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Star Turn 28 What began in 1966 as a summer project—to renovate the opera house and image of the remote mining town of Creede—turned into a lifelong labor of love for many KU theatre alumni. Welcome to off-, off-Broadway, Colorado style.

BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER

Back to the Garden 32 Kent Whealy started with two heirloom seeds and a mission to preserve the flowers, fruits and vegetables our ancestors held dear. Thirty years later, his Seed Savers Exchange offers gardeners a chance to see and taste more than 25,000 samples of their true garden heritage. COVER BY STEVEN HILL The Hemenway 22 Decade Ten years after Bob Hemenway Jayhawk Generations took the reins as chancellor, 36 The University welcomes a new class of legacies KU is receiving high marks from to Mount Oread. accreditors and others for its teaching, research, technology and BY SALLY HAYDEN administrative innovation.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Cover photograph by Earl Richardson

32 Volume 103, No. 5, 2005 article, I am reconsidering my support of the Alumni Association. Lift the Chorus Robert C. Clancy, c’71 Wylie,Texas

Oh, Mandy! Careful what you wish for volunteered to serve their country, at a time when most of them probably ended Oh, the memories ... Back to the fall As a longtime reader of up in Vietnam. I was at KU from 1964 to of 1970 as a freshman at KU, for the first Alumni, I feel obligated to observe that 1969 and I am quite familiar with all the time experiencing life at the Jayhawk your publication has long been first derision and name-calling directed Cafe (The ’Hawk). class. In the most recent toward the ROTC cadets. The Mostly what I remember from The issue [No. 4, 2005], the ROTC building even got painted ’Hawk that year was the incessant teas- writing, photography with red paint. I didn’t agree ing a certain student received from many and the graphic design with it then and I don’t agree of the guys at the bar. can only be character- with it now. That student had the great break to ized as a “slam dunk.” I’d like to see you do a profile be featured in a national TV ad for 7-Up, Dean Fred Moreau on one of the cadets who served and he played the role of the great leg- advised our torts class his country. That would be an end “Teen Angel.” Everytime he came that those who gradu- article to make Kansas University into The ’Hawk, the guys would say (in a ate from law school will proud. mocking tone), “Hi, Teen-Angel.” find the law to be a John Schroeder, e’69 The student didn’t get mad or angry. “jealous mistress.” A Grayson, Ky. He just looked at us like we couldn’t majority of the class possibly understand what he was trying probably agree with his admonition. As a graduate of the Class of ’71 and to do with his life and his love of theatre. However, in case there is a possibility an alumnus from the period of 1966 to He just shrugged it off and went about of reincarnation, I plan to forget the law 1971, I am disappointed in your choice visiting with his friends. and humbly request an entry level posi- to profile Bill Berkowitz. I am by no Mandy [“Patinkin delights students, tion on the staff of Kansas Alumni. means opposed to civil disobedience. I fans in Murphy Hall,” issue No. 3, 2005], Dwayne L. Oglesby c’47, g’51, l’53 believe causes including the epic civil let me try to reach into a place I found Wichita rights struggle of the 1960s have been years ago and try to make a genuine con- represented through this means. nection here. This performance is real No hero to some However, Mr. Berkowitz and his ilk and natural and draws on emotions I accomplished nothing through their have learned from my life. I usually read most of the articles in efforts except to trample the rights of I am so sorry for the teasing I gave Kansas Alumni when it arrives. I do not ROTC students like myself and others to you at The ’Hawk that year. always agree with them but this is free assembly by interfering with the Congratulations on your fine career, America and that’s OK. spring ROTC assembly. In another inci- your victory over prostate cancer, and for The article on “Sir Bob” [issue No. 4, dent, a crowd besieged the Military giving back to those whose lives are bet- 2005]: I admire Robert Worcester’s Science Building, hurling large stones ter for you helping them. accomplishments, but I totally disagree and causing damage to the building and That is a true Jayhawk! with dual citizenship. You are either an endangering students inside. National Mike Levand, c’76 American or you are not, in my opinion. Guard personnel were often seen accom- Lenexa I’ve worked overseas for extended peri- panying the fire equipment in and ods and have never even considered around Lawrence during that summer. becoming a citizen of another country. Mr. Berkowitz’s quest for “peace” was Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni The article on Bill Berkowitz [“’60s anything but peaceful and led to the magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, rebel still loyal to lifelong causes”]: You endangerment of students, faculty and KS 66045-3169. E-mail responses may be portray Berkowitz as somewhat of a folk Lawrence residents. sent to the Alumni Association, kualum- hero. It may well be that some of his Most of all, these individuals endan- [email protected], or Associate Editor causes, over the years, were admirable, gered the lives of honorable military per- Chris Lazzarino, [email protected]. but leading demonstrations against the sonnel incarcerated in POW camps and Letters appearing in the magazine may ROTC cadets was not one of them. The serving in combat in Vietnam. be edited for space and clarity. true heroes were the ROTC cadets who I can assure you as a result of the

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor 16 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 Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell 4 ON THE BOULEVARD KU & Alumni Association events Photographer Earl Richardson, j’83 7 FIRST WORD Graphic Designer The editor’s turn Valerie Spicher, j’94 Advertising Sales 8 JAYHAWK WALK Representative A new roost for Kansas City ’Hawks, Field Danny Madrid, ’06 House memorabilia on eBay, and more Editorial and Advertising Office Kansas Alumni Association 10 HILLTOPICS 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 News and notes: Rushdie and Turow to visit 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 Hall Center; Monsignor Krische moves on. www.kualumni.org e-mail: [email protected] 16 SPORTS Football hopes to ride a rising star; change is KANS AS AL U M NI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published the name of the game for men’s . by the Alumni Association of the six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. $50 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni 46 ASSOCIATION NEWS Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, After crisscrossing the state all summer, staff Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at prepare for the Kansas Honors Program Lawrence, KS. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas 48 CLASS NOTES Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS News from classmates 66045-3169 © 2005 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- member issue price: $7 IN MEMORY KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Alumni Association 62 was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loy- Deaths in the KU family alty, friendship, commitment, and communication among all graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff ROCK CHALK REVIEW and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members 66 hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of purpose Digital photographs from Peter Thompson and and action to serve the best interests of The University and magical short stories from Thomas Fox Averill its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. 68 OREAD ENCORE Wes Santee’s race against time

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 3 On the Boulevard

■ In conjunction with the exhibition “Lee Friedlander At Work,” Lawrence artists and KU instructors Earl Iversen and Luke Jordan created a contemporary art project to relate Friedlander’s photographs to a local audience. EARL IVERSEN/LUKE JORDAN For their project,“Feeding Lawrence/Work + Workplace,” Iversen and Jordan used digital video to explore two businesses that “feed” the local community—Free State Brewery and The World Company. By focusing on food and communication, Iversen and Jordan hope to address the work required to meet essential and elemental human needs of a contemporary community.The video installation will be presented in the Central Court, from Sept. 23 to Dec. 11.

■ Exhibitions OCTOBER 25 Merce Cunningham Dance 3-11 “Three Sisters,” by Anton Company “Quilts: A Thread of Modernism,” Chekhov 27 The Flying Karamazov Brothers through Oct. 30, Spencer Museum of Art 28-30, Nov. 3-5 “Popcorn,” 30 Red Priest, “Nightmare in Venice” “Lee Friedlander At Work,” through Dec. by Ben Elton 11, Spencer Museum of Art NOVEMBER NOVEMBER “Discourse on Discovery: Native 2 Barrage, “Vagabond Tales” Perspectives on the Trail,” through Dec. 14-20 “An Army of One,” by Zacory 3 KU Symphony Orchestra 11, Spencer Museum of Art Boatright, ’05, co-produced with English Alternative Theatre 5 Kronos Quartet “Sacred and the Secular: Buddhist 6 KU Wind Ensemble Imagery in Religious and Popular ■ Lied Center events 9 Ravi Shankar, “Festival of India II” Contexts,” Oct. 4-February 2006 10-11 “Grandchildren of the Buffalo SEPTEMBER Art faculty exhibition, Art and Design Soldiers” 30 KU Wind Ensemble Gallery, Sept. 25-Oct. 12 12 Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant” “Covergence: Paths and Structures,” OCTOBER 17-18 University Dance Company Art and Design Gallery, Oct. 17-28 1 Avishai Cohen Trio Design faculty exhibition, Art and 2 Daedalus String Quartet Design Gallery, Oct. 30-Nov. 18 Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS 7 KU Symphony Orchestra University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 8 Dan Zanes and Friends Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 ■ University Theatre Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 19 Jazz Ensembles I, II & III Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798 SEPTEMBER 21 Beijing Modern Dance Company Dole Institute of Politics ...... 864-4900 16-18, 21-25 “Jacques Brel is Alive 22 Czech Opera Prague in “Die Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 and Well and Living in Paris,” by Fledermaus” Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman and KU main number ...... 864-2700 Eric Blau Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS

4 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ Special events OCTOBER 11 Shawnee Mission 1 Lubbock: KU vs. Texas Tech rally, 12 Dodge City OCTOBER south of Jones Stadium 17 Parsons 22-29 Homecoming week 1 Austin, Dallas chapters: KU vs. 19 Garden City 29 First inductions into the Army Texas Tech watch parties 24 Johnson County ROTC Jayhawk Battalion’s Wall of 6 Chicago Chapter: Wine tasting, Fame, Military Science Building Thomas McCormick Gallery 25 Hutchinson 26 Southern Johnson County ■ 8 Manhattan: KU vs. KSU rally, Lectures corner of Dennison and Kimble NOVEMBER SEPTEMBER 10 Overland Park: Big Blue Mondays 2 Pittsburg 22 Lech Walesa, Dole Leadership 13 Kansas City Chapter: KU vs. OU Prize, Lied Center pep rally, Corinth Square, Prairie 7 Manhattan, Wichita 26 Monica Little and Joe Cecere, Village 9 Junction City, Liberal graphic designers, Hallmark Series 15 Kansas City: KU vs. OU rally, 10 Emporia 28 Film critic and author David Arrowhead Stadium Lot M 14 Kansas City Denby, Woodruff Auditorium, in con- 22 Boulder: KU vs. CU rally, 15 Osage City, Topeka junction with 60th anniversary of Millennium Harvest House 16 Coffeyville Western Civilization program at KU 22 Wichita Chapter: Jayhawk 29 Artist David Rees, “Laughing at Roundup Work,” Spencer Museum of Art 23 Valley of the Sun Chapter: Big 12 picnic, Kiwanis Park OCTOBER 24 Overland Park: Big Blue Mondays 6 Author Salman Rushdie, 29 Homecoming: tailgate at Adams Humanities Lecture Series, Lied Alumni Center, KU vs. Missouri; pan- Center cake breakfast, Stauffer-Flint lawn; 10 John S. Dykes, illustrator, parade, Jayhawk Boulevard Hallmark Series 24 Robynne Raye, graphic designer, NOVEMBER Hallmark Series 5 Tailgate at Adams Alumni Center, KU vs. Nebraska NOVEMBER 7 Overland Park: Big Blue Mondays 7 Brady Vest, letterpress, 12 Austin: KU vs. UT rally, Hallmark Series Recreation Center, 2101 San Jacinto 17 Samantha Power, on human Blvd. rights and genocide, Humanities Lecture Series, Kansas Union ■ Kansas Honors ballroom Program ■ Alumni events SEPTEMBER 19 Wellington SEPTEMBER 21 Lawrence, McPherson, Ottawa L ee F r iedl ande r ; “ C r ay,” g elatin silver p r int, 1968 17 Tailgate at Adams Alumni Center, 26 El Dorado KU vs. Louisiana Tech ■ Lee Friedlander has chronicled the American 28 Arkansas City 18 New York Metro Chapter: social and cultural landscape. In the exhibition outing “Lee Friedlander At Work,” the photographer acknowledges the largely anonymous worker, 19 Overland Park: Big Blue Mondays, OCTOBER Fieldhouse Sports Cafe making inventive pictures of the familiar, hum- 5 Salina 23-24 SAA retreat drum, yet overriding role of work in America. 6 Hays

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BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

two-day summer orientation, an immer- other is the University of Michigan. The sion in campus life that reaches far researchers, led by George Kuh, profes- beyond merely enrolling and paying sor at Indiana University, worked in tuition. Students met with faculty advis- small teams to visit schools twice for as ers and fellow students to ensure they many as six days, peering behind connected not only with the right classes healthy graduation and retention rates to n South Corbin Hall, matching bed- but also with promising avenues for examine how each school achieved its spreads for roommates are no involvement. results. In 2004, after three years of longer in vogue. I report this in my After moving in last month, the Class work, the study group produced Project Inew, anxious and awkward capacity of 2009 took part in a 20-year tradition: DEEP, or “Documenting Effective as the mother of a freshman who—holy ’Hawk Week, a series of events explain- Educational Practice,” which is the foun- coincidence—resides in my old room. ing and extolling our KU customs, both dation of the new book. The list of 20 When I asked Rachel whether she the solemn and silly. schools is not a ranking but a guide and her roommates would opt for the Since creating ’Hawk Week, KU has “that parents and prospective college stu- coordinated look, she only shook her developed numerous ways to help stu- dents might find especially instructive,” head and smirked, fighting the impulse dents understand and preserve their says USA Today. to call me a dork. school’s proud heritage, while confi- According to the researchers, KU But I couldn’t help myself. When I dently navigating its academic network excels in instruction, service, research, learned my daughter would live in the in a vastly more complicated era. It has internationalism and humanitarian val- same corner I had shared with her god- bolstered its student advising through ues. Over the past decade, they write, mothers, nostalgia carried me back to both faculty and peers, created living the University has “emphasized high- the days when Karyn, Linda and I groups that share academic interests, quality undergraduate instruction, the shared look-alike linens, a nifty mini- and revitalized the University Honors product of deliberate effort to balance its fridge and a stereo turntable that wore Program, to name only a few examples. research and teaching missions.” out our favorites by Boz Skaggs, the Bee And, as the Aug. 29 edition of USA You can trace much of that deliberate Gees, the Eagles and Peter Frampton. Today reports, the results are impressive. effort to Hemenway’s early comments as On the rainy Saturday this August KU is among 20 schools in the nation chancellor in 1995, when he vowed to when Rachel, Allie and Sara took up resi- hailed as places that effectively encour- make KU a “student-centered university.” dence, they focused not on decor but on age and produce student success. In a Is ours a perfect university? No. There electrical outlets, or the lack thereof. new book, Student Success in College: is no such place. But, as Kuh told USA They needed to connect their mini- Creating Conditions That Matter, a team of Today, KU and the others share “an fridge, TV/DVD, espresso machine, 25 higher-education researchers has unshakable focus on student learning” microwave and assorted lamps, while hailed these institutions for doing “an and “a desire to be better than they are.” periodically charging their three laptop especially good job of educating stu- Therein lies any parent’s wish. I treas- computers and three cell phones. Thank dents,” says USA Today. ure my KU years; they changed my life. goodness they each can hook their iPods KU is one of only two large public But do I want Rachel’s to be even better? into their own pairs of ears. universities included in the group; the You bet. Of course, Rachel’s experience on the Hill will vary from mine in more mean- ingful ways, because the University has changed dramatically in the way it wel- comes new students and in the tools it provides for them to succeed throughout their KU careers. Many of these pro- grams have improved during the past 10 years, under the leadership of Chancellor Robert Hemenway. Rachel began her KU career with a

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 7 Jayhawk Walk BY HILL AND LAZZARINO

Who’ll stop the rain? Heard he $17 million Student by the Bird

EARL RICHARDSON TRecreation Fitness Center bristles with the latest high-tech elliptical trainers, “You know what a Hokie is? stationary bikes and resistance machines. It’s a butt-kicking chicken. So it’s The $8 million Robert J. Dole Institute of only natural that I came to a Politics features multimedia exhibits and the school with another butt-kicking world’s largest cache of Congressional chicken.” papers. But at two of Mount Oread’s newest —Basketball coach Bonnie Henrickson, at additions (both opened in 2003), buckets the Kansas City Chapter’s annual sum- and mops are the most important equip- mer picnic, answering the trivia question ment these days. that quizzed fans about her previous When it pours, it seems, the roofs of allegiance: the Virginia Tech Hokies. both buildings are porous. The problem at the Dole Center is an experimental copper roof. Leaky seams required repairs, recently completed, “that basically tweaked the roof ’s uniqueness,” says Lawrence Bush, director of facilities and events. Sweet land of liberty At the Rec Center, heating and o the list of things to love about cooling systems are the source of TAmerica, add Studio 804. the soppage, which worsens in Along with the muscle-car revival, drive- bad weather. Mary Chappell, throughs, New York City, blue jeans on a director of recreation services, woman, the Dunkin’ Toasted-Coconut says contractors agreed to Donut, twins and live-bait vending bear the cost of repairs, machines, men’s magazine GQ listed (at which began in July. Chappell No. 20) the School of Architecture’s estimates the fix to be “a acclaimed design-and-build class in “62 five-figure job.” Reasons to Love Your Country,” a pep- Compared to con- talking paean to American ingenuity. struction costs, Cheering Dan Rockhill’s students (who’ve that’s just a constructed one eco-friendly, low-income drop in the home per year since 1999) for winning bucket. Architecture magazine’s Home of the Year award over big-name architects, GQ pro- claimed, “While Richard Meier’s buildings may have housed Nicole Kidman and Calvin Klein, those of Studio 804 house something more: an ideal.” LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI Starving artists protest McClosure

ometimes ethereal delights of college- RICHARD GWIN Stown life are the subtlest jewels imagi- nable. And sometimes six young guys put on giant hamburger outfits and invent a mock protest of renovations that shut- tered the Sixth Street McDonald’s in May and June. “Montana Mike Stay’d Open,” pleaded one picket, in reference to the Iowa Street steak house that soldiered through its recent construction. “There’s no Happy Meal,” picket-line producer Steve Balbone told the Lawrence Journal-World, “so how can you stay at all positive?” Another protestor begged irregularity. “Tenure McRib Now!” Manning told the newspaper. “It’ll be McDonald’s to stop playing cruel games he screamed. back again in November.” with the McRib sandwich, which seems “McRib is really a wintertime sand- Power to the people! to drift across the menu with maddening wich,” restaurant spokesman Patrick

KC ’Hawks nestle in new nest Let the bidding begin

ust days before the official opening of the on Quivira Road. The union features a KU wapping Nike for Adidas isn’t the only Jdazzling “Jayhawk Central” student union bookstore, coffee shop, space for a restau- Sequipment change KU Athletics is mak- at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, rant, information kiosk and meeting and ing this summer. Vice Chancellor Bob Clark found two stu- study space, all packaged in an inviting Upgrades to Allen Field House replaced dents checking out the new digs. open floor plan. The union will serve the the center and auxiliary scoreboards, and “They said, ‘This is the first time we’ve 9,000 families who live within 3 miles and the athletics department is auctioning these felt like it’s a campus,’” Clark recalled. the 30,000 Kansas Citians who annually and other KU items on the Internet auc- “They’re right. We’ve been missing that visit the Edwards Campus for non-credit tion site eBay. here, a place where everyone could get programs, as well as area alumni who can The first auction, conducted in June, together and relax or socialize.” watch games on a flat-screen TV. included a 19-foot-wide, 800-pound piece Clark notes that the glass-faced, stand- But the focus will remain on students, of the scoreboard hung above the court in alone building will be easily seen by more so much so that seating clusters were 1991. Two auxiliary scoreboards, an Allen than 26,000 motorists who pass by daily designed for graduate students, who often Field House rim, and game jerseys worn by must do course work in small basketball player Terry Nooner, c’00, g’03, groups. and football player Tony Sands, c’94, were Is it too rash to say it also sold. The bidding raised more than seems our cozy little Edwards $8,400, which will help support the athlet- EARL RICHARDSON Campus is all grown up? ics department. “That’s how it feels to me, Future auctions will be scheduled as too,” Clark says. “It’s a sym- items become available, and prospective bolic expression of our bidders can link to eBay via the auctions growth, and it sends a mes- button at KUAthletics.com. sage to Johnson County that “This gives our alumni and fans an inex- our commitment is not for pensive way to own a piece of KU athlet- next year; it’s for the next ics,” says associate AD Jim Marchiony, “and 50 years.” have some fun in the process.”

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 9 Hilltopics BY STEVEN HILL

Innocent, The Burden of Proof and Reversible Errors translated into 25 languages. In his Feb. 16 lec-

EARL RICHARDSON ture, “Confessions of a Death Penalty Agnostic,” the Chicago attorney will explore his longtime involvement with the legal and moral questions the death penalty presents. Tu ro w The series begins Sept. 14 with a visit from Deborah Lipstadt, pro- fessor of modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University, who will discuss her recent libel trial in London. Lipstadt was unsuccessfully sued by David Irving for calling him a Star power Holocaust denier and right-wing Hall Center brings heavy hitters extremist. She wrote Denying the Lipstadt Holocaust: The Growing Assault on to campus for fall lecture series Truth and Memory. She will talk about the major issues involved alman Rushdie, whose 1989 novel The in her trial and link them to the rise of “new Satanic Verses provoked a death sentence anti-Semitism.” from an Islamic leader, and Scott Turow, On Nov. 17, Samantha Power, winner of the Swhose legal thrillers have repeatedly 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the appeared on best-seller lists and big screens, National Book Critics Circle Award for her book will headline a star-studded Humanities Lecture on the ’ role in the history of geno- Series. cide, A Problem from Hell, will present a lecture Rushdie achieved international acclaim with on human rights and genocide, “Can U.S. Power his second novel, Midnight’s Children, which won Foreign Policy Be Fixed?” The central question England’s prestigious Booker Prize. But the her work asks: Why do American leaders repeat- Indian-born writer is probably best known for liv- edly fail to stop genocide? ing in hiding for more than a decade after Iran’s The big-name lineup is part of an ongoing Ayatollah Khomeini ordered his execution for effort by the Hall Center for the Humanities to criticizing fundamentalist Islam in The Satanic Verses. Controversy over the novel led to riots in India, Pakistan and Egypt, and copies of the ■ Scott Turow, Deborah book were burned in England. Lipstadt, Samantha Power Rushdie will visit campus Oct. 6. “Step Across and Salman Rushdie high- this Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie,” will light the Humanities address contemporary literature, politics, culture Lecture Series. and philosophy. His most recent book is Step Across this Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002. Turow, an attorney who began his literary career with a memoir that chronicled his first year at Harvard law school, has sold millions of books and seen novels such as Presumed Rushdie

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI draw more public participation. Funding ministry, is interim director. Krische now serves support from the Hall Family Foundation and as parish priest of St. Ann Catholic Church in the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City made it Prairie Village. possible to attract such high-profile speakers, When he arrived at KU from a teaching job at according to Professor Victor Bailey, director Roeland Park’s , the St. of the center. Lawrence center was located in a ranch house “We think the series can help create a dia- near its current location on Crescent Road. A logue between the University and the public,” part-time priest and two part-time employees Bailey says. “To do that we have to bring in were the only staff members. speakers who attract the public. During his tenure, Krische helped raise money “Clearly these speakers are of national, if not to build a student center, a chapel and a parking international, acclaim. We’ve never been able to facility. St. Lawrence now employs 15 full-time “We think the play in this park before, but both of these foun- and two part-time staff members. Weekly Mass dations have made it possible for us to attract draws about 3,000 attendants and roughly 800 series can help more name-catching speakers.” students are actively involved in St. Lawrence create a dialogue Rushdie will speak at the Lied Center, with a programs. colloquium to follow Oct. 7 at the Hall Center. “He’s been utterly extraordinary,” says Troy between the Turow and Lipstadt will speak in Woodruff Hinkle, director of theological education at the University and Auditorium at the Kansas Union; Power’s lecture center. “He is a man who really possesses a the public.To do will be held in the Kansas Union ballroom. For unique vision, and he knows how to implement more information, contact the Hall Center at his vision. He didn’t just live in the clouds.” that we have to 785-864-4798. Under Krische’s leadership, Hinkle says, the bring in speakers St. Lawrence center became a model for Catholic ◆ ◆ ◆ student centers nationwide. who attract the “He pioneered taking theology—the intellec- public.” tual, moral and spiritual tradition of the church— A sower goes forth —V ic tor Bailey Catholic student center sees change in leadership as longtime director moves on EARL RICHARDSON

tudents, staff and supporters at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center said goodbye this summer to a leader whose S28-year tenure marked an era of unprece- dented growth for the center. Monsignor Vince Krische, who directed St. Lawrence since 1977, celebrated his final Mass there July 10. Afterward, at a reception attended by 700 people, staff members announced that the center’s office and classroom building will be named Krische Hall. “There are probably a lot of people more worthy of having their name on the building,” Krische says. “But at the same time it’s a tremen- dous honor and a humbling gesture on the part of the people there.” Succeeding Krische will be the Rev. Steve Beseau, d’88, a former member of the St. Lawrence Center’s board of directors. Beseau will ■ Monsignor Vince Krische left the St.Lawrence take over in March after completing his doctoral Catholic Campus Center this fall after 28 years studies in Rome. Mike Scherschligt, director of as director.

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and passing it on to students and showing them for students while they were in college, so they how to use that in their specific fields. He really were able to engage in something that was understood the role of campus ministry to really creative and helpful and growth-producing. Catholic education. He was ahead of his time.” They found that studying theology could help Hispanic Soon after he arrived, Krische began reaching give meaning to the rest of the classes they took achievement out to KU alumni and faculty members, asking at KU. them to join students in becoming involved in “At graduation time, a lot of students would KU ranked 17th in the the center. St. Lawrence was among the first say, ‘St. Lawrence has made a difference in my nation for the number of Catholic campus centers in the country to build college career. I’ll always remember it.’ Those are doctorates awarded to a broad support structure and strong financial good memories.” base. Soon Krische was sought out nationally as Hispanic students, a leader in campus ministry, consulting with ◆ ◆ ◆ according to Hispanic more than 50 universities and hosting orienta- Outlook in Higher tion sessions at KU for new campus ministry Education magazine. professionals. Just for men He became a familiar figure on campus, as Seventeen Hispanic stu- well, serving as chaplain for the football team NIH enlists KU research dents earned doctoral for 15 years and giving the invocation at many team in race to develop world’s degrees at KU in 2004, campus events. In 1999, the University and the first male contraceptive more than all other Big Alumni Association recognized his contributions with the Distinguished Service Citation, KU’s cientists now believe that a contraceptive 12 schools except the highest honor. for men is within reach, and the National University of Texas. Krische spent much of his last year at St. Institutes of Health thinks a KU research Lawrence on sabbatical. He wrote a history of the Steam can find the chemical compounds center and studied theology in Rome, where he that will help make this scientific possibility a received a private audience with Pope John Paul reality. II. He was elevated to the rank of monsignor in In June the NIH awarded a nearly $8 million March, the first Lawrence priest in 40 years to contract to an interdisciplinary team made up of bear that title. researchers from the University and KU Medical His most cherished role—the one he says he’ll Center. The research group, one of only a few in miss most—was working with students. the world working to develop a male contracep- “The University has the opportunity to influ- tive, will use one of KU’s high-tech Lawrence lab- ence people who are at a very important stage in oratories to screen several million compounds to their development.” Krische says, recalling the determine their potential for inhibiting sperm advice of the late Archbishop Ignatius Strecker, development and movement. the man who assigned him to St. Lawrence. “We The challenge, according to Gunda Georg, were able to provide a really good quality of life University distinguished professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacy and the lead researcher for the project, is twofold. “First we have to find the compounds that will be our starting

EARL RICHARDSON points,” Georg says, “and then we need to develop them into a drug that’s reliable, potent enough to be effective, and free of undesirable side effects.” The contraceptive must not rely on steroids or affect bodily

■ Gunda Georg heads an interdisciplinary research team that’s working to develop a male contraceptive pill.

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI hormones, it must be nontoxic and reversible, and it must be available in an oral dose. Georg, who also directs the Center for Drug Discovery at the Higuchi Biosciences Center, and Joseph Tash, associate professor of molecular and Visitor integrative physiology, were part of a KU team that worked on an earlier KU-NIH partnership A woman’s four years ago. On that project they identified a place promising chemical compound they dubbed Gamendazole, which proved effective at eliminat- uthor Donna Moreau ing male fertility when tested on animals. KU has Adiscussed her book filed a patent application on the compound. Waiting Wives: T he St or y of This time around, the team also includes

Sc hilling Manor , H om e COURTESY DOLE INSTITUTE Qizhuang Ye, PhD’88, research professor at the F r on t to the V ietnam War , Higuchi Biosciences Center, and Ernst as part of the Summer Schonbrunn, assistant professor of medicinal Series. chemistry. Over the next five years they hope to identify a half-dozen more such compounds, any WHEN: Aug. 4 one of which might eventually be turned into “safe, effective and reversible male contracep- WHERE: The Robert tives,” Georg says. J. Dole Institute of Politics In addition to the team’s previous successes, a big reason KU won the contract is the quality of BACKGROUND: Moreau grew up on its research facilities. Researchers will screen the military bases around the world and attended compounds at Ye’s High Throughput Screening 16 high schools.While her father served in “Who does the Laboratory, which is part of the Life Sciences Vietnam, she lived with her mother and sisters Research Laboratories on Wakarusa Drive. The at Schilling Manor, a closed Air Force base near most waiting in lab’s technology allows researchers to quickly Salina that became the only U.S. base set aside war? The wives scan hundreds of thousands of compounds, for wives and children of soldiers serving in which would take up to a year to scan otherwise. Vietnam. and the kids. Over five years, researchers hope to scan about 5 What about this million compounds. KU is one of the few univer- ANECDOTE: Moreau first set out to war that we sities in the nation to have one of these facilities. write a play about her family’s life at Schilling “I think the reason we got the contract is that Manor, but after realizing that the emotional fight on a day- the NIH has been extremely pleased with our toll on soldiers’ families was a story bigger to-day basis? It’s productivity and creativity,” Georg says, “and than her own experience, she interviewed they were extremely pleased with what we pro- more than 150 women who lived at the base. the quiet side of posed for the future with the screening.” “Every one of them asked why I would want war none of us Finding a half-dozen promising compounds to write about this.They were the last genera- hear about.” out of the 5 million screened would be “spectacu- tion of the hat-and-glove military wives.Their lar,” according to Georg. The next step would be orders were to serve their country and follow —Don na M oreau to modify the compounds using medicinal chem- their husbands no matter where and just do istry techniques. After that, clinical trials could what they had to do.” lead to a commercially-available drug. “It would be a big breakthrough, and I think QUOTE: “I think the women and families there are a lot of men who would be willing to of soldiers—and certainly now the families of give it a try,” Georg says. “The female pill came female soldiers—I think sometimes we forget on the market in the 1960s, and ever since peo- about them and what it takes to live day to ple have been thinking, ‘Is this something that’s day not knowing how their lives can change going to be available for men?’ Thirty to 40 years in just a minute.” ago the scientific knowledge was not available, but the NIH feels that science has since moved to the point that development of a male contracep- tive agent is realistic.”

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a consistent logo that joins the Jayhawk Maryland and North Carolina and and the University seal as the center- Arizona State University, who efficiently piece of KU’s new visual identity system. manage their visual communications “We wanted a logo that could repre- and take seriously the task of telling sent KU’s strong tradition and academic their story to the public.” rigor, unify our schools and campuses, and endure for generations,” says David Johnston, j’94, director of marketing. “We believe this customized KU in Trajan typeface, a strong but elegant mark, best satisfies these criteria.” The new logo will combine with the University’s full name to create a graphic MARKETING signature that will be used to create a Choice of institutional logo unified look on stationery, signage and other formats. RESEARCH strengthens KU’s visual ID “Our ultimate goal is to have in place Give me a Trajan K! Give me a an effective, efficient system that all Ten win Fulbright honors Trajan U! campuses, schools and departments That’s what University marketers can easily use and that will build on the Seven students and three faculty decided in July, selecting an official KU strong reputation of the University of members have been tapped as Fulbright logo after months of study and review of Kansas,” says Chancellor Robert E. Scholars. hundreds of designs, including campus Hemenway, who chose the Trajan sym- The prestigious research fellowships landmarks and traditional academic bol from among four final designs. “This fund a year of study and travel abroad. icons. The process, undertaken with visual system, in conjunction with our Since the program began in 1946, 388 help from campus communicators, the integrated marketing effort, will align KU students have received Fulbrights. design firm LandreyMorrow, focus us with leading large public universities This year’s recipients are Angela Gray, groups and public comment, establishes such as the universities of Oregon, g’04, who will travel to Zambia; Michael Johnson (Russia); Ashleigh Klingman (Ecuador); Thomas Reid, c’04 (Europe); Amanda Rogers, f’05 (Morocco); Sarah Smiley, g’04 (Tanzania); and Emily Stewart, f’05 (Switzerland). Update A separate program awards grants for faculty research abroad. Winners are lans to expand the Lied David Besson, professor of physics and PCenter for the Performing astronomy; Dennis Karney, Ned N. Arts with a new 800-seat theatre Fleming distinguished teaching profes- and other additions have been UNIVERSITY RELATIONS sor of business; and Susan Zvacek, direc- canceled after fund-raisers were tor of instructional development and unable to meet a short grant support. Some 270 KU faculty members deadline. have received the Fulbright grants in the As previously reported in program’s 50-plus year history. Hilltopics (issue No. 3, 2005), the center needed to raise $7.5 million by June 30 to net a proposed $7.5 million match- ing grant from the Lied Foundation Trust, the foundation that helped build the center RELIGIOUS STUDIES in 1988. Despite a $1 million initial gift from Ross and Marianna Kistler Beach and Jewish studies scholar pledges Douglas County Bank, the campaign came up short of the goal. to meld ancient with modern “We didn’t get there,” says Tim Van Leer, executive director of the center,“but the one thing we did get from all this was assurance from everyone we talked to of the Jonathan Boyarin, a prolific author value of Lied Center programs, of how much they mean to them and the University. and researcher dedicated to merging tra- So in a sense, they were a focus group telling us that we’re on the right track.” ditional Jewish studies with academia’s The Lied Foundation will instead donate $5 million for scholarships at KU. examinations of contemporary culture, in August joined the religious studies

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI department as its first Robert M. Beren distinguished professor in modern Milestones, money and other matters Jewish studies. Boyarin, who also will maintain an ■ A $14.5 MILLION APPROPRIATION from appointment in KU’s history depart- Congress will expand ongoing research at the School of ment, has written or edited 10 books in Engineering’s Transportation Research Institute.The Jewish studies and cultural theory. His funding, acquired through the efforts of Rep. Jerry research interests include East European SPICHER VALERIE Moran, c’76, l’82, and Sen. Pat Roberts, will boost Jewish culture in the 20th century and research on fuel cells, road and vehicle materials, aircraft Jewish communities of New York City and air quality. Formed in 2004, the institute conducts and the Middle East. cross-disciplinary study of emerging transportation “At KU, I’ll be able to realize my per- issues that have broad societal significance. sonal vision of Jewish studies as a con- necting thread through the humanities ■ SEN. ROBERT J. DOLE PUBLIC SERVICE and social sciences,” Boyarin said before Scholarships were awarded to 40 Kansas high school making the cross-country drive to graduates by the Dole Institute of Politics in June.The Kansas from the East Coast, where he program, now in its first year, provides $1,000 for full- most recently had been a visiting profes- time study at a number of Kansas universities to in-state sor at Dartmouth College. Eaton Hall students active in volunteer community and public The Robert M. Beren Foundation of service.The scholarships are “one more way to reward and encourage civic engagement,” Wichita funded the professorship in says Bill Lacy, institute director.“We hope the Dole scholars will take an even more active 2003 with a gift of $500,000, which was role during their college years.” matched through previous gifts from the Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City. ■ THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED HEART CARE under construction at the —Chris Lazzarino University of Kansas Hospital received a $1 million gift from Kansas City philanthropist Annette Bloch.The donation will purchase equipment for a heart rhythm care center in the new facility, due to open in 2006.The Richard and Annette Bloch Heart Rhythm Center will honor Bloch and her late husband, who founded H&R Block Inc.

■ ALUMNI WHO MAINTAIN CREDENTIAL FILES at the University Career EARL RICHARDSON Center are reminded to keep them current.The center maintains the files for 10 years after most recent activity but advises that those more than two or three years old need to be updated with current reference letters and contact information. More details are avail- able at www.ucc.ku.edu/credentials or 785-864-3624.

■ TWO GRADUATE STUDENTS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION finished in the top 10 of The Public Service Challenge, a national competition sponsored by U.S. News and World Report and the Vibrant Institute. Rick Osborn of Kansas City and Jim Kowach of Topeka competed against more than 2,500 students in the four-week contest, in which stu- dents led a fictitious government agency through a simulated national health crisis.

■ THE CANCER CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL received the 2004 Commission on Cancer Outstanding Achievement Award, which recog- nizes cancer programs that provide quality care to patients. Only 8 percent of the 429 pro- grams surveyed by the American College of Surgeons in 2004 received the award.

■ CENTRO ANN SULLIVAN DEL PERU, a Lima center for children and adults with developmental disabilities founded by Liliana Mayo, PhD’96, and affiliated with KU’s Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, received the Peruvian Congressional Medal of Honor in July.The center offers programs for 350 children and adults and serves as a ■ Jonathan Boyarin, near the kneeling Moses model for similar centers in Peru and eight other countries. Mayo received KU’s sculpture in front of Smith Hall, is an authority Distinguished Service Citation in 2003. on 20th-century Jewish culture.

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the final few games of 2004 with knee injuries that required sur- gery two days after the season ended. Reid did not miss a game or a practice; in fact, he didn’t even miss a play. “We have a gritty bunch of kids,” Mangino says, “a hard- nosed bunch.” And cornerback Charles Gordon? “The No. 1 thing about him,” Mangino says, “is he’s a good person. And he’s painfully shy.” What, no tough-guy talk for the Jayhawks’ best player, a pre- ■ Coaches and season All-American who led the teammates say Charles country last season with seven Gordon, a preseason interceptions? No, there’s plenty. Just ask his All-American, is “painfully teammates. shy.” They also say they “Is Charles Gordon a tough couldn’t care less, because football player?” Gordon makes his state- Banks Floodman’s eyebrows ments in the only venue arch and his eyes narrow as the that counts: on the field. senior linebacker repeats the question with a tone of disbelief. “I never heard Charles com- plain once about an injury,” Floodman continues. “He’s got aches and pains like the rest of us, but he doesn’t complain. He finishes every play. Cross-fields Tough enough [grueling sprints], he’s always Flashy Gordon eager to trade Big 12 honors for one of the first finishers. That guy works his tail off and he’s a conference title shared by teammates got a huge heart.” Senior linebacker Kevin Kane: ourth-year coach loves “He’s the best cornerback in the Big 12 as far as to talk about his tough football players. I’m concerned.” Senior linebacker Nick Reid, in Senior quarterback Brian Luke: “A lot of peo- FMangino’s estimation, is a leader liked ple might think, ‘Oh, he’s an All-American, he and respected by all of his teammates, “but don’t must think he’s all that.’ But Charles ... he’s just fool with him. He’s a tough customer.” To illus- one of the guys. He never thinks of himself as trate, Mangino revealed that Reid, voted presea- being above anybody. Down to earth, real person- son All-Big 12, played parts of the 2003 season able guy, fun guy. I’ve had classes with him, and I with a screw, meant to hold together a separated can tell you, he’s a fun guy to get to know. That, bone, sticking through the skin of his foot, and and he’s just a flat-out athletic football player.

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He’s got everything.” Senior running back Clark Green, the “I don’t really do a lot of talking. Guys see me as a lead-by- only prominent Jayhawk less comfort- example type of guy. I just work hard and people see that and able than Gordon talking with reporters: “Talking gets you nowhere. It’s all about they feed off that.” —C har les G or don proving it on the field every Saturday. That’s what get Charles Gordon’s attention.” When Charles runs pass routes, even kind of excited,” Gordon says. “When we And Gordon’s dramatic interceptions our quarterbacks look better.” lose, that really hurts. As long as we get a and receptions get everybody else’s Mangino says he hopes that the resur- victory, I’m fine with whatever I have to attention. gent Amadi twins, Ronnie and Donnie, do. But I can’t do it all by myself. It takes Recruited as a receiver out of Carson, and a newly healthy Theo Baines can all 11 guys, and it takes everybody on Calif., Gordon in 2003 caught 57 passes play well enough to occasionally boot the team to make sure we finish games. (third-most in team history) for 769 Gordon back over to offense; he’ll also “When we’re ahead, we want to stay yards, both KU freshman records. It was be expected to return some punts. ahead. All the other stuff, I really could not until 2004, Gordon’s sophomore “Where we reduce Charles’ [playing not care less. I only want to win.” season, that he even started playing cor- time] and where we add to it, that’s a Well said. nerback, and by the end of the season question our staff and I are trying to he was third-team All-American and first- answer,” Mangino says. “He will return ◆ ◆ ◆ team All-Big 12. punts, he’ll play defense, he’ll play He also continued to take snaps at offense, but as good an athlete and as wide receiver, enlivening the offense great a player as he is, 60 minutes is not Starting over whenever he took the field. It was more a realistic goal.” Off-season changes usher in of the same during Gordon’s first offen- Mangino said much the same thing new look for men’s basketball sive practice of 2005, when, without hav- after games last season; when later asked ing attended a single offensive position whether exhaustion might get the best ophomore J.R. Giddens, a two- meeting, he stepped in and, in of him, Gordon always grimaced and year starter who was stabbed in a Mangino’s words, “put on a clinic run- politely affirmed his desire to play as fight outside a Lawrence bar in ning pass routes. There’s no question much as possible. Now it seems he SMay, has ended his Jayhawk he’s our best corner, but he is probably might see things Mangino’s way. career early. one of our most polished receivers. “When we win, I’m not so tired; I’m Coach Bill Self announced the move,

■ A new scoreboard being hung inside Allen Field House (above) and the Booth Family Hall of Athletics under construction outside are only part of KU basketball’s new look in 2005-’06. Departures and transfers (including J.R. Giddens, right) leave a team a dependent on youth.

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“This doesn’t come as, ‘Oh, gosh, what do we do now?’ We prepared for this moment back when we thought there Updates was a great chance J.R. would leave after his sophomore year.” roadcaster MAX FALKENSTIEN announced his Giddens will play for New Mexico, Bretirement, effective after the final men’s basketball Galindo for Florida International and game of 2006. Falkenstien, c’47, worked his first bas- Bahe for Creighton.

ketball game at the NCAA Tournament in 1946,and KUCOURTESY INFORMATION SPORTS —Steven Hill took over as voice of the Jayhawks beginning with the football opener vs.TCU on Sept. 21, 1946.“I realize ◆ ◆ ◆ there finally comes a time when one must call an end to something, no matter how much he enjoys it,” Falkenstien said. ... Falkenstein Sanctions levied All-American senior forward Caroline Smith, who has battled injuries much of Internal investigation leads the past two seasons, says she’s fully healthy and eager to lead the soccer team to a successful defense of its Big 12 co-championship.“Now it’s time to get rid of that to two-year probation hyphen,” Smith says.“We lost to Texas twice last year, we lost to Nebraska twice.We he University on June 15 have yet to beat Texas since I’ve been here.” ... Senior pole vaulter Amy Linnen announced that a two-year, placed third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in June, with a vault of 14 feet, internal investigation revealed 1.25 inches; freshman vaulter Ekaterina Sultanova was seventh. Senior Jeremy numerous rules violations, Mims ran fourth in the 800 meters in 1:45.86, a personal-best time and the second- T resulting in a two-year probation for the best mark in KU history. ... Junior outfielder A.J.Van Slyke was named first-team athletics department and additional All-Big 12, just the second KU player so honored. He was drafted in the sanctions for a number of teams. 23rd round by the St. Louis Cardinals, a club his father,Andy, once played for. The violations, detailed in a report submitted to the NCAA, will lead to what is apparently the first NCAA inves- which he described as a mutual decision, Douglas County district attorney tigation of KU athletics since men’s bas- during a June 30 press conference. charged Giddens with misdemeanor ketball was prevented from defending its “We came to the conclusion together battery and disorderly conduct and 1988 national championship. that it was in his best interest and our Creswell with misdemeanor battery. On his first day on the job, in 2003, best interest to part ways,” said Self, who Giddens, who averaged 10.1 points Athletics Director Lew Perkins was told called the controversy “a cloud that will and started 27 games last season, was to of two possible violations; he and probably hover above us for a while.” be the leading returning scorer on a Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway agreed Added Self, “It’s a fresh start for him. team already dramatically transformed. to hire a Kansas City law firm to investi- J.R. has had an up-and-down two years In addition to the graduation of seniors gate, and that eventually grew into a full here.” Keith Langford, Michael Lee, Aaron review for the entire department. In a written statement, Giddens Miles and Wayne Simien, KU lost Alex Among the violations uncovered: expressed regret for the incident that led Galindo and Nick Bahe to transfers. Football recruits received improper help to his departure, a fight outside the Moulaye Niang, who remains a student in scheduling correspondence courses; Moon Bar in the early hours of May 19. at KU, ended his playing career early some former men’s basketball players “With everything that has transpired because of a chronic back condition. received small graduation gifts from in this situation, Coach and I are in Senior Christian Moody will be alumni; and two prospective women’s agreement that a fresh start would be the only returning starter on a 14-man basketball players received summer best for Kansas and me,” he said. “I’m squad dominated by 11 freshmen housing at a private dormitory not equal sorry for what has transpired. Regardless and sophomores. Mario Chalmers, to their work in the hall’s dining room. of guilt or innocence, I put our program Micah Downs, Julian Wright and late “We are very disappointed that at in a bad situation.” addition Brandon Rush are touted as times we fell short of the high standards Giddens was hospitalized after being one of the nation’s top recruiting classes. we set for ourselves,” Hemenway said. stabbed in the calf. Four other men were The scenario doesn’t surprise Self. “The probation does not include televi- also wounded in the melee, which “Where this team is now is where we sion or postseason sanctions; it allegedly followed an altercation inside thought it would be back in November,” acknowledges, however, that lapses the bar involving Giddens and Jeremiah he said, noting speculation last year that occurred and that we will not tolerate Creswell, of Olathe. On Aug. 30 the Giddens might leave early for the NBA. further mistakes.”

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■ Football OCTOBER 1 at Texas Tech 8 at Kansas State 15 vs. Oklahoma, Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City 22 at Colorado 29 Missouri (Homecoming)

NOVEMBER 5 Nebraska 12 at Texas 26 Iowa State ■ SEPTEMBER 21 at Texas 24 Baylor ◆ ◆ ◆ 28 at Texas Tech Ready to roll OCTOBER 1 at Colorado Led by Lima, Bechard’s team 5 Kansas State looks to extend winning ways 8 Nebraska 15 at Missouri oach Ray Bechard is asked 19 Iowa State whether Josi Lima, a senior 22 at Baylor from Sao Paolo, Brazil, might 26 at Nebraska Cbe the best he’s ever coached. 29 Texas He notes that Lima, a three-time All-Big 12 middle blocker, is in the audience, NOVEMBER smiling broadly from a nearby seat in 2 Colorado ■ Volleyball coach Ray Bechard (top) enters Hadl Auditorium, but Bechard promises 5 at Kansas State his answer will not be swayed. his eighth season at KU with a career winning 9 at Oklahoma “Many other middle blockers in the percentage of .846 (including 13 years at 12 Texas Tech Big 12 will come out along the back row Barton County Community College). Senior 16 at Texas A&M and somebody will take their place,” Josi Lima (above) is one of the stars who have 23 Missouri Bechard says of situational substitutions pushed Bechard’s Jayhawks into consecutive 26 at Iowa State so common in volleyball. “Not Josi. Josi NCAA tournament appearances. is one of our best, if not our best, ■ Men’s golf passers; one of our best, if not our best, servers; our best back-row attacker; our NCAA tournament appearances while SEPTEMBER best front-row attacker. avoiding midseason conference swoons, 19-20 Kansas Invitational “So, yeah, she’s probably the best I’ve Lima boldly predicts that KU should fin- 30-Oct. 2 at Mason Rudolph had since I’ve been here.” ish second or third in the Big 12. Intercollegiate, Nashville, Tenn. Lima, a 6-footer, escorted her team- (Nebraska is ranked No. 1 nationally.) mates (including two other Brazilians) “We are a new team, a young team, OCTOBER on a 10-day summer playing tour of but we are very talented,” Lima says. 17-18 at Prestige, La Quinta, Calif. Brazil; she says they strengthened bonds “And this year is something different, of friendship and mutual respect. because our team is so much closer than NOVEMBER Noting that her coach’s goal is to in years past. We feel good about our 3-4 at Del Walker Intercollegiate, build on the momentum of consecutive chances this season.” Long Beach, Calif.

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ Women’s golf OCTOBER Sports Calendar 3-4 at Battle at the Lake, Tulsa, Okla. 10-11 at Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational, Manhattan 12 at Sunflower Showdown, 16-18 at Razorback Invitational, ■ Soccer Fayetville, Ark. Mahnattan SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER ■ 23 at Baylor 4-6 at The Derby Invitational, Auburn, Ala. 25 Texas A&M SEPTEMBER 30 at Nebraska 24-25 Kansas Softball Invitational, ■ and diving vs. Pittsburg State, Missouri Southern OCTOBER and Rockhurst OCTOBER 2 at Iowa State 28 William Jewell 8 Minnesota 7 Oklahoma State 14 at Big 12 Relays, Columbia, Mo. 9 Oklahoma OCTOBER 15 at Truman State, Kirksville, Mo. 14 at Texas Tech 1-2 Fall Jayhawk Classic, vs. UMKC, 28 Missouri 16 at Colorado Washburn and Northern Colorado 21 Colorado College 9 Johnson County CC NOVEMBER 23 Texas 9 Missouri Western 4 Iowa & Missouri State 28 Missouri 18-20 at Minnesota Invitational NOVEMBER DECEMBER 2-6 at Big 12, San Antonio 2-3 vs. Harvard and Northeastern, at Cambridge, Mass. ■ Cross Country

JANUARY SEPTEMBER 6 at Florida International Relays, 24 at Roy Griak Miami Invitational, Minneapolis 14 Nebraska 27 Drury OCTOBER 1 at Oklahoma State FEBRUARY Jamboree 3-4 at Iowa State 15 at Pre-Nationals 22-25 at Big 12, Columbia, Mo. Invitational, Terre Haute, Ind. ■ Tennis 28 at Big 12, Waco, Texas SEPTEMBER ■ Rowing 16-18 at Tulsa Invitational 30-Oct. 2 at Indiana Invitational OCTOBER 1-2 at Head of the OCTOBER Oklahoma, Oklahoma City 19-23 at ITA Central Regionals, Salt 29 at Head of the Iowa, Lake City Iowa City ■ In keeping with new mandates that all athletics teams adhere to KU’s official royal blue, football unveiled helmets NOVEMBER NOVEMBER fashioned with a hue considerably lighter than the darker 4-6 at Western Michigan, Kalamazoo 5-6 at Head of the schemes of recent years.“I’m from Lawrence, so this is ’Hooch, Chattanooga, closer to the blue I grew up watching KU football teams Tenn. wear,” says fullback Brandon McAnderson.“I like it.”

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22 | KANSAS ALUMNI The Hemenway Decade TE N Y E AR S I NTO TH E C H ANC E L L O R ’S TE NUR E , AN O UTSI D E R E PO10 R T C AR D G I V E S KU H I G H M AR KS “ I’m Bob Hemenway.” lence, exponential growth in resources team sent by the North Central Robert E. Hemenway, and unwavering respect for tradition, the Association of Colleges and Schools: Hi,the University’s 16th chan- newcomer from Kentucky, by way of • Basic infrastructure items such as cellor, does not use his professional or Oklahoma, Wyoming and Nebraska, proper ventilation for art classrooms academic titles—chancellor, professor, proved to be just as the Board of Regents were described as “grossly inadequate.” doctor—when introducing himself. He had predicted: the right fit for KU. • Women and minorities were under- mingles easily with students and tries to “There are certain advantages when represented among faculty, students and put even the most junior faculty mem- you come in from another state and you staff because KU lacked a “systematic bers at ease; while always turned out in don’t know many people,” says Kansas plan for accountability at the institu- suit and tie during office hours, he’s State University president Jon Wefald, tional and departmental levels.” comfortable wearing a promotional himself 19 years on the job after arriving • Open admissions posed unhealthy T-shirt to a freshman mixer. And, for an in Manhattan as an unknown from burdens for “an institution committed to academic with so much respect for the Minnesota. “You’re starting with a clean academic excellence.” trappings of tradition, he is oddly confi- slate, and you are looking at people, • Technological improvements were dent wearing a straw hat during the whether they’ve been there for one year needed in every aspect of University life, most hallowed of KU rites, the walk or 30, with fresh eyes. including administration, teaching and down the Hill. “Bob Hemenway obviously under- research. Chancellor Hemenway—he can use stood this, and he understood he had to • Undergraduate teaching needs the familiar “Bob” all he wants, but he’ll make the best of this opportunity. He appeared to drive admission to some always be chancellor to us—has grown in has a great deal of intellectual capacity to graduate programs, rather than research the job. Ten successful years tend to do look at a problem and find a solution. potential of applicants, and more money that. He is simply a superb problem solver.” was needed for graduate stipends and After a long stretch of expert leader- graduate research assistants. ship by amiable men of comforting pres- ◆ ◆ ◆ Not highlighted by auditors, but ence—Gene Budig, chancellor from 1981 headaches awaiting Hemenway nonethe- to 1994, when he left to become presi- hen Bob Hemenway less, were crises such as: dent of baseball’s American League, and arrived at KU from the • a heart-transplant program at KU microbiology professor , University of Kentucky, Medical Center eventually shuttered for who served yearlong stints before and W where he had been presi- accepting patients while refusing donors; after Budig—we suddenly had a stranger dent of the Lexington campus, problems • a $3 million budget shortfall, in our midst in 1995. lurked anywhere he cared to look. spurred by a $1.6 million cut in state Change is usually unsettling, but for Among nine “concerns” reported in funds and a $1.2 million deficit in those who appreciate academic excel- 1995 after a visit by the accreditation research overhead, forcing a half-year

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ISSUE 5, 2005 | 23 delay in salary increases; “My understanding is that the average know, you really ought to stop with all • and even a silent Campanile, whose tenure of a chancellor is four and a half this aw-shucks business. You have a ter- bell repairs were running two years years, so 10 years is a lot longer than rific university and you ought to be cele- behind schedule. most chancellors serve,” Shulenburger brating it.’ Almost immediately upon his arrival says. “But given the complexity of a uni- “That drove home a lot of things to in Lawrence, Hemenway recruited and versity like this one, it’s really hard to get me. As Midwesterners we’re naturally hired Vice Admiral Don Hagen, surgeon messages going in a much shorter period modest, but we really have had some general of the U.S. Navy, as executive of time. A 10-year chunk, you ought to extraordinary successes at the University vice chancellor of KU Medical Center. be able to move an institution in that of Kansas in the last 10 years. We ought Hemenway then gutted KU’s top-tier amount of time. And, boy, this institu- to be proud of that.” administrative structure, announcing in tion sure moved in the last 10 years.” January 1996 that the jobs of Lawrence- The 10-year report card arrived this ◆ ◆ ◆ campus executive vice chancellor and spring, and auditors announced that all vice chancellor for academic affairs nine of the previous “concerns” had ob Hemenway grew up in would be merged into a provost position; been addressed to their satisfaction. Hastings, Neb., earned his six months later he made what might They noted no additional problem areas undergraduate degree at the have been his single-most important while enthusiastically recommending to BUniversity of Nebraska-Omaha, decision, promoting business professor the North Central Association that KU and was 24 when he earned his PhD in David Shulenburger, who had held the be granted the maximum 10-year accred- English from Kent State University in former academic affairs job, to provost, itation. 1966. In their reference letters, faculty with supervisory responsibility for the Among the team’s findings: advisers uniformly noted a sense that Hemenway, by all accounts a particularly brilliant student, was destined for a “What you see through Bob Hemenway’s 10 future beyond the English department. years here is that he’ll figure out what the right If he hoped to one day lead a large university, Hemenway kept it to himself side of an issue is, and once he’s done that, he’s and fashioned his career as an academic. He joined the University of Kentucky as truly on that side. And he’ll speak out about it assistant professor in 1966, and in 1968 if he feels he needs to.” —David Shulenburger joined the American studies department at the University of Wyoming. He returned to Kentucky as associate profes- entire Lawrence campus. • KU values effective teaching and sor in 1973, and in 1977 secured his “Some changes will be gradual,” student learning. academic reputation with publication of Shulenburger said at the time of his • The University has an “impressive his well-received biography of Zora appointment, “but some have to be fast.” and extensive” international emphasis. Neale Hurston, among the finest of That spring, the Legislature approved • Information technology is devoted 20th-century American authors, who the Board of Regents’ $163 million bond to student learning, teaching and had fallen into unfortunate obscurity proposal called “Crumbling Class- research. until Hemenway helped resurrect aware- rooms,” of which KU was to receive $64 • Research expenditures increased ness of her work. million for construction and renovation 120 percent and $450 million had been In 1986, Hemenway, by then chair of of classrooms, libraries and laboratories invested in facilities since the team’s last English at Kentucky, left for Oklahoma, on the Lawrence and KUMC campuses. visit. where he spent three years as dean of Legislators also gave preliminary • KU made “noteworthy progress” in arts and sciences. Again he returned to approval to Hemenway’s first major student retention and graduation rates, Kentucky, lured back in 1989 to take policy initiative, the innovative system and in 10 years increased minority-stu- over as the Lexington-campus chancel- of “tuition accountability” that freed the dent enrollment 41 percent. lor. And there he remained until 1995, University from delivering tuition • And the University achieved “help- when KU came calling. receipts to general state coffers. And KU ful regulatory relief from the state” in the The vagabond life of a star academic was that very summer completing a fun- form of a tuition ownership model that quickly settled into routine as he and his damental identity shift, leaving behind allows KU to retain revenue generated family made themselves at home in The the comfortable old Big Eight by wel- by rising tuition rates. Outlook on Lilac Lane. coming four prominent Texas universi- Says Hemenway, “One of the team “It was definitely a unique experience, ties into a new Big 12 Conference. members came up to me and said, ‘You growing up where I did,” says Hemen-

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ The Plainsman’s straw hat (rig ht) has become a jovial tradition, but H emenway is serious about guarding against the Kansas sun: H e’s been known to cajole passersby on UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (2) W escoe B each for their lack of headgear. Soon after arriving in 1995, the H emenways shared a laugh with Shulenburger (be low), whom the chancellor would come to rely on as provost.

wants strong data and clear ideas, not, in those things put them at ease.” way’s second-youngest son, Zach, j’04, Burg’s words, “empty statements.” He “But,” Burg adds with a staccato who stayed on the Hill for his under- won’t hide his displeasure if a colleague burst, “I’ve said this to many people, his graduate years and is now studying law arrives unprepared for a meeting, yet the mind is like a steel trap. I think that peo- at the University of Nebraska. small talk he enjoys, which would be ple may draw a conclusion about how “Everywhere I lived before, most of my phony posturing from leaders who pre- open and genuine he is and think he friends were kids in the neighborhood. fer a certain aloofness, is true Bob might be a pushover. And oh, he is not.” Coming up here, the neighborhood is Hemenway. the University of Kansas. It definitely “He’s a complex guy,” Burg says, “and ◆ ◆ ◆ took some getting used to. I mean, every he’s genuinely interested in people.” day I got up, went down to eat breakfast He is genuinely curious, for instance, or some, Bob Hemenway’s finest and watched 100 students walking past about what your parents did for work, or moments of leadership were wit- on their way to class.” where you grew up. When he travels nessed in 1999 and again this Mary Burg was assistant to the dean with Alumni Association staff and stu- Fpast May, when, in the midst of of arts and sciences at Kentucky when, dent performers to Kansas Honors pushes by the Kansas Board of in 1990, she applied for the same posi- Program events around the state, he Education to diminish the teaching of tion with the new chancellor. During the invariably works quietly on the way out, Darwinian evolution, he spoke out interview, Bob Hemenway asked Burg then spends the return trip chatting with strongly in support of science education. what her father had done for a living. the students in his traveling party. In 1999, when the Board of “I was in one of my moods,” she now Students and junior faculty waiting Education shocked the nation with its recalls, “and I still don’t know why he to meet the chancellor are often intimi- successful attacks on the teaching of evo- hired me, but it just seemed so irrele- dated by his warren of offices and array lution, Hemenway wrote an essay for the vant, what my father did for a living. So I of assistants. Yet when the heavy door Chronicle of Higher Education, reprinted said, ‘He’s an ax murderer, and he’s visit- opens next to Gay Lynn Clock’s desk, in Kansas Alumni, in which he conceded, ing! You want to meet him?’” invariably the chancellor already is offer- “The repudiation of the board’s stan- Fifteen years later, Burg and Hemen- ing his hand, a gentle smile and, “Hi, I’m dards has been international and deeply way remain a tight professional team— Bob Hemenway.” humiliating to proud Kansans.” He she followed him to Kansas in 1996 and “In that sense, what you see is what attacked the issue in his traditional now carries the title chief of staff—and he is,” Burg says. “People often will be Convocation speech to faculty and staff, she says she understands a bit more nervous, students particularly, about and he directed that the University cre- about his odd question. what he’s going to be like, but he is so ate a Center for the Teaching of Science Hemenway is a chief executive who down to earth and genuine and open, while also encouraging all Americans to

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 25 continue with lifelong learning to agree on something and you shake if they could find some rage. And they achieve lasting scientific literacy. hands, you don’t ever have to worry couldn’t do it. Though later boards quietly rescinded about that again. I really respect that.” “This isn’t happy valley on every- the controversial science standards, sub- thing, but people understand why we’ve sequent elections again seated a board ◆ ◆ ◆ done what we’ve done and they see yearning to question a matter scientists results.” and educators consider unequivocably ob Hemenway turned 64 Aug. Asked what might be housed in a settled. So, on Commencement weekend 10, and says he accepted this job future Hemenway Hall, Shulenburger last May, Hemenway used his annual with the intention of keeping it replies that it would appropriately be sci- State of the University speech at the All- Buntil he’s 70. He happily reports ence or engineering, since Hemenway University Supper to again defend sci- that he feels up to the challenge of has guided KU through such unprece- ence and scientists. remaining chancellor six more years. dented gains in research funding and “Evolution is a theory in the same He lost 50 pounds in a KU weight- construction. way that gravity is a theory: It has been loss study, for which he adhered to a Hemenway blanches at the sugges- proven to be a fact by years of scientific strict liquid diet of 500 daily calories. tion, and voices his hope that successes observation and experimentation,” Though he regained 20 pounds, in the sciences won’t diminish his stand- Hemenway told the packed, and hushed, Hemenway and his wife, Leah, maintain ing as a scholar of American literature. ballroom in the Kansas Union. “If we their commitment to walk a 2-mile loop “I hope that I’ve not forgotten about were to fail to teach such basic scientific around campus every evening. the humanities; of course, as an old principles, we would place Kansas stu- Their youngest son, Arna, is a senior humanities professor, I used to be the dents at a disadvantage in the global at Lawrence High School, and if he first to complain about a chancellor not intellectual marketplace, and we would decides to study at the university his dad putting in enough money. limit their ability to contribute to scien- leads and where he has lived since ele- “But we’ll see what the next five years tific leadership in the world.” mentary school, it would hardly be bring. Maybe if we can be successful Hemenway later shrugs off a sugges- unique: Four of eight Hemenway chil- enough in raising funds, and successful tion that it was particularly noble to dren have received KU degrees, includ- enough in moving forward, we can cre- make clear his opinion in the midst of ing Robin, g’97, who already was in ate a humanities building that anybody unrest over a hot-button topic. graduate school here when her father would be happy to be associated with.” “Any time you speak out, there’s a risk arrived as chancellor. Hemenway Though he has cast an eye toward the of people disagreeing with you, and delights in recounting an anecdote about day when he can “just promote myself there’s a risk of people not understand- one of Robin’s faculty advisers, Professor back to the faculty,” Hemenway has no ing what you’re trying to do,” Norm Yetman, telling her, “Don’t worry, intention of leaving KU. He has always Hemenway says. “But I thought it was we’ll always consider you the first taught a 7:30 a.m. literature course, tak- clear what position the chancellor had to Hemenway.” ing only one year off to dedicate himself take. I had to let the country know the Every four years, the Office of to the successful conclusion of KU First, University of Kansas is dedicated to Institutional Research and Planning asks the capital campaign that raised $653 strong teaching of contemporary sci- graduating seniors to rate their experi- million. ence.” ences on the Hill. Over the past 30 “I’m still having fun, I still feel like I’m Shulenburger, a plain speaker himself, years, through every variable imaginable, making progress in my work and I’m says he was not at all surprised his boss about 80 percent of the students said probably in the best physical shape I’ve proved “willing to stand up and be they were satisfied or highly satsified been in for a long time,” Hemenway counted,” and further cites Hemenway’s with KU. This past May, despite rising says. He pauses, then adds with a laugh, defense two years ago of Professor tuitions that could have been political “I guess the question is, am I in suffi- Dennis Dailey, whose sex education suicide for both the chancellor and cient mental shape?” courses had come under bitter public provost, the percentage of students self- Jon Wefald, his KSU counterpart and attack. “What you see through Bob reporting as satisfied or highly satisfied close friend, won’t harbor the self-depre- Hemenway’s 10 years here is that he’ll with their KU experience jumped to 91. cating humor. figure out what the right side of an issue “When the accrediting team was on “KU has an academic reputation that is, and once he’s done that, he’s truly on campus, they were just incredulous that radiates from coast to coast and around that side. And he’ll speak out about it if our students weren’t in an uproar,” the world,” Wefald says. “It is truly a he feels he needs to.” Shulenburger says. “After a while they first-rate institution, and it is only fitting Says Athletics Director Lew Perkins, sort of broke off the schedule that we set that Bob Hemenway is the chancellor. “The chancellor is a man of principle. for them and went out and hunted down “Ten years ... are you kidding? It’s just What I love about him is that when you students on the sidewalk to try and see like Bob came yesterday.”

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI EARL RICHARDSON

“The chancellor is a man of principle. What I love about him is that when you agree on something and you shake hands, you don’t ever have to worry about that again. I really respect that.” —Lew Perkins

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A summer project became the role of a lifetime for a Colorado mining town and intrepid young actors from KU. Forty years later, the show goes on.

simple sheet of paper, head- A member of the Junior Chamber of melodramas, into a summer theatre. lined “Operation Summer Commerce, the “Jaycees,” and pastor of Folks far and wide still wonder why the Theatre,” dangled from a bul- the Congregational Church, Livingston town’s miners—and a dozen students A letin board in Murphy Hall in had suggested that the Jaycees try a new from the University of Kansas—agreed to spring 1966. Its smudgy, indigo-ink venture to smooth the rough edges of the outlandish scheme. message, spun from a mimeograph Creede’s nightlife and boost sum- But loyal patrons who travel from machine in a tiny church nearly 800 mer tourism, offering families neighboring states and beyond applaud miles from Lawrence, competed with an attraction besides trout the result: The Creede Repertory Theatre other stray advertisements for room- fishing. in July celebrated its 40th summer sea- mates, rallies and rides home, the trans- In those days and son. Starting the revelry was a actions of college life in a simpler time. through its history, July 14 story in USA Today “Operation Summer Theatre” caught Creede “was known that hailed the CRT as one the eye of Steve Grossman, an ambitious as a place to go and of the nation’s “10 great junior theatre major from suburban get drunk. Some places to see the lights way Chicago. He stopped to read the flier, maps already listed off Broadway.” then slyly removed it from the board it as a ghost town,” Inside the theatre, and stashed it in his pocket. says B.J. Myers, which was completely “I didn’t want a graduate student to c’69, g’71, who led renovated in 1992, an see it,” he now admits. the town as mayor illustrated timeline chroni- Grossman, c’67, g’97, showed the flier in 2002. cles the improbable saga to his roommate and fellow aspiring To restore of a company that has actor, Joseph Roach, c’69. Friends since Creede’s rightful grown from a dozen high school who were desperate to pro- place on the map in players, a $200 duce plays on their own, they decided to the 1960s, budget and $1 take the dare issued by unseen fellow Livingston, the admission to a dreamers in a town they’d never heard young minister from company of 60, of. “We were a theatre looking for a the East Coast, pro- including a year- place,” Grossman recalls, “and along posed that the town round staff of came a place looking for a theatre.” convert its aging five; a budget of So they made a call to Creede, Colo., Creede Opera $700,000; and tucked near spent silver mines, 9,000 House, formerly ticket prices of feet high in the San Juan Mountains. home to occasional $15-$24 (still a Jim Livingston answered the phone. movies and campy bargain by

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI today’s performing arts standards). Through four decades, the theatre has remained true to the classic concept of repertory—staging a different play every night—in a town where the last mine (2) BROWN JOHN GARY closed in 1985 and the year-round popu- lation hovers around 500. During the last three days of July, the town toasted the CRT’s success with a reunion that included Livingston and most of the original 12 students, along with other alumni who have performed at CRT. Those who returned echoed one refrain: A summer in Creede stays with you for life. The grandeur of rocky cliffs, the rush of the Rio Grande, the town’s ornery history and its quirky characters-- both on-stage and off—make for unforget- table theatre.

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hough town lore credits the Jaycees for sending “Operation Summer Theatre” fliers to 100 colleges and universities in T1966, pastor and impresario Livingston says emphatically, “We didn’t have that much postage. We sent six.” The call from Grossman was their only reply. After talking with Livingston on the phone, Grossman and Roach made the 12-hour drive from Lawrence ■ The CR T founders are: (s eated) G ary M itchell, c’66, g’72, Ind ependence, Kan.; Pat R oyse- to Creede, in southwestern Colorado, M oynihan, c’67, C anyon C ountry, C alif.; (firs t row standing) B .J. M yers, c’69, g’71, C reede, C olo.; the following weekend in March. The Steve G rossman, c’67, g’97, Northbrook, Ill.; Joe R oach, c’69, New H aven, C onn.; Shari M orey two students met the townspeople, L acey, ’69, C hicago; Jim L ivingston, former church pastor in C reede; (b ack row) Steve R eed, c’70, toured the dilapidated opera house, and c’70, Santa Fe, N.M .; Kay H abenstein L ancaster, c’66, g’70, C harlottesville, V a.; Da vid M iller, c’69, shook hands with the minister to seal the deal. (“Even if we’d signed a con- Chic ago H eights, Ill.; C onnie B ohannon R oberts, d’66, Ola the. Not pictured: L ance H ewett, ’70, tract, it wouldn’t have been enforceable, New Y ork, N.Y ., and Ea rl Trussell, c’70, Port C hester, N.Y . L eft page: H ugh H astings and C hristy because neither of us was 21,” Roach B randt, c’73, starred in “The H eiress” in 1982, early in B randt’s 30-y ear run at the C R T. now muses.) They vowed to return in May, after time, we’ll die in two weeks.’ two weeks before opening night. They final exams, with KU cast members who “I’ve noticed that the word ‘naive’ found the opera house still in disastrous somehow would renovate the opera comes up as we tell our stories, and it is shape. Luckily one of the first four house and open the CRT’s first season justified. But ‘naïve’ underestimates just sojourners was B.J. Myers, acclaimed to on June 26, 1966. The first production, how smart Steve Grossman is.” this day by the others as “the only one at Livingston’s request, would be his The two returned to Lawrence and who knew how to do anything.” As tech- favorite, “Mister Roberts.” held auditions, but the rapidly vanishing nical director extraordinaire, she As the roommates drove out of semester left no time for rehearsals. So presided over the local high school Creede, Roach recalls, his buddy intu- they passed out scripts, asked the actors wood shop, which became headquarters itively pointed their project in the right to find their own costumes and get to for the theatre’s construction. Once the direction: “Steve said to me, ‘We must Creede as soon as they could. remaining cast members arrived—with run in rep. If we do only one show at a The first wave, four of the 12, arrived only one week to go before opening

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 29 ble on new colors for the next show summer evenings. before sending them back up the ladder Many Creede stories describe the gen- to Myers. For five years, marker madness erosity of one patron, Chloe Rogers. was standard operating procedure. After Phil Grecian, ’70, broke his eye- Though the memories provoke laugh- glasses, she drove 50 miles to Monte ter today, the actors learned to make do Vista, got them fixed and paid for the because they were absolutely serious repair herself. When cast members about their craft. They were, as needed furniture to complete the set for Grossman says, “hungry to make art.” one production, she appeared at the At times that first summer, the 12 theatre with everything they needed. Jayhawks, who were lucky to make a few Later, Grecian recalls, they passed by her dollars any given week, were just plain house at night to find her sitting on hungry. But there were always townspeo- boxes in her living room. ple ready to feed, clothe and house the Myers remembers when Rogers asked “theAYtre kids.” Families took turns whether the theatre kids were going to hosting the students for dinners on the rodeo in Monte Vista. When Myers JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER JENNIFER JACKSON Mondays and Tuesdays, when they looked puzzled, Rogers hurried off, only ■ The steep, 17-mile B achelor H istoric Tour, weren’t performing. The rest of the week to return soon after “with enough named for one of several old mines, begins and they lived on sandwiches, soup and money to buy tickets for all of us, plus ends in Cr eede. other donated delicacies from the $5 each to spend. And she even pro- Creede Hotel. The Tomkins Hardware vided the transportation.” night—rehearsals began in Livingston’s Store owners extended a lengthy line of church. Because the roles in “Mister credit and the keys to the store, and ◆ ◆ ◆ Roberts” were nearly all male, Myers’ Postmaster Ed Hargraves opened his crew back at the high school consisted boarding house to the seven young men, one are the days when com- mainly of the five determined but who took to calling their cramped quar- pany members had to borrow exhausted KU women. The night before ters “The Silver Palace.” The Kipp family pocket money. Now they earn the show opened, Myers had been up for gave the five KU women the run of their Gactual salaries and live in CRT- four days straight. “I fell asleep standing home for the summer. Nell Wyley owned apartments that are a far cry from up at the table saw, cutting a 4-by-8-foot loaned them coats to warm the cool the notoriously moldy trailers of the sheet of plywood.” Luckily someone woke her before blood was spilled. ■ The theatre’s M ain Street home carried its The curtain opened June 26 to a sold- out house. As they took their bows, the old and new names until the building was dog-tired and terrified troupe—and the dramatically equally terrified Jaycees—knew they had renovated pulled off a miracle. “There were whoops in 19 92. and howls and shouts of ‘Bravo!’” recalls Kay Habenstein Lancaster, c’66, g’70. “The Jaycees knew they had done the right thing for their community.” But the work had just begun. The company staged four more shows that summer and continued to improvise even the necessities. When the theatre’s makeshift lights melted the colored gels used for scene changes, Grossman dreamed up an unlikely solution: Magic Markers. After every show, the school- childen in town formed a light brigade. Myers stood on a 12-foot ladder to unlatch the lights and hand them down to the kids, who would furiously scrub

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30 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1970s. The theatre, rebuilt by Myers and KU students after a fire in 1970, anaging director Tristan W ilson predicts the C R T’s 4 0 th season will includes all the latest technical and per- set an attendance record: 18 , 0 0 0 .Another 18 , 0 0 0 , including chil- formance features of a modern hall, and dren in C olorado, Utah, Ariz ona and New M exico, will benefit its impact extends beyond summer through the C R T’s annual tour of bilingual plays and its camps and shows (see box). workshops for elementary, high- school and college students. Myers’ pivotal role in the theatre’s W ilson and M aurice L aM ee, executive/ artistic director, are opti- amazing run, and her loyalty to the town mistic.“W e’ve been bucking the trend in theatre for years,” W ilson says.“W e’ve seen as a former mayor and longtime busi- increases of 10 percent each season for the past six or seven years. M o and I attrib- nesswoman (her parents started the first ute it to raising the q uality of every aspect of the performances: our acting, our tech- gift shop in 1972), are part of the Creede nical support, our marketing and our outreach.” story. That summer of 1970, while she And what’s good for the C R T has been good for C reede.According to a recent and her crew restored what fire had economic study: scorched that spring, she also completed • The C R T’s impact on the 10 0 - mile radius around C reede is $2.8 million. her master’s project by creating period • The per capita effect on the 8 31 year- round residents of M ineral C ounty is more costumes for two of the summer’s than $2, 50 0 annually. shows. Her KU faculty adviser was • The C R T accounts for 26 cents of every dollar spent on tourism and 18 percent William Kuhlke, g’59, now an emeritus of the entire economy. professor who recently performed in a • The theatre has brought 55 jobs to the county. —JJS starring role at the CRT. After three decades, Kuhlke is also Myers’ leading man: The two will be married Talented directors and cohesive casts and they learn you’re from Lawrence or Thanksgiving weekend. have made Creede’s stage ideal for KU, they treat you like family,” she says. While Myers has been a mainstay Brandt. “The atmosphere in a repertory “I’ve never been to a place where I felt so behind the scenes, actress Christy company is so intense and exciting for immediately that I belonged.” Brandt, c’73, has become an on-stage an actor,” she says. “I’ve done work here And when you meet Lonnie and favorite. Through 30 seasons in Creede, I could never had done in New York or Danny Rogers, sons of Creede and the Brandt has played 115 roles, from Chicago. We have always worked CRT’s legendary patron Chloe Rogers, ingénues to matriarchs, including this together for a common goal, and we’ve it’s clear that the KU-Creede connection summer’s feisty Kate in Neil Simon’s never had a diva. We know the product remains true. The two attended the July “Broadway Bound.” On July 28, Brandt is good, and we want to do our best for reunion in their mother’s honor, laugh- turned in a radiant performance, earning the people of this community.” ing about her devotion to theatre, which another standing ovation from fans who Brandt and her husband, photogra- prevailed over her own sons’ doubts. “I return to see her year after year. They pher and painter John Gary Brown, are couldn’t believe folks would actually pay saw no sign of the inexplicable vertigo so committed to Creede that they own a a dollar to watch a play,” Lonnie admits. that had kept her bedridden most of home, living half the year there and the “I thought, ‘Boy, this is really gonna that day, forcing KU Professor Jack other half in Lawrence. Brown, ’67, who flop.’” But he and his brother never com- Wright, g’67, PhD’69, who directed the followed his girlfriend Brandt to Creede, plained when loaves of their mom’s play, to rework Kate’s second-act dance is staff photographer for the CRT. He homemade bread--or the family’s furni- scene at the last minute. has played his share of on-stage roles, ture--ended up down the street. “She was incredible,” Wright raved. “It including real-life groom to Brandt’s Earlier this summer, the Rogers family was one of her best performances. I’m so bride in 1981, when they were married shared a barbecue dinner with proud of the entire cast.” This was his on the set of “A Doll’s House,” Henrik renowned Broadway and TV actor third stint as a director since 1968. “The Ibsen’s classic tale of marital strife. Mandy Patinkin, ’74, a Creede alumnus mountains, weather and scenery all Brandt was starring as Nora that sum- who, like many others, formed a lifelong make Creede an inviting place to work, mer. “Nora leaves her husband at the bond with the town and bought a home. but I truly think it is the magic and spirit end of the play, but we decided to live “Mandy says our mom will always be his the original founders had that has some- on the edge,” Brown jokes. sons’ grandma,” Danny says. “She just how managed to sustain the theatre and The two have recruited a number of adopted those theatre kids. She wouldn’t keep it going all these years,” Wright Lawrence and friends to visit Creede have had it any other way.” says. “Those who have contributed to and invest in homes. Charla Jenkins, Somehow their mom, the minister, Creede over the years somehow caught j’69, communications director for the miners and those kids knew this the spirit of the place and managed to University Theatre, is eager to put down place and this theatre were made for improve upon it each year.” roots in Creede. “When you meet natives each other.

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ent Whealy’s empire of seeds started with two plants—a lush morning glory of deep-purple K flowers with red stars in their throats, a hearty Bavarian tomato called German Pink—and a promise. In 1971, Whealy, who was then mar- ried to Diane Ott, moved to St. Lucas, Iowa, to care for her grandfather. The old gardener entrusted the couple with the family heirlooms, descendants of seeds carried from Bavaria by his parents in the 1870s and propagated through a century of Iowa summers. “When he died, we realized that if his family seeds were to survive, it was up to us,” says Whealy, j’68. In a land of immigrants, they thought, surely other gardeners must face similar circumstances. “Immigrants always brought the best seeds with them,” Whealy says. “Coming through Ellis Island, seeds were sewn into the hems of dresses or hidden in hatbands.”

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI BY STEVEN HILL arden Seed Savers Exc hange reintroduces heirloom plants to the world’s greenhouse— and Old W orld tastes to modern palates

He began searching for like-minded many varieties. Under such systems, never seen before, and saying, ‘This is preservationists, an effort that became nutrition, freshness and genetic diversity your true heritage as gardeners.’ Then the germ of Seed Savers Exchange, a become secondary. Over time, 7,000 they understand.” nonprofit organization that preserves withers to 700. While preserving genetic diversity is a and distributes heirloom seeds. When that happens, scientists lose goal for Seed Savers, so too is preserving Headquartered on the 890-acre access to the disease and pest resistance cultural history. A journalism major at Heritage Farm near Decorah, Iowa, Seed these plants offer. Seed Savers works to KU, Whealy is drawn to the stories Savers Exchange saves and shares some stop the extinction and preserve the behind the seeds. 25,000 varieties of vegetables, herbs and diversity of future food crops. “For immigrants, seeds were a living flowers, educating visitors on what “It’s difficult to make people see this tie to the old country,” he says. “They Whealy calls our “true garden heritage.” genetic erosion as a threat,” Whealy says. could continue to enjoy the foods they At the start of the 20th century, that “But what works is bringing them into a loved.” Those foods in turn became part heritage included an estimated 7,000 garden with hundreds of things they’ve of American culture—a process that goes named varieties of apples. Now only 700 on today with immigrants from Asia and exist. Chain groceries stock a handful at Latin America. most, including the ubiquitous and Among tales of seeds brought over inaptly named Red Delicious, the iceberg on the Mayflower, grown by Thomas lettuce of the apple world. Long on Jefferson at Monticello and collected by shelf-life but short on taste, Red Gen. Robert E. Lee in the Civil War, one Delicious is the result of a food industry stands out. The Cherokee Trail of Tears that values uniform products that can Bean was carried by Cherokee Indians be trucked cross-country and still look forced to march from North Carolina to nice. Similar trends are at work in the Oklahoma during the winter of 1838-’39 large-scale seed businesses, where low along the Trail of Tears. Passed down for sales drive companies to discontinue generations, the beans came to Seed

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 33 Savers from John Wyche, a Hugo, Okla., schedule (10 percent of the stock is so much more than sugar peas and doctor. Wyche grew them in terraced planted once every 10 years). The Seed sweet corn. gardens fertilized with elephant manure Savers Exchange yearbook reaches 7,000 “It really takes seeing it, whether in from the Cole Brothers Circus, which seed traders, and thousands more buy the garden or in a slide show,” says wintered nearby, and he scattered lion seeds from the exchange’s Web site Whealy, who travels the country to droppings to ward off rabbits. At a nickel (www.seedsavers.org) and at retail racks spread the word on heirloom seeds. “It’s apiece, these shiny black beans are both in 29 states. the beauty and the color of it all that a rock-bottom bargain and a hard-won In 1990 Whealy’s work attracted a really touches people’s hearts.” miracle. MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” The grant money helped Seed Savers go international, funding 12 collecting expeditions to Eastern Europe and the n 1975, when he founded Seed former Soviet Union, a genetically rich Savers, Whealy wrote to Mother but politically fragile region. Earth News and other gardening Farm visitors, catalog browsers and Imagazines seeking people willing to Web surfers discover abundance: 1,500 share heirloom seeds. He got six takers. varieties of lettuce, 650 squashes, 300 Thirty years later, he brings 5,000 visi- types of garlic, 200 sunflowers. There is tors a year into the garden at Heritage poetry, too, in the names—Amish Deer Farm, where seeds are kept in a high- Tongue and Red Leprechaun lettuces; tech storehouse and grown on a rotating Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter

“It ’s difficult to make people see this genetic erosion as a threat. B ut what works is bringing them into a garden with hundreds of things they’ve never seen before, and saying, ‘T his is your true heritage as gardeners.’” —Kent Whealy

Tomato and Lina Cisco’s Bird Egg Bean; Tasting helps, too. As community Love-Lies-Bleeding Ameranthus, markets, specialty groceries and the Rainbow Loveliness and Irish Eyes “slow food” cooking movement begin Sunflower. For a visual delight, feast on to embrace the fruits and vegetables startling Rainbow Chard or the fanciful that Seed Savers Exchange has rescued Moon & Stars Watermelon, its dark from extinction, the heirlooms are green rind speckled with pea-sized moving out of catalogs and storerooms ■ Amish De er Tongue, L ove-L ies-B leeding and yellow dots and a single large full-moon and onto people’s tables. G randpa Ott’ s M orning G lory are among the splash. Taken together, this plenty That’s exactly what Whealy wants. unique heirloom varieties available at explodes a casual grower’s estimation “Once they see it and taste it,” he www.seedsavers.org. of what’s possible in the garden: It’s says, “we have them.” EXHANGE. OF SEED SAVERS COURTESY AND FLOWERS EARL RICHARDSON; BY PORTRAIT VEGETABLES

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ “It’ s been an incredible journey, going through this,” says Seed Savers Exc hange founder Kent W healy, who visited campus in April for two days of lectures and workshops on heirloom gardening.“I feel blessed. M ost activists don’t live to see their dreams accomplished. Now when I travel the country, I see our varieties available in farmers’ markets by name.”

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 35 Fifth Generation

Drew Miller’s Jayhawk legacy took root in the mid-1890s, when great-great- grandparents Luther Stover and Madge Jayhawk Fisher Stover studied on Mount Oread. His choice of major is all his own, however; the computer science degree he will pur- sue in the School of Engineering wasn’t even imagined by the first three generations of his family to attend KU. Drew is a Generations graduate of Iola High School, where he excelled academically and in running cross country and track. His parents are Jay Miller Jr., ’81, and Karen Jones Miller, ’81. Both grandfathers hese are the championship babies. Sure, all are KU graduates: Edward J. Miller, b’55, and Robert L. Jones, good parents think their children potential a’53. Jayhawk great-grandparents are Horace L. Miller, ’24, and Madge “Nannie” Stover Miller, ’25, daughter of Luther champions, but many of this year’s fresh- and Madge, who started it all when they attended with the men were born shortly before or after the classes of 1895 and 1897. TKU men’s basketball team claimed the 1988 NCAA title. We’re betting that jubilant parents and grandpar- ents even dressed their fledglings in tiny T-shirts pro- claiming KU’s pre-eminence. Those born to alumni gained entry into the KU family and were reared in the reflected glory that shines on all true Jayhawks. Now Richard “Richie” H.Wagstaff IV grown into their new KU family role as scholars are two certainly knows the words to the Alma fifth-generation, 17 fourth-, 18 third-, and 137 second- Mater and the fight song, and he can carry the tunes with style. A veteran of the Shawnee Mission East High School generation members of the flock, champions every one. Varsity Choir and Choraliers, Richie sang in cathedrals and other venues in England, Belgium and Germany. He also earned varsity letters in football and basketball. He is the son B Y SAL L Y H AY D E N of R.H., j’80, and K. Bridget Gaughan Wagstaff, ’79, of Prairie Village, and of Jane Hedrick Lake, ’83, of Emporia. His mater- nal grandparents are Dr. Kenneth E., m’58, and Joanne Lowry Hedrick, n’52, of Hutchinson. His paternal grandpar- ents are Richard Jr., b’50, and Carolyn Campbell Wagstaff, c’54, of Lawrence. His great-grandparents are Richard, ’18, and Joanna Gleed Wagstaff, f’21. Four great-great-grand- parents attended KU in the 1800s: Robert Barnard, 1895, and Clara Butler Wheeler Wagstaff, 1892, and Charles Sumner, c1880, and Mabel Gore Gleed, f1887. Charles Gleed served on the Board of Regents and co-founded the KU Endowment Association.

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI ents are Alice Shankland Miller, ’47, and Pleasant V. Miller Jr., Fourth Generation c’47; and great-grandparents Cloris Swartz Shankland, c’29, and James C. Shankland, g’35.

As a Lawrence native and fourth-generation Jayhawk, John Shipman Armstrong certainly won’t be a fish out of water at Three incoming freshmen share great-grandparents John KU. Captain of the swim team at Lawrence Free State High and Marjorie Gage, making them second-cousin, fourth-gener- School, John was named an Academic All-American for swim- ation Jayhawks. Former Kansas City mayor John Bailey Gage, ming. Non-swimming hours are spent as a lifeguard for ’07, and Marjorie Hires Gage, ’17, had three children, each of Lawrence Parks & Recreation and the Alvamar Country Club. whom graduated from KU and is grandparent to a new stu- John’s parents are Carol Anderson Armstrong, d’74, g’78, and dent. Bailey Elisabeth Gage swam and sang her way through Christian William Armstrong, g’84. His maternal Jayhawk Shawnee Mission East High School, amassing academic hon- legacy includes grandparents Robert B. Anderson, b’48, and ors as well as swimming medals. Her parents are Hires W. Virginia Winter Anderson, f’48, and great-grandparents Bert Gage, ’73, and Gail Horner Gage, s’73. Hires is the son of Anderson, c’22, and Catherine Bennett Anderson, c’22. Caroline Campbell Babcock, d’48, and Frank H. Gage, e’47, son of John and Marjorie. Bailey’s maternal Jayhawk ancestors are grandfather Dwight Cooke Horner, a’49, and great-grand- father Oliver H. “Jack” Horner, e’14. Lawrence High School graduate Jacob Gregory Gage filled his school days with

Class valedictorian Bradley J. Eland excelled at academics, athletics and extracurricular activities at Hoxie High School. His many awards include being named a Dane G. Hansen Scholar and multiple Northwest Kansas All League selections. He found time to also write about sports for the Hoxie tennis, band, choir and Young Republicans activities. He is the Sentinel and his school yearbook, and garnered a top prize in son of Mary Remboldt Gage, c’81, g’2001, and David F. Gage, the Kansas Scholastic Press Association Regional Journalism b’86. Jacob’s grandparents are Eleanor Peck Gage, c’47, and Contest. Bradley is the son of Kenneth J. Eland, c’81, and John C. Gage, l’52, also son of John and Marjorie. Their Peggy Hamm Eland, d’82; grandson of Carolyn King Eland, daughter, Anne Gage, c’50, wed Revis Lewis; they are the par- d’58, John R. Eland, c’57, l’59, Bill C. Hamm, d’59, g’66, Betsy ents of Ralph Emerson Lewis II, l’81, who is father to the Lyon Hamm, ’61, and Mary H. Hamm, d’65, g’86; and great- third new Jayhawk, George Revis Lewis. George is a graduate grandson of Floyd E. King, e’31, and Lola Banta King, c’31. of Shawnee Mission East High School and joins his brother, Paul McKie Lewis, on Laura Frizell had a campus. Their mother is lot on the ball at Bishop Sara McKie Lewis, l’82, Seabury Academy, and her mother, Lawrence. Not only did Elizabeth Merriman she letter in volleyball, McKie, attended KU in basketball, soccer and 1955. drill team, but she also earned good grades, sang in the choir and performed commu- Tim Heuermann loves to travel, especially to destinations nity service. Laura’s parents are Allison Miller Frizell, n’81, where he can use his advanced scuba diving certification. He and Edward E. “Trip” Frizell III, b’76, l’80. Her paternal can easily pursue his other hobby, golf, near his Scottsdale, Jayhawk line includes Edward E. “Bud” Frizell II, ’51, Barbara Ariz., home. At Desert Mountain High School, he played in Varner Frizell, c’47, and Ralph Varner, ’11. Maternal grandpar- the concert and marching bands for four years. Tim’s parents

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 37 numerous academic honors while also lettering in swim- ming and debate, which explains her twice being named an East Kansas League Scholar Athlete. Her parents are Sheila and John are David, b’83, and Tracy Boyer Heuermann, c’85, d’85. His C. Nettels Jr., c’79, l’85. The family Jayhawk lineage extends paternal grandparents are William, b’59, g’60, and Elizabeth back through J. Curtis Nettels, c’56, l’59, Jane Letton Nettels, Stotts Heuermann, ’60. His great-grandmother is Lorena Jost d’59, George Edward Nettels Sr., e’21, and numerous other Stotts, c’27. On Tim’s maternal side, his grandfather, Robert Nettels branches. Boyer, c’58, m’62, and great-grandfather, John Boyer, c’28, l’30, complete the KU lineage. When she cheers the Jayhawks in Allen Field With smooth strokes and House, Allison Owens speed, Phillip Linville sliced will watch with the through his years at trained eyes of an Rockhurst High School, accomplished player: Kansas City, Mo. Team cap- She was a six-year mem- tain of the 2005 Missouri ber of the Kansas Dream Team AAU squad and a two-year let- Swim and Dive State ter-winner for her Shawnee Mission East High School team. Champions, he was named First Team All-State in the 100 She also toured Europe with her school’s Choraliers and pro- meter breaststroke, individual medley, freestyle relay and the vided leadership to many volunteer organizations, including record-setting 200 medley relay. The National Merit Students Against Drunk Driving. Allison’s parents are Steven, Commended Scholar and KU Honors student is the son of c’77, m’82, and Melinda Smart Owens, d’79. Her grandpar- Richard Linville, j’80, g’82, and K-State alumna Karen Linville. ents are Dean, b’53, l’68, and Doris McConnell Owens, f’53. Grandparents are Aubrey G. Linville, b’52, l’63, and Nancy The family’s KU tradition began with Doris’ parents, Howard, Meyer Linville, c’52. Aubrey’s parents were Christie D. Angell ’19, and Elma Hunzicker McConnell, ’18. Linville, ’26, and Eugene Henry Linville, l’33; while Nancy’s father was Maurice B. Myer, d’31.

Alexandra Rayl was her own brand of triathlete at Salina Central High School. The honor roll graduate swam, ran cross All the world is a stage for Erin C. Miller, and it’s populated country, played volleyball and was on the yearbook staff. Alex with hordes of Jayhawk relatives. The Manhattan High School is the daughter of Harris A. Rayl, c’75, g’78, and Shannon graduate maintained high academic standards while partici- Drews Rayl, c’78. Her Jayhawk roots go back to paternal pating in the school’s fall musicals, singing with the Show great-grandparents Sidney and Virginia Stowers Harris, who Choir and a non-school a cappella quartet, and completing attended KU in the early 1920s. Alex’s paternal grandparents years of dance and piano study. She joins her sister, Kathleen are the late Charles A. Rayl, b’43, and Virginia Harris Rayl, E. Miller, at KU. Erin and Katie are daughters of Paul E. Miller, c’49, Hutchinson. c’69, l’72, and Anne Burke Miller, c’78, l’81. Their many Jayhawk relatives include grandparents Paul “Bud” Burke Jr, Brian Russell comes b’56, former president, and Patricia Pierson from California to join four Dowers, c’56; great-grandparents Paul E. Burke Sr, b’30, cousins at KU; all are great- Virginia Moling Burke, ’31, Ray Samuel Pierson Sr, l’23, and grandchildren of Frank too many uncles, aunts and cousins to enumerate here. Alden Russell, who earned a 1908 civil engineering There was no sting to high school success for Jane Patricia degree at KU, a graduate Nettels. The Blue Valley North High School graduate scored degree in 1918, and returned to campus as professor of civil

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI engineering, 1922 to 1950. A graduate of graduate of Stratford High Monte Vista High School, Danville, Calif., School, Houston, where he Brian stays active with golf, soccer, lacrosse lettered in cross country and snow boarding. His father is Robert B. and track and commanded Russell, e’70, and grandparents are Robert A., the physical fitness team for e’37, and Betty Howard Russell, ’39. Charles the Naval Junior ROTC. In Robert Russell is Brian’s cousin and a gradu- this latest reel of his life, he ate of Wheaton Warrenville (Ill.) South High School. Charles plans to study film direction and production. Errick is the son was twice an Illinois state speech champion, active in theatre of Craig H. Walker, p’74; grandson of William C., e’48, and and student leadership. Brother William Frank Russell wel- Elaine W. Walker, d’47; and great-grandson of Herman S. comes him to the Hill. Their mother is Laurie Forst Russell, Walker, e’11, husband of Carrie. f’73; grandparents are Laurie R. Russell, e’43, and June Hammett Russell, f’43; and great-grandfather was Professor Frank Russell. Third Generation

Mara Laine Ankerholz is so multifaceted that if she were a geometric figure, she’d be a dodecahedron or more. The graduate of Blue Valley West High School Years of volunteering for Habit for Humanity and genera- earned awards in communi- tions of civil engineers in the family may be factors in cation, science, broadcasting, foreign language, math, art and Matthew Hunter Schons’ plans to pursue a KU architecture overall academic excellence. Then there are the sides of her degree. The Bucyrus resident is a graduate of Blue Valley High that enjoyed recreational sports, tutored younger students and School, Stillwell, where he won recognition for his art. He is served philanthropic causes. A KU Watkins-Berger Scholar, the son of Daniel W., j’84, and Catherine Cambern Schons, Mara is the daughter of Rian, c’79, l’82, and Nancy Hardy c’84. Grandparents are Theodore J. Cambern Jr., e’58, g’65, Ankerholz, b’82, of Overland Park. Paternal grandfather is DE’74, and Marcia Alexander Cambern, ’60. Great-grandfather Richard L. Ankerholz, c’50, l’54. Theodore Jessup Cambern, e’25, laid the foundation.

Having maternal grand- parents whose careers were at KU gives Madeline Leann Stansberry a Mount Oread perspective different from that of most new stu- dents. The graduate of As a third-generation Jayhawk and Lawrence native, Rachel Salina South High School found her feet as captain of the Berkley is no doubt already at home at KU. The Lawrence South High Peppers dance team, a Kansas Honor Scholar, golf Free State High School graduate capped her academic success team manager and community volunteer. Madeline’s mother with admission to the KU Honors Program. Rachel’s parents is Karen Schlager Stansberry, b’80, whose parents were both are Jeff, b’79, and Denise Getter Berkley, b’80. Paternal grand- KU graduates as well as faculty and staff. Entomologist father Hal J. Berkley is a 1955 business graduate, while on the Gunther Schlager, g’59, PhD’62, taught genetics and biostatis- maternal side Russell W. Getter was an associate member of tics at KU for 29 years and served 13 years as chairman of the the KU political science faculty, 1971–1993. Rachel’s Jayhawk division of biological sciences. His wife, Anne Prater Schlager, family also includes grandmother Mary Jean Getter, ’82, five c’73, g’86, held several positions at the Museum of aunts and uncles, and six great-uncles. Anthropology from 1973 to 1998. Anne’s parents were Herbert E. Prater, e’31, and Martha Bishop Prater, d’32. Mallory Rochelle Brito danced through high school in Wichita. The Kapaun Mount Carmel graduate was on the var- Errickson Calhoun Walker shares all but a first name with sity dance team in addition to studying and performing with one root of his KU heritage. Great-grandmother Carrie Kansas Dance Academy, all while excelling academically. A Calhoun Walker studied at KU in 1911 and ’12. Errick is a KU Honors Program participant, Mallory is the daughter of

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 39 Tilson, m’77, m’80. Grandparents include Robert A. Heacock, e’69, and Mary Demeritt Gordon, d’55, g’68.

Spencer William Knoll has a double opportunity to be a third-generation Jayhawk; perhaps someday Raul F. Brito, c’80, and Suzanne R. Schmidt Brito, c’79, and he’ll serve as chair of the granddaughter of Paul E. Brito, m’66. Alumni Association, as have two family members before Mark Joseph Browne him. The Topeka High School honor graduate excelled at was above par as a scholastics, soccer and painting, while gaining insight into the scholar at Bishop Ward business world through two family owned companies. High School, Kansas Spencer is the son of Judith Martin Knoll, g’80, and grandson City, and equally excel- of the late William W. Martin, b’49, 1978–79 chair of the lent—which is to say, Alumni Association. Aunt Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, served under par—as a golfer. A as Association chair from 2001 to ’02. medalist and team captain for his varsity golf team, Mark also did extensive volunteer work with The First Tee Foundation, Sarah J. Krattli which led to a scholarship and playing a round with champi- stayed afloat in academ- on Tom Watson. His many scholastic awards include being ics and athletics at St. one of the inaugural group of recipients of the Sen. Robert J. Thomas Aquinas High Dole Public Service Scholarship from KU’s Dole Institute of School, Overland Park. Politics. Mark follows brothers Ryan, c’04, and Adam, ’05, on The scholastic standout Mount Oread. They are the sons of Nancy Foster Browne, swam for the girls’ team d’74, g’81, and grandsons of Robert J. Foster, c’48, and Jeanne and served as manager for the boys’ team, taught swimming, Atkinson Foster, c’46. ran cross country and was a leader in several faith-related youth groups and Girl Scouts. The Kansas State Scholar is the Chemistry major Kelsey daughter of Robert M. Krattli, e’79, and Becky Vignatelli Janette Grist is the newest Krattli, d’79, g’88, of Lenexa. Grandfather is Eugene A. component in the family’s Vignatelli, d’55. formula of KU success. The Andover Central High School graduate excelled at volleyball and academics while also playing in band, earning college credits, designing the school newspaper and being named Homecoming Queen. Kelsey’s father is Thomas E. Grist, c’75. The 16 other Grist Jayhawk relatives include paternal grandparents Warren, e’49, and June Pond Grist, c’48, and great-uncle John, who played The definition of scholar-athlete is William Christopher basketball for . Lupton. The Blue Valley North High School varsity football letterman is a four-year Eastern Kansas League Scholar Megan Elizabeth Athlete and Academic Letter recipient, as well as a State of Heacock had the lungs to Kansas and Board of Regents Scholar. The prelaw student is a both swim and sing at KU Summerfield Scholar and Honors Program participant. Lawrence High School. The Chris follows sister Kelly, c’04, j’04, at KU. They are the chil- honor roll student partici- dren of William, c’69, l’73, and Carol Lippitt Lupton, f’74. pated in musicals, Grandfather is the late Arthur H. Lippitt, e’37. Showtime, and select choirs, and capped her swimming career as team captain. In addition, As a competitor in Mathletics and Math League, Matthew her creative writing won honorable mention in a Kansas Norburg displayed his analytical skills, but he’s by no means Voices competition and publication in a national anthology. a by-the-numbers guy. As a video producer, he has created a Megan is the daughter of Bradley D. Heacock, c’79, and Lori 12-minute short film, a music video and news stories for his Gordon Heacock Tilson, d’79, n’85. Stepfather is Wayne R. Advanced Radio and TV class at Shawnee Mission West High

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI John, p’82, and Mary K. Peterson, h’83, and grandchildren of Wilbur E. Peterson, g’52.

Outdoor pursuits— hunting, fishing, golf and skiing on snow or water—are among School. A consistent winner of his school’s Scholar-Athlete Christopher Rhoades’ Award, he played goalkeeper for the soccer team and coached favorite pastimes, while and refereed soccer as a volunteer. He is a Kansas Honor his skill at another out- Scholar and a Summerfield Scholar at KU, where he follows door sport, lacrosse, landed him on Missouri’s all-state team, his parents, David, c’80, l’91, and Ellen Kriegshauser Norburg, representing Rockhurst High School in Kansas City. He also b’81. His grandfather is Royce Norburg, b’49. competed in football, sang in the honors choir and tutored Spanish students. He follows his brother and sister, Charles, Perhaps her work for an c’03, and Carolyn, c’03, to the Hill. Their parents are Charles, international translation c’75, m’78, and Anne Jones Rhoades, ’76, Mission Hills; their company will help Andrea grandparents are the late George, m’49, and Maxine Weir Leigh Obee make the cul- Rhoades, n’49, Olathe. tural transition from Southern California to life in Lawrence. Her musical and theatrical talents led to major roles in musicals at Rancho Bernardo High School, San Diego, and performance with the school’s award-winning color guard. Her remaining hours were filled with service as a church acolyte and other public and philanthropic causes. Andrea is the daughter of Marilyn Hassig Obee, n’79. Grandfather Robert C. Hassig attended Having a great-great-grandfather who was chair of the KU in the late ’40s. Her maternal grandmother is Carol Mayer Alumni Association in 1908 and a mother who works for the Hassig Floersch, d’47. Association may keep Rachel Sanner on her toes at KU, but a lifetime of ballet training has prepared her. Among the Paul Darby Pansing Lawrence High School graduate’s many honors is being certainly knows the scoop. named a Kansas Honor Scholar and the first recipient of KU’s The National Merit Finalist Edna Bulkeley Dance Scholarship. In addition to years of and Kansas State Scholar dancing with the Lawrence Ballet Ensemble and Lawrence worked at Baskin-Robbins Youth Ballet at the Lawrence Arts Center, Rachel was an while achieving academic award-winning co-editor of her high school yearbook. Her par- excellence and playing in ents are Robert, b’80, and Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81. Her the Concert & Symphonic Band at Shawnee Mission grandfather is Fred S. Jackson, ’61, Topeka. Great-great-grand- Northwest High School. His mother is Ellen Wagner Pansing, father Fred S. Jackson, l1892, served as the 25th chair of the d’75, of Lenexa. Aunt Alexis Wagner Wolfe is a 1977 gradu- Association nearly a century ago. ate; Alexis and Ellen are the daughters of Carol Patrick Wagner, d’65, g’72. Should Paul want to seek out a familiar One wonders if Rachel face, a double dip of Wolfe cousins are on campus. Present Stelmach shouted out, “Veni, vidi, vici” after Four times named out- athletics victories at standing vocalist at Blue Pembroke Hill School. The Springs South High School varsity cheerleader also was and a member of the a Latin scholar, serving as Missouri All-District Choir, an officer of Latin Club and earning honors in the Missouri Julia Marie Peterson plans Junior Classical League. Rachel broadened her language skills to follow her talents to a with independent study of German and polished others as an doctorate in music education and eventually teach at the col- intern with a public relations and marketing firm. She is the lege level. Her brother Michael sings a slightly different tune daughter of Christopher S. Stelmach, c’75, and granddaughter as a KU junior studying virology. They are the children of of Jack, m’53, and Patricia Scherrer Stelmach, c’45.

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 41 Jenna Allegre graduated from Ottawa High School; her par- ents are William, p’80, and Stephanie Thorne Allegre, s’80, g’86. Joshua Allford of Wichita graduated from Independent High School; his parents are R. Allen, b’78, and Debbie Bender Allford, j’78. Benjamin Anderson of Oklahoma City graduated from Classen School Advanced Studies; his parents are Mark, h’75, Sara Theurer’s singing talents took her from school musi- and Vickie Reifschneider Anderson, h’75. cals to the title role in “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and to John Richard Anderson of Tulsa, Okla., graduated from Europe with the Shawnee Mission East High School Bishop Kelley High School; his father is John W. Anderson, c’77. Choraliers. But no one-note wonder, the honor student is also Matthew Anderson graduated from Wichita High School an award-winning yearbook photographer, soccer player and East; his father is Robert K. Anderson, l’84. lifeguard with an extensive community service record. Her sis- ter, Katie, j’03, preceded her at KU. They are the daughters of Ashlen Angelo of Overland Park graduated from ; her father is Richard A. Angelo, PhD’86. Watkins- Timothy A. Theurer, c’81, and Roberta “Robbie” Golub Berger and National Merit Commended Scholar Theurer, d’72, and granddaughters of Alex Golub Jr., ’49. Amanda Kay Applegate is a graduate of Wichita East High After dancing School. She is the daughter of Joanne Schmidt Applegate, p’77, through her years at and Charles Applegate. Washburn Rural High Samuel Archer graduated from McPherson County High School, Topeka, Annie School; his parents are Jill Bremyer-Archer, ’75, and Richard C. Werner now follows in Archer, g’88. her parents’ footsteps to Ann Armstrong of Greenwood, Mo., graduated from Lee’s study visual arts as a Summit Senior High School; her mother is Patricia Bergmann graphic design and art history major in the School of Fine Armstrong, g’76. Arts. The four-year honor roll student was a member of the Carly Audus graduated from Lawrence Free State High Dancin’ Blues, competed nationally as a member of the Dance School; her father is Kenneth L. Audus, PhD’84. Factory’s troupe, worked on the school yearbook and volun- Collin Baba of Wichita graduated from Maize High School; teered for Habitat for Humanity. Her parents are Matthew, his parents are Jae Pierce-Baba, f’76, and Joseph Baba, c’77. a’86, and Julia Sauder Werner, f’89. Grandfathers are Robert Elizabeth Bartkoski of Basehor graduated from Bishop Ward A. Sauder, ’50, and W. Eugene Werner, g’64, EdD’70. High School; her parents are John, b’72, and Deann Trowbridge Bartkoski, c’71, b’72. Sally Bascom of Kearney, Neb., graduated from Kearney Second Generation Catholic High School; her father is George Bascom, c’73, m’76. Megan Bauer of St. Joseph, Mo., graduated from Bishop Le Our list of second-generation Jayhawks was compiled with Blond High School; her father is Herman Bauer, c’79. the help of the Office of Admissions and Scholarships, which Twin brothers Christopher and Matthew Beattie of Plano, annually tracks KU legacy students who enroll through on- Texas, graduated from Plano Senior High School; their father is campus summer orientation for new students. In keeping Gregg Beattie, b’79, c’79. with the traditional requirements for our Jayhawk Katherine Bengtson graduated from Salina High School Generations feature, we have listed only those second-genera- Central; her father is Greg Bengston, c’76, l’79. tion freshmen whose parents are Alumni Association mem- Andrew Bergman of Shawnee graduated from Shawnee bers. For next year’s edition, we are working with our col- Mission Northwest High School; his mother is Joanie Bergman, leagues in the admissions office to obtain legacy information g’90. in early spring 2006, which will enable us to individually Brian Betthauser of Wichita graduated from Andover High solicit information and photos from third-, fourth- and fifth- School; his parents are Robert, b’82, and Elizabeth State generation families who are Association members. For this Betthauser, j’83. year’s edition and in all previous years, we have relied solely Renee Blinn of Mission graduated from Shawnee Mission on families to respond to our advertisements in Kansas East High School; her mother is Deborah Langdon Blinn, c’76, Alumni. With the new system, Jayhawk Generations 2006 will c’77, h’77. no doubt include more students in all categories. Our thanks William Bock to those families who participated this year. --the Editors graduated from Eudora High School; his par- ents are Peter, m’84, and Annette Schopper Bock, ’79.

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI Adam Michael Booth, graduate of Leavenworth High Ashley Conant graduated from Dodge City Senior High School, is the son of Ronald R. Booth, p’73, and brother of School; her parents are Kandra, ’82, and Merrill Conant, m’83. Lauren R. Booth, b’02. Christian Curtis graduated from Hays High School; his Scott Borgmier of Overland Park graduated from Shawnee father is Jeffery Curtis, m’81, m’82. Mission East High School; his parents are William, b’83, and Jill Custer of Overland Park graduated from Blue Valley West Anne Johnson Borgmier, c’82, g’85. High School; her father is Dwight Custer, j’77. Dayton Botts of Mission Hill graduated from Shawnee was the site of Mallory Blythe Mission East High School; his father is Larry Botts, m’80. Deines’ academic and leadership excellence. She is the daughter Marie Braukmann of Overland Park graduated from of Janine Sikes Deines, d’79, g’84, and Lance K. Deines, p’82, Shawnee Mission East High School; her parents are Curtis, g’71, PharmD’03. PhD’73, g’92, l’92, and Patrizia Di Bartolo Braukmann, s’73, g’74, William Devins of Shawnee Mission graduated from g’77, PhD’80, m’91. Pembroke High School; his parents are George, j’73, and Lynn Kaleigh Braun of Hutchinson graduated from Trinity Caro Devins, j’75. Catholic High School; his parents are Steven, m’87, and Debra Matthew Dodge of Overland Park graduated from Blue Bauman Braun, j’86. Valley Northwest High School; his parents are Andrew, b’78, and Kuran Bricker of Overland Park graduated from Blue Valley Carla Tollin Dodge, d’79. North High School; his parents are Karl, f’81, and Annette Sippy Laura Draxler of Prairie Village graduated from Shawnee Bricker, ’84. Mission East High School; her parents are David, e’79, and Matthew Broberg of Salina graduated from Sacred Heart Mariclare Hoffman Draxler, ’79. Junior-Senior High School; his father is John Broberg, c’77, h’80. Elizabeth Dropek of Houston graduated from Stratford High Billie Brock of Dilworth, Minn., graduated from Dilworth- School; her father is Kenneth Dropek Jr., c’73, c’76. Glydon-Felton High School; his parents are Michael, b’84, and Jennifer Duckworth of Olathe graduated from Olathe East Diane Fernz Brock, c’84. High School; her mother is Phyllis Springer Duckworth, n’85. Connor Burnam of Houston graduated from Clear Lake Lisa Erickson graduated from Clay Center Community High High School; his parents are Robert, c’91, and Melissa Montoya School; her father is Kent Erickson, c’78, m’83. Burnam, ’85. Chad Evenson of Springfield, Mo., graduated from Kickapoo Joel Burnett of Kansas City, Mo., graduated from Park Hill High School; his parents are Curt, c’81, m’85, Julie Fleege South High School; his parents are Dak, c’77, m’80, and Patricia Evenson, c’82. Holcomb Burnett, ’80. Breanna Farnum of Overland Park graduated from Shawnee Matthew Cade graduated from Lawrence High School; his Mission East High School; her mother is Deanna Farnum, g’85. parents are Charles, g’82, l’85, and Mary Cranford Cade, n’86, Matthew Feagan of Topeka graduated from Washburn Rural PhD’05. High School; his parents are Cynthia, g’01, and Jerry Feagan, Kathleen Cahill graduated from Bishop Ward High School; c’59, m’63. her father is John Cahill, d’67. Blake Floodman graduated from Wichita Collegiate School; Blue Valley North High School graduate Erica L. Cailteux his mother is Sheila Jones Floodman, j’76, l’79. plans to study speech pathology and elementary education. She Jaclyn Frankenberg of Leawood graduated from Shawnee is the daughter of Kevin, b’78, and Reta Mae, b’79, Cailteux, of Mission East High School; her parents are Jay, b’76, and Janet Leawood. Stansberry Frankenberg, n’80. Lauren Calovich graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High Thomas French of Tulsa, Okla., graduated from Bishop School; her father is Jerome Calovich, c’79. Kelley High School; his parents are Bill, j’77, and Patricia Joseph David Carey enters the School of Architecture & Morrison French, b’77. Urban Design. The graduate of Oakville Senior High School, St. Jared Goff of Leawood graduated from Blue Valley North Louis, is the son of Kelly Kuhlman Carey, b’83, and Steve Carey, High School; his parents are R. Michael, j’76, and Bobbi Toalson c’81. Goff, c’79. Twins Amanda and Jason Carter of Overland Park graduat- Michele Goldman of Leawood graduated from Blue Valley ed from Blue Valley West High School; their father is Joel Carter, North High School; her father is Joel Goldman, c’74, l’77. e’80. Molly Golub of Overland Park graduated from Blue Valley Whitney Cherpitel graduated from Blue Valley North High Northwest High School; her parents are J. Richard, l’80, and School; her father is Dean Cherpitel, c’74. Maryln Lambert Golub, l’80. Kansas Honor Scholar Kerry Lynn Comiskey is a graduate Blake Goodman of Leawood graduated from Shawnee of Olathe East High School and the daughter of Joseph T. Mission East High School; his parents are John, j’79, and Susan Comisky, c’75.

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 43 Capps Goodman, h’80. Katherine Klempnauer of Roeland Park graduated from Jessica Goodwin of Overland Park graduated from Shawnee Shawnee Mission North High School; her mother is Deborah Mission South High School; her parents are John, c’82, m’86, and Thorsell Klempnauer, c’79. Beth Lashinsky Goodwin, j’82. Alyssa Knight graduated from Lawrence High School; her Thomas Grutzmach of Platte City, Mo., graduated from father is James T. Knight II, j’71. Platte County R-111 High School; his parents are Woodford, b’76, Stephanie Koch of Leawood graduated from Notre Dame Di g’78, Jane Helling Grutzmach, b’75, g’86. Sion; her mother is Maria Aucar Koch, c’88. Mark Hagan of Wichita graduated from Kapaun Mount James Lee of Roeland Park graduated from Shawnee Mission Carmel High School; his father is Robert Hagan, e’74, m’77. East High School; his parents are James, g’94, and Lisa Boomer Kaitlin Hamman of Wichita graduated from Andover High Lee, f’82. School; her father is Chris Hamman, b’85. Emily Leek graduated from Shawnee Mission East High Brock Hauser graduated from West Jessamine High School School; her parents are Kevin, b’76, l’80, and Stephanie Barr in Wilmore, Ky.; his mother is Melanie Mauck Hauser, n’85. Leek, c’77. Dylan Hay graduated from Baldwin High School; his parents Carol Lowman graduated from Topeka West High School; are John, c’83, and Megan Golden Hay, c’82. her father is W. Brock Lowman, c’76. Jordan Herrmann joins her brother, Tyler, a KU senior, on Robert Lutz of Overland Park graduated from Blue Valley the Hill. The graduate of Blue Valley North High School is the Northwest High School; his parents are Randolph, p’81, and daughter of Jeff, j’75, and Nancy Wells Herrmann, c’81, of Krista Miller Lutz, p’83. Leawood. Safiye Manguoglu graduated from Salina High School Jennifer Houghton of Overland Park graduated from Blue Central; her parents are Ann Pearson, n’79, and Ali Manguolu, Valley Northwest High School; her mother is Judy Houghton, m’83. n’69. Jennifer Marshall graduated from Lawrence Free State High Marie Hull graduated from Lawrence Free State High School; School; her mother is Margaret “Joyce” Lancaster, d’68, g’72, l’77. her parents are Marilyn, g’88, and Robert Hull, c’71, PhD’83. Craig Mason graduated from Goodland High School; his par- Lisa Hurst of Lenexa graduated from Shawnee Mission West ents are Jeffrey, c’80, l’83, and Nona Duerksen Mason, d’81, g’83. High School; her parents are Rick, p’80, and Cheryl O’Blasny Spencer McElhaney of Prairie Village graduated from Hurst, p’79. Shawnee Mission East High School; his parents are Phillip, b’74, Alex Ilten of Overland Park graduated from Shawnee Mission and Janice Kircher McElhaney, ’76. South High School; his mother is Teresa Buchhorn Ilten, g’04. Aleksander McElroy graduated from Lawrence High School; Rebecca Ingraham of Lenexa graduated from Shawnee his parents are Lyne Tumlinson, g’90, and Arvel McElroy, d’76. Mission Northwest High School; her parents are James, b’76, l’79, Evan McFarlane of Overland Park graduated from Blue and Patricia O’Brien Ingraham, c’79. Valley West High School; his parents are Marcia, j’98, and Tyler Jacobs of Olathe graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas Theodore McFarlane e’71, l’76. High School; his father is Tim Jacobs, p’82. Carolyn McKune graduated from Lansing High School; her Megan Jones of Shawnee graduated from Mill Valley High mother is Susan Olander McKune, l’81. School; her mother is Teresa Jones, g’05. A graduate of Plano (Texas) West Senior High School, Laura Whitney Jones of Omaha graduated from Marian High Anne Mueller is the daughter of Darrell Mueller, b’81, of Plano, School; her father is Mark Jones, g’87. and Terry Ropfogel, c’81, of Dallas. Ryan Karasek of Lawrence graduated from Arkansas City John Murray of Leawood graduated from Blue Valley North High School; his parents are Jana Gregory Dobbs, j’90, and Jerry High School; his mother is Adele Hueben Murray, d’72, d’79. Karasek, j’88. Chad Myers of Topeka graduated from Hayden High School; Mark Kennedy graduated from Ellsworth High School; his his father is Percy Myers, m’75. parents are Kevin, d’77, and Barbara Jiricek Kennedy, p’79. Thomas Northup of Kansas City, Kan., graduated from Amanda King of Leawood graduated from Blue Valley North Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences; his father is David High School; her mother is Susan King, PhD’05. Northup, e’78, g’85. Stephanie King of Flower Mound, Texas, graduated from Emily Olson of Arlington, Texas, graduated from Nolan Edward S. Marcus High School; her parents are Franklin, c’80, Catholic High School; her parents are Mike, c’83, and Mary and Sylwavion Smith King, c’74, g’76. Sarginson Olson, ’85. Steven King graduated from Bishop Seabury Academy in Bradley Palmer of Chillicothe, Mo., graduated from Lawrence; his parents are Dennis, g’90, and Teresa Moeller King, Chillicothe High School; his mother is Patricia Palmer, g’75, m’85, m’88. EdD’84.

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Jonathan Peterson of Independence graduated from Fort Brett Staniforth of Leawood graduated from Blue Valley Scott High School; his mother is Jennifer Peterson, ’92. North High School; his parents are Christopher, b’79, and Alison Anna Phillips of Kansas City, Mo., graduated from Center Digges Staniforth, b’78. Senior High School; her parents are Mark, b’76, and Linda White Justin Stephens graduated from Lawrence Free State; his par- Phillips, ’78. ents are Doug, b’83, c’87, and LaDonna Hiner Stephens, d’81. Michael Raasch graduated from Spring Hill High School; his Charles Stern graduated from Topeka High School; his mother is Shorey Mohn Berlin, c’79. father is Peter Stern, g’86. Joshua Ramirez graduated from ; Justin Stucky of Highland Village, Texas, graduated from his parents are Annette Dye, b’83, and Ramon Ramirez, c’83. Edward S. Marcus High School; his father is Michael Stucky, Bryan Rapp of Derby graduated from Independent High b’80. School; his father is Larry Rapp, l’79. Steven Thill of Overland Park graduated from Rockhurst Alex Rock graduated from Lawrence Free State High School; High School; his parents are Mark, b’83, and Sheila McGovern his parents are Jane, ’82, and Randall Rock, c’79, m’83. Thill, c’84. Peter Rodriguez of St. Louis graduated from Kirkwood High Scott Thompson graduated from ; School; his parents are Jerry, c’82, l’85, and Bridget O’Brien his parents are Jeffrey, b’83, and Mary Diederich Thompson, Rodriguez, d’82. d’83. Lauren Ruddick graduated from Olathe North High School; Maggee VanSpeybroeck of Arcata, Calif., graduated from her father is Peter Ruddick, c’71, l’74. Arcata High School; her parents are John, c’69, m’73, and Nancy Walls VanSpeybroeck, m’73. Jean Salash of Overland Park graduated from Blue Valley Northwest High School; her parents are John, c’70, and Kathy Sarah Waldschmidt of Kansas City, Mo., graduated from St. Remund Salash, d’70, g’81. Pius X High School; her father is Mike Waldschmidt, m’77. Overland Park resident Hanna Salmon is a graduate of Blue Laura Waters of Topeka graduated from Washburn Rural Valley Northwest High School and the daughter of David High School; her mother is LoEtta Nelson Waters, h’78. Salmon, p’77, and Marcella Bentley-Salmon, l’92. Katherine Weber graduated from Humboldt High School; Joseph Santaularia graduated from Highland Park High her father is Alan Weber, c’74, l’77. School, Dallas. His parents are Kevin J., b’78, and Susan Witt Brian Williams graduated from Leavenworth Senior High Santaularia, j’78. School; his parents are James, c’71, and Kum-Cha Ho Williams, Mark Scherrer graduated from Olathe Northwest High c’00, g’04. School; his parents are Michael, g’78, and Jane Ryden Scherrer, Sara Wolfe graduated from Clayton (Mo.) High School; her d’76. parents are R. Dean, b’66, l’69, and Cheryl Brecheisen Wolfe, Preston Schraeder of Hutchinson graduated from Buhler d’69. High School; his parents are Robert, g’78, and Tabetha Eichman A graduate of Shawnee Mission East High School, Alison Schraeder, g’78. Womack is the daughter of Walter, e’70, and Sheri Dawn Siebert Sindra Schueler graduated from Lawrence Free State High Womack, c’85. School; her mother and stepfather are Sidney Schueler-Platz, Jordan Wright graduated from Lawrence Free State High c’83, and Stewart Platz, e’81, and her father is Daryl Schueler, School; his parents are Frank, c’71, and Cynthia Kim Wright, ’04. e’84. Brady Wyatt graduated from Washington High School; his Christopher Schulz graduated from Topeka High School; his stepfather is David Hodgson, c’71, m’74. mother is Donna Palmer Schulz, f’73. Katelyn Young graduated from Derby High School. Her par- Mark Shonka of Wichita graduated from Independent High ents are Christopher, e’84, and Pamela Farnsworth Young, b’81. School; his father is Michael Shonka, g’71. Jillian Singleton of Wildwood, Mo., graduated from Lafayette High School; her father is Brett Singleton, j’85. Bryan Smith of Overland Park graduated from Rockhurst High School; his parents are Steven, b’82, g’84, and Mary Beth Gill Smith, d’84. Charles Smith of McLean, Va., graduated from Potomac High School; his father is Christopher Smith, l’72. Bartholomew Solbach of Lawrence graduated from Perry- Lecompton High School; his parents are John, ’73, and M. Patricia Kennedy Solbach, PhD’74.

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■ H eath Peterson (le ft) and M ichael Da vis brought the Association’s new Jayhawk trailer to a summer sendoff in Newton, where they were greeted by chapter leader Sue Ic e. “It makes sense for H eath to direct the Kansas Association’s new Jayhawk- emblazoned trailer in just H onors Program nine weeks, grilling (and because of his eating) untold numbers of background in hamburgers and hot dogs at picnics for new students. Kansas and his At home on the road He also accompanied the role overseeing Office of Admissions and Scholarships on its annual state chapters. Peterson, other staff travel state in effort to meld Kansas Honors Program and state chapters Rock Chalk Road Show KH P and the recruiting trip. “People were excited to chapters have eath Peterson, director of Kansas see us,” Peterson says, not- operated sepa- chapter development for the Associa- ing that the informal, family- rately for years, tion, also will lead the Kansas Honors friendly sendoffs presented a Program, which for more than 30 perfect opportunity to make but they really H years has honored the achievements of high- a first contact with future need to work school seniors throughout the state. alumni and their families. Peterson, d’04, succeeds Carolyn Barnes, c’80, “It’s a good chance to put hand in glove.” who resigned in July after directing the program parents’ minds at ease about —Michael Davis for seven years. sending their kids off to KU, As part of the Association’s bid to strengthen Peterson and to answer any questions in-state programming, Peterson is building a new the students have.” chapter structure that will establish 16 chapters Such early contacts are vital to the Associa- covering all 105 Kansas counties. Under his tion’s role of serving the University, albeit one direction, KHP and the state chapters will work not immediately evident to all, says Michael more closely together, with the newly invigorated Davis, d’84, g’91, senior vice president for chapters drawing heavily on KHP’s well-rooted alumni programs. volunteer network. “I’ve had people say, ‘High school seniors, “The Kansas Honors Program has been a part potential students, they’re not alumni; I don’t of Kansas since 1971, and people know it around understand the relationship.’ The relationship is the state,” Peterson says. “We already have good that they’re not just coming to KU; they are volunteers in the program, and we want to utilize becoming part of a family. And the Alumni them to strengthen the chapters.” Association represents that family. The Hugoton native knows Kansas well. This “Our alumni have been so generous to the summer he hosted Senior Sendoffs in 10 towns University by giving their time and resources and across the state, logging 3,600 miles with the support, but that doesn’t just start the day they

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI walk down the Hill. That starts many, many years in advance. And programs like KHP and the Senior Sendoffs really help us jump-start that involvement. It’s a continuum, and we’re there all the way.” Association President Kevin Corbett, j’88, and staff members Jennifer Alder- dice, g’99, Danny Lewis, b’05, Jill Simp- son, d’01, and Jamie Winkelman, b’05, have joined Peterson and Davis on the cross-state summer caravans. Towing a trailer loaded with the Association’s famous fiberglass Jayhawk, two grills, several coolers, paper plates, plastic forks and enough stickers, magnets and pom-poms to lend the proper air of KU spirit to any cookout, the travelers often attract honks and waves from Jayhawks they meet on the highway. The payoffs have been immediate. At the Student Alumni Association’s August Homecoming 2005 • October 29 ice cream social at the Adams Alumni Center, students in Senior Sendoff Join us for a pancake breakfast, T-shirts stopped by to greet the new KU the H omecoming parade, tailgating, friends they’d met in their hometown. “That’s a nice feeling for them,” and of course to see the Jayhawks Peterson says, “to be able to say, ‘Hey, I beat the M issouri Tigers! know people here.’” For more information, go to Save the date! www.kualumni.org or www.homecoming.ku.edu. For football tickets, contact the Athletics Ticket Offic e at 1-800-34 H AW KS.

HAWK HOLD ’EM October 22, 2005 Wichita Rounding up all Jayhawks for a Rock Chalk’n good time!

Dinner, Auction and Live Entertainment

Proceeds will benefit the University of Kansas. www.kualumi.org For more information, call 316-293-2641.

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 47 Class Notes BY KAREN GOODELL

1941 He lives in Scott City. president of pension investments for Leo Horacek Jr., f’41, f’47, g’49, Mary Karen Smith Gosselink, f’60, Kroger in Cincinnati. PhD’55, and his wife, Cora, make their does consulting for Softcare Innovations. J. Roger Stoner, d’67, heads the music home in Morgantown, W. Va., where Leo She lives in Waterloo, Canada, and department at Missouri State University teaches Elderhostel courses. recently received an award for volunteer in Springfield. service from the Waterloo Region 1946 Independent Living Centre. 1968 Laurence McAneny, e’46, PhD’57, Alison Heath Carter, d’68, is a mar- taught physics at Southern Illinois 1961 keting assistant at KU’s Dole Institute of University in Edwardsville before retir- Loring Henderson, c’61, directs the Politics. She lives in Lawrence. ing. He lives in Granite City. Community Drop-In Center in Bill Hansen, c’68, l’71, retired recently Lawrence. as publisher of the Manatee Herald- 1949 Jeanne Rustemeyer Kern, c’61, d’63, Tribune. He lives in Bradenton, Fla. John Robinson, e’49, is vice chairman recently was elected province director of Paul Parrish, g’68, heads the English of development at Olsson Associates in alumnae for Kappa Kappa Gamma. She department at Texas A&M University, Overland Park. lives in Lincoln, Neb. where he recently received the Phi Beta Delta Norman Borlaug International 1953 1964 Award for his service to the chapter and Robert Hovey, c’53, l’54, and his wife, Kenneth Grady, PhD’64, m’69, recent- the national association. He lives in Eugenia, live in Mission Hills. He’s a ly retired after practicing psychiatry for College Station, Texas. partner in the Kansas City firm of Hovey 34 years. He lives in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Williams. James Maag, g’64, works as a govern- 1969 mental affairs consultant with Foulston James Berryman, c’69, is a physicist 1956 Siefkin. He lives in Topeka. at the University of California’s Robert Ireland Jr., c’56, g’57, a retired Robert Swan, c’64, g’69, g’72, found- Lawrence Livermore National biological scientist, makes his home in ed the U.S.-Russia Foundation 2000. He Laboratory. He lives in Danville. He Annandale, Va. lives in Lawrence. recently received the Maurice Anthony Biot Medal from the American Society 1957 1965 of Civil Engineers. Marilyn Eaton Russell, f’57, g’76, Douglas Dedo, c’65, practices medi- William Lee, c’69, m’73, practices PhD’81, directs library programs at the cine at the Palm Beach Institute of medicine with Women’s Health Institute of American Indian Arts in Cosmetic Surgery in Palm Beach Consultants in Littleton, Colo. He lives Santa Fe, N.M. Gardens, Fla. in Castle Rock. Nancy Jo Marcy, d’65, g’76, directs Clifford Manning, d’69, g’75, co-owns 1959 education for the Coterie Theatre in Manning Music in Topeka. Vicki Parker Meuli, d’59, is president Kansas City. Michael Sheahon, c’69, g’75, is of the Wyoming Medical Alliance. She Kathleen Craig Schmidt, g’65, retired president of Greater Hartford Aikikai and her husband, Larry, c’58, m’62, live recently after teaching music in the in Glastonbury, Conn. He lives in in Cheyenne. He serves in the Wyoming Wathena schools for 31 years. Windsor Locks. House of Representatives. Keith Scholfield, b’59, works as a 1966 1970 supervising broker for Mark Sudduth Robert Doser, g’66, a retired engineer, Col. Lee Alloway, c’70, serves as Realty in Atlanta. makes his home in Rock Springs, Wyo. NATO chief with the U.S. Air Force. His home is in Falls Church, Va. 1960 1967 Gene Bauer, c’70, recently became William Dryer, c’60, stays busy Martin Arlinsky, PhD’67, lives in managing director of the Hay Group’s during retirement with fishing, hunt- British Columbia, Canada. U.S. consulting operations. He com- ing and coaching high-school track. Richard Manka, b’67, g’68, is vice mutes to Kansas City from Lawrence.

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and his wife, Patti, make their home.

1973 Chip Chalmers, ’73, teaches directing at Florida State University’s School of Film in Tallahassee. Carolyn Thomson Landgrebe, g’73, a retired teacher, recently was named Volunteer of the Year by the Lawrence Volunteer Center. She and her husband, John, live in Lawrence. Andrew Massey, c’73, m’77, is an associate professor at the KU School of Medicine in Wichita. George Park, PhD’73, manages tech- nical support for CYTEC Industries. He lives in Columbia, S.C.

1974 Ellen Boddington Baumler, c’74, g’83, PhD’86, wrote Beyond Spirit Tailings, which was published earlier this year. She works for the Montana Historical Society in Helena, where she and her husband, Mark, c’76, make their home. Gene Betts, b’74, g’75, is chief finan- cial officer for Sprint in Overland Park. Carl “Ted” Ficken, d’74, received a professional practice award last year from the American Music Therapy David Hueben, c’70, works for IBM. Reading Association. Association. He’s a music therapist at He lives in Overland Park. Owen Ball, e’71, l’80, retired recently Oregon State Hospital in Salem. John Oberzan, j’70, is a financial as senior corporate counsel at Aventis Michael Friedman, g’74, PhD’82, pres- adviser for Morgan Stanley in Lawrence, Pharmaceuticals in Bridgewater, N.J. He ident of Friedman & Associates, makes where he and Karen Connett Oberzan, and Shirley Galinski Ball, d’78, live in his home in Broken Arrow, Okla. f’74, g’82, make their home. Albuquerque, N.M. Stephen Hadley, d’74, serves as a Donna Schafer, c’70, g’74, PhD’85, Stewart, j’71, and Shelley Levine U.S. Army safety director at Fort recently was elected president of the Farbman, d’72, own Blackman McPherson, Ga. Western Association of Graduate Industries, an importer of dog chews Anne Lolley, b’74, l’77, recently Schools. She’s dean of research and and treats. They live in Prairie Village. became a compliance officer with Silver graduate studies at Humboldt State Richard Hellman, m’71, recently was Lake Bank. She lives in Topeka. University in Arcata, Calif. elected vice president of the board of the Patrick Murphy, c’74, m’77, practices Nancy Knox Todd, d’70, retired last American Association of Clinical pediatrics at Children’s Mercy Hospital year after a 25-year career in teaching. Endocrinologists. He has a private prac- in Kansas City and is a clinical professor She and her husband, Te r r y, ’84, live tice in Kansas City. of urology at the KU Medical Center. in Aurora, Colo. Sue Sutton, d’71, is theatre director Vanneman Spake, c’74, m’77, recently at Cloud County Community College joined the medical staff of St. Luke’s 1971 in Concordia. She directed The Chosen, Hospital in Kansas City, where he’s an JoBeth Paine Allen, d’71, g’79, which recently was performed off otolaryngologist. EdD’83, is a professor of language Broadway. and literacy at the University of Georgia 1975 in Athens. She recently received the 1972 Mark Affeldt, b’75, is executive vice John Chorlton Manning Public School Wayne Boeckman, b’72, owns Texas president and chief credit officer at Service Award from the International Metal Spinning in Fort Worth, where he Valley Bank in Las Vegas.

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John D’Agostino, e’75, lives in Mo. She lives in Shawnee Mission. recently became president of Manchester Leawood. He’s president of D’Agostino Mark Watson, c’76, g’78, is city College in North Manchester, Ind. Mechanical Contractors, and his wife, administrator of Yuma, Ariz. Karen DeHaven D’Agostino, f’75, is an David Wescoe, c’76, recently became 1978 occupational therapist for the Shawnee executive director of Messner & Smith Douglas Barrington, j’78, recently Mission public school district. in San Diego. He lives in La Jolla, and joined Realty Executives of Topeka. Judson Maillie, b’75, l’80, is a regis- is national chair of the Alumni Sharon Anderson Self, c’78, l’81, is tered principal with New England Association’s board of directors. senior vice president and associate gen- Financial in Northbrook, Ill. eral counsel at Intrust Financial Corp. Michael Rausch, b’75, works as a 1977 in Wichita. senior risk management consultant William Blessing, b’77, heads strategic for Physicians Insurance Company of planning and business for Sprint in 1980 Wisconsin. He lives in Madison. Overland Park. Raymond Grant, d’80, is executive Gloria Sanders, m’75, recently joined Michael Buser, l’77, recently was director of Robert Redford’s Sundance Southcentral Pathology Laboratory appointed to the Kansas Court of Village in Sundance, Utah. in Wichita. Appeals. He lives in Overland Park, Richard Linville, j’80, g’82, lives in where he has practiced law with Shook, Mission Hills. He’s senior vice president 1976 Hardy & Bacon since 1991. at Prudential Financial in Kansas City. Paul Anderson, g’76, manages design Brett Coonrod, l’77, is a partner in for Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, the Overland Park firm of 1981 Texas. He lives in Round Rock. Smith/Coonrod. Robert Brown, c’81, e’81, is vice presi- Gwendolyn Ramsey Arnett, c’76, Steven Jones, c’77, works as a consult- dent of global services at Emerson m’79, is president of Western Missouri ant for Wachovia in Charlotte, N.C. Process Management in Houston. Radiological Group in Independence, Jo Young Switzer, g’77, PhD’80, Stephen Carey, c’81, works as senior

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI technical team leader at SBC Services in St. Louis. William Murphy, c’81, g’01, is an air- traffic control supervisor for the Federal Aviation Administration in Honolulu. Timothy Ontko, j’81, manages global accounts for DHL Worldwide Express. He lives in Minneapolis, Minn. Pamela Farnsworth Young, b’81, is an information reporting officer for Intrust Bank in Wichita. She lives in Derby with her husband, Christopher, e’85. He’s president of Young and Associates.

1982 Suzanne Ryse Collins, ’82, recently published a photograph of a dusky Helmut Riedinger, e’84, e’87, works account director for EnergyGateway. gopher frog in the June-July issue of as senior process engineer at Frontier She lives in Brecksville, Ohio. National Wildlife. Suzanne and her hus- El Dorado Refining in El Dorado. He Robert Neill, c’86, l’92, serves as band, Joseph, ’72, live in Lawrence, lives in Andover. attorney adviser for the U.S. Army in where he directs the Center for North Robert Wilkin, b’84, is assistant man- Alexandria, Va. He lives in Bethesda, Md. American Herpetology. ager of golf operations for Johnson Brian Stayton, c’86, practices law with Carol Marinovich, g’82, received a County Parks and Recreation in Olathe. Marlowe & McNabb in Tampa, Fla. Distinguished Service Award earlier this He lives in Lenexa. year from KU’s School of Education. BORN TO: Carol lives in Kansas City, Kan., where 1985 Dan, a’86, and Nicole Cook Sabatini, she recently completed her service as Timothy Davis, e’85, g’87, lives in a’99, son, Elijah Daniel, May 22 in mayor of the Unified Government of Broomfield, Colo., where he’s president Lawrence, where Dan is president of Wyandotte County. She now works at of Aspen Logic. Sabatini & Associates Architects. Their Fleishman-Hillard. Dennis Depenbusch, b’85, g’89, daughter, Maya, will be 3 in September. is president, CEO and board chairman 1983 of Catalyst Lighting Group in Fort 1987 Joseph Bauer, a’83, is an associate and Worth, Texas. Martha Dacey, f’87, is president of project manager for Archer Engineers in Deezines in Arlington, Va. Lee’s Summit, Mo. MARRIED Shelley Born Diehl, c’87, l’91, works Martin Haynes, a’83, works as design Robert Catloth, f’85, and Jennifer as an anti-fraud prosecutor for the director of sports architecture for HNTB Van Ruyven, c’04, March 12 in Eureka Insurance Commissioner’s Office. She Companies in Kansas City. Springs, Ark. They live in Lawrence, lives in Lawrence. Donald Nease, c’83, m’87, is an asso- where they both work for KU. Rob is Scott Flanagin, e’87, recently ciate professor of family medicine at the women’s head rowing coach, and became senior vice president and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Jennifer is an administrative assistant. director of corporate accounts with Thomas Wagstaff, b’83, owns Mr. Katherine Cosgrove, g’85, to Louis The Staubach Company in Los Angeles. Transmission in Parker and Carbondale, Van Horn, April 30. They live in Stilwell, He and his wife, Kim, live in Woodland Colo. He and his wife, Cindy, live in and Kathy owns F.I.T. Bodies in Hills with their daughters, Heather, 8, Castle Rock with their children, Susan, Overland Park. and Mindy, 6. 14; Tyler, 11; and Reed, 9. Mike Reid, ’87, directs marketing and 1986 information services for KU’s Memorial 1984 William Courtright, e’86, is executive Union. He lives in Lawrence. Betty Drees, m’84, practices medicine director of the Parallel Data Laboratory at St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. She at Carnegie Mellon University in BORN TO: lives in Overland Park. Pittsburgh, Pa. Paul Ahlenius, e’87, and Patty, daugh- Debra Grossardt, j’84, is business Vicki Austin Fairfield, b’86, directs ter, Joelle Elizabeth, Jan. 27 in Topeka, manager at North Cross United administration for TLS in Kansas City. where Paul works for the Kansas Methodist Church in Kansas City. Wendy Kraft, c’86, is sales and Department of Transportation.

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1988 law at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Rodney Odom, c’88, is a supervisor Lackland Air Force Base. with Watershed Concepts in Kansas City. He lives in Lenexa. 1991 Jeffrey Syslo, b’88, g’92, manages Jeffrey Forker, c’91, is a sales associate products for Emerson Network Power in for Reece & Nichols in Kansas City. Mentor, Ohio. He lives in Willoughby. Brian Matthys, c’91, practices medi- David Welsh, b’88, is assistant athlet- cine at North Kansas City Hospital. He ics director at Texas Tech University in lives in Leawood. Lubbock, where he and his wife, Wendy Pellow, c’91, is assistant gener- Elizabeth, live with their children, al counsel for the Texas Health and Jonathan, 7, and Julia, 1. Human Services Commission in Austin.

1989 MARRIED John Gatti, c’89, m’94, practices medi- Lori Mitchell, d’91, to Karl Kandt, cine at Children’s Mercy Hospital. He Nov. 20. They live in Ulysses, where lives in Overland Park. she’s a middle-school counselor. Karl is Deborah Stoltz Harding, j’89, is assis- academic coordinator for Wichita State tant vice president at Commerce University’s athletics department. Bancshares. She lives in Andover. Boyd McPherson, b’89, practices law BORN TO: with Alexander, Casey, Dwyer, Jacquline Notaro Arnold, n’91, and McPherson in Wichita. Philip, n’93, daughter, Emery Elizabeth, Kelly Milligan, j’89, lives in Plano, April 25 in Overland Park, where she Texas, and practices law with Clouse, joins a sister, Jessica, 3, and a brother, Dunn & Hirsch in Dallas. Alex, 6. Randall Niehaus, e’89, and his wife, Tracie Reinwald Miller, d’91, and Caroline, celebrated their first anniver- Quinn, daughter, Carlie Monroe, June sary July 31. They live in Omaha, Neb., 13. They live in Lawrence, and their fam- where he’s an electrical engineering proj- ily includes two sons, Alexander, 5, and ect manager for HDR Architecture and Benjamin, 3. she’s a language and literature teacher at St. Wenceslaus School. 1992 Louise Henricks Notson, h’89, recent- Gina Valdez Lopez, d’92, g’95, is a ly became health information service physical therapist with Access Quality director for Providence Medical Center. Care in Shawnee. She lives in Lenexa. Amy Wealand Taylor, j’92, owns Grass Steven St. Peter, c’89, is a partner in Roots Design Group in Independence, MPM Capital in Boston, Mass. where she and her husband, Andrew, j’93, live with their daughter, Lillie, 1. 1990 Andrew is editor of the Montgomery Sharon Dickinson Dent, c’90, j’90, County Chronicle in Caney. works for the Shanghai American School in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. BORN TO: Greg Dowell, ’90, manages pipeline Matthew Foster, c’92, and Jenny, control for First Horizon Home Loans in daughter, Claire, Jan. 23 in Blanchard, Irving, Texas. He lives in Hickory Creek. Okla., where Matt is an information tech- Christopher Horan, j’90, is a commer- nology officer for the National Weather cial producer for KCTV in Fairway. Service. Kimberly Knoffloch Garrett, b’92, BORN TO: and Sean, son, Jackson Thomas, Sept. 29 Timothy Tuttle, c’90, and Carmel, in Overland Park, where he joins a son, Riley Charles, Feb. 7 in San brother, Jordan, 6, and a sister, Antonio, where Timothy directs medical Katherine, 4.

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI Derek, j’92, and Ann Marie Germes Ga., where she joins a brother, Jack, 2. Simmons, c’92, son, Gabriel Rand, Jeffrey Gannon, c’93, lives in March 25 in Roseburg, Ore., where he Louisville, Colo. He’s president of Coal Add tropical flair joins a brother, Alexander, 3. Creek Holdings. to your KU wardrobe Lauren Wagner Weiser, c’93, and 1993 Josh, daughter, Alana Brooke, May 3 Christiane Isabell, j’93, is senior prop- in Charlotte, N.C., where she joins a erty manager and an attorney with brother, Zachary, 3. KU Hawaiian Pizzuit Companies in Columbus, Ohio. Ralph Gianakon, c’93, h’02, is a regis- 1994 Shirt tered medical technologist at Truman Timothy Dawson, c’94, recently began Medical Center. He lives in Mission. a one-year fellowship in pain manage- Stephen Six, l’93, recently became a ment at Stanford University Medical of the Douglas County District Center. He is medical director at Tripler Court. He lives in Lawrence with his Army Medical Center in Honolulu. wife, Betsy Brand Six, assoc., and their Tracy Gaulding, b’94, is a senior four children. financial analyst for Conoco Phillips. She Barton Swartz, d’93, g’99, coordi- lives in Bartlesville, Okla. nates recruiting for Turner USD 202 in David Stearns, c’94, is a senior Kansas City. He lives in Shawnee. geographic analyst for NAVTEQ in Overland Park. BORN TO: Patrick Townsend, m’94, is a radiation Jay Curran, b’93, and Debra, daugh- oncologist at St. Luke’s Hospital in ter, Katherine Riley, April 6 in Smyrna, Kansas City.

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1995 ond lieutenant in the U.S. Army. She Heather Hubert Steger, c’96, and Matthew Armbrister, d’95, g’01, is lives in Lawrence. Richard, daughter, Isley Claire, April 22 associate brand marketing manager for John Lee, c’96, m’00, is a radiology fel- in Wichita, where Heather is a human- John Deere Golf & Turf in Cary, N.C. low at Children’s Hospital in Boston. resources trainer for Heartspring. Mark Galus, c’95, practices law with Blake Vande Garde, c’96, l’01, prac- Fisher & Phillips in Kansas City. tices law with Goodell, Stratton, 1997 William Geiger, c’95, works as pro- Edmonds & Palmer in Topeka. He com- Zachary Holland, e’97, is a reservoir duction manager for Geiger Ready Mix mutes from Overland Park, where he engineer with Chesapeake Energy Corp. Co. in Kansas City. He and Susan and Nichole Copple Vande Garde, n’96, in Oklahoma City. Mayden Geiger, f’98, live in Tonganoxie make their home. She’s a computer Kari VanOort, d’97, coordinates cur- with their children, William, 2, and application specialist with Cerner. riculum for St. Alban’s Preschool and Mayden, 1. Joshua Ziegler, f’96, is a graphic Kindergarten. She lives in Tucson, Ariz. Stephen Martino, c’95, j’96, lives in designer for MMG Worldwide in Topeka, where he’s executive director of Kansas City. MARRIED the Kansas Racing and Gaming Jennifer Larson, d’97, to Derek Commission. BORN TO: Jernstedt, Oct. 16 in Atlanta, where she Holly Trexler, c’95, l’98, g’99, works Tia Jorgensen Ipanaque, c’96, and works for Collegiate Licensing. for the University of the Pacific in Fernando, ’05, son, Noah Fernando, Stockton, Calif. May 23 in Lawrence. Tia is a casualty 1998 adjuster for American Family in Topeka. Amy Akers, c’98, is a human- 1996 Suzanne, l’96, and Stephen resources executive with Target. She Kendra Hopkins, c’96, edits copy for McAllister, c’85, l’88, a daughter, Sofia lives in Garden City. the American Hospital Association in Robert, Feb. 7 in Lawrence, where she Julie Pedlar, j’98, recruits for Chicago. joins Mara, 11; Fiona, 7; Brett, 7; and Washington Mutual in Chicago. Christina Kulp, c’96, serves as a sec- Isabel, 5. Charles Thomas, c’98, is a real-estate

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tices law with Jones Day in Dallas. Jill Twogood Christian, b’99, is a sen- ior tax analyst with Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in Chicago. Julie Hanson, c’99, practices law with Beattie & Chadwick. She lives in Glenwood Springs, Colo. Michelle Hawthorne, c’99, p’03, is a pharmacist at Target in Olathe. Danielle Abernethy Merrick, s’99, recently became associate staff director of KC Sourcelink in Kansas City.

MARRIED Jamie Black, d’99, to Ryan McGinn, Feb. 19. They live in Shawnee, and Jamie is a senior clerk at Kansas City Power and Light.

BORN TO: Erin Dametz Deneke, b’99, and Tim, daughter, Grace Elizabeth, May 31 in Lenexa. Patrick Ferguson, b’99, and Erin Jo, daughter, Avery Ann, Feb. 28 in Olathe.

2000 Brianne Brown Cook, b’00, recently joined Family Medicine Associates in Lawrence. Andrew Hane, c’00, works for Capitol Materials in North Charleston, S.C. Mary Henry-Foster, c’00, directs cus- tomer service for In the Know Inc. She lives in Durham, N.C. Elizabeth Howard, PhD’00, is an assistant professor at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Kevin Myers, p’00, manages the phar- macy at Walgreens in Topeka. Erin Staten, j’00, is an account man- ager and media planner at Barkley Evergreen & Partners in Kansas City. appraiser for Washington Mutual. He in Tecumseh, Mich., where he joins a sis- lives in Independence, Mo. ter, Isabel, 2. Jonathan is a buyer for BORN TO: Borders Group in Ann Arbor. Kelly Rake Meier, c’00, and Ryan, BORN TO: Amanda Freeman Zavilla, s’98, and daughter, Bella Sophia, March 29 in Natalie Bennett Brown, h’98, and Eric, d’99, daughter, Sophia Gladys, Tulsa, Okla. David, son, Hudson Arlington, Jan. 10 in April 28 in Palatine, Ill. Eric directs sea- Overland Park, where Natalie is a self- son ticket sales for the Chicago Wolves 2001 employed pediatric occupational thera- professional hockey team. Titus Daniels, m’01, practices internal pist. medicine at Vanderbilt University in Jonathan, j’98, and Marissa Byrne 1999 Nashville, Tenn. Tosterud, ’99, son, Elijah Jensen, May 14 Andrew Bengston, c’99, b’99, prac- Jeffrey Glendening, c’01, recently

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI became vice president of political affairs VanWinkle, Oct. 30. They live in uate degree at Iowa State University in for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce in Coffeyville. Ames. Topeka. He lives in Olathe. Jennie Honeycutt, c’02, supervises Philip Johnson, b’01, is an analyst with BORN TO: programs at KidsCentre in Seattle. Ares Management in Los Angeles. Erika Haverkamp Buessing, c’01, Christopher Kennedy, e’02, develops Gwendolyn Perney, c’01, is assistant g’03, and Dale, son, Grant Maurice, June software for AllofE Solutions. He lives in city planner in Port Orange, Fla. 3 in Beattie, where he joins a brother, Olathe. Justin Poplin, e’01, recently became an Mitchell, 2. John McGinley, j’02, directs marketing associate with Lathrop and Gage. He and sales for McGinley Buick-Chrysler- lives in Ottawa. 2002 Dodge-Jeep-Kawasaki in Highland, Ill. David Samuelson, n’01, coordinates Lindsay Ace, d’02, n’04, works as a Catherine Anderson Mittenthal, c’02, the trauma program at George nurse with Kansas University Physicians. does marketing advising for First Trust Washington University Hospital in She lives in Kansas City. Portfolios. She lives in Decatur, Ga. Washington, D.C. He lives in Annapolis, Luke Bauer, d’02, teaches at Turner Kathryn Moore, j’02, is a writer and Md. High School in Kansas City. training specialist for Marshall Field’s Christopher Stoppel, b’01, g’02, Sarah Wales Browning, c’02, and her Loss Prevention in Minneapolis, Minn. makes his home in Ames, Iowa. husband, Dustin, celebrated their first Thomas Moreland, d’02, g’04, lives in Stanley Zimmerman, c’01, is a resi- anniversary July 24. They live in Johnston, Iowa, where he’s founder and dent at the KU Medical Center in Lawrence, where she’s a pharmacist at CEO of Iowa Hospice. Kansas City. Wal-Mart and he works at Home Depot. Jill Cordle, d’02, is a language arts MARRIED MARRIED teacher at Beatrice Middle School in Jennifer Moore, b’02, and Piotr Angela Johnson, g’01, and Beatrice, Neb. Zygmunt, c’03, June 11 in Leawood. Christopher Claussen, g’04, May 6 in Haley Estes, c’02, works as a sales She’s a plan design specialist at Paychex, Omaha, Neb. They live in Olathe. executive for MGI Promotions. and he’s an account executive with the Michele Mitchell, s’01, to David Alicia Green, d’02, studies for a grad- Resource Group. They live in Olathe.

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Zachary Kolich, c’02, and Katherine Kevin Seaman, c’03, works as a busi- Yohn, g’04, May 21 in Madison, Wis. Regan, j’03, May 28 in Shawnee. They ness analyst for Cerna in Kansas City. Jeremy is assistant village administrator live in Shawnee Mission. Elizabeth Godfrey Warner, c’03, j’03, for Sussex, and Rebecca is a community is a manager with Shurgard. She lives in information specialist for the city of 2003 Littleton, Colo. Janesville. They live in Jefferson. Dorothy Dobbs, s’03, works as a ther- Alana Salazar Weibel, c’03, g’04, is a apist at St. Francis Academy in Atchison. pediatric audiologist at North Shore BORN TO: John Haertling, b’03, is a sales associ- Children’s Hospital. She lives in Jessica Skubal Rowan, c’04, and ate with Liberty Mutual in Leawood. Somerville, Mass. Jeramiah, daughters, Breanna Amaris Christopher Kennedy, e’03, is a field and Alaina Blythe, Sept. 22 in Cimarron. engineer with Cook Flatt & Strobel in MARRIED Kansas City. Mark Kohls, d’03, and Jessica Dorsey, 2005 Stephanie Lawson, p’03, works as a c’04, April 9 in Topeka. They live in Justin Becker, b’05, is a tax intern pharmacist at CVS Corp. in Sun City Overland Park. with SS&C Business and Tax Services. Center, Fla. Kathryn Shufelt, c’03, and Morgan He lives in Lawrence. John Mallory, d’03, is a digital video Hannings, b’04, g’05, April 16 in KU’s Brett Budke, c’05, works as a sales editor for the Seattle Seahawks football Danforth Chapel. They live in Lawrence. associate with Reece and Nichols team. He lives in Kirkland, Wash. Realtors in Kansas City. Allison Moore, c’03, teaches pre- BORN TO: Ashley Cobbel, j’05, is a media associ- school with Boulder County Head Start Brooke Youle Lowe, p’03, and Jeffrey, ate with Starcom Worldwide. She lives in in Boulder, Colo. daughter, Avery, Jan. 29 in Wichita, Lawrence. James Neu, b’03, works as an where Brooke is a pharmacist at Right Christine Davidson, j’05, works as an accountant with Cerner. He lives in Choice Pharmacy. account executive with the Kansas City Olathe. Star. She lives in Bucyrus. Jason Nicolay, b’03, g’04, is a CPA 2004 Daniel Karen, j’05, is an assistant with Meara King & Co. in Kansas City. Brandon Bowman, g’04, is a product account executive with Trinity Public manager for Sprint. Relations. He lives in Dallas. School Codes Letters that follow Mary Gilliland, c’04, works as an ana- Justin Mackey, c’05, lives in Lawrence, names indicate the school from which alumni lyst for Watershed Concepts. She lives in where he works for KU’s Student earned degrees. Numbers show their class Atlanta. Support Services. years. Siobhan McLaughlin Lesley, g’04, is Timothy Massey, g’05, is vice presi- vice president of Walz Tetrick dent of product development for a School of Architecture and Urban Design Advertising in Mission. Handmark in Kansas City. b School of Business Marshall Mallory, c’04, works as a David McMillan, c’05, plays football c College of Liberal Arts and sales representative for Paychex. He lives for the Cleveland Browns. His home is in Sciences in Overland Park. Lawrence. d School of Education Jay Quickel, g’04, is vice president of Asraa Namiq, m’05, recently became e School of Engineering licensing for Hallmark Cards in Kansas an assistant professor of pathology at the f School of Fine Arts City. KU Medical Center in Kansas City. g Master’s Degree Scott Roberts, e’04, studies for a Elizabeth Pawlikowski, c’05, works as h School of Allied Health graduate degree at the University of a department manager at Bed Bath & j School of Journalism Minnesota in Minneapolis. He lives in St. Beyond in Lawrence. l School of Law Paul. Anish Pradhananga, g’05, is a water m School of Medicine n School of Nursing Daniel Shuftan, c’04, is a sales repre- resources and environmental engineer p School of Pharmacy sentative for the for URS. He lives in Lawrence. PharmD School of Pharmacy baseball team. He lives in Chicago. Kimberly White Pratt, b’05, works as s School of Social Welfare Megan Thomas, b’04, is an account- a credit analyst for UMB Bank. She lives DE Doctor of Engineering ant with Sprint in Overland Park. in Lenexa. DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Danica Fri Ubert, j’04, works as a Wayne Simien, c’05, plays basketball EdD Doctor of Education public affairs specialist for Charleston with the Miami Heat. His home is in PhD Doctor of Philosophy County, S.C. She lives in Charleston. Lawrence. (no letter) Former student Mariana Theodoro, c’05, is a research assoc. Associate member of the MARRIED assistant at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Alumni Association Jeremy Smith, g’04, and Rebecca Kansas City. She lives in Lawrence.

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1920s vived by his wife, Dulcie; two sons, one seven grandchildren; and nine great- Norrine Woodward Hudson, d’26, of whom is Frank, c’68, g’05; two daugh- grandchildren. 105, July 3 in Kiowa. Several nieces, ters, one of whom is Sue Janzen Moffat, Robert Wallace, c’34, g’38, 92, April 1 nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, ’63; two sisters; five grandchildren; and in Pullman, Wash., where he was retired great-great-nieces and great-great- six great-grandchildren. from a career of teaching economics. nephews survive. Marjorie Harbaugh McLaughlin, c’38, Surviving are a daughter, a grandson and 89, July 4 in Lawrence. She was a retired two great-grandchildren. 1930s proofreader, office manager and publish- Mildred Lee Ward, ’33, 97, June 23 in Mabel Edwards Barker, c’35, 92, April er of the Miami County Republic. A Overland Park. A memorial has been 4 in Parsons. She lived in Oswego and memorial has been established with established with the KU Endowment was a retired systems analyst with the the KU Endowment Association. She Association. She is survived by a son, Department of the Army, where she had is survived by a son, Philip, j’73; a William, e’61, g’63; a daughter, Ginny worked for 30 years. Surviving are a daughter, Susan, j’78, c’79; and three Ward Graves, c’57; six grandchildren; daughter, two grandchildren and four grandchildren. and 10 great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Janet Scheble Meschke, ’35, 94, May Marguerite Harris Bishop, c’39, 87, 24 in Hutchinson. She is survived by a 1940s July 17 in Eudora. She lived in Lawrence, son, John, b’58; a daughter, June Ann Betty Brothers Bonde, d’48, 78, June where she had been a medical technolo- Meschke Bloskey, d’62; four grandchil- 2 in Independence. A daughter, a son, gist and an X-ray technician. She is sur- dren; and five great-grandchildren. five grandchildren and two adopted vived by two sons, James, c’67, and Robert Morton, l’35, 92, June 25 in grandchildren survive. Ronald, j’77; a daughter, Jananne Bishop Wichita, where he was a retired attorney Charles Brown, c’49, 83, July 18 Hall, c’72; and two grandchildren. and judge. He is survived by a son, in Tulsa, Okla. He had founded Edward “Ted” Downs, e’35, 92, May Robert, c’69; two grandchildren; and a Charleton, Holmes, Peck and Brown 28 in Overland Park. He lived in great-grandson. Insurance and is survived by a son, Leawood and had worked for Black and Lloyd Organ, p’39, 89, June 13 in Terry Barker, ’81; a sister; a brother; Veatch and for the New Mexico State Aptos, Calif. He owned Organ Drug in and three grandchildren. Highway Department. He is survived Stockton for many years and is survived Lariene Nash Corlis, ’41, 87, March by a daughter, Jo Nell “Jody” Downs by his wife, Bonnie, three daughters, a 29 in Longview, Wash. She is survived Abbott, ’57; seven grandchildren; 19 son, seven grandchildren and seven by three daughters, one of whom is Sally great-grandchildren; and two great- great-grandchildren. Corlis Spooner, d’68; a son; a sister; 19 great-grandchildren. Martha Meade Seltsam, c’32, 94, grandchildren; 59 great-grandchildren; William Ferguson, c’38, 87, June 9 in June 1 in Topeka. Survivors include a and a great-great-grandson. Wellington, where he was a retired attor- son, James, assoc.; a daughter, Betty Ernest Cram, c’49, m’52, 81, June 19 ney. He is survived by his wife, Harriet Seltsam Cleland, d’58; seven grandchil- in St. Francis, where he was a retired Shelden Ferguson, c’36; a son; a daugh- dren; and two stepgrandchildren. physician. He is survived by his wife, ter; two grandchildren; and two great- Stanley Simon, b’32, 95, June 8 in Bonnie Jean, two sons, three daughters, grandchildren. Leawood. He owned Stan’s Ace a brother and seven grandchildren. Don Gresser, b’34, 93, May 31 in Hardware and is survived by his wife, Francis Domingo, e’42, 84, June 21 in Topeka, where he owned the accounting Taisa; three daughters, two of whom are Topeka, where he was a retired civil engi- firm of Garrison and Gresser. Survivors Nancy Simon McCahill, d’75, g’77, and neer. A son and a grandson survive. include his wife, Florence; three daugh- Lori Simon Siegel, b’77, g’88; a step- Vincent “Eddy” Edmonds, d’41, f’49, ters, Andrea Gresser Atkinson, d’65, daughter; a stepson; a sister; 13 grand- 86, July 6 in Overland Park, where he Barbara Gresser Williams, c’63, and children; and five great-grandchildren. was a retired music teacher. A memorial Marilyn Gresser Baisel, ’59; nine grand- Herbert Songer, m’38, 91, Dec. 19 in has been established with the KU children; and 12 great-grandchildren. Abilene, where he was a retired physi- Endowment Association. He is survived Herman Janzen, e’39, 90, May 24 in cian. He is survived by a son, Robert, by his wife, Berniece; two sons, one San Jose, Calif., where he was retired d’69; two daughters, one of whom is of whom is Kent, e’83; a daughter, from a career in public health. He is sur- Carol Songer Becks, d’71; two sisters; Kathryn Edmonds Ballou, PhD’02;

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI and two brothers, Rufus, ’40, and wife, Caroline, a daughter, two sisters wife, Nancy Carey Windler, c’42; three Ernest, d’38, g’46. and three grandchildren. sons; a sister; and six grandchildren. Cecil Ruth King Eidson, c’41, 85, Feb. Robert Riss, b’49, 78, July 1 in Kansas E. Marie Schreiber Wyckoff, p’48, 78, 2 in Johnson City, Tenn. She is survived City, where he owned Riss International. June 23 in Anthony, where she had by her husband, Robert, ’42; a daughter; He also started Columbia Properties, owned Irwin Potter Drug. Survivors two sons; and four grandchildren. Grandview Bank & Trust, Common- include her husband, Wilford, assoc.; a Dale Gordon, b’43, 85, June 4 in wealth General Insurance and Heart of daughter, Jamie Wyckoff Boersma, c’78; Wichita, where he had owned Lawrence America Fire & Casualty. He was a recip- a son; a sister; two brothers; three grand- Photo Supply. He was awrded the Fred ient of KU’s Distinguished Service children; and three great-grandchildren. Ellsworth Medallion in 1995 for his serv- Citation and of the Fred Ellsworth ice to KU. His wife, Laurine; a daughter, Medallion for service to KU. A memorial 1950s Pam Gordon-Marvin, c’76; a son, has been established with the KU Mike Adams, ’57, 76, May 29 in Stephen, b’71; and two grandchildren Endowment Association. He is survived Wichita, where he was president of survive. by his wife, Loretta; a son, E.S., b’71, WMA Corp. A memorial has been estab- James E. Guinotte, c’48, 79, May 10 g’72; three daughters, two of whom are lished with the KU Endowment in Chanute, where he was retired from a Leslie Riss Raemdonck, j’73, and Laura Association. He is survived by his wife, career in oil and gas drilling and produc- Riss Stanford, c’78; a sister, Louise Riss Joanne, a son, three daughters and four tion. He is survived by four daughters, Wells, c’56; 10 grandchildren; and a grandchildren. four sons, 22 grandchildren and two great-grandson. James Bruce, e’51, 78, June 1 in great-grandchildren. Lois Willcuts Scott, ’45, 81, May 19 in Leawood. He is survived by his wife, Mary Chapple Kyle, d’43, 84, May 19 Topeka. She is survived by her husband, Laura, assoc.; a son, Robert, e’90, g’95; a in Kansas City. She is survived by three Ted, b’42; a daughter, Elaine, ’71; and a daughter, Rebecca, g’97; and a brother. sons, one of whom is Dallas, c’80; two son, Mark, c’70, g’76, g’79. Janice Harper Carmichael-James, daughters; a sister; eight grandchildren; John Severin, b’41, 85, April 29 in f’59, 68, Aug. 7 in Kansas City. She lived and a great-grandson. Florence, Ala., where he was vice presi- in Westwood Hills, where she was a Jean Rennick Nash, d’42, 84, May 22 dent of Alabama-Tennessee Natural retired fashion illustrator. Survivors in Lee’s Summit, Mo., where she was a Gas until retiring. Two sons, two include her husband, Robert James, e’58; retired teacher. She is survived by her granddaughters and a great-grand- two sons, one of whom is Quinn husband, Burt, a son, two daughters, two daughter survive. Carmichael, c’91, m’96; a sister, Sue stepdaughters, seven grandchildren and Lawrence Smith, e’49, 83, June 11 in Harper Ice, d’56; two stepsons; a grand- two great-grandchildren. Wichita, where he had been a design son; and four step-grandchildren. Marilyn Johnson Nelson, c’49, 77, Jan. engineer at Boeing Aircraft, Lear Jet and Helen Moser Colyer, g’56, 85, Oct. 2 in Tucson, Ariz., where she retired after Cessna Aircraft. He is survived by his 14 in Frontenac. She lived in Pittsburg owning several weekly newspapers in wife, Norma; three daughters, one of and had taught elementary vocal music Kansas. Survivors include three sons, whom is Janice Smith Chapman, ’01; a in Carl Junction, Mo., for many years. Thomas Bolitho, j’76, Mason Bolitho, son; a brother, Leo, d’50; a sister; and A brother and several nieces and c’78, and Barton Bolitho, ’80. 14 grandchildren. nephews survive. Charles Owsley, e’43, e’48, 83, June 4 Paul Turner, d’47, g’51, 82, Oct. 4 in Patricia Jordan Conroy, c’50, 83, in Republic, Mo., where he was a retired Bella Vista, Ark. Three sons and 11 July 18 in Houston. She taught school consultant and engineer. He is survived grandchildren survive. and had worked in the oil business. by his wife, Maurine; two sons, one of Henry Walters, e’49, 82, June 6 in Survivors include her husband, William, whom is Steven, g’94; three sisters, two Medicine Lodge, where he was a retired c’49, l’52; a son; a daughter; two sisters; of whom are Dorothy Owsley Ballard, engineer with Boeing Aircraft. A son, a a brother, Joseph Jordan, ’53; and four c’39, h’40, and Carolyn Owsley Thome, sister and two grandchildren survive. grandchildren. f’49; and six grandchildren. George Weston, m’49, 84, Dec. 23 in L. La Verne Fiss, c’56, l’60, 71, June 26 Evelyn Nielsen Peterson, c’43, 84, Lafayette, Calif., where he was a retired in Johnson, where he was a retired attor- May 12 in Tulsa, Okla. She is survived physician who specialized in radiology ney. He is survived by his wife, Faydean by her husband, Pete, two sons, a daugh- and nuclear medicine. He is survived by Orth Fiss, d’56; two sons; a brother, ter, four grandchildren and four great- his wife, Blanche, assoc.; a son; three Galen, d’53; two grandchildren; and two grandchildren. daughters, one of whom is Paula Jane stepgrandchildren. Donald Rickerson, e’49, 81, March 3 Weston Lowery, assoc.; and seven Robert Fountain, e’50, 76, July 23 in in Silver Spring, Md., where he was a grandchildren. Leawood, where he was a partner in the retired National Security Agency comput- Edwin Windler, c’43, 86, May 7 in Fagan Company and president of the er science engineer. He is survived by his Sweeny, Texas. He is survived by his Mechanical Contractors Association.

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 63 In Memory

He is survived by his wife, Shirley; Music in Larned and taught instrumen- Wheelock Cameron Jr., e’63, Dec. 3 two daughters, one of whom is Amy tal music at the elementary, secondary in Shalimar, Fla. He commanded the Fountain Fry, ’91; a son; and five and junior-college levels. He is survived test wing at Eglin AFB, Fla., and is sur- grandchildren. by his wife, Norma Cook Roper, ’64; two vived by his wife, Virginia, a son and a Oscar Gaddy, e’57, g’59, 72, May 2 in sons, one of whom is John, c’66, g’81; a granddaughter. Urbana, Ill., where he was a professor of brother; two sisters; five grandchildren; Carolyn Wilson Churchill, c’63, s’76, electrical engineering at the University of and five great-grandchildren. 63, July 11 in Mission Hills. She had Illinois. Surviving are his wife, Mary Marjorie Crane Schnacke, c’51, 76, been a psychiatric social worker at Vaeth Gaddy, ’61; three sons; and two May 22 in Topeka, where she was presi- Ozanam Boys Home. Survivors include grandchildren. dent of the Native Daughters of Kansas, her husband, Stephen, c’62, m’66; and Douglas Gill, b’52, June 8 in Dallas, vice president of the Kansas Arts her brother, Daniel Wilson, b’69. where he was an architect at Grayson Commission and executive director of Charles Hageman, e’67, 66, July 7 in Gill. He is survived by his wife, Margot, the Kansas office of the U.S. Consti- Hutchinson, where he was a retired engi- a son, two daughters and four grand- tution Bicentennial Commission. She is neer with the Kansas Department of children. survived by her husband, Donald, assoc.; Transportation. He is survived by his Donald Greenhaw, p’50, 78, May 25 two sons, Greg, c’80, j’80, and Timothy, wife, Marilyn; a son; a brother; and three in Hillsboro, where he had owned c’83, j’83; a sister, Judith Crane Elliott, sisters, Hazel Hageman Hodge, d’60, Greenhaw Pharmacy. He is survived by d’55; and two grandchildren. Patricia Hageman Spillers, f’67, and Ellen his wife, Pauline, two sons and four Ethlyn “Lynn” Sejkora Shaw, c’56, Hageman Thompson, g’93. grandchildren. Oct. 12 in Tucson, Ariz., where she Martha Sipes Hussain, c’63, 63, Feb. Marion Hawk, e’59, 70, June 17 in moved after retiring from a career as a 9 in Las Vegas, where she had been a Gladstone, Mo., where he was a retired bacteriologist and nuclear medicine tech- counselor. She is survived by two sons, engineering consultant. He is survived nician at Kadlee Medical Center in one of whom is Andrew, j’92. by his wife, Lorene; two daughters, Jan Richland, Wash. Two sons and six Susan Brandmeyer Marshall, j’69, 57, Hawk Lewis, n’84, and Jean, c’93; and a grandchildren survive. March 30 in San Francisco, where she granddaughter. Elaine Englund Thompson, d’50, May had been deputy director of the David MacNaughton, m’51, 79, June 20 in Austin, Texas. She is survived by California Office of Tourism and later 28 in Seaside, Fla. He lived in her husband, Ray, a son, a daughter, a worked in marketing communications Chattanooga, Tenn., where he was a psy- sister and a granddaughter. for Crocker, Wells Fargo and Union chiatrist. He is survived by his wife, George VanBebber, c’53, l’55, 73, banks. A sister survives. Virginia; three sons; a daughter; two May 26 in Overland Park, where he Kevin McKeough, PhD’67, 67, Dec. 28 brothers, one of whom is Ralph, m’54; practiced law and was a U.S. district in Geneva, where he taught political sci- and five grandchildren. judge. He is survived by his wife, Alleen ence at Northern Illinois University for Leaford Miller, j’50, 78, Jan. 13 in Dicklich VanBebber, l’80; a stepson, 30 years specializing in media and Canyon Lake, Texas, where he was a David Castellani, c’91; and two brothers, American politics. He is survived by his retired journalist. A memorial has been one of whom is William, b’51. wife, Maureen Kaveny McKeough, ’63; a established with the KU Endowment John Webb, g’52, May 19 in Emporia, daughter; and three sons. Association. His wife, Marjene, is where he was former mayor and retired William Perry, d’67, 60, May 22 in among survivors. vice president for administration and fis- Wood River, Ill., where he taught and Bernard Moffet, b’57, 69, July 20 in cal affairs at Emporia State University. coached baseball, track, wrestling, golf Overland Park, where he had worked for He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, two and bowling at East-Alton-Wood River IBM and American Century Investments. sons, two daughters, a brother, a sister High School. He is survived by his wife, He is survived by his wife, Norma and 11 grandchildren. Diane Spickard Perry, ’67; two daugh- Steinert Moffet, d’57; a daughter, Sharon ters; two sisters, one of whom is Judith Moffet Deleo, ’81; a son, Richard, e’88; a 1960s Perry-McGuire, c’63; a brother; and brother, Charles, e’62, g’70; and seven Harold Blackburn, EdD’61, 77, June two grandchildren. grandchildren. 21 in Overland Park. He had been com- Bruce Reuteler, g’61, 85, Feb. 25 in Sandra James Morris, ’58, 68, May 23 missioner of education for the state of Jonesboro, Ark. He is survived by his in Houston, where she worked in resi- Kansas. He is survived by his wife, wife, Elwyn, two sons and two sisters. dential real estate. She is survived by her Donna Spotts Blackburn, d’56, g’62; a Roland Rogers, e’64, 63, May 14 in husband, Ron; and three daughters, one son, Lee, s’86; a daughter, Laurie, c’87, Gaithersberg, Md. He was a project engi- of whom is Karen Kenney Rakes, d’81. l’90; two sisters, Dorothy, g’64, and neer at Bechtel and recently had com- Bueford Roper, g’50, 89, July 11 in Helen, g’65; a grandson; and two step- pleted a master’s in business at Johns Topeka. He owned and operated Roper grandchildren. Hopkins University. He is survived by

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI his wife, Lola; two daughters; a son; two Southern Nevada. He is survived by his Overland Park. He lived in Olathe and sisters, Rebecca Rogers Finn-Chase, d’64, mother, Beverly; a brother, Nathan, c’77; was a video editor and producer for and Elizabeth Rogers McIlvain, ’71; and and a sister, Cynthia Coe Allen, c’78. PlattForm Advertising. He is survived by two brothers, James, b’78, and John LaVerne Offen Winterburg, c’74, 82, his wife, Stephanie, his mother and a Paul, b’81. May 27 in Lawrence, where she was a brother. Joyce Shriver, PhD’65, 67, Oct. 24 in partner in the Stinky Cheese Shoppe. New York City, where she was a retired She is survived by a son, Roy, ’84; three 2000s associate professor of anatomy and for- daughters, Vashti, c’74, g’76, Martha Stephanie Hoyt, ’08, 19, July 13 of mer associate dean for student affairs at Winterburg Chapin, j’72, and Marie injuries sustained in an automobile acci- the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Winterburg Mack, d’86; two sisters; and dent near Wichita. She lived in Kansas Karlos “Karl” Sieg, e’61, 65, June eight grandchildren. City and was a freshman at KU. 17 in Ottawa, where he was president Surviving are her parents, four brothers of Sieg Energy. He is survived by his 1980s and her grandparents. wife, Marianne Daugherty Sieg, ’62; Edythe Gilmore Leonard, g’85, 72, Margery Ridgeway, ’05, 61, May 25 in three sons; his mother; and four grand- July 1 in Bellingham, Wash. She had Topeka. She was an adjunct professor at children. been secretary/treasurer of Alpha Omega Haskell Indian Nations University in Andrew Spohn, ’66, 61, July 1 in Belle Geotech and is survived by two daugh- Lawrence and had been named KU’s Haven. He was past president of Singer ters, Karen Zuther, c’77, and Margaret Most Outstanding Female non-tradition- Asset Finance Co. and earlier had been a Zuther Hardiman, ’79; a stepson, Robert al student in 2002. She is survived by managing partner of New Jersey Title Leonard, j’85; a stepdaughter, Constance her husband, Roy; a daughter; a son; a Insurance. He is survived by his wife, Leonard, ’84; two sisters; a brother; two stepdaughter, Lisa Ridgeway Vanatta, Lois Borland Spohn, d’66; a son; a granddaughters; and three stepgrand- ’95; a stepson; and nine grandchildren. daughter; his mother; and a brother. children. Adewale Sanni, ’05, 37, Feb. 17 in Nathaniel Warder, c’61, 71, Feb. 9 Mitchell Mathis, g’88, 42, July 18 in Kansas City. in Kansas City, where he was a retired Conroe, Texas. He is survived by his system analyst for Transworld Airlines wife, Marilu; a daughter; his mother, The University Community and for the city of Kansas City. He is Charlene, assoc.; his father, Jerry, m’62; Carl Lande, 81, May 22 in Lawrence, survived by two daughters; a son; three and a sister, Janette Mathis Rivetti, ’87. where he was a retired KU professor of brothers, two of whom are John, c’52, Heather Hand Neel, d’87, 41, Nov. 10 political science and East Asian studies. and Robert, c’54, e’58; a sister; and in Bascom, Fla. She is survived by her He is survived by his wife, Nobleza two grandchildren. husband, Ronnie, a son, her parents and Asuncion-Lande; two sons, James, ’88, Carol Kimberlin Welbron, s’69, 65, two brothers. and Charles, ’88; a brother; and a June 27 in Cameron, Mo., where she granddaughter. was a social worker for the Clay County 1990s James Lingwall, 69, June 2 in Austin, Department of Family Services. She is Heather Hensleigh Gribble, f’91, 37, Texas, where he was retired chair of the survived by her husband, Jerry, two step- June 12 in Overland Park. She is sur- allied health department at Texas State sons, two brothers and seven stepgrand- vived by her husband, William, ’86; a University. Earlier he had directed the children. daughter, McKenna; her parents, Paul, speech and hearing clinic and headed c’61, m’65, and Bonnie, n’61; a brother; the division of speech-language patholo- 1970s and a sister. gy and audiology at KU. Surviving are Bruce Barsh, f’72, 60, June 26 in Thomas Sipe, g’90, 65, May 24 in his wife, Maxine Campbell Lingwall, Louisburg, where he was a retired Lawrence, where he was a retired cap- g’74; a son; two daughters, Nancy teacher and an environmental engineer tain in the U.S. Navy. He had been a Lingwall Espinosa, s’80, and Mary, s’93; at Harrah’s Casino. He is survived by his manufacturing executive in Springfield, a stepson, Douglas Campbell, b’82; a wife, Sandy, three stepdaughters, his Mo., and was former city manager of stepdaughter; four grandchildren; and mother, a sister and six grandchildren. Osawatomie. Survivors include a daugh- eight stepgrandchildren. John Boatright, c’75, 52, June 4 in ter, two sons, a brother, his father and Blue Springs, Mo., where he owned John three grandchildren. Associates Boatright Insurance. Survivors include Daniel Stoneking, b’95, 49, July 15 in Dorothy Resch Knox, 89, May 22 his wife, Debbie, two sons, his mother, High Point, N.C., where he worked for in Lawrence, where she was a retired two brothers and four sisters. Cessna Aircraft. His wife, Kimberly, a teacher. She is survived by two daugh- Max “Junior” Coe, c’76, g’81, 50, June son, a daughter, his mother, his father, ters, Nancy Knox Todd, d’70, and 20 in Las Vegas, where he was a profes- two sisters and a grandson survive. Carladyne Knox Conyers, ’69; and sor at the Community College of Jonathan U, c’99, 29, June 8 in four grandchildren.

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 65 Rock Chalk Review BY STEVEN HILL

Snap judgment Newly retired, Peter Thompson puts his ‘painterly eye’ to work behind a camera lens

s an administrator, Peter Thompson left his mark on KU with big projects A that made a huge imprint on Mount Oread. During a 40-year career in which he divided his time between teaching art and serving as dean of the School of Fine Arts, Thompson oversaw construction of the Lied Center for the Per- forming Arts, Bales Recital Hall and a music library and rehearsal space at Murphy Hall. ■ Faith in chance and an After retiring in May, Thompson is focusing appreciation for “beauty his energy on more small-scale projects: digital we walk past” guide photographs that prove extraordinary beauty can Peter Thompson’s digital be found in the most ordinary situations. photography. The color photographs, often closeups of utili- tarian household objects—a crumpled paper towel on a kitchen counter, a dish sponge float- ing in soapy water—are immediately striking for Sponge #2, Peter Thompson their careful composition. On closer examination, the large-scale prints (which Thompson produces probably a couple of mud puddles worth taking at home on an ink-jet printer) yield richer details. a picture of,” Thompson says, noting that legions In “Sponge #2,” for example, a yellow sponge of landscape photographers spend days at the gradually emerges from a blanket of bubbles, its canyon trying to record pristine portraits of edge neatly dividing the picture into halves. Look unspoiled nature. “Then they come home and again and you notice the transition from muted find a jet contrail in the shot and want to commit to bright yellow, the contrasting texture of bub- suicide,” he laughs. “I’m much more interested in bles and sponge. Peer beyond the surface of the the mud puddle, partly because it’s beauty we picture and discover depth: Beneath the suds a walk past. There’s something nice about actually blue willow dish is visible on the bottom of the taking time to look at it.” sink, and soap bubbles reflect the trees outside Thompson, who earned an MFA at Yale Thompson’s kitchen window. University before coming to KU in 1965, painted The mundane settings make the shots all the still lifes and portraits early in his career, then more interesting, says Thompson, because such moved on to abstract art. He delights in flouting ordinariness counters the usual clichés about the rules of art, just as he enjoyed defying the what what makes a beautiful photograph. conventions of academia, often riding to work on

“Between here and the Grand Canyon are his motorcycle. His paintings hang in the PORTRAIT, EARL RICHARDSON; PETER THOMPSON

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI Smithsonian Museum of Art and the melting in driveway snow—are fleeting. know, the writers who maybe aren’t writ- Spencer Museum, and his photographs— They aren’t the kinds of pictures one ing about things we traditionally associ- which combine elements of realism and can set up. ate with an area. We need to hear those abstraction—have shown at the Lawrence “I truly believe our ability to discover voices, too.” Arts Center and the Spencer’s recent things is so much richer than our ability The self-deprecating series title winks “From Digital to Daguerreotype” to invent them,” Thompson says. “I’m a at the notion that middle-America is a exhibition. a prisoner of this method, because I cultural wasteland. A colleague coined it “The paper towel photograph has can’t decide this afternoon I’m going to after Randolph issued a directive: “I said, been the source of an intense amount of take this picture. It’s total chance. I have ‘I want it to mean heartland, without interest,” Thompson says. “I think it’s to be paying attention.” making you want to puke.’ I like it a lot. the ordinariness and to a certain extent It’s sassy and has a sense of humor that the prettiness of it, but mostly it’s the ◆ ◆ ◆ suggests we can laugh at ourselves, but surprise. They can’t believe it’s an ordi- we’re also laughing at the people who nary paper towel. They’re not sure what The wonder of label us so dismissively.” I’m telling them.” Averill’s book, balancing magical Judith McCrea, art department chair, nowhere moments with lush, descriptive writing says Thompson’s photographs are like that captures the grit and beauty of “amazing little archeological digs” Averill’s book of stories Kansas landscapes, knocks the notion of because of the domestic detail they initiates “Flyover” series the Great Dull Middle flat on its can. record. But they do more than merely Those who bypass Moscow, a setting for document ephemera. n Thomas Fox Averill’s fictional small-town drama on an operatic scale, “He has a very succinct painter’s eye world, average people have the have failings of their own, he hints. that enables the viewer to see common darnedest adventures. “What a godforsaken place, they think. objects that surround us in a new and I A young boy and his parents pio- They keep driving, alone and afraid, startling way,” McCrea notes. “The way neer a brave new world where all experi- reassuring themselves that nothing ever he approaches his subject teaches the ence is computer generated in “The happens out nowhere, at the edge of viewer that it’s not just the choice of a Onion and I.” A young girl mesmerizes a Moscow, Kansas.” subject that is important, but that the small town with a singing voice purer Plenty happens in Ordinary Genius. arrangement of these forms, just as pure than a tuning fork in “The Musical That fits Randolph’s concept of a forms, creates a whole new kind of Genius of Moscow, Kansas.” Newlyweds regional canon that’s anything but excitement.” see their marriage transformed by visita- provincial. Thompson had a ready exercise for tions from a wild man in “The Man Who “Part of the purpose here is to make students who faced difficulty finding a Ran With Deer.” people think about their region in ways subject: Throw a shirt on the ground These and the other nine stories in that are more expansive,” she says. “Tom and start sketching the random shapes it Ordinary Genius are firmly grounded in is quirky. He writes about a Kansas that forms. “The inventiveness of those realism, but Averill, c’71, g’74, the author not everybody immediately recognizes. shapes is so much more surprising than of Secrets of Tsil Cafe and The Slow Air of It’s not stereotypical or nostalgic. And the kinds of things you can sit and Ewan MacPherson, also tints them with a yet if you live in the region, you read devise,” Thompson says. sense of the fantastic. The message: these stories and say, ‘Yeah, I know these A similar faith in chance guides his Magical things happen everyday. Even in people.’” photography, which he began after buy- Kansas. ing a digital camera to record the stained For that reason, the book is an apt glass windows he designed for Bales choice to launch the Flyover Fiction ■ Hall. Photographing the windows was Series from University of Nebraska Ordinary Genius an “eye-opener.” Documenting one art Press. Editor Ladette Randolph will project, he began to see the possibilities publish two to four books annually by Thomas Fox for launching another. with the goal of creating a canon of Averill He now carries his camera every- contemporary fiction from the Great where, even to the mailbox. He’s ready Plains and Midwest. Next spring will University of to shoot at any moment, because the bring Skin, “a strange, polyphonic Nebraska Press subjects that interest him—shifting after- novel of a God-haunted Kansas” by noon light shadowing a set of tire chains Kellie Wells, j’86, c’89. $22 in his garage, a lone red leaf perched on “I wanted the series to work the windshield of his car, footprints against type,” Randolph says. “You

ISSUE 5, 2005 | 67 Oread Encore BY STANLEY HAMILTON

American and world records. Some of the TV footage will portray how Santee began running as a school- boy in Ashland. Depicting him in those scenes will be his grandson, Hollis Santee, a high-school junior in Wichita, middle-distance runner and Jayhawk- to-be. Don’t miss it. —Hamilton, j’55, author of the gangster history Machine Gun Kelly’s Last Stand, is writing a book about Santee, centering on the runner’s battles over eligibility with the NCAA and the old Amateur Athletic Union. Hamilton recently moved to Lawrence after 47 years in Washington, D.C.

Another run for Santee Four-minute quest to be focus of October ESPN program

t was seasonably warm and serene Wes knew. Word had already spread. on campus the afternoon of May 6, Although obviously disappointed, he 1954. Serene, that is, until a student graciously congratulated Bannister and Ijumped out of a low window of the said he hoped the two might compete Journalism Building and raced toward a head-to-head sometime, pushing the passing driver, waving a piece of paper time down even further. and yelling, “Wes. Wes. Stop. C’mere.” It was not to be, but that is another Wes was KU’s Wes Santee, one of story. the three men considered favorites to The widely followed drama of the be the first in the world to break the 1954 quest by the three runners— four-minute mile. The screaming stu- Australia’s John Landy was the other— dent, the sports editor of the University is scheduled for airing on national Daily Kansan, was this writer. television Oct. 4. An ESPN crew in I was unhappily waving a bulletin August spent several days in and torn off the newspaper’s United Press around Lawrence interviewing Santee, teletypewriter. Datelined Oxford, d’54, and others, including U.S. Rep.

England, the news was stunning: Jim Ryun, j’70, a KU track superstar PHOTOGRAPHS BY Britain’s Roger Bannister had just who would exceed Santee’s records, RICH CLARKSON become the first to run a mile under and Dick Wilson, b’55, a member of four minutes. many Santee-led relay teams that set

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