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26 22 34 The Mighty ’Hawks Freedom Fighter He’s Got It Driven by their love for the Personal stories—his and If He Can Find It game, a group of dedicated others’—have long been the By embracing tradition and sports club athletes is leading a foundation of Professor defying trends, downtown hockey resurgence at KU. Emeritus Bill Tuttle’s “bottom merchant Rod Ernst keeps a up” approach to history. Mass Street mainstay thriving. By Chris Lazzarino By Jennifer Jackson Sanner By Steven Hill Cover photograph by Steve Puppe

Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 116, No. 1, 2018 ISSUE 1, 2018 | 1 Lift the Chorus

Just received and read your Time well spent most interesting article about the grotesques. Hard to believe H in the nurses’ that they are so old! So glad dorm for two years (1963- that they are being preserved 1965) and having worked at indoors. KU Medical Center following Clyde Toland, c’69, l’75 graduation (1965-1972), I Iola thoroughly enjoyed your article “Hold the Corner” in Win or lose issue No. 5, 2017, of Kansas Alumni. Health Education Building at KU T I was curious to know where Medical Center of tailgating by the Dietz the new Health Education Monster family [“Huddle up, ’Hawks!”, Building is located, and it Jayhawk Walk, issue No. 6] appears to be on the site of a alumni, which was terri c! appreciation brought back wonderful long-ago gravel parking lot. I Looking forward to the “Great I memories of the fun part of would leave my trusty convert- Journey rough Europe” on the KU Natural History being a Jayhawk. My wife, Jane, ible in that lot, unattended, all when it is next oered! Museum grotesques [“Mon- d’58, and I lived in Lawrence in week until I went home the Linda Holder, n’65 sters of the Mind,” issue No. 6]. the 1970s and ’80s. We following weekend. Our dorm Jacksonville, Oregon It was good and interesting. attended every game, every room overlooked the quad- It will be interesting to see tailgate party. We must have rangle with the Clendening World view how and when they replace had a penchant for punish- Fountain and also the entrance Editor’s note: Due to our them. It’s hard to believe ment, because to the ER. With no air regrettable oversight, the limestone deteriorates so fast. despite our conditioning in the Association’s Annual Report (One hundred years is a blink frustrations dorm, we slept with our published in issue No. 6 did not of an eye, historywise.) I guess with on-the- windows open in the include current statistics on it is pretty so, so it must be eld perfor- warmer months; international alumni alongside easier to work with. Maybe mance, Gayle ambulances would graphics detailing Jayhawks living they could make molds and Dietz and I scream in all through in Kansas and across the United use a synthetic material that saw 83 out of the night, shattering our States. According to the latest would look the same but last 87 games at Gayle sleep! Association records, the longer. home and on I value the time I spent University proudly boasts 6,054 and Raelene Dietz alumni living abroad, including I also read the next story, the road from at KU and I continue to 3,685 degree holders and 257 “Murder Most Foul.” I had coast to coast during that span. value opportunities KU has to Association members. Our already read the book, so it was Our biggest thrill was beating oer, such as the Alumni inadvertent error of omission in interesting to read the article. Southern Cal in L.A. It’s great Association’s “Flying Jayhawks” no way reﬂects the Association Lee Larson, assoc. being a Jayhawk. travel program. My husband and University’s shared Prairie Village Bob Hopkins, ’58 and I recently toured Scotland, commitment to fostering global Las Vegas our h adventure with KU interaction as a centerpiece of KU’s academic, social and alumni experiences.

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Club sports, along with more than 600 student organizations at KU, oer Jayhawks innumerable ways to make a large university feel small. Of course, academic programs and stellar professors provide the most critical connections; for graduate students, they are the linchpins. Zanice Bond, PhD’11, le her native Tennessee to pursue her doctoral studies in Lawrence because of the reputation of KU’s American Studies department. A weekend as a guest in the Old West Lawrence home of Professor Bill Tuttle and his wife, Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, d’72, PhD’96, sealed the deal. Our feature story chronicles the career and community leadership of Tuttle, whose colleagues, friends and family honored him last fall. Bond returned for the celebration. “I just fell in love with Lawrence and KU,” she says of her summer visit in 2003. “Bill introduced me not only to the U.S. hockey team, 1980 Olympics American Studies faculty, but he also provided me with a fascinating history of Lawrence,” she recalls. “I had such a good feeling about the people and the energy and the vibe of the ay a er day, pranksters town—the local gardens, the Merc and Red Dog.” Club sports, along with Dtacked phone messages to Lawrence’s beloved Merc Co+op (formerly the Community the lobby bulletin board in our more than 600 student Mercantile) and Red Dog, aka Don “Red Dog” Gardner, are local sorority house, “Molly: Jim organizations at KU, oer institutions. Gardner, a former Lawrence police ocer, in 1984 Craig called.” started a free community tness program for people of all ages. Jayhawks innumerable ankfully, Molly Maloney Red Dog’s Dog Days, now a lauded tradition, is one of the many was a good sport. As the 1980 ways to make a large ways in which Lawrence retains the charm of a small college U.S. Olympic hockey team university feel small. town. Bond’s workout “family” helped her feel so much at home made its memorable run to the that she even thanked the Dog Days folks in her dissertation. gold medal in Lake Placid, Maloney o en declared her mad crush Ernst & Son Hardware is another Lawrence anchor. In our third on gorgeous goaltender Craig. For Maloney, one of our resident feature, third-generation owner and raconteur Rod Ernst, c’57, comedians (and for many of us who shared esteem for her main guides Associate Editor Steven Hill through a fun and fascinating man), the running joke of fake notes from our favorite phantom tour of the curiosities that spill out of shelves and drawers within caller extended our “Miracle on Ice” euphoria until Spring Break. the Mass Street landmark that has stood since 1905. If you need Such is the extent of my connection to hockey, so when an anchor to fasten a heavy towel rack in drywall—or tacks for Associate Editor Chris Lazzarino proposed a story on the KU your bulletin board—Ernst is your man. hockey team (huh?), I was not the ideal arbiter of news value. As a loyal Jayhawk, however, I understand the unifying power of sport and, a er hearing tales from countless alumni, I know that campus sports oered by KU Recreation Services have helped PUPPE STEVE forge lasting KU kinships for generations. Intramural sports annually draw 3,000 students to campus competitions, and 31 club sports, including KU Hockey, rally 1,200 students to vie for regional and national dominance against teams from other schools. In fact, the 2016-’17 KU Men’s Volleyball Club nished ninth at nationals, and the Waterski Club nished 10th. Disc Golf nished 11th, and Quidditch was ranked 14th. As Lazzarino, j’86, reports in our cover story, the stalwart coaches and players of KU Hockey have revived a once discredited team and could soon ascend to the elite national ranks.

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 5 On the Boulevard Exhibitions 20 “ e Sound of Music” 25 Lillian Sengpiehl, “Civic Leader and Art Collec- soprano tor: Sallie Casey ayer and an Art Museum for KU,” Spencer MARCH Museum of Art, through Feb. 4 6 KU University Band and “Power Clashing: Clothing, Symphonic Band Collage and Contemporary 8 “UNVEILED”: A One-

SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART SPENCER MUSEUM Identities,” Spencer Museum Woman Play of Art, through March 4 11 Anthony Trionfo, ute “Race, Gender and the 13 e Staatskapelle Weimar ‘Decorative’ in 20th-Century Orchestra of Germany African Art: Reimagining 15 KU Symphony Orchestra Boundaries,” Spencer Museum of Art, through May 7 26 Lindsey Stirling: Warmer in the Winter Christmas Lied Center events Tour 30 Frank Waln JANUARY 20 Kansas Sousa Junior University Theatre Honor Band 21 Ovation! USD 497 FEBRUARY Talent Show 16, 18, 20-22 “Black Box 26 Andrea Gibson Productions,” directed by Rana Esfandiary, William 27 KU Chinese Students and Inge Memorial eatre Scholars Friendship Associa- tion Chinese New Year MARCH 28 Moscow Festival Ballet: 2-4, 9-11 “When the Rain “Cinderella” Stops Falling,” directed by 31 “ e Wizard of Oz” Andrew Lewis Smith, Craon-Preyer eatre FEBRUARY 30-31 “Perfect Arrange- Michael Ott, Art Student, late 1900s, is featured in the Spencer Museum 3 KU Wind Ensemble and ment,” directed by James of Art exhibition “Power Clashing: Clothing, Collage and Contemporary Jazz Ensemble I Dick, William Inge Memo- rial eatre Identities,” on display through March 4. Professor Ott, ’73, taught at 4 Prairie Winds Concert KU from 1969 until his death in 1996. The exhibition was curated by 6 All-City Choir Concert Samantha Lyons, a graduate research assistant and doctoral candidate Murphy Hall 7 “Birdman Live” by in art history. “This is a work that I think a lot of people can connect with Antonio Sanchez JANUARY on some level,” Lyons, g’12, says. “If you think of an art student, a certain 9 image or stereotype might pop into your head. I think Ott was playing “Becoming a Man in 127 19-21 KU Opera: Candide EASY Steps” into those assumptions to some extent, but also based the image on 24 KU Tuba/Euphonium 11 his own art student days.” Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Newcomers Concert Haas 26 Visiting Artist Series: 13 “Jersey Boys” James Ogburn, composition 16 KU Wind Ensemble 29 KU Choirs: Chamber 18 Dublin Irish Dance: Singers Stepping Out

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI FEBRUARY Performances The Commons and the 6 Visiting Artist Series: Nino Spencer Museum of Art have Jvania, piano JANUARY partnered to present the nationwide public art project 10 Student Chamber Music 21, 28 Carillon Recital, Pledges of Allegiance, a series

Recital Campanile (2) OF ART SPENCER MUSEUM of 16 flags commissioned by 15 Faculty Recital Series: New York City-based Creative FEBRUARY Michael Kirkendoll, piano, Time, which asked acclaimed and Michael Compitello, 4, 11, 18, 25 Carillon artists to design flags percussion Recital, Campanile illustrating their views of 18 Kansas Virtuosi with today’s political climate. MARCH John Corigliano, composer Imagine Peace by Yoko Ono 20 New Morse Code 4, 11, 25 Carillon Recital, (top) flew outside Spooner Campanile 21 Graduate Honor Recital Hall last semester, and Fly Together by MacArthur Fellow 25 KU Choirs: Women’s Lectures Ann Hamilton, f’79, is on view Chorale through Jan. 16. KU is one 27 Visiting Artist Series: FEBRUARY of 14 U.S. locations to host Ti any Blake, mezzo- 22 An Evening with Peter the project. soprano Balakian, Humanities MARCH Lecture Series, e Commons 3-4 41st-annual Jazz Festival 23 Humanities Lecture 20 KU vs. Baylor watch 13 KU at Iowa State watch Concert Series Conversation: Peter parties parties 4 Faculty Recital Series: Paul Balakian, Hall Center 22 KU Night with the 17 KU vs. West Virginia Stevens, horn conference hall Charlotte Hornets, watch parties 5 Faculty Recital Series: Charlotte, North Carolina 19 MARCH KU vs. Oklahoma watch Roberta Gumbel, soprano, 23 KU at Oklahoma watch parties with Hannah Collins, cello, 26 “American Golddigger: parties 19 Wichita Network bus trip and Michael Compitello Law, Culture and Marriage 25 KU Night with the St. to Lawrence for KU vs. in the Early 20th Century,” 10 Visiting Artist Series: Yale Louis Blues, St. Louis Oklahoma game Percussion Collective Brian Donovan, Humanities Lecture Series, Lied Center 27 KU vs. Texas A&M watch 24 KU at Texas Tech watch 11 Faculty Recital Series: Pavilion parties parties Veronique Mathieu, violin, 29 and Steven Spooner, piano KU at Kansas State watch 26 KU vs. Texas watch Academic Calendar parties parties 11 Faculty Recital Series: Vince Gnojek, saxophone JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH 13 Undergraduate Honor 16 First day of classes 1-28 KU Libraries 1-31 KU Libraries Recital Commemorate the Gr8s Commemorate the Gr8s 14-17 KU Opera: Regina MARCH events (for more informa- events (for more information, visit kualumni.org/ tion, visit kualumni.org/ 26 Faculty Recital Series: 19-25 Spring break Matt Otto, saxophone commemorate) commemorate) 3 27 Faculty Recital Series: Alumni Events KU vs. Oklahoma State 3 KU at Oklahoma State Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano watch parties watch parties 6 31 Visiting Artist Series: JANUARY KU vs. TCU watch parties 6 KU Night with the Molly Barth, ute 10 KU at Baylor pregame Charlotte Hornets, 1-31 KU Libraries Charlotte, South Carolina Commemorate the Gr8s party, Waco, Texas events (for more informa- 10 KU at Baylor watch tion, visit kualumni.org/ parties commemorate)

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Take a bite out of crime adies and gentlemen, the higher proﬁle cases. But to the LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY Lstory you are about to read grub’s hangry owner, enough is true. The names have been was enough. changed to protect the “Sometimes it’s out of innocent. principle they’ll call it in,” OK, we don’t have any Deputy Chief James Anguiano names. Innocence? Well, that’s told the Lawrence Journal- for you to decide. World of the lunchroom All we have is the crime. The larceny. “Maybe it’s happened scene. The pilfered provisions. to them more than once.” Break-room refrigerator, While investigators comb Malott Hall. Oct. 3 or 4, report through crumbs to put a fork in ﬁled with KU police Oct. 5. the case, we must also Missing: 10 bananas. 12 question whether more than tortillas. Estimated value: $7. one crime was actually In the annals of KU law committed: $7 for 10 bananas enforcement, there have been and 12 tortillas?

Mobile museum e traveling trailer has been spotted at A rare several locations in Lawrence, including T KU N H M the Douglas County Water Festival at hoppertunity is taking its treasured collection of Clinton Lake, the Lawrence Public Library plant and animal specimens to the and, most recently, in front of the Kansas T summoning streets—literally. Union, where Jayhawks enjoyed gourmet entomologist Michael Engel to investigate Last fall, the museum debuted its mobile hot dogs from Coney Island LFK as they an Impressionist masterpiece at Kansas counterpart, Professor Dyche’s Biodiver- perused jars and displays packed with City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art sity Emporium, which features more than reptiles, roaches and more. might have been unexpected, but it wasn’t a dozen micro-exhibits displayed in the “As long as it’s in a jar, I’m OK with it,” entirely out of the blue. KU Mobile Collaboratory, aka the joked Muditha Kapukotuwa, a sophomore “Forensics involving insects pop up in MoCOLAB, a 1972 Airstream Land Yacht in communication studies and sports all sorts of weird ways,” says Engel, c’93, converted into usable space by KU design management, as he pondered the snakes. c’93, professor of ecology and evolutionary and engineering students. We couldn’t agree more. biology and senior curator at the KU e mobile museum’s moniker is an Biodiversity Institute, “but this was aectionate nod to Professor Lewis certainly one of the more fun ones.” Lindsay Dyche, c’1884, c’1884, g’1888, the While examining Vincent van Gogh’s self-described “Dashing Kansan” who led 1889 “Olive Trees” for an in-depth online CHRIS LAZZARINO the creation of the museum’s Panorama of catalog of 104 French paintings and pastels North American mammals. True to in the Nelson-Atkins collection, conserva- Dyche’s air as an entertainer and scholar, tor Mary Schafer discovered a grasshopper the name playfully suggests “a cross embedded in the paint. Hoping an expert between an old medicine show and a could use the evidence to date the time of cabinet of curiosities,” says Jen Humphrey, year van Gogh painted “Olive Trees,” j’96, c’02, g’10, director of external aairs Schafer reached out to Engel. for the KU Biodiversity Institute and Although thrilled to scrutinize a van Natural History Museum. Gogh, Engel found only fragmentary

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI remains, which Big champ on campus prevented even a species designa- KU’ tion; he was, however, able to determine isn’t a basketball, track or debate team. that the grasshopper was never alive It’s a tree. during the mysterious process that led to Standing 39 feet tall and measuring parts of its exoskeleton being subsumed by more than 4 feet around, a 50-year-old van Gogh’s thick brushstrokes, because rock elm near McGregor Herbarium on there was no sign of movement in the West Campus made the American Forests sarcophagal swirls. 2017 National Register of Big Trees as the As the Nelson-Atkins begins its nal largest specimen in the United States. push toward the 2019 publication of its Ulmus thomasii is one of six champion new catalog, a November news release trees on campus. e other ve hold state about the van Gogh grasshopper immedi- titles. All but one was measured by retired ately grabbed headlines, including a story biologist Jon Standing, c’66.

in e New York Times, assuring renewed “I like trees,” says Standing, a Lawrence PUPPE STEVE interest in “Olive Trees” from intrigued native who earned a degree in zoology and museumgoers, and Engel is looking studied marine life on both coasts before Height is only part of the formula that forward to a return trip to the Nelson- returning home to work for Allen Press. determines a champion. One point is Atkins this spring to complete work on a “I like to be outside, and it’s fun to go and awarded for each inch of circumference, short paper about his ndings. He hopes look for big trees. It’s a lot like hunting: every 4 feet of crown spread and each foot awareness of the grasshopper’s presence You hunt, but they don’t move.” of height. A special instrument records the adds an unusual element to the joy of Standing believes the rock elm was latter safely from the ground. visiting a van Gogh. planted by H.A. Stephens, a former “One time I asked an owner if I could “In a very small and minor way, it does curator of the herbarium. Compared to measure his tree, and he said no,” Standing kind of pull you back into that real some other campus champs—the recalls. “I said, ‘Why’s that?’ And he said, moment, in your own mind, of sitting in 112-foot-tall pin oak growing near ‘Well, an old man like you shouldn’t be that eld and seeing the trees about us on Memorial Stadium, say, or the 92-foot climbing trees.’ a spring day,” Engel says. “is helps put American basswood towering over Marvin “I said, ‘Well, that’s right,’” he says with a some tangible aspects to that moment Grove—the rock elm isn’t an obvious titan. chuckle. “While it’s a God-given right for a when that painting was being done, while “It’s not a big tree, as trees go,” he says, boy to climb trees, it’s not for an old man. van Gogh was in that grove on that day.” “but it’s the biggest rock elm we know of.” We use a clinometer instead.’”

wo KU seniors are among the top 10 Army Reserve Ocer Top cadets TTraining Corps cadets named by the U.S. Army’s Cadet Command. Joseph Schroer, chemical engineering major from Denver, and Joseph McConnell, Russian, Eastern European and STEVE PUPPE STEVE Eurasian studies major from Newton, placed 4th and 6th respectively on the national order-of-merit list, by which Cadet Command annually ranks ROTC seniors who expect to graduate and be commissioned in May. Criteria include grade-point average, performance on the Army Physical Fitness Test, college athletic participation, and performance during college ROTC training and Advanced Camp at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The 2017 order-of-merit list ranks 5,536 seniors, and the top 20 percent earn the designation Distinguished Military Graduate. One-third of KU’s 21-member senior class earned that designation, and KU was one of only two schools to place more than one cadet in the 10. Schroer and McConnell Hooah!

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Creature feature Famous fossil and its prey showcase newest Mount Oread space

s campus characters go, the Bunker mosasaur showcases A mosasaur is an old hand. Discovered the building’s in Wallace County in 1911 by a team of soaring four-story fossil collectors led by KU Natural History atrium and the Museum curator C.D. Bunker, the predator’s fearsome 83-million-year-old apex predator, grace when in full-on attack mode. the building.” e wall of glass that encases thought to be one of the largest complete “It was amazingly agile and very, very the atrium even extends the eect outside mosasaur skeletons ever found, has fast,” says Jacob Jett, one of two Triebold to Naismith Drive, especially at night resided in the museum’s paleontology sta members who installed the mount when the building is lit from within. collection for more than a century, and a in November. “So we want it to look Anthony Maltese, c’04, a curator at the replica of the 45-foot-long skeleton has like that.” Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource hung above Dyche Hall’s fourth- oor e adult Tylosaurus weighed an Center, where Triebold is based, helped entrance since 1998, posed in a tight spiral estimated 8 tons when it roamed the excavate and prepare the fossilized to t into the small space. shallow inland sea that covered Kansas remains of the mosasaur’s hapless victim, a With the completion of the new Earth, and much of the North American interior sea turtle known as Protostega. Discovered Energy and Environment Center—which during the Cretaceous Period. Triebold’s by a Fort Hays State University student opens for classes this month, with a formal resin cast weighs about 600 pounds and is near Quinter in 2011, a century aer dedication to come April 25—Kansas’ state suspended on braided steel cables Bunker’s nd, the turtle seems a natural marine fossil will nally be able to unfurl mounted into ceiling joists. pairing with the mosasaur. in full glory, thanks to a new skeletal “We were trying to come up with a place “is was the biggest turtle in Kansas at replica cast and posed in a dramatic in the building where the fossil impacted that time, and there was only one thing tableaux by Triebold Paleontology of the entire space,” says John Wilkins, a’86, that could actually get it in its mouth and Colorado. of Gould Evans, the architects on the start gnawing on it,” Maltese says, “and Diving from a height of 53 feet above project. “It’s a way to activate all four that was Tylosaurus.” e presence of the oor to a low point of 25 feet in oors. You get a dierent perspective of nearly 100 unhealed bite marks on the pursuit of a fossil sea turtle, the EEEC the fossil depending on where you are in turtle’s shell are evidence of a fatal attack

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI from a Tylosaurus. “ ere’s no other Museum. Having plausible suspect.” the state fossil taken STEVE PUPPE STEVE e Earth, Energy & Environment from Kansas, Center is actually two buildings, Slawson chasing a fossil sea Hall and Ritchie Hall. Elevated pedestrian turtle also taken walkways connect them with each other from Kansas and and with Lindley Hall next door and partially excavated Learned Hall across Naismith Drive. e by a Kansas alum, we complex increases the University’s think that really active-learning, research and meeting and makes a statement conference space by about 130,000 square about the things that feet, and it’s designed to connect students, matter to Kansas.” faculty and researchers for cross-disciplin- Maltese savors his ary research on energy and the part in helping his environment. alma mater display a “It’s all about bringing geologists, specimen that he Roberts paleontologists, petroleum engineers, believes is the nest environmental scientists and energy of its kind—the largest and most complete scientists together,” says Robert Goldstein, mosasaur in Rainy day resource the provost’s special adviser on campus the world. development and a former associate dean “I can just imagine the trac jam on Helping grad students weather of natural sciences and mathematics. “We game nights coming down Naismith, and setbacks is goal of new fund wanted that to be represented in the people looking over at this building and building as part of our history,” Goldstein seeing the animal lit up and just being in ichael Roberts has heard the stories, says. “Tylosaurus happens to be the state awe of something like that sitting on Mtold by the directors of graduate marine fossil of Kansas, and this particular campus,” he says. studies in various departments around specimen came from Kansas, excavated by Consider it one more reason to Beware campus, about excellent students whose a team from the KU Natural History of the Phog. promising graduate school careers were felled by the ckle hand of fate. “ ey say, ‘Oh, we had a great student More online: Videographer Dan Storey’s coverage of the installation who had an automobile accident and just can be seen at kualumni.org/extras. couldn’t pay the bills and had to go o and

UPDATE

he William Allen White in a written statement. ideals in service to their Foundation Board of The Washington Post profession and community. STEVE PUPPE STEVE T Trustees in November reported in November that His CBS News colleague voted to rescind the eight women had accused Bob Schieer accepted National Citation award Rose of lewd behavior and the award on Rose’s behalf presented last spring to unwanted sexual advances. [Hilltopics, issue No. 3, journalist Charlie Rose. The detailed allegations led 2017]. “After recent reports to his dismissal from CBS “The trustees’ vote detailed sexual harassment and PBS. reﬂects the inscription on and a pattern of unprofes- Rose was unable to the citation,” said journal- sional behavior by Rose attend the April 20 ism dean Ann Brill. “Wil- during his career, the Wil- ceremony at KU award- liam Allen White was an liam Allen White Founda- ing the prestigious cita- important journalist who tion decided that Rose does tion, which since 1950 has also felt that it was impor- not exemplify the ideals of honored American journal- tant to make a positive dif- this award,” the board said ists who exemplify White’s ference in the community.”

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response to student need in the past—will pay dividends not only for students, but WINTER GRADS: Recognition events in also for KU. e institution itself has a December honored more than 1,300 Jayhawks signi cant investment in students who have to drop out because of an accident or who earned degrees this fall. The new gradu- injury or family setback beyond their STEVE PUPPE STEVE ates represent 54 Kansas counties; 44 states, control, Roberts notes. “Graduate school is tough enough territories and the District of Columbia; and 25 without having things like that happen to countries. Degrees are ocially conferred in you,” he says. “We want to provide resources to keep them in school and get January, and graduates are invited to walk down the Hill at them past the hump. en their invest- Commencement on May 13. ment of time and commitment—as well as the University’s—is not lost.”

work, and we’ve never heard from them or challenge to getting their degree done.” since,’” Roberts says. e fund is open to currently enrolled Ear play He’s seen the need rsthand, too. graduate students on the Lawrence Lawrence comedy troupe gets “I’ve been a faculty member here and at campus who demonstrate nancial last laugh in Liberty Hall ﬁnale another institution for more than 40 hardship resulting from an emergency, years,” says Roberts, dean of graduate accident or other unplanned event. “ ight Between the Ears,” the award- studies at KU, “and I’ve probably faced Applications are reviewed by the Oce of Rwinning sketch comedy program that hundreds of examples where graduate Graduate Studies, and the fund will award began airing on the campus National students either had to drop out or go on one-time assistance of up to $500 for a Public Radio aliate KANU (now Kansas leave to rebuild their resources” because of range of needs that might include medical, Public Radio) in 1985, brought the curtain sudden emergencies. psychological or dental services; travel down on three decades of satire, spoof and Aer regularly elding inquiries from costs related to a death or illness in the goofy fun with its last performance, “e administrators about what could be done immediate family; safety needs (such as Over and Out Show,” Nov. 18. to help graduate students weather a rough changing locks); and costs related to “I wanted to go out on a high note,” says patch brought on accidents, illness, re, childcare in an emergency situation. show creator and producer Darrell ood or the death or serious illness of a Support from the fund is not a loan and Brogdon, “and not because somebody was family member, Roberts set out to create does not need to be repaid. shutting us down or we ran out of money the KU Graduate Student Emergency Roberts says the Oce of Graduate or some awful thing like that.” Fund to assist students hit by unforeseen Studies consulted other universities that Brogdon, program director at KPR, got nancial setbacks that might prevent the maintain similar emergency funds in the idea for the program while teaching a completion of their graduate studies. order to set a benchmark on what can be class on radio’s Golden Age at the Law- A Launch KU crowdfunding campaign done at KU. One thing they learned is that rence Arts Center. through KU Endowment this fall raised students who do nd themselves needing “I had this foolish idea: Wouldn’t it be $4,895, not quite half of the $10,000 goal. help at some point in their schooling oen cool if the nal class project would be to KU has more than 6,000 graduate are quick to oer it later on. actually create a live radio show that we students, and they are among the most “At other universities, those vulnerable students on campus, students have come back to the Roberts says. school and said, ‘You made a “Most are nancially independent from dierence in my life; thank you,’ their parents, and many come in with and have become more commit- undergraduate debt because their parents ted to the university and have

were not able to pay the full share of their contributed to the emergency BROGDON DARRELL COURTESY undergraduate education,” he says. “Most fund so that other students can are going to be living o their savings or bene t,” Roberts says. their appointments as graduate teaching Building a formal structure for assistants or graduate research assistants, dealing with emergencies— and those are not substantial enough to instead of the ad hoc eorts that withstand any kind of unforeseen accident have characterized the school’s

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI Milestones, money and other matters ROYINMANPHOTOS.COM STEVE PUPPE STEVE

n KU’s top legislative priority for 2018 is to return the University’s funding to 2016 levels. KU’s budget was cut $10.7 million in 2016, with lawmakers restor- “Right Between the Ears” cast members Teri Wilder, John Jessup, Andi Meyer, Roberta ing $3.3 million of those cuts in 2017. Solomon, Kip Niven, Brie Henderson, David Martin and David Geusel performed during the The University will ask legislators to re- comedy troupe’s final show, Nov. 18 at Liberty Hall. store the remaining $7.4 million during the current session, which opened Jan. could broadcast on KANU?” he recalls. “Visually, it’s like watching an old radio 8. For the latest news, join Jayhawks for “ at’s how it got going.” show,” he explains. Actors stand before Higher Education, KU’s higher educa- Originally called “ e Imagination microphones with scripts in hand, a sound tion advocacy group headed by the Workshop,” the program started as a mix eects person works onstage, and musi- Alumni Association. Members receive of long-form dramas broken up by short cians create a live soundtrack. “We used updates throughout the session, are comedy sketches. When Brogdon and the the same techniques they used to create notified of legislative events in their cast realized audiences were reacting more radio shows back in the ’30s and ’40s,” area, and are called upon at key strongly to the comedy than the drama, Brogdon says. “But when you hear the moments to contact legislators on they began emphasizing sketches, shiing show, it doesn’t sound like an old radio behalf of KU. More information is at to an all-comedy show by 1990. show. I’ve tried over the years to make it a kualumni.org/jhe. In the early ’90s, the show attracted very contemporary satirical comedy show, production funding from the Corporation just using the techniques of days gone by.” n A $10 million gift from Cheryl for Public Broadcasting (CPB)—enough to e follies of politicians. Awkward Lockton Williams will buy medical start paying actors and writers and to Christmas rituals. Musical parodies and equipment and furnishings for the build a distribution network that spread faux commercials. Subjects to skewer and University of Kansas Hospital’s new the laughs beyond Kansas. About 200 spoof have been plentiful over the last 32 Cambridge A Tower. The tower’s fifth stations carried the show at its peak. years, perhaps never more than today. “It’s level will be named the Jack and Cheryl National Public Radio broadcast it for very dicult to stay ahead of the news,” Lockton Intensive Care Patient Unit several years, and SiriusXM, the satellite Brogdon says with a laugh. in recognition of Cheryl and her late radio network, featured it for more than a But the time felt right to move on. e husband, Jack, who died in 2004 from decade. It won awards, including four self-described “radio rat” whose rst job pancreatic cancer. The gift is among the Gold Medals for Best Comedy Show at the was DJing at his hometown radio station largest ever to the University of Kansas New York Festivals, four Gold Program in Kerrville, Texas, has other projects he Health System. The planned 11-story Awards for Best Live Entertainment wants to try, some of which will likely tower began treating patients with the Program from CPB, and a Best of Show involve “Right Between the Ears” alumni. opening of 92 beds in November, and prize in the Silver Microphone Awards. In “I’m tremendously proud of it and really another 32 beds will open this spring. 2000, while trying to broaden distribution grateful for the opportunity to work with and considering moving to a weekly some really tremendous actors,” Brogdon n John Jeter, c’77, m’81, retired as pres- format, Brogdon and his cast members says. “ e magic they brought to it was so ident and CEO of HaysMed on Jan. 1 changed the name to “Right Between the important to helping it become what it after 21 years at the hospital. Jeter was Ears.” became. I’m just really happy to have instrumental in HaysMed’s successful Brogdon describes the program as worked with all those great folks to make eort to join the University of Kansas “Saturday Night Live” meets the Golden people laugh. It doesn’t get any better Health System. Age of radio. than that.”

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among the honors tracked by the Associa- tion of American Universities, a group of STEVE PUPPE STEVE 62 leading research universities in the United States and Canada which KU has been a member of since 1909. e University has 23 active faculty members KU MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS KU KU MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS KU who are AAAS fellows. “It is always gratifying to have our faculty members receive this recognition from AAAS, one of our country’s most distinguished scientic organizations,” said Chancellor Doug Girod. “Designation as Lunte Peterson Tao fellows is a well-deserved honor for all these scientists, and it reects well on the SCHOLARSHIP A. Townsend Peterson, University research e orts of our entire University.” Three professors honored Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and senior curator at HONORS for advancement of science the KU Biodiversity Institute, was honored T A A for the for contributions to ecology, systematics, Google Maps co-inventor Advancement of Science included a trio of conservation and epidemiology, particu- wins cartography award KU professors among the 396 new fellows larly in the geographic distribution of it honored in 2017 for their e orts to birds, viruses and viral vectors. B MC, whose innovative advance science. Franklin (Feng) Tao, Miller Associate work at a gaming soware startup grew Susan Lunte, Ralph N. Adams Professor of Chemical and Petroleum into the technology that underlies Google Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Engineering and Chemistry, was recog- Earth, was awarded the American Geo- Pharmaceutical Chemistry, was recognized for contributions to the eld of in graphical Society’s O.M. Miller Medal, nized for her work in the development and situ/operando studies of material at a which recognizes outstanding contribu- application of capillary and microuidic molecular level, particularly catalysts tions in the eld of cartography. separations that enable the specic under reaction condition and during “Brian’s involvement with mapping has quantication of important markers in catalysis. given us the critical tools which have biological systems. e prestigious AAAS fellowship is transformed the way we interact with

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Global advocate winner Malala Yousafzai, who was in that moment that I came Award-winning entrepreneur at 15 was shot by terrorists in to realize that what Malala had and innovation supporter Shiza Pakistan for promoting girls’ been through could be far more Shahid, who co-founded the education. Shahid served as than a day in the news cycle.” COURTESY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SCHOOL COURTESY Malala Fund and NOW CEO of the nonprofit Ventures, delivered the 2017 organization, which advocates QUOTES: “I believe that there Oswald Lecture at the School of for girls worldwide to receive 12 are certain moments in your life Business as part of Global years of free, safe and quality Shahid where you have to decide who Entrepreneurship Week. education. She launched NOW you are. This is true in your Ventures, a seed-stage venture Stanford graduate with a careers, in your values, in your WHEN: Nov. 16 capital fund and platform that consulting job in the Middle relationships. For me, leaving supports mission-driven East. In the wake of Malala’s my career and my plan to be WHERE: Capitol Federal Hall startups, in 2017. tragedy, Shahid asked the with Malala and try to make young girl how people could something good out of this BACKGROUND: In 2013, ANECDOTE: When Malala help. “She said, ‘I’m fine. You horrific tragedy was one such Shahid co-founded the Malala was shot in 2012, Shahid was should tell them to help the moment.” Fund with Nobel Peace Prize just 22 years old, a recent other girls,’” Shahid recalled. “It —Heather Biele

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI geospatial information,” said Milestones, money Deborah Popper, vice president of AGS and chair of its honors and other matters and awards committee, who presented the award to

McClendon at the society’s fall INSTITUTE LIFE SPAN COURTESY n The 2017 H.O.P.E. Award was symposium Nov. 17 at Colum- presented to Amii Castle, a lecturer in bia University. “ ey have the School of Law, during halftime of allowed us to share information the Kansas-Oklahoma football game readily and democratize Nov. 18. Castle, c’94, l’97, teaches geospatial information in courses in business law important ways.” and electronic discovery. Aer stints as a vice president The H.O.P.E. (Honor for at Google and Uber, McClen- Boyd Outstanding Progres- don, e’86, joined KU in 2017 as sive Educator) Award is a research professor. He works with the Kansas City and aliated with KU’s Life presented annually by department of electrical engineering and Span Institute, the center uses research- the senior class. Castle computer science and the Information and based interventions to help children and Telecommunications Technology Center their families in urban-core communities. n A $2 million gift from William on innovation and entrepreneurship and Previously a fellow and investigator at Bradley Jr., c’77, l’80, will endow a $1 translating University research into the the Frank Porter Graham Child Develop- million scholarship and a $1 million marketplace. A member of the National ment Institute at UNC, Boyd has been research fund. The Bradley Family Academy of Engineering, he was awarded principal or co-principal investigator on Scholarship will benefit law students, an honorary doctorate of science from KU several grants funded by the National with preference to those with financial in 2015. Institutes of Health and Institute of need who contributed to their own Education Sciences. His research focuses undergraduate educations. The Bradley RESEARCH on developing early interventions for Family Research Fund will provide children with autism spectrum disorders competitive grants to faculty in the Col- New leader tapped for to increase participation at home and in lege of Liberal Arts & Sciences whose Children’s Campus center school. research involves undergraduates. “We see him as a bright star among the A NIH- known for new generation of autism researchers and n Rolfe Mandel, g’80, PhD’91, was expertise in autism research and early one whose expertise in autism and early named director of the Kansas Geologi- childhood intervention programs will intervention is a perfect t for Juniper cal Survey (KGS) this fall. University become only the third director to lead the Gardens,” says Judith Carta, PhD’83, Distinguished Professor and senior Juniper Gardens Children’s Project in the interim director. “He will continue our scientist and executive director of the KU research center’s 53-year history. rich tradition of developing meaningful Odyssey Geoarchaeology Research Brian Boyd, associate professor of solutions for children with developmental Program at the survey, Mandel had occupational science and associate chair disabilities while working in close partner- been leading KGS as interim director. for research of the department of allied ship with families and the community.” health sciences at the University of North Boyd succeeds Charles Greenwood, who n A $10.8 million grant from the Carolina-Chapel Hill, will take over stepped down as director in 2017 aer 26 National Institutes of Health will sup- leadership of Juniper Gardens Feb. 1. years in that role but remains active in port research into cancer, neurological Located on the Children’s Campus of center research projects. disorders, lung and heart diseases by the Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways. An NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CO- BRE), the KU center established in 2012 “My only advice is to follow your heart, to be bold, works to better understand the genetic, chemical and physical basis of a range to be courageous, because your heart already knows of diseases. Susan Lunte is the principal investigator on the second-phase, five- what’s best for you.” —Shiza Shahid year grant. Co-investigators are Blake {} Peterson and Erik Lundquist.

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 15 Sports by Chris Lazzarino play with a victory at Texas. “I mean, let’s just write it down.” Preston, a 6-10, 240-pound forward from Los Angeles via Virginia’s Oak Hill Academy, was a McDonald’s All-American who had been expected to play alongside 7-foot center Udoka Azubuike. But STEVE PUPPE STEVE Preston was held out of the Nov. 10 season opener aer missing class and curfew, then, following Preston’s apparent single- car accident the night of Nov. 11, KU Athletics chose to sit the young star while department ocials investigated the background on ownership of Preston’s car. Although he continued to practice with the team, Preston watched as Self turned to lanky 6-8 forward Mitch Lightfoot as the team’s only other big-man option. e investigation into Preston’s car lingered throughout the holiday break—and had not yet been resolved as Kansas Alumni went to press—and certication of De Go big or go home Sousa’s amateur status was slowed by the NCAA’s holiday vacation. ‘Hawks hope Preston, De Sousa add bulk to guard-heavy rotation “We’re talking about two months since [Preston] has played,” Self said Jan. 4. “Has ilvio De Sousa, a native of Luanda, season already marred by consecutive he practiced? Yes. But he’s also been on the SAngola, spent nearly four years at IMG nonconference losses that the Jayhawks scout team a lot. If Silvio takes three to Academy, in Bradenton, Florida. e will likely count on two freshman big four weeks to get comfortable, Billy would coveted 6-foot-9, 245-pound power men—De Sousa and Billy Preston— to take a week to get comfortable.” forward signed with KU in November, improve from “not very good,” in Self’s During a break in two-a-day practices hustled to nish high school in December, words, to elite. before the conference opener, Self pre- and on Dec. 26 arrived at Kansas City “Certainly we’re not going to be as good dicted that a 13-5 Big 12 record “will get it International Airport. as we can be until February,” Self said Dec. free and clear. Everybody in the league is Wearing shorts. In 1-degree weather. 27, two days before KU opened conference going to lose two in a row. Everybody is His new teammates prepared a warm going to lose. So how you respond to those welcome for De Sousa’s rst foray into the negative performances will be very, very teeth of an arctic blast, and were ready important.” with tips nearly as important as learning PUPPE STEVE Aer KU’s victory at Texas, Texas Tech how to dress during Kansas winters. throttled KU, 85-73, in the Jayhawks’ Big “Try hard, listen to coach, and just 12 home opener, a game that Self worry about the team and doing the little described as “a beat down. We have things,” said senior guard Svi Mykhailiuk. allowed our guys to be nesse guys and “Rebounding, playing defense, getting the that is a formula for disaster. is could loose balls.” happen a couple or several more times, e midseason arrival of a newly minted without question, even at home, because freshman who is expected to quickly we have shown everybody we have a contribute is rare enough that when asked chink in our armor.” As for KU’s prospects to compare it with any similar circum- of winning an unprecedented 14th- stance, coach Bill Self had to reach back to consecutive conference championship, 2000, when he coached Illinois, and Self on Jan. 4 cautioned, “I think we need Missouri thrust guard Travon Bryant into to quit talking about winning the league, action against Self’s Illini team. even though that’s kind of expected Yet it seems tting in a tumultuous De Sousa around here.”

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI Senior guard Devonte’ Graham—the only player in the Big 12 to rank among the top ve in scoring, assists, steals, 3-point eld goals made and assist-to- “Certainly we’re not going to be as good as we can turnover ratio—in early January shared be until February. I mean, let’s just write it down.” the message Self delivered to the Jayhawks —coach Bill Self at the onset of conference play. “He said you could lose the Big 12 in a {} week if you come into a game underesti- mating an opponent,” Graham recalled, force herself to continue on, telling herself, relies on smart and steady play to over- “and then the next thing you know you “OK, whatever, let’s look.” come opponents, ashes her charming lose two in a row and the race is over.” “And I look at the rst position, and I’m laugh and smile, and shares the story of KU lost at home to Texas Tech just a few like, no, no, there is just no way …” her introduction to tennis. When her days later, then traveled to face 16th- Rychagova desperately wanted to stand older brother began playing, she was ranked TCU. Should the Jayhawks nd a and shout the news—“I’m No. 1!”—but quickly enthralled: not by the sport’s way to win their 14th-consecutive Big 12 class was mere moments from starting and intriguing beauty and athleticism, but by title, their 88-84 victory Jan. 6 in Fort she did not want to make a scene. Instead running around to pick up balls. Worth could prove to be a turning point. she buried her face in her hands to mue So when their parents asked her to “You need to hold serve at home, and tears of joy—“e girl who sits next to me, choose between dance and tennis, she when you don’t, you have to go steal one,” I don’t know what she was thinking”—and opted for tennis. During her rst lesson, Self said aerward. “And this was a steal, later shared the news with an excited when it dawned on her that the sport the way I look at it.” phone call to her parents in Moscow. involved more than retrieving balls, Nas “My dad was like, ‘is ranking system felt de ated. She was only 5 years old, yet is so weird.’ I was like, ‘anks, Dad.’” her coach saw no future for her in tennis. Rychagova, a 5-foot-6 dynamo who “He came to my dad and said, ‘No, this Tennis’ new No. 1 kid cannot play tennis.’ I don’t know why my dad Rychagova is 1st Jayhawk didn’t give up on me.” STEVE PUPPE STEVE atop national singles rankings She didn’t give up, either, and began logging 12-hour nastasia Rychagova—“Nas” or practice days. Within a few A“Nastia” to teammates and coaches— years, Rychagova recalls, was checking her phone minutes before “No one could beat me.” She her accounting class when she slowly came won a slew of European to grips with the realization that she was titles and at 16 Rychagova not, as hoped, ranked among the country’s rose to No. 60 in the ITF top 10 singles players. World Junior Rankings. She had nished the fall season 10-2, en she suered a hernia including an 8-1 mark against ranked in her back—“I think part of opponents, and her only losses came this was because I was against the eventual champions of the two practicing so much when I biggest fall tournaments: the Intercolle- was little”—and stopped giate Tennis Association All-American and the ITA National Fall Championship. As she scrolled through a news ash “To watch the growth of Nastia announcing the ITA’s nal rankings of as a player and as a person in 2017, Rychagova recalled assistant coach the last two and a half years Caroline Lilley telling her, “You for sure has been so fun to watch,” says will be top 10.” But the higher she scrolled, she still didn’t see her name. coach Todd Chapman. “The “I’m scrolling up the rankings, and I was exciting thing is, knowing like, great, I didn’t make it,” Rychagova Nastia the way we do, she recalls. “I almost started crying.” won’t be satisﬁed until she is As she neared the top, Rychagova had to No. 1 in the year-end rankings.”

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 17 Sports playing tennis. A year and a half spent Caroline that has passed. I don’t care about studying physical therapy at a Russian this anymore. I have other goals. I still university convinced Rychagova she want to get All-American, I want to have a JEFF JACOBSEN should return to tennis, but this time in better NCAA, I want our team to do well. the United States. “I have so many goals, and if I concen- She followed Moscow tennis friend Nina trate on my ranking I won’t achieve Khmelnitckaia, already a KU signee, to anything. I celebrated when I found out, Lawrence, but arrived here badly out of but now it’s time to not celebrate any more. shape and with no English skills. Put it in the past and move forward.” “I was not t at all. Not athletic, no muscle. [Coach Todd Chapman] was like, ‘Oh my gosh, who did I take?’” Rychagova embraced her old practice Hot start Kopatich habits. Aer a grueling summer, she led the Jayhawks in her freshman fall season at Early success extends into 11-4. She completed the spring season as Big 12 season for women’s hoops eld-goal shooting per game. Big 12 Freshman of the Year and ITA Junior guard Kylee Kopatich entered Central Region Rookie of the Year and omen’s basketball on Jan. 3 won its conference play averaging 15.3 points per helped push the Jayhawks to their rst Big W rst Big 12 road game under game, including a career-high 26 in KU’s 12 semi nals since 2002 and their rst third-year coach Brandon Schneider, a 71-60 victory over Arkansas in the Big 12 NCAA Championship invitation in 17 60-47 victory at Texas Tech that pushed SEC Challenge Dec. 3 in Allen Field years. She went 25-8 as a sophomore and the Jayhawks to 11-3 overall and 2-1 in the House. was named to the All-Big 12 Singles First conference. “We’ve overhauled our roster,” Schneider Team, and now enters her junior spring as KU opened the season 7-0 and con- says, “and we’re in the midst of making the No. 1 player in the country. cluded nonconference play 9-2, holding some major changes from a cultural “I felt a lot of pressure, but I told opponents to 57.7 points and 32.9 percent standpoint.”

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Junior linebacker Joe Dineen setting third time and joined Along with forward Silvio De Jr.—who led the country with senior right-side hitter Kelsie Sousa, the men’s basketball

7.8 solo tackles per game and JEFF JACOBSEN Payne and senior outside hitter team also signed five-star guard the Big 12 in total tackles (137), Madison Ridgon on the All-Big Quentin Grimes of The tackles for loss (25) and solo 12 first team. ... Woodlands, Texas. “We feel tackles (93)—earned second- Big 12 cross-country Quentin Grimes is as good a team All-America distinction champion Sharon Lokedi, a guard as there is in high school from Sports Illustrated, the first junior, was named Big 12 basketball,” said coach Bill Self. Jayhawk so honored since Dineen Runner of the Year for the ... KU announced a home-and- cornerback Aqib Talib, ’09, in second-consecutive season. home series with Villanova, 2007. Junior defensive tackle diver Nadia Khechfe closed out Lokedi placed second at the Dec. 15, 2018, in Allen Field Daniel Wise, who had 16 her fall season by being named NCAA Midwest Regional House and Dec. 21, 2019, in tackles for loss and seven sacks, Big 12 Co-Diver of the Week Championships and 44th at the Philadelphia. ... was named first-team All-Big 12 after a pair of third-place NCAA Championships in Memorial Stadium will soon by conference coaches. ... finishes in the one- and Louisville, Kentucky. ... be known as David Booth Sophomore Jenny Nusbaum three-meter events. ... Sophomore pole vaulter Andrea Kansas Memorial Stadium, broke the meet record in the The American Volleyball Willis jumped to a personal after the Kansas Board of Kansas Classic’s 200-yard Coaches Association named record of 13 feet, 8.25, inches at Regents unanimously approved freestyle Nov. 18 in Capitol senior setter Ainise Havili its the Dec. 2 Bob Timmons a name-change request to Federal Natatorium in Topeka, Midwest Region Player of the Challenge in Anschutz Sports honor donor Booth, c’68, g’69. winning by two seconds in 1 Year. Havili was named Big 12 Pavilion. Willis is No. 5 on KU’s A timeline for the change has minute, 47.81 seconds. Senior Setter of the Year for a record- indoor pole vault record list. ... not been set.

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Devonte’ Graham (4), Malik Newman (14), Sam Cunlie (3), Lagerald Vick (2) and Svi Mykhailiuk (10), along with Marcus Garrett, manned the four-guard rotation coach Bill Self was forced to deploy with only Udoka Azubuike (35) and Mitch Lightfoot (44) available as big men. “It gives guys a lot of conﬁdence,” Mykhailiuk says of the guards’ increased playing time. “Everybody’s got it going and feels pretty conﬁdent about themselves.”

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 21 22 | KANSAS ALUMNI Freedom Professor’s personal history infuses scholarly calling FIGHTER ill Tuttle believes in recording history from what he calls Zanice Bond, PhD’11, who convinced Tuttle to chair one nal “the bottom up,” sharing the past as seen through the eyes of dissertation committee—hers—despite his retirement, introduced Bordinary folks. For his 1970 book, Race Riot: Chicago in the her mentor and friend and joined other scholars in a symposium Red Summer of 1919, based on his 1964 master’s thesis, Tuttle honoring Tuttle. Now an assistant professor of English at Tuske- talked with the black Chicagoans who lived through the riot, gee University, Bond recalled when Tuttle traveled with her to her including John Turner Harris, who, as a 14-year-old in July 1919, hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee, a focal point of her was oating on a ra in Lake Michigan with four other black dissertation. ey visited the Hatchie River bottoms, where local friends when a white man began throwing rocks at them, hitting NAACP charter member Elbert Williams’ body was found aer Turner’s friend Eugene Williams in the head. Turner attempted to he was lynched in 1940, and they attended a Freedom Fund save his friend, but Williams drowned. A white police ocer dinner for the local chapter, where Tuttle bonded with former refused to arrest the rock-thrower, sparking community outrage Tennessee Supreme Court justice Lyle Reid, and Evelyn Jones, that fueled a ve-day riot. irty-eight people died. then 90, a former Avon Lady and founding member. “Neither of Race Riot, published only three years aer Tuttle joined the them has forgotten Bill,” Bond told the Woodru audience. “In University’s faculty in 1967, established his national prominence fact, they continue to inquire about him whenever I see them at as a scholar. Fiy years later, now KU professor emeritus, he home. ‘How’s that charming KU professor of yours?’ Mrs. Jones, delivered the 10th-annual Bill Tuttle Distinguished Lecture in now 96, asks.” Audience members, familiar with Tuttle’s charm, American Studies Oct. 5. erupted in laughter. When Tuttle retired (sort of) from the Hill a decade ago, Tuttle easily connects with others because he expresses genuine colleagues, friends and family members created the lecture series interest, Bond says: “He recognizes the human condition and the in his honor to bring acclaimed American Studies scholars to KU human spirit as one among all people. ... His work talks about the each fall. e founders asked Tuttle himself to deliver the 2017 elements that can be oppressive, not just in the South, and how to edition to celebrate the lecture’s 10 years, his golden KU anniver- reclaim the goodness in any community.” sary and his 80th birthday. In the Kansas Union’s Woodru Born Oct. 7, 1937, in Detroit, Tuttle was a self-described Auditorium, before a festive crowd that included his wife, “privileged boy,” wearing a sailor suit in the family portrait. His Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, d’72, PhD’96, and two rows of the Tuttle father, a prominent surgeon, and his mother settled with their family front and center, he shared his own history in “My Life as a family in Rosedale Park, an all-white enclave of the city. Despite Student of African-American History and Culture.” With slides of his sheltered upbringing, Tuttle clearly remembers a 1943 race personal photos and images from his research, Tuttle described riot that frightened his mother, who during World War II was the watershed moments in U.S., Lawrence and KU history that raising a daughter and two sons alone while her husband have captivated him as a scholar and activist. served in North Africa as an Army surgeon.

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ISSUE 1, 2018 | 23 rough vivid recollections of his personal and professional their B-52 crashed on a training mission. “ e next few days were life, Tuttle described the inuences that sharpened his scholarly a nightmare for Jean Farmer, and I was with her much of the focus: a lifelong passion for jazz that took hold when, as a time,” Tuttle recalled. “Black pilots from around the country ew 16-year-old, he heard saxophone greats Charlie Parker, Arnett in to be with her, too. I had lost a dear friend, and I had gained an Cobb and Illinois Jacquet at the Graystone Ballroom in appreciation of the strength and resilience of black families and downtown Detroit; and his years in the military when, as the their social networks.” family services ocer at Dow Air Force Base in Bangor, Maine, Following graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, he assisted many African-American wives and their children Tuttle and his family moved to Lawrence, and in fall 1968 he and became dear friends with a black bomber pilot, Capt. taught KU’s rst course in African-American history. “It was an Woody Farmer. incredible experience,” he recalled. “ e class of 24 students, “We used to get together with a bottle of bourbon and a stack of evenly divided between blacks and whites, was lled with jazz recordings,” Tuttle said, pointing out his buddy in a group remarkable young women and men. ey felt deeply the passions photo. Farmer’s wife, Jean, wanted her husband to be baptized in of the civil rights and the black power movements, and the her church, and Farmer asked Tuttle to be his godfather. But one Vietnam War was a mounting concern. ey were not only deeply week before the service, Farmer and ve other men died when engaged, but also well informed, and our discussions were exhilarating and unforgettable.” Soon aer that rst course, Tuttle worked with fellow faculty members and students to establish what is now KU’s nationally recognized department of African and African-

COURTESY BILL TUTTLE COURTESY American Studies. As an assistant professor, Tuttle took notice of a dissertation by a University of Michigan graduate, David Katzman, whose research

In the late 1960s, Tuttle (left) helped recruit David Katzman to KU, and they ultimately collaborated on two books. “One of the great strengths of Bill—and the audience at the lecture reﬂected it—is the degree that he has put roots in Lawrence in many dierent communities,” Katzman says. “He has bridged the worlds of the University and the town.”

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI In addition to sharing history through the voices of everyday Americans, Tuttle edited a 1973 biographical study of W.E.B. DuBois, whom he describes as “a scholar-activist, and arguably, America’s leading 20th-century intellectual.”

“He recognizes the human condition and the human spirit as Gone to War”: e Second World War in the Lives of America’s one among all people. ... His work talks about the elements Children, published by Oxford University Press in 1992. that can be oppressive, not just in the South, and how to Other highlights of Tuttle’s long career include co-chairing with reclaim the goodness in any community.” Professor Maryemma Graham KU’s 2002 symposium on Langs- ton Hughes, which drew 600 writers, literary scholars and —Zanice Bond, performers to Lawrence. When novelist Alice Walker concluded Tuttle’s last doctoral student, now an the event with her remarks during a prayer breakfast at Law- assistant professor of English, Tuskegee University rence’s St. Luke AME Church, Tuttle was struck by the deteriora- tion of the historic sanctuary. With the Rev. Verdell Taylor, Tuttle co-chaired the campaign to save the church, which was renovated overlapped with his own, focusing on the history of the black in time to celebrate its 100th birthday. community in Tuttle’s hometown. He helped recruit Katzman to Tuttle also helped preserve local history by “setting the record KU, where his young colleague ultimately turned the dissertation straight” about racism and turmoil in the community and on into his rst book, Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the campus. He devoted much of his lecture to recalling local civil Nineteenth Century. rights leaders and pivotal events, including the July 1970 killings A few years later, when both were fellows at Harvard University, by police of Rick “Tiger” Dowdell, a 19-year-old black KU they talked at length about “telling history from the bottom up.” student, and Nick Rice, an 18-year-old white student. In July (“For the record, David Katzman is the smartest man I know,” 2015, Tuttle was among those who organized a tribute to Dowdell Tuttle declared in his lecture.) e two started to collect life at the Lawrence Public Library, which he called “the most stories for their book, Plain Folk: e Life Stories of Undistin- powerful event of its kind that I’ve attended in my 50 years in guished Americans, and later they collaborated with four other Lawrence.” historians on A People and a Nation, a popular textbook at many As he summed up the importance of history, including the colleges and universities. painful episodes, Tuttle invoked the words of novelist James eir scholarly partnership became an enduring friendship. Baldwin, who said, “e great force of history comes from the “Bill is an incredible academic writer,” says Katzman, now fact that we carry it with us, are unconsciously controlled by it in professor emeritus of American Studies and history. “He writes many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” great narratives. We learn best from telling stories, and Bill does it “For this compelling reason,” Tuttle concluded, “I believe it is better than anyone. He weaves in others’ perspectives so incumbent not only upon historians, but also upon those com- beautifully.” mitted to social justice, to, rst, set the historical record straight Tuttle also melded his historical research with the study of when necessary and, second, to keep our historical heritage alive developmental psychology through a fellowship with KU profes- by remembering—and, when appropriate, celebrating—our sors Frances Horowitz, John Wright and Aletha Huston. Spurred freedom- ghting heroes of the past.” by his own memories of his family’s attempts to cope with his As the charming professor invited the hundreds gathered to father’s wartime absence and return home, Tuttle conducted adjourn down the hall for celebratory toasts, the rowdy, heartfelt interviews and collected 2,000 letters from fellow children of applause armed their gratitude to a scholar who continues World War II. Aer a decade of study, he completed “Daddy’s the ght.

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 25 26 | KANSAS ALUMNI KU’s hockey renaissance heats up the ice

Yo juego hockey. When his Spanish teacher asked students to introduce themselves to a classmate, Andy McConnell turned to an unknown guy seated nearby and said, en español, “I play hockey.” Or, rather, he did play hockey. McConnell grew up playing youth hockey at Kansas City’s limited venues and, as with all talented junior players and their devoted families, far beyond. When he arrived at KU, McConnell immediately sought out the men’s ice hockey club team. “It ended up being one of the reasons that I wanted to go to KU,” recalls McConnell, j’16. “A lot of my friends that I grew up playing hockey with were here and were planning on playing with the team. So I joined up.” What he found here was not good. “It was just rough,” McConnell says. He concedes that he didn’t help his hockey dreams by also joining a fraternity, but it turned out his frat brothers were the only true team he identi ed with during his rst months on Mount Oread. Hockey, for the rst time in his life, let him down.

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ISSUE 1, 2018 | 27 “ e team that was here was just kind Head coach Andy McConnell (second row), assistant coaches Rhett Johnston (l-r) and Chase of splintered,” he says. “We weren’t really Pruitt and general manager Jimmy Samuels, Las Vegas sophomore, log nearly full-time hours that good. We were losing quite a bit, and during the season to help coach and organize the hockey club they treasure. “It’s the love of the a lot of the friends I originally joined up sport; it’s being on a team,” McConnell says of their motivation. “Being able to shoot for a goal with stopped going. I nished it out until that you built is cool. I know that’s a huge motivator for me.” the end of the semester and told the coach I was going to stick with the fraternity and focus on my grades. in Scottsdale, Arizona. He rose to amateur Border Showdown renewal, and pine for “I didn’t lose love for the sport, but it hockey’s elite AAA level, yet certainly the day when students and alumni cheer wasn’t the same experience I had had in didn’t come to KU for hockey, because them on in numbers the team has seem- high school that brought me so much hockey wasn’t here. ingly earned. enjoyment. I kind of hung ’em up for a “When I showed up to school,” says “Not very many times in life, at least while. I didn’t think I would do it again, at Johnston, b’16, g’17, “there was no team. that I’ve noticed, do you get opportunities least not competitively like that.” At all.” to put your hat on something that can Details of the recent history of KU men’s But when “Yo juego hockey” was met really stick for years to come,” says ice hockey are, at best, muddled, especially with “Yo juego hockey,” an unlikely hockey McConnell, who closed out his renewed when attempting to recreate a precise, renewal suddenly began. Half a decade playing career two years ago and his since year-by-year timeline of what happened later, the sport has been reborn. volunteered his time as the club’s head when. What is known, though, is that the KU has ice hockey? You’d better coach. “You have that opportunity here, club team folded, leaving behind a trail of believe it. and I use that as a selling point to a lot of hurt feelings and bad debts. e dark days behind them, today’s KU players. We’re still a young club. ere’s ere were no prospects for the sport’s skaters take the ice in swank Jayhawk still so much potential for this to become return, until McConnell heard his class- jerseys, win a whole lot more than they something really impactful. At KU. In mate’s reply: lose, unabashedly share their playo Lawrence. In Kansas City. Yo juego hockey. dreams, relish victories over Mizzou while “To be honest, people just don’t know Rhett Johnston grew up playing hockey eagerly pointing toward their Feb. 15 about it. Yet.”

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI lame it on the “ e Mighty Ducks.” “But yeah, ‘ e Mighty Ducks.’ It would parents, and players and families routinely B e 1992 Disney movie spawned an be funny to take a poll to see how many endure endless hours of drive time, NHL franchise in Anaheim, California, kids started playing because of that movie.” traveling to practices at inconvenient rinks and lit boyhood res for a sport previously Unlike other sports that can shuttle and games against distant opponents. unknown in the McConnell family of young newcomers directly into skill It seems a plausible estimation that Liberty, Missouri. Andy and his younger development, the McConnell brothers rst hockey features three universal rites of brother, Preston, grew up far from hockey, had to clear hockey’s primary hurdle: ey passage: learn to skate, log a ton of road but close to theatres, and he was hooked. had to learn to skate. miles, and spend bushels of money on the “I just kind of fell in love with it and “Take a football player and put some rst two, along with equipment that is really wanted to do it,” Andy recalls. hockey skates on him and see how well he shockingly expensive. A good set of skates, “Eventually, aer prodding and begging, does,” says assistant coach Chase Pruitt, for instance, can now cost more than my parents got me enrolled.” e’16. “It’s just a whole dierent sport. It’s $1,000, and might not last a competitive Says Preston, now a senior forward and not something that you can pick up and player more than a year. KU’s leading scorer, “He was persistent start playing. I wish you could because All of which helps explain why KU and would not take no for an answer. we’d have a lot more involvement.” players are completely OK with paying Finally my mom told my dad, ‘We’ve got to Outside of hockey hotbeds in northern $1,200 in dues each season and commut- get this kid playing hockey.’ So Andy states like Minnesota and Wisconsin, ing to twice-weekly practices—usually started playing, and I was the little brother youth hockey is rarely sponsored by starting around 10 p.m., thanks to the who always wanted to do what he did. schools. It’s a community sport, funded by diculty of booking ice time—at Line

ntramural sports o ered by hockey is among the best- IKU Recreation Services funded teams, although club Intramurals and club sports annually attract about 3,000 ocers hope financing grows students, many of whom as the club continues its participate in multiple sports resurgence. you’re successful, that’s a big chemistry, that’s a benefit not and all of whom compete KU’s sport club teams have thing for those who choose to lost on club president Will against other KU students. access to a dedicated weight take on leadership positions, Dufresne. Short of varsity athletics, the room (to avoid overcrowding in especially for ice hockey,” “I’ll definitely talk about it in highest level of competition is the public areas of Ambler Podschun says. “Their budget is interviews,” he says. “When sport clubs, including men’s ice Recreation Fitness Center), probably upwards of $40,000. they ask about something you hockey. Most of the 30-plus trainers at games and Who else, as a 20-year-old solved as a team, or the time teams, with about 1,200 assistance with travel logistics, getting out of college, can say you had to battle through athletes, compete against other but the clubs are student-run— they managed a budget of adversity or work through schools. which Assistant Director Dave $40,000?” something that’s less than ideal, Club teams are funded with a Podschun views as an Despite the long hours he the examples from hockey campuswide fee of $4 per important aspect of the dedicates to team logistics on alone can answer those student per semester. At its experience. top of practices, games, and a questions.” current allocation of $9,000, ice “If you take it seriously, and if double major in geology and —C.L.

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 29 Creek Community Center, in North Preston McConnell says. “But, you’d get to sleep in and you don’t have class Kansas City, and weekend home games at probably go to practice and leave. Being until 3 tomorrow. What’s so bad about it?” Centerpoint Medical Center Community forced to make that drive and have some Ice, a cozy rink adjacent to Silverstein Eye conversation and get to know your inning helps. When KU hockey was Centers Arena, in Independence, teammates is really benecial, and I think Wlosing—o en by double digits— Missouri. it’s made our team a lot better.” shuttling to North Kansas City and To answer the two questions invariably When the rare grousing does surface, Independence was miserable, not raised when the subject of KU hockey Preston McConnell shoots it down with benecial. arises: Yes, KU has a team, and no, the college-age logic: “You’re going to be up A er discovering their shared interest— Jayhawks do not play in Lawrence. until 1 either way; you might as well just Yo juego hockey—Andy McConnell and “For sure I wish the drive was 10 go play. And Andy, Rhett and Chase have Rhett Johnston forged a friendship that minutes away. at would be perfect,” to wake up at 6 a.m. and go to work. You quickly grew beyond their Spanish class.

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI Game photographs by Gil Anderson “Something clicked, Players had to schedule ice time— paying time-and-a-half to eliminate debt and we started winning. at area rinks—while also recruiting new Everybody started players and scheduling opponents. “I can remember my freshman and buying in. It was a sophomore year, we’d lose to Arkansas culture change.” and Mizzou by double-digits,” says senior forward and team captain Brent —Brent Bockman Bockman. “Now we expect to beat them every time. We know where we came from. We have a chip on our shoulder.” McConnell recalls that it was Johnston Near the end of their second season, who was “really adamant” about restarting the Jayhawks found themselves wavering the KU club hockey team, eorts that he outside Mizzou’s home arena. Although and another player, Chase Pruitt, they’d beaten Missouri once the previous supported. year, the Tigers had also handed KU a Aer meeting with ocials at KU 16-1 loss. While the KU team improved Recreation Services, which supervises the in its second season, thanks to an in ux sport clubs program, Johnston discovered of talented young players who were a pile of debts for ice time purchased but slowly ltering into the club, Mizzou— not paid for at Kansas City arenas. an ACHA Division 2 club, compared with “We were forced to remedy everything KU’s Division 3 status—had improved the prior entity did wrong,” Johnston says. even more. “So we were on probation even from the “We had played them that Friday night school when we started. Slowly and surely and we got absolutely tossed,” McConnell we started gaining more trust.” says. “ere were injuries. We were e new team’s rst two seasons were super-short benched, with maybe 10 guys. limited by nances, opportunity and roster It was the end of the season, you’re already depth. Bad feelings from schools that had tired, you’re beat up, you know you’re been stood up—the dreaded “no call/no going to lose. It was one of those ‘do we show”—by the previous KU team made want to do this?’ moments. And I remem- scheduling its traditional opponents a near ber asking exactly that.” impossibility and prevented a return to the Huddled around their cars, the Jay- American Collegiate Hockey Association. hawks took a vote. Leave now, drive home, KU hockey was even a pariah on call it quits. e game, the season, the club. campus. Far from being eligible to return Or, enter the arena, take the punish- as an ocial sports club, KU hockey was ment, and keep pushing forward. also prevented from registering as a “We were really bruised up, injured, and student club for a year. Once it did, the we barely had enough guys to play a team received a mere $500 from the game,” says senior goaltender and club Student Involvement & Leadership Center. president Will Dufresne. “Eventually we “It was bad,” Andy McConnell says. “We decided in the parking lot that we’re here were hated in the league, and were hated, and we’re going to play. We can look back kind of, by the school, which is totally at it now and laugh, but it was a low point.” understandable. So that rst year, you’ve got to play so many games, you’ve got to U hockey clawed its way back to get in good standing with everybody, Kprobationary sports club status in you’ve got to get your players. It was like spring 2016, and spent last season proving trying to ski a steep learning curve.” the team’s worthiness to the ACHA, With limited nances, the team could opponents, and, most critically, KU aord only an hour of practice per week, Recreation Services. and didn’t even have a coach. “It was a “ey had to show they were serious, jumbled mess of voices those rst two because it came back on us, as well,” Dave years,” McConnell says. Podschun, d’12, assistant director of sport

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 31 “We’re guys who love the game. We’re here for school ﬁrst, but we go out there on the ice and we know we’ll battle for each other. You put on that jersey, and you’re playing for the logo on the front, not the logo on the back. You’re playing for your school. You’re representing KU.” —Johan Steen

clubs, says of the previous group’s melt- started buying in. It was a culture change.” Feb. 9 and 10 against South Dakota State; down. “at’s part of why we set those Finally o probation, KU hockey this and the Feb. 15 Border Showdown against parameters for them to take steps to slowly year received $9,000 from KU Recreation Mizzou at Silverstein Eye Centers Arena, get back. We wanted to make sure they Services. Along with players’ annual touted as the “Rivalry at the Rink”— were committed to getting the club on the participation fees, the team can now aord Dufresne cautions that not many on the right track. And they are. ey really are two, and sometimes three, practice team are aware that the ACHA this year committed to making sure they keep the sessions each week. It is scheduling better switched its rankings system from a club’s good name now that they’ve opponents, and still concluded the fall coaches’ poll to a “ nicky” algorithm. reestablished that.” season 14-5, including 12-2 and 9-4 “As far as controlling what we can e 2016-’17 Jayhawks also established victories over Missouri and winning control, I think we have a decent shot of themselves on the ice. Buoyed both by records against Creighton and Nebraska. making it to regionals,” Dufresne says. pride in perseverance as well as an KU nished the semester ranked No. 8 “at’s been our goal this season. Last ongoing ourish of talented new skaters, in its ACHA division; the top 10 teams in year, we were establishing ourselves as a KU went 15-3-1 and on Feb. 23 jubilantly each division advance to the playos. decent team. e next big leap forward is celebrated a 5-2 victory over Missouri in a With only a few games remaining in the trying to make the playos, and it’s packed Silvertstein Eye Centers Arena. regular season—Jan. 19 and 20 at Mis- de nitely doable. With everybody healthy, “Something clicked, and we started souri; Feb. 3 and 4 at Robert Morris I think we have one of the better teams in winning,” Bockman says. “Everybody University in Peoria, Illinois; home games our division.”

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI iterally and guratively, it has been a e one thing he didn’t want was Llong, hard road. But these are hockey hockey. Hockey found him anyway, and, players. ey like it that way. with Whiteley’s encouragement—“She’s More online “You know you have a good team when the one who convinced me to have my you feel everyone is like your brother and gear shipped from Dallas,” he says—Steen ideographer Dan Storey’s coverage you have everyone’s back,” says junior grudgingly accepted an invitation to join a Vof KU hockey, including game forward Miles Manson, who grew up KU practice. Expectations were low. footage and interviews, can be seen at playing Kansas City hockey alongside “I was trying to have an open mind,” he kualumni.org/extras. Preston McConnell, a duo that now forms says. “Just try to have some fun, go meet KU hockey’s internet headquarters, the high-speed line that provides much of some of the guys. at rst practice, they jayhawkhockey.com, includes links to the KU’s scoring, as do Bockman, sophomore all came up to me and introduced them- team’s popular Twitter, Facebook, forward Dawson Engle and 21-year-old selves, started talking to me, and it just Instagram and YouTube pages, plus freshman defenseman Johan Steen. “We clicked. We got along from day one.” schedules, rosters, statistics and news had that a little bit here and there those Steen wanted no part of the daily rigors archives. rst couple of years. Last year it really of varsity NCAA athletics. But club Hockey home games at Centerpoint started to become evident. is year? hockey? With a couple of practices and Community Ice, adjacent to Silverstein It’s crazy.” two games a week? at felt right. Eye Centers Arena, are free. Tickets to Steen, who was born in Sweden and “We’re guys who love the game. We’re the Feb. 15 Border Showdown against moved to Dallas when he was 3, played here for school rst, but we go out there Missouri, which is played in the larger four years of elite “junior hockey” in Dallas, on the ice and we know we’ll battle for arena, can be purchased at Omaha and British Columbia. When New each other. You put on that jersey, and silversteineyecentersarena.com. York’s Niagara University last year oered you’re playing for the logo on the front, KU Recreation Services anticipates Steen a scholarship, he realized he could not the logo on the back. You’re playing soon oering a master calendar of not accept. He was cooked. for your school. You’re representing KU.” all sport-club home events at “I played around 250 junior hockey Time and money are the two things in recreation.ku.edu/sport-clubs. games, with practice every single day, plus shortest supply for college students. KU travel,” Steen says. “I just didn’t feel like hockey players choose to give generously going up there to play. So I came here.” of both, and, to a man, they say their “ e rst couple years were really tough. Steen had spent two years visiting his sacrices will all be worth it if the program Maybe you don’t want to put this in your girlfriend, KU student Faith Whiteley, on continues to grow and prosper. article, but, truthfully, it was almost quick visits to Lawrence when his schedule Preston McConnell sees resurgent team embarrassing for us to put on that jersey. allowed. He says he spent more time in pride every time he and his teammates We were going through such a hard time Lawrence than any other college town, enter their hallowed hockey locker room. trying to get this program going. But and it already felt like a second home. Amid the swirling sea of overowing seeing where this is now, throwing that “ e University of Kansas is the place I equipment bags, skates, helmets and sticks, jersey on is a very special feeling. wanted to be,” he says. “It’s the best choice the KU jersey never touches the oor. It’s a “Not very many people get to play a I’ve made so far.” matter of respect. sport with the sacred Jayhawk on the front of their jersey, representing the University of Kansas. I’m going to miss it more than anything I’ve done in college. I’m going to miss playing for KU very much.” Yo juego hockey? You’d better believe it.

Working through tight deadlines and test schedules, KU hockey players and coaches in December trekked to their practice rink in North Kansas City for a late-night photo shoot. Although ﬁnal exams prevented perfect attendance, the end-of-semester session had the Jayhawk skaters in high spirits and ready for some board-crashing hijinks.

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In his iconic downtown store, Rod Ernst carries on long family tradition of supplying tools and treasures

hances are you never even noticed defy time and trend to keep downtown world’s best popcorn popper. Cotter pins, the Gold Hammers. businesses and residents in light bulbs and thumbscrews, washers, bearings and e scent, well, that hits you furnace lters and other nuts-and-bolts of baubles. ere are obscure items (pie bird Cstraight away. e air inside 826 daily life. Once one of six downtown or cordless frother, anyone?) and personal Mass St. is a heady olfactory cocktail of old hardware stores, Ernst & Son is now the treasures for sale (a Parker double-barrel wood and brass and sweeping compound last, and in an age dominated by the that has taken a fair number of pheasants and rusted iron and more than a little dust. cavernous, industrial-scale big box, it is purportedly on the block, though every “People walk in, take a deep breath and remains stubbornly small box: Dog-eared attractive oer so far has been declined) say, ‘Ah, that old hardware store smell,’” and timeworn and bursting at the scruy and not (a box of dime safety razors—“the says Eddie Wilson, a Lawrence lm major seams, it’s a place where the usual business original Bic,” Ernst cracks—which date to who has worked here throughout his four buzzwords have no business. Vertical 1907). ere are historic pieces (a wooden years at KU. integration? You must mean the rolling bottle corker, a buggy whip socket, a “Some say, ‘We used to have a hardware ladders that put merchandise squirreled bunghole spout) and bunches of boxes and store like this where I grew up.’ It’s half away on high shelves within reach. Supply bins lled with obscure items that you store, half museum.” chain management? If you need some probably won’t ever need but will sure be And some people, fussy sorts, turn and chain, yeah, Ernst can probably supply glad to nd when you do. walk out, overwhelmed by the complete it—along with all manner of indispensable Most times, there’s music as well, jazz absence of any apparent organizational tools and delightful curiosities and the usually. A TV set may have a sports show structure. e clutter is formidable: know-how to tell the dierence. on, the volume turned low, and if it’s game Merchandise crowds higgledy-piggledy on Plugs, ratchets, sockets. Penny nails and day Ernst will be showing his Jayhawk shelves and countertops and spills from gutter spikes. A fondue set. Pasta makers pride by wearing KU gear. the same handmade bins that have both manual and electric. Christmas tree On this cold December morning, choral towered up the south wall since the place stands. ree kinds of corn sheller and the Christmas music from Westminster Abbey opened in 1905. “But we have our own swells from the speakers. e ethereal way of knowing where stu is,” Wilson choir only heightens the feeling of having says. “If I can’t nd it, I go ask Rod.” by Steven Hill stepped into a hardware cathedral. Rod is Philip Rodney Ernst, c’57, the “ ey’re not making any more like this third-generation proprietor of an old- one,” says Gregg Anderson, ’81. He’s school hardware emporium that seems to photographs by steve pupe known Ernst since 1975, when he came to

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 35 KU to study business administration and “It’s nostalgia. Everything is modern, became the rst employee Rod hired aer his dad retired. Aer a long career as a everything is electronic, everything is fast. hardware industry sales rep, he’s back at Ernst & Son. Rod kind of moves at his own pace, and when you’re “I’ve probably been in every hardware in here you’re kind of stuck at that pace. It’s not store and lumberyard in the center fourth of the United States,” Anderson says. “I a place where you should be in a hury.” —Gregg Anderson can remember maybe a dozen like this one 20 years ago, but they’re all gone now.” Looky-Lous make up a fair chunk of the daily trac. Some are out-of-towners who In a tight space between aisles Ernst at the Lawrence Turnhalle, a social club at just happen by or are dragged in by rises from his chair at a cluttered desk and the heart of the German-American Lawrence hosts; some are Lawrence moves aside various papers tacked to a community. natives who le town decades ago and are wooden shelf to reveal two Estwing Gold In 1925 Kennedy wanted out, so Ernst surprised to see the store still open. All Hammer Awards. bought his half of the business and invited have a story of an uncle, father, granddad “Grandpa got his in 1955, Dad in 1975,” son Philip Jr., ’27, then a sophomore on who brought them into this store or one he says, pointing out plaques bestowed by the Hill, to join him. Kennedy & Ernst like it. In December they come for the the tool manufacturer to mark 50 years in became Ernst & Son. Remington calendars Ernst has given away the hardware business. Roddy, as his family called him, began for decades, or simply to indulge in the Grandpa was Philip Ernst Sr., who working summers for his dad and grandpa kind of holiday shopping that requires started the store in 1905 with a partner in 1946, when he was 12. He started at KU browsing oine. e only search engine in named Kennedy. An early photograph as a business major, but found that he here is the one between Rod’s ears. shows the two men standing in front of hated accounting. A geology class red his “It’s nostalgia,” Anderson says of the the Mass Street storefront under a imagination, sparking a passion for earth store’s draw. “Everything is modern, Kennedy & Ernst sign, a bicycle on display sciences and paleontology that continues everything is electronic, everything is fast. in the front window. Philip Ernst was an today. Petroleum companies were hiring Rod kind of moves at his own pace, and early adopter, completing three 100-mile great guns at the time, so he switched when you’re in here you’re kind of stuck at bicycle rides on what was then a relatively majors but found himself “top dog on the that pace. It’s not a place where you should new transportation technology. He also dra board” when he graduated, and by be in a hurry.” competed with a gymnastics team that met the time he completed his Army hitch,

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI “ ghting the battle of the bars” in Ger- many during a Cold War lull, oil companies were no longer hiring; they were laying o. e hometown hardware store looked like a pretty good play, and he became a partner in 1961. Rod’s Gold Hammer hangs near the cash register, a brass behemoth from around 1892 that Ernst Sr. bought used in 1908. “He’s got it hooked up to the mainframe in the basement,” Anderson quips as Rod rings up a purchase. e cash register is a tting symbol for Ernst’s business philosophy: It’s old, but it still works. Why replace it? It’s an ethic that carries over to his dealings with customers—not always to the bene t of his bottom line. In a 2014 letter in the Lawrence Journal- World, a Lawrence native who moved back to town aer a long absence described his dismay at Mass Street’s shi from a retail to a restaurant district. An exception was a “truly unique” visit to Ernst & Son Hardware. A new showerhead had clogged, and fearing he’d be pressured into buying a new one elsewhere, he presented his problem to Rod Ernst and was pleased to get some good advice: Soak it overnight in vinegar and try again. “I did and it’s working just ne. Try getting that kind of service at the Legends in K.C. or even on South Iowa Street!” the letter-writer crowed. “at was a good day,” Ernst says, sharing a copy of the clipping that he keeps handy. “Made somebody happy.” Frugality is a core part of Rod Ernst’s personality, Anderson says. “He’s got probably the oldest working Lawn-Boy mower in the city. He’s got golf balls he’s probably had for 40 years. If he hits a golf ball into the woods, it’s like it’s gold-plated. He’ll look for a golf ball a looooong time.” He’s even got the original crate the cash register was shipped in, stashed away in the basement. “He doesn’t believe in the current throwaway mentality of product,” Ander- son says. “If somebody brings in a lamp or an ax with a broken handle, he’ll x it, to give something that’s still viable new life. Items old and new create a “half store, half museum” feel: Storage bins and a cash register It’s old-school: If it still has usefulness, he’ll from the early days share space with brewing supplies and an Atomic Age popcorn maker.

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 37 try to extend it. And, frankly, he doesn’t Like a lot of small businesses, Ernst & of tape—the kind caused by government charge much to do that.” Son took a hit when Walmart came to regulations, which have caused the price of Extending the life of a store that is one town. e big box stores take a bite out of this particular product to triple. Talk turns of Lawrence’s downtown treasures has his business, too. Parking, long a bugaboo to the longevity of LED lightbulbs. Propst meant balancing tradition and change. for downtown merchants, is another muses that for “people our age”—he’s 71 Nostalgia alone won’t keep the 125-year- peeve. and Ernst is 84—“it’s good news if an LED old cash register ringing. “People who are going to buy hardware, quits, because that means you’ve hung in “If you don’t change, you turn into a seems to me, want to drive up to the front there a long time.” dinosaur,” says Jon Amyx, who rents space door,” Ernst says. “ey don’t want to walk Ernst & Son has hung in—and thrived— from Ernst at the Downtown Barbershop half a block. But they go out south and because it o ers something the big stores next door. “He’s been able to stay fresh. It walk two or three blocks inside the can’t: a one-of-a-kind hometown avor always seems like they come up with new building—if they need more than one steeped in 150-plus years of hardware ideas. at’s because Rod’s very open- item—and think nothing of it.” know-how. ree Gold Hammers’ worth. minded. He’s willing to listen. Ernst & Son is still a working hardware “It’s almost like destiny,” Anderson says. “You know, if ve guys come in and ask store, and this morning business is brisk. “His grandfather had a store that became for the same thing, maybe you should start e chime that announces each new his father’s store that became his store. I carrying it. He’s been open enough to do customer keeps interrupting the Westmin- think he enjoys the interaction and the t h at .” ster singers. One patron stops by to pick fact that people come in now because it’s a up some special-order ags, while another unique place, and he gets to share that hunts for light bulbs. An out-of-town story with them.” ver the years Ernst has phased out the visitor nds herself buying an Atom Pop, a “When you walk in there, you know Obikes, wagons and hunting supplies Kansas popcorn maker manufactured on a you’re gonna run into Rod,” Amyx says. that Amyx remembers from his youth and repurposed aluminum spin “You’re coming for the added cast-iron pots and other kitchen- lathe, so the story goes, know-how, the knowledge, ware. At Anderson’s urging, he started originally used to fashion and he treats people fair. selling beer and winemaking supplies and propeller nose cones for at’s the bottom line.” equipment aer the town’s lone brewshop World War II ghter Ernst o ers a di erent folded, and now homebrewing is one of planes. Another visitor theory. “It’s because I’m the store’s strongest areas. ere’s even a comes in to soak up the stupid,” he says, laughing. Facebook page, maintained mostly by the “real hardware store” vibe. “I didn’t know anything latest in a long string of KU students Lawrence artist and else to do.” whom Rod has employed through college, man-about-town Wayne en he’s o to track and a brisk-selling line of T-shirts featur- Propst, c’71, stops by to down a tting stashed ing Rod’s trademark cowboy hat and the inquire about heat tape, somewhere Rod only knows. store’s unocial motto: “We’ve got it if we setting o a lively conversa- Aer all this time, he’s still can nd it!” tion about a di erent kind got it. If he can nd it.

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For more information visit kualumni.org/app or call 800-584-2957 Association $5,500 in membership dues in November to the Wounded Warrior Scholarship Fund, which o ers nancial assistance to qualied military service members, veterans, primary caregivers and surviving spouses or children who want to attend KU. “It was amazing to see so many alumni networks across the country come together and organize events for their communities,” says Danny Woods, j’13, assistant director of legacy & alumni programs. “We all know being a Jayhawk is about bleeding Crimson and Blue, but it’s more than that: It’s also about helping others who may not have the means or ability to help themselves.”

KU Cares Crimson and Blue Jayhawks donate time and Rock Chalk Ball to cap treasure to communities in need (3) SUBMISSIONS NETWORK Chancellor Girod’s inauguration

ast November, the KU Alumni s the University ushers in a new era LAssociation launched a new campaign Awith the inauguration of Chancellor to encourage Jayhawks nationwide to give Colorado Springs Doug Girod, Kansas City Jayhawks will back to their communities during the celebrate their alma mater’s past, present month of November. Alumni from 16 and future at the 23rd-annual Rock Chalk networks responded to the call and more Ball April 28 at the Kansas City Conven- than 130 volunteers generously donated tion Center. e ball will conclude a week their time to: of inauguration festivities. is year’s • Organize blood drives theme is “Crimson and Blue: Forever KU.” “is is a great way to celebrate a new • Collect food and clothing donations chapter in KU’s history—and honor our • Prepare and serve meals for families treasured past,” says Kelsey Hill, c’12, in need San Diego assistant director of Kansas City programs. Hosted by the Alumni Association and • Plant trees in underserved the Greater Kansas City Network, the neighborhoods annual event unites Jayhawks in the • Clean up beaches in seaside nation’s largest KU community and raises communities funds for Association programs to • Raise money for national and local advocate for KU; communicate to alumni nonprot organizations and friends in all media; recruit students and volunteers; serve current students, Alumni Association sta pitched in and alumni and KU; and unite all Jayhawks. participated in the annual United Way Chancellor Girod and his wife, Susan, campaign, raising more than $3,500—16 Kansas City will serve as honorary event chairs. Curtis percent more than last year. Several sta Marsh, j’92, director of KU Info and the members also joined alumni from the in November’s TGIT reception at the DeBruce Center, will lend his voice—and Lawrence Network to help Just Food of Adams Alumni Center donated more than his wealth of KU knowledge and tradi- Douglas County prepare for anksgiving, $200 and non-perishable food. tions—as this year’s emcee. e event will and KU faculty and sta who participated In addition, the Association donated feature silent and live auctions and the

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI A NOTE FROM HEATH opportunities, and we are teaching them about the many

Students have key role to play ways in which alumni volunteer STOREY DAN in keeping KU strong leadership and philanthropy helped create this world-class our support and dedication more than 3,000 members, we university. Yare helping us gain are well on our way to building Our goal is simple. When momentum in several vital the country’s biggest student students walk down the Hill at areas as we work to build a network—a large, captive Commencement and ocially more relevant, eective Alumni audience! join the alumni network, we Association that increases the More important, we are in want them to feel the Alumni value of the KU degree. the early stages of providing Association added real value to I believe our long-term students meaningful ways to their lives through alumni and Peterson success depends on our ability tap into the powerful Jayhawk career connections. We also to prepare current students to network around the globe, with want them to deeply appreciate volunteer, give back and help become the next generation of technology that connects them and understand their strengthen your alma mater. Jayhawk alumni leaders. Our to mentors, internships and responsibility as Jayhawks to Cheers to 2018, and Rock investments in the Student discussions with industry ensure that KU remains a Chalk! Alumni Network, in partnership leaders. We are building a premier university. Our —Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 with KU Endowment, more stronger network for all message to them: Join the KU Alumni Association than doubled student students who are willing to Alumni Association, be a president membership last fall. With invest time in these mentor, hire a Jayhawk,

Association brings a taste of the popular TV show to the Jayhawk Roundup, the STEVE PUPPE STEVE Wichita Network’s largest annual fundrais- ing event. A local KU tradition since 2002, the event moves from fall to April this year to take advantage of warmer weather. Dave, e’75, b’75, and Janet Lusk Mur n, d’75, will continue to host the Roundup at Mur n Stables, and alumni will enjoy live music, silent and live auctions, and a feast of food and her husband, Al, c’98, l’02, g’02, and drink t for royalty. co-chaired the 2005 ball, and last year she “We’ll have some great KU guests,” led the ball committee for the network promises Danielle Laerty Hoover, c’07, board. Marshall is a Life Member and a assistant director of Wichita programs, Presidents Club donor. He also is a “plus a lot of Wichita-area Jayhawks who Doug and Susan Girod longtime ball participant. love to come together for a good t i m e .” enthusiastic sounds of the Patrick Lentz Band, one of Kansas City’s premier cover Game of Hawks bands. Leading the network board’s eorts are Wichita’s Jayhawk Roundup ball committee co-chairs Sasha Flores moves to spring in ’18 Boulware, c’98, g’00, and Billy Marshall, c’00. Boulware is a Presidents Club ans of the medieval fantasy epic member and has served on the Greater F“Game of rones” are in for a special Kansas City board for several years. She treat Friday, April 13, when the Alumni

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Wintermote winner Nyberg, c’96, g’98, a Life Member and Presidents Club donor, began her DAN STOREY DAN Alumna honored for leadership service on the Association’s National on local and national level Board of Directors in 2009 and led the organization as national chair from amille Bribiesca Nyberg is the third 2014 to ’15. CJayhawk to be honored with the 2017 She is a longtime volunteer for the Dick Wintermote Volunteer of the Year Wichita Network, and she and her Award. husband, Glenn Nyberg, ’79, have partici- Named for Dick Wintermote, c’51, pated in the Jayhawk Roundup for several who served as executive director of the years, including serving two years as event Association from 1963 to 1983 and helped chairs. ey also have participated in the establish a dedicated network of Jayhawk Greater Kansas City’s Network’s Rock volunteers, the annual award honors Chalk Ball. alumni who have demonstrated extraordi- She also advocates for KU and higher nary leadership of their network and education as a member of Jayhawks for Nyberg the Association. Higher Education.

Life Members Melinda K. Lacy & Leslie A. Christopher J. Paradies & Traylor Mariah W. Whitmore e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Grace Linn Steve Parke memberships Nov. 1 through Dec. 31. For information, visit Brent R. & Amy Poore Lovett Jordan M. Pfeier kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. Margoth Bankhead Mackey Tamra M. Pierce Sarah Hendrix Mahlik Andrew J. Pjesky Richard A. & Judith E. Manka Alicia Strum Pohl Nicholas T. Agnew Jean A. Edmonds Patrick J. Martin Carrie L. Pohl Sally Baldwin Anderson Harold D. Fevurly Jr. & Susan George B. Martinez Jr. & Robert E. Pyatt Jerey A. Armstrong & Janet L. Fevurly Jennifer R. Martinez Megan R. Reed E. True Rocky Fisher Irene E. Maxﬁeld Michael J. Riedl McKenzie W. Baker Madison M. Flint Bryce J. & Elizabeth Buddig Jason & Lindsey Price Roe Elizabeth A. Brittain Brian N. & Jessica Krutty Frew McMichael Derek L. & Jennifer Shaw Lowrey Burnett John B. Gallon Patrick Meacham Schmidt Matthew W. Butterworth John Gamble III & Michelle L. Graydon J. Melia Jay & Bal K. Sharma Wynnelena C. Canio Thornbrugh Freeman L. Miller Donald C. & Nancy L. Swartz Laura D. Carey Linda Morrison Garavalia Sidney A. Miller Nicholas M. Sweatt Cathleen E. Carothers Sandra Plaskett Giord J. Brendan Mitchelson Kori L. Talbott Catherine Crice Carter Phillip A. & Marlene K. Glenn J. Michael Mitchelson Matthew G. & Paula N. Taylor Richard J. Cipolla Jr. Jason L. Haden Kelsey L. Mitchelson S. Lee Meigs Taylor Ronald W. Clement J. Eric Hallman Stuart R. Mitchelson Zachary C. & Lindsey Leonard Thornton Cooke II & Joan Kristina J. Hartman Michael J. & Lora Jennings Thompson Spencer Cooke Charles E. Hartmann III Mizell Gerald R. Trebilcock Matthew D. Crawford Edward A. & Wendy Ewing William R. Morton Jr. & Karen M. Trifono Matthew T. Crossland Hobart Cheryl A. Morton Hailey E. Trudo Alexandra K. Dahlgren Brian K. Johnson Aundrea C. Nosinger Sarah K. Vanlandingham Chelan David Caleb W. Johnson & Jennifer Constantine J. Ochs Aubree J. Weekley Lisa Miguelino Duchman D. Mendez-Fisher Benjamin J. Orlowski Nicolle S. Witt Husain A. H. H. Ebrahim Megan A. Ketchum Javan P. Owens Thomas K. Zampano

For information about national board members of the Association, visit kualumni.org/about/board-members.

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ISSUE 1, 2018 | 43 Class Notes by Heather Biele Steve Hattrup, g’76, is vice president 76 of nance at Oceanic Time Warner Cable. He makes his home in Honolulu with his wife, Cynthia, assoc. Lois Wisler, d’40, celebrated her Chris and Amanda, and three grandchil- Sally Sedgwick, g’76, lives in Bigfork, 40 100th birthday in January. She’s a dren, Cole, Amelia and Madeleine. Minnesota, where she’s executive director retired teacher in Sun City, Arizona. Jay Lagree, c’66, is a city commissioner of marketing at Bigfork Valley Hospital. in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he Ken Stone, j’76, contributing editor to Emily Hollis Pﬁtsch, b’46, lives in lives with Enid Sailer Lagree, d’67. He is the Times of San Diego, in October 46 Grinnell, Iowa. Her late husband, retired a er serving 30 years in the U.S. received 14 awards, including several John, g’42, who coached for 50 years at Air Force. rst-place honors, at the San Diego Press Grinnell College, wrote From Underdog to Club’s Excellence in Journalism Awards. Winner: In Pursuit of 100% Performance, Marsha Joyce Driskill, d’67, retired which was published last year. 67 as chair of the mathematics depart- Mary Hughes Boll, h’77, lives in Las ment at Aims Community College in 77 Vegas, where she supervises Vernon Smith, g’52, in November Greeley, Colorado. laboratory services at Valley Health 52 presented “On Learning from Carolyn Weatherbie Edwards, d’67, Systems. Proving Yourself Wrong: Two Cases from retired as professor at the University of Galen Oelkers, b’77, g’78, president of Experimental Economics with Implica- Northern Colorado. She makes her home the Zeist Company in Atlanta, was elected tions and Insights for the Economy” at with Stanley, c’66, m’70, in Greeley, to the board of directors of the Atlanta Rice University in Houston. He is the Colorado. Symphony Orchestra. He serves on the George L. Argyros Chair in Finance and Michael Farley, c’67, l’74, g’80, retired Economics and a research scholar at a er 18 years as magistrate judge for the Chapman University in Orange, Califor- 10th Judicial District in Johnson County. School Codes Letters that follow names nia. In 2002 he was awarded a Nobel Prize He lives in Olathe. indicate the school from which alumni earned in economics. degrees. Numbers show their class years. Ronald Yates, j’69, wrote e Lost a School of Architecture, Donald Hopkins, c’58, is a retired Years of Billy Battles, the third book 69 Design and Planning 58 attorney in Emeryville, California. in the award-winning Finding Billy Battles b School of Business His career includes posts as assistant dean trilogy, which was published in December. c College of Liberal Arts of students and assistant executive vice and Sciences chancellor at the University of California Ronald Borchardt, PhD’70, d School of Education in Berkeley and as an attorney for the 70 Distinguished Professor Emeritus e School of Engineering NAACP in New York City. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at KU, f School of Fine Arts joined the scientic advisory board of g Master’s Degree John McGrew, b’60, lives in RiverVest Venture Partners. He lives h School of Health Professions 60 Lawrence with his wife, Rita. He’s a in Lawrence. j School of Journalism real estate broker and developer. l School of Law m School of Medicine Jim Poplinger, b’72, is president of n School of Nursing Stephen Little, c’61, g’63, and his 72 Avlex Corporation and a council- p School of Pharmacy 61 wife, Irene, are enjoying retirement member for the City of Fairway. PharmD School of Pharmacy in Green Valley, Arizona. s School of Social Welfare Catherine McGuire, l’73, retired in u School of Music Gregs Thomopulos, e’65, chairman 73 September a er 44 years at the AUD Doctor of Audiology 65 emeritus of Stanley Consultants, Securities and Exchange Commission, DE Doctor of Engineering was inducted in the National Academy of where she last served as counsel in the DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Construction. He received the Distin- division of trading and markets. She has DNP Doctor of Nursing Practice guished Engineering Service Award from been honored with several awards DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy the School of Engineering in 2002. throughout her career, including the KU EdD Doctor of Education OTD Doctor of Occupational School of Law Distinguished Alumna Therapy Larry, Judith “Jaj” b’66, and Award, which she received in 2004. PhD Doctor of Philosophy 66 Jackson Geiger, f’67, celebrated Timothy Rake, c’73, makes his home in SJD Doctor of Juridical Science their 50th wedding anniversary in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he’s a retired (no letter) Former student Colorado Springs with their children, translator. assoc Associate member of the Alumni Association

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nance committee and the music and can Health Council. She is the Fred and at Textron Financial Corporation. artistic planning committee. Virginia Merrill Distinguished Professor Rolfe Mandel, g’80, PhD’91, University Robert Rowland, c’77, PhD’83, professor of Advanced Studies at KU. Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at and director of graduate studies in the KU, in October was named director of the department of communication studies at Bob Ulin, g’79, a retired U.S. Army Kansas Geological Survey. He also serves as KU, in October received the Senior 79 colonel, is chairman and CEO of senior scientist and executive director Scholar Award at the American Literary the Center for Transitional Leadership in of the Odyssey Geoarchaeology Research Translators Association Conference in Leavenworth. His h book, Transitions Program. Minneapolis. 2.0: A Field Guide for Mid-Career Miluse Saskova-Pierce, g’80, PhD’87, Professionals and Veterans Seeking New professor of Slavic languages at the MARRIED Challenges in the Business World, was University of Nebraska, serves as the Czech Lawrence Kampa, j’77, to Darcy Metzler, published in July. Republic’s honorary consul in Lincoln. Aug. 26 in Santa Barbara, California. ey Rabbi Scott White, j’79, is the spiritual live in San Francisco, where he’s an leader of Congregation Ohev Sholom in Eric Atwood, c’81, is a psychiatrist independent agricultural commodities Prairie Village. 81 at Watkins Student Health Center. He broker. Carol Yost Williams, d’79, d’80, is a commutes from Topeka. paraprofessional and special-education Jeery Curtis, m’81, a cardiologist and Bonnie Weaver Battey, PhD’78, is a teacher for the Avenue City School internist at Hays Medical Center, received 78 researcher and nursing educator in District in Missouri. She and Dennis, the Trailblazer Award from the Kansas Antioch, California. m’82, live in Savannah, Missouri, and have chapter of the American College of Pat Peery, j’78, l’81, lives in Lawrence, three sons. Cardiology. He and his wife, Connie, live in where he’s senior vice president and Hays. principal at Lane 4 Property Group/Kla Laura Ice, d’80, was recognized Realty. 80 as an Outstanding Woman in Kyle Eldred, b’82, is president of Mabel Lyddon Rice, PhD’78, in October Business by the Wichita Business 82 Frankston Packaging Company in joined the education board of the Ameri- Journal. She’s deputy general counsel Plano, Texas.

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Jerey Wheat, c’86, directs cyber 86 operations at Qualitest. He and his wife, Gabrielle, live in Shawnee with their children, Madison and Brandon, who both attend KU.

Lars Leon, b’87, is a resource-shar- 87 ing librarian and head of organizational development for KU Libraries. Dimitrios Papadopoulos, m’87, is a radiation oncology specialist at Health Quest Medical Practice in New York. He lives in LaGrangeville. Alex Rappoport, c’87, lives in Saugerties, New York, where he’s an independent cinematographer. Cheryl Karczewski Rathbun, s’87, was promoted to chief clinical o cer at Saint Francis Community Services in Salina, where she has worked for the past 39 years. Jennifer Causey Schwendemann, c’87, j’87, is associate general counsel and senior

director of risk management at Littler in St. Louis. Kimberley Tyson, l’87, is a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit in Denver. Bruce MacGregor, c’82, directs customer of the state’s 2017 sesquicentennial. care at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield. He Elizabeth Schartz, l’88, was elected makes his home in Elbert, Colorado. Tracey Campbell, j’84, is CEO 88 to KU Endowment’s board of Lee Ann Hunt Martin, j’82, lives in 84 of BRIDGE Healthcare Partners trustees. She lives in Dallas, where she’s a Lenexa, where she manages corporate in Denver, where she lives with her partner at ompson & Knight. communications at RailWorks. husband, Mark. Matilda “Tilly” Woodward, g’82, is R. Todd Slawson, e’84, was elected to Trisha Gurss Betts, c’89, is registrar curator of academic and community KU Endowment’s board of trustees. He is 89 at Stormont Vail Health in Topeka. outreach at Grinnell College’s Faulconer president of Slawson Companies and Deborah Chasteen, PhD’89, is the A. Gallery in Grinnell, Iowa. oversees its oil and gas, real estate and Major and Dorothy Hull Chair of Com- hospitality operations. munication in Business and Leadership David Barbe, m’83, in June was and professor of communication at 83 elected president of the American Craig Cain-Borgman, g’85, manages William Jewell College in Liberty, Medical Association. He is a physician and 85 technology incubation at BASF Missouri. vice president of regional operations at Corporation. He lives in Emmaus, Joe Courtright, p’89, president and CEO Mercy Clinic Family Medicine in Moun- Pennsylvania. of USA Drug Stores in Pine Blu, Arkan- tain Grove, Missouri, where he makes his Stephen McAllister, c’85, l’88, was sas, will be honored this spring with the home with his wife, Debbie. conrmed by the U. S. Senate to serve as KU School of Pharmacy Distinguished Andrea Warren, g’83, lives in Prairie the U.S. attorney for Kansas. He is Service Award. He also serves as principal Village, where she’s a writer. Her book Hampton Distinguished Professor at with Dale Capital Partners and president Pioneer Girl: A True Story of Growing Up KU School of Law. of CapRocq Pharma real estate fund. on the Prairie was included on the Joanna Rupp, b’85, assistant vice Steven Kaster, m’89, is chief medical Nebraska Literary president and managing director o cer at Medical City McKinney in Texas. Heritage Association’s of private equities at the University Paul Smith, c’89, is vice president and Nebraska 150 Book of Chicago, was elected to KU Endow- general counsel at FINCA, a nonprot List in celebration ment’s board of trustees. organization in Washington, D.C.

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI John Milburn, j’90, c’98, directs term as attorney general for the State of Mudrick & Gragson in Topeka. 90 legislative and public aairs for the Kansas. Joe Mosko, j’91, executive producer at Kansas Department of Administration in MK Films in Chicago, has been in the lm Topeka. He commutes from Lawrence, David Adams, l’91, a personal injury production industry for the past 27 years. where he lives with Margaret Dunn 91 and bankruptcy attorney in Olathe, He lives in Northbrook, Illinois, with his Milburn, b’98. has been practicing law for 25 years. wife and three children. Tim Schantz, l’90, was promoted Duminda DeSilva, c’91, is senior vice Ron Seeber, c’91, in November was to president of Troon in Scottsdale, president of internet and direct operations named president and CEO of the Arizona. He’s been with the golf and at Dean & DeLuca. Kansas Grain and Feed Association. club management company since 1998. John Hutton, c’91, l’94, was He previously served KGFA as senior Derek Schmidt, j’90, SJD’16, in June was named to the Best Lawyers in America vice president of government aairs. elected to a one-year term as president of list in real estate law, commercial James Stanga, m’91, is a physician at the National Association of Attorneys litigation and construction law. He’s Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, General. He’s currently serving his second managing partner of Hensen, Hutton, Wisconsin. He specializes in primary care

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino STEVE PUPPE STEVE

Exhibit shares vet’s story northwest of Nuremberg, Meyer and from combat to tribunals a few others in his unit were packing their bags when they learned the ssigned to guard a key Rhine River Army had rescinded their orders in Abridge for a night until reinforce- favor of others who had accumu- ments arrived the following morning, Pfc. lated more points for the coveted John Meyer Jr. and his 1st Infantry trip home. Division platoonmates dug in to keep Instead, Meyer, who had brief watch over the German town of Remagen’s experience as a drasman while comings and goings. eir hoped-for quiet working for 11 weeks in a California night did not last. shipyard and 23 engineering credit During a lethal exchange with a German hours earned during specialized tank—a Tommy-gun burst felled the tank’s training before being switched to the commander, followed by German gre- infantry, was summoned to Nurem- nades, an American bazooka blast, and a berg, where he built courtroom tank round that ripped through the house models for two architects charged where they’d taken cover in a basement— with designing the layout for Nazi While assisting with war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Meyer, e’49, learned a lesson that has tribunals. Purple Heart honoree John Meyer Jr. did not let the remained with him ever since: He also was assigned the “dubious dramatic tribunals overwhelm him: “I was just doing “You can’t die of fright. If you could, you honor” of encasing macabre remains my job, I guess.” would have been dead a long time before.” of Holocaust victims in a plastic-like Meyer’s artifacts from his World War II material so they could be handled adventures are on exhibition until April 1 respectfully when presented as evidence of the Nazi defendants, “ey seemed to at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, during the war crimes trials. be pretty happy.” where he has lived since his KU gradua- “I did have the opportunity to sit in for When nally told he could remain on tion and worked as a civil engineer for the an hour the rst day, and then I got a duty for the duration of the tribunals or Kansas Department of Transportation. ticket to go in on the 21st day for a couple ship home, Meyer didn’t hesitate. He’d seen He was wounded by a mortar at the of hours,” Meyer recalls. “So I got to see all enough. 1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest. Aer the defendants, which was interesting.” “In a sense,” he says, “we felt like it was recuperating in England, he spent the Asked to share a private memory from over with, unlike some of these other closing stages of the war in Czechoslovakia his time as an eyewitness to history, a things we’ve gotten involved with that and Bavaria. moment unlikely to be learned in history never end. So that was pretty good While stationed in a town 35 miles books, Meyer oers a thin smile and says satisfaction, I think.”

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 47 Take a closer look at these Flying Jayhawks adventures!

Town and Country Life July 6-14, 2018 Classic Germany July 11-25, 2018 The unspoiled nature of England lies in its idyllic university Your small-group tour of Germany includes a cruise on towns, pastoral villages and picturesque countrysides. the legendary Rhine, vistas of the Black Forest and the Enjoy this extraordinary opportunity to travel in a small Bavarian Alps, and exploration of culturally rich Munich group to the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge and Berlin. After an excursion through the Rhine River and through the Cotswold region, discovering the true Valley, explore the town of Heidelberg, wind through the character of England’s town and country life. Black Forest and visit Neuschwanstein Castle.

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and emergency medicine. Colorado Springs, Colorado. She’s a former prosecutor who lives in Matthew Weishaar, b’91, is vice Dave Blomquist, c’94, g’00, l’00, is Prairie Village. president of nance at Diversicare in underwriting counsel at Chicago Title in Karen Cooper, g’97, ’02, is associate Brentwood, Tennessee. Overland Park. He makes his home in executive director of Turfgrass Producers Olathe. International. She lives in Seguin, Texas. Armen Kurdian, e’93, a U.S. Navy Robert Gibbs, c’94, m’98, in September 93 captain, directs engineering and was elected president of the Kansas Melissa Hoag Sherman, c’98, l’01, is product support at the Naval Supply Medical Society. He has been a radiologist 98 partner at Spencer Fane in Over- Systems Command in Philadelphia, in Parsons since 2003. land Park. She joined the rm’s litigation where he lives with his wife, Lindi, and Kimberly Hobbs, j’94, is vice president group. their son, Gregory. of corporate partnerships and premium Amy Akers Smith, c’98, lives in Wichita, Brent Learned, f’93, lives in Oklahoma sales for the Kansas City Chiefs. where she’s executive assistant at the City, where he’s a painter and sculptor John McEachern, m’94, is a surgeon and Independent School. whose art depicts Native American wound specialist at Newton Medical culture. Center. Je Chaltas, g’99, a cartoonist in Michael Scott, c’93, is manager of the Ron Montgomery, g’94, works at 99 Shawnee, published Dogbone City of Waxahachie in Texas. Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Boulevard, a compilation of his one-panel Texas, where he’s director of bands. cartoons. BORN TO: Carrie Moore Cox, n’99, is a registered Kenneth Rivera, c’93, and his wife, Nga Brian Facklam, l’95, is a supervisory nurse at UCHealth in Colorado. She lives Nguyen, son, Tiki, Aug. 27 in Evans, 95 U.S. probation ocer in Seattle. in Windsor with Josh, d’00, ’01, who Colorado, where they make their home. teaches at Windsor Middle School, and Jenifer Naaf Ashford, l’97, has their three sons. Richelle Ahlvers, ’94, is principal 97 been named magistrate judge for the Julie Hamill, c’99, manages the business 94 architect at Broadcom Limited in 10th Judicial District in Johnson County. oce at MD Labs in Reno, Nevada.

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Tara Fisher Moorman, f’99, is a water- from the Wichita Women Attorney’s Jonathan Tallman, a’02, works at color artist whose exhibition “Letters to Association. Dewberry in Elgin, Illinois, where he was My Ancestors” was featured last year at the David Cronin, e’01, g’06, lives in recently promoted to senior project Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa. Lawrence, where he’s the city engineer. manager and regional public safety Anthony Peters, c’99, is a physician William McNulty, c’01, is a former director for the Midwest. assistant at Sioux Center Medical Clinic. Marine and founder emeritus of Team Amity Zupancic Vacarella, c’02, resides He and his wife, Heather, and their two Rubicon, a global response organization in Portland, Oregon, where she’s a sons live in Primghar, Iowa. that recruits military veterans to provide physician at Nature Nurture Family Erica VanRoss, c’99, works at Schnuck disaster relief. He received an honorary Health. Markets Inc. in St. Louis, where she’s vice doctorate from KU in May 2017. He’s president and head of communications. currently working on a book. MARRIED She makes her home in Creve Coeur. Chris Stoppel, b’01, g’02, directs John Smagner, g’02, PhD’04, to Mark enrollment operations and strategy in Van Overbeke, Oct. 14 in Chicago, where Brian Harper, c’00, is CEO of academic services and enrollment John is studying interior design at the 00 Rouse Properties, a real-estate management at the University of Nebraska School of the Art Institute of Chicago. investment company in New York City. in Lincoln. Lisa Barranco Logan, d’00, is a licensed Jeremy Borchert, e’03, is a senior massage therapist in Shawnee. She lives in MARRIED 03 engineer at RTI Surgical in Austin, Olathe with her son and daughter. Melissa Thomson, j’01, to Eric Evel, Texas. He lives in Cedar Park with his Oct. 14 in Overland Park, where they wife, Kimberly, and their six children. Matthew Breidenthal, e’01, is senior make their home. Melissa manages Matthew Braaten, c’03, is an informa- 01 vice president and regional leader of business development at TREKK Design engineering at HOK in Atlanta. Group in Kansas City. Amy Fellows Cline, l’01, an attorney at Triplett Woolf Garretson in Wichita, Christopher Sook, l’02, is partner at received the 2017 Louise Mattox Award 02 Jeter Law Firm in Hays.

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI tion technology analyst at MEDITECH in Michael Stern, j’03, is senior vice Jesse Atwell, c’04, has been Westwood, Massachusetts. He and his president and global account director at 04 promoted to associate partner at wife, Angela, live in Clinton with their Leo Burnett in Chicago. He lives in Triple 8 Management in Austin, Texas. two children. Northbrook, Illinois. Ashley Peterson Boerner, f’04, lives in Heather Nameth Bren, g’03, works at Los Angeles, where she’s a professional Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, MARRIED organizer at Chaos Overruled. where she’s associate professor of art and Benjamin Walker, c’03, l’05, to Hilary Adam John, b’04, manages accounts at design. Huber, Oct. 13 in New York City, where Octagon in Chicago. Mark Gencarelli, c’03, ’04, owns he’s partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. Christina Warinner, c’04, is a molecular KCMEX Tortilleria with his wife, Marissa. anthropologist at the University of ey make their home in Leawood. BORN TO: Oklahoma in Norman. Melissa Nguyen, c’03, is a systems Sarah Coulter, f’03, and her husband, Nathan White, l’04, is executive vice analyst for student information at KU. Nicholas Ehle, daughter, Calla, May 13 president of Sanford Medical Center in She commutes from Shawnee. in New York City. Fargo, North Dakota.

PROFILE by Heather Biele STEVE PUPPE STEVE Animal welfare advocate rights, she started researching local laws. When she discovered that there were ﬁnds niche as attorney several municipalities in Kansas City—and atie Bray Barnett has always been an across the nation—enforcing these types Kanimal lover. Growing up in Topeka, of bans, she dedicated herself to animal she had several pets: three dogs, a cat, a advocacy and decided to go to law school. few birds—even a couple of cows on her At KU, Barnett founded the Student grandparents’ farm. Her passion took her Animal Legal Defense Fund chapter and to Tylertown, Mississippi, in 2005 to help started the law school’s Animal Cruelty with animal rescue eorts in the wake of Prosecution Clinic, where she worked Hurricane Katrina. She returned from that closely with the Lawrence Humane Society trip with a Staordshire bull terrier, whom and law enforcement ocers to ensure she adopted and aectionately named cruelty cases in Douglas County were Katrina. prosecuted to the fullest extent. In 2011, A few weeks later, at her home in Kansas she received the school’s Walter Hier- City, she got a knock on the door. It was an steiner Outstanding Service Award for “Katie is an amazing asset for the animal animal control ocer, who told Barnett her contributions to the legal profession welfare world,” says Kate Meghji, executive there had been a complaint about her and society. director of the Lawrence Humane Society. having a pit bull, a breed forbidden by city Aer graduating, Barnett traveled across “We’re really lucky she’s in Kansas.” ordinance in certain parts of the metro the nation, working as a legislative area. Barnett hadn’t realized that dogs like attorney for Best Friends Animal Society, Katrina were considered pit bulls, and she an animal rescue and advocacy organiza- was shocked to learn she would need to tion based in Utah, before returning to her in Lawrence and Douglas County, some of either relinquish her or move to a dierent home state. “It really became obvious to which are outdated by nearly 20 years. city. Unwilling to surrender Katrina to the me that there’s a lot of stu that needs to When she’s not practicing animal law, authorities, she moved to a dierent part be done here in Kansas, and there are no Barnett and her husband, Anthony, focus of Johnson County that didn’t have animal law attorneys,” she says. on their new project, the Symbiotic breed-specic bans. But the experience le In 2012, Barnett started her own law Behavioral Treatment Center, which helps her shaken. rm in Lawrence, where she specializes in people and pets heal through the benets “It was very scary, and I didn’t under- animal law legislation and represents local of the human-animal bond. stand what was happening,” says Barnett, municipalities and animal welfare organi- “I’ve done so much across the country,” l’11. zations. She’s currently collaborating with Barnett says, “but I live in Lawrence and I Determined to learn more about the Lawrence Humane Society to improve want to make things better for people and breed-specic legislation and pet owners’ city ordinances and county animal codes their pets in Douglas County.”

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Court. She and her husband, Brandon, live LK Architecture in Wichita, where he in Topeka with their two sons. makes his home with his wife, Lucinda, Michael Heryford, g’06, was promoted and their two children. to U.S. Navy captain. He is a supply corps Dalena McGrew, g’10, manages nances ocer and directs logistics training at at Blue Star Families, a nonpro t organiza- Aoat Training Group in San Diego. tion for military family support. She lives Becky Atkinson Alley, g’05, is an Jamie Melzer, ’06, is founder of Water- in Kansas City with her daughter, Mad- 05 artist, lecturer and director of melon Road, a fruit snack company in elyn, who recently turned 3. Bolivar Art Gallery at the University of New York City. James McIntosh, c’10, m’14, is a family Kentucky School of Art and Visual Jaison Moras, e’06, was promoted to medicine physician at Cotton O’Neil in Studies. In May she received the inaugural vice president of electrical engineering at Wamego. South Arts State Fellowship for Kentucky. Cuhaci & Peterson Architects in Orlando, Wesley Meixelsperger, c’10, is an Kimberly Bentrott, m’05, who practices Florida. account executive at DSI, a soware family medicine at Centura Health in Nicole Eckert Stephenson, d’06, leads company in Kansas City. Idaho Springs, Colorado, received the the eld product specialist team at Cook Chelsea Montgomery Powell, c’10, 2017 Physician of the Year Award from the MyoSite. She and her husband, Tom, live m’14, is a pediatrician at HaysMed. Center for Health Progress. in Leawood with their two sons. Angela Harness Cline, c’05, g’07, is Drew Case, c’11, j’11, is a communi- assistant city manager of Morgantown, Alison Gaines, g’07, is conductor 11 cations specialist at AABB, a nonpro t West Virginia. 07 of the College of DuPage Orchestra organization in Bethesda, Maryland. Stephanie Lovett-Bowman, c’05, j’05, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and assistant Brianna Barnes Charles, PharmD’11, l’10, is of counsel at Spencer Fane in conductor of the Elmhurst Symphony. lives in Jackson, Maine, where she’s a Kansas City. Hilda Audardottir-Goulay Rock, c’07, clinical pharmacist for the Veterans Health Heidi Mehl, c’05, g’10, is a researcher at m’14, is a primary care physician at Administration. the Nature Conservancy in Topeka. Winchester Family Physicians. Megan Do, c’11, j’11, directs marketing Benjamin Simon, c’05, lives in Chicago, Jaime Zazove, c’07, lives in Chicago, at Live Nation Entertainment in where he’s senior counsel at Chicago where she’s a digital strategist at LotLinx. Cleveland. Board Options Exchange. Dylan Feik, g’11, is city manager of Justin Steinert, h’05, m’12, is an Ashley Benes, f’08, g’14, manages Calistoga, California. orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine 08 corporate and partnership giving at Timothy Hornik, s’11, a retired U.S. specialist at Regional Health Medical Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Army captain and CEO of Blind Not Clinic in Rapid City, South Dakota. James Sumaya, b’08, is vice president of Alone, is one of eight KU students to Kevin Ward, d’05, a senior wealth Tryperion Partners in Los Angeles. He and receive a Wounded Warrior Scholarship manager at Mariner Wealth Advisors in his wife, Stefanie, live in El Segundo, for the 2017-’18 academic year. He is Leawood, in October won the Topgolf California. pursuing a doctoral degree in therapeutic Tour World Championship in Las Vegas. science at KU Medical Center and lives in Adrian Zink, c’05, published his rst Allison Atwood, b’09, is vice Lawrence with his wife, Cate, and their book, Hidden History of Kansas, in 09 president of the Halifax Group in two daughters. November. He works at the National Washington, D.C. Gina Gerstner Meagher, j’11, is a public Archives at Kansas City. Nathan Davis, b’09, lives in Houston, relations and content manager at Smith where he manages regional sales at Luceco. Group. She and her husband, Dan, live in BORN TO: Marti Funke, c’09, g’11, manages Lenexa. Elaine Fukunaga, f’05, and her husband, collections and coordinates exhibitions at Carrie Pennewell O’Laughlin, j’11, Christopher Whiting, daughter, Aspen the University of Mississippi Museum and manages marketing at Dimagi in Cam- Coralie, Sept. 23 in Zurich. Historic Houses. She and her husband, bridge, Massachusetts. Wayne, make their home in Oxford. Carolyn Regimand, c’11, is a senior Andrew Coleman, b’06, g’08, owns Sierra Falter Poulson, c’09, lives in executive search coordinator at B.E. Smith 06 USA Expat CPA in Estonia. Omaha, where she’s an attorney for Union in Lenexa. Jennifer Donnally, c’06, is a visiting Paci c Railroad. Marsha Spicer Toler, g’11, is a retired professor of history and gender and administrative assistant for the Shawnee women’s studies at Knox College in James Bornholdt, e’10, a’10, works at police department. She lives in Kansas Galesburg, Illinois. 10 CRB in St. Louis, where he’s an City. Lori Dougherty-Bichsel, l’06, is adminis- architectural engineer. Hannah Barnes Weekley, c’11, works at trative judge of the Topeka Municipal Patrick Johnson, g’10, is a job captain at BHC RHODES in Overland Park, where

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Nominate a worthy Jayhawk!

ince 1975 the Fred Ellsworth Medallion has Shonored individuals “who have provided unique and signi cant service to KU.”

Fred Ellsworth Medallion recipients are honored by the Association in the fall and introduced during a home football game.

Past winners have been leaders in Kansas higher education, members of University boards and committees, consultants for KU projects and donors to the University.

If someone you know has continually shared time, talents and resources to bene t KU, submit a nomination today!

To submit a nomination, contact the KU Alumni Association by March 31 at 800-584-2957 or kualumni.org/awards she’s a geographic information systems to receive a Wounded Warrior Scholarship Michael Martinovich, c’12, works in analyst. for the 2017-’18 academic year. Jimmy is government a airs at ONE Gas in Tulsa, currently pursuing a master’s degree in where he makes his home. Tyler Brevik, c’12, is an account information technology and lives in Lee’s Lucas Noll, d’12, teaches at Hayden 12 executive at IMA Financial Group in Summit, Missouri, with his wife, Megan, High School in Topeka. He lives in Wichita. and their four children. Nortonville with his wife, Sara, and their Taylor Calcara, l’12, is an attorney and Joel Griths, l’12, is an associate daughter. partner at Watkins Calcara in Great Bend, attorney at Leverage Law Group in Maria Pirotte, n’12, is a traveling nurse where he lives with his wife, Kelly, and Leawood. at Aya Healthcare in New York City. She their daughter. Katherine Krause Hill, c’12, h’13, g’15, is also is a nurse preceptor at KU Medical James Gentile, b’12, a U.S. Marine who an occupational therapist at Ability KC. Center. served in Iraq, is one of eight KU students She and Brian, e’12, live in Leawood. Heather Dietz Schrant, PharmD’12,

PROFILE by Steven Hill

Teacher of year award is investigations into compel- ﬁrst step for D.C. reformer ling historical questions. For instance, should Alexander hen he graduated from the School the Great be called great? (2) HOWARD PAUL COURTESY Wof Education, Paul Howard “I’ve taken certain stances dutifully followed Dean Rick Ginsberg’s about what I think is the right request that seniors write their career goals way to do things, so to get the on a card. During commencement award validates the choices ceremonies Ginsberg read aloud Howard’s I’ve made,” Howard says. goal: “to reform urban education.” “But it’s also about what we’ve In November Howard emailed the dean done as a school. You can’t “An urban school is not the stereotypes you see in movies or with a status report on that loy aim— get these kinds of teaching on the news,” says teacher Paul Howard. “There’s a lot of good news that he’d won the 2018 Washington, awards without good work work going on here and these are really great kids.” D.C., Teacher of the Year Award. being done by the kids.” e $7,500 prize, sponsored by the Howard gravitated to Council of Chief State School Ocers, is teaching aer aiding Lawrence teens with the second teacher of the year recognition traumatic brain injuries. As a transitional Backus was tough, especially classroom Howard received in 2017. He was also living specialist, he was oen in schools management. named the D.C. winner of the “52 State advocating for clients and helping them “I’m a Kansas kid, and this school was History Teachers of the Year” award from study. like nothing I’d ever been a part of,” he the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American “e work I did was important, but it says. “It took me a while to gure out that History. at honor carries a $3,000 prize. felt like a Band-Aid on some pretty serious instead of code-switching to teacher talk, I “It’s validation for sure,” says wounds,” he says. “I decided had to talk to kids like I’d talk to adults, Howard, d’13, now in his h what people really needed was not viewing them as kids or students but year teaching seventh- and someone to help them earlier as people.” eighth-grade social studies at on, and education was the Reforming urban education isn’t as LaSalle-Backus Education route to go.” simple as winning awards, Howard knows. Campus, which in 2012 was Named a Teacher of “It’s a rst step. I’m doing what I can in listed among the district’s 40 Promise as a senior, Howard my classroom. I’m a course chair for the lowest performing schools. His felt “super prepared” to design district, so I write curriculum and train inquiry-based approach lessons and credits KU for other teachers on things I know have challenges students to think setting up his student teaching worked in my classroom. It starts to critically and use primary Howard in urban Kansas City schools. spread, little by little, classroom by sources to conduct their own Still, his rst year at LaSalle- classroom.”

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 55 Class Notes manages the pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison. Chris Stamerjohn, b’12, is president of Whisha, a specialty coee distributor in Greenbrae, California.

BORN TO: Daniel, c’12, and Kelsey Shaw Petrosky, l’13, son, Peter, Aug. 25 in Kansas City, where he joins a sister, Caroline, 2. Daniel is a captain in the Marine Corps.

Danyelle Damme Buschbom, g’13, is 13 a media buyer at Retirement HQ. Sameh Elghzali, g’13, directs business applications and architecture at Interface Inc. He and his wife, Rihab, assoc., make their home in Overland Park. Lauren Brittain Merrill, ’13, is co-owner and business manager at Great Plains Digital Media in Andover. She and her husband, Jerey, have a daughter and live in Colwich. Nicole Mosley, m’13, is a physician at the Franciscan Physician Network. She lives in Merrillville, Indiana. Donald “DJ” Schepker, PhD’13, is an assistant professor of strategic management in the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Philip Harms, b’14, is a nancial analyst William Hammers, c’15, specializes in Carolina. He resides in Columbia with his at Bell Helicopter in Dallas. quality assurance and control at Great wife, Kristen, and their daughter. Caleb Hays, g’14, is associate counsel for Plains Laboratory in Lenexa. He com- Erin Schultz, c’13, is a component the National Republican Congressional mutes from Lawrence. engineer at Crane Aerospace & Electronics Committee. Bret Koch, d’15, g’17, coordinates in Lynnwood, Washington. Mason Lent, b’14, l’17, lives in Wichita, programs at the College of Charleston in Jonathon Schweer, c’13, teaches math where he’s an associate at Hite, Fanning & Charleston, South Carolina. for Wichita public schools. Honeyman. Benjamin Leinwetter, c’15, works at Darcy Yunker, b’13, lives in Wichita, Tamim Mahayni, m’14, is a physician at Toshiba in Denver, where he’s a solutions where she’s a human resource information the McFarland Clinic in Ames, Iowa. consultant. systems analyst at HNTB Companies. Chelsea Weeks Meiller, j’14, coordinates StaNisha Lott, c’15, is a social media meetings and events at ORS Nasco in specialist and client adviser at Louis MARRIED Tulsa, Oklahoma. She and Stephen, u’14, Vuitton in Dallas. Holden Beier-Green, c’13, to Louise live in Norman. Kevin McCarthy, m’15, is an orthopedic Haven Ashley, Sept. 23 in Leadville, Ryan Terry, d’14, is a corporate account surgeon at HSHS Medical Group Ortho- Colorado. Holden is a post-production executive for the Dallas Mavericks. pedic & Sports Medicine in O’Fallon, system specialist at Team People in Falls Illinois. Church, Virginia. ey make their home Amanda Angell, l’15, makes her Emily Meisenheimer, c’15, is a customer in Silver Spring, Maryland. 15 home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, service representative at the Lawrence where she’s an associate attorney at John Journal-World. Dillon Davis, c’14, directs communi- D. Wheeler & Associates. Stephen Opskar, d’15, coordinates 14 cations at Kansas Independent Alexander Fortunato, c’15, works at tness and wellness services at Furman Pharmacy Service Corporation. He lives in PeopleAdmin in Shawnee, where he’s team University in Greenville, South Carolina. Topeka. lead for product support. Joseph Stephens, b’15, is CEO of Motor

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Wichita, where she’s a cabin electrical engineer at Textron Aviation. It’s almost this easy. John Davison, b’17, works at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, where he’s ! an assistant manager of accounts payable. Dallas Deery, b’17, makes her home in Chicago, where she manages accounts at ESPN. Corrine Dorrian, j’17, is a news producer at KSNT-TV in Topeka. Dana El-Shoubaki, j’17, works in public relations at Bene t Cosmetics in San Francisco. Alyssa Ferguson, d’17, teaches at West Oxford Elementary School in Oxford, North Carolina. Ryan Fischer, m’17, was honored last year with the Holmes High School Outstanding Alumnus Award in Coving- Jayhawk License Plate purchases and renewals ton, Kentucky. He lives in Lexington, are now easier with one payment to your where he’s a dermatologist. county treasurer. A $50 annual tax-deductible Laura Furney, j’17, lives in Berkeley, contribution to the KU Alumni Association is California, where she produces videos for still part of the cost, but now you can pay it intercollegiate athletics at the University of along with your normal state tag fees and For additional information, and answers to some California. vehicle taxes. By mail, online or in person, it’s often asked questions, visit kualumni.org Alden German, ’17, is a meteorologist at as easy as Rock Chalk! or call 800-584-2957. KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska. Trae Green, j’17, directs communications and marketing at the Kansas Grain City Industrial in Hazel Park, Michigan. logistics coordinator. and Feed Association in Topeka. He makes his home in Birmingham with Julie Ferrell, c’16, is a freelance dancer Chase Hanna, b’17, is a professional his wife, Toni. and choreographer and a performing golfer. Dylan Windom, c’15, was inducted in apprentice with Noumenon Dance Stephen Hawkins, g’17, is a student- the Ti County Athletic Hall of Fame in Ensemble in Chicago. She also teaches conduct administrator at the University of her hometown of Tion, Georgia. She dance at several Chicago-area studios. Alaska in Anchorage. played tennis for KU from 2010 to ’12. Sara Grith, d’16, teaches second grade Molly Horan, c’17, j’17, is a multimedia at Linda Herrington Elementary School in journalist at KSNT-TV in Topeka. Matthew Armstrong, b’16, g’17, is a Austin, Texas. James Hoyt, j’17, works for the Park 16 sustainability consultant at K-Coe Allison Kite, j’16, is a statehouse Record Newspaper in Park City, Utah, Isom in Lenexa. He lives in Lawrence with reporter for the Topeka Capital-Journal. where he’s a copy editor. Chavis Lickvar-Armstrong, c’08, a Landen Lucas, c’16, plays professional Brett Hustead, e’17, is an interior researcher at KU, and their son. basketball for the Tokyo Toyota Alvark. structures engineer at Textron Aviation in Billy Barnes, d’16, coordinates game Ashley Puenner, g’16, is a mezzo- Wichita. presentation and live events for the San soprano singer and studio artist for the Brianna Johnson, j’17, works at KSNT- Francisco 49ers. He lives in Sunnyvale, Florentine Opera Company in Milwaukee. TV in Topeka, where she’s a news California. Shelby Rowley, c’16, lives in Phoenix, producer. Hannah Boyd, c’16, teaches at Marshall where she’s a surgical neurophysiologist at Hunter Kennon, b’17, lives in San County schools. She lives in Olive Branch, SpecialtyCare. Mississippi. Casey Craig, b’16, lives in Portland, Sam Brodsky, b’17, manages projects Oregon, where he’s an associate sourcer at 17 and leads small-business develop- Adidas. ment at Brodsky Productions Video Kelsey Dick, b’16, works at Koch Services in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Industries in Wichita, where she’s a Mackenzie Daniels, e’17, lives in

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI Francisco, where he’s a business and Kansas Community College. She played Chicago, where she’s a project designer at analytics associate at BDO USA. basketball for KU from 2015 to ’17. DLR Group. Bobbie Laincz, g’17, directs nancial Raechel Puglisi, c’17, works at the Meg Talbott, j’17, is a team account and operational analytics at the Children’s Kansas Department of Health and manager at Quest Diagnostics in Lenexa. Hospital Association in Lenexa. Environment in Topeka, where she’s a lab Sophia Templin, j’17, lives in New York Brian Moore, l’17, is an associate technician. City, where she’s an account executive at attorney at Hanson, Jorns & Beverlin Megan Pruett, j’17, is a eld marketing Finsbury Strategic Communications. in Pratt. coordinator at MMGY Global in Jennifer Mosely, PharmD’17, lives in Kansas City. ASSOCIATES San Francisco, where she’s a pharmacist Sydney Shepherd, c’17, j’17, is a content Kent Williams, assoc., is a retired at CVS. and social media specialist at Keystone administrative supervisor at Georgia State Timeka O’Neal, c’17, is an assistant Automotive in Kansas City. University. He makes his home in women’s basketball coach at Kansas City Kailey Smith, g’17, makes her home in Brookhaven, Georgia.

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‘Eagle Vets’ ocer relishes College of Veterinary Medicine, he Veterinary Corps’ diversity became a veterinary corps ocer yet chose to remain in the Army Reserves. hen Lt. Col. Michael Hansen in A year in private practice convinced WJune assumed command of the Hansen to become a full-time, active duty 72nd Medical Detachment, a veterinary soldier, and his rst deployment was services unit known as the “Eagle Vets,” it tending to animals at Fort Riley and marked his rst hands-on involvement Wichita’s McConnell Air Force Base, with veterinary medicine in nearly a during which time he completed the KU decade—which might seem unlikely for an School of Medicine’s master of public Army Veterinary Corps ocer. health program. DAVID E. GILLESPIE/BLANCHFIELD ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS HOSPITAL COMMUNITY E. GILLESPIE/BLANCHFIELD ARMY DAVID Turns out, though, that Veterinary During Operation Iraqi Freedom, he Corps responsibilities extend far beyond was deployed with the Eagle Vets to treat treating dogs, horses and other animals combat dogs. Aer his return, he moved deployed in all branches of the armed into food safety operations, including services. Dating to the corps’ 1916 production plant and supply chain creation, in the wake of food poisoning inspections and rapid response to salmo- and preservation scandals that plagued nella and other food-safety outbreaks. Lt. Col. Michael Hansen says handlers are American troops during the Spanish- Army veterinary ocers are stationed on devoted to their athletic dogs. “They are very American War, Congress designated Navy supply ships and in small teams with good about giving them their medications and veterinarians as the military’s overseers of military units deployed worldwide. following treatment and therapy protocols.” food safety and public health. “ere’s a lot of single or dual soldier “At the time, veterinary schools were assignments in strange places you wouldn’t focused on food animals and diseases even think of,” Hansen says, “and all they transmissible from animal to man,” says do is inspect food.” their teams operate autonomously. Hansen, g’13. “e Army adopted that and With the Eagle Vets, based at Fort “My own personal satisfaction is never really let it go. We still run that.” Campbell, Kentucky, Hansen now knowing I’m part of this organization and While spending time on his grandfa- commands a eld unit that reects the everybody looks to me for direction and ther’s cattle ranch in Ohio, Hansen rst corps’ diverse missions of animal health guidance,” he says. “I do have quite a bit of explored veterinary medicine by shadow- and food safety for all military personnel. experience to go on, so when I can help ing area vets. He joined the Army Reserves Shortly aer his arrival, Hansen directed them nd solutions to issues they’re out of high school, and, aer graduating his ocers and other leaders to develop facing, and you see that light bulb go on, from Iowa State University’s prestigious creative training ideas that would help that’s tremendously rewarding.”

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 59 In Memory She was a homemaker and member of P.E.O. Sisterhood. Survivors include two daughters, Sandra Moorhead Marshall, d’67, and Amanda Moorhead Elva Douglass Glancy, c’35, 104, daughters, one of whom is Rebecca Gilles Ross, d’68; a brother, Robert Noll, c’49; 30sOct. 24 in Dallas, where she was a Richardson, s’75; a son; nine grandchil- six grandchildren; and eight great- substitute teacher and secretary and dren; and ve great-grandchildren. grandchildren. bookkeeper at her husband’s business. A Carole Ruhlen Gray, d’49, 89, Aug. 11 in Robert Mowry, c’47, 91, Oct. 18 in daughter, a son and a grandson survive. Lenexa, where she was president of the Lansdowne, Virginia. He retired as senior Margaret Broeker Sanders, c’36, 102, MSPE Auxiliary and an ocer for the vice president at Montgomery Ward, Nov. 16 in Lawrence, where she managed Kansas Historical Society. Surviving are where he worked for 32 years. Surviving operations for U.S. Geological Survey’s three sons, Je, e’75, Jon, e’77, g’82, and are his wife, Avalee, two sons, a daughter water resources division. Surviving are a David, e’79, g’85; two daughters, Julia Gray and four grandchildren. stepdaughter, Kathryn Sanders Wilson, Saller, e’80, and Laura, g’07; a sister; 11 Patricia Bentley Myers, j’49, 90, Oct. 13 j’69, and a step-granddaughter. grandchildren; and ve great- in Roseville, California. She served on grandchildren. several boards and committees. Two sons, Willard Frame Barber, b’43, l’48, Charles Kopke, b’47, 95, Sept. 29 in a daughter and four grandchildren 40s96, Sept. 25 in Naples, Florida. He Kansas City, where he retired as senior survive. had a 25-year career at Brown Shoe vice president and manager at Commerce Lorita Higginbottom Pendleton, d’48, Company. Survivors include his wife, Bank. A brother, Earl, b’51, survives. 91, Sept. 10 in Lawrence. She and her Janet; a daughter, Nancy Barber Waugh, Basil Marhofer, c’49, l’51, 92, Sept. 6 in husband, Albert, owned Pendleton Farm c’74; a stepdaughter; and a grandson. Ness City, where he served as city and & Livestock Company. Surviving are three Mildred Stoenner Carlson, c’43, 95, county attorney and mayor. He also was sons, one of whom is James, ’77; a sister, Oct. 16 in Independence, Missouri, where vice president of Rotary International. His Dorothy Higginbottom Flottman, b’46; she was a teacher. She is survived by two wife, Cecilia, two stepsons, a stepdaughter eight grandchildren; and nine great- daughters, Sonja, c’70, g’74, and Karen and a sister survive. grandchildren. Carlson Cook, d’84; a son, Rick, ’73; a Betty Jean Miller Maurer, c’41, 97, Nov. Marguerite Demint Riedy, d’42, 98, brother; six grandchildren; and eight 7 in Prairie Village, where she was a Oct. 10 in Hope, where she was a high great-grandchildren. homemaker. She is survived by two sons, school teacher. She is survived by two Frances Lawrence Carpenter, f’47, 92, John, c’73, g’75, and William, ’76; three sons, one of whom is James, l’77; three Sept. 30 in Kansas City, where she was a daughters, two of whom are Susan Maurer daughters, two of whom are Marian, c’77, commercial illustrator and dollmaker. A Randolph, n’65, and Sally Jo Maurer and Karen, c’81, m’85; a brother; and six memorial has been established with KU Heuer, ’85; seven grandchildren; 14 grandchildren. Endowment. Surviving are two daughters, great-grandchildren; and a great-great- Robert Rudkin, b’48, 94, Oct. 6 in one of whom is Mary Carpenter Nagorney, grandchild. Wichita, where he was a U.S. Army ’72; four sons, two of whom are Michael, Phyllis Riggs McCormick, f’45, 93, Nov. veteran. A memorial has been established l’84, and David, ’87; eight grandchildren; 2 in Floresville, Texas. She worked with with KU Endowment. He is survived by and 15 great-grandchildren. special-needs children for 34 years at the two sons, one of whom is omas, c’73; Elizabeth McCune Frakes, c’47, 95, Oct. R.J. Delano School in Kansas City. In and a daughter, Terry Rudkin Martin, ’75. 19 in Kansas City. She had a 37-year career retirement she managed several gi shops. Harold “Hal” Sandy, j’47, 93, Dec. 9 in at KU Medical Center, where she retired as A daughter, a son, two grandchildren and Prairie Village, where he was a retired head of the department of dietetics and ve great-grandchildren. advertising executive. In 1946, as a student nutrition. A memorial has been estab- Gene McLaughlin, c’49, 93, Sept. 29 in at KU, he drew the smiling Jayhawk that lished with KU Endowment. She is Prairie Village, where he retired as has endured as the University’s mascot. survived by three daughters, Blossom president of Carl Berry Oil Company. A Surviving are his wife, Wilda, assoc., and Frakes Laing, ’60, Becky Frakes Herrman, daughter and two granddaughters survive. a nephew. d’65, and Deborah Frakes, ’73; and several Joe Moddrell , b’49, 89, Nov. 1 in Charles Schuler, e’48, 91, Oct. 29 in grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Wichita, where he had a long career in the Olathe. He was an engineer at Boeing Helen Martin Gilles, c’43, m’45, 95, insurance industry and co-founded the and retired as program director of the Sept. 27 in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she IMA Financial Group. Surviving are his KC-135 Stratotanker. Survivors include was a retired pediatrician. In 1971 she was wife, Jean, two daughters, a son and three two daughters, one of whom is Kim inducted in the KU Women’s Hall of Fame. grandchildren. Schuler Wright, ’84; a son; two sisters; A memorial has been established with KU Mary Noll Moorhead, ’44, 95, Sept. 29 eight grandchildren; and 11 great- Endowment. Survivors include two in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. grandchildren.

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI Merry Mitchell Belden, c’54, 85, Survivors include a daughter, Karen survived by her husband, James, a son, a 50sMarch 11, 2017, in Wichita, where Springer DiMauro, ’86; two sons, one of daughter, a sister, four grandchildren and she was a real estate agent. Surviving are whom is Scott Springer, g’98; two step- 14 great-grandchildren. her husband, Donald, c’54; a son, Greg, daughters; 10 grandchildren; and 10 Eileen Churchill Spears, s’53, 89, Oct. c’88; a daughter; two grandchildren; and great-grandchildren. 27 in Osawatomie, where she was a two great-grandchildren. Dale Nevius, e’50, 91, Sept. 8 in psychiatric social worker at the state Katherine Russell Cramm, c’53, 85, Lawrence, where he was retired vice hospital. Survivors include a daughter, Aug. 18 in Newport Beach, California. She president of Lynn Elliot Company. Suzanne Frolik Wilcox, g’92; a son; three was a member of Junior League and Surviving are a son, Gary, a’74, e’74, g’81; a grandchildren; and two great- Daughters of the American Revolution. daughter, Karen Nevius Van Blaricum, grandchildren. Two sons and seven grandchildren h’77; three grandsons; and a great- James Stirling, c’54, 89, Oct. 5 in survive. grandson. Kansas City, where he managed Stirling Glen Davis, e’54, 86, Aug. 15 in Paul Penny, f’52, 92, Oct. 28 in Law- Auto Supply. Surviving are his wife, Ann; a Leawood, where he was chief of construc- rence, where he was an artist. He is daughter, Pamela Stirling Bachman, g’83; tion for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. survived by his wife, Virginia Alburty two grandchildren; and two great- A memorial has been established with KU Penny, d’51, ’93; four sons, Alan, a’77, grandchildren. Endowment. He is survived by two sons, Gary, ’78, Michael, f’83, and Christopher, Lenore Matthews Strong, ’55, 84, Nov. James, e’88, and John, b’90; two daughters, c’83; a daughter, Melissa Penny Swanson, 10 in Wichita. She owned LAC Invest- Ann Davis Harmes, b’89, and Kate Davis f’83; two sisters, Margaret Penny Bruce, ments. Survivors include a son, Scott, c’84; Ellmaker, j’93; and nine grandchildren. b’43, and Lois Penny Cowan, f’54; a two daughters, one of whom is Susan, b’85; Elaine Gilchrist Drake, c’52, 86, Sept. 30 brother, Charles, e’50; and three seven grandchildren; and two great- in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was an great-grandchildren. grandchildren. oce manager. She is survived by two Charles Rex Phipps, m’57, 86, Oct. 20 in Joseph Terrill, a’56, 84, Sept. 24 in sons; two daughters; a sister, Nancy Lander, Wyoming, where he was a Topeka, where he was founder and Gilchrist Alexander, d’54; 13 grandchil- physician. Survivors include his wife, president of Horst, Terrill & Karst Archi- dren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Nancy; two sons, one of whom is Doug, tects. A memorial has been established Jerry Hess, c’57, 85, June 23 in Sarasota, m’84; three daughters; 10 grandchildren; with KU Endowment. He is survived by Florida. He was an oral historian at the and 10 great-grandchildren. two daughters, four grandchildren and National Archives in Washington, D.C., James Rowland, f’56, g’68, 83, Oct. 4 in two great-grandchildren. and helped establish several presidential Topeka. He chaired KU’s department of Francis Unrein, p’51, 90, Oct. 10 in libraries. ree nieces survive. design in the early 1970s and later worked Overland Park. He lived in Plainville for Dudley Hudgins, c’59, 79, Oct. 3 in at an art gallery in San Francisco. A nearly 60 years, where he owned Unrein Kansas City, where he directed sales for brother survives. Pharmacy. Surviving are his wife, Bernice; more than 30 years at Marion Laborato- William Schaake, d’52, 87, Sept. 8 in two sons, Keith, p’72, and Kevin, ’80; two ries. He is survived by his wife, Pegge; Ellensburg, Washington, where he was a daughters, one of whom is Robin Unrein three sons, one of whom is Brian, ’88; a retired teacher and coach. He played Hagedorn, b’83; three brothers, one of daughter; 12 grandchildren; and a football and basketball as a student at KU whom is George, f’62; a sister, Marguerite great-grandchild. and returned to the University in the Unrein Houchins, f’54; three grandchil- Frank Hursh, c’51, l’53, 91, Oct. 14 in 1960s as an assistant football coach. dren; and two great-grandsons. Kansas City. He was an attorney and Surviving are his wife, Darlene Schindler Clayton “Bud” Walker, b’56, 85, Nov. 17 served as municipal judge for the City of Schaake, ’52; two sons; two daughters; in Pittsburg. He owned several businesses Mission. Survivors include his wife, Mary seven grandchildren; and two and started a foundation called Caring for Walker Hursh, ’51; two sons, Lynn, c’75, great-grandsons. Kids. He also was an avid supporter of KU l’79, and Kenneth, c’84, l’88; a daughter, Clifton Schopf, m’57, 88, Sept. 25 in baseball. Survivors include his wife, Janie Hursh Wright, j’77, c’83; a brother, Wichita, where he practiced family Margaret Wille Walker, d’57; a son, Don, c’56; and ve grandchildren. medicine and served as chief of sta at St. Michael, ’84; and three granddaughters. J. Roger Lembke, e’57, g’69, 82, Oct. 16 Francis Hospital. He is survived by his Edward Weber, e’51, 87, Oct. 14 in La in Overland Park, where he had a 32-year wife, Iyral Jean; two sons, Richard, j’72, Porte, Indiana, where he was a retired career at Honeywell. He is survived by his and David, d’75; a daughter; nine grand- patent attorney. He is survived by his wife, wife, Janet Crouch Lembke, ’61; a son, children; and 18 great-grandchildren. Marjorie, a daughter, a son, a stepdaugh- David, b’84; a daughter; six grandchildren; Helen Graves Silvia, d’58, 82, Oct. 17 in ter, two stepsons, ve grandchildren and a and two great-grandchildren. San Antonio. She was an organist and great-granddaughter. Nancy Hindman Maddox, f’53, 85, Sept. music director and served as president of Mary Jean Oliver Wells, f’50, 89, Oct. 25 in Shawnee. She was a homemaker. the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra. She is 10 in Wichita, where she was a home-

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 61 In Memory maker. She is survived by two daughters, Peggy Fry Harrington, d’71, ’99; a brother; Century Investments. He is survived by his Anne Wells Wright, b’83, and Susan Wells and four grandchildren. wife, Deana; his mother, Dee Naylor Petty, Aniello, ’87; a son; nine grandchildren; Marion Thomas Hall, a’67, 73, Oct. 14 in c’42; two sons, one of whom is Bryce, c’91; and 10 great-grandchildren. Chester eld, Missouri. He was an archi- four daughters, three of whom are Parke Woodard, e’51, 88, Nov. 6 in tect. A memorial has been established with Candace Minor Kelly, ’91, Ashley Minor Olathe. He was a senior control-systems KU Endowment. He is survived by his Lyerly, c’95, and Brooke Petty Degnan, specialist at Black & Veatch. Surviving are wife, Sandra; a son, Timothy, ’89; a j’00; two sisters, one of whom is Cheryl his wife, Rosemary; a daughter, Susan daughter, Paige, f’93; two brothers; ve Petty Evilsizer, d’68; and 14 grandchildren. Woodard Lautz, d’79; two sons, one of grandchildren; and two great- Donald Popejoy, e’62, 78, Feb. 8, 2017, whom is Timothy, e’90; a stepson, Greg grandchildren. in Naples, Florida. He was president of Stoskopf, g’90; a stepdaughter; a brother, Robert Hyde, ’67, 72, Aug. 21 in Olathe, Popejoy Construction and executive vice Donald, c’56, g’61; three grandchildren; a where he was a physical therapist. Survi- president at Ritchie Paving in Wichita. step-granddaughter; and six great- vors include four daughters, one of whom Survivors include his wife, Susan Berkebile grandchildren. is Laura Hyde Ismert, g’03; a son, Eric, Popejoy, d’62; a daughter; a brother; three George Wurster, c’57, m’61, 82, Oct. 7 DPT’15; and 17 grandchildren. grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. in Leawood, where he was a retired Michael Johnson, c’63, 79, Oct. 6 in Herbert Proudﬁt, c’64, PhD’71, 77, Oct. physician. A memorial has been estab- Edmond, Oklahoma, where he was a 27 in Iowa City, Iowa, where he was retired lished with KU Endowment. Survivors retired U.S. Army major and a logistics professor of pharmacology at the Univer- include his wife, Mary; a daughter, Wynne assistance ocer. His wife, Lucy, a son, a sity of Iowa. His wife, Donna, a daughter Wurster Winter, ’83; two sons, Erich, b’85, sister and four granddaughters survive. and three grandsons survive. l’88, and omas, ’94; two brothers, Joel, Nancy Cline Lessig, d’65, g’68, ’92, 74, George “Blaine” Shaer, d’62, 77, Aug. m’56, and Jerry, m’64; two sisters; and Nov. 10 in Lawrence, where she was an 30 in Topeka, where he was a retired math seven grandchildren. elementary school teacher. A memorial teacher and guidance counselor. He also has been established with KU Endowment. was an ordained minister. Surviving are Merlin Askren, j’60, 78, Aug. 15 Survivors include her husband, V. Parker, his wife, Jeanette Weinbrenner Shaer, ’76; 60sin Pebble Beach, California, c’64, g’66, PhD’70; two sons, one of whom a daughter; a son; two sisters, Carol, d’57, where he was deputy attorney general. is Aaron, c’97; two sisters; and ve and Diane Shaer Weatherwax, d’73; and Surviving are his wife, Deanna, a daughter, grandchildren. four grandchildren. a stepson, a stepdaughter, a sister and a Barbara Larson Marden, s’68, s’73, ’02, Randall Shaer, e’65, 75, Oct. 26 in half-brother. 71, Oct. 30 in Lawrence, where she was a Grove, Oklahoma, where he was a Robert Bowles, f’62, 79, Sept. 26 in social worker and counselor at St. John manager at Atlas Roo ng. His wife, Rusty, Hutchinson. He had a 30-year career with Catholic School. She is survived by her two daughters, a brother and a grand- Lowen Corporation, where he retired as husband, Dave, d’68, PhD’75; a daughter; a daughter survive. vice president of sales and marketing. son; a sister; and four grandchildren. Janet Fraser Spomer, d’68, 72, Oct. 14 Survivors include his wife, Donna; a son, Barbara “Bobby” Swanton Backus in Hermiston, Oregon. She was a teacher Jerey, f’89; a daughter, Amanda Bowles McCorkle, ’63, 97, Nov. 1 in Lawrence. She and homemaker. Survivors include her Goetz, f’97; a brother; a sister; and four led the reference department and curated husband, John, c’67; a daughter; and a grandchildren. maps at the Sterling Memorial Library at sister, Judith Fraser-Flamer, d’65. Marvin Crocker, c’64, g’68, 83, Sept. 20 Yale University. She also was a cartobibli- Duane Steinshouer, p’61, 79, Nov. 6 in in Lakeview, Oregon, where he was a ographer. Survivors include a daughter, Hoxie, where he was a pharmacist and public aairs ocer for Fremont National Frances Backus Clymer, c’75; four sons, volunteered as an addictions counselor. A Forest. He is survived by his wife, Lauri Oswald, f’79, g’89, Anthony, c’82, g’87, son survives, as does a brother, Darrel, Noell Crocker, d’58; two daughters; and a Richard, c’83, j’86, g’95, and Robert, l’85; p’65, l’68. grandson. and several stepchildren and Ernest Yarnevich, c’66, l’69, 73, Oct. 5 Thelma Latter Dailey, d’61, 78, Oct. 17 grandchildren. in Kansas City, where he practiced law for in Broom eld, Colorado, where she was a Albert Moore Jr., ’61, 78, Oct. 6 in nearly 50 years. He is survived by his wife, juvenile probation ocer. Two sons and Topeka. He was senior vice president of Anne Beeson Yarnevich, d’68, s’98; a two grandchildren survive. the investment management group at daughter, Caroline Yarnevich Mackey, Kenneth Fry, j’67, 72, Oct. 29 in Sunrise Commerce Bank & Trust. Surviving are c’00; a son, David, ’09; a brother, George, Beach, Missouri. He owned the family his wife, Connie; a son, Albert III, c’86; a c’68, l’72, g’72; a sister, Carol Yarnevich business, Fry’s Car Care, in Overland Park. daughter; six grandchildren; and a Fields, j’76; and three grandchildren. Surviving are his wife, Karen; a son, Blake, step-granddaughter. ’94; a daughter, Donika Fry Kaplan, c’98; Douglas Petty, j’66, 74, Sept. 9 in Vicki Asbury, c’73, g’76, g’81, two sisters, Claudia Fry Paul, d’69, and Leawood, where he retired from American 70sg’87, 66, Oct. 15 in Weatherby

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI Lake, Missouri. She was an engineer Amber Denker; two sons; and two mander and director of information and operations research analyst for brothers, one of whom is Sean, j’78. systems at KU. He is survived by his wife, the U.S. Army. Surviving are her Julia Green Rombough, c’80; two sons, one husband, J.D., e’72; a son; and a Antonia Casagrande, c’87, 54, of whom is Ian, ’11; his parents; a sister; granddaughter. 80sOct. 11 in Eudora, where she was and a brother. Margaret Jane Stites Leo, c’77, 95, a writer and a graduate teaching assistant Stephen Schroeder, 80, Oct. 15. He lived Nov. 2 in Prairie Village, where she was at KU. She is survived by her parents, in Lawrence, where he served as director a homemaker. She is survived by three Peter, assoc., and Pamela Mills Casa- of the Life Span Institute from 1990 to daughters, Kathy Leo Lord, d’68, Jan, grande, ’79; two sisters, one of whom is 2002. He later directed the Prince Salman c’74, m’77, and Nancy, c’95, ’96; a son, Teresa, s’85, s’87; and two brothers, Peter, Research Center for Disabilities in Saudi Bill, c’93; a brother, John Stites, b’50, l’56; ’88, and Vincent, ’91. Arabia. Surviving are his wife, Carolyn; six grandchildren; and seven great- James Rupp, m’89, 54, Sept. 3 in two sons, one of whom is Matthew, ’92; grandchildren. Colorado. He lived in Casper, Wyoming, two sisters; ve grandchildren; and a Marjorie Zwiers Miller, g’72, g’76, 69, where he was a nephrologist. Surviving are step-grandson. Sept. 14 in Kansas City. She worked at the his wife, Sandy Taggart Rupp, n’91; two Miller Agency, an insurance rm that she sons; his mother; and a sister, Jody Rupp and her husband formed in Eudora. Boeding, c’76, l’79. ASSOCIATES She is survived by her husband, David, Jay Schmitendorf, e’80, 60, July 30 in Patricia Allcorn, assoc., 90, June 7 in c’80; three sisters; and a brother. Lawrence, where he was an engineer. He is Canton, Massachusetts. She is survived by James Peterson, c’70, 71, Sept. 13 in survived by his father, James, e’56; his a son, Rex Culp, c’69, g’71, PhD’73, l’85; a Chandler, Arizona, where he was a mother, Allison Lockard, ’57; his stepdaughter, Roxy Culp Gray, f’73; a sister; principal planner for the City of Tempe. mother; a son, a daughter; a brother, Eric, and three grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Lola, two ’97; and a sister. Bob Crane, assoc., 73, Oct. 4 in Kansas daughters, a son, two brothers, ve City. He lived in Hugoton, where he was a grandchildren and two great- Elaine Farrow Nelson, g’96, 70, technician in the gas industry. Survivors grandchildren. 90sJuly 30 in Tennessee. She lived in include his wife, Marilyn; a daughter, Keith Pickering, c’77, 62, Nov. 5 in Overland Park for several years, where she Meridith, j’93; a son, Rob, d’96, g’00; and a Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was a was a teacher in the Blue Valley School sister. retired systems analyst and soware District. A memorial has been established John Dugan, assoc., 86, June 21 in Hays. engineer. He also was a published author with KU Endowment. Survivors include He owned Dugan Oil Company in and recently wrote e Lost Island of her husband, Joseph; two daughters, one Plainville. Surviving are his wife, Nadine, Columbus: Solving the Mystery of Guanah- of whom is Jill Nelson O’Grady, c’99, g’03; assoc.; a son, Dyrk, j’89; a daughter; a ani. Surviving are a sister, Nancy, c’75, and a brother; and ve grandchildren. brother; a sister; and three grandchildren. a brother, Scott, ’79. Roger Herman, assoc., 81, Sept. 10 in Thomas Poppe, b’72, 67, Oct. 7 in Lawrence Henderson, c’07, l’11, Kansas City, where he worked for the U.S. Leawood, where he was an accountant. A 00s Sept. 15 in Leavenworth, where Department of the Treasury. He is memorial has been established with KU he was an attorney. He is survived by his survived by a son, John, e’87; a daughter, Endowment. He is survived by his wife, wife, Brittan Young-Henderson, c’10; two Susan Herman Kief, j’91; two brothers and Carol Engel Poppe, c’77; two sons, Kevin, daughters; his parents; and his maternal three grandsons. c’07, and David, c’08; his mother; a grandparents. Billy Joe McAfee, assoc., 88, March 14, brother, Wayne, ’75; two sisters; and three 2017, in Easton, where he was a U.S. Army grandchildren. veteran and vice president of First Kenneth Reeves, c’71, l’74, 72, Oct. 4 in UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY National Bank in Leavenworth. Surviving Phoenix, where he was senior vice Walter “Hob” Crockett, c’47, 96, Oct. 31 are his wife, Maryann Stucker McAfee, president and regional counsel at North- in Lawrence, where he was retired n’58, g’85; two daughters; a son; three ern Trust. Surviving are his wife, Linda, a professor of communication studies and brothers; three granddaughters; and three daughter, a son, a sister, four brothers and social psychology. He was the rst director great-granddaughters. two granddaughters. of the Life Span Institute. His wife, Helen, Lula “Becky” Ainsworth Stukesbary, Lance Williams, c’71, 67, Aug. 20 in two sons, a daughter, a sister, ve grand- assoc., 92, March 14, 2017, in Ness City, Toluca Lake, California, where he children and eight great-grandchildren where she and her husband owned worked in computer graphics at the survive. B & G Healthmart Pharmacy. She is Walt Disney Company and Apple. A Lance Rombough, e’80, g’03, 63, Oct. survived by a son, Duane, d’73; two memorial has been established with KU 11 in Keystone, South Dakota, where he daughters; three grandchildren; and six Endowment. Survivors include his wife, was a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant com- great-grandchildren.

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 63 Rock Chalk Review previously told Moriarty she hates the white-savior narrative device. “Giselle read it and we talked about it, and she felt it went against the trope in ways that she found encouraging and important,” Moriarty says. “So I had done all this, and then aer I sold it to the MEG KUMIN MEG publisher, they brought in their own sensitivity readers and they combed through it super carefully.” Kirkus published its starred review Oct. 10, and the backlash from an online community of self-appointed literary arbiters was immediate and vitriolic. Four days later, Kirkus, in an unprecedented editorial decision, pulled the review, and its star, then published a revised criticism that found faults not previously cited, including a “problematic” structure that portrays a Muslim woman only through the voice of the 15-year-old white girl who is helping her nd sanctuary in Canada. Moriarty “While we believe our reviewer’s opinion is worthy and valid,” wrote Kirkus editor in chief Claiborne Smith, “some of months of that anger, starting with an the wording fell short of meeting our Broken heart email she’d received, in April 2017, alerting standards for clarity and sensitivity, and her to “a Twitter conversation” that had we failed to make the thoughtful edits our Moriarty says withering attacks already begun, based entirely on a two-line readers deserve.” ﬁrm her resolve for new novel description of the novel that appeared in Whatever its reasoning, Kirkus’ decision Publisher’s Marketplace. Her so-called to buckle under pressure—generated at a aura Moriarty was riding a bus to critics, Moriarty was told, were disturbed time when almost none of American Lcampus the morning of Oct. 5 when by what they viewed as the book’s “prob- Heart’s critics had read the book—became she heard the big news from her publisher: lematic white-savior narrative.” its own scandal, eliciting passionate Kirkus Reviews, a trend-setting voice in Moriarty, associate professor of English, commentary from, among others, e American publishing, would within days embraces modern sensitivities to problem- New Yorker, NPR and Vulture.com. post a rave review of American Heart, atic white-savior narratives, in which Relaxing in the Lawrence Public Library Moriarty’s soon-to-be-published dystopian white characters drop into a culture not lobby before nding an empty table to novel of a near-future America that vili es their own and swily solve the cultural grade nal papers, Moriarty says she was and sequesters its Muslim citizens within and personal plot elements driving a comforted that her publisher, Harper desolate isolation camps. novel’s storyline. Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins, stood “It was a glowing review, just the most To avoid any such insensitivity with her by her and the book. She also hopes that wonderful review I could have ever asked latest novel—an important career moment for,” recalls Moriarty, s’93, g’99. “And it following the success of 2012’s e gave it a star, which only, I think, 10 Chaperone, soon to be released as a percent of books get.” motion picture written by “Downton American Heart e hopeful interlude lasted nine days. Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes—Moriarty From the outset of her work on Ameri- shared dras of her manuscript with two By Laura Moriarty can Heart, Moriarty knew her novel would Iranian Americans she had befriended Harper Teen, draw “pushback from both sides. If you set during her student days at KU; a woman $17.99 out to write a book about Islamophobia in in Iran, whom Moriarty asked to critique today’s climate, of course some people are her depiction of the persecuted Iranian going to get angry.” American character; and colleague Giselle By October she’d already lived through Anatol, professor of English, who had

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI the attention, unwanted though it may to confront an ugliness of national Yes, American literature again has have been, will generate interest when the character through the frightened eyes of gatekeepers, and that is what pains book is released early this year. its victims. When a seemingly kind- Moriarty, far beyond her own challenges Yet she concedes those positive aspects hearted country woman oers to give in delivering American Heart to readers. are thin consolation, at best. Sarah-Mary and “Chloe” a li, Sarah-Mary “To me, this is not a time to be fearful. “My publisher was brave this time, but notes the car’s bumper stickers: I think it is a time to stand up for you can only imagine that a publisher Quilters love you to pieces American values. Even if you make would have to be very noble to continually If life gives you scraps, make a quilt! people on the extremes angry, that’s OK. take this on, especially with the Kirkus GET ’EM OUTTA HERE! No Refuge for is is our country and we have to stand decision,” she says. “ is group, they also Illegals and Islamic Terrorists! up for people. We have to stand up for go aer publishers. ey antagonize It’s not Islamophobia when they’re really what’s right.” publishers. ey’re very mad at my trying to kill you! —Chris Lazzarino publisher right now, really mad, and Not so many miles earlier, Sarah-Mary they’re pushing back. So a publisher has to wouldn’t have even noticed such senti- sort of take this and be braver than Kirkus, ments; now, she is scared. And angry. and I don’t think every publisher is.” My chest went hot under my coat. … And Sound solution e true heartbreak for Moriarty is that then I had to come around to the passenger the controversy has so far overshadowed side, smiling again, pretending to both of New hearing loop ampliﬁes the book itself. them that everything was ne. the Osher experience American Heart tells the story of a Sarah-Mary will soon be done with self-reliant Missouri teen named Sarah- pretending that everything is ne, a im Peters is no fan of negative com- Mary—it is worth noting that Kirkus sentiment shared by an author plunged Jments. But couple a complaint with a omitted the hyphen Moriarty uses in the into a culture war dominated by its loudest practical solution? Well, that’s a dierent lead character’s name—who is a product extremists. story. of a broken family and endemic Islamo- “Even though it hasn’t been banned A year ago, Peters, director of the KU phobia that Sarah-Mary is not yet mature outright,” Moriarty says of American Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a or worldly enough to see through. Heart, “I can imagine schools and libraries continuing education program for adults As Sarah-Mary and her 11-year-old that might have otherwise taught it will be 50 years and older, visited the classroom brother, Caleb, cope with a roadside very hesitant. And so there are dierent on St. Andrews Drive in West Lawrence. abandonment by their scheming mother, levels of censorship and fear over what Marianne Wilkinson, c’57, g’64, a long- Sarah-Mary promises Caleb that she will gets past the gatekeepers.” time Osher participant who was sitting in help Sadaf, a distraught stranger Caleb nds hiding behind the truck stop from which he ees aer their mother’s betrayal. Until she encounters Sadaf, an accom- STEVE PUPPE STEVE plished engineering professor, Sarah-Mary has never known a Muslim American, but she distrusts Muslims to her core and believes with certainty that dire police bulletins for Sadaf’s arrest must be heeded. Fugitives, by denition and decree, are dangerous and must be rounded up and herded out. Yet Sarah-Mary’s hard young heart is defenseless against her brother’s generous spirit, which she treasures as the lone ray of hope in her dicult existence. Once she pledges to help Sadaf—primarily to convince Caleb that he must return to the safety of their overbearing aunt’s home— Sarah-Mary overrides her prejudices not for personal growth, but to honor her “He knew the technology and he knew how it helped people,” says KU Osher Institute Director promise to her brother. Jim Peters (right) of Lawrence audiologist Matt Brown, who contributed the lead gift in the e ensuing journey forces Sarah-Mary purchase of the institute’s new hearing loop.

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the front row, immediately complained to “ey’re able to hear and understand ese improvements, Peters says, have him that she couldn’t hear the instructor what’s going on a lot easier.” beneted both participants and through the room’s antiquated sound Peters says the new system has instructors. system—a single speaker embedded in the enhanced the experience for at least 75 “People aren’t scrambling for seats,” he podium. percent of the institute’s participants. says. “You can sit anywhere in the room. Her solution: Install a hearing loop. “ese people are engaged,” he says. “ey e instructors feel more engaged. It really When Peters explained to her that the want to be here, they’re bringing 60 or 70 has made a big di erence in the whole institute likely couldn’t a ord the expen- years’ worth of life experiences into these experience for everybody.” sive equipment, Wilkinson suggested that classes. ey’re either here to learn more e Osher Institute unveiled the the program’s participants foot the bill. and ask a lot of questions or contribute or classroom upgrades in October at a “Just like that, the light bulb came on,” both. It’s very interactive.” dedication ceremony, and several donors says Peters, assoc. A few weeks earlier, he e Osher Institute, which was founded and supporters, including Brown, partici- had attended a workshop about Launch in 2000 by San Francisco billionaire pated. Brown recognized one of his KU, a crowdfunding initiative by KU Bernard Osher, has 120 locations across instructors at the event, retired KU Endowment that helps students, faculty the nation, including KU, which got its professor of speech-language-hearing John and sta raise funds for projects that charter in 2004 and conducted its rst Brandt, assoc., whose class inspired him to benet the KU community. Financing a class a year later. Nearly 3,000 people sign pursue a career in audiology. new sound system through the University up annually for no-credit continuing “If it wasn’t for the education I received platform aligned with the initiative’s goals. education courses—without the pressure at KU, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing Peters launched the institute’s online of homework or exams—in history, now,” Brown says. “I’m glad I am in the campaign in February 2017 and reached literature, art, music and religion, which position where I could help the University. its goal of $9,700 in just seven days, thanks are taught by current and former Univer- It was neat to be able to do that.” in large part to a lead gi from Lawrence sity faculty and other instructors with a —Heather Biele audiologist Matt Brown, owner of Kaw passion for a specic topic. e three- Valley Hearing. week, six-hour classes are o ered in 11 Brown, AUD’10, a former police ocer cities in Kansas and the greater Kansas with 12 years of service in Branson, City area, including 19 residential commu- Big, bold, beautiful Missouri, and Leawood, understood the nities for seniors. More than one-third of benets a hearing loop would provide the the courses are o ered at the St. Andrews ‘Zen Temple of Techno’ towers Osher community and didn’t hesitate to facility. as riveting new Spencer artwork help fund the project. At the end of the institute’s six-week “If a patient has a loop-system compat- Launch KU campaign, nearly 90 donors he Spencer Museum of Art has a new ible hearing aid, they can activate it and had contributed $14,400, which funded Trock star. Techno star, actually, and the sound, instead of going through the the new sound system and transmitter, a considering her enormous presence at air, goes straight to the hearing aid new computer and additional headphones nearly 7 feet tall, it’s probably advisable to through magnetic induction,” he explains. for participants without hearing aids. get it right. “Zen Temple of Techno,” an “architec- tonic portrait,” depicts Russian-born techno DJ Julia Govor, aka Julia Planet- disco, currently a rising star in the Seattle, New York and Asian techno music scenes. Although music fans unfamiliar with techno or Julia Planetdisco might be pleasantly surprised by sampling her music online, no techno familiarity is RYAN WAGGONER/SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART MUSEUM WAGGONER/SPENCER RYAN required to be knocked over by the massive oil-on-canvas portrait by Chinese artist Du Kun.

Du Kun, Zen Temple of Techno, 2017 Museum purchase: Gift of Hope and Marshall Talbot, in memory of their daughter, Tracy Lynn Mopper

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI They were Gunn’s in addition to his peers, mentors time in the To the Stars and friends. PUPPE STEVE classroom, made Gunn’s long journey to science fiction While Star- Gunn a firsthand greatness rooted at KU Begotten details a witness to a life of travel and period of he title of science fiction emerged not only as an brushes with fame transformational TGrand Master James award-winning writer and (encounters with growth at KU. Gunn’s long-awaited memoir, editor of 45 books and more John Wayne and As Star- Star-Begotten, is taken from an than a hundred short stories, Paul Newman on Begotten makes H.G. Wells novel about a man but also as a leading scholar a Hollywood film clear, Gunn’s obsessed with the idea that and teacher of the genre. set come to Gunn journey to the human minds are being taken Starting in 1969 until his mind), it is also stars had deep over by aliens. retirement, he taught science something of an institutional roots on Mount Oread. Gunn’s own life story, he fiction writing and other history of KU. From his student —Steven Hill writes in the introduction, is a classes in the English days before and after World tale of happily being “taken department, and in 1982 War II, and later as an over at a young age by the alien founded the Gunn Center for administrator and faculty influence of words on a page ... the Study of Science Fiction member, Gunn at one time or magical stories about people’s at KU. another seemingly held about lives being transformed, as Sci-fi fans will cherish his every writing job on the Hill: He Star-Begotten mine would be, by science and memories of the genre’s stars— edited the University Daily A Life Lived in technology and inspired Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, Kansan, was hired by Fred Science Fiction speculations about change.” Robert Heinlein and even, in a Ellsworth, c’22, as managing In a career that spanned brief cameo, the master H.G. editor of Kansas Alumni, and by James Gunn science fiction’s Golden Age to Wells himself—as well as was later appointed director of McFarland, $25 the present (his latest novel, editors like John Campbell who University Relations by Transformation, was published worked behind the scenes to Chancellor Franklin Murphy—a in June), Gunn, j’47, g’51, bring visionary work into print. remarkable series of roles that,

e painting is part of Du Kun’s “Head” resonated as well with longtime benefac- gure’s ears, for instance, are headphones, series, which monumentalizes contempo- tors Hope and Marshall Talbot, who and tiny Buddhas within the rock clis are rary musicians as architectural embodi- suggested Ercums acquire another Du Kun holding microphones. Her hair bun is a ments of religious temples and grottoes. for the museum’s permanent collection. Chinese temple, and the eroded passage at e series melds imagery of iconic He promptly reached out to his contacts the island’s lower right indicates an arm Chinese rockers—Govor, a Russian, is the at Du Kun’s Beijing gallery, which reserved and shoulder. e glowing background sky only non-Chinese musician featured by “Zen Temple of Techno” as soon as they oers a simmering Impressionist treat- Du Kun—with Chinese temple architec- learned of the KU museum’s interest. ment of light. ture, highlighting the artist’s passion for “It was a real coup for us to get it According to Ercums, Du Kun studied both music and spirituality. because he maybe makes one or two at China’s pre-eminent arts school, the Kris Ercums, the Spencer’s curator for paintings a year,” Ercums says. “We just Central Academy of Fine Arts, long a global and contemporary Asian art, rst immediately jumped on it.” proponent of “socialist realism,” which encountered Du Kun’s series while on a Ercums says that to his knowledge, Du demands training in realistic technique. curatorial research trip to Beijing. Aer Kun’s artwork is held entirely by Chinese “From that standpoint, from a quality meeting with the artist, he arranged for and Japanese collectors and galleries, and valuation, it’s extremely, highly skilled,” another work in the series, “Jia Yuan the Spencer piece is his only painting on Ercums says. “But then the other thing Mountain,” to be loaned to the Spencer for view outside of Asia. It is a rare and I like is that it’s not just a beautiful tour its 2016-’17 exhibition “Temporal Turn: remarkable experience to view in person, de force; it has a deep conceptual content Art & Speculation in Contemporary Asia.” rewarding multiple visits with layers of as well. Aer that rst attraction, it will Ercums recalls that “Jia Yuan Mountain” brilliance, from overpowering scope and then take you into the depths of Chinese was one of the exhibition’s most popular depth to delightfully precise details. history and culture.” pieces with younger visitors, and it e architectural elements that form the —Chris Lazzarino

ISSUE 1, 2018 | 67 Glorious to View Photograph by Steven Hill

Moses contemplates the burning bush amid a dusting of snow. The Smith Hall tableau was part of the architect’s concept for the religious studies building, and the stained-glass window, designed by Jacoby Studios of St. Louis, was installed during the 1967 construction. The statue by Elden Tet, f’49, g’50, completed the scene in 1982.

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