every Thursday at Cord- Peru. My husband the listing of my father, Alvin Scott ley School when we brought our dimes John, daughter McCoy, c’25, in the accompanying sec- to paste in our U.S. Savings Bond books. Kristin Field, c’00, tion “Previous Pulitzers,” was incorrect. Took quite a while to fill a book, but it and Iwere there He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954, when was very important to us grade school with cousins, some he was Kansas correspondent and politi- kids! of whom work in cal writer for the Kansas City Star. He Marge Hazlett, ’54 the United States received the award for distinguished Lawrence with special needs children. If we had local reporting that led to the resignation known about Liliana’s mission, we surely under fire of C. Wesley Roberts, the Moments In Time would have visited her building, which Republican National Chairman. was about two miles from where we were Again, many thanks to Chris While our gorgeous campus and visiting (the Pueblo Libre YMCA). Lazzarino for a fine story on Colleen thrilling basketball teams linger large in Iwill forward this article to my McCain Nelson. It is heartwarming to many Jayhawk memories, the deeper cousins, and to another gentleman see her Pulitzer Prize join those received story of a KU education invariably whom we met in Lima who also works by KU alumni who all have upheld revolves around an enchanting, with special needs children in Boston. It high journalistic standards to win this life-changing is a small world. prestigious award. interaction with Thanks for writing and editing this Marion McCoy Wright, j’56 a faculty mem- publication. It is always first class. Seattle ber or fellow Barbara Belden Field, c’70 Editor’s note: The bright side of commit- student. Every Bedford, Texas ting such an unsightly error is that we’ve memory is learned, from multiple letters, that Alvin unique, yet Prized Jayhawks Scott McCoy is indeed well remembered. somehow the

Our apologies for a transcription error that same. Would ARCHIVES SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY What a great story about Colleen piled achievements by McCoy, who won the you care to share McCain Nelson and her husband, Eric 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his investigation into yours? [“Love Story,” issue No. 3]. Their accom- the Republican Party, with those of Eugene We are asking plishments make me proud to be a Jay- Goltz, ’54, who won the 1965 Pulitzer for readers to submit short narratives about hawk! Ilaughed when Iread the name of the Houston Post for his reporting on gov- specific academic memories; please don’t their beloved dog, Phog. Our dog, Phog ernment corruption in Pasadena, Texas. write longer than about 300 words. Allen, is 9 years old and his sister, March All submissions will be considered for Madness, is 7. They replaced two beloved Romance and patriotism publication in a future magazine or dogs (now in KU doggie heaven), Hoops online feature. and Naismith. Some of us just can’t get I’ve been reading this month’s alumni Send submissions to kualumni@ enough of KU! magazine. Sometimes, Imust admit, Ido kualumni.org or Kansas Alumni maga- Rock Chalk! not read every article, but Iparticularly zine, 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence KS Debora Burns Daniels, d’76, g’78, PhD’03 enjoyed the article about Eric and 66045. Please note “Moments in Time” Olathe Colleen McCain Nelson. What a neat, tal- in the subject line or on the envelope.

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 64 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Steven Hill Staff Writer Terry Rombeck DEPARTMENTS Editorial Assistants Karen Goodell Photographer Steve Puppe, j’98 5 FIRST WORD Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 The editor’s turn Advertising Sales Representative Whitney Eriksen, c’08, j’08 6 ON THE BOULEVARD Editorial and Advertising Office KU & Alumni Association events KU Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave. 8 JAYHAWK WALK Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 Pennies for parking, the fine art of flirting, 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 a silver-medal chef and more www.kualumni.org [email protected] 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes: School of Medicine expansion

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Your opinion 56 IN MEMORY counts! Deaths in the KU family  welcomes letters to 60 ROCK CHALK REVIEW the editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni Research shows too much texting on the road; magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, grad student finds new species of giant lizard. KS 66045-3169. E-mail responses may be sent to the Alumni Association, 64 GLORIOUS TO VIEW [email protected]. Letters appear- Scene on campus ing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. If we print your letter, we’ll send you a free KU sports cap!

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 3

BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

much more to report in the months ahead as the athletics department and

STEVE PUPPE the University implement more stringent internal controls of game ticket sales, and a revised sports conference takes shape. Of course, Jayhawk loyalty endures no matter how many teams are on the official roster of regional foes. Our traditions remain strong. And on the rarest of occasions, even time-honored rituals can be tweaked. So, to celebrate a new era, the Associa- tion, as the keeper of tradition, will pre- side over the revising of the KU fight song, “I’m a Jayhawk.” As part of the 2010 Homecoming Oct. 18-24, the Association and will host a songwriting contest for students, who will perform their renditions Oct. 21 for a panel of judges that will include alumni, faculty and students. The brainchild of George “Dumpy” Bowles, 1912, “I’m a Jayhawk” became he newspaper reporter wanted versity and the Alumni Association are popular in 1920, and the men’s glee club to hear desperation in my voice. about far more than sports, and Ithrew performed it during a national tour in During an awkward phone con- in a few impressive stats: Only 20 per- 1926. The most recent revision occurred versation, he tried every which cent of the Alumni Association’s events in 1958, when the Big Seven became the Tway to get me to say the sky was falling. I focus on sports. Among our 500 annual Big Eight. For those who don’t know the wouldn’t. Call me naive and nerdy, but activities, more than three-quarters words by heart, the verse refers to the Ihonestly didn’t believe that the poten- relate to KU’s stellar academic programs Buffs and those “Cornhuskin’ boys.” The tial disbanding of the Big 12 athletics and growing alumni efforts in student chorus vows to make Cornhuskers wail. conference would mean utter disaster for recruitment. The Association, which coordinates my alma mater. Not one word of my preaching ended Homecoming festivities with a student The University of Kansas has been on up in the newspaper. Nebraska and steering committee, will post the contest the national stage in academics for Colorado indeed defected, and messages details at www.kualumni.org/ decades, Itold the reporter, launching a of concern and anger about KU’s possi- kuaa_homecoming.html. lengthy sermon: In the arena that truly ble fate began to pour in from fellow Jay- Of course, we’ll also alert the media. matters, no game of musical chairs in hawks. As near-panic ensued, Istopped A couple of local outlets already have sports could rob KU of its rightful pres- cracking jokes around the office about broken the startling story, and on an tige. KU is a leader and a longtime mem- the coincidence that we had planned for apparently slow news day, a Kansas City ber of the Association of American this issue a “doomsday” cover story TV station raced down K-10 to Lawrence Universities, a select group of the (which has nothing to do with sports). to interview me on camera. Itried to nation’s most acclaimed research institu- All’s well that ends well—for now. On mind my manners, explaining that per- tions. Even if the universities of Nebraska page 14, Chris Lazzarino recounts the haps Jayhawks no longer need to sing and Colorado desert the Big 12 (on this drama and the bizarre opening acts that about Buffaloes and Cornhuskers. day, their moves were still speculative), included scandalous off-the-books sales As my husband so delicately put it, Mount Oread will not crumble. of game tickets by former athletics thank goodness the news broadcast was Ireminded the reporter that the Uni- department employees. There will be not in HD.

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 5 On the Boulevard

I Senior class officers Briana Saunders, Matt Enriquez, John Stolle and Scott Toland carried the Class of 2010 banners through the Campanile during Commencement ceremonies May 16.

I Special events AUGUST 16 Ice Cream Social, Adams Alumni Center 27-28 KU Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies: 50 Years of Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies in the American Heartland I Exhibitions I Lied Center events SEPTEMBER “Quilting Time & Space,” Spencer AUGUST 3-4 Volunteer Recognition Weekend Museum of Art, through Aug. 26 20 Jeffery Broussard and the Creole 24-25 Hispanic Alumni Chapter “Conversation VIII—Serious Play,” Cowboys, free outdoor concert Kickoff, Adams Alumni Center Spencer Museum of Art, through Aug. 1 25 Jayhawk Generations Breakfast, Adams Alumni Center “Beaded Heritage,” Spencer Museum I Lectures of Art, through Aug. 1 25 Family Day and Band Day SEPTEMBER “Reviving the Past: Antiquity & Antiquarianism in East Asian Art,” 13 Elizabeth Kolbert, “Science, Poli- Spencer Museum of Art, tics and Climate Change,” Humanities through 2010 Lecture Series, Woodruff Auditorium

I University Theatre I Academic Calendar JULY JULY 16-18, 22-24 “Shiloh Rules,” 30 Summer classes end written by Doris Baizley, directed by Mechele Leon AUGUST 19 Fall classes begin AUGUST 27-29 “The Trojan Women” directed by Dennis Christilles

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI I Jayhawk Generations 29 Hutchinson 29 Leavenworth Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS picnics University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 29 McPherson Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 JULY Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 13 Emporia Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798 I 13 Great Bend Alumni events Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 KU Info ...... 864-3506 13 Garden City JULY Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 13 Hutchinson 16 Colorado Springs: KU Night KU main number ...... 864-2700 13 Wichita at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS 14 Lawrence 17 Memphis: alumni happy hour Booth Hall of Athletics ...... 864-7050 14 Hays 22 San Antonio: Thirsty Third Dole Institute of Politics ...... 864-4900 14 Hugoton Thursday 14 Salina 24 Dallas Cowboys Stadium VIP Tour 17 Denver 25 Indianapolis Chapter family 7 Twin Cities Chapter family picnic 24 St. Louis picnic 11 Reno Chapter family barbecue 24 Chicago 25 Milwaukee: Lakefront Brewery 12 Bay Area Chapter boat cruise tour and tasting 29 Houston 14 Denver: Alumni Night with the 27 Chicago: Tuesdays on the Terrace 31 Austin Colorado Rockies 30 New York: Night at the Met 19 San Antonio: Thirsty Third AUGUST 30 San Antonio Chapter beer tasting Thursday 1 Dallas 31 Phoenix Alumni Volunteer Day 21 Chicago: Ravinia Festival 1 Washington, D.C. featuring Counting Crows AUGUST 27 Boise Chapter family barbecue 4 Lincoln Chapter family picnic SEPTEMBER I Kansas Honors 5 Omaha Chapter family picnic Program 5 Winfield: South Kansas Chapter 8 Chicago: Alumni Night with the alumni dinner Cubs SEPTEMBER 6 Des Moines Chapter family picnic 16 San Antonio: Thirsty Third Thursday 15 Wellington 7 New York: KU Night with the 20 Sedgwick Staten Island Yankees 19 Manhattan: KU at the Zoo 22 Lawrence 7 San Diego Chapter beer tasting For more information about Association events, call 800-584-2957 or see the Association’s website at www.kualumni.org.

I New graduates celebrated on the field at Memorial Stadium, posed for pics at the Chi-O fountain, and showed their Jayhawk pride, after ceremonies stepped off as planned despite the threat of rain.

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 7 Never too late Jayhawk Walk s a young woman with a growing A family, Ellyn Bowker Larsen, d’64, g’69, somehow made time for everything important in her life: family, farming, teaching, and, for more than a decade, KU classes. But circumstances prevented her participating in the pomp. Twice. Larsen, who now lives in Oregon, in recent years mentioned to her daughter Judy Bowker, d’96, g’73, how much she’d like to return to Lawrence on a certain weekend in May. When she opened a Christmas present and uncovered a cap and gown, Larsen knew exactly what it meant: a trip to Mount Oread for her long awaited walk down the Hill. But as Larsen gathered with her new- found classmates May 16 on Memorial Drive, dark clouds threatened. There were even unspoken fears the ceremony might

CHARLIE PODREBARAC get moved to Monday or, heaven forbid, canceled. Larsen wasn’t worried. “It held off,” she says. “I asked it to.” Larsen reports that she’s been shower- Got a penny, give a penny ing her Salem friends with pictures and sto-

hey say you can’t fight city hall. lengthy e-mail exchange with Donna

TOr the parking department. Hultine, director of Parking and Tran- STEVE PUPPE Don’t tell that to John Ready. sit, Ready was allowed to count out When the Dallas senior tried to his coppers, and the payment policy pay a $10 parking ticket with a bag of was discontinued. 1,000 pennies in March, he learned This penny-pinching agent of that Parking and Transit won’t accept change considers his coin crusade coins for fines. time well-spent, and says it could pay Ready to rumble, he set out to big dividends for the rest of us. change the no-change policy. He con- “Legal precedent has been set,” sulted books and websites to confirm Ready told the University Daily his right to settle a debt with coins. Kansan. Now if he could just get After he shared his two cents in a meters to take ’em.

Larsen

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI ries of the big weekend when, she says with little bit, and I picked up a lot of new tech- glee, she felt like a college girl all over again. niques,” he says. “Master chefs are few and “It was probably one of the experiences of far between, so having a chance to sit and my life,” she says. “I will treasure it forever.” talk with three about my dish was a really Three cheers for Ellyn! And thanks, too, good learning experience.” for reminding Jayhawks everywhere about Impromptu, Dining Services’ restaurant what it means to be True Blue. in the Kansas Union, offered Pruitt’s silver-

medal masterpiece once this spring. But WHEEL THE COURTESY ILLUSTRATION don’t look for it on the regular menu. “Too much handwork,” says Pruitt, who cuts and folds each ’shroom into a flower shape. “That’s hard to do when people need their lunch in 15 minutes.” You come here often? Now with 50 percent less eff Hall doesn’t get much hands-

UNIVERSITY RELATIONS/CHUCK FRANCE hullabaloo Jon experience with his research these days. ever let it be said that KU’s bean “I’ve been married six years,” Hall Ncounters have been less than diligent says. “I’ve been with my wife for 10. in keeping the University’s operating budget I’ve been off the market for a while lean during these tough economic times. now.” Case in point: Tootie-toot, the whistle So Hall, an assistant professor of that trumpets the end of class, has been communication studies, has to turn to abbreviated from 5 to 2.5 seconds. The others to study his area of expertise— shorter shriek saves about $1,000 a year, flirting. though the exact windfall depends on the Hall, whose findings will be pub- Pruitt market price of the natural gas that heats lished later this year, analyzed pick-up the water that produces the steam that methods to identify five flirting styles: Haute KUisine powers the blast. 1. Physical: Relatively aggressive Kansas Alumni readers will recall that style that involves touching. s chef dé cuisine for KU Dining Serv- prior bids to retire the campus claxon— 2. Polite: So low-key it might send A ices, Joe Pruitt cooks for 500 diners or due to costly repairs or an excess of the signal that you just want to be a dozen, preparing buffets or plated dinners thrift—were met with hue and cry and friends. (Hall admits this was his style as the occasion demands. But an “Iron donations to fund its continued clamoring. in pursuing his wife. Her friends had Chef”-style challenge for college food serv- The current compromise seems sound: to explain he was interested in her.) ice pros this spring gave him a chance to Half a toot is better than no toot at all. 3. Traditional: Adheres to gender show his chef chops, and Pruitt brought roles, with the man making the first home a silver medal for his take on the com- move. petition’s required ingredient: portobello 4. Sincere: A genuine desire to mushroom. know who you’re flirting with, often Pruitt’s concoction—a portobello quinoa with a long-term relationship in mind. and black lentil gateau—used Peruvian spices 5. Playful: A casual style, such as the and grains to accent the mushroom. He per- way a man might flirt with a waitress. fected the recipe for a year in preparation Hall hopes to continue his research, for the National Association of College and analyzing such topics as the relation- Union Food Services’ Midwest Regional ship between technology and flirting. Conference Culinary Challenge. Like the current project, those studies Competitors had 60 minutes to cook will rely on surveys of others, so he their dish, which had to include complex won’t need to hang out at the Wheel tournée cuts, before spectators and a panel drinking beer and chatting up women. of three master chefs. No doubt his wife is grateful. “It gave me a good chance to show off a LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 9 Hilltopics BY STEVEN HILL

School of Medicine wants to extend its reach across the state by establishing a four-year doctor training program in Salina and by expanding from two to four years the existing training

COURTESY WILLIAM CATHCART-RAKE COURTESY program at the School of Medicine-Wichita, where H. I Dr. William Cathcart- David Wilson is dean. Rake is leading the School The expansion would allow the school to accept of Medicine’s effort to 211 students each year, up extend its training program from 175 now. And by for doctors to Salina, branching out to Salina, where school leaders KU hopes that more of hope to draw more stu- these new physicians will dents interested in elect to work in the state’s practicing outside the underserved small cities state’s large cities. and rural areas. All but 10 Kansas counties have at least a portion of the Doctors in the house county designated as a health professions shortage School of Medicine expansion to Salina, area for primary care, Wichita would address physician shortage in state according to Heidi Chum- ley, KU’s senior associate dean of medical education. hen William Cathcart-Rake came “We know if you accept students from rural to Salina to practice medicine in areas and train them in rural areas, they are more “We want to 1979, he had spent most of the likely to stay in rural areas,” Chumley says. attract students decade in Kansas City, complet- “Salina is a mid-sized city with great proximity Wing his medical degree, internship, residency and to the rural areas we hope to draw from for this interested in a fellowship in clinical pharmacology at the program.” primary care and School of Medicine. Raised in Southern Califor- The Kansas Board of Regents endorsed the in staying in nia, he seemed a likely candidate for life in a big idea in April, and community partners in Salina city. But a Garden City physician convinced him and Wichita have shown support. The Salina more rural areas that smaller might be better. Regional Health Foundation granted $225,000 of the state.” “He was practicing great medicine in a smaller and Earl and Kathleen Merkel of Russell donated town and he loved it,” says Cathcart-Rake, m’74. $75,000 for the effort. The Salina Regional Health —William “Just by his example Isaid, ‘Icould do this. I Center provided a building, which it’s now Cathcart-Rake could enjoy medicine outside of Kansas City, out- remodeling and furnishing. The next hurdle for side of academic medicine.’ He made me realize both sites will be accreditation by the Liaison it’s possible to practice high-quality medicine and Committee on Medical Education, which plans have a good time outside those areas.” site visits in July. A decision should come by The oncologist hopes to play a similar role for November. aspiring young doctors as head of the School of The School of Medicine-Wichita already trains Medicine’s proposed expansion to Salina. The third- and fourth-year students, who complete

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI their first two years of medical school in Kansas These prices will remain firm for the Class of City. The expansion will allow Wichita to conduct 2014 under KU’s Four-Year Tuition Compact, first- and second-year training. First- and second- which began with the fall 2007 freshman class. year students in Salina and Wichita will use live Because many undergraduates already participate interactive TV to participate in the same morning in the four-year compact, nearly half of KU under- lectures attended by Kansas City students, or graduates will not see a tuition increase, even they can download the videotaped lectures and though KU and the KU Medical Center are watch them on their own schedule. Afternoons coping with nearly $43 million in budget cuts will be spent in group discussion, clinical skills and unfunded mandates from fiscal 2010. The “KU remains an labs and problem-solving sessions with local tuition increase for freshmen will make up only physicians. Cathcart-Rake is recruiting Salina $11.2 million of that shortfall. absolute bargain physicians to serve as volunteer faculty members. “We want to maintain the accessibility to a nationally.” Salina hopes to admit its first class in 2011, first-class college education, and though that is with its first graduates by 2015. Class size will be made much more difficult by the state budget limited to eight students. Class size in Wichita cuts, this proposal strikes a good balance,” Chan- —Chancellor will be eight in 2011, and 28 after that. cellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in May, when Bernadette Gray-Little First-year costs are estimated at $300,000 for KU presented its plan to the Regents. “KU Salina and $550,000 for Wichita. Once the remains an absolute bargain nationally.” programs are full, annual costs are estimated at The Regents on June 24 approved the proposal $900,000 for Salina and $3 million for Wichita. by a vote of 6-3, with Regents Jill Sadowsky Dock- Both programs are designed to be “tuition neu- ing, c’78, g’84, Gary Sherrer and Donna Shank tral,” Chumley says, with operating costs fully opposed. Also at that meeting, covered by tuition income. the group selected Sherrer, According to Chumley, the School of Medicine Overland Park, a former has set a goal of attracting 75 percent of Salina Kansas lieutenant gover- graduates to practice in underserved Kansas nor, to succeed Docking counties. Much of that success will rely on attract- as Regents chairman. ing students interested in primary care and hop- Ed McKechnie of ing that, like Cathcart-Rake, they find the appeal Arcadia was elected of Kansas living impossible to resist. vice chairman. “I think we can do a good job educating them In May, Gov. Mark and preparing them for their postgraduate med- Parkinson, l’84, and ical education in whatever discipline they want,” the Kansas Legisla- he says. “And we’re hoping that when they finish ture crafted a fiscal their education, they will have seen that small 2011 budget that towns are a great place to practice.”
spared Regents institu- PEARSON LEROY LARRY tions from additional cuts and NNN ensured that the KU School of Pharmacy expan- sion and other projects would remain on track. Parkinson had vowed in January to protect the Financial reckoning state’s investment in higher education. More than 1,200 members of Jayhawks for Higher Educa- Leaders resolve tuition, budget tion, the Alumni Association’s legislative advocacy amid economic challenges network, received regular updates and communi- cated with lawmakers throughout the challenging he price of KU tuition will increase session, during which the budget deficit grew to 7 percent for fall 2010 freshmen, accord- nearly $500 million. A temporary one-cent sales ing to a plan approved in late June by tax increase will generate an estimated $300 mil- the Kansas Board of Regents. lion in fiscal 2011. TFor in-state freshmen taking 15 credit hours, State appropriations and tuition are only two tuition will be $3,937.50 per semester, excluding sources of KU funding. The state contributes 24 campus and course fees. For out-of-state fresh- percent of the overall KU budget, and student men taking 15 credit hours, tuition will be tuition and fees represent 22 percent. Other $10,340.25 per semester, excluding fees. sources include research grants and contracts,

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 11 Hilltopics and private gifts through KU Endowment. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE KU remains a “best buy,” according to Gifts from doctors to benefit the Fiske Guide to Colleges, Kaplan’s spinal medicine, honor Dole and the Princeton Review. KU’s resident STEVE PUPPE (2) undergraduate tuition and fees tuition A new endowed professorship in ranks 26th among the 34 public mem- spine research will boost a multidiscipli- bers of the prestigious American Associa- nary spine center at KU while honoring tion of Universities. former Sen. Bob Dole, ’45. For details, visit ku.edu/tuition.
The Senator Bob Dole Endowed —Jennifer Jackson Sanner Professorship in Spine Outcomes Clinical Research will establish a $1 million School of Medicine professorship KU MEDICAL CENTER to research the effectiveness of the major Building honors Hemenway’s preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic collaborative-research vision techniques used in spine care. The physician governance committee The University community gathered at of the Marc A. Asher Spine Care Center KU Medical Center in May to dedicate requested the professorship in recogni- The Robert E. Hemenway Life Sciences tion of Dole’s financial support of the Innovation Center, honoring the former center. The former senator, who sus- chancellor whose 14-year tenure saw tained serious spinal injuries in World great advancement in KU’s biomedical War II combat, donated a total of research. $200,000 to the Asher Center in 2009 Opened in January 2007, the Medical and 2010. Center’s newest comprehensive research Spine Center physicians, including facility focuses on liver disease, reproduc- tive sciences, neuroscience, diabetes and proteomics. Laboratories are organized by theme to promote joint research between departments, a fitting tribute to Hemenway’s legacy of fostering collabo-

Class credit STEVE PUPPE rative organizations such as the KU Mid- west Research Institute Alliance, formed in 1999. For whom the bell tolls The Life Sciences Innovation Center received funding from state grants and he winner of the 2010 Campanile Award is private organizations, including a major TAndrea Lynne Peterson. contribution by the Hall Family Founda- The $500 prize established by the Class of tion. State-of-the-art equipment and labo- 2000 honors a graduating senior who displays ratory space have helped attract remarkable leadership, strength of character and nationally renowned researchers. The respect for KU. expanded research capacity will generate Peterson, c’10, c’10, definitely fits the bill: She revenue and grants for continued work graduated this spring with degrees in political science and East Asian languages, yet toward another vision of Chancellor still found time for a full extracurricular schedule. She founded KU Students Against Hemenway: National Cancer Institute Sweatshops, collecting more than 1,000 signatures to support monitoring the labor designation. policies of firms licensed to produce KU apparel. She was politically active on campus “Ultimately, it’s the mission of improv- and off, serving as a delegate for Kansas’ 3rd congressional District Democratic con- ing lives that motivated KU under Bob vention in 2008 and as an intern at the Kansas headquarters of Barack Obama’s presi- Hemenway,” Chancellor Bernadette dential campaign. Gray-Little said during the ceremony. “Throughout my time at KU I have dedicated every spare moment trying to “Thanks to his work, we will continue to engage my fellow students and show them ways they can effect change,” Peterson seek economic growth from our research says. “Whether it’s working to combat sweatshop labor, championing women’s and scholarly work.” equality or even helping elect our current president, I have been there.” —Whitney Eriksen

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI namesake Marc Asher, m’62, have donated to the professorship, which is Milestones, money and other matters one third of the way to its $1 million fundraising goal. I A $4.6 MILLION GRANT from the National Institutes of Health will fund an upgrade of the Bioinformatics Computing Facility in Nichols Hall. The renovation and expansion will MUSIC boost computing power for complex life sciences research projects while also recycling heat New director of bands already generated by computers to warm the building. The project is expected to yield a 20-fold marches to a Jayhawk beat increase in computing power, a 15 percent drop in natural gas use and a significant dip in electricity needs. Paul Popiel becomes director of KU bands in August, replacing Scott Weiss, I THE SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART has hired I. M. Pei’s who is leaving to take a similar job at the architectural firm to produce a master plan to guide future expan- University of South Carolina. Popiel is no

STEVE PUPPE sion of the museum. Pei Cobb Freed and Partners has designed 20 stranger to the Hill, having worked with museums, including the Grand Louvre, Paris; the Musée d’art Weiss and KU students for the past three Modern, Luxembourg; the East Building of the National Gallery of years as producer of two music CDs Art, Washington, D.C; and the Charles Shipman Payson Building, recorded for the Naxos label by the KU Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine. Wind Ensemble. “Iknow the I A $4.2 MILLION GEOTHERMAL PROJECT funded in faculty here part by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative Exploration really well, and I and Drilling Program will allow the department of geology to know lots of the complete a three-year project developing cheaper and easier ways students and I to power electric utility plants with geothermal energy. The plan is to use new technology COURTESY PAUL POPIEL PAUL COURTESY know the place and traditional geophysical tools to identify likely drilling spots to tap the earth’s geothermal well, so it’s been energy. The project also taps $2.4 million in federal stimulus funding. a fairly easy transition so far,” I MARILYN HARP AND JOHN LUNGSTRUM earned Distinguished Alumni Awards Popiel says. from the School of Law in May. Harp, s’76, l’79, began her career in public interest law as a He worked as staff attorney at Kansas Legal Services before rising through the ranks to become the firm’s assistant director executive director. Lungstrum, l’70, was nominated by President George H.W. Bush to be a Popiel of bands at U.S. district judge in 1991, and he served as chief judge for the District of Kansas from 2001 Indiana University’s Jacobs School of to 2008. The highest honor given by the School of Law, the awards are given annually to Music most recently, and also directed graduates who have distinguished themselves through exemplary service to the legal the marching band at Oklahoma State profession, their community, KU and the state or country. University. As director of KU bands, Popiel will I THE WOUNDED WARRIOR EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE graduated its first conduct the wind ensemble, direct the class of Jayhawks in May. The partnership between the U.S. Army and KU gives wounded graduate program in wind conducting soldiers the opportunity to continue their education and careers of service to the nation. and guide all aspects of the University Six officers completed their master’s degrees and returned to assignments that allow the band program, including the Marching Army to benefit from their education and personal experiences. Jayhawks, led by David Clemmer. “Over the last several years their num- I THE CHILDREN’S CAMPUS OF KANSAS CITY held grand opening ceremonies bers have come up significantly, and I June 8. The $15.5 million building at 444 Minnesota Ave. in Kansas City, Kan., houses KU’s want to continue to push that—be it Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, KU Medical Center’s Project recruiting help or financial help or just EAGLE Community Programs and the Family Health Conservancy. supporting them any way Ican,” Popiel says. “Ithink that’s a top priority for the I DONALD WORSTER, the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall band program. The marching band is Distinguished Professor of U.S. History at KU, won Scotland’s the most visible face of what we do biggest literary prize, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, for his everyday in the classroom and the biography A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir. Published by rehearsal hall. On one Saturday after- Oxford University Press in 2008, the biography profiles the Scotland noon more people will see the marching native who founded the Sierra Club. band than attend all the concerts the whole year through.” Worster

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 13 Sports BY CHRIS LAZZARINO JEFF JACOBSEN JEFF

I At his June 16 news conference explaining how the Big 12 fended off raids by the Pac-10 and others, Lew Perkins appeared as if the weight of months of worry had been lifted from his shoulders.

six former athletics department employees had, Conference call since 2005, surreptitiously sold nearly 20,000 men’s basketball and football tickets, as well as After stormy stretch, athletics some game-day parking passes. Face value of the celebrates best possible news: monetary loss was estimated to be at least $1 mil- the Big 12 lives lion and possibly as high as $3 million; of even greater loss was the confidence of some donors ot so long ago, on a blizzardy March and bruising to the University’s reputation. The night in Oklahoma City, it seemed the Kansas Board of Regents called the scandal “a Jayhawk faithful were enduring the shocking catalog of unethical behavior that worst fate imaginable: a two-point loss reflects negatively upon the University of Kansas Nto Northern Iowa that left players sobbing in and its athletics department.” Gray-Little their locker room and fans of the top-ranked Jay- responded by pledging renewed vigor in over- hawks numb with disbelief. sight of all ticket procedures, including the hiring If the true blue thought losing a second-round of a staff auditor. NCAA Tournament basketball game was painful, Days later came awkward reports that a former then the next three months delivered enough per- athletics department employee allegedly spective to choke on ... and, thankfully, more than attempted to blackmail Athletics Director Lew enough hope to soar on. Perkins for apparently accepting a loan of home On May 26, long simmering unease about an exercise equipment from a supplier whose own- investigation of the athletics ticket office erupted ers had been KU boosters. Perkins and his attor- into full anguish and fury as the University, led by ney, Stephen McAllister, c’85, l’88, professor of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, revealed that law, reported the alleged blackmail to Lawrence

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI police in April, and the owners of the equipment company, which had long ago “This is, in my opinion, one of the greatest things to have gone out of business, stated publicly that happened to intercollegiate athletics in a long, long time.” the equipment loan had never been —Athletics Director Lew Perkins intended as an exchange for premium basketball tickets. For the second time in the spring semester, Gray-Little ordered a review. realignment,” Self said. “I don’t know if from start to finish,” Self said June 15, This time, the news was good: Investiga- we could have a better A.D. in America. I “but the one you take the most pride in is tors found no evidence of any improper don’t know a guy out there who is more when you’re down 10 in the second half conduct by Perkins, and reported that connected. There’s a lot of things he can and you find some way to come back. his accuser refused to offer details to do to maneuver behind the scenes that I This is one of those games. We were back up his claims. Although quickly think can put us in the best position.” down. So there’s an extra sense of pride, resolved, the news broke only a few days Always eager to spread a hopeful mes- knowing that we didn’t look very good, at after reports of the ticket scandal, mak- sage, Self added, “This could very well least in some people’s eyes, but they were ing a bad week even worse. The drama play out to be a good thing over time for able to pull it off.” increased yet again about a week later, us. We just don’t have any idea what that The following day, Perkins announced when Perkins announced that he would good thing is just yet.” that the 10 remaining Big 12 schools retire Sept. 4, 2011. Not for the first time, Self’s charm- renewed their vows with 10-year con- And on that same memorable day, ingly positive predictions proved pre- tracts. Though questions persisted about June 10, the University of Colorado scient. After a long, tense weekend, the the potential for another round of realign- announced it would leave the Big 12 Big 12 emerged intact. Thanks to inten- ment, and whether the Big 12 would look Conference for a lucrative offer from the sive lobbying by league commissioner to add two replacement schools, Perkins Pac-10. One day later, the University of Dan Beebe—“What he did in putting this and Beebe emphasized variations on Nebraska announced that it would join thing together might have saved intercol- Self’s analysis that “less is more in this the Big 10. legiate athletics as we see it today,” particular situation.” Officials said there What had been a big, proud confer- Perkins said—as well as close collabora- is no interest in replacing Nebraska or ence of 12 was whittled to 10, with tion among athletics directors, chancel- Colorado in the forseeable future, and rumors swirling that the Pac-10 was try- lors and presidents, the University of should any expansion occur it would not ing to lure the Big 12 South to create a Texas declined the Pac-10’s offer, and the be within the conference’s current five- 16-team megaconference. Also in the mix other potential breakaway schools fol- state footprint. was talk that the Southeastern Confer- lowed the Longhorns’ lead. A 120-point Both departing schools are expected to ence might try to grab up Oklahoma and banner headline across the top of the be full participants in the upcoming Texas A&M. Topeka Capital-Journal’s June 15 sports school year; what’s not known is whether “In the span of the next few hours, section screamed, “GOD BLESS TEXAS.” they’ll sport Big 12 logos on their uni- few days, we have the appearance that What quickly emerged was a unified forms, as is customary, and when exactly we could be without a league,” basketball message that a 10-team Big 12 will be a they’ll depart. It’s thought that Nebraska coach Bill Self said the evening of June lean, mean, money-making machine. Pro- expects to join the Big 10 in summer 10. “I don’t think the Big 12 is giving jections are good for future television 2011, but no clear forecast has emerged up. We’re still holding out hope that it contracts, and enhanced revenues will be on whether Colorado will be gone in doesn’t play out the way that it certainly split 10 ways rather than 12. 2011 or 2012. When the Big 12 is appears it’s going to.” Even more important for coaches and reduced to 11 or 10, it loses the right to Of the conference demolitions that fans, a 10-team conference means nine- host a football championship game. seemed sure to sweep the country, gener- game league football schedules, so all Although it could appeal for an excep- ally driven by football-generated TV rev- teams will play each other every year, tion, Beebe hinted the conference would enues, Self added, “This is going to and 18-game basketball schedules that rather remove a potential trap for unde- change the landscape of college athletics include home-and-away matchups for all feated teams that are eligible to play in not for the next five or 10 years, but 10 conference schools. Self and Gill can the BCS title game. maybe for the next 30 or 50 years.” now recruit Texas athletes with a prom- “It’s like we’re starting a new confer- As for Perkins announcing his inten- ise that they’ll be playing more than ever ence,” Perkins said of the 10-team league. tion to retire, Self emphasized that he near family and friends, and budding Many details have yet to be worked out, was heartened because it was still 15 rivalries, such as KU-Texas in men’s bas- but the unified message could not be months off. “I think his effectiveness will ketball, can grow stronger. clearer: Let’s get to work. be very, very important for conference “It’s great to win a game that you lead The Big 12 lives.

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“This is, in my opinion, one of the greatest things to have happened to inter- collegiate athletics in a long, long time,”

Perkins said. “I don’t think a lot of peo- (2) JEFF JACOBSEN ple have concentrated on what 10 Updates schools have done in staying together, how it’s going to affect so many other enior safety Darrell Stuckey, first- schools around the country.” Steam All-Big 12 and a fourth-round Among those Perkins singled out for draft pick by the NFL’s San Diego praise were the chancellor, all members Chargers, was named Big 12 Male of the Kansas Congressional delegation, Sportsperson of the Year. The award rec- the Board of Regents, and the Alumni ognizes athletes who display “an Association and its president, Kevin Cor- extraordinary degree of sportsmanship Stuckey bett, c’88. and/or community service.” ... “Nobody ever will know the impact Jayhawk athletes posted a 3.01 GPA for spring semester. The women’s golf team set they had on this,” Perkins said. “This was a new all-time GPA mark for any team, 3.62, and softball (3.35) and football (2.75) a very collective group of people who both set new team marks. ... Senior infielder Robby Price and junior outfielder really made this thing happen from the Brian Heere were both named All-Big 12 first team. Seven baseball players were University of Kansas.” drafted, and all but juniorT.J. Walz had signed pro contracts as of press time. Included “Our league is better,” Self said. “No among the draftees was relief pitcher Brett Bochy, who signed with the San Fran- disrespect to those other schools, but we cisco Giants. The Giants’ major-league club is managed by Bochy’s father, Bruce. ... got better.” Xavier Henry and Cole Aldrich were both first-round picks in the NBA draft, but
teammate Sherron Collins, the winningest player in KU hoops history, was not NNN drafted. He signed a free-agent pact with Charlotte, coached by Larry Brown, and will play alongside fellow undrafted signee Denis Clemente, his high-octane rival at K-State. High, far, fast

Vaulter’sNCAA title tops turned out to be the winning height. 11th in the NCAA long jump after nar- track’sbountif ul spring Combined with second-place finishes rowly missing the finals, was chosen for by freshman Mason Finley in the discus the “Elite 88 Award,” presented at each hen junior Jordan Scott and shot put—both of which he won at of the NCAA’s 88 championships to the chose to pass on the first the Big 12 Outdoor—the KU men placed participating athlete with the highest two opening heights in seventh overall, their best finish since grade-point average. “I’m a little speech- the men’s pole vault at placing fifth in 1975. less,” said Fattig, e’09, who earned his Wthe NCAA Outdoor Champi- Senior Lauren engineering physics degree with a 4.0 onships June 10 at the Univer- Bonds was the GPA and has the same mark while study- sity of Oregon, he surely didn’t women’s team’s ing for his master’s in aerospace engi- imagine he’d be waiting all top finisher, plac- neering. afternoon for his first attempt. ing seventh in the Freshman Alena Krechyk, the Big 12 But patience paid off, as Scott 1,500 meters Indoor champ in the weight throw, won won his first NCAA outdoor (which she won at the conference outdoor title in the ham- title with only his second vault the Big 12) and mer throw. of the day, at 17 feet, 8.5 earning her first “After winning indoors Iput a lot of inches. All-America hon- pressure on myself to win here,” said Scott, who won his third ors. She also is a Krechyk, of Belarus. “Iam glad Iwas able Big 12 Outdoor title in May, nominee for to pull it off.” cleared his first jump at the NCAA Woman of Freshman Andrea Geubelle won the NCAA meet at 17 feet, 4.5 the Year, an award triple jump and placed second in the inches, after enduring delays honoring academ- long jump at the USA Junior National caused by rain and technical ics, athletics, serv- Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. errors by the judges. After wait- ice and leadership. She will compete in both events at the ing an hour after his first vault, Senior Eric Fat- World Junior Championships July 19-25 Scott promptly cleared what Scott tig, who finished in Moncton, Canada.

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OCTOBER 2 at Texas Tech Sports Calendar 9 Iowa State 13 at Baylor 16 Oklahoma 20 Texas I Football 22 at Nebraska 23 at Iowa State 24 at Colorado 27 at Missouri SEPTEMBER 29 SIU Edwardsville 30 Texas Tech 4 North Dakota State NOVEMBER 11 Georgia Tech 3 Nebraska 17 at Southern Mississippi I 25 New Mexico State Volleyball 6 Colorado 10 at Texas A&M AUGUST OCTOBER 17 Baylor 27 vs. Lipscomb, at Creighton 2 at Baylor 19 at Texas 28 vs. San Francisco, at Creighton 14 Kansas State 24 Kansas State 28 at Creighton 23 Texas A&M (Homecoming) 27 at Oklahoma 31 UMKC 30 at Iowa State SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER 3-4 Jayhawk Classic vs. Akron, 6 Colorado Arkansas, UT-Chattanooga 13 at Nebraska 7 Middle Tennessee State 20 Oklahoma State 10-11 Kansas Invitational vs. 27 vs. Missouri at Arrowhead I Best buddies Brady Morningstar and Sherron Winthrop, Northern Iowa, Arkansas- Stadium, Kansas City Little Rock Collins walked down the Hill at Commencement 15 at Kansas State May 16, but only Collins is moving on to profes- 18 Texas A&M sional basketball (as a free-agent signee with the Charlotte Bobcats). Morningstar, who redshirted I Soccer 22 at Nebraska 25 at Colorado in 2007-’08, will return next year for his senior AUGUST 29 Missouri year of eligibility. 27 Eastern Kentucky 29 at Georgia

SEPTEMBER STEVE PUPPE 3 at Northwestern 5 at Illinois State 10 vs. Cal State Northridge, at Las Vegas 12 vs. Oregon, at Las Vegas 17 UW-Milwaukee 19 Missouri State 24 at Missouri 26 at Iowa State

OCTOBER 1 Texas A&M 3 Texas 8 Oklahoma State 10 Oklahoma 15 at Texas Tech 17 Baylor

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 19 In hard times, older workers find the second version of their work life can be more satisfying than the first

ichael Yearout launched his property management career in 1980 as the director of marketing for a Colorado rental com- pany. “I got the job based on my degree in journalism and the previous experience I Mhad with operating my own bookstore,” says Yearout, j’71, d’73. “I thought I was pretty lucky to get such a high-level job. Within a couple of years, I had increased rental revenue by about 25 percent.” Twenty years later, Yearout was running his own property management company in Breckenridge, Colo. He managed 14 units, all vacation properties. Then the recession of 2001 hit, nearly wiping out tourism in his town. “I could see the writing on the wall,” Yearout says. He decided the time was right to switch careers. Rather than play it safe, he decided at age 56 to view the economic crisis as an opportunity to follow his bliss. Acting on a longtime interest in photography, he jumped—in one leap of faith—from property management to commercial photography.

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Illustrations by Valerie Spicher

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI oday, Yearout says, he’s mak- pact between employer and employee: their sole support, and I couldn’t in good ing a go of it, though the cur- Take care of us and we’ll take care of you. conscience do that”—when life handed rent recession hasn’t helped. That map was redrawn long ago, but her a setback she saw an opportunity to “As they say, ‘Find what you it was still the standard route for many find the work she loves and seized it. love to do and success will fol- when today’s midlife workers began their Even so, starting the ad agency was low.’T I’ve found what I love to do and am careers 20 or 30 years ago. They might not Morrow’s immediate response to her more successful every day.” trade passion for stability, but there situation. The process required a lot of Like Yearout, the many midcareer would be rewards for being a loyal thought, and conversations with good workers now coping with the worst employee: a regular paycheck, good friends and mentors, not to mention a recession in decades face big challenges. health insurance, a pension—things to false start or two. With unemployment at record levels and build a life around. When life and career collide, David unlikely to abate soon, plenty of midlife The rules of the working world have Gaston, director of the University Career and older workers are scrambling to find changed, as many older workers are Center at KU, says, “Identifying and pri- their next job. Although less likely to be jobless than their younger counterparts, older workers are now unemployed at a When life and career collide, “Identifying and prioritizing your higher rate (more than 7 percent) than any time in the past 50 years. They also career values is the first thing you should do.” are more likely to be unemployed for sig- –David Gaston, director of the University Career Center at KU nificantly longer periods of time. One study by the U.S. Department of Labor showed that workers older than 55 were learning. There’s no longer a guaranteed oritizing your career values is the first out of work 70 percent longer than even reward for loyalty, and even the safest thing you should do.” You have to decide teenage workers, whose employment paths are full of pitfalls. The current what’s important to you: Making more prospects have been devastated by the recession has made that clear now more money? Having more security? Finding recession. than ever. more fulfilling work? Spending more Search firms and other organizations Instead of bemoaning the breaking of time with your family? devoted to helping older workers find a social compact, many KU alumni are Everyone answers these questions dif- jobs report that changing careers, rather taking the breach as an opportunity to ferently. Morrow wanted to find out, than just jobs, is a national trend for rewrite their life stories. In this version, “What do I talk about when my friends older workers. Like Yearout, many older they’re not taking the traditional road can’t shut me up?” and do that, while workers take job loss as an opportunity paved with IRAs and dental plans. still providing for her family. to explore a passion. Others are forced They’re taking on second-chance careers Years before, she had given up a job by industry contractions to find new and pursuing their dreams—the work she loved—as a tenured English professor careers. An in-house study conducted by they love—but they’re doing it with the at Louisiana State University in Shreve- Gray Hair Management Inc., a national wisdom that comes from having figured port—to move closer to a program she coaching firm for mid-career executives out a few shortcuts and taken a few thought could help her autistic son. She and managers, confirmed that a signifi- wrong turns along the way. didn’t regret doing all she could for her cant percentage of job-seekers switch son, but she wanted to find that kind of careers either because they have to or fulfilling work again. The only question because they want to. More than half of The Upside of Downsizing was what that job would be. the firm’s clients who found new jobs in “When you’ve been fired, you’ve been Gaston says that once you establish 2009 changed industries. given the gift of freedom,” says Laurie your career priorities, you need to assess Once upon a time the career road Morrow. “You’ve been given the opportu- your skills and abilities. “Do you have map for college graduates was direct and nity to let your passion drive your choice. leadership or organizational skills? Tech- easy to follow: Get a good job with a blue It has to be your passion.” nical skills?” he says. chip company, work 30 years, take your Morrow, PhD’81, should know. Fired Assessing her skills, Morrow realized annual weeklong vacation to Florida, and from her job as a talk show host, she that she used her sales ability all the collect promotions and pay raises until founded her own advertising firm last time, in both the radio career and the you retire with a gold watch and a pen- October, mADwoman advertising. long-ago teaching job. “My dean used to sion (rocking chair optional). It was the Although Morrow would never have quit call me ‘the evangelist’ because of the “safe path,” forged through a social com- the radio job—“I have a family, and I’m way I could promote things,” she says. As

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 21 a radio show host, she wrote ad copy and Eating beans and rice every night for a neer. A few years ago, Pihlman felt he’d did a great deal of marketing. year may be romantic when you’re 22, reached the end of the opportunities “Copywriting is what I do best and but it’s not so appealing when you’ve where he was employed. “I was love most,” Morrow says. If you can sell been there, done that. working in videoconferencing and someone on Beowulf, she insists, you can That fact was in the back of Michael they weren’t putting any more money sell them on anything. Yearout’s mind when he started thinking into it. Here we had this wonderful “Can a 56-year-old make it in the ad about pursuing commercial photography system and the money dried up.” game?” she asks. “I don’t see why not!” as a career. How could he get other peo- Pihlman followed the usual “find a Despite the fact that the outcome is in no ple to pay him to take photographs? second career” steps thoughtfully and way assured, she adds, “I’ve never been Yearout, whose wife is a real estate methodically: He figured out his career happier in my life.” agent, knew that the first glimpse of a priorities, assessed his skills and abilities, Morrow’s experience would not sur- property for potential buyers is often a and asked himself what he could do that prise many of the job coaches who help photograph, and he knew that the bad someone would pay him for. He decided older workers navigate their career photos some agents relied on made a that, with his background in math and changes. It certainly doesn’t surprise poor first impression for their listings. It his interest in sharing what he knows Adeel Pandith, life coach and founder of was a light-bulb moment: Photographing with others, a job teaching math to sec- CoreVision Life Coaching LLC. People properties for the people trying to sell ondary school students would make a often get into new careers because they them could be a way to make money satisfying next career. love the work, he says. Pandith has an doing what he loved. Such a step required retraining, which international clientele, including many “I pounded the pavement, pho- is necessary for many people embarking older workers whom he helps devise tographed my wife’s houses to have on second careers, according to Gaston. strategies to stand out despite having something to present, went into every Pihlman was happy to retrain for a resumés that may not fit perfectly with real estate office and stuffed the agents’ new career that he’d find enjoyable and available opportunities. “Their previous boxes,” he says. “People liked my work rewarding. So after taking his retirement, experience in their last career can be as and found a difference in the number of he went back to school. Now, he says, much of an asset to their new career as phone calls they were getting on proper- “I’m an intern-ready teacher, which the proper educational background,” he ties I photographed.” Word-of-mouth means I could teach in a classroom if says. “Furthermore, owing to their referrals led to more clients. there were jobs available.” unconventional perspective as they Yearout’s approach is key to a success- Unfortunately, Pihlman lives in approach the new career, they may be ful transition to a new career. Says Gas- California. able to offer unique insights and skills ton, “You’ve got to figure out how, based Right. The California that sent IOUs that could give them an edge.” on what you know, you can make a to its creditors last year in lieu of actual Sometimes life circumstances dictate living. Identify what you have that some- payment. The California that had a $60 career priorities: You do what you have to one will compensate you for. Ask, ‘Where billion—that’s with a “b”—deficit last year. do. But if you can look at your skills in a are the areas that need the skills that I The California that isn’t actually hiring new way, what you have to do and what might be able to provide?’” any teachers. you love to do can be the same. Yearout echoes Gaston’s recommenda- Pihlman didn’t let that stop him, tions when he says, “Think about ways though. He didn’t view his dream as bro- you can take a particular talent and apply ken into pieces, not the way you might Will Work For Bliss it and be able to make a living out of it. If when you’re a kid and Hollywood For all that career coaches talk about you can come up with something, then I thumbs its nose at you. He just saw that conducting self-assessments and skills would pursue it.” he was going to have to do some jerry- analyses, “do what you love” is the rigging, something an engineer would phrase repeated over and over by the know a thing or two about. people who’ve found themselves at a Risk, Reward and Retraining Like Yearout, he wanted to do some- career crossroads and had to pick a path. “Doing what you love” isn’t always thing he cared about and he applied an While older workers may want to fol- easy. “Having success follow” isn’t, entrepreneurial spirit to make it happen. low their bliss, they know they have to either. Just ask 58-year-old Mike “I asked myself, ‘What’s my other love?’ put gas in the car and pay the mortgage. Pihlman, g’81, a former electrical engi- That’s telecommuting. So I started a

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI co-working location.” He also outfitted then went to work on retraining. She The KU Career Center one of the offices as a classroom so he finished her master’s in philosophy, a can tutor math. degree she had started at Catholic Uni- avid Gaston, director of the The challenges he’s met along the way versity before moving half-way across the DUniversity Career Center, says haven’t diminished his zest for teaching: country. Before the ink dried on her career center counselors can meet He plans to use videoconferencing to diploma, she was back in the classroom, with alumni to help them sort through connect students to remote education hard at work on her PhD, with an a career change. You may request one opportunities at laboratories, aquariums emphasis on moral philosophy. complementary meeting each year, and universities. At this intersection “I’m trying to meld the two. I’m going with a fee for additional meetings and between his engineering background to start teaching a class on global finance some additional services. Counselors and his desire to share his love of learn- and ethics at KU this fall for MBA stu- can do inventory and skills assess- ing with students, Pihlman identified a dents,” she says. She is also starting her ments and can conduct videotaped service people will pay for in a market own institute: The Seven Pillars Institute mock interviews. The center also has niche where his unique abilities give him for Global Finance and Ethics. Its stated resources for making the most of an edge. mission: to highlight and analyze issues resumés and interviews. Some of these Pihlman has no complaints about the of moral philosophy in global financial resources are online at KUCareer twists and turns on the journey he’s tak- markets with a view to enhancing ethical Hawk.com, a website that also explains ing. “It’s follow your heart, I think. I am practice and policy. all of the career resources available to making progress. Things are happening “Most of the teachers come at it as KU alumni. Those who can’t meet in in the direction I want to go. It is taking finance teachers,” Tan Bhala says. “I person use counseling services via longer than I originally thought. But I’m come at it as a PhD in moral philosophy.” webcam and Skype. finding out they know I’m here.” Still, her understanding of finance and —J.L. ethics is far from academic. If anyone is poised to speak knowledgeably about Putting It All Together the lessons of the last few years—the For many years, Kara Tan Bhala, g’06, dangers of greed unchecked and a and alumni like them are finding ways to PhD’09, lived what many would consider system that focuses on moneymaking at make the second halves of their work a dream life as an expert in Asian equity the expense of every tenet of moral lives even more fulfilling than the first. markets at Merrill Lynch asset manage- philosophy—it’s Tan Bhala, who says, Laid-off, fired or simply walking away ment. She lived in Princeton, N.J., and “The financial system has collapsed from work that no longer fits, they are telecommuted to her job on Wall Street under the weight of its own greed.” striking out boldly on new paths not as a hedge fund manager, traveling all “When I go into class and speak about found on the traditional career road map. over the world for her work while her finance and ethics, they take me more “It took me 50 years to figure out what husband taught at George Washington seriously. They think I’m more credible I wanted to do with my life,” says University in Washington, D.C. because I have the experience,” she adds. Yearout. But he figured it out. Sure, he Then she had a child. Her daughter, You might think that in a time of such wishes he’d thought of his career switch Tan Bhala says, was “a game-changer.” historic economic disruption, tried-and- sooner, but he’s not regretful. He knows When her husband was offered a job at true methods of finding the next thing that sometimes it takes a while to get the School of Law (he is Raymond F. won’t work, but they still do. In her path where you’re going, for your passion, Rice Distinguished Professor Raj Bhala), to a second career, Tan Bhala illustrates skills and instinct for making a buck to Tan Bhala saw a chance to combine a how to successfully use the time-tested fuse in just the right way so you can do new lifestyle with work she loves. approach Gaston recommends, from what you love and find success. Lawrence, she says, “offered community, identifying her career priorities to figur- You can find your way, even if you a good lifestyle and a good place for ing out what she has that someone else take the long way around. The best jour- Shera to grow up.” will pay her for. More important, her neys, after all, are not always in straight When her career priorities shifted, Tan approach has been flexible and creative, lines.
Bhala got creative. She used her skills and her focus has been on doing work —Jennifer Lawler, c’88, g’94, PhD’96, and abilities to work as a consultant in she loves. is a Eudora freelance writer and author of Asian markets for clients in Kansas City, Tan Bhala, Pihlman, Morrow, Yearout Dojo Wisdom.

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 23 24 | KANSAS ALUMNI The Gloom of Doom Did ancient Maya seers peg Armageddon for Dec. 21, 2012? No, but even false prophecies can deliver danger, KU anthropologist warns

Anthropologist John Hoopes grew up in Baltimore, where his father was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was drawn to sciences, but not through the old standbys of observation, exper- imentation and repetition. Hoopes was a child of the ’70s, high noon in the Age of Aquarius. The Swiss author Erich von Daniken got things rolling with Chariots of the Gods, a worldwide best-seller that explained away ancient achievements as interplanetary interventions. With alien visitors or paranormal phenomena often playing roles in the tall tales, the New Age blossomed with exciting theories that promised to explain mysteries that straight science couldn’t, or wouldn’t, address: The Bermuda Triangle. Alternative realities made popular by Carlos Castenada. Healing powers of crystals. Stone spheres. Pyramids. “When I was in 10th grade,” Hoopes says, “I wrote a research paper on the lost continent of Atlantis. I got inter- ested in archaeology partly as a result of my interest in some of these alternative theories.” His interest continues, but for very different reasons.

I John Hoopes examines an intricate carved pot from the Maya Classic period, circa 200-900 A.D. Above is an illustration of the Maya Long Count calendar, which plays a key role in dire predic- tions for Dec. 21, 2012. The lower right figure, also illustrated on by Chris Lazzarino the cover, represents the Maya Sun God.

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 25 In case you haven’t heard, the world is scheduled to end—or, at the very least, humankind will undergo a mass conver- sion of consciousness—on Dec. 21, 2012. The date is a not a blind guess: It is 13 cycles of 144,000 days—1.872 million days, to be exact—from the creation date venerated by the mysterious ancient Maya priests. Don’t believe it? Just tune in to the History Channel or even the National Geographic Channel, or read books, magazine articles and flourishing websites and Internet discussion boards. “2012” isn’t merely a date; it’s also a movie, a slam-bang-boom action pic whose preview trailer declares, “How would the governments of our planet prepare six billion people for the end of the world? ... They wouldn’t.” The warnings are certainly appropri- ate if it’s the end of the world as we know it and we still feel fine. Except: “If anybody says that there’s a Maya prophecy, they’re making it up,” Hoopes says, “because we don’t know.”

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s a man who discovered his direction in life thanks to a boyhood interest in fantastical nand and Isabella could conquer New Age pseudosciences, John Jerusalem to initiate the End Times, as AHoopes appreciates the allure of tall tales prophesied in the Book of Revelation. such as alleged Maya predictions for a “Before he even arrived in the New 2012 Armageddon. “Every generation World,” Hoopes says, “Columbus felt has that sort of stuff,” he says, “going that he was fulfilling ancient prophecies however far back you want to go.” that would usher in a new age. Basically, The same mystical insights that Christopher Columbus was a New Ager.” intrigue young believers today were just But as director of KU’s Global Indige- as popular in the 1970s, Hoopes notes, nous Nations Studies program and asso- and ’70s New Age movements grew out ciate professor of anthroplogy, Hoopes of the San Francisco counterculture of has run out of patience. He no longer the 1960s. But the flower children didn’t sees New Age intrigues, including the invent this stuff, either. 2012 Maya prophecies, as cheeky fun. The 1950s was all about UFOs. Ear- Instead, he now considers pseudo- lier, we nurtured fascinations with Orien- science intrigues such as Atlantis, astral talism, the secret knowledge of ancient projection, past-life regression, extrater- China and India. Keep turning the clock restrial visitors, Nostradamus, the Loch I back to 1492, Hoopes says, when Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Planet X and 2012 A section of calendar glyph, found at the Christopher Columbus sailed westward to be closely related—in both spirit and Maya site known at Tortuguero Monument 6, with a firm belief both in astrology and intent—to anti-government rants such as which contains the only known references to the power of the enormous wealth wait- the secrets of Area 51, the JFKassassina- the end of Long Count calendar cycles. The ing to be discovered in the most distant tion conspiracy, Sept. 11 coverups and image is from the book 2012: Science and lands. With untold riches, Spain’s Ferdi- President Obama’s true place of birth. Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, by Mark Van Stone.

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI Portraits by Steve Puppe | illustration by Valerie Spicher

“I’m in something of a quandary,” “The idea,” he says, “is to teach stu- on Dec. 21 or 23, 2012), he has yet to Hoopes says, “in that when when I bring dents how to evaluate all the stuff that’s rescind his description of an Armageddon. things like 2012 to people’s attention out there on the Web these days.” Hoopes flatly disagrees with his mentor, they get more involved in it, and if but offers an explanation: When Coe wrote they’re not well educated in critical NNN the book, he might have used the phrase thinking then it’s very easy to get sucked as a hook to generate interest at the height in. It promotes this very vigorous debate he first date suggested for the of the Cold War, when Americans were between skeptics and true believers, and end of Maya “Long Count” cal- enduring their own end-of-the-world night- making it sound like it’s something con- endar cycle was Dec. 23, 2011, mares. troversial feeds into the interest.” by the eminent Maya scholar With Coe’s popular book planting the Despite the risks, Hoopes has chosen TMichael Coe, now professor emeritus at seed, others nurtured the Maya Armaged- to do what he can to calm the 2012 non- Yale University. When he wrote his first don theory and, in the worst traditions of sense and encourage deeper interests in textbook on Maya culture, published in New Age shamanism, continue to concoct true Maya history, culture and achieve- 1966, Coe hoped it would appeal to the ever more elaborate scenarios to generate ments. He teaches a KU undergraduate growing numbers of American students controversy, gain notoriety and sell what- course in archaeological myths and reali- who then were tramping throughout ever it is they might be selling. ties, surreptitiously edits Wikipedia Guatemala, Belize and Mexico’s Yucatan “What bothers me the most,” Hoopes pages devoted to 2012, monitors Internet Peninsula. He succeeded wildly, and The says, “is that young kids see adults who are forums, and grants interviews when Maya, now in its seventh edition, is con- preoccupied by this and it’s very scary to asked by respectable media outlets (a sidered an authoritative textbook on the them. That’s really unfortunate.” crew from the Canadian Broadcasting ancient Maya. Hoopes says that a number of Maya Corporation recently taped an interview And yet it was Coe, Hoopes’ under- inscriptions give the first date of the Long with him on campus). graduate adviser at Yale, who also con- Count cycle, which rulers likely used to Hoopes says his undergraduate nected the end of the 13th Long Count perpetuate their authority by claiming their course is as much about critical thinking cycle to worldwide calamity, writing, ancestors could be traced to the beginning as it is about the ancient Maya. “There is a suggestion ... that Armaged- of creation. But only one inscription has don would overtake the degenerate peo- yet been found that refers to the end date, ples of the world and all creation on the and a key element is so badly damaged I Hoopes’ primary research takes place in final day of the thirteenth; the Great that it can’t be deciphered. Costa Rica, where he studies diverse cultures Cycle would then begin again.” Although “It gives the date that correlates with of ancient people collectively known by their Coe has since amended his end date to Dec. 21, 2012,” Hoopes says, “and says cer- language family, Chibchan. The figurine of a sit- Dec. 23, 2012 (there is some dispute tain gods will descend and then, ‘blank’ ting male (left) is a Chibchan artifact. among scholars whether the cycle ends will happen. So we just don’t know.” COURTESY JOHN HOOPES COURTESY

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 27 I Energized by their passion for Maya history and language, graduate students Anne Kraemer Diaz and Emily Tummons created a relief agency dedicated to delivering health care to Maya people in their native languages. Here they hold a belt and blouse made with colorful woven cloth, a beloved Maya tradition.

duras, and most of them are living on less than a dollar a day, don’t have access to education, health care, or common civil and social services,” Kraemer Diaz says. “The problem becomes, when do we focus on what their needs are versus this idea of 2012?” Kraemer Diaz’s husband, Victor Diaz Can, who studies business administra- tion at a Guatemala City university, says few in his Maya community know any- thing about predictions for 2012, and those who do—mostly students who read NNN none of them think that the world is about it in textbooks or other young peo- coming to an end in 2012.” ple with access to mass media—don’t give omething else that’s not known: Tummons and KU doctoral student it a second thought. the very existence of the Long Anne Kraemer Diaz, g’08, in 2007 co- He notes, however, that there are Count calendar, at least among founded Wuqu’ Kawoq, an organization Maya with firm beliefs in Armageddon: many Maya. Though millions of dedicated to providing medical care to those who have converted to evangelical SMaya live in Guatemala, Mexico and Guatemalans in their native languages. Christianity, which is rapidly surpassing Honduras, and many maintain their Though already pressed by demanding the Catholic Church’s influence in many ancestors’ spiritual traditions, the Long needs, Wuqu’ Kawoq is now focused on regions of Guatemala. Count calendar has been lost to them for helping Guatemala’s Central Highlands “We understand a lot about the a millennia or more. and Lake Atitlan regions recover from ancient Maya and we have a belief in the They are devoted to a smaller hub devastating mud slides brought on in moon, and the relationship of the moon within their ancients’ beautiful calendar May by Tropical Storm Agatha, and, at and the earth,” Diaz Can says. “And there traditions, a 260-day agricultural cycle; virtually the same time, a volcanic erup- are Maya who are evangelicals, and they the Long Count calendar uncovered and tion that added to the chaos by forcing discuss in their religion the end of the deciphered by archaeologists and anthro- the closure of Guatemala City’s interna- world. This is growing, but they never pologists is either unknown to them, tional airport for days. Hundreds were have a date.” irrelevant, or a mere curiosity. killed or are still missing in the storm’s “In the communities where we work, mud slides, thousands lost their homes, NNN it doesn’t come up,” says Emily Tum- and the calamities severely damaged mons, a KU graduate student and already perilous infrastructure basics oopes is spending a month instructor of Kaqchikel, one of about 30 such as clean water storage and delivery. this summer doing fieldwork Mayan languages spoken in Central Like Hoopes, Tummons and Kraemer in the Caribbean lowlands of America. “On a few occasions we asked Diaz aren’t in the mood to humor Ameri- Costa Rica, where he and a out of our own curiosity about what their cans who insist on reading more into the teamH of KU graduate students and fac- views are, and they just kind of laugh. Maya calendar than even the Maya do. ulty and students from the University of They are vaguely aware that some Ameri- “There are 8 or 9 million Maya alive Costa Rica—an academic partner and cul- cans are getting really interested, but today in Guatemala, Mexico and Hon- tural-exchange ally of KU’s since 1958—

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI are mapping an ancient Chibchan settle- “I think it is very important,” Victor ment. Diaz Can says, “that if there are people The site is particularly fascinating like this, to focus them and really teach because of its placement along ancient them the reality—show them the many roads (also being investigated by KU stu- problems in Guatemala, like lack of edu- dents) that connected it both with the cation. People from other coun- coast and the interior highlands, perhaps tries see our Maya ancestry and indicating it was some sort of production temples as something wonder- Recommended reading center where raw materials could be ful, but they are missing the real- • 2012: Science and Prophecy of transformed into finished goods. ity that we have little resources the Ancient Maya, by Mark Van In January, Hoopes and an interna- and a lack of human rights.” Stone, www.markvanstone.com tional team of scholars investigated As for Dec. 21, 2012, Hoopes • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayanism Costa Rica’s ancient stone spheres at the says his only plans for now are • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phe- behest of UNESCO, the United Nations that he’ll likely put aside his nomenon cultural organization that is considering semester grades and devote him- • wuqukawoq.org granting some of the stone-sphere sites self to following Internet forums • The Maya, by Michael D. Coe World Heritage Status. As is the case and news reports. He hopes hys- • Silence on the Mountain: Stories with many wonders of the Maya civiliza- teria will be kept to a minimum. of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting tion, the spheres, first made famous in “But,” he cautions, “I assure in Guatemala, by Daniel Chariots of the Gods and later in the you there are plenty of people Wilkinson thrilling opening action sequence of who feel Dec. 21, 2012, will be “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” have proven when some group takes advan- Research sponsors irresistible to pseudoscientists, New tage of this mass confusion. It’s John Hoopes’ Costa Rican fieldwork Agers and others hoping to capitalize on hard to predict what the conse- is sponsored by the University of a gullible audience by denigrating the quences of that might be, but Costa Rica/KU Collaboration Fund, accomplishments of indigenous Central there is lots of speculation out which is administered by the KU and South Americans. And that’s only there. It’s a big topic and it has Office of International Programs, possible, Hoopes notes, because indige- lots of implications. and a Franklin Research Grant from nous cultures have been wiped out, creat- “All of our fears can get piled the American Philosophical Society. ing a vacuum into which dominant into this day and become a self- cultures can project their own fantasies. fulfilling prophecy.”
COURTESY JOHN HOOPES (2) COURTESY

I Hoopes and an international team of researchers investigated Costa Rica’s ancient stone spheres for possible World Heritage Site designation. The balls could have been roughed out with hot coals and chilled water, refined with hammering stones and polished to a high luster. Contrary to some beliefs, Hoopes notes, they were created without alien assistance.

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 29 Community garden unites international students Story and photographs by Terry Rombeck

weat drips from Seyool hearing her international friends Oh’s arm as he maneuvers talk about missing their tradi- a watering can through a tional foods. Also, she knew a row of tomato plants. garden would help ends meet SIt’s still two hours until the for families, and it would be a sun nestles behind the buildings good way for neighbors to meet at Stouffer Place Apartments, neighbors. providing shade for the gardeners In the beginning, Lindsey- tending to their vegetables. It’s Nunn says, it took some work to hot—hotter than it would be in convince KU officials to let the Oh’s home country of South students till the ground. Run- Korea this time of the year. ning pipe for a single water “Good for vegetables,” he says. spigot was another challenge. Oh’s space in this community The gardeners didn’t always garden neighbors the plot of get along so well, either. At first, Margarita Karnysheva, who also there weren’t individual plots, so is working tonight. the gardeners disagreed about She’s from Siberia. Don’t even I Stouffer Place Community Garden participants, clockwise from what to plant. During one get her started about the heat. particularly stressful meeting, a left, are Seyool Oh, from South Korea; Noah Nunn, sophomore at “My broccoli is not growing. man threw a clod of dirt and Lawrence High School; Angela Lindsey-Nunn, Noah’s mother and Look at his broccoli,” Karnysheva spit on the ground because he says, pointing to Oh’s bumper garden organizer; Alencia Bonner, 8, whose mother is from Taiwan; was convinced the spirits crop. and Margarita Karnysheva, from Russia. weren’t right for growing corn “There is no competition in one area. here,” Oh replies with an ornery smile. students with families. Now, students share a water hose and “But, of course,” Karnysheva says, “I It’s a melting pot both of people and tools. There are 44 plots covering about am jealous.” food, with students often planting veg- 2,500 square feet, with paths crisscross- In many ways, this garden—and the etables native to their home countries. ing between the vegetables. Gardeners area around it—is classic Americana. “Out here, there is no homework and import both seeds and methods from Tonight, two boys kick a soccer ball no assignments,” Oh says. “There are their home countries—some build on the grass nearby. A playground swing only good people.” mounds to aid in drainage, while others creaks under the weight of a young girl build trellises out of sticks for climbing in a sun dress. Neighbors chat about NNN plants. their days and their vegetables while “There are people here from all over pulling weeds. his is the sixth season for the the world. Sometimes three generations But what makes this space so unusual community garden at Stouffer are working side by side with each is just how global it is. The gardeners Place, which sits just beyond the other,” Lindsey-Nunn says. “You hear so who tend plots here represent 22 left-field fence of Arrocha much about countries at war, but out different countries, pulling from the TBallpark. here it’s so peaceful. It means so much diversity of Stouffer Place Apartments, Angela Lindsey-Nunn, an American more than a piece of land and water to which are home primarily to interna- PhD student who lives in the apart- people. It’s being able to have the com- tional students and nontraditional ments, helped organize the garden after forts of home.”

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hat’s certainly the case for Oh, a PhD student in aerospace engineering. This is his fourth year in the Tgarden. He’s planted chives, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, kale, onions, potatoes and Swiss chard. But he’s especially excited about the sweet Korean lettuce he purchased from a seed store in Kansas City, which his wife will use in Korean barbecue dishes. “American lettuce is good,” he says, “but I love Korean lettuce.” Oh also has sesame—“only Korean people eat that,” he says—and curled I Seyool Oh waters his tomato plants at the Stouffer Place Community Garden. In the foreground mallow, which is used to treat stomach is a trellis made from sticks for peas to climb. Below: Louis Singman, 8, from Taiwan, waters his ailments in Korea. family’s plants. But while his family loves to cook, it’s the garden’s social aspect Oh appreciates There were 1,926 international stu- China suggested she would like it in tea, the most. He recalls a recent night when dents from 113 countries enrolled at KU and a friend from Iran gave her a recipe he and a friend from Iran talked about in the spring. Many have obligations with for a mint-pita rollup. She also never ate politics in the Middle Eastern country. families, teaching and research that can tomatoes before. Now, she loves them. “My friends’ children play Internet make life stressful, Potts says. Bonner admits her plot has a financial games,” Oh says. “That’s sometimes OK, “Having something like the garden to benefit, too. Here, she says, a trip to the but not all the time. Our fathers’ genera- take your attention away from your grocery store is expensive. tion was out in nature. Out here, we are heavy obligations is really important,” “Back home, groceries are so cheap,” with nature and neighbors. We’re so dis- he says. she says. “We have a truck that comes by connected from other people. This gar- in the alley and plays music and has den connects people.” NNN vegetables.” That sort of connection is For Juan Araya and Angie Leon, both critical for international hat escape—and a graduate students from Costa Rica, the students, says Joe love for sweet corn— carrots, tomatoes, green beans, lettuce Potts, g’88, direc- is what brought and spinach in their plot represent a tor of KU’s Cooper Singman better lifestyle. International Tback for a second year of “It’s good timing with the garden,” Student and gardening this summer. Araya says, patting his wife’s seven- Scholar His sons, ages 6 and 8, month-pregnant belly. “It’s healthy food.” Services. often help with watering They’ve been making friends this “They’re and weeding. summer one bunch of carrots at a time, all dealing “It’s a leisure activity,” as they share their abundance of food. with the same says Singman, a PhD Lindsey-Nunn, who studies social challenge— student in education from anthropology, has a dream for the garden negotiating this Taiwan. “I don’t have to she helped start. particular new think about my studies.” Someday, if two former Stouffer Place culture, the way we Fellow Taiwanese student Eve residents’ countries are at war, she hopes do things, the language, Bonner, who is pursuing a master’s they will stop and think about the friend the weather,” Potts says. “They have that degree in education, also has made gar- they met in the garden. Maybe they’ll common bond—the culture shock, the dening a family activity for her husband think about shared advice, an extra homesickness issues. The garden project and 8-year-old daughter. tomato or just a smile. would be a wonderful way for people to She never ate mint before she started “That,” she says, “is hope for the re-create something from home.” gardening. But a fellow gardener from future.”

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National Council and Constituent Committee, Hilltop Honors meeting with numerous alumni and friends throughout the campaign. She also became Fall event to recognize alumni involved in the arts at KU as a member of the KU for dedication to KU and humanity Theatre and Film professional advisory board and the School of Fine Arts advisory board. Gov. Mike wo University ambassadors will receive Hayden appointed her to serve for two years on the Fred Ellsworth Medallion Sept. 10 the Kansas Film Commission. for their extraordinary service to KU. The Budigs are Jayhawk Society and Life Mem- Gretchen Van Bloom Budig, Isle of Palms, bers of the Alumni Association and members of TS.C., wife of longtime KU Chancellor Gene A. the Chancellors Club for KU Endowment. During Budig, and Monte Johnson, Lawrence, former Campaign Kansas, they made the first of many KU athletics director, will receive medallions, gifts to the University; through the years they created in 1975 by the Alumni Asso- ciation to honor the tradition of its longtime leader Fred Ellsworth, c’22. Winners of The recognition will be part of the Association’s Hilltop Honors at The Oread hotel premier awards in Lawrence. For the first time, recip- ients of the Association’s premier will be the awards will be honored in one cele- special guests bration of service and achievement. Budig and Johnson will be featured at Hilltop Honors guests, along with the recipients of on Sept. 10 with the 2010 Distinguished Service Citation, the highest honor given by a celebration KU and the Association for service to of service and humanity. The DSC winners [issue achievement. No. 2, 2010] are Anderson W. Chan- dler, b’48, Topeka, and Benjamin D. Budig Johnson Hall, Bellevue, Wash. Chandler is chairman, president and director of Fidelity State have provided unrestricted funds, student schol- Bank and Trust, and Hall is professsor emeritus arships, teaching professorships and funds for of biology and genome sciences at the University graduate programs. Their gifts have benefited the of Washington. schools of Education, Fine Arts, Journalism, Budig, assoc., hosted countless events at The Social Welfare, and the College of Liberal Arts Outlook and on the road from 1981 to 1994, dur- and Sciences. They also have created faculty ing her husband’s tenure as chancellor. She repre- awards for librarians and supported athletics and sented KU to thousands of students, parents, the Lied Center. alumni, faculty, staff, donors, legislators, gover- Johnson, c’59, g’67, began his career in the ath- nors, and national and international dignitaries. letics department in 1961 as director of public In 1988, she published a guide for spouses of uni- relations, business manager and assistant athlet- versity presidents and chancellors called How in ics director. He helped guide the KU Athletics the World Do You Do It? The book became a Corp. board as an alumni representative from resource for the National Association of State Uni- 1978 to 1982. In 1970, he began a banking career versities and Land Grant Colleges. That same for Bank IV in Wichita, where he became senior year, KU Endowment launched the Campaign vice president. After 11 years, he returned in 1982 Kansas fund drive, for which she served on the to the Hill, where he served as athletics director

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI from 1982 to 1987. During the 1980s, he national board in 2005. 2004. Directors Grant Larkin, c’78, Gar- also became a trustee for the Kansas All- Four new directors were elected to den City; Melissa Rodgers Padgett, c’83, Sports Hall of Fame. succeed alumni retiring from the board. Lawrence; and Walter Riker, j’78, Aurora, With his wife, Kay Rathbone Johnson, New directors include: Ill., retired from the board after five years d’60, he belongs to the Chancellors Club Paul Carttar, c’76, Lawrence, who of service. Immediate Past Chair Tedde for KU Endowment. He also has raised earned a bachelor’s degree in economics Tasheff, c’78, New York, retired after funds to expand and renovate the Phi and English from KU and a master’s in seven years of service. Delta Theta fraternity house and the Pi business administration from Stanford The Board of Directors meets three Beta Phi sorority house. Johnson chaired University in 1983. He works for Presi- times annually in Lawrence. The Associa- the 50th reunion for his KU class and dent Obama’s administration as director tion invites nominations for new direc- presided over the event as master of cere- of the Social Innovation Fund, a $50 mil- tors through March 1 each year. In April monies, a role he played as a KU student lion fund housed in the Corporation for the Association’s Nominating Committee for the Rock Chalk Revue. During his National and Community Service. reviews the nominations and submits a student years he also was a member of Scott Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Ill., a slate to the entire board for consideration the men’s basketball team. volunteer for the Chicago Chapter. He is at the May meeting.
The Johnsons are Life Members of the managing partner with Seyfco. Alumni Association, and they belong to Brenda Marzett Vann, c’71, g’72, NNN the Presidents Club; he served on the Kansas City, Kan. She earned both of her Association’s national Board from 1971 degrees in speech pathology and is the to 1974. In 2005, the Johnson family pro- special education program coordinator Wintermote’s way vided funds for the Association’s Jay- for the University of Missouri-Kansas hawk trailer, which has become a rolling City. In 2009, she received the Associa- Alumni volunteers earn praise billboard as it crisscrosses Kansas and tion’s Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Award for banner year in chapters surrounding states, carrying all the sup- as a longtime volunteer for the KU Black plies for hundreds of Association Alumni Chapter. ive chapter leaders from around events.
Jeff Wolfe, Meridian, Idaho, b’83, has the nation are winners of this hosted KU events for Jayhawks in the year’s Dick Wintermote Chapter NNN Northwest. He is the president and CEO Volunteer of the Year Award. The of CarPark, U.S.A. Faward, created in 2007, honors Winter- Sue Shields Watson, d’75, Wichita, mote, c’51, who served as executive New leaders ended her one-year term as chair and director of the Alumni Association from remains on the board as immediate past 1963 to 1983. In a career dedicated to Board chooses officers, chair. She became a board member in building relationships with KU alumni, directors at spring meeting

he Alumni Association’s national Board of Directors met May 21 at TERRY ROMBECK TERRY the Adams Alumni Center and elected new leadership and Tmembers. Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas, was elected national chair for 2010-’11. A Salina native, Howard earned a law degree from the University of Texas in 1982 after completing his KU business degree. He is president of JDH Invest- ments and has served on the Associa- tion’s board since 2003. Jeff Briley, Overland Park, became national chair-elect. Briley, d’74, is an executive at CBIZ Wealth Management. He has volunteered for many years on I Jeff Briley is the Association’s chair-elect for 2010-’11. Sue Watson remains on the board the Alumni Association’s Kansas City for another year as immediate past chair, and Jay Howard leads the Association as national Chapter board, and he was elected to the chair for 2010-’11.

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Cook Garcia Glass Mitchell Simien he became known for his personal graduation reception for members of the dren. She operates a graphic design busi- letters, which forged lasting connections. Class of 2010. ness, Machine Made Design. She also He went on to work at KU Endowment Garcia worked as programs coordina- works as a prenatal and postpartum mas- until his retirement. He and his wife, tor for the Congressional Hispanic Cau- sage therapist and teacher at A Mellow Barbara Fletcher Wintermote, f’51, still cus in Washington, D.C. Now living in Mood Organic Family Spa. call Lawrence home. Wichita, she serves as manager of gov- Simien, c’05, a Life Member, assists The 2010 Wintermote honorees are ernment relations and public affairs at with membership efforts, chapter out- Will Cook, Chicago, Ill.; Monique Garcia, ICM Inc., a renewable energy company reach events and student programs. The Wichita; Douglas Glass, New York; located in Colwich. former KU basketball star has made Jeanne McCready Mitchell, Louisville, Glass, c’95, moved to the East Coast guest appearances at alumni golf tourna- Colo.; and Wayne Simien, Lawrence. to complete a master’s degree at New ments and other events, and was the Volunteers from the Association’s 25 York University, but he maintains his Jay- spokesman for the Association’s recent Kansas chapters, 36 national chapters, hawk roots. He joined the New York March to 2,000 membership campaign. two international chapters and three Chapter, leading the group for three After a four-year career playing profes- affinity chapters are eligible for the Win- years as president. sional basketball, Simien retired to start termote award. The honor complements Glass also earned a master’s in busi- Called to Greatness ministry and basket- the Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Award, ness administration from the University ball camp. An ordained minister, he which is open to all KU volunteers and of Georgia. He works for the Global Busi- hosts activities for area students, volun- recognizes longtime service through the ness Services division of IBM. teers with the KU Religious Advisors and years. Mitchell, f’96, started working with Kansas Athletics as a mentor for student- Cook, d’02, a Chicago native, joined the Denver Chapter in 2009 to organize athletes.
his hometown alumni chapter in 2004 more events for Jayhawks and their chil- —Whitney Eriksen and became a chapter leader four years later, planning KU and community serv- ice events and student recruitment activi- ties. He hosted the Association’s first event featuring an alumni career advisory panel, and he co-founded the Big 12 Club of Chicago, which plans events with local alumni chapters of other Big 12 schools. Cook also represents the Alumni Association on the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics. Garcia, c’96, has demonstrated her devotion to KU as an active member of the Washington, D.C., and Wichita chap- ters. She is a co-founder and officer of the new KU Hispanic Alumni Chapter, which in May hosted its first event, a

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI NNN mer rush began: golf tournaments in Chapter president and national Board Hays, Garden City, Kansas City, Dallas member Jim Trower, b’77, and Associa- and St. Louis served as prelude to the tra- tion president Kevin Corbett, c’88, wel- 100 days, 100 events ditional Jayhawk Generations picnics, comed alumni and friends, who also which welcome KU freshmen to the fam- heard from Chancellor Bernadette Gray- ’Tis the season for picnics, golf ily. Twenty picnics in Kansas will gather Little and coaches Turner Gill and Bon- tourneys and other festivities new Jayhawks with local alumni, as will nie Henrickson. Just as the band began seven other picnics in KU strongholds to play, ominous clouds, howling wind ummer sizzles for Association including St. Louis, Chicago and Dallas. and distant lightning threatened a thun- staff and alumni volunteers, who The North Central Kansas chapter derstorm, cutting short the dancing and are hosting events throughout staged its second-annual Salina Steakout sending many revelers home early. A few Kansas and the nation at a record June 19. Nearly 300 alumni and friends dozen stalwarts simply moved the party Space—100 events in 100 days. As soon as started the evening at the scenic Wilson indoors. Not even fierce Kansas weather the academic year concluded, the sum- ranch with a silent auction and dinner. could quash their KU spirit.
JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER JENNIFER JACKSON

I Association president Kevin Corbett properly gave credit for the June 19 Salina Steakout to Jim Trower, local chapter president and national board member, who welcomed nearly 300 guests, including Julia and Jay Howard and Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. Frank Hampton and his son Zachary got the chance to admire the 2008 national men’s basketball championship trophy, which was on display with the 2008 Orange Bowl trophy, courtesy of Kansas Athletics. STEVE PUPPE (5)

I The KC Legends Golf Tournament June 7 lured more than 100 Jayhawks to the links, including (l to r) John Hadl, Sam Clark and Joel Cox, twin sisters Mary Snyder and Sara Snyder Pestinger, and Gale Sayers.

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Allison D. Emmot Jonathon P. Holmes & Nathan A. Mack Jr. Life members Nicholas E. Engelbrecht Kelsy L. Jones Lori L. Maldonado & Sabra Blaine Lauren E. Holt Donald F. Marchiony he Association thanks these Jayhawks, Engelbrecht Glenda K. & Brian D. Bradley W. Marples & who became Life Members beginning Heidi A. K. Fedak Holzman Aileen C. McCarthy May 1 through June 30. For more infor- Benjamin A. Fields Christina M. Howard Kyle A. Martin & Kristen mation on Life Membership, please visit Anne T. Frizzell Timothy S. Isernhagen M. Kelly Twww.kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.
Stefani N. Fuhrman Daniel Z. Johnson Max L. & Nancy Kristie L. Gast Christie A. Jones McKinstry Mardick Emily C.Adams RichardV.Copley Jr. Alyssa A. George Kevin M. Jordan Janelle L. McCoy Christopher R.Allen Archer D. Crosley Brian D. Giebink Erin C. Juliff Adam S. McGonigle Kurt J.Anselmi Anne L. Culnane Eric S. Gourley Karl L. Kammerer Rhonda M. Meitl Daniel G. & Kimberly G.Thorne Daimler Sushant Govindan Sarah E. Karst Danielle N. Merritt Cavender Ayars Myles T.Davidson Darrel W. Grattidge Mark C. Kennedy Breon & Lynda Mitchell Daniel J. & Janelle K. Samuel Z. Davidson James P. Grube Antoinette S. Kim Micaela Growney Mitts Benninghoff Harlan S. Davis Joseph W. Hager James D. Kindscher Eric W. Montgomery Margaret A. Berg Joseph F.Day Hollis H. Hands Amber L. Kollman Thomas W. Moody Emily M. Beth Johana Bravo De Los Hailey J. Harding Grant C. Kollman Nichole Spresser Moss Angie K. Bezdek Rios Shane M. Hauschild & Stephen R. & Crista L. John R. & Tiffany Mullen Brett A. & Samantha Dale P.& Patricia A. Jenna M. Morris Lane Christopher S. Nance Brown Boyle Denning Drew W. Heidrick Edward S. Lanier Joseph M. Nasternak Frank J. Brennan Craig K. Denny Kimberly M. Hernandez Stephen J. Lauer Michael B. Nelson Steven G. Brown Russell D. Dettmer Andrew V. Herwig Alexandra B. Liggatt Ronald W. Norland Jessica M. Casey Ryan P.Driscoll Vallapa Shaisiri Herzog Will D. Lindquist Ryan M. Nugent Kerri Sue Christman- Mary D. Dunbar Ashley D. Hicks Frank M. & Rachel John D. O’Connor Kelley Julia C. Dusch Jacob E. Hill Lipman David F. & Bobbi J. Olson Kathryn R. Clark Kristen A. Eckman Curtis & Kathleen John W. & Jacqueline A. Robert C. & Karen Hall Clint M. Colberg Ryan S. & Tai Edwards Hitschmann Lord Orr

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI Patricia D. Owens Steven W. & Mary Beth Alexandra M. Panagakos Gill Smith Sarah T. Partlow-Lefevre Robert C. Spangler The KU Alumni Association exists to strengthen the Uni- Rachelle Pauly Allyson L. Stanton versity of Kansas by informing, engaging and mobilizing Jennifer A. Pecis Brett D. Stauffer the KU community. Sarah G. Prochaska- Richard D. Stephens Your membership in the Association is the single most Carpenter Maxwell M. Stevens powerful way to make all of KU stronger, including the Frank M. Reiber Robert M. Stracener value of your own degree. Alexander M. Reinhard Gavin P. Strunk Ryan S. Reiss Grant Taylor Andrea T. Rosenfeld Joanie M.C. Thelen Board of Directors DIRECTORS TO JULY 2013 Nikki Epley Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Director of Reunion Patrick V. Roth Jennifer E. Thomas Arroyo Grande, California Programs Charles Jacob W. Ryan Elizabeth Willard CHAIR Jay Howard, b’79, Jeff Kennedy, j’81, Heath Peterson, d’04, Steven P. Salyer VanBeber Austin, Texas Wichita g’09, Assistant Vice Bill & Drucilla J. David M. Vernick Henry Menghini, c’87, President for Alumni Sampson Dru B. Walstrom CHAIR-ELECT Pittsburg and Student Programs Jenna V. Sauls Lawrence S. Walter Jeffrey P. Briley, d’74, Ben Palen Jr., c’75, Abbie L. Schuster Kristen R. Watson Overland Park Denver, Colorado COMMUNICATIONS David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Emmett C. & JoAnne Kari A. Wiesen DIRECTORS TO JULY 2014 Director of Internet Schuster Shelley Batt Wiest EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Jeffrey P. Briley, d’74, Douglas C. Miller, b’71, Services and Marketing Elizabeth A. Schulte Michael D. & Rhonda L. Overland Park l’74, Mission Hills Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Roger W. & Kathleen R. Willome Howard E. Cohen, b’79, Debbie Foltz Nordling, Associate Editor, Sevedge Michael R. Wilson Leawood d’79, Hugoton Kansas Alumni magazine Kaitlin K. Shimizu Jill D. Windscheffel Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Camille Bribiesca Platz, Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Kristen M. Skolaut Charles C. Worley Leawood c’96, g’98, Dallas, Texas Sr VP for Communications Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Richard Putnam, c’77, and Corporate Secretary Brooke N. Slatten Jessica L. Wothke l’80, Omaha, Nebraska Susan Younger, f’91, Fredrick D. Smith Stanley K. Zimmerman Arroyo Grande, California Jay Howard, b’79, Larry D. Stoppel, c’73, Creative Director Sharon K. Smith Austin, Texas Washington Bradley G. Korell, l’97, DONOR RELATIONS Austin, Texas DIRECTORS TO JULY 2015 Ellen Chindamo, f’92, Sue Shields Watson, d’75, Paul Carttar, c’76, Senior Development Wichita Lawrence Director Scott Seyfarth, b’83, STEVE PUPPE DIRECTORS UNTIL 2011 Hinsdale, Illinois FINANCE Jeffrey P. Briley, d’74, Brenda Marzett Vann, Jodi Nachtigal Overland Park c’71, g’72, Kansas City Controller Howard E. Cohen, b’79, Jeff Wolfe, b’83, Dwight Parman Leawood Meridian, Idaho Sr VP for Finance and Jay Howard, b’79, Human Resources and Austin, Texas Treasurer Bradley G. Korell, l’97, Austin, Texas Administrative Staff HOSPITALITY SERVICES Curtis R. McClinton Jr., Kevin J. Corbett, c’88, Bryan Greve d’62, Kansas City, Missouri President Sr VP for Hospitality Winifred S. Pinet, c’80, g’82, Plymouth, Michigan ALUMNI CENTER RECORDS Timothy E. Brandt, Bill Green DIRECTORS TO JULY 2012 b’74,Director of Adams Sr VP for Information Paul “Bud” Burke, b’56, Alumni Center Services Lawrence Stefanie Shackelford Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, ALUMNI, STUDENT & Vice President for I Debbi Headley Johanning, c’98, is the Association’s Leawood MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Alumni Records new editorial assistant for online communications. Karen M. Humphreys, Michael Davis, d’84, g’91, Sr VP for Alumni, She will help increase social media efforts. Her work c’70, l’73, Wichita James A. Trower, b’77, Student and Membership for the Sandbar in Lawrence has been recognized Salina Programs by Google.

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1950 1964 James Nordstrom, c’66, l’69, is a part- John Shaffer, c’50, continues to prac- Harold Godwin, p’64, serves as presi- ner in the Topeka firm of Fisher, Patter- tice law in Hutchinson, where he special- dent of the American Pharmacists Associ- son, Sayler & Smith. izes in elder law at the firm of Martindell, ation. He’s chair of pharmacy practice Michael O’Brien, j’66, g’69, owns a Swearer & Shaffer. and associate dean at the KU School of public accounting firm in Dallas, where Pharmacy. he and Karen Ogden O’Brien, d’68, 1954 make their home. Allen Kelley, d’54, recently was named 1965 to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall GregsThomopulos, e’65, recently 1967 of Fame Enshrinement Class of 2010. He received an honorary doctor of science Howard Pankratz, j’67, received the was a three-year letterman for Phog Allen, from the University of Iowa. He’s CEO Keeper of the Flame Award earlier this and continues to make his home in and chairman of the board of Stanley year from the Colorado Chapter of the Lawrence. Consultants, and he makes his home in Society of Professional Journalists. He is a Iowa City. reporter for the Denver Post. He makes 1956 his home in Lakewood. John Studdard, b’56, lives in Lawrence, 1966 where he’s a director of the Jayhawk Area Sister Mary Dieckman, g’66, 1968 Agency on Aging, a member of the Dou- recently celebrated 60 years of religious Patricia Maloy All, d’68, g’77, EdD’86, glas County Council on Aging and a rep- life. She makes her home in Maple retired earlier this year as superintendent resentative in the Kansas Silver Haired Mount, Ky. of the Olathe District Schools. Legislature.

1958 George Harp, c’58, was honored recently when the George L. Harp Envi- ronmental Field Station was dedicated at the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. He and his wife, Phoebe, live in Jones- boro, Ark., and he is a professor emeritus of environmental biology at Arkansas State University.

1962 Larry Arnold, e’62, is a consulting engineer with Technical Diagnostic Serv- ices in Bay City, Texas. Cotton Smith, j’62, wrote Ride for Rule Cordell, which was published recently. He is senior vice president of Corporate Communications Group in Overland Park.

1963 Alvin Feinstein, a’63, moved to Col- orado Springs, Colo. He wrote America Lost? What We Learned by Living in Mexico, published by Publish America.

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David McClain, c’68, is a professor of Allied Health by the KU Medical Center’s MARRIED business at the University of Hawaii in Alumni Association. He and Linda Mintz David Healy, j’73, to William Dean, Honolulu. Shriberg, ’67, live in Madison, Wis. April 24 in Washington, D.C., where they Bruder Stapleton, c’68, m’72, was live. named a Distinguished Alumnus by the 1971 KU Medical Center Alumni Association. Mani Mani, m’71, was named a Distin- 1974 He chairs the department of pediatrics at guished Alumnus of Allied Health by the Joseph Speelman, l’74, recently the University of Washington and is chief KU Medical Center’s Alumni Association. became a partner in Blank Rome LLP in academic officer at Seattle Children’s He lives in Mission. Houston. He and Sheryl Schmidt Speel- Hospital. Michael Milhon, ’71, is president and man, d’80, live in The Woodlands. general manager of Nebraska Peterbilt in 1969 Grand Island. 1975 Gerald Burtnett, p’69, received the Ralph, j’71, and SusanVance Wilson, Chris Stanfield, c’75, g’84, is a senior 2010 Harley Sutton Award from the c’65, g’67, live in Pasadena, Calif., where accountant at CenturyLINK in Overland Wichita Academy of Pharmacy. He’s a Ralph is president of the Tools of Igno- Park. pharmacist at Via Christi Regional Med- rance Inc. Jeffrey Stinson, j’75, works as busi- ical Center in Wichita. ness, travel and aviation editor for USA Ronald Reece, c’69, moved from Lon- 1972 Today in McLean, Va. He and Christina don to Oakland, Calif., where he directs VaughnTolle, b’72, l’79, practices law Stevens Stinson, j’75, live in Oak Hill. property management serices for Calde- with Busey & Tolle in Wichita. cott Properties. 1976 1973 Paul Carttar, c’76, directs the Social 1970 Janet Diehl Corwin, d’73, is senior Innovation Fund, a federal program Lawrence Shriberg, PhD’70, was administrative associate at the KU School designed to help expand effective non- named a Distinguished Alumnus of of Music. She lives in Topeka. profit programs. He lives in Lawrence.

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Katherine Conway-Turner, c’76, assistant director for programs at the Architecture ofAndersson-Wise, which PhD’81, recently became provost of Women’s Home in Houston. recently was published by Princeton Hood College in Frederick, Md. She lives Anthony Robertson, c’77, works as a Architectural Press. in Wilmington, Del. research scientist at King Abdullah Uni- Richard Hardcastle, d’79, g’81, coordi- Terry Croskey, g’76, retired earlier this versity of Science and Technology in nates assessment for the Santa Rosa year as principal of Meadow Lane Ele- Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. School Board. He lives in Milton, Fla. mentary School. He lives in Olathe. Jean BlackmoreTips, j’77, is vice pres- Howard Smith, g’79, recently became David Ecklund, b’76, directs MFR in ident of marketing and communications dean of education at Pittsburg State Uni- Houston. He and his wife, Susan, live in at the UNT Health Science Center in Fort versity in Pittsburg. Sugar Land. Worth, Texas. She lives in Flower Cassie Strom, c’79, serves as a Gary Johnson, c’76, practices law in Mound. brigadier general in the Missouri Littleton, Colo. He lives in Centennial. National Guard. She makes her home in Richard May, c’76, m’79, recently 1978 St. Louis. joined St. Francis Family Medicine in Scott Jarus, c’78, g’82, is chairman Topeka. He and Delayne Lockett May, and CEO of Ironclad Performance Wear 1980 c’76, live in Lawrence. in El Segundo, Calif. He lives in Manhat- Elizabeth Block Baclayon, d’80, Colleen Knehans Peterson, f’76, g’80, tan Beach. teaches at Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle works as a compensation analyst for the Richard Kramer, d’78, g’87, commutes School. She lives in Kilauea, Hawaii. U.S. Olympic Committee. She lives in from Lenexa to Mission, where he’s prin- Alison Banikowski, g’80, PhD’81, has Colorado Springs, Colo. cipal of Shawnee Mission North High been promoted to associate superintend- School. ent of Olathe USD 233 in Olathe, where 1977 she lives. Joseph France, p’77, g’80, is managing 1979 Kathryn Klusman Piersall, c’80, is director of Gleacher & Company in Arthur Andersson, a’79, is principal of managing partner of AllStar Academy of Boston. Andersson-Wise in Austin, Texas. He Real Estate in Dallas. She lives in Carroll- Patricia McElliott, s’77, s’93, is an wrote Natural Houses: The Residential ton, Texas.

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI Darla Smith, c’80, d’85, g’85, lives in Elizabeth Miller, b’81, g’83, g’07, for the Kansas State University Biosecu- Salina, where she’s assistant director of directs investments for the Kansas rity Research Institute in Manhattan. She the Smoky Hill Education Service Center. Pooled Money Investment Board in lives in Milford. ThomasTaylor, b’80, is a partner in Topeka. She and her husband, Lindy Blue Earth Group in Atlanta, where he Eakin, b’78, g’80, g’88, PhD’97, live in 1982 and Susan Popp Taylor, ’82, make their Lawrence. Hal Kacanek, PhD’82, owns Sounds home. Mary Delich Rixey, b’81, works as a We Make in Waukesha, Wis. corporate secretary for United Life Insur- 1981 ance in Overland Park. She and her hus- 1983 John English, e’81, works as a senior band, Robert, ’82, live in Leawood. Zack Mansdorf, PhD’83, recently engineering adviser for Chevron in Catherine McMillin Sandoval, c’81, became principal consultant for EORM Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. works in administrative support services in Boca Raton, Fla.

Profile BY STEVEN HILL STEVE PUPPE

Physician finds in trees a He transformed the overgrazed pas- prescription for happiness tureland into a show- case of wildlife he best time to plant a tree is 20 habitat, building years ago,” holds a Chinese three ponds, planting proverb. “The second best time 40 varieties of trees is now.” and installing food TJim Ruble has both ends covered. plots for deer, turkey Since 1980, he has planted trees, shrubs and quail. He stocked and food plots for wildlife on his 160- his ponds with cat- I Not even a heart attack five weeks into retirement in 1994 could acre farm south of Overbrook. He has fish, carp and bass slow Jim Ruble in his 30-year quest to transform his Overbrook farm started nearly 12,000 trees over the and raised nesting with trees. He’s still planting today. “I’m too old for them ever to do years, and at 84 he’s planting still. boxes for bats, blue- me any good; they’re for my children and grandchildren.” Ruble, m’53, grew up on a farm near birds, ducks and Parker, the son of a veterinarian who geese. He restored struggled to make ends meet. Food was hay meadows lush with wild daisies and Though he chose some trees for their often scarce, and the family drew water bluestem grass. lumber potential, Ruble isn’t in it for the from a pond that dried up in summer. “It’s for conservation, really,” Ruble money. As he watches his grandchildren Those hardscrabble days left a lasting says, cranking up a dockside fish feeder swim and fish in the pond, run through impression. He dreamed of buying his to draw a couple dozen Canada geese the fields or giggle at the old-fashioned own farm, with a pond that would never and their goslings close. “I just wanted to outhouse, he sees the true value of his dry up. leave it a better place than I found.” long-term love affair with trees. Ruble never lost sight of that goal as With help from his wife, Lois, who “It’s for my kids and grandkids, not he built a busy career as Overbrook’s died in 2005, and their three children, for me,” he says. “I’m proud of how it physician, driving 5,000 miles a month Ruble learned shortcuts even the county turned out. The kids can enjoy it, and on after-hours house calls. When he extension agents and forestry experts that to me is the satisfaction.” arrived in 1954, the town had no doctor didn’t know. The first year he nurtured Seeds he’s planting now will take 40 and most streets were unpaved. He 2,000 bare-root seedlings in hand-dug years to mature, he notes, well aware it’s designed Overbrook’s medical clinic, holes through a blistering summer. an investment in a future he’ll never see. and as mayor and city councilman Beavers twice wiped out huge swathes of As another proverb says, “A society helped improve its infrastructure. In trees. Fire, drought and disease claimed grows great when old men plant trees 1976 he bought a quarter section south more. Through it all he kept planting, whose shade they will never sit in.” of town and set out to improve that. watering, weeding. He who plants trees plants hope.

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Bruce Witt, c’83, directs government two sons and a daughter. Medicine award from the KU Medical relations for Via Christi Health in Jay Craig, b’85, g’87, works as a real- Center Alumni Association. He’s a profes- Wichita. He lives in Maize. estate investment broker with Marcus & sor at the KU School of Medicine in Millichap. He lives in Shorewood, Wis. Wichita. 1984 Martin Jay, b’85, is senior investigator Ronda Cox Sorrells, d’87, is a Reading Shari Ashner Boppart, c’84, l’87, is an at Solomon Edwards. He lives in St. Recovery teacher in Willow Springs, Mo. associate with Martin Leigh Laws & Frit- Louis. zlen in Kansas City. She and her hus- Neva Murphy, f’85, manages accounts 1988 band, Patrick, b’83, live in Lenexa. for MOI in Arlington, Va. Jeffrey Boerger, f’88, recently became Douglas Peterson, j’84, works as a free- Janice Sterling, c’85, g’97, works as a president of the Kansas Speedway Devel- lance writer and editor in Scottsdale, Ariz. GIS analyst and a cartographer for the opment Corp. in Kansas City. He lives in U.S. Army in San Antonio. Leawood. 1985 Linda Jenson Guinn, c’88, l’90, is gen- Rebecca Beilharz, f’85, owns Work- 1986 eral counsel for Battelle Energy Alliance place Strategies in Mission. She lives in Paul Winslow, f’86, manages federal in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Westwood. business development for Quantum Alan Heckart, b’88, lives in Omaha, David Black, b’85, recently was Corp. He and his wife, Mary Ann, live in Neb., where he’s senior vice president for appointed Grant County Attorney. He Arlington, Va. Infogroup. has a private practice in Ulysses and also serves as Stanton County Attorney. 1987 1989 David lives in Johnson with his wife, James Berglund II, b’87, l’92, practices Linda Walker Fitzgerald, s’89, is a Angela, and their daughters, Jenna and law with the Dallas firm of Thompson therapist and a clinical social worker in Jaclyn. Knight. Wichita, where she and her husband, Lendley “Lynn” Black, PhD’85, will Scott Flanagin, e’87, is executive vice James, make their home. become chancellor of the University of president of Warren Wixen Real Estate James Grube, c’89, commutes from Minnesota Duluth in August. He comes Services in Los Angeles. He lives in Olathe to Mission, where he’s vice presi- to the job from Kennesaw State Univer- Woodland Hills. dent of human resources at Swiss Rein- sity in Kennesaw, Ga., where he served Paula Koenigs, c’87, works as a senior surance America Corp. most recently as vice president for research scientist for Procter & Gamble Michael Harmelink, c’89, g’91, is exec- academic affairs. in Mason, Ohio. She lives in Cincinnati. utive director of DineEquity in Lenexa. Tad Boyle, b’85, recently became Tammy Steele Norton, b’87, is a part- William Mahoney, l’89, practices law head men’s basketball coach at the ner in Emerging Solutions in Chicago. with Mahoney & Mahoney in Kansas University of Colorado. He and his Russell Scheffer, c’87, m’91, recently City, where he and Susanne O’Leary wife, Ann Schell Boyle, f’87, have received a Distinguished Alumnus of Mahoney, g’88, make their home. She’s a speech-language pathologist for the Lamb Early Childhood Center.

1990 Sean Kelley, e’90, works as a software engineer for Intel in Hillsboro, Ore. He lives in Portland.

1963 JAYHAWKER YEARBOOK JAYHAWKER 1963 Kyle Mathis, e’90, manages global styrenics for Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. in The Woodlands, Texas. Daniel Schmit, e’90, is facility manager for Morton Salt in New Iberia, La. John Wichlenski Jr., b’90, manages cost accounting for UI-JON Laboratories and coming display in front of JRP and Lewis is a general manager for CLSmith in St. Louis. He lives in Chesterfield. THEN AGAIN residence halls. It took top honors in the Independent group category. Sir It’s not a Renaissance Fair: These Catingham is being unseated by Sir J. 1991 Mark Amick, “knights” were part of the 1962 Home- Hawkingham. c’91, is senior man- ager for global training programs at

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Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. He lives 1992 Michael, b’92, and Krista Nye in Kirkland. Mike Gabrawy, c’92, heads production Schwartz, j’97, make their home in Herb Johnston, c’91, is busines area at Arclight Films in Los Angeles. He lives Ottawa Hills, Ohio, with their children, manager for the Office for Harmonization in Pasadena. Alexander, 3, and Tahlia, who’ll be 1 Nov. in Alicante, Spain. Jason Glidden, c’92, is a director at 4. Michael is chief executive officer of Joseph Padilla, c’91, works as a sales Banc of America Securities in St. Louis. Corner Dental. account executive for EPIC Entertainment He lives in Chesterfield. Tiffany Lauer Walker, j’92, directs mar- in Kansas City. Jason Lohmeyer, b’92, and his wife, keting for WaterBrook Multnomah Pub- Patrick Warren, c’91, l’94, is president Corryn Flahaven, j’94, live in Barrington, lishing in Colorado Springs, Colo. of the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. Ill., with their daughter, Kendall He and Kellie Kalbac Warren, l’94, live Lohmeyer, 1. Jason is a director of CVS 1993 in Leawood. Corp. Denise Scott Geelhart, c’93, and her

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Braves blog blossoms “I quickly realized they weren’t going with more than baseball to stop me from writing stuff that was outside of the basic, straight news,” avid O’Brien, Braves beat writer O’Brien says. “So I started injecting for the Atlanta Journal-Consti- humor, personal stuff, observations. tution, recalls a newsroom How the barbecue sandwich at the sta- meeting when editors told beat dium in Lakeland is the best in all of Dwriters to start producing daily blogs. spring training. What players were lis- Writers already wary of online spinoffs tening to on their iPods. The more I draining vitality from their sacrosanct started putting this stuff in, the more JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION SHIN/ATLANTA HYOSUB print coverage were likely assuaged when people started responding.” the editors added, “But if you’re spending When the newspaper’s daily sports more than 10 minutes on it, you’re blogs began, a few dozen responses was spending too much time.” considered a hit. In March O’Brien’s blog So they produced 10-minute efforts, set an AJC single-month record with 1.8 often a tiny news item capped with some- million page views (a number now as thing along the lines of, “What do you important as circulation at many news- think?” Maybe 10 or 12 readers would papers), and in 2009, with 12 million respond, and after an hour or so the one- views, Cox Newspapers named his blog or two-paragraph item was essentially the newspaper chain’s best. O’Brien also lifeless, dead on the wire. has been named Georgia Sportswriter of That wasn’t what O’Brien, j’86, envi- the Year, an Atlanta alternative paper I Now in his 16th season covering baseball, sioned for his blog (blogs.ajc.com/ chose him as the city’s best sports beat O’Brien, former president of the Baseball Writ- atlanta-braves-blog), which he infused writer, and in 2009 he served a yearlong ers Association of America, says his biggest thrill both with intense Braves coverage as well term as president of the influential Base- was sitting on the speaker’s platform at the as his diverse interests. Readers ball Writers Association of America. 2009 Hall of Fame induction “with 50 of the responded by the thousands, joining an Writing and updating the blog, a task greatest players to play the game.” online community that feels like a good that didn’t exist only a few years ago, sports bar without the beer and peanuts. added at least four hours to his day, Discussion topics might include future which now starts at home by 10 a.m. and you pay for it in free time. You defi- Hall of Famer Chipper Jones, rookie sen- rather than at the ballpark at 2 p.m., and nitely pay a price. sation Jason Heyward, movies, a reader’s O’Brien must respect clubhouse sensi- “On the other hand, you get so much glaucoma surgery, or song lyrics that tivites while also giving his readers the more enjoyment out of it. I get comments “DOB,” as he’s known on the blog, culls insider information they crave. from readers now that I never got before. from his vast music collection. “All of a sudden it’s a 12-hour job, That’s incredibly satisfying.”

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI   husband, Christopher, celebrated their Center. He lives in Kansas City. first anniversary July 4. They live in Sher- Michael Humberd, e’95, manages man, Ill. projects for Pipeline Strategies in Hale Sheppard, j’93, l’98, g’99, works Colorado Springs, Colo., where he as an equity shareholder for Chamberlain and Lisa Dickson-Humberd, d’95, make Hrdlicka White Williams & Martin in their home. Atlanta. He lives in Decatur. Brian Lowe, g’95, is principal of Leigh Winter, f’93, is associate Meadow Lane Elementary School in assistant professor at the KU Medical director of alumni affairs for the Olathe. Center in Kansas City. She lives in School of Visual Arts in New York City. Stephen Martino, c’95, j’96, directs the Lenexa. She lives in Brooklyn. Maryland State Lottery Agency in Balti- Bradley Hoffman, b’96, directs busi- more. He and Beth Hall Martino, g’05, ness operations for ISG Technology in 1994 live in Ellicott City. She is associate com- Overland Park. Stephen Caruthers, b’94, is an invest- missioner for external affairs with the Craig Stewart, b’96, manages Butler ment specialist with Capital Group Com- Food and Drug Administration in Silver National Corp. in Olathe. panies in Los Angeles. He lives in Foothill Spring. Ranch. Marcia Chace Zeithamel, p’95, p’05, 1997 works as a pharmacist for the Veterans Marc Galbraith, g’97, is deputy 1995 Administration Medical Center in Iowa state librarian for the State Library of Mark Galus, c’95, has a law practice in City, Iowa, where she and her husband, Kansas in Topeka, where he and his Kansas City, where he and his wife, Sara Brad, make their home. wife, Kay, make their home. Copeland, make their home. Lewis Galloway, c’97, is managing Rodney Hollinshed, ’95, is transplant 1996 member of LG Law in Kansas City. financial coordinator for the KU Medical Michelle DeSouza, c’96, m’00, is an Zachary Schmidt, e’97, serves as a major in the U.S. Marine Corps. He and Nicole Mehring Schmidt, e’98, live in Tampa, Fla., with their children, Henry, who’s nearly 2, and Evelyn, 1.

BORN TO: Matthew, ’97, and Kelly Cannon Boeckman, j’98, son, Ian Matthew, April 22 in Golden, Colo. Matthew is a senior systems administrator for ServiceMagic, and Kelly is a product marketing analyst for Oracle. Kyle, ’97, and Kylie Colgan Helmer, j’02, c’02, son, Carson Michael, May 3 in Overland Park, where he joins a brother, Trenton, 2. Brenda Daly Soto, s’97, s’03, and Hec- tor, c’98, g’99, son, Emilio Roberto, March 17 in Kansas City. Brenda is an outpatient therapist for KVC Behavioral Healthcare, and Hector is a senior plan- ner for the city of Lee’s Summit, Mo.

1998 Jennifer Martin Adams, b’98, g’03, is a business analyst for Sprint Nextel in Overland Park, where she and her hus- band, Mark, e’99, make their home. He’s a project manager for Chevron Energy Solutions.

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accounts for MindComet in Altamonte Springs, Fla. He lives in Apopka. Ryan Heape, c’01, is a billing analyst for Verizon in Alpharetta, Ga. He lives in Atlanta. Molly Motley Morris, j’01, and her hus-

1983 JAYHAWKER YEARBOOK JAYHAWKER 1983 band, Michael, celebrated their first anniversary earlier this year. They live in Marietta, Ga. Justin Poplin, e’01, practices law with Lathrop & Gage in Overland Park. He and Elizabeth Weltz Poplin, c’06, live in Lenexa. K-State canoe race. Team members BORN TO: came from residence halls, fraternities, HEN GAIN Wayne, ’01, and Patricia Moore T A sororities and other student living Schroeder, s’07, son, William John, Dec. Row, row your boat: Paddlers took groups. Sad to say, K-State took the top 23 in Lenexa. their marks at the start of the 1982 KU- honors that year. KeithVan Horn, c’01, and Melissa, twin daughters, Claire Alexis and Avery Diane, March 15 in Lawrence, where Keith is a Michael Atha, c’98, m’02, works as a accounts for Cisco Systems. He lives in dentist. hospitalist for Critical Care and Pul- Danville, Calif. monary Consultants in Denver. Cynthia Lane, EdD’00, recently 2002 became superintendent of the Kansas Heidi Sparkman Boehm, n’02, BORN TO: City Kansas Public Schools. g’09, works as a unit educator for KU Tully, c’98, g’07, and Nicole Schnell- Tyson Malik, e’00, is senior release Medical Center in Kansas City. She bacher McCoy, j’01, son, Patrick Tully, engineer for Nokia in Irving, Texas. He and her husband, Troy, b’99, live in Nov. 6 in Prairie Village. Tully is a con- lives in Plano. Olathe. sultant for Legacy Financial Strategies, Pavaninder Mann, PhD’00, works as a Jordan Cochran, j’02, c’02, commutes and Nicole manages global sourcing for psychologist in Tustin, Calif. from Lawrence to Kansas City, where he’s Bishop-McCann. Christopher Randle, c’00, l’03, is Sedg- an account director at VML. wick County assistant district attorney in Katherine McClure Coleman, b’02, 1999 Wichita. He lives in Clearwater. g’03, manages finance for ADP Dealer Aimee Felix Crump, c’99, is a finan- Jon Rosenthal, g’00, directs bands for Services in Hoffman Estates, Ill. She and cial analyst for PSS World Medical in Lebanon High School. He lives in her husband, Chris, live in Fox River Jacksonville, Fla., where she and her hus- Nashville, Tenn. Grove. band, Kevin, e’00, make their home. KatherineTurnbull, c’00, performs as Nate Hinkle, g’02, recently became Jason Fizell, c’99, commutes from Mary in the New York premiere of Sarah lead engineer for Ulteig in Englewood, Topeka to Lawrence, where he’s execu- Ruhl’s “Passion Play.” Kate lives in Brook- Colo. tive director of the Kansas Land Trust. lyn. Jennifer Kaufman, c’02, m’09, is a EvaToth Silegy, g’99, works as a staff pediatric resident at Phoenix Children’s anesthestist at Weight Loss Centers in 2001 Hospital in Phoenix. Beverly Hills, Calif. She lives in Long Amy Schieferecke Beckstead, l’01, Scott Lowe Jr., g’02, is an academic Beach. practices law with DLA Piper in Austin, adviser at Norfolk State University in EricaVanRoss, c’99, directs public rela- Texas, where she and her husband, Norfolk, Va. tions for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Charles, g’01, make their home. Jennie Honeycutt Pollard, c’02, directs Department. Brenda Chung, b’01, supervises programs for the Northwest Center for Roland Weast, c’99, m’04, performs accounts for Leo Burnett Canada. She Kids in Seattle. surgery with Premier Surgical Associates lives in Toronto. Scott Raymond, c’02, is co-founder of in Knoxville, Tenn. John Duckworth, b’01, does wealth Gowalla, a location-based social network management advising for the Trust Com- firm. He lives in Austin, Texas. 2000 pany of Illinois in Downers Grove. Sara Shepherd, j’02, c’02, reports for Nicholas Fanelli, c’00, manages Matthew Gardner, j’01, directs the Kansas City Star. She lives in Mission.

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI MARRIED James, Feb. 4 in Eudora. Christopher coordinates diversity programs for the John Gravino, c’02, to Angela Castle, is an accountant with Long CPA University of Missouri in Columbia. Dec. 12 in Kansas City, where they live. in Lenexa. David Meall, b’03, owns Talent Pulse in John directs facilities and operations for Jennifer Moore Zygmunt, b’02, and Seattle. the College Basketball Experience and Piotr, c’03, son, Colin Reid, April 17 in Alison Neumann, f’03, works as an the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Olathe. Jennifer is a retirement whole- independent jewelry appraiser in Fame. saler for Principal Financial Group, and Naperville, Ill. Piotr is a benefit consultant for Schifman. BORN TO: MARRIED Christopher, b’02, and Marie 2003 Kirstie Schneider, c’03, m’09, to Hooper Kohart, d’03, g’07, son, Logan Susan Shumaker Klusmeier, g’03, JordanVan Ry, May 14 in Parkville, Mo.

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a commonly held image of an angry Army general takes aim loner hastily assembling and concealing on improvised explosives the bombs, IEDs are actually the work of

well-organized insurgent networks, ROMBECK TERRY efore he took command of opera- including master bomb makers, finan- tions and training for the Depart- ciers, roadside emplacers, observers and ment of Defense’s massive push even videographers ready to film the car- to defeat improvised explosive nage. Bdevices, Brig. Gen. Chuck Taylor was “We’ve killed most of the dumb first a beneficiary of the group’s rapid ones,” Taylor says, “so the ones who are advancements. still out there are pretty good at what While on his second combat tour in they do. And they’re getting paid for it.” Iraq, in 2005, Taylor, c’83, and his troops IEDs are responsible for 85 percent of drove past a remote-controlled IED that all coalition casualties in Iraq and didn’t detonate until their vehicle had Afghanistan, and Taylor concedes that passed. Had Taylor and his Army sol- the Joint Improvised Explosive Device diers driven near the same device on his Defeat Organization won’t, on its own, first tour, early in the war, the IED surely bring about their extinction. That honor would have detonated. By 2005, how- and responsibility will fall to the citizens ever, all U.S. military vehicles had been of Iraq and Afghanistan who report outfitted with electronics that jam trigger bomb-making insurgents to local author- signals sent by cell phone. ities for prosecution. “When I went into the fight in 2003, In fact, Iraq now has in place a central I we didn’t know what counter radio elec- criminal courts system that is prosecut- Former commander of the The Old Guard, tronic warfare was. I had a radio in my ing people based on evidence collected Taylor marched at the head of President vehicle and we went forward,” Taylor by military experts, part of what Taylor Reagan’s funeral procession. He returned in says. “Now, no vehicle that we have, and refers to as “‘CSI: Baghdad’ or ‘CSI: May for ROTC commissioning. “If I’m successful, no vehicle that we’ll ever produce, won’t Bagram.’” Before the trials could pro- it’s because of my roots, and values that were have a device that jams all the signals in ceed, lawyers and judges had to have evi- helped to develop right here at KU.” and around that vehicle.” dence procedures, such as fingerprint Taylor explains than an IED is, by def- collection, explained to them with inition, a non-military contraption that demonstrations. have faced for decades and changing that uses any sort of accelerant, such as a “We’re not going to win the war by condition—building the trust and confi- blasting cap stuck in an old artillery defeating IEDs,” Taylor says. “You’re dence so that when they do turn in peo- shell, and is triggered either by remote going to win the peace by taking the ple who build those devices, the rule of signals or a command wire. Contrary to challenges these people and these tribes law will prevail.”

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They live in Liverpool, N.Y., and Kirstie is 2005 a general surgery resident in Syracuse. Caryl Goodyear-Bruch, PhD’05, recently was named a Distinguished BORN TO: Alumna of Nursing by the KU Medical Alyson Pleviak Carr, h’03, g’05, and Center Alumni Association. She’s an Wade, c’04, b’05, daughter, Lauren, assistant clinical professor of nursing at

March 20 in St. Louis. the KU Medical Center, and she lives in MAGAZINE 1982 GRADUATE Independence, Mo., with her husband, 2004 Ron. Scott Christie, g’04, works as an inter- Paige Higgins, f’05, was the first Amer- active editor for Great American Publish- ican woman to finish the 2010 Boston ing in Sparta, Mich. Marathon last April. Her time was Kevin Grantham, h’04, g’08, is a 2:36:00. Paige lives in Flagstaff, Ariz. research scientist for ViraCor Laborato- ries in Lee’s Summit, Mo. MARRIED Charles Hoffmann, c’04, recently Stacey Urban, n’05, to Clinton Wat- became an integrator for Nicholson tier, April 16 in Lawrence. They live in Kovac in Kansas City. Roeland Park, and Stacey is a nurse at the KU Medical Center. THEN AGAIN BORN TO: Hug-a-’Hawk: Bob Hoffman, b’85, a JRP Molly Fruetel Fritzel, c’04, and BORN TO: freshman from St. Louis, models an Asso- Patrick, ’05, daughter, Ruby Maya, Danny, d’05, and Laura Lesko Lewis, ciation of University Residence Halls T- March 11 in Eudora. Molly is a speech- assoc., son, Carter Phillip, May 3. They shirt. AURH celebrated in 1981 with language pathologist for ECKCE, and live in Eudora. Danny is assistant direc- T-shirts, Frisbees and balloons. And, of Patrick is a job superintendent for tor of alumni programs for the KU course, hugs all around. Gene Fritzel Construction. Alumni Association, and Laura works for

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Global Prairie in Kansas City. assistant professor of allied health and Robstan Group Inc. in Kansas City. Kathy McVey Meitl, d’05, g’09, and health information. He lives in Kansas Dustin Rogge, p’06, owns Washington Gregory, a’06, daughter, Holly Ramona, City. HealthMart in Washington. He lives in Nov. 24 in Lemon Grove, Calif. Estuardo Garcia, j’06, recently became Linn. a community journalist for Desotoex- 2006 plorer.com. He lives in Kansas City. 2007 Brian Dolan, h’06, g’08, received an Angela Errante Hartshorn, n’06, and Hillary Addison, j’07, is an account Early Career Achievement Award this her husband, Ben, celebrated their first executive for the Omaha World-Herald. year from the KU Medical Center Alumni anniversary Sept. 19. They live in She makes her home in Omaha, Neb. Association. He works at the Medical Shawnee, and she’s a nurse at the Erika Bentson, j’07, volunteers with Center as a business operations manager Shawnee Mission Medical Center. the Peace Corps in Tendrara, Morocco. in perioperative services and is clinical Erin Nied, j’06, is associate director of Kristen High Bundy, f’07, is a graphic

Profile BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER STEVE PUPPE Darwin’s prize attests Darwin says she knew to a teacher’s evolution early in her career that upper-level classrooms chool was nearly out for summer. would be her niche. “I like to The students at Cabot High take what would be consid- School had finished their classes, ered harder material and so June 7 was reserved for teach- break it down and make it Sers to wrap up the academic year in rela- understandable and help the tive peace. Lorraine Darwin sat alone in students wrap their brains her classroom, scrolling through e-mails around it and be active par- on what should have been a low-key last ticipants in their learning,” day before the welcome summer break. she says. “It’s just the way Then she clicked on a message and I’m made. I fit with the learned she had won the Presidential upper-level students.” I Award for Excellence in Mathematics and But she admits that her One of only 103 winners nationwide, Darwin will receive Science Teaching. Suddenly there was classroom tactics sometimes a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation. another reason to celebrate. lean toward Mister Rogers. A Darwin, d’94, g’99, shared the news Japanese figurine named Bobble (who my personality, or how that comes with Zanya Clarkson, the school princi- has her own Facebook page) assists Dar- across. But I take liberties in my class- pal who nominated her for the national win in class, and video projects are part room, as do several of my peers. We do award. Clarkson announced the happy of the curriculum. To introduce juniors what we can to make it fun.” news via the school’s intercom, and all to the rigors of AP calculus, the seniors Darwin credits her students for the the teachers rejoiced with Darwin, who created spoofs on TV’s “Star Trek,” “The national honor. Although she used to for nine years has taught at Cabot, a pub- Office” and a tribute to mobster movies fear burnout—“I was going to be saying lic high school in Sherman, Ark., a sub- called “Scarfather.” This year, Darwin the same things over and over for the rest urb of Little Rock. She teaches wrote a seven-verse song to help her AP of my life. There are only so many math pre-calculus, trigonometry and Advanced students review for the comprehensive classes, right?”—she realized that the stu- Placement calculus to juniors and exam. dents would continue to inspire her. seniors. Her sense of whimsy often confuses “They are going be different every year; To compete for the national honor, acquaintances who presume she teaches that’s what it’s all about,” she says. “It’s Darwin submitted a 24-page question- at the opposite end of the school spec- the interaction with them. It’s all about naire, letters of recommendation and trum: “It’s funny, when I meet people, who they are. two 30-minute videos (only one of they ask, ‘Do you teach kindergarten?’ “Instead of hitting burnout, I turned a which could be edited) of her classroom I say, ‘No, actually calculus.’ corner, and the past five or six years have teaching. “I don’t know if it’s something with been getting better every year.”

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI designer for TSYS in Phenix City, Ala., where she and her husband, Brandon, g’08, make their home. He’s an engineer for Russell County, and they celebrated their first anniversary Sept. 4. Christopher Bystrom, j’07, manages digital projects for Goble & Associates in Chicago. Jeffrey Commerford, b’07, g’09, is a staff tax accountant for Ernst & Young in Kansas City. Brian McTaggart, c’07, works as a surety analyst for AON in Chicago. Sarah Pikul, c’07, works in the training department of the Leukemia and Lym- phoma Society in Mission. She lives in Overland Park. Lance Watson, c’07, serves as assistant commandant of cadets at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, where he lives with his wife, Jessica. Matthew Zeffery, c’07, is managing partner of Arx Global Holdings in Chicago.

MARRIED Travis Dambach, c’07, to Katherine

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Clark, Sept. 19 in Jackson, Mo., where he teaches history and coaches football at Jackson High School. Erin Fisher, d’07, g’10, and Bret Brown, d’10, March 20 in Olathe. They live in Gardner, where Erin teaches third grade for the Gardner-Edgerton school district. Bret works for Carondelet Health. Ashley Hirschorn, c’07, and Jeremy Alpert, a’09, Oct. 24 in Kansas City. They live in Chicago, where Ashley does feature film publicity and promotions for Terry Hines & Associates and Jeremy is an associate with CresaPartners. Tait Jeter, f’07, and Lynzee Benedict, n’07, May 1 in Olathe. They live in Over- land Park.

2008 Ashley Bolton, j’08, coordinates prod- uct rollouts for Lee Enterprises in Daven- port, Iowa. She lives in Chicago. Jenna Custer Jones, d’08, teaches American history and government at Louisburg High School. She and her hus-

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI band, Erik, live in Olathe. Lynsay Montour, j’08, is an assistant account executive for Brainerd Commu- nicators in New York City.

2009 Jill Custer, b’09, coordinates accounts payable for Meadowlands Stadium Co. She lives in New York City. Sasha Roe, c’09, j’09, develops creative content for PlattForm Advertising. She lives in Mankato.

2010 Amanda Randall, c’10, is an adminis- trative assistant with the women’s bas- ketball program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Chelsie Shipley, ’10, performed last summer as Cassandra in “The Trojan Women,” which was performed in New York City’s Riverside Park. Her home is in Lawrence. Weston White, ’10, is a staff buyer for Honeywell FM&T in Kansas City. He lives in Olathe.

School Codes Letters that follow names indicate the school from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers show their class years. a School of Architecture, Design and Planning b School of Business c College of Liberal Arts and Sciences d School of Education e School of Engineering f School of Fine Arts g Master’s Degree h School of Allied Health j School of Journalism l School of Law m School of Medicine n School of Nursing p School of Pharmacy PharmD School of Pharmacy s School of Social Welfare u School of Music DE Doctor of Engineering DMA Doctor of Musical Arts EdD Doctor of Education PhD Doctor of Philosophy (no letter) Former student assoc. Associate member of the Alumni Association

ISSUE 4, 2010 | 55 acted in the movies “Revenge of the Nerds” and “Raising Arizona.” Survivors In Memory include his wife, Etta Mae Jackson Daw- son, c’40, g’48; a son; a daugher; and two grandsons. Betty Sullivan Goss, b’44, 87, March 27 in Leawood. Surviving are her hus- 1930s mer educator. He is survived by his wife, band, Harold, b’47; four sons, Harold, John Barnes, a’31, 99, Feb. 2 in Kansas Dorothy; a son, Doug, a’75; a daughter, b’70, l’74, Frank, c’76, Gary, c’76, and City, where he was a retired lieutenant Vicki Anderson Cathey, ’70; a stepson, Michael, b’81; and five grandchildren. colonel in the Missouri Division of the Mark Hall, b’85; a stepdaughter, Debra Nancy Nevin Marshall, c’47, 85, Corps of Engineers and a heating/venti- Rhoton, ’91; three grandchildren; two Feb. 20 in Cape Coral, Fla., where she lating and air-conditioning engineer. He stepgrandchildren; four great-grandsons; was a retired office manager. Two sons, is survived by a son; a daughter, Dora and two stepgreat-grandsons. three daughters and nine grandchildren Barnes Hart, c’58; a stepson and step- Nella Corwin Anneberg, c’40, 92, survive. daughter; four grandchildren; and seven March 4 in Manhattan, where she was a Renata Meyer, c’49, 101, Feb. 18 in great-grandchildren. speech pathologist. She is survived by Raytown, Mo., where she was a retired Monti Belot Jr., c’35, g’38, m’40, 96, three daughters, one of whom is Linda, German teacher. Several nieces and Feb. 21 in Lawrence, where he retired as d’73, g’77; a son; eight grandchildren; nephews survive. a physician at the age of 85. He is sur- and 14 great-grandchildren. George Rippey, e’46, 91, April 15 in vived by a daughter, Rosemary Belot Jar- Warren Beck, b’48, 85, March 22 in San Antonio, where he was a retired rett, c’77; two sons, Monti III, c’65, l’68, Overland Park, where he was a retired colonel in the U.S. Army. A daughter and Allen, j’70; 10 grandchildren; and tax accountant for Peat, Marwick, and three grandchildren survive. two great-grandchildren. Mitchell. Survivors include his compan- Ralph Robertson Sr., e’48, 84, Feb. 26 Margaret WolfTraylor Elvig, ’34, 100, ion, Priscilla Marston, two sons, a daugh- in Overland Park, where he was a retired March 20 in Lawrence. A memorial has ter and 10 grandchildren. laboratory manager at Seidlitz, Colony been established with the KU Endow- The Rev. Robert Bingham, b’47, 84, and Valspar Coatings. He is survived by ment Association. She is survived by two Jan. 30 in Athens, Ga. He was an adjunct his wife, Jean; a son, Reg Jr., e’79; a sons, Jon Traylor, c’60, g’66, and Thomas professor at Midwestern Baptist Theolog- daughter; a grandson; and a great-grand- Traylor, c’75; two stepdaughters, Eliza- ical Seminary and is survived by two daughter. beth Elvig Shinn, c’62, and Elaine Elvig daughters and a granddaughter. EdwinTrimble, e’49, 89, March 11 in Connell, ’51; a stepson, John Elvig, e’55, Samuel Brick, g’47, PhD’52, 92, Dallas, where he was retired from Union g’58; 13 grandchildren; and 22 great- March 9 in Safety Harbor, Fla. He had Carbide. Two daughters, a son and two grandchildren. been a professor of music at Carthage grandchildren survive. Tom Meschke, b’34, 97, March 2 in College and at the University of Tampa, Victor Wall, ’44, 87, Oct. 18 in Clay Hays. He co-owned Meschke’s Men’s and where he received an Outstanding Pro- Center. He is survived by his wife, Leah, Boy’s Wear in Garden City for many fessor Award. Surviving are a son, a assoc. years. Surviving are two sons, John, b’66, daughter, five grandchildren and a great- Jackie Parker Werts, ’49, 86, April 3 and Larry, assoc.; a daughter, Marty granddaughter. in Joseph, Utah. She had been an Meschke Kraemer, ’70; seven grandchil- John Cook, c’49, 84, April 28 in Man- innkeeper, a real-estate agent and a dren; and seven great-grandchildren. hattan, where he was a retired marketing homemaker. Surviving are her husband, Mildred McElwain Schooling, d’36, representative for Phillips Petroleum. He Jack, j’49; a son, Charles, ’73; a daughter, 100, Feb. 26 in Prairie Village. She is sur- is survived by his wife, Georgann, two Vicki Werts Constable, ’69; five sisters; vived by two daughters, three grandchil- sons, a stepson and four grandchildren. two brothers; two grandchildren; and dren and three great-grandchildren. Robert Cotton, m’45, 90, March 12 in three great-grandchildren. Topeka, where he was a retired physi- Martha Fairhurst Whorton, d’42, 89, 1940s cian. He is survived by his wife, Alice May 2 in Shawnee Mission, where she Lowell Anderson, e’42, 90, Oct. 6 in Roper Cotton, n’46; a son, Donald, b’78; was a retired teacher. She is survived by Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he was retired a daughter; two grandchildren; and six her husband, Arthur, two daughters, from a career with Union Carbide. Two great-grandchildren. two grandchildren and three great- daughters, four grandchildren and three Sidney Dawson Jr., d’48, 89, Sept. 27 grandchildren. great-grandchildren survive. in Tucson, Ariz., where he was an assis- Verl “Andy” Anderson, d’47, g’52, 88, tant principal and principal in Tucson’s 1950s March 26 in Abilene, where he was a for- junior and senior high schools. He also Ethel Byrns Beasley, c’50, 84, March 3

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI in Anderson, S.C. She was former director Jo Ann Boswell Lumpkin, f’56, 75, Reaster, n’63; a son, David, c’87; a of the medical technology school at St. Feb. 22 in Phillipsburg. She is survived daughter; and a sister. Vincent’s Medical Center in Jacksonville, by her husband, Don, b’57; a son, Todd, Henry Remple, PhD’50, 101, April 9 Fla. Surviving are four stepdaughters, a ’87; a brother, Dan Boswell, f’59; five in Lawrence, where he had an independ- stepson, two sisters, three brothers, two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. ent practice in clinical psychology for grandchildren, nine stepgrandchildren William Lynch, b’50, 85, Jan. 23 in many years. He earlier had been chief of and a great-granddaughter. Shawnee, where he was retired from a psychology at the VA Medical Center in Billy Bryant, p’50, 81, Feb. 5 in Beloit. career with the Atomic Energy Commis- Leavenworth. Survivors include a daugh- He is survived by his wife, Leone; a sion. Surviving are his wife, Janice, a ter, Lucy Remple McAllister, f’58, d’60, daughter; a son, Ward, j’82, g’85; a sister; daughter, two brothers, a sister, two g’67; a son, Robert, c’62; a sister; and a and four grandchildren. granddaughters, seven great-grandchil- grandson. Hugh Buff, m’50, 86, March 9 in Mis- dren and two great-great-grandchildren. Ruth Magee Schiefelbusch, ’54, 89, sion Hills, where he was a retired physi- Ronald Mercer, ’52, 79, Feb. 8 in Feb. 19 in Lawrence, where she had been cian. A daughter, a son and three Edmond, Okla., where he owned Ennex a speech therapist for the school district. grandchildren survive. Inc. Survivors include his wife, Patricia She is survived by her husband, Richard, Patricia Bokor Burgstahler, g’59, 75, Riggs Mercer, ’52; two sons; a daughter; g’47; two daughters, Caroll Schiefelbusch April 17 in Lawrence, where she was a two brothers, Richard, c’53, and Robert, Millin, ’79, and Jean, d’80, g’90; a son, piano teacher. She is survived by her hus- c’50; seven grandchildren; and four Larry, c’65, g’65; a sister; six grandchil- band, Albert; three daughters, two of great-grandchildren. dren; a stepgrandson; four great-grand- whom are Janet Burgstahler Anderson, Robert Nold, j’53, 78, Dec. 20 in children; and a stepgreat-grandson. ’85, and Jennifer, b’86; two sons, Albert, Akron, Ohio, where he was a retired edi- Arthur Smith, c’51, 80, April 23 in e’83, and David, e’91; two sisters; 10 tor and a sportswriter for the Akron Bea- Lexington, Mass., where he was a former grandchildren; and two great-grand- con Journal. He is survived by his wife, electrical engineering professor and for- daughters. Delight; three sons; a brother, John, c’51, mer dean for undergraduate education Nancy Davis Burnside, ’51, 81, March g’57; and seven grandchildren. and student affairs at MIT. He is survived 2 in Shawnee Mission. She is survived by Helen Norwood, g’59, 97, Feb. 21 in by his wife, Wilma, three daughters and a son, Bradley, b’79, g’80; a daughter, Car- Lawrence, where she taught at Pinckney two stepsons. olyn Burnside Lopez, d’82; and five Elementary School and was the first Kenneth Stanley, c’53, m’56, 78, Feb. grandchildren. principal at Schwegler Elementary 20 in Kingwood, Texas, where he was a Martha Keplinger Cook, c’50, 82, School. A brother, James, survives. retired physician. Surviving are two March 17 in Ventura, Calif. Surviving are Kenneth Ochs, b’52, 79, Sept. 25 in daughters, one of whom is Kathleen, two daughters, two sons, seven grandchil- Colorado Springs, where he was a busi- c’80, g’84; two sons, Brad, g’85, and Ken- dren and a great-granddaughter. nessman and a cattle and horse rancher. neth III, m’87; eight grandchildren; and a Jerry Elliott, c’58, l’64, 73, April 5 in Among survivors are his wife, Dolores great-grandchild. Lawrence, where he was the senior judge Mausolf Ochs, c’52; a son; a daughter; DarrellTaylor, e’52, 85, Jan. 28 in Lee’s on the Kansas Court of Appeals. He is and two brothers, Donald, b’53, and Har- Summit, Mo., where he was a retired survived by his wife, Debra Duncan, lan, b’50. engineer. He is survived by his wife, assoc.; a son; a brother, Jim, b’56; and a John Olson, c’53, m’56, 78, March 16 Helen; two daughters; three sons, two of sister, Nancy Elliott Burke, d’66. in Cooperstown, N.Y. He was a professor whom are Derek, j’79, and Kent, e’82; Ashford Galbreath Jr., c’55, m’59, 76, emeritus of surgery at Columbia Univer- seven grandchildren; and five great- Jan. 27 in Overland Park, where he prac- sity. Survivors include his wife, Rita grandchildren. ticed medicine for more than 40 years. He Shipp Olson, c’54; three sons; and a RichardThomas, g’58, 79, March 7 in is survived by his wife, Claudene grandson. Billings, Mont. He was retired city admin- Dougherty Galbreath, n’78; two sons, Rosemary Landrey Paul, c’50, c’52, istrator of Santa Barbara, Calif., and ear- Ashford, c’85, and David, c’90, m’98; a 81, Feb. 24 in Helena, Mont. She had lier had served cities in Kansas, daughter, Barbara Galbreath Sharp, s’97, been an administrative assistant at Montanta, Colorado and Missouri. Sur- s’03; his stepmother; a sister; seven Johnson County Community College in viving are his wife, Lois, two daughters, grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; Overland Park and is survived by a two sisters and two granddaughters. and three great-grandchildren. daughter, Alison, s’86, l’91; two brothers; Carolyn Campbell Wagstaff, c’54, 77, Marilyn Haize Hardy, d’59, 74, Feb. 12 and two grandchildren. April 6 in Leawood. She lived in in Lawrence. She is survived by her hus- Karl Reaster, ’56, 75, Feb. 25 in Lawrence for many years and is survived band, Donald, ’62; a son, David, c’83, Leawood, where he was retired from a by a son, Richard III, j’80; two daughters, l’88, g’88; a daughter, Karen Hardy Ye, career in data processing with IBM. He Carolyn Wagstaff Gerwick, d’82, and Jen- ’84; a sister; and a granddaughter. is survived by his wife, Janice Jensen nifer Wagstaff Arbanas, c’84; a sister,

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Margaret Wagstaff Fligg, c’56, c’57; and dent for the National Observer and later as a reflexologist. six grandchildren. wrote for the Wall Street Journal. He is Mary Millemon Merrill, g’75, 64, March survived by his wife, Janice Guyot Peter- 15 in Centerville, Texas. She lived in Mer- 1960s son, d’62; a stepson, Hunter Richardson, riam and had been a special-education Richard Cartwright, e’62, 74, Jan. 17 c’92; two stepdaughters, Courtney teacher for the Shawnee Mission School in La Jolla, Calif. He had owned a com- Richardson, c’85, and Ashley Richardson, District for more than 30 years. She is sur- pany specializing in air-quality manage- b’89; and seven grandchildren. vived by her husband, Myron, two sons, a ment. Survivors include his wife, Sharon Martha Perkins Robb, d’68, 96, Feb. brother and a granddaughter. Simpson Cartwright, ’61; a son; his 20 in Pittsburg. She is survived by three Shirley Hemming Rohrer, c’70, father; a sister; and three grandchildren. sons, a sister, a brother, five grandchil- PhD’76, 62, Feb. 14 in Raleigh, N.C. She Anthony Chop, j’67, 65, March 1 in dren and eight great-grandchildren. had been an associate professor of biology Overland Park, where he had a career in Charles Swengel, g’67, 73, Feb. 5 in at the University of Mobile in Mobile, Ala. advertising. He is survived by his wife, Kansas City, where he worked for Uni- A daughter and a granddaughter survive. Nancy, and a brother. fied Government. He is survived by his William Sherman, c’77, 56, Feb. 5 in Richard Downey, b’63, 73, Jan. 9 in wife, Betty Jo, three daughters, a sister Kansas City. Survivors include his wife, Des Moines, Iowa. He is survived by his and eight grandchildren. Connie, a daughter, a son and four grand- wife, Lydelia, a daughter, a brother and a WallisThon, b’66, 64, July 30, 2009, in daughters. sister. Grand Junction, Colo. Two daughters RogerThompson, c’74, 59, Jan. 21 in Donald Grimes, g’63, 77, Jan. 28 in and two sisters survive. Blue Springs, Mo., where he taught com- Fayetteville, Ark. He is survived by two William Wallace, g’60, 75, Oct. 10 in puter classes at Blue River Community daughters, one of whom is Andrea Phoenix, where he had been acting chan- College. Surviving are his wife, Linda Grimes Woods, c’93; two brothers; a sis- cellor for the Maricopa Community Col- Tilden Thompson, d’72, g’77; and a sister. ter; and five grandchildren. lege District. He is survived by his wife, James Hopkins, m’65, 77, March 1 in Juliene, two sons, a daughter, two broth- 1980s Leawood, where he was physician. He is ers, a sister, eight grandchildren and two Brian Collins, g’80, 57, Feb. 11 in Over- survived by his wife, Lisa, a son, a daugh- great-grandchildren. land Park. He taught sixth grade at Belin- ter, a brother and two grandchildren. Ralph Wright, g’69, 69, Feb. 9 in der Elementary School for 33 years. Two David Kuttler, e’62, 69, March 24 in El Wichita. He had been a professor at sisters and a stepbrother survive. Dorado, where he was a chemical engi- North Texas University and is survived Jeffrey Copeland, b’87, 45, March 27 in neer. He is survived by his wife, Judy; two by his mother and a brother. Shawnee. He is survived by his wife, Ann sons; one of whom is Andrew, f’09; a Mentzer Copeland, ’87; a daughter; a son; daughter, Angela Kuttler Sabo, j’88; and 1970s and his parents. four grandchildren. Arthur “Tripp”Anderson, d’73, g’83, Hubert Dumortier Jr., g’81, 81, March Carl Metzler, p’60, 79, March 22 in l’88, 62, April 6 in Lawrence, where he 17 in Kansas City, where he worked for Topeka, where he owned Home Drug was an attorney. He is survived by his the city development department. Surviv- Pharmacy. He is survived by his wife, wife, Mary Stanford Anderson, c’76; two ing are two sons, one of whom is Thomas, Joyce McCarter Metzler, assoc., two sons, sons; his father; a brother, Lowry, g’77; ’81; two daughters; 14 grandchildren; and three grandchildren and three great- and a sister, Rebecca, ’78. 15 great-grandchildren. grandchildren. The Rev. Edwin Cole, g’70, 71, Dec. 13 Mark Klimiuk, c’88, 45. Feb. 1 in Col- David Mitchell, b’65, g’68, PhD’72, 66, in Laurie, Mo., where he was a priest at orado Springs, Colo., where he was March 17 in Greensboro, where he was a the Shrine of St. Patrick. Five sisters and founder and president of RadiantBlue member of the sociology faculty at the two brothers survive. Technologies. He is survived by his wife, University of North Carolina. He is sur- Joanne Wilkerson Kersten, g’79, Theresa, three sons, a stepson and a step- vived by his wife, Ann; two stepsons; a EdD’84, 68, Feb. 26 in Liberty, Mo., daughter. stepdaughter; two sisters, Donna where she was retired chair of nursing at Marilyn Leeper Lindsay, s’82, 75, Feb. Mitchell Warrington, a’69, and Janice William Jewell College. A son, a brother 16 in Maple Hill. She was a social worker Mitchell Gunderson, c’71; and seven and a granddaughter survive. at Topeka State Hospital for 41 years. A grandchildren. Sister Roberta Klesener, g’72, 68, Dec. brother and 17 nieces and nephews sur- Karen Ogden O’Brien, d’68, 64, 26 in Milwaukee, where she lived with vive. March 19 in Dallas. She is survived by the School Sisters of St. Francis. Several Michael Montgomery, m’82, 57, March her husband, Mike, j’66, g’69; a daugh- nieces and nephews survive. 26 in Kansas City. He lived in Emporia, ter; and two grandchildren. Paula Libel, c’78, 59, March 4 in where he was a partner in Emporia Ortho- John Peterson, j’61, April 11 in Lea- Kansas City, where she had worked for pedic Associates. Surviving are his wife, wood. He had been a national correspon- Soil Service Nursery. She also worked Shelly, a son; two daughters; two brothers;

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI two sisters, one of whom is Mary Mont- son; her parents; a brother, Rodger, ’83; brother; two grandchildren; five step- gomery Sherbon, m’87; and three grand- and a sister. grandchildren; and a great-grandson. children. Barbara Jones, 74, April 28 in Jeffrey Montolio, PhD’88, 51, Jan. 19 The University Community Lawrence, where she was a KU librarian in Olathe, where he was a psychologist. Nobleza Asuncion-Lande, 72, Feb. 13 for many years. Her twin sister survives. He is survived by his wife, Betsy Jones in Lawrence, where she was a professor John Kepes, 81, Feb. 2 in Kansas City, Montolio, d’81, g’86; a daughter; his par- of communication studies and a 2001 where he was a professor emeritus of ents; two sisters; and a brother. inductee into the KU Women’s Hall of pathology at the KU Medical Center. A Nancy Musgrave-Hann, g’81, 57, Feb. Fame. She is survived by two sons, daughter survives. 4 in Parkville, Mo., where she was a James, ’88, and Charles, ’88; three broth- Peter Neely, 82, Feb. 21 in Eudora. He teacher. A son and two brothers survive. ers; a sister; and three grandchildren. was an associate professor at KU from Virginia “Ginny” Wightman Pugh, Norman Forer, 84, Feb. 12 in 1968 until retiring in 1997. Survivors s’80, 76, Feb. 24 in Mission. She is sur- Lawrence, where he was a retired KU include his wife, Yvonne Cousins Neely, vived by two daughters, one of whom is assistant professor of social welfare. In assoc.; a daughter; a son; three grandchil- Laurie Pugh Dahms, c’81, m’86; a son, the early 1980s, he went to Iran on his dren; and a great-granddaughter. Daniel, c’86; a brother; and six grandchil- own to try to resolve the crisis after Iran- Michael Palij, PhD’71, 96, Jan. 21 in dren. ian students took Americans hostage Lawrence, where he had developed the Jannell Salts Stone, j’87, 46, Feb. 22 in inside the U.S. Embassy. Survivors Ukranian book collection at KU. A memo- Overland Park, where she was a cus- include two sons, Robert, l’85, and rial has been established with the KU tomer-service representatiave for J.C. Pen- Patrick, c’88; and two daughters, Martha Endowment Association. He is survived by ney and Farmers Insurance. She is Forer Fanty, c’82, d’83, and Sarah, ’77. his wife, Lubomyra, assoc.; a son, Peter, survived by her parents, Richard, g’70, Peter Frevert, 72, May 11 in Topeka. e’81; and two grandchildren. and Judith Salts; and a sister, Janis Salts He taught economics at KU from 1967 Oliver Phillips, d’50, 80, Feb. 16 in Miller, h’92. until 2001 and earlier had taught at Lawrence, where he was a KU professor Susan Stuckey, c’85, 47, March 31 in Depauw University and at State Univer- emeritus of classics. He received the Mor- Prairie Village, where she had a career in sity of New York at Buffalo. He is sur- tar Board Outstanding Educator Award at sales. Her mother, stepfather and three vived by a son, Benjamin, e’88; three KU in 1978 and had taught honors sec- brothers survive. daughters, one of whom is Mary Ann, tions of Western Civilization after retiring. d’94, g’02; three sisters, one of whom is He is survived by his wife, Shirley Liese 1990s Gail Frevert Schuman, c’74; two brothers; Phillips, ’79; two sons, Stephen, g’85, l’89, Cynthia Nachbar Cole, n’96, g’98, 59, and four grandchildren. and Mark, c’87; and five grandchildren. Feb. 21 in Shawnee, where she was a Anthony Genova, 80, March 20 in Robert Squier, 91, April 11 in Portal, nurse practitioner. She is survived by her Lawrence, where he taught philosophy at Ariz. He was a retired professor of husband, Bill, g’82, g’99; a daughter; two KU for 38 years. Survivors include his anthropology at KU, where he had been sons, one of whom is Robert, l’00; her wife, Veronica Bartoszek Genova, ’74; the first chairman of the anthropology mother; a brother; a sister; and six grand- and a daughter, Pamela, c’83. department. His wife, Evelyn, assoc., children. Robert Hoffmann, 81, April 6 in survives. Eric Flescher, EdD’98, 58, March 2 in Bethesda, Md., where he was former William Wilson, 75, Dec. 14 in Kansas City, where he was a teacher. He director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Lawrence. For 20 years, he had worked at is survived by his wife, Sue-Ellen, assoc.; National Museum of Natural History. the KU Bookstore, where he was known a daughter; a son; a stepson, David Holz- Earlier he had taught zoology at KU, as “the bookstore guy.” He earlier had a man, b’09; a stepdaughter, Laura Holz- where he also was curator of the Natural career as a supply sustems analyst at the man, j’06; his mother; a sister; and a History Museum. Surviving are his wife, U.S. Army Communications and Electron- brother. Sally Monson Hoffmann, ’75; three sons, ics Command at Fort Monmouth, N.J. A Stephen Gilmore, g’98, 47, Jan. 10 in one of whom is David, c’84; a daughter, brother survives. Salida, Colo., where he was an anesthesi- Brenna Hoffmann Olivier, c’86; and two ologist. He is survived by his wife, grandchildren. Associates Donna, three daughters and a son. Robert Jaeger, ’50, 84, March 1 in Albert Liebert, 77, Feb. 28 in Lorinda “Lori” Lawson King- Lawrence, where he was retired assistant Coffeyville, where he was chairman of Clemons, c’90, 46, March 18 in Kansas director of the KU Printing Service. He is Liebert Bros. Electric Co. He is survived City. She was a research biologist for survived by his wife, Nancy Shawbaker by his wife, Geraldine “Jerry” Walterscheid Bayer, a paralegal for local law firms and Jaeger, ’82; two daughters, one of whom Liebert, p’55; three daughters, one of a group fitness instructor. Survivors is Julie Jaeger Ramirez, ’85; a stepdaugh- whom is Ann Marie Liebert Vannoster, include her husband, Tony; a son; a step- ter; a stepson, Larry Shawbaker, ’87; a ’80; two brothers; and five grandchildren.

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Studies have shown that driving while intoxicated increases the risk of acci- STEVE PUPPE I A survey of KU students dent by 400 percent and by Paul Atchley (right), talking on a hands-free cell associate professor of phone increases accident risk 450 to 500 percent. psychology, found higher Texting while driving than expected rates of increases the risk of acci- texting while driving. In dent by 2,300 percent. related research Atchley Atchley’s work in this uses a driving simulator area grew out of his cogni- (operated here by tive psychology studies on Singapore PhD student visual attention and the Mark Chan, g’09) to study ways that cell phones dis- how texting and cell tract drivers. He found that phones affect driver hands-free cell phones do vigilance on long trips. not improve safety, because the real distraction isn’t the dialing, but the conversa- Thumbing a ride tion that follows. “We kept giving these Texting behind the wheel far more prevalent, presentations and people and dangerous, than most realize would say, ‘If this is so bad, why do people do it?’ I never had a great answer, sk your average college student if it’s OK and that’s what got us started on this line of to drink and drive, Paul Atchley says, research.” and the answers are unequivocal: So why do people continue to engage in a Absolutely not. Never. No way. behavior six times more dangerous than drunk ABut inquire about texting and driving and the driving? responses are more nuanced. Atchley’s recent study, funded by KU’s Trans- “When you talk to students and ask if this is portation Research Institute, found that people safe, they say no,” says Atchley, associate profes- who engage in risky behavior tend to minimize sor of psychology. “But when we looked at how the risk to themselves. He attributes the behavior many students are texting while driving, the to “cognitive dissonance,” a concept that psychol- results were shocking to us.” ogists originated in the 1950s. Basically, when In a study of KU students between the ages of people engage in behavior that is inconsistent 18 and 30, Atchley found that 70 percent initiate with their beliefs, they tend to change their beliefs text messages while driving, 81 percent reply to rather than their behavior. texts, and 92 percent read text messages. “If you engage in behavior that’s really dumb, Those numbers reflect only those who engage you either tell yourself, ‘I’m really stupid and do in these behaviors while moving. Add those who things I shouldn’t,’ or you tell yourself, ‘No, this is say they do these things while stopped in traffic, fine; I’ll be OK. It won’t happen to me.’” and the percentages are even higher. Bottom line, In fact, Atchley’s study is the first in his field to only 2 percent of students surveyed say they show that drivers who initiate text messages never use their phones or PDAs to text while change their perception of road conditions. A driving. highway situation others characterized as

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI “intense” texters characterized as “calm.” the Shelley Award is That means at the very moment they given to a living Ameri-

are the most distracted, drivers are STEVE PUPPE can poet by a jury of paying less attention—not more—to their three poets. Past win- driving. ners include Moore, In other words, Atchley says, “We’re who won in 1941; e.e. really good at fooling ourselves.” cummings; William All this means that knowledge of risk Stafford, c’37, g’46; has very little effect on behavior: Sternly Anne Sexton; and Gary worded public service announcements Snyder. Irby shares the warning people about the risk of occupy- 2010 Shelley Award ing their eyes and both hands to type on with poet Eileen a tiny keyboard while hurtling down the Myles. highway at 70 miles per hour? Probably “It’s an honor to be a waste of time, Atchley says. in that company, for Instead, he is proposing a series of sure,” he says. “I was I English professor Ken Irby, who recently published a collection of studies to AAA, the motor club and dumbfounded. more than 40 years of his work, was selected this spring by the leisure travel organization, to determine Absolutely staggered.” the best way to persuade people that Poetry Society of America to receive the Shelley Memorial Award. The honor follows texting while driving is a bad idea. publication earlier this Society’s changing view of drunk driving NNN year of The Intent On: may offer a hint. Collected Poems, 1962-2006. The massive, “The first drunk driving laws were on Poetic intent 600-page compendium of five decades of the books in 1917, but it wasn’t until the Irby’s writing spans his days at Harvard late 1970s and ’80s that they were Collected poems earn national to his time at KU, where he has taught enforced,” Atchley says. “That came recognition for KU professor since 1985. about because groups like Mothers Irby also lived in Berkeley, Calif., and Against Drunk Driving had these really hen he was a graduate stu- San Francisco, where he once managed a compelling tragic stories they could dent in Chinese history tailor shop; Mexico City, where his tell to legislators to really force their and literature at Harvard in brother, James Irby, c’52, introduced hand to enforce the laws that were the early ’60s, Ken Irby dis- him to Latin American literature; Nevada, already in place.” Wcovered the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in New Mexico and Hawaii, during a two- Such compelling stories about texting- Harvard Square. Not only did the related tragedies, sadly, are starting to venerable store (which today bills spread. Advocacy groups such as Impact itself as “the oldest continuous Teen Drivers, formed by California High- poetry book shop in the U.S.”) offer The Intent On: way Patrol officers, have sprung up to books that were hard to find, but it Collected Poems, use texting-related fatal crashes to edu- also offered a chance to meet the 1962-2006 cate drivers. AT&T recently launched a poets who wrote them. campaign that features family members “Anybody might show up, because by Ken Irby sharing the banal text messages that con- that was where everybody went,” North Atlantic Books, tributed to a loved one’s accident. More recalls Irby, c’58. “I met Marianne $40 than 20 states (including Kansas) and Moore there. Anaïs Nin. Richard the District of Columbia have passed Wilbur. That was a factor.” laws banning texting while driving, and A factor, that is, in the decision Atchley says insurance companies are Irby made after just one year of work starting to weigh in on the issue, with on his PhD: Chinese history and litera- year stint in the Army; and Denmark, Allstate recently starting an “X the Text” ture were not his calling. Poetry was. where he traveled as a Fulbright scholar campaign. Irby, associate professor of English, and later taught at Copenhagen “It’s not until we have enough again found himself in Moore’s august University. tragedies,” Atchley says, “that people get company this spring, when he won the The landscapes and people of all motivated to change the laws or enforce 2010 Shelley Memorial Award from the those locales influence his poetry, in the laws we have.” Poetry Society of America. Established in which a strong sense of place is ever- —Steven Hill 1929 and bestowed only by nomination, present. But perhaps no place is as

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pervasive as Kansas, where the Texas- gained a valuable born Irby moved (to Fort Scott) when he insight into search-

was 3 years old. Many of the early ing for new species: STEVE PUPPE poems, especially, in Intent On explore If locals have two Kansas people and places. “To Max Dou- words for what sci- glas” is a long work that addresses a entists think is only friend of Irby’s who died of a heroin over- one species of crit- dose. As a fellow poet said to Irby, “It’s ter, chances are the first poem he ever read in which the there might actually central character is the state line between be two. Missouri and Kansas. Fort Scott is five So it was that as miles from Missouri. You could feel pal- early as 2001 pably a difference. I can feel it still. When researchers trekking I come back from the Kansas City airport through remote, and cross into Kansas, it feels like a dif- mountainous forests ferent terrain.” on the Philippines’ I Graduate student Luke Welton accomplished a rare feat among That terrain and many others—not Luzon Island began merely the geographical but also the hearing about a modern biologists: He helped capture and identify a large vertebrate philosophical, psychological and political large monitor lizard animal previously unknown to science—in this case, a giant, fruit-eating landscapes of Irby’s experience—are similar to the Grey’s monitor lizard (left). explored in the poet’s singular style monitor. Their suspi- throughout this impressive collection. cions were confirmed last year, when a my adviser enough for seeing potential in Gathered for the first time in one vol- joint KU-National Museum of the Philip- me, supporting me and providing me ume, they form a fitting monument to a pines expedition captured a species this opportunity. long and distinguished writing life. unknown to all but the locals, who, it “The same goes for the entire [her- —Steven Hill turns out, consider it a delicacy. petology division of KU’s Biodiversity “Local tribespeople of the northern Institute]. It’s an incredibly supportive, part of Luzon Island have known about collaborative environment.” this monitor for generations,” says Wel- The Northern Sierra Madre Forest ton, c’07, who was one of the first biolo- Monitor spends most of its time in trees, gists to see the animal now called the eats fruit and snails, and can grow up to Northern Sierra Madre Forest Monitor 2 meters long. It displays bright yellow Lizard. “The individual we caught had and black stripes with spots across its been accidentally trapped and back. salvaged from a hunter who had DNA analysis and physical inspection set snare traps for wild pigs.” of the adult male found in 2009 con- Welton grew up in Lawrence, firmed suspicions that it was a distinct scurrying through creeks and species. The findings were published in ponds in pursuit of “creepy- April in the Royal Society of London’s crawlies, frogs, lizards, snakes, all sorts of Biology Letters. things.” He admits to being rather unfo- “We hope that by focusing on protec- NNN cused as an undergraduate, and only had tion of this new monitor, conservation the confidence and direction for gradu- biologists and policymakers can work ate school thanks to his adviser, Assistant together to protect the remaining highly Leapin’ lizards! Professor Rafe Brown. imperiled forests of northern Luzon,” Now Welton has helped capture, says Brown, curator of the herpetology Graduate student helps find, analyze, identify and document a species division and team leader of the 2009 identify new species of previously unknown to science. expedition. “The new species can serve monitor lizard “That fact that there are still charis- as a convenient ‘flagship species’ for matic, conspicuous, large vertebrates conservation, focusing the attention of uke Welton is still a year away unknown to science out there in the the public and affording protection to from completing his master’s world is indescribably thrilling to me,” many unrelated species if its habitat is degree in ecology and evolution- Welton says. “I was sort of in the right preserved.” Lary biology, but he already has place at the right time, and I can’t thank —Chris Lazzarino 62 | KANSAS ALUMNI NNN supply house specializing in advanced professional lighting. Banks will teach

Curtain calls and design theatre at Austin College in STEVE PUPPE Sherman, Texas. heatre designer Liz Banks made The Kennedy Center also announced the most of her “Macbeth” expe- at its April festival the creation of a play- rience. Her lighting designs for writing award named for KU English pro- University Theatre’s October fessor and playwright Paul Stephen Lim, Tproduction helped her win one of eight honoring Asian-American student writers. regional competitions for the prestigious In other theatre news: Kennedy Center American College The- Elizabeth “Biz” Grim, a master’s stu- atre Festival, and when she arrived in dent in theatre design, will participate in Washington, D.C., for the April event, the USA Student Exhibit at the 2011 she learned that her group’s shared chal- Prague Quadrennial of Performance lenge was lighting a “Macbeth” scene. Design and Space, in the Czech Republic. “Everybody did the same scene from Grim was chosen for her set design for ‘Macbeth,’ and that had nothing do with “Book of Days,” staged by University our show here at University Theatre,” Theatre in December 2008. Banks says. “We basically had a day to University Theatre alumnus Randy focus all our lights and then do tech Adams, g’80, and his partners in Junk- rehearsal, then we ran the scenes and yard Dog Productions won the Tony I professional designers responded.” Award for Best Musical for “Memphis.” Theatre design graduate student Elizabeth And they responded most enthusiasti- The hit Broadway musical won four Tony “Biz” Grimm won a place in the 2011 Prague cally to Banks, g’10, who won the Barbi- Awards at the June 13 ceremony in New Quadrennial, one of many important honors zon Award for Theatre Design York’s Radio City Music Hall. recently enjoyed by theatre students and Excellence, sponsored by a theatrical —Chris Lazzarino alumni.

In his element

ownBeat magazine, the authoritative publication Dfor jazz and blues music, chose “Out of His

Element,” an extended jazz composition by senior STEVE PUPPE Andrew Linn, as the winner of the Undergraduate College Division of its 33rd-annual Student Music Awards. The trumpet performance major began studying composition with Dan Gailey, director of jazz studies, in spring 2009, and his winning composition made its concert debut with KU Jazz Ensemble I in November. “I was astounded to realize,” Linn says, “that all the hard work I put into the piece didn’t go unnoticed.” Linn’s is the 18th DownBeat Student Music Award won by the School of Music since 1992. Linn, of Chesterfield, Mo., was a member of KU Jazz Combos I and II and KU Jazz Ensemble I. He will now head to the University of Northern Colorado to pursue a graduate degree in jazz studies. —Chris Lazzarino

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I “Nebula I quilt,” by Virginia Randles, with hand quilting by Bertha Mast, is part of a summer exhibition on view until Aug. 29 in the Spencer Museum of Art’s Central Court. Organized and curated by advanced student interns, “Quilting Time & Space” includes 11 of the nearly 200 quilts in the Spencer’s collection, as well as glass paperweights, a Japanese folding fan and a series of intricate sample pieces.

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