The Fan Man 30 Root and Rant All You Want, Jayhawk Fans

Contents Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine

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Paperwork 26 Art and mathematics converge in the intricate folds of Joel Cooper’s spectacularly detailed origami creations.

BY RACHEL NYP

Peril in Paradise 38 When KU researcher Edwin Scholes fell ill in the remote jungles of New Guinea, all he had going for him was luck—and fellow Jayhawk Brett Benz.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

COVER The Fan Man 30 Root and rant all you want, Jayhawk fans. Psychologist Daniel Wann thinks it’s good for you.

BY STEVEN HILL Cover illustration by Charlie Podrebarac, ’81

Volume 105, No. 2, 2007

March 2007

Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor 72 Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Creative Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 4 ON THE BOULEVARD Steven Hill KU & Alumni Association events Staff Writer Rachel Larson Nyp, c’04, j’04 6 LIFT THE CHORUS Editorial Assistants Letters from readers Karen Goodell Katie Moyer, j’06 9 FIRST WORD Photographer The editor’s turn Jamie Roper, j’02 JAYHAWK WALK Graphic Designer 10 Valerie Spicher, j’94 Fambrough Street, Jessica the Jayhawk, Burge on “Today” and more Advertising Sales Ricky Temkin, ’07 12 HILLTOPICS Editorial Intern News and notes: Deferred maintenance tops Lisa Tilson, ’07 Statehouse agenda; the Hill gets a new red roof. Editorial and Advertising Office KU Alumni Association 20 SPORTS 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 Basketball: Sherron Collins boosts men’s 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 www.kualumni.org perimeter attack; women finish strong. e-mail: [email protected] 46 ASSOCIATION NEWS Five honored for distinguished service KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. $50 annual sub- 52 CLASS NOTES scription includes membership in the Alumni Association. Profiles of a rock ’n’ roll designer, a mining Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. CEO, a visionary missionary and more POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas 68 IN MEMORY Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS Deaths in the KU family 66045-3169 © 2007 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- member issue price: $7 ROCK CHALK REVIEW KU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Alumni Association was 72 established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, Portraits of China and the gospel according friendship, commitment, and communication among all gradu- to James. ates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of purpose 76 OREAD ENCORE and action to serve the best interests of The University and Scrapbook memories its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. ISSUE 2, 2007 | 3 On the Boulevard VALERIE SPICHER ■ February snow dusted Jayhawk Boulevard and sent students gliding—and tumbling— down Mount Oread’s slopes.

MAY 1 Symphonic Band 8 University Band

■ Special events APRIL 14 Day on the Hill, Lied Center Lawn 20-21 Alumni Weekend: Class of 1957 50-year reunion and Gold Medal Club brunch and meeting. For more information, contact the Association at 800-584-2957. 28 Rock Chalk Ball, Overland Park Convention Center

MAY ■ Exhibitions ■ Lied Center events 6 Official Class Ring Ceremony, “Material World,” through April 6, Adams Alumni Center MARCH Kansas Union Gallery 9 Grad Grill, Adams Alumni Center “Art into Art: Inspired Responses,” 27 KU Wind Ensemble with the Kansas City Youth Wind Symphony 14 Tradition Keepers Finals Dinner, through April 29, Spencer Museum Adams Alumni Center of Art 28 National Symphony Orchestra 20 Commencement Lunch, The “A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of 31 Armitage Gone! Dance Outlook Urban Senegal,” through May 20, APRIL Spencer Museum of Art ■ Lectures “Meiji: Japan’s Transition into a 3 Joy of Singing Global Society,” through June 17, 13 KU Wind Ensemble MARCH Spencer Museum of Art 18-19 “AIDA” by Elton John and 26 Joe Wood, Hallmark Design Tim Rice Symposium Series, Wescoe Hall ■ University Theatre 20 Emerson String Quartet 28 Ed Humes, “Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and APRIL 21 David Gonzalez in “The Frog the Battle for America’s Soul,” Dole Bride” 4-7, 9-12 “Keely and Du” by Jane Institute of Politics Martin 22 Anna Myeong, Bales Organ 27-29, May 3-5 “Guys and Dolls,” Recital Hall APRIL based on story and characters by 27-28 University Dance Company 4 Michael Brown, “Hurricane Damon Runyon 30 Faculty Organ Recital, Bales Katrina: An Insider Tells His Side of Organ Recital Hall the Story,” Dole Institute of Politics

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9 Michael Hogue, Hallmark Series, Wescoe Hall 10 John R. Kasich, Vickers Memorial Lecture Series, Lied Center 10 Maria Carlson, “Culture and History Matter: Russia’s Search for Identity after the Fall,” Kansas Union 11 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Lied Center 16 Alan Mulally, Chandler Lecture Series, Lied Center 17 John Patrick Diggins, “Ronald 27 Great Bend: ’Hawk Talk recruiting 19 Wichita: Young Alumni Thirsty Reagan: Fate, Freedom and the reception Third Thursday Making of History,” Dole Institute of Politics 28 Salina: ’Hawk Talk recruiting 26 Emporia: East Central Chapter reception Kickoff Party 23 Dr. Richard Heinzl, founder of Doctors Without Borders, Kansas 29 Northern California: School of 30 Norton: Chamber of Commerce Union Engineering Professional Society Banquet reception 23 Leonard Konopelski, Hallmark MAY Series, Wescoe Hall 29 Phoenix: School of Law alumni reception 3 San Diego: Wine tasting & ■ Academic calendar networking event APRIL 4 Lawrence: Gale Sayers Golf MARCH 3 Denver: School of Engineering Tournament 19-25 Spring break Professional Society reception 10 Kansas City: School of Business 5 Lawrence: ’Hawk Talk recruiting Professional Society reception MAY reception 17 Wichita: Young Alumni Thirsty 10 Last day of spring classes 7 Dallas: KU alumni night with the Third Thursday 11 Stop day Mavericks 14-18 Final exams 10 Kansas City: School of ■ Kansas Honors 20 Commencement Engineering Professional Society Program reception ■ Alumni events 10 Phillipsburg: ’Hawk Talk recruit- MARCH ing reception 28 Atchison MARCH 10 Salina: Night with the Arts 28 Kingman 22 Phoenix: Big 12 alumni night 11 Colby: ’Hawk Talk recruiting APRIL with the Suns reception 4 Oberlin 11 Kansas City: Rock Chalk 11 Neodesha Wednesday Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS 12 Logan University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 12 Hays: ’Hawk Talk recruiting recep- 18 Scott City Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 tion Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 12 Johnson County: ’Hawk Talk Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798 recruiting reception For more information Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 12 New York: “Mary Poppins” on about Association events, KU Info ...... 864-3506 Broadway call 800-584-2957 or see the Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 17 Manhattan: ’Hawk Talk recruiting Association’s Web site, KU main number ...... 864-2700 reception Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS www.kualumni.org. Dole Institute of Politics ...... 864-4900 18 Wichita: KU vs. WSU baseball tailgate

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 5 Dean Ken Rose were intrigued by the clock. After three weeks, Professor Lift the Chorus Forman called and asked if Dean Rose had fixed our clock yet. Surprised, I told him no. He said, “Can I take a look at it?” Top of the pile A friend remembered ... Thrilled that the inventor of the reversible propeller mechanism would Issue No. 1, 2007, of Although our contacts since want to work on a clock for a graduate Kansas Alumni arrived our KU days in the late ’50s were student, my son Mike and I had it at his today. Of the many few, I was especially saddened to house within a half hour. He took off the alumni magazines I read about the death of Wayne face, squirted oil on the balance wheel now receive, I think Swanson, e’58, in the last issue of shaft and the clock started to run. He KU does a fantastic Kansas Alumni. looked crestfallen and said maybe he job. I have suggested “Mike,” as his friends knew should keep it a week to make sure the things to other schools him, demonstrated a spirit and clock could count correctly. based on what I’ve courage few of us know. Mike Two weeks later the clock was ready. seen in the KU maga- was from Abilene, and his years at Apparently Mrs. Forman called him at zine. Thanks. KU couldn’t have been better: excellent work and said, “George, you get home. Ted Mueller, PhD’63 grades, Big Eight half-mile champion, That clock struck 73 and I left the Oak Ridge, Tenn. Sig Ep star in intramurals. Then his KU house.” He did a little more work and Tempus fugit degree, a good job, and a wonderful the clock learned to count correctly. It wife and family. still works. I really enjoyed your article on But a year or two after he graduated, Just before my dissertation defense, Danforth Chapel [“Little Chapel on the life dealt Mike a major blow. Polio put Professor Forman invited me to his Hill,” issue No. 6, 2006]. It brought back his otherwise strong, healthy body in a office for congratulations and tea. When many fond memories of my wedding. wheelchair for life. But his warm smile, I greeted him, he said, “You must call me My wife and I were married there in his hearty laughter and his love of life, George. We are now colleagues.” I tried, October 1987. family and KU athletics lived on. and it sounded completely inappropri- Wow, time really flies when you are So now we know: The wheelchair ate. I finally told him it was just not having fun. missing from this year’s KU home bas- possible. Gary Boyd, f’91 ketball games (usually right behind the I have been in higher education 33 Baldwin City basket) is that of Mike Swanson. It was a years. I try to emulate Professor spot he faithfully and enthusiastically Forman’s organized classroom style and Isn’t there a rhyme for that? occupied for more than 40 years: more than courteous, respectful treat- Jayhawk loyalty and courage supreme. ment of students. Once in a while, a for- I know that times are changing, but Malcolm W. Applegate, j’59 mer student will stop by to say hello to this morning, as I was planning my vaca- Indianapolis “Dr. Knapp.” I encourage them to drop tions for the summer, I was using the the formality. Often they refuse, and I 2007 KU Alumni Association Calendar ... And a mentor, too am reminded of my own inability to be when I noticed that June has 31 days! informal with one of my cherished for- When did this change happen? News that Professor George W. mer mentors. I just smile. I hope that the Alumni Association is Forman died last July [In Memory, issue Roy M. Knapp, e’63, g’69, g’73 not trying to promote a change in the No. 6] brought a flood of memories. Norman, Okla. calendar that will reflect as badly on the In 1972, after I passed my compre- state as our constantly changing educa- hensive examination as part of the D.E. Let us hear from you! tional views of evolution. program, my wife, Judi, and I hosted a Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the Dennis L. Dobson, c’77 celebration at our house. George and editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni Topeka magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, Ruth Forman were part of a group that KS 66045-3169. E-mail responses may be Editors note: Let’s see, “Thirty days hath graciously agreed to attend. sent to the Alumni Association, kualum- September, April ...” Oops. At least we We have an 1840 Seth Thomas man- [email protected], or Associate Editor didn’t subtract the day from July, or we’d tel clock that was a wedding present Chris Lazzarino, [email protected]. be in real trouble. Thanks for pointing from Judi’s grandparents. At that time it Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. out our blunder. did not run. Both Professor Forman and

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BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

A KU flag from Old Fraser Hall, swiped in 1962 by Gary Simone, d’65, g’70, was recently JAMIE ROPER returned to Chancellor Hemenway by an intermediary, Rick Keeler, a’73.

Back in Kansas City, Keeler met Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway at the January ribbon-cutting for the KU Medical Center’s Life Sciences Innovation Center. He followed up with an e-mail, detailing the exploits of his friend and asking for the chancellor’s help in completing his mission. “Like me,” Keeler wrote, “the flag wants to ne fateful Back in Carruth-O’Leary, come home.” Saturday night Simone didn’t dare display Hemenway obliged, and his staff in 1962, the his souvenir, so he hid the alerted the media—er, just Kansas walls of Watson flag under his bed. In fact, Alumni. (“We’ve got a weird story,” a OLibrary began to close in on for most of the 45 years Strong Hall colleague told me on the Gary Simone, d’65, g’70. since his crime, the flag phone, “so naturally we thought of After studying diligently, the remained in a closet—-except you.”) Keeler arrived in Strong Hall KU sophomore needed a for its glory days in his Army Feb. 5, carrying a canvas satchel from break. So he and his buddy barracks in Korea, where which he unfurled about 12 feet of pris- headed outside and walked Simone served after being tine blue fabric bearing the crimson KU. toward 14th Street, where drafted early in his brief Keeler beamed. He had kept his promise The Wheel beckoned. As Simone teaching career. “Stealing to Simone, and he had done a good they strolled past Old Fraser Hall, they flags put me in good stead to be in the deed for his alma mater. gazed up at the towers, where the KU Army,” he jokes. “But seriously, that flag Keeler further affirmed his loyalty by flag fluttered alongside the Stars and covered my entire wall and gave me a rejoining the Alumni Association and, Stripes. “We thought the KU flag would reminder of home.” assured that the statute of limitations be a great souvenir,” Simone recalls. Simone returned to the States and set- had run out, he finally divulged the true “Later, after two beers, it seemed like tled into a career in the building supply flag-nabber’s name. an even better idea.” business in San Antonio. Through the Down in San Antonio, Simone was As they walked back from The Wheel years, his wife occasionally chided him expecting the phone call from Lawrence. toward their rooms in Carruth-O’Leary, about the flag in the closet. He happily recalled his time on the Hill, the two noticed the flags were no longer Then fate stepped in. Retired from his including the details of his prank. But he flying. Curious—and a bit more coura- own business, Simone got a call to work stopped short of revealing the name of geous than an hour earlier—they wan- for an architectural firm as a construc- his partner that Saturday night long ago: dered over to Fraser and found the tion expert. There he met Rick Keeler, “I’d rather not. He might be embar- doors unlocked. They ventured in and a’73. “Finding another KU grad was rassed, because I think he still works in climbed the stairs to the top floor, where rare,” Simone says, “and we were the security for the Navy.” they crawled into a loft just beneath the only two military veterans in the office.” Hearing news that the flag may soon towers and found the KU flag in a box. When Keeler announced he was moving return to its perch atop the younger “The University was undefended that back to his native Kansas City to become Fraser Hall, Simone expressed his relief night,” Simone says, “so I rolled up this a vice president for Burns & McDonnell, and solemnly pledged his KU allegiance. huge KU flag and stuffed it under my their kinship led to a confession: Simone Despite the odd indiscretions of coat. I looked like the Pillsbury came clean, and he asked Keeler to youth, there is always honor among Doughboy.” return the flag. Jayhawks.

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One word more JAMIE ROPER arth Kimbrell brushed up his GShakespeare, and the judges he did wow. Kimbrell, a Wichita senior in English, took top honors in the 2006 Norton Scholars Prize for his essay on “Coriolanus,” a play Shakespeare wrote late in his career about the legendary Roman leader. Kimbrell beat out more than 200 entrants to win the $2,500 first place prize for an outstanding undergraduate essay on a literary topic. His essay focused on the use of the word “directitude,” which Shakespeare scholars have debated over the years. Some think it’s a printer’s error; others think it’s a coinage. Kimbrell wrote the essay for a Too close to home class taught by David Bergeron, professor of English. Bergeron was so ophomore Timothy Burgess intends to rip down all the Missouri Street signs near impressed by the imagination and SMemorial Stadium, but he isn’t plotting any midnight vandalism. Burgess, a Lawrence quality of the writing that he sophomore, hopes to convince city leaders to rename Missouri Street, especially where advised his student to submit it to it approaches the Jayhawks’ football stadium south of Ninth Street, in honor of former the Norton contest. “And the rest is Coach Don Fambrough, d’48. history,” says Bergeron, who calls Burgess is working on the project with Jayhawk Network broadcaster David the prize “a major coup and Lawrence, d’83, an all-conference offensive guard for Fambrough in 1981, and they hope achievement” for Kimbrell, the local citizens and KU alumni will join in as they begin lobbying more intensively after bas- English department, and KU. ketball season. Fambrough, famous for his undimmed dislike for anything to do with KU’s cross-border rival, says he tries to avoid Missouri Street when driving around town, and even pos- ing for this photograph was stressful. “People will think I’ve lost my mind,” Coach Fam says with a laugh, “hanging on a Missouri sign like this.” But Fambrough was delighted to finally meet the student spearheading the drive for Fambrough Street, and, regardless of the outcome, he says it’s the thought that counts most. “If students want to make it a street or an outhouse, I couldn’t care less,” Fambrough says. “It just means so much to be remembered, it really does. It’s very special to know they are thinking of me.” As if we could ever forget.

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI We oughta be in pictures Homes in this popular vacation area back up to Lake o didya hear Jessica Simpson is a Michigan, and many have cus- SJayhawk? At least that’s what’s planned tom signs in the front yard for her character in “Blonde Ambition”— meant to lend the dwelling a a remake of Melanie Griffith’s 1988 hit, MARK CUMMINGS COURTESY creative identity. “Working Girl”—currently “Of course, the Jayhawk in production in caught my eye from a distance, Shreveport, La., as the Jayhawk is a fairly rare and New York City. bird in country inhabited by its Simpson’s char- natural predators, Badgers and acter is a recent KU Wolverines, and the some- alumna who charms what more civil Spartans,” the big-city business Mark reports. “But as we got world, but as of mid- Another border showdown closer I noticed the ‘Mizzou Rah’ sign and February it was not had to stop, chuckle and capture the yet certain that scenes ark Cummings, b’80, and his wife, moment.” identifying her as a MBecky, of Appleton, Wis., discovered Concludes Cummings, “I can only think Jayhawk would make an interesting display of school spirit while this is the Michigan version of the Hatfields the film’s final cut. driving through the Upper Peninsula of and McCoys.” Alas, a similar fate Michigan last November on a stretch of Indeed. Who says rivalry never takes apparently has befallen Route 35 south of Escanaba. a vacation? KU in “The City of Your Final Destination,” an Anthony Hopkins pic based on a novel whose protagonist, a KU graduate student, Live from Studio 1A A highlight of the week at pursues a writer’s life in South America. Rockefeller Center was visiting the Producers chose to film in Boulder etting to New York City as a set of “Saturday Night Live,” says (a similar tragedy struck in “About Jfinalist in NBC’s “Anchor for . Burge, who praises the hospitality Schmidt,” in which Jack Nicholson’s lonely TODAY” contest was “the of the TODAY staff, especially Jayhawk widower strolls down memory coolest thing in the world for a kid newscaster Ann Curry. Her affec- lane with a visit to the University of from Wichita,” says David Burge. tionate hugs prompted teasing Nebraska), then wrote KU out altogether, Burge, c’97, g’02, appeared on from his friends back home. “They changing their character’s alma mater to— the show Feb. 26-March 2, after his said she had a crush on me,” Burge what a great idea—Colorado. Maybe it wife persuaded him to submit his says, “and I said nothing to dis- had something to do with the Flatirons last-minute video entry. His wit suade them.” looming in the background of all their wooed voting viewers until the last After all, who could resist such Kansas shots … day, when he finished second to a natty dresser? But that’s OK, the Buffs can have Brad Hook, a cattle Hannibal the Cannibal; we’re holding out rancher from for Daisy Duke, darn it. Humeston, Iowa. And we’ll not hesitate to remind pro- Burge, a former KU ducers that if they truly hope to invoke the admissions recruiter, is karma of their film’s Academy Award-win- now associate director BURGE DAVID COURTESY ning, $65-million-grossing original, Melanie of admissions for the Griffith was, at the time, married to University of University Theatre alumnus Don Johnson, Nebraska, where he ’71, who in 1989 donned a Jayhawk sweat- has become known as shirt for the final scene of the final episode the “guy in the bow of “Miami Vice,” in which he created the tie” who narrates pop-culture icon Det. Sonny Crockett. online recruiting Case closed. Leave Jessica a Jayhawk. videos. Or, at least, so votes one of us …

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posals had failed to build broad support. A seven-member Senate JAMIE ROPER JAMIE ROPER task force spent a month on the issue and emerged with plenty of ideas but no consensus. The task force suggested the state find $100 million per year to fund the backlog on Regents ■ Gov. Kathleen Sebelius campuses—once estimated at on Jan. 31 called a $727 million, but since pared news conference in her down, at the state’s request, to ceremonial Statehouse $660 million. The task force did office to announce her not agree on whether the $100 million in annual repair funds proposal to address main- should be generated by a single tenance and repair debts source of revenue, such as at the state’s six Board of expanded gambling opportuni- Regents universities. ties in the state, or a mixed bag of revenue sources, such as a 1- Pay it forward mill property tax increase, maintenance fees imposed on stu- Governor asks that turnpike revenues add dents by the credit hour, a sales- $300 million toward upkeep backlogs tax increase for counties with public universities, and a 10- he crushing backlog of deferred mainte- percent ticket surcharge for university events. nance at the six Kansas Board of Regents Among other proposals was a suggestion by universities is finally receiving serious a Kansas City senator, Chris Steineger, g’92, attention from the Legislature and gover- that KU Hospital be sold to cash in on its Tnor, but, as of early March, it appeared that little estimated market value of $800 million. consensus had emerged on the difficult issue. Sebelius’ turnpike surcharge idea was the Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, g’80, got things rarest of political creatures—a major policy pro- started with her plan to provide $575 million, posal that was a genuine surprise. Except for an by far the largest proposal to emerge from item published in the Lawrence Journal-World Topeka in recent years. But $300 million would the day of her announcement, Sebelius was able be generated by a series of 5-percent surcharges to keep the wraps on her controversial plan until on Kansas Turnpike tolls, and that keystone she laid it out for public inspection. element appeared to find little political traction. She defended her proposal as a lucrative alter- “I am apprehensive about a policy that would take money from the [Kansas Turnpike Authority] to pay for building maintenance,” said Melvin Neufeld, speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives. “I believe transportation funds should not be used for purposes other than transportation.” KANSAS TURNPIKE AUTHORITY Neufeld’s sentiments appeared to be shared by many of his statehouse colleagues, though in the month after the governor announced her proposal, it also appeared that alternative pro-

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI native to raising sales or property taxes. Even if Elizabeth Asiedu, associate professor and turnpike tolls were increased 5 percent a year director of the department of economics master’s for six years (skipping the year already desig- program, was dubbed “a rising star” for her work nated by the turnpike authority for its own toll advising African policymakers on how to improve increases), Sebelius argued, Kansas still would their economies by relying less on foreign aid have one of the lowest average rates of tolls per and doing more to attract foreign investment. mile in the country. She also argued that 40 per- “In the past, the focus in Africa has been on cent of the turnpike tolls are paid by out-of-state what foreign aid can do,” Asiedu says, “but users, and that many of the Kansans who regu- research has shown that aid is not generally very larly use the turnpike live in counties that are effective.” And foreign aid to the continent has home to public universities. been declining in recent years, she says. “This plan recognizes that we have an asset But when companies like GM and Coca-Cola “Our mission that we can use more aggressively,” she said. “It set up plants in a developing country, they often doesn’t raise taxes and it doesn’t raise tuition, pay higher wages that can lift people out of is to produce and frankly will help pave the way for the work- poverty, Asiedu found. There are other benefits research that’s force of the future.” as well for the citizens of these countries. An element of Sebelius’ plan that does appear “People learn by doing, and they can take at the forefront to have wide support is the dedication of unex- what they learn and set up their own firms,” she of the discipline, pected general revenue—as much as $75 million— says. “That’s how knowledge and technology and she has done to pay off debt from the Crumbling Classrooms pass over.” initiative of the mid-1990s. Half of the state’s Asiedu came to KU in 1998 as the first that.” annual maintenance budget has since been dedi- Oswald Scholar in Economics. The professorship, —Joe Sicilian cated to that plan’s debt service, meaning an created by a donation from Charles Oswald, c’51, additional $15 million would now be freed annu- provides research money and salary support to ally for the Educational Building Fund. help young professors establish their careers. Sebelius proposed $200 million in low-interest “I am not exaggerating,” Asiedu says, “when I loans, provided by the Pooled Money Investment say there is no way I would have been able to do Board, be offered to universities. She also asked half of what I’ve done without that discretionary that future construction, whether paid for by the funding.” state or private donors, include maintenance endowments. Both proposals appeared to have

strong support in Topeka. JAMIE ROPER “I think the universities need to step up,” she said, in reference to the $200 million that would have to be repaid. “They raise a lot of money on a regular basis. They also have funds available that they can set aside for loan repayment.” —Chris Lazzarino

◆ ◆ ◆ Wise investment First Oswald Scholar receives national recognition for research on Africa n economics professor whose research examines the link between foreign investment in African countries and their economic development was one of ■ Economics professor Elizabeth Asiedu made the 10A “Emerging Scholars” chosen this spring by Diverse magazine Emerging Scholars list for her work on Diverse magazine. African economic development.

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Staff members of Diverse (formerly called countries that have had a tough time attracting Black Issues in Higher Education) chose the foreign investors in the past. scholars, which this year include a math prodigy Asiedu grew up in Ghana, where her mother who studied college-level calculus at age 9 and taught grade school and an uncle was a scientist earned a PhD at 20. Economics department for the U.N. Her brother also became a professor. chairman Joe Sicilian nominated Asiedu for the “Going into academia was a no-brainer,” she says, award. but it took her awhile to decide on a field. She “It was a combination of her contributions came to the United States in 1990 to earn a PhD to research and also her excellent teaching,” in math, but switched paths after completing her Sicilian says. master’s degree. Not only has Asiedu’s research attracted the “That was a time when Ghana was going attention of Diverse, but it also has drawn invita- through a lot of changes. The economy wasn’t tions to address local and international policy- doing well, the country was in transition from a makers. She has advised the Joint IMF-World military government,” Asiedu says. “I thought, Global study Bank Institute and provincial government leaders ‘This is interesting.’” in South Africa on how to address problems with She switched to economics, where she felt she KU ranks eighth among infrastructure, education and corruption that dis- could use her math background to influence public research universi- courage direct foreign investment. public policy. “The only way to do that is to write ties for the percentage “That’s what our mission is here, to produce papers that policymakers can read and under- of students who study research that is at the forefront of the discipline stand,” she says. and which attracts attention on a national and abroad, according to the international level,” Sicilian says. “And she has ◆ ◆ ◆ Institute of International certainly done that.” Education’s Open Door Her findings suggest that education level, report. In 2005, the good infrastructure and a dedication to fair trade The boys next door and the rule of law can overcome a lack of natu- most recent year figures ral resources—good news for many small African Twelfth scholarship residence are available, 1,200 will duplicate Rieger Hall Jayhawks enrolled in for 50 KU men study abroad programs. hen he came to KU in the 1960s, Currently, more than 26 (2) JAMIE ROPER Carl Krehbiel took the advice of his percent of KU students father, who had lived at Battenfeld study abroad by the Hall in the 1940s, and applied to Wlive in KU’s scholarship hall system. time they graduate. It turned out to be a good move, for him and for KU. Krehbiel, c’70, spent three years in Stephenson Hall before studying abroad during his senior year. This winter he decided to return the favor to his parents and his alma mater, donating $4 million to build the University’s 12th scholarship hall. “When I was here in the 1960s it was a great experience, and probably the best part of that experience was living in Stephenson,” Krehbiel said during a Jan. 27 news conference to announce plans for the new hall, which will stand next to Dennis E. Rieger Hall in the 1300 block of Ohio Street. “I certainly believe that the scholarship hall is the optimum environment and social atmosphere for students attending the University.” ■ Kathryn and Carl Krehbiel KU will seek permission from the Kansas

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI Board of Regents to name the building after Krehbiel’s parents, Floyd, c’47, and Kathryn Krehbiel, c’45. “They had this wonderful American attitude that they wanted life to be better for their chil- Visitor dren than it was for them,” Krehbiel said. “I don’t have any children of my own, but I think His life in pictures On the question one way that I can kind of make life better for of photo manipu- succeeding generations is to provide the space hotojournalist Richard Clarkson, j’55, lation by news for another 50 KU students to experience what P accepted the 2007 National Citation from I think is the best possible living environment.” the William Allen White Foundation and the organizations in Krehbiel’s parents played in the KU band at School of Journalism. basketball games as students and were married the digital age, for 50 years before Floyd died in 1992. Several WHEN: Feb. 9 Clarkson abides years ago Kathryn started a tradition of buying by a single rule: sodas for every band member during home bas- WHERE: Kansas Union ketball games. “If you could “My husband’s favorite tune was ‘It Had to Be BACKGROUND: As owner of Rich have done it in You,’” said Kathryn, who wore a crimson-and- Clarkson and Associates, Clarkson manages spe- an enlarger, you blue jacket for the announcement at Rieger Hall. cial projects and exhibitions, including a new “Now they play that before each game. I love it. book about Arlington National Cemetery. He can do it in It’s wonderful.” was formerly director of photography and senior Photoshop.” The 18,000-square-foot building will be a twin assistant editor of The National Geographic to all-women Rieger, which opened in 2005 after Society, assistant managing editor/graphics of considerable conflict between the University, The Denver Post and longtime Oread neighborhood advocates and the city of director of photography for The Lawrence. As previously reported in Kansas Topeka Capital-Journal. He has Alumni, construction on Rieger was able to pro-

worked for Sports Illustrated, JAMIE ROPER ceed only after Gov. Bill Graves, at the request of Time and Life and has pho- KU, overturned a decision by the Kansas State tographed eight Olympics. Historical Society and allowed the University to raze several houses to make room for the hall. ANECDOTE: In 1981, The project also contributed to the signing of a Sports Illustrated sent Clarkson new land-use agreement with the city and led to to photograph the University of the inclusion of neighborhood representatives on North Carolina men’s basketball committees that oversee campus construction team for the cover of its pre- projects. season college basketball edi- Jeff Weinberg, d’64, g’70, assistant to the tion. Coach Dean Smith, d’53, chancellor and the official liaison between KU arrived for the shoot with only and neighborhood groups, says that the design four players. Smith said the fifth starter, a fresh- will mirror Rieger Hall because that was part of man, could not be pictured because his coaching the agreement with neighborhood advocates. policy prohibited new players from appearing in “Two halls were approved, with the under- the press until they had proven themselves in the standing that the second building would look classroom and on the court. “That is why Michael just like this one,” Weinberg said. “Had they not Jordan isn’t in the picture,” Clarkson explained. followed that requirement, we would have had to appoint a new advisory committee and a new QUOTE: “Great journalism is not the prod- building committee.” uct of market research but the product of leader- An ROTC student at KU, Krehbiel went on to ship, from the genesis of newspapers and maga- a 20-year career in the U.S. Army, serving in zines to today’s Internet. Whatever the method of Vietnam and as a Green Beret. He took over the delivery, content must remain supreme.” family business, the Moundridge Telephone Co., —Jennifer Jackson Sanner after his father’s death. He also served in the Kansas Legislature from 1998 to 2006.

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■ Andrew Tsubaki wears the Order of the record $218 million in fiscal 2006. Sacred Treasure, awarded him by the Emperor The NIH is the largest single source of

JAMIE ROPER of Japan in 2006. research funds in the United States, and it provides the largest source of University research awards as well. KU’s record $86 million in NIH grants annual banquet of the Greater Kansas accounts for 85 percent of NIH funding City Japan-America Society. in Kansas. “It’s nice to have this kind of author- What makes the increase even more ity recognize my work, but at the same notable is that the pool of potential NIH time it’s ironic,” says Tsubaki, who came funds has not grown recently, according to America to study Western theatre, to Jim Roberts, e’66, vice provost for thinking he’d return home and teach it research. “Nationally, the budget for NIH to the Japanese people. “Instead, I ended research has been flat the past three up staying here and introducing years,” Roberts says. “So the growth in [Japanese theatre] to America. It’s kind of NIH awards to KU last year is impres- a roundabout way of helping Japan.” sive.” NIH funding rose by more than 21 FINE ARTS RESEARCH percent at KU Medical Center. On the Retired professor Grants and awards Lawrence campus, a high success rate helped fuel growth: 23 percent of grants honored for devotion at all-time high submitted for NIH funding were to Japanese culture Powered by a 15-percent increase in approved in 2005, the most recent data grants from the National Institutes of available. “The national rate was 18 per- Andrew Tsubaki, professor Health, research funding at KU rose to a Continued on page 18 emeritus of theatre and film, has been awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the government of Japan. Tsubaki, who taught at KU from 1968 to 2000 in Class Credit the department of theatre he term “pop-up” doesn’t do justice to and film and in Japanese

the new children’s storybook by JAMIE ROPER language and culture, is one of T Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and only three Japanese natives to author Stephen T. Johnson, f’87. Unlike books receive the decoration, one of whose 3-D castles or creatures are for look- Japan’s most prestigious, in 2006. ing but not touching, My The Order of the Sacred Treasure is Little Yellow Taxi invites read- granted by the Emperor of Japan for ers to fill up the gas tank, long and meritorious service and is check the oil and tire pres- announced on Nov. 3, Japan’s Day of ■ sure, and start the engine My Little Yellow Taxi Culture. It recognizes Tsubaki for his of a Checker Cab. Johnson, By Stephen T. Johnson devotion to passing along the traditions a Lawrence native who Red Wagon Books/ of Japanese culture—especially the classi- lived in New York City for Harcourt Inc. $19.95 cal theatre forms Noh, Kyogen and 13 years, began the project Kabuki—as a teacher and as executive four years ago, when he was completing work on a 66-foot mural for a subway sta- director of the Greater Kansas City Japan tion in his former Brooklyn neighborhood (“Common Touch,” No. 6, 2004). As in his Festival, a position he has held since earlier interactive book, My Little Blue Robot, Johnson provides sturdy cardboard tools, 1997. which pop out and fit neatly back into place when each task is complete. Some pieces “Dr. Tsubaki has brought the best of even do double duty: Snacks that fit in the glove compartment are shaped like street Japanese culture to Kansas and Missouri signs so young drivers can begin to learn the rules of the road. They need only supply and across the Midwest,” said Kenji the “vroom vroom” sounds to complete the make-believe. Shinoda, consulate general of Japan, who —Jennifer Jackson Sanner presented the award Jan. 19 during the

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Continued from page 16 cent,” Roberts says, “another indicator Milestones, money and other matters that KU researchers can compete with anyone in the country.” ■ THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ranks first among U.S. medical schools for graduates Research funding at KU has risen by who choose a residency in family medicine. More than 22 percent of KU’s med school nearly 50 percent in the past five years. graduates entered family medicine residency programs in 2005, according to a report issued by the American Academy of Family Physicians. “Countries with primary care physicians as MEDICINE the foundation of the health care system have better health outcomes for the population at $1 million gift latest boost lower cost,” the AAFP report concluded. “The United States needs, and its population deserves, a primary care physician-based health care delivery system.” for KU cancer center ■ BOB HOLDEN AND SCOTT MORRIS will be Dole Institute of Politics fellows for The Kansas Masonic Foundation’s the spring semester. Holden, former governor of Missouri, and Morris, j’93, director of the campaign to fight cancer in Kansas is $1 Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Florida Long-Term Recovery, will lead weekly million closer to its $15 million goal study groups on political topics at the institute throughout the semester. after landing a gift that will support a statewide medical director for the KU ■ A $3.25 MILLION GRANT will let KU’s Research and Training Center on Cancer Center. Independent Living study ways to help people with disabilities participate more fully in their The Capitol Federal Foundation of communities. The grant from the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation and Topeka made the contribution to KU Research will fund a five-year project by Glen White and his research team to develop Endowment in January. The $1 million measures and methods to identify and overcome barriers, such as a lack of personal assis- gift creates the Capitol Federal Masonic tive services, that discourage community participation by people with disabilities. Distinguished Professor in ■ DON STEEPLES, Dean A McGee distinguished professor of applied geophysics and Cancer. The per- vice provost for scholarly support, will be the distinguished lecturer for the Society for son named to the Exploration Geophysicists this fall. Steeples will speak around the world on geophysical position will be imaging, which uses seismic technology and radar to detect underground features such as statewide medical tunnels, earthquake faults and pathways for groundwater pollution. director for the KU Cancer ■ THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL earned Magnet designation from the Center, and will American Nurses Credentialing Center in December. The hospital is the first in Kansas to define a statewide receive the prestigious designation, which the ANCC awards to facilities that meet high strategy for cancer nursing standards. Only 3.5 percent treatment and pre- of healthcare organizations qualify vention. for Magnet status. The Masons’

campaign has now EARL RICHARDSON ■ A $2.1 MILLION GIFT from raised more than Dicus Madison “Al,” e’43, and Lila Self, ’43, $8.5 million to will fund a scholarship and mentor- support cancer research at KU and to ing program for aspiring engineers assist the KU Cancer Center in its goal at KU. The program will recruit to achieve designation as a 15 freshmen annually as Self Comprehensive Cancer Center by the Engineering and Leadership Fellows National Cancer Institute. and help them build leadership, “This gift fits a long tradition of sup- managerial, business, interpersonal, porting cancer research, the Masonic entrepreneurial and engineering Eaton Hall, School of Engineering mission and KU’s educational outreach,” skills. says Jack Dicus, b’55, chairman of Capitol Federal Savings and the founda- ■ FRANK TANKARD, Overland Park senior in journalism, won first place for in-depth tion. “Capitol Federal Foundation writing at the William Hearst Journalism Awards Program for his University Daily Kansan stepped up when this opportunity arose story on the Boardwalk Apartments fire. Tankard won a $2,000 scholarship for himself and to provide a gift that will support a matching grant for the School of Journalism. Read the story at kansan.com/stories/ research to rid our state and nation of 2006/oct/06/boardwalk/. this disease.”

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running back than a point guard, however, coach Bill Self engineered a

JAMIE ROPER makeover for his McDonald’s All- American. “Sherron had to take care of some things before he could really impact the program,” Self says. Namely, pounds. “Coach told me I needed to lose a lot of weight,” Collins says. “That was the big thing on me, right there.” At first the extra cardio work and changes in diet seemed like punish- ment, but he came to see the tough regimen as a way to demonstrate his willingness to work and sacrifice for the team. “It was like boot camp or something, but in the end it was a chance to show coach that I can do it, that I can stay dedicated. I think I did ■ Sherron Collins that. I feel pretty good about where energized KU’s offense I’m at.” and confounded After 31 regular season games in conference foes with which Kansas won 27 and claimed the three-point sharpshooting Big 12 regular season championship, and strong drives Collins has developed into one of two to the rim. reliable sixth men for the Jayhawks. Usually the first substitute (along with fellow freshman Darrell Arthur), he brings a jolt of offensive energy while maintaining the defensive intensity Less is more that fuels so much of KU’s scoring. His 22 minutes and 9.1 points per Transforming his body and his game, game both rank fifth on a team known freshman Sherron Collins makes himself for its balanced attack. His shooting a key contributor for KU percentages (50 percent from the field and 42.7 percent from three) are tops one are the shoulder-length braids he among Jayhawk guards, and at 1.8 to 1, his assist- wore as a multi-sport standout at to-turnover ratio is second only to Russell Chicago’s Crane Tech Prep. Gone, too, Robinson’s 2.3 to 1. are roughly 30 of the 228 pounds he Among the most thrilling parts of Collins’ Gpacked on a 5-11 physique when basketball game, though, are his headlong drives down the practice began last fall. lane, often after pushing the ball the length of In high school, guard Sherron Collins wowed the floor. Early in the season, when he fell prey college recruiters not only with his crossover to a freshman tendency to attempt too much, dribble and shooting range, but also with his those drives frequently led to trouble. Now that speed and toughness as a wide receiver and Collins has adjusted to the college level by safety. When he arrived at KU cut more like a learning to play off his teammates’ screens, the

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI drives often lead to easy buckets or assists. If less than thrilled by his freshman’s “Coach told me I needed to lose a lot of weight. ... It was a football frame, Self seems more apprecia- chance to show coach that I can do it, that I can stay dedicated. tive of his football frame of mind. I think I did that.” “I don’t think him being a wide receiver has a lot to do with him getting —freshman guard Sherron Collins to the rim,” Self says. “But I like football players, I do. There’s something about their mindset that likes contact, which is lot more if we have a couple more net- The hero of that game was freshman positive. I don’t know if it’s football, or cutting ceremonies before this team is Danielle McCray, who scored a career- just the fact that he played all sports. finished.” high 25 points, including seven of the Being the shortest guy usually and hav- —Steven Hill Jayhawks’ 12 points during the second ing to fight for everything—I do think overtime. Mosley sent the game into the there is something about being fearless ◆ ◆ ◆ second overtime period by driving past in that regard, getting to the lane and two defenders for a layup with five sec- taking the ball to the basket.” onds left in the first overtime. Collins started the season opener Just in time “She is more confident now with her against Northern Arizona, setting a KU shot,” Mosley said of McCray after the record for most three-point makes by a Women’s hoops shrugs off victory over Kansas State, “and we have freshman in a debut game (four) before slow start to score moving to the bench in game two. dramatic Big 12 victories Except for two February starts in place of an injured Russell Robinson, he has ith seven freshmen on the JAMIE ROPER continued to fill a supporting role. roster, coach Bonnie On a loaded team that boasts what Henrickson and fans of Self calls “eight starters,” that role seems her women’s basketball just fine with Collins and his teammates. Wteam anticipated some tough times. But “Whenever he’s in the game, period, even the most pessimistic outlook proba- whether start or finish, he’s the kind of bly didn’t include nine consecutive con- player that just affects the game,” sopho- ference losses, and a stretch from Dec. 3 more forward Julian Wright says. “He to Feb. 3 during which the Jayhawks gets the ball moving and he’s also good won one game in 11. at attacking, putting pressure on the But it all turned around Feb. 6, when defense. Whenever he’s in the game we the Jayhawks topped Colorado in overti- know that we’re gonna most likely get a ime, 70-68, and followed that victory in shot, or an easy basket.” Allen Field House with a victory at Heading into his fourth tournament Texas, 50-49. In both games, fields goals season at KU, Self has plenty of options in the final seconds by senior Shaquina to call on. Four starters average double Mosley sealed the wins. She was selected figures and six Jayhawks received Big 12 for the All-Big 12 second team. postseason honors. Clearly the first- “She was our spark plug this season,” round NCAA tournament losses of the Henrickson says, “and her emergence past two years have left a bitter taste. during conference play was evident in The coach joined his players in clipping our strong finish.” the nets in Allen Field House after Mosley, a 5-6 guard from Lancaster, Kansas mounted a stellar second-half Calif., scored a career-high 26 points in comeback to beat Texas and claim sole the regular-season finale, a 70-66 victory possession of the conference title, but at Missouri. After the dreadful start to Self has noted repeatedly that what dis- the conference season, the Jayhawks tinguishes a good year from a great year closed 4-3, including a double-overtime ■ Shaquina Mosley capped her KU career is how well a team plays in March. victory Feb. 18 over Kansas State, KU’s with game-winning shots against Colorado “Cutting down the nets is great,” he first win against the Wildcats since and Texas, and selection to the All-Big 12 said after the Texas win, “but it’ll mean a January 2001. second team.

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faith in her. We know that when she shoots the ball it has a good shot of going in.” JAMIE ROPER McCray, second on the team in scoring at 10.1 points a game, grew up in Olathe, and saw each of the 12 consecutive losses to K-State that Kansas endured. “This game means a lot,” McCray said. “It has always been a goal for me to beat them.” Said Kansas State senior forward Claire Coggins, “She’s a freshman and she stepped up. She did a really good job on us today, and she came out confident. You don’t see that a whole lot in freshmen. She has a lot of potential to be good; she’s good now.” As Kansas Alumni was going to press, the Jayhawks won their first-round game ■ Seniors Bri Brotherson, Shelby Noonan, Emily Knopp, co-captain Lisa Tilson, co-captain Jenny in the Big 12 Tournament, a 71-62 upset Short, Tricia Tindall and Lia Pogioli celebrate after swimming and diving’s final home meet of the of Oklahoma State, in Oklahoma season, a 192.5-103.5 victory over Iowa State. The Jayhawks finished third at the Big 12 City. Championships Feb. 14-17 in College Station, Texas, with school-record times posted by Short, —Chris Lazzarino 1:59.62 in the 200-yard backstroke; freshman Ashley Robinson, 16:24.76 in the 1,650-yard freestyle; and sophomore Danielle Herrmann, 2:16.35 in the 200-yard breaststroke. JAMIE ROPER

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eniors Gary Woodland Sand Tyler Docking finished 1-2 at the All-American Golf Classic Feb. 27 in Houston, leading the Woodland Jayhawks to a one-stroke team victory over third-ranked Lamar University. Woodland, who won by three strokes, finished the tournament with a birdie, and Docking bettered him with an eagle. Woodland also carded a three-stroke victory at the Louisiana Classics March 4 in LaFayette, La. ... KU won both the men’s and women’s pole vaults at the Big 12 Indoor Championships Feb. 23 and 24 at Iowa State. Junior Kate Sultanova tied a Big 12 record with her vault of 13 feet, 9.25 inches. Freshman Jordan Scott won the men’s competition with a vault of 17 feet, 5.5 inches. Junior Egor Agafonov defended his weight-throw title with a toss of 76 feet, 1 inch, and junior Colby Wissel, the reigning Big 12 cross country champion, won the 3,000-meter run in 8 minutes, 6.72 seconds. ... After two years as an assistant at Illinois, former offensive line coach Ed Warinner has returned to Mark Mangino’s football staff as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. ... Varsity athletes earned a combined 2.88 GPA last fall. Women’s golf earned the team mark at 3.32, and 37 athletes had perfect 4.0 grades. McCray

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ISSUE 2, 2007 | 25 WITH A SINGLE PIECE OF PAPER, ORIGAMIST JOEL COOPER TRANSFORMS

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THE SIMPLE INTO THE SUBLIME [Paperwork]

long a sea of a thousand “It’s an unusual genre. It’s sort of a tiny folds, paper ridges rise subset of a subset, kind of the black and fall, and a complex sheep of the origami community,” says pattern slowly emerges Cooper, f’92, who started tessellating from triangle mountains, seven years ago. “When I discovered it, square valleys and twisted I just didn’t want to do anything else, Arivers. At a distance, the ridges form a because it’s more detail-oriented and it lush landscape; up close, they inhabit an appeals to my mathematical side more intricate mosaic. than any other field of art.” Origamist Joel Cooper crosses con- As if tessellations weren’t difficult ventional boundaries, combining art enough, Cooper, also a trained sculptor, and mathematics to achieve stunning applied the techniques of bronze casting results—not only in his work but also in to mold faces from the tricky designs. his personal life, where his unconven- “Something just clicked, and at some tional calling has led to romance. point, I think I made a nose,” Cooper Cooper, a soft-spoken and unassum- recalls of his first attempt at a three- ing artist, is one of the folding few who dimensional shape. “Once you do a have opted for the infinitely complicated nose, you have to do a face to go world of tessellation, the regular geomet- with it.” ric division of a two-dimensional plain. What came naturally Without cutting or gluing, they trans- to Cooper shocked the form a single sheet of paper into a multi- close-knit origami tude of squares, triangles and hexagons. community,

Portrait and tessellation photographs by Jamie Roper Mask photographs by Joel Cooper

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hile at KU, Cooper expressed himself in more traditional media as a painter and sculptor. But afterW graduation, he found that his one- bedroom apartment was not conducive to either art form, so he turned to origami to fill the free hours away from his professional gig as an assistant in KU’s Watson Library. In 2000, the Internet led him to tessellation. From online photos, he taught himself the technique. “It’s the problem-solving aspect that keeps me going,” he says. “They’re all like solving puzzles or mathematical formulas.” Each of Cooper’s creations takes days to complete. “Fortunately, I don’t have a social life, so that helps,” he admits. First, he spends hours creasing a precise grid into the sheet, making in essence a folded piece of graph paper. Only after each pleat is perfectly placed does he start to work on the actual pattern. “It’s like a basic stitch,” he says, comparing the process to knitting. “It’s a repetitive process and, once you get going, it sort of takes care of itself.” For his masks and other works, Cooper prefers a German archival paper sold in the U.S. as Wyndstone Marble, but he has been known to unwrap gifts carefully and create colorful pieces from the remnants. Lately, he has begun to experiment with alcoholic dyes and bleach applications that highlight the depth of his three-dimensional work. ■ When finished, Cooper’s two-dimensional winning him the Florence Temko Award Instead of an artist’s sketchbook, pieces typically measure 4 to 5 inches. at the 2006 Origami USA Convention in Cooper carries a small scrap of Cooper used his bleaching technique on the New York. “He’s in the top 10 people in paper wherever he goes, and green star above. The tiny creation in the world in terms of ability and skill, so his fingers, which are Cooper’s hand is the winning product when I look at his work, it usually makes surprisingly large me feel like a kindergartner,” says for such delicate of a friendly competition to see who origamist Eric Gjerde. work, are in could make the smallest mask. According to his mom, Julie, Cooper constant “has an agile mind and can be very ana- motion, deftly lytical.” Like any good mother, she folding and guards her collection of early Joel refolding. Ever the Cooper originals, including pop-up modest Midwesterner,

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI he downplays his skill: “It’s really just a a lot more response than I have with papers has arrived at his door since matter of building up a repertoire of any of my attempts at ‘legitimate’ art,” September. Araújo herself arrived in folds, like chords you would use if you he says. March, and the couple will marry in were making music.” The most important response is one April. Mom couldn’t be happier. “His And, thanks to the popular Web serv- money can’t buy. Tessellation led to love. art opened doors he never expected,” ice Flickr, Cooper’s compositions have Cooper met fellow tessellation junkie she says. brought him celebrity status among the Jane Araújo through Flickr. After months And these days Cooper finds himself origami enthusiasts. In January 2006, he of electronic correspondence, she invited with a little less free time. opened a free account and posted pho- him, along with other like-minded fold- tos to the site. “As soon as I put my stuff ers, to visit her in Brazil, where she out there, things started to happen,” he organized an origami exhibition in says. Now he corresponds with folders Brasilia’s botanical gardens. Cooper and fans from as far away as Switzerland returned to Kansas early last and Brazil. August. He describes the trip as Although he says he still has not per- “the best origami convention I’ve fected his mask technique, Cooper’s fans ever been to,” but the experience gladly pay for his creations. After exhibit- transcended mere artistic expres- ing his work online, Cooper sold all of sion: Araújo is now his fiancée. his masks and accepted a few commis- Though he swears they sions. At $350 a pop, the price doesn’t did not exchange folded account for the hours spent, but it is a love notes, a steady move in the right direction. “I’ve gotten supply of Brazilian

■ "There's a philosophi- cal, intellectual aspect of it ... because of the rigors of that style of art," says Cooper. Although Cooper and his cohorts recognize origami as an art form, it has yet to be fully accepted in the art world.

Visit Joel Cooper’s Web site at [www.flickr.com/photos/origamijoel]

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FanThe Man Psychologist Daniel Wann has made a career mapping the psyches of sports nuts like you. Turns out you’re not so crazy, after all.

oday is GameDay with a and oversize cutouts of players’ heads. capital G, and Digger Three KU freshmen who bill themselves Phelps, Jay Bilas and the as Rock, Chalk and Jayhawk are ushered rest of ESPN’s broadcast A- onto the court to vogue and strut with team are in the Field House. elaborately greasepainted faces and Joining them are several chests before ESPN’s cameras. The Tthousand KU fans bent on stands brim with people proving to the rest of the who drove in from college basketball uni- Kansas City and verse (tuning in at 10 Hiawatha and a.m. to watch the Newton and sports network kick- BY STEVEN HILL Mound City, but off a full Saturday of ILLUSTRATIONS BY perhaps no meas- game coverage) that ure of devotion CHARLIE PODREBARAC when it comes to the better illustrates rabid public expres- the depths of this sion of devotion to a crowd’s passion team, nobody does it better than the fact that three than the Jayhawks. college men got out of bed voluntarily GameDay is a traveling showcase of at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning to put fan enthusiasm, a made-for-TV circus on makeup and appear on national TV. of hoops hysteria that counts on a By the time the NCAA tournament team’s followers to turn out a full 10 fires up in March, heating such displays hours before game time to scream their to a boil, college basketball fans will lungs inside out while ESPN pundits have spent countless hours and big-time break down the day’s matchups. bucks glorifying, exhorting, analyzing, Jayhawk Nation does not disappoint. bemoaning, excoriating, defending, Preschool age daughters of alumni sport cheering and muttering the occasional pompoms and cheerleader outfits, while voodoo chant over their favorite teams. sons wear jerseys. Students wave signs Office pools will exact a staggering toll

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 31 32 | KANSAS ALUMNI on the nation’s GDP, and nonstop TV coverage of the early rounds will set off the pouting distemper among diehard viewers of pre-empted soap operas and giddy euphoria among the rest of us. Among those watching closely will be Daniel Wann. A professor of psychology at Murray State University in Murray, Ky., Wann, PhD’92, is among the leading scholars in the small but burgeoning field known as the psychology of sport spectating. He spends his research time looking under the psychic hoods of people who live and breathe sports. What he’s found may surprise you.

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occer fans were running amuck in the streets of Europe when Wann entered KU’s doctoral program in social psychology in S1987. Professor Nyla Branscombe asked students to come up with a testable have something to do with fans’ public basketball and some measures of hypothesis for a class assignment, and image. Sports spectators usually make psychological health.” Wann, surprised by the lack of passion news only when they take the game too Fans who rated their interest in KU other students displayed for topics they seriously—be they European soccer basketball very high in Wann and planned to spend years researching, toughs or Midwestern college kids set- Branscombe’s study showed lower levels decided he’d better focus on something ting couches and cars afire to celebrate a of alienation and loneliness and higher he cared about. To a longtime sports fan, national championship. Even the word’s levels of self-esteem than people with the mental state of rampaging soccer etymology suggests as much: Fan is low interest. In short, they were more hooligans seemed a subject full of promise. “I came to class and said, ‘It seems to “We found there’s actually a positive relationship me the more you’re wrapped up in your team,’” Wann recalls, “‘the more likely between how much individuals identify with Jayhawk you are to go crazy when they’re basketball and some measures of psychological health.” competing.’” As he and Branscombe began testing the idea, Wann found that very little thought to be short for fanatic, “a person socially engaged than non-fans, not less. research had been done on the topic. marked or motivated by an extreme Wann’s work is grounded in group Despite the oversize role sports play unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.” psychology and relies heavily on the (according to several polls, around 90 Extreme. Unreasoning. It’s a view that’s concept of social identity. This theory percent of Americans say they have at common, even among true believers holds that your self-image is determined least some interest in sports), there had themselves. in part by the groups to which you been almost no rigorous, empirical study “Fans get a bad rap: They’re lazy, they belong. Stop KU students on the street of sports spectating. By the mid-’90s, can’t keep a wife, they don’t go to their and ask who they are, Wann says, and when Wann wrapped up his PhD and kids’ school plays because they’d rather many traits they list will be personal: I’m entered academia, still only a handful of watch their team,” Wann says. But as he tall, male, a psychology major. But many social scientists studied the subject— and Branscombe began studying fans, will also cite their social groups. Baptist, despite the fact that there are about 250 they discovered the stereotype was Pi Phi, Jayhawk fan. million sports fans in the United States unwarranted. “We found there’s actually To root, root, root for the home team, alone. a positive relationship between how then, is as critical and legitimate a factor The dearth of serious inquiry may much individuals identify with Jayhawk in determining psychological health as

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 33 “You feel such a strong connection to your community ◆ ◆ ◆ that it’s hard to feel lonely as a basketball fan ann has published two in Lawrence in March.” books and nearly 100 articles on the psychology of fan behavior. He works as a church attendance? ence, Wann says, “is that if you identify Wconsultant for the NBA, the PGA, Major “I’ve always maintained they’re the as a Baptist you’re not likely to find out League Baseball and other leagues, same process,” Wann says. “Wanting to tomorrow that Baptists lost by 30 to the teams and corporations that want to identify with something grander than Catholics.” understand what motivates fan loyalty, the self—church, sorority, workplace—it’s Something to think about the next and he has advised the NCAA and other all the same.” time you want to skip church to catch a sports groups on fan violence. Rick Well, mostly the same. One differ- ball game. Grieve, an associate professor of psychology at Western Kentucky University who collaborated with Wann on several studies, also credits him with attracting more researchers to the field and helping organize them into a special interest group. “Dan is the pioneer in the field, at least the pioneer of this era,” Grieve says. “When it comes to recognizing the person you go to when you want to know about fan behavior, Dan’s the guy.” The Sports Spectator Identification Scale, a questionnaire Wann and Branscombe developed to pinpoint the level of fans’ psychological identification with a team, has been translated into 12 languages and used all over the world. For the past decade or so, he has been working on the Team Identification- Social Psychological Health Model, a the- oretical model that explains how identification with a sports team increases well- being by establishing social connections for fans. Wann believes this boost in well- being is most noticeable for those who follow a local team. “If you’re a Jayhawk fan living in Lawrence, every time you walk down the street you’re getting love,” Wann says. Everywhere you look—on pedestrians, in shop windows—you see KU gear. Wearing team colors, of course, is one of the most common ways people show allegiance to a team, and studies show that apparel sales skyrocket when a team wins a championship. Another researcher dubbed this phenomenon BIRGING—Basking In Reflected Glory. Wann calls it healthy. “You feel such a strong connection to your community that it’s hard to feel

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI lonely as a basketball fan in Lawrence in March,” he says. “Identifying with a local sports team gives you connections to others. It helps you build social capital. We know those are good things.” In fact, we live in an age when such social capital is harder to raise. “Sociologists have pointed out that increasingly over the course of the 20th century we lived more and more alone,” says Branscombe, who still studies the psychology of social groups at KU but has done no further work on spectators since collaborating with Wann. Becoming a sports fan, she notes, is an identity that people can achieve “with essentially no skills whatsoever. And it connects you to other people in a world in which we are increasingly isolated from each other.” What about Jayhawk fans exiled to California, Texas or other distant lands, where rooting for KU makes them out- siders? They aren’t feeling any love as they walk the street and may even have to hide their allegiance for fear of perse- cution, Wann says. But he believes there are temporary benefits to gathering with other KU fans at watch parties. “All of a sudden you’re immersed in KU connections, and that temporarily creates lower levels of loneliness,” he says. “You feel less alienated, because you’re around your homies again. But those people feel connections that make very little work being done in Chicago once you leave, that effect goes away.” them feel better about their social lives, and very little work in Indianapolis,” Wann himself follows from afar a above and beyond winning.” Wann says. “In both places they’re team known for historic futility: He Still, losing hurts. Ask anyone who standing around talking. In Indy, they’re became a Chicago Cubs fan as a boy, an trudged out of the Field House in a celebrating. In Chicago, they’re healing act of rebellion against his older brother black mood after Acie Law and his Texas each other’s wounds.” and father, both followers of the St. A&M teammates ruined KU’s GameDay Turning a life’s passion into a life’s Louis Cardinals. That raises another party with a 69-66 victory. work hasn’t dulled Wann’s interest in question: If we stake our self-esteem on To ease the sting, fans develop many sports. A colleague at Murray State, after the performance of a losing team, aren’t ways of coping, and Wann has studied hearing him analyze a recent basketball we setting ourselves up for a world of them all. Blaming refs. Saying the other game, told Wann he understood why hurt? team played over their heads. Citing he’d been such a prolific researcher. He’s As it turns out, no. Perhaps the most curses. his own best subject. surprising element of Wann’s research is In fact, Wann is so familiar with the “I don’t have the luxury anymore of that the social benefits of pledging heart psychology behind these strategies he the biases, because I study the biases,” and soul to a team do not depend on the can no longer call on them when rooting Wann says. But in the long run this team actually winning. for KU or his other favorite college team, study has made him even happier in the “I don’t have a single living relative the Murray State Racers. But he can take stands. “Now I enjoy every sporting who was alive the last time the Cubs comfort in being surrounded by others event. If the game is a blowout, I just won a World Series,” he says. “But you who feel his pain. turn around in my seat and watch the go to Wrigley Field and look around— “The day after the Super Bowl there is fans.”

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What goes on in your mind?

ocial identity theory holds that a anger and frustration at a loss.” Blaming then Wann says you are likely to feel less significant part of one’s psychologi- others may not be healthy, but it’s natu- lonely. “The benefit really comes down to cal health is determined not only ral—and a first step toward an outcome feeling a greater link to others.” by personal well-being, but also by that is healthy: acceptance. Better to socialS well-being. blame the ref and move on than not move 3. Share the glory “Personal well-being is determined by on at all. The most powerful link fans can feel is things like how attractive, how smart, how to players and coaches themselves, and athletic do I think I am,” Wann says. “Social 2. Look the look that emotional need is behind storming well-being is my sense of having connec- Wear a KU sweatshirt or paint your courts and razing goalposts. (Preventing tions to others. Am I satisfied with my face crimson-and-blue: “Either way you’re this dangerous behavior is the focus of social life, my friends, my group member- just trying to get more into the role of Wann’s consulting work with the NCAA.) ships?” Membership in civic groups, the fan,” Wann says. It doesn’t necessarily “If they get there quick enough, they’re churches, social clubs, sports leagues— signify you have a stronger psychological celebrating with the players. It’s all about areas that have generally declined over the connection to the Jayhawks if you choose the psychological connection. There’s past century—count. So does rooting for head-to-toe greasepaint over a simple something very pleasing about being a team. cheek tattoo, just that you wear you heart on the field or court to celebrate with Wann says psychological connection on your sleeve. However, if dressing the the team.” (identification) with a team is the part gives you a stronger con- extent to which we view the nection to the group—the 4. Keep your enemies closer team as an extension of who other fans in the arena— “Research suggests that fans like two we are. For highly identified kinds of games,” Wann says. “They like to fans, the team’s wins watch their team win, and they like to become our wins, burnish- watch their rival lose. When you put the ing our sense of self- two together, more of your social worth. Losses threaten identity is at stake. That’s why our self-worth. beating Missouri is so Because nobody wins all sweet: We won, the time, fans have come up they lost and we were with ways of coping with the responsible for their defeat.” agony of defeat and savoring the thrill of victory. Here is 5. Leave nothing to chance Wann’s analysis of the psy- Think that Danny Manning jersey you chology behind five common haven’t washed since ’88 is the key to KU fan behaviors. victory? You’re not alone. Wann says we nurture superstitions because they foster 1. Blame the refs the illusion that we have some influence An objective observer would over games that are beyond our control. conclude a game’s winner is sim- “It would be one thing if fans were ply better than the loser. But fans telling us they do these things just for aren’t objective: We have lots invested in fun,” Wann says. “But they’re doing our team. “We’d rather cope in some way them because they really truly that allows us to still feel good about believe these superstitions our group,” Wann says. “We’re have a huge influence on searching for thoughts and the outcome of the emotions that will help us get game.” past that initial depression, —S.H.

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38 | KANSAS ALUMNI Peril in Paradise FIVE YEARS AFTER A MEDICAL CRISIS FORCED A DARING HELICOPTER RESCUE IN REMOTEST NEW GUINEA, INTREPID ALUMNI ORNITHOLOGISTS STILL PURSUE THE ADVENTURE OF SCIENCE

rnithology doctoral stu- “There are more than 800 species of birds on dent Brett Benz special- an island about the size of California, and we izes in unique field stud- have about 800 species in the entire United ies of New Guinea’s fasci- States,” Benz says. “So there’s a lot of diversity nating bowerbirds, happening in a very small area.” delightful little creatures While Benz is in Goroka, Mack will equip who build and decorate him with emergency medications and first-aid elaborate courtship arenas to attract their mates. supplies. He will remind Benz that he now OHe recently received the Wildlife Conservation insists all researchers take their passport into Society’s Research Fellowship, worth $20,995. the field, regardless of their fears of losing or When he arrives in New Guinea later this year to damaging it while navigating the treacherous begin his sixth season studying the island terrain. Mack also will tell Benz that when he nation’s bowerbirds, he’ll first visit his benefac- arrives at his study site, in the Adelbert tor’s in-country headquarters, in Goroka, an Mountains, he must locate a helicopter landing hour’s flight from the capital, Port Moresby. site, determine its Global Positioning System There Benz, c’00, will share Jayhawk greetings coordinates, and relay that information by with WCS co-director Andrew Mack. Thanks to radio or satellite phone to Goroka. numerous personal and professional connec- Benz remembers when things were not so tions, Mack in recent years became a research strict for field scientists working in New Guinea’s associate with KU’s Natural History Museum and dense forests, misty mountains and steep valleys, Biodiversity Research Center, to which he sends and he knows quite well why the rules changed. the vertebrate specimens he collects in New He was there the week in December 2002 Guinea. when everything that could go wrong very Benz estimates that in the past four or five nearly did. years, KU’s ornithology department has added So was Edwin Scholes, who almost didn’t nearly 1,500 specimens to what is now consid- live to laugh about the adventure Andy Mack ered one of the world’s most important resources now lovingly refers to as “the story of Ed and for the study of rare New Guinean birds. his appendix.”

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ISSUE 2, 2007 | 39 choles, PhD’07, is now a postdoc- toral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He studies birds Sof paradise, charismatic birds of remark-

able variety in size, plumage ornaments SCHOLES EDWIN COURTESY and courtship behaviors. Scholes constructs blinds in the birds’ native habitat—the jungles of mountain- ous New Guinea—to minutely document, and perhaps even decipher, the slightest variations in mating rituals, with the ultimate intent of understanding the evolu- tionary forces that created so much vari- ation within a few dozen species. “No matter what field you’re in, there are wonders of the world that attract your attention,” Scholes says. “If you’re a business graduate, perhaps there’s some great person or institution that you think is pretty spectacular. If you’re an architecture student, maybe it’s buildings from antiquity that put you in awe. For me, birds of paradise represent this biological wonder of the world. “There’s nothing else bird of his dream, he discovered that one ■ Edwin Scholes (above) during a research like them out there, was already there waiting for him. expedition in New Guinea; Andrew Mack in terms of how “I walked down to the little guest hut (below) at his Goroka headquarters, displaying unusually diverse where I was staying, next to a little a specimen of one his research specialties, they are and the stream, very misty … kind of too unreal cassowary birds; and Brett Benz (right) with way in which to be true,” Scholes says. “The mist lifts trays of robin-sized bowerbirds and ornately the diversity off, and I see something move; I look up plumed birds of paradise that he and Scholes has come and it’s not just my first bird of paradise, collected in New Guinea. The specimens are about.” but it’s an adult male, which is usually While look- the one you have to work really hard to now stored and studied in the ornithology ing at graduate see. I can’t believe it, my first bird of par- department in KU’s Dyche Hall. schools, adise is an adult male, sitting out in the ED WIN SCHOLES Scholes also open, on a branch, in the mist over a Lawes’s Parotia, searched for a stream, on the edge of a forest. Parotia lawesii way to fund his “That first moment wasn’t like, ‘OK, dream of doing I’m starting to collect data now.’ It was field work on birds of paradise—which more of a life experience.”

captivated him when he saw Sir David Scholes continued to make annual MACK ANDY COURTESY Attenborough’s 1996 wildlife documen- trips, some as long as six months, with tary, “Attenborough in Paradise.” At the support from such sources as the same time Scholes was accepted into Wildlife Conservation Society Research KU’s ornithology graduate program, Fellowship and the KU Natural History Mack agreed to help fund his first trip to Museum and Biodiversity Research the island nation north of Australia. Center’s Panorama Fund. In 2001 he A few weeks after first landing in New brought along Benz, a promising recent Guinea, in 1999, Scholes made his way graduate of KU’s undergraduate to the forest village where he would ornithology program, who assisted begin his field work on birds of paradise; Scholes while also considering his own after coming all that way in search of the interest in New Guinea’s bowerbirds.

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“Ed is the only guy in the world doing field work on birds of paradise;

that’s mind-boggling to me,” Mack says. SCHOLES EDWIN “Nothing does what bowerbirds do, and there’s nobody in New Guinea working on them, really, except for Brett. So you can be a graduate student from the University of Kansas working on your PhD and you are the authority.”

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othing came easy on Papua New Guinea when Scholes and Benz returned in 2002. ■ Benz (above) with local porters during a 2001 expedition with Scholes on New Guinea’s Huon Local landowners who Peninsula, where they were greeted by local tribesmen (facing page, top). In the top photo, note controlledN the site Scholes and Benz intended to investigate—Mount Suckling, the grass airstrip carved into the opposite mountainside: Small planes land with the uphill grade, near the remote, down-island stretches and gain speed for takeoff by facing downhill. of New Guinea’s north coast—were difficult negotiators. Scholes spent weeks sick. I can’t deal with your complaints clear to us at the time that that’s what trying to secure their permission. Once now. If you want to go, just leave.’ That’s was going on. Getting GI problems in it was granted, he hired local men to when the local people left, and I just New Guinea is pretty common.” help haul supplies and staff the expedi- kind of laid around in my tent, not feel- Scholes swallowed more antibiotics, tion, but interclan jealousies immediately ing any better.” and by the morning, though he still flared. Scholes and Benz consulted first-aid could barely walk, the extreme pain had Soon after setting up camp, Scholes books, and, suspecting the jungle’s infa- diminished slightly. Turns out he had tried to sleep through a storm while mous gastro-intestinal afflictions, Scholes unknowingly saved his own life. fighting pangs of abdominal discomfort. treated himself with antimalarial medica- “I think you’d call it dumb luck,” He awoke irritated, yet still he hiked to tion and antibiotics. Scholes says. “The doctors later told me his observation post. Finally the illness “So he woke up about 2 in the night, that out of all the antibiotics I could drove him back to camp, where he in as much pain as he could bear,” Benz have taken to slow down appendicitis, encountered more bickering. recalls. “We suspect that’s when his that’s the only one that would have “That’s when I said, ‘Look, guys, I’m appendix actually ruptured, but it wasn’t worked the way it did.”

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRETT BENZ, EDWIN SCHOLES, TIM LAMAN, KIM BOSTWICK AND JAMIE ROPER

patched from a previously contracted job to pluck Scholes off Mount Suckling. “It’s important to have good contacts EDWIN SCHOLES EDWIN in New Guinea,” Benz says, “and he’s one of them.” The engines of rescue were churning, but halfway around the world, the only comforts Bostwick had were 120-character text messages she relayed by computer to Scholes’ satellite phone. “The one-way-ness of it was a little frustrating, but it was a nice bit of communication,” she says. “Then a worm hit that night and the entire Internet went down. At that point, I was frantic.”

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hat could go wrong, did. Weather worsened, by The first crisis had passed, but strict. I don’t know if it was the tone of the day and even by the Scholes remained a very sick man. Rainy his voice, or the fact that he got to the hour. GPS coordinates season was setting in. Even if a rescue message so quickly, but I knew it was relayedW to the helicopter pilot contained helicopter could locate the site, 5,000 serious. And then we got cut off.” tiny formatting errors, sending the chop- feet up a densely canopied rain-forest When Scholes finally was able to call per 10 or 15 kilometers off course. But mountain, and somehow the weather back, Bostwick remembers that he “seri- remained clear enough for the chopper ously downplayed” his illness. “He said to come in close, a landing site still he had been sick with a stomach prob- would have to be hacked out of the jun- lem, and he was still pretty uncomfort- BRETT BENZ gle. Trouble was, when the local workers able, but he didn’t tell me he was grip- left in a huff for their homes down on ping equipment and screaming.” the balmy coast, they took with them all Like Scholes and Benz, Bostwick did of the axes. not immediately suspect appendicitis, The pattern had been set: What could yet still she called Andy Mack at the go wrong, did. Wildlife Conservation Society’s PNG headquarters in Goroka. As soon as ◆ ◆ ◆ Mack said “appendicitis,” Bostwick replied, “Oh, you know, that could be.” t was not quite 7 p.m. when the Mack first consulted with a Goroka phone rang in Kim Bostwick’s office doctor, who urged him to evacuate the in Cornell University’s natural his- stricken scientist. He then phoned his tory museum. Bostwick, PhD’02, friend and neighbor, Mal Smith, who, Iwas supposed to escort a visiting class besides being the governor of Eastern on a museum tour momentarily, but that Highlands Province, also could wait. Her boyfriend, Ed Scholes, happened to own one whom she had met while both were of the largest helicop- studying at KU, before she accepted a ter fleets in the job as curator of bird and mammal col- Southern Fire-maned bowerbird, Sericulus lections at Cornell, tried to call her on Hemisphere. bakeri (left). The bower, or the satellite phone from New Guinea at Smith reached courtship arena (above), this same time, every three or four days. his employees sta- constructed by a Macgregor’s “I picked up the phone, and it was tioned closest to bowerbird, one of Benz’s something like, ‘I’m sick and my workers scene and ordered research specialties. have left.’ I could feel my capillaries con- a chopper dis- B R ET T B EN Z ISSUE 2, 2007 | 43 ■ Scholes hidden in a blind (left), from which he captures digital video images to examine TIM LAMAN mating behaviors of birds of paradise. Benz and Andy Mack (below) preserve specimens during their 2001 expedition. Benz and Scholes (opposite page) point out bird species from a field guide; conservation education is one of the scientists’ urgent missions. EDWIN SCHOLES EDWIN

but it wasn’t a large enough space to set down. With the chopper hovering about thigh high, the pilot signaled Scholes to climb aboard. Scholes fought his way through the rotors’ powerful downdraft and finally reached a door handle; when he yanked it open, the downdraft slammed it shut. A local man in the relief crew reached Scholes and held his bag even if the chopper had found the camp, and propped the door open, and Scholes it couldn’t have gotten close enough to made like MacGyver and threw himself

help; there simply was no place to land, SCHOLES EDWIN onto the skids and climbed inside. though Benz hiked tirelessly in search of “It was not as graceful as you see a suitable evacuation site. from Hollywood,” Scholes says. “I pretty “That went on for days,” Scholes says. much looked like a klutz.” “Finally we had been in communication But finally he was free of the moun- long enough that the helicopter knew tain and, remarkably, happy for the where we were, and a second group of opportunity see the terrain surrounding workers showed up. They didn’t bring his research site from the air, especially an axe, but they did have bush knives.” since the pilot flew slowly enough for Benz found a rock outcropping Goldie’s Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea decora Scholes to enjoy the view. Then he sig- about the size of a large dinner table. naled Scholes to put on the headset. No trees grew on the rock spire itself, an hour of clear weather remained “He says, ‘First, are you OK?’ and I but branches came up from below, so before clouds could be expected to said, ‘Yeah, I’m fine. I feel fairly stable.’ Benz had to hang over the edge to hack return. They lit a signal fire, and, with And he says, ‘Well, that’s good, but I’ve them off. the phone’s batteries about to die, got two bits of bad news. One is, we Scholes struggled to hike, with Benz’s Scholes made his last call to Andy Mack: don’t have enough fuel and it’s late in assistance, 30 minutes up the mountain “OK, now we’re ready for you.” the day. I can’t fly to Port Moresby, to the improvised landing site. Perhaps The helicopter found the rock spire, where you need to get for your evacua-

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI I heard about all the other things that happened. At that point I said, ‘Man, you really should be dead.’ There were about KIM BOSTWICK 15 places where it could have gone either way, and it went well for him. We got lucky. It’s a fun story. It turned out well and we can all have a good laugh about it. “But for a while there, we were all chewing the Rolaids.” Scholes and Benz have returned to New Guinea every year since their adventure. They are, in many ways, old- school scientists, focusing not on DNA or molecules, but on the entire organ- ism, the wonder of it all. They go. They observe. They record. They analyze. They come home. And then they go out and do it again. “The thing I really like about Ed is, in an era where systematics is being defined almost entirely by molecules, he’s looking at behavior, and he’s using tion, because I just can’t get there. I Scholes’ desperate plight to reach a hos- new tools, digital video, to do it,” Mack have to refuel. So you’re not going to be pital, a sympathetic airline manager says. “To me, that’s the exciting thing, able to get out tomorrow. And on top of handed him a boarding pass. Scholes and it’s the same with Brett. that I can’t fly any faster because you was at last aboard the day’s only flight to “You can see what hard work it is, unlatched the cargo door, not the pas- Port Moresby, where an officer from the and they’re going out and doing it. It’s senger door, and if I fly at full speed it U.S. Consulate dealt with airlines and bucking the trend of what the field will rip the side of the helicopter open.” immigration officers to get him on a wants, which is a fast molecular answer, Qantas flight to Australia. a quick fix. They’re working with inter- ◆ ◆ ◆ Problem was, Scholes didn’t have his esting things that are hard to work with passport, only a photocopy. Hence Andy and hard to get to. hat could go wrong, did. Mack’s rule: No more leaving passports “For what they do, adventure is the After refueling with a 50- in the safety of the Goroka office. right word. It’s exactly the right word.” gallon drum of jet fuel Once in Cairns, Scholes saw that a Even when what can go wrong so stashed in a jungle village taxi, not an ambulance, awaited him. very nearly does. forW just such an emergency, the chopper “Which hospital?” the driver asked, to pilot flew to Alotau, the exact opposite which Scholes replied, “I have no idea.” direction from Port Moresby, and landed On the Internet: in the garden of the town’s nicest hotel. ◆ ◆ ◆ choles maintains a superb Internet Once Scholes was safe in a room and Sresource, filled with stunning photog- freshly showered, he began calling the hat could go right, did. raphy, explanations of his research, and outside world. A local doctor checked in Scholes underwent information about the history of human on him, confirming his appendicitis. surgery that night, and interaction with birds of paradise, at The next morning, Scholes’ adven- he was met in Australia thebirdsofparadise.org. tures began anew when the van hustling Wby Bostwick, who is now his wife and A map of Papua New Guinea can be him to the airport, 20 miles away, blew the mother of their son, Nolan, born found at ausaid.gov.au/country/png/ out a tire; a stranger helped him hail a Oct. 6, 2006. images/png-map.jpg. ride in the back of a truck. Bostwick was scared by the weight The official tourism site, one of the Once at the airport, Scholes discov- Scholes had lost, but only one thought best sources of information in a coun- ered he had not been added to the mattered: “He was safe.” try with extremely limited Internet flight’s manifest and the airline did not “It was a year later before I saw Ed capability, is pngtourism.org.pg. sell tickets on site; after learning of again,” Andy Mack says, “so that’s when

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tices that will yield quantities similar to Heroes among us those produced by conventional methods. His “natural systems agriculture” Five receive KU’s highest honor concept would revolutionize the farming industry worldwide and ensure food ince 1941, the University and the trict that harks back to its proud past sources for generations. Alumni Association have while providing today’s citizens a vibrant In addition to the Land Institute, bestowed the Distinguished place in which to live, work and play. Jackson has adopted the Kansas town of Service Citation upon alumni and LoDo, as the area is affectionately Matfield Green. As the owner of many of SUniversity friends who have displayed known, serves as a model for communi- the town’s shops and buildings, he the courage to change the world around ties nationwide, inspiring demonstrates methods them. This year’s recipients carry on the cities to preserve their historic through which shrinking tradition, boldly leading others in their sites. rural communities can quests to benefit humanity. The 2007 For her efforts, Crawford prevail. He also estab- DSC winners are: Dana Hudkins has received the Bonfils- lished the Sunshine Farm, Crawford, c’53, Denver; Wes Jackson, Stanton Foundation Award an experiment to explore g’60, Salina; Christine Knudsen, c’91, and the Louise DuPont the practicality of conser- Geneva, Switzerland; and James E. and Crowninshield Award from vation that is designed to Virginia G. Stowers, Kansas City, Mo. the National Trust for see whether a working Nominees for the award, the highest Historic Preservation. She farm can produce all of its honor given by the University and the also has been inducted into own energy. And each Alumni Association, are reviewed by rep- the Colorado Business Hall year, his Prairie Festival resentatives from the Chancellor’s office of Fame, and Colorado shares his concepts and and the Alumni and Endowment associ- Preservation created an award Crawford ations. The winners will receive their in her honor. She has volun- awards at the All-University Supper May teered on numerous boards, including 18 and will join in the Commencement the Colorado Historical Society, the procession May 20. State Historical Fund and the National In the 1960s, Denver’s downtown Trust for Historic Preservation. In addi- area was slowly deteriorating. Crawford tion to her KU degree, Crawford com- did not stand idly by. Long before the pleted a Harvard-Radcliffe business man- words “urban renewal” and “downtown agement program. revitalization” were common at city Jackson also seeks to change the envi- council meetings nationwide, she pio- ronment, focusing on rural rather than neered the concepts, starting with a few urban issues. In 1976, he founded the friends and a few buildings in historic Land Institute in Salina. To protect the Larimer Square. heartland, where fierce weather and gen- Armed with only an idea and sheer erations of farming have taken their toll determination, she sold others on her on the soil, Jackson’s research attempts vision, succeeding where many said she to re-create pristine prairie. Using natu- would fail. From abandoned buildings ral systems as a guide, he advocates eco- and neglected streets grew a revived dis- logically sustainable agricultural prac- Jackson

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI the voices of nationally renowned envi- ter’s of international relations from ronmentalists with the public. Johns Hopkins University and a degree Life magazine described Jackson as in modern literature from the Université one of “the most important Americans of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) in addition to the 20th Century,” and Smithsonian her KU degree. magazine listed him among the “35 Who James and Virginia Stowers also help Made a Difference.” In 2000, Jackson the world’s vulnerable citizens. Both can- was the International “Right Livelihood cer survivors, they know firsthand the Laureate” courtesy of the Swedish anguish of patients and their families. In Parliament. In 1992, he received the 1994, they founded the Stowers Institute MacArthur Fellowship, often called the for Medical Research to find a cure for “genius grant,” from the John D. and cancer and a variety of debilitating ill- Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. nesses. Today, the institute attracts the Jackson has written extensively. His finest minds to study genes and their books include Becoming Native to this interaction in living cells. Place, Altars of Unhewn Stone, and New The University is a vital partner in the Roots for Agriculture. His work also Stowers’ crusade. Many of the organiza- appears in several scientific journals tion’s scientists, doctors and researchers Stowers also have joined the KU faculty, assisting in KU’s effort to obtain National Cancer and ensuring that children Center designation and the Kansas City were paired with their true area’s drive to become a hub for life sci- relatives. ences research and treatment. She has not only worked in Both have received numerous honors the field, but also within for their work to meet medicine’s most bureaucratic channels to coor- daunting challenges. James, founder of dinate programs, develop American Century Investments, received manuals and establish proto- honorary degrees from Rockhurst cols to help improve the University, University of Missouri School future safety of the most vul- of Medicine, University of Saint Mary nerable children. and Washington University in St. Louis. While chair of the He graduated from the University of Knudsen InterAction Working Group Missouri with bachelor’s degrees in such as Science and Nature. Along with on Protection, she gathered more than chemistry and medicine. Virginia, a for- his KU degree, he holds a bachelor of 180 U.S.-based non-governmental organ- mer nurse, holds honorary degrees from arts from Kansas Wesleyan University izations. As the key spokesperson for the University of Missouri, University of and a doctorate degree from North Save the Children, she testified in front Saint Mary, the College of Osteopathic Carolina State University. of Congress and represented the organi- Medicine and Rockhurst University as Knudsen invests in the world’s future zation on television shows on NBC, well as the Research College of Nursing. by caring for the youngest among us. For CNN, PBS and BBC. She has continued She earned her certificate of nursing 12 years, she has led efforts to speed the to advocate for children’s rights in the from the Research Hospital School of recovery of children in regions where Cornell International Law Journal, Nursing. war, disease and disaster have wreaked Scientific American and The Annals of In addition, the Kansas City Chamber havoc. Her work with Save the Children the American Academy of Political and of Commerce, National Multiple and the United Nations has taken her Social Science. Sclerosis Society and the Touched by across the globe to lead response teams. She is a member of the Council on Cancer Foundation have recognized the In 2003, Knudsen found herself on the Foreign Relations and received a mas- couple for their leadership. front lines, among the first 20 international staff allowed to enter Southern Iraq. In 2005, she again raced to aid the The winners will receive their awards May 18 suffering. Living in the same squalid conditions as the tsunami victims she at the All-University Supper and will march helped, Knudsen immediately estab- in the Commencement procession May 20. lished a strategy for reuniting families

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Association President Kevin J. Corbett, Kansas programs, presented Allison her c’88, Allison received special gifts as the dictionary in February. “It is a long- 100,000th scholar: a basket of KU good- standing tradition in the state,” he says. JAMIE ROPER (3) JAMIE ROPER ies and a $50 gift certificate to KU “We really value academic excellence, Bookstores. and this is a great way for us to honor At each KHP event, students, their the students and their hard work.” families and school administrators Allison will attend KU in the fall gather with local alumni for a dinner or and plans to major in genetics. “The reception. A special guest from the researching would be really fun,” she University—often the chancellor, the says. During her years at Larned High provost or a dean—speaks to the group, School, she participated in the cheerlead- encouraging the scholars to pursue ing squad, volleyball team, drama club, higher education within the state’s 4-H, student council and the National 100,000 & counting Regents system. Honor Society. Allison will be her fami- Kansas Honors Program Heath Peterson, d’04, a Hugoton ly’s first Jayhawk; both of her parents are native and the Association’s director of University of Missouri graduates. marks milestone in Larned Kansas Honor Scholars also qualify to compete for the Woodward Scholarship, arlesa Roney, the Univer- which the Association established in sity’s vice provost for student 1997. The $4,000 scholarship is awarded success, for the past 30 years to one man and one woman each year, has kept a special book next thanks to a bequest from Herbert Rucker Mto her desk: a personalized American Woodward, a’27. Heritage dictionary that was presented Both Peterson and Roney expect the to her by the Kansas Honors Program program to continue for a long time. on April 28, 1976. For her, the dictionary “This is one of the ways KU serves the is a special memento. state of Kansas,” says Roney. “It takes “It has become an important time to recognize outstanding students reminder of the first time I can recall and gives them a tool that will help being recognized for being a good stu- them continue their success.” dent,” Roney says. “It also has become a Roney says she has heard from many symbol—one that reminds me to stretch alumni who echo her special feelings myself, to take some risks and to try my for their own KHP dictionaries: “From hardest.” those comments, I really do believe the Thirty-six years ago, the KU Alumni Kansas Honors Program makes a lasting Association established the Kansas difference in people’s lives.” Honors Program (KHP) to recognize —Lisa Tilson Kansas high school students graduating in the top 10 percent of their class. With the help of about 150 alumni vol- ■ Audrey Allison celebrated her unteers, the Alumni Association hosts 40 status as the 100,000th Kansas Honor events each year to celebrate the achieve- Scholar Feb. 8 in Larned. She is a ments of about 3,500 students in all 105 senior at Larned High School and lives Kansas counties. in Belpre with her parents, Kevin and On Feb. 8, the program recognized Carrie, both University of Missouri Audrey Allison, a Larned High School senior, as the 100,000th Kansas Honor graduates. Their celebration continued Scholar. “It really proves to me on a per- March 14, when the Association and sonal basis how hard I’ve been working KU honored the Allisons at the State- these past four years,” Allison says. “It’s house in Topeka during the annual a way of just paying off for all the hard KU in the Capitol event. work I’ve been doing.” In addition to the dictionary and a certificate signed by Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway and

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40,000 REASONS WHY KU IS STRONG

Alumni Association members support programs to: honor and recruit talented students connect current students with alumni mentors help new grads get settled in careers and homes in new cities

▼ make the case for higher-education funding

As a loyal and accomplished Jayhawk, you help ensure that future generations will share the KU experience. KU’s growing prestige adds value and respect to the degree you worked so hard to earn.

Thank you for your commitment! Association Spring fling Preparations underway for KC’s Rock Chalk Ball The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of he invitations are out, and alum- strengthening loyalty, friendship, commitment and communication ni are trading in their snow among graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff and boots for dancing shoes in all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite preparation for the Rock Chalk into an Association to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies. The Association is TBall, which has moved from February to organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. April 28. Max Falkenstien, c’47, this year’s honorary chair, will welcome Board of Directors DIRECTORS TO JULY 2010 Heath Peterson, d’04 alumni and friends back to the Overland E. Grant Larkin, c’78, Director of Kansas Chapter Garden City Development Park Convention Center for an evening CHAIR Melissa Rodgers Padgett, Jill Simpson Miller, d’01 that celebrates the University’s achieve- Marvin R. Motley, c’77, l’80, c’83, Lawrence Director of National Chapter ments, traditions and the KU faithful. g’81, Leawood Walter F. Riker III, c’70, Development Net proceeds from the event will sup- CHAIR-ELECT j’78, Aurora, Illinois port Alumni Association programs, Joe C. Morris, b’61, Leawood including efforts to recruit students and COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DIRECTORS UNTIL 2011 Chris Lazzarino, j’86 provide services to students on the Hill. Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas Jeffrey P. Briley, d’74, Associate Editor, Rock Chalk Ball benefactors and their Joe C. Morris, b’61, Leawood Overland Park Kansas Alumni magazine guests will start the night early at the Marvin R. Motley, c’77, l’80, Howard E. Cohen, b’79, Jennifer Sanner, j’81 g’81, Leawood Leawood Sr VP for Communications VIP pre-party, where they’ll rub elbows Jay Howard, b’79, Austin, Texas with the former Voice of the Jayhawks as Walter F. Riker III, c’70, and Corporate Secretary j’78, Aurora, Illinois Bradley G. Korell, l’97, Susan Younger, f’91 well as former KU football player and Tedde Tasheff, c’78, Austin, Texas Creative Director 1993 first-round NFL draft pick Dana New York, New York Curtis R. McClinton Jr., FINANCE Stubblefield, ’94. Sue Shields Watson, d’75, d’62, Kansas City, Missouri Dwight Parman Wichita Winifred S. Pinet, c’80, g’82, Auction chair Sarah McColley Sr VP for Finance and Human David B. Wescoe, c’76, Plymouth, Michigan Harrington, j’89, has some exciting items Resources and Treasurer La Jolla, California on the block this year for the silent and HONORARY MEMBERS HOSPITALITY SERVICES live auctions. Alumni will have the DIRECTORS TO JULY 2007 Gene A. Budig, EdD, Bryan Greve opportunity to bid on a Drew Gooden Con M. Keating, c’63, Princeton, New Jersey Sr VP for Hospitality signed jersey; a Flying Jayhawks trip for Lincoln, Nebraska E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Joe C. Morris, b’61, Leawood PhD, San Antonio,Texas INTERNET SERVICES two to Peru, Sicily or the Bavarian mar- Allyn W. Risley e’72, Archie R. Dykes, EdD, kets of Germany; original paintings by Mike Wellman, c’86 Houston, Texas Leawood Director of Internet Services artists Mike Savage, f’80, and Brent Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, and Special Projects Learned, f’93; and even a three- DIRECTORS TO JULY 2008 Lawrence night/four-day getaway to Tahoe Carol Ann Adams Brown, RECORDS c’72, Alexandria, Virginia Administrative Staff Bill Green with two premier ski passes. Tom H. Collinson, Sr VP for Information Television sports announcer Gary c’00, Pittsburg Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Services Bender, g’64, will return to his alma Tedde Tasheff, c’78, President Stefanie Shackelford mater, where he began his career call- New York, New York Vice President for Alumni ALUMNI CENTER Records ing KU football games, to emcee the DIRECTORS TO JULY 2009 Timothy E. Brandt, b’74 event. Big Jay and company will hit the Robert T. Stephan, ’54, Director of Adams Alumni SPECIAL EVENTS dance floor with the KC All Stars, who Lenexa Center Lora Stoppel provide some of Kansas City’s Becky VanWyhe Thomas, ALUMNI PROGRAMS Vice President for finest live music. e’86, Baldwin City & MEMBERSHIP Special Events Sue Shields Watson, d’75, Jennifer Alderdice, g’99 For more information or Wichita to make your reservations for Director of Student Programs the Rock Chalk Ball, visit Michael W. Davis, d’84, g’91 www.rockchalkball.org, call Sr VP for Alumni, Student 800-KU Hawks or e-mail kualum- and Membership Programs [email protected]. —Katie Moyer

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Class Notes BY KAREN GOODELL

1934 1953 Redstone Art Center in Redstone, Colo. Paul Borel, e’34, celebrates his 95th Clyde Lovellette, ’53, was honored birthday this month. He and Miriam, last fall when a park in Terre Haute, Ind., 1958 assoc., his wife of 67 years, continue to was rededicated in his honor. Clyde lives John Bowers, d’58, g’59, recently was live in Southern Pines, N.C. Paul, a in Munising, Mich. named a distinguished scholar of the devoted golfer, scored a hole-in-one in National Communication Association. May 2006. 1955 He’s a professor emeritus at the Jordan Johnson Jr., p’55, is a pharma- University of Colorado, and he lives in 1935 ceutical consultant in Las Vegas. Bend, Ore. Laurence Smith, c’35, l’37, volunteers at St. Joseph’s Medical Center and at the 1956 1960 Shepherd’s Center in Kansas City. Sanford Markham, c’56, m’60, lives in Charles Bowlus, c’60, g’70, wrote The Iowa City, where he’s assistant dean of Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, which 1942 student affairs and curriculum at the was published last year. He is a professor Polly Bales, ’42, received a University of Iowa. of history at the University of Arkansas Distinguished Service Citation Jan. 26 in Little Rock. from the Native Sons and Daughters 1957 of Kansas. She was honored for her Norman Arnold, b’57, manages the 1961 longtime service to the state and its circulation department at the Kansas Barbara Thomas Freeland, c’61, a art, music, history and civic organiza- City Star. He lives in Overland Park. retired microbiologist, makes her home tions. Polly lives in Logan, where she Beverly Dusen Goss, f’57, owns in Leawood. has led the Kansas Honors Program for many years.

1947 Max Falkenstien, c’47, the Voice of the Jayhawks for 60 years, was honored Jan. 26 as Kansan of the Year by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas. He and his wife, Isobel Atwood Falkenstien, ’50, live in Lawrence. James Gunn, j’47, g’51, director of KU’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction, recently was selected as grand master of science fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He and Jane Anderson Gunn, j’47, make their home in Lawrence.

1951 Marcene Dameron Grimes, c’51, wrote Ill Blows the Wind, a novel about wind power development in the Kansas Flint Hills. She lives in Tecumseh and is executive director of the Alzheimer’s Association in Topeka.

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James McMullan, a’61, recently spent Siefkin, where he continues to practice nine months sailing in Key West. He’s law. Richard and Joan Stromberg Ewy, retired in Island Heights, N.J. d’65, live in Wichita.

1962 MARRIED

1953 YEARBOOK JAYHAWKER Karen Stewart Johnson, c’62, l’65, Susan Lawrence, c’65, to Graham serves as mayor of Westwood. McDonald, Nov. 12. They live in Richard Wood, c’62, works as a writer Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. in Denver. 1966 1963 James Keil, c’66, m’70, practices medi- Thomas Schroeder, c’63, g’68, cine at the Lynch and Niobrara Medical PhD’73, recently was inducted into the Clinics in Lynch, Neb., where he lives. Indiana Teacher Educators Hall of Fame. He’s retired associate dean of Ball State MARRIED University’s Teachers College in Muncie, Nadine Snyder, s’66, to Richard where he continues to make his home. Baldwin, Aug. 19. They live in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. 1964 Then Again Marilyn Murphy, d’64, practices law 1967 with Hymson Goldstein & Pantiliat in Robert Pearson, b’67, recently was uper Bowl: KU students have been Scottsdale, Ariz. elected director-at-large of the National Shitting the alleys—after they hit the Association of State Boards of books, of course—at Jaybowl in the 1965 Accountancy. He’s a tax partner with Kansas Union since 1953. Richard Ewy, l’65, recently stepped BKD in Kansas City. down as managing partner of Foulston Carol Crown Ranta, c’67, edits the

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Unified School District. She recently was Sons and Daughters of Kansas. Bergen School Codes Letters that follow designated a master teacher by Emporia designed “Ad Astra,” the bronze Kansa names indicate the school from which alumni State University, and she makes her Indian that stands atop the Kansas earned degrees. Numbers show their class years. home in Leawood. Statehouse. a School of Architecture and Judith Carter Wynhausen, d’70, g’82, Pamela Meador Mattson, d’72, l’75, Urban Design has been selected to participate in the is a professor at Tulsa Community b School of Business c College of Liberal Arts and National Storytelling Network College. She and her husband, Lynn, Sciences Conference next summer in St. Louis. live in Sand Springs, Okla. d School of Education She lives in Joplin, Mo. e School of Engineering 1973 f School of Fine Arts 1971 James Boyle, f’73, owns Safe Haven g Master’s Degree h School of Allied Health Jerry Fife, e’71, is a sales representa- Home Inspections. He lives in Fenton, j School of Journalism tive for Point Grey Research in Mo. l School of Law Scottsdale, Ariz. Mary Ann Casem, f’73, is a professor m School of Medicine Denise Dotson Low-Weso, c’71, g’74, of graphic design and advertising at n School of Nursing PhD’98, recently was named poet laure- Savannah College of Art and Design in p School of Pharmacy PharmD School of Pharmacy ate of Kansas. She’s a professor at Savannah, Ga. s School of Social Welfare Haskell Indian Nations University in Thomas Doyle, j’73, lives in Mission DE Doctor of Engineering Lawrence. Hills. He’s CEO of Nuvidia in DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Overland Park. EdD Doctor of Education 1972 Karen Park Gilpin, n’73, directs the PhD Doctor of Philosophy (no letter) Former student Richard Bergen, EdD’72, a Salina nursing department at Neosho County assoc. Associate member of the sculptor, was honored Jan. 26 as a Community College in Chanute. She and Alumni Association Distinguished Kansan by the Native her husband, James, b’72, live in Iola. folk-art volume of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. She and her husband, Richard, live in Memphis, Tenn.

1968 Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, recently was named Kansas Citian of the Year by the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. He’s senior counsel at Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, and he makes his home in Prairie Village. Ora “Gretta” Nuttle Ross, d’68, volunteers at the Johnson County Library. She lives in Mission.

1969 Lee Johnson, b’69, recently was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court. He makes his home in Topeka. Robert Taylor, c’69, recently became a director of Blue Valley Bank Corp. He lives in Mission Hills and is also president and CEO of Executive AirShare Corp.

1970 Marilyn Darling Vaughan, d’70, teaches first grade for the Blue Valley

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI William “Bernie” Herpin, e’73, School in El Paso, Texas. She was Kathryn Pruessner Peters, l’77, serves as a council member-at-large of included in the 2005-’06 edition of recently joined the Kansas City law firm the Colorado Springs City Council. Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. of Kutak Rock. Diana and her husband, Gene, g’69, 1974 PhD’82, live in El Paso, where he’s a 1978 Richard Heil, g’74, PhD’84, retired professor of history and border studies Mary Brockelman Wartman Bianchi, recently after 41 years as a professor of at El Paso Community College. n’78, directs the department of women political science at Fort Hays State and children for the St. Joseph Health University, where he also served as 1977 System in Sonoma County. She lives in department chairman for the past Fred Conboy, c’77, is executive direc- Santa Rosa, Calif. nine years. tor and chief development officer at the Mark Gabrick, c’78, is president of Diana Currey Muller, c’74, teaches Community College of Southern the Gabrick Group in Lawrence. third grade at Tierra del Sol Elementary Nevada. He lives in Las Vegas. Dennis MacFarland, c’78, works as an

Profile BY TAMMY DODDERIDGE

Prosthesis research makes patients to test and monitor what the therapist ‘most influential’ engineers build. Her work led Therapy Times to name her one of the “25 Most he image has stuck with Kathy Influential Therapists” of 2006. Stubblefield for more than 30 Stubblefield has a great deal of empa- years: dozens of people racing thy for her patients and never judges down sidewalks in their wheel- their degree of loss, saying that even Tchairs—jumping curbs, laughing and people who lose a finger can suffer COURTESY OF THE REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO THE REHABILITATION OF COURTESY enjoying life. greatly. She believes her job is to help Stubblefield, f’78, was living in them move on when they are ready to Germany when the city of Heidelberg do so. was gearing up for the 1972 Paralympic “No prosthesis can truly be what your Games, an international competition for arm or hand were,” she says. “But we athletes with disabilities. She had can give hope to people who have lost so befriended a group of Swedish physical much.” therapists involved in the event. The most challenging part of her job, She was so touched and motivated by Stubblefield says, is keeping up with the the athletes’ spirit that she moved back engineering and science related to pros- ■ Kathy Stubblefield, lead occupational to the United States and began working thetics. But she also is challenged by cre- therapist at the Neural Engineering Center on her degree in occupational therapy at ating ways to restore quality of life to her for Artificial Limbs, was recognized as one of KU. Today she is lead occupational ther- amputee patients. the “25 Most Influential Therapists” of 2006 apist in the Neural Engineering Center She has one patient who has been for her work with “bionic arm” recipients for Artificial Limbs at the Rehabilitation instrumental in the institute’s ongoing like Claudia Mitchell. Institute of Chicago. research. He lost both of his arms and Stubblefield is part of a team working said what he misses most is holding his to develop a neural-controlled “bionic grandchildren. He was an avid fisher- “The image of those people in arm” pioneered by Todd Kuiken. The man before his loss, so Stubblefield Germany is something I will always innovative work makes prosthetics for approached engineering students at carry with me,” Stubblefield says. “They patients who have lost an arm above the Northwestern University and asked all had lost something and yet they were elbow, reorganizing peripheral nerves in them to create a fishing device that healthy and strong. It’s something I existing muscle so the muscle can be her patient could operate with his feet. hope for all of my patients.” used to control the powered prosthesis. The invention gave him back a piece Dodderidge, j’83, is a Lenexa Her role as part of a “targeted muscle of his old life. free-lance writer. reinnervation” study is to work with Her work has been her life’s passion.

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 57 Class Notes auto lab technician at Johnson County Education and Certification. She’s nalist for the California Department of Community College in Overland Park. director of teacher education and Justice in Berkeley. He lives in Albany. He lives in Shawnee. licensure at the Kansas Department of Michael Meacham, l’78, is executive Education in Topeka. Martha and her 1980 director of the master’s of health admin- husband, Ralph, j’64, live in Lawrence, Laura Glover Kaiser, h’80, is presi- istration program at Pennsylvania State where he’s chief operating officer of dent of the Kansas Parent Teacher University in University Park. He lives in the World Company. Association. She lives in Overland Park. State College. Chris Johnson, c’79, g’87, PhD’95, works as a financial-aid system adminis- 1981 1979 trator at KU. He and Lucinda Nabors Scott Mach, l’81, is a partner at Martha Senter Gage, g’79, PhD’89, Johnson, j’87, make their home in Kansas City’s Popham Law Firm. He and serves as president of the National Lawrence. Patty Cray Mach, c’80, live in Shawnee. Association of State Directors of Teacher Mark Timken, c’79, is a senior crimi- Deb Stilgenbauer Miller, f’81, owns

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Global mining giant picks tional mining analysts, was proof that Carroll as next CEO his company was eager to conduct a worldwide search. fter earning her KU master’s “Someone who’d worked in different degree in geology, Cynthia countries, who had contacts and busi- Blum Carroll worked for five ness in different countries, is clearly years as a petroleum geologist essential for a global company like us,” inA Colorado, Alaska, Wyoming, Utah Moody-Stuart said. “And we said some- and Montana. Yet her globetrotting one who’s worked in large, capital inten- adventures had barely begun. sive, long investment cycle industries. Carroll, g’82, began her ascent of So, not necessarily mining. But we were geology and mining’s corporate side very fortunate because Cynthia Carroll after entering Harvard’s MBA program has a background as a geologist.” in 1987, culminating with her recent Among other projects, Carroll has appointment as chief executive officer of overseen development of new facilities London-based Anglo American, the in South Africa, China, Canada, Oman, world’s third-largest miner. Carroll had Ireland and France; at Alcan’s Primary been president and CEO of Canada’s Metals Group, her responsibilities Alcan Primary Metal, whose parent com- included all of the company’s primary ■ After moving to London in early January, pany had first hired Carroll as a busi- metal facilities, research and develop- Cynthia Carroll joined the board of directors ness analyst in 1988. ment, and technology and power gener- of Anglo American, the world’s third largest “Anglo American is a world-class min- ation. Under Carroll’s direction, her mining company. She studied under the coming company,” Carroll said, soon after group’s 18,000 employees, who work in pany’s retiring chief executive, Tony Trahar, her appointment was announced in late 20 countries, reduced lost-time acci- before taking over as CEO March 1. October. “It has an outstanding work- dents by more than 80 percent. force that are very, very proud to be “I am very committed to safety per- working for the company, and, I think, formance,” Carroll says. “And I am team- billion return to investors. very motivated and energetic.” oriented, and I really enjoy working with “It’s an honor to take the helm at Anglo American, founded in 1917 in people around the world.” Anglo American,” Carroll says. “Anglo South Africa, had, until Carroll’s hiring, Anglo American’s diversified products American has a unique collection of always employed a South African as its include gold, platinum and copper. The assets, skilled and dedicated people, chief executive. Chairman Sir Mark company in August announced a 44 per- financial and technical strengths, and a Moody-Stuart said Carroll’s hiring, cent increase in earnings, according to strong underpinning of value and sense described as a surprise to some interna- the Times of London, along with a $5 of responsibility.”

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI Blueware and 3 Under Entertainment. 1985 She lives in Dublin, Ohio. Greg Reesor, e’85, manages business decision support for Alliant Energy in 1982 Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He lives in North Kurt Anselmi, d’82, teaches physical Liberty. 1958 YEARBOOK JAYHAWKER education for the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District. He lives in 1986 Cypress, Texas. Keela Maison Allison, e’86, is junior Pamela Magee Bushouse, g’82, retired plan check engineer for the Oxnard, last year as vocal music director at Free Calif., Department of Development State High School in Lawrence. Services. Jon Stutz, p’82, works as a pharmacist Barbara Evans, PhD’86, recently was at Sonora Regional Medical Center. He promoted to professor of biology at Lake lives in Sonora, Calif. Superior State University in Sault Saint Reed Voorhees, a’82, a’83, is vice pres- Marie, Mich. ident of Cannon Design in St. Louis. Christopher Hutchens, c’86, is a Then Again vice president and shareholder at 1984 Charlton Manley in Lawrence, where ypesetting Toil: Journalism students he and Suzanne Mossberg Hutchens, Tin 1958 used the Linotype machine BORN TO: d’92, make their home. to print the University Daily Kansan. The Robert VanHoecke, b’84, and Lisa, Liliana Mayo-Ortega, g’86, PhD’96, original Linotype was invented in 1886, daughter, Alexandra Nicole, July 26 in recently was named one of 10 outstand- and was cited by Thomas Edison as “the Vienna, Va. Robert is CEO of Regulatory ing people by El Peruano, the national eighth wonder of the world.” Economics Group in Reston. newspaper of Peru. She’s an adjunct

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assistant professor in the Institute for 1990 Life Span Studies. Michelle Cawley Masoner, j’90, Kurt Valentine, c’86, l’90, serves as recently was promoted to counsel at prosecuting attorney for Cole County. Bryan Cave. She lives in Shawnee. He lives in Jefferson City, Mo. 1932 YEARBOOK JYAHAWKER BORN TO: 1987 John Impens, b’90, and Heather, son, Angela Firner Tyroler, ’87, recently Jack, Oct. 6 in Kansas City, where he was promoted to director of career joins a brother, Schuyler, who’ll be 2 in services at Bryan College in Topeka. April. John is assistant vice president of Bank of the West. 1988 Patrick Smith, e’88, is a senior 1991 project engineer at J.E. Dunn Construction in Denver. BORN TO: Michael, c’91, and Debbie Shepek Then Again 1989 Haws, j’91, daughter, Ella Grace, Aug. 19 Karoline Knock Felts, c’89, is a in Overland Park. Mike works for Unisys Girls in Sync: The 1932 K Girls membership assistant at the Ladybird Corp., and Debbie is group account K displayed perfect team coordination Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, director for Geoff Howe Marketing. as they synchronized their serves. The Texas. K Girls’ talents weren’t limited to the Lillie Pardo, c’89, j’89, teaches kinder- 1992 tennis court—they also enjoyed playing garten at the Los Feliz Charter School golf and performing inspirational dances for the Arts in Los Angeles, Calif. BORN TO: at Potter Lake. Brian Robison, c’92, and Madeline,

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI daughter, Mariana Loving, May 4 in University of Florida Veterinary Medical Julie is a financial analyst and CPA at Dallas, where she joins a sister, Amelia, Center in Gainesville. Frontier Farm Credit. 3. Brian is a partner in Vinson & Elkins. ADOPTED BY: 1996 1993 Shannon Schwartz, j’94, and his part- Kevin Cunningham, d’96, is an John DeWitt, c’93, is a management ner, Calvin Kuan, a son, Duncan Zephyr endodontist at Olathe Endodontics. He services officer for UCLA Healthcare Kuartz, who was born Sept. 5. They live lives in Overland Park. Enterprise in Los Angeles. He lives in in Mountain View, Calif. West Hollywood. BORN TO: Todd Jensen, d’93, works as district BORN TO: Jeremy Bezdek, b’96, and Emily, son, sales manager for Solvay Pharmaceuti- Laura Miles Hibberts, p’94, and Samuel, April 7 in Wichita, where he cals. He lives in Westfield, Mass. Steven, son, Olsen Lee, May 20 in joins a brother, Jackson, 4, and a sister, Angela Newman, c’93, is community- Baldwin City, where he joins a brother, Emma, 2. Jeremy is marketing manager resources developer for First Step Fund Ornsen, 5. Laura is a pharmacist at for Flint Hills Resources. in Kansas City. Allegre Pharmacy in Ottawa and Lebo. Bradley, c’96, m’00, and Gretchen Good McIlnay, h’98, son, Ted Bradley, BORN TO: 1995 July 31 in Leawood, where he joins a sis- Karen Smith Strecker, c’93, m’97, Cheryl Hernandez Duran, c’95, ter, Charlotte, 2. and Kevin, son, Willard, Aug. 15 in works as a physical therapist for Wichita, where he joins a sister, Corporate Care in North Kansas City. 1997 Michaela, 2. Karen practices medicine at She lives in Shawnee. Anne Clark Cather, c’97, is a manager the Center for Women’s Health. with Accenture. She lives in Ashburn, Va. BORN TO: Lawrence Libman, j’97, works as a 1994 Julie Myers Spiegel, b’95, and sales manager and loan officer at Dana Hernstrom Liska, c’94, is a vet- William, sons, Samuel Paul and Jack Homestead Mortgage in Arlington erinarian and a clinical lecturer at the William, Oct. 25 in Manhattan, where Heights, Ill. He lives in Buffalo Grove.

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Denver. Jessica McNickle, c’97, practices law Erin Fox Klein, d’98, g’00, and Andrew, with Stinson Morrison Hecker in Kansas b’99, daughter, Ella Genevieve, Dec. 29 in City. Edmond, Okla., where she joins a brother, Michael Scott, c’97, is president of Andrew IV, 3. Erin is a physical therapist Scott Custom Audio Video in Overland with Surgical Specialists of Oklahoma, and Park. Andrew is a unit manager for Altria. Derek Seaman, e’97, lives in San Jennifer Pownall Schwaller, c’98, and Diego. He’s a senior consultant with John, e’99, daughter, Sarah Catherine, Aug. PointBridge Solutions. 1 in Charlotte, N.C. Jennifer is an environmental scientist with Ralph Whitehead BORN TO: Associates, and John is a development proj- Donald, e’97, and Kristin Thaete Law, ect manager for Grubb Properties. f’03, son, Ryan Baker, and daughter, Craig, d’98, and Amy Leiszler Parker Grace, April 12 in Glenwood, Ill. Weishaar, d’98, g’02, son, Ryan Patrick, Donald is an environmental engineer July 23 in Lawrence, where he joins a sis- with the Environmental Protection ter, Molly, 3. Craig is assistant vice presi- Agency. dent of business development with Security Benefit Group in Topeka. 1998 1999 BORN TO: Matthew Swatek, b’99, is an investment Niccoli Rockett Anderson, c’98, and adviser representative for MetLife Matthew, son, Gordon Daniel, July 17 in Resources in Springfield, Mo. He lives in

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI Nixa with his wife, Cindy, and their chil- William Marshall, c’00, and his wife, and Casey is an event manager for dren, Jacob, 4, and Celeste, 1. Denise, make their home in Sanford, Fla. Kansas Athletics Inc. He’s a territory sales manager for Shofu Heather Rasmussen, g’00, PhD’05, 2000 Dental Corp. and Doug Kubert, daughter, Miabella Robert Bishop, b’00, works for the Stacey Elder Tarkington, j’00, recently Kubert Rasmussen, July 2 in Olathe, Lenexa real-estate firm ERA Manning & became vice president of marketing at where they live. Heather is an evaluation Associates. TRI-KES Wallcovering Source in Dallas. coordinator for KU’s Institute of Anthony Bushard, g’00, PhD’06, is an Educational Research in Lawrence. assistant professor of music at the BORN TO: University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Brianne Brown Cook, b’00, and 2001 Matthew Goff, c’00, lives in Las Vegas, Casey, g’05, son, Cayman Jacob, Oct. 11 Ethen Domke, c’01, practices law with where he’s lead manager for Harrah’s in Lawrence. Brianne is a physician assis- Klenda Mitchell Austerman & Zuercher Entertainment. tant with Family Medicine Associates, in Wichita.

Profile BY STEVEN HILL

Africa trip reveals calling books to Kenya, Wilemon says, to start for young alumnus the country’s first public library outside of Nairobi. ane Wilemon first visited Kenya In January 2006 he hosted three KU on a yearlong medical mission architecture students—Dan Bedard, a’06;

in 2000, shortly after graduation J.J. McAllister, a’06; and Tyson Pyle, JOURNAL-WORLD LAWRENCE ALLENDER, THAD from KU. The biology/pre-med a’06—who traveled to Maai Mahiu with Zmajor wanted to help the citizens of the Philippe Barriere, assistant professor of AIDS-ravaged country as an aspiring architecture, as part of their fifth-year doctor. architecture design studio. After meeting Once there, he began to envision with villagers and reviewing local build- another way to serve. ing materials, they designed a commu- “The religious faith of the Kenyan nity center, which is to be the first in a people is incredible, and receiving that planned complex of buildings that will really changed my perspective on the include a market, cafe, chapel and best way to use my gifts to help people,” traveler lodging. Wilemon says. “Ministry seemed to be Wilemon hopes to foster a partner- the best way to do that.” ship between architecture students and Wilemon returned to the United faculty at KU and the University of States and enrolled in the Episcopal Nairobi to complete design work on the ■ Theological Seminary of the Southwest rest of the Maai Mahiu complex, which Zane Wilemon, c’00, leads Comfort the in Austin, Texas. He also founded in turn may serve as a model for similar Children International, a missionary group Comfort the Children International, a projects in impoverished towns across devoted to providing health care and aid to nonprofit group that is trying to improve the Third World. Wilemon believes impoverished villages in Kenya and other devel- life for the citizens of Maai Mahiu, an these centers, built with the design oping countries. impoverished Kenyan village on a major know-how of KU architecture students trade route known as the AIDS highway. and the materials and labor of local peo- seminary in May and be ordained as an Wilemon has returned every year ple, represent the highest ideals of CTC. Episcopal priest soon after. since with a team of doctors and other “Our organization is built around rela- “It’s essentially about transformation volunteers to deliver donated supplies to tionships, just going and being with the through relationships. Through that an orphanage, build classrooms and give people where they live, meeting them communion of shared community medical treatment to a populace that has where they are, seeing what they need comes hope that somebody cares. an alarmingly high incidence of AIDS. rather than what we perceive they need,” Through that hope comes empowerment The group has shipped five tons of says Wilemon, who will graduate from and opportunity.”

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MARRIED keting manager for American Technology Nicholas, d’02, and Jennifer Barker Shanna Shoemaker, b’01, and Joseph Services, and they live in Alexandria, Va. Hosler, f’02, son, Preston John, Aug. 31 Grant, c’01, Sept. 16 in Mission. They in Overland Park. Nicholas is a shop live in Prairie Village. BORN TO: supervisor for Wood ’N’ Stuff Cabinets Jennifer Page Daily, c’02, and Mark, in Lecompton, and Jennifer teaches ele- 2002 c’03, son, Harrison Lane, July 2 in Reno, mentary-school music in Kansas City. Christopher Mandernach, b’02, c’05, where Mark coordinates annual giving They live in Lawrence. manages sales for Freightquote.com in for the University of Nevada. Lenexa. He lives in Leawood. Jordan Scott Gwaltney, c’02, and 2003 Kevin, daughter, Madison Kaye, June 13 Lauren Cuchna, c’03, works as a mar- MARRIED in Dodge City, where Jordan is an keting assistant for Komori America in Nichole Graham, c’02, d’02, to Sam optometrist with Wolf, Hatfield & Rolling Meadows, Ill. Cain, Nov. 17 in O’Fallon, Ill. She’s mar- Gwaltney. Ryan Everoski, e’03, is a software

Profile BY NATE MARTIN

Designer guitar straps music scene. Some of her customers were wannabe help launch fashion house WENDY MULLIN COURTESY rock stars; others, includ- t’s not difficult to understand why ing both guitarists from lots of people came to believe that the influential group Sonic Wendy Mullin, c’93, started her Youth, were the real clothing company by making guitar things. Today, rockers The Istraps. In the mid-’90s, a striking num- White Stripes, rappers The ber of popular alternative rock musi- Beastie Boys and director cians began sporting plaid, striped and Sofia Coppola all wear brightly colored guitar straps embla- Mullin’s gear. zoned with “Built by Wendy” emblems. “I made some guitar Intrigued, fashion and music journalists straps because I had a lot ■ Designer Wendy Mullin fashioned “Built by Wendy” into sought out the source of the straps, and of musician friends, and a brand favored by cool kids coast to coast: “This all happened now, a decade later, the press archive on the ones out there were very progressively over time. It wasn’t like one day I decided her company’s Web site includes cover- not to my liking,” Mullin to have a company, wrote a business plan, got money and age from Rolling Stone, Vogue and The says. “So I made some and made it happen.” New York Times. put them in the shop.” Although many infer that Mullin’s Mullin has three stores fashion career began with her guitar of her own—in Manhattan, Brooklyn and people, so it seemed like something that straps, Mullin in fact arrived at KU an Los Angeles—and an online catalog might interest them,” she says. experienced seamstress, a talent she (www.builtbywendy.com). In 2003, Currently, Mullin is designing her fall learned from her mother. The Chicago Wrangler Jeans hired Mullin to design collection and working on a second native made money by altering clothes its Wrangler 47 line for designer bou- sewing book. “every day after class” for students, pro- tiques. She’s established a solid foundation in fessors, friends and strangers, and the Mullin’s latest creative achievement, a the fashion world through her steadfast income went toward producing clothes how-to book titled Sew U (Bullfinch creative output—with a little help from a that she sent to record stores in Chicago, Press, 2006), encourages her fans to do media-hyped guitar strap fad—so don’t be Minneapolis and Kansas City. Built by as she did and make clothes for them- surprised to see more and more people Wendy was born. selves. It’s an instruction manual dressed in clothes that were built by In 1992, Mullin moved to New York steeped with 20 years of trial-and-error Wendy. City. She rented space in a record store experience, and includes three of —Martin, a journalism graduate student where she worked, and sold clothes and Mullin’s patterns for readers to try. from Rock Springs, Wyo., recently completed guitar straps to hipsters in the New York “Many of my customers are artistic an internship with Stop Smiling magazine.

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI A delightful children’s book featuring a classic story with a KU twist, as told by beloved Coach Fam! Fans young and old will love this wonderful tale of how three little Jayhawks outsmart the big bad Missouri Tiger. This book is an instant classic for generations to come. Fully illustrated with beautiful campus renderings by Kansas Alumni magazine’s Larry Leroy Pearson.

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engineer for Cerner in Kansas City. Christopher Frum, ’05, does consult- Nicole Eckert, d’06, is district man- Sara Lounsberry, c’03, lives in ing for Allstate. He lives in Deer Park, Ill. ager for Cook Medical. Her home is in Palatine, Ill., where she’s an executive Carl Van Zant, b’05, is an investment Mission. assistant for Siemans Building adviser representative for J.P. Morgan. He Thomas Houts, b’06, works as an Technologies. lives in Kansas City. office associate for Colliers Turley Martin Tucker in Kansas City. 2004 MARRIED Johnny Khan, c’06, is an account man- Joseph Clausing, e’04, works as a Jamie Fransen, e’05, to Alan ager for Jet International. He lives in design engineer for Flack and Kurtz. He McQueen, Oct. 7 in Kansas City. They Wilmette, Ill. lives in Las Vegas. live in Stevensville, Mich., and Jamie is James Lewis, c’06, lives in Raleigh, Sean O’Grady, j’04, coordinates pro- an engineer with Whirlpool in Benton N.C., where he’s a manager with motions for Clear Channel Radio in Harbor. Enterprise. Tampa, Fla. Carol Lillich, c’06, is a case manager 2006 for Douglas County Partners in Castle BORN TO: Kyle Brandt, b’06, is an underwriter at Rock, Colo. Joshua Lusk, b’04, e’04, and Sally, son, Northbrook Bank. He lives in Arlington Chris Maute, b’06, works as a freight Kennerick Evan, June 30 in Yulee, Fla., Heights, Ill. broker for C.H. Robinson in where he joins a sister, Alaina, 3. Joshua Mindy Brissey, c’06, works as a cur- Northbrook, Ill. is a submarine warfare officer in the U.S. rency reporting analyst for Bank of Gregory Meitl, a’06, is an administra- Navy. America. She lives in Kansas City. tor for Performance Contracting. He lives Sarah Morris Cox, c’06, is an officer in Overland Park. 2005 with the Salina Police Department. Joshua Miller, b’06, lives in Overland Becky Durkalski, d’05, teaches ele- Ashleigh Dyck, c’06, j’06, works as an Park and is a premium payables analyst mentary school for the Lombard School office manager and media buyer for ASA for Lockton in Kansas City. District 44. She lives in LaGrange, Ill. Marketing Group. She lives in Mission. Lacey Morris, b’06, is a statistical ana-

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI lyst for Armed Forces Insurance. Her home is in Leavenworth. Tyson Pyle, a’06, works as an intern architect for Architecture Denver in Denver, where he lives. Adam Reese, c’06, is an analyst for Jones Lang LaSalle in Denver. Marisol Romero Romo, c’06, works for 94.5 Country/City 4 TV in Topeka. Nikola Reinfdelds Rowe, j’06, is an area supervisor for Kohl’s in Lawrence. Lisa Tevis, j’06, works as a marketing communications specialist for Capitol Federal Savings in Topeka. She lives in Lawrence. William Tuley, c’06, is an account executive for Fisher Investments. He lives in Burlingame, Calif. Erica Wolfe, c’06, j’06, works as assistant account executive for Zillner Marketing Communications in Lenexa.

2007 Jared Ernzen, c’07, is a new-business representative for Freightquote.com in Lenexa.

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 67 In Memory

1920s attorney and president of Central Plains graduate of KU’s Medical School, and he Ruth Altergott Armstrong, c’25, 101, Insurance. He is survived by a son, is survived by a brother, Jack, c’49, l’50. Dec. 1 in Tyler, Texas, where she was a Charles, d’65; a sister; three grandchil- Virginia Arnold Zelman, c’33, 96, retired teacher. A sister and several dren; and five great-grandchildren. Dec. 2 in Topeka. Survivors include her nieces and nephews survive. John Le Claire, e’31, 98, Nov. 3 in husband, Samuel, assoc.; a son, William Elbert “E.W.” Smith, c’27, 99, Dec. 27 Overland Park. He had a 33-year career Horton, c’67, m’71; and a grandson. in Emporia, where he was a former pub- as a pilot with TWA. He is survived by lisher and retired salesman. A son, seven two sons, Jack, e’57, and Richard, ’70; a 1940s grandchildren and 13 great-grandchil- daughter; seven grandchildren; and 10 George Bartholow, b’47, 85, Dec. 27 dren survive. great-grandchildren. in Shawnee Mission. He lived in Margaret Bailey Oldham, ’35, 92, Overland Park and founded Bartholow 1930s Oct. 20 in Hood River, Ore. She is sur- Office Supply. He is survived by his wife, Earl Carney, c’30, g’32, 99, Nov. 1 in vived by a son; a brother, Robert Bailey, Gladys; two sons, Robert, d’69, and Scottsdale, Ariz., where he was retired b’38, l’48; five grandchildren; and six Brent, ’74; and five grandchildren. from a career with the Veterans great-grandchildren. Joseph Hearin, b’48, 82, Aug. 18 in Administration. His wife, Eldra, and a Dorothea Sanders Pankratz, ’36, 95, Bethesda, Md. He lived in Springfield, daughter survive. Jan. 5 in Lawrence, where she was a Va., and was a retired U.S. Army colonel. Janice Poole Daniel, c’31, g’33, 95, flower show judge. She is survived by a Surviving are his wife, Gloria; a son; a Nov. 28 in Tulsa, Okla., where she had son, Howard Jr., j’67; a daughter, Mary sister, Lila Hearin Rash, ’42; and three served on the school board for several Pankratz Nichols, ’72; a sister, Hortense grandsons. years. Sanders, b’38; two grandchildren; and Opal Wells Hesselbarth, b’46, 83, Annette Reid DeFever, b’39, 88, Nov. three great-grandchildren. Nov. 10 in Grand Junction, Colo., where 14 in Independence. She is survived by Lillabelle Stahl, c’33, 92, Dec. 31 in she was a homemaker. She is survived two sons, Larry, e’64, and Steve, p’72; Osage City. She lived in Burlingame and by her husband, Maynard, c’47, s’49; two two daughters, Nancy DeFever had been a corporate secretary at the sons; four sisters, Alice Wells Lassman, Komenda, d’65, and Diane DeFever Menninger Foundation in Topeka for 48 b’46, Eleanor Wells Curtis, ’50, Wilma Klingman, c’76, m’79; a brother; 12 years. Three stepgrandchildren and six Wells Johnson, ’45, and Annette Wells- grandchildren; and three great-grand- stepgreat-grandchildren survive. Gaston, g’56; two granddaughters; and sons. Herman Sutherland, ’34, 93, Dec. 28 two great-granddaughters. Ralph Elson, b’39, 90, Sept. 1 in Oak in Mission Hills, where he ran David Jones, e’49, Sept. 29 in Ridge, Tenn., where he was retired direc- Sutherland Lumber Company and was a Andover, Mass. He is survived by his tor of the Atomic Energy Commission’s 50-year board member of Children’s wife, Kitty; two sons; a brother, Don, contract division. Surviving are his wife, Mercy Hospital. He also was a trustee of e’50; a sister, Alice Jones Stephenson, Ruby, twin daughters and three grand- the KU Endowment Association. He is c’41; and two grandchildren. children. survived by a son, Craig, ’72; a brother, Charles Kaiser, g’45, PhD’46, 89, Warren Fisher Sr., b’39, 93, Nov. 9 in John, ’46; a sister, Donna Sutherland Sept. 29 in Bartlesville, Okla., where he Albuquerque, N.M., where he was retired Pearson, ’38; five grandchildren; and two was retired from a career with Phillips chief appraiser at the Federal Housing great-granddaughters. Petroleum. He is survived by his wife, Administration. He is survived by his Mary Kanaga Warren, c’39, 87, July 2 Velma, three daughters, two sons, a step- wife, Lucile, a daughter, a son, 12 grand- in Colorado Springs, She is survived by son, a stepdaughter, two sisters, 14 children and 15 great-grandchildren. two sons, Michael, b’64, and Bruce, c’67; grandchildren and eight grandchildren. Dorothy Brewster Hendricks, c’30, a daughter, Ruth, c’71; a brother, Edwin Kirchhoff, c’49, g’51, 85, Oct. 97, Nov. 4 in Bartlesville, Okla., where William Kanaga, e’47; and six grandchil- 26 in Dallas, where he was a retired pro- she was a retired secretary with Phillips dren. fessor of economics at Dallas County Petroleum. Two nieces and a nephew Edward Williams, c’35, m’41, 94, Dec. Community College. He is survived by survive. 31 in Muskegon Heights, Mich., where his wife, Evalyn, a son, two stepsons, a Clair Hyter, ’34, 94, Nov. 9 in he practiced medicine for more than 40 sister, five grandchildren and a great- Hutchinson, where he was a retired years. He was the first African-American grandchild.

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI Mary Hudelson Manley, b’44, 84, Dec. Alumni Association and had been a long- and five grandchildren. 28 in Hiawatha. She was retired from the time alumna volunteer for Pi Beta Phi Robert Greenhaw, e’51, 79, Nov. 13 Brown County Co-op and is survived by sorority. Survivors include her husband, in Overland Park. He lived in Leawood two daughters, two sons and five grand- Harold, b’49; a son, Hadley, c’77; a and had worked in the building indus- children. daughter, Linda Warwick Manco, b’80; try. He is survived by his wife, Molly Bill Meyer, j’48, 81, Nov. 14 in a sister, Barbara Varner Frizell, c’47; Ellen Greenhaw, s’80; a son, David, c’76; Wichita. He was retired editor and pub- five grandchildren; and two great- a daughter, Martha Greenhaw Wofford, lisher of the Marion County Record and grandchildren. d’71; seven grandchildren; and three a trustee of the William Allen White Bernard Wildgen, m’41, 89, Aug. 25 great-grandchildren. Foundation in Emporia. He is survived in Holland, Mich. He practiced ophthal- Paul “Pete” Harnar, ’56, 72, by his wife, Joan Wight Meyer, assoc.; a mology in Muskegon for 40 years and Dec. 14 in Lawrence, where he had son, Eric, j’75; a sister; a grandchild; and was chief of staff at Mercy Hospital. owned Spanish Crest Apartments. a great-grandchild. Three sons, three daughters and 16 He is survived by his wife, Retta Jones Donald McConnell, e’49, 82, Nov. 5 in grandchildren survive. Harnar, ’56; a son, Jeffrey, c’81; two Lawrence, where he was retired associate Shirley Wills, c’46, 81, Nov. 25 in daughters, Kelley Harnar O’Connor, director of KU’s Housing Department. Kansas City, where she was a librarian at c’82, and Kristyn Harnar Nieder, Surviving are his wife, Bertie Ross Linda Hall Library for nearly 40 years. d’87, g’96; a sister; and five McConnell, assoc.; a son, Donald Jr., Several cousins survive. grandchildren. b’80, g’83; a daughter, Judith Harry Hunt, d’55, 74, Nov. 5 in Sun McConnell-Farmer, d’70; a sister, Doris 1950s City, Ariz., where he was retired after a McConnell Owens, f’53; six grandchil- Carl Anderson, b’56, 72, Dec. 28 in 29-year career in education. Two daugh- dren; and a great-grandson. Wichita, where he was retired from a ters, a sister and two granddaughters R.H. Prewitt Jr., c’48, 82, Nov. 20 in career with Boeing and in the trucking survive. Lee’s Summit, Mo., where he was a retired business. Surviving are two daughters, Raymond Lednicky, e’52, 83, Nov. 5 independent oil and gas operator. A one of whom is Catherine Anderson in Lenexa. He lived in Lee’s Summit, memorial has been established with the Crittenden, ’85; a son, Carl, g’99; and six Mo., and is survived by a son, a brother KU Endowment Association. He is sur- grandchildren. and two grandchildren. vived by his wife, Marilyn Neely Prewitt, Jack Beeman, b’50, 81, Nov. 24 in Donna Beall Martin, n’50, 77, Sept. 10 ’49; a daughter; and three sisters. Russell. He is survived by his wife, in Lamar, Mo., where she was a retired Bob Roberts, e’49, 85, Nov. 4 in Velma; a daughter, Jaci Beeman Feil, nurse. She is survived by her husband, Kansas City, where he was a mechanical d’80; and three grandchildren. Gene, two sons, three daughters, a engineer at Bendix from 1949 to 1983. Mary Symes Christie Braun, ’57, 71, brother, two sisters, 19 grandchildren He is survived by his wife, Joanne Oct. 26. She lived in Cambridge, Ohio, and three great-grandchildren. Beamer Roberts, c’48; a son; two daugh- and worked as a music therapist at Doris Long Mettler, n’50, 85, Sept. 2 ters; and six grandchildren. Hospice of Guernsey. Two sons, a in Grand Rapids, Mich. A son survives. Robert Russell, c’41, m’50, 88, Dec. 6 daughter and two grandchildren survive. Wayne Parker, m’56, 78, Jan. 13, in Raytown, Mo., where he was a retired John Burnett, e’50, 81, Oct. 27 in Oro 2006, in Salida, Colo. He lived in Buena physician. He is survived by his wife, Valley, Ariz., where he was retired from a Vista and was a retired physician. He is Betty, a son, a daughter and seven grand- career with Lockheed Aircraft. He is sur- survived by his wife, Anne, four sons and children. vived by his wife, Marion; a daughter; two grandchildren. Harry Talley, b’48, 80, Dec. 6 in Green three brothers, two of whom are Wayne, Naida Craig Perkins, f’51, 77, Nov. 11 Valley, Ariz. He was retired from the e’51, and Norman, e’58; two grandsons; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Survivors include two administrative staff of Wheaton College and two great-grandsons. sons; a daughter; and two brothers, one in Wheaton, Ill., and earlier he had been Carol Dergance Davidson, c’50, 79, of whom is Orval Craig, ’61. business manager of the University of Dec. 7 in Conifer, Colo. She is survived James Schellenberg, g’55, PhD’59, Sioux Falls in Sioux Falls, S.D., and at by her husband, David, c’49, g’51; two 74, Nov. 6 in Terre Haute, Ind. He was Olivet College in Olivet, Mich. He is sur- daughters; two sons; and eight grand- a university faculty member for 44 vived by his wife, Toveylou Sessions children. years, teaching Western Civilization Talley, d’50; a daughter; two sons; six George Gareis, e’57, 77, Nov. 22. at KU from 1957 to 1959 and later grandchildren; and three great-grand- He lived in West Lafayette, Ind., and teaching sociology at Western Michigan daughters. was a retired electrical engineer at University in Kalamazoo and at Indiana Mary Varner Warwick, c’49, 79, Dec. Purdue University. He is survived by State University in Terre Haute, where 26 in Kansas City. She had served on the his wife, Elaine Tuggle Gareis, ’56; two he retired as a full professor in 2001. national Board of Directors for the KU sons; a daughter; a brother; a sister; He is survived by his wife, Christine

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 69 In Memory

Alberti Schellenberg, assoc.; three sons; attorney. He also had taught theatre and headed the department of Germanic and a daughter. had written a book, 20 Plays for Young and Slavic languages at the University Webster Smither, e’51, 81, Dec. 4 in Children. He is survived by his wife, of Georgia. Survivors include his wife, Overland Park, where he was a retired Brenda, two sons, a daughter, a sister Anita Carillo Nicolai, ’67; two sons; a quality control engineer. He is survived and four grandchildren. brother; and two grandchildren. by a daughter, Alicia Karol, ’83; a son, Kenneth Canfield, c’63, 65, Nov. 8 in Nancy Harper Schneider, d’66, 62, Webster, ’80; and two grandchildren. Santa Fe, N.M., where he owned the Nov. 18 in Des Moines, where she was Shirley Brown Swedlund, c’51, 77, Canfield Gallery. He is survived by his retired after a 33-year career in educa- Nov. 24 in Mission. She is survived by wife, Barbara; four daughters, one of tion. She is survived by her husband, her husband, Kenneth, b’50; a son; two whom is Sarah, f’00, s’02; a sister; a Joseph, and a brother. daughters, one of whom is Vicki, ’79; brother; and four grandchildren. Connie Skinner, g’60, 75, Nov. 26 in two grandchildren; and three stepgrand- Jane “Sugar” Schmidt Chalus, n’68, Topeka, where he was a public-school children. 66, Nov. 14 in Cherry Hills Village, Colo. teacher, associate principal and principal Ann Wallace Talley, c’55, 73, Nov. 27 She is survived by her husband, Denny, for 36 years. He is survived by his wife, in Marilla, N.Y. She is survived by her m’67; two daughters; a son; a brother; Virginia; three sons, one of whom is husband, Robert, c’55, g’56; four sons; and three grandchildren. Cory, j’86; a sister; five grandchildren; and 13 grandchildren. Douglas Kuper, c’60, 67, Oct. 27. He and four great-grandchildren. Robert Thiele, l’56, 78, Dec. 7 in lived in Potter Valley, Calif., where he Nancy Hurley Smith, c’69, g’75, 59, Wichita, where he was a retired U.S. Air worked for Sony Technology Dec. 10 in Lawrence, where she had Force colonel and attorney. Several Development. Survivors include his wife, been the variety-page editor for the nieces and nephews survive. Lee, and a sister, Marlene Duper Lawrence Journal-World and had pub- Nancy Van Bebber Wagstaff, c’50, 78, Hendrick, c’57. lished a gardening newsletter, Back in Nov. 10 in Garland, Texas, where she Alice Noland Land, d’61, g’68, 97, Thyme. She is survived by her husband, was a retired teacher. She is survived by Dec. 7 in Hillsboro, Ore. She taught ele- Richard, c’69; two daughters, Alison her husband, Charles, b’50; three sons, mentary school in Lawrence for 40 years Smith Reber, c’94, and Adrienne Smith Charles Jr., ’79, Timothy, b’81, and before retiring in 1975 and moving to Oudenampsen, c’02; a brother, Jack Thomas, b’83; a brother, Fred Van Hillsboro. A daughter, two grandchil- Hurley, j’70; and two granddaughters. Bebber, b’54; and four grandchildren. dren, three stepgrandchildren, six great- Kathleen Schwartzkopf Sylwester, George Wallace, c’50, 78, Nov. 12 in grandchildren and five stepgreat-grand- d’65, 63, Nov. 28 in Lawrence, where Leon, where he was retired disaster children survive. she lived. She had been director of director for the American Red Cross. He Andrew Lyons, c’65, l’68, 63, Nov. 26 music therapy at Topeka State Hospital is survived by his wife, Paulene, a step- in Leawood, where he was a lawyer and and later did counseling at Catholic son, a stepdaughter; six stepgrandchil- co-owner of Clay and Bailey Community Services in Lawrence. She dren and 14 stepgreat-grandchildren. Manufacturing. He is survived by his is survived by her husband, Harold Mary Hook Ward, n’54, 76, Oct. 23 in wife, Carol; two daughters, one of whom “Jim,” g’64, PhD’70; two sons; her Hazelhurst, Ga., where she was a retired is Kristine, b’88; two stepdaughters, Kari father; a brother, Lynn Schwartzkopf, nurse. Several cousins survive. Shumate Ain, s’95, and Stephanie a’68; and two sisters, Miriam James Wheat, d’51, g’59, 78, Nov. 11 Shumate Thompson, ’00; a sister; and Schwartzkopf Davies, d’61, and Janet in Overland Park, where he taught art at six stepgrandchildren. Schwartzkopf Young, d’66. Shawnee Mission West High School for Charles McIlwaine, b’61, 67, Nov. 22 Yvonne Walker-Taylor, g’65, 90, Oct. 38 years. He is survived by three daugh- in Evergreen, Colo., where he was retired 20 in Wilberforce, Ohio, where in 1984 ters, two sons and 10 grandchildren. vice president of communications for the she became the first woman president of Coleman Company. A nephew and a Wilberforce University. She also was the 1960s niece survive. first American woman to succeed her William Auer, e’60, 70, Nov. 28 in Robert Neth Sr., c’66, 82, Nov. 12 in father as president of a university and Tulsa, Okla., where he was retired from a Lee’s Summit, Mo. He spent 16 years in later was a distinguished professor of career in the oil and gas industry. He is the U.S. Navy before becoming executive education at Central State University. survived by his wife, Nancy Parsons director of continuing medical education Survivors include a son, a daughter and Auer, ’60; two daughters, one of whom is at KU and later at Baylor Medical Center two grandchildren. Susan Auer Mitchell, c’88, g’94; two in Dallas. Surviving are his wife, Rosie; Kenneth Wilson, a’65, 64, Nov. 11 in sons; two sisters, Mary, d’63, and Janeth two sons; a daughter, Deborah, d’74, g’75; Eureka. He had been an architect at Auer Levitt, d’61; and 11 grandchildren. two brothers; and two granddaughters. Mastercraft and is survived by a daugh- William Birner, g’61, 69, Nov. 16 in Ralf Nicolai, g’69, PhD’69, March ter, a son, a sister, a brother and three LaPlace, La., where he was a retired 30, 2006. He lived in Athens and had grandchildren.

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1970s Donald, assoc., and Barbara Grady, vived by her father, Mark Brown-Barnett, Paul Brown, m’70, 61, Nov. 13 in assoc. p’73; her stepmother, Patricia Brown- Olathe, where he was co-founder of Timothy Hjort, l’85, 56, Dec. 9 in Barnett, assoc.; a brother, Chad Barnett, Associates in Family Care and later prac- Wichita. His mother and a sister survive. p’03; a stepsister; a stepbrother; and her ticed with College Park Family Care. He Debbie Belusky Johnston, j’85, 44, stepgrandparents. is survived by his wife, Wanda, two Nov. 2 in Overland Park. She is survived Jason Schrowe, c’01, 27, Nov. 11 in daughters, two brothers, two sisters and by her husband, Eric, j’84; a son; a Chicago. Among survivors are his par- two grandchildren. daughter; her mother, Monica, assoc.; ents; a sister, Jennifer, c’01; and a Michael Conley, ’78, 51, Oct. 7 in her grandmother; and two brothers, one stepsister. Overland Park. He is survived by his of whom is Michael, c’84. wife, Cheryl Parrette Conley, d’78, two Forrest Jolly Jr., g’88, 70, Jan. 4 in The University Community daughters, six brothers and four sisters. Meriden. He was a retired teacher and is Marlys Heide Harder, 85, Dec. 6 in Ronald Haun, b’70, g’77, 58, Nov. 24 survived by his wife, Grace Stouppe Jolly, Lawrence, where she volunteered at in Dallas, where he was an accountant ’92, and a sister. Kansas Audio Reader and at KU’s Helen with the General Accounting Office. His Douglas Orrison, b’82, 50, Nov. 2 Foresman Spencer Museum of Art for father, Richard, ’39, survives. in Overland Park. He is survived by many years. A daughter and four grand- Stephen “Spiffy” Sturgeon, c’71, 58, his mother, Lois, and a brother, children survive. Nov. 14 in Kansas City. He lived in Timothy, c’78. Erik Larsen, 95, Oct. 18 in Beverly Laurie, Mo., and had taught photogra- Valeri Gideon Zerger, g’86, 46, Nov. 7 Hills, Fla. He was a professor of art phy at Longview College. Surviving are in Rose Hill. She is survived by her hus- history at KU from 1967 until retiring his wife, Candy, a daughter, a son, a band, Randall, e’88, g’90; two daughters; in 1980, and he was an expert on Dutch brother and two sisters. a son; her father, Clifton Gideon, ’61; and Flemish paintings of the 17th cen- Linda Lamb Van Nice, ’74, 54, Oct. 1 two brothers, one of whom is Greg tury. He is survived by his wife, in Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence Gideon, g’86, l’89; and two sisters. Katharina, a son and a granddaughter. and is survived by her husband, John, G. Baley Price, 101, Nov. 7 in j’73; two sons, Jason, e’00, and Brandon, 1990s Lawrence, where he was a professor of c’06; her parents; a brother; and a Geraldine “Geri” Lickteig Ha, c’99, mathematics at KU from 1937 until grandson. 62, Dec. 28 in Kansas City. She had 1975 and had chaired the math depart- been a flight attendant for Continental ment from 1951 until 1970. He is sur- 1980s Airlines for 19 years and had owned a vived by a son; five daughters, Cora Lee Kozette Miller Barcus, c’82, 50, Nov. flower business in Honolulu. Surviving Price Kluge, c’60, Lucy, c’68, Edwina 2 in Dallas. She lived in Overland Park, are her husband, Wayne, a daughter, a Price Eisert, c’71, Doris Price Burgert, where she was retired from working as a brother and a sister. c’75, d’76, and Diane Price Fukunaga, stockbroker and in the insurance indus- Michelle Raney, ’94, 52, Nov. 2 in c’75, d’76, g’87, PhD’89; 14 grandchil- try. She is survived by her husband, Lawrence, where she had been a public- dren; and six great-grandchildren. Larry; her parents; and two sisters, one school nurse until retiring in 1996. She Heinrich Stammler, 93, Nov. 29 in of whom is Kandace Miller Bragg, c’84, is survived by her husband, Isaac “Bud” Lawrence, where in 1962 he became the g’88. Stallworth, s’78; two sons, one of whom first chairman of KU’s new department Irma Olson Boyer, l’84, 55, Aug. 23 in is Jehren Raney, c’03; three stepsons; of Slavic languages and literature. A Leavenworth. She had worked for the and her parents, Richard, b’50, p’52, memorial has been established with the Federal Parole Commission and for the and Kathleen Larson Raney, c’50. KU Endowment Association. He is sur- Federal Bureau of Prisons. Survivors Shannon Stoll Weaver, d’97, 32, Jan. 5 vived by his wife, Ursula Hoffman include her husband, Mark, three broth- in Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence Stammler, ’78; a daughter, Andrea ers and a sister. and worked in publishing and as a con- Stammler Lewis, ’94; a son, Christopher, Helen Pilgram Elsbury, g’84, 84, Dec. sultant for Arbonne International. ’88; and three grandchildren. 1 in Overland Park, where she was a Surviving are her husband, Marquies, retired nurse and health educator. She is ’03; a son; a daughter; her parents; two Associates survived by her husband, Clarence; two sisters; and her grandmothers. Carol Arbuckle Hohl, 63, Nov. 12 daughters, one of whom is Connie in Prairie Village. She is survived by Pilgram Zaun, ’68; a stepdaughter; a 2000s her husband, George, ’63; three sons, stepson; four grandchildren; and a great- Megan Barnett, d’05, 25, Dec. 15. She two of whom are Christopher, e’95, grandson. lived in Kansas City, where she was and Matthew, ’01; her mother; a brother; Thomas Grady, b’80, 48, Nov. 4 in studying for a doctorate in physical ther- and two grandchildren. Phoenix. He is survived by his parents, apy at Rockhurst University. She is sur-

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 71 Rock Chalk Review

■ The Spencer Museum’s “Made in China” exhibition featured photographs made by students and faculty members during a study abroad trip. 1. Untitled, Spencer Branham. 2. Jane’s Curtain, Jane Adams. 3. Monk and Cranes (detail), Michael Cook. 4. Collar, Kassia Meinholdt. 5. PepsiMao, Jill Ensley. 6. Shark Fins (detail), May Tveit. 1. Eyes wide open Study abroad trip challenges students to understand China through their viewfinders

n many small Chinese villages, including the one where Pok-Chi Lau’s ancestors lived, the lure of steady work in the coastal cities has emptied homes of all but a few family mem- Ibers, usually the very young and the very old. On a study abroad trip last summer, Lau and 24 students who visited such a village found that beds were easy to come by. Other amenities Westerners take for granted were not. One student stayed in a home that contained a hot water heater, but the sole resident—an eld- erly grandmother unaccustomed to such luxu- ries—didn’t know how to use it. She boiled water on a wood stove to give her visitor hot water for a towel bath. “This student was so humbled by this experience,” says Lau, professor of design, who organized the trip with fellow professor May Tveit. 2.

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI 4. 5. 6. country, as the land of prosperity. He led age working in factories, making the the study abroad trip to expose young things they wear and use,” Lau says of Americans to the new Chinese migration the group’s rare access inside Chinese and the faces behind the Made in China manufacturing. “They come home and product labels. realize their apartments are full of these “I took my students there to see the things, and they feel guilty. Yet if they migration of people from the mountains, stop buying, people are without jobs.” from the villages, so they understand Many individual photographs are how and what and who is making all stunning; more stunning is the collective these things that we buy,” Lau says. picture generated when all the images The eye-opening cultural experience hang side by side. Students in art and art his student encountered in a tiny village history, architecture, political science, is exactly what he was after. design, linguistics and anthropology “We are so spoiled. We take so much made the trip. The result is an eclectic 3. for granted, and we dispose of so many take on Chinese culture. “This was so memorable for her, and in things per day—newspapers, juice cans, Most had no photography experience, that there was something other than computers,” Lau says. “There are huge but they clearly rose to Lau’s challenge. photography at work. That’s what I economic and cultural differences “I urged them, ‘If you do not open up wanted. Photography was just a vehicle (between the U.S. and China) and some your heart and mind, then you are not to experience understanding.” students will never see that.” making photographs; you’re just making Memorable, too, are the photographs Economic gaps exist within China, tourist pictures.’” students took during their monthlong too, as the student work shows. Signs of After Lau and his students sifted travels around the country. About 140 prosperity and Western influence mix through hundred of images to settle on were showcased in “Made in China: with images of poverty and traditional the final choices, Tveit and her exhibi- Observations and Understanding,” life. Juxtapositions abound: Sleek steel- tion design students fashioned a vibrant, which concluded a three-month run at and-glass towers and dilapidated tin-roof eye-catching show. Gallery walls were the Spencer Museum of Art in February. shacks, a faded painting of Mao beneath painted the bright red of the Chinese Similar shows are planned for Topeka, a Pepsi banner, McDonald’s restaurants flag, with slips of yellow paper (suggest- Wichita and China. and street vendors hawking fresh vegeta- ing both Post-it notes and shirt tags) like Lau has taught photography at KU bles and plucked fowl. yellow stars against the red field. These for 30 years and in 2002 published The larger contrast between Chinese tags contained students’ written reflec- Dreams of the Golden Mountain, a book and American life is ever present, espe- tions, which hint at complicated reac- of black-and-white photographs docu- cially in the implicit gulf between the tions to China that lasted long after they menting the lives of North America’s young college students behind the cam- returned to Kansas. Chinese immigrants over the last quarter era and the equally young factory work- “Put a face,” read one tag, “on every of the 20th century, a time when many ers in front of it. product you see.” Chinese saw America, not their own “The students saw people their own —Steven Hill

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 73 Rock Chalk Review Bound for glory JAMIE ROPER Family legacy inspires student to create award-winning gospel music

or proof of music’s healing pow- ers, consider pianist James Cockman III. Last summer, his great-grandmother,F 99-year-old Leona Helvey, died. In the week following her funeral, Cockman, a KU doctoral student in piano performance, prepared two original hymns for the Gospel Music Association’s national Music in the Rockies competition. After driving all night from southern Missouri, he arrived in Estes Park, Colo., squeezed in a few hours of practice, and ■ Associate Professor Rick Hale tinkers with a prototype aircraft built to test specific features of performed before thousands of gospel the Meridian, including its innovative V-tail. When built, the Meridian will be as large as the white musicians. He won the overall grand airplane in the background above. prize for instrumental performance and the national award for an instrumental solo/ensemble performance. family hymn, with Frederick Chopin’s ◆ ◆ ◆ “The pieces came to me after her Etude Op. 10 No. 9 and Franz Liszt’s funeral and, Lord willing, I hammered Concert Etude No. 3. The second piece them out,” recalls Cockman, a student of included familiar works by American Flying solo, Professor Jack Winerock. composers George Gershwin, Scott For the first composition, Cockman Joplin and Louis Moreau Gottschalk, only more so melded “Abide With Me,” a favorite along with the hymn “He Set Me Free,” a theme that guided Cockman during a Group develops unmanned stressful week. “I wanted the messages aircraft for Antarctic research of the hymns to be prominent,” he says. JAMIE ROPER “My great-grandmother wanted to be set erospace free.” engineering The compositions highlighted students and Cockman’s grace in improvisation and faculty hope transcription, and he performed them toA design, construct without sheet music, a skill that comes and deploy an easily, he says, because he first learned unmanned aircraft to play music by ear, after receiving a capable of hauling keyboard at age 8. “Jazz and other ground-penetrating arrangements are fun for me to play radar and computers without music,” he says, “because I over hundreds of Hale can visualize the patterns.” miles of the forbid- Gospel music is a family tradition ding west Antarctic ice sheets. Cockman hopes to continue, perhaps Ultimately, their research could one day through ministry. Meantime, he thinks help launch a revolution in pilotless air- of his great-grandmother, who often lis- craft—a boon to scientists, farmers, inter- tened to him practice. “She would have national peacekeepers and even cargo liked the two trophies,” he says. haulers. Cockman —Jennifer Jackson Sanner Rick Hale, associate professor of aero-

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI space engineering, and graduate student Every course in the KU aerospace cur- can get this working, then we can make William Donovan, e’04, are leading a riculum is tackling these challenges, a real difference in transportation.” core group of five KU faculty and about with help from engineering students in Potential applications include eco- a dozen graduate and undergraduate nearly every other discipline. Students nomically feasible cargo service to small- aerospace students in developing the will fabricate the first full-scale aircraft town airports, crop and forestry studies, “Meridian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” for this spring and summer, aiming for an landmine detection, pipeline inspections use by KU’s Center for Remote Sensing Aug. 30 target date for flight. After exten- and aerial surveys. Hale also hopes to of Ice Sheets (CReSIS). sive testing and training in military air- begin developing “extraordinarily stable” Hale and Donovan spent the winter space near Salina, the team will continue aircraft to fly into hurricanes and for break testing a small-scale model in to train in Lawrence through the 2007- high-altitude sensing. Antarctica, and some of their findings ’08 academic year before heading to “This is all going to take some time,” were surprising. Weather during the Greenland in summer 2008. Hale says. “People don’t want an unin- Antarctic summer was not nearly as If those field tests are successful, the habited aircraft flying over their heads bleak as Hale had feared, especially con- full-scale Meridian aircraft would begin right now, and that’s as it should be sidering the fact that aeronautical sys- assisting Antarctic research after the fall because they’re not reliable; they’re not tems already are designed to endure 2008 semester. safe. One day they will be, and this is a 40-below temperatures when operating “This is the greatest project we have step in that direction.” above 30,000 feet; and because of going,” Hale says. “Not only is it exciting, —Chris Lazzarino extremely low humidity, wing-surface globally significant research, but if we icing is not considered a serious threat. Hale and Donovan did discover that the utterly featureless landscape made remote-controlled takeoff and landing Snakes on a plain nearly impossible. Future aircraft will be SPICHER VALERIE equipped with a satellite communica- oseph and Suzanne Collins want to put a snake in tions system that will relay altitude and Jyour pocket. Thirty-eight snakes, to be precise. speed; ultimately, automated takeoff and Joseph, ’72, adjunct herpetologist at KU, and landing systems would replace all radio- Suzanne, ’82, created A Pocket Guide to Kansas Snakes, controlled functions that are now the a compact field guide that catalogs the 38 species responsibility of a ground-based “pilot.” that call Kansas home. The 69-page book organizes CReSIS, funded by the National the snakes by taxonomic family and includes sections Science Foundation at $19 million for on size, range and habits. Vivid photographs of each five years and led by Prasad Gogineni, species by Suzanne Collins and Bob Gress highlight professor of electrical engineering and the handy volume. computer science, deploys ice-penetrat- “Pocket guides are a great way to get people ing radar to measure the rate of melting involved with wildlife conservation, because the more people of Antarctic’s ice sheets. KU faculty and become familiar with a fauna, the more they have invested in it,” students and their colleagues from other Joseph Collins says. Ten Kansas species are designated as threatened or in CReSIS institutions have been using reg- need of conservation. ular aircraft, with human pilots, to con- The Great Plains Nature Center of duct most of their field work. Wichita published the book; sponsors The pilotless vehicle—a so-called include the Kansas Department of “autonomous platform”—will Wildlife and Parks, Westar Energy and the allow the radar to be flown for Center for North American Herpetology, many hundreds of miles at about the clearinghouse for academic research 3,000 feet, a mission with far too founded by Joseph and Suzanne. much risk of disorientation for To get a free copy, stop by the Raven a human pilot, while consuming Bookstore in Lawrence, or send a check about 90 percent less fuel than a for $1.50 to cover shipping and handling manned aircraft. Upon its return, to Snake Pocket Guide, Great Plains a computer hard drive with a ter- Nature Center, 6232 East 29th Street abyte of data is easily removed and North, Wichita, KS, 67220. replaced, and the aircraft is refueled —Steven Hill and sent back on its way.

ISSUE 2, 2007 | 75 Oread Encore BY STEVEN HILL

World beaters A long-lost scrapbook renews ‘durable satisfactions’ of Jayhawks’ 1952 championship run

■ Phog Allen celebrates he photographs have curled and the She loaned it to the Alumni Association; you’ll the 1952 NCAA pages have bronzed over the years, but find highlights from the keepsake in our championship with Bill the thrill of ultimate achievement beams Ultimate Guide to KU Basketball at Hougland, Bill Lienhard, as fresh as yesterday on the faces of the kualumni.org. Tboys of ’52. Among the treasures is a letter coach Phog Charlie Hoag, Dean Kelley, “Along the Road to Helsinki,” a scrapbook put Allen wrote to his players after the NCAA title Bob Kenney and Clyde together by Don Pierce, c’43, KU’s sports infor- game, which the Jayhawks won, 80-63, over Lovellette. mation director from 1946 to 1964, documents St. John’s. the 1952 KU team that won the NCAA title and “It’s been great fun. But twenty-five or thirty went on to capture gold for the USA at the years from now you boys will radiate and multi- Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. ply the recollections of your struggles and your Ann Pierce, ’68, recently discovered the book successes and your defeats and your dejections,” among some 40 boxes of KU memorabilia that Allen wrote. “All these will be rolled into a fine belonged to her late father. Much of the material philosophy of life which will give you durable she donated to the Booth Family Hall of satisfactions down through the years.” Athletics. “But this wouldn’t be any good behind Doc may have understated the time frame, glass,” Pierce says of the scrapbook, which pre- but he got the sentiment right. Fifty-five years serves newspaper articles, souvenir programs, after they conquered the basketball world, the photos, letters and an 18-page account of the sea- thrill that was fresh in 1952 endures. It’s written son that Don Pierce wrote before the Olympics. all over their faces.

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