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Prescription Filled BY B.H. FAIRCHILD, SARA PARETSKY, KEVIN HELLIKER, 22 The new $50 million School of Pharmacy JAMES GUNN AND LAURA KIRK is just what the doctor ordered: A shot in the arm for communities across the state facing a dire shortage of practicing pharmacists.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Cover photograph by Steve Puppe

Volume 108, No. 6, 2010 year and a fairly confident attitude. I was brought up short my sophomore year by Lift the Chorus courses taught by both Professor Carroll Edwards (early English lit) and Professor Ed Ruhe (Shakespeare). These highly dis- cerning professors [“Solempne,” issue Journalism endures As a 1998 journalism major, I was No. 5] made it very clear I would be earn- eager to read the story about KU’s vener- ing my way and paying my dues if I As the J-school’s ated J-school. Upon graduation, I enthu- wanted an English degree awarded by 1968 valedictorian, siastically started my career as a the University of Kansas. I read with great newspaper copy editor before switching And I did. Thank you, gentlemen, and interest “News gears and entering the advertising indus- godspeed. Judgment” in the try. My degree opened myriad doors for Cynthia Berg Tully, c’80 September Kansas me as I was starting out; the clout of a Santa Clara, Calif. Alumni. I was KU J-school degree landed me more than Jayhawk lifeline angered by critics’ one job interview. My career path ulti- accusations of mately led me to graduate school, an Capt. Alex “Meatloaf” Ramthun, c’00, “fraud” and that MBA and a job in high-tech product man- and I are members of 1st Battalion, 6th “journalism schools agement. In fact, my graduate university— Marine Regiment, and are currently are exploiting students … guaranteeing the University of Colorado-Boulder— deployed to Helmand Province, a large population of out-of-work, debt- recently announced plans to shut- Afghanistan. Capt. addled graduates.” What’s fraudulent ter its journalism program. It’s Ramthun is the is such a criticism. Throughout human clear journalism as a degree and battalion’s Air Offi- history, civilization has been literally profession is in a period of pro- cer and as such he is propelled by persuasive writings— found change. responsible for nam- influenced, nurtured and fulfilled However, one thing remains ing any Landing by journalism. constant: the unassailable skills I Zone (LZ) that we When I left with my B.S. in journal- learned as a KU J-school student. are operating out of. ism, I embarked, following graduate Strong foundations in writing, edit- When our regiment school, on a 40-year business career— ing and communication have con- captured the previ- never darkening the door of any journal- tinued to serve me well throughout ously Taliban-held istic media. my career. In fact, my supervisor city of Marjah, Capt. But, were it not for my journalism remarked just the other day how Ramthun had the Lt. Shipley & Capt. Ramthun education, how else were I to write the rare strong writing and communi- perfect name ready essay to Northwestern University’s Grad- cation skills are in the working world. I for our hard-won new zone: LZ Jayhawk uate School of Management which won directly attribute my proficiency to my serves as the regiment’s lifeline for me an Austin Scholarship—one of only KU journalism degree. supplies, troop movement and casualty two granted each year, which paid in full It is encouraging to see the J-school evacuation. for my MBA? stay abreast of the sea-change occurring The designation is enduring, so it will And, via honed writing skills, how else in journalism and adapt the school and remain a tribute to the University as long would I explain a successful business curriculum as needed. While the pre- as it is in operation. This fact is particu- career—as a chief operating and financial ferred medium may change (newspaper larly galling to the battalion commander, officer in multiple industries—specializ- to Internet, editorial to blog), the need Lt. Col. Calvert Worth, a graduate of the ing in crafting strategic plans to save for news and for journalists to provide University of Missouri. extremely troubled companies? Oh, and that news will not be obviated. 1st Lt. Paul Shipley, c’07 how did I write all those resumés that Kelly Cannon Boeckman j’98 1st Battalion, 6th Marines enabled me to switch industries through- Golden, Colo. Marjah, Afghanistan out my career? Editor’s note: Since we received the letter Not a day goes by when I don’t Special dignity and photo, Shipley and Ramthun have silently thank KU and the wonderful returned home safely from Afghanistan. School of Journalism for the valuable, I graduated KU in 1980 with a B.A. in Shipley is stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. career-enabling education given to me. English, with honors. I entered the pro- Ramthun is an ROTC instructor at the Robert H. Campbell, j’68 gram with a mess of hours accumulated, University of Nebraska in Lincoln. San Diego plus several 300 courses in my freshman

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 16 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Steven Hill Staff Writer Terry Rombeck DEPARTMENTS Editoril Assistnts Karen Goodell Photographer Steve Puppe, j’98 LIFT THE CHORUS Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 2 Letters from our readers Advertising Sales Representative Whitney Eriksen, c’08, j’08 FIRST WORD Editorial and Advertising Office 5 The editor’s turn KU Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave. Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 6 ON THE BOULEVARD 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 KU & Alumni Association events www.kualumni.org [email protected] 8 JAYHAWK WALK A Potter Lake time capsule, freshmen perfection, why the chicken crossed the Boulevard and more

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49 CLASS NOTES Profiles of a Tony winner, a steak quester and Your opinion a photography champion. counts! Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to 68 IN MEMORY the editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni Deaths in the KU family magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. E-mail responses may 72 ROCK CHALK REVIEW be sent to the Alumni Association, Biologist’s marmot study offers key climate data; [email protected]. Letters appear- researchers put new spin on semiconductors. ing in the magazine may be edited for space and clarity. For letters GLORIOUS TO VIEW published, we’ll send a free gift of 76 Scene on campus the KU Magnet Game, a $15 value.

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BY EER ACKSO SAER First Word

ment. “We both had jobs, and we says. More than 50 grads marched to weren’t sure we could come back in the strains of “Pomp and Circumstance,” May,” Seyfarth recalls. “We figured a thanks to a KLZR broadcast that wafted lot of our classmates would want to down the Hill through a makeshift make sure they got their walk.” sound system ordered by Seyfarth. “I So Seyfarth and Sachs cajoled had just finished my term as president local sponsors, contacted the Uni- of Theta Chi, so I recruited the pledges versity Daily Kansan, and men- to bring boom boxes,” he explains. “We tioned their plan to the staff in the had boxes lining the sidewalks down KU admissions office, where the from the Campanile.” two had worked as orientation Leading the march were Jim Mielke SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (2) SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY assistants. Diane Mielke, then and Robinson, the only two in academic assistant director of admissions, regalia, which had been supplied by an says the plot quickly gathered anonymous Strong Hall co-conspirator. momentum. “They absolutely did “There were parents and grandparents not ask permission,” she recalls. and little brothers and sisters,” Mielke “They came in and said, ‘We’re recalls. “And we made formal speeches going to do this.’ You knew right to welcome the families, congratulate then that they were going to the students and confer their degrees. conquer the world the way they It was a serious occasion within a crazy got things done.” atmosphere.” Mielke, g’81, and then admis- Twenty-seven years later, Jim is KU sions director Linda Thompson associate dean of the College and a pro- (now Robinson), d’72, g’76, fessor of anthropology; Diane works part advised Seyfarth and Sachs to time in the University Advising Center. invite a KU administrator and a fac- They say “Bathrobes and Baseball Caps” ulty member to add credibility to led to today’s (more dignified) December n early December 1983, Scott Sey- the ceremony; Robinson offered to repre- ceremonies hosted by several academic farth and Steve Sachs had cleared sent Strong Hall, and units. “What Scott every hurdle but one on the way to Mielke volunteered her and Steve started their midyear graduation. All that husband, Jim, then an was awesome,” Iremained was Professor Allen Ford’s tax associate professor of Diane says. “They accounting exam. If they wanted to anthropology, to speak really started winter become accountants, they had to pass on behalf of the faculty. graduation at KU.” Ford’s final. The procession Since leaving But instead of hitting the books, was set for Dec. 17. The KU, Seyfarth settled Seyfarth and Sachs hit Wescoe Beach, walk down the Hill in the Chicago area. plastering the place with handmade would feature “unofficial He currently serves advertisements for “Bathrobes and Base- diplomas,” followed by on the Alumni ball Caps,” an unofficial graduation walk free beer at Johnny’s and $1.06 burgers Association’s national Board of Directors. down the Hill sponsored by the “Class of sponsored by KLZR radio. The dress Sachs, who lives in Overland Park, 1983 1/2.” code of bathrobes and baseball caps happily reports that his daughter, Katie, A few weeks earlier, Seyfarth, b’83, made sense, Sachs recalls, “because they and his son, Andrew, attend KU. and Sachs, b’83, had learned that KU did were the closest things to caps and Sachs can’t help but chuckle as he not hold a ceremony for December grad- gowns and everyone would have them.” reveals that Katie, a senior, shares his uates. Crushed by the news, the future On a frigid Saturday, the procession knack for timing. True to family accountants quickly decided to become commenced precisely “at high noon, just tradition, she will graduate this impresarios of their own Commence- as the Campanile bells rang,” Seyfarth December.

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DECEMBER 5 KU Holiday Vespers 7 “Legally Blonde the Musical” 9 Instrumental Collegium Musicum, Bales Organ Recital Hall 9 KU Jazz Vespers 11 Jim Brickman’s 15th Anniversary Holiday Concert

■ Special events NOVEMBER 127 Border Hunger Showdown, online food drive to benefit Harvesters 27 KU/MU Drum Exchange, Arrowhead Stadium

DECEMBER ■ A highlight of Homecoming Week, the annual parade down Jayhawk Boulevard featured the 2 University Women’s Club, featuring KU Band and outstanding alumni, students and campus organizations. Big Jay joined the camaraderie the Oread Consort Singers, Kansas and greeted Jayhawk families. Students showcased floats and decorated vehicles to earn points Union toward the Overall Homecoming Award. The School of Engineering’s standout design earned the 13 Student Alumni Association finals judges’ favor, and the group won the student life category. See additional photos from Homecoming dinner, Adams Alumni Center Week on page 43. ■ Academic calendar ■ ■ Exhibitions University Theatre NOVEMBER “Talking Trees: Karen McCoy/Robert NOVEMBER 2428 Thanksgiving break Carl,” Spencer Museum of Art at 1114 1821 “A Midsummer Marvin Grove Night’s Dream,” by William Shake- DECEMBER “Conversation IX—Media Memes: speare, directed by Paul Meier in 9 Fall classes end Images, Technology & Making the original pronunciation 10 Stop Day News,” Spencer Museum of Art, 1317 Final examinations through Dec. 19 “Reviving the Past: Antiquity & Anti- ■ Lied Center events JANUARY quarianism in East Asian Art,” Spencer 21 Spring classes begin Museum of Art, through 2010 NOVEMBER “Site Specifics,” Spencer Museum of 1819 KU Symphony Orchestra and Art, through Jan. 16 University Dance Company ■ Alumni events “Dan Perjovschi Central Court,” 30 KU Symphonic and University Spencer Museum of Art, through Bands NOVEMBER Feb. 6 20 Game Day at the Adams tailgate party, KU vs. Oklahoma State

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20 San Francisco: KU Night with the 9 Lawrence: Riedel Wine Glass 9 Ann Arbor: KU vs. Michigan University of San Francisco Dons Experience and Tasting pregame event 21 Salina: History of the Jayhawk 11 Denver Chapter: Night Under the 15 Springfield, Mass.: KU Day at the 21 Hays: KU Chamber Choir Zoo Lights Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame performance and reception 11 El Dorado: Jayhawk Christmas 17 Waco: KU vs. Baylor pregame 26 Las Vegas: KU vs. Ohio pregame Party event event 22 Berkeley: KU vs. Cal-Berkeley 25 Boulder: KU vs. CU pregame event 27 Las Vegas: KU vs. Arizona pregame pregame event event JANUARY For more information about DECEMBER 6 Palm Desert, Calif.: Alumni watch parties and other 7 New York: KU vs. Memphis at reception Association events, call Madison Square Garden pregame 8 Oklahoma City Chapter: KU Night event with the Thunder 800-584-2957 or see the Association’s website at www.kualumni.org.

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Right every time Vive la différence ince 2005 KU has offered a full sailed through their SATs with neer in cub u Sride to any Kansan sharp nary a bobbled bubble on ersn ie e bece e enough to post perfect scores on a their answer sheet. ber Gruc Mr usy si n college entrance exam. Only eight Michael Agre, Qi Chen and y Aen usy reee Bu students achieved that distinction Chris Ouyang of Overland Park; uging by se e be suen in the first five years, earning Per- Michael Erickson, Olathe; Gavin rgniins e ce ur fect Achievement Scholarships for Hanson, Salina; Alex Johnson enin ey e be een ey cu tuition, fees, room and board and Jerrica Washburn of in KU cub cu e e ee worth $16,000 per year. Wichita; and Ryan Xiao, Lenexa, rig e But this fall brought a plethora correctly answered every ques- Here re e ur ries of perfection as nine incoming tion on one of the two big Hy Cers Pisy Dn freshmen aced their ACTs or exams, while Samuel Ho Jr., rry g cing Cub uner Pric Topeka, scored 100 percent on

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sunday Funday, snacks included STEVE PUPPE f it meant helping a local family ond running Sept. 19, the fun- Iland a home of their dreams, and fund-raising chicken chal- wouldn’t you dress up in a lenge “encourages” participants banana costume and lope a few to run a mile and a half, pause on miles around campus on a lovely Wescoe Beach to eat a crunchy Sunday afternoon? So goes the chicken or vegetarian wrap, then thinking behind the latest craze run—or waddle, roll, cartwheel or in campus philanthropy, the duck walk—back to the Burge Crunchy Chicken Challenge Run. Union. It encompases, organizers Invented last year by the KU explain, “three miles and several Keep On Busin’ Habitat for Humanity Student hundred calories.” Chapter and renewed for its sec- Habitat chapter president John r r ny yers e cus bus

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and Leslie Smith, e’09, took first and second in the contest, which is considered the industry’s premier undergraduate design competition and draws entries from around the

COURTESY RON BARRETT-GONZALEZ RON COURTESY world. This year more than ■ Lauren Fitzpatrick, Sarah 50 universities from the Kulhanek and Chris Vaughn United States, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, took first-, second- and Turkey and the United third-place respectively in Kingdom sent students to aerospace’s top student the contest. competition, submitting “It’s an astounding level business jet designs of success,” Barrett- completed in classes taught Gonzalez says. “It’s also a by Associate Professor of big milestone for women Aerospace Engineering Ron and minorities, because Barrett-Gonzalez (right). this is the first time a minority female has taken top prize in an AIAA High fliers competition.” Fitzpatrick, e’10, came Aerospace engineering students complete sweep up with an ingenious solu- of international aviation competition tion to a problem she created for herself. Well into the design of her air- tudents in KU’s aerospace engineering craft she realized the wing she’d chosen left little program pulled off an unprecedented hat room for fuel. She researched how other design- trick this year, capturing the top three ers had solved that problem and found an exam- prizes in the aircraft industry’s most pres- ple from the 1960s—the use of a fuel storage Stigious design competition. system called slipper tanks—that allowed her not Lauren Fitzpatrick, Sarah Kulhanek and Chris only to overcome the fuel-storage problem but Vaughn took first, second and third respectively also to maximize the plane’s performance. in the 2010 Undergraduate Individual Aircraft “She painted herself into a corner,” Barrett- Design Competition sponsored by the American Gonzalez says. “The only way she could get out Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The was to use these unusual fuel tanks. That turned contest challenged entrants to design a business out to be a brilliant move. She took a bad situa- jet that combined a large, comfortable cabin and tion that was forced upon her by certain design the performance to use a relatively short runway. decisions and turned it into something really pos- “It’s the first time any University has swept all itive.” three prizes,” says Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, an asso- Kulhanek, e’10, used a clever fuselage arrange- ciate professor of aerospace engineering and the ment to drop the floor almost to the bottom of adviser to all three students, who completed their the plane’s skin and raise the roof to the top, an projects in his two-course sequence Aircraft unconventional design that expanded cabin Design I and Aircraft Design II. height over the full length of the aircraft. In 2009 Jayhawks Emily Ratzlaff Arnold, e’09, Vaughn, e’10, drew upon his own experience

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI as a tall traveler to design a fuselage that allowed have,” says Gary Sherrer, chair of a 6-foot-3 adult to stand comfortably but still the Regents. “We think overall it achieved a low-drag aerodynamic profile. is a modest proposal. People Barrett-Gonzalez says KU has won more prizes need to keep perspective here: in the 42-year history of the contest (60 first-, sec- Last fiscal year we were cut $100 ond- and third-place awards since 1968) than any million. So in asking for $50 mil- other university. Winning prizes conveys a certain lion we’re only replacing half of panache on the aerospace program and also pro- that cut. Currently we’re operat- vides considerable momentum to a student’s ing at a fiscal level we were at half OF REGENTS KANSAS BOARD COURTESY career. a decade ago. We can’t ask for “It means that our program is fundamentally more of our universities and give healthy and that we maintain a form of expertise them less.” that is directly germane to the most important The board is also asking the Sherrer industry in the state of Kansas,” Barrett-Gonzalez Legislature to restore funding for years three and says, noting that aerospace is the state’s top four of the five-year deferred maintenance plan industry. “For the students, this essentially approved in 2007. That funding was cut last year launches them into positions where they will be to help the state balance its budget amid the “We have to groomed for the highest levels of management worst recession in decades. “The state’s higher and responsibility.” education system realizes it had to do its part in protect what we FY10,” the report states, “but it is critical to get have. ... Currently ◆ ◆ ◆ back on track and to fulfill the Legislature’s five- year deferred maintenance funding promise.” The we’re operating at proposal would restore $15.75 million in state a fiscal level we ‘Modest proposal’ funding to the higher ed budget. were at half a The Regents’ proposal calls for a matching pro- Regents ask Legislature to restore gram called Kan-Grow that would combine decade ago. We half of fiscal 2010 cuts $14.15 million in state funds with $7.075 million can’t ask more of matched by Kansas universities and colleges. The nveiling a plan it calls “The Kansas money would target workforce improvement. our universities Commitment,” the Kansas Board of Under the plan, KU, Kansas State and Wichita and give them Regents in September called for the State would receive $5.4 million to expand the Legislature to increase state funding number of engineering graduates. KU Medical less.” Ufor postsecondary schools by Center would receive —Gary Sherrer $50 million. $1 million to admit The Regents also released a study more students in nurs-

revealing that since 2009 state sup- STEVE PUPPE ing and primary care port for the Kansas higher education medicine. system has fallen from $853 million Kansas ranks 36th to $751 million. As a result, state in the nation and last funding per student is at an all-time in the Big 12 for state low. Since 1985 statewide enroll- support of higher edu- ment has climbed from 62,000 stu- cation, according to dents to more than 73,000, while the Regents’ report. As state funding per full-time student that support has dropped from an inflation adjusted dropped, tuition has rate of $8,591 to $5,896. continued to rise: In The Regents’ five-part plan calls 2009, the percentage for a nearly 3 percent “inflation of college costs borne adjustment” in state funding based by students (28 per- on the Higher Education Price cent) exceeded the Index. If approved, the increase percentage borne by would add $20 million to the higher the state (26 percent) education budget. for the first time. “We have to protect what we In addition to

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increased state funding, “The Kansas Commit- have some of that same courageous leadership ment” calls for creation of a new financial-aid emerge and not tell us why it can’t be done, but plan for low- and middle-income students. Money find a way to do it.” for the $10-million program would be raised by allowing Kansas universities to keep state taxes ◆ ◆ ◆ generated by retail sales on their campuses. “If we’re going to maintain the tradition of what public universities are all about—accessibil- Dollar sense Record support ity and affordability—we really do believe it’s important to make sure we don’t tell people they New service offers peer counseling Pinric sur can come only if they can afford to come,” Sherrer for student money matters r e Uniersiy r says. “We need to make sure those young men KU Enen i n and women out there who have the talent to suc- tudents with money problems can now get ceed in our universities have a place in our uni- financial advice from the people most ie ig versities.” likely to know exactly what they’re going iin uring isc Financial aid would take the form of loans for through: other students. Kansas students from families making less than SPeer counselors at Student Money Manage- Mre ue ene uns the state’s median income, which is currently ment Services, a new program from the Office of $50,174. Students who graduate and stay in the Student Success, will work one-on-one with stu- increse ercen state for a yet-to-be-determined period would dents to answer questions on personal finance. biin n e have their loans forgiven. Students who leave the “I think it’s important that students learn from ssciins sses state or fail to graduate would repay the loans at a each other,” says Leticia Gradington, c’98, the rece biin low interest rate. new program’s director. “A lot of them can testify The Regents and leaders of the seven public to their own financial flaws or tell a story about Enen sur universities, 19 community colleges and six tech- something similar they’ve been through. That beneie rgrs nical colleges in the Regents system will urge law- peer-to-peer connection is very strong.” reserc suens c makers to support the plan once the Legislature It has long been a truism that students living uy n ciiies n convenes in January. But alumni, including those away from home for the first time often have trou- involved in the Association’s Jayhawks for Higher ble managing their money, but changes in the KUs ur cuses n Education advocacy group, will have a role, too. financial aid system and the recent economic KU Hsi “Alumni are critical in supporting this message, downturn have exacerbated that perennial prob- because they represent what we’ve achieved with lem, says Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, d’72, PhD’96, higher education,” Sherrer says. “When a legislator hears from a successful business person or community leader that they are prepared to support higher education funding at this level, that can be a STEVE PUPPE very powerful message and it can have tremendous impact.” The plan may be a tough sell to a Legislature still grappling with an uncer- tain economic outlook. “People will say, ‘Well, the times don’t allow it,’” Sherrer says. “Tough economy and all that. I just wish some of them would think back to the people who founded the state of Kansas. One of the first things they did was to create a public university. The economics back then were a great deal worse than they are today. ■ Leticia Gradington (right) leads Student Money Management But they had the courage to not deal with Services, a new program that allows students to seek financial today, but to deal in the future, and they understood that the future was linked to advice from peer counselors such as Mitch Knopp (left), senior in higher education. It’s my wish that we business.

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI associate vice provost for student success. “It’s a national phenomenon. Credit cards are more common and students are relying more and more on student loans, as a result of the way the financial aid system has developed in the last 25 Visitor years. Tuition is up and families are hurting due to the mortgage crisis. It’s a financial perfect Press check storm.” MIKE YODER A report compiled by the KU Financial Liter- ashington Post acy Task Force found that average student debt Wcolumnist and for graduating seniors rose to $22,478 in 2009, Pulitzer Prize winning an increase of more than $4,000 since 2003. journalist David Broder Gradington says that freshmen are even showing discussed the state of up with multiple credit cards—and the debt to journalism and the outlook match. for American politics over “In our financial aid office, we have many more the next two years during special circumstances applications, where a par- the 2010 Muncy Journalism ent has lost a job or is unable to get a parent loan and Politics Lecture. to pay tuition,” Tuttle says. “There are some additional burdens on our students because the finan- WHEN: Oct. 18 cial crisis has affected families.” Students using the service get a complete WHERE: Robert J. Dole Institute of Poli- financial analysis that examines their income and tics, sponsored by the Muncy Journalism and expenses; counselors ask students to set financial Politics Lecture Series endowed by Martha E. “We need to get goals and then help them come up with a plan to “Betty” Muncy, the retired owner and publisher back in the habit reach those goals. of the Dodge City Daily Globe. In addition to the private counseling sessions, of talking to each Gradington heads an outreach effort to educate BACKGROUND: Broder joined the other rather than students on personal finance, with presentations Washington Post in 1966 as a political reporter, to student groups and to freshmen who take the having earlier worked for The Washington Star, yelling at each semester-long college transition course PRE 101. Congressional Quarterly and The New York other. Politicians Interactive games help students learn important Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for distin- love to take shots concepts and see firsthand the effects of bad deci- guished commentary in 1973; in 1997 he sions. accepted the William Allen White Citation at at other politi- “I’d rather them roll the dice on a game board KU. now than wait until they graduate to make those cians, but that’s mistakes,” Gradington says. ANECDOTE: Remarking on a photo in a not the way to Funding for the program comes from the Dole Institute display case, Broder described solve issues.” School of Business, which also offers a semester- former Sen. Bob Dole and former President —David Broder long course in personal finance; the KU Student Gerald Ford as practitioners of the kind of flex- Senate; and the Office of the Vice Provost for Stu- ible partisanship that leads to solutions, while dent Success, which views the program as part of worrying that the bitter rancor between parties its mission to support higher retention and grad- today causes gridlock and voter frustration. uation rates at the University. “We see students who spend all their financial QUOTES: “The assumption then was that aid money in the first month of class,” Tuttle says. we were in the solutions business in politics; “Financial difficulties is one of the things that can unfortunately, that’s no longer the case,” Broder hurt a student’s academic success and eventually said. “Some politicians now measure themselves cause them to leave school. We want to help by the amount of frustration they can cause for them become part of the solution by understand- other politicians.” ing their own financial management challenges” Student Money Management Services is on the third floor of the Kansas Union and on the Web at money.ku.edu.

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STUDENT GROUPS Trash audit aids KC brewery’s drive to go zero landfill STEVE PUPPE

Boulevard Brewing, the Kansas City ■ KU students with an beermaker headed by John McDonald, expertise in waste management f’76, has set a goal of reducing its landfill are helping Boulevard Brewing waste to near zero, and it enlisted the in its efforts to keep glass and help of a KU student group this fall to other solid waste out of help it make the transition. The Air and Waste Management Asso- landfills. ciation, a campus chapter of the international group of waste management professionals, completed a waste audit at Boulevard and KU students. It seemed a sionalism” KU students brought to the Boulevard in September to help the natural fit.” project. “Their energy certainly gave our brewery find ways to reduce solid waste. Students concluded that Boulevard, employees a reason to succeed in the Boulevard called on the group which earlier this year started a glass brewery’s efforts to become a zero land- because AWMA had performed similar recycling spinoff called Ripple Glass, has fill company,” he said. audits on campus buildings, including a a realistic chance of meeting its goal of public audit of Wescoe Hall on Earth recycling or reusing 95 percent of its DOLE INSTITUTE Day. Students considered the prospect of waste. sorting through 200 pounds of the brew- “Boulevard is actually in a fantastic Visiting fellows lead stu- ery’s trash a fresh opportunity. position to go zero landfill,” Gibson says. dents in political study “We thought it would be a great chal- “They are doing an amazing job of recy- groups lenge to take on something pretty differ- cling on their own, and they will proba- ent from a campus environment,” says bly be able to achieve their goal of Three Dole Fellows are sharing their Lydia Gibson, president of AWMA’s KU removing all waste receptacles from the political expertise with students this fall, chapter. “And because we’ve got an brewery by Jan. 1.” leading not-for-credit study groups at the alumni connection with John McDonald, McDonald said Boulevard greatly Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics to help there’s a good relationship between appreciated the “knowledge and profes- students increase their appreciation for the U.S. political system. Actor and syndicated columnist Joseph C. Phillips and business consultant and writer Kevin Jackson presented “Black Conservatism in America,” a

Class credit STEVE PUPPE series of groups that began in September and concluded on election day. idshipman First Class Christian Discussions explored the historical Jensen, a Paola senior in political M and contemporary implications of science, was one of eight Naval ROTC race and political affiliation. students nationwide awarded a 2010 Fenn, who is president of Fenn Com- Legion of Valor Bronze Cross of Achievement Award. Retired Army Col. Roger Donlon, the first U.S. soldier to earn the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, presented the award in a Sept. 15 ceremony on campus. The Bronze Cross recognizes midshipmen who demonstrate outstanding military leadership qualities. ROTC students must be in the top 25 percent of his or her ROTC class in aptitude and academic standing to qualify. Candidates were nominated by their DOLE INSTITUTE COURTESY commanding officers and were chosen from the more than 60 Naval ROTC units in the United States. Jensen, who plans to attend law school after graduation, is commanding officer for a battalion of about 80 midshipmen and a squad leader in the Semper Fi Society, a campus social organization for the U.S. Marine Corps. Phillips and Jackson

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI munications Group, one of the nation’s premier political and public affairs media Milestones, money and other matters firms, and who was the first director of the political action committee Democrats ■ A $22 MILLION GRANT from the U.S. Depart- for the 80s, is leading “The 2010 Elec- ment of Education will help School of Education

tions: What They Mean researchers develop an assessment system for K-12 STEVE PUPPE for Solving Problems.” special education students. A team led by Neal The group began meet- Kingston, director of KU’s Center for Educational Test- ing weekly on Oct. 25. ing and Evaluation, is developing the Dynamic Learning “In a year when a Maps Alternate Assessment System, which relies on record number of diagnostic information gathered throughout the learn- African-Americans are ing process instead of an annual exam. Plans call for Kansas and 10 other states COURTESY DOLE INSTITUTE COURTESY running for office as to start using the program in 2014. Republicans, Joseph Fenn and Kevin explain this ■ SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DEAN WILLIAM FUERST will end his 11-year sudden resurgence of black conser- tenure as the school’s leader in June. Fuerst will remain on the faculty and will participate vatism,” says Bill Lacy, director of the in a new University venture to expand connections with area corporations and create Dole Institute. “Peter will take a unique opportunities for student internships, research collaborations and entrepreneurship. A approach, first looking at the crucial national search is underway for his successor. midterm elections and concluding with a hard look at what the results portend for ■ MARLA SPIVAK, PHD’89, won a $500,000 our country’s future.” “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation this fall for her work with bees ADMINISTRATION and beekeepers to help protect honeybee populations New associate provost hired from disease. A distinguished professor of agriculture and social insects at the University of Minnesota, Spivak com- to help boost retention rate pleted her doctorate in biology under the tutelage of Chip Taylor, professor of ecology and evolutionary biol- As part of the chancellor’s goal of ogy. increasing retention and graduation rates at KU, the Office of Student Success this ■ A $13.3 MILLION, FIVE-YEAR GRANT from the U.S. Department of Health fall welcomed Matt Melvin as associate and Human Services Administration on Children, Youth and Families will fund a new School vice provost for recruitment and enroll- of Social Welfare initiative to make life better for children in foster care who have serious ment. emotional disabilities. The Kansas Intensive Permanency Project, led by researchers Tom Calling retention and graduation KU’s McDonald, Stephanie Bryson and Becci Akin, s’91, s’92, PhD’10, will provide in-home ther- “top priority,” Marlesa Roney, vice provost apy and other resources designed to reunite families and their chil- for student success, said Melvin will “play dren who are in foster care. It is the largest grant ever for the a key role in leading the University’s School of Social Welfare. strategic enrollment initiatives.” STEVE PUPPE Roney credited ■ FORMER CHANCELLOR GENE BUDIG will be known Melvin’s experience at as Chancellor Emeritus Gene Budig from now on, thanks to a the University of Cen- Kansas Board of Regents decision to grant the honorary title to the STEVE PUPPE tral Missouri, where he man who led KU from 1980 to 1994. During his tenure Budig over- helped the school post saw a building boom, enrollment increases and a jump in the num- Budig double-digit gains in ber of distinguished professorships from 49 to 135, according to a admissions while also resolution read aloud at the meeting. increasing retention Melvin and graduation rates. ■ CHANCELLORS CLUB TEACHING AND RESEARCH AWARDS went to The new position is part of a reorgani- two professors this fall: Richard De George, University Distinguished Professor of Philoso- zation of Student Success accomplished phy, and Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, director of KU Medical Center’s Liver Center. Each professor earlier this year. “Our goal is to provide received an $8,000 award and was honored at the annual Chancellors Club celebration each student with the personalized sup- Oct. 22. port needed to be successful at KU,” Roney said in August, when the restruc- ■ PHI GAMMA DELTA will serve a two-year probation after a University investiga- turing was announced. tion found the fraternity violated KU policies that prohibit hazing. Chapter activities will be curtailed significantly during the probation. ISSUE 6, 2010 | 15 Sports BY CHRS AARO

Taylor, a junior guard, grinning as he translates for the hopelessly square who’ll never, ever get hip to team lingo.

STEVE PUPPE (2) “He doesn’t miss. He just knocks it down. For him, it’s like shooting into the ocean! Bang! It’s in there. Tyrel just rarely misses.” Ahhh ... OK, then. For Reed, putting a basketball through the hoop is nearly as much of a cinch as hitting water from a boat. Cool! But it’s not enough. Not this year, Reed’s last as a Jayhawk. In his four years at Burlington High School, Reed’s teams were a combined 95-4 with three playoff appearances and a state championship. During his three seasons at KU, the Jayhawks are 97-14 with an NCAA championship, three Big 12 regular-season titles and two Big 12 ■ “Tyrel is our designated tourney triumphs. three-point shooter,” Reed has twice been named first- coach Bill Self says. “He’s team Academic All-Big 12, he’ll graduate the one guy in our pro- in December with a degree in exercise science (and a business minor) after gram who, regardless of just three and a half years, and he’s time and score, when he’s spending the fall semester in a physical open, he should shoot it.” therapy internship to begin preparing for his post-basketball career. Aqua Man He’s also considered the best- condi- tioned athlete on the team. He’s the Long known as a shooter, Tyrel Reed now fastest sprinter, highest jumper, and he’s plans to unleash all his superpowers about as strong as a 6-foot-3, 193-pound guy can be; it’s said that he’s one of the few basketball players who can “clean”— t’s media day for the men’s basketball team lift to shoulder level—more than 300 pounds. and Marcus Morris, KU’s preseason All-Big That’s a lot of horsepower for a shooter con- 12 junior forward, lights up at the opportu- tent to knock down threes. nity to talk about someone other than him- “I’m never going to be satisfied just being Iself, expectations other than those weighing on known as a shooter,” Reed says. “I’ve been work- his own massive shoulders. Specifically, senior ing on more of my midrange game, coming off shooting guard Tyrel Reed, the team’s best pure screens, trying to be more of a playmaker and bet- athlete. ter passer, as opposed to just a stand-still shooter. “Tyrel, he’s Aquafina,” Morris says. “He’s water. I want to have that as part of my game and still be He’s always been water. Know what I mean?” able to knock down the open shot.” Ummm ... come to think of it, no. Reed averaged just 5.1 points a game last year— But Tyshawn Taylor does. a drop of nearly a point and a half a game from “Aquafina! Yes! That means Tyrel is water,” says his sophomore season—and yet he had seven

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI games with 11 or more points and he led the team in three-point percentage at “He’s our best-conditioned athlete, again, and he’ll have a 47.3. Nearly 70 percent of Reed’s successful field-goal attempts were from chance to fight for a starting spot. He’s more of a complete three-point range, and in the final seven guard. I expect him to have a big year.” games he shot 60.9 percent from beyond the arc. —Bill Self, on Tyrel Reed He scored a career-high 15 in the Big 12 Tournament championship against As do his teammates, who are of one that. I do in practice; I just need to trans- Kansas State—the in-state rival he now voice when demanding a dunk—some- fer that over.” admits having visited on a recruiting trip thing Reed does constantly in team Like water in the bank. Or a basket- while wearing a Kirk Hinrich Chicago pickup games and even in practice. ball over the boat. Something like Bulls jersey—and 16 against Lehigh in the “Coach has confidence in Tyrel, so that. first round of the NCAA Tournament. In he’s going to be put in position where he the heartbreaking second-round loss to has to make shots, and he will because ◆ ◆ ◆ Northern Iowa, Reed made three of six he can shoot,” Taylor says. “But he’s also field goal attempts, including two of four got the highest vert on the team and I Evans leads hunt from three-point range, for eight points. haven’t seen it yet. He hasn’t dunked in a “It was an extremely tough way to game since he’s been in college. I need to for next A.D. end,” Reed says. “Losses do stick with see him get a dunk.” you. They’re always in the back of your “It’s amazing the dunks he can do,” Alumni board member accepts mind and you can use that as fuel, as a Selby says, laughing. “It makes me not chancellor’s request to lead way to improve and not let it happen want to dunk anymore, so I just lay the committee for critical search again, but I also think you’ve got to let it ball up now.” go. We’re a completely different team, in Marcus Morris’ assessment is that he name Ray Evans has long my eyes. That was last year and we’re Reed “is going to be a real, real, real key been the gold standard in KU looking forward to having a great year part to us winning. He’s not only shoot- athletics; now the current keeper this year.” ing threes, but he’s attacking the basket of the legendary moniker has Especially since the NCAA has yet to and he’s finishing above the rim, which Tbeen asked to come up big yet again by clear (as of press time) superstar fresh- he needs to do. It’s definitely time.” helping the University identify a replace- man point guard Josh Selby for games, And yes ... Reed hears it all, loud and ment for now-departed athletics director the Jayhawks’ lineup is wide open. Reed clear. Aquafina is all over it. Lew Perkins. can play point if needed, and he’ll be “Probably in the past I haven’t trusted Ray D. Evans—a member of the expected to contend with the other my feet near as much on the defensive Alumni Association’s national board of guards for a starting position or, at the end, finishing around the rim, things like directors and executive committee, a minimum, much more playing time than that,” Reed says, listing ways he intends trustee of KU Endowment, managing last year’s 15.6 minutes a game. to finally rely on his athletic horsepower. partner of Pegasus Capital Management Eighth-year coach Bill Self has told the “As for dunking, I kind of have to after in Overland Park, two-time football letter- team he’ll even try some inverts now and everyone’s been coming at me about man as a defensive back, and son of one again this season, letting big guys play of the most admired all-around on the outside to take advantage of the athletes in KU history, the late Morris twins’ shooting skills, and send- Ray R. Evans, b’47—on Sept. ing some of the guards down low to 20 accepted Chancellor dominate slower opponents with speed Bernadette Gray-Little’s and surprising strength. request that he lead the nation- It’s a deep team with a lot of options. wide search for the next boss Of Reed, Self says, “If I were being criti- of KU athletics. cal, he doesn’t play to his athletic ability Joining Evans, b’82, g’84, like some guys are able to do. He’s very on the search committee are fast and he’s obviously very explosive off pharmacy dean Ken Audus, of two feet, and his lateral quickness is PhD’84; Ritch Price, KU’s base- well above average. He’s certainly a very ball coach since 2002; Exxon- impressive athlete; I hope he plays to Mobil executive Linda Ellis that ability.” Ray Evans Sims, e’79; Debbie Van Saun,

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d’73, g’92, associate athletics director 41, setting up a scoring drive of three NCAA history and the most ever scored and senior women’s administrator; and Quinn Mecham-to-Johnathan Wilson by KU in a quarter. But the excitement Thomas Ward, b’80, president and CEO passes, 45-31, 9:26. continued: Colorado marched to the KU of Russell Stover Candies. •Fumble forced by Opurum, recov- 7, and finally ran out of chances and time ered on the CU 28 and carried for a TD when two passes to the end zone—one of ◆ ◆ ◆ by Tyler Patmon, 45-38, 7:12. which was so close it called for a video • Patmon interception at the CU 37, review—fell incomplete. Comeback kids setting up a five-play drive iced with a 6- “We’ve always had the energy, but we yard Sims TD, 45-45, 4:30. just needed something to spark it,” Jayhawks score 35 in fourth • QB sack by Jake Laptad, CU punt, Mecham said. “The onside kick did that.” to rally past Colorado KU crosses midfield on an 18-yard Sims Said Gill, “I really thought we’d have a run and scores three plays later on a 28- great chance to win if we got that oppor- our hours before kickoff, running yard open-field dash by Sims, 52-45, 52 tunity. And when we did, everything back-turned-linebacker-turned- seconds remaining. took care of itself.” defensive end Toben Opurum KU’s 35 in the fourth was the second- They believed. And now the true asked his Twitter followers the biggest victorious fourth-quarter rally in believers aren’t quite so alone. simpleF question that coach Turner Gill asks daily: “Do you believe?” Truth be known, few outside of the team did. KU was a heavy underdog Nov. 6 in Memorial Stadium, to a Colorado Updates team that, like the Jayhawks, was winless Angel Goodrich is a star point guard, but based mostly in the Big 12. A crowd announced as on reputation. One of the country’s top prospects when she 40,851 was late arriving and early leav- came to KU from Tahlequah, Okla., in 2008, Goodrich blew ing, and their apathy was not entirely out a ligament in her left knee during the women’s basketball misplaced; even safety Chris Harris team’s second practice of the season. Last year Goodrich tore admitted he couldn’t remember the last a ligament in her right knee in the 15th game and underwent time KU won a conference game. her second reconstructive surgery in as many years. Now the Goodrich “It’s definitely been awhile,” he said. sophomore is healthy. Fingers crossed. “It was really tough, just knowing all the rehab I (For the record: Oct. 10, 2009, at home would have to do,” Goodrich says. “I think about it sometimes when I’m on the court. vs. Iowa State.) It’s hard not to.” Coach Bonnie Henrickson’s team was picked sixth in the Sure enough, the Buffaloes led by 28, Big 12 preseason poll. ... 45-17, with 14:52 remaining in a game The men’s basketball team was ranked No. 7 in the Associated Press preseason poll that had never really been competitive, and was picked by coaches to finish second in the Big 12, behind No. 3 Kansas State. let alone close. And then came one of the “K-State should be picked to win it,” coach Bill Self says, “but we’re not conceding most remarkable comebacks in the his- anything. [Last year’s] 33-3 is a pretty good win percentage, and I don’t think this team tory of college football: will do that, to be quite candid. But I do think this team can be as good a team as what • Touchdown, James Sims for 13 last year’s was when it counted the most.” Junior guard Tyshawn Taylor says it’s yards, 45-24, 11:05 remaining. almost a relief after KU labored last year as the top-ranked team and crashed hard in • Onside kick (never practiced) recov- the NCAA Tournament. “It was exhausting,” he says. “Now it’s kind of like a weight is ered by Bradley McDougald on the KU off our shoulders. Now we can just come here and play. We don’t have to be uptight. We don’t have to think so much. I think it’s going to be fun.” ... The men’s golf team made up an 11-stroke deficit to win the Herb Wimberly Inter-

STEVE PUPPE collegiate Oct. 26 in Las Cruces New Mexico. The win, by a stroke over UNLV, was KU’s first since 2007 and the first for coach Kit Grove, d’99. Senior Nate Barbee, who closed with rounds of 69 and 66, was named Big 12 Golfer of the Month for October. The women’s golf team won its Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational Sept. 28 at Alvamar Public, beating Arkansas Little-Rock by 10 strokes. Senior Grace Thiry, of Australia, was the medalist; teammate Katy Nugent, a junior transfer from Arkansas, was a stroke behind in second. ... Linebacker Mike Rivera, c’09, a fan favorite as a three-year starter at KU, caught on with the Green Bay Packers, joining their practice squad Oct. 13. He’d been released by the Tennessee Titans after training camp. Turner Gill

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Late Night

ong and dance, skits and laughter, Sfans and fun, music and mayhem and all-around hoops hysteria ... yet another Late Night in the Phog to launch basketball season on Mount Oread. This year’s edition, Oct. 15 in Allen Field House, was a particularly welcome burst of energy after football’s disheartening 59-7 loss to Kansas State the night before.

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FACING A DIRE carpenter affixes donors’ names outside the auditorium, while inside the space-age lecture hall pharmacy dean Ken Audus SHORTAGE, STATE stands before 150 first-day, first-year pharmacy students—already “colleagues,” in the parlance of the school’s intense professional Atraining—and says, “You are survivors. There are more than 200 students AND UNIVERSITY JOIN out there who would like to be in your seat. It’s a very important seat FORCES TO BOOST you’re sitting in.” Try $50 million worth of important. That’s the pricetag for the new PHARMACY CLASS School of Pharmacy Building on West Campus, whose 150 reasons for existing sit right here in the auditorium the morning of Aug. 18, SIZES BY NEARLY 50 pharmacy’s new-student orientation the day before the onset of fall semester. PERCENT—AND EVEN As Kansas Alumni first reported in issue No. 1, 2008, the state of Kansas faces a critical shortage of pharmacists. At the MORE ONCE WICHITA time, six counties in Kansas had no pharmacies, a shocking rise from two only two years earlier, and another 30 had EXPANSION IS READY only one retail pharmacy. IN FALL 2011

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ISSUE 6, 2010 | 23 A third of Kansas pharmacists were But KU’s ability to respond to the cri- older than 50, the average age of inde- sis was strictly limited by its antiquated, pendent pharmacy owners was 54, and cramped home in Malott Hall, which had the struggle to find relief pharmacists last undergone a significant renovation meant much-needed vacations often got in 1980. Although anywhere from 350 to put on hold. While filling 200 prescrip- 500 qualified students applied each year, tions in a day has traditionally been con- the School of Pharmacy could accept sidered a reasonable safety limit and a only 105, a cap that couldn’t be nudged full day’s work, the growth in prescrip- higher by reclaiming unused space. tion medications’ role in health care now “They’d converted every area they means pharmacists typically fill more could,” says Sen. Vicki Schmidt, p’78, than 400 a day, while grappling with the assistant majority leader of the Kansas burdensome paperwork and slow reim- Senate and a practicing pharmacist in bursements they say are hallmarks of the Topeka. The expression “emptying all Medicare Part D drug programs. the closets” had been the school’s expla- nation for how it expanded class sizes from 85 to 94, in 1996, and to 105 in 2001. “And we were dinged for it during accreditation reviews,” says Audus, PhD’84. “They said we really had no place for students to break out in small groups to take a clinical problem and work on it as a team. We didn’t have the space for that, and we couldn’t go elsewhere. Once students are admitted to the program, they take all their courses here. They don’t migrate from building to building like other students do.” In their new academic home, pharmacy students, who are admitted after their sophomore years and then require four more years in the school to complete their doctor of pharmacy degrees, attend class in two 175-seat high-tech auditoria capable of delivering and receiving transmissions from around the world. They have a spacious locker room and stylish student lounges. The first eatery on West Campus, the Mortar and Pestle Café, features an old-fashioned ■ Dean Ken Audus (top) outside the School The only thing that has changed in soda fountain and patio seating overlook- of Pharmacy Building’s primary lecture hall, the two years since those numbers were ing a medicinal plant garden. A working where all 150 members of the Class of 2014 first reported in Kansas Alumni, Dean pharmacy will complement services now (above) assembled for the first time at their Audus says, is that many retirement-age provided in Watkins Memorial Health retail pharmacists have been forced to Center. Spacious instructional laborato- Aug. 18 orientation. remain on the job after weathering the ries are awash in abundant natural light. economic troubles of 2008 and ’09. Like And, sure to please accreditors on their vacations, pharmacists’ retirements their next visit, 26 meeting rooms are have been put on hold. reserved for team investigations and “We need pharmacists out here,” small-group instruction. Hoisington city manager Allen Dinkel In Malott, there were two. said in 2008, “and only one school in “The faculty, staff, the state of Kansas, this state makes them. That’s KU.” the University and the entire school are

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ After fledgling pharmacy students got fitted for lab coats and toured their sparkling new building, they could begin their studies in state-of-the-art teaching laboratories and even a one-of-a-kind pharmacy museum.

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 25 putting a lot of money and effort and could attract qualified students who my colleagues in the statehouse, all 164 time to getting you through this pro- want to remain in central and western of them, has a pharmacist,” Schmidt gram,” Audus tells the new pharmacy Kansas, areas of critical need. recalls. “So when your senator or repre- students on the first day in the first “The Wichita expansion will help our sentative or one of their family members stand-alone campus home for a school rural communities a lot, I believe,” comes in for a prescription, you have a launched at KU in 1885. “We have Schmidt says. “I am privileged to work captive audience. We need to plead our expectations that you will work very with some pharmacy students who now case, talk about how we desperately need hard, just as the students who came are in the new building, and they talk this expansion.” before you worked very hard. about how each desk has a microphone Also playing a key role in grassroots “Your goal is the same as ours: to get so they can really have an interactive support for the project was Jayhawks for you out, become a licensed pharmacist, learning environment with people in Higher Education, the Alumni Associa- and provide the best health care possible Wichita, or wherever they are deployed. tion’s longtime legislative advocacy out- for patients in Kansas or wherever you The students are very excited about the let. Says Audus, “They came in very early end up practicing.” opportunities that gives them.” and made it clear they wanted to be Equally important was the enthusias- advocates for this program. They cer- ◆◆◆ tic support of Schmidt and another phar- tainly played a huge role.” macist-lawmaker, Rep. Don Hill, p’71, an Critical, too, is pharmacy’s involve- hen Audus took over as independent pharmacist in Emporia. ment in the University’s top priority, dean in 2004, he was told With Schmidt and Hill’s leadership, the gaining National Cancer Institute desig- by KU’s leaders at the expansion message was first delivered to nation, as was support from then-Gov. time, Chancellor Robert E. pharmacists across the state, and then, Kathleen Sebelius, g’80, now secretary WHemenway and Provost David Shulen- through every available means, to other of the U.S. Department of Health and burger, to begin planning an expansion. lawmakers. Human Services, and House Speaker Crises intervened, notably a monstrous “I remember speaking to a group of Mike O’Neal, c’73, l’76, of Hutchinson. tab for deferred maintenance backlogs, pharmacists and saying that every one of With everything in place, Sebelius included the project in her January 2008 “Your goal is the same as ours: to get you out, budget proposal to the Legislature. “What was difficult was convincing become a licensed pharmacist, and provide the policymakers that this was something that made sense for the state to do, best health care possible for patients in Kansas or only from the standpoint that there isn’t a typical funding mechanism for wherever you end up practicing.” institutions like KU to take on major expansions like this,” Damron says. so pharmacy had to get back in line. Richard Lariviere, named provost in 2006, quickly took up the cause, and by 2007 he, Audus and Kathy Damron, KU’s director of state relations, began formulating a plan they could take to the Kansas Legislature. A key element of the expansion proposal was that it included the School of Medicine-Wichita, where a second level would be added to the Kansas Health Foundation Building. That $5 million project, now underway and scheduled for completion by fall 2011, was part of the $50 million master plan taken to state lawmakers. As many as 20 students could be admitted each year in Wichita, bringing KU’s total class size to 170. A Wichita pharmacy program also

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI benefit of KU achieving its cancer center designation.”

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few days after welcoming the first incoming class to the new School of Pharmacy Building, Audus finds refuge from a Ascorching hot August morning in his airy office, sipping an iced Starbucks drink. He is organized and efficient, and his office has none of the detritus that typically clutters academic enclaves. Announcing to new students that professional standards are enforced from the first day of training in the School of Phar- macy, he prohibits caps and mobile ■ A working reproduction of an old-style soda That was in April 2008; by the next phones, demands punctuality and fountain is the featured exhibit in the building’s month, however, the bill was back on expects near-perfect attendance. pharmacy museum, which celebrates small-town track, with a significant portion of the And, despite the obvious success independent pharmacies throughout Kansas $50 million to come from the Expanded story, Audus has unmet expectations of history—not just for dispensing medications Lottery Act Revenues Fund, which his own. The school’s renowned depart- but also as social hubs where good friends and allowed lottery money to be used to ments of pharmacology and toxicology retire state debt. Passed by the Legisla- and medicinal chemistry are still housed tasty treats could always be found. “We have a ture and signed by Sebelius that spring, in Malott Hall, and Audus is still trying lot of history to share,” Dean Audus says. the issue had to again be revisted after to raise money—from anyplace except the October 2008, when it was learned that Legislature—to build two pharmacy “We were really charting new territory.” the anticipated $30 million in lottery research buildings near the new class- The rapid growth that filled West money would not be available. room structure. Campus with new research buildings in With a new proposal that gave the “We would like to be in one general recent years had been paid for by state beneficial options for retiring $50 location on this campus,” he says. “We’ve research funds and private contributions; million in bonds, the pharmacy building been scattered to eight different build- for this classroom facility, the state would was again approved in the 2009 session. ings. Now that we’re in this building on be asked to write a $50 million check, “Because pharmacy is what I do in my West Campus, Med-Chem and Pharm- with an additional $5 million raised by real life, I was able to readily see the ben- Tox are a mile away. The faculty can drive KU Endowment. efit that was going to be derived from the over and teach; that’s not an issue. But As legislators examined the issue, it investment we were talking about mak- when we have a student in class wanting appeared to gain wide support: “It was ing,” Hill says from his Emporia phar- to make contact with a professor over Democrats, Republicans, urban areas, macy. “As far as being a legislator, there, going to main campus becomes an rural areas, all across the map, in the taxpayer dollars are a very precious com- issue.” Senate and in the House,” Damron says. modity and anytime a project or But for the moment, talk of future “But it was not easy.” expenses are contemplated, you want to projects can wait. The story for now is a Politics is always part of the process, be certain there is good value derived bricks-and-glass reality: as lawmakers seek support for their own from the expenditure, that there’s going A record-setting inaugural class, 85 projects in return for supporting to be good return on investment. I was percent of which hails from Kansas, will another’s bill. Explains Damron, “That’s comfortable when we started down this immediately help relieve the state’s phar- sort of an undercurrent that always runs path, and I’m more comfortable than macy crisis after doctor of pharmacy under the session, and this wasn’t any ever as we go forward, that we’re going degrees are conferred in 2014. exception. It was clear all the way to the to see that kind of return with this new “It’s a long four years of incubation end that we had to keep our foot on the pharmacy building. into that PharmD,” Sen. Schmidt says, accelerator. In fact, there was a time “It will certainly be well evident “but we’re already eagerly waiting for when the governor had to veto the Legis- in terms of the pharmacy students those students who are sitting in those lature’s original funding mechanism.” who graduate, but it will also be in the seats today.”

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 27 man calls a pizza place to personal privacy and creating a 24-hour way it was in the pizza video. order a couple of double- total surveillance society. We need to One way they do this is by working meat-special pizzas. The reach people on a basic level and show with other big players on the Internet, worker who answers knows them how this massive erosion of privacy such as Google and Facebook, to theA man’s address and phone number. could have a real impact on their daily develop security software protocols that No surprise. But then she recites his lives, even in their late-night pizza restrict the kind of information third- work address and tells him there will be deliveries.” party software developers can obtain a $20 “health charge” tacked on because “We call it the ‘Surveillance Industrial when they make products to comple- his medical records show that he has Complex,’” Stanley says. “Technological ment the larger search engine and social high blood pressure and high choles- advances combined with a lack of laws media companies’ services. For example, terol. She also knows the crime rate in regulating their use has led to a Wild anyone who uses Facebook is familiar his neighborhood, the books he’s West land grab of information on indi- with games such as Farmville and Mafia checked out of the library, how much he viduals and the government is interested Wars, which ask for access to user data. spent on plane tickets for an upcoming in leveraging that information. And the The programs Laaker and his associates trip and even his waist size. government has more powers now to develop ensure that these add-ons take “How do you know all this stuff?” grab it.” only what they need, such as a name and the man asks. Six years later, Laaker is working a photo—not user name and password or “We just got wired into the system, now with the kinds of technologies the credit card information. sir.” ACLU used his video to warn about. “One such mechanism we’ve devel- This fictional phone call, placed at As head of Product Management and oped is one we worked on with Google, some point in the not-too-distant future, User Experience for Yahoo!’s Developer known as Caja, which is Spanish for is the plot of a two-minute online video Platforms, in Mountain View, Calif., box,” Laaker says. “It cages the develop- directed by Micah Laaker, f’97, for the Laaker develops technologies that allow ers’ code so that they can’t seek out American Civil Liberties Union. Released people to share information over the information to steal and exploit beyond online in 2004, “Pizza Surveillance” is a Internet more easily. what the person has specifically granted. darkly humorous warning of what could To some, this career turn might seem It’s an extra level of security.” happen as a result of the government’s a betrayal of his work for the ACLU. But Laaker’s path to the frontline of the response to the threat of terrorism. “It’s Laaker doesn’t think so. “I see what I do digital revolution seems an unlikely one. a heads up,” Laaker says. “It said, ‘Here’s now as a continuation of my work with He was a design major as an undergrad what can happen when you provide the the ACLU. Where the guy in the video at KU. His first job after graduation was state with a centralized information sys- had no control over what the pizza par- an interactive design agency in Kansas tem about citizens which then ties into lor knew about him, we’re working on City called BlairLake. He moved on to the private sector’s databases.’ In such ways to give people the levers to grant New York City working at boutique

Secure byDesign Yahoo!’s Micah Laaker a world, you’d have no control over what and revoke access to their data whenever others can know about you.” they want. The citizen, not the state, aims to satisfy The short has rung up more than 26 determines who has access to what and million views since 2005. “It’s the most when … and for how long,” Laaker says. successful online video the ACLU has While Laaker and his colleagues at users’ need for ever done,” says Jay Stanley, senior policy Yahoo! continually strive to simplify the analyst of privacy and technology issues. exchange of info on the Web, they work information— “We still get lots of hits on it. It’s been a just as hard to ensure that people have smashing success.” control over what and how much data and privacy At the time of its release, ACLU execu- they share. One of their top priorities is tive director Anthony D. Romero said, to make it difficult, if not impossible, for “The fact is that new technologies and that information to fall into the wrong new government policies are eroding our hands and be used against people, the BY JOE MILLER

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI meeting tight deadlines while creating infographics and illustrations for the University Daily Kansan. Looking back on the video he directed for the ACLU, Laaker notes that a lot has changed in online security. “The threat exists now in a different way,” he explains. “Now with third-party applications users don’t think through what they surrender. When you shop online, you surrender personal information. Each store and site has an individual database. It’s hard for users to control once they’ve submitted. There are cases where information can be leaked out. You can be a target for attack.” So the biggest challenge now is getting people to understand these risks. “At a certain point, it becomes commonplace to share information all over the Internet and people become numb to that,” he says. “Let’s be honest. I think about this stuff everyday. But I don’t check every time if there’s a padlock” indicating that a site is secure. “We go by look and feel. And look and feel is pretty easy to create.” The reason why this is so challenging is that people want it to be easier to share information, and security measures

SUSAN YOUNGER can make it more difficult. For instance, Laaker says, people who keep digital address books with several services such as Yahoo!, Gmail and Hotmail often want to combine them in one location. And there’s still lots of work to do, especially as we move more and more toward hand- design firms, including a stint leading has been done. You’re too avant garde held devices to do business, recreation the online design team for the hip-hop for that.’” and socializing online. label Def Jam. He wrote a book about It proved to be a defining moment for “We have yet to find the perfect Photoshop, a graphic design software, Laaker. “I decided I wanted to make balance level of informing users of what and another about Scalable Vector design solutions work better for users, they’re doing while not putting up too Graphics. not based on what an artist thought was many roadblocks to their data,” he says. He’d always been into software cod- cool.” “You can’t make it too difficult for them ing, however, and he eventually became For Laaker, the switch felt natural. to get their own information back more interested in the technology side of “Design or engineering—either is a way to out.” the business. Then he got into an argu- solve a problem and communicate some- —Miller, ’11, is the author of Cross-X, the ment with Kanye West that pushed his thing. There’s not a huge distinction.” story of a championship debate team from career into user-centered development. He credits KU with teaching him the Kansas City. He studies in KU’s graduate “Kanye wanted a website focused fundamentals of design and the impor- writing program. around his brand new plasma TV,” tance of exploration in the problem- Laaker says. “He wanted everything solving process. Perhaps most critical, View “Pizza Surveillance” at inside the screen. I said, ‘That shtick though, was the experience he gained in www.aclu.org/ordering-pizza

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 29 Five alumni writers share memories and milestones that capture the glory of the Kansas game

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI Poetry and Basketball by B.H. Fairchild

hen my family moved from the oil- championship loss to Indiana. fields of west Texas to Liberal in Later there would be those W 1952, I was 10 years old and had sudden but beautifully soft never seen a basketball game, much sky-hooks of Wilt Chamberlain less played in one. Sport in Texas meant two and Walt Wesley and the silky things: football and baseball, with the latter a jump shot of Jo Jo White (to my distant second. But on that first day we rolled into mind the smoothest point guard in KU history), town, there they were: the hoops on garages; but the grace-under-pressure award goes of occasionally, free-standing goals in backyards; and course to Mario Chalmers, and we all know why. ubiquitous graffiti boasting that the KU basketball In basketball I want neither a T.S. Eliot nor an team and somebody Ezra Pound but something more like the great named Clyde Anthony Hecht or Elizabeth Bishop: enormously Lovellette had done elaborate work done with apparent but mirage- something marvelous like simplicity, so craftsmanlike and polished that

EARL RICHARDSON that year. And who you can’t see the seams. “Always make it look was Phog Allen? easy,” my father, an equally accomplished lathe Soon after, our land- machinist and local baseball star, once said to lord installed a half- me. In a perfectly executed fast break, when court for his son on the ball never touches the floor and the property adjoining our shooter gets the pass in rhythm, it’s as if little $70-per-month the shot actually began at the other end rent house. His son of the court. (And I love the team under almost never used the court, but I was out there Self, but the Williams secondary shooting baskets each day until dark and often break with Miles and Hinrich was after dark. I had no hoops future since I was the sui generis, a thing of rare beauty.) smallest guy in my class; in fact, I was a has-been When basketball is fluid, efficient and by my sophomore year, but that was also when I continuous like that, it is closest to a began slowly, dimly, to intuit the strange intersec- poem—almost lyrical, if I can stretch a tion between poetry and basketball, particularly metaphor—with a closure that is magically KU basketball, which by then had become an inevitable yet aesthetically surprising at the obsession. same time. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I It began on that court behind my house, my much prefer the break’s finish with the soft roll buddies and I playing three-on-three, the pick-and- into the hoop rather than the dunk, which seems roll executed crudely but with enough facility to unnecessarily ornamental, a kind of artificial produce that first genuinely aesthetic moment: the rhetorical flourish, a redundant exclamation mark. sense of one’s body disappearing inside a motion. Admittedly, at other times there’s also the We were an eight-hour drive from Lawrence or I poetry of the explosive image leaping from the sur- could have witnessed this marvel in the person of rounding text: that amazing tomahawk put-back by B.H. Born the very next year, when his flawless Raef LaFrentz against Missouri; Darnell Jackson’s sweeps to the basket won him the Most Outstand- reach-for-heaven dunk off a perfectly timed alley-

ing Player award in the heart-breaking NCAA oop from Chalmers against DePaul; David Padgett’s ARCHIVES SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 31 winning last-second turnaround jumper to close down, forever, Mizzou’s old Hearnes Fieldhouse. And, of course, Jo Jo’s apparently winning 35-foot jump Old Men Playing Basketball shot against Texas Western in the 1966 NCAA regional final, disallowed because The heavy bodies lunge, the broken language his foot allegedly touched the line (it did not; see the photo in the next day’s of fake and drive, glamorous jump shot Topeka Capital-Journal) and the only slowed to a stutter. Their gestures, in love time I have ever hurled a physical object again with the pure geometry of curves, (a full can of beer) at the TV screen. SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (4) SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY And thus, the poetry of Sophoclean rise toward the ball, falter, and fall away. tragedy: not only Texas Western, but the On the boards their hands and fingertips triple overtime loss in the NCAA championship game against North Carolina, tremble in tense little prayers of reach despite Wilt Chamberlain’s presence; the and balance. Then, the grind of bone ’97 regional final against Arizona; the 2003 championship loss against and socket, the caught breath, the sigh, Carmelo Anthony and Syracuse. Such is the grunt of the body laboring to give the grand agon of KU basketball, its birth to itself. In their toiling and grand unbearable depths as well as ecstatic heights, a Homeric greatness reaching sweeps, I wonder, do they still make love from the Naismith days to the present, a classical Greek profundity of rise and fall to their wives, kissing the undersides and rise that no other college team can of their wrists, dancing the old soft-shoe approach. of desire? And on the long walk home The last time I visited Liberal, the little from the VFW, do they still sing rent house was gone though the old half- court remained. It was two-on-three, one of us gone now, though we didn’t talk to the drunken moon? Stands full, clock about that. The rim was hanging from moving, the one in a Kansas sweatshirt the backboard, weeds were thick around and houseshoes says to himself, pick and roll, the cracked and crumbling pavement. and the phrase sounds musical as ever, We had all gone to different universities, lived radically different lives far away from each other, survived life’s difficul- radio crooning songs of love after the game, ties and conflicts and disappointments in the girl leaning back in the Chevy’s front seat different ways, but hoops still meant the as her raven hair flames in the shuddering same thing, had the same name: Kansas. light of the outdoor movie, and now he drives, We passed the ball around a few times, took a few shots, rubbed our shoulders, gliding toward the net. A glass wand complained about our knees, and then, imagining I had just caught that never-to- of autumn light breaks over the backboard. be-forgotten, epic pass from the heroic Boys rise up in old men, wings begin to sprout Sherron Collins, I squared up as the at their backs. The ball turns in the darkening air. announcer screamed, Mario Chalmers, B.H. Fairchild with the tie-eeeee . . . —Fairchild, c’64, g’68, is the author of seven books of poetry, including Art of the Lathe, which won the Kingsley Tufts Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His latest book is Usher, published by W.W. Norton.

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI “girls,” and follow it up with a pithy lecture on how we didn’t let guys anywhere tell us how to act. Then we looked over at the bar. A quintet of heavyset men, wearing grey overcoats and fedoras, were knock- Danny and the ing back whiskies and giving us the fish eye. They each had a phone in front of Miracles Play Chicago them; in those old landline days, the bar gave their big gambling customers by Sara Paretsky phones so they could keep in touch with their Vegas bookies. The quintet looked like the kind of grew up in Lawrence. I watched KU frog, had gone to Duke. When he saw guys who could put you in cement in old Hoch Auditorium and saw our sign, he came over to tell us that the booties if they weren’t happy with you, I Wilt Chamberlain play when I was a Blue Devils would massacre the ’Hawks and they definitely were not happy with child; I saw Jo Jo White during the in the semis. When Kansas prevailed, we us: They were seeing their investment in Ted Owens era when I was a student on tried not to gloat—my neighbor was a guy Oklahoma head south. the Hill. Even though I’ve lived in with a short fuse and I warned Karen we Karen and I watched the end of the Chicago since 1968, my heart is still with had to tread lightly around him. game with the kind of ladylike decorum my ’Hawks. Treading lightly turned out to be good that would have done an Edwardian Every Jayhawk game is a nail biter for training for the final, Kansas vs. Okla- grande dame proud. We quietly paid our me, and the 1988 NCAA tournament homa. Karen and I decided we had to tab and slipped out of the bar. And then, made me watch the game on a big screen. Fifty- gnaw them inch projection TV’s were just starting to

STEVE PUPPE down to the appear, and they existed only in a hand- quicks. ful of bars. We called around until we 1988. No found a bar with a 50-inch screen on cable or Ontario Street, in the heart of Chicago’s satellite business entertainment district, that packages let planned to broadcast the final. you watch We arrived early enough that we your home could find a booth with a good view of

team any the screen. Neither Karen nor I liked to ARCHIVES SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY hour of the drink alcohol. We had a drink apiece, day or night. No YouTube, no Internet. If then kept ordering diet 7-Ups and your team didn’t make the 10 o’clock snacks so the waitstaff wouldn’t bother news, you had to wait for the morning us for occupying a booth all afternoon. paper’s sports section for results. The ’Hawks were total underdogs. In 1988, the Oklahoma Sooners, They were 21-11 when the tournament ■ Danny Manning who’d beaten the ’Hawks both games began, and the Las Vegas punters all had during the regular season, were seeded their money on the Sooners. At halftime, on that cold gray April evening, we No. 1 in their region and tipped to win the score was tied at 50, and we were so stood in the middle of Chicago’s most the tourney. Oklahoma was blowing tense we could hardly sit still, but as the crowded street and startled the opponents out of the water, while Danny second half wound down and the passersby with the world’s loudest “Rock Manning and the other Jayhawks were ’Hawks were holding the lead, we began Chalk!” barely staying afloat. Against all odds, to scream with excitement. —Paretsky, c’67, is the best-selling author of Kansas made it to the Final Four. With about two minutes left in the 19 books of fiction and nonfiction and the During the tournament, another KU game, our waitress came over and said, creator of fictional private eye V.I. War- grad was staying with me in Chicago “Girls, you’d better cut back on the 7-Up shawski. The Crime Writers Association while she hunted for an apartment. We and keep your voices down. Some guys awarded her the Gold Dagger for best novel painted a big “KU” sign to hang on my at the bar aren’t happy with you.” in 2004 and the Cartier Diamond Dagger front door. My next-door neighbor, an Karen and I are both good feminists; for lifetime achievement. Her latest book is aggressive guy with a voice like a bull- we were about to object to being called Body Work.

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 33 I must confess that I felt some ambiva- lence about the basketball program’s fame. If I wore a shirt that said “Kansas,” people would say, “Basketball.” Yet by now, I’d been out of Kansas long enough to appreciate the value of something else—my education. In the two fields I’d Always a Kansan, After All studied, literature and journalism, I found upon leaving Kansas that I could by Kevin Helliker hold my own amid recent graduates of higher-ranked academic institutions. But try telling a Harvard graduate that you hat I remember about the important to me was the tradition of attended a school known in Kansas as 1988 University of Kansas rebellion at the University; in 1970, amid “Harvard on the Kaw.” W victory in the NCAA antiwar protest on campus, someone had The inextricable association between national championship set fire to the student union and precipi- Kansas and basketball stirs dislike of the game isn’t the performance of the Jay- tated an early end to the semester. By the game among some graduates. When hawks’ star, Danny Manning, or the time I arrived as a junior in 1979, the Erin Felchner started law school at a improbability of a team seeded sixth in Vietnam War was long over. But I longed top-rated institution, Northwestern its tournament bracket taking it all. to rebel, and at a school where students University, some fellow students Rather, I remember the telephone inter- go so far as to travel hundreds of miles expressed dismay that as an undergradu- rupting my solitary living-room celebra- en masse to cheer the Jayhawks on the ate she’d gone to “a basketball school.” tion in Phoenix, and the voice of a road, ignoring basketball was a sure way A 1998 political-science graduate of renowned to do it. During my three years professor of on the campus in Lawrence, I literature never attended a single game. KEVIN HORAN screaming Of course, the ultimate form like a 5-year- of rebellion against any place is old, “We did to leave it. Having gone to col- it! We did it!” lege only 40 miles from home This was the on a campus populated with first of many students I’d known since grade calls that school, having always lived night from within minutes of parents, Kansas. brothers, grandparents, ARCHIVES SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY Success is an end in itself, I suppose, cousins, friends and former but for me the perennial greatness of the teachers, I longed for new faces KU basketball program has had a side and landscapes, for the chance benefit. It has been 28 years since I left to be a stranger. ■ Championship parade, 1988 the state of Kansas. During that time, I’ve But the instant I got my lived in six states and one foreign coun- wish, I discovered it was important for Kansas, Ms. Felchner responded by try. I’ve tried hard to remain connected me to be a specific kind of stranger—a making Law Review—and continuing her to home, and in that effort I’ve received a stranger from Kansas. boycott of Jayhawk basketball. “I’ve never big assist from Kansas basketball. It is A newfound Kansas pride prompted watched a game,” she says. what many Kansans talk about when we me to wear Jayhawk caps and sweatshirts Nor was the importance of keeping talk about home. that I never would have worn at home in basketball in perspective lost on KU It wasn’t that way for me when I Kansas City, Kan., or in Lawrence. The Chancellor Robert Hemenway, a literary attended the University. Then, I talked arrival of this pride also coincided with scholar. During halftime at home games, about getting out. I understood that the end of a dry spell in Kansas basket- he had a tradition of announcing from Kansas had a rich basketball tradition— ball. The coming of coach Larry Brown the center of the basketball court its program having been started by the and his star player, Danny Manning, Jayhawk accomplishments that are non- founder of the game, James Naismith, restored luster to the program and ulti- athletic. “Athletes aren’t our only stars,” and its players having included Dean mately brought the national champi- he said. Smith and Wilt Chamberlain. But more onship in 1988. I’ve come to think of Kansas basket-

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI them vie for the championship. What I remember about that Final Four isn’t the 18 missed free throws that doomed the Jayhawks in the championship game. I EARL RICHARDSON remember walking the French Quarter with the loveliest Jayhawk in New Orleans, as well as with a brother of mine we’d persuaded to come, and whom I’d almost never before seen outside Kansas. So now, the madness begins again. Will coach Self grab a second national title? I have no idea. What I know is this: The Kansas players come and go. The Kansas coaches come and go. Each change is an excuse for me to make contact, not only with others but also with my past. One semester in Kansas, I sat in a ■ Louisiana Superdome, 2003 Final Four room where two instructors talked to each other for 90 minutes twice a week for an entire semester about one book: ball as a symbol of the University’s Dad had started watching or listening to “The Odyssey.” We students could nei- broader appeal: its under-ranked every Kansas game, usually from the ther ask questions nor take notes. Our academics, its low cost and its kitchen table back home in Kansas City. role was to listen. What I remember hear- spectacular campus atop Mount Oread. A ritual developed between us. I’d long ing them say is that I should leave and Then there is the program’s role in been frustrated at my inability to follow seek adventures elsewhere, but never keeping me connected back home. In games from afar, in places that don’t forget home. I also remember a poem calls to Kansas, I’ve found that mention- broadcast the Jayhawks. But now I know they recited to us over and over, until we ing the Jayhawks answers an unspoken where to turn. When the phone rings could recite it back: question: Have I remained loyal? It is a during a game, Dad has a pretty good question I not only answer but ask. I’m idea who it is. And being a man who Breathes there the man with soul so dead proud to say that my youngest brother, a loves to feel useful—at 73 he still cut meat Who never to himself hath said, biology professor, never cheered Stan- at a place called House of Sausage, and `This is my own, my native land!’ ford University’s Cardinal during his not for the money—he takes to the role of Whose heart hath ne’er within him burned stint there. Now, he’s cheering the Jay- sportscaster with enthusiasm. “Oh, it’s As home his footsteps he hath turned hawks from Austria. nip and tuck,” he will say. “We’re just not From wandering on a foreign strand! My most regular correspondence on shooting well at all.” these matters is with my dad. This is Of course, this reaching back can be In all the hours I sat in that class, I somewhat surprising, because my dad is annoying for one’s significant other, if he never heard mention of basketball. I a Missourian by upbringing and tradi- or she isn’t a Jayhawk. In such a situation would have guessed that these two giants tionally not a fan of college sports. But the most anyone can request is forbear- of the classical world paid no attention to the most amiable newcomer the state of ance. I, however, struck gold. Before she it. But after decades of lost contact, I Kansas ever welcomed, Roy Williams, met me, it had never occurred to my recently called the surviving member of totally charmed my dad after taking over wife, a University of Chicago graduate, to that duo, Dennis Quinn, now professor as Jayhawk coach following the 1988 join the community of people who emeritus at Kansas. championship. I believe that Dad, a meat believe that Kansas basketball matters. “Basketball?” Dr. Quinn said, “Oh, cutter, felt as though he wouldn’t have But now she watches just as enthusiasti- yeah. I go to the games.” needed a college degree to feel comfort- cally as I do. —-Helliker, c’82, is a senior writer for the able around Roy, as the entire state took Indeed, when the Jayhawks made the Wall Street Journal in Chicago. In 2004 a to calling him. Final Four in the 2003 NCAA tourna- series of articles on aortic aneurysms that he It came to my attention sometime ment, it was Devon who declared that we co-wrote won the Pulitzer Prize for early in the 15-year Roy Williams era that should head to New Orleans to watch explanatory journalism.

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 35 belonged to group A or B. That compli- cated life for couples who got tickets to different games, like Jane and me, so we traded with another couple. We watched from the balcony. Many of the athletes, including Evans and Schnellbacher, had returned; they didn’t equal their pre- When Hoch Was Home service success, but veterans had other things on their minds, such as getting By James Gunn married and getting out. When Jane and I returned in 1949 to work on a graduate degree, Phog Allen hen I arrived at KU in the through the net with astonishing was recruiting the players who would fall of 1942, a 19-year-old regularity, somewhat like Cole Aldrich end up as national and Olympic champi- W junior given a year of col- nearly 70 years later. Only a few ons in 1952, in spite of playing their lege after volunteering for basketball players had not yet enlisted home games in Hoch Auditorium. They the Navy Air Corps, the first thing I did or been drafted. The KU team was included Clyde Lovellette, who became was find a place to live. There were no known as the “Iron Five,” playing almost known as “the monster of the music dormitories for men and only Corbin for every minute of every game and, as I hall.” But we were gone by the time 1952 freshman women. I found a room in an recall, did not compete in post-season arrived and enjoyed the triumph by radio old house next to the Jayhawk Café. play because virtually the entire team in remote Racine, Wis. The second thing was to check out volunteered for armed service. By the time we returned to Lawrence football and basketball. The U.S. had entered World War II less than a STEVE PUPPE year before, and fewer than 4,000 students were enrolled. I got a ticket that admitted me to bleachers on the stage of Hoch Audito- rium. The auditorium was a strange venue for basketball: Seats on the flat surface were removed, baskets were mounted at either side, the floor probably was less than regulation size, and the walls sloped inward toward the prosce- nium stage. But Phog Allen and his recruits had made it famous. KU had a good team ■ Ray Evans and Otto Schnellbacher that year, including Ray Evans, Otto Schnellbacher and Charlie Black. Those were the days of the two- or three-sport When I got back from my three years in 1955 and began a teaching and admin- athlete, and Evans and Schnellbacher of service, enrollment had jumped to istrative career, Phog Allen had built the were stars in both football and basket- 8,500 and students had to get tickets to fieldhouse that later bore his name and ball. Charlie Black was my hero, though. attend basketball games. Hoch couldn’t begun to stock it with athletes recruited He had a two-handed set shot that hold them all, and students got admis- nationally, culminating in the signing of started behind his head and swished sion to only half the games—they Wilt Chamberlain. The expansion of

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI seating to more than 16,000 meant that —-Gunn, j’47, g’51, is professor emeritus of 1983 Hugo Award for his book Isaac tickets were not scarce, and we got seats English, director of KU’s Center for the Asimov: The Foundations of in the first row of the northeast corner of Study of Science Fiction, and a prolific Science Fiction. the balcony. From there we saw Wilt’s science fiction author and editor. He won a triumphant first game as a freshman, when freshmen weren’t eligible to play on the varsity. Jane saw his even more startling debut as a sophomore; I had to attend a meeting in Kansas City, but saw all the rest, including the finals of the NCAA championship in Kansas City’s Municipal Auditorium. I was editing the alumni magazine then and obtained press tickets (to my surprise). I was assigned a seat in a box at floor level, just in front of Chancellor and Mrs. Franklin Murphy, and remem- ARCHIVES (2) SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY ber turning and exchanging looks of dismay at the end of the third overtime. By 1959 I had joined the chancellor’s staff and had seats in the chancellor’s section at mid-court in the balcony, where I watched the teams of Dick Harp and Ted Owens and their periods of good years and not-quite-as-good years culminating in the NCAA loss to Texas Western—the ultimate NCAA champion— in which an official ruled that Jo Jo White had stepped on the out-of-bounds line when he made the winning shot. Chancellor Murphy appointed me his replacement on the athletics board, and I served there for 10 years. When I left University Relations to become a full- time English teacher, former athletics board members were assigned seats on the west side of the fieldhouse, where we remained through the short, glorious days of the Larry Brown era. The Roy Williams era was filled with excitement and success and frustration at never being quite good or lucky enough at the right time. By the time Bill Self became head coach, a new athletics director changed the seating system, and my watching of KU basketball became television viewing—fortunately, televised games became the rule rather than the exception, and flat-screen high-definition sets brought the game into our living rooms. It was a lot like watching basketball from the stage of Hoch Auditorium. ■ KU vs. Creighton in Hoch Auditorium, Jan. 29, 1949

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 37 Yahtzee you can win at life”? Pondering my inability to regulate my emotions around my fandom, I asked three simple questions of the director of the University of Kansas Psychological Clinic, Dr. Sarah Kirk, PhD (who also happens to be my sister): A Fan’s Note Do you think I am experiencing any issues with transference regarding my By Laura Kirk extreme emotions during basketball season—particularly March Madness? Do you think there exists “mass trans- hen Kansas Alumni asked and we knew it to be a “sign.” In the final ference,” as in “mass hysteria”? I mean, I me to write about what moments of the championship game I think I might not be the only one. W Kansas basketball means huddled sick and weeping in a fetal posi- What would you say to me giving up to me, I am certain they tion under a blanket in another room watching basketball entirely? Healthy had no idea that this is the year I am when frantic calls to return came from choice? announcing, with a heavy heart, my my family. When Mario’s shot tied the Her only response was her hand on “retirement” from being a Jayhawk fan. If game they said my screams woke the her chin and “Hmm.” they are brave enough to print this I’m sleepy bears, moose and other wildlife I have begun announcing my decision sure fellow Jayhawks will relate to my surrounding us. to everyone. Most people scoff or laugh quandary. I just don’t know how to keep and say they’ll see … or they pretend it In school and after graduation I didn’t really notice my extreme

behavior and STEVE PUPPE emotion.

COURTESY LAURA KIRK LAURA COURTESY There were large groups of us all behaving in a similar way. The Rock Chalk Chant and waving of the wheat pronounced “eerie” by New Yorkers was effective and excit- ing for us. The drama was fun, and as with most of my youthful behavior I never really engaged in self-reflection. The stakes are higher now. I have children. I am a role model. The first year my children were old ■ Sherron Collins and Mario Chalmers, 2008 enough to know what was going on, 2005, we were in California. As I walked the streets of Hermosa Beach I yelled handling the extreme highs and lows doesn’t matter. However, when I made wildly into strangers’ homes, where CBS that go along with this Jayhawk fan busi- my formal declaration to my children at flickered on televisions: “ROCK CHALK ness. Tears streaming down my face one the dinner table Sasha couldn’t believe JAYHAWK!” Later that evening they year I asked a fellow devout Jayhawk, me. Then my star point guard Nina said, asked, “Why is Mom in a closet crying?” Colby Hall, “Why do I care so much?” He “What time are they on? I will watch.” Then they asked me, “Why does it mean considered, then wisely replied, “If they —Kirk,c’89, is a screenwriter and so much to you?” win on a national level, then we can.” independent filmmaker in Cornwall, Conn. In 2008 we burst with pride hearing Was that it? Was it all about me? Is it just She co-wrote and starred in the 2000 “Sasha” chanted. My son’s name is Sasha like when I say, “If you can win at comedy-drama “Lisa Picard is Famous.”

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI The Coaches SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (5) SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY/UNIVERSITY

Ted Owens

Dick Harp and Phog Allen

W. O. Hamilton James Naismith STEVE PUPPE

Larry Brown EARL RICHARDSON

Roy Williams Bill Self

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 39 Association TERRY ROMBECK (5) ROMBECK TERRY

“KHP ranks Decades of distinction among our top Kansas Honors Program celebrates 40 years programs, and it n cities and towns all across the state, a in all 105 Kansas counties. This year the program is one of the special ritual has become part of the annual will honor students from 362 high schools. most powerful community calendar. On a night in the fall Michelle Miles, b’02, assistant director of ways in which or spring, high school seniors, their families, Kansas programs, coordinates the 41 KHP events Ischool administrators and local Jayhawks gather held each year from September through April. To we connect to continue a 40-year tradition: the Alumni do so, she must meld the schedules and logistics with Kansas Association’s Kansas Honors Program, which for 41 teams traveling from Lawrence: a KU since 1971 has recognized seniors whose leader who is the featured speaker for each event, families.” academic performance ranks in the top 10 an Alumni Association staff member, students —Kevin Corbett percent of their class. from the Student Alumni Leadership Board and “Throughout the Alumni Association’s 125 student vocalists and pianists from the School of years, we have had many opportunities to be Music. In addition, Miles works with more than proud of the work we have accomplished on 130 local alumni volunteers statewide; these Jay- behalf of KU and the state. KHP ranks among hawks reserve dinner or reception sites, track our top programs, and it is one of the most powerful ways in which we connect with Kansas families,” says ■ Michelle Miles works with volunteers Kevin Corbett, c’88, Association around the state to honor graduating president. “As we honor students’ academic achievement, we affirm students. At the Reno County program that they are the future leaders of in Hutchinson, Association President our state and nation, and we encour- Kevin Corbett, c’88, (above left) age them to continue their academic presented each senior a special edition excellence.” dictionary and served as the keynote Since the first KHP ceremony in speaker. Hutchinson, the program has recognized more than 110,000 students Miles

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI ◆◆◆ began in 1912. Margey received the honor during the Homecoming reception and rode in the parade Oct. 23. Kansas couple She retired in 2008 from KU, but remains involved in the KU community Homecoming’s Spirit of 1912 and Lawrence civic and charitable honor goes to the Fredericks causes. The Fredericks have four sons, Brian, Mark, Chris and Brad, and a s KU’s director of special events grandson and granddaughter. and visitor services, Margey Frederick told KU’s story throughout Kansas with eventsA such as the Wheat State Whirl- wind Tour and Kansas State Fair. For Frederick, her role was as much a calling as a career, because of the lifelong devo-

tion she shared with her husband, Bob. MARGEY FREDERICK(2) COURTESY The two were married in Danforth Chapel in 1972. Bob, c’62, g’64, PhD’84, ultimately served as KU athletics director from 1987 to 2001 and remained a KU faculty member until his death in 2009. To honor the Fredericks’ Jayhawk reservations and follow up with families loyalty and their role in upholding KU and school leaders to generate interest in traditions, the the event. Homecoming Each year 3,500 students receive Steering Commit- special edition American Heritage dic- tee selected tionaries, formal certificates and the Margey, j’69, g’78, opportunity to compete for $4,000 and her late hus- scholarships that are awarded each year band to receive ■ After graduation and a campus wedding to two Kansas Honor Scholars who the Spirit of 1912 (above), Bob and Margey Frederick remained choose to attend KU. The KHP is funded award during devoted to the University. Margey represented through Association membership dues, Homecoming, a the couple in the Homecoming parade (below). contributions from local alumni and a KU tradition that grant from KU Endowment. After four decades, the KHP now honors a second generation of scholars: Many of the alumni volunteers and STEVE PUPPE parents who attend with their students received their own KHP dictionaries as high school seniors years ago. To com- memorate the 40th year, Association graphic designer Valerie Spicher, j’94, created a new KHP logo that appears on each dictionary, along with an anniversary seal. “The fact that KHP has been around for 40 years is an achievement in itself,” says Miles, who currently is overseeing her third season of the tradition. “These things can phase out or lose support over time, but we still have great alumni support—and it keeps getting better.”

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 41 Association

Prairie Dunes premiere Save the date! TERRY ROMBECK (5) ROMBECK TERRY Mark your 2011 calendar for the Association’s spring events.

✒ The 16th annual Rock Chalk Ball will be held April 16 at the Overland Park Convention Center. The Jayhawk-inspired black-tie event, hosted by the Greater Kansas City Area Chapter, includes a silent auction, dinner, dancing and special guest speakers. Proceeds from the event support Association programs.

✒ The Class of 1961 will reunite April 28-May 1 in Lawrence to celebrate its golden anniversary. Class members will attend the pinning ceremony Friday evening, April 29. The Gold Medal Club, which celebrates graduates of 50-plus years, will hold its annual reunion on Saturday, April 30.

Grand Marshal Robert Eaton obert Eaton, e’63, returned to the Hill as Homecoming R grand marshal. The former chairman of DaimlerChrysler met with engineering students, including members of the Jay- hawk Motorsports team (below). Eaton Hall, where engineering classes are held, was named in honor of Eaton’s donation to its construction and contributions to the engineering profession. In1994, he received the Distinguished Service Citation.

■ The first annual Prairie Dunes Jayhawk Invitational in Hutchinson brought golfers from around the country to compete in a scramble tournament. Foursomes such as Sean Thayer, b’90; Mark Randall, j’03; Grant Larkin, c’78; and Association President Kevin Corbett, c’88, (top) competed for the Jayhawk Invitational Cup and a chance to play at North Carolina's Pinehurst Resort.

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI PHOTOGRAPHS BY TERRY ROMBECK

■ Before the Jayhawks took the field against Texas A&M, students spent Homecoming Week participating in activities to build KU spirit and benefit the Lawrence community. Campus organizations competed for points toward the Overall Homecoming Award in daily events on Wescoe Beach. Stuff the Bus and Can Construction garnered record-breaking donations for a local food bank. Jayhawk Jingles and Chalk ’n’ Rock challenged students to showcase their best creative talent.

Jayhawk Jingles

Stuff the Bus

KU Can Construction Chalk ’n’ Rock

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 43 ◆◆◆ Roundup rendezvous Life members

he Association thanks these Jayhawks, who became Life Members beginning Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. For more information on Life Membership, please visit Twww.kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.

Kari R. Anderson Taylor J. Lahar James D. & Fern L. Douglas V. Lampton Badzin Jo Anne Lang Robert E. Barnhill & Kevin M. & Kelly Marigold L. Linton Reardon Latinis Diane M. Bean Joshua A. & Tracee Steven P. Billings Badzin Lee Tyrone F. Borders Trent A. & Jennifer A. TERRY ROMBECK (5) ROMBECK TERRY James D. Bridwell Lickteig Barbara Jacobs Calkins Peter McGhee ■ “Mass Street Madness” was the theme for the Wichita Chapter’s annual Jayhawk Rick L. & Mary E. Kent A. McKee Roundup. More than 400 alumni and friends gathered Oct. 2 at the Murfin Stables, Campise Edward L. & Marie which featured streetscapes and awnings from favorite Mass Street establishments, and Brian Caswell Meyen the mystery box drawing, a crowd favorite. Among the Jayhawks were Lynn Loveland, Kristen M. Conway Amanda L. Mitchell ’76, the Alumni Association’s assistant director for Kansas programs; hosts David, b’75, Michelle M. De Souza Joan H. Nordman e’75, and Janet Lusk Murfin, d’75; Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little; and event chairs Gary A. Ditty Sergio L. Reyes Ingrid Olson Gill, d’92, and Hugh Gill, b’91, g’95, l’95. Eric K. Fitzcharles Carlos A. Rocha Gregg A. Frost Karl F. Ryan James M. Geitz & Joan Carl R. Saxon M. Geitz Jonell A. Schenk Mark P. Gormely Colette S. Schlegel Wendell H. Grimsley Jr. Rikki L. Schreiber Kelly A. Harris Charles F. Schugart Susan L. Harthon Richard D. Shuler Joseph C. Hemmer & Bruce E. Smith Sarah E. Strnad Howard T. Sturdevant Timothy L. Hix Bradley R. Umbarger Joy Noakes Isaacs Gary D. Wanamaker Suzanne Johnson Aujchara Weerawong Matthew B. Jones Patrick C. & Kellie Scott L. Jones Kalbac Warren Timothy A. Jones Mamoru Yoshida Steven E. & Linda Keith E. Zarker Davidson Kisker Suzanne Sawyer Koontz Kim R. Koster Darel D. Kyle

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BY KARE GOODE Class Notes

Star College-Kingwood. He and his wife, David McClain, c’68, lives in Kailua 1948 Rona, live in Magnolia, Texas. and is a professor of business and presi- Dorothy Brenner Francis, f’48, H.F. Cotton Smith, j’62, is senior dent emeritus at the University of Hawaii wrote Eden Palm Murder, published by vice president of Corporate Communica- in Honolulu. Gale Publishing. She and her husband, tions Group Inc. in Overland Park. His Richard, ’49, make their home in Mar- short story, “Return of Smolan Grant,” 1969 shalltown, Iowa. was selected for inclusion in Roundup!, Robert Entriken Jr., ’69, works as a an anthology of stories and poems freelance journalist in Salina. 1950 produced by the Western Writers of Pamela Gardner Geer, c’69, is asso- Warren Corman, e’50, University America. ciate executive director of St. Luke’s Hos- architect and special assistant to the pital Foundation in Kansas City. She and chancellor since 1997, will retire Dec. 10. 1964 her husband, Fred, PhD’80, live in Over- A decorated Marine pilot during World James Head, e’64, PhD’68, received land Park, and he’s a professor of educa- War II, Warren previously worked for the an Alumni Achievement Award from the tion and psychology at Avila College. state architect from 1950 to ’57 and the Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. Owen Kross, j’69, is president of Kansas Board of Regents from 1966 to He is a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier Kross Office Outfitters in Lenexa, where ’97, including a term as interim executive general and former vice dean of the fac- he and Rita Meyers Kross, g’93, make director in 1993. He and his wife, Mary, ulty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He their home. c’73, have six children, 22 grandchildren and Madonna Oberbueller Head, Jayne Woolley Polcyn, d’69, g’75, and six great-grandchildren, and make d’64, live in Monument, Colo. teaches at St. John’s Catholic School in their home in Lawrence. Lawrence. 1965 1953 Valera Clayton-Dodd, n’65, retired 1970 Shirley Thomson Burbank, d’53, is last year from St. Francis Specialty Hospi- James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, prac- the author of Who Am I? and Where Did I tal. She lives in West Monroe, La. tices medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Come From?, which were published ear- Dennis Klein, d’65, g’67, works as a Center in Seattle. He lives in Bellevue. lier this year by Xlibris. She lives in Elli- personal trainer at Express Fitness Cen- Ronald Everly, a’70, works as West cott City, Md. ter in Plano, Texas. Region aviation lead for Faithful & Gould in Seal Beach, Calif. He and 1954 1966 Peggy Fulton Everly, ’70, live in San Allen Kelley, d’54, was inducted into Anabelle Cook Hiegel, d’66, works Juan Capistrano. the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of as a database administrator for the state Fame. He was a member of the 1952 of Oregon. She lives in Tigard. 1971 NCAA National Championship team and Janice Sutton Pierce, s’66, is retired David Polson, ’71, is CEO of Sterling received a gold medal as part of the 1960 in Mountain View, Calif. Digital Networks in Lincoln, Neb. Olympic team. Al and Barbara Hamp- Tony Rollins, g’71, PhD’73, is presi- ton Kelley, ’56, live in Lawrence. 1967 dent of KnowledgeGate in Parker, Colo. Stephen Dennis, ’67, lives in Elgin, 1960 Okla., where he’s retired from Computer MARRIED Joan Elston, d’60, is an instructor Sciences Corp. Clint Laing, c’71, and Kristi Burik and designer for DeJean Designs in Nor- Bruce Smith, g’67, recently joined Willhite, d’78, s’95, July 9 in Lawrence, walk, Calif. She lives in Long Beach and the board of directors of Gevo, a renew- where they live. He works for HMS in studies for a doctorate in spiritual stud- able chemicals and advanced biofuels Topeka, and she teaches English at ies. company. He lives in San Antonio. Southwest Junior High School in Lawrence. 1962 1968 David Burre, e’62, g’64, manages the Thomas Bishard, d’68, is retired in 1972 college sustainability program at Lone Branson, Mo. Randy Fisher, j’72, coordinates bene-

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 49 fits for MCDS and covers sports for the after 25 years with Boeing. She lives in Daniel Cummings, b’79, g’86, is vice Ark Valley News. He lives in McPherson. Wellington. president of ELF Associates in Denver. Richard Kuklenski, b’72, works as a Mark Prochaska, c’79, m’84, prac- public insurance adjuster for R.J. Kuklen- 1977 tices psychiatry at Midwest Psychiatry in ski & Associates in Kansas City. Joyce Davis Pulley, c’77, teaches ele- Leawood. He lives in Overland Park. Gail Waxman Prestigiacomo, f’72, mentary school for the Rocklin School makes her home in Killeen, Texas, with District. She lives in Rocklin, Calif. 1980 her husband, Mike, b’72, e’72, g’74. Thomas Wilbur, b’77, was promoted Mary Easton-White, c’80, is an Kirk Underwood, c’72, l’75, serves to president and CEO of Bank VI in accounting assistant at the Via Christi as a federal administrative law judge with Salina. Regional Medical Center in Wichita. the Social Security Administration in Bal- Michael Stucky, b’80, is division timore. He lives in Kensington. 1978 president of Pulte Building Systems and James Spence, EdD’78, is an assis- Pulte Homes in Tolleson, Ariz. He lives in 1973 tant professor at Brandman University. Buckeye. Michelle Vaughan Buchanan, c’73, He lives in Hanford, Calif. Randall Wetmore, g’80, serves as is associate laboratory director at Oak Thomas Thomas, g’78, PhD’87, is city administrator in Marshalltown, Iowa. Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, senior vice president for student success Tenn. She lives in Knoxville and recently at Berkeley College in New York City, 1981 was elected a fellow of the American where he lives. Sally Carter Heilman, p’81, works Chemical Society. as a pharmacist at Orchards Drugs in Robert Walrafen, e’73, a’75, is a sen- 1979 Lawrence, where she lives with her ior sales consultant for Reece & Nichols Peter Brown, b’79, founded and is husband, Steve, a’79. He’s an architect in Leawood. chairman of Grassmere Partners in and project manager for ACI-Boland Kansas City. He recently became a direc- in Leawood. 1974 tor of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. Debbie Kemp, c’81, recently became Maureen Manning Guth, d’74, works as an administrative manager for the Johnson County Environmental Department in Olathe. She and her husband, David, live in Lawrence, where he’s an associate professor of journalism at KU. Peter Wirth, PhD’74, is a scientific review officer at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. He lives in Derwood.

1975 Michael Baltezor, g’75, PhD’77, directs KU’s Biotech Innovation and Optimization Center. He lives in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Kevin Carver, b’75, is senior attorney for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in Dallas. He lives in Plano. Wayne Fowler, c’75, m’85, practices endocrinology at Veterans Administra- tion Medical Center in Kansas City. Benedict Palen Jr., c’75, owns Pull Pans Inc. in Brighton, Colo. He lives in Denver.

1976 April Francis Dwyer, c’76, retired

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 51 Class Notes vice president of human resources for David Merriweather, c’84, works as Bob Pape, c’85, g’94, was promoted CTPartners in New York City. She lives in global food safety leader for Cargill in to fire chief in Merriam, where he lives. Hoboken, N.J. Hopkins, Minn. Mark Schwartz, PhD’85, is a distin- David Pendleton, c’81, works as an Susan Fleming Tate, d’84, g’00, is guished professor of geography at the intelligence analyst for MPRI at Fort executive director of the Lawrence Arts University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Leavenworth. He and Barbara Ketter- Center. Her husband, Brad, ’84, is an man Pendleton, b’81, live in Lenexa. assistant professor at Baker University. 1986 She works for Wells Fargo Advisors. Kathryne Kiser, c’86, g’91, retired 1985 earlier this year as speech department 1982 Donald Appert, g’85, is a professor coordinator at Longview Community Robert Sitek, f’82, recently joined of music at Clark College in Vancouver, College. She lives in Kansas City. Hollis & Miller Architects in Overland Wash. Todd Ohlemeier, j’86, works as an Park as senior environmental graphic Lendley Black, PhD’85, was account executive for Xerox. He lives in designer. appointed chancellor of the University of Pflugerville, Texas. Minnesota-Duluth. 1983 Jay Craig, b’85, g’87, does real-estate MARRIED Sherry Baugh, h’83, g’04, directs investment advising at Marcus & Mil- Ann Schaeffer, j’86, to Lou Farho, Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Ore. lichap in Brookfield, Wis. June 1 in Las Vegas. They live in Omaha, Eric McGonigle, b’83, is a human- Lori Elliott-Bartle, j’85, works as an Neb., and Ann is a teacher’s assistant at resources administrator for Cessna artist at Sunflower Studio in Omaha, St. Robert Bellarmine School. Aircraft in Wichita. Neb., where she lives. Anne Ellis Friesen, d’85, g’87, 1987 1984 recently was named executive director of Luis Blanco, b’87, is a senior software Robert Lathrop, b’84, manages the Friend to Friend, a domestic-violence engineer for the U.S. Department of Vet- Western zone for General Mills. He lives agency. She lives in Pinehurst, N.C., with erans Affairs. He lives in Cedar Park, in Gold Canyon, Ariz. her husband, Robert, c’85, l’90. Texas, with Karen Kuykendall Blanco,

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI c’87, b’87. administrator for Lockheed Martin. She tect for Hirst & Associates in Lee’s Sum- John Campbell, c’87, commands the lives in Fairway with her son, Kyle, 3. mit, Mo. He lives in Blue Springs. Kansas Army National Guard’s 635th Elizabeth Carlson, g’88, is curator of James Zahara, c’88, is chief meteor- regional support group and owns Stud- costumes at the Winnetka Historical ologist at WQAD-TV in Moline, Ill. dard Relocation Services. He lives in Society in Winnetka, Ill. She lives in Overland Park. Chicago. 1989 Timothy Summers, l’87, is president The Rev. Kevin Hopkins, s’88, serves Annie Marie Gowen, c’89, j’89, cov- and CEO of Pacific Specialty Insurance as senior pastor of First United ers social issues for the Washington Post Co. in Menlo Park, Calif. Methodist Church in Leavenworth. in Fairfax, Va. She lives in Alexandria. Jay Jaeger, c’88, manages products Elizabeth Mitchell Loyet, h’89, 1988 for epay North America in Leawood. works as an administrator at Sunbridge Kristen Becker, b’88, is a project Scott Ready, a’88, is a project archi- Healthcare in Everett, Wash.

Profile BY CHRS AARO KAREN KRIEN

Beef is what’s for din- Members are encouraged ner, to explore rural culture, all across Kansas. Again. architecture, art, geography, history and cuisine, hen last we checked in and along the way with burgermeister Bill spend money in small Bunyan [“Holy Cow!,” towns that need the busi- issue No. 4, 2002] the ness. Wretired Dodge City schoolteacher was The Wichita Eagle cov- two years into his quest to eat a home- ered Bunyan’s last burger, town hamburger in every Kansas county. and when the story hit A month after eating big No. 105, on his the wire services Bunyan 65th birthday in August 2003, Bunyan was barraged by interview embarked on yet another meat parade: requests from around the ■ Susan Bunyan watches Bill go to town on his steak at Big Ed’s. Eat a steak in, you guessed it, every country and as far away Joining the fun are friends Bill hadn’t seen in 40 years; they heard county in Kansas. as Japan. He doesn’t antic- about the quest in a Kansas Explorers e-mail alert and drove Seven years later he feasted on the ipate any such attention over from their home in Wray, Colo., to join the Bunyans in Bird finale at Big Ed’s Steakhouse in Bird City, in the wake of his last City. in northwest Kansas’ Cheyenne County. steak. Along the way he also completed an “Steak is great,” Bunyan says, especially fond of Elkhart’s Cimarron ancillary quest, photographing every “but I don’t think it rivals the All-Ameri- National Grasslands, in the far south- county courthouse in Kansas. can hamburger. There were 50 people west, and the green hills of Doniphan “People probably wonder why you set there to watch me eat that last burger.” County in the northeast. He also recom- out on these crazy quests,” Bunyan says, Shortly after completing his KU mends Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure, “but it makes exploring a lot more fun if degree in international relations, Bunyan near Salina. you have a reason to go into a county.” returned to the family farm, in Fowler, “You don’t have to get very far off the Bunyan, c’61, a longtime Kansas Hon- which his grandfather had homesteaded interstate to see things,” he says. “The ors Program volunteer and recipient of in the 1880s. He went on to earn his ones who just get in the car and head to the Association’s Fred Ellsworth Medal- teacher’s certificate and moved with his Colorado, they don’t really see Kansas.” lion and Mildred Clodfelter Award, got wife, Susan, assoc., to Dodge City, where Bunyan says he and Susan will con- his inspiration from the Kansas Explor- both taught school in the same building tinue exploring, but at a more leisurely ers Club, a branch of the Kansas Sam- for 29 years before retiring in 2000. pace: pler Foundation (explorekansas.org), That’s when they began touring “I don’t intend to do another quest,” created by Marci Penner, c’79, of Inman. Kansas from corner to corner. He’s he says. “At 72, I’m probably quested

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Carol Martin Tracy, j’89, directs Tire in Lenexa. They live in Overland Guard’s Advanced Airlift Tactics marketing and is vice president of Gould Park. Training Center in St. Joseph, Mo. Evans Affiliates in Kansas City. Thomas Cooper, c’90, recently He lives in Leavenworth. Heather Brown Wingate, c’89, l’93, became channel sales manager for Craig Welch, j’90, was named Out- recently became managing director of ACOM Solutions in Duluth, Ga. He lives standing Beat Reporter by the Society of public affairs with Nomura Holdings in in Roswell. Environmental Journalists. He is an envi- New York City. She lives in Arlington, Va. John Pascarella, c’90, is associate ronmental reporter for the Seattle Times dean of academic and research programs and author of Shell Games: Rogues, Smug- 1990 at the K-State Olathe Innovation Cam- glers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty. Christine Dasbach Carr, e’90, is an pus. He and Mary Carlson Pascarella, associate with Burns & McDonnell in c’99, live in Overland Park. 1991 Kansas City, and her husband, Keith, Eric Thompson, c’90, teaches John Armstrong, c’91, practices law b’90, is chief financial officer for Shore air-combat tactics at the Air National in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Profile BY KATE ORE

Creative surge drives ther, because it’s also alive.” designer’s new photo This emphasis on community interac- tion extends to other facets of Brunow site Miner’s portfolio. In addition to found- WILSON MINER ing Pictory, she has hosted a number of fter working in marketing, retreats for national and international graphic design and print, Laura artists. Phoot Camp, a sort of summer Brunow Miner has gone digital. camp for photography enthusiasts, is Her website, Pictorymag.com, is moving into its third year. She also is Aa stunning venue for both the photos it working on a series of workshops for displays and the captions that add food, design and entrepreneurship. humanity and depth to the images. It has “I benefited from the collaborative been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, nature of the West Coast in terms of peo- the Guardian UK, Entertainment Weekly ple wanting to help each other and learn and numerous other print and online from each other,” Brunow Miner says, publications. “which I was comfortable with right “I’ve found my place,” says the San away after my time in Lawrence.” She Francisco-based Brunow Miner, “in the credits her position as graphic designer creative ecosystem.” for Gould Evans as a jumping-off point, ■ Laura Brunow Miner, creator of the photog- The beauty of Pictory is in its design, though the path wasn’t as smooth in raphy website Pictory, is keeping a close watch but also in the interactive experience it San Francisco’s fast-paced startup on the iPad’s influence. “I’m interested in seeing provides: Users are invited to submit scene. “Within less than two years,” what the iPad’s answer to the newsstand ends photos to themed features, which she says, “I was promoted twice and up being, and how it could become a home for Brunow Miner, b’03, selects for publica- laid off.” magazines.” tion in a showcase often engineered by a JPG Magazine went under while she guest designer. Themes have included was editor-in-chief, though it has since “Life Lessons,” “Summer Jobless,” and been reincarnated in a different format. and one of Fast Company’s “Most Influ- impressions of cities such as London In the aftermath, Brunow Miner was ential Women in Technology.” and New York. ready to move on and move online, Brunow Miner is also preparing to Robin Sloan, media liaison for Twitter, where she remains dedicated to design, tackle a large-scale challenge, exploring points to this interactivity as one of the typography and reader experience. ways to change and improve online site’s unique assets. In comparison with Her eye for detail has been rewarded: advertising. other electronic publications with similar She has been named a “Hot 20 Under “I still believe,” she says, “in the seem- goals, he says, “Pictory goes a step fur- 40” by the San Francisco magazine 7x7, ingly lost art of good advertising.” —Lorenz, c’05, is a Lawrence 54 | KANSAS ALUMNI

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Timothy Tincknell, c’91, b’93, g’94, lard, June 12 in Sheridan, Wyo., where ager of the academic division of the is international tax director for Koch Alan is an anesthesiologist at Sheridan National Academy of Sports Medicine in Industries in Wichita, where he and Memorial Hospital. Mesa, Ariz. He lives in Gilbert. Christina Brouillette Tincknell, b’96, Nicolle Robinson Witt, b’94, works make their home. 1994 as a customer executive with Hormel Geoffrey Wehrman, e’91, is princi- Buran, c’94, and Stacey Anderson Foods. She lives in Highlands Ranch, pal engineer at SGI in Eagan, Minn, Ayuthia, e’95, make their home in Mount Colo. where he and Mary Heil Wehrman, Horeb, Wis., with their children, Kaitlyn, e’92, live. 6; Alexander, 5; and Samuel, 1. MARRIED Jennifer Brull, c’94, m’98, was Henry Phyfe, g’94, to Ashley Razor, 1992 named president of the Kansas Academy Aug. 28 in Park City, Utah. Henry is a Michael Abbott, b’92, is general of Family Physicians. She’s CEO and senior business analyst at Verizon Busi- manager for MillerCoors Brewing. He family physician at Prairie Star Family ness, and Ashley teaches first grade. They lives in Overland Park. Practice in Plainville. live in Brooklyn, N.Y. Sandee Buller Astrachan, j’92, David Goolsby, g’94, retired from the owns Sterns Flower Market in Kansas South Carolina Department of Health 1995 City and is senior product manager at and Environmental Control. He lives in Bryce Amacher, g’95, does technical H&R Block. Spartanbug. educational training for Sage. He lives in Kyle Kunard, d’92, g’01, teaches sci- Sabrina Simpson Haas, c’94, m’99, Rock Island, Ill. ence at Port Clinton Middle School in directs medical affairs and antimicrobial Kristen Armacost Goodson, b’95, Port Clinton, Ohio. stewardship at Beverly Hospital in Bev- directs product management at Peterson erly, Mass. She lives in Winchester. Manufacturing in Grandview, Mo. 1993 Margaret Chi Hu, c’94, is a senior Justin Kroop, c’95, is vice president policy adviser for the U.S. Department of of marketing at Zounds Hearing in MARRIED Justice in Washington, D.C. Phoenix. Alan Smith, c’93, to Amberlee Bal- David Swalve, c’94, is general man- Matthew Michaelis, b’95, owns Perla

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI Capital Partners in New York City. Duluth, Minn. He lives in Hermantown. Amy Byers Krenzin, c’97, manages Scott Shields, g’95, PhD’04, is chief Kent Qandil, c’96, g’97, is assistant technology for H&R Block in Kansas curator of Crocker Art Museum in Sacra- vice president of Credit Suisse in City. She and her husband, Brent, b’97, mento, Calif. Durham, N.C. live in Wellsville, and he’s a group Michael Sanchez, b’96, lives in sales representative for Prudential in MARRIED Lenexa and is vice president of global Overland Park. Eric Myers, c’95, to Emily Dawson, commercial banking at Bank of America Delbert Powell, e’97, is a senior June 5 in Las Vegas. He’s senior project Merrill Lynch. power trader at Pure Energy. He lives manager for the Ettain Group, and she’s in Valley, Neb. national sales manager for TGR Tour. MARRIED Thomas Rzeszotarski, b’97, man- They live in Vail, Colo. Thomas Erickson, j’96, to Bethany ages change management for Hostess Anderson, June 5 in Dallas, where they Brands in Irving, Texas. He lives in Fort 1996 live. Tom is a Web content specialist for Worth. Nicole Rostock Conrick, j’96, g’04, Texas Health Resources. Melissa Hoffman Wilburn, b’97, directs agency management at Microsoft. is project manager at Monsanto in She and her husband, Jeffrey, h’95, live in BORN TO: St. Louis. Shawnee. Brennan, b’96, and Amy Love Chris McKitterick, g’96, lectures in Briscoe, c’97, son, Ian, June 22 in Over- 1998 KU’s English department and directs the land Park. Marcus Brewer, e’98, is assistant KU Technical Communication program. Christine McMahon Malchow, d’96, researcher engineer for the Texas Trans- He makes his home in Lawrence. and Thomas, daughter, Shannon Sydney, portation Institute in College Station. Amy Hartman McLaughry, c’96, is May 3 in Kirkland, Wash. Christine Bradley Brooks, j’98, is Brazil bureau senior vice president at First Bank in manages product marketing for chief for the Associated Press. He lives Aurora, Colo. She lives in Englewood. Dendreon in Seattle. in Sao Paulo. Todd Perry, g’96, works as a physical Melvin Dunston, j’98, manages therapist at Turning Point Therapy in 1997 sales for Homewood Suites by

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Hilton Atlanta in Norcross, Ga. He lives 28 in Carillon Beach, Fla. They live in Lawrence. She and her husband, Jason, in Stone Mountain. St. Louis. c’02, live in Kansas City. William Nicks, b’98, is a senior manager at BKD in Kansas City. BORN TO: MARRIED Vernie Reichling, g’98, serves as a Karli Pigg Alderson, c’98, m’02, and Suzanne Carlson Bidwell, s’99, colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Thomas, c’02, m’07, daughter, Megan, s’03, to Matthew Wille, June 19 in Excel- Engineers in Memphis, Tenn. June 5 in Nashville, Tenn. sior, Minn. She’s a children’s mental Megan Thornton, c’98, PhD’10, is health social worker at Dakota County an assistant professor at John Carroll 1999 Social Services in Apple Valley, and he’s a University in Cleveland, Ohio. Rex Hwang, e’99, l’02, practices law chef at Nordstrom’s Cafe in Blooming- with Adli Law in Los Angeles. ton. They live in Savage. MARRIED Connie Chang Williams, c’99, is a Deron Lee, g’99, g’06, and Haley Kiley Brey, f’98, to Tim Yeaglin, May senior analyst for Callahan Creek in Harrison, j’06, June 26 in Topeka.He’s a

Profile BY HTEY ERKSE

Producer takes a bow 1984 to join Theatre- at Broadway’s Tonys Works in Palo Alto, Calif., ADAMS COURTESY RANDY his colleagues were incred- he first time Randy Adams ulous. attended the Tony Awards, he “People thought I had sat mere strides from the stage. lost my mind,” As he walked into Radio City Adams says. “I TMusic Hall, red carpet photographers was leaving a shouted his name. At the end of the million-dollar night, he carried a trophy for best musi- company to cal to the after parties. run a large ■ Randy Adams’ friend Charla Jenkins fondly remem- “It was wild,” says Adams, whose community bers him as a capable, self-assured graduate student. company, Junkyard Dog Productions, theatre with a “The night Randy and ‘Memphis’ won the Tony Award, originated and produced “Memphis,” the budget of I was so proud,” she says. “Having Randy give the winning show, about the 1950s music $300,000.” acceptance speech was icing on the cake.” scene in the segregated South. “In so But Adams many ways, the nominations alone had saw a challenge. By 2006 he had helped done an enormous amount for ‘Mem- transform the company into one of the The first months in New York were a phis.’ But then I was holding as good as largest professional theatres in the Bay flurry of shows, reviews and celebrity it gets in the theatre world, the Tony.” Area. At a 2002 new works festival, theatregoers (Michelle Obama, Whoopi Several years before “Memphis” was Adams saw “Memphis” for the first Goldberg, and Jets quarterback Mark written, Adams, g’80, received a bache- time.In 2006, he collaborated with his Sanchez loved the show). Spring brought lor’s degree in speech and theatre from friend Sue Frost on a program for new nominations, and “Memphis” took home Otterbein College in Ohio, then moved musical development; ultimately they awards from the Outer Critics Circle, to Lawrence to hone his skills in direct- co-founded Junkyard Dog Productions. Drama Desk and four Tonys, including ing. As an intern with the Murphy Hall Based in New York, the two producers trophies for best book, score and orches- box office, he formed a close friendship worked with Joe DePietro, who wrote tration. with Charla Jenkins, j’69, whom he now “Memphis,” to gain rights to the show. The musical will launch a national works alongside on the University The- Keeping many of the original cast mem- tour in Memphis in October 2011. “We’re atre Professional Advisory Board. bers, they hired new creative staff and still learning as we do this,” Adams says. Adams’ first stop in the theatre world debuted the show at California’s La Jolla “It’s one of those stories; you can’t repeat was Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk Playhouse and the 5th Avenue Theatre in it. For this to be the first show we pro- where, in five years, he worked his way Seattle. On Oct. 19, 2009, “Memphis” duced on Broadway, it has really been to managing director. When he left in opened on Broadway. quite amazing.”

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copy editor for Atlantic Media in Wash- Brad Westerbeck, d’00, and Mandy, She and her husband, Michael, e’01, live ington, D.C., and she’s a news anchor son, Greyson Arron, April 11 in Rome, in Overland Park. and reporter for WHSV-TV in Harrison- Ga., where Brad directs sports medicine Kathleen Olsen, j’01, is a sales execu- burg, Va. They live in Arlington. at Advance Rehabilitation. tive for Prudential Kansas City, and her husband, Timothy Bowers, c’01, is a 2000 2001 pharmaceutical sales representative for Michael Velloff, g’00, manages civil Michael Coats, a’01, is an architect GlaxoSmithKline. engineering for Heideman Associates in for Populous. He lives in Overland Park. Lindsay Puett Peattie, b’01, man- St. Louis. He lives in Alton, Ill. David Conner, e’01, works as a manages membership programs for Blue- Dana Wright, j’00, is a chief inves- agement counsultant to public water util- tooth SIG. She and her husband, Seth, tigative reporter for KCTV-5 in Kansas ities. He lives in Denver. ’00, live in Prairie Village with their City. She and her husband, Joseph Brian Crawley, c’01, lives in Olathe daughter, Eleanor, 1. Hegeman, c’96, live in Leawood. He and works for Kelly IT. manages human resources for Sprint Amie Burnor Dusin, c’01, is a parale- MARRIED Nextel. gal for Legal Language Services in Prairie Brian Bishop, ’01, and Autumn Village. She lives in Overland Park. Jones, j’03, April 24. They live in MARRIED Rebecca Johnson, d’01, g’05, teaches Lawrence, where he works at Free State Risa Petty, s’00, c’01, and Keenan elementary school for USD 233 in Brewery and she’s a supervisor in the Kearn, c’06, March 22 in Canyon Lake, Olathe. She lives in Overland Park. Douglas County District Court Clerk’s Texas. She is in private practice at Nicole Schnellbacher McCoy, j’01, Office. Kinetikos Bodywork Therapy in manages global sourcing for Bishop- Michael Bonebrake, f’01, and Lawrence, where they live, and he’s a McCann in Kansas City. She and her Becky Anderson, e’09, in Lawrence. geographic information systems analyst husband, Tully, c’98, g’07, live in He’s a graphic designer for Lakeshirts, at Bartlett and West in Topeka. Prairie Village. and she works for Parsons Brinkerhof. Renee Scholz Mercer, e’01, is a sales They live in Lenexa. BORN TO: representative for Biogen Idec in Olathe. Joshua Johnson, b’01, g’02, and

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI Emily Mersmann, d’04, July 16 in 2002 MARRIED Lawrence, where they live. He’s a finance Shannon Ewing Beachner, p’02, Bryce Crady, e’02, and Abigail manager with Collective Brands, and works as a pharmacist for Wal-Mart in Schulte, c’04, June 5 in Kansas City. she’s business manager at Pioneer Ridge Joplin, Mo. She lives in Carl Junction. He’s an engineer with Apex Engineers in Retirement Community. Jeffrey Cooper, j’02, manages pro- Merriam. Jess Lightner, f’01, to Christine Choi, grams for Sprint Nextel. He lives in May 29 in Westminster, Calif. They live Lenexa with his wife, Rebecca. BORN TO: in Washington, D.C. Maj. Drew Roberts, l’02, serves as a Emily Thach Galbreath, j’02, and staff judge advocate at the U.S. Air Force Ashford, e’04, son, Ashford Harper, BORN TO: Institute of Technology at Wright Patter- June 24 in West Jordan, Utah, where he Jacob, c’01, and Stacey Hurst Mor- son AFB. He and his wife, Stacy, live in joins a sister, Helena, 3. gan, c’01, daughter, Natalie Louise, May Dayton, Ohio. 17 in Olathe, where she joins a brother, Peter Schifferle, PhD’02, wrote 2003 Ryan, who’s nearly 2. America’s School for War, which was pub- Timothy, p’03, and Deborah Finger Amy Blosser Spikes, j’01, and lished recently by University Press of Bredehoft, e’04, celebrated their first Andrew, b’03, daughter, Isabelle Rose, Kansas. He’s director of the Advanced anniversary Oct. 17. He’s a staff pharma- April 1 in Lawrence, where Amy directs Operational Art Studies Fellowship at the cist at Medical Arts Pharmacy in development for the KU Endowment U.S. Army Command and General Staff Lawrence, where they live, and she’s Association and Andrew is an accountant College at Fort Leavenworth. Peter and an environmental scientist for the U.S. with Mize, Houser & Company. his wife, Sandra, live in Lansing. Environmental Protection Agency in Stanley, c’01, m’05, and Jessica Craig Sweets, c’02, edits Change of Kansas City. Hewitt Zimmerman, ’01, daughter, Heart newspaper. He lives in Lawrence. Brooke Palmer Grothe, b’03, is Caroline Elizabeth, May 13 in Olathe, Peter Willis, c’02, works as a real- regional manager for Newell Rubber- where she joins two sisters, Isabella, 6, estate agent for Keller Williams. He lives maid in St. Francis, Wis. She lives in and Margaret, 4; and a brother, Walter, 2. in McKinney, Texas. Milwaukee. Nicole LeClaire, e’03, works as a sen-

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Jonathan Sternberg, c’04, practices law in Kansas City.

MARRIED Jennifer Guth, g’04, to Richard Mills, June 19 in Las Vegas, where she’s a librarian and he teaches social studies at Las Vegas High School. Angela Link, c’04, m’09, and Nicholas Gatz, c’05, m’09, May 1 in Prairie Village. They are residents in pedi- atrics and family medicine respectively at the University of Iowa, and they live in Coralville. Samuel Richardson, c’04, to Stephanie Mattingly, May 29 in Frank- fort, where he is a development associate with the Kentucky Historical Society. Carol Toland, c’04, l’08, to Brian Napp, July 17 in Iola. They live in Colum- bus, Ohio, where Brian works for Plante & Moran, a CPA firm. Benjamin Williams, e’04, m’09, and Whitney Bartlow, c’05, May 22 in Prairie Village. They live in San Diego, where he’s a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.

BORN TO: Bryce Canfield, b’04, and Stacy, daughter, Madelyn, July 5 in Pasadena, ior consultant at the Rocky Mountain can Republic. He is an auditor for the Calif., where Bryce is a national account Institute in Boulder, Colo. U.S. General Services Administration, executive for UnitedHealthcare. Charles Rhoades, c’03, does finan- and she is a guidance counselor at Donny, a’04, g’05, and Daina cial advising for Edward Jones in Denver, Turner High School in Kansas City. They Jablonski Smith, p’06, son, Camden, where he and Julie Stoner Rhoades, live in Bonner Springs. Aug. 14 in Overland Park, where he joins b’04, make their home. a brother, Grady, 2. Christina Schnose Salazar, c’03, 2004 m’07, and Luis, m’07, recently com- Crystal Elliott, ’04, is an early child- 2005 pleted their medical residencies at Ohio hood special educator for Arrowhead Laura Clark, j’05, supervises interac- State University. They live in Columbus West in Pratt. She and her husband, tive media for Draftfcb in Chicago. with their son, Diego, 1. Nathan, l’10, live in Wichita, where he’s Anna Gregory, c’05, coordinates Amanda von Schriltz Snyder, n’03, an attorney with Withers Gough. IMPACT operations for the Washington, g’08, is a nurse anesthetist at SouthCrest Katherine Glendening, h’04, is an D.C., public schools. Anesthesia Group in Tulsa, Okla. She aging-services program specialist for Mechelle Harcar, c’05, is a research and her husband, Adam, g’07, live in the U.S. Department of Health and technician for the Stowers Institute in Owasso. Human Services in Washington, D.C., Kansas City. She lives in Lenexa. where she lives. Tetsuya Ideue, c’05, works as a sales MARRIED Megan McMullen, d’04, g’09, directs specialist for IBM Japan in Tokyo. Gene Brieck, c’03, to Jocelyn Ansley, donor hospitality and events for KU’s Danielle May, a’05, g’07, is a senior June 25 in Houston, where they live. He Williams Educational Fund in Lawrence, architect technician for Populous in works at Danto Langerud Investments, where she lives. Kansas City. and she works at Texas Capital Bank. Leslie Hansen Spangler, c’04, man- Anne Pleviak, c’05, is a compliance Jay Fisher, b’03, g’04, to Elizabeth ages Quail Creek Apartments in officer for Legacy Financial Strategies in Dillon, June 12 in Punta Cana, Domini- Lawrence. Prairie Village.

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI Jessica Schickler Roth, d’05, g’10, Jones, May 8 in Lawrence, where they Lynch Goodnight, n’06, m’10, cele- teaches reading at St. Ann School in live. She’s a teller supervisor at Capital brated their first anniversary Aug. 22. Prairie Village. She and her husband, City Bank, and he’s a welder with Hamm They live in Phoenix, where he’s a pedi- Christopher, b’05, live in Overland Construction in Perry. atrics resident and she’s a family-medi- Park. Caitlin Rockett, b’05, g’07, and cine resident. Elizabeth Schneider, c’05, is a buyer Travis Reiter, d’06, May 8 in KU’s Dan- Jeffrey Hawkins, c’06, coaches bas- for Hilton Worldwide in Los Angeles. forth Chapel. She’s a CPA at Goldman ketball at Perry-Lecompton High School. Maureen Warren, f’05, g’08, studies Sachs in Jersey City, N.J., and he’s a phys- He lives in Kansas City. for a doctorate in art history at North- ical therapist at Kessler Rehabilitation Fabiola Reis-Henrie, h’06, g’08, is western University. She and her partner, Institute in Saddle Brook, N.J. They live an occupational therapist for Trinity Allison Hansen, c’05, s’06, make their in Hoboken. Nursing and Rehabilitation in Shawnee. home in Evanston, Ill. Marisol Romo, c’06, works as a pub- BORN TO: lic relations specialist for the city of MARRIED Christopher Carey, b’05, c’05, and Topeka. Brian Collins, b’05, and Leah Cum- Magdalena, daughter, Natalia, Jan. 9 Karyn Wilson, c’06, is an assistant at mings, c’05, j’05, June 5 in Lawrence. in Topeka. Chalice Imports in Madison, Ala. He’s a product manager for Spalding, and she’s an account executive for Griz- 2006 MARRIED zard Communications. They live in Monte Engelkemier, g’06, was Brett Buxton, c’06, to Dayna Alvey, Smyrna, Ga. named Young Engineer of the Year by July 4 in Monterey, Calif., where they Brianne Colson, c’05, and Jeffrey the Iowa Engineering Society. He’s a live. He is hotel manager of Casa Palmero Wilson, ’07, May 22 in Lawrence. She’s mechanical engineer with Stanley Con- at Pebble Beach, and she coordinates a dental assistant with Handley Dental in sultants in Muscatine. events at Pasadera Country Club. Houston, and he’s a graphic designer for Henry Epp, c’06, is assistant manager Hayden Geis, c’06, and Kieutrinh Farouk Systems. of Rent-A-Center. He lives in Tonganoxie. Nguyen, c’06, June 12 in Lawrence. Jamie Sue Devore, c’05, to Adam Justin, c’06, m’10, and Kathryn They live in Des Moines, where he’s an

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 65 Class Notes assistant manager at JKB and she’s a sur- gical resident. Matthew Habiger, c’06, to Rachel Belden, May 22 in Ashland, where he owns Mattoast Painting and she works at Ashland High School. Cody Hoss, c’06, to Kristin Harmon, May 22 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. They live in Tahlequah, and Cody is a student at Northeastern State University in Okla- homa City. Elise Katzif, f’06, to Benjamin Walker, May 15 in Kansas City. She studies for a master’s in interior design at George Washington University in Wash- ington, D.C., and he works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv- ices’ office of health insurance exchange. Jesse Newell, c’06, j’06, and Erika Nelson, ’11, June 5 in Emporia. Jesse is online editor for KUsports.com.

2007 Ronnie Amadi, c’07, plays arena football for the Tulsa Talons. His home is in Sugar Land, Texas. Mendy Haase Borough, b’07, is a human-relations operations assistant at Heartland Bank in Leawood.Heather Olds Jamison, c’07, works for DST Sys- tems. She and her husband, Dustin, cele- where Mark works for Garmin Interna- Park law firm of Manson & Karbank. brated their first anniversary Sept. 5. tional. Joseph Sullivan, d’07, to Tonya Willie Pless, d’07, the leading tackler Stephani Heider, d’07, g’09, and Young, April 10 in Wichita, where he in KU football history, recently was Robert Boyd, ’08, July 17 in Lawrence, works for SBM Site Services. They live in inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of where they live. She coordinates special Derby. Fame. He and Rhonda Myrick Pless, events for Kansas Athletics Inc., and he’s Lisa Turner, c’07, to Brandon Her- c’90, live in Edmonton, Canada. an assistant golf professional at Hall- nandez, May 29 in Parkville, Mo. They Kelly Lanigan Von Lunen, j’07, is a brook Country Club in Leawood. live in Olathe, and she’s an enrollment senior writer for VFW magazine. She Jonathan Kealing, j’07, c’07, and counselor and MBA student at the Uni- lives in Kansas City. Anne Weltmer, c’07, j’07, l’10, May 8 versity of Phoenix in Kansas City. in Lawrence, where they live. Jonathan is Brooke Wagoner, n’07, and James MARRIED online editor for the Lawrence Journal- Payton, c’07, June 11 at Fripp Island, Catherine Carter, b’07, to Donald World. S.C. She’s a nurse at Children’s Medical Thacker, May 22 in Little Rock, Ark. Amy LaGesse, p’07, to Christopher Center in Dallas, and he works for LaLa They live in Southaven, Miss., and Catie Hamblin, July 24 in Kansas City. They Quality Assurance. is a financial analyst for FTN Financial. live in Phoenix, where she’s a pharmacy Ryan Colaianni, c’07, j’07, and Erinn manager at Walgreens. 2008 Schaiberger, b’07, g’09, July 3 in Wash- Christopher Patton, ’07, and Laura Albert, d’08, g’10, is a gifted- ington, D.C., where he’s an account exec- Vanessa Van Etten, j’08, June 5 in Riv- education teacher in Memphis, Tenn. utive with Edelman and she’s an iera Maya, Mexico. Their home is in Laura Crowe, b’08, g’10, works as an accountant with Sirius XM Satellite Lawrence. associate with CBIZ/Mayer Hoffman Radio. They live in Alexandria, Va. Elizabeth Rogers, l’07, to Benjamin McCann in Topeka. She lives in Ann Harris, j’07, c’07, and Mark Fil- Rebein, May 29. They live in Lawrence, Lawrence. ipi, b’08, Aug. 6. They live in Lawrence, and Liz is an associate with the Overland Derek Evans, d’08, g’10, teaches with

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI Teach for America in Jacksonville, Fla. Joseph Mundy, c’08, and Caroline Wildwood, Mo. Ryan Horsley, b’08, is an account Kinnan, c’10, May 22 in Kingsville, Nathan Brady, g’10, is a system executive with HomTur International in Texas. They live in Dallas, where he’s an engineer lead at Crossbeam Systems in Denver. underwriter at Chartis Insurance and Chicago, where he and Tobey Wyatt Katherine Humphreys, d’08, works she’s a nanny. Brady, g’10, make their home. as a firefighter for the city of Phoenix. Ryan Van Nice, c’08, and Amy Sonya English, j’10, c’10, covers mul- She lives in Peoria, Ariz. Waage, b’08, g’10, May 22 in Kansas timedia for the Desert Sun in Palm Patricia Brennaman Lieneke, g’08, City. He’s a histotechnician at Advanced Springs, Calif. is a special-education lifeskills teacher in Dermatologic Surgery, and she’s an Kristen Epps, PhD’10, is a visiting Olathe. She lives in Overland Park. accountant with Kansas Gas Service. assistant professor at Colorado State Uni- Jeffrey Little, p’08, manages phar- Jessica Wenberg, d’08, and Eric versity in Pueblo. macy, finance and ancilliary services for Green, ’10, June 20 in Lawrence. She is Sophia Kaska, c’10, works as a Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics a special-education teacher at Prairie research assistant in pharmacology, toxi- in Kansas City. He lives in Tonganoxie. Park Elementary School, and he is a deli cology and therapeutics at the KU Med- Caroline Legler Potochnik, j’08, associate at Checkers. They live in ical Center. She lives in Prairie Village. coordinates special events for Big Broth- Eudora. Maria Korte, j’10, coordinates ers & Big Sisters in Wichita, where she accounts for Alloy Media & Marketing and her husband, Timothy, c’06, make 2009 in Chicago. their home. He’s a property claims Rachel Luptak Bayer, g’09, and her Danielle McCray, c’10, plays basket- adjuster for Assurant Specialty Property. husband, Jacob, make their home in ball for the Rishon Lezion Israeli Charlotte Dower Ramseyer, d'08, Leawood. Women’s League. Her home is in Olathe. and her husband, Rob, g’10, will cele- Dylan Briggs, c’09, manages grants Samuel Millikan, c’10, works as a brate their first anniversary Nov. 28. for the city of Arlington. He lives in Dal- sales representative for E&J Gallo Win- They live in Kansas City, Mo. She teaches las. ery. He lives in Tulsa, Okla. at Park Hill South High School, and he is Allyn Denning, c’09, works as a Christa Patrick, c’10, manages pro- a baseball coach and recruiting coordina- scheduler in the office of Rep. Jerry tor at Mid-America Nazarene University. Moran in Washington, D.C. Matthew Gordon, c’09, directs inter- School Codes Letters that follow names indicate the school from which alumni MARRIED national operations for Mercy and Truth earned degrees. Numbers show their class Ryan Edwards, ’08, and Katy Medical Missions in Kansas City. years. Locke, n’09, Feb. 20 in Gardner. He Sara McEachern, c’09, serves as a works for Ozanam, and she’s a nurse at Peace Corps community health volunteer a School of Architecture, Children’s Mercy Hospital. They live in in Uganda. Her home is in Wichita. Design and Planning Lee’s Summit, Mo. Reginald Mitchell, c’09, works as a b School of Business c College of Liberal Arts and Madison Ford, j’08, to Jeremy Ediger, teller at US Bank in Lawrence. Sciences June 11 in Overland Park, where they Andrew Rowl, c’09, is a benefits d School of Education live. She’s a library assistant at the consultant for Brown & Brown in e School of Engineering Olathe Public Library. Jacksonville, Fla. He lives in Ponte f School of Fine Arts Alexander “Sasha” Kaun, e’08, and Vedra Beach. g Master’s Degree Taylor Blue, ’11, June 18 in Kansas h School of Allied Health City. He plays basketball for CSKA MARRIED j School of Journalism Moscow in Moscow, Russia. Their home Kristen Dexter, d’09, and Matthew l School of Law is in Olathe. Hinshaw, e’10, July 9 in KU’s Danforth m School of Medicine Patrick Koester, d’08, and Rebecca Chapel. She teaches second grade at n School of Nursing Fritzel, j’08, July 3 in Lawrence. He is a Delaware Ridge Elementary School in p School of Pharmacy PharmD School of Pharmacy set merchandiser for Crescent Crown Kansas City, and he’s an engineering s School of Social Welfare Distributing Co. in Phoenix, and she associate with the Kansas Department u School of Music directs marketing for the International of Transportation in Topeka. They live DE Doctor of Engineering School of Arizona in Scottsdale, where in Lawrence. DMA Doctor of Musical Arts they live. EdD Doctor of Education Caitlin Mulligan, g’08, to Nicholas 2010 PhD Doctor of Philosophy Hebrew, Dec. 5 in Kansas City. She is a Kelsey Allen, e’10, is an electrical (no letter) Former student physical therapist, and they live in engineer with Design Collaborative assoc. Associate member of the Omaha, Neb. in Fort Wayne, Ind. Her home is in Alumni Association

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 67 children. Donald Hayman, c’40, 91, May 22 in In Memory Chapel Hill, where he was on the staff of the University of North Carolina’s School of Government for nearly 40 years. He had received an Achievement Award from 1930s 14 in Prairie Village, where she was a the International Public Management Dorothy Owsley Ballard, c’39, playwright, composer and pianist. She is Association for Human Resources. Sur- h’40, 93, Aug. 22 in Hutchinson. She survived by a daughter, Holly, c’86, s’92; vivors include his wife, Mary Helen Wil- helped found the Johnson County a son; and a brother, Roger James, j’48. son Hayman, c’42; two sons; two Library, was a founding member of the Phyllis Wickert Benefiel, c’44, 87, daughters; and seven grandchildren. Shawnee Mission League of Women Vot- July 11 in Glendale, Calif. A son, two Virginia Shirck Hess, ’41, 91, Aug. 4 ers and served on the State Board of Edu- daughters and six grandchildren survive. in Topeka. She lived in Alma and had cation. Survivors include three Harold Elkins, e’49, 87, June 24 in been a teacher and a piano teacher. daughters, Barbara Ballard Huwe, c’66, Overland Park, where he was retired after Survivors include her husband, Oliver, Elizabeth Ballard Southern, d’69, and 29 years with the U.S. Corps of Engi- ’42; two sons; four grandchildren; and six Margie Ballard Bult, n’75; a sister; eight neers. He is survived by three daughters, great-grandchildren. grandchildren; and nine great-grandchil- two of whom are Joyce Davis Pulley, c’77, Claude Martin, e’43, 91, April 12 in dren. and Diane Trabon, d’73; and eight grand- Chappell Hill, Texas, where he was a Faye Swedlund Elmore Blunk, children. retired manager of safety and environmen- c’38, 92, March 27 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Charles Elliott, j’43, 88, May 24 in tal conservation with a 37-year career as Survivors include three sons, one of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. He was a petroleum engineer with Shell Oil. He whom is Michael Elmore, a’64; a daugh- retired senior vice president of the is survived by his wife, Lavon Peters ter; nine grandchildren; and 11 National Bank of Detroit and also had Martin, c’45; a daughter; a son; a step- great- grandchildren. worked for Stroh’s Leasing. He is sur- daughter, Donna McCormick, c’73; Mildred Allen Linley, f’34, f’36, 97, vived by his wife, Jean; seven daughters, and two grandsons. Aug. 8 in Kansas City. She was a teacher, three of whom are Nancy Elliott Badger, Keith Martin, c’42, l’47, 89, Aug. 27 musician and artist and had lived in c’77, Elizabeth Elliott Hornbeck, ’72, and in Overland Park, where he had been sen- Liberal and Lawrence before moving to Margaret Elliott Heffelmire, ’77; nine ior member of the law firm of Payne & Kansas City. A memorial has been estab- grandchildren; and eight great-grandchil- Jones. He served as city attorney for Mis- lished with the KU Endowment Associa- dren. sion and was a member of the Kansas tion. Surviving are two sons, Michael, Corrine Martin Ervin, c’40, 91, July Board of Tax Appeals and the Johnson c’70, g’72, and Alfred, c’73, g’76; a 31 in Parsons, where she was a retired County Judicial Commission. Surviving daughter, Carolyn Linley Norman, d’64; teacher. She is survived by her husband, are his wife, Hulda Tully Martin, assoc.; five grandchildren; and two great-grand- Ken; a son, Kent, c’81; three daughters, three sons, two of whom are Alson, c’68, children. Elizabeth Ervin Boman, d’75, DeeEllen and David, c’71; a daughter; a sister, Mary Jane “Janie” Bruckmiller Ervin Davis, s’76, and Janet Ervin Helen Martin Gilles, c’43, m’45; eight Spahr, ’38, 94, June 16 in Willoughby, Schamp, h’78; a sister, Helen Martin grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Ohio. She is survived by four daughters; Gilles, c’43, m’45; nine grandchildren; Marion Miller, l’41, 93, March 25 in a son; 11 grandchildren; and four great- and a great-granddaughter. Hilton Head Island, S.C., where he moved grandchildren. Edmond Fiedler, b’49, 84, July 11 in from Overland Park. He practiced law in Emily Margaret “EM” Allen Andover. He owned D.S. Stuckey Lumber Kansas for 57 years and represented Witham, ’37, 96, Aug. 16 in Leawood. in Wichita and was president of the clients in cases before the U.S. Supreme She served more than 40 years on the Kansas Lumberman’s Association. Sur- Court, the U.S. District Court and the U.S. board of Gamma Phi Beta sorority and viving are two daughters, one of whom is Court of Appeals. Survivors include a had been president of the Greater Kansas Ann Fiedler Vice, assoc.; five grandchil- daughter, Susan Miller Howe, d’73; two City Alumnae Chapter. dren; and four great-grandchildren. sons, Steven, ’78, and Kerry, ’84; a William Foster, d’41, 91, Aug. 28 in grandaughter; and several stepchildren. 1940s Tallahassee, Fla., where he was founder William Sands, b’47, 86, May 14 in Elizabeth Templin Alley, n’49, 84, and longtime director of Florida A&M’s Independence, where he had been an May 31 in Toledo, Ohio. Three daugh- Marching 100 band. He received KU’s employee-relations manager for Arco. Sur- ters, eight grandchildren and six great- Distinguished Service Citation in 1973. viving are his wife, Millie, assoc.; a son, grandchildren survive. He is survived by two sons, several Tim, b’76; a daughter; and five grandchil- Patricia James Baker, j’49, 83, June grandchildren and several great-grand- dren.

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI Karl Shawver Jr., c’41, 89, June 10 Jack Arthur, p’57, 80, Feb. 12 in Lit- wife, Risa; three sons, one of whom is in Olathe. He practiced law in Paola for tleton, Colo. He is survived by his wife, David, m’85; a daughter; eight grandchil- more than 50 years and is survived by Alix Neville Arthur, j’50; a daughter; dren; and three great-grandchildren. his wife, Jane; a son; two daughters; a sis- three sons; two sisters; and five grand- William Herrman, c’57, g’67, 95, ter, Betty Shawver Reitz, c’39; five grandchildren. Aug. 27 in Leawood, where he was retired children; and a great-granddaughter. Harold Cunningham, e’51, 89, July after a 42-year career in education. He David Smart Jr., e’48, 86, May 21 in 26 in Overland Park, where he was taught science and later was director of Leawood, where he was retired from a retired from a 39-year career with Phillips guidance at Highland Park High School. career with American Steel Works. Sur- Petroleum. A daughter and three grand- Survivors include a son; a daughter, Becki vivors include his wife, Lucia; two daugh- children survive. Herrman Clary, j’78; a brother, Donald, ters; a son; a stepdaughter; two sisters, James Cunningham, f’50, 88, July c’50, g’61; and four grandchildren. Sarah Smart Stock, ’49, and Nancy Smart 21 in Kansas City, where he was a retired Vernon Johnson, e’55, 78, June 27 in Moore, ’51; and six grandchildren. commercial artist. He is survived by two Shawnee Mission, where he had been a Lillian Plattner O’Hearne Sproull, sons, one of whom is Jeffrey, ’75; and a manufacturers’ representative in the heat- c’44, m’47, 87, June 24 in Leawood, granddaughter. ing and cooling industry. He is survived where she was a retired physician and a Robert Eggert, b’51, 82, July 22 in by his wife, Vicki; two sons, one of whom psychiatrist. She is survived by two Lawrence, where he was a retired is Vincent, b’88; a daughter, Andrea John- daughters, Marilyn O’Hearne, s’77, and accountant and a rural mail carrier. He is son Krakow, f’89; a brother; and seven Patricia O’Hearne Prater, ’79; two sons; a survived by a son, Robert Jr., e’87, g’90; a grandchildren. stepdaughter; two stepsons; and nine daughter, Carolyn Eggert Pannier, c’86, Elden Jones, e’51, 85, June 22 in grandchildren. b’86; a sister, Florence, c’44, g’45; and Prairie Village, where he was retired after a John Startz, e’48, 85, April 2 in four grandchildren. career with Westinghouse and Bendix. He Beaumont, Texas, where he was retired Nancy Hampton Fiss, f’54, 78, July is survived by his wife, Ilse Nesbitt Jones, after a 30-year career as a chemical engi- 25 in Leawood, where she had been an c’41; a daughter, Mariell, c’92; and a sister, neer with Texaco Research. He is sur- occupational therapist and a hospital Geraldine Jones Coombs, c’48, g’50 vived by his wife, Alfa Lee; two sons; two volunteer. She is survived by two sons, Jean Jones, g’54, 92, Aug. 4 in Topeka, brothers, one of whom is Elmer, e’49; Robert, b’81, and Scott, b’87; a daughter, where she was a retired high-school two grandchildren; and a stepgrandchild. Leslie Fiss Young, d’80; and 10 grand- teacher. She was named Kansas Teacher of Kenneth Troup, e’47, 91, June 2 in children. the Year in 1968 and was inducted into Tucson, Ariz., where he was a retired U.S. Mary Munson Flanders, p’50, 87, the Kansas Teacher Hall of Fame in 1982. Air Force colonel. A memorial has been May 18 in Salina. She is survived by her A niece and two nephews survive. established with the KU Endowment husband, Alden, c’42, m’44; a daughter, Ronald Liggett, b’54, 77, March 28 in Association. He is survived by his wife, Frances Flanders Broman, d’67; four Apple Valley, Minn. He is survived by two Nicole, assoc.; two sons, one of whom is sons, three of whom are John, b’72, sons, two daughters, 13 grandchildren David, l’76; a daughter, Pamela Troup Richard, c’76, g’83, and Philip, c’79; and four great-grandchildren. Horne, c’74, g’82; seven grandchildren; nine grandchildren; and five great- Charles McDonald, b’56, 76, July 4 in and six great-grandchildren. grandchildren. Hutchinson. He was retired after 29 years Archilles “Skip” Wheat, ’49, 84, Julie Underhill Forsyth, d’55, 76, as a director of the State Bank of Satanta, July 22 in Kansas City, where he owned Aug. 11 in Dallas, where she was a busi- where he also served as president of the Wheat’s Insurance and Wheat’s nesswoman. She is survived by her hus- Chamber of Commerce and as a city coun- Appraisals. He is survived by his wife, band, Charles, b’55; a son; two cilman. He is survived by his wife, Anna; a JoAnne; a daughter; a son, Roy, ’81; a daughters; a brother, Gary Underhill, daughter, Sally McDonald Kotulak, d’80; sister, Dorothy Wheat Stockdale, ’49; c’59; and four grandchildren. two sons, Scott, b’80, and Mark, j’82; two four grandchildren; and three great- William Gertson, m’56, 79, July 27 sisters, Jeanette McDonald Taton, d’61, grandchildren. in Great Falls, Mont., where he was a and Joyce McDonald Hedden, d’69; and Margie Johnson Wyatt, c’45, 87, family physician. A memorial has been eight grandchildren. Aug. 30 in Wichita, where she taught established with the KU Endowment Richard Medley, c’59, l’63, 72, July English at East High School for many Association. He is survived by his wife, 13 in Coffeyville, where he practiced law years. She is survived by a son; a daugh- Jerri; three daughters; a son; a sister, and was a former district judge. He is sur- ter, Rebecca Wyatt Johnson, ’72; a Clarice Gertson Emig, c’57; six grand- vived by his wife, Becky; three sons, two of brother; a sister, Donna Johnson Vanier, sons; and five great-grandchildren. whom are Brent, c’86, and Cordy, ’91; two f’55; and four grandchildren. Lawrence Hays, m’57, 82, June 15 daughters; and nine grandchildren. in Kansas City, where he practiced medi- Martha Weed Miller, d’50, 81, Feb. 1950s cine for many years. He is survived by his 23 in Trinidad, Colo., where she was a

ISSUE 6, 2010 | 69 In Memory retired teacher and a church organist. senior application engineer with MTS the architectural firm of Horst, Terrill and Two sons and two granddaughters sur- Systems Corp. He is survived by his wife, Karst and retired project manager for Fer- vive. Ronda O’Hara Deel, g’68; and three rell Construction. He lived in Lawrence. Sandra Puliver Mowery, d’55, 77, brothers, two of whom are Samuel, ’67, Survivors include his wife, Norma Jean May 15 in Salina. She taught at the and William, ’71. Spresser Reeves, c’60; and a sister, Jo Ellen YMCA and YWCA for many years and David DeHelms, EdD’68, 79, July Reeves Leslie, ’56. had been board president of the St. Fran- 23 in Tampa, Fla, where he was retired. Susan Callender Rettig, d’63, 69, cis Boys Home. Survivors include three He had been a teacher and later was the Jan. 26 in Kansas City. She lived in Stock- sons, two of whom are Jeff Rice, ’84, and assistant superintendent of schools in ton, Mo., where she was retired. Survivors William Mowrey III, ’81; and a grandson. Hickman Mills, Mo. A daughter survives. include her husband, Roy; a sister, Sallie Wilbur Peterson, g’52, 84, Aug. 6 in Phyllis DiMaio, c’68, 63, May 12 in Callender Trotter, ’57; three stepsons, one Olathe, where he was a retired educator. Redondo Beach, Calif., where she worked of whom is Troy Rettig, g’10; a stepdaugh- He had been a high-school principal in for United Airlines. A sister and a brother ter; nine grandchildren and one great- Lecompton and Fairview and later was survive. grandchild. superintendent of schools in Wellsville, Hugh Hanna, m’62, 73, Feb. 9 in Judith Beymer Rohlf, n’62, 69, May Syracuse and Belle Plaine. Among sur- Warrensburg, Mo., where he was a sur- 29 in Truckee, Calif., where she was a vivors are his wife, Mary; four sons; a geon for many years. He is survived by retired nurse. Among survivors are her daughter; a sister; 10 grandchildren; and his wife, Marguerite; three sons; a sister; husband, Richard, b’60, PhD’68; two sons; three great-grandchildlren. a half-brother; his stepfather; and five and several grandchildren. Ruth Keth Shaw, c’58, 75, July 12 in grandchildren. Barbara Rasmussen Thomas, g’68, Wichita. She is survived by her husband, Dalton Howard, f’66, g’81, 67, Aug. 67, June 14 in Sarasota, N.Y. She worked as Richard, c’57, m’61; three sons, two of 10 in Topeka. He had worked on the staff a chemist and taught enrichment whom are James, c’84, m’88, and John, of KU’s Spencer Museum of Art. Sur- classes on geology. She is survived by her c’86, m’93; and seven grandchildren. vivors include his wife, Janet Rupe husband, John, PhD’68; two daughters; H. Martin Snyder, ’53, 79, April 4 in Howard, assoc.; two sons, Chad, j’95, and her mother. Fresno, Calif., where he was a retired and Josh, ’99; his mother; a sister, Brenda Judith Hauge Trust, b’61, 71, July 17 physician and surgeon. He is survived by Howard Brand, ’71; and three grandchil- in Mesa, Ariz., where she was a retired two daughters; a son; a brother, Edward, dren. records clerk for the Internal Revenue ’57; and five grandchildren. William Hughes, s’65, 75, June 12 in Service. She is survived by her husband, Janice Manuel Stewart, c’53, 79, Pensacola, Fla. He served in the Col- Gene, and several cousins. Aug. 5 in Wichita. She is survived by her orado State Senate and chaired the Joint husband, James, e’53; two sons, one of Budget Committee in the Colorado Gen- 1970s whom is David, e’79; a daughter; a sister, eral Assembly. Survivors include his wife, John Alexander, e’77, g’78, 55, June Joan Manuel Weeks, ’50; and five grand- Catherine Kenny, three daughters, two 2 in Concordia. A daughter, a son, his children. brothers and eight grandchildren. mother, two brothers and two sisters sur- Johanne Vaughn Kapfer, d’62, vive. 1960s g’72, 80, May 11 in Lawrence, where she Rogers Barker II, p’76, 57, April 16 in Mary Perkins Byers, d’60, 71, July was a retired elementary-school coun- Kansas City, where he was a pharmacist 10 in Chicago. She lived in Topeka and is selor. She is survived by her husband, for Osco Pharmacy. He is survived by his survived by her husband, Michael, c’60; John, e’49; a son, Mark, d’75, g’97; two wife, Susan Carlile Barker, c’78; a son; a three daughters; two brothers; one of daughters, Kelley, f’74, and Kerry, d’76, daughter; a brother; and a grandson. whom is Robert Perkins, c’61; and six g’86; and three grandchildren. Jack Cassell, PhD’74, 69, Aug. 17, grandchildren. Robert Klamm, e’60, 72, July 16 in 2009, in Knoxville, Tenn. He is survived by Doris Nieweg Channell, d’64, g’67, St. Peters, Mo. He is survived by his wife, his wife, Phyllis, a son, two daughters, two 85, May 21 in Las Cruces, N.M., where Barbara, two sons, five grandchildren brothers and six grandchildren. she was a retired English and journalism and a great-grandson. Philip Frickey, c’75, 57, July 1 in Mor- teacher. She is survived by two sons, Susan Eresch Loosen, d’63, 67, aga, Calif. He was a professor of law at the Wesley Jr., b’69, g’72, PhD’74, and April 3 in Okarche, Okla., where she was University of California-Berkeley. He was a William, d’78, e’82; two daughters, Ruth retired president and board chair of the 2006 recipient of KU’s Distinguished Serv- Channell French, d’75, and Janet Chan- First Bank of Okarche. She is survived by ice Citation, and in 2009 he won the nell Ritter, ’09; a sister; six grandchil- three daughters; a sister, Joan Eresch Bar- Lawrence R. Baca Lifetime Achievement dren; and three great-grandchildren. rett, b’60; and five grandchildren. Award from the Federal Bar Association’s James Deel, g’69, PhD’72, 67, May James Reeves, a’65, 73, June 7 in Indian Law section and Berkeley Law’s 10 in Cincinnati, where he was a retired Topeka, where he was former partner in Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction. A

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI memorial has been established with the 2000s ers and a sister. KU Endowment Association. He is sur- Michael Dunlap, ’11, 44, Aug. 2 in Samuel Lewis, assoc., 72, Aug. 30 in vived by his wife, Mary Ann Bernard; a Lawrence, where he lived. He taught Lawrence, where he was retired from son; a daughter; a brother, Charles, d’66, journalism and chaired the communica- KU’s Department of Housing Ekdahl l’69; and a sister. tion department at Blue Valley West Dining Services. Surviving are his wife, Carolyn Kanaga Kupersmith, f’77, High School and was journalism pro- Coleen, seven daughters; four brothers; 56, July 8 in Kansas City. She is survived gram facilitator for the Blue Valley and 10 grandchildren. by her husband, Stephen; her mother, United School District. He was studying Hammond McNish, 93, July 22 in Nina Green Kanaga, c’48; and two broth- for a graduate degree in education at KU. Lawrence, where he was an adjunct pro- ers, one of whom is William Kanaga, Surviving are his partner, Jeff Morrison, fessor of business law at KU. He received b’80. his mother, a brother, a sister and two KU’s HOPE Award in 1977, and in 1980 Carey McCormick, f’74, d’84, 58, half-brothers. he was the recipient of the Henry A. Bubb July 29 in Wichita, where she taught art Award for distinguished teaching. in USD 259 elementary schools for 22 The University Community Don Miller, m’48, 85, July 15 in years. She is survived by her mother, R. Edwin Browne, c’38, g’57, 92, Lawrence. He had been a professor of Lavon Peters Martin, c’45; and a sister, May 22 in Blue Springs, Mo. In 1946, as surgery at KU Medical Center and the Donna McCormick, c’73. KU director of public relations, he com- University of California-Irvine. A memo- Steven “Vince” Reinert, e’79, 54, missioned Hal Sandy to draw a new Jay- rial has been established with the KU June 28 in Lawrence, where he was an IT hawk, which became KU’s famous Endowment Association. He is survived technician in KU’s physics and astron- “smiling Jayhawk.” He was a professor of by his wife, Geraldine Nelson Miller, f’47; omy department. A brother, Mike, ’85, journalism and director of radio and tele- two sons, Don Jr., c’72, and Todd, c’77; survives. vision at KU and was instrumental in four daughters, Laurie Miller Van Auken, Mary Wei Spangler, p’74, 60, Aug. founding radio station KANU. He also n’75, Marcie Miller Gross, f’82, Kristen, 7 in San Diego, where she was a phar- served as president of the Kansas School f’88, and Felicia Miller Schober, c’94; and macy consultant. Surviving are her hus- of Religion and provided the conceptual 11 grandchildren. band, Dale, c’69, PhD’78; two sons, one drawings for the KU School of Religion, Glenn Miller Jr., c’52, g’54, 79, Aug. of whom is Anthony, c’91; and a sister. with a burning bush stained-glass win- 7 in Overland Park. He taught economics Richard Williams, m’70, 65, May 28 dow and a statue of Moses kneeling out- at KU, where he also served as assistant in Iowa City, where he chaired the urol- side. He is survived by two daughters, director of the Center for Research in ogy department at the University of one of whom is Ruthann Browne Siebert, Business. He retired as vice president and Iowa. He is survived by his wife, Beverly d’70; a son, Roy III, a’71; a sister, Elinor economic adviser at the Federal Reserve Ferguson Williams, assoc.; a daughter; Browne Stewart, j’47; 11 grandchildren; Bank of Kansas City. Survivors include a his parents; three sisters; and two grand- and eight great-grandchildren. daughter, Kathryn Miller Gillmore, ’80; a children. A. Lee Cramer Copeland, s’56, 84, son; a brother, Kenneth, c’49, g’51; and Feb. 5 in Osceola, Mo. She had a long two grandchildren. 1980s career at the KU Medical Center, where W. Lang Perdue II, c’71, m’74, 60, Tamara Naughton Hawk, s’81, 57, she had been chief psychiatric social June 17 in Topeka, where he was a retired July 18 in Manhattan, where she had worker, assistant director of social serv- surgeon. From 1983 until 1999, he was been an adjunct faculty member in ices and an associate professor of psychi- an assistant clinical professor of surgery Kansas State University’s Department of atry. She also taught postgraduate at KU Medical Center. He is survived by Sociology, Anthropology and Social medical education seminars at KU and his wife, Sheri; four sons; a daughter; a Work. She is survived by her husband, was a consultant at the KU Student Men- sister, Stacy Perdue Lowe, b’80; and three Tom; two sons, one of whom is tal Health Clinic. Survivors include a grandchildren. Cameron, c’08; two brothers, one of brother, Quentin Cramer, c’40, m’43. Harry Talley, g’53, PhD’54, 86, Aug. whom is Gary Naughton, ’76; a sister, Albert Johnson Jr., g’78, PhD’81, 28 in Lawrence, where he was a retired Sydney Naughton Carlin, assoc.; and her 60, Aug. 18 in Kansas City. He lived in professor of electrical engineering at KU. stepfather. Lee’s Summit, Mo., and was retired vice The engineering department established Walter Phillips Jr., c’84, 49, May 28 president of the Northwest Commission the Harry Talley Excellence in Teaching in Wichita, where he was a geologist with on Colleges and Universities in Red- Award in his honor. He is survived by his Pintail Petroleum. He is survived by his mond, Wash. Earlier he had been dean of wife, Marjorie Green Talley, assoc.; a son, wife, Lana; a son; a daughter; two step- graduate studies at the University of Dennis, d’75; a daughter, Susan Talley daughters; a stepson; his father, Walter, Great Falls in Montana, and for 14 years Guthrie, ’77; five grandchildren; and c’55; a sister, Julie, c’85; and a grandson. he was associate dean of law at KU. He is seven great-grandchildren. survived by his mother, Hazel, two broth-

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some mammals. The paper established that

STEVE PUPPE early emergence from hibernation and a longer growing season caused by global warming have increased the marmots’ body size and population numbers. The findings offer insight into what some scientists believe is the major challenge of climate-change ecology: predicting the impact ■ Basic scientific data of future climate change on on marmots that Ken animal populations. Armitage began recording The findings also demonstrate the value of long-term in 1962 is today proving studies, says one of the valuable to researchers, study’s authors, Daniel who bemoan the dearth of Blumstein. long-term studies. “Long-term studies such as Ken’s are absolutely vital, The Long View important, priceless for understanding environmental driv- A professor’s five-decade study of mountain marmots ers of behavior or population offers insight to global warming’s effect on mammals processes,” says Blumstein, chair of the department of ecology and evolutionary biol- hen biologist Ken- ogy at UCLA. He says Armitage’s study is the sec- neth Armitage set ond-longest of individual mammals, exceeded out in 1962 to only by Jane Goodall’s work with Tanzanian study colonies of chimpanzees, begun in 1960. “If we want to Wyellow-bellied marmots living understand how climate change is influencing in the Colorado mountains, he species, if we want to understand evolutionary had no idea his research would dynamics, how populations and species change one day contribute important over time, it’s only through long-term studies we data to the study of what is can get that.” arguably the planet’s most Observations of the marmots’ age and weight, pressing scientific issue. Nor did population numbers, gender and reproductive he envision that a half-century rates were recorded over the decades by later the project would continue, still Armitage, distinguished professor emeritus of building on the huge troves of data he ecology and evolutionary biology. collected over his 40-year KU career and well “We did many projects with marmots, but one into retirement. of the things we kept every year was that basic In July, as Armitage’s study entered its 49th demography,” he says. “At the time we started, summer, researchers published a groundbreaking we had no idea climate change was going to be paper in the scientific journal Nature that draws a problem. But we collected basic demography on his data to fill important gaps in scientists’ to use as a foundation for other kinds of study.”

understanding of the effects of climate change on What Armitage calls “basic science” proved BY PDPHOTO.ORG MARMOT

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI invaluable to researchers. lecting demographic data while asking ◆◆◆ “We noticed a tipping point—some- all these other questions. Having done thing different is happening now than that and to have it become so valuable, was happening before—and that’s possi- so useful, it sort of makes you feel good New spin ble only because of this long-term data that you made the right decision.” legacy Ken created,” Blumstein says. “It’s Armitage has retired from field work, on electronics priceless, really priceless.” but Blumstein, who completed a postdoc Long-term studies are rare, partly at KU from 1995 to ’98, continues the Atom-level changes hold promise because grant organizations don’t fund study at the Rocky Mountain Biological for ever-smaller semiconductors them, Armitage and Blumstein say, Laboratory. Demographic data is still col- instead supporting studies that focus on lected every summer, as researchers and iniaturization of computers specific problems that can be solved in a students flock to the high-mountain and electronics is reaching a few short years. meadows near the abandoned silver-min- “fundamental limit,” but “You wouldn’t set out to say, ‘I want to ing town of Gothic to observe the mar- researchers in KU’s Ultrafast study this for 40 years,’ because someone mots after their emergence from an MLaser Lab say they’ve discovered a new would tell you, ‘No, you don’t have a eight-month hibernation. electronic-information processing system question it takes 40 years to answer,’” Although recent effects of climate that will reduce semiconductors’ size Armitage says. “We didn’t have a ques- change have benefited the rodents, the and energy consumption. tion; it took 40 years to formulate the long-term prognosis is not good: Climate Called “spintronics,” the new technol- question.” predictions call for dry conditions that ogy uses powerful lasers to monitor Armitage is now working on a book could spell doom for the critters, which spinning electrons, which allows for that synthesizes the findings of many are highly susceptible to heat stress and an entirely new coding process for the short-term projects completed during the need succulent vegetation to survive. ones and zeros that compose digital 40-plus years he studied marmots. He “What looks like a short-term gain is information. sees the Nature paper as a validation of probably long-term harm,” Armitage “The goal,” says Hui Zhao, assistant the study’s long-term view. says, “which again emphasizes why you professor of physics and astronomy, “is “I take great pride in it, because I have to keep these studies going: The to replace everything—from computers to think it did validate what we were story is still being written.” memory devices—to have higher perform- doing,” he says. “We decided to keep col- —Steven Hill ance and less energy consumption.”

Media and Message

“ edia Memes: Images, MTechnology and Making the News” explores how “memes” (ideas, styles or usages

COURTESY SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART(2) SPENCER MUSEUM OF COURTESY that spread from person to person in a culture) have been produced and transmitted by media over several generations. The exhibition of photographs from the Spencer Museum of Art’s permanent collection considers how images we see in the media affect our view of the world. Presented in collaboration with the William “Trying to Remember “Body and Soul: Gloria Allen White School of Journalism J.F.K.” by Cecil Stoughton, Steinem and Dorothy and Mass Communications, proof for cover of Esquire Pitman Hughes” by Dan through Dec. 19 at the Spencer. magazine, November Wynn, published in Esquire 1973. magazine, October 1971.

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can Society of Neurochemistry. The drug, KU-32, was developed by Brian Blagg, professor of medicinal chemistry and a study co-author. KU-32 stopped DPN in diabetic mice and showed that it could even restore sen- sory neuron function to damaged tissue. The KU researchers estimate that nearly 60 percent of 24 million American DAVID F MCKINNEY/UNIVERSITY RELATIONS DAVID diabetics suffer from nerve damage. Only two FDA-approved drugs treat DPN, but one is an anticonvulsant, the other is an antidepressant, and neither reverses nerve degeneration. KU-32 is still in “pre-clinical development.” Among the questions yet to be answered is whether DPN in mice was reversed by restoring vitality to damaged nerves or by generating new ones. After another year or two of study, ■ Graduate student Lalani Werake and Assistant Professor Hui Zhao, setting up experiments in researchers hope it can be tested with Zhao’s Ultrafast Laser Lab in Malott Hall. clinical trials in humans. Among other hopes for KU-32 is that it can be admin- ◆◆◆ istered orally, in small doses and as infre- Electron charges that transmit digital quently as once a week, thereby reducing sequences of information have for potential side effects. decades been the heart of computer Joys of rejuvenation The ongoing research is funded by functions. But, Zhao explains, modern grants from the Juvenile Diabetes electronics have reached such extreme Early tests show KU drug Research Foundation and the National miniaturization that there is no longer reverses diabetes nerve damage Institutes of Health. enough physical space to house the Along with Dobrowsky and Bragg, atoms needed to blink through their digi- nsulin injections, blood-sugar other co-authors are Roger Rajewski, tal codes. swings and weight gain might be c’84, g’87, Ph’90, professor of pharma- “We can’t continue that way any- forefront in public perceptions of ceutical chemistry; Joanna Krise and more,” Zhao says, “because we’re hitting diabetes, but the side effect that Michelle McIntosh, research associates a fundamental limit.” Istrikes the greatest dread among many The breakthrough recently published diabetics and their families is nerve dam- in the leading journal Nature Physics by age. With loss of feeling in hands and Zhao and graduate student Lalani Wer- feet, simple tasks such as walking or ake uses lasers to read the spin velocity writing become labored, wounds can go of individual electrons. Although the idea unnoticed, and infections can be difficult had already been proposed, the technol- to halt. ogy didn’t exist to take the necessary In fact, “diabetic peripheral neuropa- readings in real time—until the discover- thy,” or DPN, is the second-leading cause ies by Zhao and Werake. of amputations, after injuries. Now KU F MCKINNEY/UNIVERSITY RELATIONS DAVID With spintronics, individual electrons researchers say a drug developed in their can now transmit more information, own laboratories can stop and even faster, and with less power, and the laser reverse DPN in mice. readings happen in real time without “People with DPN can be very sensi- altering the electron’s current. tive to light touch, which can cause sig- The research was funded with a five- nificant pain,” says Rick Dobrowsky, ■ Professors Rick Dobrowsky and Brian Blagg, year award from the National Science professor of pharmacology and toxicol- two members of the School of Pharmacy team Foundation. ogy and one of eight co-authors of the exploring KU-32’s potential to treat nerve —Chris Lazzarino research paper published by the Ameri- damage in diabetics.

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■ As the seasons change and students come and go, Elden C. Tefft’s steadfast bronze Jayhawk, commissioned by the Class of 1956, perches confidently on his post in front of Strong Hall.

Photograph by Caroline Koch Gollier, c’00, j’00

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