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28 24 36 COVER STORY Interplanetary Insights Anonymous No More Infinite Layers An early brush with the beauty After sharing his witty, popular poems under a pseudonym for A Spencer Museum exhibition of space launched one young more than a decade, The Bard of 30 Jayhawk artists offers an alumna on a mission to Mars. of Sherman Avenue finally expansive view of the power of took a bow. place. By Sarah Elizabeth McCandless

By Tod Marshall By Chris Lazzarino

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just in time for National Poetry Month in April, Marshall treats us to the sweet story of a laureate’s bond with a sly master of light verse— and reveals The Bard’s identity—in “Anonymous No More.” The poets’ karma, shared with KU kinsmen who united from afar to honor a beloved friend, is testament to the lasting ED ZURGA/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX TIMES/REDUX NEW YORK ED ZURGA/THE connections of those whose journeys pass through Lawrence. Our home on the Hill anchors “The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists,” the Spencer Museum of Art’s exhibition through June 30. In our cover story, Associate Editor Chris Lazzarino explores the ways in which the exhibition, two years in the making, examines the intriguing concept of place—not merely as geography but also as the tangled memories, histories and oddities that take root in our hearts and souls. The aura of Mount Oread naturally infuses a collection of art by 30 alumni, but many other forces also inspire and enliven the impressive assembly. The entire exhibition includes more works than these rue kinship sometimes springs from kismet limited pages could hold, so for our Tmore easily than from family trees. Tod The kindred KU story,“Infinite Layers,” we selected works by Marshall’s friendship with Tom Wobker grew from spirits began the rites of artists new to Kansas Alumni. They share space a chance meeting in 2006 in Spokane, Washington, friendship—sharing tales in the exhibition with artists we have often and it bears fruit to this day. highlighted: Terry Hoyt Evans, f’68; Ann of Lawrence, trading Marshall, PhD’96, a poet and professor of Hamilton, f’79; and Stephen Johnson, f’87. If English at Gonzaga University, was welcoming a favorite books and, your travels bring you home this spring, we visiting writer to his campus, making a proper bound by tradition encourage you to make time for “The Power of introduction of the guest speaker to a local that bridged their Place.” audience, when he just happened to share a bit of In our final feature, alumna Sarah Elizabeth generations, talking KU his own story in the process, mentioning that he’s a McCandless, e’12, takes us along on the final Kansan—more specifically, a Jayhawk. hoops and watching breathless minutes of a journey few can fathom: Wobker, j’67, l’74, was in the audience. He had games together. last November’s historic landing of NASA’s driven 30 miles from his home in Post Falls, Idaho, InSight spacecraft on Mars. As a navigation to Spokane for the literary event. A few days later, he sent an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, email to Marshall and they met for coffee soon after. The kindred California, McCandless was part of the team entrusted to ensure KU spirits began the rites of friendship—sharing tales of Law- that InSight arrived safely on the distant Red Planet. Her own rence, trading favorite books and, bound by tradition that bridged odyssey to space exploration began when, as a child, she was their generations, talking KU hoops and watching games together. mesmerized by the spectacular images beamed from NASA’s Years later, Marshall came to our attention when he earned Hubble Space Telescope. Years later, she took a KU astronomy acclaim as the poet laureate of his adopted state. Associate Editor class from Professor Steven Hawley, c’73, the Jayhawk who, as a Steven Hill profiled him for issue No. 1, 2016 (“Poetry for the NASA astronaut, had helped secure the Hubble’s orbit and People”). Last fall, as Marshall concluded his two-year tenure as operation. Hawley’s class, McCandless says, guided her toward laureate, extolling the virtues of verse throughout Washington, he graduate school and her lofty career. emailed Hill to tell him about a prolific, popular poet who for We hope these discoveries of kismet and kinship will brighten years was known to his many local fans, including Marshall, only the final dreary days of winter, affirming that a new season will by a nom de plume, The Bard of Sherman Avenue. In this issue, come again, like wheat that springeth green.h

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 5 On the Boulevard

Relentless winter storms delivered generous doses of ice and snow on campus this semester, leaving Jayhawks hopeful for signs of spring.

Spencer Museum 21 KU Symphony Orchestra 30 KU University Band and 25 Battleground: Political of Art Exhibitions 23 South Asian Student Jazz II and III Polarization and the Association Talent Show Supreme Court MAY “Camouflage and Other 24 Zlatomir Fung, cello Hidden Treasures from the 1 Red Green’s “This Could Natural History Eric Gustav Carlson WWI APRIL Be It” Tour Museum events Collection,” through June 9 2 4 KU Jazz Ensemble I with KU Symphonic Band MARCH “The Power of Place: KU special guest Renee Rosnes, 3 “Something Rotten!” Alumni Artists,” through piano 6 New York Philharmonic 20 Science on Tap with June 30 5 Nataanii Means String Quartet Richard Yi: “Is Addiction Rational?” Free State “Politics, Race, Celebrity: 6 KU Powwow and Indig- Brewing Company, Photographs from the Esquire enous Cultures Festival Dole Institute events Lawrence Collection,” through July 7 7 Lucy Kaplansky 26 MARCH KU Common Book in “Foundling,” Sept. 14 through 10 Kenny Broberg, Van Context: Herpetology in 19 “Broken: Can the Senate Dec. 22 Cliburn Piano Competition Haiti with Dr. Rich Glor, Medalist Save Itself and the Country?” The Commons Ira Shapiro “knowledges,” Aug. 24 through 12 Erth’s Prehistoric Aquar- APRIL Jan. 5, 2020 ium Adventure 26 Presidential Lecture Series: Julie Robinson 17 Science on Tap with 14 WindSync Lied Center events Jennifer Hamer and Clar- 16 KU Wind Ensemble APRIL ence Lang: “The Impact of MARCH 19 The Last Bandoleros 2 An Evening with Major Race on University Struc- ture,” Free State Brewing 19 KU Symphonic Band and 21 Finding Neverland Garrett Company, Lawrence 4 University Band 26 Parsons Dance Dole Lecture: Carly Fiorina

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University Theatre 18 KU Percussion Group APRIL APRIL 20 Flute Studio Recital 10 KU World Percussion 2 Jayhawk Career Network: MARCH Ensembles, Lawrence Arts 22 KU Tuba-Euphonium CEO Panel at Edwards Center 29-31 “Sycorax,” directed by Consort Campus, Overland Park Jane Barnette, William Inge 18-20 University Dance 4 23 KU Saxophone Quartets “Researching The Chaper- Memorial Theatre Company Spring Concert, one” with Laura Moriarty, 24 Viola Studio Recital Lawrence Arts Center Wichita APRIL 25 Composition and Piano 9 Celebrating 35 years of the MAY 2-4 “Sycorax,” directed by Recital Washington Semester Jane Barnette, William Inge 28 Collegium Musicum 3 KU Jazz Ensemble I with Program, Congressional Memorial Theatre Concert Nick Weiser, piano; Law- Visitors Center, Washington, 26, 28 “A Midsummer rence Arts Center D.C. Night’s Dream,” directed by MAY 10 KU Night with the John Stephens, Crafton- 1 Cello Studio Recital Lectures Portland Trailblazers, Moda Preyer Theatre Center, Portland, Oregon 3 KU Choirs: Chamber MARCH 12 Jayhawk Roundup, MAY Singers 23 “The Life and Legacy of Murfin Stables, Wichita 7 KU Trombone and Horn 2, 4 “A Midsummer Night’s Arthur Poister,” David Choirs 12 Houston: Jayhawks & Java Dream,” directed by John Pickering, Bales Organ Stephens, Crafton-Preyer Recital Hall 15 Lawrence Beer Company Theatre Bales Organ Tour and Tasting Recital Hall APRIL 17 KU Libraries: South Murphy Hall 11 Humanities Lecture Florida APRIL Series: An Evening with 18 KU Libraries: Tampa MARCH 4-6 Tariverdiev Interna- Jesmyn Ward, Liberty Hall, 27 24th annual Rock Chalk 25 New Music Guild tional Organ Competition downtown Lawrence Ball, Kansas City Conven- 12 26 Undergraduate Honor Humanities Lecture tion Center MAY Recital Series Conversation: Jesmyn 5 Yuan Shen Ward, Hall Center confer- MAY 27 Visiting Artist Series: ence hall Diana Seitz, violin 7 KU Choirs: Bales Chorale 2 Veterans Alumni Network reception, Boulevard 30 Faculty Recital Series: 8 Trombone Choir Concert Academic Calendar Brewing Company, Kansas Julia Broxhom, soprano, City with Russell Miller, piano MAY Performances 3-4 Gold Medal Club APRIL 9 Last day of classes Reunion MARCH 10 Stop Day 4 KU Student Senate 50th 1 Faculty Recital Series: 24 KU Choirs: Joy of anniversary celebration, Forrest Pierce, composition Singing, Kauffman Center 13-17 Finals week lecture/recital DeBruce Center for the Arts, Kansas City 19 Commencement 2 School of Music Chamber 7 Jayhawk Book Club Music Recital reception, Adams Alumni Alumni Events Center 6 Visiting Artist Series: 10 Houston: Jayhawks & Sergei Babayan, piano MARCH Java 7 Faculty Recital Series: 20 Houston: Jayhawks & David Colwell, violin, and Java Ayako Tsuruta, piano For complete listings of all 21 KU Night with the events, visit kualumni.org, 11 KU Jazz Combos II, III, V Charlotte Hornets, Spectrum watch for emails about 17 KU Jazz Combos I, IV, VI Center, Charlotte, North programs in your area, Carolina or call 800-584-2957.

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Demand and supply oe Walden likes In-N-Out burgeoning burger brand’s HQ JBurger. A lot. So much that with more than 8,000 requests whenever the business in the past six years. Eventually, professor travels to California he hopes, In-N-Out will bow to semester about how or Texas, the western fast food the will of the people. supply chain operations chain is his first stop. “I tell students, ‘It might not impact everyday life.” But In-N-Out has no benefit you while you’re here, If the campaign succeeds, restaurants within 500 miles of but it’ll benefit Joe and it makes students can proudly tout their Lawrence—an oversight that Joe happy.’” role in attracting In-N-Out Walden has enlisted his supply That flip burger quip hides when they return to campus chain management students to the serious intent in Walden’s decades hence, with children LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY rectify. exercise. in tow. At the beginning of each “It’s a good way to start the But more immediate rewards semester, Walden, g’12, EdD’19, semester because it’s fun and it factor in. “In-N-Out is open at 2 gives five extra credit points if helps them put something as in the morning,” Walden says of students write to In-N-Out, simple as fast food in the that magic hour when you don’t a lot of students wandering asking the company to open a context of operations and have to go home, but you can’t around Mass Street and Mount Lawrence location. He supply chain,” Walden says. “It stay here. “There aren’t many Oread. It would give them estimates they’ve deluged the gets them thinking early in the places open at 2, but there are someplace to eat.”

Pepple—then store the goods on West Cool KU tune emerges Campus, awaiting reuse on campus, STEVE PUPPE STEVE donation to a local not-for-profit agency, from KCK closet or, worst-case, a trip to the landfill. “We’ll still use over half of it back on Who here remembers “Hawk it campus, and that feels really good,” Pepple to ’Em”? We sure didn’t, and, heck, we says. “I truly believe you can make a case own it. Well, by we, we mean the Alumni that we save a fair amount of money for Association, which means you, so, you the University.” own it, too, which is pretty cool, but the Pepple recently added another option to question stands: “Hawk it to ’Em,” lighten KU’s landfill loads: twice-weekly anybody? public access to shop at KU Surplus, 8-10 Turns out it’s the snappy single recorded a.m. on Tuesdays and 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on in 1968 by none other than The Tips, Pepple Fridays, at the West Campus storage site, backed by Gary Jackson and The Soul 1851 Westbrooke St. He prefers credit-card Messengers, to Surplus sales recycle transactions, but will also take cash or celebrate those campus castoffs checks—whatever works to find new fabulous homes for timeworn yet still useful desks, football ’Hawks Crews from KU’s Procurement chairs, filing cabinets and bookcases, all who traveled to Services each year pick up as many as certified Mount Oread Tough. Miami for the 10,000 items that the University no longer “We really do keep a lot of stuff out Jan. 1, 1969, needs—“Anything from a big piece of of Dumpsters and out of the landfill,” Orange Bowl scientific equipment to a truck to a Pepple says. “That speaks to my soul all game. stapler,” says business coordinator Sam the way around.” The orange-

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI vinyl spinner came to our attention thanks KU music archivists digitized the to Joanie DeGraw Jones, ’72, a retired record, but it turns out the recording was STEVE PUPPE STEVE nurse from Kansas City who recently already on YouTube. (Which makes it donated her treasured Orange Bowl official: Everything is on YouTube.) It also mementos—a like-new, short-sleeved turns out that the Audio House recording sweatshirt and her “Hawk it to ’Em” was paid for by the Alumni Association, so record—for safekeeping at University our song is your song and your song will Archives. Jones held these things dear all most definitely fill the air at a football rally these years to remember the trip she didn’t in the not-so-distant future. take: As a student, she couldn’t afford the Check it out at kualumni.org/extras. drive south with her classmates, so she Now here come the ’Hawks! Here come the Horn-Lamb bought a few fun items and cheered the ’Hawks, y’all, here come the ’Hawks! They’re team from home. No. 1! Dig it. She keeps pace with the ’Hawks Ellen Horn-Lamb, d’71, g’81, who never missed a basketball game in her four years as an undergraduate student, finally returned to Allen Field House this year to

COURTESY JACK HATZFELD (4) HATZFELD JACK COURTESY watch her beloved Jayhawks. The trip was a 70th birthday present from her family, who surprised the retired elementary school teacher with two tickets to the Feb. 25 matchup against K-State. Even from afar, Horn-Lamb’s devotion to the ’Hawks has never wavered. After moving to Lafayette, Colorado, in the mid-’80s, she and her family made yearly trips to Boulder to see KU take on the A lot on his plate University of Colorado in Big Eight t 21, Jack Hatzfeld has already visited 15 countries, and the Olathe junior in conference play. Agraphic design devotes every penny he earns from part-time work to feed his When she wasn’t watching local games, wanderlust when school is out. the cable TV-holdout followed her team But semesters are long and Hatzfeld’s appetite for new cultures can’t wait. So from her school. “If KU was playing, I when he can’t go to the mountain (or forest, city or sea), he brings the mountain to went and did my lesson plans at night or him—by cooking the national dish of all 197 countries in a project he calls The on the weekends,” Horn-Lamb says. International Table. “When the tournament was on during the “My dream, my passion, is travel photography,” says Hatzfeld, who has so far day, the kids would come back from lunch completed 35 dishes. “I just got this taste for what the world is and what the world and there I would be with the TV on.” could be. I realize that I can’t always be out in it as a Even in retirement, Horn-Lamb hasn’t 21-year-old college student, so bringing it into my home succumbed to cable, despite her husband’s instead is the idea of the project.” urging. Instead, she works out at the local With occasional help from his dad (“a fantastic YMCA, where she walks on the treadmills cook”) and supplies from sponsors, Hatzfeld progressed while watching KU play. She has been at it from typical student fare to complex dishes like for more than 10 years now and estimates Mexican mole. He follows recipes faithfully (and posts that she has logged about 700 miles them to his blog at hatzfeldcreative.com so others can cheering on the Jayhawks. too), but his creative flair shines in the presentation. He So, after being a long-distance fan for carefully plates and photographs each dish, turning his nearly four decades, was the trip to Allen Instagram feed into a gallery of world cuisine. Field House worth it? “It felt familiar and “The whole point is to understand what a culture can also very different,” says Horn-Lamb, who taste like,” says Hatzfeld of his hunger for adventure on witnessed a thrilling 64-49 victory over the plate and around the planet. “I’ve completely K-State. “Today’s students are a lot louder Hatzfeld dropped my guard with food like I have with travel.” and more boisterous than we were!”

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 9 Hilltopics by Steven Hill

Studio 804 projects on campus (The Forum at Marvin Hall, left, and The Hill Engineering Research & Development Center, right) around Kansas (547 Arts Center in Greensburg,

JAMES EWING PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES below) and across town (at 1330 Brook St., Lawrence, far right) are highlighted in Studio 804 Design Build. The book is available at kubookstore.com.

almost always tell from their questions whether or not they’re going to make it. A lot of times they want to solve all the problems before they even begin, and I think I’ve just managed to get through it by experience and being able to reflect and change and tweak and do things a little bit differently every year, because I know I don’t have all the answers.” In 1998, when Studio 804 built its first evolution from a fledgling experiment in a house, at 933 Pennsylvania St. in East Built to last new way of teaching architecture to an Lawrence, the focus was on affordability: Book celebrates two decades of internationally lauded studio that is one of Students used salvaged materials and did KU’s most highly visible programs, looks, the work themselves, which helped hold signature architecture program in retrospect, a lot like the process of costs down. By 2000, accessibility had building a Studio 804 house. Like his become a key consideration, as the class arly on in his comprehensive history students, Rockhill was learning as he went. tackled its first project that used guidelines Eof the School of Architecture & “I’m often asked questions by other of Universal Design to make the house Design’s pathbreaking architectural university faculty who want to emulate accessible to people with a wide range of program, Studio 804, J.L. Constant what we do,” Rockhill says, “and I can disabilities. A move to Kansas City, Distinguished Professor of Architecture Kansas, in 2004, shifted the focus to Dan Rockhill reflects on the unique “seeding urban change through creative, demands of designing and building an modern solutions to the housing problems entire structure from the ground up—with the city faced,” Rockhill writes. The students—in only one academic year. availability of cheap land freed up

“We design on the go,” Rockhill writes. 804 STUDIO COURTESY resources, and the hunger for development “Our schedule makes it impossible to do in deteriorating neighborhoods created otherwise.” Critical problems are solved as fewer restrictions and more openness to they arise, with improvisation, usually on risk-taking (and award-winning) design: site and by hand—an approach that caused Two of 804’s four Kansas City Mod houses some complications in the early years of won Architecture Magazine’s Home of the the standard-setting studio’s 25-year run, Year prize. especially when dealing with city bureau- Along the way, Rockhill learned how to cracies designed to serve more conven- manage student egos and foster an tional approaches to construction. all-for-one approach, and how to leverage What comes through clearly in Studio the homes’ singular design—a source of 804 Design Build: Expanding the Pedagogy community pushback during early of Architectural Education, is that the years—into a selling point. As the opera-

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI focus has remained on the future of motivates me,” he says. “I admire anyone sustainable design and “zero energy, that enables young people to get out and resource neutral” buildings. The two get their hands in wet concrete—Habitat houses (a first) Studio 804 is designing and for Humanity is great. But to me, being COURTESY STUDIO 804 STUDIO COURTESY building this year will be the 12th and able to have that common thread run 13th LEED Platinum projects. through almost all the work is what I hold “There’s not a professional firm in the in very high regard. We never really had to world that can boast a string of LEED compromise our design intent. Being able Platinum projects that’s that strong,” to have a design vocabulary that speaks to Rockhill says. “So I’m especially proud of sort of a fresh look at how we live and the that, and that my graduates find their materials we use and the sustainable way into offices where they become, attributes of our buildings all reflected in eventually, the director of their firm’s one book is something I’m particularly sustainable efforts.” proud of. It encourages me to just Studio 804 Design Build, like the keep going.”h projects it showcases to such great effect, with color photographs taken mostly by Rockhill himself, is elegant, beautiful and well-designed. Design, Rockhill says, is what it has always been about. To see two decades of Studio 804 projects gathered in

one book is to marvel once more at the GAFFER PHOTOGRAPHY COREY creativity, ingenuity and sheer ambition of tional model became more stable and the capstone class’s audacious brief: predictable, the projects became more Challenge college students to design and ambitious, peaking with The Forum at build themselves on a relative shoestring Marvin Hall, the 2014 School of Architec- houses that win awards in direct ture addition Rockhill calls “the largest competition with those produced with and most complex project we have much more money and time by profes- finished.” Since completion of the state’s sional architecture firms. first LEED Platinum building, the 547 Arts “Being able to demonstrate that we can Center in Greensburg in 2008, the studio’s maintain a quality of design is what

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lumni and community finished by his sister, Laura Krishtalka hopes can one Adonors have “adopted” Ramberg, f’81, in her studio. day be shown in off-cam- VALERIE SPICHER VALERIE all eight of Dyche Hall’s Leonard Krishtalka, direc- pus venues, and for the replacement grotesques tor of the KU Biodiversity creation of a product line [“Dyche Hall renewal,” Institute and Natural His- celebrating grotesques old Hilltopics, issue No. 4, tory Museum, says that and new, based on digital 2018, and “Monsters of the when the grotesques are scans by Keith Van de Riet, Mind,” issue No. 6, 2017], completed, sometime late a’04, assistant professor of and sculptor Karl Ramberg this year, they’ll be unveiled architecture, and his wife, is carving Kansas limestone at a series of “coming out lecturer Amy Van de Riet, on weekday afternoons, parties,” alongside Joseph a’03, in collaboration with alongside student assis- Roblado Frazee’s 115-year- their students. tants, on Dyche’s lawn. old originals. “The Jayhawk is iconic,” As Kansas Alumni went Fundraising contin- Krishtalka says, “and these to press, Ramberg, ’81, had ues for construction of grotesques are iconic. One roughed out the zebra gro- exhibit cases for badly of a kind.” Ramberg tesque, which is now being eroded originals, which —Chris Lazzarino

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“Our emergency shelter is only 30 to 60 days,” Stuke says. “A lot of times our clients Show your work: Undergraduate don’t have time to get all the resources in order to get stability really rolling, so they researchers from the Lawrence and move into an apartment and they’re not Medical Center campuses presented ready. We think building stability takes at least a year, if not more, so this is trying to their projects at the Kansas Statehouse accommodate that need.” Feb. 20 as part of Kansas Undergraduate The house’s location is appealing, as well. Research Day at the Capitol. The event raises awareness “It fits perfectly,” Buford says, noting the about the research conducted by undergrads at Kansas proximity to downtown and campus, access to the bus system, the walkability Board of Regents institutions. and vibrancy of the neighborhood, and the lack of not-in-my-backyard resistance. “There is also the opportunity for any number of cultural events,” she says. “For a Restoration House at,” says Rebecca Buford, executive woman who’s been isolated from their director of Tenants to Homeowners, a family and community by domestic KU-owned property to become Lawrence nonprofit that helps families violence, having access to all that for 12 to way station for those in need secure affordable housing. 24 months is a huge opportunity to build The five-bedroom house meets a dire those life skills.” house near campus with ties to KU need for long-term transitional housing: “We do love that it’s so close to campus,” A will get a new mission this spring as Tenants will be eligible to stay one to Stuke says. “We love that there’s kind of a it’s converted to transitional housing for two years. community here. It’s populated enough survivors of domestic violence. “Survivors of domestic violence, if they that people aren’t too isolated, which is The Pinet House at 704 W. 12th St. will leave their house with the clothes on their really important for people in our open by May 1 as Restoration House, a back and no job, kind of have to start over situation.” partnership between The Willow Domestic again,” Buford says. “That takes longer KU Endowment received the house after Violence Center, Tenants To Homeowners than a couple months, so having a 12- to the 1998 death of Frank Pinet, distin- and the City of Lawrence. KU Endowment 24-month place to stay and build the life guished professor emeritus of business. is selling the home to Tenants To Home- skills and support networks they need to Pinet, b’42, g’47, PhD’55, taught at the owners, which will manage and maintain be permanently self-sustaining is the goal.” School of Business from 1955 to 1986. The the house, while Willow refers adults and Restoration House fills a gap in the city’s home was restored in 2007 with a gift from their children and provides an on-site case emergency housing safety net, according Tom, c’73, and Jan Rudkin, c’73, to serve manager and services. The city will pay for to Megan Green Stuke, d’95, g’00, execu- as housing for international students. the case manager and housing subsidies tive director of The Willow, which shelters When the University discontinued that from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. more than 200 adults and children arrangement last year, Endowment began “We all bring to the table what we’re best annually. looking for another use, says Monte Soukup, e’89, senior vice president of the property division at Endowment. “The house is in a historic district, so we’re kind of the caretakers in a sense,”

STEVE PUPPE STEVE Megan Stuke of The Soukup says. “We were looking for a use Willow and Rebecca that was compatible with us owning the Buford of Tenants To house long-term.” Both he and Buford Homeowners welcomed serve on the city’s Affordable Housing Restoration House Advisory Board. “We just started throwing supporters with a ribbon around ideas about how it could work, and cutting and open house we came to a successful arrangement for Feb. 28. Endowment and for Tenants to Home- owners,” Soukup says. The program is a first for both groups, and the sale contract includes an out for

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI either if the arrangement doesn’t work. But it could also be a model for using more Milestones, money KU-owned properties to boost Lawrence’s and other matters affordable housing stock in the future. PUPPE STEVE “It’s working well so far,” Soukup says. “If we get this one successfully underway, n One Day. One KU. raised more than it may be a good model for some other $1 million to benefit the University. The properties that Endowment owns.”h 24-hour fundraising event conducted by KU Endowment on Feb. 20 attracted 2,635 donors who gave a combined Long run $1,084,062. Gifts ranged in size Audus from $100,000 to $5, and surpassed Dean search underway as Audus the 2018 total of 1,898 donors and decides to step down $730,000. “been at the forefront of efforts that ean of Pharmacy Ken Audus will not created meaningful change in access for n Arvin Agah, professor of electrical Dseek reappointment when his current individuals in rural Kansas while also engineering and computer science, was term ends in June. working to advance the profile of the named dean of the School of Engineer- The longest-serving dean on campus, school as both a leader in pharmacy ing in January. Agah has been on the Audus, PhD’84, began his tenure in 2004, education and research.” KU faculty since 1997 and has served and he is only the seventh permanent dean When Audus became dean, seven rural as interim dean since July, when Dean to lead the school since 1885. He spear- Kansas counties had no pharmacist and Michael Branicky ended his term. Agah headed a successful effort to build support several others had only one; the average previously served as associate dean for to expand KU’s PharmD program in age of independent pharmacists in the research and graduate programs at the response to a shortage of pharmacists in state was more than 50. Today, only two school, and associate chair for graduate rural areas of the state. counties—Chase and Wabaunsee—are studies for the department of electrical Thanks to a grassroots campaign in without a pharmacy. engineering and computer science. which pharmacists and other alumni Strengthening the graduate school advocates in Jayhawks for Higher Educa- faculty and maintaining the school’s n A $1 million gift from Richard, e’71, tion contacted legislators and worked top-five ranking in National Institutes of and Elizabeth Hoover, c’71, of North- alongside the school to secure state Health funding were also critical, port, Michigan, will create a new funding, KU in 2010 opened a new Audus says. chemical engineering research lab in the building that allowed the program to “I look at that as important because School of Engineering. The Richard H. expand from 105 PharmD students per we’re going through a time when getting Hoover Chemical Engineering Applied year to 170 while modernizing pharmacy NIH grants is just not that easy, and to Research Laboratory will give students education. The campaign also created a maintain that level has been a challenge. more hands-on experience. “I was look- satellite campus in Wichita, which We were able to recruit some top-flight ing for an opportunity to do something educated 20 of those students and enabled scientists to work on drug discovery and to bridge the academic experience at the school to recruit more students from development. Like every other program KU with the applied outside world to rural areas in hopes that they would seek on campus, we’ve lost some good ones, help better prepare students for what employment in or near their hometowns. but we’ve also picked up some good young they would encounter on the job,” said “That was very important to the state of people who are now keeping us moving Richard, who spent his career at Dow Kansas,” Audus says. “In the small towns, forward in these areas.” Corning. Elizabeth worked for the phar- sometimes the only caregiver or health Moving forward is key for Audus—who maceutical company Hoffman-Laroche care professional is a pharmacist, and so to says he never aspired to be a college until they started their family. keep the towns lively they all want a professor, much less a dean, but that good pharmacist. To the extent that we can help mentoring along the way “nudged me in n Simon Atkinson will become the with that, I think it’s critical, because those that direction.” University’s next vice chancellor for small towns are kind of the bedrock “It will be difficult to step away,” he says. research in July. He is currently the of the state.” “I find that difficult even to say, because vice chancellor for research at Indiana Interim Provost and Executive Vice it’s been a joy serving the school in this University-Purdue University Chancellor Carl Lejuez, who announced a role, and I’ll miss it. But I look forward to Indianapolis. The appointment is search committee led by former engineer- making a bit of a change in my career, and contingent upon Atkinson being ing dean Michael Branicky, said Audus has doing some other things in my life.”h awarded tenure at KU.

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 13 Hilltopics FILM & MEDIA STUDIES locations on low budgets. “We didn’t have a lot of Academy Award brings joy, PUPPE STEVE money and we did it teaching lesson for Willmott because we believed in it Winning an oscar for screenwriting, and they believed in me as Kevin Willmott, professor of film and and allowed me to tell media studies, did at the Academy Awards my stories,” he says. in Los Angeles Feb. 24 is a little like, well, “BlacKkKlansman” is being in a movie. based on the memoir of “I feel like I’ve been living in a Frank Ron Stallworth, a black Capra movie,” says Willmott, who earned policeman who infil- the best adapted screenplay Oscar for trated the Ku Klux Klan “BlacKkKlansman,” which he by answering a newspa- co-wrote with director Spike Lee per recruiting ad. The [“No Joke,” issue No. 4, 2018]. It’s film won the Grand Prix the second collaboration at Cannes and the British between Lee and Willmott, who Academy Film and also co-wrote Lee’s 2015 film Television Arts Award “Chi-Raq.” for best adapted screen- “So much of my film career has play and was widely been what I’ve always called touted as an Oscar ‘community filmmaking,’” favorite. Willmott says he Willmott says, crediting a long list tried not to dwell on the of students, alumni, faculty Oscar race and concen- colleagues and local filmmakers trated instead on he’s worked with. “To me that’s promoting the film and the Capraesque quality, that it’s Willmott completing the screen- a shared victory in so many Good Indian,” “CSA: The Confederate play for his next project with Lee, “Da Five ways. With filmmaking, you States of America” and many other Bloods,” a story of Vietnam War veterans can’t do it by yourself.” Willmott films were made in in their 60s who reunite to recover a “Jayhawkers,” “The Only Lawrence and other Kansas —Continued on p. 17

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ANDREW WYMORE REALTOR Continued from p. 14 decisions tell the same story.” Milestones, money comrade’s body and search for lost gold. The first structural feature creates three That mindset persisted right up to the broad categories where budget resources and other matters Dolby Center ceremony. can be allocated: “You’re sitting there trying not to think • Foundational priorities that comprise n A $2 million gift from Ripple, a Silicon about it, trying not to care so much that core essentials needed to run the Univer- Valley financial technology company led you’re crushed if it doesn’t happen,” sity, including regular merit raises, by Brad Garlinghouse, c’94, will support Willmott says. “So when our names were infrastructure investments and rebuilding KU research into blockchain, cryptocur- called it was nothing but joy.” KU’s emergency fund; rency and digital payments. The gift The day after the Oscars Lee left for • Campuswide strategic priorities that over five years will support research in Thailand to begin preproduction on “Da allow KU to “think big and make impor- the Information & Telecommunication Five Bloods,” and Willmott flew home. tant investments that help facilitate our Technology Center and the KU Block- “I taught on Tuesday, because it’s good vision for the future of KU”; chain Institute, a student-led organi- to get back to what really matters, and not • Unit-level allocations for each aca- zation that promotes the technology live in the boogie wonderland universe too demic and service unit. across engineering, business develop- long,” he says with a laugh. “A good dose The second and third structural features ment and policymaking. of that—like one or two nights—that’s focus on how money is allocated across about enough of that.” and within these three broad categories. n Robert Moser will succeed William He brought the Oscar to class, to the “In terms of the budget, we don’t want Cathcart-Rake as dean of the School delight of his students, who passed around to just cut, we don’t want to just reduce, we of Medicine in Salina in June. Cathcart- the statuette and posed for selfies. want to be able to figure out how do we Rake, m’74, has led the Salina campus “I wanted to shrink the distance insure that we are going to be fiscally since it was created in 2012. Moser, between an award like that and where we healthy moving forward,” Lejuez said p’81, m’85, is executive director and live,” Willmott says. “When you start out it during a campus budget conversation Feb. chief medical officer of the Kansas seems like it’s a billion miles away and you 26 at Watson Library. Clinical Improvement Collaborative at just can’t reach it.” “If we’re going to move forward, we are the University of Kansas Health System. The class lesson: You can—even from going to need to have a model that actually Kansas. identifies doing things that are aligned n Pam Fine will lead “I always tell students, it’s about just with what we care about at this university.” the Chronicle of Higher doing it, not about waiting for Lejuez also discussed final details of the Education as editor. She permission.” $20 million budget cut announced last most recently was the summer, which led to a 5.87 percent across John S. and James L. the board reduction this fiscal year, nearly Knight Chair for News, ADMINISTRATION 30 KU staff members losing their jobs, and Leadership and Fine elimination of more than 150 positions Budget transformation moves Community at KU, where she over the next two years [“Hard Choices,” collaborated on media and transforma- forward with plans and protest Hilltopics, issue No. 1]. tion projects with professional news Around 20 members of the Graduate organizations and taught reporting, A new budget model that administra- Teaching Assistants Coalition interrupted ethics, multimedia journalism and other tors say would help the Lawrence campus the presentation to express their concerns subjects at the William Allen White better address costs, needs and opportuni- about low pay and limited health insur- School of Journalism. ties would focus on three “structural ance. Holding signs and chanting, “Fair features,” according to a plan outlined by pay, today, for faculty and GTAs,” and n Joe Block, a senior in aerospace interim Provost and Executive Vice “Hey-hey, ho-ho, overpaid admins have engineering from Chaska, Minnesota, Chancellor Carl Lejuez in got to go,” the students criticized is one of 20 students nationwide on February. high salaries earned by Lejuez Aviation Week magazine’s “Tomorrow’s In a message to students, and other administrators. Technology Leaders: The 20 Twen- faculty and staff, Lejuez To read the Provost’s ties” list, which recognizes top STEM said the budget overhaul message, view presenta- students for academic performance, is “part of a larger effort to tion slides or watch the civic contributions and research or build a more stable and videotaped Feb. 26 design projects. Block is a member of fiscally healthy University budget meeting, visit the Jayhawk Aero Design club, which of Kansas, where our provost.ku.edu/ designs and builds unmanned aircraft priorities and our budgetary fy19-budget. for competitions.

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Never again losses at Kentucky and Texas, and the day understand what we were walking into,” before a critical Feb. 2 home game with said Tech coach Chris Beard. “You think Self predicts streak of 14 titles Texas Tech, the NCAA announced in a we aren’t going to come into a hornet’s won’t be replicated tweet that sophomore forward Silvio De nest? Their backs were against the wall. Sousa was ineligible for this season and This is how good coach Self is, and there’s oach Bill Self walked into the Allen next. too much pride in that locker room.” CField House media room a few At a somber news conference that Said freshman sensation Ochai Agbaji, minutes late, flashed a smile and said, afternoon, junior forward Dedric Lawson, who hadn’t even seen the floor until Jan. 9, happily, “Hi, all.” Then, “All right. Go.” the Big 12’s leading scorer and rebounder “Obviously we didn’t have a really good So far, business as usual for one of Self’s and KU’s unquestioned leader, revealed week last week so we had a lot of pressure weekly news conferences. But this one was that the Jayhawks had stumbled through a going into this game. I think we handled it different in a singular way: When he met “lackluster” session in their first practice well. We really came together.” the press March 7, Self, for the first time after the Texas loss. Then the Jayhawks stumbled again, since 2004, was no longer coaching a If the ’Hawks thought things couldn’t losing in Manhattan. Although KU then contender for the Big 12 title. get worse, they were proven wrong a won three in a row, Self on Feb. 14 Now, with one regular-season contest couple of hours later when sophomore conceded, “K-State, without question, is in remaining—a “Senior Night” game against guard Marcus Garrett sprained his ankle the driver’s seat heading down the stretch.” Baylor, for which KU would suit no in practice, an injury that eventually cost And so it came to pass that, following a seniors in the wake of Lagerald Vick’s him five games. humbling loss March 5 at Oklahoma, KU departure after KU’s Feb. 5 loss at Kansas The following day, after Athletics eliminated itself from contention. On his State—Self’s Jayhawks were 11-6 in the Director Jeff Long shared a teary, heartfelt radio show the following night, Self said league, 22-8 overall, and forced to watch defense of De Sousa, the Jayhawks went KU’s title streak won’t ever be matched by K-State and Texas Tech battle over a title out and pounced on Texas Tech, 79-63. any team in a Power Five conference. that KU had won outright or shared for 14 “You would have to be an idiot to not “Never is a long time,” he said, “but it’ll consecutive seasons. never happen again.” The Jayhawks had opened Two days later, he stood the season ranked No. 1 in the before the press and asked for country and promptly beat questions. “Last home game,” STEVE PUPPE STEVE 10th-ranked Michigan State commented a reporter. “Does it by five. KU slid to No. 2 only seem like it’s gone by fast?” because of the startling “This year?” Self asked. emergence of Duke’s power- “Ye a h .” house freshmen, and went on “No! Not. At. All!” to beat Tennessee—which Laughing, smiling, his eyes would go on to claim a No. 1 sparkling, Self added, “But it’s ranking of its own. When KU still been a fun year.”h beat Villanova Dec. 15 in Allen Field House, the Jayhawks were again ranked “Ochai has come from No. 1, a spot they held until a left field,” coach Bill Self Dec. 22 loss at Arizona State. That’s when things started says of Ochai Agbaji, getting weird. “and he’s definitely done Junior center Udoka more than we could have Azubuike was lost for the season after injuring a wrist in ever imagined, even practice as KU prepared for its though we knew he second conference game. The would be a good player.” Jayhawks closed January with

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI Opposites attract “Their backs were against the wall. This is how Pitchers Zeferjahn, Cyr bring good coach Self is, and there’s too much pride in different styles to weekend starts that locker room.” hortly before the baseball season —Texas Tech coach Chris Beard, after Feb. 2 loss Sbegan in mid-February, 17th-year { } coach Ritch Price chose to make a bold statement about junior right-hander Ryan Zeferjahn, one of the for KU. By his sophomore year at Seaman best Jayhawks to come High School, he knew his athletic talents through his program. PUPPE STEVE were in baseball. KU apparently didn’t, Praising good perform- until somebody tipped KU coaches to a ers is hardly anything strong-armed righty in their backyard. new; the twist that KU’s Zeferjahn had already been fielding offers veteran skipper puts on from college programs, but the day after his praise is that he also KU called, he committed and says “it’s the adds pressure to best choice of my life to stay home and perform. come here.” “If he’s not the With a nod toward yet another winter highest-drafted player in storm about to blow into town, Price says, Kansas baseball history “You look outside and see the weather and at the end of the year, you see why kids from Kansas want to go I’m going to be really out of state and escape the bad weather. disappointed in him,” “Of any college team I’ve played on,” says Ryan Cyr (r, with Ryan But Ryan’s been a Jayhawk fan his whole Price says, “so I’m going Zeferjahn), “we are definitely the closest.” life and I’m thrilled he’s here.”h to put a little pressure on him there, right out of the gate. He’s got a Cyr is moving from middle relief to the great arm, one of the best arms in college Saturday starter role. baseball, and I’m looking for him to go out Their complementary traits align nearly Indoor gold and have a tremendous season and set perfectly: Zeferjahn is a hard thrower, himself up for a long career in professional never dropping below 90 mph with any of Hoppel’s NCAA triumph in 800 baseball.” his pitches, who stays calm almost to a caps undefeated track season To live up to the billing, Zeferjahn, fault; Price says Cyr, a self-described named to Baseball America’s Preseason finesse pitcher who rarely gets much past unior Bryce Hoppel was named the All-America Team, will have to be taken 90, has to “control his adrenalin and his JMidwest Region Men’s Indoor Track higher than 42nd overall, where pitcher emotions when he’s on the field.” Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track & Curtis Shaw, b’95, was taken by Oakland “He’s just a bulldog,” Zeferjahn says of Field and Cross Country Coaches Associa- in the second round of the 1990 draft. Cyr. “If we had a medium, if we could be tion after winning the Big 12 Indoor Pitcher Tom Gorzelanny, ’05, was close combined, we’d be perfect.” Championships’ 800-meter run in a behind, going 45th to Pittsburgh in 2003. Cyr says their different qualities are school-record 1 minute, 46.84 seconds. He Regardless, Zeferjahn laughs off the more than superficial: Because Zeferjahn also ran the 800 on KU’s victorious pressure. He’s used to it by now. Price’s will be “blowing it by guys on Friday,” distance medley team and was on the only criticism for the KU ace is that “he’s opposing batters will have a tough time 4x400-meter relay team that placed third. almost too nice at times,” and Zeferjahn adjusting on Saturday. “What a season Bryce is having,” said doesn’t disagree: “If I had a little bit more “It’s going to help me more than it’ll help coach Stanley Redwine. intensity, it would be great.” him,” Cyr says. “They’re going to see that Turns out Hoppel was just getting Zeferjahn, named Academic All-Big 12 guy on Friday, and on Saturday they’ll see started. last year and on track to graduate this the total opposite, a guy who is trying to Hoppel on March 9 won the 800-meter spring, made that comment in comparison get ahead on his pitches, get ground-outs run at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field with fellow right-handed junior Ryan Cyr. and weak pop-outs.” Championships, in Birmingham, Ala- While Zeferjahn moves from Sunday At 6-foot-5, Zeferjahn grew up in bama, in 1:46.46, bettering his newly set starts to the front-line position on Fridays, Topeka with dreams of playing basketball school record by nearly half a second.

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“The full gravity of it hasn’t hit me yet,” Hoppel said shortly afterward. Hoppel, undefeated in individual events JEFF JACOBSEN (2) JEFF JACOBSEN the entire indoor season, paced KU’s men’s team to a 12th-place finish, the Jayhawks’ best at the NCAA Indoor since 2002. “It goes to show that hard work pays off,” Redwine says, “because he really is one of the hardest working people that I’ve ever seen.” Senior Marleena Eubanks was named the region’s Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year thanks to her victory in the Big 12’s 800-meter run, with a meet-record time of 2:03.99. She also ran the 800-meter leg on the distance medley relay team that broke a school record in winning Feb. 16 at Notre Dame and placed second at the Big 12 meet in Lubbock, Texas. “She brings a different attitude to the Eubanks Hoppel team,” Redwine says, “which is something I think we need.” her career with gold in the 3,000- and can say about her,” Redwine says, “and Senior Sharon Lokedi, one of the most 5,000-meter runs at the Big 12 what she has meant to the University of decorated runners in KU history, won the Championships. Kansas.” Lokedi closed her KU career with fifth Big 12 Performer of the Year Award of “There aren’t enough great things that I an 11th-place run in the NCAA 5,000.h

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Junior center Udoka Azubuike (clockwise from top left) controlled the tip in what could prove to be his last game as a Jayhawk, Jan. 2 against Oklahoma; junior Dedric Lawson (1) entered the final game of the regular season as the Big 12’s leading scorer and rebounder; freshman Devon Dotson matured quickly at point guard; hoops alumni returned during the NBA’s All-Star weekend; and coach Bill Self savored one of the season’s best moments, a 64-49 victory over Kansas State.

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 23 Editor’s note: Before he returned to his alma mater to teach and conduct research, Steven Hawley, c’73, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, logged 770 hours orbiting Earth as a mission specialist on five space shuttle flights. On his third NASA mission, aboard Discovery in April 1990, Hawley helped deliver the Hubble Space Telescope; he returned to Hubble in 1999, operating Discovery’s robot arm to retrieve and redeploy Hubble after critical repairs and upgrades. Hawley’s high-flying journeys helped capture the imagination of a 5-year-old Jayhawk-to-be when Elizabeth Waugh, ’81, shared startlingly beautiful Hubble images with her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth McCandless. As you’ll read, the Johnson County kindergartner knew, in that very moment, that her life’s journey was set: Space would be her frontier. McCandless, e’12, is a navigation engineer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the California Institute of Technology. She and her teammates determine how best to send spacecraft to their destinations, and for 2018 she was assigned to navigate NASA’s InSight mission to Mars. InSight—short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investi- gations, Geodesy and Heat Transport—was designed, in NASA’s words, “to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.” By deploying an array of mind-boggling scientific instruments, InSight would be mankind’s first craft capable of in-depth exploration of Mars’ crust, mantle and core. But first it had to get there, which is the job of navigation engineers. InSight’s safe touchdown on the surface of Mars completed a yearlong journey for Sarah Elizabeth McCandless, which she chose to document in a personal essay to help family and friends share in her thrill of realizing dreams hatched by Hubble. When this dramatic summary of her InSight experiences landed at Kansas Alumni, we sought permission to share it with you. McCandless, an Alumni Association Life Member, generously agreed, so sit back and fly along with a young engineer who reached far into space and safely settled her craft onto its forever home, concluding yet another magnificent Jayhawk journey.h —Chris Lazzarino

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24 | KANSAS ALUMNI Interplanetary InSights BY SARAH ELIZABETH MCCANDLESS

n Nov. 20, 2018, I arrived at the Bob Hope Airport exactly where a spacecraft is and predict where it will go in Burbank, California, and realized I had vastly so we can ensure it will arrive at its exact destination on Ounderestimated the amount of Thanksgiving time. For most of 2018, I was lucky enough to work on travelers. Fortunately, I’m not a big believer in signs, the InSight mission, which was traveling to Mars to and the fact that I had to rush to make my flight did study the interior of the planet and determine what it’s not lead me to believe the rest of my trip would go made of. And after nearly seven months of interplan- the same way. You see, unlike every other year of my etary voyaging, on Nov. 26, 2018, InSight would life, this year I was not going home to Kansas City arrive at its destination. to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family. This In the week leading up to landing, I worked at year, I was flying to Denver to land a spacecraft Lockheed Martin in Denver. (Lockheed Martin on Mars. built the spacecraft.) The night before landing, I fell in love with space as I didn’t have any trouble sleeping, unlike several a 5-year-old after my mom other engineers I know. My alarm showed me a picture of the woke me from a deep sleep, but Pillars of Creation. One of I will admit to being so excited I the most iconic images from didn’t go through my normal the Hubble Space Telescope, 11-minute snooze process. three columns of dust rise I arrived at work a few minutes against a magnificent early, and the next four hours were backdrop of teal, yellow and the calm before the storm. green. Prior to that moment, Eventually, I found myself rocking I thought space was what I back and forth in the Mission saw from my backyard— Support Area, eyes bouncing between black nothingness with stars the TV on the wall showing JPL and very far apart from one the computer screens in front of me another. I decided then and showing InSight’s telemetry data as it there I would be an astronaut. Seventeen years hurtled toward the surface. By this later, I graduated from the University of Kansas with a point—seven minutes until InSight fresh aerospace engineering degree in hand, ready to would touch down on the surface—my job was actually explore the universe. finished. Our team had faithfully flown this spacecraft Now, as a navigation engineer for the Jet Propulsion 301 million miles to the top of the Martian atmosphere, Laboratory (JPL), a NASA center in Pasadena, Califor- and the final 50 or so miles were all up to InSight itself. nia, I get to do exactly that. After completing a master’s The next several minutes, I actually wasn’t all that degree at the University of Texas, I joined a team of nervous. I had read in detail the procedures outlining engineers at JPL who fly spacecraft from Earth to various these moments, and with every successful step complete, I destinations around the solar system. It’s our job to know gained confidence that we would come to rest safely on

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 25 McCandless, back row in front of the whiteboard, with her InSight seen), and watched a press conference. Then I checked my phone. mission teammates at Lockheed Martin in Denver. In the moments after landing, I could feel it buzzing continu- ously in my pocket as text messages and phone calls came pouring in. I’d stopped looking at it half an hour before landing, the surface in one piece. Perhaps I was like one of those kids you and the next time I checked, I had 71 new messages. I cannot see skiing down a black diamond on the mountain, too young remember a single time in my life when that many people tried to and inexperienced to know to be afraid, but all I felt was excite- wish me congratulations all at once. (This must be what it feels ment and exhilaration. After years of hard work, detailed analyses like to be Bill Self, I joked to myself.) and testing, testing, testing, showtime was finally here. I spent the next several minutes trying to work my way through It wasn’t until the final minute of the entry, descent and landing the thoughtful messages. My parents had been driving back to (EDL) process, when the spacecraft was continuing to fly with Kansas City from Texas and had pulled over to watch; just south reckless speed toward a potentially unforgiving end, that I of Wichita, they had tears in their eyes when InSight safely became nervous. An EDL engineer had been narrating our touched down millions of miles away. A teacher I had in middle progress through the process, and she began to announce our school emailed me to say that they would all be watching, altitude. 600 meters. 400 meters. 300 meters. But then the wearing NASA stickers I had brought back when I gave a numbers started coming in in what seemed to be too rapid a presentation a month earlier. Family and friends from every succession. 80 meters. 60 meters. 50 meters. (My pilot brain was phase of my life sent messages full of rocket, clapping hands and screaming inside my head, “Pull up! Pull up! PULL UP!”) Finally, champagne emojis. (Still waiting on that Mars emoji, though.) My “17 meters. Standing by for touchdown.” aunt’s fifth-grade class in Dallas was watching, and even the For moments that seemed both interminable and too fast, I summer camp I attended as a kid had posted about the landing. I waited, hands clenched, holding my breath (cliché but true), was humbled by how many people cared about me, our team dying for confirmation. What was probably less than 10 seconds and our success. seemed to stretch into minutes as I waited for her to affirm After a meeting confirming that various subsystems were InSight was safely on Mars. And then some of the sweetest words operating as expected, our shift ended and a small group of us— I’ve ever heard came across loud and clear: “Touchdown con- in matching maroon mission shirts—went to a brewery to firmed! InSight is on the surface of Mars!” I hugged engineers I’d celebrate, swapping war stories and basking in our triumph. I known for only a week. I shook hands with the mission’s project took a coaster from the bar and had everyone sign it, and bought manager, who minutes before had been one of the most tightly a pint glass to remember the moment. Two guys at a table across wound people I’d ever seen. And I cheered all over again when the room stopped on their way out to offer their congratulations. the first—albeit dusty—picture came back. I ate Mars cake (a Then we all shook hands once more, hoping our paths would chocolate cake covered with the most incredible fondant I’ve ever cross again for the next Mars mission.h

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI NASA/BILL INGALLS NASA/BILL

NASA’S InSight lander used its robotic arm (clockwise from top left) to deploy its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, a copper-colored seismometer; instruments seen on the spacecraft’s deck, with Elysium Planitia visible in the background; InSight atop its ride to Mars, an Atlas-V rocket, at Vandenberg Air Force Base; and 7-foot-wide solar panels that power the interplanetary scientific outpost.

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 27 y all accounts, the ceaseless torrent of tasks required to install a Blarge-scale art exhibition fails to fluster exhibition designer Richard Klocke, Inﬁnite now in his 20th year at the Spencer Museum of Art. Even the rigors of designing and installing the sprawling “The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists” exhibition, featuring a creatively and Layers structurally eclectic array of works by 30 alumni, could not displace his bemused smile. Spencer’s lively exhibition of alumni His confidence is such, Klocke confides, that he tends to keep his mission-critical art explores ‘The Power of Place’ designer-do list in his head: “My wife will often say, ‘Why don’t you keep lists? Log all this down?’” by Chris Lazzarino | Photographs by Ryan Waggoner With a slight nod, Klocke indicates that he recognizes the wisdom of his wife’s plea; then a conspiratorial sparkle in his

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI eye hints that he’ll keep doing things his Arkansas professor John L. Newman, d’75, piece according to its needs without own way. He admits that a “feeling of g’82, depicting the safety and pleasures of creating a distraction for the space fright” typically sets in about three weeks front yards and front porches; and as a whole. before an exhibition’s opening, but he “Beyond the Wall,” an industrial felt piece In other words, Klocke must design shrugs it off and gets back to work. by Marcie Miller Gross, f’82, inspired by a varied lighting zones within the same Standing in the museum’s Sam and photograph she took while visiting the room without making it “look like a Connie Perkins Central Court, shortly Berlin Wall Memorial. carnival ride.” He smiles and adds, after the second of two “artist dialogue” The piece that Klocke singles out for “That gets kind of tricky, but the lighting events that on Feb. 21 concluded the attention, though, is in the center of the issue is fun. I really enjoy it.” exhibition’s two-day opening celebration, room: “grass/roots,” by Rena L. Detrixhe, Klocke, an artist himself who maintains a c’13, a tender concoction of wheat private studio as his after-work getaway sprouted into handmade cotton paper. At urator Susan Earle reports that haven, glances around the main court’s first glance, the fragile piece appears C“The Power of Place,” which runs airy space, born new yet again with a perfectly safe and secure in its glass case. through June 30, required more than two vibrant assembly of images. There remains, however, an exterior force years of planning, dating back to her early The south wall features the colorful that concerns Klocke: light. ideas about how she might organize an “Weathermap,” a 28-piece drawing by Cris Because “grass/roots” is, technically, a exhibition of alumni art. She hopes other Bruch, f’80, intended to evoke the work on paper, Klocke prefers to expose it themes also considered will be used for transitive nature of weather maps: As soon to minimal light (5 to 7 “foot-candles” of future shows featuring different arrays of as they are made, the wall label explains, illumination); robust oil paintings and a alumni artists. they become obsolete. Nearby is “Navigat- nearby sculpture, meanwhile, can handle “This was pretty compressed,” Earle says ing,” a languid painting of the Kansas four times as much (20 foot-candles). of the show’s two-year timeline. “I could River by Lisa Grossman, f’00, which faces The trick, then, comes not so much in have used more time for this, but only a wall of 11 Greenland and Kansas the task of riding a scissor lift two stories because I was pretty ambitious in trying to photographs by Terry Hoyt Evans, f’68. high to set the lights (and returning to the cast a wide net.” The court also includes textile and floor to measure their output, repeating Saralyn Reece Hardy, c’76, g’94, Marilyn tactile works by Ann Hamilton, f’79; three the process over and over again), but in Stokstad Director of the Spencer, has for oil paintings by retired University of the more subtle art of illuminating each the past 14 years invigorated the museum 30 | KANSAS ALUMNI Richard Klocke (top right) and exhibition technician Doug Bergstrom (right) were joined in installation duties by two of Ryan RedCorn’s assistants (above), who drove up from Oklahoma with his giant photographs and promptly installed the high-tech graphics fabric on aluminum tension frames. p. 29: Cris Bruch, Weathermap, 2016 Left: Ryan RedCorn, Portait of Chantelle Keshaye Pahtayken & Shay Pahtayken, Plains Cree, 2018

by stressing educational and community values—a perfect example of which is “The deep thought, he has come to view place outreach programs that bring students, Power of Place”: Turns out that when you “not as much about physical space as it is faculty and patrons to the museum and unleash a topic with so much potential on about what has happened over time.” The creative exhibitions that encourage thoughtful artists, the artistic replies go far modern world’s “radical mobility” and the repeated—and rewarding—visits. beyond Allen Field House nostalgia and trend toward “sharecroppers” grinding out External exhibitions can be customized glorious views of golden valleys. paychecks in today’s “gig economy” lead and localized to some degree by museums “If you try to understand the power of Bruch to an “uneasy recognition that that rent them, but they’ll still reflect the place, there are a lot of pathways and something is about to disappear.” Any- ideas of their creators—who aren’t byways to explore,” Cris Bruch says. “It’s a thing that might disappear, he contends, affiliated with KU. Under Reece Hardy’s rewarding exhibition.” gains status, and what is more fleeting yet leadership, Spencer curators are encour- Bruch, whose work had been unknown substantive, especially in the riotous Great aged to realize their own dreams for to the Spencer staff until Reece Hardy Plains, than weather? assembling and presenting interesting art, recently encountered his art in her travels, Perched on a tall stool in front of leading to an energetic exhibition calendar came to Lawrence from Vashon Island, “Weathermap,” Bruch says, “I was thinking that is, it seems fair to suggest, ambitious Washington, long before “The Power of about the Plains, and the weather on the beyond norms typically associated with Place” opened, to see the space for himself. Plains, and how the sky is the biggest event campus art museums. In addition to “Weathermap,” the exhibi- of all times, and the topic of weather is not “When Saralyn came here, she said, ‘You tion includes his sculpture of a shrouded due to a failure of imagination so much as all have been taking a lot of external grain elevator titled “Weldona,” a maze of a critical dependence that residents of the exhibitions,’” Earle recalls, “and that’s part wood fencing titled “Pent,” and “Harbin- Plains have on the peculiarities of weather. of how she has tried to foster our own ger,” a tornado sculpture made with a thin, “Once you start scraping away at the ideas, our collaborations, our interdisci- 500-foot-long strip of paper, which Klocke nature of a physical place, there are just plinary connections at this university, mounted to the Perkins Court’s ceiling. infinite layers of history and geography which I think is one of KU’s strengths, one “I love how vertical it is,” artist Lisa and geology and climate and colonization of the reasons this museum is so lively.” Grossman says of the exhibition. “They’ve and waves of migration.” Favoring house-created exhibitions over got things way up on the wall, and they’ve While other artists invariably praised the rented variety tends to save money, but got the cyclone hanging from the ceiling. the lasting influences of a KU education in the Spencer’s case it’s more about It’s so cool. It’s very Kansas.” on their work—Edgar Heap of Birds, f’76, creating the sort of programming that it Bruch says that after much reading and for instance, told students, “I’m well-

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 31 Left: John L. Newman, Front Porch Therapy, 1987 Above: Gina Adams, g’14, Honoring Modern Unidentified .9, 2013

schooled in the practice of art. I’m not just RedCorn says, arguing that perceptions of really more about how we have a broad a culture warrior. I’m well trained. That many Americans never progressed beyond variety of artists who studied here who began here”—Ryan RedCorn, f’04, shared stoic, black-and-white photographs of the created meaningful work about place.” a dissenting voice. late 19th century. “So when they called me Earle eventually identified artists from A member of the Osage Nation who to be a part of this show, I wanted to make both urban and rural backgrounds in a owns an advertising agency, Buffalo Nickel the biggest prints I possibly could because dozen states, discussed their existing art Creative, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, I wanted to take up space. Indigenous and new pieces they could make for the RedCorn says he had a “less-than-stellar space. Osages used to be here.” show, and the synchronized dance began. experience going to school here, and it First Earle had to assure herself that the definitely shaped me.” He says he felt pieces she wanted for the show would fit in native students were invisible and “ he Power of Place” has its roots the museum’s galleries, then she had to exploited—especially by publications and Tin the sprawling 2013 exhibition “An find external funding for shipping. videos that, in his opinion, featured Errant Line,” for which Ann Hamilton and (Shipping costs are why the exhibition powwow imagery to overplay the depth her KU faculty mentor, Cynthia Schira, includes artists from across the United and vibrancy of its small Indian g’67, explored the Spencer Museum of States, but none working overseas.) community. Art’s collection, and art found across “It’s a very careful, constant puzzle,” When he was offered a place in the campus, as inspiration for the artwork Earle says. “Most of the locations were exhibition, RedCorn responded with two they created for the exhibition. planned long before the work got here. stunning portraits, recently shot with his “This campus art museum was a place And then sometimes, for the way I work, medium-format Hasselblad and printed that could provide ideas for their current it’s also really helpful to see it in person, so on 10-foot-long swaths of high-tech fabric. work, at that moment, as artists,” Earle I might shift it, or Richard might say, ‘You The images seemingly leap off the wall, says. “Partly out of that, I thought about know, that drawing might actually do which was exactly his intent. other artists who have used these collec- better on that wall.’ It’s a constant “Part of it is, people don’t see Indians in tions or who have found ways for this collaboration.” color, and they don’t often accept that university to continue to inspire them. With a timeline determined by working indigenous people are alive right now,” “But that wasn’t the real impetus. It was backward from Klocke’s installation

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI newhouse

Left: Lisa Grossman, Navigating, 2018 Above: Richard Mawdsley, g’69, Alpha- Omega: Water Tower #5, 1995-1999

schedule, each piece traveling to Lawrence “Then, after it’s all done, you look had to be carefully crated, either by the around and say, ‘Wait a minute, this could artist or by professional art handlers. have looked entirely different if certain key Shipping estimates and insurance had to moments in the beginning were flipped.’ be secured, and trucks scheduled so Tweak one little thing and there’s a ripple everything didn’t hit the Spencer loading effect on something else.” dock at the same time. Their work finally finished, Spencer staff The Spencer’s policy is to leave incom- eagerly joined artists and their families, ing artworks in their shipping crate for donors and Friends of the Art Museum 24 hours, for acclimation, then move members for an opening reception. As she them into temporary storage or directly unveiled “The Power of Place,” Reece into a gallery. Hardy chose to emphasize the theme by As Communications Manager Elizabeth focusing on the meaning of this place: the Kanost, c’09, j’09, g’14, began to write wall museum, the University, the city, the state. labels—which were particularly detailed “These artists challenge the way we for this exhibition, for background and question ideas about who we are, where context to explain the show’s variety of we are and our own place in worlds. I don’t styles and ideas—Klocke and his assistants mean ‘a world.’ I mean plural ‘worlds.’ Past began their work in the galleries. and future.” “My part in this whole play is to make She then shared a statement drafted by sure things look as good as they can,” Katelyn Trammell, ’19, the Andrew W. Susan Earle (l), curator of European and Klocke says. “The idea of trying to Mellon Foundation/Loo Family Intern in American art, and Spencer director Saralyn orchestrate the whole exhibit is always fun global and indigenous art, in collaboration Reece Hardy, next to Cris Bruch’s Weldona, a for me. You’ve got so many people, so with KU’s Native Faculty Council and shrouded grain-elevator form that Bruch much time, so much material, and you’re the First Nations Student Association’s created for “The Power of Place.” trying to put it all together. faculty adviser:

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 33 “We, the Spencer Museum of Art, collectively acknowledge that the Univer- sity of Kansas occupies the historical homelands of the Kanza, Kaw, Shawnee and Osage people,” Reece Hardy began. After recognizing other tribes currently residing in Kansas, she concluded, “We affirm indigenous sovereignty, support of Native American peoples, and commit to indigenizing the Spencer Museum of Art.” Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Reggie Robinson, c’80, l’87, one of the University’s highest-ranking officials, spoke next: “It’s really important to remember that neither this city nor this university were founded and established on ground that was truly terra incognita. This place did not exist in a vacuum before Lawrence and KU arrived. It was not a blank canvas. ... It’s important that we acknowledge and respect the history of who was here before we were here as we celebrate what came to be. “The presence of that history of those who were here remains. They and their legacies are with us still. This is a place that Top: Rick Mitchell, f’72, Bottleneck, 2017 Far right, top: Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Dead Indian Stories, 2015 has great and special meaning for all of us, Above: Marcie Miller Gross, and this exhibition inspires us to think Beyond the Wall, 2019 Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell, f’53, China Trade about relationships with places.” with Miss Liberty, U.S.A. quilt top, 1986 As Reece Hardy and Robinson spoke, Right: Mark Goodwin, f’81, Star System, 2012 images of powerful native women towered over them, and the artist who created those magnificent photographs had difficulty believing what he was hearing. Ryan RedCorn explains his mixed “Hearing the Osage nation mentioned “I read A Moveable Feast shortly after emotions about Kansas and KU by noting was like, KU had a concussion after I left undergrad,” Oregon-based artist Julie that perfectly tended red corn seeds and something’s wrong with them,” Green, f’83, g’96, tells her audience Feb. planted in Oklahoma, where his tribe was RedCorn says. “Maybe they’ll wake up 21. “It’s a Hemingway book about how you forced to relocate, will perhaps reach sometime and be back where they were. take places with you. This show captures about 5 feet tall. Hopefully not.” that for me.” “If I take that same seed and plant it Lawrence painter Lisa Grossman has next to the Campanile,” RedCorn says, lived the opposite experience: Rather than “that shoot will grow 10 feet tall.” “ ick-tock, time’s wasting here,” Cris taking place with her, she needed to travel His message is that the Osage lost TBruch says during one of the Feb. 21 to find it. After finishing art school in something of great value when forced to artists’ symposia. “We have important Western Pennsylvania, Grossman moved leave Kansas, and RedCorn feels that loss things to convey.” to Kansas City for a job at Hallmark Cards. still. He felt the sting throughout his Bruch made that comment to chide “I discovered the Flint Hills pretty student days. It made him reticent to himself for his ruminations on place and quickly,” she says, “and I thought, ‘This is return and inspired him to reclaim Osage time that drifted along swirling currents of the home I didn’t know I had.’” space with two soaring works of Osage art. his interwoven ideas. The comment also Determined to make a career by And then came Reece Hardy and applies in a broader context: There are producing art inspired by the Flint Hills, Robinson’s affirmations of indigenous important images to consider, vigorous Grossman decided to first complete her history on Mount Oread. ideas to discuss. Tick-tock. bachelor of fine arts degree. She spent a

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI year catching up on required courses at appears, all beautifully hung and interest- to installation, Klocke steps back and Johnson County Community College, and, ingly arranged.” admires what came to be. after seven years at Hallmark, left Kansas His installation now open to public “What strikes me, almost every time, is City for Lawrence and KU, “to get my inspection, Richard Klocke savors the joy that we finally get everything in place, and degree and to build community, network others find in “The Power of Place.” He I’m standing there thinking, ‘What’s the with people, get all those pieces that I explains how, as an artist himself, he is big deal?’ It all looks so easy. Everything in missed in that nontraditional past.” “always keen to honor what I think the its place. Everything looks good. Much like the Kansas River she so artist’s intent might be. I try to empathize “I very quickly forget.” lovingly renders in “Navigating,” Gross- with what they might have had in mind Yet another power of place, especially man’s artistic passion meandered through and not let other ideas step on those.” this place: the opportunity to lose our- its own best path. Now she finds herself as As he installs exhibitions, Klocke says, selves in serenity that sustains us.h a featured artist in the “sanctuary” where he watches for “the little ways in which she “found inspiration and solace,” a certain things compare.” For Klocke, the museum that she says was “central to my interaction of art is endlessly fascinating. KU experience.” Rather than focus on such large-scale “Most of us can’t fathom the behind-the- exhibitions as complex and daunting, he More online scenes work it takes to put this together,” views them as “organic.” When colleagues The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists she marvels. “And then you walk into a from across all Spencer departments have video features artists discussing their work. place like this and it kind of miraculously finally completed a show, from conception kualumni.org/extras.

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 35 COURTESY DAVE MARDEN DAVE COURTESY

Anonymous No More With rhymes that bedevil and delight, a secret poet steps into light

by tod marshall

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI or over a decade, Readers “just couldn’t wait for the next ..... thousands of newspaper one. They loved him,” said Dave Oliveria, subscribers in Spokane, Wash- newspaper columnist for The Spokesman- Cuisine ington, enjoyed the poetry of Review. “People would call me and write “TheF Bard of Sherman Avenue.” Often to me and guess at The Bard’s actual The hot dog’s largely tripe and fat witty, sometimes poignant, and always identity. No one had any idea.” Who was with snouts and tails and such as that; brief, the poems attracted a devoted this Bard of Sherman Avenue? Well, for because of this some folks eschew them, following. Consider: one thing, he was a Jayhawk, and that’s but I’m quite pleased to barbeque them. why he and I first met. I am a KU grad (PhD’96), and professor Thoughts on a Canada Goose at Gonzaga University—yes, that Gonzaga, the small Jesuit school with a decent This is no doubt a basketball program. (How many times remarkable species: have I said, “Sure, I like the Zags, but I’m a one half is honk and Jayhawk” to naïve questioners?) One of my the other half’s feces. professorial duties involves introducing visiting writers to our campus. In 2006, during one of those introductions, I digressed (as I am prone to do) about the historical origins of Rock Chalking and awrence in the mid-1960s was quite Lawrence and Quantrill’s Raiders, and a Ldifferent from the Jesuit institution he’d few days later, I received an email from left—for background reading, check out Tom Wobker, a KU grad who had been at Beth Bailey’s Sex in the Heartland or This the event. We met a few days later for is America? The Sixties in Lawrence, coffee and conversation about poetry and Kansas, by Rusty Monhollon, g’95, literature and Kansas stuff. We met again. PhD’99. The campus and community were We swapped some favorite books. We frenetic places, and Tom—or “Wobs,” as Iraq Humvees watched a KU basketball game together. his friends called him—found himself a We became friends. new home in a place of stimulating ideas, Great warrior leaders of the free Who was Tom Wobker? Well, although wild pranks and devoted camaraderie. (who fight from Washington, DC) he was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Immediately upon arriving at KU, he perhaps will note at some late date Tom’s family relocated to Allentown, pledged Phi Gamma Delta, a fraternity in they’re armored like a paper plate. Pennsylvania, before he began school. In which he had many adventures and Allentown, which he described as the through which he met Dave Marden, d’68, quintessential “Rust Belt blue-collar PhD’75; Steve Heck, c’68; and Mark Reflections on a Tofu Entrée city”—struggling, chemically befouled— Kirkpatrick, c’68, people with whom he’d Tom attended Catholic schools. His backpack and hike and foster deep The nutrients eighth-grade teacher, Sister Josephine, friendship over the next 50 years. Every- are rich and rare, read one of his poems and gave him strong one around Tom knew that he was a and yet it’s much encouragement as a writer, enthusiasm writer—from classmates who sought out like chewing air. that he took to heart and took with him to his help on assignments to journalism college; during his first years at Marquette professors who gave him high marks. He University, Tom read widely, and, although particularly praised Elmer Beth, a journal- he enjoyed the rigor of the Jesuit profes- ism and humanities professor well known sors, the icy shores of Lake Michigan were for a challenging and irascible style in the not for Tom; after his sophomore year, he classroom. transferred; hoping to become part of a Kirkpatrick offers this portrait of Tom’s top-notch journalism program, he left range of interests: “He was an unusual Wisconsin for Lawrence and the Univer- combination of intellectual sensitivity and sity of Kansas. an attraction for contact sports. He was an

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ISSUE 2, 2019 | 37 X X .....X decry and declare, elegize, celebrate, satirize and eviscerate. People would chuckle and TSA cringe and wistfully smile; readers would ask Oliveria again and again who The Bard

COURTESY TOD MARSHALL TOD COURTESY They pay us good wages was; people would hazard guesses. No one to feel up your granny had any idea. in case she’s got A bombs concealed in her fanny...... X oeur d’Alene is a very small town, and Cpolitics—especially local politics— brings out satire and frustration. Tom, Those Zucchini who had kept his pen active over the years from Your Garden by writing historical articles and legal documents, was compelled by local news You can grill them or fry them or stuff Wobker to return to the versifying of his younger them or bake; days; consequently, he approached his you can put them in soup or in bread friend Dave Oliveria to ask about sharing or in cake; excellent boxer and boxed at the KU gym. some of his satirical poems through Dave’s you can use by the bushel, the quart, He fought and knocked down Michael columns in The Spokesman-Review. The or the cup, Murray ... who later was the Golden date was May 2002. The Bard of Sherman but try like the devil, you can’t use Gloves Champion of the Kansas City Avenue began his versifying. them up. tournament.” After undergraduate studies, Tom was drafted into the Air Force. Appointed as a captain, he manned a November Ritual control panel for the Minuteman nuclear missile silos in South Dakota. This caused This month turkeys him a lot of consternation. His wife, are selected: Sharon, recalled him talking about this some get stuffed and weight: “He’d often talk about how he’d some elected. ‘have to push the button’ if given the command. This upset him, I think. No one should be in that position.” Dead Eye Dick After his discharge, Tom returned to his Summer Travels: Dead Pigeon old stomping ground in Lawrence to On a Texas in Arizona pursue a law degree; he finished in 1974, hunting journey graduating in the upper quarter of his bagged three quail and Smashed flat by a semi just outside class. He worked for the attorney general one attorney. of Bisbee, in Topeka for a year, AT&T in Kansas City, if he flies again, it will be like and then moved to the Detroit area to a Frisbee. practice law for a private firm. There, at a jazz club in downtown Detroit, he met Sharon, and they soon married and went , too, had no clue that Tom was The Bard; on to raise three children together. Ieven as he and I became friends—and he Attracted by the Pacific Northwest’s knew that I was a practicing poet and natural beauty and opportunities for professor of poetry—he never said a word backpacking and hiking, Tom found about writing poetry. I knew of The Bard, another job that brought him to Idaho. Although initiated by satire, The Bard’s but I had no idea that I was regularly The employer for which he moved and at poems eventually took on a variety of sipping coffee and chatting with The Bard. which he ended up retiring was Pennaluna subjects. For the next 14 years, Oliveria What I did know was that Tom was a and Company, an investment firm. The shared more than 600 of The Bard’s poems generous friend; he and his wife Sharon main office was located in downtown via his columns. Exceptionally popular, contributed to our visiting writers’ series at Coeur d’Alene, on the city’s main street. the poems would poke fun at local and Gonzaga, our only private donors to the The name of the street: Sherman Avenue. national politics, lament and lambast, events that we held for the community.

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI “He enjoyed literary things of all sorts,” .....X of numerous international laws and Sharon said about him. “Poets, novelists, treaties and a multiplicity of statutes and essayists. He liked hearing all of them regulations, for which a reward may be read.” Toilet Paper Shortage offered to an informant. In any event, I am As our friendship grew, I did begin to in Venezuela very grateful. I am happy for any edge I get a sense of his writing range. Just as he can get at this point, and, as a former altar enjoyed a variety of outdoors activities, he In Caracas boy I probably put a little extra faith in wrote in multiple genres. He shared a it’s now thought a treat this. Seriously.” Of course, Tom’s serious- historical article that he was working on to sit down with ness always had a little rub to it; he about an important yet critically ignored more than just one sheet. continued, “But what is the exact etiquette Native American artist, William Standing. with Lourdes water? I’m not certain. Do He gave me a poignant short story about you drink it? If so, all at once or in small his induction into the service. We talked amounts? Rub it on the afflicted areas? Or about writing and shared books, but in all what? What did you see them doing those literary exchanges, he never once there?” hinted about being The Bard of Sherman He ended his letter with his usual Avenue—until he was diagnosed with kindness and sincere graciousness: cancer. “Thanks again. I’m tickled to have this and Lord knows I need it. I really appreciate the kindness. Yours, Tom” .....X Canines and Felines .....X The Cancer Clinic It has been said, Within this building you will see perhaps for laughs, Cutting Trees small countless acts of bravery that dogs have masters and kindness shown to fellow man; and cats have staffs. Be sure to recall it teaches more than sermons can. before striking the blow— they come down real fast, nfortunately, the next few years were but they go up real slow. e were watching a KU basketball Udifficult for the Wobkers. Tom’s chemo Wgame together in 2014 when he told was brutal; I’d hear from him from time to me. A comic backdrop: Watching games, I time, his emails full of wit and self-depre- tend to be, uhh, overly passionate in a cation, always with a mention of how the Christian Moody jersey, someone who chemo was “knocking him out” (always shouts at the television; Tom, a reserved using the boxer lingo), but I didn’t see him and sardonic commentator, cared about for many months until he came over to the outcome but kept a calm demeanor. watch the first half of a Jayhawk game. He During halftime, Tom turned to me and was frail, but the sparkle was still in his said, “I told you about the cancer, but I eye—he made cracks about the unsteadi- need to tell you something else.” ness of the team. He lasted a half and then “OK.” excused himself to go home and rest. The adly, though, even with the holy water “You know those poems in the paper illness was beating him up. Sand the blessings of many friends, by The Bard of Sherman Avenue?” Tom’s KU friends came to visit or sent Tom’s condition did not improve. It was “Yeah, of course. They’re pretty good,” gifts as his condition worsened. Remem- time to let adoring readers know the actual I said, sometimes slow on the uptake. bering that Tom grew up a Catholic identity of The Bard of Sherman Avenue. “That’s me.” schoolboy and that his spirituality was still In early 2016, Dave Oliveria, his longtime “What?” important to him, Kirkpatrick sent him a friend, arranged an unveiling event in “I’m The Bard. I’ve written around 800 vial of Lourdes holy water. Grateful, Tom Coeur d’Alene; at the time, no one was poems.” replied: “I just received the Lourdes water, sure that Tom would be able to attend. I don’t know if I spat my drink or just and I thank you very much for thinking of Always the fighter, though, Tom rallied stared shocked, but I do know that I said, me and going to all the trouble of smug- and sat in a jam-packed restaurant with “We have to share them with people.” gling it home—undoubtedly in violation around 150 other people, everyone waiting

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Tom Wobker was revealed as The Bard of Sherman Avenue during Blogfest 2016 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Wobker, j’67, l’74, on one of his beloved Pacific Northwest hikes (p. 38) and during a college fishing trip with friends (p. 36).

in anticipation. The moment came. Dave universities, book stores, retirement raised more than $4,000 for the work of announced Tom as The Bard. The room communities, high schools, libraries and the hospice. That fact—and the praise of roared. Many rose up in applause. Tom other venues. At each event, I’d share some so many readers—would have given stayed seated in a booth with Sharon at his of The Bard’s poems and tell the story of “Wobs” a smile. h side; he waved and smiled. A few weeks Tom and his incredibly popular work— Marshall, PhD’96, the poet laureate of later, in the care of Hospice of Spokane, he and sell books. The second print run sold Washington from 2016 to ’18, is an English passed away. out, and so we ordered more. Since its first professor at Gonzaga University in Spokane. printing, The Bard of Sherman Avenue has His latest book of poetry is Bugle...... X

New Grandchild Gift for rhyme

The door of life revolves about; The Bard of Sherman Avenue she’s coming in, by Tom Wobker I’m headed out. $10 ust a few months after Tom’s passing, JThe Bard of Sherman Avenue appeared vailable at Auntie’s Bookstore in print; his undergraduate friends from A(www.auntiesbooks.com), Spokane, KU and local fans subsidized an initial Washington, and The Well-Read Moose, press run of 500. Sharon asked that the (www.wellreadmoose.com), Coeur d’Alene, proceeds benefit Hospice of Spokane. The Idaho. Proceeds benefit Hospice of Spokane. first press run sold quickly. We reprinted the book. At the time, I was serving as Washington state’s poet laureate; my service took me around the state—to

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Continued from p. 42 Student Involvement and Leadership Donors double gifts Center, SAN was able to connect with Stanton, j’10, g’12, and Keon Stowers, c’15, more students, including marginalized in One Day. One KU. director and assistant director of student and first-generation Jayhawks, and offer a programs, SAN has developed several more effective, engaging experience. Association gifts support growth career and networking events, like Another valuable program Stanton and of Jayhawk Career Network Mocktails & Mingle; free-food activities, Stowers have developed is Senior Slate, a including Home Football Fridays and Big series of activities for fourth-year students U Endowment’s second-annual giving Monday Brunch; and Big Jay’s Recess, a that mimics popular alumni network Kday Feb. 20 was a resounding success, large social event in the spring. events, like watch parties and other raising $1,084,062 from 2,635 gifts. “Over the past couple years, we’ve gatherings. “It’s kind of like practicing to For the Alumni Association, donors looked at the things that work really well be an alumnus or alumna,” Stanton says. stepped up again, contributing $66,571 in and we’ve stuck with those,” Stanton says. “They’ll start to see faces that they’ll see 130 gifts to support the continued growth “A lot of the things that had varying out in networks. It’s creating a bridge.” of the Jayhawk Career Network (JCN) and success, we have re-evaluated and part- In order to participate in events hosted doubling last year’s one-day total in nered with people on campus who have a by SAN, students must activate their free Alumni Association gifts. similar goal.” memberships via the KU Alumni Associa- “Thank you to all of the alumni and Big Jay’s Recess, an evening event that tion app or online. The app contains friends who believe in the JCN’s potential drew 350 students last spring, is a good students’ membership cards, which can be to add immeasurable value for students, example of that. By teaming up with the scanned at events for prizes and special alumni and the University,” says Heath Office of Multicultural Affairs and the drawings.h Peterson, d’04, g’09, Association president.

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Jayhawk Roundup 2019 This year's special entertainment Proceeds from Jayhawk Roundup Friday, April 12 includes a live wood carving from will support our alumni and student Murfin Stables artist Dan Besco and live music programs, including the Jayhawk 14515 E. 13th St. North from The Source. Career Network, the KU Alumni Wichita, KS Jayhawk Roundup’s “Hawkstock” Association’s newest initiative to 6 p.m. VIP guest reception theme celebrates the 50th enhance career successes for all Jayhawks at every life stage. 6:30 p.m. Doors open anniversary of Woodstock. For a fun, far-out experience register online: kualumni.org/jayhawkroundup

Special thanks to our sponsors William Turner, b’52, l’60, wrote by Heather Biele Class Notes 52 Arcadia—A Memoir, which was published in January. The book details his life in Arcadia in the 1930s and ’40s.

Janet Fevurly Weld, n’60, ’98, is a director of organizational improvement at Kathy Rose-Mockry, d’78, g’85, 60 nurse for Mesa Public Schools in KU Medical Center. She and her husband, 78 PhD’15, longtime director of the Arizona. She makes her home in Gilbert. Robert, make their home in Kansas City. University’s Emily Taylor Resource Center, will retire in June. She established KU’s Robert Rumpf, c’64, is general John Mize, c’72, retired in Decem- first sexual assault response policy in 2001 64 director of the English Theatre of 72 ber after 43 years of law practice and led the creation of the Women of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. with Clark, Mize & Linville Chartered in Distinction Calendar. She was inducted in Salina. He focused on health care law as the KU Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011. Kay Orth Kendall, c’67, wrote After general counsel for the Salina Regional 67 You’ve Gone, the third book in her Health Center and its predecessors for Glenn Hollis, c’79, is an associate at Austin Starr mystery series. Her second more than 40 years. 79 Cushman & Wakefield in Green- book, Rainy Day Women, won best Jane Farr Polson, ’72, is president of ville, South Carolina. He specializes in mystery and best book at the Killer Keep Nebraska Beautiful. She lives in land development, retail sales and leasing. Nashville writers’ conference in 2016. Lincoln, Nebraska, with David, ’71. School Codes Letters that follow names David Booth, c’68, g’69, in Novem- Carla Ernst, j’73, wrote Life Without indicate the school from which alumni earned 68 ber was awarded the University of 73 Pockets: My Long Journey into degrees. Numbers show their class years. Chicago Medal by the board of trustees. Womanhood, which was published in 2018 He earned his MBA from the university in by Henschel HAUS Publishing. She owns a School of Architecture and Design 1971. CarlaAnne Communications in Wauwa- b School of Business tosa, Wisconsin. c College of Liberal Arts Judith Diebolt, j’70, is on the board Bob Matreci, g’73, retired as part of and Sciences 70 of trustees of The Helm, a nonprofit senior technical staff at Hewlett-Packard/ d School of Education organization at the John A. and Marlene L. Agilent Technologies. He lives in Santa e School of Engineering Hawkstock Boll Life Center in Grosse Pointe Farms, Rosa, California. f School of Fine Arts Michigan. She’s a retired reporter and g Master’s Degree editor at the Detroit Free Press and The Nathan Jordan, p’74, has been a h School of Health Professions Join us for the grooviest party in 2019! Detroit News. 74 pharmacist for the past 44 years and j School of Journalism JAYHAWK ROUNDUP • APRIL 12 • WICHITA, KS Larry McElwain, c’70, retired in Decem- currently works at Saint Francis Hospital l School of Law ber as president and CEO of the Chamber in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He and Debbie Frost m School of Medicine n School of Nursing in Lawrence, a position he held since 2014. Jordan, c’73, live in Broken Arrow and p School of Pharmacy Jayhawk Roundup 2019 This year's special entertainment Proceeds from Jayhawk Roundup He is co-founder and chairman of 21st enjoy traveling. They recently went to Friday, April 12 includes a live wood carving from will support our alumni and student PharmD School of Pharmacy Century Funeral Company, which owned Israel. School of Social Welfare Murfin Stables artist Dan Besco and live music programs, including the Jayhawk s Warren-McElwain Mortuary. u School of Music 14515 E. 13th St. North from The Source. Career Network, the KU Alumni John Newman, d’75, g’82, in AUD Doctor of Audiology Wichita, KS Jayhawk Roundup’s “Hawkstock” Association’s newest initiative to Judy Davis-Cole, n’71, g’83, in 75 November received the Pioneer DE Doctor of Engineering DMA Doctor of Musical Arts 6 p.m. VIP guest reception theme celebrates the 50th enhance career successes for all 71 November received the 2018 AARP Award from the University of Arkansas, Jayhawks at every life stage. Kansas Ardus Award for Community where he retired in 2013 as associate DNAP Doctor of Nursing Anethesia 6:30 p.m. Doors open anniversary of Woodstock. Service. Judy is a retired nurse and lives in professor. The award recognizes contribu- Practice For a fun, far-out experience Ottawa, where she volunteers as a member tions made to the university and the state. DNP Doctor of Nursing Practice of the AARP executive council and the DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy register online: EdD Doctor of Education AARP Capital City Task Force advocacy Janet Simpson, f’76, retired after kualumni.org/jayhawkroundup OTD Doctor of Occupational team. 76 nearly 30 years as executive director Therapy Jane Henderson, c’71, c’72, is a retired of the Kansas City Arts Coalition. PhD Doctor of Philosophy Special thanks to our sponsors teacher in Eatonville, Washington. SJD Doctor of Juridical Science Lee Polson, c’71, retired from law Denise White Gilmore, b’77, works (no letter) Former student practice at Clark Hill Strasburger. He lives 77 for the city of Birmingham, Ala- assoc Associate member of the in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Sherry. bama, where she directs cultural preserva- Alumni Association Priscilla Reckling, c’71, g’75, retired as tion. She lives in Hoover.

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Deborah Jordan, e’79, g’81, lives in Revolutionary Fort, which will be pub- customer contracts at NASCO in Plano, Berkeley, California, where she’s deputy lished in June by University Press of Texas. regional administrator for the Environ- Kentucky. She’s an archeologist who mental Protection Agency’s Pacific specializes in the early settlement and John Best, c’82, lives in Houston, Southwest. Revolutionary War period in Kentucky. 82 where he’s senior vice president of Andrew Lear, b’79, is a city councilman Steven South, j’79, is vice president and energy at INTL FCStone Financial Inc. He in Springfield, Missouri. He’s a retired CPA general manager at KSN TV in Wichita. also serves on several local nonprofit and partner at BKD, CPAs & Advisors. He was a DJ at KJHK during his years on boards. James McCarten, b’79, a partner at Burr the Hill. J. Eric Hallman, c’82, is president and & Forman in Atlanta, was appointed in CEO of Nebraska Independent Commu- December to the Georgia Department of Barb Krumme Geiger, c’81, n’83, is nity Bankers. He and his wife, Shirlee, live Behavioral Health and Developmental 81 an expert consultant at NDA in Lincoln, Nebraska. Disabilities Advisory Council. Partners, a life sciences management Rick Zuroweste, j’82, wrote Christmas Timothy McCarthy, j’79, a judge on the consulting and contract development Comes to Prairie Dog Village, a children’s 10th District Court in Olathe, received the organization in Rochelle, Virginia. book that was published in December. He Distinguished Public Service Award from Greg Hadel, b’81, owns Hadel Financial owns Zeroweste Marketing Consulting in United Community Services of Johnson Advisors in Overland Park. He and his Lewisville, Texas. County for his work on Veterans Treat- wife, Linda, have three children. ment Court. He lives in Overland Park Becky Hofer, s’81, s’87, is retired Dennis Allin, m’83, ’13, associate with Kay Small McCarthy, c’81, l’87, who director of graduate admissions for KU 83 professor of emergency medicine at owns a law firm. School of Social Welfare. KU Medical Center, was named a 2018 John Mog, c’79, lives in San Francisco, Bob Kiely, g’81, retired in January as city patient preferred emergency medicine, where he retired as staff affairs officer at manager of Lake Forest, Illinois. He was undersea and hyperbaric specialist in the Stanford University. appointed in 1990 and is the city’s longest- state of Kansas by Patient Preferred Nancy O’Malley, g’79, wrote Boonesbor- serving manager. Physicians and Practitioners. ough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Tamara Tickel Tool, b’81, manages Darryll Fortune, j’83, is principal

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consultant at SmallFortune Public Osage Beach, Missouri. She makes her professor of art at the University of Texas Relations & Marketing in Milwaukee. He home in Camdenton. Permian Basin, was recognized at the also owns FortuNuts, a packaged nuts Odessa College Honors Luncheon for his business, with his wife, Melanie. Cheryl Allen, s’87, l’90, retired in community volunteerism. He and Annie Doug Hobbs, c’83, l’86, lives in Wichita, 87 November as Reno County magis- Seeley Stanley, c’88, live in Odessa, Texas, where he’s a retired attorney. He practiced trate judge in the 27th District, a position and have two children, Max and Mia. law at Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown & she held since 2015. She is moving to Phil Wilke, c’88, j’92, lives in Chico, Enochs for more than 25 years. Lawrence. California, where he’s general manager of Jeff Andersen, b’87, is vice president of North State Public Radio. Christine Dudgeon Wilson, l’84, payor and market strategy for the Univer- Hannes Zacharias, g’88, is a professor of 84 g’85, is a librarian in the Commu- sity of Kansas Health System. practice in the KU School of Public Affairs nity Consolidated School District in Danielle Morlock Fournier, c’87, works and Administration. Grayslake, Illinois. at Jasco Products Company in Oklahoma City, where she’s an executive project Pam Enright, c’89, is senior director Laurie Harmance-Moore, c’85, is an administrator. 89 of expatriate benefits solutions at 85 accredited genealogist and strategy Willis Towers Watson in Leawood. and research lead at IBM iX. She lives in Sally Streff Buzbee, j’88, in April Susan Honeyman, c’89, g’94, wrote Columbus, Ohio. 88 will receive the 2019 William Allen Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, White Foundation National Citation. She’s and Children’s Rights, which was published Cynthia Ball, c’86, is an occupa- executive editor and senior vice president in January by the University Press of 86 tional medicine physician at UT of the Associated Press news agency. Mississippi. She’s a professor of English at Health East Texas North Campus in Tyler, Mary Padilla, j’88, manages plant Texas. communications at General Motors in Colleen Niedens Burton, b’86, is an Kansas City. accountant at Evers and Company CPAs in Chris Stanley, d’88, f’89, an associate

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI the University of Nebraska in Kearney. Jones in Overland Park. He lives in De admissions, and their daughter, Grace. Honora Hundelt Lindenberg, c’89, is an Soto with Mitra Marashi Templin, c’90, assistant business office manager at Life and has two children, Sophia, j’17, and Joni Brophy Colwell, s’91, manages Care Center of Grandview in Grandview, Rex, who’s a senior in business at KU. 91 the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Missouri. Museum in Atchison. Julie White Lorenz, g’89, in January was John Pascarella, c’90, c’90, is named interim Kansas Secretary of 90 professor of biological sciences James Danoff-Burg, g’92, PhD’95, Transportation by Gov. Laura Kelly. She and dean of the College of Science 92 directs conservation at the Living previously served as senior strategic and Engineering Technology at Sam Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, consultant in the Burns & McDonnell Houston State University in Huntsville, California. Transportation Group. Texas. He lives in The Woodlands with Kenneth DeBoer, c’92, is president and Roger Templin, b’89, l’92, is a principal Mary Carlson Pascarella, c’99, the CEO of Prairie Lakes Healthcare System in in the business practice group at Payne & university’s associate director of graduate Watertown, South Dakota.

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research eventually led her to the class- KU telemedicine launches room as a professor at Michigan State alumna’s higher ed career University. She later became dean of the College for Communication Arts & WHITTEN PAMELA COURTESY amela Sasse Whitten says serendipity Sciences, overseeing growth in faculty and Phas led her to a “great place” in her research and the college’s transition to a career as president of Kennesaw State digital curriculum. University, a public institution of 37,576 Steve Lacy, MSU professor emeritus and students on two campuses in the metro- former associate dean, says Whitten politan Atanta area. champions change: “She isn’t afraid to She became president in July 2018, just a make difficult decisions to improve a few months before the university’s ascent university’s operations. She has the ability to the ranks of R2 research institutions to analyze academic problems accurately, designated by the Carnegie Foundation for create a plan to solve them, and see the the Advancement of Teaching. plan through to completion.” “It’s a wonderful opportunity in terms of In 2014, Whitten became provost at the being at the helm just as the university University of Georgia, guiding an increase Whitten describes Kennesaw State as moves into a new stratosphere—that’s very in undergraduate faculty, external research exciting,” said Whitten, PhD’96. “That very funding and endowed professorships. “an exciting school that’s on the move” and rapid growth also presents challenges in Now that she leads Kennesaw State, says she looks forward to developing new terms of setting the appropriate vision and Whitten will focus on enhancing student scholarships and increasing research at the making sure everyone has the wherewithal success and increasing retention and university. and resources they need to be successful. graduation rates. “The student population Everyone’s got a spring in their step here.” here is incredibly smart and gifted. It’s Whitten’s path to a university presidency diverse as well,” she says. “It’s really the room,” she says. “You don’t have to be the began at KU Medical Center, where, as a right recipe for the thing I like to do, smartest one, but always be the hardest doctoral student in communication which is going to an outstanding academic working one. studies, she was part of the team that institution to work with the people there “Honesty always wins out; even if it’s launched the telemedicine program that to move and elevate the university in a painful in the short run. ... One thing I’ve now spans the entire state. She became its rapid time period.” learned to appreciate over time is how very first director and created the first partner- Whitten says she will follow her guiding significant effective listening is in making ship with the Kansas City schools. principles for forthright leadership: sure you do right thing.”h Working with students and pursuing “Always be the hardest working person in —Krug is a freelance writer in Detroit.

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KEM STUDIO, an architecture and design Since 2011, he has served as president of ber. It’s the second book for the assistant firm in Kansas City. Iona College in New York. principal at Northwest High School in Justin, Texas. John Blosser, s’96, ’98, is president Erin Curtis-Dierks, j’97, is market- Cathleen Carothers, l’99, is consulate 96 of Integrated CareGroup and 97 ing project manager at Firesign/ general in Athens, Greece. She has been a PainPro in Overland Park, where he lives Enlightened Legal Marketing in Prairie foreign service officer for the U.S. Depart- with his wife, Sheila, assoc. Village. ment of State since 2001. David Burns, c’96, lives in Aurora, James Hughes, f’97, lives in San Mindie Miller Paget, c’99, g’01, directs Colorado, where he’s a prep cook at Panera Antonio, where he’s a designer and external affairs at KU’s Office of Research. Bread Company. developer at the Watermark Group. She previously worked for the School of Richard Harlan, c’96, is a project Jonathon Kemnitzer, f’97, is co-founder Law, where she led communications and manager at CMI. He makes his home in of the architecture and design firm KEM marketing efforts for 11 years. Santa Cruz, California. STUDIO in Kansas City. Serena Roberts, PhD’99, directs the Teresa Loftin, m’96, is a physician at center for academic success at Florida Swan Mountain Family Practice in Buena Christopher Warren, c’98, is curator Agricultural and Mechanical University in Vista, Colorado. 98 of American history and literature Tallahassee. Joseph Nyre, g’96, PhD’00, in February in the Rare Book and Special Collections David Toland, c’99, g’01, is the new was named president of Seton Hall division of the Library of Congress. He Secretary of Commerce for the state of University in South Orange, New Jersey. lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Kansas. He was appointed in January by Jenny, and their two sons, Donovan and Gov. Laura Kelly. David previously served Dempsey. as president and CEO of Thrive Allen County, a nonprofit organization in Iola. Ryan Barnhart, d’99, g’01, wrote 99 The Imagined Adventures of Ramsey Ryan Bartlett, c’00, PhD’07, is vice Barrett, which was published in Novem- 00 president of innovation at Com-

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI pass Minerals in Overland Park. He makes Toland Harris Hippe, c’00, lives in specialist at Stormont-Vail Healthcare in his home in Basehor. Lawrence, where she’s a real estate agent at Topeka. He commutes from Lawrence. Kristi Kiyabu Ching, c’00, g’02, is a Keller Williams Integrity. nurse at Queens Medical Center in Jesse Van Dyke, c’00, is a real estate Aldon Corle, c’01, m’06, is an Honolulu. She has two children, Noah broker and vice president at WeWork in 01 obstetrician and gynecologist at and Micah. Chicago. He oversees the co-working Baptist Health Women’s Clinic in Fort Eric Dippel, m’00, is a cardiologist and company’s expansion in the Midwest. Smith, Arkansas. chief medical officer at American Vascular Jeremy Viscomi, c’00, is principal Matthew Hulver, PhD’01, is assistant Associates. He makes his home in Betten- partner at PIKA Industries in Houston. dean of health sciences at Virginia dorf, Iowa. Bill Woodard, j’00, is a media relations Tech College of Agriculture and Life

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Cop brings new meaning rampant drug and gang COURTESY LAMAR SHARPE COURTESY to community policing activity. “We viewed the police as nyone who’s seen LaMar Sharpe the enemy,” says Sharpe, Ainteract with children in his home- who recalls being thrown town of Canton, Ohio, would never guess on a cruiser when he and there was a time when he wasn’t the his friends were mistaken community’s most popular police officer. for a group of troublesome In his first few years on the job, Sharpe, boys. “We felt like they a former KU football player who’s been a were just coming in and police officer for 18 years, recalls patrolling arresting people. They low-income housing districts and waving weren’t taking the time to at children playing outside. Rather than get to know us.” returning his friendly greeting, the Today Sharpe is youngsters would raise their middle celebrated in his commu- “I had no intentions in my wildest dreams of being a police fingers as he drove by. nity for strengthening the officer,” says LaMar Sharpe, an 18-year law enforcement veteran “I was like, what in the world?” says relationship between local who has reached celebrity status in his Canton, Ohio, Sharpe, ’99. “I got to a point one day where residents and law enforce- I said, the next kid to flip me off I’m ment. He’s a frequent guest community. getting out of my cruiser, and I’m going to at elementary schools and have a talk.” birthday parties, and he Sure enough, a young boy flashed the keeps his cruiser stocked with candy This year, the foundation also started obscene hand gesture a few days later, and and other snacks, which he passes out to providing free tutoring for young Sharpe stopped. But instead of scolding children. He also brings stuffed animals residents. the child, Sharpe offered to share his lunch on domestic violence calls to help calm “We’re starting to see a change in our and struck up a conversation about video youngsters during the visit. boys,” Sharpe says. “I have about six boys games. A week later, when Sharpe In 2016, Sharpe and his wife, Deidra, who have been with me since we started returned to the same area, he was greeted started Be a Better Me Foundation, which two years ago. Their parents say, ‘My son is by a swarm of excited children eager to aims to empower and encourage youths going to stay in this program because I meet the cool cop. and assist disadvantaged community don’t want him to backtrack.’” One of Sharpe’s endearing qualities— members. In addition to serving hot meals After years of cultivating change in his and what sets him apart from many of his and distributing winter clothes to those in own community, Sharpe hopes to extend fellow officers—is that he understands need, the foundation hosts eight-week the foundation’s reach outside of Canton children’s distrust of the police. Growing mentoring academies for young girls and and help other police departments build up in Akron, a neighboring city about an boys. Each week, participants learn about relationships with their residents. “I’ve hour south of Cleveland, Sharpe and his etiquette, healthy relationships and the been blessed from all of this,” he says. “It’s siblings lived in an area known for importance of earning and saving money. been a great experience.”h

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Sciences in Blacksburg, Virginia. career with the Seattle SuperSonics/ Kelly Dreyer, e’04, a’04, is an associate Oklahoma City Thunder, will have his No. principal at Gould Evans in Lawrence. He Diane Kern Bellquist, l’02, is a 4 jersey retired on March 20. It’s the first was lead designer on two recent University Your Home on the Hill 02 member of Joseph, Hollander & number to be retired by the team. projects: the Earth, Energy and Environ- Craft in Topeka. She joined the firm in Eric Gasper, b’03, is a financial analyst ment Center and the DeBruce Center. 2014 and specializes in professional and accountant at TSYS in Broomfield, Ingrid Gerdes, ’04, is a professional licensure and professional liability defense. Colorado. musician and recording artist. She lives in Mary Vernon, d’02, is a senior coordina- Anissa Parra-Grooms, c’03, works in Boston. tor at KU School of Medicine-Salina. resource development at the Boys & Girls David Gnojek, f’04, is creative director Clubs of Greater Kansas City. She and her at KU Marketing Communications. He BORN TO: husband, Joseph, live in Kansas City. lives in Lawrence. Holly Anderson Keefe, f’02, and her Leita Schultes Walker, c’03, j’03, l’06, is Jennifer Patty, c’04, co-owns Vero husband, Brian, son, Cody, Jan. 3 in St. a litigator in Ballard Spahr’s media and Home Audio in Sebastian, Florida, with Louis. Holly is a senior specialist at Stifel entertainment law group. She lives in her husband, Greg. She also performs in Financial Corporation. Minneapolis. theatre productions.

Sean Aikmus, c’03, works at Hadel MARRIED Sidney Butcher, l’05, is a judge in 03 Financial Advisors in Overland Kimberly Moore, m’03, to John Hud- 05 the District Court of Anne Arundel Park, where he’s a certified financial speth, April 28, 2018, in Lawrence. They County in Maryland. He previously planner. live in Aviston, Illinois. worked as an attorney in the Office of the Katie Hollar Barnard, j’03, g’06, is CEO Attorney General. of Firesign/Enlightened Legal Marketing Jesse Beier, c’04, lives in Minne- William Cross, j’05, l’11, is an associate in Prairie Village. 04 apolis, where he’s a shareholder at at Lathrop Gage in Kansas City. He Nick Collison, c’03, who retired in 2018 Lommen Abdo. He specializes in estate specializes in labor and employment law. after spending his entire 15-year NBA planning. Brandon Kent, a’05, was promoted to

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kualumni.org/license associate principal at Gould Evans in San Lockton Companies in Kansas City. holder at Polsinelli in Kansas City. He Francisco. Stephanie Craig, c’06, has a travel and specializes in health care alignment and Brooke Spicer, c’05, directs business history blog and podcast called “History organizations. development at HealthInsight. Fangirl,” which she started in 2015. Justin Langford, c’06, is associate Kirk Hinrich, c’06, in March was director of data strategy and insights at BORN TO: inducted in the Iowa High School Athletic VML in Kansas City. Dereck, c’05, m’13, g’16, and Kysha Association Basketball Hall of Fame. He Kelly Malmstrom, n’06, is a registered Nichols Totten, m’13, son, Turner, Dec. 27 was a point guard at KU from 1999 to nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospital in in Colby, where Dereck is a physician at 2003 and played 13 seasons in the NBA. Kansas City, where she lives with Ben Citizens Medical Center. Kirk is a lead academy specialist at Sanford Jacobi, ’17, a web developer at the Federal POWER Basketball Academy in Sioux Reserve Bank. They’re celebrating their Daniel Britton, b’06, is vice Falls, South Dakota. one-year wedding anniversary in March. 06 president and unit leader at Cullin Hughes, c’06, l’09, is a share- Darren Reed, c’06, owns Curts & Reed

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Humanitarian work spurs to Syrians affected by violence, poverty, hunger and displacement in the eight-year JOMANA QADDOUR COURTESY career change for lawyer conflict. SRD eases suffering with emergency ith degrees in human biology and housing, health care and food, but the Wlaw, Jomana Qaddour was working “biggest hope” is to promote long-term as a patent attorney in Washington, D.C., development that prepares Syrians to in 2011, when war broke out in Syria provide their own food and shelter. “We’re during the Arab Spring protests. The first trying to rehabilitate housing, for example, city to turn violent was Homs, where instead of throwing families into tents,” Qaddour was born and her father grew up. Qaddour says. SRD also targets women’s Jihad Qaddour brought his family to the health and social issues, such as ending United States when Jomana was 3, earning early childhood marriage. Using its large his master’s and doctoral degrees at network of Syrians in-country, SRD “People want to be able to provide for their Wichita State University. With friends and focuses on what Syrians say they need, not families,” says Jomana Qaddour. “Foreign policy family living in Syria when the war began, solutions imposed from outside. “We’re that keeps in mind that universal goal makes including a brother who is a physician, he not putting people’s lives at risk to achieve quickly learned that people needed help. something that looks great on paper in for strong allies and long-term friends.” “My father has always been very Washington,” Qaddour says, “but is useless social-justice oriented, and he raised us to to people being barrel-bombed in Aleppo.” be that way too,” says Qaddour, c’06, l’09. Her work at SRD also inspired a career face repression and discrimination. When he decided to start a humanitarian change—to foreign policy. In 2012 she “As an immigrant—and as someone group, he asked Jomana to help set it up. joined the Brookings Institution’s Saban involved in U.S. foreign policy—it’s my “He said, ‘I just need you to do the Center for Middle East Policy as a research goal to help policymakers better under- paperwork; I won’t drag you into anything assistant, and from 2015 to ’18 worked as a stand the regions we work in,” Qaddour else,’” Jomana recalls. “But I quickly senior policy analyst with the federal says. Foreign policy should reflect U.S. became very intertwined with what was Commission on International Religious principles and values, but also account for happening, and the response was so great Freedom. In November she was appointed the values and needs of local cultures, she that I really couldn’t walk away.” to the Anti-Defamation League Task Force believes. She joined her father to found Syria on Middle East Minorities, which pro- “At the end of the day, we’re all human Relief & Development (SRD), which has motes protection of religious, ethnic and beings; we all want to live dignified lives. delivered $60 million in humanitarian aid other minority communities that often That’s a universal thing.”h

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Optometry in Olathe. He’s been practicing Andrew Ricke, c’07, l’10, in January was where he’s chief operating officer at optometry in the Kansas City metro area promoted to partner at Lathrop Gage in Platform Purple, a technology solutions since 2010. Overland Park. He specializes in personal company. Christine Pina Rosengreen, l’06, is a injury, business and employment claims. family law attorney at Joseph, Hollander & Meghan Kinley Shreve, c’07, directs Joel Balzer, c’09, works at KU Craft in Kansas City. education and communications at 09 Endowment in Lawrence, where Lori Baxter Underwood, d’06, g’13, a InterHab in Topeka. he’s a development officer for major gifts. music instructor at Ottawa High School, Brandon Blakely, g’09, is an associate at was named Outstanding High School BORN TO: Briggs and Morgan in Minneapolis. He Choral Teacher of the Year in the East Ryan, c’07, j’07, and Erinn Schaiberger works in the firm’s business litigation Central District of the Kansas Music Colaianni, b’07, g’08, Stella Doretta and section. Educators Association. Landon Lawrence, Jan. 3 in Arlington, Justin Hendrix, l’09, lives in San Diego, Luke Wohlford, c’06, l’09, is a partner in Virginia. Ryan serves on the Alumni where he’s intellectual property counsel at the litigation department at Barnes & Association’s national Board of Directors. Collins Aerospace. Thornburg in Dallas. Matthew McCulley, g’09, is a colonel in Ryan Boomsma, g’08, works for the U.S. Army. He’s stationed at Fort Jessica Lerner, ’07, is a registered 08 PMG, a digital advertising agency Leonard Wood in Missouri. 07 nurse and organ procurement in Dallas, where he’s chief financial officer. Mandie Nech, c’09, is director of finance coordinator at Midwest Transplant Kimberly Wallace Carlson, j’08, is at Travel for Teens in Wayne, Network in Mission. director of engagement at the Ewing Pennsylvania. Seve Palacioz, b’07, is CEO of Air Marion Kauffman Foundation in Julie Feldt Perricone, c’09, coordinates Capital Transportation in Wichita. Kansas City. membership at Mid-Hudson Children’s Chris Pumpelly, c’07, j’07, lives in David Wise, c’08, b’08, lives in Chicago, Museum in Poughkeepsie, New York. Wichita, where he directs operations at She and her husband, Robert, live in Bodhala. Wappingers Falls.

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Mike, e’10, and Sasha Roe Kuchinski, c’09, j’09, son, Parker Michael, Oct. 21 in Derby. Mike is an engineering lead at Spirit Aerosystems and Sasha is associate director of college counseling at Wichita Collegiate High School.

Becky Blackman, c’11, is a freelance 11 writer, editor and proofreader in Overland Park. Alyson Smith Bull, b’11, is an employee benefits specialist at Performance Con- tracting Group in Lenexa, where she lives with Michael, e’13, a mechanical engineer at Henderson Engineers. George Diepenbrock, g’11, lives in Lawrence, where he’s a communications officer for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department. Mason Heilman, c’11, d’11, is a legislative aide for Massachusetts Rep. Michelle Ciccolo. He makes his home in Boston. Elliot Johnson, b’11, g’14, manages digital marketing at Rexel USA in Dallas. He lives in Addison, Texas. Danielle Larrabee Johnston, d’11, ’12, teaches in the Kirkwood School District in Kara Brack Stucky, b’09, directs market- president of public relations and program- Missouri. She and Scott, b’11, g’12, an ing at KU Memorial Union. She previously ming at Firesign/Enlightened Legal associate at Greensfelder Hemker & Gale, managed digital merchandising for AMC Marketing in Prairie Village. live in St. Louis. Entertainment. Ashley Siebert, a’10, is a design engi- Alexandra Panagakos, c’11, is a senior neer at Dimensional Innovations in account executive at Rapid7 in Boston. Chad Gerber, d’10, is an assistant Overland Park. Rachel Preisner, c’11, is a destination 10 professor of sport marketing and Daniel Stockman, c’10, is an enterprise sales executive for Marriott International. administration at Northern State Univer- account executive at Adobe. He lives in She makes her home in Kansas City. sity in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he Dallas. Liz Raynolds, c’11, ’15, lives in Phoenix, lives with his wife, Jessica, and their Madeline Tritsch Tenbrink, d’10, is a where she sells medical devices for daughter, Grace Helen. physical educator at Eisenhower Middle Medtronic. Andrew Gilfillan, l’10, is vice president School in Manhattan. Vivek Sharma, g’11, manages enterprise and a geologist in the acquisitions and Bryan Tilson, e’10, is an electrical application strategy and integration at divestitures team at Seaport Global. He engineer at the Federal Aviation Adminis- Grant Thornton in New York City. makes his home in Katy, Texas. tration in Kansas City. He makes his home Nathaniel Williams, PhD’11, wrote Austin Hausmann, e’10, g’13, lives in in Pleasant Valley, Missouri. Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, Kansas City, where he’s vice president of Lisa Zirkel, b’10, g’11, lives in Raleigh, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America, research and product development at North Carolina, where she’s a senior tax which was published in 2018 by University Chanje. compliance manager at Avalara. of Alabama Press. He is a lecturer for the Amy Johnson Nouri, j’10, is vice University Writing Program at the BORN TO: University of California-Davis and serves Brenna Hawley-Craig, c’10, j’10, and her on the advisory board for the Gunn husband, Dennis, sons, Joel Vincent and Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Everett Curtis, Dec. 26 in Baldwin City. Kendra Zink, c’11, manages marketing Brenna is a business analyst at DEG and theme tickets for the Kansas City Digital in Overland Park. Royals. She lives in Roeland Park.

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI MARRIED engagement controller at Cerner Pearce Ramsey, c’12, lives in Salt Lake Katherine Aucott, c’11, to Mark Corporation. City, where he’s an associate consultant at Hammond, Aug. 25 in Lawrence. They live Cerner Corporation. in Eugene, Oregon, where Katie works in Andy Brown, s’12, is interim com- Theresa Sahrmann Schorr, g’12, was health communications for Johnson & 12 missioner of behavioral health promoted in October to project architect Johnson Health and Wellness Solutions. sciences for the Kansas Department for at Kraemer Design Group in Detroit. She Tyler Cini, g’11, to Sarah Pulliam, Aug. Aging and Disability Services in Topeka. lives in Royal Oak, Michigan. 18 in Dallas. They live in Richardson, Kate Favrow, g’12, manages corporate Texas, where Tyler is an architect and marketing at Associated Wholesale MARRIED project leader at GFF Architects. Grocers in Kansas City. Joshua Baden, c’12, to Kara Protasio, Laura Marshall, b’11, g’12, to Mitch Devinee Fitzgerald, j’12, ’17, works at Dec. 21 in Lawrence, where they live. Kerr, May 19, 2018, in Fairway. They live Yelp, where she’s a senior account Josh is an actuarial specialist at SE2 in Overland Park, where Laura is an executive. in Topeka.

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino

Combat veteran leads As his schooling stretched into his 20s engineers’ Alaska District and funds again dwindled, Borders joined Army ROTC, eventually graduating as a DISTRICT USACE-ALASKA COURTESY s commander of the U.S. Army Corps 26-year-old lieutenant in the Engineer Aof Engineers’ sprawling Alaska Regiment. After completing the engineers’ District, with operations throughout the basic course Borders immediately moved largest U.S. state and nine Southeast Asian on to the rigorous Ranger school, where countries, Col. Phillip J. Borders oversees he earned the coveted “Ranger tab” more than $650 million of annual work by shoulder patch. nearly 400 employees—only 16 of whom “You meet an infantryman and he’d are uniformed military. want to know whether you have a tab,” It’s a big change for a combat engineer Borders says. “It’s a rite of passage in that who spent much of his career in war zones sense.” or supporting combat preparations. The Army in 2003 deployed Borders to “I see it as a personal growth and Baghdad just as the war zone was transi- Phil Borders began his three-year command of learning opportunity,” says Borders, a’96, a tioning from major combat into counter- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Alaska Lawrence High School grad whose parents intelligence operations. District in August. “The work this district is still live here. Now that the workforce he “That was a great team because we were commands includes not just engineers but able to adapt and adjust to an environment doing keeps people safe every night.” an array of specialties that include that was undefined,” Borders says of the contractors, lawyers and environmental soldiers he led on his 18-month tour. “We experts, “I’m no longer the most experi- were figuring it out on the fly.” first F-35 airwing outside the continental enced guy in the room.” He returned to Iraq in 2008 as a United States, yet Borders also takes Although accepted by the School of battalion operations officer and in 2014 he satisfaction in humanitarian work. When Engineering after applying to KU, Borders deployed to Afghanistan as commander of he handed over a new school in the quickly realized he didn’t have enough an air assault engineer battalion. He also Vietnamese highlands, Borders reminisced money and enlisted in the Army. When he served in leadership positions for the U.S. about his father, Jonathan Quick, who made his way back to Mount Oread on the Central Command at Florida’s MacDill Air fought there during two tours of duty with Montgomery GI Bill, he switched to the Force Base and the Joint Multinational the 101st Airborne Division. School of Architecture & Design—and was Training Command, where he led training “I thought, ‘What a different world we’re promptly activated for a six-month tour in to counter improvised explosive devices. in.’ But it’s strategically important because Operation Desert Storm. Alaska District is readying a base for the it’s about relationships.”h

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 65 Colorful Adventures with the Flying Jayhawks

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For the latest dates and detailed trip descriptions, visit kualumni.org/travel or call 800-584-2957. Brandon Beck, b’13, g’14, is an Objects on these pages are from the collection at the Adams Alumni Center. 13 assurance senior associate at PwC in New York City. Kayleigh Brooks Berning, PharmD’13, MARRIED Lawrence, received the school district’s lives in Leoti with her husband, Craig, and Taylor Hanna, c’15, g’17, and Dan 2018 Horizon Award in September. She their son, Collin, who just turned 1. Peterson, g’16, Oct. 6 in Lawrence. They also was one of 82 graduate students Jessica Bjorgaard Crozier, j’13, directs both work at KU, where Taylor is an nationwide to receive a scholarship from public relations and social media at academic adviser in the College of Liberal the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Alyssa is InQuest Marketing in Kansas City. She Arts & Sciences and Dan is an academic pursuing her master’s degree in educa- commutes from Lawrence, where she lives adviser in the Undergraduate Advising tional administration at KU. with Derrick, ’11. Center. Jordan Cook, e’18, lives in Austin, Texas, where he’s a structural engineer at MARRIED Allison Kite, j’16, is the City Hall Structures PE. Lauren Moore, g’13, to Jay Shifman, 16 reporter for the Kansas City Star. She Alden German, c’18, is a meteorologist Dec. 15 in Cincinnati, where they make lives in Overland Park. at KLKN-TV in Lincoln, Nebraska. their home. Lauren manages program and Galyna Korniyenko, g’16, is a teaching Dylan Jones, c’18, is a staff assistant for policy for the Cincinnati Preschool associate at Ohio State University in the U.S. House of Representatives. He lives Promise, a nonprofit organization. Columbus. in Arlington, Virginia. Wendi Fleming Murphy, c’18, is director Alex Beck, c’14, is a senior engineer- MARRIED of Calvary Lutheran Church in Kansas 14 ing technician at Johnson County Connor Webb, l’16, to Chloe Treece, City. She has two daughters, Brooke and Wastewater. He and his wife, Nicole, live in Dec. 1 in Scottsdale, Arizona, where they Alexandra. Kansas City. make their home. Connor is an associate Justin Schmidt, g’18, g’19, is an accredi- Joe Carr, u’14, u’14, is a sales profes- attorney at Pincus & Associates in Tempe. tation coordinator at the University of sional at Better Homes and Gardens Real Kansas Health System in Kansas City. He Estate in Overland Park. Nathan Bachynski, j’17, coordinates and his wife, Lauren, live in Shawnee. Carolina Gahn, d’14, is a physical 17 digital marketing at Allebach therapist at Summit Rehab and Wellness Communications in Souderton, Michael Jenkins, g’19, lives in in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Pennsylvania. 19 Greenville, North Carolina, where he Caleb Hays, g’14, lives in Washington, Danny Caine, g’17, wrote Continental teaches in Nash-Rocky Mount public D.C., where he’s an associate attorney at Breakfast, a book of poetry that was schools. Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky. published in March. He owns the Raven Leigh Kaulbach, g’19, teaches photogra- Halie Barnes Paulson, d’14, g’16, is a Book Store in Lawrence. phy at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New teacher in the Blue Valley School District Ruben Castillo, g’17, is an artist and Hampshire, where she and her husband, in Overland Park. She lives in Lenexa with second-year resident at Charlotte Street Andy, live. Thomas, e’14. Foundation Studio in Kansas City. Justin McCubbin, g’19, makes his home Elaina Smith, u’14, manages production Jeremy Goldberg, b’17, is an enterprise in Arkansas City with his wife, Katie, and at Patient Resource in Overland Park. business development representative at their daughter, Erin, who just turned 1. Lydia Young, c’14, j’14, is a social media BetterUp in Phoenix. Michael Voth, c’19, is a distance-learn- specialist at Hallmark Cards in Kansas Devante’ Green, d’17, is a personal ing specialist at AGCO Corporation in City. trainer and coach at IdentiFIT in Newark, Hesston. He and his wife, Tracy, live in New Jersey. Buhler. Victoria Kirk, j’15, lives in Los Austin Knoblock, l’17, is co-founder and 15 Angeles, where she’s a proposal partner at Access to Justice in Joplin, ASSOCIATES specialist at Chrome River Technologies. Missouri. Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, assoc., was Nadia McCann, g’15, is a family nurse Laura Stallbaumer, s’17, lives in Over- named one of the top 50 influential Jewish practitioner and owns McCann Medical land Park, where she’s a therapist at leaders in 2018 by The Forward, a Jewish Clinic in Grand Island, Nebraska. Journey to Hope Counseling. publication. He directs the Rohr Chabad Christopher Nesmith, PharmD’15, is a Pauline Witmer, g’17, is a digital fraud Center for Jewish Life at KU. pharmacy manager at Walmart in Olathe. data analyst at UMB Financial in Kansas Jessica Noble, c’15, works at Stanford City. She lives in Overland Park. University in Palo Alto, California, where she’s associate director of the Alyssa Barratt, c’18, who teaches Stanford Fund. 18 math at Free State High School in

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 67 In Memory Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Brinkman Becker, assoc.; three daughters, one of whom is Ann Becker Logan, b’87; a son; two sisters, one of Mary Lyth Alderson, d’46, 92, 3 in Olathe, where she was a retired nurse. whom is Betty Becker Timmerman, c’55; 40sDec. 9 in Leawood. She was a Surviving are two sons, one of whom is and 12 grandchildren. high school teacher and member of P.E.O. James, g’77; a sister, Patricia Brubaker Sheila Nation Brown, d’58, g’70, Sisterhood. Surviving are her husband, Landis, d’51; four grandchildren; and eight PhD’75, 82, Nov. 18 in Boulder, Colorado. Ray, c’48, b’50; two daughters, one of great-grandchildren. She taught at the University of Nebraska- whom is Virginia Alderson McGaha, c’73; Elizabeth “Jimmie” Hall Reid, c’45, 96, Lincoln for several years and created an a sister; five grandchildren; and seven Sept. 14 in Fort Worth, Texas. She and her educational program for Nebraska Public great-grandchildren. husband operated a dairy farm and she Television. She retired as director of visual Mary Caton Norris Allen, n’49, 91, Oct. also served on several community boards. and performing arts education for the 31 in Dallas, where she was a retired nurse She is survived by three sons; two daugh- state’s department of education. Survivors and member of P.E.O. Sisterhood. A ters; a sister, Barbara Hall Marshall, c’45; a include her husband, Hubert, PhD’71; two daughter, Nancy Norris Cadigan, c’77; and brother, Donald Hall Sr., assoc.; 11 sons, one of whom is Chris, c’89, g’92; a a granddaughter survive. grandchildren; and 14 great- sister, Rosemary Nation King, d’60; and Julia Fox Been, d’48, 92, Dec. 21 in grandchildren. four grandchildren. Calgary, Alberta. She was a speech Edward Rolfs, c’48, 93, Aug. 16 in Oscar Chowning, c’53, m’56, 87, Oct. 25 therapist. Survivors include two sons and Topeka. He lived in Junction City, where in Albany, Oregon, where he was a retired three daughters. he was president of Central National Bank. ear, nose and throat specialist. His wife, Rebecca Vallette Bright, j’46, g’81, 93, Surviving are his wife, Eunice Carlson Thelma, two sons, a daughter, a brother, a Nov. 7 in Olathe. She was a freelance Rolfs, c’48; a daughter, Christine Rolfs sister and three grandchildren survive. writer and later became a travel agent. She Munson, d’74; two sons, one of whom is Janetha Schmalzried Girotto, d’58, 81, is survived by a son, a daughter, five Ed, b’76; a sister, Betsy Rolfs Waters, c’48; Aug. 25 in Rochester, Minnesota. She lived grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and four grandchildren; and four great- in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she taught two great-great-grandchildren. grandchildren. music. Surviving are her husband, John, Gerald “Jerry” Dick, b’48, 94, Sept. 5 in Wayne Stallard, b’48, 92, Dec. 6 in e’60; two sons; five siblings, one of whom Overland Park. He had a 33-year career at Mission. He was an executive at several is Donald Schmalzried, ’63; and four the Topeka Capital-Journal, where he was companies and later formed Stallard grandchildren. news editor and assistant managing editor. Associates, a consulting firm. He is Bert Gordon, ’55, 93, Dec. 13 in Lenexa, Surviving are his wife, Glenna; three survived by three daughters, one of whom where he retired after a 37-year career as a daughters, two of whom are Linda is Melanie, c’82; a brother, Carl, b’51, l’56; mechanic and electrician at Trans World McDougall, d’74, and Cheri McDougall two grandchildren; and two great- Airlines. He is survived by his wife, Geri; a Nash, c’80; a son; six grandchildren; and grandchildren. stepson, Gregory Rieke, c’72, g’75; two four great-grandchildren. Mary Jeanne Waymire Tinberg, b’49, stepdaughters, Janet Rieke O’Neal, d’74, Georgia Bear Gregg, ’42, 98, Dec. 12 in 91, Dec. 20 in Prairie Village. She volun- and Robin Rieke Neville, c’77; a sister; Hamilton, Ohio, where she was a graphic teered at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of seven step-grandchildren; and 14 artist. Two daughters, a son, two grand- Art. Surviving are two sons, five grand- step-great-grandchildren. children and seven great-grandchildren children and four great-grandchildren. Ruth Lill Griswold, f’58, 82, Nov. 13 in survive. Lincoln, Nebraska. She was an occupa- John Ise, c’40, 95, Oct. 2 in Santa Frank Becker, e’58, 82, Nov. 28 in tional therapist and later owned Page One Barbara, California, where he was a 50sLawrence, where he was CEO and Paperback Book Exchange in Lincoln. professor and nuclear physicist. Survivors president of Becker Corporation and Survivors include her husband, Norm, include a son, a daughter and three Becker Investments. He served as chair c’57; two daughters; and a granddaughter. grandchildren. and a member of the Alumni Association’s Gordon Hamilton, ’55, 85, Nov. 17 in Mary Young Martin, c’48, 96, Jan. 18 in national Board of Directors in the early Prairie Village, where he had a 53-year Norton. She was a high school teacher. She ’80s, and he received the Association’s Fred career as a stockbroker. Two sons and is survived by a daughter, Virginia Martin Ellsworth Medallion in 1988, KU’s seven grandchildren survive. Will, ’71; two sons, Robert, d’74, and Distinguished Engineering Service Award Nancy Harbes Hobbs, d’59, 81, Jan. 4 in Christopher, ’76; a sister, Elizabeth Young in 1991 and the Distinguished Service Leawood. She was a teacher and volun- Smith, ’47; a brother; and eight Citation in 1996. He also was a trustee and teered in her community. A memorial has grandchildren. former chair of KU Endowment. A been established with KU Endowment. Marilyn Brubaker Moore, n’48, 92, Nov. memorial has been established with KU She is survived by a son, John, b’87; a

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI daughter; and six grandchildren. of Kansas City for 25 years and was the Surviving are a daughter; two sons; a J.D. Holmberg, e’51, 94, Oct. 4 in first recipient of the KU School of Social brother, Bryan, d’50, g’55; two grandchil- Overland Park. He retired as sciences Welfare Alumni of the Year Award. A dren; and four great-grandchildren. director at Marley Cooling Tower Com- memorial has been established with KU Charles “Louie” Stroup, j’57, 83, Jan. 16 pany. Survivors include his wife, Jan; a Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Ruth; in Pittsburg, where he was retired execu- daughter, Donna Holmberg Mehl, d’78; six two daughters, Janis Majors Howard, c’77, tive director of Kansas Municipal Utilities. stepchildren; and a grandson. s’79, and Karen Majors Bogle, j’80; six He was a member of KU’s track and field Marguerite Unrein Houchins, f’54, 87, grandchildren; and two great- team from 1953 to ’57 and helped the Nov. 21 in Olathe. She was a homemaker. grandchildren. Jayhawks win eight Big Seven team She is survived by a son; two daughters; Lillian Bernard Mann, n’55, 86, Dec. 2 in championships. A memorial has been three brothers, one of whom is George Urbana, Maryland, where she was a retired established with KU Endowment. He is Unrein, f’62; and several grandchildren nurse. She is survived by two sons; two survived by his wife, Corene; a daughter, and great-grandchildren. brothers, John Bernard, b’51, and Dewey Kim Stroup Wells, d’92, g’95; a son; two Georgia Tipton Kidwell, d’53, 86, Nov. 2 Bernard, d’57; six grandchildren; and a stepdaughters, one of whom is Marianne in El Paso, Texas. She lived in Hurst, Texas, great-grandchild. Kreissler O’Nelio, ’81; two stepsons, one of for several years, where she was a teacher David Martin, c’56, 83, Nov. 22 in Lake whom is Tom Kreissler, ’04; a brother, and community volunteer. In 2008, she Winnebago, Missouri. He was an indus- Larry, j’57; four grandchildren; and six received the Hurst Citizen of the Year- trial engineer before becoming an insur- step-grandchildren. Leadership Award. Surviving are a ance agent. His wife, Sharon, a son, a Marilyn Curt Vincent, d’55, PhD’70, 84, daughter, a sister and three grandchildren. daughter, four grandchildren and a Dec. 4 in Muncie, Indiana, where she John Kongs, d’51, 92, Oct. 26 in Topeka. great-granddaughter survive. coordinated undergraduate studies for the He retired from General Motors and Shirley Shriver Miller, d’50, 88, Sept. 21 School of Music at Ball State University. A moved to Seneca, where he and his family in Richland, Washington. She was active in memorial has been established with KU ran the Seneca Theatre. Survivors include politics and served as a delegate at the Endowment. She is survived by her his wife, Gladys Hunninghake Kongs, ’50; 1976 Democratic National Convention. husband, Jim; two stepsons; a sister, Carol two daughters, Janet Kongs Hickman, c’74, She also owned a local bookstore. Survi- Curt Enos, d’57, g’00; a brother; seven and Laura, g’95; two granddaughters; and vors include a daughter, two sons, two grandchildren; and three great- three great-grandchildren. sisters, five grandchildren and two grandchildren. Duane Krug, b’55, 87, Dec. 27 in great-grandsons. Wichita. He was a retired financial analyst JoAnne Wellman Nelson, ’52, 88, Dec. Dennis Chalus, m’67, 77, March 5, for the IRS. His wife, Marcia, a son, a 21 in Casper, Wyoming. She was a teacher 60s 2018, in Cherry Hills Village, daughter and two granddaughters survive. and later became a travel agent. Surviving Colorado. He was a radiologist. Surviving Richard LaGree, b’53, 88, Oct. 21 in are a daughter, Nancy Nelson-Moore, f’83; are his wife, Carolyn, a son, two daughters, Overland Park. He had a 40-year career at two sons, Eric, ’86, and Jay, j’94; eight two stepsons, a stepdaughter, a brother, Western Resources and Kansas Power and grandchildren; and six great- three sisters, four grandchildren and three Light. Surviving are his wife, Beverly; a grandchildren. step-grandchildren. daughter, Jane LaGree Allingham, c’77, A. Ramona Woolley Landers Ruggles, Paul Clendening, c’69, 72, Nov. 11 in l’80; a son, Bryan, b’80, l’84; and three n’56, 89, Dec. 25 in Sioux City, Iowa. She Overland Park. He had a 40-year career in grandsons. had a 43-year career as a nurse and clinical banking and also served as CEO of Roger Lovett, c’50, l’51, 92, June 7 in instructor. Survivors include a son, Kevin Community Health Charities in Washing- Topeka, where he was a retired lieutenant Landers, p’86; four sisters, one of whom is ton, D.C. Surviving are his wife, Nancy colonel in the Air National Guard and an Anita Woolley Jenkins, n’62; and two Cole Clendening, ’71; a son, Paul Jr., c’94; attorney for the Kansas Civil Rights grandchildren. a daughter, Barbara Clendening Krueger, Commission. Survivors include his wife, Beverly Wilson Shurtz, d’52, 88, Dec. 23 c’01; three sisters, one of whom is Jane, Chris; two sons, Brent, c’82, m’87, and in Topeka, where she taught music and c’94; a brother; two stepsisters, Jill Pette- James, ’76; two daughters; a stepdaughter, retired from Blue Cross Blue Shield. She is grew O’Connor, d’75, and June Pettegrew Elizabeth McCoy Schraeder, ’82; three survived by her husband, Donald, f’52; Schiff, ’75; and six grandchildren. stepsons, one of whom is Patrick McCoy, two sons, Ronald, e’76, and Steven, b’78; a Robert Dickerson, m’64, 84, Nov. 19 in e’80, g’82; 11 grandchildren; 10 stepdaughter, Vicki Shurtz Harding, c’83; five Leawood. He practiced internal medicine grandchildren; and 16 great- grandchildren; and six great- for more than 40 years. He is survived by grandchildren. grandchildren. his wife, Carole; a daughter, Lisa Dicker- JR Majors, c’50, s’52, 93, Jan. 18 in Kenneth Sperry, d’50, 94, Oct. 14 in son Marquis, b’82; three sons, John, c’86, Edina, Minnesota. He served as executive Lisbon, North Dakota. He was a beekeeper David, c’89, m’93; and Tom, c’96; nine director of Family and Children Services and president of Sperry Bros. Apiaries. grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 69 In Memory

Edward Fischer, e’60, 87, Jan. 10, 2018, a sister and eight grandchildren. a liturgical singer. She is survived by her in Jenks, Oklahoma, where he was a Gary Schugart, g’68, PhD’74, 83, Nov. 5 husband, David, assoc.; three sons, Brian, petroleum engineer and owned KC Oil. in Houston, where he was professor and ’00, Robert, b’02, and Matthew, ’09; a Survivors include his wife, Joyce, two sons, chair of accountancy and taxation at the daughter, Megan, c’06, g’08; her mother; two daughters, 12 grandchildren and13 University of Houston. Survivors include three sisters, one of whom is Jean Huber great-grandchildren. his wife, Edna; three sons, one of whom is Holman, g’79; three brothers; and two Philip James, c’60, 80, Nov. 10 in Fort Charles, b’83; seven grandchildren; and grandchildren. Collins, Colorado. He co-founded United two great-grandchildren. Rachel Slawson Hollingsworth, d’73, 70, Agri Products and retired as senior vice Donald Sobocinski, PhD’63, 88, July 30 Oct. 26 in Augusta, where she was a president of ConAgra Foods. He is in Houston, where he was a research seamstress and teacher. Survivors include survived by his wife, Susan; four daugh- adviser at ExxonMobil. He is survived by her husband, Steven; two sons; two sisters, ters, two of whom are Elizabeth, f’92, and his wife, Joan, three daughters, a brother, one of whom is Coleen Slawson DeHoff- Melinda James Day, c’95; a son; and eight nine grandchildren and five great- Botts, d’64, g’86; three brothers; and two grandchildren. grandchildren. granddaughters. Carl Johnson, d’64, g’70, 77, Nov. 28 in Patricia Wulf Steinkuehler, d’66, 74, Carol Jean Clement Johnson, j’77, 63, Horton, where he was a music teacher. He Sept. 25 in Tallahassee, Florida. She was a Jan. 10 in Austin, Texas. She was a also installed pipe organs at Reuter Organ teacher and school administrator and later development specialist for constituent Company in Lawrence. worked for the Florida Department of relations at the University of Texas. Her Richard Laing, f’60, 83, Dec. 12 in Education. Surviving are a son, Eric, ’91; husband, Romulus, a daughter, a son, a Topeka, where he was a retired lieutenant and a brother, John Wulf, c’75. sister and a brother survive. colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Surviving are Janet Meserve Tidwell, ’60, 80, Nov. 6 Maureen “Twink” Canfield Lynch, g’71, his wife, Blossom Frakes Laing, ’60; two in Garfield, Arkansas, where she was a PhD’81, 84, Nov. 18 in Topeka, where she sons; a stepdaughter, Beth Swanson, c’81; a homemaker and volunteered in her was administrative director of the Topeka stepson, Brent Swanson, ’81; a sister, community. Survivors include her Civic Theatre and a national consultant for Carolyn Laing Hemphill, ’55; eight husband, W. Ted, j’60; a son, Scott, c’85; a community theatre. Surviving are three grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; and brother, G. Donald Meserve, e’58; five sons, Gregory, c’89, m’93, Christopher, two step-great-grandchildren. grandchildren; and four great- m’92, and Mark, m’95; a daughter; a Duane Lowry, ’67, 74, Oct. 30 in grandchildren. brother; a sister; and 10 grandchildren. Dripping Springs, Texas. He lived in Gerald Weatherby, c’62, d’63, PhD’69, Douglas Nelson, c’79, 68, Jan. 1 in Elizabethton, Tennessee, where he was an 78, Dec. 24 in Oklahoma City, where he Bonita Springs, Florida, where he retired optometrist and founding member of the chaired the department of chemistry at after a 42-year career in law enforcement Back Country Horsemen of East Tennes- Oklahoma City University. He is survived in Lawrence. Survivors include his wife, see. Surviving are his wife, Carolyn; two by his wife, Francene Stepanich Weath- Elaine McNally Nelson, c’74, g’79; two sons; a daughter; a sister, Joyce Lowry erby, n’68; two daughters; a brother, Kent, sisters, Marla Nelson Smith, j’75, and Mala Jackson, ’69; and four grandchildren. ’65; and a grandson. Nelson Barnes, j’78; and a brother. R. Kent Nanninga, b’62, 79, Dec. 2 in Daniel Rounda, d’78, c’80, 62, Dec. 18 Garden City, where he was president of his Karyn Pishny Bredehoft, d’71, ’92, in Kansas City. He lived in Leavenworth family’s business, Western Motor Com- 70s68, Nov. 21 in Lawrence, where for for several years, where he retired from a pany. He is survived by his wife, Carol, more than 30 years she co-owned and 35-year career as a software engineer and assoc.; a son; a daughter; a sister; and five managed Medical Arts Pharmacy with her architect at Texas Instruments, Innovative grandchildren. husband. She is survived by her husband, Software/Informix and DST. He is Diana Smith Nuss, d’69, 72, Oct. 27 in Marvin, d’71, p’73; two sons, Todd, c’94, survived by his wife, Judith Bowen Hoisington, where she was a retired high and Timothy, p’03; and eight Rounda, d’79; a son, Luke, ’09; and a school teacher and coach. Surviving are grandchildren. daughter, Nancy, ’15. her husband, Kenneth; two sons; three Ronald Ferguson, b’72, g’73, 69, Dec. 1 Keene Wilson, g’75, g’78, 71, Sept. 17 in stepsons, one of whom is Todd Nuss, ’93; in Naples, Florida. He was CEO of Fullerton, California. He had a long career 17 grandchildren; and eight great- National Advisors Trust Company. in city management and also was a painter grandchildren. Surviving are his wife, Chae; two sons, and art instructor. His wife, Debra, and Karen Snyder Rowe, n’65, 75, Nov. 28 Matt, b’06, and Scott, b’07; a stepdaughter, two sons survive. in Overland Park, where she was a school Katie McCue, c’08; a stepson; a sister; and nurse for more than 30 years in Kansas three grandchildren. Mary Reed Copeland, g’80, 84, City school districts. A memorial has Kathleen Huber Higley, g’76, 66, Dec. 6 80s Dec. 23 in Olathe. She taught been established with KU Endowment. in Overland Park, where she was a speech elementary school for 25 years in the She is survived by two daughters, a son, pathologist and homemaker. She also was Shawnee Mission School District. Surviv-

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI ing are her husband, Roger, assoc.; two UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Paul Schloerb, 99, Dec. 29 in Leawood. daughters, Joanne Copeland Herre, h’79, John Alexander, assoc., 78, Dec. 6 in He was professor emeritus of surgery at and Christina, c’83; a son, John, b’85; three Lawrence. He was professor of Russian KU Medical Center. A memorial has been sisters; a brother; six grandchildren; and history. A memorial has been established established with KU Endowment. Surviv- six great-grandchildren. with KU Endowment. Surviving are his ing are his wife, Louise; two sons, Ronald, Keith Flanery, j’82, 62, Dec. 10 in wife, Maria, assoc.; a daughter, Darya, j’73, and Paul Richard Jr., j’80; three Tucson, Arizona, where he was a retired m’99; a son; a sister; and two grandsons. daughters, two of whom are Patricia protection ranger for the National Park Lelon Capps, assoc., 88, Jan. 19 in Schloerb Johnson, ’72, and Dorothy Service. In 1996, he received the U.S. Lawrence, where he was a professor in the Schloerb Hoban, f’77; 11 grandchildren; Department of the Interior’s Valor Award School of Education for more than 50 and eight great-grandchildren. for his heroic service. A memorial has years. A memorial has been established Robert Shelton, assoc., 84, Dec. 23 in been established with KU Endowment. A with KU Endowment. Survivors include Lawrence, where he was professor and daughter survives. his wife, Lois Plank Capps, g’83; a son, chair of the department of religious Charles Hoag, ’86, 57, Jan. 28 in Karlin, c’79; a daughter, Kandis Capps studies. He also served as the University Kansas City. He made his home in Taylor, ’82; and four grandchildren. ombuds for 18 years. Survivors include his Lawrence, where for more than 30 years he Catherine “Katie” Cox, assoc., 95, Nov. wife, Carolyn Voss Shelton, c’71, n’74, g’83, was an operations manager at Black Hills 11 in Lawrence, where she had a 26-year ’10; two daughters, Heidi Shelton-Jenck, Energy. A memorial has been established career as an administrative assistant for j’84, and Wendi, c’85; two sons, one of with KU Endowment. He is survived by KU Student Housing. She is survived by whom is David, ’09; a sister; a brother; his wife, Lisa Mumford Hoag, ’81; two three sons, two of whom are Kent, PhD’70, nine grandchildren; and two great- sons, one of whom is Austin, d’15; two m’75, and Robert, ’74; a sister; three grandchildren. daughters; his mother, Donna Carter grandchildren; and six great- Fred Van Vleck, 83, Dec. 6 in Lawrence. Dennis, ’55; three sisters, Cheryl Hoag grandchildren. He was a professor of mathematics for Gasiewski, b’82, Karen Hoag Kosbab, ’82, Francis Ellis, 87, Nov. 10 in Lawrence. more than 40 years. Surviving are his wife, and Deanna Hoag Roth, ’87; and two He worked in the School of Journalism. Charlotte; three sons, Erik, c’85, Paul, e’93, grandchildren. His wife, Colleen, a daughter, a brother, a and Karl, c’93, g’94; two daughters, Teresa Arline Six Seely-Bensch, g’86, 82, Dec. sister and four grandchildren survive. Van Vleck Munk, f’93, and Kristina Van 25 in Lawrence. She was an elementary James Fishback, m’83, 63, Jan. 13 in Vleck Ingram, f’93; a brother; and six school teacher and volunteered at KU’s Kansas City, where he was a colonel in the grandchildren. Audio-Reader Network. Survivors include U.S. Air Force Reserves and professor her husband, Larry Bensch; a son, David emeritus of pathology and laboratory ASSOCIATES Seely, c’79, l’82; two daughters, Diana Seely medicine at KU Medical Center. Survivors Marilyn Larrick Blowey, assoc., 82, Dec. Frederick, c’82, and Doreen Seely-Francis, include his wife, Meg, a sister and a 4 in Lenexa. She was a homemaker. f’86; two stepsons; two stepdaughters; six brother. Surviving are her husband, Richard, b’56; grandchildren; a step-granddaughter; and Laurence Johnson, 94, Jan. 5 in Parker, two daughters, Cheryl Blowey Rude, b’81, a great-grandson. Colorado. He was a retired professor of and Jennifer Blowey Godfrey, j’96; a son, journalism. A memorial has been estab- Douglas, c’83, m’87; a brother, David Kwamie Lassiter, ’95, 49, Jan. 6 in lished with KU Endowment. Surviving are Larrick, ’63; a sister; seven grandchildren; 90s Chandler, Arizona. He played a daughter, Judy Johnson Becerra, s’85; a and a great-granddaughter. football at KU from 1992 to ’94 and helped son; and three grandchildren. Elva Jean Hummer Draper, assoc., 91, lead the Jayhawks to a victory in the 1992 Janice Kozma, 72, Nov. 9 in Lawrence. Dec. 8 in Topeka, where she was a court Aloha Bowl. He went on to play 10 seasons She was professor of Italian language and reporter. Survivors include her husband, in the NFL, eight of which were with the literature and chaired the department of John, e’64; and two sisters. Arizona Cardinals. He is survived by his French and Italian studies from 1987 to Kenneth Turner, assoc., 73, Dec. 16 in wife, Ericka, and eight children, one of 1992. A brother survives. Denton, Texas. He lived in Topeka for whom, Kwamie II, is a junior and wide Wiley Mitchell, b’43, g’47, 97, Jan. 15 in many years, where he was an engineer at receiver at KU. Lawrence, where he was professor and Southwestern Bell and later worked for associate dean at the School of Business. A Waddell & Reed as a financial adviser. He Andrew Marsh, g’12, 35, Nov. 24 in memorial has been established with KU is survived by his wife, Marcia Hunn 10s Kansas City. He was a doctoral Endowment. He is survived by two Turner, e’72, g’81; a daughter, Kristin, b’04; student at KU and an adjunct professor at daughters, one of whom is Nancy Mitchell two sons, Trent, j’07, and Grant, c’09; a Park University in Parkville, Missouri. His Moore, ’70; two grandchildren; five sister; a brother; and six grandchildren. wife, Valerie, a son, two daughters, his great-grandchildren; and two parents and two sisters survive. great-great-grandchildren.

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Legendary letters KU designers create typeface that mimics national park signs

ike any good designer, Jeremy signed the park’s newspaper and a series of LShellhorn pays special attention to six waysides at the top of the Alpine Ridge visual details—even when he’s on vacation. Trail, but he has also digitized the typeface So it was no surprise that in summer 2012, found on those iconic wooden park signs. while on a trip to Rocky Mountain Shellhorn was motivated to create the National Park, Shellhorn noticed that the letter form after requesting it for a park park’s informational materials could use project. “They didn’t have it and they some work. didn’t know what typeface it was,” he says, “The graphic design that you see in the explaining that historically park staff used parks oftentimes just doesn’t have that a CNC router, which follows computer- same attention to detail or passion or generated vector lines, to carve letters in expertise behind it,” says Shellhorn, f’99, the signs. associate professor of design. “Most of the Concerned that the typeface would one time that’s because the parks just don’t day disappear if a different router were have the resources to put a lot of money used, Shellhorn took rubbings from some into those things.” of the signs and returned to campus, Shellhorn, an avid outdoorsman and enlisting the help of Andrea Herstowski, frequent park visitor, wanted to help. He f’91, associate professor and chair of contacted Rocky Mountain National Park’s design, and two students, Chloe Hubler, chief of interpretation and education and a’18, and Jenny O’Grady, a’18, to digitize Jeremy Shellhorn, associate professor of offered his design services during a the letters. The new letter form, called design, led the creation of the National Park semester-long sabbatical. Nearly seven “National Park Typeface,” is available Typeface, a digitized version of the distinctive years later, Shellhorn has not only rede- for public use and can be downloaded for letters found on wooden park signs.

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI free at nationalparktypeface.com. have completed mapping exercises for generations to use,” says field camp This is not the first time Shellhorn has GEOL 560, a required course for all KU director J. Douglas Walker, Union Pacific recruited students for an outside project. geology majors. Resources Distinguished Professor of Six years ago, he started taking groups of The late Bob Harrison, c’39, a geology Geology. 15 students each summer to Rocky graduate who went on to become a Blue Ridge’s topography is well suited to Mountain National Park to camp and beloved Lawrence business leader as learning geologic mapping. Its distinguish- assist rangers with design. He also hosts president of Gill Real Estate and Insurance ing features include metamorphic rocks the Design Outside Studio on campus Agency, so thoroughly enjoyed his time at that are created when rocks are subjected each spring, which provides a handful of Blue Ridge in the 1930s that when his son, to high heat and pressure. students with outdoor industry-related the late Phil Harrison, c’65, inquired about “It’s an invaluable geologic exercise that opportunities. his ideas for charitable distribution of they couldn’t get anywhere else in the “Our students are really taxed in terms family funds, Bob Harrison immediately vicinity,” Walker says. “The geology is of their time commitments, and they’re cited the Blue Ridge camp among his well-exposed and clear. Students can make usually inside most of the time,” Shellhorn primary interests. a large number of supporting measure- says. “We’re asking them to be really “It was a life experience that he never ments in the area on the outcrop. They can creative, but oftentimes they’re in these forgot,” Beth Harrison says of her father- just walk up to the rocks and make spaces that maybe aren’t the most in-law, “and he wanted to be able to assist observations.” c re at i v e .” future KU geology students to have similar Along with Blue Ridge, GEOL 560 Shellhorn hopes to bring more students opportunities.” students also travel to a research station in to Rocky Mountain National Park this The property’s previous owner, Ron Utah, where they complete mapping summer to create additional graphics that Gifford, had for decades generously exercises while hiking through the desert. complement the new typeface. In the offered KU geology students free access to At the Colorado site, 13 miles outside meantime, he’s pleased that the newly Blue Ridge. When Gifford’s family decided Cañon City, the Jayhawk geologists are digitized letters—which were downloaded to sell the property, KU geology faculty mapping while hiking mountains. 14,000 times in just two weeks—are quickly realized that their access could be The Harrison Family Fund at the getting so much global attention. threatened by new owners, or the site Douglas County Community Foundation “The reception has been kind of might even be subdivided and developed. donated the money for the Blue Ridge unbelievable,” Shellhorn says. “A lot of That’s when the Harrison Family Fund property purchase through KU Endow- people have memories of those letter stepped up not only to purchase the ment, which in turn enabled the geology forms, and that’s why it’s taken off.”h property, but also support scholarships for department to secure its purchase. —Heather Biele students attending the camp and even “We are deeply grateful for all the reimburse them for summer-job wages Harrisons have done for our students,” lost during their fieldwork. says Jennifer Roberts, professor and chair “Thanks to the Harrison family, Blue of geology.h Rock stars Ridge is going to be preserved for future —Chris Lazzarino Stalwart Lawrence family funds purchase of geology field camp DIANE SILVER hen one of KU’s longest-running Wacademic traditions—geology field trips to a Colorado research station known as Blue Ridge—was recently threatened with what could have been an abrupt and untimely end, the family of one of the program’s most earnest supporters stepped in to save the day. The Harrison Family Fund, currently under the stewardship of Alumni Associa- tion Life Member Beth Harrison, ’86, last year donated $360,000 for the KU department of geology to purchase 600 acres of mountain land near Cañon City, Colorado, where generations of geology students Blue Ridge research station near Cañon City, Colorado

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way and see what comes of it,’” Nathan Ode to Kansas says. “It made for a memorable trip, but ‘Naming the glory‘ of Kansas in terms of art-making, it was very risky.” The film, “Kansas an Eclogue,” won fuels ‘walkumentary’ funding support from Humanities Kansas and was the topic of Chautauqua events oshua Nathan and Patrick Ross both hosted by the state humanities council Jgrew up in Kansas, both graduated in Lawrence, Wichita, Hays and Garden from KU and both found themselves in City in November. The filmmakers are Los Angeles working in the film industry. still working to finish the movie, but the Joshua Nathan and Patrick Ross filmed They even shared a house in LA with a friends they made and the stories they lonely prairies, dusty backroads and Kansas third Jayhawk who also worked in films. gathered suggests the risk was monuments like Castle Rock on their cross- What else they shared was a desire to worth taking. state trek. make a documentary film about their “It forced us to engage with the people home state that would dispel clichéd of Kansas in ways we probably would notions about Kansas hatched partly by never have interacted with them,” Ross very carefully and then it starts to emerge.” the very industry that employs them. says of their “walkumentary,” which the Striking images abound. Nathan and “It’s an attempt to redefine a misunder- filmmakers describe as a portrait of Ross mix sweeping prairie vistas with stood state for those who just think of the Kansas told by its people. “When you’re close-ups of less obvious wonders: A ‘Wizard of Oz,’” says Ross, c’11. walking you’re really left to the resources molting locust emerges glistening from its “It’s something you deal with every day you have on your back and the kindness shell; a dusky armadillo, belly up on the if you’re a Kansan,” adds Nathan, c’11, of and generosity of people you encounter. roadside, drips a single drop of vivid red the 1939 movie. “If people don’t know We were graciously brought into homes blood on the pavement. anything about the state, they gravitate and fed by the kind shepherds we An eclogue is a pastoral poem, a mode toward the one cultural element they are came across.” of verse favored by Virgil; the filmmakers familiar with.” Many of those kind shepherds—who say they want “Kansas an Eclogue” to be The method they settled on had them provided meals, tent space on their lawns, their ode to Kansas. In this, they took following roads of dirt and gravel—not and, in one case, a badly needed pair of inspiration from Stanley Lombardo, yellow brick—as they walked across hiking boots—appear in the film. Walking, professor emeritus of classics (one of Kansas guided by the loosest of itineraries: it turned out, was an effective way of several familiar KU faces in the film), After riding Amtrak’s Southwest Chief to meeting and interviewing an eclectic mix who recites his own translation of a Garden City in spring 2015, they began of people, Ross says. Traveling on foot was Virgil eclogue in the movie, and from walking to Lawrence, following a zigzag also a good method for capturing the filmmaker Werner Herzog, whose Rogue route that took them to each of the Eight state’s charms. Film School Nathan attended in 2014. Wonders of Kansas. The details, such as “Someone in the film says, ‘There’s a Faced with capturing the spirit of a vast, where to stay each night and where their beauty in Kansas, but it’s a subtle beauty,’” seemingly monochromatic land in next meal would come from, they left Nathan notes. “It’s not like the Grand “Encounters at the End of the World,” his largely to chance. Canyon or the Rockies or the oceans. And film about Antarctica, Herzog decided to “We said, ‘Let’s approach the state that you find it moving very slowly and looking “do it like Virgil.” Virgil, he says, never

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI “If we could share our film with a City. In December she released Each Acre, national audience, we’d certainly welcome a chapbook containing a single, 10-part that,” Ross says. “But before that even poem that examines botanical forms happens, we want to celebrate this film and behavior. with Kansans, because they deserve it. “They’re really these fascinating They are going to be the true critics.”h creatures,” Kaminski says of plants. “I was —Steven Hill interested first in considering them as fellow sentient beings and what that would mean on a personal level: What are my COURTESY JOSHUA NATHAN AND PATRICK ROSS (4) ROSS AND PATRICK NATHAN JOSHUA COURTESY responsibilities to these plants? But also Botanical bonds thinking more largely about how we interact with the natural world.” Chapbook explores connection Kaminski, who frequents the Tallgrass with earth’s ‘sentient beings’ Prairie National Preserve near Strong City, explores this concept in Each Acre, taking explains; “he just names the glory,” and he egan Kaminski hasn’t always readers on journeys through shifting decided he would do the same with Midentified so closely with the natural landscapes and describing the living Antarctica. “We do not need to explain,” world. Years ago, the up-and-coming poet beings that dwell in each space. Herzog said in an interview. “We find preferred living in fast-paced urban areas people there who are marvelous and we do like Los Angeles, New York City, Paris and ... but even with these days of unending not go into psychology. We just present Casablanca, never imagining she would gray them in all their wondrous attitudes and find satisfaction in more rustic surround- of cloud blanket and too-tight air free spirit.’” ings. That all changed when she was lines are painted in asphalt “That, more than anything, is what our accepted to graduate school at the Univer- people join together in halls film really is,” Ross says. “It’s naming the sity of California-Davis. white petals unfold slowly glory of Kansas.” “I was just overwhelmed in really and tomatoes stay green on vines Nathan and Ross hope to complete profound ways by the natural landscape— this carry and fall this whistle wolf-ward “Kansas an Eclogue” late this year or early the expanse of fields and the wideness of this echo of bear-fall and moose on the next. PBS stations in Wichita and Topeka the sky,” says Kaminski, a Virginia Beach, mountain have expressed interest in broadcasting the Virginia, native and associate professor of sung half-heard unto prairie onto field finished film, and they want to submit it to poetry in the University’s graduate writing festivals by the end of 2020. program. “That happened again when I Kaminski found inspiration for Each Most important, they want to tour their came to Kansas.” Acre and a forthcoming book as the home state again, to share their pastoral Since arriving in Lawrence more than 10 2016 Spencer Museum of Art’s Integrated ode to Kansas in the same grassroots spirit years ago, Kaminski has published two Arts Research Initiative Faculty Research in which they made their nine-week trek. books of poetry, Desiring Map and Deep Fellow. She worked closely with Carrie Wessinger, a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology, and quickly became enamored with STEVE PUPPE STEVE wild plants. Her passion for earth’s rooted beings blooms in Each Acre, as Kaminski thoughtfully conveys the complexity of the space we inhabit and invites readers to consider that if a single acre is cherished by one person, plant or animal, then all land and living things must be significant as well. “I guess on some deep level I’m trying to help develop a sense of compassion and a sense of ethical responsibility,” Kaminski says, “but in a gentle, compassionate w ay.” h Kaminksi —Heather Biele

ISSUE 2, 2019 | 75 Glorious to View Photograph by Chris Lazzarino

January snow blanketed the cascade of stairs in Marvin Grove. Since late November, the harsh winter forced campus closures or delayed classes a half-dozen times—more than in any academic year in at least 40 years.

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