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18 28 34 Front and Center A Soldier in Freedom’s Change of Command In the heart of campus, the Army At the state’s headquarters for recently completed Central Immigrant Liyue Huang-Sigle’s all law enforcement training, a District is a vibrant new core journey to becoming KU-led venture for the last of student life, faculty research American started in half-century, the retirement of and science education. Tiananmen Square and led a longtime leader means there’s to the U.S. military. a new sheri in town. By Chris Lazzarino By Steven Hill By Heather Biele Cover photograph by Steve Puppe
Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 116, No. 4, 2018 ISSUE 4, 2018 | 1 Lift the Chorus
numerous organizations to improve the quality of life for the citizens of that county, attracting funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To name a few of the positives for Iola and Allen County, health care has improved, with the uninsured rate remarkably decreasing to 9 percent; new medical facilities were constructed; Diagnosis: more walking and biking trails with Tolands needed free access to bikes are improving health; and a newly T of Kansas opened grocery store now Alumni features a remarkable provides local access to food story, authored by Steven Hill, shopping. Memories of was already famous as “Teen about how a young man, David David Toland should be Angel” in the 7UP commercial Toland, returns to his home- cloned manyfold over, as it is Mandy that was very popular in the town of Iola and transforms clear that rural Kansas late 1960s. the community culture communities require insightful I to see ank you for publishing [“ rive Where You’re Sown,” and dedicated leadership in in your May issue an update Mandy’s class note, which issue No. 3]. order to regain their footing. from my classmate, Mandy engendered many happy Mr. Toland is the CEO of ank you for this inspira- Patinkin [Class Notes, issue memories. rive Allen County. Under tional story. No. 3]. Bruce Keplinger, c’74 his leadership and direction, Dr. Jim Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74 While I have enjoyed many Leawood rive has partnered with Bellevue, Washington of Mandy’s performances Editor’s Note: Patinkin’s star through the years on stage and turn as Tevye was actually in the on TV and movie screens fall of 1971—in October to be (“Hello, my name is Inigo precise, according to a copy of the Montoya …”), my favorite original program (above) memory of Mr. Patinkin is his provided by the KU theatre playing Tevye in “Fiddler on department. the Roof” at Murphy Hall. Mandy’s performance was masterful and was one of the best live theater performances I have ever seen. My recollec- Your tion is that the performance opinion counts was in the spring of 1971. Could you please verify that? Please email us a note I also recall that the class of at [email protected] to tell us what you think of ’74 was excited and honored to Toland your alumni magazine. have Mandy in our ranks, as he
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Letters to the Editor: 68 In Memory Deaths in the KU family Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Email responses may be sent to 72 Rock Chalk Review the Alumni Association, [email protected]. Willmott project wins prize at Cannes; chip-based Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space test promises diagnosis breakthrough. and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a free gift of KU Campus Playing Cards, a $5 value. 76 Glorious to View Scene on campus
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Don Smith (l) and Bill Tuttle, then and now.
erendipity and a stray copy of Kansas Alumni helped lectures that “were like listening to music: enjoyable, well mea- SDon Smith reunite via email in June with one of his favorite sured, exciting in some respects.” He muses that as a 19- or professors—and a rmed why we nd joy in sharing stories 20-year-old, he thought Tuttle, then only in his mid-30s, spoke from the Hill. with the wisdom of someone much older. With time, the 16-year Smith, j’76, who lives in Denver, was visiting a family gap in their ages has magically narrowed—a phenomenon we all member in a Topeka hospital when he happened upon our discover as the years pass. issue No. 1 from January this year (fairly recent by waiting-room Shared experiences o en shorten distances in age and miles, standards). uniting us as Jayhawks. ey can inspire us to thank professors e magazine included a feature story on Bill Tuttle, professor whose presence and inuence linger long beyond nal exams. emeritus of American Studies, who last fall had celebrated his ey can prompt us to reach out to classmates and friends with 50th year at KU and his 80th birthday by delivering a lecture in whom we ventured through life-changing years. Stories also can the series that colleagues had created in his honor in 2007. simply con rm that we chose well: “As I have read from time to Tuttle has heard from numerous former students in response to time about your work,” Smith tells Tuttle, “I have felt proud of my our story, but Smith’s note especially touched him, so he passed it association with the University of Kansas.” on to me. When I asked Smith’s permission to excerpt his email in this Smith, now a professor himself, teaches at the University of column, he graciously obliged, writing, “Professor Tuttle was a Denver’s Sturm College of Law. A er the Kansas Alumni story wonderful teacher, and through the piece I reconnected with transported him back to a KU lecture hall when he was a journal- some very happy memories of KU.” ism major from Dodge City, he felt compelled to thank Tuttle, anks to the support of members and donors, our Alumni sharing his memories of an American history course. “It was a big Association oers communications and events to reconnect class and the year was probably 1974,” Smith recounts. “ ere is year-round, along with time-honored traditions including no reason you would remember me. In fact, I am not sure we ever Homecoming, which this year is Sept. 22-29 (see p. 67, or spoke (it’s been more than 40 years ago so it’s hard to remember homecoming.ku.edu). In keeping with this year’s theme, “Home for sure!). ... on the Hill,” we hope Jayhawks everywhere will help extend the “ e way you talked about American history, how it has celebration by sending us personal de nitions of home on our evolved, what the big themes have been, and who the key gures cherished campus: a dorm oor on Daisy Hill, a shady spot in were, was always compelling and thought-provoking. While I Marvin Grove, a favorite quirky club—or a memorable classroom don’t remember any speci c lectures, I do remember how I or research lab and the guidance of a revered professor. Send your always looked forward to your next lecture. ...You le me with stories to [email protected], and we will highlight them an enduring interest in our history, an interest that remains to throughout the fall. this day.” Reunions can take many forms. As always, Kansas Alumni is Smith praises his professor for elegance and style in delivering your standing invitation.h
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Exhibitions Lied Center events miere: 25th-Anniversary On May 13, nearly 4,000 Commission Honoring 15 graduates participated in the KU Basketball Luminaries “Pledges of Allegiance,” AUGUST University’s 146th 17 Commencement. Kevin Spencer Museum of Art, 12 Michael McDonald Loudon Wainwright III Carroll, assoc., the Alumni through July 31 24 Amirah Sackett 28 Gael Hannan: “I’m Association’s 2017-’18 28 “Paying Homage: Celebrating Hearing as Hard as I Can” Purna Loka Ensemble national chair, welcomed the the Diversity of Men in Quilts,” 29 Kibbutz Contemporary Class of 2018 into the KU Spencer Museum of Art, SEPTEMBER Dance Company alumni family, and Chancellor through Aug. 26 22 Trevor Noah Doug Girod oered “Larry Schwarm: Kansas Farm- 24, 25 Tootie Heath Trio Humanities Lecture inspirational advice to the new ers,” Spencer Museum of Art, featuring Emmet Cohen Series 2018-’19 graduates: “Embrace this Aug. 11 through Jan. 6 27 KU Symphony Orchestra journey,” he said. “And don’t with special guest Blake SEPTEMBER forget to enjoy the journey.” “Passage,” Spencer Museum of Pouliot, violin Art, Aug. 27 through Nov. 25 26 “Frontline: Latinos and 30 Steve Martin & Martin Immigration from a “ e Ties that Bind: Haiti, the Short: “An Evening You Will Woman’s Perspec- United States and the Art of Forget for the Rest of Your tive,” Maria Ulrick Jean-Pierre in Com- Life” Hinojosa, e parative Perspective,” Sept. 8 Commons through Jan. 7 OCTOBER “Soundings,” Sept. 15 through 4 Joshua Bell, violin Dec. 16 11 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and World Pre-
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OCTOBER 25 “Body Movements: Positioning Sudanese Women in an Age of Empire,” Marie Grace Brown, Lied Center Pavilion
NOVEMBER 19 An Evening with Neil Gaiman, Lied Center
FEBRUARY 7 “Political Optimism in the Academic Calendar Age of Trump,” Walter Mosley, Kansas Union JULY Ballroom 27 Summer classes end
APRIL AUGUST AUGUST tailgate, Adams Alumni 11 An Evening with Jesmyn Center 16-26 Hawk Week 2 Happy Hour, Boston Ward, Liberty Hall, down- 18 Kansas Honors Scholars town Lawrence 20 Fall classes begin 3 KU Night with the St. Paul Program: Pittsburg Saints, CHS Field, St. Paul, Alumni Events Minnesota 22 KU at Baylor, member Kansas Repertory tailgate Theatre 4 D.C. Summer BBQ, JULY Arlington, Virginia 22-29 Homecoming (for complete schedule, visit JULY 21 Rock Chalk Brew Bus, 7 Happy Hour, New York kualumni.org/homecoming) City 21, 27 Tampa, Florida “La Cage aux Folles,” 29 KU vs. Oklahoma State, 26 Bus ride to “Football 101” 9 KU Kicko , Topeka directed by Missy Koonce, member tailgate, Adams with Coach Beaty, Wichita Cra on-Preyer eatre 13 KU Night with the Alumni Center 26, 28 “Legend of Georgia 26 KU Night with the Albuquerque Isotopes, McBride,” directed by Peter Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Isotopes Park, Albuquerque, Zazzali, Cra on-Preyer New York City New Mexico eatre 28 Dallas Brunch Club 15 KU Kicko , Wichita 17 KU Kicko , Corinth Square, Prairie Village 17 KU Night with the White Sox, Chicago 22 Seattle Jayhawks Golf Tournament, Redmond, Washington
SEPTEMBER 1 KU vs. Nicholls State, Events listed here are high- member tailgate, Adams lights from the Association’s Alumni Center busy calendar. For complete listings of all events, watch for 8 KU at Central Michigan, emails about programs in your member tailgate area, visit kualumni.org or call 15 KU vs. Rutgers, member 800-584-2957.
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Many Very Eager, Motivated, PEARSON LEROY LARRY Jovial Scientists Urge New Planets
hat are planets? That seemingly innocent question is Wsparking a revolution among squabbling astronomers. Again. Still annoyed by the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 reclassification of Pluto—discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tom- baugh, c’36, g’39—astronomers in March announced a nomen- clature proposal that could be summarized so succinctly that even elementary-school kids—perhaps the most insatiable consumers of planetary tales—could instantly grasp and recite the concept. What are planets? “Round objects in space that are smaller than stars.” Moons such as ours would become “planetary moons,” and poor, maligned Pluto would be restored to its former glory. “It gets old having to address the misconceptions among the public who think that because Pluto was ‘demoted’ (not exactly Post. “It seems very likely that at some point the IAU will a neutral term) that it must be more like a lumpy little asteroid reconsider its flawed definition.” than the complex and vibrant planet that it is,” astronomers Jayhawks, of course, never doubted. It’s always looked like a David Grinspoon and Alan Stern wrote May 7 in the Washington planet to us.
That’s a wrap R L , the tortillas that are hallmarks of Sonoran Lawrence, e Local Pig in Kansas City graduate a airs administrator for KU’s cooking. and Lenexa’s Red Kitchen Tamales (where chemistry department, le Hermosillo, “I needed a hobby, and I told myself, the distinctive tortillas are also used to Mexico, 14 years ago. He says he’s grown ‘What can I do? Well, I miss tortillas a lot. wrap burritos recently named best in the to love Lawrence, but longed for our I can teach myself how to make them.’ state), and he’d signed a lease on kitchen at’s how it all space at 19th and Mass. started.” Churning out up to 300 tortillas a week A er perfecting with no help forced Leal to log 20-hour STEVE PUPPE STEVE the delicate blend days, o en sleeping on a mattress at the of our, water and business, so in May he le KU to work full pork or duck fat, time on tortillas thin enough to read Leal shared his through. tortillas with family “Every time I do samples at a store or an and friends, who event, people are like, ‘I’m trying a our encouraged him to tortilla?’ And their eyes get big, like, start selling them. ‘Whoa, what am I eating? I didn’t know it So he did. Within could be this good!’” two years, Leal’s A true taste of northern Mexico, right Caramelo Tortillas here in northeastern Kansas: Chalk up were available in another cultural exchange victory made e Merc Co+op in possible by the big world of KU. Leal
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A KU’s Audio-Reader Network won this spring from the International Association of Audio Information Services, one in particular caught our ear. Lori Tesdahl, a 10-year volunteer at the reading and information service for blind, WILLIAMS JARROD COURTESY visually impaired and print-disabled people in Kansas and western Missouri, won the IAAI award for excellence in Pay feed all who enter volunteering. Chief among Tesdahl’s contributions: reading Kansas Alumni hat started as a means to pass The Williamses, who were members cover-to-cover in the recording studio for Wtime between NCAA tournament of the KU basketball band, relied on users who call in and request the playback games turned into much more for memory and details they found online via Audio-Reader’s telephone service. Jarrod, f’95, g’03, and Kate Neely to construct the 10-by-14-foot struc- “Not only does she maintain a weekly Williams, ’97, who this spring master- ture, which features the field house’s reading assignment, but she also spends minded the construction of Alhen Field signature red roof, limestone-hued hours and hours sorting and pricing all House, a wildly creative chicken coop walls, abundant rows of windows and the album donations for our giant audio built in the likeness of KU’s legendary large 3-D block letters that spell out sale,” says Jennifer Nigro, j’97, Audio- basketball arena. “Alhen Field House.” Reader’s coordinator of volunteers, who The Maryland transplants, who “We were just going to do the nominated Tesdahl. “She’s just very moved to Grimesland, North Carolina, outside, but we thought how plain the unassuming about it. She does her thing last year after retiring from the U.S. inside looked,” says Jarrod, who and doesn’t ask for a lot, so we wanted to Naval Academy Band, hatched a plan embellished the coop’s interior with recognize her for all the good work she for the hen house while discussing hand-painted championship and Final does.” permanent lodging for the family’s 15 Four banners, as well as a scoreboard Among Tesdahl’s favorite features is baby chicks, which include Devonte’ and the retired jerseys of Jayhawk Jayhawk Walk, the section you—or she, if GrayHen, Bawk Vaughn, Chick Collison, greats. He even recreated the antique you’re hearing this via Audio-Reader—is Scot Pullet and Greg Roostertag. Longines clock that hangs on Allen reading now. at’s right: is is a story “They can’t stay in the brood house Field House’s west wall. about Lori reading a story about Lori. forever,” Jarrod recalls telling his “If you subscribe to crazy, “We’ll have to see how that is when I wife. “Why don’t we put them in you might as well get every come to it,” Tesdahl says with a laugh Allen Field House?” issue,” Jarrod jokes. “I’m all in.” when asked how she’ll react to the very meta moment of narrating her own tale in a format that normally discourages readers from adding editorial comment. “at’s gonna be a little bit odd. I guess I’ll have to Swiftly fly the years the Campanile, which, at 5:45 in the debate saying, ‘Well, you know, this is me.’” morning, is unusual.” An o cer Don’t worry, Lori: You just did. C 911 responded to Memorial Drive not know- call in the predawn of May 14, the ing what to expect, and the scene he morning a er Commencement, a er a discovered could not have been long weekend for the KU O ce of Public predicted. Safety: “You have a lot of people who are “ey were all just sitting there,” stressed out,” Deputy Chief James Angui- Anguiano says, “taking in the sunrise of ano says of students coping with nals their nal day at KU. A tranquil moment week and the ensuing weekend of celebra- to reect. It just shows that students really tions. “You get a lot of di erent calls, such take in the tradition of KU. Who knows?
STEVE PUPPE STEVE as mental-health emergencies or alcohol Maybe this will start a new tradition.” poisoning.” No stressing. No drinking. Just … e caller had reported, Anguiano says, chilling. We’re digging it. And it’s a safe bet “several hundred people milling around at KUPD is, too. Tesdahl
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What once was old is better than new again on the seventh floor of Dyche Hall, where
STEVE PUPPE STEVE researchers and graduate students enjoy spectacular views of Fraser Hall and beyond. In the Panorama, sculptor Laura Ramberg launched the gargoyles’ replacement with a series of getting-to-know-you sketches.
used to it,” he says diplomatically. Now ensconced in an academic’s enviable nest, with a pristine view of Spooner Hall, Soberon smiles and adds, “But, yes, this is much better.” As for Dyche’s badly eroded grotesques, which had been removed from their perches before exterior work began: ey are now being closely studied by sibling sculptors Laura, f’81, and Karl Ramberg, and the summer-session students in an architecture, design and planning course Dyche Hall renewal led by the husband-and-wife team of Keith Limestone walls, red-tile roof and top-floor renovations complete; Van de Riet, assistant professor, and lecturer Amy Van de Riet. grotesques’ replacement project underway, seeks donors While the Rambergs are examining and drawing each of the eight grotesques nside and out, top to bottom, ornamen- dismal disrepair, with low-slung drop removed last fall (four were taken down Ital and integral, Dyche Hall has been ceilings, lthy windows and crumbling when the north addition was built, one of reborn—so much so that Mount Oread’s window frames, and a seemingly haphaz- which was unfortunately lost or stolen), 1903 limestone citadel actually seems to ard assemblage of beat up old desks. the Van de Riets and their students are sparkle. Workers from B.A. Green Construction digitally scanning the entire menagerie. “ e outside is gorgeous,” says Professor removed the unfortunate drop ceiling, Together, the tandem teams next fall will Leonard Krishtalka, director of the KU revealing gorgeous beams and woodwork, produce ¼-sized clay maquettes for nal Biodiversity Institute and Natural History which were stripped, painted and restored. approval, although the goal of creating Museum. “ is brings not only an Antiquated air-handling systems were replica limestone grotesques still requires aesthetic beauty, but a beauty for research updated, and new windows reveal breath- $130,000 in private funding. and teaching and learning. And we’ve taking views of Marvin Grove and doubled the lifespan of the building.” Jayhawk Boulevard. A $4.2 million renovation launched in “I think that’s been a big, big surprise for August 2017 included repair and cleaning everybody,” University Architect Jim STOREY DAN of all exterior stonework, a new roof and Modig, a’73, says of Dyche Hall’s renewed complete renovation of the decrepit vibrancy, especially on the seventh oor, seventh oor, home to faculty, researchers, where irreplaceable bird and mammal students and specimen storage. collections are stored and faculty and e seventh oor atop the 1963 north students have long toiled in substandard addition was remodeled in recent years conditions. “ e preservation of Dyche and resembles a trendy urban o ce suite. Hall is huge, and it’s long overdue.” Not so the original portion of the build- Professor Jorge Soberon endured 12 ing’s top oor, which had fallen into years in the old seventh oor. “You get
10 | KANSAS ALUMNI one thing to look at it, but it’s another Milestones, money thing to put that spirit into it.” STEVE PUPPE STEVE Gazing lovingly at statues he has long and other matters studied from afar, Professor Emeritus Ted Johnson adds, “ ey’re poetic, in fact. It’s a hologram of the mind.” e grotesques remain on display in the Panorama for museum visitors to nally see up close. For more information about supporting their replacement, visit biodiversity.ku.edu/give.h —Chris Lazzarino n A 5.87 percent budget cut will trim $20 million from KU’s fiscal 2019 budget Banned by under a plan announced by Carl Lejuez, interim provost and executive vice popular demand chancellor. The across-the-board cut for Krishtalka says a key element of the KU completes long transition all Lawrence departments and units was winning sculpture proposal was plans for implemented July 1. “The need to community and campus engagement, to tobacco free campus recalibrate the University’s budget is the launched with a June 14 Panorama event, result of many long-term commitments at which children sketched alongside the n July 1, the Lawrence and Edwards and investments that each year have artists. Ocampuses became tobacco free, exceeded revenue, combined with “ is is a community story,” Karl joining the KU Medical Center, other institutional budgeting practices Ramberg says. “And the more we can get Kansas Board of Regents institutions and inconsistent with the current challenges the community involved, the better that more than 1,800 universities nationwide in of higher education funding, as well as a story is.” banning tobacco use on campus. decade-long trend of state funding Karl Ramberg says the grotesques’ e policy prohibits all forms of declines,” according to a KU news deterioration was mostly due to their tobacco, including snu and chewing release. century-plus exposure to Kansas elements. tobacco, as well as devices designed to Another factor, though, is that the statues simulate cigarette smoking such as n Mary Walsh is KU’s new chief are nearly 4 feet tall, and the layer from e-cigarettes and vaping devices. e information o cer. Formerly assistant which the rock was quarried was about 3 change mainly a ects tobacco use in vice president for academic and feet tall; that meant sculptor Joseph public spaces, since state law already administrative systems at Tulane Roblado Frazee had to ip the original prohibits smoking inside or near Univer- University, Walsh leads more than 275 blocks, turning horizontal limestone layers sity buildings and KU policy prohibits IT professionals on KU’s Lawrence and to vertical, exacerbating harm caused by smoking in state vehicles. Edwards campuses. moisture and temperature extremes. Under the new policy, students, faculty, Ramberg says great care will be taken to sta and visitors are still allowed to use n The School of Pharmacy ranks No. 4 quarry high-quality Cottonwood lime- tobacco or vape in their personal vehicles in National Institutes of Health funding, stone found close to the surface, for its on campus. earning more than $11 million in NIH natural porosity and durability. e transition marks the conclusion of a grants in fiscal 2017. Surprising details in the fanciful years’ long process, which started as a carvings have already been uncovered, student campaign in 2013; a survey n The Robert J. Dole Service to Country including paws that are four-petaled conducted that year showed that 64 Award will honor a member of the Dole owers, an elephant’s trunk that wraps percent of respondents favored a stricter Institute’s Student Advisory Board each around its body and cradles the sun, wings campus tobacco policy, and 59 percent year, the institute announced in May. that might just as likely be ns, and an favored a tobacco-free campus. A survey The $1,000 prize recognizes student eroded top knot that could have once been of faculty and sta showed similar levels of involvement with the institute, commit- anything from a simple forelock to a support: 58.9 percent favored a stricter ment to public service and demonstrat- unicorn’s horn. policy and 58.2 percent supported a ed leadership. Preference will be given “What is the language the artist used, tobacco-free campus. to students with military service and how can that language enhance what Tobacco Free KU, a coalition that experience. we see?” Karl Ramberg observes. “It’s includes KU human resources, Watkins
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Health Services, Recreation Services and the student group BEAK (Breathe Easy STEVE PUPPE STEVE KU) worked to formulate the tobacco ban. A dra policy was written in 2015, a er additional surveys and town hall meetings gathered input from students, faculty and sta , and a public comment period generated feedback that was incorporated into the nal policy. e provost approved that nal policy last July. e University is working to educate international students, KU managers and neighbors on the policy change, and smoking cessation programs are available on campus through Watkins Health Services. KU employees can also take advantage of a 12-week cessation program with health coaching through the state employee health plan. Chancellor Doug Girod and Robert Simari, executive vice chancellor for KU Medical Center, “ is is a cultural change, and it conferred Weinshilboum’s honorary degree. depends on individuals to adapt to that cultural change,” says Ola Faucher, c’71, HONORS g’87, director of human resources and his notable contributions to the eld of coordinator of the Tobacco Free KU Mayo Clinic researcher pharmacogenomics. steering committee. “So it’s not done yet. receives honorary degree During a nearly 50-year career, most of We will need to continue to sponsor, host, it spent at the Mayo Clinic, Weinshilboum shepherd and encourage that change.” R W , c’62, m’67, a has helped move his eld from the Information on the new policy and pioneer in the study of how drugs respond theoretical to the practical, helping bring cessation resources is available at tobacco- to a person’s genetics, received the Doctor about drug treatments that can take into free.ku.edu.h of Science at Commencement in May for account a patient’s unique genetics to
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efore Bonnie McKee Crume masks cover doctors’ faces, “KU put Bgraduated at the top of making lip-reading impos- together an her class in the KU School of sible—proved particularly chal- awesome team Medicine this spring and landed lenging for Crume, who was to assemble this a prestigious residency at the born with severe to profound machine,” Crume No. 1-ranked Boston Children’s sensorineural hearing loss. But says. “It wasn’t Hospital, she had to overcome Cyn Ukoko, senior coordinator perfect by any MEDICAL CENTER KU COURTESY challenges posed by hearing for academic accommodations means, but it was loss. at the Med Center, built a sys- incredibly cool.” Crume, m’18, succeeded with tem that required the surgeon, Crume earned determination and the help of resident and scrub tech to wear a 4.0 GPA and an improvised, computer-based wireless microphones; their finished tied for Crume communication system that speech was then transcribed the top spot in her class. After she calls “the rig.” and displayed on a monitor her residency in Boston, she can continue my dream without Surgery and obstetrics that Crume could read, allowing plans a career as a pediatrician. limitations. I have the privilege rotations—which occur in fast- her to communicate with “Hard work truly does pay of taking care of kids, and there paced operating rooms where her colleagues. o,” Crume says, “and now I is no better reward.”
12 | KANSAS ALUMNI increase a drug’s e cacy or avoid harsh Movements: Positioning Sudanese Milestones, money side e ects, a practice known as precision Women in an Age of Empire” Oct. 25 at or individualized medicine. the Lied Center Pavilion. and other matters “Dr. Weinshilboum’s important and foundational work has opened the door to SCHOLARSHIP new advances that will help patients far n Tuition and fees will rise 3 percent into the future,” said Chancellor Doug Common Book author Danticat under a plan approved in June by the Girod, who nominated Weinshilboum for to visit campus in September Kansas Board of Regents. Kansas the award, which was approved by the residents taking 15 undergraduate Kansas Board of Regents. “His ground- T KU C B for 2018-’19 is credit hours will pay $5,573.95 per breaking research in the eld of genomics Create Dangerously: e Immigrant Artist semester, an increase of $162.45. is helping to bring about a new era in at Work by Haitian-American writer Nonresident students will see an medicine that enables doctors to custom- Edwidge Danticat. increase of $383.70 per semester. The ize treatments to t their patients’ speci c A series of essays championing the plan also ends the four-year tuition genetic makeups.” making of art in the face of political and compact rate that allows incoming social strife, Create Dangerously will be the students to lock in one price for four years, though it will honor those LECTURES focus of classroom discussions and other campus events, including the author’s agreements already in place. Celebrated writers headline Common Book address at 7 p.m. Sept. 6 n Hall Center lecture series in the Lied Center. Cynthia Lane, EdD’00, superinten- e Common Book program is dent of schools for Kansas City, Kansas, N G , W M and designed to create a shared academic Public Schools, received the 2018 Jesmyn Ward will give talks on campus as experience for rst-year students and Friend of Education Award from the KU part of the 2018-’19 Humanities Lecture foster connec- School of Education. The annual award Series organized by KU’s Hall Center for tions among recognizes people whose work the Humanities. students, strengthens education for students in Gaiman, winner of the Newberry and faculty and Kansas and beyond. In her 35-year Carnegie medals as well as a number of sta . New career, Lane has worked as a classroom science ction awards, is the creator of students receive teacher, principal, assistant superinten- short ction, novels, audio theatre and the Common dent and director of special education, lms in several genres. “An Evening with Book during winning 2016 Kansas Superintendent of Neil Gaiman” will be held Nov. 19 at the orientation and the Year and 2016 Educator of the Year Lied Center. participate in a awards. She retired June 30. Mosley, best known for his Easy series of Rawlins detective series, has written more courses, n A $7.4 million estate gift from than 50 books, including crime novels, discussions and retired high school teacher Lavon political essays and science ction. His events during the academic year. Brosseau of Concordia will benefit KU talk, “Political Optimism in the Age of e selection “is timely in the context of students majoring in the arts, humani- Trump,” takes place Feb. 7 at the Kansas ongoing conversations about race and ties and education, establishing Memorial Union Ballroom. citizenship at KU and across the nation,” scholarships in the College of Liberal Ward, the rst woman to win two says Chancellor Doug Girod. “ e Arts & Sciences, a new Honors Scholars National Book Awards for ction, is a Common Book program is designed to program in the College, a Center for 2017 MacArthur Fellow and associate encourage our community of scholars to Learning at the Spencer Museum of professor of English at Tulane University. address challenging topics, and this year’s Art, awards and programming to “An Evening with Jasmyn Ward” will take selection—like those before it—will do encourage creativity for students in the place April 11 at Liberty Hall. exactly that.” humanities and the arts, and prizes and Maria Hinojosa, a four-time Emmy Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and scholarships for the UKanTeach award-winning news anchor and journal- winner of the Langston Hughes Medal, is program. Brosseau, who graduated ist opens the series with “Frontline: the author of ve books of ction, from Kansas State University, donated Latinos and Immigration from a Woman’s including the National Book Award $8 million to KU during her lifetime. Perspective,” Sept. 25 at Spooner Hall. nalist Krik? Krak!, four books of non c- She died in 2016. Marie Grace Brown, assistant professor tion and six books for children and of history at KU, will discuss “Body young adults.
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 13 Sports by Chris Lazzarino break the cycle. It’s not going to be easy.” He asked alumni and fans to support players “who are working incredibly hard to win for Kansas. ey are Jayhawks, and they need your support, and this program needs your support.”
MIKE GUNNOE A er relieving former athletics director Sheahon Zenger, PhD’96, of his duties May 21, Girod told the Kansas City Star that “football’s most certainly the most prominent challenge that we have right now. But it’s also getting excitement behind a vision, getting a fanbase moving behind a vision to really take athletics to the next level. We had lost some momen- tum there.” e search for Zenger’s replacement lasted only seven weeks—“By academic standards, it went very quickly,” Girod said—because one name “surfaced almost immediately” and remained at the forefront of consideration. Girod, Long and Jennings “Je kept rising to the top,” Girod said, “in every conversation we had.” Flashing a friendly manner and warm ‘Smiling fella’ to lead athletics sense of humor in his introduction to KU, Long laughed when nudged by the Long leaps at opportunity to head prominent program, chancellor to respond to a question he had pledges to ‘break the cycle’ of football frustrations overlooked. “I’m just a smiling fella up here,” Long said, grinning, “happy to be here.”h hen Chancellor Doug Girod asked experience in Div. I athletics. He served as Walumni stalwart A. Drue Jennings athletics director at the University of to lead the search for KU’s next athletics Arkansas from 2008 to 2017, before which director—which culminated with Je he spent four years as A.D. at the Univer- Lokedi strikes gold Long’s July 11 introduction as KU’s 15th sity of Pittsburgh, and hired prominent A.D.—he outlined qualities he expected to football coaches at both schools: Bobby Distance runner wins elusive title see in candidates brought forward for Petrino and Bret Bielema at Arkansas and with record-setting NCAA run consideration: integrity, nancial acumen, Dave Wannstedt at Pitt. management skills, experience in hiring Long said at his introductory news n her storied cross-country and track coaches, a commitment to all student- conference at the Lied Center Pavilion that Iand eld careers, senior distance runner athletes and the entire athletics depart- he has had good telephone conversations Sharon Lokedi has racked up just about ment, and national connections. with coach David Beaty but won’t begin a every possible honor. Including all three “And we added,” Jennings, d’68, l’72, close look inside the football program disciplines, Lokedi entered the June 7 commented wryly on the chancellor’s until a er he starts work Aug. 1. (Long NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Outdoor expansive list, “the ability to leap tall made similar comments about the $350 Championships as a nine-time Big 12 buildings in a single bound. I rmly million fundraising campaign for exten- champion, six-time All-American, believe that we checked all the boxes sive renovations to Memorial Stadium.) four-time Big 12 Performer of the Year, except one. We were unable to determine “We’ll really start to know the progress and holder of at least ve school records. Je ’s vertical leap.” of the program on Sept. 1 when the season Only one accomplishment had eluded Long, a member of the College Football begins,” Long said. the graceful runner: an NCAA Playo selection committee from 2014 to Delivering what he termed “a message championship. 2017, arrives at KU with more than 25 to the KU family speci cally about our A er running in the midst of a fast- years of senior-level administrative football team,” Long also said, “It’s time to paced lead pack through most of the
14 | KANSAS ALUMNI NCAA’s 10,000-meter race at the Univer- sity of Oregon’s historic Hayward Field, Lokedi moved into the lead on the nal lap “Je kept rising to the top in every conversation and ew away to victory in 32 minutes, we had.” —Chancellor Doug Girod on new Athletics Director Jeff Long 9.20 seconds, smashing the NCAA championship’s 30-year-old meet record by 19 seconds and winning her rst {} NCAA gold medal. “It was just pure joy nishing,” Lokedi said. “I looked behind me and I was like, ‘I’m a champion!’” JEFF JACOBSEN e popular Kenyan was embraced by her competitors even before her team- mates reached her. A er receiving her hard-fought gold medal, Lokedi was handed the champion’s trophy, which she promptly embraced with a kiss. “I was so happy,” she said. “I didn’t expect that. It was honestly pure joy. I could not even believe it.” e NCAA title was the second in the history of KU women’s track and eld, a er Lindsay Vollmer, d’16, won the heptathlon in 2013, and Lokedi also became the rst Jayhawk, male or female, to win the grueling NCAA 10,000 meters. Two days later, Lokedi, the school- Senior Sharon Lokedi celebrates after winning her first NCAA championship— record holder in both the 10,000 and 5,000 in record-smashing style. meters, ran what might have been a tired 12th in the NCAA 5,000 meters; she will nish her KU career with senior seasons fourth in the 800 meters with a lifetime attempt to win the Big 12 title with a in cross-country and indoor track and best of 1:46.90, the h-best mark in KU school-record toss of 197 feet, 5 inches, eld. history; senior Courtney Coppinger crushing her previous best of 182-4. e Other rst-team All-American high- dropping more than two seconds from her freshman from Moldova, who earlier won lights included Bryce Hoppel placing school record in the 3,000-meter steeple- the Kansas Relays, went on to establish chase with a mark of 9:49.04, en route to a herself as a national contender by nishing seventh-place nish; and NCAA indoor 12th at the NCAA meet, despite throwing pole vault champion Hussain Al Hizam, a well below her standard at 168-4.h junior who in May successfully defended LAURA JACOBSEN LAURA his Big 12 outdoor title, earning his second-consecutive outdoor All-American designation by placing h, clearing 18 Under center feet, 2.5 inches. Sophomore Big 12 champion Gleb Intriguing trio expected to vie Dudarev, who entered the NCAA meet for starting quarterback job with the country’s best hammer throw mark of the season, appeared to be battling efensive tackle Daniel Wise, All-Big lower-back tightness. A er fouling on his D12 as a junior last season, will be rst throw, Dudarev failed to advance out getting plenty of attention from NFL of the rst round and placed 12th. scouts; senior linebacker Joe Dineen Jr. A happy surprise for KU track and will likely again be among the Big 12 eld’s 2018 outdoor campaign came May leaders in tackles; and a young secondary 12 in Waco, Texas, when discus thrower that earned praise from coach David Beaty Alexandra Emilianov used her nal during spring practice will be expected to Emilianov
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 15 Sports grow into game-changing playmakers. But when fall camp opens in August, STEVE PUPPE STEVE ahead of the Sept. 1 season opener against Nicholls State, all eyes are going to be watching a quarterback battle expected to be waged among senior Peyton Bender, junior Carter Stanley and sophomore Miles Kendrick. Bender and Stanley both have extensive experience, both as starters and reserves; Kendrick, a sophomore transfer, last season threw for 1,889 yards and rushed for 417 yards at California’s College of San Mateo. When asked in late April who had stood out during spring drills, Kendrick was the third player Beaty named, a er senior Bender kicker Gabriel Rui and senior long snapper John Wirtel. As for Bender and Stanley, Beaty understanding that the clock is ticking.” “Miles Kendrick sticks out to me,” noted “clear di erences” that have A er Nicholls State, the Jayhawks on Beaty said. “He’s thrown 127 passes in the emerged in their performances over Sept. 8 travel to Central Michigan and spring ... and he’s had two balls inter- previous seasons. host Rutgers Sept. 15. e Big 12 opener cepted. at’s not bad. at’s good ball “As you go through your years,” Beaty is Sept. 22 at Baylor, followed by security. at means a guy’s prepared said, “you see improvements in certain Homecoming Sept. 29 against and he knows what he’s seeing.” areas. You start seeing that maturity, Oklahoma State.h
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nger-snap ago, Central District was Or, if not done, close to it, at least for now, nothing more robust than an artist’s and all those fears we might have silently nursed rendering, a wish list, part of a master plan about too much, too soon? Park them. e newly Afor what our beloved campus could one day be, how christened Central District—40-plus acres of mostly it should live and breathe and teach and embrace, empty or under-utilized space bordered by Allen for the next half-century or more. Field House, Oliver Hall, 19th Street, Daisy Hill Less than two years later—“We tried to build it as and Irving Hill Road—is suddenly a vibrant center fast as we could,” said one project architect—and of student life, faculty research and science this thing is done. education.
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ISSUE 4, 2018 | 19 “We take a lot of pride in this project, in that it took 40 acres of prime space on our beautiful campus and made it better. And not just in appearance. It’s hitting a lot of needs that KU has. ” —Phil Ellsworth
e Integrated Science Building will become a whole, but it worked. rede ne science research and education at e only way to believe it is to see it, and KU. A new Burge Union features the the only way to see it is to be there, feet on largest single-use room in Lawrence, along the ground, senses open to a new energy with student a airs o ces, comfy study and distinct vibe that now illuminate what space and a grab-and-go snack shop. was once an ill-de ned hillside of haphaz- A new central utility plant—which even ard development, dilapidated housing, features a classroom for engineering forgotten elds. students and a glass exterior wall that “We’ve gone from having basically two face for the Kansas Union, park-and-ride allows pedestrians and cyclists heading to areas on campus to having three areas,” lots on West Campus, relocation of and from Daisy Hill on the newly built says Mark Reiske, a’86, director of KU’s athletics facilities south of Allen Field Jayhawk Trail to see the wizardry of a O ce of Facilities Planning and Develop- House, the removal of World War II modern utility station—delivers energy- ment. “We’ve taken facilities that were annexes, and relocation of professional e cient heat and power across Central built before man was on the moon and schools, including the School of Pharmacy, District and beyond. New power and we’ve replaced them. I want every to West Campus, all of which quickly came water lines were brought in, much-needed researcher in ISB to have everything they to fruition. stormwater collection and drainage sites need to do world-class research, and I Not so for plans to build a new home for were created. want everyone coming back to be proud of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ere’s a new residence hall, named for what KU is doing. I want the guys I went and a revised, one-way tra c pattern for a Professor Cora Downs, c’1915, g’20, to school with, if they come back to a narrowed Jayhawk Boulevard (which has PhD’24, the rst woman to receive a KU reunion, to think I’ve done good.” actually been widened, with the removal doctorate, and suite-style apartments, of on-street parking), but the mid-1990s which carry the name of the outdated framework proved its worth in modern- predecessor, Stou er Place. o how did $350 million of construc- izing and updating a campus that for e list continues: a new dining center, tion across 40 acres come together as decades had expanded seemingly without full-size recreation eld, parking garage, Swell as it did? It’s all in the planning. coherent pattern. e University followed surface parking, streets, walkways. e rst formal layout for what evolved up with a landscape master plan in 2003 “We take a lot of pride in this project, in into Mount Oread, sketched in 1904 by St. and, ve years later, a Getty Foundation- that it took 40 acres of prime space on our Louis architects George Kessler and Henry funded campus heritage plan. beautiful campus and made it better,” says Wright, called for campus to grow south en-Provost Je rey Vitter in 2014 said University Engineer Phil Ellsworth. “And and west along the ridgetop, away from he began work on updating the 1997 not just in appearance. It’s hitting a lot of downtown Lawrence. Kansas City land- campus master plan as soon as he arrived needs that KU has. I think we did a great scape architects Hare & Hare in 1928 in 2010 but quickly saw that he needed to job of making a smart improvement and envisioned what became Jayhawk Boule- set that project aside to focus on what investment in KU that the next genera- vard, a plan that was re ned and expanded would prove to be a keystone of Chancel- tions of Jayhawks are going to use and four years later. lor Bernadette Gray-Little’s tenure, a broad appreciate.” As far as is known, another campus strategic plan called “Bold Aspirations.” With so many pieces to the puzzle, the master plan did not emerge until 1995, at Presented to the Kansas Board of massive construction site was, for all of the juncture of Gene Budig and Robert Regents in December 2011, Bold Aspira- 2016 and 2017, a confusing jumble. It was Hemenway’s chancellorships. Formalized tions emphasized KU’s role in “educating hard to see how the parts could possibly in 1997, that plan called for a new western leaders, building healthy communities and
20 | KANSAS ALUMNI making discoveries that will change the 25 o cially dedicated the dazzling neighborhood for yet another grand world.” With Bold Aspirations well complex. opening: the new Burge Union. Central underway, University leaders turned again “ is facility is part of not just a physical District was about to get real. to reinvigorating the physical campus’ change that we’re seeing across the master plan, which by then had not been campus,” Chancellor Doug Girod said at updated for nearly 20 years, and emerged the grand-opening celebration, “but a ager to move the 2014 master plan with a complex, comprehensive vision of physical and design transformation that from concept to reality, KU construc- how the University’s nite physical we’re seeing across the University.” tionE o cials spent spring 2015 sorting space—beautiful, yet, in too many ways, e EEEC arose from what had been an through design and construction propos- badly outdated—could serve limitless unsightly parking lot along the east side of als, and in June 2015 entered into an missions of education, research and Naismith Drive, between Lindley and informal agreement—what University service to Kansas. Learned halls, and Girod reminded the Architect Jim Modig, a’73, describes as an Described by Vitter as an “exciting, assembled crowd about the breadth of a “engagement period”—with Maryland- dynamic plan,” the 2014 Campus Master “long string of changes” that have swept based Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Plan included a slew of proposals built across that neighborhood of campus, Estate and Clark Construction. around a core principle that campus including expansion of the School of e University in late 2015 nanced the should no longer be viewed as binary, with Engineering complex, the School of project by issuing $326 million in bonds main and west campuses, and instead Business’ Capitol Federal Hall, complete through a Wisconsin public nancing become a linked triad of north (Jayhawk renovation of Swarthout Recital Hall agency in what’s known as a public-private Boulevard), central and west districts. inside Murphy Hall, and the DeBruce partnership, or P3. As detailed in a June e “North District” nomenclature for Center adjacent to Allen Field House. article in the Lawrence Journal-World, the the traditional academic core on Jayhawk “It was really Bernadette Gray-Little and unusual arrangement, under which KU Boulevard has not, thankfully, taken root, Je Vitter who did the big renew with the will make $22 million annual bond but the concept of an “Innovation University master plan,” Girod says. “ ey payments, drew rebukes from Topeka; Way”—a network of modern, dynamic looked forward and said, ‘We’ve got this although the plan had been closely new science structures linking the main, really exciting stu going on on West reviewed by both the Kansas Board of central and west campuses—most de - Campus, we’ve got all the wonderful Regents and the Legislative Joint Commit- nitely did. things going on on Jayhawk Boulevard, so tee on State Bonding Construction, it had KU this spring opened Slawson and how do we make this campus ow?’ not been reviewed by the full Legislature. Ritchie halls, collectively known as the “Everything built o that to create the KU proceeded with the P3, o cials say, Earth, Energy & Environment Center, for continuity that you see today.” because time was money. A lot of money. classes and research in geology, geophysics Two days aer EEEC’s grand opening, “We gured out a way to put this thing and petroleum engineering, and on April Girod returned to the same campus into turbocharged mode,” Reiske says.
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 21 “Every day that we delayed this project, it was between $42,000 and $45,000 of lost construction budget.” KU spokesman Joe Monaco told the Journal-World that Central District nancing was not part of the over-spend- ing referenced by Interim Provost Carl Lejuez when Lejuez recently announced the need for $20 million in budget cuts, and construction o cials say they acted when they did to lock in a rate that dropped ve years o the life of the bonds and saved KU more than $40 million. With bonds issued and contracts signed in the rst week of January 2016, contrac- tors immediately began putting up fencing, demolishing Stou er Place Apartments and the Burge Union, and working on utilities. lates “huge amounts” of chilled water dedication, April 27, the Burge had already “Everything just seemed to explode at needed for experiments, and eco-friendly hosted events in its 10,500-square-foot that point,” Modig says. heat exchangers designed and patented by public event space, known as the Forum. “ e heartbeat of this whole project,” in KU researchers. Campus support services—including the Girod’s estimation, is the 280,000-square- ISB’s features also include 10,000 square Emily Taylor Center for Women and foot Integrated Science Building, home to feet of “clean room” laboratories, out tted Gender Equity, Legal Services for Students interdisciplinary research in chemistry, with high-e ciency particulate air lters, and the Sexual Assault Prevention and medicinal chemistry, physics, molecular for research and teaching in nanosciences, Education Center—had not only opened, biosciences and related elds. As expected, and oor-to-ceiling exterior windows on but within two weeks were already everything about ISB is state-of-the-art, both the north and south sides of the long reporting signi cant increases in student yet delivered in unexpected ways. building that ood hallways and laborato- visits. A tiered auditorium has seating for 325 ries with light. Even open-plan o ce space “ is side of campus has completely students, yet designers consider it to be for graduate students and postdocs is a transformed,” Chancellor Girod said at the more classroom than auditorium. Its white modern marvel. Burge’s grand re-opening. “ is spot that walls are actually whiteboards, and the “A lot of people working in corporations you’re standing on is really the crossroad tiered seats swivel to encourage small- don’t get o ce space this nice,” Gibson of all that, and will be for generations to group discussion. e room’s thoughtful- says. c om e .” ness even extends to comfort for le- ISB’s central atrium is bright, airy, and, e crossroad Girod referenced is the handers, with one writing desk on each to Modig’s eye, “human scaled,” with Burge’s east entrance, lined in “colonial row designed to accommodate leies, and nooks—technically, “collaboration red” accents. at color scheme, used on three 90-inch monitors halfway up the spaces”—tucked here and there along the both Burge and ISB, was not merely about tiers display video of experiments happen- large stairways. aesthetics, but is intended to evoke the ing below. “It’s not that grand volume of space,” beloved red-tile roofs atop Jayhawk “ is is a unique auditorium,” says Modig says. “It’s comfortable.” Boulevard. project architect Donald Gibson, of “ ink of it on a cold, rainy day,” adds KU’s traditional building materials are Edgemoor Infrastructure. “A lot of very Gibson, smiling. “It’s going to be cozy.” now far too expensive, especially with knowledgeable, smart people brought their tight budgets that force designers to expertise to the table, working very squeeze every dollar into tangible and collaboratively with researchers and onstruction of the Integrated Science useful resources, but planners feared faculty to bring their ideas to fruition.” Building was completed more than a creating a “family of buildings” that didn’t e same can be said for teaching and monthC ahead of schedule. Faculty and sta t well with the rest of campus. research laboratories, which feature began moving into the building in May, “One of the challenges that we have,” modular utility rigs, tables and benches and the building was open for students Modig says, “is to be respectful of our that can all be disassembled and rear- when summer classes began June 5. heritage and our tradition, which is a lot of ranged. e laboratories boast 230 fume e new Burge Union, though, opened stone and red roofs. e economics of hoods, specialized plumbing that recircu- in April, and by the day of its formal today may not a ord us the ability to use
22 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISB’s central atrium is bright, airy, and to Jim Modig’s eye, ‘human-scaled,’ with nooks—technically, ‘collaboration spaces’— tucked here and there along the large stairways.
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 23 those materials, but we continue to stay with a palette of materials that are warm tones, like stone, so that it has some of that continuity.” A far bigger design challenge than color palettes was envisioning Central District as it has now risen, a welcoming layout of buildings and green space that feels entirely at home at the center of KU’s sprawling campus. Standing between Burge and ISB a few minutes a er Burge’s ribbon cutting ceremony, Modig is asked whether he’d harbored any hidden worries that Central District might not have turned out as well as it did. No amount of computer model- ing and dazzling graphics can truly replicate the real thing at a life-size scale, and nobody truly knows until they’re standing on the nished site whether buildings and open spaces exist in concert and cohesion or con ict and chaos. “ e keep-you-up-at-night thing?” Modig replies. “Well ... yes. What you don’t see is, these buildings were ipped.” He indicates the massive ISB, which runs east-to-west along Irving Hill Road, and its low-slung neighbor to the south, the new Burge Union. On that sunny April a ernoon, the apron between the two buildings was bathed in lovely, inviting sunlight; had the buildings been reversed, with the taller ISB to the south, a ernoon sun would have been blocked. “ is would strictly be darkness, very, very urban,” Modig explains. “I think that was a little contentious when we said we want to ip them.” Donald Gibson, the Edgemoor architect, nods in agreement and says, “ at was a major decision, to ip them.” Gibson adds that it was even more stressful because it came nearly halfway through a ve- to six-month design process that was already a high-stakes, high-pressure enterprise. “It was one of those things where you ip the drawing upside down and it just looks completely dierent,” Gibson says. “But once we did it, I think everybody realized it looked a lot better.” Saved from its original fate as an urban canyon, the long walkway between ISB and Burge instead became one of those vital spaces alive with possibility. More
24 | KANSAS ALUMNI than a mere pedestrian thoroughfare, it is a welcoming artery that invites relaxation and conversation. Best of all, the passageway leads to one of Central District’s nest surprises: an open space west of Burge with a large lawn, an array of fanciful concrete benches, and an unmistakable tenor of community in the making. “It’s a new exterior living room, a plaza, and it’s an amazing space to walk into,” Reiske says. “You’re coming down Jayhawk Trail into that large, open, welcoming space, and you’ve got handsome buildings on both sides, and as you walk back through that space, all of a sudden you’re getting this big view as campus opens up right before you. “ ere’s a power to that.”
es, it all happened nger-snap fast, the 1,200 beds of student housing, nearly 300,000Y square feet of research and teaching space, a new union out tted with a huge catering kitchen and unrivaled convention and reception space, a parking garage, a utility plant, the open space where friends and colleagues will create generations of Jayhawk friendships, but now that we’ve spent time and resources devoted to the new, it’s time return focus to what came before: namely, Malott Hall. Even with so much new laboratory and teaching space now online in ISB, Malott, by far the largest building on campus at 330,098 square feet, is still two-thirds occupied. Its newly vacated classrooms and o ces might be recon gured as “swing space” to house tenants from aging campus buildings crying out for renewal.
The Central Utility Plant’s colorful piping (this page, middle) is on proud display. The Integrated Science Building’s dazzling features include (p. 24, top to bottom) a 325-seat classroom-style auditorium, air-filtered “clean rooms” for nanoscience research and modular teaching laboratories. Long, airy hallways (top) stretch throughout ISB, and cozy study nooks can be found throughout both ISB and the Burge Union.
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 25 bilities,” Reiske is courtside at every men’s basketball game in Allen Field House, and watching Mario Chalmers drain that fabled jump shot in the pregame video always gives him goosebumps. “Well,” Reiske says, a hint of emotion evident in his wavering voice, “when I talk about Central District, it’s the same kind of feeling.” Now that Central District’s heavy li ing is all but complete—except for the literal heavy li ing of moving laboratories and o ces from Malott to ISB—it’s time for a break, right? “I’m looking forward to getting to that place,” Ellsworth says, “but summer is always our busiest construction time because we try to do as much as possible when the students are gone. I’m sure by the end of summer, hopefully, I’ll have some times where I can kick back and take University Architect Jim Modig (l) is flanked by (standing, l-r) Code Compliance Coordinator a week o and re ect.” Larry Laubhan, University Engineer Phil Ellsworth; Shannan Nelson, associate vice provost for Re ecting on the urry of construction campus operations; and Mark Reiske, director of Facilities Planning and Development. Seated that has swept across Mount Oread since are University Fire Marshal Bob Rombach and Landscape Architect Marion Paulette. 2014, Modig says Central District will likely be his career topper, along with the Campus Master Plan. But he’s not walking Haworth Hall, itself a 280,000-square- was repeatedly invoked by Central away yet. foot behemoth, might be rst on the District’s cast of players, but Lisa Kring, “Now that we’ve completed as much as list—“If you have good bones to start KU Memorial Union’s director of building we have, we probably need to do an update with,” Modig says, “mid-century modern and event services, used the Burge’s of the master plan. at would be nice to science facilities can be every bit as celebration to single out two. have under my belt. I don’t know if that’s high-tech as what we’ve built in Central “e stamina that it took to complete going to happen or not, but it would be a District”—but there’s also work to be done this project is immense, folks,” Kring told way to say, ‘OK, we’ve completed so much up and down Jayhawk Boulevard: Bailey, the crowd April 27, “and Jim and Mark in the rst round of master-plan improve- Chalmers, Lindley, Stau er-Flint and certainly shouldered much of that.” ments, now it’s time to set the stage for Strong halls all need extensive attention Predictably, Modig prefers that attention round two.’ that would work best if occupants set up and praise be directed to others, most “Maybe that’s the time to step away and shop elsewhere for eight months or a year. notably Mark Reiske and Phil Ellsworth, turn it over to the younger bright minds Since the Campus Master Plan was both of whom regularly logged 80-hour we’ve recruited here on campus.” unveiled in 2014, KU has completed about weeks on the Central District alone. Finger-snap fast, that’s how quickly 1.8 million gross square feet of academic, Modig was so impressed by Reiske, in fact, change can come. And the results? ose research and student-life space, at a cost of that he relinquished his directorship and will last for generations.h about $744 million, including the $350 promoted Reiske from associate director million spent on six new buildings and to lead Facilities Planning and Develop- critical infrastructure at Central District. ment into its next adventures. “It took great vision and a lot of forti- “ey’re all personal,” Reiske says of the More online tude to get through the Central District projects large and small that continually project,” Chancellor Girod says. “It was not reshape Jayhawks’ sanctied ground in the iew Dan Storey’s video of a memorable without its political challenges, or its heart of Lawrence. “I can’t even imagine Vcampus tour with longtime University nancial challenges, or its construction these projects not coming out well, for all architects Warren Corman and Jim challenges, all of which were overcome of our alumni, all of our students, all of Modig—and watch a time-lapse video by quite successfully.” our faculty.” Clark Construction of the Central District Tellingly, the “it takes a village” trope anks to “funky, dreamed-up responsi- taking shape—at kualumni.org/extras.
26 | KANSAS ALUMNI Saved from its fate as an urban canyon, the long walkway between ISB and Burge is a vital space alive with possibility. More than a mere pedestrian thoroughfare, it is a welcoming artery that invites relaxation and conversation.
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 27 A Soldier in Freedom’s Army
What could the richest nation in history gain from taking in the tired, poor, homeless and tempest-tossed?
he was 18. She was bright, clearly, having scored well enough on her high school graduation exam to earn a rare exemption from China’s rigorous gaokao, a grueling, two-day college entrance exam that each summer serves as bothS a rite of passage and the country’s single most important factor in determining a student’s educational and professional fate. While her classmates and friends were spending long hours obsessively studying for the high-pressure test, Liyue Huang’s ticket to college was already punched. “That was my free time,” she says. “I’ve never been so free.” But she was 18. “Very young and naive,” she recalls. It was 1989, and all across China young people were taking to the streets to support a student-led protest movement centered in Beijing—in Tiananmen Square in particular—urging China’s communist government to adopt democratic reforms. In Shanghai, where she lived with her parents and younger brother, many of the marchers were graduates of her high school who were now in college. She’d be joining them soon. Yet they were something more than peers: She looked up to them. Her grasp of geopolitics, after a dozen years of schooling that constantly touted the greatness of China’s communist system, was shaky.
by Steven Hill
28 | KANSAS ALUMNI COURTESY MASTER SGT. MARK HANSON/DVIDS SGT. MASTER COURTESY
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 29 “I like to say I was pro-democ- fail you can come back home and racy, I was so advanced in my continue to be a housewife.’” understanding of the world Laughing, Liyue says, “ at political system, but that’s not kind of pissed me o , because I true. e reason I was doing it was like, ‘Nope, I want to show was because it was fun. It’s to LIYUE HUANG-SIGLE COURTESY you I can do it.’” show that I did so well on my at decision set Liyue graduation exam I am free to Huang-Sigle, l’13, on a remark- walk in the street and do able journey punctuated by whatever I want. I get to enjoy second chances and sustained by the sun while you people are extraordinary determination. It su ering and studying for the would eventually lead to Mount next exam. I was showing o .” Oread and to a role she couldn’t Sometime in late May, the have imagined when she set out Shanghai protesters wrote an to become a lawyer: as a JAG, a open letter to the Chinese judge advocate in the Kansas government advocating democ- Army National Guard. racy and human rights. Liyue signed her name. en, late on the evening of he was 34. e choice to June 3, the government cracked study law, she says now, was down, sending tanks and armed Sa “spur of the moment” soldiers from the People’s “Being a lawyer is all about critical thinking and challenging the decision. Liberation Army to break up the opposing party, but that quality wasn’t in me because in China it’s “If I knew law school would be Beijing protests and clear all about obedience,” says Liyue Huang-Sigle. Her first law school so di cult, I probably would not Tiananmen Square. e number experience, in Malaysia, was spent trying to “reverse educate” what decide to go,” Liyue says.“But of Chinese civilians killed is still she learned growing up. “Only the second time, at KU, was I able to once I started, oh my goodness, debated, but estimates range it opened a whole new world actually develop into a lawyer.” from a few hundred to 10,000. to me.” Mass arrests followed. ere were no American law Within days, Liyue and her mother were In 1999 Liyue emigrated to Malaysia. schools in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian called in to the education department in Four years later she met her current capital, so she set her sights on the Shanghai. “First they told my mom to lock husband, Stanley Sigle, director of University of London. A Commonwealth me up and don’t let me walk in the street business development for a U.S. company country, Malaysia bases its legal system on again, it is illegal now,” she says. en they there, and in 2005 they married. British law, and the University of London told Liyue that because of her participa- Without a job and with her daughter o ers an undergraduate law program tion in the movement, she was banned now in school, Liyue began searching for there. But rst Liyue would have to pass from attending college. something to do. the British A-Level exam. For Americans, “I wasn’t smart enough or didn’t “Stanley said, ‘Why don’t you go back to it would be like taking the SAT or understand my rights, and I just walked school?’ at’s when I start thinking, ‘OK, ACT—16 years aer graduating from high away with my mom blaming me for being what do I want to study?’” school. Preparing on her own, she passed stupid, and me blaming myself for being Liyue says her husband suggested with highest marks. involved with this movement. I never school, not college. “He was thinking Learning the law and the language at the thought it was unfair for them to treat me about me learning ower arrangement or same time, she struggled. “If you look back this way. I didn’t know any better. In China pi an o.” at my old textbook,” Liyue says, “there is the government is always right and you She had other ideas. Living with Sigle, Chinese written all over it, because I cannot question government authority. I she’d been exposed to a lot of American literally had to translate the English law just took it and then walked away. at TV. He was especially fond of courtroom book into Chinese to understand it.” Her was the end of it.” dramas. husband kidded that she spent more time She got a job, started dating. She met “I was just thinking to myself, ‘I wish I reading the dictionary than the law. “I and married a foreign student studying in could speak English like those people, and don’t remember how many times I sit in Shanghai. At 23 she had a daughter, I can win a ght with my husband,’” she the corner of my kitchen in Malaysia Monia, and soon aer her birth the recalls. “I said, ‘I’m going to law school.’ pulling my hair. It was very frustrating.” marriage broke up. He was like, ‘OK, you can try, but if you But also rewarding.
30 | KANSAS ALUMNI “ e best thing that happened to my was eager to start her career. She and books together at their kitchen table; the life—the best thing—is when I start to Stanley decided the best thing for Monia, study sessions, Monia says, “were really study English law. Because it just clicked. now 14, would be for the family to live in inspiring to me” and helped instill a love It brought me back to what happened in America. But Stanley was still needed in of learning that was instrumental in her 1989.” Malaysia, so Liyue and Monia made the decision to pursue a career in medicine. Concepts such as human rights and move together, eventually settling in Now mother and daughter regularly democracy—abstractions to a young Overland Park. crossed paths on Mount Oread. Liyue says woman born during Mao’s Cultural the rule was that she wasn’t allowed to say Revolution and schooled in the glory of hello if Monia was with friends—a rule she Chinese communism—suddenly became o one would hire her as a lawyer. gleefully broke one day by waving and real. She was 38. She spoke English with shouting “I love you, Monia” across a busy “When I sit in the public law class, and Na heavy accent, had no employment street when she saw her daughter with a the professor start to explain to us what record in the United States and no pack of friends. Monia allows that she was are human rights, what is democracy, what experience with American culture. She a lot more comfortable with the idea once is separation of powers, it just dawned on began looking for work as a paralegal she was in college. “A er I moved out, I me that was what we were ghting for in instead, but no one would hire her for that was like, ‘OK, I miss my mom,’” she says. 1989,” Liyue says. “ ose ideas are the either. “It was nice that she was on campus and absolute best thing in the world; every So she decided to go to law school again. we could get lunch sometimes.” country should go by these principles. “I know she wasn’t really happy that she She picked up something else from her And that’s why people ght so hard for it. had to do that, because she had expected mother: determination. It brought me back to 1989, each and to just be able to move here and get a job “She is the most hard-working person I every day when I sit in that classroom, and fairly quickly,” Monia Sigle, c’16, says. “But know,” Monia says. “She’s very determined. I was so glad I le China and I was now she was really calm about it. She was If she wants to do something, she’s gonna studying law and a Western ideology.” gonna be a lawyer and regardless of how do it.” Liyue says law school “totally trans- she did that it was going to happen.” Before Liyue could apply for law school, formed” her life. Even if it meant completing law school a she had to take the LSAT, the standardized “I couldn’t sleep at night thinking about second time. Law School Admission Test. “I thought, ‘I what I heard in class. I woke up the next already have a law degree, how hard can it morning and couldn’t wait to go to class. I be?’” she recalls with a laugh. “I was soooo didn’t know these ideas existed in real life. wrong.” But they are real. People are actually “I think on this point I A er a disastrous rst attempt, she spent quoting this in courtrooms.” can speak for most half a year studying and scored much Inspired, she couldn’t wait to share the better on her second try. new concepts she was learning with family immigrants: We’re here, e lesson stuck with Monia when she back in China. we’re lucky, we went applied to medical school. “I have two very close cousins; we grew “I was not accepted,” she says. “I know a up together. When I start telling them through so much and lot of people who weren’t accepted the rst these things they shut me up, and then we’re so grateful time, and they just didn’t apply again.” eventually they stopped talking to me,” When her mother found out she didn’t get Liyue says. “I can understand. If I was on to be here.” into med school, she counseled Monia not the other side, if I were them, probably my to worry, she’d make it next year. –Liyue Huang-Sigle reaction would be the same. Because it’s “She didn’t even assume I wasn’t gonna crazy talk—people never heard of these apply again; it was just, ‘Of course you’re things. Even in today’s China, the majority gonna apply again, why wouldn’t you?’” of Chinese have no idea what real democ- Monia was still in high school, and says Monia, who starts her second year in racy looks like.” talking with her mom about her decision the KU School of Medicine this fall. “Her Liyue says her family warned her not to she realized they’d have a year overlap: determination really rubbed o on me, speak against the Chinese government, She’d be a freshman at KU during her and I think that it’s awesome that she fearful of the reprisals that she—and mother’s last year of law school. doesn’t get deterred by anything. No they—could face. “If you say things “I was like, ‘Mom, why are you following hurdle is too big for her. I’ve never seen disparaging the government, then you are me to college?’” she says, laughing at the her quit at something she wants to do.” a traitor,” she says. “I am still being called a prospect of the ultimate helicopter parent. But even Monia questioned her mother traitor.” “‘Can’t you just let me live my life?’” when she heard about her new plan, By 2009, Liyue had her law degree and Back in Malaysia, the two had hit the formulated halfway through law school: to
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 31 join the U.S. Army as a judge something to repay that gi of a advocate, a member of the second chance. service branch’s legal JAG Corps “It’s pride and gratitude,” that advises Army commanders Zhang says. “I feel a lot of on a wide range of issues immigrants have that sentiment.” pertaining to military justice and According to “For Love of military law. (2) LIYUE HUANG-SIGLE COURTESY Country: New Americans “When she rst told my dad Serving in Our Armed Forces,” a and I that she wanted to join the 2016 report from the National military, I was like, ‘Mom, I love Immigration Forum, approxi- you and I think you can do mately 40,000 immigrants serve anything, but you know you have in the U.S. military and about to do physical activity in basic 5,000 noncitizens enlist each training, right? When was the year. As of 2016, about 511,000 last time you ran a mile?’” veterans were foreign born. Stanley Sigle ew a hydrofoil Many have served with highest for six years in the U.S. Navy in distinction: More than 20 the early 1970s. He told his wife, percent of America’s 3,500 Medal “I think I already served for us.” of Honor recipients are “She says, ‘I live here now,’” immigrants. Stanley recalls. “‘I’m an Ameri- In the three years he has can now and I want to show served as o cer strength people I’m an American. I want In February 2016 Huang-Sigle was sworn in by Maj. Xiang Zhang at manager, Zhang has met to do something.’” Kansas Army National Guard headquarters in Topeka. In her first hundreds of candidates (both Says Monia, “It was crazy. But deployment, to Kuwait, she advised Army commanders before foreign- and native-born) who she wanted to go, so regardless of transferring to the legal assistance oce, where she represented qualify for direct commission, what we’re gonna say, she’s gonna soldiers—including permanent resident service members applying but Liyue stands out. go. And she just started training for the military’s fast track to citizenship. “Of the individuals that I for it. She was doing pushups in brought in, she has the most the living room, situps. She’d go extraordinary story of triumph,” on runs. I was like, ‘Mom, you’re insane.’” his rst attempt at KU ended in academic he says. “What she has gone through as probation. A er a year and a half of part of the political process in China, as military service, he was back on the Hill, the Tiananmen Square incident unfolded, aj. Xiang Zhang, c’05, is an o cer “now with focus,” and posted a 4.0 in his and to be able to recover from that to strength manager for the Kansas rst semester. He graduated with degrees where she’s a proud member and o cer in MArmy National Guard. He’s a in economics and psychology and received the JAG Corps within the Kansas Army recruiter, but one who focuses on certain his ROTC commission in 2005, when he National Guard, I would say she is near select recruits: the JAGs, chaplains and was assigned to the Kansas Guard, based the top of the applicants I’ve ever dealt medical professionals who can earn a at Forbes Field in Topeka. w it h .” direct commission as o cers. Also like Liyue, Zhang experienced in JAG recruitment is highly selective. “Unlike normal recruiters who bring in college an awakening that contradicted Even the ideal “cookie-cutter candidates,” 17- and 18-year-olds—their job is to bring everything he’d learned in China. “ ere’s Zhang says, have to meet strict academic ’em in, regardless of what they think— placards everywhere in China that say how criteria, interview before a panel of JAGs we’re looking for professionals to represent great your government is, how great your and face a nal review from a three-star the organization,” Zhang says. “What I go leader is,” he says. “You sing songs about it; general. And given that Liyue was far from through when I meet these individuals to it’s kind of part of your life so therefore it’s cookie cutter, “She had to really want this make sure this is a good t is, how well do second nature.” Not until he took a KU in order for her to actually be a JAG I think this person can represent the course in ethics, he says, did he under- o cer,” he says. organization I’m so proudly a part of?” stand “this freedom thing: free speech, For starters, she was foreign born. To be Zhang met Liyue in 2015. Like her, he freedom of religion, free thinking, an o cer in the U.S. military, you must be grew up in China. He moved to the United self-expression.” In Liyue he recognized a U.S. citizen. States with his mother in 1990, when he someone who, like himself, appreciated en there was her age. She was 41 was 12, joining his uncle and grandfather the opportunity to share in the openness when she began what would become a in Topeka. He enlisted in the Army a er of American life and who wanted to do years’ long enlistment process.
32 | KANSAS ALUMNI “I went in and they told me I need We’re here, we’re lucky, we went through against these people, that’s just harsh— citizenship,” Liyue recalls. “So I said, ‘OK, so much and we’re so grateful to be here,” very harsh.” I’ll get my citizenship.’ I went back and Liyue says. She speaks from experience: What could the richest nation in history they said, ‘You’re too old.’ I started looking During the Cultural Revolution her family possibly gain from taking in the tired, around and talking to people and I saved their meager meat rations for her poor, homeless and tempest-tossed? realized that can actually be waived.” young brother and she was sent to forage “If you allow them to stay here, their With Zhang’s help it was waived, and in for weeds and fungi—and even those were children are going to be American,” she 2016—nearly three years a er graduating hard to nd because everyone else was says. “ ey will be born here. ey’ll grow from the KU School of Law—she became digging. “I didn’t plan this. I never up here. ey’ll go to the same schools and 1st Lt. Liyue Huang-Sigle, a judge advocate dreamed in my wild life I would be in the receive the same education. ey will be in the 35th Infantry Division of the Kansas United States, becoming a citizen, becom- good, law-abiding Americans.” Army National Guard, stationed at Fort ing a lawyer.” And many of them will stand ready to Leavenworth. She was 45. Don’t be so hard on those who follow defend “this freedom thing” that they, like Explaining her reasons for joining the democracy’s beacon, she urges. “We go their parents, believe is important enough U.S. Military to Stars & Stripes in 2017, through so much to see this light. Most to risk their lives for. Liyue said she wanted to do something for people in those other countries, like When she rst arrived in the United America. China, they never see the light their States, Liyue says, “I woke up every “ inking about it was not good whole lives.” morning feeling lucky that I’m here.” at enough,” she said. “Doing some volunteer Liyue has represented many of these feeling continues today. “Because there are work—I didn’t think that was enough. I people in her law practice: rst in Kansas so many people who don’t have the wanted to do something that was tangible City, where she lled a niche helping privilege, they don’t have the luck, to ever and physical and ... I wanted to contribute members of the metro’s ethnic Chinese witness this—the freedom, the democracy, whatever I could to protect the lifestyle of community who otherwise would be the rights that people take for granted. the United States and its people.” unable to nd a lawyer they could com- Americans take a lot of things for granted.” “She feels that this nation has provided municate with, and now in Houston, But even among the condemnations and her with such an opportunity that she feels where Stanley was transferred in 2016 and taunts that grab headlines and send our an obligation to give back,” Zhang says. “I Liyue is trying to establish a law practice national discourse spiraling ever lower believe that’s what drives her to do what with fellow KU law graduate Shuang into coarseness, there are more quiet, she’s doing.” Leng, l’12. private moments where Liyue has felt the “She’s very patriotic, and it’s funny Many of her clients are poor and gratitude of those who appreciate her because she hasn’t lived here that long,” uneducated by American standards. service. It has taken some getting used to. Monia says. “Her nally being able to live “ ey’re born in a di erent place, and they “When I just joined the Army and here, and becoming a citizen, and being are just so much more disadvantaged,” she people started telling me, ‘ ank you for able to bring me here and let me grow up says. “To rub that in, to discriminate your service,’ I would ush,” she says. She and go to college here, she feels felt she hadn’t yet earned their like she wants to do something gratitude. But her rst deploy- for the country. It’s astonishing to ment, nine months in Kuwait, me that someone who hasn’t which she nished in March, even been here that long would changed that. “Now I can want to join the military, but that’s proudly respond, ‘You’re wel- just the type of person she is.” come.’ Because I did serve. I went to Kuwait. I helped soldiers. I helped commanders. I contrib- iyue has heard the hurtful uted, and I deserve that thanks.” talk about immigrants, the Her whole life, says Capt. L accusations that countries Liyue Huang-Sigle, who was aren’t sending us their best. But promoted from rst lieutenant in when did America ever insist on June, she has only wanted to accepting only the “best”? Where achieve. on the Statue of Liberty does it ‘‘I want to feel proud of say send us your rich, your myself,” she says. “I think I did thriving, your landed, your elite? pretty good.” “I think on this point I can What could be more worthy of speak for most immigrants: America than that?h
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 33 AFTER NEARLY 25 YEARS as director of the Kansas Law Enforce- ment Training Center in Hutchinson, Ed Pavey has certainly built an impressive résumé. He has led the center’s expansion from a run-down, two-building facility to a sprawling 15-building campus that boasts the latest training technology and a full-time sta of more than 50 instructors and support professionals. He has overseen law enforcement training for more than 400 agencies in Kansas and has witnessed the graduation of nearly 10,000 new o cers from basic training, many of whom have become municipal police chiefs or county sheri s. He has developed training programs to promote fair and impartial policing, long before concerns about o cer bias became part of the national conversation. He has championed the center at state and local levels and lobbied for increased funding for facility renovations, additional courses and sta , and new technology and equipment. He has been honored with countless awards and has consulted with law enforcement groups internationally. Despite his overwhelming success, Pavey modestly de ects all praise to his
34 | KANSAS ALUMNI Change of Command
Longtime director leaves thriving law enforcement campus in good hands
sta , whom he wholeheartedly credits for attorney general, participated in the the center’s stellar reputation in the law school’s career day and recruited several enforcement community. students for explorer posts in law “You can’t say, ‘Congratulations, Ed,’ or enforcement. ‘Well done, Ed,’ without him pointing to “I went on ride-alongs and sat in the men and women who are on sta the communications center on down there,” says Sharon Graham, g’86. weekends,” Pavey recalls. “A er a “He’s just a great guy.” Graham is assistant date, I’d go and spend time vice chancellor of KU Professional and during the wee hours of the Continuing Education, the University morning, watching the program, now on the Edwards Campus, dispatchers take calls and make that has overseen KLETC for 50 years. radio calls.” Pavey surely will be missed, too: In June When Pavey turned 17, the he retired from KLETC, the state’s sheri o ered him a position as a headquarters for all law enforcement full-time dispatcher, working 3 to 11 training. Darin Beck, the center’s associate p.m. ve nights a week, under the director since 2015, succeeds Pavey as strict condition that he maintain good executive director. grades in school. “I even had to bring As his tenure came to a close, Pavey my report card in to show that I was reected on his time as the third director making Bs or above,” he says. in the center’s history. “It’s just been a great Pavey was promoted to deputy when he run,” he says. “We’ve got a great sta here; was 20 and served nearly 21 years with the the center’s aging facilities. In 1968, when we’ve got a great facility. e support from Sedgwick County Sheri ’s O ce, retiring the Kansas Legislature established KLETC the University has been outstanding. e as division commander. He was hired as as the state’s formal training operation, the Legislature has been supportive. I’m just assistant director of KLETC in 1989 and University, which had directed law really proud of KLETC.” worked under Larry Welch, c’58, l’61, the enforcement training since the mid-1940s center’s director from 1989 to 1994, who on the Lawrence campus, acquired a departed to lead the Kansas Bureau of vacant World War II-era naval air base avey’s career in law enforcement rst Investigations. Pavey took over as acting near Yoder to serve as the center’s new Ptook shape when he was a 15-year-old director until his permanent appointment headquarters. sophomore at Wichita Heights High in 1995. “It had a dormitory, cafeteria, classroom School. Former Sedgwick County Sheri One of Pavey’s rst signi cant tasks as and o ce space in two buildings,” says Vern Miller, who later became Kansas director was overseeing the renovation of Pavey. But the abandoned air base needed drastic remodeling. “Inmates were living in better conditions than the new o cers.” Under Pavey’s leadership, KLETC has by Heather Biele | Photographs by Steve Puppe expanded to include two multistory
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 35 residence halls that sleep 231 o cers, a its basic training structure. “We brought in Darin Beck (l) is the new executive director of multipurpose auditorium and gymnasium, a national expert to help us develop a KLETC, following the retirement of longtime spacious classrooms equipped with the curriculum that went from day one until director Ed Pavey. The Protector (p. 37), a latest technology, refurbished administra- the end of the 14th week, when the stunning bronze sculpture created by Colorado tive and instructor o ces, a rearms students graduate, to develop learning artist Austin Weishel, stands in the courtyard range, a tactical shooting building and a objectives that build on one another of the center’s 173-acre campus. It was 1.78-mile emergency vehicle driving during that whole period,” Beck says. “In commissioned in 2015 by Bob Senecal, former course, all of which reside on the center’s previous years, we had relied on each dean of KU Professional & Continuing 173-acre property. In the past 30 years, the individual instructor to be responsible for Education, and his wife, Evelyn. center’s sta has soared from 17 full-time the development of their own curriculum.” employees to 51, plus several contractual e center trains the majority of employees who handle facility mainte- municipal, county and state law enforce- nance and security. ment o cers—more than 400 in basic training course for new o cers, as well as “We truly are a campus at this point,” training or related programs and nearly continuing and professional education for says Beck, who joined KLETC in 1999 and 10,000 in continuing education annually— veteran o cers who are required to served as the center’s legal counsel and and oversees training at eight certi ed complete 40 hours of continuing educa- assistant director for several years. academy programs throughout the state, tion annually to maintain their licenses. “Facilitieswise, there’s been a tremendous including the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Many courses are o ered online and at change.” Wichita Police Department and the other training sites throughout Kansas. ere also has been considerable Sedgwick County Sheri ’s O ce. Last Pavey explains that KLETC solicits improvement in the courses o ered at year, KLETC o ered 170 training pro- feedback from professional law enforce- KLETC. In 2002, the center standardized grams, including the 14-week basic ment organizations and local agencies to
36 | KANSAS ALUMNI determine whether the center’s courses are see how it could help us better train properly preparing o cers for success. o cers to meet the challenges they’re “We’ve sent instructors back out to ride seeing every day,” Pavey says. with o cers in their communities, to interview the o cers and ask, ‘What did we prepare you to do that you feel was ong before the police shooting of a really bene cial, or what didn’t we prepare Lblack teenager sparked riots in the you to handle when you got out there on streets of Ferguson, Missouri, Pavey had your own?’” Pavey says. e center also taken steps to educate o cers in fair and frequently receives emails from o cers in impartial policing (FIP), a science-based the eld, thanking instructors for the perspective that demonstrates how training that helped them navigate di cult implicit, or unconscious, biases can a ect situations. “at’s good feedback that what how o cers respond in certain situations. we’re doing is working and is bene cial to In 2009, he submitted a proposal to the the o cers serving their communities.” Governor’s Task Force on Racial Pro ling In recent years, Pavey also has focused to bring the FIP model to law enforcement on incorporating modern technology into personnel throughout the state. A few training programs. In addition to a years later, a er partnering with the well-equipped computer lab, which Kansas African-American A airs Com- o cers use to complete collision reports, mission to foster dialogue between law crime scene narratives and other arrest enforcement executives and community and o ense reports, the center also members, KLETC implemented an FIP features driving simulators, which are used course in its basic training curriculum and in conjunction with traditional track online continuing education programs. training, and judgmental use-of-force “It’s a tremendous point of pride for us training simulators, which allow o cers to that we were well ahead of national events, experience and respond to a variety of like Ferguson,” Beck says. “We were real-world scenarios, such as suspect already working towards building relation- control and active shooter situations. ships with communities and recognizing “Every time something new comes out, biases that o cers may have. Everybody if it’s something we can a ord, we try to has biases and being able to recognize
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 37 More than 400 o cers go through basic training or related programs each year at KLETC, the state’s headquarters for all law enforcement training. The 14-week basic training program includes courses in fundamentals and procedures, firearms, fair and impartial policing, emergency vehicle operation, and crime scene investigation.
38 | KANSAS ALUMNI those biases and not act on them is the them deal with an environment where essence of FIP.” there’s self-doubt, where members of the e center also has introduced the Blue community should be very supportive, Courage program, a two-day leadership but, because of what they’ve seen on social workshop that encourages law enforce- media, may not be. at’s a challenge for ment o cers to adopt a more guardian- an o cer.” inspired image, as opposed to a warrior- Gary Warner, a KLETC instructor who based one. at’s a challenge, Pavey says, retired from the Kansas Highway Patrol because o cers are o en required to wear a er 28 years of service, has witnessed fully-equipped tactical vests to hold their several changes in law enforcement gear, which inevitably make them look training since the introduction of video- more militarized. “I see it all the time sharing platforms and body-mounted when I run into o cers,” he says. “ ey cameras. “We’re constantly reminding have those vests on and it just doesn’t send students about professionalism and the friendly-o cer message anymore.” treating people with dignity and respect,” e center also has adopted de-escala- he says. “ ey’re under a microscope. tion training that promotes strong ey’re scrutinized so closely. We can’t communication skills and professionalism. prepare them for all of that, but we can “We try to alert o cers of their manner- help them understand why they need to isms, their communications skills, how do the right thing the right way all the they address the motoring public or how t i m e .” KLETC instructor Gary Warner joined the they address somebody they’re coming in center after 28 years as a Kansas Highway contact with during a pedestrian stop,” Patrol trooper. “It’s a passion,” he says. “It’s a Pavey says. “We’re trying to do things all early a quarter-century ago, Pavey calling. We know not everybody is wired to be the time to keep o cers safe and to keep Nwelcomed his rst class of o cers to a law enforcement ocer, so we have to mold the public safe.” basic training at the Kansas Law Enforce- the ones who are and make sure they serve Brad Schoen, a 36-year law enforcement ment Training Center. In June, he said Kansans in the way they should.” veteran and director of the Riley County goodbye to his last class of graduates. Police Department in Manhattan, credits “I feel real con dent about the product KLETC with being ahead of the curve in that we’re putting out there,” he says. struggling with an image that I don’t think training o cers. “We’ve got to change our “ ere’s one thing that we always tell every is a fair portrayal of the profession.” mindset,” Schoen says, “because post- new o cer that comes through, and I tell One of Beck’s rst tasks as executive Ferguson, nothing is ever going to be the them this during orientation when they director will be to aggressively recruit law same. We have to adapt to that and learn rst arrive here: We’re not going to teach enforcement o cers to the center. “No how to operate in an environment where you everything that you need to know, but matter what we do with programs or with at least a good portion of the public is, we’re going to teach you the basics about educational philosophies, if we don’t have frankly, suspicious of our motives. We policing. We can’t prepare you for every anybody to teach, we’re not going to be have to do everything we can to counter conceivable situation that you’re going to successful,” he says. t h at .” encounter. ere’s just no way. But we can Sharon Graham is con dent that the In today’s digital age, where every teach you the basics.” center’s new leader is the right person to vehicle or pedestrian stop can be captured While there’s no question that Pavey tackle this issue. “He knows the impor- on video and shared on social media, the leaves KLETC on solid ground for Beck, tance of public service,” she says, “and he potential for public criticism is consider- his colleague of 18 years, there will be can clearly send that message throughout able, Beck says. “Sometimes the true story obstacles ahead. Fewer people are going the state.” about what happens in a case doesn’t come into law enforcement, and local agencies As Beck contemplates his new role at out for months a er a are struggling to ll sta vacancies. KLETC, he is reminded of his predeces- prosecution, whereas the “ e same thing is true for KLETC,” sor’s sage advice: “You can’t do it alone,” o cer is being tried on Beck says. “We’re having trouble he says. “You have to have good people social media from the recruiting instructors. We’re around you.”h very rst day,” he says. “We need to work with o cers to give them skills for ideographer Dan Storey’s coverage of firearms training resiliency and help Vat KLETC can be seen at kualumni.org/extras.
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 39 Association Board transition O cers, directors begin terms July 1 on national board of a new undergraduate curriculum, KU Core, both aimed to increase student embers of the Association’s national retention and graduation rates. From 2012 MBoard of Directors met April 27-28 through 2016, KU’s freshman class in Lawrence and elected o cers and experienced growth for ve straight years. directors, who began their terms July 1. Gray-Little oversaw the physical John Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park, KU MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS KU transformation of the University in 50 joined the board in 2013 and will lead the capital improvement projects totaling $700 Association as national chair. He and his million in Lawrence, on the Edwards wife, Cindy, assoc., chaired the 2011 Rock Campus in Overland Park, and KU Chalk Ball in Kansas City and have hosted Medical Center campuses in Kansas City, and attended numerous KU events Wichita and Salina. Most notable is the through the years. ey are members of Central District in Lawrence (see our the Williams Education Fund for Kansas story, page 18). Other highlights include Athletics and, as a former KU football the expansion of the schools of Engineer- player, Ballard has served as a Jayhawk ing and Medicine, including the construc- Mentor for student-athletes. He is a Life tion of the new Health Education Building Member of the Alumni Association and at KU Medical Center; a new home for the principal owner of Property Specialists School of Business; new residence halls; Inc. in Leawood. e Ballards are donors Pivotal leader and the restoration of Jayhawk Boulevard. to the Presidents Club and benefactors of KU also made historic strides in KU Libraries. In 2000 they donated to KU’s 17th chancellor honored research, achieving National Institutes of Spencer Research Library a 3,000-year-old Health designations for the Alzheimer’s Egyptian scroll, now known as the with Fred Ellsworth Medallion Disease Center, the KU Cancer Center and “Ballard Papyrus.” Frontiers, the KU Clinical and Transla- Ballard succeeds Kevin Carroll, assoc., he University’s 17th chancellor, tional Science Institute. KU is one of only of Jupiter, Florida. He will remain on the TBernadette Gray-Little, who retired in 26 U.S. universities to house three NIH- board as immediate past chair. 2017 a er eight years of exemplary service, designated research centers. e research Dave Roland, e’80, Shorewood, Minne- is the recipient of the 2018 Fred Ellsworth enterprise also expanded with the recruit- sota, is chair-elect. He is president of NDC Medallion. ment of 12 Foundation Distinguished Technologies and serves on the advisory Since 1975, the Association Professors, a key component of the board for the School of Engineering. He has presented medallions to Bold Aspirations strategic plan to joined the Association’s Board of Directors individuals who have shown enhance research initiatives in 2015 and also was a member of the unique and signi cant across the University. Chancellor Search Committee in 2017. commitment to KU, a A hallmark of Gray-Little’s Roland and his wife, Vyonne, are Presi- tradition that celebrates the tenure was her steadfast dents Club donors and have attended the late Fred Ellsworth, c’22, the commitment to raising the Rock Chalk Ball in Kansas City. He is a organization’s longest-serving academic pro le of the University, Life Member of the Association. chief executive. Gray-Little will be according to Dale Seuferling, j’77, KU e six new directors on the Board are: honored at the Sept. 14 fall meeting of the Endowment president. “Most, if not all, Sasha Flores Boulware, c’98, g’00, of Association’s national Board of Directors KU chancellors can be proud of their Fairway, earned her bachelor’s degree in and introduced at the home football game service records of new buildings, increased psychology and remained at KU to Sept. 15. funding and University awards and complete her MBA. She formerly worked During her tenure as chancellor, honors,” he says. “In addition, Chancellor for P zer and Accenture Foundation, and Gray-Little and KU Endowment led the Gray-Little le a legacy that will forever she is currently a part-time consultant. She record-breaking $1.6 billion Far Above enhance the reputation and rank of the is a member of the Kansas City Network fundraising campaign, and she guided the University while making a direct contribu- board, and she co-chaired this year’s Rock successful proposal and implementation of tion to the success of our Jayhawk Chalk Ball committee; she also led the new admissions standards and the launch students.”h group in 2017. Sasha and her husband,
40 | KANSAS ALUMNI g’85, she has volunteered for the Kansas Honors Program, and she has attended DAN STOREY DAN numerous alumni events in Topeka as well as several Rock Chalk Balls. e Dicuses are Association Life Members and Presidents Club donors as well as Chancel- lors Club members for KU Endowment and Williams Education Fund members for Kansas Athletics. ey have remained involved with the School of Business, most notably through the Capitol Federal Foundation’s leadership gi to provide the new home for the business school. Eric Edell, c’76, m’81, of Rochester, Minnesota, is a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Carroll, Ballard and Roland specializing in pulmonary and critical care and interventional pulmonary medicine. He previously served as vice chair of the Al, c’98, l’02, g’02, have attended numer- Brenda Roskens Dicus, b’83, of Topeka, division of pulmonary and critical care ous balls, and they have served as honor- began her career in marketing, and she is medicine as well as vice chair of Mayo ary co-chairs. Sasha also has volunteered involved in several nonpro t organizations Clinic Practice in charge of the outpatient for Jayhawks for Higher Education and the in Topeka. While her three daughters were practice in Rochester. His research Emily Taylor Center advisory board. As a growing up, she focused her volunteer interests have included programs aimed at KU student, she was a member of the work on educational and youth sports preventing, diagnosing and applying novel Hispanic American Leadership Organiza- programs. With her husband, John, b’83, treatments to lung cancer. His innovative tion, Mortar Board and the Center for Community Outreach; she received the Rusty Le el Concerned Student Award. F. Taylor Burch, p’88, g’90, PharmD’09, of Lantana, Texas, completed his bachelor’s
and doctoral degrees in pharmacy and a (6) PHOTOS PROVIDED master’s degree in health services adminis- tration. He is in his 20th year at Eli Lilly and Company and is currently a global operations consultant, creating strategy and supporting the various platforms used by the medical a airs teams worldwide. His roles at Lilly also include being a diabetes medical science liaison, trainer, Boulware Burch Dicus and an executive sales representative. He remains connected to the School of Pharmacy as a donor and volunteer, creating an endowed scholarship named for his father and returning to Lawrence o en as a guest lecturer to rst-year pharmacy students. He also volunteers for KU Admissions. With his wife, Lisa Howell Burch, c’92, he served on KU Endowment’s Far Above campaign committee for the school. ey are Chancellors Club members for Endow- ment and Alumni Association Life Members and Presidents Club donors. Edell Hoese Johnston
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 41 Association approaches have resulted in national and attorney with Clark, Mize & Linville, international recognition, and he has Chartered in Salina, and now a second-
traveled worldwide to train other physi- generation member of the Board, follow- YOUNGER SUSAN cians. He also has earned several teaching ing in the footsteps of his dad, Donald A. awards. For KU, he is a member of the Johnston, b’56, l’66, who served from 1986 Medical Alumni Association board. He to ’91. Peter is a longtime volunteer for the and his wife, Rosemary Privitera Edell, Kansas Honors Program and Jayhawks for f’77, are Life Members of the Association. Higher Education and has served on the David Hoese, e’86, of Chicago, is a School of Law’s Alumni Board of Gover- private wealth adviser at Goldman Sachs, nors. He and his wife, Sara Peckham based in the Chicago o ce. He earned his Johnston, c’96, m’00, g’03, are Life KU degree in mechanical engineering and Members of the Association and Presi- later received an MBA from Northwestern dents Club donors. For KU Endowment, University. As a KU alumnus, he has they are Chancellors Club members. Sara served on the Chicago Network Board, is a family medicine physician and the Association as national chair from attended and hosted numerous KU events part-time faculty of the KU School of 2016 to ’17; and in Chicago, and assisted in student Medicine-Salina and volunteer faculty of Jerry Skillett, b’81, New York City. recruitment. He also served as a modera- the KU-a liated Smoky Hill Family Each year the Association invites tor for the Association’s 2017 Chicago Practice Residency. nominations for new directors. Nomina- Entrepreneurship career networking event, Five directors retired from the Board tions will be accepted from Jan. 1 through which became a model for future Jayhawk June 30: March 1, 2019. e Nominating Commit- Career Network events. He and his wife, Aaron Brinkman, j’98, Dallas; tee meets in April to review all nominees Joan, are involved in local church and Debi Dennis Duckworth, d’79, Houston; and select a slate for individual consider- community organizations. ey are Jill Simpson Miller, d’01, Webb City, ation and election by the Board at its Presidents Club donors to the Association. Missouri; spring meeting. e Board meets three Peter Johnston, c’94, l’97, of Salina, is an Scott Seyfarth, b’83, Chicago, who led times annually in Lawrence.h
The KU Black Alumni Network he KU Black Alumni Network is proud to honor African-American alumni who have distin- Tguished themselves and made a dierence Mike and Joyce Shinn through demonstrated leadership and/or innovation to the University, their profession or society at large. The project acknowledges the contributions of indi- viduals who have made their mark in varied ways and highlights in photographs and text the accomplish- Leaders ments of our honorees. Recipients are selected from nominations submitted and to the KU Black Alumni Network Mike and Joyce Shinn Leaders and Innovators Award Committee. Innovators The committee will accept nominations for the 2019 awards through September 30, 2018. Award To nominate an individual, complete the nomination form online at kualumni.org/kublackalumni.
42 | KANSAS ALUMNI Mallory K. McKee Life Members Karen L. McMurray Tyler J. & Tatyana Fastovski e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Metzger memberships May 1 through June 30. For information, visit David T. & Susan Y. Millstein kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.h Audrey N. Mitchell Paul J. Monson Lynsay M. Montour Madeline D. Cook Monica S. Huke Kayla C. Moore Amanda B. Agan J. Dayton Craig Craig L. Jackson Jr. Samantha Bowman Mortlock Ryan K. Albrecht Carolyn S. Curnutt Kylie K. Jackson Andrew M. Muccino W. Robert Alderson Jr. & Ruth Kenneth S. Dawson David O. Johnson Pracheta & Krishna A. Alderson John H. DeVries Samuel Johnson Mukherjee Jaime R. Andrews Benjamin K. & Angela S. Steven P. & C. Jeanette Jay W. & Robin Harper Sandra M. Archer Dolezal Johnson Murphy Shirley T. Arck Phillip G. Du John W. & Emilee Hermreck Daniel S. & Julie Numrich Debra L. Asher Todd & Karen Shriner Dumas Katzer Murray Randall K. & Shannon Snyder Doug & Becky Alexander Gary W. Keefer David W. & Teresa L. Melcher Bachman Eason John A. & Melissa K. Keller Nelson Larkin S. Bailey Michael T. Edmondson Michael T. Kirkpatrick Kathleen Gunja Nelson Mike D. & Marta E. Bainum Kyle L. & Gabrielle Corsini Jennifer R. Klemp Laura L. Nelson Bill Beamgard Elliott Christopher J. & Aidan Joe & Sarah L. Nold Bridgette J. Befort Laura R. Ellis Loveland Koster William R. O’Brien Harriet Gray Bell Samuel S. Fankhauser Michael R. Kuchinski Jennifer A. O’Grady Travis J. & Jill C. Berkley Jake T. Faucett Kevin D. Laerty Dorothy J. Ogden Carol Shaer Birnbaum Jennifer L. Faucett Bobbie J. Laincz Tim L. Ogg Autumn Bishop Jacob A. & Katherine Franz Gant W. Lambertz Graham S. Oltjen Caleb A. Bobo Fisher Marc B. Langston James S. Oswalt Scott D. Boling Matthew D. Franzenburg Ryan D. Larson Robert W. & Stephanie Shannon M. Faucett Bollinger Carrie Frazier Nathaniel J. & Ashley Biondo Palmer Marsha Boone Susanna L. Geiger Lata James A. Para-Cremer II & Carolyn J. Boren Ilex C. Gelpi David W. Latimer Mahin L. Para-Cremer David E. Boucher & Mary B. Michael C. Gentemann George R. Laughead Jr. Donald E. Perreault Dagit Ian J. Gilpatrick Dane A. Lee & Elizabeth Elizabeth M. Peterson Abigail C. Boudewyns Timothy A. Glassco Olmo-Lee Daniel C. & Allison York George E. Bousfield Kurt J. & Julee Hawk Goeser Karla K. Leeper Pierron Richard R. & Gayle G. Boyd Paige Isaacson Gonzalez Travis D. Lenkner Shelby L. Plank Amber C. Bradshaw Rene R. Gonzalez Deborah Hemmen Ling Adam D. Podschun Lindsey A. Brake Kevin S. Gray Daniel M. Lingel Jack R. Porter Jordan Nease Brennan Michael S. Gremillion Patrick M. Liston Alison Farley Rae Heather A. Brewer Lisa Guild James R. Lloyd II & Ann Mary M. Rapp-Purvis Tony L. Brizendine Eileen K. Hammar Stueve Lloyd Timothy W. & Sandra Blome Erika L. Buessing Hunter V. Harding Lauren E. Luhrs Reddin Patrick J. & Jayme L. Byrne Jada Hayes Adam S. Lyons Wendy Reese-Flinn Jack C. & Megan Godwin Lisa Ann Hazlett Patrick A. Lytle Denise Kinne Reissig Campbell Laurie A. Heaton Thomas P. Maltese Steven K. Reynolds Jr. Le-Thu Erazmus Campbell John L. & Shirley A. Hendricks Matthew R. Maner Debra J. Romberger Kathleen A. Carr Kimberly Sedberry Hess Katherine A. Manweiler Zakk S. Roy Andres E. Carvallo Jackie L. Hilton William Mar & Kevin S. Eng Eric A. Ryan Jennifer M. Cassell Paul G. & Nancy M. Hohmann Marcus Mattern Susan P. Scannell & Teri M. James C. & Dawnnmarie R. Joshua A. & Marcy Robards Matthew T. & Amy R. & Pierce Cheng Hoppes McCready Michael G. & Susan A. Elizabeth L. House Mary C. McCue Connolly Kathryn E. Hoven Patrick J. & Nicole L. McGuire (Continued on page 45)
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 43 Hawks and Highways kicks o with stops in eight communities
ore than 550 alumni, friends and MUniversity partners have participated in eight June events as part of Hawks & Highways, a multi-year eort by the Alumni Association and Kansas Athletics to host events in communities statewide. Featured speakers included men’s basketball coach Bill Self, KU admissions associate director Heidi Simon and Heath Peterson, Alumni Association president. The annual KU Alumni Invitational golf tournament drew a sold-out crowd to Prairie Dunes Country Club. Visit kualumni.org/highways for information on upcoming events in October.
Photographs by Dan Storey, Kara Rodriguez, KU Alumni and Kansas Athletics sta 44 | KANSAS ALUMNI n (Continued from page 43) Board of Directors DIRECTORS TO 2023 Sasha Flores Boulware, c’98, g’00, n CHAIR Fairway Jason E. Schroeder & Whitney Alexander J. Thierry John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park F. Taylor Burch, p’88, g’98, PharmD’09, P. Bachamp-Schroeder David I. Tokic Lantana, Texas n CHAIR-ELECT Sarah E. Schumacher Robert J. Torongo & Corinne Brenda Roskens Dicus, b’83, Topeka Allison N. Schwartz M. Moriarty Dave B. Roland, e’80, Shorewood, Minnesota Eric Edell, c’76, m’81, Rochester, Jonathon D. Schweer Audrey L. Troup Minnesota David L. & Shannon Banes Matthew W. & Angie Tucker n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE David Hoese, e’86, Chicago, Illinois Scrivner Clayton W. Utho John W. Ballard III, b’73, Overland Park Peter Johnston, c’94, l’97, Salina Lynn F. & Ann M. Scott Praveen Vadlamudi Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Jupiter, Florida Shalini Shanker Chad P. Van Buskirk Carrie W. Coulson, b’02, l’05, Senior Sta Members Miami Beach, Florida Courtney D. Shawley Leslie Reed Vashler n Chancellor Douglas A. Girod, Lawrence PRESIDENT William H. Sheehy Adrian P. Vega Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 James A. Shelton Christopher D. & Alisa Fallon Jay Kerutis, c’82, Mesa, Arizona Cory L. Lagerstrom, c’94, g’98, l’98, n Cynthia J. Shutt-Brown Vincent ADMINISTRATION Prairie Village Heather Hawkins, j’06, Executive Christian P. Simpson Kristen M. Vogrin Janet Lusk Murfin, d’75, Wichita Assistant & Coordinator, Donor Susan Uner Sinnott Michelle R. Von Ruden Dave B. Roland, e’80, Shorewood, Relations Stephen M. & Hauna Leiker Brandon J. & Sarah E. Warner Minnesota Slaughter Megan A. Watson n ALUMNI & STUDENT Scott M. Smith Jennifer Webb n DIRECTORS TO 2019 MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Melissa Ann Smith-Marshall Darin R. & Heather L. Weers Carrie W. Coulson, b’02, l’05, Brad Eland, b’09, g’11, Vice Kelli Riney Starr Aaron P. & Ashley Denneler Miami Beach, Florida President, Alumni & Student Cory L. Lagerstrom, c’94, g’98, l’98, Programs Brandon J. Stasieluk Weigel Prairie Village Janell Katzer Stifter Daniel J. & Lauren Williams n PUBLIC AFFAIRS Cindy Emig Penzler, c’81, m’85, Charles R. Stinson White Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Lawrence President, Public Aairs; Secretary Roberta Strode William H. & Anita Faulkner Albert I. Shank Jr., b’77, Liberal Amanda Plaster Stuke White Timothy T. Trump, b’80, l’83, Tulsa, n DEVELOPMENT Victoria D. Sturgeon Paige A. Whited Oklahoma LaRisa Chambers, c’95, William A. Sundeen Raeann L. Whitney Senior Development Director Joshua T. & Beth Schryer Morgan Wilkerson n DIRECTORS TO 2020 Missy Hodge McCarthy, c’86, s’88, n DONOR RELATIONS Swank Thomas R. & Vicki Wilkerson Rancho Mirage, California Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Ann E. Swegle Laura R. Williams Ellen O. Remsing, c’00, Manhattan, Vice President Edward C. Szczuka Yvonne R. & Drew Wilson Kansas n Bobi D. Tallman Christopher A. Wittmann FINANCE Dave B. Roland, e’80, Shorewood, Dwight Parman, Senior Vice John D. Taylor Mark A. Young Minnesota President, Finance and Human John T. Thatcher Deborah M. Zarnow Resources; Treasurer Khristopher J. Thexton n DIRECTORS TO 2021 Ryan Colaianni, c’07, j’07, Arlington, n HOSPITALITY SERVICES Virginia Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President, Jay Kerutis, c’82, Mesa, Arizona Hospitality Janet Lusk Murfin, d’75, Wichita
STEVE PUPPE STEVE n Portia Kibble Smith, c’78, COMMUNICATIONS Overland Park David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Vice President, Strategic Communications n DIRECTORS TO 2022 & Digital Media Steve M. Dillard, c’75, Wichita Michael C. Flowers, c’77, Apollo n MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Beach, Florida Teri Harris, Vice President, Michael J. Happe, j’94, Eden Prairie, Membership, Marketing Minnesota & Business Development Rosa Aguirre Mitchell, s’85, Elkhart n RECORDS Keturah Harding Pohl, f’04, g’08, Bill Green, Senior Vice President, Findlay, Ohio Information Services Adam J. Wray, c’93, Medina, Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President, Washington Alumni Records
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Questions? Contact Kristi Laclé at [email protected] Richard Schiefelbusch, g’47, by Heather Biele Class Notes 47 distinguished professor emeritus of speech-language-hearing at KU and retired director of the Life Span Institute, will celebrate his 100th birthday on July 23. e Schiefelbusch Speech-Language- years as senior curator at the Harvard Art University in 2016 as associate vice Hearing Clinic and the Schiefelbusch Life Museums. He also led the university’s president for graduate education and Span Institute are named in his honor. department of Asian art. professor emerita of communication. She and her husband, Joseph Pierron, l’71, live Vernon Smith, g’52, a professor of Janardan Reddy, m’68, professor in Lawrence. 52 economics and law at Chapman 68 emeritus of pathology at North- University in Orange, California, was the western University, received the American Richard Baldwin, EdD’73, in May keynote speaker at a Samford University Society for Investigative Pathology’s 2018 73 was appointed to the Michigan event in March. He received the Nobel Gold-Headed Cane Award for his long- Board of Audiology. He retired in 2013 as Prize in 2002 for his work in experimental time contributions in pathology research, clinical coordinator for the state’s depart- economics. teaching and leadership. ment of social services. Cynthia Hill Sullivan, ’68, retired a er 10 William Farrar, c’55, and Velma years as volunteer processing coordinator 55 Gaston Farrar, j’54, live in Kansas at Trinity Church in Lansing, Michigan. City, where they are retired and have four She recently returned to Lawrence. School Codes Letters that follow names grandchildren. ey recently embarked on indicate the school from which alumni earned their 22nd cruise and have traveled MARRIED degrees. Numbers show their class years. throughout the U.S. and to Europe, China James Merrill, j’68, g’76, PhD’82, and a School of Architecture and Australia. Ellen Cohn, d’76, Nov. 4 in Overland Park, and Design where they make their home. b School of Business Edward Cleary, e’59, lives in Aloha, c College of Liberal Arts 59 Oregon, where he retired as a senior and Sciences engineer at Tektronix. Robert Taylor, c’69, founder and d School of Education 69 director of Executive AirShare e School of Engineering Richard Weinshilboum, c’62, m’67, Corp., was honored in April with the f School of Fine Arts 62 director of pharmacogenomics and School of Business’ 2018 Distinguished g Master’s Degree chair of the division of clinical pharmacol- Alumni Award. Bob serves on the school’s h School of Health Professions j School of Journalism ogy at the Mayo Clinic Center for Indi- advisory board and executive committee. l School of Law vidualized Medicine, received an honorary m School of Medicine degree May 13 at KU’s 146th Commence- Dennis Nash, PhD’70, in May was n School of Nursing ment ceremony. He also is the Mary Lou 70 inducted in the Adams State p School of Pharmacy and John H. Dasburg Professor of Cancer University Educator Hall of Fame. He has PharmD School of Pharmacy Genomics at the center. been a teacher for 35 years, most recently s School of Social Welfare serving as associate dean of the School of u School of Music Jerry Jennett, b’63, in April received Communicative Disorders at the Univer- AUD Doctor of Audiology 63 the 2018 Distinguished Alumni sity of Wisconsin in Stevens Point. DE Doctor of Engineering Award from the School of Business. He is DMA Doctor of Musical Arts chairman of Georgia Gulf Sulfur Corp. in J. Mark Hannah, d’71, owns Stream DNAP Doctor of Nursing Anethesia Practice Valdosta, Georgia, and endowed KU’s Lake and Wetland Solutions. He 71 DNP Doctor of Nursing Practice Jennett Finance Scholars Program with his makes his home in Cleveland, Missouri, DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy wife, Kay. with his wife, Courtney. EdD Doctor of Education OTD Doctor of Occupational Bryan Shewmake, c’65, e’70, g’71, Diana Bartelli Carlin, d’72, g’74, was Therapy 65 and his wife, Cheryl, recently took a 72 inducted in the 2018 Central States PhD Doctor of Philosophy cruise from Dubai to Dubrovnik. Communication Association Hall of Fame. SJD Doctor of Juridical Science She is past president of the association and (no letter) Former student Robert Mowry, c’67, g’74, g’75, an a teaching award recipient. Diana retired assoc Associate member of the 67 expert on Chinese ceramics from from KU in 2011 as professor of commu- Alumni Association the Song Dynasty, recently retired a er 25 nication studies and from Saint Louis
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Shelly Lyon Rieger, b’73, g’74, makes her wife, Cynthia, assoc., and their daughter, Memorial Hospital in Bakers eld, Califor- home in Seattle, where she retired as Kaley. nia, where he lives with his wife, Susan. director of planning and nancial analysis Sheree Miller, c’76, p’78, makes her Je Coey, c’78, is regional vice president at Foss Maritime. home in Seattle, where she’s a retired for China and Taiwan at U.S. Wheat pharmacist. Associates. He’s based in Hong Kong. Ann Vigola Anderson, c’74, is a David Dennison, PhD’78, is a periodon- 74 tennis instructor for seniors at the Mike Conlin, c’77, p’79, owns tist in Houston. Jayhawk Tennis Center in Lawrence. 77 Jayhawk Pharmacy & Patient Supply Mark Mullinix, c’78, retired in June a er Christopher Hahn, d’74, lives in Olathe, in Topeka. 32 years with the Federal Reserve. Most where he retired as president and CEO of Leah Stevens Waage, c’77, m’81, opened recently he served as rst vice president Special Olympics Kansas a er 29 years LazerDoc, a medical and cosmetic laser and chief operating o cer at the Federal with the organization. clinic, in Leavenworth, where she lives Reserve Bank of Richmond in Virginia. Lynette Schultz, d’74, is a medical with Kato, g’13, a colonel in the Norwe- Mark began his career in Kansas City. speech pathologist at CompHealth in gian army who is retiring this summer Grand Rapids, Michigan. a er 38 years of service, and their son, Barbara Baellow Bayer, j’79, is David U’Prichard, g’74, PhD’75, director Carl. Leah also has three older sons, 79 editor of the Kansas City Jewish of Arix Bioscience and advisory board William McCollum, c’05; John McCollum, Chronicle. She lives in Leawood. chair of BioMotiv, in May joined the b’08, ’10; and James McCollum, d’10. Andrew Lear, b’79, is a retired CPA and advisory board of CerSci erapeutics. partner at BKD in Spring eld, Missouri. MARRIED Blake Thompson, c’79, serves on the Mike Go , j’76, is chief marketing Jamie Hutchison Kennedy, d’77, to Dick board of directors of Wyandot Inc. He’s 76 and philanthropy o cer at the Drendel, April 22 in Greensburg. ey also an investor in Snack It Forward. United Way of Greater Kansas City. make their home in Wichita and Haviland. Ronald Wallace, g’79, is a retired Steve Hattrup, g’76, is vice president geologist and program manager for the of nance at Charter Communications in Les Burson, c’78, is an emergency state of Georgia. He and his wife, Holly, Kailua, Hawaii, where he lives with his 78 room physician at Bakers eld make their home in Roswell.
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Costa Rica’s Natural Baltic Sea Heritage May 23–June 1 January 21–31 Celtic Lands Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of D-Day May 28–June 7 Normandy* Commemorating the 75th Italy’s Magnificent Anniversary of D-Day Lake District August 17–25 June 4–12 Exploring Iceland Great Journey Through August 29–September 8 Europe June 7–17 Inspiring Italy Sparkling South Pacific September 1–12 Ancient Empires January 21–31 June 20–28 Wonders of Peru The Galapagos Islands September 26–October 7 January 23–30 SOLD OUT Great Pacific Northwest Legends of the Nile SOLD OUT September 15–23 January 29–February 9 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta New Zealand October 11–14 February 20–March 7 Passage Along the Patagonian Frontiers Danube River March 17–April 2 October 12–24 Majestic Vistas Tanzania SOLD OUT Arctic Expedition October 28–November 4 March 20–31 June 21–July 1 Cruising Coastal Vietnam Atlantic Encounters Africa’s Wildlife November 5–19 April 5–19 July 24–August 6 Island Life - Ancient Greece Dutch Waterways* Canadian Maritimes November 7–15 April 17–25 July 25–August 4
Legendary Europe Switzerland *No Single Supplement May 2-10 July 31–August 8
For the latest dates and detailed trip descriptions, visit kualumni.org/travel or call 800-584-2957. Kelly Mirt, c’80, is the new pub- Darren Karst, b’82, is senior Timothy Wiens, m’85, a physician at 80 lisher of e News & Advance, a 82 executive vice president, chief Health Ministries Clinic in Newton, this daily newspaper in Lynchburg, Virginia. nancial o cer and chief administrative spring received Bethel College’s 2018 He’s the former president and publisher of o cer at Rite Aid Corporation. He lives in Outstanding Alumnus Award. the Wichita Eagle. Lake Forest, Illinois. Abigail Morris Raynolds, n’82, is a nurse Andrew Hartley, j’86, lives in New Erich Bloxdorf, b’81, is president and practitioner at the University of Rochester 86 York City, where he’s a senior 81 CEO of the Illinois League of in New York. systems analyst at e New York Times. Financial Institutions in Spring eld. Edward Rose, g’82, is senior director of Craig Merrick, c’86 is an underwriter at William Evans, c’81, m’85, a former revenue management at Community Veteran’s United Home Loans. He lives in physician, in June was ordained a deacon. Health Systems in Franklin, Tennessee. Kansas City. He will serve at Holy Spirit Parish in Brian Wagner, c’86, is in his 29th year as Kimberly, Wisconsin, before returning this Myron Frans, l’83, is commissioner a sheries biologist with the Arkansas fall to the seminary. 83 of Minnesota Management and Game & Fish Commission. Researchers Ardena Garth, l’81, lives in Chatta- Budget in St. Paul. recently named a new species of cray sh, nooga, Tennessee, where she’s an attorney. Kent Shelley, c’83, head baseball coach Faxonius wagneri, in his honor. Sharon Minton Kirkpatrick, g’81, at Johnson County Community College, PhD’88, is president and co-founder of recently celebrated his 1,000th career Tanya Treadway, l’87, is a retired HealthEd Connect, a nonpro t organiza- victory. e former KU catcher has 87 assistant U.S. attorney. She makes tion that trains and supports volunteer coached at JCCC for 31 years. her home in Lawrence. health workers in underserved countries. William Turner, c’87, l’90, is an attorney Barbara Cochran Mayfield, d’81, g’87, Carey Gillam, j’85, is an investiga- at WM Law in Olathe, where he special- l’92, retired as director of accessibility 85 tive journalist in Overland Park. She izes in bankruptcy law. services at the University of Central wrote Whitewash: e Story of a Weed Missouri. She continues to make her home Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Carolyn Teeter DeSalvo, m’88, in Warrensburg, Missouri. Science, which was published in October. 88 makes her home in Sequim, REGISTER TODAY ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND October 5-6, 2018
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52 | KANSAS ALUMNI J. Craig Cartwright, b’93, l’96, is an consultant and technical adviser of 93 attorney and shareholder at Buchal- behavior-related health and wellness ter in Scottsdale, Arizona. He joins the programs. rm’s real estate practice group. Anne Heller Braun, d’94, a teacher at Michael Gremillion, c’93, lives in Matt Tucker, b’93, is senior vice Woodland Elementary School in Lee’s Herndon, Virginia, where he’s deputy president of wealth management at UBS Summit, Missouri, was named R-7 School director of weather for the U.S. Air Force. Financial Services in Kansas City. He lives District Teacher of the Year at a reception John McNulty, j’93, is executive vice in Leawood with Angie Bryan Tucker, c’93, in April. president of marketing at in lm in a senior account executive at Chief of Sta Gretchen Heasty, s’94, c’95, s’98, California. Kansas City, and their four children. director of TRIO Supportive Educational Joel Shobe, m’93, is a spine surgeon at Services (SES) & STEM at KU, in May St. Cloud Orthopedics in Sartell, Heather Bowen, j’94, lives in was named 2018 Academic Advisor of Minnesota. 94 Boulder, Colorado, where she’s a the Year.
PROFILE by Julie Mettenburg STEVE PUPPE STEVE
First KU Info director cook a hamburger?’ We earns Pioneer award never knew what we would be asked, so we n 1970, Shirley Gilham Domer recalls, built vast le cabinets Ithe mood on Mount Oread was “a real full of information.” powder keg.” Although KU Info at April the Kansas Union burned, quickly became a and in July two young men were killed by valuable resource, police in downtown Lawrence and on tensions continued. In campus. War protests and racial conict 1972, the February added to the tinder-box atmosphere. Sisters, a group of 20 “We had war protests going on at the same time we had racial Recognizing that out-of-control rumors women, occupied a problems,” says Shirley Gilham Domer of campus tensions in 1970, were driving tensions, Domer—then a campus building and when she helped start KU Info. Her work at the hotline and as the PhD candidate in speech communications emerged with a list of University’s first director of armative action were honored by KU’s and human relations—and other students demands topped by Emily Taylor Center. started a hotline that people could call to calls for an a rmative verify whether events had actually action plan. KU occurred. e University contributed selected Domer to Strong Hall space and phones, formalizing direct the plan, focusing the rst year on much to change the atmosphere on the e ort as the KU Information Center women’s issues and adding minorities’ campus as any she achieved. with Domer as director. issues in the second. Unfortunately, Domer’s KU employ- is May the Emily Taylor Center for Her rst success: ensuring women could ment included experiences she says today Women & Gender Equity gave Domer, participate in marching band. Soon aer, would be treated as sexual harassment. “I g’68, PhD’75, its Pioneer Woman Award she and coach Marian Washington, g’78, wish there had been a #MeToo movement for her achievements as KU Info’s rst secured facilities for female athletes inside 40 years ago,” she says. “It would have director and as the University’s rst Allen Field House. Previously, women made a big di erence in my life.” director of a rmative action. suited up in Robinson Gym and dashed She warns against forgetting the past. In starting KU Info, Domer played a across Naismith Drive to play. “ ere is more to be done. Don’t say, ‘It’s steadying role in a “time of campus “ at made me really happy,” she says so much better than it used to be.’ We have turmoil, community unrest, and rampant today. “ ey were being treated like ‘girls.’ to know the history and to know where rumors,” according to the prize citation. We were righting a wrong.” we’ve been, and how hard it’s been to get In an oral history interview in 1997, she She eventually won funding for 10 where we are.”h recalled how the calls quickly expanded. administrative positions lled by women —Mettenburg, j’91, is a Lawrence “Kids would call and ask, ‘How do you and minorities, a success she says did as freelance writer.
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Kevin Weakley, l’94, is managing Tampa, Florida, where he’s associate and Clinics of Minnesota in St. Paul. partner at Wallace Saunders in Overland director of business development at Khristopher Thexton, d’98, ’99, is Park. He’s been with the rm since 2001. Navigant. superintendent of Great Bend School District. He lives in Great Bend with his Neeli Bendapudi, PhD’95, former Heather Bunker, c’97, lives in wife, Rachel. 95 provost and executive vice chancel- 97 Lawrence, where she’s market Alisa Fallon Vincent, c’98, n’01, is a lor at KU, in April was named president of manager at Manpower. registered nurse in the public school the University of Louisville. She also Katie Morgan, d’97, is a freelance district in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where she served as dean of KU’s School of Business associate producer with NBC Sports and lives with Christopher, c’98, and their from 2011 to ’16. has covered the Olympic Games nine times three daughters. Kyle Beran, PhD’95, is a chemistry for the news network. She also directs professor at Angelo State University in San creative video for University of San Debra Ford, PhD’99, is an associate Angelo, Texas. Francisco Athletics. 99 professor in the interdisciplinary Kristy Berg Feden, g’95, lives in Papil- Dee Gerdes Steinle, g’97, executive leadership doctoral program at Creighton lion, Nebraska, where she’s executive director of MBA and MSB programs at University in Omaha, Nebraska. director of Sarpy County Cooperative KU’s School of Business, was named vice Drew France, c’99, directs development Head Start. She’s completing her doctorate chair of Liaison International’s Business- and strategic planning at Community in educational leadership at the University CAS advisory board. Action Project of Tulsa County in Tulsa, of Nebraska Omaha. Oklahoma. Kelly Druten Green, l’98, directs Brian Friedman, d’99, is executive Erik Lundgren, c’96, is senior 98 legal recruiting at Lathrop Gage in director of development at Washburn 96 manager at Evoqua Water Tech- Kansas City. University Foundation in Topeka. He nologies in Kansas City. Heather Whitney Sesma, c’98, is a commutes from Lawrence. Chris Martin, c’96, makes his home in neuropsychologist at Children’s Hospitals
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PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino
Native filmmaker teaches University, then graduate school at KU, DEWEY MYRON COURTESY youth to share their stories where he created a track in digital lan- guage preservation and launched his quest yron Dewey was fresh from his to both help heal pains of “historical Mparticipation in the multicontinent trauma” and point young people toward a prayer run known as e Eagle and e digital future of “community journalism,” Condor Prophesy, uniting native people with which they can directly share their from across the Americas and the wider creative messages with audiences near world, when he happened upon a Face- and far. book Live video from the “Water Protec- At Standing Rock, Dewey lmed tors” movement at a proposed pipeline site everything: clashes with police, the on Standing Rock Indian Reservation in “several hundred thousands” of people North Dakota. who arrived from around the world, and His reaction perhaps intensi ed by a diligent e orts to maintain their camp as a spiritual mindset that he describes as site blessed with a balance between intense Multimedia communicator Myron Dewey says “deep in protocol,” Dewey, g’07, in July devotion to their cause and respectful Standing Rock proved “a great platform” for 2016 headed for Standing Rock, which he’d spirituality. earlier visited to counsel at-risk youth. He also engaged in “front-line media him to teach digital content creation “through “I heard the call,” Dewey says. training,” teaching young communicators indigenous eyes.” Dewey, an educator, lmmaker and how to record and document the move- digital media entrepreneur, was born and ment with high-tech tools while observing reared on a Nevada reservation, which he what he terms “core values,” with which didn’t have the tools. So I started putting it recalls as “a beautiful oasis in the desert.” “it’s not easy to be skewed.” out to the universe. People were coming But the idyllic setting was under “ e opportunity to educate,” Dewey into my path, spiritual people, educated constant assault, he says, from outsiders in says, “was always in front of me.” people, scholars, beautiful mentors, both search of mineral and timber riches. Dewey joined two non-native lmmak- native and non-native. It just kept coming Protests, he recalls, were a way of life: “I ers in gathering their footage into a in my direction, even when I pushed it grew up witnessing, not knowing I would powerful documentary, “Awake: A Dream away. be doing that for the rest of my life.” From Standing Rock,” which is available “I listened to my spirit. When we don’t Told higher education was beyond his on Netix and awakethe lm.org. listen, our spirit listens, and it comes back means, the “strong-headed” young man “ e hurt I’ve seen, the pain, I knew I full circle somewhere along the line. When found his way to Haskell Indian Nations had to become an educator, because I we’re ready for it, it comes back.”h
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Join online at kualumni.org/summer or call 800-584-2957. You can also join on the Alumni Association app. Mississippi. He recently collaborated with founded Gracefully Giving, a gi consult- Wisconsin, with Mahin Para-Cremer, c’97, fellow researchers at the university to ing business. She makes her home in ’03, who directs operations at Integrated digitally preserve the rst-recorded Lawrence. Development Services. carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Arkansas. Daniel Pierron, e’08, is a patent attorney Ben Renn, b’05, ’11, is assistant vice Emily Bannwarth, b’08, works at and partner at Widerman Malek in president of business banking at Emprise 08 ASE Group in Overland Park, Melbourne, Florida. Bank. He lives in Wichita. where she’s a meeting and event planner. Jennifer Widerstrom, d’05, a tness Lijing Du, g’08, PhD’14, is an assistant Natalie Bazan, g’09, is director of expert and trainer who appeared on the professor in the College of Business & 09 the North Riverside Public Library NBC show “ e Biggest Loser,” has Economics at Towson University in in Riverside, Illinois. partnered with Laura’s Lean, an all-natural Maryland. Rustin Dodd, j’09, is a sta writer at the beef company. She’s the newest member of Hassan Johnson, c’08, lives in e Athletic. He covers the Kansas City Royals. the brand’s ambassador team. Woodlands, Texas, where he’s a personal Laura Kane, g’09, makes her home in trainer at 24 Hour Fitness. Liberal with her husband, Scott, assoc., BORN TO: Matt Lindberg, j’08, is managing editor and their son, Christian. She’s a family Ken, b’05, g’08, and Whitney Eriksen at Lee Enterprises in Columbus, Nebraska, nurse practitioner at Southwest Family Chang, c’08, j’08, son, Dawson, Jan. 17, in where he lives with Sarah Strathman Medicine. Fairway, where he joins a sister, Nora, 3. Lindberg, c’09, and their two children, Eleanor Pettus Schneider, g’09, a fellow Ken is a market innovation specialist at David and Riley. at the Liberty Fund in Indianapolis, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City, and Mike Magnusson, d’08, g’10, is a senior received the 2018 Fraser Barron Memorial Whitney teaches second grade at High- account executive at Jayhawk IMG Sports Scholarship in Renaissance and Western lands Elementary School in Mission. Marketing. He resides in Overland Park. History from the National Association of James Para-Cremer, g’08, is vice Scholars. Jaime Baggett, d’06, g’09, teaches president of operations at NeuroRestor- Darrell Stuckey, c’09, hosted a football 06 kindergarten and English as a ative. He makes his home in Mukwonago, camp in June at Bishop Ward High School second language at Lawrence Public Schools. Matt Beverlin, g’06, PhD’11, is an attorney at Mejia & Beverlin Law in Olympia, Washington. Sean O’Leary, c’06, lives in Denver, where he’s a senior enterprise account executive at BloomReach Global. Adam Swartz, c’06, is managing attorney at Swartz Law Firm in Dallas.
Laura Watkins Baker, j’07, was 07 promoted to senior account supervisor of digital at Edelman in Austin, Texas. She previously was a digital strategist at the company. Matthew Dupy, b’07, g’08, manages product control at Koch Supply & Trading in Wichita, where he lives with Jaime Hornbaker Dupy, j’08, director of investing and strategy at the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce, and their two children, Hailey and Adam. Father Matthew Nagle, c’07, is associate pastor at St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Leawood. Meghan Kinley Shreve, c’07, directs communications at InterHab in Topeka. Ashley Schlotzhauer Thornton, d’07,
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in Kansas City. He was a safety at KU and Henderson, Nevada, where she’s an Irish Rule of Law International. played professionally for the San Diego attorney at Frontier Health Law. Megan Zumbrunn Landrith, PharmD’11, Chargers. Paul Ramseyer, g’10, is the new athletic is a pharmacist at Dillons in Junction City. Catherine Worthy Woods, g’09, is a director at Friends University in Wichita. Benjamin Levy, c’11, is a make-ready nurse practitioner at Children’s Mercy He previously worked at Hesston College. engineering technician at Actavo in Hospital & Clinics in Wichita, where she Katy Saunders, j’10, is a sta ng Mission. He commutes from Lawrence. lives with her husband, omas. manager at Accountemps in Richmond, Erin Lustig, d’11, g’17, teaches kinder- Virginia. garten at Briarwood Elementary School in Sanjay Adhia, m’10, is a forensic Lindsey Schuler, c’10, is an associate Prairie Village. She lives in Olathe with 10 psychiatrist and assistant professor attorney at Croker, Huck, Kasher, DeWitt, Tyler Weigel, b’10. of psychiatry at the University of Texas Anderson & Gonderinger in Omaha. She Katie McCurry, c’11, is a social media Medical Branch in Galveston. specializes in business and commercial and editorial strategist at Citizens Bank in Kelley MacCormack Bono, d’10, ’11, law, civil litigation and real estate. Boston. teaches in the Fort Zumwalt School Chris Paradies, c’11, ’12, is a curriculum District in Missouri. She lives in Saint Joseph Davis, c’11, is a marketing analyst at the University of California at Peters. 11 manager for social media at H&R Santa Cruz. He makes his home in Erica Braker, b’10, manages marketing Block in Kansas City. Campbell, California, with Mariah and communications at Great Plains SPCA Juliann Chau Friess, h’11, g’12, an Whitmore, e’12, a motion scientist in Merriam. occupational therapist at Western Plains at Apple. John Chalfant, b’10, g’11, lives in San Medical Complex in Dodge City, was Francisco, where he’s a manager at Ernst & named erapist of the Year by AMBUCS, Young. a nonpro t organization that assists Edward Lanier, g’10, is a real estate agent individuals with disabilities. at Long & Foster in Alexandria, Virginia. Tyler Holmes, c’11, l’14, lives in Malawi, Ayesha Mehdi, l’10, g’10, lives in where he’s a programme lawyer for the
60 | KANSAS ALUMNI Coleman Walker, d’11, lives in Chicago, in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he’s a attorney at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. where he’s vice president at Bank of geospatial developer at the University of Timothy Quevillon, c’12, wrote a chapter America. Minnesota. called “ e Changing Face of Jews on Neil Goss, c’12, is an artist, educator and Television” for Race and Ethnicity on Kirin Arnold Dowden, j’12, is a studio artist-in-residence at Cumulus Project American Television, which will be 12 manager at 19 Below in Kansas City. Space in Kansas City. published in December. B. Keith Edwards, c’12, is an attorney in John Janes, d’12, resides in Raymore, Anthony “AJ” Steward, d’12, is the the criminal division at Joseph, Hollander Missouri, where he’s a teacher and coach running backs coach for Brigham Young & Cra in Wichita. He previously served in the Raymore-Peculiar School District. University football in Provo, Utah. as a public defender in Topeka. Levi Keach, c’12, recently completed his Anna Wiber, j’12, is the digital media Patrick Eland, j’12, manages accounts PhD in anthropology at the University of associate editor of Baking & Snack at for GSE Live at Genesco Sports Enter- Nevada Las Vegas. Sosland Publishing Company in Kansas prises in Dallas. Maxwell McGraw, e’12, l’17, lives in City, where she’s worked since 2014. Steven Foga, c’12, g’16, makes his home Kansas City, where he’s an associate
PROFILE by Heather Biele
Community partners key she had grown sustainable,” she says. for health care advocate accustomed to at “ e earthquake shook
school. LEVETT PHOTOGRAPHY JUSTIN that plan up.” im Dunback Bentrott knew at a By the time e magnitude 7.0 Kyoung age that she wanted to become Bentrott graduated earthquake in 2010 a doctor. Growing up in the small, rural from KU, she realized devastated the island town of Belleville, where as a high- she didn’t want a nation, and Bentrott lost schooler she worked at the county hospital traditional career in nearly all of her students and a local nursing home, she envisioned medicine. As she and and coworkers, as well as her future in medicine. her husband, Patrick, her own home. She Today, Bentrott, m’05, is a primary care ’04, a minister, assisted with rescue and physician in Idaho Springs, Colorado, who searched for jobs relief e orts for three partners with local organizations to secure during the last year of “It takes a community to make each weeks before she and her health care resources for underserved her residency, they other healthier,” says Kim Bentrott, a family, which includes populations. Her outreach e orts earned discovered an physician who helps underserved and two adopted Haitian her the honor of 2017 Physician of the opportunity to uninsured populations identify children, were Year from the Center for Health Progress, become global health resources in their area. evacuated. a Denver-based nonpro t organization missionaries. “It was Since returning to the that focuses on community-driven just the right time,” states, Bentrott has solutions for health equity. Bentrott says. “We didn’t have a mortgage continued to serve populations in need, Bentrott’s passion for community health or children or anything that was tying us including unisured patients and those in care began shortly a er she completed her down in one location.” remote areas outside Denver. Much of the undergraduate studies, when she volun- In 2008 they were commissioned to work she does today is inuenced by her teered as a medical assistant and caregiver serve four-year terms in Haiti, where experience in Haiti, where she learned that to homeless people in Washington, D.C. Bentrott advised local medical profession- partnerships are paramount to delivering “It was an experience that opened my als and helped them establish clinical optimal health care. eyes to the needs of the world,” she says. outreach services in Port-au-Prince, the “It was really networking and commu- Similar opportunities followed, includ- country’s impoverished capital. Within a nity that got that clinic up and on its feet ing a trip to Guatemala during medical year, Bentrott had built a small, functional as fast as it did,” Bentrott says. “ at’s school. ere she discovered a completely family practice and was traveling with probably the most important thing I di erent approach to health care, one teams of medical students to provide learned in Haiti: Forget trying to do it by sustained despite limited supplies and health care to remote parts of the country. yourself. You really have to engage the equipment, a far cry from the environmentHowardHoward “ e idea was that it would be working parts around you.”h
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MARRIED responsible for underwriting prospective individual champion. She competed in the Kelsey Horton, n’12, g’17, to Anthony acquisitions. triple jump in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Altomare, April 21 in Kansas City. She’s a John Nemmers, b’13, is a nancial Ann Martinez, PhD’14, is an assistant nurse anesthetist at the University of planning associate at Kavar Capital professor of English at Kent State Univer- Kansas Health System. Partners in Leawood. sity at Stark in North Canton, Ohio. Nathan Wendt, c’13, is a mesoscale Christopher Mattix, l’14, is an associate Raamah Campbell, c’13, makes his assistant and re weather forecaster at the attorney at White Goss in Kansas City. 13 home in Overland Park, where he’s Storm Prediction Center. He lives in He’s also a licensed CPA. an auto liability representative at Travelers Norman, Oklahoma. Dale Smith, c’14, graduated in May Insurance. from Saint Louis University School of Joshua Carpenter, l’13, is an associate MARRIED Medicine and will begin his residency in attorney at K&L Gates. He works in the Blake Tillman, b’13, and Stacy Gress, internal medicine at KU Medical Center. rm’s Miami o ce. b’13, Feb. 17 in Olathe. Blake is an He lives in Kansas City with Alexandra Kaitlynn Howell, a’13, is an interior independent contractor at UCSF Medical Fields Smith, a’14, a lettering artist at designer at Chipman Design Architecture Center, and Stacy is an enterprise so ware Hallmark. in Des Plaines, Illinois. senior consultant at Hyland. ey reside in Douglas Whiston, c’14, is an executive Greg Huenergardt, c’13, is on the Olathe. administrative assistant in the U.S. Army. market development team at Gusto in He lives in Steilacoom, Washington. Denver. He lives in Westminster, Colo- Shanah Gaskill, b’14, lives in Kaitlyn Winkler, d’14, is collector rado, with his wife, Courtney, and their 14 Nashville, Tennessee, where she’s a development program manager at Drug daughter, Harper. senior marketing manager at Uber. Free Sport in Kansas City. Brian Long, c’13, resides in Minneapolis, Andrea Geubelle, d’14, in April was where he’s a graduate instructor at the inducted in the Kansas Athletics Hall of University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Fame. She was a three-time national Joseph Moriarty, b’13, is an associate at champion in the indoor long jump and Dayton Street Partners in Chicago. He’s triple jump at KU and a four-time Big 12
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kualumni.org/license Kyle Clemons, ’15, joined three Big 12 indoor and outdoor championship Terra Marten, g’15, coordinates clinical 15 former KU athletes in April as an teams. She won a gold medal at the 2016 data at Vince & Associates Clinical inductee in the Kansas Athletics Hall of Summer Olympics as part of the 4x400- Research in Overland Park. She resides in Fame. He was a two-time Big 12 champion meter relay team. Shawnee. and broke three school records in the Katrina Kaus Finley, d’15, is a study Cassius Sendish, c’15, was promoted to 400-meter dash and 4x400-meter relay. He coodinator at KU Medical Center in safeties coach for Kansas football. He was won a gold medal as a member of the Kansas City, where she makes her home a team captain for the Jayhawks in 2014 4x400-meter relay team at the 2016 with Christopher “Fur,” g’12. and most recently worked with the team as Summer Olympics. Madi Hillis Gruenbacher, b’15, is a a graduate assistant. Diamond Dixon, ’15, in April was corporate accountant at Chesapeake inducted in the Kansas Athletics Hall of Energy Corp. in Oklahoma City, where Hannah Barling, j’16, is a social Fame. In 2012, she won the NCAA she lives with her husband, Tyler. 16 media specialist for the Naveen national title in the indoor 400-meter Jamie Katz, d’15, is a pre-kindergarten Jindal School of Management at the dash, and she was a member of the 2013 teacher in Nashville, Tennessee. University of Texas at Dallas.
PROFILE by Steven Hill
Intern to CEO at one firm Lagos o ce in the late ’60s, even though is engineer’s 50-year arc civil war had brought work in the country nearly to a standstill.
regs omopulos was so ready to He transferred to Liberia, becoming (2) THOMOPULOS GREGS COURTESY Gbegin his internship at Stanley regional manager for west Africa, and was Consultants, the global engineering overseeing a job at Uganda’s consulting rm, he didn’t stick around for Kampala University in 1971 Commencement. In spring 1965 he loaded when Idi Amin seized power everything he owned in his new VW in a coup. “A er he came to Beetle, donned a cap and gown and asked power he was riding around a friend to snap a photo of him in front of in an open-air jeep, waving to the Campanile. the crowds,” he recalls. A new Beetle that held all en he drove to Stanley headquarters omopulos—only the his worldly possessions in Muscatine, Iowa, to start work for a fourth president in the rm’s launched Gregs company that decades later he would lead rst 90 years—achieved as president and CEO, retiring in 2017 as record pro ts, bene ting Thomopulos into a chairman of the board. workers at the employee- globetrotting, half-century In an era when graduates are told they owned company. career with one company. will switch jobs and even careers multiple “But making a pro t was times, dedication to a single company not our primary objective,” he says. “I infrastructure projects, omopulos stays seems remarkable. But omopulos, e’65, think I continued to maintain the core on the go in retirement as well, serving on says he was just one of many who stuck values of the company; I was very proud the boards of six nonpro ts, including with Stanley from rst job to retirement. of that.” Goodwill Industries, KU Endowment and “Why did I stay?” he asks. “Because they His rise from intern to president, CEO the advisory board at the School of treated their employees just excellently. and, later, chairman of the board, resulted Engineering, where he and his wife ey cared about employees, and you were from the same people- rst philosophy that endowed the Gregs and Mettie omopu- treated as an individual.” kept him devoted to Stanley. los Scholarship to repay the help he For two summers during graduate “ e business is not rocket science, to be received as a scholarship student at KU. school at Cal-Berkeley and for 50 years full honest,” he says with a laugh. “It’s treat “Do things that make you happy, time, omopulos worked in Muscatine your clients well, treat your employees well especially giving back,” is his retirement and in eld o ces around the world. e and be fair.” advice. “To be able to give your time is native Nigerian convinced his boss, C. Having traveled to nearly 40 countries important. Help others. I got a lot of Maxwell Stanley, to assign him to the overseeing energy, water and other help myself.”h
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Natalia Bartnovskaya, c’16, is one of Wood, which was published in December four new inductees in the Kansas Athletics by Covenant Books. Hall of Fame. An All-American at KU, she Brendan Nachbar, b’16, is a business was the 2013 NCAA indoor women’s pole intelligence developer at Cerner in vault national champion and holds the Kansas City. indoor and outdoor school records in the Vera Stroup-Rentier, PhD’16, is a senior women’s event. study director at Westat in Topeka. She Butler & Associates in Topeka. She Caleb Bobo, c’16, is an assistant con- co-authored several books in the Finding commutes from Lawrence. sumer a airs examiner at the Federal My Way series, a collection of stories about Terry Rombeck, g’17, g’18, is the new Reserve Bank of St. Louis. children with disabilities. director of communications for Andover Kaitlyn Brown, h’16, g’18, is an epic Public Schools. He and Jana Gruver information systems analyst at Saint Luke’s Matthew Battiston, l’17, makes his Rombeck, c’00, reside in Andover with Health System in Kansas City. She recently 17 home in Lawrence, where he’s an their two children. joined the board of directors of the KU export control o cer at KU. Alexander Thierry, g’17, is an assistant School of Health Professions Alumni Katherine Franz Fisher, g’17, is an professor of ceramics and art education at Association. early-childhood teacher at Keystone South Carolina State University. He lives Brad Gibson, g’16, lives in Orlando, Learning. She lives in Lawrence with in Columbia. Florida, where he manages operations at Jacob, assoc., and their daughter, Etta. Shaw Industries. Robert Kasper, b’17, lives in Gardner, Tammy Estes Fry, g’18, is a teacher- Ashley Hight, j’16, coordinates public where he’s a warehouse manager at 18 education instructor at Blue Valley relations for Levi Strauss in New York City. Performance Health. Center for Advanced Professional Studies Allison Kite, j’16, is a reporter at the Grace Morgan, c’17, is an administrative in Overland Park. Kansas City Star. She covers jobs, develop- assistant at Colorado State University in Prashanth Vardireddy, g’18, lives in ment and technology. Fort Collins. Lawrence, where he’s an estimator and Steven McEwen, ’16, wrote Splintered Shelby Plank, b’17, is a bookkeeper at project manager at Medco Plumbing.
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66 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sept. 22-29 Where did you feel at home on the Hill? Tell us about your favorite places, organizations, or activities by sending your memories to [email protected]. We’ll highlight the stories that unite Jayhawks at homecoming.ku.edu. Check back often for the latest event details.
Thursday, Sept. 27 Friday, Sept. 28 Saturday, Sept 29 Homecoming Parade Late Night KU vs. Oklahoma State at Allen Field House In Memory ing are three brothers, two of whom are Ronald, ’60, and James, b’62, l’65; and a sister. Thomas “T.K.” Foster, e’51, 88, March Jane Gary Duncan, ’47, 93, March include four sons, one of whom is Mark, 30 in Dallas. He had a 42-year career with 40s6 in Win eld, where she served 35 b’75; two daughters; nine grandchildren; Mobil Pipeline Company. Survivors years on the William Newton Memorial and 12 great-grandchildren. include his wife, Margie, a daughter, a son, Hospital board of directors. She is sur- James Sanders, e’48, 91, March 31 in two stepdaughters, two stepsons, nine vived by two sons, one of whom is Gary, Monterey, California. In 1982, he was grandchildren and ve great- c’71, l’74; a daughter; six grandchildren; appointed by President Ronald Reagan to grandchildren. and 10 great-grandchildren. lead the Small Business Administration in Leo Goertz, m’52, 95, April 17 in Prairie Robert Ellis, e’48, 94, April 1 in Washington, D.C. He later became Village, where he was a retired radiologist. Overland Park, where he was a retired president of the Beer Institute. He is Surviving are two sons, one of whom is partner at Black & Veatch. Surviving are survived by his wife, Maureen, three Kenneth, m’75; a daughter; a brother; his wife, Mary; a son, Robert, c’71; a daughters, two sons and eight seven grandchildren; and seven daughter; and a grandson. grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Norma Antone Geiss, f’46, 93, Dec. 26 Joyce Randolph Sumner, c’48, m’51, 91, Jerrad Hertzler, c’58, m’62, 81, March in Ottawa. She and her husband, Glenn, March 10 in Hutchinson, where she was 26 in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was a owned a motel in Franklin County. A an anesthesiologist. Survivors include two retired neurologist. Survivors include his memorial has been established with KU sons, a daughter and four grandchildren. wife, Julie, assoc.; three sons; and eight Endowment. Survivors include two grandchildren. daughters, Anne Geiss Delse, c’69, and Nella Bailey Altman, ’54, 87, April Edwin Hundley, ’50, 92, March 28 in Susan, c’74, d’77; a son, David, c’79; three 50s 8 in Clearwater, where she was a Overland Park. He and his wife managed grandchildren; and three great- homemaker. Surviving are her husband, radio stations in Missouri, Nebraska and grandchildren. William “Wally,” c’56; a son, William Jr., Kansas. In 1985, they received the Grover Don Kuebler Jr., e’49, 95, March 21 in c’76; a daughter, Katherine Altman Konen, Cobb Award from KU for excellence in Peachtree City, Georgia, where he was a c’79; ve grandchildren; and eight broadcasting. A memorial has been ight test engineer for the Federal Aviation great-grandchildren. established with KU Endowment. Surviv- Administration. He is survived by his wife, Paul Bohr, e’58, 88, March 11 in Lenexa, ing are his wife, Zora Robertson Hundley, Mary “Molly” Wilson Kuebler, ’48; four where he was retired director of the ’56; a son, Douglas, j’78, c’81, l’81, g’93; a sons; seven grandchildren; and two Federal Aviation Administration’s Great daughter, Teresa Hundley Watson, d’82, great-grandchildren. Lakes and Central regions. A son, a g’87; a sister; and four grandchildren. Nadine Schuerman Kunz, c’42, 97, daughter, a sister and two grandchildren Edward Johnson, m’57, 86, Feb. 22 in March 31 in Leawood. She was a home- survive. Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was a maker and volunteered in her community. Betty Pote Bowman, h’50, 90, Feb. 8 in retired urologist and taught at the Ray- Survivors include two sons, William, b’72, Lawrence, where she was a dietitian. She is mond G. Murphy VA Medical Center. Two g’75, and Stephen, m’74; eight grandchil- survived by a daughter, Susan Bowman sons, two daughters, a sister and six dren; nine great-grandchildren; and two Adams, g’86; a son; a sister, Pat Pote Levy, grandchildren survive. great-great-grandchildren. ’51; and two grandsons. Ralph Jones, c’56, 83, March 24 in Las Robert Malott, c’48, 91, April 4 in Palo Charles Burch, j’53, 86, March 1 in Cruces, New Mexico, where he was a Alto, California. He was CEO and chair- Deltaville, Virginia. He was a retired U.S. computer programmer. He is survived by a man of FMC Corporation and served on Air Force colonel and served as a VA- son; three sisters, two of whom are Gayle several corporate boards. He received the accredited claims agent for the state of Jones Lewis, ’58, and Janet Jones Hamp- Fred Ellsworth Medallion in 2013 for his Virginia. Survivors include his wife, ton, c’58; and two grandchildren. service to KU and KU’s Distinguished Nancy; two sons, one of whom is Marc, Ruth Porter Lichtenstern, d’56, g’57, 82, Service Citation in 1974. Surviving are a c’84; two daughters; two grandchildren; April 18 in Topeka, where she was a high son; two daughters; a sister, Janet Malott and four step-grandchildren. school math teacher. A son, six grandchil- Elliot, f’50; and six grandchildren. R. Ernest Dade, ’55, 85, April 4 in dren and eight great-grandchildren Marjorie Wiley McGough, c’42, 98, Feb. Gilbert, Arizona. He is survived by his survive. 21 in Alexandria, Virginia, where she was wife, Paula, two sons, a sister and three LaVerne Wilson Maddix, d’55, 85, Feb. a retired bacteriologist. Two sons survive. grandchildren. 27 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was a coin Muriel Swanson Oldberg, c’46, 94, Marvin Deckert, d’54, 86, March 27 in appraiser. Survivors include two sons and March 14 in Kansas City, where she was an Blue Springs, Missouri, where he worked three grandchildren. elemetary school teacher. Survivors in construction and development. Surviv- Karmin Twigg McCrory, d’58, 81, Feb.
68 | KANSAS ALUMNI 12 in Davis, California, where she was a Steven, e’83; and a grandson. Surviving are her husband, Robert, a son, retired teacher and also owned a retail George Sheldon, p’51, 89, Feb. 25 in San a daughter, a stepson, four stepdaughters, store. A memorial has been established Antonio, where he was a pharmacist for 51 a brother and 17 grandchildren. with KU Endowment. Surviving are her years. Surviving are his wife, Carol Fusco Nathan Davis, d’60, 81, April 8 in husband, Peter Lam, two daughters, two Sheldon, d’65; a daughter; and three Bradford Woods, Pennsylvania. He was a brothers and two grandchildren. grandchildren. renowned jazz musician and composer Charles McElhinney, c’58, m’62, 81, Jacqueline Houdyshell Smith, ’51, 89, who recorded more than 20 albums during March 19 in Overland Park. He had a Oct. 2 in Tucson, Arizona, where she his decades-long career. He established the 40-year career as a general surgeon in volunteered in her community. She is jazz studies program at the University of Dodge City. A memorial has been estab- survived by a son, Arlyn, ’74; two daugh- Pittsburgh, where he taught until his lished with KU Endowment. He is ters, Denise, d’77, and Dana Smith Hines, retirement in 2013, and won the Living survived by his wife, Tamara; a daughter, c’78; ve grandchildren; six great-grand- Legacy Jazz Award from the Mid Atlantic Kelly McElhinney St. Clair, c’87, l’90; four children; and a great-great-granchild. Arts Foundation. His wife, Ursula, a sons, two of whom are Christian, c’90, William Sollner, g’51, g’54, 92, Nov. 11 daughter, a son and three grandchildren m’95, and Lance, ’95; a stepdaughter, in Arma. He was a reporter and script- survive. Ashley Denton Lonnberg, b’03, g’10; and writer and also performed in community Diane Wolf Dolginow, d’65, 74, April 9 13 grandchildren. theatre. Survivors include his wife, Yanju, a in Edina, Minnesota, where she was a Thomas Moore, b’58, 82, March 29 in daughter, a son and nine grandchildren. teacher and founding member of Bet Kansas City, where he was chief nancial Patricia Perkins Timmons, ’51, 88, Jan. Shalom Congregation. She is survived by o cer for the 16th Circuit Court of 21 in Lawrence. She was a homemaker. her husband, Yale, c’64, g’66; three Jackson County. Surviving are his partner, Surviving are three daughters, one of daughters, one of whom is Jamie Dolgi- Lesa, a son, a daughter, ve grandchildren whom is Priscilla, ’95; a son; a brother, now Rocheford, ’97; two brothers; and six and four great-grandchildren. Neil Perkins, b’60, g’65; a sister; and two grandchildren. Martha “Matt” Mueller, d’55, 83, April granddaughters. Raymond Haines, e’63, 81, April 13 in 4 in Alfred, New York, where she was an Thomas White III, c’50, b’52, 89, April Oklahoma City. He was a mechanical associate librarian at Alfred University. 27 in Carmel, California. He was a tax engineer at several companies, including William Nulton, c’53, l’58, 87, March 16 collector and professor of taxation at the Honeywell and General Electric. Surviving in Prairie Village, where he practiced law College of Charleston in South Carolina. are his wife, June; a son; a daughter; a for 37 years, retiring as partner at He is survived by a son; four daughters; a brother, Richard, b’59; and two Shughart omson & Kilroy. He is sister, Joyce White Stephens, ’55; seven grandchildren. survived by his wife, Vicki; a son, Carnie, grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. David Hall, c’67, 72, April 22 in San c’81, m’85; a daughter; 10 grandchildren; Dimas, California, where he was senior and a great-granddaughter. Mary Schorr Behnke, d’67, 72, vice president of Hitchcock Automotive A. Thomen Reece, c’59, m’63, 80, 60sMarch 11 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Resources. He also mentored students at March 13 in Overland Park. He was a She was a rst-grade teacher and volun- Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut. physician. Survivors include his wife, teered in her community. Surviving are Survivors include two brothers, Roger, Cheryl; two daughters; three stepdaugh- her husband, Ernie, b’68; a daughter, Laura c’62, m’66; and Bruce, c’64. ters; two sisters, Katharine Reece Curry, Behnke Taylor, c’97; a son; her father; and Neil Hall, e’62, 78, April 18 in Kansas ’54, and Marilyn Reece Wolf, n’58; 13 ve grandchildren. City. He was an aerospace engineer and grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. James Bell, d’61, 84, Dec. 30 in Kansas also ran a vending machine company. He Janice Howe Ripley, c’55, 87, April 10 in City, where he was senior vice president at is survived by his wife, Marilyn; a daugh- Lawrence, where she was a secretary. A the Federal Reserve Bank. His wife, ter; two stepsons; ve stepdaughters; four memorial has been established with KU Dolores, and two sisters survive. sisters, three of whom are Francie, c’70, Endowment. Surviving are a son, Joseph Marion McMillen Bonebrake, ’63, 92, Patti Hall Brownback, ’77, and Kathy Hall Wettengel, ’81; three daughters, two of March 20 in Fort Pierce, Florida, where Nill, b’78; a brother, Michael, e’84; 13 whom are Catherine Wettengel Ramirez, she was a homemaker. Survivors include grandchildren; and three great- ’81, and Barbara Wettengel Babcock, ’84; a her husband, D. Robert, j’47; two daugh- grandchildren. sister, Joan Howe Bilderback, c’57; a ters, Marki Bonebrake Nolterieke, d’70, William Hall, g’66, PhD’69, 75, March 3 brother; ve grandchildren; and four and Marsha Bonebrake Bourgeois, c’74; a in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He was great-grandchildren. son, David Jr., ’76; eight grandchildren; professor and chair of the political science David Rorabaugh, e’58, 82, March 17 and 11 great-grandchildren. department at Bradley University in in Leawood, where he was a structural Kendall Clingerman Burling, g’67, 78, Peoria, Illinois, where he spent most of his engineer. Survivors include his wife, Feb. 8 in Belton, Texas. She was a retired career. Surviving are his wife, Carla Donna; two sons, one of whom is teacher and middle school principal. Beckett Hall, ’71; a daughter; a son; a
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 69 In Memory sister; and four grandchildren. as president of Citizens Bank. Survivors consulting company. He also was executive William Hoover, b’67, l’70, 77, Feb. 24 in include his wife, Sheryl Whiteside director of the University of South Lemoore, California, where he was a Bloom eld, d’72; a daughter, Jennifer Carolina/Columbia Technology Incubator. retired Navy JAG Corps o cer. He also Bloom eld Sciara, f’01; a son, Matthew, A memorial has been established with KU taught business classes at local universities c’03, b’03; a brother, Melvin, b’63, l’66; and Endowment. His wife, Lissa, three and colleges. His wife, Maria, three sons eight grandchildren. stepdaughters and two sisters survive. and a daughter survive. Gracia Carlson, d’79, 62, March 14 in Cynthia Brisendine Romito, m’73, 70, Zelma Cunningham Loter, c’67, 73, April Fort Worth, Texas. She taught 11th-grade March 16 in Kansas City. She was a 1 in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was a history. She is survived by her husband, physician and allergy specialist. Surviving biology research associate. Surviving are Stephen Lawson; a son, David Lawson, ’11; are her husband, John, m’73; two sons, her husband, Joe, PhD’71; a son; three a daughter; her mother; and a sister, Lora Nick, ’92, and Marc, c’98, g’01; two daughters; a brother; two sisters; and 11 Carlson-Eaton, b’81. daughters; and a brother. grandchildren. Magdalene Stieghorst Carttar, d’70, 95, Glen Scheib, b’74, 65, March 16 in William Lusk, b’65, g’66, 74, April 18 in April 30 in Lawrence. She was a teacher Kansas City, where he was president of Andover, where he developed commercial and also served as placement director for Professional Accounting Services. He is and residential real estate. He is survived KU School of Law. Surviving are ve sons, survived by his wife, Gloria Pitts Scheib, by his wife, Nancy Lloyd Lusk, d’68; two Paul, c’76, Peter, c’78, Stephen, b’78, Hans, ’75; a daughter; two sons; and eight daughters, Alison Lusk Leukefeld, c’96, c’88, b’88, and David, a’92, c’92; a daugh- grandchildren. g’00, and Jessica Lusk Scheer, n’98; a sister, ter; 17 grandchildren; and ve Francis Smysor, d’70, g’75, 69, March Janet Lusk Mur n, d’75; and four great-grandchildren. 16 in Overland Park. He was retired from grandchildren. Joan Grin Dibble, s’72, 68, April 2 in a long career with Northwestern Mutual John Newlin, c’68, 76, March 22 in Overland Park, where she taught special Life Insurance. Survivors include his wife, Prairie Village, where he founded an education. Survivors include her husband, Laura Sundahl Smysor, g’98; two sons, Joe, interior design rm. A memorial has been Landis, c’72; a son; and a brother. ’10, and Matt, b’12; and two established with KU Endowment. Survi- Michael Giessel, c’70, m’74, 70, April grandchildren. vors include his wife, Julie Casterman 29 in Topeka, where he was a retired Ronald Stitt, c’71, m’75, 69, March 16 in Newlin, c’60; a son; three stepdaughters, dermatologist. He is survived by his wife, Overland Park, where he was an orthope- two of whom are Laura Reese Spencer- Cindy Nelson Giessel, n’74; two daughters, dic surgeon for more than 43 years. He is Morris, c’94, and Elizabeth Spencer one of whom is Sarah Giessel Parrish, n’02; survived by his wife, Janet; two sons, Banuelos, ’94; a stepson; a sister, Margaret a son, Jerrod, d’06; a sister, Madalene Maxwell, c’16, and Michael, ’16; a sister, Newlin Colerick, c’69; and eight Giessel Miller, ’73; two brothers; and seven Martha Stitt Schwegler, n’70; and a brother, grandchildren. grandchildren. Richard, c’75. Hazel Johnson Nitcher, ’67, 98, March Connie Henderson-Damon, n’72, g’81, 10 in Lawrence, where she was a home- 69, March 22 in Oak Park, Illinois. She was Oscar Careaga, ’85, 54, Feb. 2 in maker and teacher. A memorial has been a nurse and practice administrator at 80sMiami, where he worked for the established with KU Endowment. She is Wholistic Health Center of Oak Park. Personal Injury Management Group. His survived by three sons, Bob, f’73, John, Surviving are her husband, Christopher; partner, Kelly, and his father survive. c’75, l’78, and Ron, ’81; a daughter; seven and a daughter, Laura Damon, c’14. Russell Cloon, b’86, l’90, 62, March 31 grandchildren; and ve great- Leonard Herzmark, e’72, 93, Feb. 19 in in Ottawa, where he was a bankruptcy grandchildren. San Pedro, California. He lived in Arizona attorney. A memorial has been established Daniel Phillips, ’65, 75, Nov. 19 in for several years, where he worked for state with KU Endowment. He is survived by Surprise, Arizona. He was an accountant. and county governments. Survivors his wife, Denise; a son; and three brothers, Surviving are his wife, Linda Campbell include his wife, Barbara Lerner Herz- Bryson, l’75, Ted, ’79, and Brett, b’80. Phillips, ’65; a daughter; and a son. mark, g’76; and three sons, two of whom Doris Elliott-Watson, n’85, 85, Jan. 30 Stephen Schecter, l’61, 84, Dec. 29 in are A. Michael, c’74, and Jay, c’76. in Bonner Springs. She taught special New York City, where he was an attorney. Linda Lee, c’70, l’73, 69, March 11 in education before becoming a gerontologi- He is survived by a niece. Washington, D.C., where she was a cal nurse specialist. Surviving are a Gordon Tarwater, ’61, 79, Feb. 17 in supervisory trial attorney at the Federal daughter, Marsha Watson Smitherman, Prairie Village. ree sisters, one of whom Energy Regulatory Commission. She is ’92; a son; and a brother. is Susan Tarwater Arnold, c’71, survive. survived by two sisters, one of whom is Dennis Hendrix, b’83, 57, March 28 in Ronda Lee Grace, d’78. Merriam, where he worked for the family Timothy Bloomfield, ’72, 68, Oct. Ron Loewen, l’74, 70, March 14 in business, Go Chicken Go. His wife, Jodi, 70s17 in Kansas City. He was a Columbia, South Carolina. He worked in two daughters, two sons, three sisters and longtime resident of Fort Scott and served media and insurance before founding a two brothers survive.
70 | KANSAS ALUMNI James Kennedy, c’85, 55, April 29 in three grandchildren; three step-grandchil- graduate studies and public service. A Minneapolis, Minnesota. He had a long dren; two great-grandchildren; and two memorial has been established with KU career with Ford Motor Company. great-step-grandchildren. Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Survivors include his wife, Meredith; a Thomas Armstrong, c’62, 76, June 2 in Virginia Gibson Mossberg, ’76; two daughter; a son; his mother, Dorothy Lawrence. He was professor emeritus of daughters, Kathryn Mossberg Newton, ’83, Kennedy, d’54; two sisters, Carol Kennedy physics and astronomy and managed KU’s and Suzanne, d’92; two grandchildren; and Johnson, b’77, and Katie Kennedy Chalf- space physics laboratory for 20 years. A two great-grandchildren. ant, j’81; and two brothers, Don, c’87, and memorial has been established with KU Caryl Kelley Smith, ’89, 80, April 26 in Bill, j’92. Endowment. Survivors include his wife, Lubbock, Texas. She worked for several Robert Kennedy, g’84, g’86, 59, Feb. 25 Jeanette Fry Armstrong, c’62; a daughter, universities, including KU, where in the in Doha, Qatar, where he chaired the Elizabeth, ’87; a son; a sister; ve grand- early 1990s she served as dean of student department of English at Qatar University. children; and a great-grandchild. life and associate vice chancellor for Surviving are three sisters, one of whom is Judy Ikenberry Farmer, s’85, 54, March student a airs. A memorial has been Patricia Kennedy Solbach, PhD’74; and a 10 in Olathe. She worked for several established with KU Endowment. She is brother. departments during her 26 years at KU, survived by her husband, Walter, assoc.; a Martha Shackelford, g’85, 57, March 15 most recently with the O ce of Research. son, Russell, c’91; a brother; and two in Leawood, where she was a speech A memorial has been established with KU grandchildren. pathologist. She is survived by her Endowment. She is survived by two sons, husband, Richard, e’83, g’87, l’91; three one of whom is Travis, ’10; her parents; a ASSOCIATES daughters, one of whom is Lydia, s’15; a brother, Alan Ikenberry, e’93; and three Lois Brunton, assoc., 85, Oct. 17 in son; her father; and three sisters. grandchildren. Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she was Cecil Witt Jr., c’81, 60, Feb. 19 in Earl Gates, 93, April 19 in Lawrence. He a librarian and co-founded the O ce of Lenexa. A memorial has been established was a librarian at KU. A memorial has Navajo Nation Library. Two daughters, a with KU Endowment. Surviving are his been established with KU Endowment. son, a sister, six grandchildren and seven partner, Amy Roberts, n’92; a daughter, Surviving are two sons, Mark, j’80, and great-grandchildren survive. Suzanne Witt Stockton, ’06; three sons, Kent, c’85; a daughter, Toren Gates- Margaret McKinney, assoc., 87, April 4 Trey, d’07, g’14, Taylor, j’11, and Todd, Sidwell, c’82; and three grandchildren. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She b’12; his father, Cecil, b’55; two sisters, Michael Henderson, 75, April 2 in volunteered for several organizations. Stephanie Witt Elliott, d’78, and Amy Witt Lawrence, where he was professor Survivors include her husband, Ross, McFarland, ’88; a brother, Bruce, c’83; and emeritus and chair of the department of assoc.; two sons, one of whom is William, two grandsons. linguistics. His wife, Carol Hood Hender- ’78; two daughters; six grandchildren; and son, ’94, survives. eight great-grandchildren. Doris Patton Buckner, g’97, Chien Liu, 97, March 11 in Fairway. He Marjory Mordy, assoc., 91, March 10 in 90s74, March 1 in Topeka, where was professor emeritus of medicine and Kansas City, where she was a homemaker she worked as a nurse for 30 years. A pediatrics at KU Medical Center, where he and volunteered at her church. She is memorial has been established with KU founded the division of infectious diseases. survived by her husband, James, c’47; two Endowment. Surviving are her husband, A memorial has been established with KU daughters, one of whom is Rebecca Mordy Leonard; four sons, one of whom is L.J., Endowment. Survivors include three sons, King, f’77; a son; and six grandchildren. b’86; two sisters; a brother; 12 grand- G. Kim, c’76, Norman, m’76, and Anthony, LeAnn Stout, assoc., 82, March 6 in children; ve step-grandchildren and a c’78; a daughter; seven grandchildren; and Wichita. She was a homemaker. Survivors great-grandchild. ve great-grandchildren. include her husband, Mike, assoc.; two Nathaniel Hurwitz, m’96, 52, Jan. 15 in Thomas McCoy, ’58, 82, April 19 in sons, Bill, ’82, and Brad, b’83, l’86; three Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was a Lawrence, where he was professor daughters, Molly Stout Moore, d’88, psychiatrist. Survivors include his wife, Ivy emeritus of architecture. A memorial has Mandy Stout Jordan, c’89, l’93, and Mindy Foo Hurwitz, PhD’00; two daughters; his been established with KU Endowment. He Stout McCoy, j’89; and 12 grandchildren. mother, Judith Pfe er-Hurwitz, m’73; and is survived by his wife, Linda Browne Joan Walrafen, assoc., 92, April 19 in two brothers. McCoy, d’77, g’90, ’92; four daughters, one Topeka, where she served on several of whom is Aimee Polson, c’94, ’08; a boards in her community. Surviving are UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY brother, eodore, c’55, m’60; and six two sons, one of whom is Robert, e’73, Toni Achten, 85, April 26 in Lawrence, grandchildren. a’75; a brother; two grandchildren; and where she was a retired switchboard Howard Mossberg, 85, April 16 in four great-grandchildren. operator at KU. Surviving are two daugh- Lawrence. He was dean of the School of ters, Melanie Achten Manry, ’82, and Betsy Pharmacy from 1966 until 1991, when he Achten Paradies, ’82; a son, Curtis, ’14; became vice chancellor for research,
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 71 Rock Chalk Review thing I’ve learned over the years is that by taking the material seriously, you nd the humor in it. You have to take it dead seriously, and in taking it seriously the humor kind of reveals itself.” e border between absurdity and
STEVE PUPPE STEVE comedy has been fertile creative ground for Willmott, whose 2004 lm “C.S.A: e Confederate States of America,” skewered enduring racism by posing a historical what-if: What would America look like if the South had won the Civil War? Lee signed on as a presenter for the lm, and the two nally got a chance to work together on “Chi-Raq,” their retelling of “Lysistrata” that updates Aristophanes’ bawdy tale of women who use sex as a weapon to end war by setting the story in present-day Chicago. “Spike is one of the few guys early in my career who ever got my stu ,” Willmott says. “‘Chi-Raq’ is that same kind of humor, too. We don’t really try to make people laugh in the lm, but the laughs mainly come from the absurdity of the No joke police force, Stallworth in the 1970s problem we’re trying to reveal.” in ltrated the Ku Klux Klan by answering A main character in “BlacKkKlansman” Film professor’s newest a newspaper ad calling for new recruits. is David Duke, the Klan leader who Hollywood project—a Spike Lee Directed by Lee and produced by Peele, pursued a career in politics, mounting two the lm showed in May at the Cannes campaigns for president and getting Joint on the KKK—kills in Cannes Film Festival, where it received a elected to the Louisiana Legislature. 10-minute standing ovation and won the Willmott recalls that when he was student evin Willmott’s latest collaboration prestigious Grand Prix award. body president at Marymount College, in Kwith the lmmaker Spike Lee started Lee has insisted in interviews that Salina, he got a letter from Duke, who’d with a simple bit of direction. “BlacKkKlansman” is not a comedy, and recently formed a white power group Willmott co-wrote the screenplay for Willmott says it’s not satire either—though called the NAAWP (National Association Lee’s 2015 lm “Chi-Raq” with the there are satirical elements in the lm. for the Advancement of White People). Brooklyn director. When Jordan Peele, “It’s not jokes; it’s not trying to make “At that time he was trying to make the co-creator of the Comedy Central sketch people laugh,” Willmott explains. “ e transition from the hood and the white show Key & Peele and Oscar-winning sheets to being a mainstream politician,” screenwriter and director of the 2017 Willmott says. “ at’s the period we’re surprise hit “Get Out,” was looking for dealing with in the lm.” someone to rework a lm script, he asked While it has fun with the fashion and Willmott and Lee to pitch. hairstyles of the 1970s, “BlacKkKlansman” “ e only thing Jordan really said was, is also no period piece. e lm looks to ‘Make it funny,” says Willmott, professor of the past with scenes from “Gone With the lm and media studies. “I knew exactly what he was saying by that. I’m sure what attracted him to the whole idea, why they “It’s head-shaking humor,” Willmott says of bought the book, was the absurdity of the whole thing.” “BlacKkKlansman,” which premieres in August, e project is “BlacKkKlansman,” a lm “and people are doing a lot of head-shaking based on a memoir by Ron Stallworth. e right now. The humor comes from what people rst black o cer on the Colorado Springs know is true in society, in their daily life.”
72 | KANSAS ALUMNI nd the drama, and one of the big Canyon, a world-famous stretch of dramatic parts of his life was him taking mountain whitewater that leaves the on the Klan during its America First experienced river-runner bruised and
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY campaign.” more keenly aware of the limitations of his “William Allen White: What’s the age and abilities. A frigid Christmas Eve Matter With Kansas” will play at Law- camp-out on the river near Salida pays rence’s Free State Film Festival in Septem- homage to Zebulon Pike and inspires a ber, and might air later on local PBS catharsis that leads McCoy to confront stations. “BlacKkKlansman” will hit (and pledge to close) the emotional theatres Aug. 10, the one-year anniversary distance from his family that the holidays of the Charlottesville march. bring. “What I was a er,” he writes in his Willmott says the fanfare and the introduction, “were the deeper and William Allen White ovation at Cannes were gratifying—and a sometimes darker stories” travel books little overwhelming for someone who’s leave out. On side trips to massacre sites of “still very much a country boy from Plains Indians (Sand Creek), union miners Wind” and “ e Birth of a Nation” that Junction City”—but what really matters to (Ludlow), and rioting convicts (Cañon reference American cinema’s irtations him is that “BlacKkKlansman” is trying to City), and on a visit to a concentration with racial stereotypes, while a nal do good things. camp where Japanese-Americans were sequence—footage from the 2017 white “We’re addressing the national crisis interned during World War II (Camp supremacist march in Charlottesville, we’re having now, and addressing it in a Amache), he nds them. Virginia, added a er shooting had very entertaining way,” he says. “ at in Having set out to write “a sort of wrapped—o ers a blunt reminder of how the end is your job if you’re a writer or cultural and natural history” about the completely unsettled the issues that director or actor. Along with that comes Arkansas’ journey through Colorado and Stallworth battled in the 1970s remain the message and all the things you care Kansas, what he discovers is “the ghost of today. “BlacKkKlansman” depicts a strain deeply about, but if I can’t make you laugh, a river” that has been badly mistreated by of ugliness that dates back centuries. can’t make you see the absurdity, then it’s mankind. Siphoned by irrigation and state “ ere was the rst Klan right a er the only gonna be so e ective.”h battles over water rights, poisoned by Civil War, and then it kind of goes away,” —Steven Hill runo from farms and cities, salted and Willmott says. “ en ‘Birth of A Nation’ in silted and littered with plastic shopping 1917 kind of brings it back, and by the bags and other jetsam of urban life, the 1930s it was crushed again. Troubled waters Arkansas seems paradoxically overtaxed “I would argue that right now we’re and ignored. It is one of only three Kansas having a third rebirth of the Klan, and I River journey pursues “deeper, streams designated as navigable (and think Charlottesville was its reintroduc- darker” stories on the Arkansas therefore legally open to recreational tion to American life. ‘America First,’ paddlers), yet it su ers from a lack of which you see being used now, was the rom where it crosses the Colorado access—and, in many points in western Klan’s motto in the 1920s.” Fstate line near Coolidge, to its passage Kansas, a total lack of water—that make While co-writing “BlacKkKlansman,” into Oklahoma south of Arkansas City, the connecting with large stretches of it in any Willmott also was working on a documen- Arkansas River cuts a 411-mile “public meaningful way almost impossible. tary lm commissioned by the William corridor” through Kansas. In Elevations, So why try, as McCoy goes to such great Allen White Foundation. A biography of his exploration of the river and his own lengths to do? the School of Journalism’s namesake, the relationship with it, Max McCoy travels— “Access to the wild is essential,” he lm debuted at KU in April as part of the by kayak, whitewater ra , Jeep and on school’s weeklong commemoration of the foot—these miles and more to fashion a sesquicentennial of the Emporia newspa- “biography of the river” that is also a perman’s birth. personal story of reection. Elevations: A “It was funny, because when I rst got McCoy, professor of journalism and Personal Exploration each job, I saw no connection between director of the Center for Great Plains of the Arkansas them,” Willmott says. When he began Studies at Emporia State University, begins River researching the life and career of White, his journey high in the Continental 1890, he was struck by the Sage of Empo- Divide, where he pinpoints the river’s by Max McCoy ria’s role in running the Klan out of Kansas headwaters above Leadville, Colorado, University Press of in the 1920s. before enduring a harrowing and hum- Kansas, $27.95 “As a storyteller, you’re always trying to bling run through the rapids of Browns
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 73 Rock Chalk Review writes. “It has struck me that truth hides in lonely places. When you leave home and STEVE PUPPE STEVE go, say, to the desert or the side of a mountain—or stand in the middle of a fast-moving river—you’re leaving your usual defenses behind. ... Once the social constructs and the polite lies and legal ctions that make civil society possible slough away, you’re le with the essential self. You may not like what you nd, but you won’t know how you really feel about things until you confront yourself.” Perhaps more important, McCoy’s well-written but o en grim travelogue might nudge a few more Coloradans and Kansans to confront and reconsider a great American river that was once the heart of a thriving riparian ecosystem, but whose chief abundance these days is troubles.h —Steven Hill Justin Kim digitally manipulated a single sketch of the fallen bird to create wallpaper and
Fly, birdie, fly CHRIS LAZZARINO laser-cut wooden samples for Kim’s solo exhibition explores the exhibition, which also unexpected connections included hundreds of unaddressed open envelopes t was one of those sad, tender moments stued with creased blank paper Ithat we all encounter from time to time, of varying thicknesses. a pang of melancholy in the midst of our day. But when Justin Kim happened to nd a tiny bird that had fatefully fallen tion party—was paper letters, inspired by passionate for both science and art; he from its nest, the experience unexpectedly Kim’s employment in the O ce of the arrived at KU as a pre-med major, but, stayed with him. Chancellor, where he o en helped out in hoping to one day work in politics, he “I took a photo of it and have been kind the busy mailroom. Even when safely switched to a double-major in anthropol- of obsessed with it ever since,” says Kim, stored as treasured memories, paper ogy and visual art, later adding minors in c’18. “I’ve been drawing and redrawing artifacts eventually yellow and age, and, as French and business. this thing for years now.” Kim notes, “important messages lose their His exhibition in the Union gallery—a Repeated images of the ill-fated edg- relevance and their urgency” over time. space he managed during much of his ling were woven throughout Kim’s solo “ e combination of permanence and time at KU, along with serving as presi- exhibition in the Kansas Union Gallery, fragility found in both letters and this dent of the Student Alumni Association “From me, to you,” for which Kim wrote in fallen bird is somehow equally heartbreak- Leadership Board as a senior—was an his artist’s statement, “In drawing it over ing and hopeful,” Kim writes. “I am extension of a prestigious Undergraduate and over I’ve found myself choosing interested in the struggle to remain, the Research Award, for which Kim at rst sometimes to believe it is in ight rather reminder of how few things succeed, and didn’t consider himself eligible. than fallen. In this space between what the persistent human desire to try and beat “It’s not something I even thought to you know to be true and what you choose the odds.” apply for,” Kim says, “because I didn’t to believe, it is easy to get lost in the e unlikely joining of disparate understand that this was research. But it possibility of what could have been.” subjects is a theme Kim worked is an exploration. It’s trying to have a A related theme within the gallery’s nal with throughout his academic new understanding.” exhibition of the spring semester—whose career. In high school in Kim says his visual arts adviser, May 18 closing doubled as Kim’s gradua- Derby, he was equally Professor Yoonmi Nam, whom
74 | KANSAS ALUMNI Kim describes as “the most curious and microscopic channels, roughly one-quar- interested person I know,” taught him to ter the diameter of a human hair, that trust his instincts about his interests identify circulating cancer cells in a blood without needing to know where they sample and isolate them from normal red might lead. blood cells, a feature that had eluded “Sometimes you’ll be drawn to some- chip-based tests in the past. Based on thing and you’ll do it over and over and preliminary trials, the new test performs the connection will come a er,” Kim says. as well as traditional diagnostics. “Sometimes there will be two things that “In terms of e cacy and how it matches cancer until it had metastasized to his seem really di erent, and just through with what the oncologist will see in the liver. By that time, it was terminal.” exploring them and actually making them bone marrow biopsy, there’s complete e test is currently awaiting FDA you start to see ways they relate to each concurrence,” says Soper, PhD’90, who approval and will be marketed by BioFlu- ot h e r.” also directs KU’s Center of BioModular idica, a San Francisco-based company that Kim, already an Alumni Association Multiscale Systems for Precision Medicine. has an advanced research lab in Lawrence. Life Member, this fall will embark for e chip, which is about the size of a In addition, the KU Cancer Center is France, where he will spend seven months credit card, is made from an injection- setting up a clinical testing laboratory, teaching English in Versailles for the molded, plexiglass-like plastic—the same where Soper anticipates working with French Ministry of Education. type of material found in most plastic oncologists and researchers from the And when that’s done? Kim says he containers. “ e nice thing about that is School of Pharmacy to test new cancer doesn’t yet know, but he’s eager for the that the chip can be manufactured at a therapies in conjunction with the chip- exploration that awaits. e only certainty very high level and also at a low cost,” based blood test. is that his options are many. Soper says. “ at makes it very appropri- Soper ultimately hopes that the ease and “I wanted to get as much as possible out ate for clinical applications.” convenience of the test will extend beyond of my time here,” Kim says, “so I tried to In addition to detecting cancer-related cancer diagnosis and treatment and study as many things as possible and do as diseases, the test also can be used to eventually become part of a patient’s yearly many things as possible.” With a laugh, he monitor responsiveness to therapy and physical examination. “We’re hoping, in adds, “And, I’m just generally recurrence of disease, making it an the very near future, that this can be used indecisive.”h attractive option for patients who live in as an early detection or screening test,” —Chris Lazzarino rural communities and have to travel to a says Soper. “We’ll be able to screen people major medical center for treatment. “With who don’t have any signs of cancer to see this test, they don’t have to do that,” Soper whether they’re developing disease. at’s Easier detection says. “Patients can start therapy and our high hope.”h doctors can monitor them directly in their —Heather Biele Chip-based blood test could hometown, without having to go to a improve cancer screenings cancer center. It makes it much less burdensome U researchers have developed new on the patient.” Ktechnology that could soon replace Soper explains that he standard tests in the diagnosis and and his team of research- KU MEDICAL CENTER (2) KU treatment of several cancer-related ers, which includes diseases. Led by Steven Soper, Foundation scientists from the Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and University of North Mechanical Engineering and a member of Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Kansas Cancer Center, a have been working on team of scientists created a chip-based this technology for more blood test that can be programmed to than 10 years. He was detect a variety of diseases, including motivated to create a breast cancer, prostate cancer and blood- new blood test a er his based cancers such as leukemia and father died of colorectal multiple myeloma, both of which are o en cancer nearly 20 years diagnosed with a bone marrow biopsy, an ago. “He never had a Steven Soper, a KU professor and researcher, led a team that invasive and painful procedure. e new colonoscopy,” Soper says. developed new technology for identifying cancer cells in a blood test requires only a blood draw. “As a result, he was not sample. He hopes the test will one day replace more invasive e technology is based on a series of diagnosed with colon diagnostics.
ISSUE 4, 2018 | 75 Glorious to View Photograph by Steve Puppe
Tucked away on the quiet terrace behind Watkins and Miller scholarship halls, the Alumni Place Fountain, whose decorative topper was damaged in fall 2016, was restored this spring to its original splendor. The charming, cast-stone landmark was purchased in 1953 at the suggestion of Chancellor Franklin Murphy and created by the Erkins Studio in New York. It was replaced in 1981 with an exact replica.
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