OREAD OMBUDSMAN TACHA'S APPEAL MODERN MURPHY

The Doctors Are Stffl In School of Medicine's rural preceptors celebrate 50 years Jayfmwk Generations family Tribute to KU legacies

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To be included, student's high-school activities, awards the student must: and college plans. Important: Be sure to be a freshman in fall 2001 fill out BOTH the general form and the form detailing KU ancestors and high- have at least one parent who is an school activities. Alumni Association member 2. Mail a photograph of the student have at least one parent who attended For further (senior pictures work well) and college- KU (that parent need not have graduated) information era photos of parents who attended KU. Do not send photos of grandparents. We Call Andrea Second Generations will return all photos after the feature is Hoag, 1. Please log on to our Web site and published. submit an electronic form. 785-864-9769 3. Include a copy of the student's 2. Please DO NOT send photographs resume along with photos, if available. for second generation Jayhawks. 800-584-2957 Mail photos and resume to Third Generation and beyond Jayhawk Generations I. Please log on to our Web site Kansas Alumni Association and submit an electronic form. 1266 Oread Avenue Be sure to use the form's requisite blanks Lawrence, KS 66044-3 169 to list all known KU ancestors and the KANSAS ALUMNI CONTENTS Established The Graduate Mas.

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Peacemaker THE CHORUS Associate Professor Robert Sheltonjor 16 years Uters jii'Di raul has served the campus as ombudsman, but in truth 6 ON his role as a trusted listener and mediator dates back twice as many years. J AY HAWK WAI K By Steven Hill Venus, yeah baby she's got it: the dirty Bird; 10-year 24 si and more Doctors with Boarders News and notes, including importani new Fourth-year medical students don't get a KU Nl-'.Hgrants, Marshal! degree until they spend a month working Scholar and more alongside a small-town Kansas doctor; turns out 14 SPORTS they learn a lot more than medicine. Kenny Uregory flies By Chris Lazzarino Cover photograph by Wally Emerson; 1950 photograph by Look magazine AD READER 30 Friend on the Court tames (M rot hers teaches As she rises to chief judge of the U.S. Court of ; Appeals for the 10th Circuit, former vice 37 ASSOCIATION N 1:V\^ K.C. Hawks party to the chancellor Deanell Reece Tacha retains her Maxal Rock Chalk Ball trademark charm, humor and dedication.

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Music to Their Ears MEMORY KU's beleaguered bands, long suffering in the oddest in the K( / fa> and tightest of campus rehearsal spaces, finally si HOOLWORK move into jazzy new Murphy Hall. News from academe ^0 HAIL TO OLD KU By Katherine Dinsdale

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G. Bernard Joyce, M.D., named KU Endowment as the P.O. Box 928 ultimate beneficiary of his retirement plan. This helps ^ZJ KANSAS UNIVERSITY him to avoid tax on distributions from his estate. Lawrence, KS 66044-0928 He graduated from KU in 1939 with a bachelor's (785) 832-7400 degree from the College of Liberal Arts and ENDOWMENT Toll Free: 1-800-444-4201 Sciences and in 1944 with his medical degree. FIRST WORD BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

it down in a meeting with Deanell Tacha and you'd best of a consummate listener who turns raging debates into fasten your seatbelt. Dallying is not her style. Detours thoughtful, compassionate discourse and helps those who feel make her restless. She steers nimbly through an agenda, excluded or overlooked feel part of the whole. The son of a mindful that sloppy meetings get in the way of real work. small-town sheriff, Shelton's approach harks back to the practi- SOf course, even the most able driver occasionally takes her cal lessons of childhood as well as his years as a pastor and eyes off the road. Sometimes Tacha, c'68, just can't keep a professor. straight face. She looks around the table and sees not merely Katherine Dinsdale's story takes a new look at another long- colleagues but friends with whom she can't resist sharing a sly time KU resident known for legendary patience: Murphy Hall. aside or a raucous laugh. With many folks, Tacha goes way For years Murphy did its best to serve the department of music back: to western Kansas, to KU, to her kids' activities, to other and dance, despite too little space, too much noise and a chorus committees, to the countless points at which lives intersect in a of other ailments. But this year, Murphy finally takes a bow, town that's blessedly—and at times eerily—small. thanks to an eye-popping renovation and expansion. The new But the comic relief never distracts her for long. She fires questions, sorts answers and sets a course with ease, always with her eye on getting results. Tacha, new chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, moves with all deliberate speed because there is always more work to do. Not only on the court, where she presides over cases from six states and helps guide the federal judiciary, but also in the community. Fifteen years after she left her administrative post in Strong Hall, she remains a trusted University ally and, though her paying job takes her regularly to Denver, she remains on call in Lawrence for many causes. The causes—the arts, education, health care, children in need—share a theme that Tacha clearly takes to heart. She wants to build community, in every sense of the word. She believes our cities and towns will thrive if they offer people from all backgrounds, neigh- borhoods and abilities the places and programs through which they can share their common experiences and space enlivens not only music faculty and students, but also the express their differences. But Tacha does more than mouth high- entire campus, which celebrates the innovation both inside Mur- minded phrases. She urges others to act, because as citizens, she phy's walls and outside, where a sparkling new vista welcomes says, it is our responsibility to ensure that such opportunities visitors to Mount Oread's southern slope. exist. "Community," in the sense of fellowship, of teaching one New vistas for KU's fourth-year medical students mean small another, is one of Tacha's favorite words. So is "thoughtful," by towns far from the Kansas City and Wichita campuses. Our its preferred definition: careful, fair consideration of issues at cover story by Chris Lazzarino celebrates 50 years of the School hand. The trait is required of a skilled judge and community of Medicine's preceptor program, which relies on rural Kansas leader. Tacha is both. doctors, who teach medical students to care for patients not as As we prepared the stories for this issue, my mind kept cases but as friends and neighbors. returning to the many meetings at which I've watched Tacha at In its early days, the program's unvarnished, invaluable spirit work, to the words I've heard her speak before gatherings large caught the attention of Look magazine, which illustrated the and small. It is perhaps fitting (yet purely accidental) that the lessons one young KU doctor learned from his mentor. Today's stories sharing space with our profile of the new chief judge preceptors and their proteges remind us that truly well-managed seem to echo her abiding emphasis on building community. care means talking to people, hearing their stories and respond- Along with Tacha, we also profile Robert Shelton, for 16 years ing thoughtfully. Small-town doctors and their patients go way the University's ombudsman; for nearly two decades before, an back. Theirs are the bonds that help build community—in every unofficial mediator of campus conflict. Steven Hill tells the story sense of the word. ^mm

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L_ KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS A family of languages Publisher Chair Fred B.Williams Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66, Overland Park, I read the article ["Dying dialects," Editor Kansas Schoolwork, issue No. 1] with great inter- Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81 Executive Vice Chair est. My mothers side of the family came to Art Director Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, this country from the Volga region Susan Younger, f 91 Washington (Dreispitz, Russia). My mother, Mrs. Viola Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j'86 Executive Committee Heinze Shaw, of Wilson, is now 89 years Staff Writer Jim Adam, e'56. Overland Park, Kansas old and is the last surviving member of Steven Hill Reid Holbrook, c'64, l'66, Overland Park, her immediate family. Editorial Assistants Kansas Karen Goodell; Andrea E. Hoag, c'94 Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Port Ludlow, I believe she would be an excellent Washington source of information for Chris Johnson Photographer Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c'64,1*67, Kansas City, Wally Emerson, j'76 Kansas and Gabi Lunte to pursue. Graphic Designer Gil M. Reich, e'54, Savannah, Georgia She spoke the Volga German dialect in Valerie Spicher, j'94 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d'54, Wichita, Kansas her home (her parents spoke very little Editorial Office Kansas Alumni Association Vice Chairs English), and has many recollections of 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3 169 Gary Bender, g'64, Scottsdale, Arizona, and the language and her family. 785-864-4760 Colorado Springs.Colorado I spoke to my mother on the phone Advertising Office Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b'83, Brussels, Sarah Lober, Advertising Manager Belgium today and told her of the research project. Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 Tim S. Dibble, d'74, Issaquah, Washington Her response was that if they wanted to Lawrence, KS 66049 Patricia Weems Gaston, j'81, Annandale, 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 talk with her, they had hurry; she Virginia fax 785-843-7555 isn't getting any younger! e-mail: [email protected] Directors to July 2001 Ben Shaw, b'63 Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Lisa Ashner Adkins, c'84,1*87. Leawood, Kansas Seattle by the Alumni Association of the John B. Dicus, b'83, g'85,Topekn, Kansas six times a year in January, March, May, July, September Robert L. Driscoll, c'61, l'64, Mission Woods, and November $40 annual subscription includes mem- Kansas Stewart memories linger bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Peri- Directors to July 2002 odicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. Lewis D. Gregory, c'75, Leawood, Kansas It was somewhat sad to read about the POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Lynwood H. Smith, b'51, m'60, Lawrence, changes on Stewart Avenue in the recent Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Kansas Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © 2001 by Kansas Linda Duston Warren, c'66, m'70, Hanover, Kansas Alumni ["There Goes the Neighbor- Alumni Magazine. Non-member issue price: $7 Kansas hood," issue No. 5, 2000]. KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1 graduated in 1983 as a member of the The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for Directors to July 2003 the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, Sidney Ashton Garrett, c'68, d'70, Lawrence, Evans Scholars house and have a number commitment, and communication among all gradu- Kansas of fond memories of cookouts, parties and ates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g'80, EdD'95, staff and all other friends of The University of Kansas City, Kansas occasional snowball fights. Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa- David R. Rankin, p'63, Phillipsburg, Kansas Peter August, c'83 tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its con- Directors to July 2004 Waukegan, III. stituencies. The Association is organized exclusively A. Drue Jennings, d'68,172, Leawood, Kansas for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d'49, Kansas City, Style over substance? Fred B.Williams, President; Kay Henry, Senior Missouri Vice President for Administration and Human John W. Mize, c'72, Salina, Kansas Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Senior No criticisms, just some questions. Vice President for Communications; Dwight Directors to July 2005 Kansas Alumni No. 1, 2001, page 9 [Jay- Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea- Nancy Borel Ellis, d'63, Pinehurst, surer; William S. Green, Senior Vice President for North Carolina hawk Walk]. In the article "Star for a day Information Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f'69, Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c'65, ... for now" you use "Web site," capital g'84, Senior Vice President for Membership; Kirk Naperville, Illinois Cerny, c'92, g'98, Senior Vice President for Member- Craig B. Swenson, e'59, Lee's Summit, "W," two words. Is that a style decision? ship Services; Nancy Peine.Vice President for Missouri How about online? Always one word, Alumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner, '76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c'86, Honorary Members always lowercase? Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center Facility Gene A. Budig, Ed.D., Princeton, New Jersey Manager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni Center E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Ph.D., San Antonio, And, on the same page, the article Services and Jayhawk Society Membership; Chris Texas "Twelve hundred pounds of beef on the Lazzarino, j'86, Managing Editor; Kansas Alumni Archie R. Dykes, Ed.D., Goodlettsville, lam," paragraph one, line three, the word magazine; Susan Younger, f'91, Art Director; Tennessee Carolyn Barnes, c'80, Kansas Honors Program; Delbert M. Shankel, Ph.D., Lawrence, Kansas "bovine." I know the article is tongue in Jennifer Mueller, g'99, Student Programs. W. Clarke Wescoe, M.D., Kansas City, Mo. cheek, but I have two problems with "bovine." One, I do not like using the

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adjective as a noun. And, two, shouldn't it The refund is far from a done deal. increase was his idea, but we have to be really be taurine? The public is "in the dark" about the willing to talk about it or we are going to You have one of the best-edited maga- entire budgeting process for education. be left behind. zines I read, so when I see something a lit- The governor recommended salary Bud Gollier, c'62, m'66 tle unusual I like to check to see if you increases and modest increases in opera- Ottawa missed something picayune, or if, once tions for the University, but the addtional again, I might be mistaken. funding is not sufficient to finance these Marty Dick,j'63 increases. This results in a forced budget Old Tappan, N.J. reduction of $1.6 million for KU. Editor's note: Great questions. As for "Web I have previously suggested this is a site" and "online," both are style directives year for some creative budgeting and the contained in the latest Associated Press governor has simplified the process. Stylebook. We recently decided to veer away Announce the increase; take credit for from APjor "log on." AP directs its use as one being in favor of education. Then, exit word; we chose to make it two, which means stage. we might need to make a similar call for Further, the abandonment of the $2 "online." AP directs that "online" be "one per credit hour by the state, which word in all cases for the computer connection matched the $ 1 per hour student fee for term." If we use the verb "log on" as two acquisition of instructional equipment, words, we will perhaps need two words to use limits the University's investment in "on line" as a verb: "Go on line to read the instructional technology. The governor's Association's Web site." We agree heartily FY 2002 budget discontinues the state with Dick's annoyance when adjectives are match of $1.3 million for keeping abreast A mascot birdcall used as nouns; however, bovine is listed as of this rapidly changing field. both a noun and adjective. Plus, it rhymes Further, the University requested $1 Calling all Jayhawks—actual Jayhawks, nicely in context: "... one fine bovine if ever million to address the rising costs of nat- that is. Amy Hurst Rachman, c'74, the there was one." We do, however, adore his ural gas. This was not included in the gov- original , is staging a Homecom- alternative, especially since we could have ernor's budget, and the budget of the ing reunion of former mascots. written of "a taurine dream." As for picayune: University will have to be cut elsewhere to Because rosters of students who wore The delightful word means "of little value or pay these bills. I'm certain the story is the the Jayhawk suits are not complete, Rach- importance," and is derived from the same at other Regents schools. man asks that her Homecoming reunion Louisiana French word "picaillon," or small Gov. Graves has defended his budget plans be announced in Kansas Alumni. coin. To invoke our mentor, the late editing proposal for higher education by saying Homecoming is Oct. 13. professor John Bremner, can anyone think of the schools were treated the same as other So if you are a former mascot and are another word that derives from Louisiana's state agencies in these tough fiscal times. interested in attending the Homecoming French currency? Try Dixie. According to Is that creative thinking? All agencies and reunion, contact the Association at 800- Bremner's Words on Words, the name for programs have their worthy proponents 584-2957 and ask for Donna Neuner. And the Southern states was first a nickname for and need for state support, but education if you have feathered friends who might New Orleans, from the French word for 10, is our future. miss this announcement, be sure to spread "dix," which was printed on $10 bills in New Not only do we expand the economy the word. Orleans for the benefit of French Creoles. by providing jobs and increasing opportu- nity for our youth, but also we keep them Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the Cuts will hurt education in schools expanding their minds and off editor. If you would like to comment on the streets, where they find other mind- a story, please write us. Our address is The headline in [the March 2] altering choices. Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence Journal-World tells us legislators No, we can't treat education like any Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. are "in the dark" about funding for higher other agency of budget line item. We have education. This headline refers to the to put education first. The governor has If you would like to respond via e-mail, prospect that KU has not informed law- said he will come out with a new educa- the Alumni Association's address is makers that the University could bridge tion funding proposal in mid-March. I [email protected], or visit some of the funding problems through agree we need his leadership but we need our web site at www.kualumni.org. recovery of an overpayment to Social to nudge him a little bit. Letters appearing in the magazine may Security. What could KU possibly report? It would have been nice if a tax be edited for space and clarity.

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BEAUTIFUL BEADS: The late American Indian artist Black- Academic calendar bear Bosin will perhaps be best MARCH remembered for his towering sculpture "Keeper of the Plains," 19-25 Spring Break a stark, 40-foot-tall steel warrior MAY who stands sentinel at the con- fluence of the Arkansas and 7 Spring classes end Little Arkansas rivers in Wichita. 8 Stop Day But the accomplished painter and sculptor was also an avid 9-16 Final examinations collector of American Indian arti- 20 Commencement facts. At his death in 1980, he left his extensive collection to friend and blood brother Britt Brown, Special events 74, who donated it to the Museum of Anthropology in APRIL l999."Blackbear Bosin: Artist and 5 "Homer's Light," Professor Collector" will showcase these Stanley Lombardo, Humanities artifacts and five Bosin paintings Lecture Series, Woodruff from Brown's personal collection through Aug. 5. Auditorium 20-21 Gold Medal Weekend, Adams Alumni Center. Class of 1951 Exhibitions APRIL 50-year reunion, Gold Medal 10 Jazz Combos I-IV (free) Club brunch, School of Educa- "Women Artists and the Spaces of Femi- tion's dedication of Joseph R. 13-15, 19-21 "The Bartered Bride," by ninity, 1700-1900," Spencer Pearson Hall. For more infor- Bedrich Smetana Museum of Art, through May 20 mation, contact Donna Neuner "Remembering the Family Farm: 150 at 800-KUHAWKS. Years of American Prints," Lied Center events , March MARCH MAY 1 Ring Ceremony, 24-June 3 11 Verdi's "Aida," Teatro Lirico Adams Alumni Center "Metaphor & Irony: Czech Scenic and D'Europa 3 Grad Farewell, Costume Design, 1920-1999," 15 Diavolo Dance Theatre Spencer Museum of Art, April Adams Alumni Center 12-June 3 APRIL 5 School of Education's Eighth- 3 Mark Morris Dance Group "Rock Art," Museum of Anthropology, annual Gale Sayers Benefit Golf through April 8 5 University Band Tournament, Alvamar Golf & Country Club. Contact Allison "Black Bear Bosin: Artist and Collector," 6 KU Symphonic Band Rose Lopez, 785-864-9610 Museum of Anthropology, 10 Joyce Castle & Kurt Ollmann, through Aug. 5 "The Music of Leonard 20 Commencement Lunch, The Outlook "Plains Indian Beadwork," Museum of Bernstein" Anthropology, April 28-Aug. 5 12 Concert Band "Installed Performances: Students of 20 Jazz Ensemble I and Jazz Maria Velasco," Art and Design Singers Gallery, April 30-May 4 22 Girls Choir of Harlem 24 Jazz Ensembles II, III and Vocal Murphy Hall events Jazz Choirs MARCH 25-27 Drak Puppet Theatre 30-31, April 1, 3-7 "Temptation," MAY by Vaclav Havel 3-4 University Dance Company 6 KU Choirs and Orchestra: "Secular and Sacred"

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Baseball Rowing Men's tennis MARCH MARCH MARCH 13-16 Illinois- 24 at Texas 20 at Fresno State 17-18 Michigan 31-April 1 Kansas Regatta 21 at California 18-19 Eastern Michigan APRIL 23 at Baylor 21 Southwest Missouri State 14 at Ohio State Regatta 25 at Texas Tech 23-25 Baylor 21 at Midwest Rowing Champi- APRIL 27 at Arkansas onships, Madison, Wis. 2 Texas 30-April 1 Texas 28 at Kansas State Regatta 7 Colorado APRIL MAY 8 Nebraska 4 Wichita State 12-13 at Women's Central 13 at Oklahoma 6-8 at Texas A&M Rowing Championships, 14 at Oklahoma State 10 at Creighton Oak Ridge, Tenn. 21 at Texas Christian 13-15 at Iowa State 22 at Tulsa 18 at Wichita State Track and field 26-29 at Big 12, Waco, Texas 20-22 Nebraska MARCH 27-29 at Texas Tech 24 at North Texas State Invitational Women's tennis MAY APRIL MARCH 4-6 Kansas State 4-7 at Texas Relays 14 at Missouri 12-13 Texas Pan-American 14 at Banks of Fayetteville 17 at Oklahoma 16-20 at Big 12 Tournament Invitational 18 at Oklahoma State 18-21 Kansas Relays 22 at Houston Softball 27-28 at Drake Relays 24 at Texas Tech MARCH MAY APRIL 16-18 KU Invitational 4 at Huskers Invitational 1 Colorado 17-20 at Big 12 Championships, 21 at Oklahoma State (DH) 8 Kansas State College Station, Texas 24-25 Texas 14 at Tulsa 27 UMKC (DH) Men's golf 17 Nebraska 28 Arkansas (DH) 21 Southern Methodist 31-April 1 at Texas A&M MARCH 22 Texas A&M, at Kansas City 12-13 at Louisiana Classics APRIL 26-29 at Big 12, Waco, Texas 19-20 at Cleveland Championship 4 at Southwest Missouri State (DH) 26-27 at Stevinson Ranch Invita- PHONE BOX tional 7-8 at Texas Tech Lied Center 864-ARTS 10 at Wichita State (DH) APRIL Murphy Hall .864-3982 13-14 Baylor 2-3 at Western Intercollegiate Student Union Activities ... .864-3477 Spencer Museum of Art .864-4710 14-15 at The Intercollegiate, Chapel 17 Oklahoma City (DH) Spencer Research Library .. .864-4334 19 Missouri Hill, N.C. Museum of Anthropology .. .864-4245 21-22 at Iowa State 23-24 at Big 12, Hutchinson Natural History Museum ... .864-4540 Hall Center for Humanities .864-4798 25 at Creighton (DH) University libraries .864-3956 28-29 Oklahoma Women's golf Kansas Union .864-4596 APRIL Adams Alumni Center .864-4760 MAY 7-8 at Indiana Invitational KU Information .864-3506 5 Nebraska (DH) Directory assistance .864-2700 14-15 at Iowa Invitational 6 at Missouri KU main number .864-2700 23-25 at Big 12, Ames, Iowa Athletics 1 -800-34-HAWKS 9-12 at Big 12 Tournament

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xhfuk%T8 haV# fchc Write stuff Heard by the Bird nglish 101 and 102, the bane of so many body say,'Say, how did you do that?'" reports Efreshmen who fear writing, got a tad Haskell Springer, professor of English, who friendlier last semester when one section of taught the 102 section. "You still see a great rom an e-mail distributed to each course was taught in Wescoe Hall's variation in students' ability to make easy use employees at KU Medical F new computer lab. of the computer; whereas everyone knows Center: No more blue-book blues, no more pen- how to pick up a pencil." "The division of Infectious and-ink apoplexy.The computer-sawy gener- John Bruni, a graduate teaching assistant Diseases is updating its equip- ation now navigates its who taught the 101 section, says he is eager ment. We have two large refriger- way through fresh- to teach the "experimental" course again. ators and one ultra-low freezer man composition "The students' attitudes, comfort levels and to get rid of.These are old but with the greatest of abilities on computers all varied," he says, serviceable.They are available on ease. "but one good thing I noticed was that the a first come, first serve basis. Oops. computers seemed to lead to more interac- Those who would claim this Reboot. tion among the students.They seemed to equipment would be responsible "You'd be help each other more than they usually do for discarding the contents and surprised how in the traditional class." for the moving expense." often you'd Words to live by—no matter how they hear some- might be written.

Dearth of Venus

pying a 4-foot-tall concrete replica of Venus (the Sscallop-surfing goddess of love depicted in Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century masterpiece) on a curbside trash heap, Ward Byrum, f '01, did what any conscientious art student would: He toted the Renaissance hottie home and installed her in his front yard, where she could shower blessings on roommates and neighbors alike. Within weeks, Byrum et al. received an anonymous missive, addressed to "the college residents," demanding that Venus be dethroned. "It was threatening for the most part, saying 'this offensive statue will not remain in this family neighborhood,'" Byrum recalls."They even threatened to call one of our fathers." Though miffed by the letter's tone, the young curator quietly moved Venus inside, where the deity formerly known as the goddess of gardens and fields now reigns over a lesser kingdom: the living room. He suspects it wasn't nudity, as the letter suggested, but tackiness that raised hackles. "We picked it up because it was funny, not because it was art," Byrum says of the divine Miss V, who sports a prominent fissure through her cement midriff. Could enlightened Lawrencians really have failed to recognize such a high-profile Renaissance icon? More likely, the neighbors were simply jealous—a classic case of Venus envy.

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ostile fans. Opposing mascots.Very limited peripheral vision. If that Hweren't enough for to worry about, now this news flash: Rock Chalk, Jay reeks. University Daily Kansan sports columnist Amanda Kaschube broached the topic of the foul fowl in December, noting that Big Jay raised a big stink during a homestand featuring eight games in one week. Spirit Squad coordinator Cathy Jarzemkoski, confirming the mas- cot's malodorousness, blamed the tight schedule, high cleaning costs and poor ventilation in the hawk's roost for tripping Jay's fetor meter. Even though he kept a stiff upper beak through the odorous ordeal (brought to merciful end by a long overdue trip to the cleaners), a pick-me-up might be in order to boost the big bird's morale. May we suggest aromatherapy? abe Ruth Bpointed to the center-field bartd fl seats, then sent a homer there. he might not look much different next football season, and they surely Glenn Harrison Twon't sound any different, but different they will be.Tuba tunesmith Ryan Lynch finally retired. called his own Lynch, e'96, played with KU's marching and pep bands for 10 years, starting with his freshman perfect game year in 1991 and concluding with the final home game of 2000, Nov. I I against Texas. Lynch wit- at the nessed a staggering 59 games; his marching days even date back to a victory over Kansas State. Jaybowl. "I can't think of anyone else who was here for 10 years," says Bob Foster; director of bands. "Ryan just loved playing the tuba. He loves band. Most of all, he's just a really wonderful person." In October; After earning his civil engineering degree, Lynch began pursuing a geology degree. But as he the Frontenac also settled into a career as a Web programmer, he had trouble carrying the load as a student and junior and bowling tuba section leader. He finally decided that last fall would mark his finale. team member rolled 12 V "At the end of every game," Lynch says, "we play'Home on the Range.'When we played it at strikes to complete the first the end of the Texas game, that was really the bittersweet moment for me. I honestly didn't real- flawless 300 at the Jaybowl since ize how many years I had been doing it until it was over" 1970. Coming off two mediocre games, Harrison adjusted his stroke. "Then I threw a double (two strikes), and I told my friends The results are in from Lawrence, Fla. I was going to shoot it," Harrison says. "They were like,'Yeah, right, whatever. e're not sure who did the voting—or the counting—but the It never happens here.'" Wmost shocking tally of 2000 might have been the Jan. I announcement that Lawrence's biggest news story was ... no, not Like Ruth, Harrison delivered. you-know-who. The feat earned him a Newsmaker of the year, according to a completely unexplained $300 gift certificate from poll of Lawrence Journal-World readers and 6News viewers, was KU Bookstores and the December launch of Lawrence's new citywide bus system. world-class confidence. Coach Whatshisname, who slapped the pause button on two After acing these -crazy states while he wrestled with an offer to return to boards, Harrison says North Carolina, came in second. How quickly they—whoever they of the aging, notori- are—forget. ously tough Jaybowl, "I Then again, Coach Whatshisname might take us to the Final feel like I can bowl a Four; but he sure won't take us to the grocery store and back. 300 anywhere." |

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 HILLTOPICS BY STEVEN HILL Onward and outward REPORT NEH funding allows Hall Center to extend off-campus WELCOME, COUSIN reach and faculty to pursue research in humanities HOPING TO EASE the transition to college life for international students, umanities research the Office of International Student Ser- at KU got a big vices this spring launched a new pro- boost in December gram that matches them with American H "cousins," student volunteers who can when the National Endow- draw their international counterparts ment for the Humanities into the KU community. awarded the University six "Our goal is to create an arrange- grants totaling $664,000. ment where every new international The largest, a $500,000 undergraduate has a domestic student challenge grant for the Hall who's checking up on them every cou- Center for the Humanities, is ple of weeks," says Joe Potts, g'88, the second such award in director of International Student Ser- the center's 25-year history. vices. "We hope by the end of the "The first one, in 1983, semester they feel there was someone really made it possible to at KU who cared about them, someone develop the endowment who reached out to make them feel at from which many of our fac- home." ulty development programs Program coordinator Moussa Sis- are still funded," says Victor soko, g'90, says international and Ameri- Bailey, center director. "The can students face similar issues in their 2000 grant is more outward first semester: homesickness, loneliness looking. It allows us to go and alienation. "The difference is that downtown, if you will, to know the culture," Sissoko share KU faculty and says. "For international students the research outside the Univer- adjustment is much greater because sity." they are often from a culture where The NEH challenge everything—how classes are conduct- requires a four-to-one ed, how people interact—is different." match. "Raising $2 million is HISTORY REPEATS: Director-Victor Bailey hopes a new $500,000 About I 10 students signed up for a daunting task. But at least grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities proves as semester-long mentorships, though the timing is good, since KU valuable as the center's 1983 NEH grant, which attracted major support pairings from the Hall Family Foundations. "Nationally we have a reputation as is about to go into a capital could last one of the more important humanities centers within public universi- campaign," Bailey says. longer. ties," Bailey says. "This has the potential to give us an even better "We'll be very much a part national reputation." "We do of that." hope some will blos- Also in December five faculty received studies; and Peter Mancall, professor of som into NEH research fellowships—the most at history. A $24,000 semester fellowship friend- any university in 2000 and the most ever went to Katherine Unruh, associate pro- ships," for KU. Fellowships for the full academic fessor of Spanish and Portuguese. Potts says. year, which each provide $35,000, went The individual fellowships and match- to E Allan Hanson, professor of anthro- ing grant reflect not only the quality of pology and humanities and Western Civi- humanities research at KU, but also the lization; Amy McNair, associate professor value of the center's new grant develop- SISSOKO of art history; Beverly Mack, associate ment office, Bailey says. "Although it's the professor of African and African-American accepted thing in science research to have

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a full-time grant development office, it has cent at all six Regents schools. Though the not been seen as an obvious thing for salary increase (which totaled 6.1 percent humanities research centers. Clearly the when combined with a 3 percent increase University's investment in that office is for all faculty and unclassified staff) fell paying dividends with these grants." short of the Regents' requested 8.2 per- Carl Strikwerda, associate dean of the cent hike, it fulfilled the promise of 1999 humanities for the College of Liberal Arts legislation restructuring Kansas higher VISITOR and Sciences, agrees. "Not many universi- education. RAISING THE BAR ties nationwide have put resources into It's what was left unsaid that set Uni- Journalist and NPR talk-show host helping the humanities get research fund- versity officials reeling. JUAN WILLIAMS lectured on "The ing," Strikwerda says. Other schools In a move that Chancellor Robert E. Changing Face of American Justice" as receiving multiple faculty fellowships Hemenway called "a total surprise," the part of the Nelson Timothy Stephens included the University of California- governor's 2002 proposal reduced KU's Lecture Series and African-American Berkeley and Boston University (four base budget. Despite recommending a 1 History Month activities. each) and Harvard University and Smith percent increase in overall operating College (three each). "That's one sign of expenditures, the governor's budget for WHEN: Feb. 9 success," he says. "We're up there with the the first time excluded the cost of health very best." care increases and other employee bene- WHERE: Green Hall The first NEH challenge grant literally fits. The move would cost the Lawrence helped the center make a name for itself, campus $1.6 million in 2002. SPONSORS: The School of Law and attracting a substantial gift from the Hall Graves also did not renew the two-for- the Office of Multicultural Affairs Family Foundations of Kansas City, Mo. one technology fee that last year helped Bailey believes the latest NEH grant could the University fund $1.9 million in tech- BACKGROUND: Williams wrote produce a similar bounce. "1 think it will nology improvements. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolution- ary after extensive interviews with the diversify the center and allow us to have a "Forcing this level of adjustment to the late Supreme Court justice. Host of wider impact," he says. "1 think you will current base budget, coupled with the loss NPR's "Talk of the Nation," he conducts see the Hall Center having more of a role of the state match for instructional equip- monthly town meetings for the show's in Topeka and Kansas City, and also link- ment, largely offsets the recommended "The Changing Face of America" series. ing with regional universities more." budget increases," Hemenway wrote in a Bailey wants to expand existing public memo to faculty and ANECDOTE: and educational outreach programs staff. "In effect, we Williams says and launch new ones. The popular are asked to fund Marshall was Humanities Lecture Series, for exam- most of the recom- deeply offend- ple, will attempt to attract "higher mended increases ed by Bob profile" speakers than in the past. out of cuts to Woodward's "I'd like to bring in a few more our current negative por- public intellectuals, people out- funding." trayal of him in side the academic guild who are In anticipa- The Brethren really stirring the waters and tion of those cuts and wanted to asking the difficult questions," and in reaction to set the record straight before he died. Bailey says.-^""' soaring natural gas "During my first interviews I had the costs that pushed feeling that Justice Marshall just wanted the University's to talk." Energy costs, budget cuts energy expenses more than crimp 2002 fiscal outlook $1 million into the red this winter, QUOTE: "I hope Marshall's story acts Hemenway in February froze hiring and as inspiration for what you might do uring his January State of the State equipment purchases. He also instructed with the law," Williams told students. Daddress, Gov. Bill Graves told Univer- all units to cut a total $1.15 million from "Getting a law degree is not about sity and Board of Regents officials what this year's budget. wearing a shirt and tie or getting the they hoped to hear when he endorsed In announcing the move, Provost high salary; it really is about putting "the key components" of their block-grant David Shulenburger said cuts of $3 mil- your imprint on what we understand justice to mean in 21st-century funding proposal and called for $8.4 mil- lion are possible for fiscal 2002 if the Leg- America." lion to help raise faculty salaries 3.1 per- islature does not help the University cover

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its utility bills. "I hope next year's cuts will play "The Pterodactyls" won first place in not be necessary," Shulenburger said, "but the Midwest region of the 2000 American we have to plan." College Theatre Festival. The play was Further exacerbating the squeeze— one of eight performed at the Kennedy brought on by a shortfall in state tax rev- Center in Washington, D.C. UPDATE enues—was the governor's proposal to "I wanted to go to London first of all COMMAND PERFORMANCE eliminate the bottom three pay steps for because the theatre is such an interest to classified employees. The proposal would me," he says. He chose Goldsmiths THE MUSIC MENTOR program effectively grant the University's lowest- because the faculty shares his interest in (No. 2,2000), founded in 1999 by paid workers a raise by bumping them to modernist writers. Ferree will study Irish senior Christie Garton to provide pri- the fourth step, but would leave it to KU writer Samuel Beckett, whose dual career vate music lessons to children, got a to pay for the increases.^"* as a playwright and novelist he sees as a boost this winter when eight musicians model for his own. The University of Lon- and their mentors were invited to play don also presents "the unique opportunity at the White House. Marshall winner heads to to study Beckett in the city where many of Garton's group—students from Cen- London for study, travel his theatrical works were first produced in tral Junior High School and their KU English," Ferree notes. He will also study tutors—performed in the East Room cott Ferree, a McPherson senior in James Joyce, Marcel Proust and other for specially invited guests of the First modernists. Family Dec. 28.The trip made a big SEnglish and French, became the sec- impression on the young musicians. ond Marshall Scholarship winner from A seasoned traveler who previously "Everyone understood the impor- KU in as many years when he was named studied abroad in a summer theatre pro- tance of what they were doing," Garton one of 40 Marshall Scholars for 2000-'02. gram in Greece, Ferree also plans to visit says. "To be specially invited to play at He is the eighth Jayhawk to win the pres- the writers' hometowns. "When I was in the White tigious scholarship since the British gov- Dublin I went to the Joyce tower, where House is the ernment founded it in 1953 to express the beginning of Ulysses is set. It was kind of thing gratitude for the Marshall Plan. amazing to see the place where the novel that doesn't Ferree will use the Marshall, which begins. I'd like to do the same for Proust." happen to provides $50,000 for two years of gradu- Ferree will be gathering material for his most people. ate study in Great Britain, to combine two work, too. "I hope this puts me in a better I think they great loves: travel and writing. The aspir- position to sit down and write, in that I'll wanted to ing playwright and fiction writer will pur- have more to write about," he soak it up sue a master's degree and take in English Studies at something the University of away from London's Goldsmiths the experi- College. GARTON ence." "I hope to have a The invitation was extended after really exciting experi- Garton wrote to President Clinton, ence where I learn a explaining the program's mission of lot inside and outside bringing private music instruction to the school," Ferree children who lack the money or oppor- says. "It's going to give tunity to take lessons.The group did me two years in a not get a chance to meet the president, vibrant cultural capital but they did catch a glimpse of another of Europe. Academi- famous White House resident. cally and personally it's "We were standing out in the cold just a wonderful while the Secret Service looked opportunity." through our instrument cases and we saw Buddy the dog running around and Ferree's theatrical playing on the lawn," Garton says. "That success influenced his decision to continue LONDON BOUND: Marshall Scholar Scott Ferree, who has claimed a was pretty much the only famous face favorite corner ofWatson Library as his own, now looks to London's Gold- we saw." his education in Lon- smiths College and the city's world-class theatre scene to hone his interest in don. Last spring his fiction and drama.

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS CLASS CREDIT SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS • 2000 WAS A RECORD-BREAKING YEAR FOR RESEARCH AT KU.The University generated an estimated $190 million in funding from federal, state and local An art history doctoral student and governments; industry and other sources of science-related research; and non-science two undergraduates are among the KU research and training grants. "The magnitude of research conducted at KU this last students who won national honors last year has been simply remarkable," says Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway."lt speaks fall for their academic achievements. highly of the level of work of our faculty, and it is placing us closer to our goal of being KERRY MORGAN received an among the top 25 public research universities." Hemenway has set a goal of doubling $18,500 Henry Luce Fellowship to the University's research funding over the next five to seven years.The estimated 2000 work on her dissertation, "Picturing total marks an increase of 13 percent over 1999. Justice: Trial and Punishment in Ameri- can Visual Culture, 1850-1880." Morgan is studying visual depictions of the U.S. • KU RANKS THIRD AMONG BIG 12 SCHOOLS IN ALUMNI GIVING, legal system before and after the Civil according to a report released last fall by the Council for Aid to Education.The 1999 War to determine how the images Voluntary Support of Education report places KU behind only Baylor and Nebraska in affected public perceptions of justice. the average amount of alumni donations ($1,273 per gift) and in total alumni donations She focuses on courtroom scenes and ($31.4 million).When corporate and foundation contributions are added to the hangings, especially those seen in the fundraising totals, KU ranks fifth with total support of $80.9 million.The 19.8 percent illustrated newspapers that began circu- of solicited KU alumni who actually contribute ranks sixth in the conference. lating widely in the 1850s. "As soon as Americans had the •A RECORD CLASS OF I 16 NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS propelled capacity for mass distribution, we began KU to an eighth-place national ranking in enrollment of new National Merit Scholars disseminating sensational, violent in 2000. Nationally, fewer than 10,000 graduating high-school seniors annually receive images," Morgan says. "It's not a prob- the prestigious scholarships. KU enrolled 101 National Merit Scholars in 1999, which lem that we have only today, but one ranked ninth nationally.The increase was the largest for any Midwestern university that's been around for 150 years." Her last year. proposal was one of 10 funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, which annually • RICHARD A.JOHNSON, a former assistant to the vice chancellor of student supports a limited number of American affairs at the University of Missouri, succeeds James Kitchen this month as KU's new art research projects. dean of students. Johnson earned a doctorate in educational leadership and student Junior environmental studies major affairs administration from the University of Vermont, where he worked as an adminis- MICHAEL MARTIN and senior bio- trator before joining MU in 1995. chemistry major JAMIE •THE GILDED AGE EXHIBITION helped boost attendance figures for the ZERBE Spencer Museum of Art last year. During the September to November run for the received Ford traveling collection of turn-of-the-century American paintings, 25,000 museumgoers Motor Com- visited the Spencer. Total attendance for 2000 reached 90,919, up from 77,127 in 1999. pany/Golden Key scholar- •DEAN OF LIBRARIES KEITH RUSSELL stepped down in January for health ships for being reasons. Russell will now coordinate employee development for KU's classified and named out- unclassified staff. Julia Rholes, formerly assistant dean for information services at Uni- standing new versity libraries, will serve as interim dean while a national search is conducted for members of Russell's replacement. the Golden ZERBE, MARTIN Key International Honor Society. Martin • SPRING ENROLLMENT IS UP 1.2 PERCENT from last year on the Lawrence and Zerbe were chosen from more and Edwards campuses. On the 20th day of classes, combined enrollment for the two than 600 juniors and seniors inducted campuses was 24,502. KU Medical Center enrolled 2,355, an increase of 0.8 percent. into the KU chapter in November.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 13 BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Wake-up call As Jayhawks march toward tourney, laid-back Gregory THE JAN. 27 airplane crash that killed hopes to set the postseason pace on and off the court 10 members of a traveling party associ- ated with the Oklahoma State Universi- ty men's basketball team included two hat with Kenny KU alumni. Among the crash's victims Gregory and be were OSU media relations coordinator Cprepared to handle Will Hancock, j'93, and trainer Brian the spin moves, just like Luinstra, d'94. the unhappy campers Hancock, 31, spent four years as a forced to guard him on a student assistant in KU's sports informa- basketball court. tion office. His father, Bill, is director of He does not evade with the NCAA Div. I men's basketball tour- his answers, but he also nament and is close to many staff mem- doesn't deliver them in bers of the KU athletics department. straight lines. He is not Will Hancock married OSU soccer preprogrammed. He hasn't coach Karen Horstman in 1996, and thought everything out in they had their first child, Andrea Bailey, advance. Though he uses Nov. 16. cliches about "doing what "Will represents one of the finest- he can to help the team quality individuals I've ever worked with win," Gregory doesn't rely in 29 years," says Doug Vance, KU's on them. assistant athletics director for media And if he sometimes relations. "It's a loss that reached deep contradicts himself, hey, in my heart. We knew him for so long, that's cool, because that's we knew his family ...This just really really what Kenny Gregory puts things in perspective. When you is all about. lose someone like that, it forces you to He has the most ener- think about what's important." getic game since Jerod Vance remembered Hancock as Haase, yet he's proud to being "very polite" and says he "always announce that his hobby had a smile on his face." Says Vance: "Will was a very caring is sleeping. "I do a lot of person. He was someone you would that," he says, "whenever I hope your son would grow up to be have the chance." And the like." next best thing to sleep- Luinstra, 29, was a student trainer at ing? Sitting on the couch. KU for two years, then spent four years "That's my favorite time of at Wichita State before joining OSU's the day," Gregory says. program in 1999. "Just sitting on the couch. "It is truly a sad day," basketball I really don't like to do FLYING HIGH: Leading-scorer Kenny Gregory will be remembered for his leaping: "He has tremendous ability in the open court, not only to coach Roy Williams said soon after the much. I like to relax." jump very high, but to extend himself to the basket," coach Roy Williams crash. "It makes everything else not If he could do any- says. "He has very big hands, so he can extend that right arm and make important at all. It does not lessen the thing, Gregory would do layups where somebody else has to shoot a jump shot." importance of other things, it makes nothing. The Jayhawk them not important whatsoever." who lives in a vertical world is, in fact, all to family, friends and a faster life in Williams and athletics director Bob about inertia. Columbus, Ohio. Anywhere but Frederick, d'62, g'64, EdD'84, joined He is a homebody who left home, and Lawrence. coaches and administrators from around as soon as he's done being a KU superstar "I'm outta here," he says, without mal- the at the Stillwater, he's dashing off either to the NBA or back ice. "I've been ready to go. I'm one of

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those guys that people probably won't see by Rhode Island. That's the memory Okla., memorial service Jan. 31. too much of." Kenny Gregory brought to this senior sea- "That was one of the most difficult Gregory is KU's leading scorer (for the son, he explained in February. things I've ever been involved in," second year in a row), yet he's a painfully "Before the season, I didn't want the Williams said. "The Hancocks are per- bad free-throw shooter; he has never team to peak too early," he says. "My sonal friends, and I knew their son, who made more than 50 percent of his free freshman year, I think that was one of our was in school here ... that part added throws in a season. He's a senior, the problems. We were so much better than even more to it for me. When you see unquestioned leader and the leading scor- everyone in the conference that year, and Bill Hancock walking in, carrying that er, and yet coach Roy Williams left him I think we just peaked too early. By the little grandbaby that was born in on the bench with nine seconds and one end of the season we had nothing to build November, if that doesn't get to you, play remaining in the Feb. 5 Iowa State upon. I want this team to gradually get you've got problems." game; his free-throw shooting was that better and better as the year goes on." The OSU airplane, one of three much of a liability. The second-round loss to Rhode Island shuttling team and staff home from a He's a remarkable jumper, yet it wasn't unfortunately set a raw tone for Gregory basketball game at Colorado, went until his senior year that he parlayed that and Chenowith. During each of their down outside of Denver during a win- into consistently effective rebounding. "I three seasons here, KU has won just one ter storm. Also killed were players was a little rebellious," Gregory admits. "I NCAA Tournament game. After finishing Daniel Lawson Jr. and Nate Fleming, think I'm a little more mature now." their final regular-season 23-5, the seniors assistants Pat Noyes and Jared Weiberg, And KU's most exciting player happily insist the best is yet to come. broadcasters Bill Teegins and Kendall admits to the most boring hobby in the "I think it's obvious that we want to Durfey, and pilots Denver Mills and history of hobbies. But, like everything win it all, but we still need to get past the Bjorn Fahlstrom. else about him, there's more to it. He second round," Chenowith says. "I know Memorial donations can be made to hints at some method to his laziness. Kenny and I will approach this with a the OSU Foundation, 1224 N. Boomer "We expend so much energy, so much mentality that we are fed up with not Rd., Stillwater, Okla., 74078, or the Will Hancock Memorial, Room 100-H, Stu- time, on basketball and going to school, coming back for practice that second dent Union, Oklahoma State University, whenever I have the opportunity to sit Stillwater, Okla., 74078. down and do nothing, that's just a great time for me," he says. Junior guard Jeff Boschee says Gregory Russell, Gruber pace track "isn't a Nick Bradford, rah-rah guy." Gre- toward All-America glory gory leads "by example," Boschee says, and right now the example Gregory wants ne does it with speed, the other the guys to pick up on is pacing. In the impresses with strength. But those O COACH MARIAN Washington real world, it's called napping; in basket- are really just details. What's most impor- warned before the season that her ball, it's known as peaking. tant about senior All-America track and women's basketball team might have a When Gregory arrived at KU in fall field stars Charlie Gruber and Scott Rus- bit of a tough year. She was trying to 1997, the Jayhawks had lost Jacque sell is that they are returning some glory replace graduation losses with some Vaughn, Scot Pollard and Haase to gradu- to the KU track program in coach Stanley junior-college transfers—a rarity in ation, but were returning Raef LaFrentz, Redwine's first year. Washington's 28 seasons as KU's Paul Pierce, Billy Thomas, Ryan Robertson "It's definitely a transition year," Gruber coach—and Washington admitted she and Lester Earl. says, "but I think everybody is excited. I wasn't quite sure how it would all Down the bench as freshmen were think all of the athletes are excited about come together. Gregory, the MVP at the McDonald's High the change." As it turned out, Washington was School All-American game, and a 7-foot-1 Gruber, a middle-distance runner from right to be concerned.Though the Jay- Californian named Eric Chenowith. The Denver, created the flashiest moment of hawks had their bright spots—they Jayhawks were 34-2 in 1997, and there the season at KU's only home indoor beat two ranked teams,Texas and Illi- was reason to think they might be even meet, the Feb. 2 Kansas Invitational at nois, and swept Kansas State—they fin- better in 1997-'98. Anschutz Pavillion. With a rabbit (a ished the regular season I 1-16, and Didn't happen. Although the Jayhawks speedy runner sent out to ensure a fast 5-11 in the Big 12. It was KU's first los- won 35 games (tied with the 1986 Final pace) leading the way, Gruber won the ing season since the 1989 team finished Four team for the most wins in a season 1,000-meter race in 2 minutes, 21.72 sec- 13-14, and II regular-season victories in KU history), they were stunned in the onds, shattering more than three seconds was the lowest total since 1984. second round of the NCAA tournament from the KU indoor record, set in 1986

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Washington and the Jayhawks were Redwine says. "Charlie is very motivated, repeatedly haunted by tough losses. and very competitive. Being competitive They gave up a nine-point halftime lead and believing in his new coaches, those to lose at Missouri Feb. 10, and against things will help our program. That's hap- Nebraska Jan. 31 the Jayhawks saw a pening with both Charlie and Scott. They five-point lead slip away during a six- are our superstars, but it is happeninng at minute scoreless stretch. every level on the team." After that game, Washington seemed Despite Gruber's success, it's Russell to sum up the season by saying, "We are who is truly turning heads in the world of just a team that has had everything hap- track and field. pen to us this year." Russell, a senior from Windsor, Cana- Among other disappointments, start- da, specializes in the javelin. He won the ing forward Fernanda Bosi, one of the Big 12 and was ranked No. 1 in the coun- junior-college transfers whom Washing- try during the outdoor season, and won ton was depending on to add effective the Canadian trials in the javelin. outside shooting, left the team Feb. 2 But the javelin is not contested during and returned home to Brazil. She was the indoor season, so, to keep himself averaging just 5.3 points a game at the busy, Russell finds other events—such as time. the 35-pound weight throw, which he is "It is a shock and a disappointment dominating. He won the Big 12 Confer- that Fernanda has decided to leave the ence meet with a throw of 75 feet, 10 team," Washington said, "but we respect inches, setting the Big 12 record. At the her wishes to return home to Brazil." time, it was the year's best mark in the KU was led by its trio of seniors: world, though it was broken three days point guard Jennifer Jackson and for- later by the country's top-ranked thrower, wards Jaclyn Johnson and Brooke Reves. RECORD RUN: Charlie Gruber won the Feb. 2 Libor Charfreitag, of Southern Methodist Jackson, KU's starting point guard for Kansas Invitational's 1,000 meters in 2:21.72, shattering University. four years, averaged 10.1 points and 3.4 KU's 15-year-old indoor record by three seconds. assists. Johnson led the team in scoring "I definitely knew I had a record," Rus- with 15.9 points a game and in rebound- by Gerald Harder, c'88, m'92, at the sell said after the throw Feb. 23 in Lin- ing with 7.7 a game. Reves scored 13.8 Husker Triangular. Gruber's mark was coln, Neb. points a game and averaged 7.2 nearly two seconds faster than the As witnessed by Gruber and others, rebounds a game. Anschutz record, set in 1995 by the unat- excelling in multiple events isn't so All three were named honorable- tached runner Einars Tupuritis. unusual in track and field. What makes mention All Big 12. Jackson was also "Its a nice, fast track in Anschutz, and Russell unique is that he is tackling such named to th Academic All-Big 12 first it's always nice to compete at home," Gru- different events as the javelin and hammer team. ber says. "Plus I had other things going throw. To call them similar because they "Our team has faced so many chal- for me. I had a bunch of family come out are both throwing events is roughly lenges this season," Washington says. for the meet, and it was really fun to have equivalent to calling the mile and the "We needed to adjust and bounce back them there. 1 caught a rabbit who was set- 100-yard dash similar because they are so many times, and we did that. I'm very ting a really good pace, and I closed fast." both running events. proud of them because they never Gruber, who had already qualified for "It's definitely unusual. I don't know of stopped fighting." the NCAA championships, also competes anybody else in the NCAA that throws in in the mile and on the distance medley these two events," Russell says. "My first relay. Outdoors, he runs the 1,500 and love is still the javelin, but right now I'm 800 meters. pretty much full-time into the weight Gruber won five indoor miles last sea- throw." son, including at the Big 12 champi- In fact, Russell's new throws coach, SEVEN HOME GAMES, including a onships, and finished sixth at the NCAA. Doug Reynolds, said Russell "is the best Sept. 8 visit by UCLA and an Oct. 13 He went on to win the outdoor mile at doubler of the javelin and weight throw Homecoming visit by Oklahoma, the the Kansas Relays in 4:06.47, and quali- events in history." defending national champion, highlight fied for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in The weight throw employs a 35-pound the 2001 football schedule. KU opens its both the 800 and 1,500 meters. ball connected with one link to a handle. season Sept. I at Memorial Stadium, "1 think Charlie has done a great job," The thrower turns three or four times

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before releasing the weight. about finishing second, but with the against Southwest Missouri State. Kick- "There's a lot of technique involved," height." off for the opening game is 6 p.m. Russell says, "but the other parts require a Branson won the conference indoor Two more home games follow, lot of strength and speed. It's a really diffi- meet last year with a vault of 12-9 1/2, a UCLA on Sept. 8 (Parents Day) and cult event." school record.The outdoor season begins Wyoming on Sept. 15 (Band Day). Despite crushing the field at the Big March 24, and is highlighted by the The Jayhawks play at Colorado Sept. 12, Russell admits that he'll need the best Kansas Relays, April 18-21. 22, at Texas Tech Oct. 6, then host Okla- throw of his life to top SMU's Charfreitag. The Relays returned in 2000 after a homa for Homecoming Oct. 13. KU Russell expects that he'd have to throw 79 two-year hiatus for stadium then hosts Missouri Oct. 20, and travels or 80 feet to win the NCAA meet. renovations.-^^ to Kansas State Oct. 27. Though it would be a remarkable Nebraska is at KU Nov. 3. KU travels upset, the popular wisdom around the to Austin to play Texas Nov. 10, then KU program is that Russell will give him- Cuts doom 2 sports; next closes the regular season Nov. 17 at self the best chance possible to win the come ticket assignments home against Iowa State. title. "Scott has increased tremendously in he men's tennis and men's swimming every area," Redwine says. "He's very Tprograms will be discontinued coachable, and he's accepted what coach because of an athletics department budget Reynolds is doing with him. And not only squeeze, and changes in Allen Field is he coachable, but he's obviously a very House ticket assignment also loom. talented athlete." Athletics director Bob Frederick, d'62, FRESHMAN MARIO KINSEY, who KU's third All-American, senior pole g'64, EdD'84, announced the changes is expected to contend for KU's starting vaulter Andrea Branson, isn't quite vault- March 4. Elimination of the two sports is quarterback job, left the men's basket- ing to the standards she set last year, but expected to save about $600,000 next ball team Feb. 15. Kinsey, at KU on a did finish second at the conference meet year and about $3.6 million over the next football scholarship, red-shirted during with a vault of 12 feet, 6 inches. five years. the fall football season and joined the "I'm disappointed," Branson said. "Not Frederick said the first priority would basketball team as a much-needed back- be helping affected athletes up guard Oct. 15. After showing some find opportunities to continue early promise, Kinsey was slowed by their sports at other schools, shin injuries and averaged 1.9 points and though any scholarship athlete 8.8 minutes a game. may remain at KU on scholar- "Mario struggled academically first ship. semester, and has continued to perform Frederick also said the ath- below expectations in the classroom," letics department is developing Williams said."After discussing the situ- a new "donor-based seating aion with [football coach] Terry Allen plan for Allen Field House" and Mario, it was decided that stopping and he hopes to have the his basketball participation was neces- changes in place within two or sary. Mario will now have more time to three years. Frederick said the devote to his academics, and this will allow his body to rest before the start new seating plan, which will of spring football." reward bigger donors with bet- ter seats, "will provide addi- Though Allen has said the quarter- back job is wide open, he has hinted tional revenue and fairly with some enthusiastic comments that allocate seats among our Kinsey might be the quarterback he Williams Fund donor group." wants to build his team around. Frederick said scholarship Also expected to contend for the expenses have grown by nearly job is Zach Dyer, Dylen Smith's backup $ 1 million in the past three in 2000. Whoever starts will benefit HEAVE HO: Thrower Scott Russell, seen here during last year's years, and the travel budget from the recent addition of three 300- Kansas Relays, competes in both the javelin and 35-pound weight has swelled 115 percent since pound offensive linemen. throw—an exceedingly rare combination. Russell, a four-time All- the creation of the Big 12 American, won the Big 12 weight throw with the world's best mark Conference.-^1""* of the year theretofore.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 17 OREAD READER BY ANDREA E. HOAG Amphibians in the mist An eminent herpetologist learns to balance motherhood and career while searching for endangered frogs in the jungles of Central and South America

"V "V Thether Marty about being in Costa Rica with them out and indeed found \/\ / Crump is sharing a such a young baby?" one asks. the locals bathing, washing V V cramped thatched- Such questions cause clothes and brushing their roof hut with male colleagues Crump to doubt her choices. teeth in the water. The sight of along the Amazon basin, brav- But in one of the memoir's raw sewage, garbage, and a ing a bout of toenail parasites resplendent passages, as she dead pig floating by, however, or experiencing the pleasures cradles her baby in her arms convinced us not to cool even of chicken-foot soup and cur- and hikes back to camp, our toes." ried rat, In Search of the Golden IN SEARCH mother and daughter enjoy Though Crump describes Frog never fails to engage. OF THE the green mists of the forest the complexities of her Crump, c'68, g'71, PhD74, around them. In a moment of research in great detail, her now an adjunct professor of GOLDEN FROG clarity Crump realizes that riveting adventures and hard- biology at Northern Arizona slow-paced Monteverde, where ships maintain our interest. In University, is also a conserva- mothers have time to soothe a Search of the Golden Frog is dif- tion fellow of the Wildlife crying baby or calmly diag- ficult to put down when a Conservation Society and an HI nose a rash, is indeed the per- whole new day of discoveries accomplished field biologist In Search of the Golden Frog fect place to gain a sense of awaits our heroine at the turn who received the Distin- by Marty Crump equilibrium about her multiple of the page. The story's ulti- guished Herpetologist Award. The University of Chicago roles: wife, mother and field mate moral, however, is a sad She recounts more than 30 Press biologist. one: Amphibians are declining years spent trekking through $27 After a battle with cancer, at a rapid rate worldwide. the rain-soaked forests of Crump takes her research to Some writers might turn , Amazonian Brazil, embarked on a new round of Chile to study a species called preachy with that knowledge, Costa Rica, Chile and Ecuador. research in Costa Rica, she was "Darwin's Frog," so named yet Crump allows readers to Her informal writing style a seasoned field researcher. But because its exotic method of draw their own conclusions. does not demand scientific on this trip she took her infant rearing young was brought to In Search of the Golden Frog knowledge of the reader, mak- daughter, Karen. As Crump light by the famous scientist. not only dramatically recounts ing this memoir the ultimate coordinates a busy round of In Quinto, her party experi- the hunt for fleeting amphib- read for armchair travelers and work in the insect-infested ences conditions that would ians, but also explores with nature enthusiasts. field with frequent breaks to turn back the bravest of souls. wit and sensitivity one Written as a daily journal, feed the baby, she quickly "When we asked the owner woman's determined quest to the richly detailed observa- learns firsthand the difficulties where we could bathe, he successfully combine a tions—recorded when Crump of combining scientific explo- directed us to the Coca and demanding career and is fresh from her research— ration with motherhood. Napo Rivers. We checked evoke the immediacy of field While delivering a lecture on tropical amphibians, she stops notes. At her best in descrip- Excerpt from In Search of the Golden Frog tive passages, she transports to rescue her crying baby from the reader to the lush tropical the arms of a well-meaning "At the next bend I see one of the most incredible sights surroundings, detailing her babysitter, then finishes the I've ever seen. There, congregated around several small pools field discoveries while conjur- talk with little Karen strapped at the bases of dwarfed, windswept trees, are over one hun- ing the smell of market spices to her stomach, beaming up at dred Day-Glo golden orange toads poised like statues, daz- and the constant greenhouse her mother. Crump's fellow zling jewels against the dark brown mud. At that moment I humidity that form the back- scientists are astonished by her recall the Central American legend of searching for the golden drop to her adventures. intrepid approach to mother- frog—actually quite a different animal from the golden toads By 1983, when Crump hood. "Aren't you nervous in front of me—and I remember why I'm here."

18 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 OREAD WRITER BY JAMES CAROTHERS

work and his writing continue to feed each other. He is as closely identified with Seriously funny his mythical Lake Wobegon as Conan Doyle was with Sherlock Holmes, or Humorists Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor are studied Faulkner with Yoknapatawpha. His books are widely popular, as are numerous tapes for more than laughs in Carothers' new literature course of readings and radio performances. ENGL 324 is evolving into a kind of hat I would like to do with a a rock band called The Federal Duck. A 35-person seminar. Each student writes chunk of the current Student teacher of business-writing seminars and about different individual pieces by the WSenate budget surplus is: Bring a newspaper journalist in Glen Mills, Pa., two, and each will make a presentation on in Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor on he wrote a hilarious indictment of the one of their books, so the whole class will Stop Day to perform for us. I'll bet they pretensions of natural childbirth, and, like have a sense of the entire canon of both would fill Allen Field House, if not Lord Byron, "woke up to find himself authors. Why are they there? Some like Memorial Stadium. It would make us all famous." His first collection of columns, the time (9:30 MWF). Some of them grew feel better. As Barry himself sometimes Bad Habits (1987), is subtitled "a 100% up reading Barry, or listening to Keillor, puts it, "Wouldn't that be fact-free book." Now often at the insistence of their parents. "1 greatl" Failing that, I'm writing for the Miami was forced to listen to hours of 'Prairie teaching a class this spring Herald, Barry is syndi- Home Companion' tapes as a child dri- on these two humorists. cated in a thousand or ving long road trips and wanted to redis- "I believe in comedy," so newspapers, and his cover Keillor," says one student. Another Keillor said recently, "as a humor—no longer says she is seeking relief from "giant 19th- humane art and a pro- absolutely "fact-free"— century novels that don't come in 'Cliff's found craft, despite the now shows us, his Notes.'" Another says, "Keillor and Barry fact that it is considered by Alert Readers, how are like a good breakfast: You read them most academics as a sort outrageous and bizarre probably not as often as you should, but of bastard stepchild of lit- CAROTHERS our lives can be. "I am when you do, you feel healthy, fulfilled erature, to be kept in the basement and not making this up," he often notes. His and full of the ever-nutritious good Amer- fed cold cereal." Keillor is presently teach- weekly columns have provided substance ican story. Plus they're funny." Definitely ing a course called "Composition of Com- for 23 books. not cold cereal in the basement.'"""*"'• edy" at his alma mater, the University of Garrison Keillor (born Gary Edward —Carothers is a professor oj English. Minnesota. KU's ENGL 324, "Contempo- Keillor in Anoka, Minn., in 1942) knew rary Authors: Barry and Keillor," origin- from adolescence that he wanted to write ated in something of that spirit. in the vein of The New Yorker. After grad- Using the conventional techniques of uating from the University of Min- academic analysis on truly popular litera- nesota, he free-lanced with ture is a fairly recent phenomenon. When sporadic results, and also I was in graduate school in the late '60s, worked into radio, where the Major Authors were Chaucer, Shake- his "Prairie Home Com- speare, Spenser and Milton. Everyone else panion" show eventu- was either debatable, too recent to be ally enjoyed evaluated or beneath the dignity of seri- astonishing success. ous attention. But Dave Barry and Garri- He left the show to son Keillor seem to me to invite, to write, and Lake reward (and perhaps even to demand) the Wobegon Days kind of analysis given to Shakespeare, (1985) established Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. him as a best-selling They have produced a significant body of author, with a special work, over time, showing consistency and talent for combining change, growth and development. an apparent nostalgia Dave Barry, born in Armonk, N.Y., in for small-town life with a 1947, was a Phi Beta Kappa English major genius for parody, bur- at Haverford College, where he played in lesque and satire. His radio

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 19 BY STEVEN HILL

LONG BEFORE HE BECAME CAMPUS OMBUDSMAN, ROBERT SHELTON CALMED CONFLICT

T'S 9:30 ON THE FIRST MORNING OF THE SPRING SEMESTER, AND ALTHOUGH THE 90 OR SO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN ROBERT SHELTON'S POPULAR "LOVING RELATIONSHIPS" COURSE ARE IN THEIR SEATS, THEIR MINDS ARE STILL ON WINTER BREAK. THE SMITH HALL AUDITORIUM BUZZES WITH CHATTER AS SHELTON, 67, UNMISTAKABLY PROFESSORIAL WITH HIS WHITE HAIR AND SPECTACLES, PLACES HIS NOTES ON THE LECTERN AND TURNS AN IEXPECTANT, READY-WHEN-YOU-ARE GAZE ON THE ASSEMBLED. THOUGH HE IS A SOFT-SPOKEN MAN WITH A REPUTATION FOR INFINITE PATIENCE, HE QUICKLY SIZES UP THE SITUATION AND— WITH THE SURETY OF A TEACHER GROWN ADEPT AT POLICING BUL- LIES ON THE PLAYGROUND—BARKS A SUDDEN, SURPRISINGLY THUNDEROUS "QUIET!" SlLENCE REIGNS. AN EMBARRASSED SMILE LIGHTENS HIS FACE, AND WITH A SHRUG HE SAYS, TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, "HEY, IT WORKS."

Shelton, an associate professor of religious studies who came to KU in 1967, is unaccustomed to raising his voice in the face of conflict. In his 34 years on Mount Oread, the former pastor has worked quietly but unceasingly to turn down the volume in moments of crisis. During the turbu- lent protest era of the late 1960s and early 70s, Shelton— i then a junior faculty member still working on his dissertation—commanded 200 on-call peacemakers trained to respond within 30 minutes to campus unrest. After Iran- ian militants seized the American embassy in Tehran in

20] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 1979, Shelton led 30 to 40 Lawrence resi- look around the room and almost every- foundly affected people." dents who helped blunt the hostility one who was active in the antiwar and "At a time when there was not much building toward the University's Iranian civil rights movements was there. I don't respect for authority, for the system, Bob students. When tensions flared over racial know anyone who had more influence Shelton commanded tremendous respect and sexual discrimination in the late over students at that time than he did. because he had such moral authority," 1980s and early '90s, Shelton worked There's no one more responsible for the Awbrey says. Green agrees. Shelton's lead- publicly and behind the scenes as a medi- turmoil of the '60s than Bob Shelton." ership helped redirect the anger building ator to whom students and University Nor more responsible for the mostly toward the University during the most administrators alike turned for help. peaceful tenor of the protests. Addressing violent, destabilizing period in its history, Since 1985, when he succeeded demonstrators, lecturing to packed class- he says. "He's the University's quiet hero." William Balfour to become the Universi- rooms, negotiating campus conflicts or ty's second ombudsman, Shelton's peace- simply teaching students how to cope maker role has enjoyed official sanction. with University red tape, Shelton has remained devoted to the obert Shelton was a year old idea that nonviolent when his father became sheriff of protest should not only be the tiny western Kansas town of tolerated on college cam- , Minneola and moved the family Rinto the basement of the county court- puses, but encouraged; that disagreement can be a house, across the hall from the jail. His catalyst for change, as long mother was expected to cook for the pris- £ R as differences are oners, many of whom—in those latter addressed with the voice days of the Great Depression—saw incar- of reason, not anger. In an ceration as the shortest route to steady era in which peace and meals. "Much of what I know about jus- justice have sometimes tice I learned from my mother as she dealt He acts as an impartial agent for justice in seemed irreconcilable, Shelton has with those people," says Shelton, who conflicts among faculty, staff and students. worked for both. delights in telling students that his first "The idea is to have someone as indepen- "The peacemaker thing goes a long babysitters were jail trustees. "I recall hav- dent as possible to whom anyone can go way back with him," says department of ing a sense of acceptance and understand- with any issue and try to deal with it religious studies chairman Tim Miller, ing of people who were technically in informally," Shelton says. He's quick to c'65, g'69, g'71, PhD73, whose student trouble with the law, but who were also note the job carries no real authority. "I days date to the beginning of Shelton's having trouble staying alive." can't impose a solution. I'm no substitute career. "I first saw it in the time of the After two terms as sheriff, his father for individual grievance procedures, but troubles, as we called it, which peaked in joined the Kansas Highway Patrol and the sometimes I try to work it out so people the summer of 1970. There was violence, family moved to Hutchinson. Shelton's don't have to use those." a tremendous amount of tension, and Bob experiences in the schools and in the Less formally, Shelton's role as worked to defuse that. He was out in the Methodist church during the early 1950s ombudsman is to put a human face on an streets helping people talk through their nurtured a growing sense of social justice institution that can seem, at times, mad- issues and calm down. To the extent that that would bloom only gradually. deningly impersonal. "Bureaucracies are things weren't worse than they were, I "Those days were nothing like the set up to deal with the normal, not the think Bob had a lot to do with it." 1960s, but there were stirrings of an abnormal," notes David Ambler, vice Brent Green, c'72, a Denver public awareness of racial injustice," Shelton chancellor for student affairs. "Bob simply relations consultant who wrote a novel says. Among his high school friends was a tries to get people together to address about the period, Noble Chaos, recalls a black student who worked at the local problems that maybe the bureaucracy was mass demonstration in front of Strong drugstore where Shelton and his white incapable of addressing properly the first Hall in spring 1970. The Kansas Union friends hung out. "He would come over time. And he does that marvelously well." had recently burned; the Military Science and talk to us while we sat in our booth Shelton's concern for justice extends to building had been firebombed; and gun- and drank Cokes, but he never sat down the classroom, where he has been a popu- fire and arson punctuated the nights. and if he had a drink it was in a paper lar lecturer since arriving on Mount Oread "1 remember being in the crowd that cup," Shelton recalls. "It didn't hit me to teach in the erstwhile Kansas School of day and feeling that things could dissolve until much later, when I finally put it all Religion. "His ethics courses were packed into riot," says Green. "Out of nowhere together. At the time no questions were every semester," recalls David Awbrey Bob Shelton jumps up on a planter and asked. I've never really gotten over that: c'71, g'72. Awbrey, who served as student starts talking about how we can work for We could sit there and go through that body president in 1969-70, at the height change in an intelligent, constructive way. entire process and not one of us ever of student unrest, credits Shelton's explo- He drove home the idea that the answer questioned it." ration of social justice for inspiring his to our anger in that very chaotic time was While studying sociology, psychology and others' political activism. "You would not more chaos. What he had to say pro- and philosophy at Baker University in the

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 21 mid-1950s, he spent two summers at a ern kids who were raised in community center in a Chicago neighbor- religious environments," says hood that was undergoing rapid racial David Awbrey "He forced us helton has change. Among the interracial staff of the to confront our religious center was a man whose conflict resolu- beliefs in a time of tremen- remained devoted to the idea tion skills made a big impression on the dous social change." that nonviolent protest should small-town Kansan—a former probation Awbrey remembers not only be tolerated on college officer with whom Shelton walked the Shelton's classes as free- campuses, but encouraged ... as streets, talking to kids and their parents. flowing forums for the pas- long as differences are addressed "One day two teen-agers were fighting sionate exchange of ideas. with the voice of reason, on the playground, and he grabbed them "There was lots of discussion, by the back of the neck, pulled them lots of conversation back and forth, not anger. apart and held them off the ground far lots of disagreement and debate. He'd try enough apart so they couldn't hit each to draw you out, make you think about which, Jacobson says, left Jewish students other. Then he just quietly talked them your social obligation," he says. "His mes- feeling "brutalized and vulnerable." Shel- down to where they weren't swinging sage to us was basically, To whom much ton and David Ambler showed up at 1 anymore." Chuckling, Shelton says, "That is given much is demanded.' I've never a.m. "When they walked in the door we was probably one of my earliest insights seen anyone better at getting people to felt the powers that be weren't against us," into the possibilities of ombudsing." realize their own moral responsibility. he says. "They spent half the night quietly Shelton would have plenty of opportu- Once you'd confronted that, what choice listening to our fears. I think that was Bob nity to study conflict resolution in more did you have but to become involved?" being his best in the best part of his role." scholarly contexts—most notably during Katzman says Shelton helped students his time at Boston University, where he feel they had legitimate concerns while graduated from seminary in 1963 and also encouraging them to see things from later earned a PhD in social ethics. During n private, Shelton can be almost another perspective. "He helped us under- his doctoral studies, he held a fellowship painfully soft-spoken, and beneath stand why it was important that this man at the university's Human Relations Cen- his earnestness there sometimes pro- be allowed to speak and that we could ter, then home to some of the same jects the weary air of a man who voice our concerns in an appropriate thinkers who influenced Martin Luther Ispends long hours listening to complaint. way," she says. "He was a really good lis- King Jr. during his studies at BU. (Indeed, he admits that his duties as tener who seemed like a very quiet and ombudsman, which take about 80 percent gentle man. I think that's important, of his time, guarantee that he spends because he often sees people in times of much of his days—and not infrequently, trauma, when they need to feel safe." Wf nights—listening to people who are sim- Shelton's ability to listen is the key to ply angry.) All contacts with the ombuds- his effectiveness inside and outside the man's office are confidential, but his classroom, says Brent Green. "He commu- general approach, Shelton says, is to sim- nicates the sense that he's there. He has mm ply listen. "It's not unusual to spend the unqualified positive regard for others' first 45 minutes helping someone figure opinions, and he's one of those rare peo- out what their problem really is," he says. ple who makes you feel he respects you In many of the 300 to 400 cases he and even when he disagrees with you." Adds his assistant, Kellie Harmon, c'94, g'96, Green, "Even though he's soft-spoken and By the time he accepted a dual see annually, that is enough. Other cases low key, he has the power of persuasion." appointment from the Kansas School of require weeks or even months of investi- Shelton didn't try to squelch student Religion and the department of speech gation and negotiation. protest during the era, according communication and human relations at Shelton's ability to help others work to Green, only direct it in a more consid- KU, Shelton had been exposed to the through their anger is what puts him in ered, practical direction. "He encouraged practical and theoretical sides of conflict demand when larger conflicts erupt. us to speak directly to the authorities, to management. He had worked as a campus In May 1990, Steven Cokely, an aid to work within the system to present our minister at Kansas State and Washburn Chicago Mayor Harold Washington boot- case in a way that would persuade them universities, and he was ready to chal- ed from that administration for anti- to change their minds," he says. lenge students to make connections Semitic comments, was invited to speak "He was always there, standing at the between their ideals and their actions. on campus. Cokely's appearance attracted edge of the crowd or maybe just in the Students, caught up in the revolutionary protests from Jewish students who wanted the back of my mind, particularly when fervor of the times, were ready to listen. the visit canceled. things were getting violent," recalls "He was the perfect mentor for the Andrea Katzman, c'93, g'96, and Awbrey. "He embodied a certain kind of kind of student KU had lots of at that Steven Jacobson, c'92, recall a gathering moral authority that you had to acknowl- time: the moderate, mainstream Midwest- at the Hillel House after the lecture, edge, even if you didn't like what he was

22 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 saying—even if you olution necessarily 10 years during its transition from a wanted to go blow want to hear. church-supported school of religion to a something up. There "We were looking full-fledged academic department of the was a depth of compas- for people who were University. "There is no one on that cam- sion and caring that going to fight for our pus who's made a greater contribution," commanded your atten- cause. When we Awbrey says. "If you consider his commu- tion. He had this aura of learned he wasn't nity service, his dedication to the Univer- someone who was calm going to do that, that sity and his impact on students—all the at the center but who he was going to be things that should be part of it—that they had this passionate com- reasonable," Jacobson haven't given him a full professorship is mitment." laughs, "he became just appalling." Shelton's concern for part of the problem. "There has been a tremendous cost to students has not met He wasn't helping us him professionally," says Miller. "Essen- with universal praise. In be the radical trou- tially he has traded his promotion to the 1994 a survey gauged blemakers we generally accepted highest level for a satisfaction with the ombudsman's office. thought we were becoming." career of helping people out. He's weary Although he received 90 percent approval From what he calls "a more mature of it somewhat, I know." ratings in most categories, a committee perspective," Jacobson—now married to In the past year, recognition has come report noted "a small, but significant, Katzman and living in Rhode Island— his way. Last fall Shelton won the Kemper number of faculty and staff members says he appreciates Shelton's contribution Award for teaching and advising, and the answered in the affirmative" when asked if to easing tensions that night and in the Wally and Marie Steeples Award for Ser- they'd felt discriminated against due to following days. "To say he neutralized the vice to Kansans. And over his long career, University status. One respondent radical element of student activism would his devotion to teaching has earned him accused the ombudsman of treating stu- be too strong, but I think he brought rea- great credibility with the people whose dents with "kid gloves" in cases where son and quietude to an environment that judgment he seems to value most. they were "clearly out of line." Another had a great deal of noise and chaos. He "I've always taken students very seri- wrote, "His office is dedicated to advocacy just turned the temperature down suffi- ously, have always thought there was a of student rights to the exclusion of all ciently so people could communicate." real need for faculty to interact meaning- other normal considerations. He is per- Shelton sees criticism as inevitable in fully with students, to help those who sonally a man of great integrity, but his his line of work. "When you're working could see the need for major changes in concern for the rights of the 'weak' with people who're mad at each other and the world they live in find ways to con- appears to have led him all too often to things don't go the way they want, some structively pursue that," he says. That assume an adversarial and divisive role." of them are going to blame me," he says. conviction bound him to KU in 1970, Tim Miller has heard the complaints But he's also clearly aware that his job as when a California school beckoned with a that Shelton defends student rights too ombudsman—and perhaps, more broadly, job. "I had a feeling I was involved in vigorously. "I don't really think that's fair," his role as peacemaker—has its draw- some things here that I kind of wanted to he says. "He will go where he sees the backs. Though he's reluctant to speak finish, or at least see through before I justice, and sometimes that's going to of it, others note that Shelton's career left," he says. "I decided to stay awhile." come down on the student's side. That's has suffered in a publish-or-perish He's still not going to make faculty members environment that, they imply, happy, but I honestly think he calls it as places research above service Sm he sees it." to students. Objectivity is essential to the integrity "The fact that he is still not of the office, says David Ambler, and it's a full professor after 34 years part of what makes Shelton the perfect is the greatest crime this Uni- man for the job. "A lot of people misun- versity has ever committed," derstand the role of the ombudsman and says David Awbrey. Shelton's think it's an advocacy role," Ambler says. expertise in medical ethics is "It can't be. If Bob took the side of every in demand statewide, and he student who complained, no faculty currently serves on medical \ \ member would let him in the front door. ethics and institutional review The fact is, Bob doesn't take sides; he sim- boards at Lawrence Memorial ply tries to get people together to solve Hospital. He also has guided problems. He's become a master of that." University governance, and Jacobson says students quickly learn he helped oversee the forma- that Shelton is more of a sounding board tion of KU's black studies than an advocate. And, he notes, the voice program and chaired the reli- Graffiti marred Wescoe Hall amid the American hostage crisis, 1979. of reason isn't what students bent on rev- gious studies department for Vietnam war moratorium, 1969 (p. 20). Protest march, 1985 (p. 22).

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Country doctors take in medical students who learn real-world lessons in the art of healing

HE GIRL BABY IS NAMED BLAKE EVELYN leans against Holmes' desk and looks at a thick file of SELENSKY. THE BOY BABY IS CY KENYAN paperwork. He asks Holmes about lab results and family BENDER. BOTH ARE PERFECT, BEAUTIFUL histories of cancer. He asks whether the patient smoked. Seymour worked in a Kansas City hospice after his first BEYOND DESCRIPTION. ON THIS, THEIR year of medical school. He has delivered frightening diag- FIRST FULL DAY OF LIFE, THEY ARE TENDED noses before, and he is about to learn that it doesn't get tBY A TANDEM OF ALMOST-DOCTORS, FOURTH-YEAR much easier. "It's a difficult thing for us to come to grips MEDICAL STUDENTS JON SLDES AND JEFF SLOYER. with ourselves," he says. "Nobody likes to give bad news." SIDES AND SLOYER ARE WHAT'S KNOWN AS SHORT- Seymour leaves to see the patient. It is a small office; he COATS. THEY HAVE NOT YET EARNED THE THIGH- quickly disappears around the corner. Holmes stares blankly as Seymour exits. Surrounded by LENGTH WHITE COATS EMBLEMATIC OF MDS, BUT CALL shelves lined with medical textbooks and the latest jour- THEM DOCTORS ANYWAY. BECAUSE, AT THIS MOMENT, nals, his walls draped with KU diplomas and even a certifi- AS THEY CRADLE THE FUTURE OF QUINTER, KAN., POP- cate of membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Holmes, c'91, ULATION 950—MAKE THAT 952—THEY HOLD THE m'96, sits at his desk. Just sits. For this very brief moment WHOLE WORLD IN THEIR HANDS. on this very busy morning, he is granted a moment of quiet, if not peace. "I used to think there was no such thing as 'the art of Like Sides and Sloyer, Galen Seymour is a fourth-year medicine,'" Holmes says softly, subtly nodding his head to KU medical student in the final week of his monthlong indicate his textbooks and their textbook instructions on preceptorship, one of the final stages of medical school at healing the sick. "I was wrong." KU. He, too, holds the whole world in his hands, but After dictating a few quick notes about the patients he nobody smiles. A patient waits in the next room. She is already has seen, Holmes drapes his stethoscope around about to hear a diagnosis of lung cancer. his neck and he, too, disappears around the corner. In the "This one's not going to be fun," Brian Holmes says. windowless exam room next door, where a terribly sick Holmes, a family physician in Abilene, is Seymours pre- woman can't feel the sun on a warm winter morning or ceptor—his teacher and mentor for a month. Seymour gaze out on the slumbering, snow-dappled stretch of farm-

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KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 [25 land that reaches right up to the Abilene that doing this rotation is designed to the course of a month. Assisting in clinics lawn, Holmes and Seymour are make them practice in rural Kansas. They surgery. Delivering your first baby. confirming her worst fears. feel psychologically pressured. We're try- Fourth-year medical students are "We call that experience a 'transforma- ing to fight that image." supervised at every step by their precep- tion,'" says Joe Meek, dean of KU's School That's nothing new, insists Meek, c'54, tors, but, unlike the doctor-thick environ- of Medicine-Wichita. "There's a spot on m'57. He served a preceptorship with ment of KU Hospital or any other urban the X-ray. It's our focus, but it is an inani- physician David Rice, c'41, m'52, in medical center, supervision doesn't mean mate object. Then you walk into that Moundridge. Though immensely the doctor is always right there at the stu- room and all of a sudden there's a trans- impressed, he was, well, perhaps too dent's side. Jon Sides, c'96, recalls that he formation. Here's the woman whose X-ray impressed. arrived in Quinter on a Sunday afternoon; that was, and you have to tell a person, "I thought the experience of a solo he checked in at the hospital and, two or 'Here's what's in your lung.' That's what practitioner in Moundridge was so three hours later, a patient with heart fail- you have to do in spades when you are intense, so demanding, I was dissuaded ure arrived. The same thing happened the in a small-town clinic. You can't send her from going into a small-town general next day. off to a pulmonologist. There's no passing practice," Meek says. "This isn't limited to the buck. You sit right down, look her medical students, by the way. Students, in the eyes and you tell her what she all students, don't like being led by the has to hear. nose into something." "That's why you never learn medicine Carl Gunter, m'51, is a retired physi- out of a textbook." cian in Quinter. He was a member of the first senior class to participate in the pre- ceptorship program. In fact, Gunter did his preceptorship with the late Ben Morris in Quinter; he accepted his first job with Morris in Quinter, spent his entire career here textbooks end, KU's Rural in Quinter, and, 17 years after retirement, Preceptorship Program begins. still lives in Quinter, a block from the WFranklin Murphy, c'36, then clinic and hospital. Despite a personal dean of medicine and later chancellor, experience that vividly illuminates the created the program in the late 1940s, opposite, Gunter backs up the assertion and in 1949 the Kansas Legislature autho- that the program should not try to sway rized $3.8 million to launch it and build new doctors toward rural medicine. classrooms around the state for continu- "There's no concerted effort along those "Two patients [with heart failure] in ing medical education. lines," Gunter says. "If they are already two days: When that happens, I think Murphy's program was one of the first leaning toward being a family practitioner you start taking your learning a little bit of its kind in the country, attracting the in a rural community, we'll certainly sup- more seriously," Sides says. "It's not that attention of Look magazine, which fol- port and encourage that. Otherwise, I you weren't taking it seriously before, but lowed Russell Bridwell, c'48, m'51, as he don't see that as our role." there's a difference. At that point, you studied and practiced with Osage City For the past 12 years, the Rural Pre- really pay attention." physician Homer Williams, c'28, m'31. ceptorship Program has settled into a Medical students can read all the text- Like other aspects of medical training, steady formula, requiring fourth-year book instructions for delivering a baby, the Rural Preceptorship Program has been medical students at the Kansas City and Gladden offers as an example, but there through vast changes in 50 years. It was Wichita medical schools to spend one comes the "wow moment" when that first created, in part, to convince medical stu- month working alongside a general prac- baby has emerged and the new doctor dents to practice in rural Kansas; program titioner in rural Kansas. A few internists learns the tactile lessons: The baby is wig- director Joe Gladden, c'76, m'80, assistant and pediatricians have also served as pre- gly and slippery; the doctor's shoes are professor of family medicine, emphasizes ceptors, to great success. ruined; is the baby going to breathe?; that it is no longer a contrivance to influ- At its heart, the preceptorship program c'mon, breathe; body parts, yup, all there; ence career choices. is no more complex than this: It is medi- this baby is so warm ... "It's a thorny issue," Gladden says. cine, it is community, and it is listening. "You are holding that baby when he "Over the years there may have been a "The social part of medicine," Holmes takes his first breath," Gladden says. "And few physicians who are practicing rural says, "is so huge. You can't ignore it." then you get to say, 'Mom, it's a boy,' or, medicine because of their experiences Gladden refers to the "wow moments." 'Mom, it's a girl.' You get to hand that in the program, but that's not how I sell There is the first time a patient arrives at baby to the parents. You experience the it. I sell it as a tremendous learning the emergency room in cardiac arrest. The emotions of this mother. You experience experience. major trauma of an automobile or farm the emotions of this father. And you will "The truth is, one of the negatives is accident. Diagnosing a patient with never learn any of that from a book." that many of the senior students think depression and treating that patient over Babies are delivered every day at any

26] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 big-city hospital. Even a hospital in a diagnosis and establishing the treatment cation. But, to be fair, the give and take is small town like Quinter will usually have plan when you have maybe 15 minutes to not at all balanced. at least one newborn in the nursery. Heart see that patient." "When a physician takes on a student, attacks happen everywhere. Surgery hap- As Brian Holmes guides Galen Sey- that slows down his own office," Gladden pens everywhere. But in a small town, the mour through the morning's patients in says. "Studies show that it decreases the fourth-year medical student does not the Abilene clinic, Holmes glances at a doctor's own productivity by about one merely assist; he or she is responsible for schedule tacked to his door. Then he day a month. That's revenue. It costs a a patient's well-being. checks his watch. couple of thousand dollars in monthly "You can't have art alone. That's charla- "One of my goals for teaching him is revenue to host a student. And most of tanical," Meek says. "You can't have sci- speed," Holmes says. "But it's nothing them provide housing, feed them ... ence alone, because that's not humane. new. I was guilty of the same thing." There are some communities, some phy- You have to have both. Before we at KU In honor of the Rural Preceptorship sicians, that maintain a house just for stamp 'doctor,' we want our students to Program's 50th anniversary, the School of when a learner comes. That's dedication. see both sides, to understand you can't Medicine is organizing thank-you pro- It's also money." have one without the other. They learn grams at 19 Kansas Medical Society dis- that in their preceptorships." trict meetings. The events honor all 1,200 In a teaching clinic or hospital, the stu- Kansas physicians who volunteer their dent might see the patient, go back and time to help train medical students in one consult with the attending physician, per- way or another. Of that group, about 120 haps order some X-rays, then consult the annually host preceptees. ne of Carl Gunter's classmates was attending again. Those luxuries don't When doctors offer their time and Herman Hiesterman, c'48, m'51. often exist in Quinter, Abilene, Oakley or experience to help train medical students, OAs members of the medical any of a hundred other medical centers in there is a certain amount of give and take. ROTC, they both spent six weeks at Fort rural Kansas. Rural doctors admit that it's helpful to Lewis, Wash., before returning to spend "Out in world," Meek says, spend time with bright young medical six weeks in their rural preceptorships. "that doctor has got to make that decision students who are learning the latest in Gunter's was in Quinter; Hiesterman went in 15 minutes. How do you give quality medical sciences, and KU faculty say any to Scott City to work with the late H. Pre- medical care on the run, so to speak? program that keeps Kansas doctors in reg- ston Palmer, c'27, m'29. How do you pace yourself? You have to ular contact with the School of Medicine After graduation, the two young doc- learn how to go about establishing the will help encourage their continuing edu- tors climbed into Gunter's 1950 Ply- mouth, a gift from his father-in-law, and toured the state. They knew they wanted to practice rural medicine, and they knew they wanted to do it together. The only decision left was whether to practice in Phillipsburg, Kingman or Hoisington. "During our little safari, we drove through Quinter on old Highway 40," Gunter recalls, "and I said, 'Let's go say hello to Dr. Morris.' We found him at the hospital here, and he asked us what we were up to. I told him we were looking for a place to practice, and he said, 'You needn't go any further.'" As Hiesterman recalls their landing in Quinter, "It happens to be where we ran out of gas." Gunter and Hiesterman returned to Kansas City; Morris was close behind, eager to seal the deal. He showed up in person and made them an offer—in Gunter's words—they couldn't refuse: $500 a month. Apiece. Jeff Sloyer carefully checks one of Quinter's newest arrivals, Cy Bender; as preceptor Michael Machen "When we told our wives we had observes. Close by are proud papa Curt Bender and another medical student, Jon Sides. decided on Quinter," Gunter recalls, "they Sides with newborn Blake Selensky (p. 26) and her happy mom, Jeanette. said, 'OK, let's go for it.' But they made a In Abilene (p. 24), Galen Seymour looks on as preceptor Brian Holmes shows him a file containing bad stipulation. They said we would give it a news they soon will deliver to a patient waiting in the next room. year, and if any one of the four wasn't

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 [27 Machen and Herman Hiesterman (left) share laughs and memories kindled by Quinter's "Rogues Gallery." Quinter's KU-trained physicians include (below, I to r) Hiesterman, Dan Lichty, Sides, Victor Nemechek, Carl Gunter; Sloyer and Machen.

happy, all four of us would go someplace else, together." And after a year? Gunter smiles and replies, "We're still here." Gunter and Hiesterman are living institutions in Quinter. They and their community built a clinic and hospital that is as impressive as any medical facili- ty anywhere. When the retired doctors drop by, everybody they pass stops and says hello. There is always time enough to say hello. "I think there are 900 people in Quin- ter, and I already know 450 or 500 by name," says preceptee Jon Sides, who has to a snobbishness that physicians at urban Bryan, c'32, m'32, of Erie, seeing 100 been in Quinter all of three weeks. "That's medical centers might have toward doc- patients a day, even making midnight what happens for a family-practice physi- tors operating a small-town practice. rounds with a driver and catching catnaps cian in a small town, and I love it. This is "That attitude," Meek says, "was born out in the car. William Brooks Gauert, c'54, the ideal setting for me." of ignorance." m'58, now of Albuquerque, N.M., studied After outlining the program's bound- Marvin Dunn, c'50, m'54, was the first with the late Virgil Brown, m'37, in aries, that it should not push students of nearly 200 preceptees to study under Sabetha: "I will never forget the compas- into rural practices, Meek carefully rubs at Gunter and Hiesterman in Quinter. Dunn, sionate manner that Dr. Brown afforded the edges. Just because there is no longer now professor emeritus, went on to hold his patients. The level of medicine he the specific goal of luring young doctors the distinguished chair of Franklin E. practiced was absolutely first-class. It was into rural medicine, the School of Medi- Murphy Professor of Medicine, and he eye-opening for me to see how good med- cine should not overlook the rare learning says, flatly, "My preceptors were the finest icine in a small town could be." experience of living in a small Kansas physicians I have ever worked with." Like so many others, David Ross, community. George E Sheldon, c'57, m'61, chair- m'74, now practicing in Topeka and Preceptees learn a lot about their little man of surgery at the University of North Arkansas City, did his preceptorship in town in a month. They meet hundreds of Carolina, says his preceptor, the late Adel- Quinter with Gunter and Hiesterman. patients, many of whom they'll bump into bert Reece, c'27, m'29, of Gardner, was "Everyone has their own heroes," Ross at the grocery store or Eagles Lodge. They "one of the finest physicians I have ever says. "Mine will always be small-town learn the nuances of small-town gossip. worked with. He was calm in the face of family doctors." They hear about pioneer histories and crisis. He was the hardest working physi- Others recall physicians who "actually agricultural dreams. And they'll forever cian I've met and also one of the kindest." radiated kindness and competence." abandon what Meek calls "the L.M.D. Ophthalmologist Robert Janze, c'64, When students watch their preceptors Syndrome." m'68, now retired in Pebble Beach, Calif., banter with grizzled old farmers, they see Local Medical Doctor Syndrome refers recalls his preceptor, the late Emery that the physician is not treating "a case";

28] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 he is treating a lifelong friend. There are lessons, too, in humility. Ross once was left with the task of inspecting the X-rays of a farmer who had fallen off Look through the years his tractor and hit his head. If there were no fractures, the physician instructed Ross, explain about head injuries and send the farmer home. Ross checked the X-rays; seeing that they were negative, he rattled off "the typical medical-student 15- Look magazine cap- tured the Osage City minute dissertation." When he finished, Ross asked the farmer adventures of Russell if he had any questions. "He said, 'Yes, 1 have just one. How'd Bridwell, a member of mm you take those X-rays without my head?' It seems this gentle- the first class of KU pre- m man had been sitting in the exam room the whole time and I ceptees, and his precep- had looked at someone else's skull X-ray." tor physician Homer fit Williams, in its Aug. 29, Laughter seems a natural part of life in a small-town clinic. 1950, issue. Maybe it's because everyone, absolutely everyone, is surrounded It if not by family, then at least by friends. Michael Machen, c'77, m'83, Victor Nemechek, m'83, and Dan Lichty, m'89, have taken over the Quinter practice once run by Gunter and Hiesterman, and when they built a sparkling new clinic attached to the hospital, they were careful to rehang the "Rogue's Gallery," a bulletin board with photos of every KU medical student who has trained in Quinter. Looking at the snapshots, Gunter and Hiesterman share their memories, and their younger colleagues share memories about students who have been through in the last decade. Sides and Sloyer, the two medical students who are nearing the end of their month in Quinter, hear the laughter and find their way to the doctor's lounge. Someone says to someone else, "You were a pretty normal guy when you got here," and everyone laughs, and Gunter gets around to telling about yesterdays golf game over in WaKeeney—"You're darn right there was snow!" he exclaims proudly—and Machen tells about their recent goose hunting excursion with Sides and Sloyer. "We have a great time," Gunter explains to his visitors. "We hunt, fish, golf and party together." And also manage to see 70 to 80 patients a day. One of the legendary preceptors in the history of KU's pro- gram is Richard Ohmart, c'58, m'62, of Oakley. Ohmart is in Denver now, recovering from a serious illness. At each stop along a tour of the preceptorship program, most everyone even- tually gets around to mentioning Ohmart, and they do so, invariably, with reverence. Meek mentions a piece Ohmart once wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association, "A Prairie Wedding." In it, Ohmart reflected on a wedding he had recently attended. He had delivered both the bride and groom. He had followed their development, tended their broken arms, treated their illnesses. He saw the two young people fall in love and Williams watches Bridwell check now he was witnessing their marriage. And then, Meek says, Loretta Branson's throat (left); 50 Ohmart was struck by this notion: The bride and groom were years later; Loretta Branson War- part of the Kansas scene; by extension, so was he. ren, now a secretary in KU's Meek now, quoting Ohmart: "I walked out of the church and School of Business, reunited with Williams, 95, and Bridwell, 74, at looked at the wind blowing across the Kansas prairie and 1 said, Williams' Overland Park retire- 'I'm a blessed man.' I've been given a chance to see a side of life ment home (above). As he greet- that I never would have otherwise." ed his patient from half a century A Kansas doctor witnessing a prairie wedding. One's mind ago, Bridwell said, "Say'ah.' I want drifts west, toward Quinter, to a hospital nursery where Blake to see if you've gotten better" Warren complied. "Looks like and Cy are beginning their journeys ... The possibilities you're fine," he said, smiling. delight.^*"*

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on Friend the Court Though she has risen to judicial prominence, Deanell Tacha still radiates small-town warmth

he upgraded her chambers Kassebaum Baker, c'54. The "investiture" the speaker's lectern—the color seemed to and job, but Deanell Reece ceremony was a collision of Tacha's drain from Roberts' face. "This," the Tacha, the new chief judge of worlds, from the highest levels of justice Kansas senator said, returning his atten- the U.S. Court of Appeals for to friends and family who represented her tion to the audience, "is intimidating." the 10th Circuit, kept her Scandia roots and her Lawrence home. Intimidating is a word rarely used to samSe smile and friends: One of the for- "The Deanell they were talking about is describe Deanell Tacha, despite the robe mer, hundreds of the latter. exactly as she was portrayed," says Mary and resume. "Deanell is friends with practically Cloud Olson, '69, a friend of Tacha's since everybody in the world," says her, well, they met in a French course at KU. "She friend and former fellow jurist on the is more than a good friend. She is a rock he arrived at KU in fall 1964, the 10th Circuit, retired Judge James K. who will also admit when she needs you." daughter of a prominent Scandia Logan. When it came his turn to address the Sfamily. By the time she earned her Tacha's late-January promotion to chief Lied Center audience, U.S. Sen. Pat American Studies degree with honors, judge attracted, among hundreds of dis- Roberts stepped to the stage. As he Tacha, c'68, had been named KU's Out- tinguished others, U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged Tacha and Breyer—like the standing Senior Woman and was elected Justice Stephen Breyer, both U.S. senators 13 other judges, wearing their somber to Phi Beta Kappa. She also had sought from Kansas and former Sen. Nancy robes and seated in a semicircle behind out the KU law dean—a certain fellow

30] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 named Logan—and asked whether law virtue of seniority and age—the new chief ciate Tacha for more than her great cook- was an appropriate career for women. judge must be under 65, and she has one ing and high spirits. "They of course have Perhaps she wasn't so much asking as she day of seniority over another judge who watched her achieve and balance, and I was seeking confirmation. Even when her also meets the age requirement—Tacha, think they have been affected by it. How young dreams were only as big as accept- 55, assumes full membership on the could they not?" ing an admissions offer from the Univer- important Judicial Conference of the sity of Michigan law school, some family . back home questioned the wisdom of If this is the last promotion of her ust a few days before her investiture, their girl studying law—and leaving career, Tacha says she'll remain challenged Tacha welcomed a visitor to her new Kansas to do so. and, most important, happy—especially chambers overlooking downtown "There were very few women in the since her job, though based in Denver, JLawrence. Though the setting is his- profession then," says Logan, c'52, now in allows her to maintain her chambers in toric, the building is new and her cham- private practice in Olathe. "A typical law Lawrence. Others say the rise might not bers sparkle. The lavish appointments school class might have one or two yet be completed. Logan, for one, says appropriate for the chief judge of a federal women in it. Now approximately 50 per- Tacha must be considered a potential appeals court are startling, feeling more cent of all lawyers in the country are nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. like than River City. Clerks women. It's been an incredible phenome- Tacha insists she and most other consult law books in the wood-trimmed non, and people like Deanell are at the judges do not "particularly aspire to" the library; conversations are hushed; even forefront of it." Supreme Court; she says nominations are the phone rings quietly. Then Tacha With Logan's encouragement, Tacha too much "a function of history and what- enters and the big room breathes again. went to Michigan; after law school, she ever the political scene at the moment is" "Coming to KU was a big step in my was asked to serve as a White House Fel- to be considered realistic goals. And it life, and at the time, seemed like an low. Among other duties were trips doesn't really matter, says Martha Barnett, immense challenge," Tacha says. "What I through Southeast Asia, including prepa- president of the American Bar Associa- found here was a place that stimulated the rations for former President Nixon's his- tion, because Tacha already is about as lifelong intellectual endeavor that has sort toric trip to China. That journey through high as a jurist can go. of characterized me, I hope, ever since. a country then forbidden to Westerners is "She assumes one of the most impor- "There's something about KU that still reflected in Tacha's Lawrence cham- tant positions in our entire judicial sys- inspires loyalty. I think it is not something bers, which feature Chinese influences in tem," said Barnett, who traveled from her that's taught. I think it's very much a fab- furnishings and art. After her year at the Tallahassee, Fla., home for Tacha's cere- ric of the alumni, the history." White House, Tacha worked briefly for a mony. "There's only a few judges—nine When it finally came her turn to speak Washington law firm, but returned to justices, to be exact—who are more at her ceremony, it was Tacha who issued Kansas in 1973 and set up her own prac- important." the most serious tone of all. She invoked tice in Concordia. When Barnett finished her speech, she our shared responsibilties to freedom. To "She had a choice early in her career and this most important of judges an inherited legacy we did not earn and between Washington and Kansas," Olson embraced like reunited sisters. Forget the can only deserve through passionate com- says, "and she chose Kansas." hanging judge. Tacha isn't shy to be seen mitment. "We must rededicate ourselves as the hugging judge. to building a better community," she said, "If one person sat alone at a party," said her voice rising with authoritative com- n fall 1974, Tacha joined the faculty at Judge Robert H. Henry, Tacha's colleague mand, "wherever we find ourselves." KU's School of Law. By 1981, she had on the 10th Circuit, "that person would And wherever Tacha has found herself, Ibeen named KU's vice chancellor for not be sitting alone for long—not if that place has found itself better for her academic affairs, a job she held until Deanell Tacha was there." presence. Her community is, in fact, the 1985, when former President Reagan Bobby Baldock, another 10th Circuit entire country, though at this moment, as appointed her judge for the 10th U.S. Cir- jurist, revealed an anecdote about the she settles into her new Massachusetts cuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdic- time Tacha persuaded an archbishop and Street chambers, the smaller community tion over Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, a federal judge to sing the awful pop song is most on her mind. Utah, New Mexico and Oklahoma. "I'm Too Sexy." As the Lied Center crowd Windows envelop her private office Soon after joining the bench, she was roared, Baldock said, "What's worse, she on the chambers' west side. To the north appointed to the U.S. Sentencing Com- had them believing it." is a rare vista of the Kansas River. To mission—where she first became friends Baldock continued: "She is a person of the southwest rises Mount Oread, whose with Breyer, then chief judge for the 1st immense joy, but joy deeper than humor. landmarks she fondly terms her Circuit. She also served an extended term She is confident in her own abilities but "guideposts." as chair of the Judicial Branch Committee, not arrogant. She is intelligent but patient. "Come look," she says excitedly. "You which reports the federal judiciary's She is a person of immense kindness, have to come look at !" administrative needs to the U.S. Congress. goodness and gentleness." To ponder the familiar as if for the first Now that she replaces Judge Stephanie K. Mary Olson hopes that as her own time: Could we ask for a better trait in a Seymour as the circuit's chief judge by three daughters grow, they learn to appre- jurist and friend?^***

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cians needed another place to prepare— "Do Not Enter" sign posted by Mike Rus- pronto. sell, KU director of environment, health Tom Stidham, associate professor of and safety. Lead dust that had accumu- music, and his colleagues led the band lated over years of firing had rendered first to the basement of the Military Sci- the space unfit for use. ence Building, where the 250 musicians So the band marched on to the vacant TTTTTTTrrrr • rehearsed in the old ROTC firing range. Joseph R. Pearson men's residence hall, Never mind that steel pillars obscured the where members practiced in a lobby until view and poor acoustics mangled the 1998, when the University began refur- sound. A sign posted near the entrance, bishing JRP for the School of Education. "Wear earplugs at all times," set the Next the nomads claimed Robinson somber tone. Another sign warned, "No Gymasium, another acoustical nightmare shooting from the hip." that turned especially absurd when grade- The University knew the band needed school children arrived to play dodge ball a better space, but it wasn't a better offer during rehearsals. that caused Stidham to abandon the rifle Last fall, the band finally sounded a range. He arrived for a rehearsal one day new chorus. Murphy Hall, built to accom- to find a padlock on the door alongside a modate 50 to 60 band members when it

ightning struck twice on June 15, 1991. No one can forget, of course, the fierce bolt that reduced beloved Hoch Audito- Lrium to smoldering ruins. But for faculty and students in the School of Fine Arts, the lightning storm also dealt a blow to nearby Murphy Hall, scorching plans for a long-awaited renovation. The crowded, outdated home of the department of music and dance would have to wait its turn while the University set its sights on rebuilding Hoch. While faculty waited, they also scram- bled. As the fall marching season fast approached, the Marching Jayhawks had lost their Hoch practice space. The musi-

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 [33 opened in 1957, at last could welcome the Marching Jayhawks back to their original home, thanks to a three-year, $10.3 mil- lion project funded by the University and $7.5 million from the Kansas Legislature's 1995 Crumbling Classrooms project.

he rejuvenated hall, combined with the vibrant Lied Center and its Bales Organ Recital Hall, marks a new era Tfor the school, says Peter Thompson, former dean of fine arts, who testifies that a mere three-year construction timeline doesn't begin to tell the long tale of the Murphy project. Thompson, now professor of art, led the school as dean from 1986 to 1998, but he recalls meetings as early as the mid-'70s when faculty began bemoaning the state of rehearsal space. Surveying the years, he lauds the number of chancellors who pursued the Murphy Hall dream. "It's hard to keep something like this on the burner—front or back—for that many years," he says. "Ray Nichols was the first chancellor I approached, and then all the others." Their leadership shines in a luminous new wing that adds 52,000 square feet to Murphy, filling in the wedge-shaped courtyard that fanned out to Naismith Drive and joined the

building's two former wings (designed, oddly enough, by two different architects in the 1950s). The Naismith side of Mur- phy now features a handsome facade of striking curves, angles and columns that welcomes visitors not only to the hall but also to Mount Oread's south entrance, a focal point of the campus master plan. Appearances are important, but for musicians, sound matters most. Warren Corman, e'50, University architect and special assistant to the chancellor, says acoustics were the University's top priority on the project. One of the country's best acoustic design firms, Robert Mahoney and Associates of Des Moines, Iowa, helped refine every aspect of the new addition. There would be no parallel walls, no rectangular rooms. Trapezoids were preferred. Walls must slope. Carpet, fabrics and flooring all figured into the Top:This corridor is notable not only for its use of light, but also because it is the bridge between old building's sound quality. Murphy, left, and new Murphy, right. Above:The spacious new music and dance library lends a more The results are a resounding success, modern meaning to a library tradition: No longer do students walk to the counter to check out a CD beginning with the three large rehearsal or other musical resource. Now, as the librarians cue up the recordings, students check them out at I halls. The largest, to the delight of the individual carrels equipped with all the necessary gadgetry. marching band, spans 4,800 square feet,

34] KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 with an attached recording studio and the new Black Box Theater, with seating Keith Wright, Washington, D.C., doctoral stu- acoustical curtains that adjust to brighten for 100 and space for rehearsals, master • dent in flute, teaches undergraduates in a or deaden sound. This space also will be classes, recitals and classes. Adjoining are • music education and music therapy lab fea- home for the University Symphony dressing rooms, a wardrobe area and I turing computer synthesizers. Orchestra, Concert Wind Ensemble, Sym- spaces for set construction and storage. phonic Band, Concert Band and prepara- The music education and music ther- tions for special events such as the annual apy complex resides in what used to be library, whose elegant quarters look down Holiday Vespers. the multi-story music library. Bringing this on Naismith Drive. With triple the space specialized faculty together for the first of the old library, the new space finally time since 1954, the complex includes unites the University's entire music collec- oni-Marie Montgomery, a concert two classrooms, clinical spaces, an tion, formerly scattered across 11 campus pianist and, since last April, the acoustics laboratory, three research spaces, locations. As in other areas of the build- Tdean of fine arts, relaxes after a faculty offices and a reception area. ing, technology wins rave reviews: The Lied Center performance as she explains The computer technology center fea- library's Joe and Joyce Hale Media System the importance of first-class rehearsal tures a music lab with 30 computer- makes it unnecessary for students to han- space that matches the performance equipped carrels, where "students can dle any of the large collection of LPs, CDs venue. "The old spaces were a little like accomplish anything they would ever or cassette recordings. Instead, librarians rehearsing in a dungeon," she says. "Musi- hope to do as far as music technology is at the front desk cue up recordings for cians would practice in Murphy and then concerned," says music technology spe- students seated in carrels throughout the have to adjust to a completely different cialist Jay Batzner, f'97, g'98. Students can library. Each has headphones, amplifiers sound in the Lied. Now the change is less use software for music notation, sequenc- and a mini-CD player. Some also have drastic." ing, 3-D choreography, mastering and digital music keyboards and computers Achieving such consistency, however, mixing recordings, making and editing with music and dance software. The demanded drastic changes in old Murphy. movies, and burning their own CDs. library is open to the public. The former band room now is the Opera The largest single new area is the Other new spaces include 14 faculty and Musical Theatre Complex, including 11,500-square-foot music and dance offices, two chamber ensemble rehearsal

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 [35 rooms and a percussion room filled with a tempting array of marimba, xylophone and tympani. No longer must students drag equipment from one room to another. In fact, convenient storage abounds, from the sheet music library, where drawer upon drawer open to favorite arrange- ments, to the band storage room, where uniforms and instru- ments now make their home. Even the pricey silver tubas with their gold-plated bells reside in their own locked storage area. Thoroughly modern Murphy also boasts that most revolu- tionary transportation feature: elevators. Until now, a light- weight student with a string bass had no choice but to lug her instrument up and down several flights of stairs. As with any construction project, the work is never quite finished, however. The dance faculty and students sorely need office and rehearsal spaces; Swarthout Recital Hall and existing practice rooms also need improvements. Montgomery says the school will have to rely on private funds for these projects. Then there's the matter of water fountains. Even as he mar- Top: Professor Bob Foster continues his conducting duties in a space he has veled at the new Murphy, Tom Stidham noticed that there • long dreamed of: a rehearsal hall large enough to seat all his musicians and • acoustically tuned to promote great sounds and protect students' hearing. weren't any water fountains installed when the building Above: Kerry Marsh, Great Bend graduate student in choral conducting, opened. But, hey, they're getting to that. After making do in a m works with the Vocal Jazz Ensemble in a smaller rehearsal room.The singers, rifle range and a gym, he's not about to complain.-^— left to right, are: Kevin Stacy, Seth Rowoldt, Justin Kurtz, Lisa Koch, Meghan Ralston, Sarah Whitacre and Sandra Zorilla. —Dinsdale is a Lawrence free-lance writer.

36 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 Sixth soiree a smash Rock Chalk Ball, Kansas City's annual black-tie bash, honors a record-setting class of National Merit scholars

ax Falkenstien needs no sup- Max, it seems, has always been there. And porting cast to stir a KU crowd. decades later, with a simple phrase, he'd MNot players on a court or a field, taken them there again, like a family elder nor cheerleaders or mascots. After all, he's retelling a favorite tale. got memories. More than he can count, "Those moments when Max had the and more than most Jayhawks can entire crowds attention, when everyone muster. So when he stood in the spotlight shared his memories, will always stay Feb. 2 to rally partygoers at Rock Chalk with me," says Becky Brand Meschke, Ball at the Marriott Muehlebach Hotel, all c'83, who with her husband, Jay, b'80, he had to do was look wistfully around g'82, helped co-chair the ball. "We were the room, pause for a moment and inno- thrilled and grateful to him for setting the and lore that bind Jayhawks, but also a cently ask, "Anybody out there remember tone we had imagined for the evening." new milestone that adds to KU pride. Last the holiday basketball tournament?" Nostalgia infused the sixth-annual gala, fall, the University welcomed 116 new Knowing sighs and cascades of which took its cue from the evening's National Merit Scholars to the Hill, boost- applause resounded in the room of more theme, "Building Traditions 'Hawk by ing KU's national ranking to eighth among than 1,000 alumni and friends. Yes, many 'Hawk," and its master of ceremonies, the public universities in recruitment of these of them remembered. They had cheered venerable Falkenstien, c'47. The event, talented students. KU basketball teams of old at the Muehle- staged by more than 100 volunteers of the In all, 329 National Merit Scholars are bach before the big winter tournament, Alumni Association's Greater Kansas City now on the Hill, and 23 of them receive and Max, of course, had been there too. chapter, honored not only the language scholarships from the Alumni Associa-

ROCKIN' JAYHAWKS: Lisa Leroux-Smith and her husband, Wesley, l'98, (top) were among the Jayhawks who danced to the music ofThe Atlantic Express at Rock Chalk Ball 2001. Above left: Jayhawk sports broadcaster Max Falkenstien, c'47, treated the crowd of more than 1,000 to his trademark blend of KU memories and good-natured jesting about favorite Big 12 foes. Above right: Kansas City's Nigro Brothers turned out in their finest auctioneering attire to coax generous bids from alumni, including Frank Sabatini, c'55, l'57, who cooperated by submitting the high bid for a chance to accompany the men's basketball team to the 2001 Maui Invitational in November.

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tion's Rock Chalk Society for Aca- whom you haven't seen is so much will be John, j'79, and Susan Capps demic Excellence and are des- fun," says Bob Holcomb, b'82, who with Goodman, h'80, and Kevin, a'79, a'80, ignated Rock Chalk Scholars. his wife, Susan Heck Holcomb, d'85, and Brenda Press Harden, j'81. For more Beginning in 1996, proceeds joined the Meschkes in chairing the year- information, call the Goodmans, (913) from each ball have bene- long effort to host the ball. "There's also a 381-9499, or the Hardens, (913) 677- fited the fund, which is huge sense of euphoria and relief. To see 4180.^— maintained by the KU what a great job our volunteers did, and Endowment Association. Rock see that all those nights spent worrying Chalk Ball 2001 raised more than about details paid off, is more than sat- Alumni members increase $110,000 for the cause—and provided isfying. Susan and I will cherish the the ranks of rare birds the nation's largest community of Jay- experience." hawks a chance to reunite and recommit And, like so many cherished KU tradi- he Alumni Association thanks the fol- to their alma mater. tions, the ball rolls on. Rock Chalk Ball Tlowing members, who have extended "To talk with old friends and professors 2002 is set for Feb. 1; chairs for the event their annual commitment by joining the Association's Jayhawk Society. For more information about the services available to Jayhawk Society members, call Bryan Greve, 800-584-2957.

Jean M. Abeita James R. Boyd W Mike Adams Mary Morris Boyd Renee Addington-Carey Robert E. Boyer Steven C. Agee Aimee Brainard Lila Alyce Tohidast Joe D. Brannan Akrad J. Brauer Joseph W Algaier Laura E. Brown Mark W Allen David Buck Jane La Gree Allingham Donna Buck R. Kent Allingham L. J. Buckner Jr. Charles S. Anderson Joe H. Bullard James L. Anderson Joseph A. Butler III Marcia Fink Anderson Harold L. Caler Robert J. Anderson Larry A. Carver Sherril Murrow Barbara A. Ciboski Anderson Dana G. Clinton Joel S. Andre Cathrine Coberly Demse F Cochran David W Angle Marc W Colby Frederick G. Apt III Shelley A. Colby Jeffrey A. Armstrong Andrew M. Coleman Shelh J. Baker Robert V Coleman JohnW. Balk Jr. Tom H. Collinson David A. Ball Stephen D. Coon Gwen Ball James W Coonfield Nancye F Ballard Steven L. Cosner Brian L. Bartlett Mary K. Cramm Ruth Ann Redding Bell Russell E. Cramm Michael R. Bellesine Steven M. Crowl Mary Cole Benson Betty Allison Dagenais Todd E. Benson Cathy L. Daicoff Melissa L. Berry Jack E Daily Stacie L. Berry Joyce Damron Joseph J. Bidnick II Jane Davenport Carol M. Bieber Richard A. Bieber CHALK IT UP TO A GREAT EVENING: Leading the Rock Chalk Chant were members of the Spirit Virginia Bird Squad and the Marching Jayhawks; leading the more than 100 Kansas City volunteers in organizing the ball were 2001 co-chairs Jay, b'80, g'82, and Becky Brand Meschke, c'83, and Susan Heck Holcomb, d'85, and her husband, Kay P Blinn Bob, b'82; 16 of the 23 Rock Chalk Scholars supported by proceeds from the ball attended the event. Speaking Robert O. Blinn for the scholars was Laura Brunow, Richardson,Texas, sophomore and a fourth-generation Jayhawk. Bruce J. Boggs Jr.

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Weinzirl Timothy P Doty Jean Bangert Hampton Basil C. Marhofer Marilyn P. Pauley William R. Stephens Cynthia M. Weller Herbert D. Doubek Jesse D. Hampton Gregory A. Martin Paul A. Payne Gary C. Stubbs David B. Wescoe Lucille Lenkner Doubek John R Hanna Richard E. Martin Cheri Altieri Peffer Patricia Stubbs Sibyl Goetz Wescoe William T. Downs Norman Hanson Elizabeth R Marzluff Jean PC. Pentecouteau Patrick L. Sturgeon Michael R. Wesley Suzanne Cotrel Doyle Kurt A. Harper Joseph O. Marzluff Richard D. Peppier Terence L. Sullivan Herman A. Wiebers Timothy A. Doyle Janie Schaake Harris Katherine L. Maxwell Neil Perkins Martha S. Sutherland Cecil L. Williams Glenn M. Duffee John A. Harris Barbara Findley McCall Sherrie Perkins Todd L. Swafford Cecil W. Williams Howard D. Dunnington Kyle R. Hartman Richard R. McCall Stephanie A. Thomas G. Swenson David C. Williams Wendell A. Dutt Claude J. Harwood Gary H. McClelland Phimmasone Monica Gilbert Tague Martha Ormsby Grace DeTar Talkington John S. Eagle Marilyn Lindberg Lou A. McClelland Pamela Woodworth Williams Theodore J. Taylor John R Easley Harwood Ann E. McCort Pierce Martha Taylor Williams Marcell Coots Teehee Marilyn Scheleen Edde William J. Hauslerjr. Sara McElhenny Jess S. Plummer Alfred L. Williams Jr. Henry N. Edwards Darrell L. Havener Merlin L. McFarland Audrey J. Pollard Harold E. Ehrlich Shirley M. Havener Thomas S. McGillm Reese L. Pollard Christopher C. Eldridge Michael R. Hawkins Michael W McGowan Taylor L. Porter Ronald E Fahey Susan Byram Hayes Sarah Smith McGowan Michael C. Priddy Jane Werth Falter John A. Head William W Ortencia M. Puhuyaoma Richard T. Falter Kenneth E. Henson McGrannahan Amy Hurst Rachman Laurie Heaton Fannin James L. Herron Patrick M. Meacham Ellen S. Ragan Jerry H. Feagan Jerry Hess DeLoris K. Mehlmger Maria G. Ramirez JAYHAWK Raymond J. Felbinger Elizabeth T. Hird Camille M. Mermis Kevin L. 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1930s general manager of the park district in Cham- professor of English at California State Ernest Edmonds, d'38, g'46, lives in Le Roy, paign, III., where he and Dianne Nothdurft University, and he lives in Claremont. where he's a retired teacher Toalson, b'56, make their home. Donald Smyth, c'64, runs Rose Creek Health Products, a nutritional mail order com- Clifford Goering, b'36, lives in a retirement 1955 facility in Chico, Calif. pany in Kettle Falls, Wash., where he lives with Richard Smith, b'55,1*62., is a partner in the Elaine Slothower Small, f'37, is a self- his wife, Helen. Kansas City law firm of Craft, Fridkin & Rhyne. employed fiber artist in Ferguson, Mo. 1956 1965 MARRIED Douglas Dedo, c'65, practices with the Palm Roy Baker, b'56, g'57, and his wife, Doris, are Karl Ruppenthal, c'39, l'41, to Josephine Beach Institute of Cosmetic Surgery in Palm retired in Kansas City. Maxon, Nov. 18.They live in Walnut Creek, Beach Gardens, Fla. Francis Bowers, g'56, continues to live in Calif. Beatty Hunter, c'65, m'71, is chief of cardi- Honolulu, where he's a retired math teacher ology at the New England Heart Institute in Josephine Thomas Wilson, b'56, makes her 1944 Manchester, N.H. He and his wife, Susan, live home in Los Angeles with her husband, Melvin. Vera Harries Wall, b'44, plays the violin in in Bedford. She's retired from the California State Board of several orchestras in the Millbrae, Calif., area. David Schichtle, d'65, g'74, lives in Colorado Equalization. 1948 Springs, where he's retired human resource Mac, c 48, m 5 I, and Wilda Hosier Geyer, 1958 director for the United Service Automobile f 49, make their home in Wichita Falls,Texas. John Gardenhire, d'58, makes his home in El Association. Jack Reinhart, b'48, and his wife, Dorothy, Cerrito, Calif. He's retired chairman of the Eng- 1966 make their home in La Mesa, Calif. lish department at Laney College in Oakland. Patricia Wise, d'66, lives in Bloomington and Eileen Hoover Kintsch, c'58, is a research is a professor of voice at Indiana University. She 1949 associate and professor at the University of Col- gave master classes in voice performance last Sam Crow, c'49, received distinguished service orado Institute of Cognitive Science in Boulder awards last year from Washburn University and year in Salzburg and Vienna, Austria. theTopeka Bar Association. He's a U.S. District 1959 1967 Malcolm Applegate, j'59, received the Distin- Court judge in Topeka. Teri Neece Bloniarz, d'67, is a reading guished Service Award last year from the Inland Richard Houts, b'49, is a retired engineer in specialist in Bensenville, III. She lives in Mount Salt Lake City, Utah, where he and Charlene Press Association. He lives in Indianapolis. Prospect Turner Houts, '5 I, make their home. I960 Raymond Dennis, d'67, g'72, teaches math for George Weber, g'49, PhD'54, wrote Box Car, Lola Ann Perkins, d'60, g'65, retired last year the Shawnee Mission school district. He lives in a novel that was published last year for as an English teacher in Honolulu and moved to Overland Park. IstBooks Library. He lives in Sun City, Fla., and is Stafford, Va. Carolyn Guy, d'67, a retired physical education a professor emeritus at Catholic University of Kathleen Roberts Sloan, d'60, lives in Over- teacher, makes her home in Coventry, R.I. America. land Park, where she sells residential real estate. David Weaver, p'67, owns Weaver & Co., a 1950 1961 medical device manufacturing business. He and his wife, Barbara, live in Aurora, Colo. James Young, d'50, g'52, PhD71, received the Robert Alderson, c'61, recently was elected Human Rights Award last year from the Korean to the board of the Canadian Transport 1968 Institute for Human Rights. He is a former Lawyers' Association. He and his wife, Ruth John, c'68, and Dena Smith Adams, c'69, administrator at Washburn University, where he Hoaeland Alderson, assoc, live in Topeka, make their home in Prairie Village. John's a was interested in international relations. Jim lives where he's a partner in the law firm of Aider- retired dentist, and Dena is a commercial artist. in Topeka. son, Alderson, Weilen Conklin, Burghart & Crow. James Coughenour, b'68, directs marketing 1951 1962 for the grain division of Farmland Industries in Milo Matthies, e'51, and his wife, Sonah, are Kansas City. Patricia Getto Plumlee, d'62, does substi- Christopher Redmond, c'68,171, practices retired in Kansas City. tute teaching in Cupertino, Calif, where she law with Husch & Eppenberger in Kansas City, 1952 lives with her husband, Don. and Rosalynn Finney Redmond, d'71, Donald Ford, PhD'52, recently directed an art Minnie Kloehr Wilson, d'62, works as a bilin- teaches at St. Ann Catholic Grade School. show featuring the work of 19 artists from Flo- gual resource specialist for the Milpitas Unified They live in Prairie Village. ral Park, N.Y., where he makes his home. Don- School District. She and her husband, Dan, live William Sampson, c'68,171, recently became ald is a watercolor artist. in Scotts Valley, Calif. second vice president of the Defense Research 1953 1963 Institute. He's a partner in the Overland Park Shirley Thomson Smith, d'53, is retired in Carl Martinson, b'63, recently became senior law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon and lives in Lusby, Md. vice president of marketing and public relations Lawrence with Dru Mort Sampson, l'96. John Witmer, p'53, makes his home in at Clarian Health Partners in Indianapolis. She's development director for MediaWise in Phillipsburg, where he's a retired pharmacist. 1964 Kansas City. 1954 Bertram Fairchild, c'64, g'68, wrote Such 1969 Robert Toalson, c'54, received the Most Valu- Holy Song: Music as Idea, Image and Form in the Frank Bencivengo, c'69, is CEO of Lexington able Citizen Award last year from the Cham- Poetry of William Blake, which was published last Scenery & Props in Sun Valley, Calif. He lives in paign County Chamber of Commerce. He is year by Alice James Books. He's an associate Sherman Oaks.

40 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 CLASS NOTES A HOME Daniel Cavanaugh, m'69, practices thoracic founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training and general surgery at the Marshfield Clinic in in Fort Collins, Colo. Eau Claire, Wis. He lives in Chippewa Falls. FOR ALL SEASONS Yurdaer Gemici, g'69, is senior project man- 1973 ager for ABB Automation in Houston, where he Michelle Vaughan Buchanan, c'73, directs and his wife, Sharon Mattox, make their home. the chemical and analytical sciences division at Richard Larson, e'69, lives in Roeland Park the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and is president of Kansas City Elevator National Laboratory in Oak Ridge,Tenn. She Jack Manahan, d'69, g'82, is a principal and and her husband, A.C., live in Knoxville with consultant for American Management Systems, their daughter, Lauren, 14. an international business and technology con- Steven Gough, c'73,176, recently joined the Wichita law firm of Powell, Brewer; Gough sulting firm. He and Patricia Dalrymple & Withers. Manahan, '85, live in Peoria, III. Rosemary Pinet Hartner, d'73, teaches at 1970 the Casita Center for Science, Math and Tech- nology, a magnet school in Vista, Calif. Jeffrey Butterfleld, b'70, g'72, is president of Carolyn Kubik, c'73, m'79, is a reproductive Harris Bank in Palatine, III. endocrinologist with a private practice in Pitts- Michael Dennis, e'70, g'75, is vice president burgh, Pa. She and her husband, Steele Filipek, of engineering for Stevens & Associates in have two sons, Tyler, 16, and Zachary, 14. Shawnee Mission. He and Catherine McCul- lagh Dennis, d'69, g'70, live in Grandview, Mo. 1974 She's a special education teacher at the Gillis James Doepke, d'74, directs bands at Wauke- Center in Kansas City. sha North High School in Waukesha,Wis. David Meagher, c'70, practices pediatric James Guthrie, e'74, g'77, is discipline director surgery at Valley Children's Hospital in Madera, for the contractors submittals department at TOWNHOME LIVING AT ITS BEST! Calif. He lives in Fresno. Black &Veatch in Kansas City, and Judy Gail Skaggs, c'70, a retired administrative law Lehman Guthrie, '72, works for Johnson • randon Woods is more than judge with the Social Security Administration, County Human Services and Aging.They live in a retirement community. It's a lives in Lakewood, Colo., with her husband, Prairie Village. neighborhood of friends. Richard Falb. Claradine Cornwell Johnson, PhD'74, con- When you live in a Townhome 1971 tinues to live in Wichita, where she's retired at Brandon Woods, home owner- from a career with Wichita State University. James Davis, c'71, g'74, works for Chappell ship is a joy! A monthly service Brent McFall, c'74, g'76, lives in Federal Way, Studio and Marathon Foto, a business he began Wash., and is chief administrative officer for the fee covers all your maintenance while attending KU. He lives in Fairfield, Iowa. city of Kent. concerns. Plus owning a Town- Gene Kendall, e'71, g'72, retired last year as a Richard Robison, a'74, recently became an rear admiral in the U.S. Navy. He lives in home at Brandon Woods is an owner-principal of Lord, Aeck & Sargent, an Alexandria, Va. investment. You have an Atlanta architecture firm with specialty practice Linda Loney, c'71, is associate medical direc- appreciable asset that benefits groups in science, education and historic preser- tor of Massachusetts Hospital School in Canton. you and your heirs. vation. He lives in Stone Mountain, Ga., with She lives in Newton. Manola Gomez Robison, a'73, who's presi- FEATURING: Thomas Lusty, j'71, is a CEO with the Lowe dent of Robison Management Consulting. Group. He and Susan Turner Lusty, '72, live • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS in Stuart, Fla. She's president and founder of 1975 • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE • ALZHEIMER'S CARE & REHAB Odyssea Publishing. Ann Temple Clark, d'75, teaches math in • NO ENTRANCE FEE 1972 Arlington.Texas. Steven Hall, d'75, is president of RPM Global Joan Stuhlsatz Lewerenz, s'72, g'82, was (785) 838-8000 in Tampa, Fla. named 2001 American Businesswoman by Terry Kellogg, c'75, works as chief financial 1-800-419-0254 the American Business Women's Association. officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ala- www.brandonwoods.com She's a public administrator for the Kansas bama. He and his wife, Laura, live in Birmingham. Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services in Topeka. 1976 Howard Neyland, a'72, manages construction Herbert Bevan, c'76, recently was promoted at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla., where to associate professor of clinical pediatrics at he and his wife, Marilyn, assoc, make their Eastern Virginia Medical School and Children's home. Hospital of the King's Daughters, where he's Robert Prentice, c'72, recently received the also director of the comprehensive brain tumor RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching clinic. He lives in Smithfield. Award from the University ofTexas-Austin, John Easley, j'76, directs external affairs for the 1501 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 LOCATED 11/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS where he's a professor of business law. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Patrick Williams, c'72, is president and He and his wife, Mary, live in Leawood.

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I mo Voder Johnson, s'76, is a social worker at the Swanson Center in Michigan City, Ind. FORMER AMBASSADOR PURSUES WORLD PEACE 1977 enton Keith arrived at KU from Jill Trask Cardenas, d'77, is principal of his Kansas City, Mo., home intent Williams Elementary School in Arlington, on studying engineering and Texas. She and her husband, Rudy, live in K French, but it was the late political sci- Grand Prairie. ence professor Cliff Ketzel who suggested 1978 that Keith focus his self-described "wan- Griffin Macy, e'78, recently moved from Ster- derlust" on the foreign service. ling, Va., to Bellaire,Texas. He's vice president of Keith, c'61, listened to his mentor. e-business for Waste Management Inc. After four years as a naval officer, Keith Rosemary O'Leary, c'78, l'81, g'82, co-wrote in 1965 began a diplomatic career with Managing for the Environment, which was named the U.S. Information Agency that took the best book in public and nonprofit manage- him all over the world and culminated ment last year by the Academy of Management with his appointment as U.S. ambassador and the American Society of Public Administra- tion. She's a professor of public administration to Qatar. at Syracuse University and lives in Manlius, N.Y. "For me, it's as natural as breathing to Kris Sperry, m'78, is chief medical examiner want to experience foreign cultures," for the state of Georgia and director of the Keith said during a visit to the University. Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Child Abuse He was in the area to receive the Kansas Resource Center He and Laurie Beardsley City-based International Relations Coun- saw representatives MAN OF THE WORLD: Sperry, h'77, live in Stone Mountain. cil's distinguished service award. of Syria and Israel Kenton Keith married his 1979 Though Ketzel provided the young shake hands. love of trout fishing and dreamer with the specifics, it was his lifelong fascination with Aileen McCarthy, c'79, m'83, works for Hos- "Madrid repre- France by purchasing a pice House. She and her husband, Bradley supportive parents who prompted Keith sented real change," home in the French coun- Marples, c'79, m'83, live in Topeka with their to look beyond Kansas City. Keith's he says. "It was tryside that includes a fine children, Ian, 12, and Kirsten, 10. father, Jimmy, played tenor saxophone progress at the trout stream running through the property. 1981 with the Harlan Leonard and Count Basie human level. That bands, and is a member of Kansas City's Brett Conley, j'81, g'85, directs financial deci- was the moment I sion support services for Sprint in Overland Jazz Hall of Fame. His mother, Gertrude, cherish most." Park. He lives in Fairway. is a longtime community activist in President Bush in 1992 nominated Daniel Gleason, e'81, is a senior construction Kansas City and retired as deputy direc- Keith as ambassador to Qatar, and Presi- engineer with Alaska Petroleum Contractors. tor of the Kansas City Housing Authority. dent Clinton continued the appointment. He and Cathy Zweygardt Gleason, j'80, live "My parents encouraged all of us to Keith says the United States never before in Anchorage. seek new horizons," Keith says. had a strong relationship with the strate- Curtis, p'81, m'86, and Donna Griebel Keith's 33-year career in the foreign gically placed nation, but, in the wake of Rosebraugh, c'82, m'85, are medical reviews service began with a posting in Beirut, the Gulf War, both countries were eager for the Food and Drug Administration in , for training in . Then to establish strong ties. Rockville, Md.They live in Olney with their chil- came assignments in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, He returned to Washington in 1995 dren, Luke, 13; Connar, I I; and Sydney, 9. Debbie Travers, n'81, recently received a fel- Turkey, Morocco and Syria. As part of a and helped the USIA, an independent lowship for research in medical informatics from team sent to Syria after a seven-year federal agency, merge with the State the National Library of Medicine. She lives in break in relations caused by the Arab- Department. He retired in 1997 with the Durham and is a student researcher at the Uni- Israeli war of 1967, Keith launched the highest rank available to him, career min- versity of North Carolina. defining element of his career: searching ister, and joined the Meridian Interna- Virginia Volk, c'81, received a master's in for peace in the Middle East. tional Center as senior vice president. aeronautical science last year from Embry-Rid- His assignments continued to fling Meridian, a private, nonprofit corpora- dle Aeronautical University. She's an integrated Keith around the globe, including posts tion, promotes international exchanges. requirements team lead for the Federal Aviation in Brazil, Paris and Washington, D.C, "More than specifically choosing the Administration in Washington, D.C. Her home is in Arlington, Va. but in 1988 he returned to Cairo and foreign service, I would encourage young took on wide USIA responsibilities dur- people to have some sort of international BORN TO: ing the Gulf War. After the war, Keith experience. In this age, where globalism Robert St. Peter, b'81, and Anne, daughter was part of the U.S. delegation to the is a reality, knowledge of foreign cultures Claire Halpin, Oct. 20 in Topeka, where Robert 1991 Madrid peace talks, at which he is going to be fundamental."-""•»• is president of the Kansas Health Institute.

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1982 Lu Ann Bokenkroger Nauman, g'82. a retired school administrator, lives in Topeka with her husband, Alan, assoc. Reza Zoughi, e'82, g'84, PhD'88, teaches Hill electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla. 1983 Tom Gawlick, p'83, manages products for Aventis Pharmaceuticals. He and his wife, Gina, live in Clinton, N.J., with Jason, 2, and I -year-old twins, Eric and Luke. Jeffrey Martin, '83, directs music at Colonial Presbyterian Church. He and Lee Ann Hunt Bird Martin, j'82, live in Lenexa with their sons, Chad, 6; Casey, 5; and Connor; who'll be I in April. Michael McGrew, b'83, was named 2000 Realtor of the Year by the Kansas Association of Realtors last fall. He's vice chairman of Coldwell Gift Banker McGrew Real Estate in Lawrence. BORN TO: Help your grad stay connected Steven Wampler, b'83, and Laura, daughter Hannah, and son, jack, May 2 in Scottsdale, Ariz. to KU through: Steve is an executive director for Farmers Insur- - a $25* single annual membership ance in Phoenix. - a $75 3-year new grad membership 1984 - a $750 single Life membership Greg Adamson, d'84, g'88, is divisional man- ager of perioperative sales for Abbott Laborato- ries. He and his wife, Virginia, live in Olathe with A gift membership in the Kansas their daughters, Shannon, I 6; Catherine, 5; and Alumni Association is a thoughtful Victoria, 2. way to give your favorite Hawk- Leslie Davis Cairns, f 84, makes her home in Tulsa, Okla., where she recently completed a master's of fine arts at the University of Tulsa. • six issues of Kansas Alumni magazine Lisa Stevenson McCartney, c'84, g'87, com- • color calendar of campus scenes mutes from Lawrence to Lansing, where she • exclusive TV Guide to KU Basketball works at the Lansing Correctional Facility. Gary Smith, j'84, won American Photo maga- • invitations to chapter events nationwide zine's 2000 Readers Photo Competition with a • discounts on car rentals and hotels photograph from his recent book, Molten Mem- oirs: An Artist's Account of the Volcano Holdouts of For a graduation • access to Jayhawk friends through our Name Search Service Salem, Montserrat. Gary lives in Lawrence. gift that • discounted long-distance calling 1985 Rock Chalks, call through MCl/Worldcom Paula Bodine, e'85, is quality/engineering man- ager for the Dallas division of Associated Spring- 1-800-584-2957 • an application for a Jayhawk VISA or Barnes Group. She and her husband, Matt or MasterCard Wysor, live in Arlington,Texas, with their sons, www.kualumni.org • an Association member vehicle decal Jake, 8, and Jackson, who'll be I in April. • 40-60% discount with North American John Bucher, PhD'85, directs information tech- nology at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He Van Lines lives in Strongsville. Mark Schwartz, PhD'85, an associate profes- • The discounted $25 annual membership rate is sor of geography at the University of Wisconsin- Kansas Alumni available to graduates for three years after Milwaukee, recently received a research award Association completion of first KU degree. from the university for his work in vegetation phenology. He lives in Shorewood.

44 KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 CLASS NOTES PROFILE BY KATHERINE DINSDALE

Michael Sheffield, c'85, lives in Eagan, Minn., with Susan Maupin Sheffield, c'86, and their COMEDIAN CHERISHES THE POWER OF HUMOR children, Micaela, 6, and Spenser, 3. Michael works for Bristol-Myers Squibb. bout the only traditional touch at comedian David Naster's wedding BORN TO: was the gown worn by his bride, David Beurlein, e'85, and Sheila, daughter, A Mary Anne McTigue. When Naster, 75, Erin Elizabeth, Oct. 19 in Dallas, where she joins and McTigue, c'81, were married last a brother, Craig, 3. David is director of Spencer Stuart. September, the groom wore a sweatshirt Susan Pulhamus Hiebl, d'85, g'96, and emblazoned "Lucky." And the reception Richard, son, Joshua Lee, May 17 in Overland entertainment was none other than Bob Park, where he joins a brother Shane, 3. Susan Eubanks, who wore a Hawaiian shirt and owns A Balloon Sensation, and Rick manages posed racier versions of the questions he Midland Loan Services. had asked back when "The Newlywed Donald Wallace, b'85, and Larean, daughter, Game" graced prime time. Chloe, Sept. 15 in Buhler, where she joins a The reception was just the kind of brother, Kyle, 10, and two sisters, Nicole, 8, and event one would expect from someone Megan, 5. Donald is a controller for Collins Bus who has always liked clowning in the Corp. in Hutchinson. spotlight. 1986 Naster, an Overland Park-based come- Jerome Jones, c'86, is an attorney and a finan- dian who has made his living making cial planner in Wichita. laughter for more than 20 years, was Susan McBride, j'86, wrote And Then She was elected class president back in high Gone, which was nominated for a Reviewers' school not because he cared a whit about Choice award. She lives in Brentwood, Mo., and class government, but because his peers will publish her second novel, Overkill, this fall. laughter in hard FUNNY MAN: Comedian David Naster currently Terry Mears, j'86, recently was promoted to liked his Flip Wilson and Bill Cosby imi- times. One headlines for Norwegian vice president of marketing with Coleman Co. tations. After some theatre work during vignette tells of a college, Naster began working as a mime Cruise Lines, and last year in Wichita, where he and his wife, Danielle, performance opened for Celine Dion on make their home.Their family includes a son, and a clown. He made a decent living as Naster did in an her world tour Naster's Devan, I. the "Chubby Mime," but because he Edgerton church comedy also serves a Richard St. Clair, c'86, is group product hardly fit the slight and sober mime one Easter Sunday, deeper purpose: healing director in marketing for Carter-Wallace. He stereotype, everything tended to evolve when he pulled a with laughter. lives in Bellemeade, N.J., with his wife.Tari, and into comedy. He did nightclub acts burly man from their 14-year-old twins,Tylor and Ashlie. through the early 1980s, when he started the sanctuary audience and coaxed him Julie Wood-Warner, c'86, g'89, PhD'98, is a Stanford's and Sons comedy club in psychologist at the KU Medical Center in into playing a kazoo. By the end of the Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, and her husband, Christopher, sketch the two were running around on b'88, owns Custom Golf.They live in Lenexa. In fact, Eubanks did the Newlywed stage making motorcycle noises. The con- 1987 gig at the reception to repay Naster for gregation loved it. People were wiping adding some spice to Eubanks' still-tour- away tears and holding their stomachs Tammy Steele Norton, b'87, is a self- employed software consultant in Aurora, III., ing neonuptial act a few years back. from laughing so hard. where she and her husband, Mark, live with Naster has worked in 10 countries and Afterward, the man from the audience their sons, Joshua, 6, and Matthew, 3. 49 states (he's not sure what's wrong with followed him to his car. There, with a Patrick Sturgeon, j'87, works as senior New Hampshire) and has presented his hand on each of Naster's shoulders, he sports producer for Network of the World in show for a long list of corporations and said, tearfully, "I lost my baby girl three London, England. universities, as well as on network televi- months ago. This is the first time I've MARRIED sion, HBO and Showtime. been able to laugh since. I think I'm Gordon Reynolds, b'87, to Cindee Borland, Through the years, Naster says, he's going to be all right." April 28.They live in Shawnee Mission, and come to think of his work as more than Naster says that was a turning point in Gordon works for U.S. Central Capital Markets. just playing the funny man. He sees his career. "His words touched the deep- BORN TO: laughter as an essential part of a healthy est part of my heart and soul. Since that life. His self-published book, You Just moment, I have never taken for granted Forrest "Woody" Browne III, c'87, and Have to Laugh, is now in its third edition. the magic, power and incredible impor- Gail, son, Colin Woodward, Sept. I in Garden City, N.Y., where he joins a brother, Forrest, 2. It tells story after story of the healing tance of laughing. "'"•"**• Woody is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. power of laughter and the importance of —Dinsdale is a Lawrence free-lance writer. Navy Supply Corps.

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1989 William Rose, c'89, works as an alignment technician for Garmin International in Olathe. He lives in Kansas City. BORN TO: Daniel, c 89, and Kara Kurrett Dolan,j'90, daughter, Kendall Lee, May 30 in Olathe. Daniel is a consultant for Tax Favored Benefits in Prairie Village, and Kara is a regional manager with PremierTeleconferencing Services in Overland Park. David Owen, d'89, and Maudie, son, Drew Mitchell, July I in Houston,Texas, where David is regional sales manager for Enterprise Fleet Services. 1990 Rex Anderson, c'90, manages accounts for Stonehenge Partners inTulsa, Okla. He and his wife, Diane, live in Broken Arrow with their chil- LiC6nS6 Pl3te $11.95 (Plus S1 Shipping and Handling) dren, Taylor, 5, Brady, 3, and Mackenzie, I. Simple, bold graphics instantly identifies the Jayhawk Leona Lust Beezley, g'90, directs patient ser- fan. Made of clear, impact-resistant polycarbonate plas- tic, they won't bend or chip like aluminum and look like vices at Osawatomie State Hospital. She lives in they are under glass. Ottawa. Karen Davis, e'90, is senior director of field BIG JAY Fl3g $39.29 (Plus $2 Shipping and Handling) 28" x 56", flag grade nylon, reinforced with binding services at Pivotal Corp. in Kirkland.Wash. around all edges for long outdoor life. As used by the Kira Gould, j'90, c'91, works as a free-lance Marching Jayhawks. writer in New York City. Pamela Hettwer-Owens, j'90, is an account LL.C. executive for Mainline Printing inTopeka. She To Order Call 800-326-8372 or 785-822-1003 lives in Lawrence. P.O. Box 737, Salina, KS 67402 • FAX 785-827-9337 • www.gasolinealleyllc.com David St. Peter, c'90, m'95, has a private med- ical practice in Liberty, Mo. He and Kristine Sara Sieglinger Freitas, p'87, PharmD'96, John Ertz, c'88, is assistant director of agency Grommesh St. Peter, j'91, live in Kansas City and Richard, daughter, Rebecca Cecile, Oct. 17 development with Northwestern Mutual in Mil- with their children, Lauren, 4; Caroline, 3; and in Joplin, Mo., where she joins a sister; Emily, 2, waukee. He lives in Whitefish Bay. Austin, I. and three brothers, Nicholas, 2, Ethan, 4, and Gerald Swift, e'88, studies at the U.S. Air Christine Stanek, c'90, recently became senior account executive in public affairs at Briton, 9. Force Air Command and Staff College in Mont- Tracy Wagner Hood, c'87, and Joel, d'90, Fleishman Hillard in St. Louis. She lives in gomery, Ala. daughter, Sarah Ann, June 20 in Lawrence, Clayton. where she joins a brother, Jacob. Joel is a corpo- BORN TO: MARRIED rate trainer with Security Benefit Group of Thomas Coover, b'88, and his wife, June Alice Craig, b'90, l'95,to Scott White, Sept. 9 Companies, and Tracy is self employed. "Kelly"Vemon, son, Joshua, Oct. 19 in Peters- in Olathe. Alice practices law in Kansas City, and Shannon Moe Miller, h'87, and David, son, burg, Va. Tom is business manager for the dental Scott is an assistant district defender in Olathe. Zachary John, May 17 in Denver Shannon is a office of J. KellerVernon in Colonial Heights, They live in Kansas City. pediatric respiratory therapist at Presbyterian/ where Kelly is a dentist. St. Luke's Medical Center; and David is a pedi- BORN TO: Marcia Nelson Fries, s'88, s'90, and Jeffrey, atric cardiologist at Rocky Mountain Pediatric Teresa Pfortmiller Castle, e'90, and a'9 I,Tyler Jeffrey, Aug. 13 in Overland Park. They Cardiology. Thomas, son,Trevor; Sept. 2 in Irvine, Calif, live in Wake Forest, III., with their son, Alex, 4. Sebastian, c'87, g'00, and Carmen Orth- where he joins a sister Violet, 2. Teresa is a Alfie, f'87, daughter; Gwentessa Laurel, July 2 Jeff is a network design manager with Sprint. structural engineer with EQE International. in Lawrence. Sebastian works for the Lawrence Thomas Murphy, c'88, and Jennifer son, John Louis, c'90, and Carolyn Russell Klemp, public schools, and Carmen works for KU's Vincent, Sept. 29 in Olathe, where he joins a b'91, son, Louis Andrew "Drew," Oct. 6 in libraries. brother Ethan, 3.Tom is vice president of public Lansing. 1988 relations for Sprint. 1991 Lee, b'88, and Michele "Shelley" Stall- Stacy Seely Davis, h'88, g'98, directs commu- Jordan Lerner, e'91, works for Henderson baumer Staehr, b'88, daughter; Lindsey nity education for the Mental Health Associa- Engineers in Lenexa. He and his wife, Kathryn, tion of the Heartland in Kansas City. She and Kathryn, Oct. 26 in Leawood, where she joins a live in Lawrence with their daughter; Sophie, 7. her husband, Steve, live in Tonganoxie. sister; Erin, 2. Daniel McCabe, c'91, is a financial consultant

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for A.G. Edwards. He lives in Grapevine,Texas. Todd Mitchell, j'91, works as a copywriter for CHEF COMES HOME TO FULFILL FOOD DREAMS Core in St. Louis, Mo., where he and his wife, Suzanne, live with their son, Colin, I. hen Susan Welling was grow- Yolanda Schweizer Taylor, c'9 I, p'95, man- ing up, the neighborhood kids ages scientific communications at Eli Lilly and Wwould come over just to look Co. in Indianapolis. She lives in Carmel, Ind, and in her refrigerator. Filled with jars of her family includes two sons, Jonathan, 4, and snails, foie gras, pates and cheeses, it was Adam, who'll be I in April. a novelty for kids used to squeezing but- BORN TO: ter from a bottle. William Coens, b'91, and Laurel, son, Dylan "My parents used to have these fabu- Joseph, July 18 in Overland Park, where he Joins lous dinner parties with all these foods a brother; Hayden, 4. William is an account and cultures," Welling says. "That's prob- executive at the Clinical Reference Laboratory ably where it began for me. I was a in Lenexa. senior in high school when I really Mary McBride Gerkin, c'91, and Patrick, son, became interested in cooking." Patrick Thomas, May 5 in St. Charles, III., where Small wonder then that the realization he joins a brother; Michael, 2. of a long-held dream centers on food— Barrett, e'91, and Jennifer Loftus Jesseph, owning and operating Honeymom's, the assoc, son, Benjamin Wayne, May 9 in Windsor; Colo. Barrett is a project engineer for Celestica bistro in downtown Kansas City, Mo., in Fort Collins. that she co-owns with her husband, Elisa Edgar Loving, c'91, and Steven, b'92, Miguel, also a chef. son, Braxton Bradley, Nov. 12 in Prairie Village, "Cooking is something I've always where Steven is an insurance agent with New wanted to do," Welling says. "1 think I've own restaurant WHAT'S COOKIN': Chef York Life. Elisa coordinates patient care for always had kind of a talent or feel for it." in San Francisco, Susan Welling halted her San Monarch in Leawood. Welling, c'89, was 6 when she made but skyrocketing Francisco apprenticeship to Brendan Wiechert, b'91, c'92, and Deborah, open a restaurant in her native her first birthday cake and was supervis- rents made that Kansas City. The result—the daughter, Emma Grace, June 8 in Salt Lake City, ing the family pot roast by fourth grade. Utah, where Brendan works for U.S. Bank. impossible. She downtown bistro Honey- It was a little later, however, when her and Miguel mom's—has earned a loyal fol- 1992 mother became a restaurant proprietor— returned to lowing, especially forWelling's sweet dessert treats. Kevin Barone, c'92, works for Hein & Weir she owned the original Classic Cup in Kansas City, and Chartered. He lives in Lawrence. Westport—that Welling became a friend soon Matthew, c'92, and Kristen Sjoberg immersed in the business of food. offered up space in a downtown ware- Christian, j'93, live in Leawood with their son, "I did all sorts of jobs there," she house. A few months later, Honeymom's Brian, I. Matthew is an insurance broker and a explains. "I was a waitress, I washed (named for Welling's grandmother) was a consultant with Christian and Associates in dishes and then I became the pastry per- Kansas City. reality. son. I learned all ends of the business." Misty Glenn Norris, '92, is a participant ser- A self-confessed "foodie," Welling is an vices manager at J.P. Morgan/American Century, Welling told her parents she wanted to avid cookbook reader and constantly and her husband, Craig, h'91, is a territory bypass college and attend culinary surfs Internet food sites. But the culinary sales manager for LabCorp in Kansas City. school. Her father, a professor at Rock- creations are uniquely her own: She typi- They live in Overland Park with their daughter; hurst University and the University of cally uses recipes for inspiration, rarely Mallory, who'll be 2 in April. Missouri-Kansas City, thought the college following them verbatim. Her culinary Melanie Mans Potts, c'92, lives in Irving, experience was something she shouldn't instinct and flair have garnered the Texas, and is assistant principal of Hedrick Ele- miss and persuaded her to attend KU. restaurant a growing base of loyal cus- mentary School in Lewisville. "I'm very glad because college was a tomers. Particularly known for its MARRIED great experience," Welling says. "But the scrumptious desserts, Honeymom's Kristy Sanford, c'92, and Matthew Beadle- day after graduation, I told them I still recently was selected from among dozens ston, '94, Oct. 14 in Lecompton. She's assistant wanted to cook." of Kansas City restaurants to serve dessert financial sales officer/manager for the Bank of Welling headed for San Francisco, at a national food critics' meeting. Blue Valley in Shawnee, and he's executive where she hoped to attend culinary "People keep asking when we're going chef/operations coordinator for KU's Kansas school. Instead, she landed a job arrang- to grow," she says, "but we're not. I want and Burge unions.They live in Lawrence. ing desserts at the popular Square One it to stay just like it is. This is what I've BORN TO: restaurant. always dreamed about."--«•• Bradley, d 92, and Anne Baadte Ball, d 92, She planned to eventually open her —Parks is a Leawood free-lance writer. daughter; Avery Dec. 6 in Round Rock,Texas,

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where she joins a brother Tanner; 2. Bradley BORN TO: lectual property law in August as an associate coaches basketball for the Round Rock school Kirk Fischer, h'93, and Christina, daughter Julia, with Zarley, McKee,Thomte,Voorhees & Sease district, and Anne teaches first grade. Sept. 27 in San Ramon, Calif. Kirk works for in Des Moines, Iowa. Grant, c'92, and Kalissa Huang Kaufman, Beckman Coulter and was named 1999 North Roberta "Bobbie" Anderson-Oeser, m 94, c'92, daughter; Audrey Mina, May 24 in American Salesman of the Year is medical director of the North Suburban Med- Lawrence, where she joins a sister, Victoria, 4. Aaron, c'93, and Margo Werber Herwig, ical Center, an in-patient rehabilitation unit in Grant is a partner inTiesThatBind.com, and j'93, son, Jordan Chase, Nov. 15 in Overland Thornton, Colo. She lives in Evergreen with her Kalissa co-owns PC Help. husband, David, and also practices with Col- Park. Aaron is a financial adviser with First Union Michael, b'92,1*94, and Bonnie Anderson orado Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine Securities in Leawood, and Margo manages Maddox, j'92, son, Anderson Michael, Nov. 20 in Aurora. accounts for Gragg Advertising and Design in in Lawrence, where he joins two sisters, Jamie, Allison Lippert, j'94, designs pages and edits Kansas City. 5, and Sara, 2. Mike is community bank presi- copy on the night desk of the Des Moines Reg- David, e'93, and Renee Boucher Klocek, dent for Intrust Bank. ister She lives in West Des Moines, Iowa. p'95, son,Trent Alexander Aug. 12 in Beth Curt Zamerski, b'92, and Ted, son, Daniel Renne, c'94, is retail sales manager Harleysville, Pa. David is a senior economics ana- Nathan Alexander June I in Bel Air, Md., where with Verizon Wireless. He and his wife, Lorrie, lyst with CITGO Asphalt Refining in Blue Bell, he joins a brother Ryan, who'll be 3 in April. live in Gilbert, Ariz. and Renee is a staff pharmacist at Abington Beth is an accounting manager forT Rowe Price Thomas Volini, c'94, has been named broker Associates in Baltimore. Memorial Hospital. of the year by the Chicago Real Estate Invest- Charles, b'93, l'96, and Joyce Rosenberg ment Association. He's vice president of U.S. 1993 Marvine, l'96, Joshua Robert, Aug. 28 in Equities Realty in Chicago, where he and Amy Angela Barmby, c'93, practices law with the Kansas City. Chuck practices law with Berkowitz, Sutherland Volini, c'94, make their home. Houston firm of Lanier, Parker & Sullivan. Feldmiller Stanton, Brandt, Wiliams & Stueve, Brett Weinberg, c'94, recently became an Betsy Higgs Keszler, c'93, works as a Lotus and Joyce practices law with Spencer Fane, associate at the public relations firm of notes developer for Harland in Decatur, Ga. She Britt & Browne. Carmichael Lynch Spong in . and her husband, Ron, live in Lilburn. Virginia Klemme Treadwell, c'93, l'96, and MARRIED MarkTetreault, e'93, received a law degree Brian, son, Jamie Maverick, Oct. 10 in Brady, Katherine Greenwald, g'94, to Thomas last year from Roger Williams University and Texas. Virginia is county attorney for McCulloch Parks, May I 3 in Williamsburg.Va.They live in practices intellectual property law at Barlow, County, and Brian is a self-employed rancher Newport News, and they both work for the Josephs & Holmes in Providence, R.I. He and his and real-estate broker wife, Michele, live in Cranston. Newports News Daily Press. Christine Park White, c'93, m'97, practices 1994 Heather Linhart, d'94, to Frank Zang, Nov. 4 with Northwest Pediatrics and Adolescents in LilaTohidast Akrad, c'94, studies law in in Park City, Utah.They live in Salt Lake City, and Austin,Texas. Quechee.Vt, and plans to begin practicing intel- they both work for the Salt Lake City 2002

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Olympic Organizing Committee. Heather is the MARRIED figure skating manager; and Frank is the Olympic Billye Alford, d'96, g'98, to Jory Lee, Oct. 14. news service manager They live in Abilene,Texas, and Billye works as BORN TO: a staff physical therapist at Hendrick Health Systems. Allison Bigham Carlgen, d'94, and Troy, Nancy Hartwell, c'96, to Scott Phinney, Sept. daughter Brailyn Rae, and son, Brody Charles, 9 in Minneapolis, Minn. She's a project manager Aug. 3 in Courtland, where they join a brother, with Portera Systems, an internet startup firm, Dawson, 2. Allison teaches with USD 279 in and he's a manager with Pricewaterhouse Randall/Jewell, and Troy is a self-employed Coopers.Their home is in Boston. farmer and stockman. Scott Plegge, c'96, and Kellie Johnson, e'97, Kevin Kennedy, c'94, and Tina, son, Ryan July 22 in Powell, Wyo. Scott works for Equus Michael, Oct. 17 in Lexington Park, Mo. Kevin is Computers, and Kellie is a process engineer an operations research analyst for the Naval Air with Boeing.They live in Bothell.Wash. Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md. Christine Pedziwater Smith, h'94, and BORN TO: Robert, m'96, daughter, Delaney, April 26 in Sridhar Sunderam, g'96, PhD'OO, and Srivid- Springfield, Mo., where she joins a brother hya Asuri, '00, daughter Divya, Oct. 5 in Ethan, 3. Robert is an emergency room physi- Lawrence. Sridhar and Srividhya both work for cian at Skaggs Community Hospital. Flint Hills Scientific, where he's a research and 1995 development engineer and she's a computer engineer. Contemporary John Baca, m'95, and his wife, Lara Barkoff, JAYHAWK m'95, practice internal medicine with Southwest 1997 Pendants Medical Associates in Albuquerque, N.M., where David Breitenstein, j'97, covers education for they live with their daughters, Rachel, 6, and the Naples Daily News and studies for a mas- Sterling Silver Julia, 3. ter's in educational leadership from Florida Gulf or Antonio Dominguez-Saucedo, b'95, Coast University. He lives in Estero. manages key accounts for Maersk Sealand in Zachary Holland, e'97, and his wife, Melissa, 14K Yellow Gold Panama City, Panama. live in Collinsville, Okla., with their daughter Nathaniel Watts, c'95, g'99, practices intellec- Meghan, I. tual property law with Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper Chad Schooley, m'97, is a cardiology fellow at and Scinto in New York City. the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, where he Hsin-Fu Wu, e'95, serves as a lieutenant in the and his wife, Heather, make their home. She's an U.S. Navy stationed in Monterey, Calif, where attorney with Fulbright and Joworski. he studies for a master's in operations research Frank Seurer, c'97, heads the fitness program at the Naval Postgraduate School. for the Lenexa Fire Department. He lives in MARRIED Olathe. Amy Patton, j 95, c'96, l'98, and Ronald MARRIED jr| SILVER Morgan, c'96, Oct. 7.They live in Overland Matthew Byrne, e'97, to Rebecca Prath, Nov. Park, where Amy practices law with Shughart, I I .They live in Charleston, S.C., where they are I WORKS Thomson Kilroy and Ronald is a software test- both U.S. Navy lieutenants junior grade. and more ing analyst with Andersen Consulting. Dana Hess, c'97, to James Davis, Sept. 30 in Lawrence.They live in Shawnee, and Dana 1996 works for the Kansas City Museum. Amy Valigura Bokelman, p'96, is an assis- Adam Meyer, c'97, and Robin Freidlander, tant pharmacy manager with Wal-Mart, and her c'98, Sept. 3 in Mobile, Ala. Robin works for a gallery of husband, Jay, is a specialty pharmaceutical sales Matrix Resources, and Adam works forVal- representative with Merck.They live in Over- ubond.com.Their home is in Atlanta. fine gold & silver land Park with their daughter, Macie, 2. jewelry/contemporary crafts Pedro, g'96, and Analia Cabrero-Vazquez, 1998 g'96, make their home in Sao Paulo, Brazil. John Colville, c'98, studies physical therapy Anthony Hapgood, c'96, m'00, is a surgical at the University of St. Augustine in St. Augus- intern at the University of Florida in Jacksonville. tine, Fla. 715 Massachusetts Marjorie O'Konski, g'96, is activity director Kelly Finnerty, e'98, is a mechanical design for the Topeka Convalescent Center, and her engineer at MTD Consumer Products in Lawrence, Kansas husband, James is financial director for the Most Chandler, Ariz. 785/842-1460 Pure Heart of Mary Church.They live in Topeka. Jennifer Hitz Pozzuolo, b'98, works for Man- Tatiana Spektor, g'96, PhD'98, recently power in Lawrence, and her husband, Joe, works received a tenure track position at Iowa State for Sega in Overland Park.They live in DeSoto. University in Ames. Christopher Warren, c'98, serves as a lieu-

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and Beth is an analyst for Accenture. 2000 Amy Halbur Croghan, f'00, works as a music therapist at several hospitals and retire- ment homes in the Kansas City area. Her hus- band, Jason, b'99, is a senior accountant for State Street. Randall Southard, g'00, is a physical therapist with New Century Orthopedic and Sports Medicine in Pittsburg, where he and his wife, Nicole, make their home with their sons, Bradley, 3, and Cameron, who'll be I in February. MARRIED Hamil print, unfranted, $70* Kelly Rake, c'00, to Ryan Meier, June 10 in The rows up the Kaw River beneath a warm Lawrence, where they live. summertime panorama of the KU skyline that will add grace to any Jonathan Siebold, g'00, to Jennifer Ridden office or home. Commissioned especially for our members, June 3 in Marienthal. He's a sales engineer with this work is limited to 1,500 signed, numbered copies. Siemens Automation and Energy, and she works The unframed print measures 14" x 24 3/4". at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.They Order by calling 1.800.584.2957 live in Overland Park. or place a secure online order at Hanna Wood, n 00, and Israel Jirak, c 00, www.kualumni.org Kansas Alumni Aug. 12. She's a nurse at Poudre Valley Hospital •Shipping and handling, add $7. Kansas residents add Kansas tax 6.9%. Association in Fort Collins, and he's studying for a master's Jayhawk Society members receive a 15% discount. in atmospheric science at Colorado State University. tenant in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Osan gist with Flight Safety International in Daytona Airbase in the Republic of Korea. Beach, Fla. She lives in Winter Park. BORN TO: Kristi Powell Hartley, j'00, and Jeffery son, MARRIED MARRIED Conner Ray, Nov. 7 in Perry. Kristi and Jeff both Christopher Ford, c'98, and Amiee Catherine Cronin, c'99, and Gregory work for the U.S. Geological Survey in Hoffhines, PharmD'OO, June 17 in Overland Cooksey, e'99, Aug. 12 in Houston.They are Lawrence, where she's an editorial assistant and Park.They live in Vicenza, Italy, where he's an both studying for doctorates at the University of he's a cartographic technician. airborne ranger rifle platoon leader in the Washington in Seattle. U.S. Army. Danel Schmelzle, n'99,to Matt Cupps.Aug. Teresa Hopkins, b'98, to Darin Proberts, Aug. 5. Danel is a nurse at KU Medical Center in School Codes Letters that follow 26 in Louisburg.They live in Overland Park, and Kansas City, and Matt is a chemical engineer at names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school Western Resources in Topeka.Their home is in from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Teresa is an associate examiner with NASD. show their class years. Lawrence. BORN TO: a School of Architecture and Urban Tania Schmierer, b'99, and Nathan Knust, Design Trisha Lindgren Kroll, c'98, g'00, and Alan, c'00, May 27 in Fort Leavenworth.Tania works b School of Business d'99, son, Isaiah Douglas, Oct. 6 in Lawrence. for UtiliCorp United in Kansas City, where c College of Liberal Arts and Jason Rollins, c'98, and his wife.Tammy Nathan works for AAPCO.They are both Sciences Teaford, daughter, Natasha Marie Rollins, July 21. studying for master's degrees at Baker University d School of Education Jason is assistant manager of Steamboat Shirt in Baldwin, and they make their home in e School of Engineering Co. in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Kansas City. f School of Fine Arts Master's Degree Tad Smith, e 99, and Tara Honderick, 00, g h School of Allied Health 1999 July 29.They live in Overland Park. j School of journalism Thomas Dalton, c'99, is a features corre- Bradley Sorensen, c'99, b'00, to Susan Gille- spondent for Hotline, a division of the National 1 School of Law spie,July I.They live in Lenexa. m School of Medicine Journal. He lives in Washington, D.C. Angela Wilson, d'99,to Robert Harvey, Oct. n School of Nursing Carla Saichompoo Meyer, c'99, coordinates 7 in Lawrence, where they live. Angela teaches P School of Pharmacy special programs at the National Association of physical education at New Stanley Elementary s School of Social Welfare Basketball Coaches in Overland Park, and her School in Kansas City, and Robert works for DE Doctor of Engineering husband, Brian, d'00, is a financial advisor with Harvey Contracting in Lawrence. DMA Doctor of Musical Arts American Express Financial Advisors.They live EdD Doctor of Education in Shawnee Mission. BORN TO: PhD Doctor of Philosophy Dianne Ransom, j'99, and her husband,Tom, Ronald, e 99, and Beth Clugh Bell, b 99, son, (no letter) Former student own Ransomed Productions in Lenexa. Ronald Scott Jr., Dec. 5 in Ballwin, Mo. Ronald is assoc Associate member of the Alumni Association Joyce Stotts, g'99, is an instructional technolo- a project engineer for J.S. Alberici Construction,

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The Early Years Lynn Brothers, '33, 92, Nov. 28 in Raytown, engineer He is survived by his wife, Laura, a Walter "Salty" Blaker, c'22, 100, Nov. 7 in Mo. He had worked for National Distillers daughter and two granddaughters. Naples, Fla. He had lived in Kansas City for Products and later for Gunite Concrete and William Kirk,'39, 83, Dec. 6 in Hutchinson, many years and worked for Blaker Lumber and Construction, where he worked for 3 I years. where he was a retired Ford automobile dealer. Grain. He is survived by his daughter; a brother He is survived by his wife, Mary Elizabeth He is survived by a son; a daughter Kathy d'71; a David, e'32; and two grandsons. Sanderson Brothers, assoc. brother Earl, '34; five grandchildren; and two Helen Marcell Bellman, f'26, 94, March 19, Dorothy Knapp Brown, '31,90, Oct. 22 in great-grandchildren. Indianapolis. She had been a clerk for the Inter- 2000, in Mitchellville, Md., where she was a Alfred Kuraner, c'39, l'31, Nov. 5 in Kansas nal Revenue Service and is survived by a son, retired music teacher She is survived by her City, where he founded the law firm of Kuraner three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. husband, Earl, g'29; a son; a daughter; six grand- and Kuraner and had been vice president and Dean Chaffee, b'32, m'44, 89, Nov 4 in general counsel for Lynn Insurance. Surviving children; and seven great-grandchildren. Abilene, where he practiced medicine from are his wife, Genevieve; a daughter; a brother; Helen Sawyer Craig, '26,98, Nov. 14 in 1946 until retiring in 1978. He received the Irving, c'40; four grandchildren; and 10 great- Kansas City. A son and two grandchildren Abilene Distinguished Citizen Award in 1992. grandchildren. survive. Survivors include a daughter; a brother; Lynn, Miller Nichols, c'33, 89, Dec I 3 in Kansas Clarence Harris, e'23, 103, Oct. 21 in Fort m'44; and three grandchildren. City, where he was retired president of the J.C. Myers, Fla. He lived in Council Grove, where he Larry Farmer, '33, 89, Nov. I 3 in Wichita, Nichols Co. and active in civic affairs. He was had been utilities manager for Kansas Power where he was retired co-owner and operator instrumental in the development of the Country and Light. He had been a member of the of Jetts Department Store and a former civil Club Plaza, the Kansas City Sports Complex, American Legion for 82 years, and in 1999 he aeronautics flight instructor He is survived by a Rockhurst College and the Kansas City Interna- received the French Legion of Honor medal for son; a sister, Helen Farmer Miller, c'44; three tional Airport, and was awarded the Alumni his service in World War II. Survivors include his grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Association's Distinguished Service Citation in son, Richard, e'51; and three grandchildren. Laurance Fowler, '36, 88, Oct. 30 in Van 1979. He is survived by his wife, Jeannette Ter- Helen Haney Hart, c'28, 92, Dec 4 in Nuys, Calif, where for more than 30 years, he rell Nichols, g'47; four daughters; a stepdaughter; Kansas City. A memorial has been established was managing editor of the Van Nuys Valley a stepson; a brother J. Clyde Nichols Jr, c'36; and with the KU Endowment Association. She is News and Greensheet, which later became nine grandchildren. survived by two sons, one of whom isTerril, the Daily News of Los Angeles. He is survived Kenneth Rankin, c'33, g'35, 93, Oct 30 in c'61, m'65; two grandchildren; and two great- by his wife, Frances Nelson Fowler, assoc; a Eudora, where he was retired from the Federal grandchildren. daughter; and two grandsons. Aviation Administration. A memorial has been Eula Penwell Kauffman, c'29, 93, Dec. 20 in Josephine Parsons Goodrich, '38, 85, Dec. established with the KU Endowment Associa- Eudora. She had worked as a dietitian at Mar- I in Topeka. A daughter, a sister and two grand- tion. He is survived by his wife, Josephine shall Fields in Chicago and had lived in daughters survive. Edmonds Rankin, d'31; two sons, Philip, c'59, Lawrence for many years. A memorial has been Robert Hartley, b'34, 87, Nov 23 in g'61, and Gary, d'60, g'63; three grandchildren; established with the KU Endowment Associa- Memphis,Tenn., while visiting his son. He lived in and five great-grandchildren. tion. Survivors include a daughter, Nancy Kauf- Baxter Springs, where he was in the insurance Mary Rutter, c'37, 86, Oct. 20 in Overland man-Werner, d'62, and two grandchildren. business for many years. He is survived by Park. She was a retired journalist and is survived Winnifred Geyer Ryan, n'28,93, Dec. 2 in three sons, Robert, c'61, m'66, Ross, 174, and by a cousin and an aunt. Overland Park. She worked for many years as Richard, c'63; six grandchildren; and a great- Peggy Ballweg Warner, '35, 82, Nov 19 in an obstetrics nurse and is survived by two sons, granddaughter Lawrence, where she had worked for a physi- one of whom is Stephen, g'72; four grandchil- Ruth Snyder Hill, n'33, 89, Oct. 13 in cian for many years. A memorial has been dren; and five great-grandchildren. Arkansas City, where she was a retired nurse. established with the KU Endowment Associa- Catherine Cole Smith, '29,96, Oct. 24 Two sons, three brothers, a sister and four tion. She is survived by two sons, one of whom in Dallas. She was an artist and is survived by grandchildren survive. is Richard, c'67, m'72; six grandchildren; and a son, two stepchildren, eight grandchildren, Beryl Montgomery Hobbs, c'35, 89, Oct three great-grandchildren. 12 great-grandchildren and two stepgreat- I I in Oskaloosa. She lived in Lawrence and was grandchildren. a retired teacher Surviving are three daughters, 1940s one of whom is Cheryl Hobbs Hurt, d'72;two Jeanette Singleton Adams, c'40, 80, Nov. 1930s sons, one of whom is Monty, j'79; four grandchil- 21 in Rogers, Ark. She lived in Bella Vista and Marian Miller Alexander, '35, 88, Oct. 19 in dren; three stepgrandchildren; two great-grand- had taught mathematics in junior-high schools in Dallas.Three daughters, a son, six grandchildren children; and five stepgreat-grandchildren. Lawrence and Topeka before retiring. Her hus- and three great-grandchildren survive. Margaret Farr Hood, c'32,90, Aug. 8 in band, William, survives. Arthur Azlein, c'38, g'39, 82, June 4 in Rochester N.Y. She is survived by her husband, John "Jack" Batty, '40, 83, Nov. 29 in Over- Washington, D.C., where he was pastor emeri- Henry, e'32; a daughter; Judith Hood Nitz, d'59; land Park. He lived in Olathe and had worked at tus of Michigan Park Christian Church. and two sons, one of whom is Carl, e'62. Pilgrim House Furniture Store. He is survived by Norma Wallace Nesmith Bee,c'39, 83, Inez Jenson, d'33,91, Aug. 4 in Ferndale, his wife, Alice; a son; a brother;Thomas, c'48, Nov. 19 in Lenexa. She had been a real-estate Mich. She been a teacher a social worker and g'51; a sister; and two grandsons. agent with Haverty & Hatfield in Lawrence and an occupational therapist. In 1976, she retired as Thad Bellinger, e'43, 8 I, July 30 in Milwau- is survived by a daughter; Ida Nesmith Tilden, chief of occupational therapy at the Visiting kee. He worked for Allis Chalmers/Siemens and n'64;two sisters, Alice Wallace Patterson, c'35, Nurses Association of Southeast Michigan. was an amateur radio operator Surviving are a m'38; and Olga Wallace Smith, a'32; eight grand- Leon Kaplan, e'36, March 16, 2000, in son; two daughters; a sister, Marguerite Bellinger children; and five great-grandchildren. Rockville, Md., where he was a retired electrical Mills, '46; and a brother, Earl, b'49.

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Elsie Parker Canuteson, '48, 102, Aug. 6 in Marjorie Ward, V40, c'51, g'68, 87, Nov I business and is survived by his wife, Harlean; a Laguna Hills, Calif. in Lawrence, where she had taught at Pinckney son; a daughter; his mother; a sister, June Leon Carlson, e'43, 85, Nov. 29 in Elementary School. A brother survives. McClenny White, f 53; and five grandchildren. Independence, Mo. He was an engineer and Robert Wellington,'45,78, Dec. 19 in Kenneth Morrow, d'50, l'55, 71, Nov 20 had owned Leon B. Carlson and Associates, a Kansas City. He lived in Ottawa, where he was in Eugene, Ore., where he practiced law for consulting engineering firm. Surviving are his former editor and publisher of the Ottawa Her- 39 years and had been active in youth sports. wife, Mildred Stoenner Carlson, c'43;two ald. He also had been chairman of the Kansas He is survived by his wife, Joy, assoc; three Press Association and president of the William daughters, Sonja Carlson Paulette, c'70, g'74, sons; a brother Malcolm, c'52, m'56; and four Allen White Foundation. He is survived by his grandchildren. and Karen Carlson Hadzic, d'84; a son, Rick, wife, Dorothy; four sons,Thomas, c'73, Pat, c'83, Mariana Lohrenz Remple, '50, 87, Sept. 19 c'73; and six grandchildren. David, c'78, and James, assoc; a brother, John, in Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence and had Edward Cooper, b'41, 8 I, Oct. 22 in Austin, b'5 I; and ten grandchildren. been an elementary school teacher and a Texas, where he retired after a career as trea- writer Survivors include her husband, Henry, surer of the Vendo Co. He is survived by his 1950s PhD'50; a daughter Lucy Remple McAllister f 58, wife, Grace "Peggy" Hausam Cooper; c'40; a Alberta Schumann Blair, '56, 67, Nov 23 d'60, g'67; a son, Robert, c'62; and a grandchild. son; and four grandchildren. in Topeka. She had been a substitute teacher in James Stewart, '51,77, Nov. I I in Kansas Jack Farber, e'45,75, Nov. 20 in Kansas City, Abilene for many years and is survived by her City, where he owned James A. Stewart Real- where he was retired vice president of Burns & husband, Earl, d'55, g'60; two sons, Stephen, tors. Survivors include his wife, Delores, four McDonnell engineering. Survivors include two c'78, g'87, and Kenneth, e'79; three daughters, sons, a daughter and eight grandchildren. sons, one of whom is Sterling, c'72; a daughter, two of whom are Janice Blair Goering, d'83, and Robert Travis, c'54,73, Nov. 24 in Overland Janis Farber Lieverman, c'82; a sister; Shirley Far- Joy Blair Manis, d'92; a brother; and seven Park, where he was retired from a career with ber Wilcox, assoc; and eight grandchildren. grandchildren. the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A memorial Phillip "Doc" Fleener, c'48,74, Dec 4 in Samuel Britton, Phd'58,70, Nov 26 in has been established with the KU Endowment Wichita. He lived in Meade and had been an Batesville, Ark. He is survived by his wife, Nancy Association. He is survived by his wife, Marlene Anderson Travis, '55; a son; a daughter; a sister; optometrist. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy Moore Britton, d'57; a son; three daughters; his a brother; and three grandchildren. Pinkston Fleener, c'48; three sons; and five mother; two brothers; and nine grandchildren. KermitWatkins,PhD'55,9l,Nov. I in Jef- grandchildren. Don Cowan, c'52,70, Nov. 10 in Fort Laud- erdale, Fla. He had lived in Kansas City for many ferson City, Mo. He chaired the economics Paul Fowler,'41, 85, Nov. 19 in Mission Hills. years, where he was a chemical engineer with department at Rockhurst College and later He was founder, owner and operator of Fowler Bendix. He is survived by his wife, Beverly a chaired the economics and business develop- Envelope and is survived by his wife, Judith, a ment department at William Jewell College in daughter a son, two sisters, a brother and four daughter three brothers and a granddaughter Liberty, Mo. Surviving are his wife, Doris, a son, grandchildren. a daughter a sister and a grandson. Leonard House, '45, 78, Nov. 19 in Kansas Clifford "Gene" Hall, '50, 74, Nov 16 in James Webb, c'50, Oct. 12 in Monterey, Calif. City, where he was a retired salesman for RCA Shawnee Mission, where he was retired from He is survived by his wife, Jonnie, two sons, a and Zenith. He is survived by his wife, Maude; a a 36-year career as a salesman with General daughter and two grandchildren. son; Robert, b'81; and a grandchild. Electric. He is survived by his wife, Sue, two Claude Peebles Jr., e'49, 77, Nov. 2 in Louren Wood, c'59, 62, April 22 in daughters, a brother and two grandchildren. Waynesville, Mo., where he moved after Springfield, Mo., where he was a retired assistant David Heilman, b'51, l'54, 74, Nov. 2 in retiring from the Missouri Attorney General's chief engineer with Frisco Railroad. He is sur- Topeka. He lived in Council Grove, where he office in Jefferson City.Three sisters and a vived by his wife, Diane, two sons, two daugh- was city attorney and earlier had been Morris brother survive. ters, seven grandchildren and a great-grandson. County attorney. He is survived by his wife, Clayton Pendergraft, '41,81, Dec. 23 in Mary; a son, Randy, j'80; a daughter, Lori Heilman 1960s Wichita, where he had a career with the postal Thomas, j'88; a brother; and four grandchildren. Elizabeth Hoffman Baker, g'66, 9 I, Nov 9 service and had practiced law. He is survived by Marshall Hill, l'50, 81, Nov. 18 in Detroit, in Ottawa, where she was a former teacher She his wife, Maudine, two sons, three daughters, I 3 where he was a criminal defense attorney. His is survived by a son, two daughters, one of grandchildren and I I great-grandchildren. wife, Norma, survives. whom is Arlyss Baker Weast, c'70; a brother; 12 Harry Sullivan Jr., c'49, m'52,76, Nov. 12 William Lemesany, 1*53, 75, Dec I in grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and seven in Leawood. He practiced medicine for 45 years Lawrence, where he owned Lemesany Roofing great-great-grandchildren. until retiring in 1999. He is survived by his wife, and had been active in property development Janet McFarland Comstock, '64, 59, Jean; two daughters, Jennie Sullivan Clarke, c'74, and management. He is survived by his wife, Nov. 23 in Leavenworth, where she was and Julie Sullivan Foster, c'80, n'82; a son, Brad, Jean Courter Lemesany, assoc; two daughters, retired owner and operator of Daffodil Cloth- c'76, m'79;two sisters, Jane Sullivan Hursh, c'52, Sheryl, f 72, and Beverly Lemesany Hebbert, ing Shop. She is survived by her husband, Phillip, d'74, d'78; three sons, William, j76, Glen, j78, d'56, g'79, and Mary Sullivan Larson, f 43; and d'60, g'63; a daughter, Heather Comstock and Leland, b'85, g'88; two sisters; and seven Claybrook, j'91; a son; a sister Diane McFarland, eight grandchildren. grandchildren. d'60; and a grandson. William "Bud" Tholen, b'41, 83, Nov 29 in Herschel Lundblade, b'59, 70, Nov 2 in Gary Coulter, g'63, 65, Nov. 10 in Littleton, Prairie Village. He co-founded General Heating Piano,Texas, where he was an electronics pro- Colo. He lived in Trinidad, where he was a and Cooling, a regional heating, air conditioning duction buyer Surviving are his wife, Beth, two sculptor and had chaired the art department and refrigeration equipment and parts distribu- sons and three grandchildren. at Hastings College. He is survived by his torship. Survivors include a son,Terry, b'67, g'69; Myron McClenny, c'54, 68, Nov. 28 in Belle- wife, Debra, two sons, two daughters and a daughter; and four grandchildren. vue.Wash. He had worked in the insurance three sisters.

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Howard Edde, g'61, 62, Oct. I 6 in Bellevue, parents; two brothers; and a sister Margaret by two daughters, lone Hutchings Unruh, c'83, Wash. He owned a wastewater management Cunningham Gillogly, c'82. and Romanda Hutchings Wilson, f 94; a son; nine consulting firm and had been a lecturer at Johns Michael "Muff" Mufich, '80,42, Dec 6 in grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Hopkins University and a professor at the Uni- Kansas City, where he worked for General Dwane Kratochvil, '91, 32, Nov. 24 in Hen- versity ofWashington and Seattle University. He Motors. His parents and a brother survive. derson, Nev. He was a teacher and is survived is survived by his wife, Marilyn Scheleen Edde, John Nicholson, c'82, 42, Nov. 21 in Ottawa. by his parents, two brothers and three sisters. n'62; a son; two daughters, one of whom is He had been a computer programmer an Teresa Blake Lovell, e'96, 29, Nov 2 in Heather Edde Anderson, d'9 I; two sisters; and author and a coach and houseparent for COF Houston. She had been a telecommunications two grandchildren. Training Services. Surviving are his mother, Jane; Thomas Hendren, m'66, 64, Dec. 12 in Lib- two sisters, Jane Nicholson Montecillo, c'75, c'76, engineer for WorldCom inTulsa, Okla., before erty, Mo., where he was a founding member of and Mary, c'84; and two brothers, one of whom moving to The Woodlands. She is survived by Liberty Hospital. He is survived by his wife, is Peter e'77. her husband, Loren, her father and a sister. Kathie; a daughter Leigh Hendren Garnett, c'84; Diane Long Shireman, '81,40, Nov. 5 in Matthew Raines, '91, 35, Dec. 6 in Lawrence, two stepsons; a brother; and two grandchildren. Olathe. She lived in Lenexa and worked as a where he was an ombudsman specialist for Chester Isom Jr., f65, 58, Nov. 28. He lived nurse at several hospitals. She is survived by her NCS. He is survived by his mother Sue Freeze, in Leawood and had been a freelance commer- husband, Christopher; a daughter; a stepdaugh- '86; his father and stepmother; and two half cial illustrator for more than 30 years. He is sur- ter; her mother Judith Rohr Long, c'84; her brothers. vived by his wife, Caroll; three sons, two of father; and two sisters, one of whom is Joanne whom are Christopher, f'95, and Matthew, f'00; Long Murphy, b'84. Ronald Wiggins, '92, 3 I, Oct. 27 in New York a daughter, Jennifer f'00; and a sister Anthony "Tony" Ray Dearborn Smith, City, where he practiced law with Fross, Zelnick, Lyndon Bailey Morrison, d'60, 61, Nov. 10 c'83,42, Oct. 18 in Kansas City, where he was Lehrman & Zissu. He is survived by his parents, in Kansas City, where she had been a preschool a ticket/gate agent for American Airlines. He a sister two half brothers and a half sister. teacher at Creative World. She is survived by a is survived by his parents, six sisters and James Yonish, l'98, 35, Nov. 22 in Wichita, three brothers. son; a daughter; a brother, William Bailey, c'62, where he practiced law. He is survived by his m'66; and a granddaughter. Margoree Schwerdtfeger Soderberg, parents, a brother two sisters and his grand- Isabell Johnstone Stemmerman, d'66, 92, g'82, 62, Dec. 3 in Overland Park. She is sur- mother. Nov. I 8 in Lawrence, where she was a retired vived by two sons, Daniel, e'90, and Michael, stu- teacher She is survived by two sons, one of dent; his mother; a brother; and a sister. 2000 whom is Lyle, c'56; a sister; six grandchildren; John Stocksen, g'81, EdD'85, 50, Nov. I in and six great-grandchildren. Kansas City, where he had taught business and The University Community computer information systems at Kansas City Alice Hosford Chapman, b'36, 87, Nov 10 1970s Kansas Community College. He is survived by Douglas Bates, PhD'71, 60, May 22 in his wife, Dee, three daughters, a son, his parents, in Topeka. She had been secretary to KU's Salt Lake City, where he directed school law two sisters, a brother and five grandchildren. Chancellor Deane Malott. Survivors include her and legislation for the Utah State Office of John Syler, c'89, 35, Nov. 26 in Kansas City, husband, Forrest, b'36; a daughter Susan, g'78; Education. He is survived by his wife, two sons, where he was a biomedical researcher and and a brother Clitus Hosford Jr., e'38. manager of the animal care unit at the Veterans a daughter two sisters, three brothers and Marie Creed Jacobson, 87, Nov. 22 in Enter- several grandchildren. Administration Hospital. He is survived by his prise. She had been a secretary in the KU ath- Suzann Brune, '77, 53, Dec. 4 in Kansas City. wife, Carolyn McNulty Syler j'89; two sons; a sis- letics department and in the office of housing She lived in Leavenworth. ter; and his grandparents. Lucretia Ellison LaFrance, '78, 84, Dec. and scholarships. She is survived by two sons, 10 in Rogers, Ark. She taught school in Prairie 1990s one of whom is Arvid, c'69, l'72; three grandchil- Village for many years and is survived by her Kouadio "Marcel" Brou, g'94,45, Nov 18 dren; and three great-grandchildren. in Topeka. He lived in Lawrence, where he had husband, Emmett;two sons, Jacques, d'64, Joie Stapleton, d'28, 93, Dec 15 in coordinated the Lawrence Interdenominational and Charles, c'64; five grandchildren; and a Lawrence, where she had chaired the women's great-grandchild. Nutritional Kitchen and been assistant director division of KU's physical education department of development at the St. Lawrence Catholic 1980s Center He also had been a teacher and coun- for 18 years and had taught at KU from 1939 Christopher Bunker, 1*87,42, Dec. 5 in selor for Community Living Opportunities. Sur- until 1972. She held a patent for a device that Woodstock, Va. He lived in Stephens City, viving are his wife.Toni Thennes Brou, f'91; three keeps volleyball nets at the proper height and where he was an attorney. Surviving are his sons; his mother; four brothers; and five sisters. tautness. Survivors include two sisters, Judith wife, Christine; his mother, Marlene Bunker, Ruthada Lee Crabtree, '91, 54, Nov. 22 in Stapleton Bolze, c'25, g'27, and Elizabeth Staple- f 93; his father; and three brothers, one of Independence, Mo. She had taught mathematics ton Marteney, c'33; a brother Jack, b'48; and sev- whom is John, c'94. and is survived by her husband, Raymond, two eral nieces and nephews. John Crim, '84,40, Nov. 26 in Kansas City. He sons and two daughters. was a retired U.S. Air Force sergeant and is sur- Frank Grigsby, '99, 38, Nov. 18 in Overland Associates vived by his parents, a brother two sisters, his Park. He was an associate professor at Johnson Mary Dugazon Coll, 88, July 17 in New grandparents and his great-grandmother. County Community College and is survived Orleans, where she was a retired technical edi- John Cunningham, 1*88,43, Nov. 13 in by his wife, Lisa, a son, his parents and his tor at the USDA Southern Region Research Olathe. He worked for Hallmark Cards; grandmothers. White, O'Connor and Werner; and McDowell, Mabelle Lillian Hutchings, '93,95, Oct. 14 Center. She is survived by her husband, Emory, Rice and Smith. Survivors include two sons; his in Lawrence. She was a writer and is survived e'41; and several cousins.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 [53 SCHOOLWORK BY HILL & LAZZARINO A job well done Director who helped anthropology museum take its place on Mount Oread retires

mong the many cultural treasures housed at the Muse- strict temperature and humidity controls. That, in turn, attract- um of Anthropology is a collection of rare artifacts from ed more donations as the museum became known for its inter- ANorth America's northwest coast. Al Johnson, c'57, est in (and care for) cultural artifacts. recalls a time when the vivid totem poles and intricately carved In 1989, Johnson helped found the Lawrence Indian Art masks were stored on the dirt floors of steam tunnels beneath Show. Part of a larger campaign to "get the museum off the Strong Hall. Later they were moved to "safer" storage in a tiny Hill," Johnson's effort led to stronger ties among KU, Haskell room under the Hoch Auditorium stage. "Every time someone Indian Nations University and the Lawrence community, bounded across the stage, dust would filter down," Johnson attracting participation from the Lawrence Arts Center and the says. "You can imagine how organic materials deteriorated in Lawrence Public Library. It also allowed the museum to show- those environments." case contemporary cultural treasures. "That was important to That's just one illustration of how far the Museum of us, because most of the things we dealt with—the hand-crafted Anthropology has come during the 35-year KU career of John- objects that are growing increasingly rare as the world becomes son, who retired as the museum's director in December. more global and commercial—are from the past," Johnson In 1965, he joined the department of anthropology after says. "But an awful lot of craftwork developed by American completing his archaeology PhD at the University of Arizona. Indian ancestors continues in the present." Two years later, Johnson began splitting his time between Johnson's fieldwork also contributed greatly to the archaeo- teaching and overseeing the University's anthropology collec- logical history of the region. He established KU as a regional tion, which was then a division of leader in contract archaeology, start- the Natural History Museum, its ing the museum's Office of Archaeo- holdings stored in cardboard boxes logical Research, which over the in Dyche Hall. Over the next years has performed surveys, evalua- decades, Johnson guided the facili- tions and excavations at federal con- ty's transition to a full-fledged inde- struction sites such as the Clinton pendent museum that would Lake dam. ultimately take its place on Jay- "The thing about archaeology is hawk Boulevard after construction that it's a cumulative sort of thing," of the Spencer Museum of Art left Johnson says. "Very few excavations Spooner Hall vacant. make really spectacular finds. It's the "It was like Christmas around long-term addition of bits of infor- there for quite a while, opening mation that allow us to build up a boxes and finding what kind of detailed story of what happened in anthropological materials belonged the past. That's the goal we're work- to the University," Johnson recalls ing for." of the move to Spooner. Once he It's also an apt metaphor for John- and his staff had an opportunity to sons legacy on the Hill. "I think assess the permanent collection, one of Al's goals was to plant in peo- they realized its significant size and ple's minds some appreciation of importance. A 1980 NEH grant human diversity throughout time confirmed their assessment and HE CAN DIG IT: Al Johnson discovered archaeology in high and across the planet," says Brad funded a long-term exhibition on school, when he assisted KU faculty on South Dakota digs. Logan, c'74, PhD'86, a former student human development based on the Now offers to help colleagues in Yellowstone and the Bahamas of Johnson's who is the museum's collection. are tempting, Johnson says, "but I plan to sit back and think for a while." curator. "A lot of people when they A second NEH grant helped think of a museum think of dinosaur Johnson correct the abysmal environmental conditions that bones, but people are part of the planet too. His big accom- had led the art museum to reject Spooner as a suitable home, plishment was to give anthropology as much visibility as nat- paying for a heating and air-conditioning system that maintains ural history. "-^"^

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ALLIED HEALTH of the first plastic house. "the businessing side" of technology. "It's mainly about experimentation, "Lots of companies need highly trained NIH grant funds research about going beyond norms and conven- IT specialists, but beyond that they need to pinpoint hearing loss tions in order to explore a new way of liv- people who aren't necessarily technolo- ing that is more appropriate to a changing gists but who know how to use technolo- ark Chertoff, associate professor of society," says assistant professor and exhi- gy to increase value in a business," he Mhearing and speech, has received a bition curator Phillippe Barriere. He also says. "They look for people who can put second five-year grant from the National helped organize the show's one other U.S. this stuff to work in the marketplace." Institutes of Health to continue a unique stop, at three New York City venues: The Nine e-business courses are currently study that uses mathematics to help diag- Thread Waxing Space, the Pratt Institute offered or in development. Topics include nose hearing loss. and Storefront for Art and Architecture. supply-chain management, cyberlaw, and Chertoff explains that the standard "This show was one of the major the Internet economy. Students earn a clinical approach is to measure the level events of the season in New York," Bar- minor concentration with eight credit of sound a patient can hear: "We can mea- riere says. "It's an absolutely amazing col- hours or a major concentration with 12. sure the loss," Chertoff says, "but we don't lection. To have such an extensive Houston notes that the days when know what's causing it." collection of this movement in one spot in electronic commerce is considered a field Chertoff and his colleagues improve the Midwest is quite significant." apart from traditional business may be the diagnosis by measuring electrical The architects represented include numbered. "When people think of e-busi- energy created when the inner ear con- some of the most influential designers of ness they tend to think of the dot-coms verts incoming acoustic energy. KU the past 50 years. One of those designers, and web marketing, but obviously it's a researchers then employ new mathemati- Zaha Hadid, will lecture on her work lot more." Even the most traditional com- cal models to analyze the measurements. sometime during the first exhibition's first panies are embracing technology, and as "By recording the electrical signals, we two weeks. "Zaha is one of the world these innovations become part of the nor- can tell how the inner ear is damaged, leaders in avant-garde architecture, and mal business routine, the separation will which gives us a more specific description her work has a significant place in the disappear, Houston predicts. "All busi- of the pathology of the damage," he says. exhibition," Barriere says. "Her lecture nesses will be e-businesses to some "That allows us to design hearing aids or should help people make a connection extent," he says, "and the business school treatments specifically for that patient." between the architects and the work curriculum will follow." Chertoff's grant is worth $1.3 million. showcased in this very unique collection." Until then, students who demonstrate The exhibition closes May 26. skills in this rapidly burgeoning field have ARCHITECTURE an edge. "That's really the bottom line," Architectural avant-garde BUSINESS Houston says. "The reason for putting a Electronic commerce focus concentration together is that it has some makes Kansas City stop value in the job market. They can say to a of new MBA concentration potential employer, 'I have these skills; I he University will host the world's can function in this area.' I think that will Tlargest research architecture collection esponding to the proliferation of com- be a big plus for our students." this spring, when the School of Architec- Rputer and Internet technologies in the ture and Urban Design opens "Research workplace, the School of Business has EDUCATION Architecture 1954-2000: Selections from established the first MBA e-business con- the FRAC Collection" April 13 at the Pearl centration in the Kansas City area. Speech, tours highlight Gallery, 1818 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. "We're trying to package what we think Pearson dedication The collection of architectural models is valuable content for our students in a and drawings from the Fonds Regional way that is coherent and that can be use- ewly renovated Joseph R. Pearson d'Art Contemporain du Centre, in ful when they try to get a job," says Doug N Hall, home to the School of Educa- Orleans, France, is the most extensive Houston, director of the master of busi- tion since August, will have its formal documentation of the design movement ness administration program. The new coming out party April 21. known for its embrace of new materials, concentration, which joins existing con- Events start at 3 p.m. with a lecture by structures and technologies reflecting centrations in finance, marketing, man- Richard Wisniewski, former president of social and lifestyle changes after World agement and international business, lets the American Association of Colleges for War II. Many of the models depict struc- students showcase their skills in a rapidly Teacher Education and a former dean of tures that were among the first to reflect growing field. Rather than emphasizing education at the universities of Oklahoma America's growing reliance on automo- technical computing, the e-business con- and Tennessee. Wisniewski, a founding biles. Also in the collection: a scale model centration focuses on what Houston calls Continued on page 57

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 [55 SCHOOLWORK Of time and the river The catastrophic flood of 1951 forever changed the Kaw. Could it happen again?

ifty years ago in July, the Kansas River flooded after and unpredictable. Also in play was the 19th-century view of three months of record-setting rain, killing 11 people the unsettled Midwest as a wasteland that needed taming and Fand prompting thousands more to flee what Gov. improving to be useful. The rise of environmentalism has Edward Am called the "the greatest catastrophe in Kansas his- changed that attitude, he says. "There's now a broad consen- tory." sus that taking care of the environment is a good idea. We Damage estimates for The Great Kansas Flood of 1951, as now see nature as something important to our well-being." it came to be called, approached $1 billion. But the floodwa- Nimz hopes his research might inform future debate on ters obliterated far more than property, says Dale Nimz, whose whether to maintain the dam and reservoir system or allow doctoral dissertation in environmental studies examines the the river to return to a more natural state. "Many millions of modern history of the Kansas River. In a paper he'll deliver at dollars have been invested to build and maintain the system, the American Society for Environmental History later this and as it ages it may have to be rebuilt," Nimz says. "At that month, Nimz outlines how the 1951 disaster also swept away point we have a choice: to continue that pattern or not." the regions resistance to building dams and reservoirs to con- Meanwhile, the big question—whether the 18 federal dams trol flooding, a shift that not only illustrates the changing rela- in the Kansas River watershed would shield Lawrence from tionship between Kansans and the Kaw, but also transformed another catastrophic flood like that in 1951—remains unan- the river itself. swered. "The construction of a dam and reservoir system was prob- "There's a possibility for disaster even with the system ably the most important human change to the river," he says. we have," Nimz says. "Almost no one realizes that's the case "It took a natural river and turned it into an engineered river, because people who rely on it think this system will protect one that in principle could be turned on and off at will." them. We have quite a bit more development in the flood The consequences of that decision have been far-reaching plain; a storm in the right place could cause significant and, in some ways, unintended. By breaking the natural cycle damage. "-^^ of spring flood and fall drought, the engineering solution altered the basic ecology of the prairie river, rendering it inhospitable to many native species of flora and fauna. Controlling flooding in the Kansas River watershed also encouraged more development in the flood plain and provided a ready water source—nearby Clinton Lake—that allowed Lawrence to grow twice as fast. While the 1951 flood proved to be a pivotal moment in the river's history, Nimz's dissertation focuses more broadly on how that history serves as a case study for America's changing attitudes about nature throughout the 19th and 20th cen- turies. "In 1951, America faced a choice about what to do with rivers, and the Kansas is a good example," he says. "The choice was made to control nature through engineering. Yet there were alternatives. One would have been to adapt to the river, to manage our society and ourselves. So the question is, Why did people choose instead to control the DAMMED IF YOU DON'T: The dam and reservoir system now in place was not the only river?" flood-control option in the Kansas River watershed, Dale Nimz says. "We forget that there Nimz attributes the decision to contemporary were people who said we can't control the river and shouldn't try. What is amazing is how little views of nature as dangerous, extremely powerful support was given to the idea of simply not building in the flood plain."

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Continued from page 55 real, good engineer" with a standing "If it's a mug, that's not too difficult. But member of the National Commission on room-only audience in Swarthout Recital with bigger stuff, pieces I spent so much Teaching and America's Future, will Hall. Drawing examples from his 40-year time on, yeah, that can be kind of hard to address "Fabulous Insights on the Future career, Sills urged students to cultivate the part with. With some of those pieces, I try of Teacher Education and Prophetic Tips five I's: integrity, initiative, imagination, to keep them around the house and on How to Get There." The lecture in ingenuity and interpretation. "A real, good spend a little more time with them before is free and open to the public. engineer has all five qualities," Sills said. we bring them in for the sale." The official dedication ceremony will "If even one of those characteristics is Senior ceramics student Judy Arnold take place at 4 p.m. in front of Pearson's lacking, it greatly reduces your effective- explains that the sale helps young artists new east entrance overlooking Potter ness as an engineer." understand the business side of their art. Lake. Afterwards, the public will be invit- Sills pointed to the original Cessna "We spend so much time in the studio ed inside for student-led tours and Citation aircraft, a "slow jet" now lauded studying ceramics," Arnold says, "but this refreshments. The school plans to unveil a for its flexibility, as an example of innova- sale helps us understand other areas. If new tile mural bearing the names of about tion. "When we started developing it you are going to make a living as an artist, 300 alumni who contributed to a everyone said it was a stupid idea," said you need to understand marketing and fundraising drive headed by the school's Sills. "There were jokes about it having to pricing." national advisory board. withstand bird strikes from the rear." But the plane, which won the Collier Trophy, MEDICINE ENGINEERING one of aviation's most prestigious awards, is now considered among Cessna's most Actor's estate funds new Expo draws prospective successful products. geriatrics professorship engineers to Mount Oread "Unselfishly make it your goal to make the world a better place to live," Sills said. he foundation established by the late etween 400 and 500 junior high and "Engineers do that every day." Tactor Delos V Smith Jr., who played Bhigh school students from as far away Scanlon in the 1975 movie "One Flew as northwestern Kansas attended the FINE ARTS Over the Cuckoo's Nest," recently pledged Engineering Expo Feb. 23 in Learned $500,000 to support a geriatrics professor- Hall. Students toured exhibitions, visited Ceramics sale benefits ship at the School of Medicine-Wichita. students and faculty and tested their engi- artists, scholarship fund Joe Meek, c'54, m'57, dean of the neering acumen in design contests for Wichita medical school, notes that Kansas pasta bridges, Popsicle towers and Rube "Fudging by shelves filled with marvelous ranks fifth in the country in the number Goldberg contraptions. I creations and long lines at the cash of people over the age of 85; over the "The goal is to expose kids to what it is box, art and commerce again blended next 10 years, Meek predicts, the number that engineers do, and also to help them successfully at the recent ceramics sale at of Kansans 85 or older will likely double. learn about the KU School of Engineer- the Art and Design Building. Smith, c'28, had a lengthy career as an ing," said Dean Carl Locke. "And hopeful- The pieces were created by KU ceram- actor, producer and director in , ly they'll have some fun." ics and sculpture students. The artists film, radio and theatre. He retired to his Students participating in the Rube retained 70 percent of the proceeds; a hometown of Hutchinson, where he Goldberg machine contest took that mis- scholarship fund benefited from the taught drama classes at Hutchinson Com- sion to heart. The design problem—illu- remaining 30 percent. munity College. In 1977 he created the minating a light bulb in eight Ceramics students say the fund has Delos V Smith Senior Citizens Founda- steps—inspired a panoply of ingeniously now reached an endowment of more than tion in honor of his late father; in 1987 complicated gadgets cobbled together $10,000, and they hope to soon award the foundation opened a seniors' center with mousetraps, marbles, duct tape, their first $500 scholarship. in Hutchinson. cardboard tubes and other materials. The December sale was the fourth such "As Delos became older, he became a Pomona High School students Jake Terry event, and it attracted contributions from firm believer in education and the need and Larry Thompson built the Jayhawker, about 15 student artists—some of whom for senior citizens to stay involved and which shuttled ball bearings through a had the pleasure or pain of wrapping active," says attorney John H. Shaffer, basketball hoop to effect the desired their creations in brown paper and mak- c'50, the foundations secretary. "We share result. ing change for the new owners. Dr. Meek's enthusiasm in enhancing the Keynote speaker Milt Sills, e'55, vice "It depends on what kind of piece it schools geriatric education program." president of product engineering for Cess- is," graduate student Heather Nameth Smith, well known in Hutchinson for na Aircraft, shared his definition of "a says of the experience of selling her art. his bushy gray beard and for always wear-

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ing sweats and tennis shoes, was 91 when the extent of his wealth. will also be available for continuing edu- he died in 1997. With the addition of his The Delos Smith professor will teach cation courses for Kansas physicians, and estate, the foundation swelled from $1.5 and mentor students participating in the will conduct research and present geri- million to $20 million, shocking even six-week clinical rotation required of all atric health-care information to commmu- some close friends who were unaware of third-year medical students. The professor nity groups. The unsinkable Molly Ivins Texas columnist accepts White citation, bemoans journalism stuck in spin cycle

onths after an election Now that her favorite target, for- that was more memorable | mer Texas Gov. George W Bush, is Mthan most, columnist president, Ivins increasingly finds Molly Ivins still vividly recalls the herself on the national stage. frustration she felt during the wee Though she jabs at Bush with hours of that first morning after— humor and pointed commentary, not with the process, not with the Ivins also cautions that he should candidates, but with her col- not be underestimated. leagues. "He really is good at politics, and "The most telling media he's not stupid," Ivins said. "The moment of the entire election came problem is, he's not interested in at about 4:30 in the morning on governance. It bores him. He doesn't election night," Ivins said during a care about the details of how gov- Feb. 9 visit to KU. "We were in the ernment works." media tent in Austin; we looked As for the controversial election, around and realized all of Bush's which was decided by the U.S. staff had gone home. There was no Supreme Court's ruling that stopped one left to spin us." Florida's recount, Ivins says she's According to Ivins, the assem- willing to move on—with one con- bled reporters, once abandoned dition. by the political operatives, were "We can stop pointing out that lost. "My primary complaint," she Bush didn't win the election," Ivins said, "is that the media no longer said, "if they would stop saying that LOCAL NEWS: Molly Ivins said the William Allen White cita- know how to do anything except tion was special to her because White, 1890, "was a nationally he did." cover spin." influential newspaperman who never went to Washington or Her commentary mixes liberal Ivins, columnist for the Fort New York. It's nice when people realize they can do great things politics with down-home wit, creat- Worth Star-Telegram, received the from their own hometown." ing a smart formula that can be William Allen White Foundation's national citation, named in appreciated—if not agreed with—by her conservative opposi- honor of the fiery Emporia newspaper editor with whom Ivins tion. But Ivins adds no sweeteners when criticizing her own shares a passion for prodding the powerful. profession. She arrived at KU carrying a long list of prominent "It's absolutely thrilling to me to get this award," she said. "I TV commentators who have never worked as reporters. And have been a William Allen White fan since I was young." that, Ivins insisted during a standing-room only speech in Ivins, 55, has worked as a reporter and columnist across the Woodruff Auditorium, is inexcusable. country, but has grown to national prominence in her native "If you can't cover a five-car pileup on Route 128, you Texas, where she has worked for the monthly Texas Observer, should not be covering a presidential campaign. Covering the Dallas Morning-News and now the Fort Worth daily. an accident for the morning newspaper gives you a certain As a political commentator, she rarely needs to look beyond respect for the complexity of the truth. The value of learning her borders: "Texas is the national laboratory for bad govern- your trade as a reporter is that it cuts into your certitude a ment," she said. little bit.""""1"'

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PHARMACY Summerfield professor elected AAPS president United they stand Justice Breyer says nation's highest court suffers no rift onald Borchardt, Summerfield distin- Rguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, was recently elected president fter enjoying a leisurely of the American Association of Pharma- breakfast catered in a ceutical Scientists. Aroom with an unequaled Borchardt, PhD70, says the organiza- view—the Spencer Research tion has provided an important forum for Library's north gallery, which faculty and students to present research overlooks the Campanile and findings, and he hopes to make the society Memorial Stadium—Justice even more visible. He plans to enlist mem- Stephen Breyer of the U.S. bership of drug-discovery and clinical- Supreme Court paid his hosts development scientists, and to encourage the ultimate compliment: "I the society's industrial scientists to provide have not been to Kansas before," their expertise in graduate-level education. Breyer said, "and now I can see "It is the most prestigious pharmaceuti- why people love it so much." cal association in the world," Borchardt Breyer was on campus in late says, "yet we haven't done a good enough January to attend the Lied Cen- job of communicating our findings to the ter ceremony promoting Judge SPECIAL GUESTS: Justice Stephen Breyer and Judge larger world community." Deanell Reece Tacha, c'68, to DeanellTacha tour exhibits of judiciary-related items culled The AAPS has more than 10,000 mem- chief judge of the U.S. Court of from the Spencer Research Library's department of special bers, including scientists in academia, Appeals for the 10th Circuit (see collections. industry, government and other worldwide story, p. 30). Each of the 13 federal The Supreme Court was certainly the research institutions. Borchardt has been a appeals courts is assigned a "circuit jus- last word in the controversial 2000 member since the group formed in 1986. tice," and Breyer is the justice assigned presidential election, voting 5-4 to stop to Tacha's court. The two have also been the Florida recounts. Breyer was one of SOCIAL WELFARE close since serving on the U.S. Sentenc- the four dissenting justices; despite ing Commission when Breyer was chief some bitter commentary issued by the Social Work conference judge of the 1st Circuit. dissenters, especially by Justice John offers leadership challenge During his two days on campus, Paul Stevens, Breyer insisted the court Breyer visited the Spencer Library, the has suffered no internal damage. ccept the Challenge of Leadership" is Spencer Museum of Art, delivered a "I have been through a number of Athe theme for Social Work Day 2001. Green Hall speech on the history of cases on the Supreme Court in which "We hope to give social workers more American Indian law in the Supreme people have strong feelings, but I can- tools to move into the new century as Court, and twice met with law students not remember one single instance where leaders," says Debbie McCord, coordinator and faculty to answer questions. a voice was raised in anger," Breyer said. of the April 20 conference. Twelve work- During one question-and-answer ses- "These are very professional people and shops will address childhood and adoles- sion, Breyer offered insights about the we get on very well. That was true, and cence, creativity and wellness, self-care for day-to-day workings of the Supreme it is true as of this moment. These are social workers and other topics. Court. The personable justice even people on this court who carry on a dis- Daniel Papero, director of the Clinic of offered some self-deprecating humor cussion seriously, impartially and with the Georgetown Family Center in Wash- abut his lofty job. complete civility." ington, will deliver the keynote address, "Justice [Robert H.] Jackson once Breyer's visit continues a recent trend "The Helper's Way: Exercises in Discipline said we are not last because we are of Supreme Court justices visiting KU. and Leadership." Monica McGoldrick, infallible, we are infallible because are In recent years, justices Byron White director of the Multicultural Family Insti- last," Breyer said, drawing a laugh. and Antonin Scalia have delivered tute in Highland Park, N.J., also will "We are brilliant because we are the speeches on the Hill, and Justice speak. Registration deadline is April 13. last word." Clarence Thomas has visited twice.--*"""• Call 864-4720 for more information.

KANSAS ALUMNI • NO. 2, 2001 59 Pay heed, all who enter Portals to curiosity are easily reached: Just look up

hen we look at the face of ized American Twente Hall, we see a eagles. They are wooden door. Ted John- among Johnson's son sees a way to access favorites. "They are Wnot just the inside of a building, but also linear and beautiful, but they are also a heart. The wide-eyed professor sees lightly cartoony," he says. "They are fierce these things because he takes the time to and funny in just the right way." consider what can easily be missed—in Lindley Hall, at the western edge of the case of Twente Hall, the sculpted-relief Jayhawk Boulevard, features mining panel "St. George and the Dragon." scenes carved into limestone panels, Have you never noticed this splendid designed by the late Professor Bernard stone art? Make a note to stop by on your "Poco" Frazier, f'29. The glass tympanum next trip to Mount Oread. Look high of Stauffer-Flint Hall filters light, Johnson above the door, up near the roofline, and insists, like no other window on campus. there you'll encounter the enchanting Inside the Campanile, above the names of limestone sculpture designed by the late students who gave their lives during Professor Marjorie Faye Whitney f'27. World War II, the message is literally TWENTE "At KU we have a lot of portals," John- carved in stone: "Free government does son says, "and a lot of portals have some- they'd care to tag along—how to use the not bestow repose upon its citizens, but thing interesting over the door. Look up. full breadth of their minds. One of John- sets them in the vanguard of battle to Our doorways remind us to be curious." son's favorite teaching tools is to encour- defend the liberty of every man." We are taking this little tour of the age students to simply open their eyes. Johnson discusses each of these archi- imagination in part to honor Johnson's He knows their minds will follow. tectural details, and so much more, but May retirement. Though he plans to Twente Hall, home of the School of he is reluctant to say too much. He says Social Welfare, was dedicated in he "sees KU as a kind of sacred, holy 1932 as Watkins Memorial Hos- place," fortified by the ramparts that pital. Whitney, longtime chair of defend the sanctity of academic freedom. the department of design, crafted Like all great teachers, Johnson points out her classic depiction of St. George the dots, but he does not connect them. slaying the dragon to represent That task is left to the lifelong learner. the heroic triumph over disease. "The magic," Johnson says, "is to wan- But look closer, Johnson der around,your maintain his famous campus walking urges, and note the dragons mane, memories swirling. tours, his remarkable academic career is with its seven flapper curls. Is ours Read these images soon to close. Johnson is a professor of the only such dragon dressed out with your depth of French and humanities, but his has been with Betty Boop hair? experience. I think an academic life devoted entirely to teach- Notice, too, the doors at the Mili- you'll be surprised by ing young people—and old people, too, if tary Science Building, with their styl- what you see."-^**'

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