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True Colle ct or 30 Laird Wilcox’s treasure trove of extreme political thought documents the diversity of American politics and stresses the importance of free speech.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

The Pla ins me n 34 In western Kansas, archaeologists led by KU professor Rolfe Mandel are digging up ancient bones and tools in the shadow of I-70. What they find may rewrite the book on human habitation of the Great Plains.

BY REX BUCHANAN COV ER Whe r e To w n 22 Me e t s G o w n When KU wanted to expand into the Oread neighborhood by demolishing houses to build a scholarship hall, homeowners resisted. Four years later, the battle between residents and the University has produced a new model for resolving town-gown conflicts—and one very handsome hall.

BY STEVEN HILL Cover photograph by Earl Richardson 34

Volume 103, No 6, 2005 STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685) Lift the Chorus 1. Pu b lic a t io n Tit le KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 2. Pu b lic a t io n No . 07 4 5- 3 3 4 5 3. Filin g Da t e Sep tember 29 , 2005 4. Fr e q u e n c y Bimonthly ( Jan., Mar., May, July, Sep t. Nov .) 5. No . Is s u e s Pu b lis h e d An n u a ll y 6 6. Su b s c rip t io n Pric e $ 50 Kent Whealy, MIA for the history of students who spent 7. Co m p le t e Ma ilin g Ad d r e s s o f K n o w n Of f ic e o f Pu b lic a t io n The Alumni Association of the Univ ersity of Kansas,1 266 Oread Av enue, Lawrence, KS their KU lives within, you declared good 6604 5- 3 1 69 I was bowled over to discover that riddance to the Jolly Green Giant. As 8. Co m p le t e Ma ilin g Ad d r e s s o f He a d q u a r t e rs o r G e n e ra l Bu s in e s s Of f ic e o f Pu b lis h e r Kent Whealy, founder of the Seed Savers someone who spent four years in resi- The Alumni Association of the Univ ersity of Kansas,1 266 Oread Av enue, Lawrence, KS 6604 5- 3 1 69 Exchange, [“Back to the dency there and who likely 9. Fu ll Na m e s a n d Co m p le t e Ma ilin g Ad d r e s s e s o f Pu b lis h e r , Garden,” issue No. 5, 2005] could not have attended KU Ed it o r a n d Ma n a g in g Ed it o r Pu b lis h e r is not only a KU alumnus, without that scholarship, I was Kev in J. Corbett but was once one of those hurt by the neglect. I felt badly The Alumni Association of the Univ ersity of Kansas,1 266 Oread Av enue, Lawrence, KS 6604 5- 3 1 69 ink-stained wretches at the for University donors, who can Ed it o r Jennifer Jack son Sanner J-school, like me. count on being disrespected The Alumni Association of the Univ ersity of Kansas,1 266 Oread Av enue, Lawrence, KS I’ve been reading of and forgotten like Mr. Jolliffe. 6604 5- 3 1 69 10. Ow n e r Kent’s work for more than Now in issue No. 3, 2005, The Alumni Association of the Univ ersity of Kansas,1 266 Oread Av enue, Lawrence, KS 20 years. Long ago I placed “Raze of Sunshine” [Jayhawk 6604 5- 3 1 69 11. K n o w n Bo n d h o ld e rs , Mo r t g a g e e s , a n d Ot h e r Se c u rit y Ho ld e rs Ow n in g o r him firmly in my list of Walk] makes light of Lindley Ho ld in g 1 Pe r c e n t o r Mo r e o f To t a l Am o u n t o f Bo n d s , Mo r t ga g e s , o r o t h e r Se c u rit ie s . If n o n e , c h e c k h e r e . ✓❏ None Most Important Americans. Annex. You neglect to report 12. Fo r c o m p le t io n b y n o n p r o f it o rg a n iz a t io n s a u t h o riz e d t o m a il a t s p e c ia l Why? Because he sees the that this lowly structure was ra t e s . Th e p u rp o s e , f u n c t io n , a n d n o n p r o f it s t a t u s o f t h is o rg a n iz a t io n a n d t h e e x e m p t s t a t u s f o r f e d e ra l in c o m e t a x p u r p o s e s : big things the rest of us somehow can’t home to KU’s nationally recognized, ✓❏ Has Not Changed During Preceding 1 2 Months quite make out. He knows that when perennial powerhouse debate team. As ❏ Has Changed During Preceding 1 2 Months 13. Pu b lic a t io n Na m e KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 7,000 named varieties of apples shrinks a member of that team, I proudly repre- 14. Is s u e Da t e f o r Cir c u la t io n Da t a Be lo w Sep tember 2005 15. Ex t e n t a n d Na t u r e o f Cir c u la t io n Av e ra g e Act ua l No . to 700 in a hundred years something sented KU for four years, bringing No . Copie s Copie s of Ea ch Is s ue Sing le scary is happening. home—with teammates—trophy upon During Is s ue Pub lis he d Pr e ce ding Ne a r e s t t o Filing It’s heartening that the MacArthur trophy. It was all possible because we 12 Mont hs Da t e Foundation, which does an uncanny job had space in Lindley. Many of my fond- a . To t a l No . Co p ie s ( Ne t Pr e s s Ru n ) 3 5,58 3 3 8 ,500 b . Pa id a n d / o r Re q u e s t e d Cir c u la t io n of finding the right people to give its est KU memories were in a structure ( 1) Pa id / Re q u e s t e d Ou t s id e Co u n t y “genius grants,” focused on Kent Whealy your respect-deficient writers, Hill and Ma il Su b s c rip t io n s o n Fo rm 3541 ( In c . a d v e r t is e r & e x c h a n g e c o p ie s ) 3 1 ,4 3 8 3 1 , 1 4 4 as a recipient. In doing so, they made Lazzarino, celebrate KU “finally will be ( 2) Pa id In - Co u n t y Su b s c rip t io n s o n Fo rm 3541 ( In c . a d v e r t is e r themselves look good. rid of.” & e x c h a n g e c o p ie s ) 00 Tom Stewart, j ’54 Superficial research. Disrespectful ( 3) Sa le s t h r o u g h De a le rs & Ca r rie rs , St r e e t Ve n d o rs , Co u n t e r Sa le s & Sulph ur Spr ings,Tex as story. Thoughtless journalism. Ot h e r No n - USPS Pa id Dis t rib u t io n 00 Robert H Camp bell, j ’68 ( 4) Ot h e r Cla s s e s Ma ile d t h r o u g h USPS 00 If those walls could talk Encinitas, Calif. c . To t a l Pa id a n d / o r Re q u e s t e d Cir c u la t io n 3 1 ,4 3 8 3 1 ,1 4 4 Good timing d . Fr e e Dis t rib u t io n b y Ma il One hallmark of KU and the Midwest ( Sa m p le s , Co m p lim e n t a r y , Ot h e r Fr e e ) ( 1) Ou t s id e Co u n t y a s St a t e d is a respect for people of all ages. I think I thoroughly enjoy reading Kansas o n Fo rm 3541 00 Kansas Alumni, probably unintentionally, Alumni. It is consistently interesting and ( 2) In - Co u n t y a s St a t e d Fo rm 3541 00 ( 3) Ot h e r Cla s s e s Ma ile d 3 ,01 2 6,1 4 6 disrespected older campus structures well done. t h r o u g h USPS e . Fr e e Dis t rib u t io n Ou t s id e t h e Ma il 1 8 0 1 8 0 that no longer serve students, and thus This month [No. 3, 2005] it was very ( Ca r rie rs o r Ot h e r Me a n s ) disrespected the students who used timely because I was meeting with f . To t a l Fr e e Dis t rib u t io n 3 ,1 9 2 6,3 26 g . To t a l Dis t rib u t io n 3 4 ,63 0 3 7 ,4 7 0 those structures. In a weak attempt at friends from the Copyeditors List for h . Co p ie s No t Dis t rib u t e d 9 53 1 ,03 0 humor, you flippantly dismissed these dinner. Chris Lazzarino’s profile on Dr. i. To t a l 3 5,58 3 3 8 ,500 j. Pe r c e n t Pa id a n d / o r Re q u e s t e d older buildings, waved a thumb-to-nose Deborah Gump [“Editing legend lives on Cir c u la t io n ( 15c / 15g x 100) 9 1 8 3 16. Th is St a t e m e n t o f Ow n e rs h ip w ill b e p rin t e d in t h e Nov ember 2005 is s u e goodbye, and disregarded the memories in Gump’s classroom”] gave me a chance o f t h is p u b lic a t io n . of hundreds of students who spent mil- to share the information about her Web 17. Sig n a t u r e a n d Tit le o f Ed it o r , Pu b is h e r , Bu s in e s s Ma n a g e r , o r Ow n e r I c e r t if y t h a t a ll in f o rm a t io n f u rn is h e d o n t h is f o rm is t ru e a n d c o m p le t e . I lions of hours in these edifices. sites with people who truly “care about u n d e rs t a n d t h a t a n y o n e w h o f u rn is h e s f a ls e o r m is le a d in g in f o rm a t io n o n First it was Jolliffe Hall. With precise use of language.” t h is f o rm o r w h o o m it s m a t e ria l o r in f o rm a t io n r e q u e s t e d o n t h e f o rm m a y b e s u b je c t t o c rim in a l s a n c t io n s ( in c lu d in g f in e s a n d im p ris o n m e n t ) absolutely no thanks to Mr. Jolliffe, who Thanks and keep up the good work! a n d / o r c iv il s a n c t io n s ( in c lu d in g c iv il p e n a lt ie s ) . enabled housing for so many scholar- Linda Kerby, n’71, c’87 ship hall awardees, and with no regard Leawood

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 16 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Creative Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 2 LIFT THE CHORUS Steven Hill Letters from readers Staff Writer Rachel Larson Nyp, c’04, j’04 4 ON THE BOULEVARD KU & Alumni Association events Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell 7 FIRST WORD Photographer The editor’s turn Earl Richardson, j’83 Graphic Designer 8 JA YHAWK WALK Valerie Spicher, j’94 A full-moon folly, a comics compulsion, an uphill journey and more Advertising Sales Representative Danny Madrid, ’06 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes: Lech Walesa claims Dole Editorial and Advertising Office Leadership Prize; enrollment sets records again Kansas Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 785-864 -4760 • 800-584-2957 16 SPORTS www.kualumni.org Football team vanquishes Nebraska after 37 e-mail: kualumni@k ualumni.org years; Self hopes hoops freshmen grow up fast

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■ Exhibitions “Fluid Art 2005,” annual performance art class exhibition, Dec. 9, Art and BRUCE SCHERTING (BRUCE SCHERTING 3 ) Design Gallery “Lee Friedlander At Work,” through Dec. 11, Spencer Museum of Art “Discourse on Discovery: Native Perspectives on the Trail,” through Dec. 11, Spencer Museum of Art “Selecciones: Mexican Art from the Collection,” through Jan. 8, Spencer Museum of Art “Embodiment,” through Feb. 19, Spencer Museum of Art “The Sacred and the Secular: Buddhist Imagery in Religious and Popular Contexts,” through February, Spencer Museum of Art

“Explore Evolution,” Natural History ■ “Explore Evolution,” an exhibition that depicts the ways scientists research evolution and how Museum evolution is fundamental to contemporary science and medicine, opened Nov. 1 in the Natural History Museum and will be in place for about two years.The Explore Evolution Project is headed ■ University Theatre by Judy Diamond, of the University of Nebraska State Museum, and includes six university partners. The project is funded by a $2.8 million grant from the Natural Science Foundation. NOVEMBER 14-20 “An Army of One,” by Zacory Boatright, ’05, co-produced with DECEMBER ■ Academic Calendar English Alternative Theatre 1 Jazz Vespers 4 Holiday Vespers, Organ Vespers NOVEMBER DECEMBER 6 Nicholas Frazier Bideler 23-27 Thanksgiving break 2-8 “The Snow Queen,” by Hans Christian Andersen 7 University Band DECEMBER 8 Fall classes end ■ Lied Center events ■ Lectures 9 Stop Day NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 12-16 Final examinations 17-18 University Dance Company 17 Samantha Power, on human rights and genocide, Humanities 20 Band Spectacular JANUARY Lecture Series, Kansas Union ball- 20 Spring classes begin 29 Symphonic Band room 21 Glynis Sweeny, illustrator, MARCH Hallmark Design Symposium Series, 20-26 Spring break Spencer Museum of Art

4 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ Alumni events 6 Omaha, Orlando, Tampa chapters: KU vs. St. Joseph’s TV watch party NOVEMBER 10 Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, 17 Lawrence: School of Education Orlando chapters: KU vs. California professional society TV watch party 18 Atlanta, San Antonio chapters: 12 Kansas City Chapter: Big Blue KU vs. Idaho State TV watch party Monday 18 Seattle Chapter: KU night with 12 Tradition Keepers finals dinner, the Sonics-Chicago Bulls Adams Alumni Center BRUCE SCHERTING (BRUCE SCHERTING 3 ) 21 Kansas City Chapter: Big Blue 14 San Antonio Chapter: Holiday Monday Get-Together 21 Chicago, Orlando chapters: KU 26 Seattle Chapter: KU night with vs. Arizona TV watch party the Sonics-Boston Celtics 21-23 San Antonio, Tampa chapters: JANUARY KU Maui Invitational TV watch par- 4 Chicago Chapter: KU night with the ties ■ “Explore Evolution” was primarily devel- Bulls-Seattle Supersonics 26 Tailgate at Adams Alumni Center, oped for middle-school audiences, though the 7 Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Dallas, KU vs. Iowa State material will certainly interest older students Omaha, Tampa chapters: KU vs. and adults, and interactive displays (above and 26 Atlanta Chapter: KU vs. Iowa Kentucky TV watch party State TV watch party left) are fun for younger children.The exhibit 14 Atlanta Chapter: KU vs. Kansas occupies renovated space once the territory 30 Kansas City: School of State TV watch party Engineering professional society of Comanche; the old warhorse has a new 16 Austin, Dallas chapters: KU vs. display near Dyche Hall’s front entrance. DECEMBER Missouri TV watch party 1 Omaha Chapter: wine tasting 25 College Station: KU vs. Texas A&M pregame rally, Dixie Chicken 2 Atlanta Chapter: Jayhawk social ■ Kansas Honors 3 Atlanta Chapter: KU vs. Western FEBRUARY Program Illinois TV watch party 3 Kansas City Chapter: Rock Chalk 4 Seattle Chapter: KU night with the Ball, Overland Park FEBRUARY Sonics-Indiana Pacers 6 Concordia 6 New York Chapter: KU vs. St. For m or e inf o rm a t ion 9 Larned Joseph’s pregame rally, Jimmy V a bout As s ocia t ion e v e nt s , 13 Fort Scott Classic ca ll 800-5 84-2 957 or s e e t he 20 Holton As s ocia t ion’ s We b s it e , 22 Pleasanton w w w .k ua lumni.or g . MARCH 1 Great Bend, Hiawatha 7 Washington Lied Center ...... 864- ARTS University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 8 Atchison Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 29 Medicine Lodge Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798 APRIL Dole Institute of Politics ...... 864-4900 5 Chanute, Colby Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 6 Logan Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 17 Greensburg Honor Roll KU main number ...... 864-2700 19 Scott City Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS

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BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

et’s play free association. I’ll of their undergraduate career.” For many 9/11 prompted Denby to re-examine the write two words, peculiar to KU Jayhawks, he writes, “Western Civ is a classics, as he explained in his KU lec- parlance, and you utter the first decidedly delayed reaction.” ture. “If the West is under attack, both Lwords that come to mind. So it made perfect sense that the pro- physically and morally,” he said, “how Western Civ. gram’s birthday party featured a writer should one of the chief repositories of its Whoa, settle down now, it’s OK. who enjoyed the luxury of taking his values, the texts that are in Columbia’s Don’t swear in front of the children. You freshman-year great books courses courses and in KU’s, be regarded now?” don’t have to recall the reading list. again—at age 48. David Denby, staff Not surprisingly Denby’s reverence But you do remember—if not for these texts remains stead- the entire syllabus, you surely fast. In rich language drawn recall one or two of the authors. from his book’s new introduc- Plato, Sophocles, anyone? tion, he made a passionate

Nearly all of us remember, EARL RICHARDSON case for the classics, beginning because nearly all of us—70 per- with the need to restore pas- cent of KU undergraduates— sion itself to literary study. endured the ordeal. The two- After reviewing course cata- semester gauntlet of great books, logs from many colleges, a KU tradition for 60 years, has Denby “could not find more been required in the College of than a hint that literature Liberal Arts and Sciences for all might offer extraordinary bachelor’s of arts or general degrees of pleasure. ... Art is studies degrees and most bache- the hidden secret of university lor’s of science degrees. Social literature courses, the love that welfare and journalism majors dare not speak its name.” also must take Western Civ. Along with sheer beauty, Though the course format and Denby the classics also offer opportu- content have changed through the years, writer and film critic for The New nities for self-inquiry and strength in students’ reactions remain much the Yorker, delivered the Western Civ times of turmoil, Denby said. In the same, according to Jim Woelfel, director anniversary lecture Sept. 28, just as spirit of the professors who created of the program, who has written an Great Books, his 1996 account of his aca- Western Civ and other such courses, he essay celebrating the 60th anniversary of demic reprise, was reissued this fall, with argued that studying the classics could the courses now formally known as Denby’s new, post 9/11 introduction. be the healthiest response to wartime, Humanities and Western Civilization. Great Books describes Denby’s return because “the habits that furnish liberty “Most students dread Western Civ in the early 1990s to Columbia are there in the lists offered by Columbia before they take it,” he writes, “and many University to retake his alma mater’s and other universities, and in the hun- postpone it as long as they can.” classes in Literature Humanities and dreds of other books that have lasted.” Years after graduation, however, a Contemporary Civilization (“Lit Hum” Most of us cannot, and perhaps strange phenomenon takes hold, accord- and “CC” to the initiated). The two would not, take Western Civ again. But, ing to Woelfel. Required reading courses began at Columbia in 1919, having lived and learned a lot since we becomes an acquired taste. Many alumni following World War I. Similarly, KU first opened the books, we can reread now look back fondly on Western Civ; faculty in 1945 created Western Civ, one pages we once rushed through as stu- the mention of the phrase even evokes of the oldest such programs at a U.S. dents. We can, as Denby recommends, wistful sighs, not pained exclamations. public university, to ponder the lessons “let the books breathe a bit, and breathe Alumni, in fact, are Western Civ’s of World War II. in unison with them.” biggest fans. Woelfel cites countless con- Just as the those wars led scholars to We might even find, as he has, that versations through the years with sur- examine classic texts, to seek solace in the onerous college phrase “required vivors, who describe the courses as “the works that help us discern what it reading” takes on a whole new most exciting and rewarding experience means to be human, the catastrophe of meaning.

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 7 Jayhawk Walk BY HILL AND LAZZARINO

He ll on Whe e ls

hat possesses a 65-year-old man to Wtake a 129-mile bicycle ride that climbs 15,000 feet over five mountains?

Bob Frederick’s friends wondered as CHARLIE PODREBARAC much after he signed up for the California Death Ride, a tour of the toughest passes in the California Alps. “They were kind of shocked someone my age would do it,” says Frederick, d’62, g’64, EdD’84. But do it he did. The former KU athlet- ics director and interim chair of the School of Ed’s department of Health, Sports and Exercise Sciences finished the grueling ride in July. His reward: a pin, and the satisfac- tion of meeting W ESTWa ORLD IMAGES challenge attempted largely by cyclists half his age. “It was a goal I set, and I put a lot of work into it,” says Frederick, who rode 250 train- ing miles a week. “Long ago I real- ized my family Do not pa s s G o has a history of high blood pres- o, we’re not going to sift through graphic implications of global warming, or sure and stroke, NJayhawk Walk vaults to uncover the whether Mark Twain or Alexander Pope and I made a last time a student got arrested for a spec- was the superior social satirist, but commitment to tacularly idiotic, innocuous crime involving whether, in fact, one had knocked a sand- stay fit.” drunken, public nudity, but trust us, it’s wich from the other’s hand. What was been awhile. Years, certainly. A curious police officer arrived to sepa- scariest, the leg-busting climbs to 8,000 Finally, the dry spell is over. rate the big loafs, but momentarily heard feet or the white-knuckle descents on In the single-digit hours of Sept. 3—half one of the sandwich squabblers shout his twisting mountain roads? an hour past last call, if you can imagine direction. Upon turning, Officer Not Paid Neither. It was a story in the Lawrence that—two 21-year-old students stood on a Enough For This got the eyeful he so didn’t paper blowing the lid off his plan to do downtown sidewalk, arguing not about the need: two buns, no fixins. something called a death ride. subtleties of microeconomics, oceano- Go directly to jail. “I hadn’t told my wife yet,” Frederick chuckles. “That really made me nervous.”

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI Comic Colle ct ion

ason Wolvington was not a kid who C. HOLTER KURT Jthrew his comic books in a corner after one read. “Even as a boy I cared for them,” says Wolvington, c’97, c’97, g’99. He kept his burgeoning trove through many moves—including to Germany and back—“much to my par- ents’ chagrin,” he says. Now married, with 10,000 comic books and one very understanding spouse, the Natural History Museum exhibits director uses his museum studies training to preserve the collection, which rates its own room in the couple’s house. Each poly- bagged issue, 40 years old or brand new, he stores on acid-free boards inside archival boxes. A computer data- base tracks market value, but the true worth is the thrill of a story well told. “I just enjoy the comic form, every- Fa r be y ond t he g olde n va lle y thing from the art to the writing,” Wolvington says. “It really is about sto- hen Mary Lou Fischer Butler, d’51, meetings. Class years range from ’36 to ries and characters, about escaping the Wmoved to Riderwood, a Silver ’67, but some things remain true across stress of work and reading a fun tale. Spring, Md., retirement community, she eras. And if you look back at some of the didn’t know a soul. Then she met Herbert “Every one of us received a wonderful old issues from the ’60s or ’70s, you get Regier, b’39. education, and our loyalty is to KU,” Butler a glimpse of what was going on in the “Hearing that Kansas voice made me says. “We’re all very enthusiastic about our culture at the time.” feel right at home,” Butler says. “I think the undergraduate work and the campus and Take Uncle Scrooge No. 102, his others feel that way also.” what it meant to us.” first acquisition. Mom bought it to com- The others are the 10 or so Jayhawks Even rivals answered her call. A fort him during a second-grade sick day. Butler discovered among Riderwood’s K-Stater hungry for Kansas connection “I hold that one close to my heart, 2,250 residents. The former Jay Janes pres- attended one meal, telling stories about because it started the whole thing.” ident found them with the aid of seren- classes canceled after KSU beat KU. Can’t put a price tag on that. dipity, Alumni Association records staff and “There are four K-Staters here now,” an appeal on in-house TV. They dine she says. “I told them they can have their together regularly and enjoy chance own dinners.” R. STEV E DICK

U seniors Nick Reid, Kevin Kane, Banks Floodman Heard Kand super-sub Brandon Perkins form, by many estimations, the best linebacking corps in the Big 12 by the Bird Conference. So please believe us when we pledge that this is not a knock against any of them. But, wouldn’t it have been cool, monikarily speaking, if Ohio State’s All-American linebacker A.J. Hawk could have shrugged off his homestate Buckeyes and become, well, a Jayhawk?

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 9 Hilltopics BY STEVEN HILL

strike to support workers elsewhere in Poland. They won from Poland’s communist leaders the right to organize free, noncommunist trade unions. Urged on by a fellow Pole, Pope John

EARL RICHARDSON Paul II, 10 million Polish workers and farmers joined Solidarity. The group was banned by the Polish govern- ment in 1981, martial law was imposed and Walesa was jailed for 11 months. In 1983 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, and the award, a direct rebuke to the communist regime, bolstered the movement’s legitimacy. By 1988, Solidarity leaders again organized a strike in Gdansk. They forced semifree parliamentary elec- tions in 1989, which Solidarity candidates swept. Mass protests soon spread throughout Eastern Europe. Communist governments in Hungary, East Germany, and the remaining Eastern bloc resigned in the face of these protests, the Berlin Wall fell and by 1990 Walesa became Poland’s first democratically elected president in 50 years. The result, Walesa said during his acceptance World beater speech at the Lied Center, has been a new era of Solidarity leader, former Polish president Lech Walesa globalization led economically, but not morally, by the United States. “We stand a great opportu- receives Dole Institute’s annual Leadership Prize nity of peace and well-being and prosperity throughout the whole world,” he said. ■ Walesa met the press wenty-five years ago, while commu- “Unfortunately, we still don’t and gave a public lecture nism still gripped Eastern Europe know how to consolidate that in Lawrence during a and the Soviet Union, almost no victory and achieve that peace one believed that victory over and prosperity.” U.S. tour in September. T such a powerful system was possible, The difficulty of consoli- The former Polish presi- much less by peaceful means. dating victory is evident in dent now heads his own Lech Walesa, an electrician at the Walesa’s own political career. institute in Warsaw. Gdansk shipyards in Poland, believed. So After his landslide election in did his fellow workers. Under his leader- 1990, he faced the daunting ship, Poles in 1980 began a series of strikes task of reforming an economy dec- that touched off the mass movement known as imated by communist rule. In 1995, dis- Solidarity. Over the next decade that movement illusioned perhaps by the hardships imposed by brought one of the world’s two superpowers to the tough transition to a free-market economy, its knees and swept the communist system from Poles rejected Walesa and elected a former com- Europe. munist, Aleksander Kwasniewski. When Walesa “We waged that war and showed to the world ran for president again in 2000, he received less that it was possible,” Walesa said during a Sept. than 1 percent of the vote. 22 campus visit to accept the third-annual Dole None of that seemed to matter, however, to Leadership Prize. those who turned up to see Walesa receive the After winning major concessions for ship- Dole Prize. After Institute director William Lacy builders in 1980, Walesa’s group continued its introduced him as “one of the three men most

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI responsible for the end of the Cold War,” Walesa not sure whether you’ll be satisfied with those enjoyed a sustained standing ovation from the solutions.” near-capacity crowd. Former Sen. Bob Dole, ’45, founded the Dole Jovial and expansive during his remarks, Leadership Prize to recognize those who make which were delivered in Polish and translated by politics a noble profession. Unable to attend the interpreter Magdalena Iwinska, Walesa remi- Sept. 22 event in Lawrence, he recalled in a letter nisced about the early days of the movement he his 1989 trip to Gdansk to visit Walesa. Later “All I had were led, crediting “divine providence” for his success that year, Dole hosted the Polish leader when against a formidable foe. Walesa came to Washington to address a joint two things: one He noted that in the 1970s, 200,000 Russian session of Congress. troops were stationed in Poland, while another Celebrating Walesa’s leadership and strong being a belief in million—and untold nuclear arms—loomed across character and his inspiring personal journey the border. from working class to world leader, Sen. Dole God, the other “There seemed to be no way out,” for people wrote that he was “deeply grateful” to Walesa for living under communist rule, Walesa said, noting accepting the award. being belief in that a “kind of apathy” gripped people at the The prize went to New York City Mayor time. “What kind of struggle could they lead? Rudolph Giuliani in 2003 and former what I was doing.” “But then something incredible happened. A Democratic presidential nominee and Sen. —L ec h W alesa... Pole was elected Pope. He awoke the Polish peo- George McGovern last year. ple and other nations around.” While he spoke freely of those days, Walesa ◆ ◆ ◆ said he preferred to focus on the present and future. Through the Lech Walesa Institute, which he founded in 1995, he supports efforts to safe- Boom times guard Polish heritage, independence, free trade and strong local self-government throughout his Freshman test scores increase and native country. The most pressing questions now, minority students post gains he believes, are which political and economic sys- as total enrollment rises again tems are best for a newly transformed world. Like the Dole Institute, which strives to boost ore students are on the Hill this year civic engagement among students, the Walesa than ever before, and the rise in num- Institute enlists young Poles in the bid to build bers is accompanied by an improve- on Solidarity’s successes and strengthen Poland’s Mment in the quality of freshmen aca- fledgling democracy. His advice to the young? demic credentials. “Get involved ... because if you fail to get According to 20th-day enrollment numbers involved, if you fail to implement your solutions, released by the Kansas Board of Regents in others will do it for you,” Walesa said. “And I’m September, overall enrollment at KU reached LARRY LEROY PEARSON

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29,624, an all-time high. The number has risen ◆ ◆ ◆ every year since 2001. Of even greater interest to administrators, however, is the increase in the academic perform- Licensed to lead ance of incoming freshmen. The average ACT composite score for first-time freshmen reached WP4KU unites alumnae, friends 24.4, the highest in four years. The number of to promote power of generosity freshmen National Merit scholars rose from 57 last year to 72 this year. The class also includes n the annals of power lunches, the Sept. 9 two National Achievement scholars and six gathering of Women Philanthropists for KU St r o ng a rg ume nt National Hispanic scholars. was impressive—and not merely because of The KU debate team “We are most pleased with the increasing Ithe enthusiasm and accomplishments of 130 numbers of high-ability students choosing KU,” women assembled. Most important, the event cel- shares the top spot in said Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor ebrated a tradition of private giving that has national varsity rankings David Shulenburger. Noting that enrollment changed the face of KU and a trend that por- released in October. KU increases are a sign of students’ high regard for tends an even larger impact for women in the is tied for first place with the University’s academic reputation, he said future. record numbers were not a goal for KU, nor was “The data are pretty clear; women are control- Missouri State University enrollment expected to continue rising. ling an increasing amount of wealth and control- in the poll, which meas- “The University needs to focus on bringing ling an increasing number of the decisions ures the number of high-quality students and graduating them in regarding philanthropy,” says Deanell Reece debate rounds won this four years,” Shulenburger said. Tacha, c’68, Lawrence. Tacha, chief judge of the Minority-student enrollment, another point of 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, co-chairs season. The team is emphasis for administrators, also set an all-time WP4KU with Sally Roney Hoglund, c’56, Dallas. vying for KU’s fifth high this fall. Minority students number 3,537 “We thought it was good for KU to formalize national championship. and make up 11.9 percent of the overall student the network that has always been so important to population. That marks an increase of 117 stu- KU, going back to Elizabeth Watkins, Helen dents, or 3.4 percent, from last year. Spencer and Adele Hall, just to name three.” Enrollment gains at KU Medical Center, where Tacha says. total enrollment rose 80 students to 2,690, offset The group, which is coordinated by the KU a decline of 46 students at the Lawrence and Endowment Association, began its second year Edwards campuses. with the September event at the Adams Alumni The number of in-state students rose 1 per- Center, featuring a rousing speech by Claire cent to 20,587. That is 69.5 percent of the Gaudiani, the author of The Greater Good: How University’s total student population, the highest Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and percentage of Kansas residents in five years. Can Save Capitalism. Gaudiani is a professor at The George H. Heyman, Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New York University. The former president of Connecticut College, Gaudiani helped quintuple its EARL RICHARDSON endowment during her leadership from 1988 to 2001. Her remarks

■ Judge Deanell Tacha, co-chair of Women Philanthropists for KU; Judy Wright of the KU Endowment Association; and Barbara Marshall, an advisory board member for the new group, were among the alum- nae and friends who gathered to hear Claire Gaudiani' s speech Sept. 9.

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI invoked not only the spirit of legendary KU bene- factors, including Watkins, Spencer and Hall, but also a national tradition that distinguishes the United States from other countries, Gaudiani told Visitor the audience. “From the very beginning, we as citizens have been the ones who have driven America forward, Digital dad but none of us is doing enough. It isn’t right yet. We must teach the next generation,” said ormer chairman Gaudiani, whose research chronicles the impact Fof the Federal of what she calls “breakthrough thinkers” in U.S. Communication EARL RICHARDSON history, many of whom were women, beginning Commission Michael with those who founded the first public school K. Powell delivered the in the colonies in 1643. School of Business’ “We had a culture of generosity for 150 years Anderson Chandler before we had a culture of freedom and equality,” Lecture. Powell Gaudiani told the audience, urging them to think addressed the escalat- of philanthropy not in political terms but as an ing pace of technologi- expression of patriotism. cal and social change in Gaudiani’s visit to KU helped fulfill one of the information age. WP4KU’s goals, Tacha says. The group, which is led by a 33-member advisory board of alumnae WHEN: Sept. 28 and friends, hopes to create opportunities for KU women across generations to get to know one WHERE: The Lied Center another as they learn about avenues for private giving to the University. Previous events have BACK G ROUND: Powell, who is the son highlighted varied KU enterprises, including of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, was “At the end of Kansas Public Radio and Audio Reader in nominated by President Bill Clinton to fill a the day, what is Lawrence and the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center Republican seat on the FCC in 1997. In 2001, going to matter at the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. “We President George W. Bush designated him want to inform women fully about opportunities chairman of the commission, which regulates to us as human for support throughout KU,” Tacha says, interstate and international communications by beings is the “because women’s interests are sometimes very radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. different from men’s. We hope they will learn part of us that about academic programs, service activities, ANECDOTE: Addressing the startling doesn’t change. museums—all of KU’s assets.” technological advancements during his great- At the end of Of course, the alumnae themselves are among grandmother’s lifetime, which spanned horse- the University’s assets, and Dale Seuferling, j’77, drawn carriages to space travel, Powell said the day, we’re president of the KU Endowment Association, rapid transformation spurred by the digital rev- still human.We hopes WP4KU will lead to larger roles for many olution is bringing even more dramatic changes of these Jayhawks. “The organization represents a for his children and other youths, whom he still crave com- tremendous opportunity for us to identify and jokingly calls “homo digitais.” munity.” involve women in a significant way at the —M ic hael Powell University,” he says. “WP4KU can be an entrance Q UOTE: “A revolution means more power point for women to be involved in leadership to the people, and that’s what this revolution positions on advisory boards for KU schools and has done,” Powell said, noting that the rise of the boards of the Endowment and Alumni the Internet allows the “smart tools and toys” associations.” of the digital age to connect to an empowering Seuferling says he hopes membership in the network that stands on its head the old phone group will continue to grow. To receive WP4KU company model of smart networks and “dumb” mailings and participate in future events, send an devices.“Devices of enormous intelligence can e-mail to [email protected], or call 800- now be owned by anyone.” 330-5832. —Jennifer Jackson Sanner

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■ The fatal inferno destroyed a 76-unit apart- ment building in the Deerfield neighborhood, near Trail Road. SUSAN YOUNGER

Bingham, who died five days before her 22nd birthday, had worked for three years in the business office of the Kansas Union and was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. She had graduated from Wichita North High School, where she had competed on the debate team. “Nicole proved to be a bright, capable and thoughtful individual upon whom we all relied,” said David Mucci, director of the KU Memorial Unions. “She won the respect and affection of all her co- LAWRENCE NEWS of a grandchild. “She was always doing workers. We mourn the loss of this spe- something extra because she cared so cial student and person.” Alumna , s t ude nt a mong 3 much about people,” Mlynar said. “You —Jennifer Jackson Sanner k ille d in a pa r t me nt f ir e don’t often meet someone like Yolanda.” Before studying social work at KU, Yolanda Riddle, s’97, a social worker Riddle earned an associate’s degree at GREEK LIFE for children and families, and Nicole Haskell Indian Nations University. After Sig ma Nu r e v o k e s cha r t e r Bingham, a Wichita senior majoring in graduating from KU, she went on to f or ple dg e ‘mis t r e a t m e n t ’ history, died Oct. 7 in a massive blaze at complete her master’s degree in social the Boardwalk Apartments, in the 500 work at Washington University in St. Sigma Nu Fraternity in September block of Fireside Drive in northwest Louis. Born in Wichita, Riddle was a revoked the charter of its 120-year-old Lawrence. The other victim was electri- member of the Dine Indian Nation. KU chapter, ending for now a long affili- cian Jose Gonzalez, 50. Dozens of other residents were injured or lost their homes as the fire consumed a 76-unit building in the complex. Prosecutors have charged Jason Allen Rose, 20, with three counts of first- Update degree murder and one count of aggra- vated arson. His preliminary hearing is he campus community mounted several relief EARL RICHARDSON set for Feb. 22. Tefforts this fall to help Gulf Coast residents Riddle, 33, was a child welfare special- affected by Hurricane Katrina. ist for the Kansas Department of Social Students set up donation stations across campus and Rehabilitation Services after working to raise money for the Red Cross relief effort.The for several years with The Farm Inc., a department of music and dance staged a benefit con- nonprofit organization that coordinates cert in Murphy Hall. KU Athletics donated $10,000 foster care with SRS. on behalf of student-athletes and coaches and spon- “Yolanda would always go above and sored a “Bring A Buck” promotion at the Sept. 17 beyond her duties, whether it was for home football game with Louisiana Tech.The KU efforts, overseen by the student-run the children in her care or for the foster nonprofit Center for Community Outreach, raised more than $30,000, according to families,” said Bobbi Mlynar, who CCO co-director John Wilson, Lawton, Okla., senior. worked with her at The Farm. Mlynar In addition, 29 students from Gulf Coast colleges damaged by Katrina enrolled at recalled one instance when Riddle cared KU in September.The Student Involvement and Leadership Center created packages for several children while their foster with school supplies, snacks and gift certificates to welcome these newest Jayhawks. parent traveled out of town for the birth

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI ation that came to a somewhat surpris- ing and ugly conclusion. Milestones, money and other matters Sigma Nu’s own investigation con- firmed reports directed to the national ■ DAVID SHULENBURG ER will step down headquarters of mistreatment of “candi- as provost and executive vice chancellor in June date members” (formerly known as after 13 years in the job, including three years as pledges). While keeping the University vice chancellor for academic affairs. He will

informed, national fraternity officials EARL RICHARDSON return to teaching in the School of Business and handled the affair on their own; finally will continue to advise the chancellor.As provost, they notified KU on Sept. 8 that their Shulenburger was chief architect of KU’s tuition chapter here had lost its accreditation. enhancement plan, which in four years has “Sigma Nu has had a long tradition at brought $35 million in new funds for faculty posi- this university, so we regret the unfortu- tions, classroom improvements, technology, nate but necessary actions taken today,” libraries, advising and other student support, said Marlesa Roney, vice provost for stu- salaries for faculty and graduate teaching assis- dent success. “However, I have no doubt, tants, and hourly wages for students.A national based on the principled leadership search for his replacement has begun. exhibited by the national headquarters and the alumni today, that Sigma Nu ■ HIG UCHI AWARD WINNERS for 2005 will return to campus when appropriate were announced at the Faculty-Staff Convocation and resume an active role in the in September.Thomas Cravens, professor of University community.” physics and astronomy, received the Olin K. Shulenburger In the month following the expulsion, Petefish Award in basic sciences. H. George security officers hired by the national fra- Frederickson, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, received the ternity to guard its historic mansion west Irvin Youngberg Research Award in applied sciences. Dale Abrahamson, professor and chair- of campus made numerous reports of man of the anatomy and cell biology department at KU Medical Center, received the Dolph theft and vandalism to Lawrence police, Simons Award in biomedical sciences. E.Wayne Nafziger, University Distinguished Professor according to newspaper accounts. of Economics at Kansas State University, received the Balfour Jeffery Research Award in Phi Kappa Theta, also a fraternity humanities and social sciences. Faculty at all Regents Universities are eligible for the with a long and successful history at KU, $10,000 research grants, created in 1981 by the late KU distinguished professor Takeru was expelled from campus last spring Higuchi and his wife,Aya. after police raided an open-door keg party where unlimited beer could ■ A $ 9.3 MILLION FEDERAL G RANT will provide more than $1.5 million annually allegedly be purchased for $5. KU’s for six years in support of Pathways to Success, a program from the Center for Research Interfraternity Council voted the chapter and Learning that prepares Topeka public school students for post-secondary education. off campus, an expulsion supported by the fraternity’s headquarters. ■ A NEW NORTHERN G ATEWAY will grace the 13th Street entrance to Mount National officials of both Sigma Nu Oread, thanks to a $500,000 gift from Tom,c’76 , g’80, l’80, and Jill Sadowsky Docking, c’78, and Phi Kappa Theta have stated that g’84. Pending review by the Campus Historic Preservation Board and the Lawrence Historic they hope eventually to return to KU. Resources Commission, construction will begin next spring on a fountain and plaza at 13th —Chris Lazzarino and Oread Avenue.The gateway will honor the Docking family, whose many alumni mem- bers include two Kansas governors and a lieutenant governor.

■ A $ 3.9 MILLION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH G RANT will fund School of Medicine research to refine and test a clinical device that could help restore

EARL RICHARDSON function for stroke victims. Randolph Nudo, director of the Landon Center on Aging and professor of molecular and integrative physiology, is principal investigator on the four-year project.

■ REBECCA CURTIS, assistant professor of English, is one of six recipients of the 2005 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards, given annually to women in early stages of their writing careers. Curtis will use the $10,000 award to fund research and travel in Armenia, the setting of her planned novel. Sigma Nu fraternity

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KU had last defeated Nebraska in 1968, when its current coach, Mark Mangino, was a trim eighth-grader. Thirty-six losses to Nebraska ago, none of the current play- ers were born. “And I’m not sure I was, either,” said former coach Don Fambrough, d’48, who had tears in his eyes as ■ Mark Simmons (83) he entered the post-game caught two touchdown locker room. “This was passes against Nebraska. the greatest game I’ve This one, for 12 yards ever seen.” with 8:33 left in the game, “I knew this day would came after quarterback come, but I didn’t know when,” senior linebacker Jason Swanson changed Banks Floodman said. the play at the line. “When I first got here, we were intimidated by Where did that come from? Nebraska. Now we’ve beaten them. All I can say KU stuns Nebraska, and a record crowd, is, it’s about time.” a week after beating Mizzou Said Mangino: “We needed to do something et again the stellar KU defense stuffed a about this streak thing. It was starting to get on Big 12 opponent and yet again the my nerves.” offense did nothing. Though Oklahoma (As Kansas Alumni went to press, the Nov. 12 Y scored just 19 points Oct. 15 in game in Austin against undefeated Texas loomed. Arrowhead Stadium, the Jayhawks countered Also remaining is a Nov. 26 home game against with one field goal and 97 yards of offense. After Iowa State, and a victory in either would make a third-consecutive conference loss, senior line- the Jayhawks bowl-eligible.) backer Nick Reid uncorked his frustration. “I’m ready to go out and get in a fistfight with them,” Reid said of the offending offense. “They’ve got to come out and play with a little more heart, I guess.” From that low point, KU football executed the most remarkable of turnarounds and Reid happily ate his words. After losing at Colorado (though outgaining the Buffaloes, 354 yards to 304), the Jayhawks thumped Missouri, 13-3, reg- istering no awe at the Tigers’ three-game Big 12 winning streak, then notched the biggest win of all, beating Nebraska, 40-15, in front of 51,750, the largest crowd in Memorial Stadium history.

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Public credit for an offense finally worthy of a spectacular defense and “[T he offense has] been great.They’ve stepped up to the solid special teams went to senior quar- challenge, really kind of made me eat my words.” terback Jason Swanson, who threw for 291 yards in relief of senior Brian Luke —L inebac ker Nic k R eid at Colorado, then guided KU to its memorable victories over Missouri and ◆ ◆ ◆ Nebraska. “Swanny is the guy kids are rallying around,” Mangino said. Yet it was the offensive line—including Good, and fast tackles Cesar Rodriguez and Matt Thompson, guards Bob Whitaker and Quick development of young Ryan Cantrell, and center David Ochoa— talent key to KU’s fortunes in that improved the most. In the final min- pre-conference schedule utes of the woeful Oklahoma game, offensive linemen left the field screaming at each other, loudly pointing out what ans wondering what to expect they saw as others’ mistakes and arguing from the 2005-’06 men’s basket- with their enraged position coach, John ball team can count on one sure Reagan. Less than a month later, they Fthing amid a bucketful of uncer- manhandled Nebraska’s vaunted tainties: With a roster dominated by 11 “Blackshirts” defense, which entered the freshmen and sophomores and a sched- KU game leading the nation in sacks ule stocked with stiff tests, the season and tackles for losses. won’t be dull. Both John Cornish (101) and Clark Roller coaster rides rarely are. ■ Young guns: Basketball newcomers Rodrick Green (100) reached the 100-yard “We certainly have a lot of numbers plateau against Nebraska, KU racked up to replace from last year,” says coach Bill Stewart, Julian Wright, Mario Chalmers, Micah 428 yards of offense (vs. 138 for NU), Self. “We have good players; they’re just Downs and Brandon Rush. and owned the ball for 34 minutes, vs. young. It’s going to take awhile and 25 for Nebraska, all of which was largely we’re going to have our ups and downs.” attributable to the offensive line. Gone from last year’s 23-7 team are including a first-round NCAA loss Mangino pointed out that Thompson is seniors Keith Langford, Michael Lee, to Bucknell. Add last year’s highly touted the group’s only senior, and his backup, Aaron Miles and Wayne Simien, along freshmen—sophomores C.J. Giles, freshman Anthony Collins, even earned with transfer J.R. Giddens. With them Darnell Jackson, Sasha Kaun and Russell a start against Missouri. they took 58.9 points and 24.3 rebounds Robinson—plus sophomore transfer “Nobody can say we won ugly, or per game—79 percent of Kansas’ scoring Rodrick Stewart, and the big question eked one out,” Mangino said. “We won and 65 percent of its rebounding. this season would seem to be, How fast the game in just about every area.” In their place is the lone returning will Self’s exceptional group of young Senior linebacker Kevin Kane, who starter, former walk-on Christian Moody, players live up to their potential? returned an interception 40 yards for the now on scholarship, and a crop of fresh- “They’re going to have to learn final touchdown against Nebraska, was men bursting with potential. pretty quickly,” says senior Jeff Hawkins. even more pointed in analyzing the turn- “They are very talented,” Self says of “They’ve got to grow up real fast. They’ve around: “We don’t like to quit. We’re a his four freshmen, who are already draw- got to be sophomores by Christmas.” bunch of fighters.” ing comparisons in some quarters to the That standard—performing like a Better yet, no longer among them- Fab Five that led Michigan to the NCAA second-year player halfway through the selves. tourney finals in 1992 and ’93. “They are freshman season—was Robinson’s stated —Chris Lazzarino long, they are athletic and I think they goal last year, but after a fast start the will have a very fun year for us.” speedy New York City guard hit the Indeed, the arrival of Mario Chalmers, freshman wall. Giles, Kaun and Jackson Micah Downs, Brandon Rush and Julian had their share of first-year frustrations. ■ Senior linebackers (l to r) Banks Floodman, Wright has already done much to erase Their experience shows how unrealistic it Nick Reid and Kevin Kane, along with senior the unpleasant memory of last season’s can be to expect too much of freshmen. defensive end Charlton Keith, led one of spring swoon, when the Jayhawks “The freshmen are great players, and grittiest defenses in the country. dropped six of their last nine games, I definitely look forward to how much

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 17 Sports they can help us,” says Moody. “But “We’re really young, but we’re going gram in a hurry. Joining Mosley in the there’s only four of them, and you can’t to be really good,” says Rush. backcourt is freshman Ivana Catic, of win with just four guys.” The question is, How soon? Serbia and Montenegro, whom Still, expect the newcomers to stamp —Steven Hill Henrickson describes as a true point a big imprint on this team. Unlike last guard who “gives off a lot of energy.” year, when upperclassmen ruled, this ◆ ◆ ◆ Expect Henrickson to find ways to year game minutes are up for grabs. The keep Catic, Mosley and junior sharp- athleticism of Chalmers and company, shooter Erica Hallman, now freed from which has so impressed teammates and Star bright playing the point, together for a three- coaches in practices and pick-up games, guard lineup that can shoot well and and the renewed depth that comes with Juco player of year brings play an attacking style of defense. two straight big-time recruiting classes, hope to women’s basketball Also in Lawrence from Serbia and promises a more high-flying brand of Montenegro is freshman forward Marija basketball. onnie Henrickson begins her Zinic, who chose KU without ever hav- “I hope we’re sound enough that we second season as women’s bas- ing visited the United States, let alone can force tempo on both ends,” says Self, ketball coach with an asset she Kansas, only because her friend Catic who’d like to use more press on defense. Blacked last year: a certified star. (who played high-school ball in West “Hopefully we won’t give up easy bas- Yet Henrickson says Shaquina Mosley, Virginia) already signed with KU. kets and we can do things we haven’t 2005 Junior College Player of the Year at With nearly every game being tele- done as much in years past. I think we’ll Central Arizona College, will be asked vised and the Jayhawks not leaving Allen also be able to push the ball at people only to boost athleticism at the guard Field House until Jan. 7 (a scheduling more than we’ve been able to do. I think position, not carry the entire team. quirk due, in part, to the University of it best fits our personnel. This year we “She had some concerns, especially New Orleans having to shift its Dec. 3 should have more interchangeable parts regarding if she was going to be able to home game with KU to Lawrence), fans and get out and run a little more.” live up to being National Junior College will have plenty of opportunities to Last year the Jayhawks opened No. 1 Player of the Year,” Henrickson says. “I watch Henrickson mesh six good return- in the nation; this year they’re picked don’t need her to live up to any title. I ing veterans with a class of newcomers third in the Big 12, behind No. 3 Texas need her to run an offense and work to ranked by one scouting service as among and No. 6 Oklahoma, and are unranked be one of the best defenders we have.” the top 25 in the country. in the major polls for the first time since Women’s basketball, a respectable 12- “We will find out about this team 1990. Lower expectations create the 16 in Henrickson’s debut season, offers together,” Zinic says, “so I think you sense that “this year we’re hunters, not many intriguing new players who figure should all come out and see, too.” the hunted,” says senior Stephen Vinson, to help Henrickson improve the pro- —Chris Lazzarino and the early schedule provides plenty of opportunities for trophies. After a home opener against Idaho State Nov. 18, KU faces No. 9 Arizona in a first- round Maui Invitational game Nov. 21, Updates with a potential second-round matchup against No. 2 Connecticut. Possible late- unior Benson Chesang, of Kenya, successfully defended his Big 12 cross-country title round foes are No. 7 Gonzaga, No. 21 Jwith a three-second victory Oct. 28 in Waco,Texas.Chesang became the first Jayhawk Maryland or No. 5 Michigan State. to win consecutive conference cross-country titles since Al Frame, c’56 , l’6 2, in 1954 Self counsels patience, noting his and ’55.The Jayhawks finished third as a team and were ranked No. 12 nationally. ... team will likely be inconsistent, that it Middle-distance legend Wes Santee, d’54, owner of numerous world records and NCAA will make mistakes in November it and national track championships, will be inducted in the USA Track & Field Hall of won’t make in February. “I think the Fame Dec. 1... early season games will put pressure on Senior forward Caroline Smith scored the 51st goal of her stellar career in the final our guys and give them a sense of minutes of a 3-1 loss to Nebraska at the Big 12 soccer championships in San Antonio. urgency that tells them we need to get Smith and junior defender Holly Gault were named All-Big 12 First Team....After enter- pretty good pretty fast,” he says. “The ing a plea of no contest, former basketball player J.R. Giddens was found guilty of misde- season won’t be determined in meanor battery for his role in a May 19 brawl outside a Lawrence bar. Giddens, now at November, however.” the University of New Mexico, was sentenced Oct. 31 to a year’s probation and So hang on to your hats. Remember, ordered to complete a two-day anger-management class. roller coasters are supposed to be fun.

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■ Men’s basketball Sports Calendar NOVEMBER 18 Idaho State 21-23 at Maui Invitational, with Arizona, Arkansas, Chaminade, 25 at Kansas State ■ Indoor track & field Connecticut, Gonzaga, Maryland, 28 at Baylor Michigan State DECEMBER 10 at Kansas State DECEMBER ■ Football 1 Nevada JANUARY 3 Western Illinois NOVEMBER 13 at Arkansas Invitational 6 at St. Joseph’s, New York City 26 Iowa State 20 KU/KSU/MU Triangular 10 vs. California, at Kemper Arena 28 Jayhawk Invitational 19 Pepperdine ■ 22 Northern Colorado Swimming and diving FEBRUARY 29 New Orleans NOVEMBER 3-4 at Nebraska Invitational JANUARY 18-20 at Minnesota Invitational 10-11 at Arkansas Invitational 10-11 at ISU Classic 4 Yale DECEMBER 24-25 at Big 12 Indoor, Lincoln 7 Kentucky 11 at Colorado 2-3 vs. Harvard and Northeastern, at Cambridge, Mass. 14 Kansas State ■ Volleyball 16 at Missouri JANUARY 21 Nebraska NOVEMBER 6 at Florida International Relays, 25 at Texas A&M 23 Missouri Miami 28 at Iowa State 26 at Iowa State 30 Texas Tech 14 Nebraska 27 Drury

■ Women’s basketball FEBRUARY ■ After jubilant upsets of Missouri and NOVEMBER 3-4 at Iowa State Nebraska, goalposts traveled to Potter Lake 20 Binghamton 22-25 at Big 12, Columbia, Mo. two weeks in a row. 22 Detroit 27 Northeastern

DECEMBER 2 Birmingham-Southern 3 New Orleans 7 UMKC 11 Wisconsin 18 Florida International 21 Creighton 28 Pepperdine 30 La Salle

JANUARY 3 Texas 7 at Nebraska 10 at Colorado 15 Texas A&M 22 Oklahoma State

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 21 Where Town

Construction of a scholarship hall in the Oread neighborhood brings a longstanding feud over campus expansion to a peak—and a possible resolution

oger and Annette Shoemaker Rieger had what they PHOTOGRAPHS BY EARL RICHARDSON thought was a simple question: What would it take, they asked University administrators, to build a new R scholarship hall at KU? This was back in 2000. Roger, b’67, and Annette, c’67, wanted to honor Roger’s brother, Dennis, c’72, g’74, who died in 1997 at the age of 47. Having lived in Battenfeld Hall as a student, Roger thought a scholarship hall, with its co-op living and small-community vibe, would be a fitting memorial to his brother, a free-spirited “character” who grew up near Hiawatha and attended a one-room schoolhouse. The couple was willing to give $3 million to help get it done. What it would take, the Riegers learned, was more than they imagined.

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI Meets Gown

BY STEVEN HILL

KU Endowment Association was then in the process of a walking tour, tied yellow ribbons to Oread trees and went buying several houses in the 1300 block of Ohio Street, most door-to-door to collect more than 100 signatures on a petition nearly a century old and dilapidated. In March 2001, KU opposing the demolitions. But on July 20 KU issued a report announced its plan to demolish six homes to make room for saying three of the structures were in such bad shape it would two new scholarship halls. not be cost-effective to restore them. The houses would have Members of the Oread Neighborhood Association balked. to come down. They argued that the project broke a promise KU had made in To University officials like Jeff Weinberg, the choice was its 1997 Campus Plan to expand no farther than the alley obvious. “When we looked at the properties, some were dan- between Ohio and Louisiana streets. Noting that three homes gerous and would never have passed code,” says Weinberg, originally had been connected to KU professors, residents d’64, g’70, assistant to the chancellor and the official liaison argued that their historic value should outweigh their poor between KU and the neighborhood groups. “I was shocked condition. Restoration, not demolition, was the ONA’s goal. that students would be living in them.” Residents tried to persuade the University to change its To community activists like Candice Davis, ONA vice presi- mind. They wrote letters and met with administrators, staged dent, more than a single block on Ohio Street was at stake.

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 23 “It’s about maxing and the community can work hen settlers founded out the density of together to produce great Lawrence in 1854, talk the neighborhood. results.” As the Rieger women turned almost immedi- It’s about parking. showed off their beautiful new ately to building a univer- It’s about continu- home’s gracious front porch, Wsity. But Free Staters and pro-slavery ing expansion that complete with old-fashioned groups alike wanted their own institu- violates the 1997 porch swings, and its modern tion, and their wrangles delayed the agreement,” says geothermal heating and cooling project, according to Clifford Griffin’s Davis, s’69, s’96. system, designed to minimize The University of Kansas: A History, and She saw the conflict outdoor noise, Hemenway said, weakened the institution that finally did as one battle in a “This is a better building appear in 1866. long “David and because of community involve- Conflict and community support, it Goliath” struggle ment, and I think it has created seems, are both part of KU’s heritage. between small Davis In recent years, a time of growth on grassroots groups the Lawrence campus, the two forces and a big, bureaucratic state institution. have frequently collided over the issue of In the balance, she and her neighbors expansion. A number of construction believed, hung the integrity of their projects either directly or tangentially homes. “We are looking for stability,” she related to the University and funded says, “and we really did not think it was largely by members of the KU family in the best interests of the area to have led to disagreements with local expand with two buildings that would neighborhood groups and action by the be as high density as they talked about.” city (see sidebar). So began a complex and sometimes Many of these disagreements can be contentious four-year journey that traced to KU’s status as a state entity. brought to boil long-simmering tensions University administrators maintain that between KU and its neighbors—namely Weinberg KU is governed by the rules of the state those who own homes near campus and a model for joint collaboration for these that owns it, rather than the city that the city officials who represent them. kinds of projects moving forward.” surrounds it. The city has never imposed The showdown on Ohio Street revealed Getting there, agree those involved, its zoning requirements on the Univer- dissatisfactions that run deeper than a hasn’t been easy. By then KU staff and sity, though it believes it has the right to simple difference of opinion over the fate neighborhood activists had clashed in a do so. As the Ohio Street situation began of a half-dozen houses on the slopes of series of heated public meetings, the to evolve, that difference of opinion Mount Oread and extend wider than University and the city had threatened to became a point of contention. one Lawrence neighborhood. Some of sue each other, and a Kansas governor After KU announced its demolition the neighbors’ concerns—litter, noise and had been enlisted to overrule a decision plans in 2001, the city commission disruptive behavior from bar-goers and by the state historical society. But when asked city staff to create a board made student renters, for instance—stem from it was over, KU not only had built a new a culture clash between students and hall that is likely the most impressive home-owning families that is a source of student residence on campus, but it also town-gown tensions nationwide—and is, had negotiated an agreement that creates to some extent, beyond universities’ a new model for how it deals with its direct control. Other concerns, such as neighbors. fear of encroachment and the perception that KU has been for many years unin- terested in cooperating with its neigh- bors, are issues the University has found ■ Wrought iron railing outside Rieger (right) it can address. When Dennis E. Rieger Scholarship and carved wooden stair spindles inside were Hall welcomed its first 50 women this salvaged from Old Fraser before its 1965 fall, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway demolition. Rieger’s interior also contains a would thank neighbors for their input, variety of Kansas-themed art and a replica of noting in his dedication remarks that the a stained glass window from a farmhouse project “proves the University of Kansas once owned by the family.

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI up of city, University and neighborhood reps to oversee relations between Lawrence and KU. With input from the “good neighbor group,” in September the commission approved a new policy for deciding preservation issues such as those raised on Ohio Street; a historic review was mandated because three of the six homes slated for demolition were within 500 feet of two National Register of Historic Places sites—Spooner Hall and the Usher House, home of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The city agreement gave the Campus Historic Preservation board, made up wholly of KU represen- tatives, the first vote on preservation issues. The city’s Historic Resource Commission would then weigh in. If the two boards disagreed, the state would settle the matter.

■ Annette and Roger Rieger (above) donated $3 million to build the hall, which honors his late brother, Dennis. Multiple roof peaks, dormer windows and a large front porch with swings are the result of a design process that involved neighborhood residents.

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 25 “There has traditionally been no plan- “We are looking for stability, and we ning procedure at all other than internal really did not think it was in the best to the University, and they plan from the point of view of what’s good for the interests of the area to expand with two University, not from the point of view of what’s good for the neighbors,” Burress buildings that would be as high density says. “There are about four different as they talked about.” —Candice Davis neighborhood groups all around the University that have had trouble with the University for years.” On Ohio Street, that’s exactly what University and really did not take into One such neighborhood is University happened: CHP approved demolition account the effect the growth of KU Place. Residents were unhappy when and HRC denied it—both unanimous might have on the neighborhoods,” KU built the Student Recreation Fitness decisions reached after taking public Weinberg says. Contact with neighbors Center across an alley from homes there comment. When an October meeting typically was limited to “let- in 2003. By the time between the groups failed to break the ting them know exactly what KU told neighbors stalemate, the case went to the state. On we were going to do and how of their plans, says March 15, 2002, historic preservation we were going to do it. Kim Kreicker, presi- officer Ramon Powers, PhD’71, in one of “With many great conflicts dent of University his last official acts before retiring from in human history, communi- Place Neighborhood the Kansas State Historical Society, ruled cation is where things usually Association, “it felt in favor of preserving the houses. go afoul,” he says. “And that is very much like a But the battle wasn’t over: That exactly what happened on done deal and how spring, KU Endowment announced the Ohio Street. The University we felt about it wasn’t purchase of another home in the 1300 did not communicate as thor- really of interest to block of Ohio, and on June 18 KU asked oughly as it should have with the University.” Gov. Bill Graves to overrule Powers and the neighborhood. Part of the Those who work authorize the demolition. controversy for KU, on the other At an Aug. 20 public hearing at the was less what Burress hand, say it would be Douglas County Courthouse convened happened than hard to accomplish by the Governor’s office, tempers flared— how we went anything if every decision was sub- not for the first time. At a prior debate, a about it.” ject to local approval. That’s pre- KU representative reportedly threw a How KU cisely why state law exempts KU microphone on a table after an ONA went about it and other state entities from local member tried to take it. This time, neigh- was pretty control, they argue. “Autonomy is borhood advocates accused KU of acting much how KU important to the University, and we like “a deep-pocketed corporate bully” has always believe it is given us by state law,” and worse. gone about it, says David Shulenburger, provost “Some people in the neighborhood says Dave and executive vice chancellor. “We were understandably so angry that their Burress. An think autonomy is essential if we are reaction was pretty extraordinary to economist who going to function as a University.” what the University was doing,” formerly Kreicker Even neighborhood activists say Weinberg says. “And what made it even worked at KU’s some autonomy is to be expected. more difficult, many of these people Policy Research Institute and is now a “They have their agenda and we have were part of the University family. So member of the Lawrence-Douglas ours,” says ONA’s Davis. “Not everybody we’re all here together, as neighbors and County Planning Commission, Burress is going to get everything they want.” professional colleagues, and all of a sud- says the University “has a long history of Still, the intensity of emotions on den we’re in the midst of a very difficult kind of running roughshod over its Ohio Street showed more sensitivity was and divisive fight.” neighbors.” Buildings too tall for the sur- needed, and it took many on the Hill by What made the heated reactions roundings, traffic from University events, surprise. understandable, he says, was KU’s and stormwater runoff from campus “Quite frankly, there was a certain approach to expansion. streets and parking lots are a few items amount of shock within the University at “The focus of the University was he says have for years caused problems the amount of outrage in the neighbor- almost entirely on the needs of the in neighborhoods bordering campus. hood,” Weinberg says. “These were great

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI friends of the University who were most “We reached the point where it was passionate. Many of them were faculty or clear nobody could take back anything alumni. These weren’t people who had a that had been said,” Weinberg recalls. grudge in for the University. It was, to “But what we could do is put in place a some extent, a wake-up call.” structure that would bring our friends in the neighborhood and the preservation ◆ ◆ ◆ community together with the University to decide what we were going to do with n Sept. 4, 2002, Gov. Bill the two halls on Ohio Street.” Graves ruled that KU could KU made two changes to improve demolish the Ohio Street communication. First, to the building houses. committee normally made up entirely of O Shulenburger The Oread Neighborhood Association KU employees it added a representative decided not to appeal the decision. from the Oread neighborhood. Second, Instead, with the Lawrence Preservation it created a new advisory committee with says, “was design that building from the Alliance they found a new home for one representatives from the neighborhood, inside out.” of the houses, which was moved to the preservation community, the student Davis, who served on the advisory Kentucky Street and is now Ad Astra body and the University staff. committee, is more reserved in her House, a student-run co-op. Over several months, the committees assessment of the quality of the input, ONA’s Candice Davis and LPA’s Pat worked with Treanor Architects to meet noting that parking, a big issue for Kehde, g’80, sent a letter to Hemenway a challenge: Build a building big enough Oread residents, was never really on the informing him of the group’s decision, to house 50 students that doesn’t look table. But overall, she says, KU did try to and taking KU up on its promise to give out of place on a block dominated by be fair and did honor some committee neighborhoods a voice in the design modest, turn-of-the-century homes. requests. When the final rendering of a process. University officials knew that many two and a half story brick-and-limestone “We expect a clear outline of the neighbors, based on their experience hall was unveiled in May 2003, Davis design process and the neighborhood’s with KU, were skeptical. So at the first complimented the architects on “a won- involvement in it before it begins,” they meeting, Weinberg says, “we instructed derful job.” wrote, adding that the input must be the architect to take his drawing board “It blends into the neighborhood even “meaningful” if the new process were to and show committee members what this though it’s an institutional-sized struc- work. building was going to look like.” ture,” she said at the time. “It has a turn- KU promised to give the community Architects displayed a blank piece of of-the-century feel, with the stone and a say when it called on Gov. Graves to white paper. brick. It turned out better than I thought intervene. “What that committee did,” Weinberg it would.” Other groups once opposed to the project seemed pleased, and not only with the product. “This process has worked well,” said Jeff Messick, a’71, a local architect and member of the Lawrence Historic Resource Commission, which had unanimously voted against demolition in 2001. “This has not been a confrontational, knock- down, drag-out sort of thing. When

■ The Student Recreation Fitness Center drew protests from University Place residents when it was built in 2003.A project to expand the building will seek neighborhood input that resi- dents say was missing the first time around.

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 27 For some, the threat—even though Shulenburger, Weinberg and city com- combined with a pledge to continue missioner Boog Highberger, e’85, l’92, KU’s good neighbor policies of working began negotiating an agreement that set with the city and neighborhoods on guidelines for campus development. The planning issues—disproved the notion city gave up its proposal to regulate that a new era was underway in town- development campuswide, and KU gown relations. “This letter seemed sort agreed to something it originally refused of pre-emptive in nature,” said city com- to consider: a definitive boundary line missioner Mike Rundle, c’76, “which around campus. Within 150 feet inside seems fairly typical of the University—to this border, KU agreed to limit the chop things off at the knees if at all pos- height of new buildings, complete an sible.” impact study and establish an ad hoc KU administrators say the city’s pro- advisory committee including residents posal caught them off guard. Weinberg from the adjacent neighborhood. If it calls it “a lightning bolt out of nowhere.” expands outside the border, the ■ Parking remains a source of conflict: Oread Says Shulenburger, “What we got sur- University agrees to abide by city land- residents worry the 50-person hall will add to prised with was an absolutely complete use regulations. Exceptions were made a parking crunch in Oread (including in front of zoning document that really would have for existing buildings and renovations or Rieger, above). KU requires hall residents to shut us down. In terms even of repairing construction on the Ohio Street halls, park in a University-owned garage, but some existing buildings it would have added Memorial Stadium, the Daisy Hill dorms millions to our cost of maintaining the and some other sites. Rieger women fear the three-block walk is campus. The document was complete “What the people on Ohio Street said unsafe at night. and the first time anyone at the was, ‘We just want the University to say University saw it was when it was pro- this is the boundary, and if you’re going posed for adoption.” to grow outside that boundary we need something of this nature comes up City officials see things differently. to know about it and we need to work again, I think people have learned the Dave Burress says planners invited KU’s together,’” Weinberg says. “At the time process that works instead of the ones input from the beginning, and that the we could not agree to that. But we did where people draw battle lines.” process was public and well-publicized. agree to that” in the land-use agreement The final design was complete. The “They gave no input because they took a with the city. $3 million gift from the Riegers, position that we had no power,” Burress If KU made significant concessions, it announced April 22, 2003, was in place. says. In any case, the tiff clearly showed also gained much. Pending approval by preservation better communication was needed if the “We gained certainty,” Shulenburger groups, construction on the first of two goodwill gains generated on Ohio Street says. “We know what our rights are and new schol halls was set to begin. were to become permanent. the city knows what their rights are.” And then things got really interesting. “Talk never hurts,” Shulenburger says, And, he adds, “The neighborhoods have and he agrees there’s a certain irony in gained considerable certainty in this, ◆ ◆ ◆ the University’s feeling blindsided and and that will make the relationship shut out by decisions affecting its stabi- between KU and its neighbors a lot bet- he day after Davis and Messick’s lity. Neighborhoods have long felt the ter long-term.” positive comments appeared in same when dealing with KU. The neighbors certainly want to think the Lawrence Journal-World, a “When we looked at [the city’s zoning so. But for now a wait-and-see attitude Tlawyer for KU sent a letter to proposal] we felt clear that the city didn’t prevails among those accustomed to bat- City Manager Mike Wildgen, c’69, g’72. have any legal grounds to put it in place, tling KU. “I think people are guarded, At issue: a proposed city ordinance that but there they were on the doorstep of because it hasn’t really been tested yet,” would create a University zoning district doing it,” Shulenburger says. “And that says Candice Davis. But she agrees the subjecting the entire campus to was not terribly unlike, I’m sure, what land-use agreement is a step in the right Lawrence zoning rules. some of the neighbors felt when the direction, as is Weinberg’s peacemaking Kansas law prevents the city from character of their neighborhood was role. “That’s a good move, appointing governing a state agency, KU’s letter being changed suddenly.” someone who is cordial and willing to argued. It urged Lawrence to withdraw Just when it seemed KU and the city come to our meetings and listen. Having the proposal, or “the University will have were on the brink of launching dueling a sympathetic ear does matter.” no choice but to enter what likely will be lawsuits, cooler heads prevailed. The first test case won’t be long in a protracted legal battle.” Representatives of both sides, including coming. Plans are underway to expand

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI the Student Recreation Fitness Center. Built under the old development “This whole episode has been a wake-up process, it will be expanded under the call for the University. We really want to be new. In fact, says UPNA’s Kreicker, “We didn’t feel like there was much of a a good neighbor; at the same time the process for us the first time around.” neighborhoods and the city want us to be This time, two University Place residents serve on the advisory committee. For a prosperous university.” —David Shulenburger John Poertner, a retired social welfare professor, it’s too early to tell if his advice will count. His initial reaction While some guardedness may be war- “In the past the University’s position was suggests there are still wrinkles to iron ranted, given the history between the they were a law unto themselves. So this out. The land-use agreement is the best groups, the planning commission’s is important.” that could be written at the time, he Burress argues that the new land-use Plenty of cynics inside the University believes, “but the success of that kind of agreement is a good step: an enforceable and out say KU will never submit to real thing depends entirely on how it’s imple- document with important assurances for dialogue with its neighbors, that advi- mented. [Advisory committee] meetings the city, KU and the neighborhoods. “I sory committees amount to little more are scheduled during the workday. It’s think what the neighbors are not seeing than lip service. But the University’s hard for people to show up then. That is that even entering an agreement is a highest ranking officials insist the Ohio doesn’t give me much hope.” big change for the University,” he says. Street conflict and the resulting land-use agreement are the beginning of a new era, a new model for how KU will deal with town-gown tensions. Hot spots “In a sense this whole episode has been a wake-up call for the University,” Shulenburger says. “We really want to be a good neighbor; at the same time the 2001: Citing traffic concerns and incom- neighborhoods and the city want us to patibility with single-family homes, neigh- be a prosperous university. What the bors oppose St. Lawrence Catholic

SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN YOUNGER whole thing led to was sitting down with Campus Center plans to build two-level the city and working through that long parking garage and education center. land-use agreement that specifies how Lawrence City Commission approves the we’ll go about such activities in the plan; planning and zoning commission future.” Not only did the controversy on refuses variance for 55-foot bell tower. Ohio Street lead to a better schol hall, he says, it led to a model that will “make for 2002: City commission reduces on-street parking near two fraternities and a less friction” when KU works close to its sorority on Edgehill Road after neighbors complain of noise, traffic and litter. borders in the future. It will take good faith from neighbors 2003: Alpha Gamma Delta receives permission from Lawrence City Commission to and real action from KU to turn talk of a build sorority house despite the protests of Avalon Road neighbors. new era into reality. Perhaps the most powerful evidence that such a thing is 2003: Student Recreation Fitness Center opens. University Place residents say they likely is Rieger Hall itself. While con- weren’t consulted in planning process. struction took longer and proved more complicated than the Riegers imagined 2004: New city housing ordinance bans more than three unrelated people from liv- in that first call to KU, they say it also ing in a single-family dwelling.The law guards family neighborhoods from conversion turned out better than they imagined. “It to student rentals. took some time, and a few feathers got ruffled on both sides,” Roger Rieger 2005: After complaints by Oread homeowners, Lawrence police adopt new guide- notes, “but it looks like the kind of big lines making it easier to crack down on raucous late-night parties.Also under con- brick house that where I grew up would sideration: a change in littering laws that will force residents to clean yards more be the best house in town.” promptly. But Annette said it best: “It feels more like a home than a hall.”

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 29 THE WILCOX COLLECTION’S CREATOR CONTINUES TO CHAMPION THE MOST AMERICAN OF IDEALS

BY CHRIS LAZ Z ARINO

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI oth of Laird Wilcox’s grand- some tiny, long-forgotten group that he rare for a collection’s namesake to still fathers were Republicans, yet needs to better understand, only to dis- be alive 40 years later. his father was a “hard-core cover that Wilcox has it covered, even True enough, perhaps, but could liberal, sort of a moderate with such ephemera as poor-quality, there be any better reason? And besides, socialist.” An aunt and uncle mimeographed newsletters of extremely what more fitting way to honor a patriot Bwere registered members of the limited distribution. who has devoted his life to freedom of Communist Party, scandalous affiliations “How he got these things, I have no speech and assembly than by getting that cost an in-law his career in the U.S. idea,” Tuttle says. “There are groups together for a talk? Army, and another aunt and uncle were represented here I’ve never of.” “really right wing.” Thanks to a sympathetic and ◆ ◆ ◆ “So as a child,” Wilcox says, “I was privy to a lot of very intense political dis- aird Wilcox lived his first 11 cussions. What impressed me was not years in San Francisco. When so much what was being discussed, but his father took a job in heavy the intensity of the feelings that were construction, the family began involved.” Lan all-American laborer’s migration that A half-century later, the fire lit by included stops in Wyoming, those kitchen-table feuds still drives Pennsylvania, Texas, Iowa, Louisiana, Wilcox, ’67, creator and continuing nur- Minnesota, Mississippi and Maryland. turer of the Wilcox Collection of He was 14 when he spied on a drug- Contemporary Political Movements, now store’s newsstand a copy of The True in its 40th year at KU’s Kenneth Believer, an influential collection of Spencer Research Library. The collec- essays on mass movements published in tion—a massive repository of hundreds 1951 by Eric Hoffer, a self-educated long- of thousands of newsletters, pamphlets, shoreman, field worker and gold broadsides, books, newspapers, audio prospector. tapes and any other materials generated “I picked it up, looked at it, bought it, by fringe political groups—is unusual for took it home and read it and read it and its size and unique in its breadth. read it,” Wilcox recalls. A few similar collections housed at By the time he was 17, Wilcox had other institutions rival the Wilcox in begun mailing postcards to the Ku Klux specific realms. The University of Iowa Klan, the Communist Party and even to has a noted right-wing collection, and Cuba, requesting literature and para- respected left-wing troves are maintained ■ Funny, maddening, infuriating, informative ... phernalia. His family moved to Topeka at Cal-Berkeley and the Wisconsin State The full range of American extremist literature in 1961, and Wilcox enrolled the follow- Historical Society, but few, if any, offer and ephemera is represented in the Wilcox ing year as a married, 19-year-old fresh- researchers, teachers and historians Collection. man. He promptly organized KU’s chap- access to minutia culled from the range ter of the Student Peace Union and of contempory domestic extremism. launched an alternative newspaper, the “There’s enough here that you can impressed librarian, Stuart Forth, Wilcox Kansas Free Press. really see trends,” says University in 1965 sold the first four file cabinets of “When I first started at KU, it was a Archivist Rebecca Schulte, c’76, the col- his nascent collection to KU for about relatively sedate, Middle West university,” lection’s bibliographer. “Anti-commu- $1,000; that remains the only cash pay- he says. “I was really the first campus nists in the 1950s and first half of the ment he has received for the ever-grow- activist.” 1960s; left-wing counterculture of the ing collection. To honor its founder He briefly joined Students for a 1960s and ’70s, and the swing back to while trumpeting the status of a matured Democratic Society, and in 1964, when right-wing militias and anti-government political archive, Schulte put together a he was chairman of Student Union tax resisters ... There’s something in the display of photographs and ephemera, Activities’ Minority Opinions Forum, Wilcox Collection to offend anybody.” and organized a Nov. 4 reception, titled Wilcox invited George Lincoln Rockwell, American Studies professor Bill Tuttle, “Celebrating Free Speech.” president of the American Nazi Party, to who frequently uses the collection in his Wilcox, a retired carpenter who lives speak on campus. research and teaching, says it’s not in Olathe, modestly shrugs off the atten- Rockwell attracted an overflow crowd unusual for him to arrive at the Spencer tion by insisting the anniversary celebra- to the Kansas Union ballroom, students with little hope of finding materials on tion was cooked up only because it’s so picketed on Jayhawk Boulevard, and

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 31 n 1957, Laird Wilcox lied about his age to join his first union as a 15- year-old laborer in Louisiana. That was still a time of segregation, espe- Icially in the Deep South, and Wilcox says friendships he developed with black coworkers helped him gain the skills he later would need to communicate and empathize with individuals and groups COURTESY SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY ARCHIVES SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY COURTESY he normally would not encounter in his everyday life. He renewed his labor-union ties after leaving KU in 1967, short of his degree in political psychology but more interested in providing for a wife and three children than framing a ■ Then chairman of the Minority Opinions Forum, Laird Wilcox (above left) in diploma. He February 1964 invited George Lincoln Rockwell (above right), leader of the American became a carpenter Nazi Party, to speak on campus.The invitation ignited a furor, but Rockwell’s right to in Kansas City and an officer in speak here was affirmed by the chancellor and the speech was standing-room-only. Carpenters’ Local “[R ockwell] was a freak,” Wilcox says.“Yes, they wanted to hear what he said, but they 61, and the seasonal work gave him wanted to hear what this freak said.They weren’t interested in Nazism.” plenty of time to pursue his passion. Armed with 100 pieces of notepaper, even Chancellor Clarke Wescoe declared seen. Debate them. Challenge them. Just 100 envelopes, 100 stamps and a stack that while the University preferred so long as everyone is free to agitate and of $1 bills, he would sit at his desk and Rockwell had not been invited, his right promote ideas, the society is free.” write out requests for literature from to speak here would be respected. What wasn’t widely known at the extremist groups around the country. “The reason we brought him here was time was that picket signs pro- “You’d be amazed what you to affirm freedom of speech at the claiming “We reject what can get for a dollar bill,” he University of Kansas,” Wilcox says. “That you say but support your says. “For a dollar I’d same year when I was chairman of the right to say it” were sometimes get boxes Minority Opinions Forum, we had a constructed and let- of stuff.” speaker from the Socialist Labor Party, tered by Wilcox him- Eventually it all we had a speaker from the Socialist self. found its way to Workers Party, and the year before that Turns out that KU, sometimes by we had a speaker from the Fair Play for Laird Wilcox the pickup-truck Cuba Committee. Two years after I left, believed so deeply load. we had a speaker that claimed he was in freedom of speech “Other people King of the World.” that he protested his have a railroad set Wilcox recalls that his adviser, the own event. up in their basement,” late political-science legend Cliff Ketzel, “Laird has a good says Wilcox’s wife, tried to talk him out of inviting mind,” says Tim Miller, Cheryl. “We have boxes of Rockwell. After Wilcox explained that it professor of religious studies, literature.” was about establishing freedom of who knows Wilcox well and occasion- Slowed both by dips in the indus- speech as paramount, Ketzel actively ally uses the collection for his research. try and injuries that caused long-term supported the decision. “He knows what he’s doing, and he has damage to his legs and forced him to “The best way to deal with these peo- his goal very clearly in mind: He’s trying undergo spinal surgery, Wilcox in 1978 ple is to expose them and let them be to document everything in sight.” formalized his hobby by publishing his

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI PHOTOGRAPHS BY EARL RICHARDSON

Guide to the American Left and Guide to previous job at the Kansas State he Wilcox Collection regularly the American Right, authoritative indexes Historical Society. As she began sorting attracts researchers from of extremist groups purchased by through screeds collected by Wilcox and around the world, especially libraries, researchers and even some of KU librarians from more than 8,000 left- after the Oklahoma City bomb- the groups themselves. He also and right-wing organizations, Tings of 1995 and the Sept. 11, 2001, ter- co-wrote two books on politi- Schulte sometimes was rorist attacks. Some are designated cal extremism and, among shocked and disgusted. “Spencer Fellows,” and receive modest other smaller projects, “One of the things I had travel stipends. compiled a 61-page book- to learn to do,” she says, “is One recent Spencer Fellow was Neil let of quotes on civil liber- to be objective. It’s not my Young, a PhD student at Columbia ties, published without place to be judgmental.” University in New York City, who is copyright protection so it Wilcox describes his col- researching intertwined histories of the could be freely distributed lection as “a very utilitarian Equal Rights Amendment and abortion- and copied. research base for people who rights movements. When Young arrived “When work was slow, we are exploring these subjects in a at the Spencer, Schulte and her col- lived off that publishing business,” he scholarly way.” And leagues brought out says. “There were times when I had to even though it has boxes of material scrape to get together the money for been part of him Wilcox had so postcards.” since he was old painstakingly collected Wilcox published the guides annually enough to buy his two decades earlier. until 2000, when he tired of a chore that own stamps, he “Ninety percent of was largely being supplanted by the acknowledges it’s the materials I’m look- Internet. He’s still collecting, though, strong stuff. ing at are only held by and even after so many years immersed And that, he Kansas,” Young says, in politics, he remains a listener, not a emphasizes, is the “so for me to complete shouter. whole point, both of my dissertation, this is This is, after all, a once-avid fisher- his collection and of an absolute must trip. man who came to see himself as a natu- freedom of speech. I’m talking about poli- ralist, a man who sometimes stayed out “If the collection tics at the very local, all night, sculling up and down eastern stands for anything,” community level, pub- Kansas creeks, photographing wildlife Wilcox says, “I hope lications with reader- without even baiting a hook. it would stand for the ships of less than 100 “In my guts,” Wilcox says, “I feel like diversity of opinion ... and yet he’s collect- an old liberal. But I’m really kind of a we have in America, ing them. mix, and one of the problems you get which really “I’m just stunned, into with any kind of description is, rela- embraces the entire ideological range. overwhelmed, by the finger he had on tive to what? Relative to George Bush, And it’s because people have been free the pulse of these groups. These hold- I’m pretty damn liberal. Relative to to express these opinions that ideologi- ings are incredibly rare, an embarrass- Ralph Nader, I’d probably be a little bit cal extremes have never really taken ment of riches.” conservative. hold in America. It is the final afternoon of his 10-day “I think it’s important to be able to “Suppression encourages and engen- trip and Young is frantically wrapping entertain an idea that you don’t have ders revolt. The legacy of the First up his work before leaving for the air- yourself, and truly accept the fact that Amendment, with respect to freedom of port. But when Schulte whispers in his other people do have this idea. This is expression, has been shown in our coun- ear that the collector himself is in the what civil liberties are all about. Allow try to be the key to keeping us free.” lobby, Young rushes to greet him. people who are different to be different.” Through all of the innumerable docu- “It’s an honor to meet you, sir,” Young ments he has read in a life spent examin- says. “Thank you for everything you’ve ◆ ◆ ◆ ing the kookiest and meanest politics of done.” modern America, Wilcox says he has Wilcox smiles from underneath his he U.S. Department of never once encountered anyone advocat- beard and heavy glasses and extends his Education in 1986 awarded KU ing overthrow of the government or hand, one true believer accepting from a $345,000 grant to help cata- abolishment of the Constitution. “This another the most valuable payment, the log the Wilcox Collection, all works,” he says, “because people are kind that lasts a lot longer than a thou- Twhich brought Schulte here from her allowed to talk back.” sand dollars.

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 33 EARL RICHARDSON

■ Archaeologist Rolfe Mandel (above) n the High Plains of far people to walk this part of the world. is one of a group of scientists from KU western Kansas, just KU archaeologists, working with the east of the Colorado Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the Denver Museum of Nature & border, Interstate 70 have found tantalizing clues—fractured Science excavating a site that could contain slices across a dry creek bones and stones that might be tools— evidence of the earliest humans on the bed indistinguishable that could push back the date that peo- Plains.The western Kansas dig site (right, Ofrom hundreds of other gullies that cut ple first came here by 1,000 years and top) is framed by an overpass on I-70; through the landscape. rewrite the human history of the Plains. Mandel leads a field trip of scientists from Cattle graze on a carpet of buffalo Twelve-thousand years ago, this around the country (right, bottom). grass, dotted by prickly pear cactus and creek bed looked vastly different. The sharp-bladed yucca. A windmill pumps prairie here was tallgrass, like today’s water into a couple of moss-covered Flint Hills. Cottonwoods and willows tanks. crowded the banks. Snails, like those The big sky of western Kansas hangs found today in eastern Kansas, thrived BY REX BUCHANAN over it all. in the wet places, their tiny spiral shells Though it seems common, this spot is now fossilized and bleached white. extraordinary. Beneath the loose soils Pelicans splashed in pools. and shortgrass prairie, the banks of this The difference was water. The average streambed may hold evidence of the first annual precipitation at the time was 32

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI In 1976, during the final phases KU anthropologist Jack Hofman. This Archaeologists of construction of I-70, engineers redi- time they found camel bones and more rected the flow of creeks near the town mammoth remains. Later they found question the of Kanorado (named for Kansas and flint scrapers and flakes of quartzite that Colorado, because the border is just a maybe, just maybe, were evidence of timelines for early mile west of town). After the creek path early people. was changed, the land’s owner found That meant more trips to the dry prairie people. bones protruding from newly exposed creek, where Holen began working with soils. Paleontologists from the then- Rolfe Mandel, an archaeological geolo- The answers may Denver Natural History Museum arrived gist at the Kansas Geological Survey, to identify the bones as mammoths, based at KU, and associate professor of lie in a western something like a modern elephant, only anthropology. Mandel, g’80, PhD’91, Kansas dig. bigger. At one time mammoths were had just received funding through the fairly common on the Plains, grazing on Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund, the brushy vegetation, like those willows a program endowed by retired Denver The Plainsmen

inches, much like today’s Lawrence, along the creek banks. instead of the 16 to 18 inches per year Museum paleontologists collected the common out west now. Where creeks bones, returned several times to pick up

dissected the land, they exposed the more, and stashed them in the muse- (2) JOHN CHARLTON Ogallala aquifer, the same aquifer that um’s collection. supplies water to thousands of irrigation In 2002, Steven Holen, fresh from a wells today. But then, in the time before doctorate in anthropology at KU and irrigation lowered water tables, water recently installed as a curator of archae- flowed from the Ogallala through ology at the now-Denver Museum of springs and seeps, and ran down this Nature & Science, took a second look at now-dusty draw. those bones. With water came animals. Instead of “When I got here, the first thing I did today’s white-faced Herefords, there were was go look at the mammoth collection,” camels, bison, mammoths. The High says Holen, PhD’02. “I saw some strange Plains were an early version of today’s breakage patterns on the bones from Serengeti. Kanorado, so I decided to go back and These ancient animals were walking look at the notes and any other informa- protein and calories. Where you have tion I could get.” animals, you attract people. Holen then traveled to Kanorado with

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 35 oil man Joe Cramer. The endowment confirm that humans were here, but “the dence of these early Native Americans at supports field work, travel, graduate stu- fracture patterns on the bones suggest Kanorado, it is certain that other, later dents and laboratory analysis, all inte- that they were broken by humans who people were here. In the soil layers above gral to archaeology, and its purpose is to were processing them for marrow or to those mammoth and camel bones, scien- fund the search for the earliest evidence make bone tools,” Holen says. tists have found younger materials—stone of humans in the Great Plains. It’s tough to prove that a fracture was flakes, tools, pieces of mammoth bone— It turns out that the nondescript little caused by people, and not some natural that date to 12,900 to 13,000 years ago, draw near I-70 was exactly the place to event like another animal stepping on a time known as the Clovis age. Among look. the bone and breaking it. the finds is a bead made from the iron- In June 2005, nearly 100 volunteers But put those fractured bones togeth- based mineral hematite, perhaps a sign from the Kansas Anthropological er with other evidence from the site, like of more settled, domestic activity. Association, coordinated by the Kansas a rock fragment that might represent a Clovis-age materials, such as spear State Historical Society, came to the site stone hammer, and the case for this ear- points, have been found in Kansas to sift through the soils and walk the liest occupation becomes stronger. before, but washed up on gravel bars draws. For three weeks, they spent the It’s no surprise that evidence here is along streams, and not “in place,” where days digging and the nights bunking at hard to come by. they were originally abandoned, the way they are at Kanorado. Finding materials “Right now, this is one of the most “in place” means everything in science. It allows you to date them, to glimpse the important paleo-Indian sites being context of the time when the people worked on...it may be the most were here. important. Every year we find some- Kanorado doesn’t stop with Clovis artifacts and possible material prior to thing new and really significant here.” Clovis. Above the Clovis horizon the the high school in Goodland. Allen Wiechert, assoc., former director of facili- ties planning at KU, was one of those volunteers. JOHN CHARLTON “At one of the places where I worked, volunteers found two mammoth bones,” Wiechert says. “It was exciting, because we knew there was material there to be found, and we found it.” Using those and other finds, along with carbon-14 dating, here’s what researchers know now: The mammoth bones at Kanorado, which may have been fractured by people, date to 14,200 years ago and could represent the earli- est evidence of humans on the Great “These early Native Americans were researchers have found younger material, Plains. small groups of people, family units Folsom age. They refer to these three Before Kanorado, the earliest evidence really, who moved quickly across the groups (Folsom, Clovis, and the people of humans on the Great Plains was landscape,” Mandel says. “They were before Clovis) as paleo-Indians. dated at 13,000 to 13,500 years ago. here for only a few days or maybe a What kept attracting people back to “If we have evidence of people here week at a time, probably in the spring, this spot? The same thing that’s precious more than 14,000 years ago, we have to summer, and fall, because winters were out there today—water. rethink our ideas about human coloniza- tough out here. They processed hides “To find material from all three tion of North America,” Hofman says. from the animals they killed and moved aspects here is really remarkable,” “We can no longer assume we know on. They didn’t leave things behind. Mandel says. “I could spend the rest of when people came onto the Plains for “One thing we know for sure, though: my life working here.” the first time, or which direction they These people had a really high knowl- Holen agrees. came from.” edge of the landscape.” “Right now, this is one of the two or The broken bones don’t absolutely While the jury is still out on the evi- three most important paleo-Indian sites

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI something.” There are other possible sites to investigate nearby, he says, and in Cheyenne and Rawlins counties to the north of here. “Also, the archaeological record here has been filtered by geologic processes— TRAVIS HEYING,TRAVIS EAGLE WICHITA burial and erosion,” he says. “We can use our knowledge of that filtering process to understand these artifacts and to find more.” Through all the archaeological atten- tion, traffic hums by on I-70, only 100 yards from the spot where families killed and butchered bison. Though the prairie here has never been cultivated, the con- struction of I-70 rearranged this land- scape just 50 years ago, adding another layer to the complex changes in this land. Yet without I-70, the mammoth bones that led everyone here would almost certainly never have been found in the first place. Plenty more remain. Even today, a piece of a bison leg bone juts out of a cutbank. The bone is off-white, its color ■ It wasn’t just deer and antelope playing on contrasting against the surrounding the ancient High Plains: Mandel (above) exam- gray-brown soil, the bone’s cellular ines mammoth bones at the Sherman County structure apparent to the naked eye. JOHN CHARLTON Holen, Mandel and colleagues return site where bones and rock fragments show regularly to Kanorado, excavating and evidence of human occupation up to 14,000 drilling to piece together the mosaic of years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than the subsurface, systematically collecting previously thought.Volunteers from the more materials, trying to understand Kansas Anthropological Association and the what life was like when these ancient Kansas State Historical Society worked the people first moved out onto the Plains. site in June (left and far left). Why? “The arrival of people in the New World is just as important to history as the time when Christopher Columbus arrived,” Mandel says. “If you want to being worked on,” he says. “And because ◆ ◆ ◆ understand the history of North of the three different aspects found here, America, you have to know more it may be the most important. Every year ll of this means that Kanorado about the people who were early on we find something new and really signif- is in for more intensive study. the Plains.” icant here.” Mandel is using geology to The researchers warn that they may These materials are not just from A guide the search for additional never pin down the exact date that peo- three different ages. The rock flakes materials. ple came here. The paucity of evidence come from all over North America. “If we get to know the geology, if we may prevent us from truly understand- “Here we have flint from Wyoming, know which layers of silt and soil pro- ing the ways of these early Plains people. chalcedony from Colorado, flint from duce which artifacts, we can use that to But if answers do come, they may be Texas,” Mandel says. “This really con- focus our search for more sites,” he says. found in this windswept little streambed firms what we thought about the “With a knowledge of geology to guide in western Kansas. amount of long-distance movement of us, the search is more systematic, we’re –Buchanan is a science writer materials.” not just wandering around looking for at the Kansas Geological Survey.

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 37 Association BY RACHEL NYP

Bette Jo Roberts, c’50, Garden City. Carol Ann Brown stunned staff members in the KU Office of VALERIE SPICHER VALERIE Admissions and Scholarships with her thorough effort to recruit KU students in the Washington, D.C., area. In addi- tion to attending 10 college fairs, she single-handedly visited more than 50 public and private high schools in Northern Virginia to educate coun- selors on KU’s attributes and collect contact information for KU recruit- ment counselors. Since joining the The 2005 Association Board of Directors in “Millie” award 2003, Brown has never missed a meeting. She is also a member of recognizes six the KU Endowment Association’s alumni for their Chancellors Club and the advisory board for Women Philanthropists commitment to The extra mile for KU. the University With true Texas panache, Laurence through sustained Alumni Association honors 6 Brown has gathered the Houston longtime local KU volunteers flock for more than 10 years. Come volunteer service game day, you’ll find him and his at the local level. wife, Sally, c’62, g’66, sur- here are those who lend a helping hand, rounded by fellow fans at and then there are those who stay until one of Houston’s five the last dish is dried and the final chair watch sites. He also is a Tis folded. Retired Association staff mem- member of the KU ber Mildred “Millie” Clodfelter, b’41, is one who Endowment Associ- always went beyond the call of duty, and since ation’s Elizabeth Watkins 1987, the Association has honored members Society and is most who display Millie’s stamina and commitment proud of his student to their alma mater. Clodfelter, who retired in recruitment efforts. As a 1986, still lives in Lawrence and is known to HAWK volunteer, Brown countless Jayhawks. with his fellow Houston This year’s recipients Brown alumni increased KU’s of the Mildred Clodfelter college fair representa- Alumni Award are Carol tion and covered 50 area high schools. Ann Adams Brown, c’72, A retired KU professor, Gilbert continues to Alexandria, Va.; Laurence teach fellow alumni members the meaning of KU R. Brown, e’64, g’67, dedication. She is president of the Endacott Houston; Edwyna Society, the organization of retired faculty and Condon Gilbert, PhD’65, staff whose members meet regularly in the Lawrence; Cathy L. Adams Alumni Center, and until recently, she Mitchell, b’87, edited the group’s newsletter. Gilbert is a mem- Wellington; John W. ber of the KU Women’s Hall of Fame and was Brown Mize, c’72, Salina; and the Friends of the KU Libraries president from

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1998 to 2000. Kansas as a North Central Kansas In addition, she Committee member. In his hometown, served on the Mize chaired the Saline County Kansas Woodward winners University Honors Program and helped organize Family golf tournaments, KU summer picnics Committee for and KU athletics events.

the Campaign As a 33-year SPICHER VALERIE Kansas and the volunteer veter- KU First an, Roberts has fundraising proven she has drives. staying power. Gilbert As a Kansas She not only Honor Scholar, organized the Mitchell started her Association affilia- first Finney tion in 1983 as a high-school senior with County Kansas a Kansas Honors Program dictionary in Honors Program hand. Today she’s the Wellington KHP in Garden City, coordinator. An organizer extraordinaire, but she also she even hand-wraps Hershey kisses in Roberts assisted the KU colors for Greater ■ This year’s freshman Woodward Scholars her program. University Fund as an advisory board are Scott Bird and Emily Ratzlaff. All Kansas She also has member and served on the Alumni Honor Scholars are eligible to compete advocated for Association’s Board of Directors from for the Woodward Scholarship, provided higher educa- 1990 to 1995. Roberts is a longtime through a bequest to the Association by tion’s needs as Jayhawks for Higher Education advocate Herbert Rucker Woodward, a’27.The award a member of and has helped coordinate numerous supports two freshmen and two sopho- Jayhawks for KU events in Garden City. mores each academic year. Higher Educa- tion and served on the KU Endowment Harley ’Hawks Mitchell Association’s National Development Council in 1999. For KU Athletics, she is a joint K-Club member with her husband, Jud Mitchell, SUSAN YOUNGER c’77, who is the son of former KU foot- ball coach Jack Mitchell. Salina-based Mize never passes up an opportunity to promote and support his alma mater. He has been a trustee of the KU Endowment Association since 1996 and served on the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors from 1999 to 2004. Mize also sup- ports Jayhawks for Higher Education and raised funds ■ Linda Ellis, e’79, and fiancé Russ Sims rode their Jayhawk-decked Harleys from Houston during the for the Volunteer Leaders’ Weekend in September. Mize Campaign

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1936 Carolina-Chapel Hill and research profes- Communications Group in Overland Enoch J oh n s on, c’36, g’38, recently sor emeritus at KU’s Schiefelbusch Park. published My Memoirs: A Kansas Boy Institute for Life Span Studies, recently Grows Up. He and his wife, Sylvia, make was named a Distinguished Allied 1965 their home in Green Valley, Ariz. Health Alumnus by the KU Allied Health J a m e s Be n s on , c’65, is vice provost Alumni Association. He lives in and dean of information resources and 1943 Pittsboro, N.C. libraries at St. John’s University in Cha rle s Clink e nb e a r d , b’43, recently Jamaica, N.Y. He lives in Princeton, N.J. became secretary of the Topeka 1961 Willia m Dot y , j’65, retired last year as Association of Retarded Citizens. K e it h Pa r k e r , c’61, is a research ana- an archivist at the National Archives. He lyst at Apex Innovations. He lives in lives in Overland Park. 1945 Overland Park. Cha rle s , b’45, and Be t t y Pile 1966 Cus hing , b’45, celebrated their 60th 1962 J a m e s Ne f f , m’66, a professor anniversary in July. They live in H.F . Cot t on Sm it h , j’62, wrote Death of orthopaedic surgery and of Lawrence. Rides a Red Horse, which recently was pathology and microbiology at the published by Dorchester Publishing. University of Nebraska-Omaha, 1950 He’s senior vice president of Corporate recently was named a Distinguished MARRIED Conra d McEw e n, e’50, to Gloria Campbell, Aug. 1. They live in Lantana, Fla., where they are both retired.

1956 Sue Ha rpe r Ice , d’56, recently was named 2005 Outstanding Citizen of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce in Newton, where she and her husband, Te d , c’56, l’61, make their home.

1958 J oh n De a l y , e’58, is a professor emeri- tus at McGill University. He lives in Montreal.

1959 Fr e de rick , m’59, g’98, and G ra ce Foe g e Holm e s , m’59, recently were named Distinguished Medical Alumni by the KU Medical Alumni Association. He’s a professor emeritus of medicine and she’s a professor emerita of pediatrics and preventive medicine at the KU Medical Center. Their home is in Shawnee. Ja me s McL e a n, g’59, PhD’65, an adjunct professor of speech and hearing sciences at the University of North

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judge for the cities of Broomfield, Thornton, Lakewood, Wheat Ridge and Golden. His home is in Lakewood.

1970 Rich a r d St on e , f’70, works for Lucent Technologies. He and his wife, Norma, make their home in Sulligent, Ala.

1972 J oh n H. Rob in s on J r ., e’72, g’74, is vice chairman of development at Olsson Associates in Overland Park.

1973 Don Be v ille , b’73, g’74, is a project executive for IBM in Roanoke, Texas. He lives in Colleyville.

1974 Be rn a r d Be ck e r , c’74, makes his home in Topeka, where he’s vice president and chief of human resources at Stormont-Vail Health Care. G ra ce G u n n e ls McCon n e ll, c’74, g’79, g’95, studies for a doctorate in speech/language pathology at KU.

1977 Br e t t Coon r od , l’77, is a partner in the Overland Park law firm of Smith/Coonrod. J oh n “ An d y ” Tom p k in s , EdD’77, recently became an associate pro- fessor of education at KU. He lives in Topeka. Ma r t y n O’De ll Um h olt z, c’77, s’81, works as a therapist at Soothing Touch Therapeutic Massage in Castle Rock, Colo. J o y Wh e e le r , n’77, is president and CEO of FirstGuard Health Plan in Kansas City. She recently received a 2005 Woman in Business Champion Medical Alumnus by the KU Medical KU Medical Alumni Association. Award from the Small Business Alumni Association. T. Dia n e Sp ick a r d Pe r r y , ’67, makes Adminisration and was named a her home in Wood River, Ill. She’s an Distinguished Nursing Alumna by the 1967 executive assistant at Ernst & Young in KU Nurses Alumni Association. Da nie l Hint horn, m’67, is a professor St. Louis. of internal medicine, pediatrics and MARRIED family medicine at the KU Medical 1968 Pa m e la Lin d e m a n , ’77, to Leonard Center, where he’s also chief of infec- Willa r d Ha r d e s t y , j’68, recently Guidry, March 22. They live in Covent, tious diseases. He recently was named became secretary of the Colorado La., and she’s a technology specialist a Distinguished Medical Alumnus by the Municipal Judges Association. He’s a for Office Depot.

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1979 specialist for FirstEnergy Nuclear named a Distinguished Medical Ra nda ll J or da n, c’79, is an Operating Co. in Fairlawn, Ohio. He Alumnus by the KU Medical Alumni analyst/programmer for Letterkenny in lives in Painesville. Association. Donegal, Ireland. G a il Scot t , j’80, manages sales for the Ma r y - Ma rg a r e t Simp s on , ’79, works Tribune Co. in Coconut Grove, Fla. 1984 as an editor at KU. She and her hus- K e n t Am s b e r r y , c’84, g’87, PhD’90, is band, G r e g or y , PhD’80, live in 1983 a principal research scientist for Eli Lilly Lawrence, where he’s a KU professor of Kim b e rl y Ma r t in , b’83, is a project and Co. He lives in Fishers, Ind. psychology. manager for HSBC in Tampa, Fla. Bra d le y Pos s , c’83, m’87, directs med- 1986 1980 ical education at the U.S. Naval Medical Ma rk Fo x , d’86, coaches women’s bas- To d d He nde rs on, e’80, is a licensing Center in San Diego. He recently was ketball at Bethel College in North

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Fus ion’ s la unch ne w f ocus City, spent a year studying in Japan f or For d ma rk e t e r while in high school, and chose KU in part because it was one of the few area

yarland Daniels Jones learned mar- universities offering Japanese; while AFFAIRS FORD BRAND PUBLIC COURTESY keting at Hallmark Cards; now that majoring in business she chose East she’s the launch manager of Ford Asian languages as a concentration, and JMotor Company’s sporty Fusion she again studied in Japan, with KU’s sedan, fundamentals are unchanged Study Abroad program. She completed while the stakes are significantly higher. several internships at Hallmark Cards “At Hallmark I learned how emotions and accepted her first post-graduation play into making decisions,” Daniels job with the Kansas City company. Jones, b’97, says from her office in the She moved in 2000 to Johnson & Ford Brand Building in Dearborn, Mich. Johnson, where she sold gastrointestinal “That foundation is critical for any kind drugs, and in 2003 earned an MBA from of marketing. Whether it’s greeting cards the University of Michigan. She joined or automobiles, it boils down to a very Lincoln-Mercury’s product development emotional process.” group in 2004, then moved to the com- Daniels Jones, 31, will need to call pany’s Asia-Pacific Division. Young and upon all of her marketing savvy, because stylish herself, Daniels Jones was a natu- she is in charge of launching a car ral choice to guide the introduction of a ■ Jyarland Daniels Jones has worked at three designed to compete with the legendary new car designed to appeal to the young giants of American business: Hallmark Cards, Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. It’s a and stylish. Johnson & Johnson and now Ford.“Every com- doable task, she says, because Fusion is “More of our communications with pany likes to talk about how complex their well placed in both size and price the Fusion are taking place via the business is. It makes them feel unique. But between the entry-level Focus and the Internet; that’s a heavy part of our really, it’s the same everywhere.” Ford 500, and is distinctive among its media plan,” she says. “We’ll have tradi- competitors for bold design, highlighted tional elements, but we’re doing some was a sponsor of KU’s Multicultural by a three-bar chrome grill, and aggres- new things to reach our target audience Business Scholars program. sive performance. of 25- to 39-year-olds. We’re also devel- “That program, and a couple of other “Fusion has the soul of the Mustang, oping a comprehensive plan to reach scholarships, provided me with a full with two more doors,” Daniels Jones women, Hispanic, Asian and African- ride. Giving back and contributing to a says. “This car is truly eye-catching, and American consumers.” company that contributed so much to it’s also fun to drive.” Daniels Jones says she is particularly my education helps make this job Daniels Jones, a native of Junction gratified to launch Fusion because Ford incredibly fulfilling for me.”

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Newton. He and Sus a n Hors t Fo x , p’96, Con n ie Pa t t on , c’86, works as an inte- speech/language pathologist for DeSoto live in Newton, where she’s a pharmacist gration engineer for Cardinal Health in USD 232. She lives in Leawood. at Dillons. San Diego. She lives in Carlsbad. Lilia na Ma y o-Or t e g a , g’86, PhD’96, is BORN TO: an adjunct assistant professor at KU’s MARRIED Ka t h r y n Cla rk Se e b e rg e r , l’88, and Dole Human Development Center and Ka t h le e n Wils on , ’86, to James Bocek, Jim, daughter, Quinlan Elizabeth, April 7 director general of Centro Ann Sullivan April 15 in Las Vegas. They live in in Wamego, where she joins a brother, del Peru, which recently was honored by Fenton, Mo., and their family includes Zachary, 12, and a sister, Tessa, 7. the Congress of Peru for promoting the Aaron, 13, and Kaitlyn, 11. integrated development of people with 1989 different abilities. She received KU’s 1988 Pa t rick McCu r d y , a’89, is principal Distinguished Service Citation in 2003. J u lie We s t Ed w a r d s , j’88, works as a in the health practice group of RTKL

Profile BY STEVEN HILL

Colle g e hob b y be come s Kansas farm ponds. s e rious s por t f or a ng le r When the time came for den- tal school, Colorado—with its nthony Naranja lives a bal- abundant mountain streams and ANTHONY COURTESY NARANJA anced life: He works three-and- world-class trout fishing—seemed a-half days a week in his Grand a natural choice. A Junction, Colo., dental practice. “I originally got into fly-fishing The other three-and-a-half days he fishes because trout hang out in some for trout in picturesque Rocky Mountain of the most beautiful places on streams. earth,” Naranja says. “It’s an easy Plenty of serious anglers would say it way to get away from stress.” doesn’t get much better than that. But By entering the world of com- Naranja, c’93, proves it does. petitive angling, he adds, “I threw The nearly lifelong angler earned a all that in the trash. It’s stressful. spot as an assistant coach this summer It puts pressure on you in a way on Fly Fishing Team USA, representing you never associate with fishing.” the United States at the World Fly Last year Naranja won a divi- Fishing Championships in Sweden. sion title at the Federation of Fly “Going to the world championships is Fisher’s Conclave casting compe- ■ Catching a big cuttbow trout is part of pro angler the ultimate,” Naranja says. “It’s the tition in Yellowstone, Mont., and Anthony Naranja’s practice regimen. Naranja, who dis- Olympics of fly-fishing.” he has entered many high-profile covered fly fishing at KU, helped coach Fly Fishing Team Introduced to the sport by his father fishing and casting tournaments, USA at the World Championships in August. at the age of 4, Naranja was already an including Outdoor Life experienced fisherman when he arrived Network’s Fly Fishing Masters series But the demands of pressure and at KU. Fishing at Clinton Lake one day, in 2003 and ’04. The presence of televi- practice are worth it. Naranja hopes to he spotted an angler casting a fly rod. sion cameras isn’t something he expect- move from coaching to angling at next “I thought, ‘How neat is that?’” ed to contend with when he got into year’s world championships in Portugal, Lawrence is hardly a fly-fishing the sport. where Team USA will be heavily favored mecca, so Naranja had to search before Neither was the rigorous practice reg- to improve on this year’s 15th-place finding a shop in Overland Park that imen, which calls for three-hour sessions showing. catered to fly anglers. He learned the honing casting techniques, testing new “It has been just unbelievable, to see sport through videos and books, and equipment and running through cold the world and represent my country practiced by fishing the spillway at mountain streams to prepare for the while doing something I love,” Naranja Clinton Lake and pursuing bass on physical rigors of wading. says. “What an opportunity.”

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Associates in Dallas. Minn., where he joins a brother, Peyton, who’s nearly 3. Shelly is a physical thera- 1990 pist at Sister Kenny Institute in G e n e Kin g , j’90, recently became a Minneapolis. senior marketing manager at DST De r e k , j’90, and J e n n if e r Sh a w Systems in Kansas City. Sch m id t , l’94, daughter, Claire Ry a n McCa m m on , c’90, owns Willow Cunningham, June 26 in Independence, Point Productions in Hastings, Neb., where she joins a sister, Caroline, 2. where he and Da n a Fe ld h a u s e n Derek is the majority leader in the McCa m m on , ’93, make their home. Kansas Senate, and Jennifer teaches She’s assistant financial aid director at political science at Pittsburg State Hastings College. University. J e f f r e y Moria r t y , c’90, is a principal at Exceder. He lives in Atlanta. 1991 Ch a rle s Rot b lu t , j’90, works as senior Bra n d on Be cick a , c’91, is national product manager for Zacks Investment accounts director for Fiber Tower. He Research in Chicago. lives in Flower Mound, Texas. G a r y Sw ick , j’90, manages news tech- Pa t rick Ly n ch , c’91, works as a nology for the Courier-Journal in life/health agent for UGA Association Louisville, Ky. Field Services. He lives in Shawnee Mission. BORN TO: Cou r t n e y Eb le n McCa in , j’91, is a Sh e ll y Ho w e , d’90, g’93, and Steven, field paramedic and preceptor for the son, Torin Richard, Jan. 31 in Edina, Montgomery County Hospital District

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 49 Class Notes and a contributing photographer for 1992 Koch, June 25 in Lawrence, where Kay is the Journal of Emergency Medical Dr e w Eld e r , c’92, is managing director membership associate at Plymouth Services. She and her husband, K e n , of Putnam Investments in Boston. He Congregational Church. They live in e’94, live in The Woodlands, Texas, lives in Charlestown. McLouth. with their children, Megan and Mary. Me la n ie Ma n s Pot t s , c’92, lives in Ken is a regional engineer for Symons Dallas, where she’s principal of Arthur BORN TO: Corp. Kramer Elementary School. Rod n e y Eis e n h a u e r , e’92, l’96, and Micha e l Whit a k e r , c’91, lives in Jodi, daughter, Amelia Elizabeth, April Arlington Heights, Ill. He’s chairman and MARRIED 22 in Shawnee, where she joins a sister, CEO of Plastag Holding. Ka t h r y n Wa lch e r Ce rn y , f’92, to Jeff Olivia, 3. Rodney is a partner in the Kansas City law firm of Seigfreid, Bingham, Levy, Selzer & Gee. Ca r rie Nu zu m He lle rich , j’92, and Rich, daughter, Emma Lyn, May 30 in Overland Park. Carrie works for Bernstein-Rein Advertising in Kansas City.

1993 J e n n if e r Da v is , s’93, is program man- ager for Valeo Community Residence Program in Topeka. Ch ris t ia n Is ra e l, c’93, recently was appointed by President George Bush as coordinator of international intellectual property enforcement for the U.S. Deparment of State. He lives in Alexandria, Va. Am y Sch w a r t z Wa l k e r , b’93, is audit director for HNTB in Kansas City.

1994 St e p h e n Ca ru t h e rs , b’94, manages investment relationships for Capital Group in Los Angeles. He lives in Foothill Ranch, Calif. Tim ot h y Da w s on , c’94, is completing a one-year fellowship in pain manage- ment at Stanford University Medical Center. He was formerly medical director of acute and chronic pain management at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. St e p h a n ie Em e r t , b’94, is benefits manager for the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City. She lives in Roeland Park. Eric He s s , c’94, lives in Lawrence, where he’s president of Lynn Electric Communications. Erich St a r r e t t , j’94, works as a senior program manager for Sprint in Atlanta. He and his wife, Jennifer, celebrated their first anniversary July 3.

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Dr e w Sullins , a’94, is director of lives in Tulsa, Okla. Sa ra Kn of f , c’97, works as an associate Tishman Speyer Properties in San Te d Mille r , j’96, works as deputy com- recruiter for Cargill. She lives in Francisco. munications director for NARAL Pro- Shorewood, Minn. Choice America in Washington, D.C. J e n n if e r Sh e rw ood , c’97, directs com- 1995 Tif f a n y Cra w f or d Zook , c’96, is clini- munications for the Larkin Group in Ly n n Zimme rma n , j’95, is a commu- cal coordinator for Phoenix Children’s Kansas City. She lives in Overland Park. nications consultant for Conoco Phillips Hospital in Phoenix. She lives in Queen in Bartlesville, Okla. Creek. BORN TO: Am y Fa rm e r - Pe s t k a , d’97, and Scott, BORN TO: BORN TO: son, Wyatt Nash, May 31 in Peoria, Ariz., Ja s on, c’95, and Erin Me n ih a n Fa lle y , Ka y le McG o w a n Alle n , b’96, and where he joins a brother, Owen, 2. Amy ’97, son, Hayden Webster, June 28 in Tony, daughter, KC, Dec. 3 in Jenks, teaches math in Glendale. Mission Hills, where he joins a sister, Okla., where she joins a sister, Vivian. Ka t h r y n Rich a r d s on Fra n q u e m on t , Grace, 2. c’97, and Michael, son, Jeffrey Michael, Lume n, c’95, and Em il y Vra b a c 1997 April 14 in Highlands Ranch, Colo., Mullig a n, g’98, daughter, Arbor Elise, Sh a w n Be a ch , c’97, is vice president of where he joins two brothers, Matthew, 1, June 23 in Lawrence. Lumen is a visiting corporate development for KES Systems and Christopher, 3. professor of law at KU, and Emily man- in Daytona Beach, Fla. ages marketing for Sunflower Bra n d on J on e s , c’97, l’00, is assistant 1998 Broadband. district attorney in the Douglas County Mich e lle Ca d m u s Bod ie , c’98, is a District Attorney’s Office in Lawrence. clinical instructor and physician assis- 1996 He and He a t h e r La n d on J on e s , l’00, live tant at Dermatology Partners in Port Ca r e n Cr ock e t t G e rk in , j’96, is a in Vassar. She’s county attorney for Clinton, Ohio. regional account executive for Advo. She Franklin County in Ottawa. Am y Ma y , c’98, manages the Eddie

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Bauer Home store in Kansas City. She recently received the Charlotte Business Kris t in De h of f Ros s , c’98, and lives in Overland Park. Journal’s 2005 40 Under 40 Award. She Jeremiah, son, Kaleb Martin, June 29 in Ar oo p , c’98, m’02, and J u lie He n n in g is an environmental scientist with Ralph Pasadena, Md. Pa l, h’02, recently moved from Whitehead Associates in Charlotte, N.C. Scottsdale, Ariz., to Kansas City, where 1999 he’s on the staff at the KU Medical BORN TO: Ca r ol y n K oe s t e n , g’99, PhD’03, is a Center. Kim G u t h rie J on e s , ’98, and J a riu s , research assistant professor at the KU Cha d Schlorholt z, p’98, and his wife, d’99, daughter, Victoria Janae, June 19 in Medical Center. She lives in Overland Dana, live in Indepdence with their son, Kansas City, where she joins a brother, Park. Luke, 1. Chad is a pharmacist at Jarius II, 7, and two sisters, Olivia, 5, and Tris h a Ma b e rl y , c’99, lives in Austin, Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Mija, 8. Jarius teaches math in Kansas where she’s an academic adviser and J e nn if e r Po w na ll Sc h w a lle r , c’98, City. international program coordinator at the

Profile BY JULIE METTENBURG

‘ Mi n o r i t y r e p o r t ’ c o - a u t h o r of the program for the analysis and reso- crit iciz e s NASA c ult ur e lution of conflict at Syracuse University’s

Maxwell School, discovered the value of O’LEARY ROSEMARY COURTESY pace Shuttle Discovery touched dissent in the 1980s, when she directed down easily in the dark policy and planning for the Kansas California desert Aug. 9, deliver- Department of Health and Environment. Sing its seven astronauts home to “I had an employee I called a ‘guer- a collective sigh of relief. rilla’: Basically he went outside the The flight was to herald NASA’s organization constantly,” she says. “It return to space after the 2003 Columbia triggered in me this question of the accident. Yet the shuttle’s future is no importance of having people like that more certain, because of continued in a public organization. How do you problems with the craft—and, believes manage them for the good of the NASA Return to Flight Task Group organization?” member Rosemary O’Leary, with the At Syracuse she met future NASA agency itself. administrator Sean O’Keefe, who ■ The group issued its final report in appointed her to the Return to Flight While serving on NASA’s Return to Flight August, including a scathing appendix Task Group in 2003 to pick up where Task Group, Rosemary O’Leary found serious by seven of its 25 members that has the Columbia Accident Investigation problems with the agency’s culture.The full come to be known as the “minority Board left off. That group had isolated text of the report, including dissenting Annex report.” The opinion criticizes NASA’s 29 problems for NASA to resolve, about A2, can be viewed at internal culture, which the seven believe half of them return-to-flight issues. www.nasa.gov/returntoflight. will again lead to tragedy. “Our job was to hold NASA’s feet to “There are life-and-death problems the fire, in terms of implementing those in the world, but with excellence has with NASA that could cause another items,” she says. “My job was to look at come an arrogance that needs to be tem- Columbia disaster,” says O’Leary, c’78, how they manage diversity, to interview pered to be open to new ideas,” she says. l’81, g’82. managers about what they do if some- Still, O’Leary remains a NASA fan, It’s fitting O’Leary finds herself body has a difference of opinion.” hopeful about the agency’s future. among the dissenters. Her book, The She found three problems that could “Organizations do have the capacity Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla prove fatal: resistance to outside input, to change. It is very slow and very tough, Government, is due out in December suppression of dissent and lack of man- but it definitely can happen.” from Congressional Quarterly Press. agement training for engineer-managers. —Mettenburg, j’91, is a Lawrence The Prairie Village native, co-director “They are some of the best engineers free-lance writer.

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University of Texas. a physician assistant for Family Medicine Illinois University. Andr e w Ma t hia s , b’99, is a sales spe- Associates in Lawrence. Ch ris t y Moor e , j’00, is a marketing cialist with REI in Seattle. Ca r olin e K och G ollie r , j’00, c’00, specialist for Focus Legal Solutions in manages trade show projects for the Golf Overland Park. She lives in Lawrence. BORN TO: Course Superintendents Association of Lis a Pa d illa - K e ll, c’00, works as Jill Tw o g ood Chri s t ia n , b’99, g’02, and America in Lawrence. a forensic scientist for the Illinois David, son, John Gilbert, July 18 in Ia n G u e n t h e r , a’00, is associate proj- State Police in Chicago. She lives in Chicago, where Jill is a senior tax analyst ect manager for Sarfatty Associates in Oak Park. for Sidley Austin Brown & Wood. Wilmette, Ill. He lives in Chicago. J u lie Ph illip s Ka rp in s k i, p’00, lives BORN TO: 2000 in Collinsville, where she’s assistant pro- Mich a e l Ne ls on , c’00, and Beth, Bria nne Br o w n Cook , b’00, works as fessor of drug information at Southern daughter, Sydney, July 8 in Chicago,

Profile BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

of other dancers in a New York City Un us ua l t w is t s le a d g ra d EARL RICHARDSON t o a da nce r’ s lif e audition. Or so he thought. When he moved to ive years ago, Jun Kuribayashi Connecticut in August 2004 to join the divided his time between break- company, he learned that another dancing at the Granada on Mass. dancer was returning from “injured FStreet and working as a prep reserve” to challenge him. Thus began a cook at Set ’Em Up Jack’s, a sports bar two-month head-to-head competition, on East 23rd Street. which Kuribayashi lost, but only tem- Now he dances professionally, tour- porarily. Last May, recurring injuries ing the world with Pilobolus, one of the among the dancers prompted the com- world’s most innovative companies. pany to call Kuribayashi. He flew to Kuribayashi, f’05, recalls the exact Long Beach, Calif., learned a dance in moment when his transformation began. five hours and performed that night. A Word of his Granada performances had week later, just as he was preparing to spread around town, he says, in part walk down the Hill in KU’s Commence- because his distinctive style was based ment, the company called again and on capoeira, a Brazilian form of martial flew him to Hartford, Conn., to learn a ■ arts. So KU dance instructor Joan Stone second piece in a day. “Fortunately they When he was 5, Kuribayashi moved with his invited him to give a demonstration on didn’t have a performance that Sunday,” mother and sister from Japan to Lawrence. In campus in a Robinson Center studio. he says, “or I would have had to choose 2004, as he awaited his break with Pilobolus, “After class, she pulled me aside and between graduation and my future job.” he landed a spot on a world tour with another said, ‘Jun, you should dance.’ At the time The saga prepared him well for a troupe, Momix.“My first professional perform- I was 22, I wasn’t in school, and I said, dancer’s life, in which stress plays a ance was in Japan, of all places, in front of my ‘Sure, why not? Sounds like fun.’ That’s leading role. The physical toll is espe- entire family. Ooh, what a ride!” how it started.” cially great for the six Pilobolus dancers, Though he began formal training at who combine to create incredible shapes take the toll for about three years. an advanced age for a dancer, Kuriba- and movements, defying the forces of “One of my fellow dancers says you yashi gained from the KU faculty the gravity and conventional wisdom about start to enjoy it after a year,” he says, “so technical foundation to support his nat- what human bodies can do. Their chore- I have a year before I’ll be authentically ural gifts. And the unusual combination ography is so physically demanding that smiling while dancing on-stage. I look especially fit the style of Pilobolus, help- dancers are known as “bases” and forward to that.” ing Kuribayashi win a coveted spot in “fliers.” As a flier, Kuribayashi is often But his irrepressible smile off-stage the company last year, besting hundreds airborne. At 27, he guesses his body can says it won’t take nearly that long.

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI where Michael is associate director of 2002 accountant for Tortoise Capital Advisors Cushman & Wakefield of Illinois. Ch ris Corm a ck , c’02, serves as vicar in Overland Park. He lives in Mission. at Central Lutheran Church. He and J a n a Ch e s t e r , e’03, is an engineer for 2001 Am a n d a McG in n is Corm a ck , g’02, live Vintage Petroleum in Tulsa, Okla. We n dy Ca na da y , e’01, g’04, is a man- in Lakewood, Wash. She’s vicar at Fir- Ca r olin e J a m e s , c’03, commutes from ufacturing engineer for Astaris in Conway Lutheran Church. San Diego to Carlsbad, where she’s vice Lawrence. Ron n ie Hu r t , g’02, is a financial ana- president and list manager at Infocore. St e v e n Ma g g io , b’01, lives in lyst at LabOne. He lives in Stilwell. J od ie Ka u t zm a n n , j’03, works as man- Baltimore, where he’s a senior associate Ch ris t op h e r K e n n e d y , e’02, works as aging editor for Chord magazine in with Grant Thornton. a staff software developer for DST Sherman Oaks, Calif. She lives in North Le na Nout h, g’01, is a senior program Technologies. He and Sa r a h Ma h o n e y Hollywood. analyst and team leader for LabOne. She K e n n e d y , c’01, live in Olathe. She teaches Ra e ch e l K e p n e r , c’03, g’05, is resi- lives in Olathe. at Good Shepard Catholic School. dence hall coordinator for Illinois State Chris t ophe r St opp e l, b’01, g’02, Ru s s e ll Pin e J r ., c’02, is a systems University in Normal. works as an area coordinator for the administrator for Huhtamaki Packaging Da n ie lle Ma r q u e z, j’03, coordinates University of Wyoming in Laramie. in De Soto. He lives in Overland Park. production for Primedia Business Rob bi We n ig e r , c’01, practices law K e n d ra Se a m a n , c’02, teaches at KIPP Magazines and Media in Overland Park. with Naman Howell Smith & Lee in DC Key Academy in Washington, D.C. Oliv e r Min n is , b’03, works as a real- Austin, Texas. estate agent with Stephens Real Estate in 2003 Lawrence. MARRIED Ma h a lle y Alle n , g’03, PhD’05, is an Sh a n n on Ba n e s Scriv n e r , c’03, does Emil y Ne u s t r om, h’01, and Be n ja m in assistant professor of political science at genetic counseling for the University of We a v e r , h’01, May 21. They live in California State University in Chico. Colorado Health Sciences Center. She Prairie Village. Br e n t Be h r e n s , b’03, works as a staff and her husband, Da v id , c’03, live in

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Jayhawk Society members receive a 15% discount. Kansas residents add sales tax. Shipping and handing added to all orders, unless specifically noted. Prices and availability subject to change. Denver. He works at Rose Medical band, John, make their home. in Springfield, Mo. Center. Ry a n Da Me t z, e’04, is a civil engineer Pa t rick McCa r t y , f’04, works as assis- Ja s on Shuma k e r , d’03, is a graduate with Level-4 Engineering in Lenexa. He tant director of bands for USD 497 in assistant football coach at Eastern New lives in Shawnee. Lawrence. Mexico University. He lives in Portales. Na t a l ia Ag u in a g a G a rz on , g’04, Kris t i Mis e jk a , b’04, is a staff account- works as a management associate for ant for Kornitzer Capital Management in MARRIED CitiMortgage in O’Fallon, Mo. She and Mission. She lives in Kansas City. Bra ndon He a v e y , e’03, and her husband, Erick , g’04, live in Lake J a s on Pla g m a n , b’04, works as a busi- Ja mie La t ime r , p’05, May 29 in Lee’s Saint Louis. He’s a senior project coordi- ness analyst for Cerner. He lives in Summit, Mo. He works for the Jet nator for Leica Geosystems. Prairie Village. Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Me la n ie Ha d le y , f’04, made her Calif., and she’s completing a residency European orchestral soloist debut in MARRIED with the Greater Los Angeles Veterans July with the Orquestra Nacional do Em il y Pe t e rs on , c’04, j’04, and Affairs Health Care System. Their home Porto in Porto, Portugal. She also Mich a e l Da lb orn , c’04, May 7. She is in Los Angeles. performed a solo recital in Lisbon, works for the ASE Group in Overland Portugal, and a duo recital in Eutin, Park, and he works for Pulte Homes in 2004 Germany. She is a graduate student Lenexa. They live in Olathe. Rona ld An d r e w s , e’04, is a systems in music at KU. J oh n Dom on e y , j’04, and Cou r t n e y engineer for Northrop Grumman. He Ka t h r y n Ha r d a cr e , j’04, manages cus- Ols on , d’05, June 11 in Wichita. John and Bra ndi Long a k e r An d r e w s , n’01, tomer service and retail projects for studies law at KU, and Courtney teaches live in Centennial, Colo. Byeway Books in Lenexa. She lives in French at Prairie Star Middle School in Anne Va n De ma rk Be a t t y , c’04, coor- Overland Park. Leawood. They live in Olathe. dinates clients and does information J a m a le e Hu n t le y , p’04, is a pedi- technology consulting for APC in atric clinical pharmacy specialist at 2005 Raleigh, N.C., where she and her hus- St. John’s Regional Health Care Center Am a n d a Bo y e r , c’05, studies for a

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master’s in counseling and guidance at B and K Prescription Shop in Salina. He School Codes Letters that follow UMKC. She lives in Kansas City. lives in Lindsborg. names indicate the school from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers show their class years. La ura Ea g a n , c’05, is a document management specialist for Alternative MARRIED a School of Architecture and Business Systems in Lenexa. She lives An d r e a G la t z, d’05, and J a m e s Urban Design in Overland Park. St on e r , ’06, June 25 in Lawrence, where b School of Business Linds a y Ep le e , s’05, works as a case they live. c College of Liberal Arts and manager for KVC Behavioral Healthcare Moll y We lch , m’05, to Patrick Sciences d School of Education in Lenexa. She lives in Kansas City. Thiessen, June 11 in Kansas City. Their e School of Engineering Re be cca Fie ld, j’05, is an account home is in Arvada, Colo. f School of Fine Arts executive for the Arizona Republic. g Master’s Degree She lives in Scottsdale. BORN TO: h School of Allied Health Roque G a g lia no , ’05, works as an St e v e n K os a , m’05, and Jennifer, son, j School of Journalism engineer for Sprint in Overland Park. Samuel, Aug. 4 in Kansas City, where l School of Law Jill Ka y , b’05, is an accountant for Steven is a resident at the KU Medical m School of Medicine n School of Nursing Bridges & Co. in Shawnee. Center. p School of Pharmacy Me a g a n K e lle he r , c’05, j’05, works Ph a rm D School of Pharmacy as Internet director for KPLC. She lives ASSOCIATES s School of Social Welfare in Lake Charles, La. Monsignor Vin ce Kris ch e recently DE Doctor of Engineering Am y Moude n, c’05, is a client execu- moved to Prairie Village, where he will DMA Doctor of Musical Arts tive at Cerner. She lives in Overland serve as parish priest at St. Ann Catholic Ed D Doctor of Education Park. Church. He had directed St. Lawrence Ph D Doctor of Philosophy ( n o le t t e r) Former student Kris t e n No v a k , b’05, lives in Wichita, Catholic Center in Lawrence for 28 a s s oc . Associate member of the where she works for Raytheon Aircraft. years. Alumni Association De r e k Pih l, p’05, is a pharmacist for

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In Memory

1920s grandchildren. wife, Dorothy Deichert Bryant, c’40; four Cla ra Dills ha v e r Ba rn e s , f ’25, 103, J oh n Re d m on d , e ’34, 93, Sept. 17 in daughters, three of whom are Jan Bryant Aug. 20 in Hutchinson. She is survived Bainbridge Island, Wash., where he was Swanson, d’64, Vicki Bryant Barshay, by two daughters; eight grandchildren; retired from Shell Oil. He is survived by p’79, and Sue, assoc.; two sons, Alan, and 10 great-grandchildren. his wife, Betty, three sons, 11 grandchil- b’66, and John, c’75; eight grandchil- Ma r y My e rs Elliot t , c’2 6, 100, Jan. 9 dren and seven great-grandchildren. dren; and eight great-grandchildren. in Gainesville, Fla., where she taught Cu r t is Sk a g g s , c’3 2, 94, Aug. 9 in He rb e r t Cole , l’4 7, 90, June 17 in speech and drama. A son, a daughter Pratt. He is survived by his wife, Beth Denver, where he had a career in real and five grandchildren survive. Baer Skaggs, c’33; three sons, two of estate and business development. A son Ma r t ha Wa lla ce , c’2 9, 102, Aug. 20 in whom are David Jr., d’59, g’60, and and a sister survive. Vero Beach, Fla. She had been a profes- Gary, ’63; a daughter, Gail, c’70; a sister; Ha r r y De p e w , b ’48, l’5 1, 81, Aug. 31 sor in Mount Pleasant, Mich., for many seven grandchildren; and 13 great- in Neodesha, where he was a retired years. A niece and a nephew survive. grandchildren. attorney. He is survived by his wife, At h e lia “ Ph oe b e ” Wood b u r y Frances Crisp DePew, b’46; two sons, 1930s St a u f f e r , c’3 9, 88, Aug. 23 in Vero Beach, one of whom is Dennis, b’80, l’83; and Lucile Th omps on Bu rk h e a d , c’3 4, 93, Fla. She is survived by two daughters; a four grandchildren. Sept. 15 in Marysville. She is survived by son; a sister; two brothers, one of whom Re b e cca Ra g e s Ern i, d ’40, 87, July 30 two sons, Harlan, c’65, l’68, and is Robert Woodbury, ’44; and five in Lyons, where she was a retired Norman, ’62; four grandchildren; and grandchildren. teacher. She is survived by her brother, four great-grandchildren. Ma r y La in g Wa r d , d ’31, 98, July 21 Lloyd Rages, g’52. He rbe r t Hy la nd, l’3 5, 92, Aug. 19 in in Marysville. A daughter, a son, four G ile s Fr e e m a n , m ’44, 86, July 24 in Washington, Kan., where he practiced grandchildren and four great-granchil- Pratt, where he was a physician. He is law. He is survived by two sons, James, dren survive. survived by his wife, Mary Gill Freeman, c’66, and Thomas, ’66; six grandchil- Rob e r t Willia m s , e ’39, 87, Aug. 24 in assoc.; three sons, one of whom is John, dren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Kansas City, where he had been a CPA ’77; two daughters, one of whom is Be r d e a n Ba s t ia n Br e id e n t h a l Is h a m , and a professional engineer. Surviving Barbara Freeman Atcheson, d’70; two ’38, 90, Aug. 6 in Wichita. She is sur- are his wife, Lorene, a son, a daughter, a sisters; seven grandchildren; and four vived by a son, Maurice Breidenthal III, sister, five grandchildren and two great- great-grandchildren. a’73; a brother, H. Marvin Bastian, ’42; grandchildren. Ira G is s e n , j’4 9, 77, July 30 in Virginia and six grandchildren. An n a Dot y Win t e rs , f ’38, 88, Aug. 3 Beach, Va. He was former national direc- Sa ul Ka s s , b ’36, 90, Sept. 15 in in Springfield, Pa. Two sons and a tor of the anti-discrimination department Kansas City. He was chief financial offi- daughter survive. for the Anti-Defamation League. Among cer of Harzfelds Department Store and Le on Zim m e rm a n , m ’35, 95, July 22 survivors are his wife, Linda, two daugh- of the House of Lloyd. A memorial has in West Hartford, Conn., where he prac- ters, a son and a grandchild. been established with the KU Endow- ticed ophthalmology. Survivors include a Rob e r t G r e e n , e ’43, 84, July 21 in ment Association. Surviving are a son, son, Carl, ’63; two daughters; five grand- Wichita. He is survived by his wife, Daniel, d’73, g’83; a daughter; a sister, children; and six great-grandchildren. Rosanna, two daughters, two stepsons, a Zendra Kass Ashkanazi, f’45; and three brother, two grandchildren and two grandsons. 1940s great-grandchildren. Doris Schue rma n K u n z, c’3 8, 87, Willia m Ar t h u r , b ’47, 85, July 24 in Ra lp h Ha le , c’4 4, m ’46, Sept. 2 in Aug. 2 in Lee’s Summit, Mo., where Olathe. He was a home builder and real- Hutchinson, where he was a physician. she was a retired medical technologist estate agent. Surviving are two sons, Survivors include his wife, Marian, and teacher. She is survived by her hus- Joseph, j’68, and Vance, j’72; three broth- assoc.; two sons; two daughters; two band, Bill; three daughters, Carolyn ers, Charles, b’39, l’47, James, e’54, and stepdaughters; two stepsons, one of Kunz Patterson, c’65, g’80; a son; two Wade, c’51; five grandchildren; and a whom is Steven Glazner, c’77; 10 grand- sisters, Nadine Schuerman Kunz, c’42, great-grandson. children; and five great-grandchildren. and Coral Schuerman Landis, h’48; Vict or Br y a n t , b ’40, 86, July 26 in Rob e r t Ha y w ood , c’4 7, g ’48, 83, Aug. eight grandchildren; and four great- Scottsdale, Ariz. He is survived by his 6 in Topeka, where he was a professor

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI emeritus of history at Washburn Mitchell, f’49; two sons, one of whom is survived by his wife, Henrietta, three University. He is survived by his wife, John, c’75, g’84; a daughter, Elizabeth daughters and three grandchildren. Marie; a daughter, Sandy Haywood Mitchell Gaudreau, d’77, g’78; a sister; J a m e s Cou lt e r , e ’50, 85, Sept. 9 in Jarvis, ’64; two sons; seven grandchil- and seven grandchildren. Annapolis, Md. He is survived by his dren; four great-grandchildren; a step G ra ce Me t ca lf Mu ile n b u rg , j’4 7, 91, wife, Norma Brink Coulter, assoc.; a son, grandchild; and three stepgreat- July 22 in Jetmore. She is survived by a James, ’68; a daughter; a sister; seven grandchildren. son, a brother, three grandchildren and grandchildren; and four great-grand- Eliza be t h Ma rs ha ll Hor t on , c’4 2, 84, 11 great-grandchildren. children. Sept. 3 in Topeka. She lived in Prairie Be rn a r d Nor d lin g , l’4 9, 84, Aug. 31 Willia m Cr ock e t t , c’5 6, 70, Aug. 22 Village for many years and is survived in Lawrence. He was a partner in the in San Jose, Calif., where he was a retired by her husband, Raymond, assoc.; two Hugoton law firm of Kramer, Nordling professor of English at San Jose State daughters, one of whom is Anne Horton and Nordling and had received the KU University. He is survived by his wife, Pettavel, f’74; and three grandchildren. Alumni Association’s Fred Ellsworth Verdis Ross Crockett, d’56; a son; and a Cha rle s J oh n s on, c’ 49, l’5 1, 81, Sept. Medallion. A memorial has been estab- daughter. 11 in McPherson. He is survived by his lished with the KU Endowment He rb e r t Frie s e n , m ’56, 75, Sept. 12 wife, Lucy; a daughter, Jennifer Johnson Association. He is survived by his wife, in Hillsboro. He is survived by his wife, Kinzel, l’78; two sons, one of whom is Barbara Burkholder Nordling, ’51; a Ruth; four sons; a daughter; five broth- Dean, ’73; two brothers, Ernest, ’50, son, Erick, c’79; four daughters, ers, two of whom are Paul, f’47, and and Richard, c’51, m’55; and five Karen Nordling Koehler, c’73, Kristine Jake, c’47, m’50; a sister; and 16 grand- grandchildren. Nordling Stepaniuk, c’75, Leslie children. Willia m Le nt z, c’4 9, m ’53, Sept. 18 Nordling Petz, c’78, and Julie Nordling Ve rn on G le is s n e r , p ’58, 73, Sept. 21 in in Topeka, where he was a physician. Andrews, d’81; a sister; a brother, Wichita, where he was a retired pharma- He is survived by his wife, Doris Taggart Chester, ’51; 15 grandchildren; and cist. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn, Lentz, assoc.; two daughters; a son, two great-grandchildren. a son, a daughter and three brothers. Steven, ’84; a sister; and five grand- Ma ria n Milh oa n Ph illip s , f ’41, 86, Aug. Ra ls t on Ha n n a s J r ., m ’52, 86, Aug. 6 children. 7 in Overland Park. She worked for the in Tucson, Ariz, where he was a retired Ma urice Lung r e n, j ’49, g ’57, 88, Sept. Tulsa Tribune and was an artist for physician. He had been assistant clinical 6 in Norman, Okla. He had been dean Frances Martin Accessories. A daughter professor of surgery at Northwestern of adult education at Central Nebraska survives. University Medical School. He is sur- Community College and is survived by Ea rle Ra d f or d , b ’40, June 25 in vived by three sons, two daughters, two his wife, Penny, a daughter, two sons Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. A son, Tim, brothers and three grandchildren. and three grandchildren. c’66, and a daughter survive. J oh n n y Ha y n e s , b ’50, 80, July 30 in Dua ne McCa r t e r , e ’49, c’5 5, m ’58, J a m e s Sim m on s , b ’48, 79, June 30 in Kansas City. He lived in Bonner Springs, 78, Sept. 16 in Topeka, where he was a Houston, where he was retired controller where he co-owned Ernie Fry Ford. He is retired physician. Surviving are his wife, of the Crispin Co. He is survived by his survived by his wife, Frances; a daughter; Sandra; three sons, one of whom is wife, Georgiana, two sons, a daughter, a son, Ernie, ’79; and two grandsons. Kevin, ’86; two daughters, one of whom four grandchildren, a stepgranddaughter K e it h Hou s e , g ’58, 79, Aug. 26 in is Julie, d’98; three brothers, one of and two great-granddaughters. Fayette, Mo. He was retired director of whom is Jack, ’50; a sister, Joyce bands and dean of the Swinney McCarter Metzler, assoc.; and eight 1950s Conservatory of Music at Central grandchildren. J a m e s Al y e a , c’5 1, m ’54, 78, May 12 Methodist College. Survivors include his Cha rle s McD ona ld, f ’40, 86, Sept. 8 in Columbia, Mo., where he was an anes- wife, Ilene, three sons, a daughter, a sis- in Wichita, where he was a retired cus- thesiologist. He is survived by his wife, ter, nine grandcildren and three great- tomer-relations supervisor for TWA. Bertha, a daughter, three sons and four grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Joan, a son, grandchildren. De a n Hu t ch in s on , e ’50, 87, Sept. 19 two stepsons, a stepdaughter, eight Le Ro y “ Nick ” Be rn d t , b ’56, 70, Sept. in Prairie Village, where he was a super- grandchildren and six great-grand- 6 in Topeka. He was an accountant and visor for Midwest Motor Freight Bureau. children. is survived by his wife, Anna Streeter Several cousins survive. Da vi d Mit che ll, e ’49, 79, Aug. 26 in Berndt, assoc.; three sons; a daughter; a The Rev. Por t t e u s La t im e r , c’5 0, 98, Tulsa, Okla., where he was retired presi- brother; eight grandchildren; and a July 12 in Sterling, where she was a dent of Murray R. Womble Co. A memo- great-grandson. Methodist minister. A niece survives. rial has been established with the KU Pa u l Bir d , e ’51, 79, Aug. 17 in Iola, J a m e s Lou n s b u r y , b ’51, 75, Aug. 1 in Endowment Association. He is survived where he was retired from a career with Arvada, Colo. Among survivors are a son; by his wife, Mary Carolyn Daugherty Burns & McDonnell Engineering. He is a daughter; and a brother, John, d’57.

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K e nne t h Ma rs i, Ph D’55, 76, Aug. 20 Wichita. He is survived by his wife, g’83; a sister, Pattie Armbrister Johnston, in Dana Point, Calif. He chaired the Linda Baker Green, d’62; two sons; a d’74; his mother; and two grandchildren. chemistry department at California State daughter, Sara Green Mathis, h’92; a sis- Ron a ld Av e r y t , Ph D’70, 71, July 22 University in Long Beach and is survived ter; and seven grandchildren. in Ottawa, where he chaired the depart- by his wife, Irene, two sons, two daugh- Na n cy Sa n d e rs , c’6 7, 60, Sept. 14 in ment of history and political science ters and eight grandchildren. Lawrence. She had been a librarian at at Ottawa University. Three brothers Ha r o ld McNa m a ra , c’5 4, g ’55, several universities and had managed a survive. PhD ’60, 76, July 24 in Wichita, where he family farm. A memorial has been estab- Wilm a Mills a p Bu rg e s s , s ’73, 74, Aug. practiced psychiatry. He is survived by lished with the KU Endowment 15 in Wichita. She had been a social his wife, Coleta Eck McNamara, d’56; Association. She is survived by her hus- worker for High Plains Mental Health in two sons, Timothy, c’79, and Randall, band, William Crowe, assoc.; a daughter, Hays. Survivors include two daughters, c’84; a daughter, Danielle, c’82; a brother; Katherine, c’04; a sister, Kathryn Sanders five grandchildren and four great-grand- two sisters; and six grandchildren. Wilson, j’69; and her stepmother, children. Aile e n J on e s Ne s m it h , ’50, 80, July 27 Margaret Broeker Sanders, c’36. Da v id Ch a s e , c’7 0, 56, June 30 in in Lawrence, where she was a nurse. She Re b e cca Ha n k s Ma k u ch , d ’64, g ’66, Columbia, Mo., where he was a dentist. is survived by a stepdaughter, Ida 63, Jan. 16 in Flagstaff, Ariz. She had He is survived by his wife, Phyllis Nesmith, n’64; eight stepgrandchildren; been special-education director for the Stevens Chase, d’71, EdD’87; two sons; and five stepgreat-grandchildren. Page school district and is survived by and a daughter. Ne d Ph y e , g ’57, 75, Aug. 3 in Harper. her husband, Rance, c’66, g’67; a daugh- J od ie G oe rin g Eld rid g e , g ’78, 56, July He is survived by his wife, Marjorie, a ter; and a granddaughter. 30 in Kansas City. She lived in Baldwin son, two daughters, a stepson, two step- Sa n d ra McNa b n e y , c’6 1, 65, Aug. 8 in and was a music educator. She is sur- daughters and six grandchildren. Coffeyville. A sister, Patricia McNabney vived by her husband, Mark; her parents; Ma r y Kie hl Rus co , c’5 3, 77, May 23 in Honssinger, c’53, survives. three brothers, Keith, d’61, Kevin, c’77, Reno, Nev., where she was an archaeolo- Rob e r t Me r e d it h , c’6 8, 59, Aug. 12 in and Kent, ’64; a sister, Jan Goering gist. A son, a daughter and two grand- Atlanta, where he taught English at the Hastings, f’73; and three grandchildren. children survive. Georgia Institute of Technology and had J a m e s G ill, s ’72, 69, Aug. 20 in Eliza be t h Ho w a r d Sm a t la , c’5 6, 83, worked as a tax preparer. His wife, Topeka, where he was a social worker. June 21 in Silver Lake. She is survived by Eileen, survives. He is survived by his wife, Lula her husband, Ed; a daughter; and a J oh n Ne a l, c’6 3, l’6 7, 64, Sept. 4 in Hutcherson Gill, assoc.; a daughter; brother, Charles Howard, b’50. Hutchinson, where he owned Ineeda five brothers; five sisters; and two G e org e Tru f f e lli, g ’52, Ph D’63, 78, Cleaners. He is survived by his wife, grandchildren. July 17 in Crownsville, Md., where he Darla McJilton Neal, d’63; two sons, one La w r e n ce Hou g h t on , e ’73, g ’79, 62, was retired from a career in pharmaceuti- of whom is David, d’96; a brother; and July 24 in Centerview, Mo. He was a civil cals and immunodiagnostics. He is sur- four grandchildren. engineer and is survived by a son, his vived by his wife, Paula Jernigan Truffelli, Da v id Pa lm e r , m ’63, 67, Aug. 25 in parents and two brothers. ’49; a son; three daughters; and nine Wichita, where he was a physician. Ha r r y “ Ha p ” K e ll y III, c’7 4, 55, Sept. grandchildren. Surviving are his wife, Barbara, assoc.; 2 in Overland Park. He was a banker Lila We is s e nbe rg , Ph D’58, March 15 two daughters, Leigh, b’94, and Laura, and founder of Hallmark Dental Care. in Topeka, where she was a psychologist l’94, g’02; and a sister. Surviving are his wife, Gail; three daugh- with the Kansas Neurologic Institute. J a m e s Sch a f e r , c’6 8, g ’72, 59, Sept. ters; a son; a brother; five sisters; and 12 in Hutchinson. A sister survives. three grandchildren. 1960s Me lv in St e in e r , c’6 6, 60, Aug. 10 in G le n d a Hill Kru g , d ’78, 48, July 30 in Robe r t Div e lbis s , c’6 2, 66, Sept. 21 in Modesto, Calif. His mother and a Salina, where she owned Kansas City, where he was a librarian. A brother survive. REMAX/Advantage Realtors. She is sur- brother survives. vived by her husband, Phil; a son; a J oa nne Wood h ull G oe p f e r t , n ’61, 65, 1970s daughter; her parents, Robert, l’48, and Aug. 15 in Mercer Island, Wash., where Wa lla ce G a le Arm b ris t e r , d ’74, 60, Betty Hill, assoc.; and two sisters, she was a retired nurse. She is survived Aug. 17 in Olathe. He lived in Baldwin, Kathryn Hill Bahner, d’70, and Martha by her husband, Richard, c’63, m’67; two where he was a substitute teacher. He Hill Underwood, d’72. daughters; a son; two brothers, one of earlier had been a supervisor at Ra n d y Mod d r e ll, d ’74, 54, Aug. 9. He whom is Donald Woodhull, b’59; a sis- Hallmark Cards. Surviving are his wife, lived in Kalispell, Mont., and was a coor- ter, Mary Woodhull Ibarra, d’65; and Cheryl Kitlen Armbrister, ’66; two sons, dinator for Summit Independent Living three grandchildren. one of whom is Matthew, d’95, g’01; two Center. He is survived by his wife, Gay; a Lor e n G r e e n , d’6 3, g ’68, 65, July 28 in brothers, one of whom is Jackson, c’78, daughter; three stepsons; his father, Joe,

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI b’49; his stepmother; two sisters; and sons; two daughters; his father, Karl, Berkley, b’80, Roxanne Getter Brendel, a brother. b’54, his mother; a sister; and a brother. ’82, and Laurie Getter Michels, c’85; Da vi d Rous h, e ’78, 48, Sept. 7 in J e n n if e r Holt Va le n t in e - Bu r , j’8 0, 47, three sisters; seven grandchildren; and a Topeka. He lived in Holton and had July 26 in Shawnee. She was a vice presi- great-grandchild. worked for Mac Equipment. Survivors dent in the international banking depart- Kh a t a b Ha s s a n e in , July 9 in Kansas include two sons, one of whom is Loren, ment at Commerce Bank. Survivors City, where he chaired the biometry ’81; his parents; two sisters, one of include her husband, Kevin, a son, a department at the KU Medical Center. whom is Lisa Roush Clark, d’78; and daughter, a stepson, a stepdaughter and He is survived by his wife, Ruth; a two grandchildren. a brother. daughter, Sarah Hassanein Hon, m’98; a Father J ohn St it z, g ’73, g ’78, Ph D’83, Br ock Wilk e rs o n , d ’80, 47, Aug. 11 sister; and two grandchildren. 78, July 26 in Lansing. He had been in Pittsfield, Mass. He was an interna- G e org e Ra s m u s s e n , 78, Aug. 10 in chaplain at St. Mary College in tional purchasing agent for General Durham, N.C. He lived in Hillsborough Leavenworth for 20 years and had been Electric Plastics and an account execu- and had been a journalism professor at a priest in Topeka, Marysville, Kansas tive for Severn Trent Laboratories. KU, Boston University and Elon City, Sabetha, Tonganoxie and Mooney Surviving are his wife, Cathy; two University. Surviving are his wife, Janet Creek. Four sisters survive. daughters; his father; his mother, Burdick Rasmussen, h’85; two sons, Thoma s Va u g h n, p ’73, 55, July 23 in Betty Brockway Wilkerson, n’67; and Neil, c’95, and Mark, c’93; a daughter; Wichita, where he was a retired pharma- a brother, Brian, c’82. and three grandchildren. cist. He is survived by a daughter, a son, Ho w a r d St olt e n b e rg , g ’38, 93, Sept. 1 his parents, a sister and two grand- 1990s in Lawrence, where he was an assistant daughters. Id o w u “ Ak in ” Aja y i, ’95, 54, July 30 in professor of civil engineering at KU from Lawrence, where he was a former pro- 1946 to 1970. He also had been chief 1980s gram assistant at KU and at Cornell chemist in the environmental laboratory Ala n Al b rig h t , e ’82, g ’84, 46, April 7 University in Ithaca, N.Y. He also had at the Kansas Department of Health and in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was an been a computer engineer at Stanford Environment in Topeka. Survivors aerospace engineer with Lockheed- University Hospital. Survivors include include his wife, Alwilna Thiry Martin. He is survived by his wife, Sarah his wife, Omofolabo; three daughters, Stoltenberg, ’68; two sons, Gerald, e’64, Douglass Albright, ’84; two sons; his Usibaka, e’00, Eniola, d’03, and g’70, and David, e’61, g’62; two daugh- mother, Donna Grace Albright, c’54; and Toluwalase, c’04; eight brothers; and ters, Ellen Stoltenberg Thompson, ’70, two sisters, one of whom is Cynthia a sister. and Elaine Stoltenberg Balazs, ’69; a Albright Peterson, h’79. stepdaughter, Shirley Burris Henson, Sus a n Birnba um, j’8 1, 46, Aug. 2 2000s d’71; three grandchildren; and four in Chicago, where she had a career in Ab d u lra h m a n Alh om ou d , ’05, 37, great-grandchildren. publishing. She is survived by her par- Aug. 17 in Lawrence, where he was a KU J a ck Wa lk e r , m ’53, 83, Sept. 1 in ents; and a sister, Sharon Birnbaum doctoral student in linguistics. His wife Overland Park. He was a professor emer- Luschen, b’85. and five children are among survivors. itus of medicine at the KU Medical Ca rla Da vis , c’8 8, 47, Dec. 18 in Yih on g Zh u , ’05, June 14 in Lawrence. Center and had been mayor of Overland Baltimore. Her mother, Ruth, and a His parents survive. Park, a Kansas state senator and Kansas brother survive. lieutenant governor from 1987 to 1991. Ma rk Pur via nce , g ’83, Ph d ’87, 54, The University Community He is survived by his wife, Jo Ann, assoc.; Aug. 11 in Omaha, Neb. He had been Be rn a r d Die t z, g ’54, 86, Dec. 4 in a son; and two grandsons. director of psychology at the Ventura, Calif., where he taught in the Yv on n e Bu s t e r Willin g h a m , ’67, 86, Rehabilitation Institute of the Carolinas fine arts department at Ventura College. July 26 in Lawrence, where she was in Florence, S.C., and had a private prac- He taught at KU from 1950 until 1955. retired associate director of the tice in Oklahoma City. He also was a Among survivors are his wife, Mary, University Press of Kansas. She is sur- staff psychologist at the University of two daughters, two sons, a sister and a vived by her husband, John, assoc.; a Nebraska Medical Center. Survivors brother. son, John Jr., c’70; a daughter, Amy include his wife, his mother, two daugh- Ru s s e ll G e t t e r , 69, Sept. 15 in Kansas Willingham Schultz, h’82; a sister; and ters and two sisters. City. He lived in Lawrence, where he was six grandchildren. Da nie l Se a rls , c ’86, g ’87, 41, Aug. 6 in a retired associate professor of political DeSoto, where he was a laser technician science at KU. He is survived by his wife, with the Mid-America Kidney Stone Mary Jean Mundsack Getter, ’82; two Association. He is survived by his wife, sons, Scott, ’82, and Robert, e’84; four Yvonne DeKeyser Searls, PhD’05; two daughters, Barbara, ’79, Denise Getter

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to the casts, and he uses var- ied light sources, including ultraviolet flashlights that

EARL RICHARDSON exhibitgoers can use to charge up the dyes and pig- ments. Displayed in fluid- filled glass jars packed together on dramatically backlit shelves, the 1,700 frogs and toads glow in vibrant technicolor. The rain- bow of colors is meant to ■ Tracy Hicks brings evoke the natural hues of the amphibian specimens out frogs and their environment, of the museum vault in as well as the colors found in his exhibition,“Two the cultures of South America Cultures: Collection,” at and Asia, where the original the Hall Center for specimens were gathered. the Humanities The exhibition is funded with a grant from the Museum Loan Network Fluorescent frogs secured by Marjorie Swann, associate professor of and technicolor toads English, and John Simmons, An artist explores the links between science collection manager for amphibians and reptiles at and art in (almost) living color the Natural History Museum, which holds the world’s rowing up in Texas, Tracy Hicks spent largest scientific collection of New World summers searching for snake, lizard amphibians. and turtle eggs. He dug up his finds “Today it is widely understood that the prac- Gand displayed them in glass jars on his tice of science is never purely objective,” bedroom shelves, where he could watch them Simmons says. “Both the questions scientists ask hatch. and the way in which they try to answer them “I had a wall covered with jars full of hatching are always culturally determined.” animals when I was 11,” Hicks says. “My parents Thus the natural history collections Hicks counted 150-some-odd animals in my bedroom works with reflect the cultures that created them, at one point. I don’t know that I can say whether according to Simmons: in this case, the culture of that was science or art.” American academia. Hicks says his use of color is Decades later, the Dallas-based artist is still an attempt to acknowledge the relationship exploring connections between two disciplines between these animals and the Asian and South he thinks are too often divided. His latest work, American cultures that “revere their presence and an exhibition at the Hall Center for the loss.” Humanities titled “Two Cultures: Collection,” fea- The exhibition title is taken from C.P. Snow’s tures urethane and silicone casts of amphibian book, The Two Cultures and the Scientific specimens from KU’s Natural History Museum Revolution. In it the novelist and scientist and the Field Museum in Chicago. Hicks added bemoaned the divisions between art and science. phosphorescent pigments and fluorescent dyes To intellectuals who questioned the literacy of

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI scientists, Snow issued a challenge: ◆ ◆ ◆ Describe the second law of thermody- namics. Most couldn’t, even though it

was a question Snow equated with ask- House plentiful EARL RICHARDSON ing a scientist if he’d read a work of Shakespeare’s. A KU professor says Hicks’ life and work show how art the answer to the affordable and science can intersect to interesting housing crisis isn’t always effect. He has raised praying mantises, lizards and goldfish for an exhibition more houses illustrating social inequities in inner cities. After a trip to South America with overnments spend a lot of a team of herpetologists studying money making affordable amphibian decline, he began raising housing available to people endangered frogs at home. Gwith low incomes. Kirk Another aim of “Two Cultures” is to McClure wants to help officials spend heighten public awareness about the this money wisely. important role museums play in under- McClure, a’73, c’74, associate profes- standing some of the world’s most sor of architecture and urban planning, imperiled ecosystems. Many of the has developed a simple technique that specimens from which his casts are planners can use to more accurately made, he notes, are far too fragile for assess the affordable housing needs of a public display. city. His technique, published in the “The general public will never get into summer issue of the Journal of Planning ■ Housing vouchers are the best means for a museum vault to see these specimens, Education and Research, also suggests and if they did they would probably be policy remedies to address any deficien- making homes affordable for low-wage work- repulsed,” says Hicks, who notes that cies uncovered during the assessment. ers in many cities, says Kirk McClure. He hopes some visitors are squeamish about sur- Typically, officials must choose planners in Lawrence and other locales rounding themselves with hundreds of between erecting housing projects or embrace his idea, which challenges the notion dead animals. “There is a level of repul- providing Housing Choice Vouchers, that more construction is the only solution to sion in this, I have no doubt. And yet, which allow low-income families to buy the affordable housing shortage. aesthetically, I think it’s pretty blooming or rent existing homes. Unfortunately, beautiful.” McClure believes, officials sometimes “Two Cultures” will remain at the Hall choose based on preconceived notions. an annual income less than $10,000, Center through March 18. “My dear old mother used to say that meaning only housing that rented for —Steven Hill builders and planners have an edifice less than $250 a month with utilities complex,” he says, “They like to put up would be considered affordable. Not sur- houses because that is what they know.” prisingly, only a few hundred such units Building low-cost housing is of little exist.) value in cities that already have a surplus The best thing Lawrence can do for

EARL RICHARDSON of units priced as low as can reasonably these people, McClure contends, is sup- be expected, McClure says. ply vouchers that will help them afford That’s the situation facing Lawrence, existing low-cost homes, not build new according to a February 2004 report that houses. McClure, a member of the the city’s Nationwide, the stakes of such deci- Housing Trust Fund Board, prepared for sions are high: In 2005 the Department the city. of Housing and Urban Development McClure says his analysis shows there spent $20 billion on public housing and is plenty of reasonably priced housing in rental assistance programs. In Lawrence Lawrence. The real problem is the num- alone, the Lawrence-Douglas County ber of people who make so little money Housing Authority spent $2 million. they can’t afford decent housing at any McClure bases his technique on the price. (According to the 2000 census, idea that a city is not one big housing nearly 4,000 Lawrence households had market, but a collection of smaller sub-

ISSUE 6, 2005 | 65 Rock Chalk Review markets. Instead of looking at the overall ◆ ◆ ◆ of growing up,” says the owner of the housing situation, he says, planners motel where Kat had stayed since her should concentrate on conditions in the unannounced arrival. “It hurts some- appropriate sub-markets. Home is where times, but you have to do it if you’re To assess sub-markets, McClure going to live with yourself.” mines census data for two pieces of the hope is Such insights were evident in information. First, he calculates how Brichoux’s 2003 debut, Coffee & Kung much of a city’s population lives at a Brichoux’s novel explores Fu, and she continues her growth here number of different income levels. aches of unexpected return with confident language, precise details Next, he sees how much housing is avail- and well-proportioned structure. The able to buy or rent at a price considered atherine Earle slips away from story is fast when necessary, yet equally affordable to each of these different her Montana hometown in the comfortable slowing down to burrow income levels. By comparing the number clutches of a musician, only to into old hurts and celebrate new joys. of available low-income houses with the Kdiscover that marriage in a far- Brichoux, who lives in Lawrence, cre- number of low-income families, cities away metropolis is just as unfulfilling as ates in The Girl She Left Behind a search can determine whether or not that par- the life she left behind at Aunt Eva’s for love, self and home within a gossipy, ticular sub-market is balanced. (Federal house in Silver Creek. An eviction notice loving community that evokes Richard law defines as affordable any housing stuck to the door of their Los Angeles Russo’s Empire Falls or Michael that costs no more than 30 percent of a apartment, Kat and Stephen pack Chabon’s Wonder Boys; with her ear for family’s income.) another U-Haul. She clearly is not the sweet stories and proven productivity, The idea sounds straightforward, and type put off by sudden change, but Kat Brichoux might soon earn standing it is. McClure, who has advised housing feels in her gut that it’s all wrong. alongside those masters. officials in Kansas City, Kan., Kansas “The band around my finger felt She is a well-deserved lucky break City, Mo., and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, made tighter than it should have,” Karen (Oprah, perhaps, or a good movie based his technique simple so people can use it Currier Brichoux, c’92, g’97, writes in on one of her books) from leaping into without advanced economics training. her third novel’s third paragraph, “con- national prominence as a writer who He also hopes the simplicity will help sidering that it fit perfectly when he put vividly illustrates young Americans who planners avoid common pitfalls when it there nine months ago.” yearn to stop tumbling. addressing problems of affordability. Within the first few hundred words of —Chris Lazzarino “The trick is to get planners to think The Girl She Left Behind, Kat drives right in terms of sub-markets,” McClure says. on past Stephen as he’s rolling his eyes ◆ ◆ ◆ “Once they do, we tend to get people out at her inability to maneuver the trailer of the edifice complex, and to start around a gas pump. She assumes the thinking in terms of, ‘Where is rehab a identity of a tumbleweed: “Tumbleweeds Dinner with WSB better idea, where is production neces- refuse to be politely planted,” and, later, sary, where should we try vouchers or upon her return to Silver Creek after 38 Top scholar broadens horizons first time home buyer assistance?’” months, two weeks and four days of by editing Burroughs footage —Michael Campbell, g’93, is a Eudora free- drifting, “It’s as if something is pushing into short documentary DVD lance writer and frequent contributor to me along. The wind pushing the tumble- Kansas Alumni. weed until it runs into a fence and can’t niversity Scholar Michelle Thi go any further.” Tran, winner of the presti- Kat of course learns that tumbling gious Thomas R. Pickering away from home and marriage does Foreign Affairs Fellowship, ■ The Girl She U not scab the wounds of her lonely president of her scholarship hall, cul- Left Behind childhood; she also discovers that tural arts coordinator for Student Union her secretive departures hurt others Activities and a double major in journal- By Karen Brichoux more than she imagined, a startling ism and Russian and East European revelation for a young woman who studies, recently found herself with a New American has been lost her entire life. She even most unlikely addendum to her résumé: Library gives in to Aunt Eva’s pitiful begging editor of “WSB,” a 17-minute DVD of and agrees to move back into the home-movie footage of the late novelist house where she had felt so confined and Beat icon William S. Burroughs. $12.95 for so many years. Tran, a Derby junior and first-genera- “Doing the thankless thing is part tion Vietnamese-American, came to the

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI project after forging an unlikely friend- student job, precisely to gain experience ship with Wayne Propst, c’71, described with software and technologies that in a 2002 Kansas Alumni profile as an would allow her to make documentaries.

“outlaw artist, raconteur, poet and “I thought journalism would help me EARL RICHARDSON builder.” The young scholar, who gradu- learn skills, such as writing on deadline, ated from the Phillips Exeter Academy that I could incorporate into my work in and is headed for a career in the U.S. the foreign service,” Tran says. “The State Department’s foreign service, first same sort of reasons are behind my encountered Propst when he visited an wanting to learn documentary film. I Honors English course taught by just thought it would help me meet Professor Mary Klayder. Later she met interesting people and tell their stories.” him again in a sociology course taught Shot in 1996 during Thursday din- by Professor Bob Antonio. ners Burroughs held in his Lawrence When a journalism assignment bungalow for his trusted cronies, required her to find someone to profile, Propst’s footage captured visits by poet Tran thought of Propst, famous in local Allen Ginsberg (who, like Burroughs, circles for his offbeat creations that mock died the following year), singer Patti pretentious art, and they met for an Smith and actor Steve Buscemi. interview at the Bourgeois Pig coffee- “I’d hope I could get 17 minutes in ■ Michelle Thi Tran, destined for a career in house. Propst, in turn, thought of Tran anybody’s house with 10 hours of tape,” the U.S. diplomatic corps, used her precious when he decided to turn 10 hours of Propst says. “But in this house, there’s, free time to digitize and edit footage of William videotape into a short documentary fea- you know, a quick-draw with a loaded Burroughs into a DVD documentary. She also turing down-home storytelling riffs of .38, and Allen saying, ‘[Mild expletive], is president of Dennis E. Rieger Scholarship his friend William Burroughs. put that thing away, William.’ At the Hall, cultural arts coordinator for Student Propst knew Tran could handle the time, sitting there, it seemed ordinary. Union Activities, and is active in Oxfam task because she already had chosen the Now I realize, that’s kind of weird.” America and the Lawrence Fair Trade Dole Center’s media lab for her part-time Propst sent “WSB” to London for a Commission.

September debut at a gallery retrospec- Small package holds Big Apple delight tive on Burroughs’ art, and he says the

SUSAN YOUNGER film generated “good press and a lot of buzz.” At roughly the same time, Tran ■ Christmas In New York: learned she had won the Pickering, A Pop-up Book which pays expenses for the winners’ By Chuck Fischer junior and senior years and one year of Bulfinch Press graduate study. In return, Tran and the $35 other winners commit to at least four and a half years in the foreign service. Along with her language training at KU, which includes a minor in Arabic, Tran studied Russian for four years in high school and last summer traveled to China as a Kansas Asia Scholar. “So much of my college education has been about the people I meet, like Wayne,” Tran says, “and this has defi- igh kicking Rockettes at Radio City, New York City author and designer, com- nitely been a learning experience differ- Hice skaters at Rockefeller Center, bines ingenious pop-up constructions that ent than anything I’ve done before.” New Year’s revelers in Times Square:The dazzle at first glance and informative text As for the famous weekly dinners fea- magic of a New York December unfolds in (hidden slyly inside booklets and behind tured in “WSB,” Propst says dryly, “We 3-D splendor in Chuck Fischer’s Christmas pull-tab flaps) that explores the origins of still have them. It’s just that Burroughs in New York: A Pop-Up Book. Fischer, f’77, a the Big Apple’s most iconic holiday scenes. doesn’t come anymore.” —Steven Hill —Chris Lazzarino

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■ Party on: Halloween- weekend Homecoming featured costumed

revelers at The Wheel, EARL RICHARDSON parade floats and a Black Alumni Chapter reunion that included (l to r) James Banks, b’78, students William Clayton and Clayton Holmes, and Wendell Moore, b’78, g’81.

Adams Alumni Center, on the grass of Campanile Homecoming heroics Hill and in every parking lot, driveway, front lawn, back patio and rathskeller within walking Crimson and boo and upset Mizzou distance of campus. In front of a sun-drenched crowd of 48,238, omecoming 2005 will be hard to top. KU yet again vanquished Missouri, 13-3, and After a festive week of tongue-in-beak purloined goalposts ended up in Potter Lake and contests on Wescoe Beach (you’d be the Chi Omega Fountain. Observed coach Mark Hamazed what students can do with Mangino, “We’ve won this game three years in a canned foods and sidewalk chalk), Oct. 29 row. Now we have to act like we’ve been there dawned crisp and clear. With Mount Oread before.” beginning to flash its fall finery, the big day to be Celebrations continued at The Wheel (itself a Jay got off to a groovy start: Football hero celebrating 50 years), where the Homecoming-at- Curtis McClinton, d’62, grand marshal and Halloween crowd included a couple of partying grander gentleman, led the annual parade down Elvii: former KU football player David Scott, c’93, Jayhawk Boulevard, trailed by the Marching and former Mizzou football player Pat Ryan, Jayhawks, floating Jayhawks, and, making good Kansas City chums who limited their black-and- on the theme “Legends of the Fall: ’Hawks on gold attire to Elvis wigs and shades. Haunted Hill,” even a few haunting ’Hawks. “It was a great day here in Memorial Stadium,” The Alumni Association’s Black Mangino said. “Great atmosphere, great fans, Alumni Chapter gathered for a great game. It was a great day to be a Jayhawk.” reunion, as did the Class of ’65, and Been there before, too ... let’s do it again. EARL RICHARDSON pregame tailgaters partied in the —Chris Lazzarino

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