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Contents Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine

FEATURES

Hard Bargain 22 Don Stull enjoys a good hamburger—or brain sandwich— as much as the next guy. He just thinks the social cost of America’s meat and poultry needn’t be so dear.

BY STEVEN HILL

Laugh Track 26 After stops at “The Late Show With David Letterman” and “Saturday Night Live,” Stewart Bailey found the perfect outlet for his comic sensibility on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” Wanna polish his Emmy?

BY SARA ECKEL COVER Stage Presence 18 Intense, funny and seriously talented: Meet Amir Khosrowpour, KU’s first national champion of the piano.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Cover photograph by Earl Richardson

26 Volume 102, No. 2, 2004 one person—. The theme was clear: “Education is impor- Lift the Chorus tant! Stay at KU!” We would soon learn that Wilt would reject that advice, but it is amusing to speculate how the future would have dif- Stereotypes are everywhere of us from Kansas like to think there is fered had he worn the crimson and blue more good in the people there. Another a year longer. I very much enjoyed reading the arti- stereotype, I suppose ... Robert D. Mettlen, b’58 cle about Professor Jennifer Reber Poole, c’84 Austin,Texas Roger Shimomura London (“Found in Editor’s note: Art “A.B.” Weaver, c’15, Translation,” issue No. Wilt remembered played center on the team and 1). I am glad that he chaired the Class of 1915’s social commit- has been able to take I very much enjoyed 2004’s tee. He worked for the downtown family negative, ignorant com- first edition of Kansas Alumni, business, Weaver’s Department Store. Over ments and transform and my attention was particularly the years he served on every board at the them into inspirational drawn to the item regarding the University and in the community and in creativity, but I am benefactions to be received from return received many honors, including the especially glad that he Wilt Chamberlain’s estate Fred Ellsworth Medallion for service to KU recognizes that “the [Hilltopics]. Wilt and I reached and the Distinguished Service Citation for positive outweighs the negative” in the Mount Oread at the same time, he as a service to humanity. balance of those around him. You will freshman and I as an upper-division always find idiots, regardless of the transfer from Hutchinson Junior College. country, state, or setting. Aside from marveling at his basketball Scatology 101 Not having lived in Kansas for 20 prowess, I had no contact with him until years, I still struggle with how Kansas is the spring of 1958, and then only I was amused at the “scatologic” arti- portrayed and how I wish it to be por- because of a singular event, two features cle in Jayhawk Walk (“Cat Scat Fever,” trayed. I cringed when I began reading of which still stick firmly in my memory. issue No. 1). I suspect that the phantom Bill Bryson’s book The Lost Continent: The event was the end-of-year ban- pheral pheline is probably a wildcat Travels in Small-Town America, and was quet (held in the Union ballroom if I from that venerable institution 70 miles secretly relieved when Kansas was recall accurately) for all varsity letter- to the west, who came to Mount Oread described as a place where people still men. I qualified because of my participa- to pay his (or her) respects. say “Golly”—not as bad as I expected, tion on KU’s tennis team; Wilt was Based on the description of the speci- though still pretty stereotypical. there, I guess, representing Mount men, it seems appropriate (and lucky) Although I cannot even begin to com- Olympus! That evening I was presented that Assistant Professor [Mark] pare my expatriate experiences with the an outsized trophy (which my wife still Jakubauskas works at the Applied Remote complex history and homeland racism won’t let me display) signifying the “A.B. Sensing Program. experienced by Professor Shimomura (I ‘Art’ Weaver Scholarship Award,” granted I enjoy your magazine. have only been told to ‘go home’ once), I to the spring sports letterman with the Michael E. Schafer, m’67 can relate somewhat to the familiar, tired highest grade-point average. If I ever Chicago replies when one reveals one’s heritage. knew, I do not now know who Art (Dorothy usually figures heavily.) A taxi Weaver was, and I’d be grateful if some- WRITE US! driver said to me once, “Oh, you’re from one could fill in this regrettable gap in Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the Kansas. You must be a cowgirl.” I replied my knowledge. editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni maga- in my most haughty accent, “We have Equally memorable for me, though, zine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS them, but I am not one.” I guess I were the “main events” of the evening. 66045-3169. E-mail responses may be sent should have cut the guy some slack. The keynote speaker was the Rev. Bobby to the Alumni Association, kualumni@ There are worse things to be than a nice Richards, famous for his Olympic pole kualumni.org, or Associate Editor Chris girl from Kansas. vaulting accomplishments that had been Lazzarino, [email protected]. Letters It’s heartening to know that talented, recognized, among other ways, by his appearing in the magazine may be edited transplanted Kansans like Professor picture on boxes of Wheaties cereal. The for space and clarity. Shimomura can see the value in all room was quite full but it was soon obvi- around them, both good and bad. Those ous that his speech was directed to only

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Publisher Fred B.Williams 10 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Art Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 2 LIFT THE CHORUS Steven Hill Letters from readers Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell 4 ON THE BOULEVARD KU & Alumni Association events Photographer Earl Richardson, j’83 7 FIRST WORD Graphic Designer The editor’s turn Valerie Spicher, j’94 Advertising Sales 8 JAYHAWK WALK Representative Atkins demystified, Phoebe’s hubby, Katie Glatz, j’03 a major match and more Editorial and Advertising Office Kansas Alumni Association 10 HILLTOPICS 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 News and notes: Goodbye to Clarke Wescoe, 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 KU’s “singing chancellor” www.kualumni.org e-mail: [email protected] 14 SPORTS Basketball: Men ready for March Madness; KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published steps down by the Alumni Association of the six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. $40 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni 30 ASSOCIATION NEWS Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, Rock Chalk Ball: The party pics are in Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. 33 CLASS NOTES POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas Profiles of a NASCAR entrepreneur, a Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS barbecuer in Britain and more 66045-3169 © 2004 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- member issue price: $7 IN MEMORY KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Alumni Association 48 was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loy- Deaths in the KU family alty, friendship, commitment, and communication among all graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff ROCK CHALK REVIEW and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members 52 hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of purpose KU’s jazz treasure, “CSA” makes good, and action to serve the best interests of The University and the spirit of Alferd Packer and more its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. 56 OREAD ENCORE A burst of beauty for Wescoe Hall

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 3 On the Boulevard

A Feb. 5 snowstorm turned Mount Oread into a winter wonderland and forced cancellation of classes for only the ninth time since 1972. UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES/KENNETH SPENCER RESEARCH LIBARY UNIVERSITY

Exhibitions “Conflicting Memories,” , through April 4 University Theatre “Women/modern art,” Spencer Museum of Art, through May 2 APRIL “American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939,” 16-18, 22-24 “A Little Night Music,” Spencer Museum of Art, April 3-June 6 by Sondheim and Wheeler, Mainstage “Marion Palfi Photographs,” Spencer Theatre Series Museum of Art, April 17-June 13 MAY Visual communications student scholar- ship exhibition, Art and Design Gallery, April 30-2, 4-8 “George Dandin,” April 18-23 by Molière, Inge Theatre Series “A Painting for Over the Sofa (That’s Not Necessarily a Painting),” Spencer 22-23 University Dance Company Museum of Art, April 24-June 20 Lied Center 25 Wind Ensemble Design craft area student scholarship APRIL 27 KU Symphonic Band exhibition, Art and Design Gallery, 2 The Bonnie Rideout Scottish Trio April 25-30 4 KU Symphony Orchestra MAY Art department student scholarship 1 Bang on a Can All-Stars exhibition, Art and Design Gallery, 7 University Band 3 Jazz Ensemble May 2-7 8 “Pirates of Penzance” 9 KU Symphony Orchestra Choral Installation class exhibition, Art and 16 Diavolo Dance Theatre Concert Design Gallery, May 9-14 17 Yo-Yo Ma with the Silk Road Ensemble

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Lectures 13 Kansas City: School of Education 21 All-University Supper, Kansas professional society Union ballroom APRIL 16-17 Gold Medal Weekend, 23 Commencement Lunch, 15 “The Future of Life,” E.O. Wilson, reunions of the Class of 1954 and Chancellor’s residence Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the Gold Medal Club biologist, Hall Center Humanities 17 Student Alumni Association Lecture Series, the Lied Center alumni reunion picnic, Adams Kansas Honors Program Alumni Center 19 Los Angeles: School of MARCH Academic calendar Engineering professional society 17 Atchison: Chad and Carri Ball, 913-367-3502 MARCH 20 Lawrence: School of Education professional society 31 Liberal: Al and Donna Shank, 22-28 Spring Break 29 Denver: School of Engineering 620-624-2559 MAY professional society APRIL 13 Last day of Spring classes MAY 7 Pratt: Cindy Keller, 620-672-5149 14 Stop day 2 Official Class Ring Ceremony, 14 Chanute: Virginia Crane, 17-21 Final exams Adams Alumni Center 620-431-1612 23 Commencement 12 Grad Grill, Adams Alumni Center 15 Logan: Polly Bales, 785-689-4328 17 Tradition Keepers Finals Dinner, 19 Oakley: Wade Park, Adams Alumni Center 785-672-4298 Alumni events 19 Greensburg Honor Roll: Rod and APRIL SPECIAL EVENTS Shirley Bradley, 620-723-2423 MARCH 15-17 Kansas Relays 21 Scott City: Jerry and Marsha 17 Tokyo: Japan Chapter Alumni 17 Inaugural Kansas Relays Hall of Edwards, 620-872-2237 Dinner Fame banquet, Kansas Union. For 21 Los Angeles: School of Fine Arts ticket information call 785-864-3486 professional society or e-mail [email protected] For more information APRIL MAY SPECIAL EVENTS about Association events, 8 Wichita: School of Education 7 Lawrence: Golf call 800-584-2957 or see the professional society Tournament, School of Education Association’s Web site, www.kualumni.org.

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BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

good day at the in preparation for careful to offer lessons for novices and office, Feb. 11, an editorial retreat, nuances for devotees. 2004: when the Kansas Prokofiev’s work, Khosrowpour Sufficiently caf- Alumni gang revels explains, was written in the 1940s dur- A EARL RICHARDSON (2) feinated, I begin writing in an entire day of ing especially bleak years for artists in thank-you notes to alumni thinking about the Soviet Union. The second move- who volunteered for recent nothing but the ment, Andante Caloroso, he says, is events, the Rock Chalk Ball magazine. As I “mournful and hopeful at the same in Kansas City Feb. 6, and a reluctantly pitch a time—like a big sigh.” Kansas Honors Program in few old ideas and news Utterly enthralled, I float back to the Ft. Scott Feb. 9. I relive the fun of the clips, I sort the others, wishing there office for more story-sorting, but the Beatles-inspired ball, which not even a were enough pages to tell all the KU sto- piano’s soothing echoes suddenly form blizzard could douse. For one alumnus, ries that spill across my office floor. the outline of this column in my head. If an old friend from journalism school, I For lunch, I cross the street to the I pour it out quickly, I might actually enclose a copy of a Kansas Union, basking briefly in sun- beat a deadline. photo my mom shine and 30-degree temperatures before The final stop of the day is Strong recently uncovered another arctic blast blows over the Hill Hall, where I introduce two high school back home. My later today. I take a seat in Alderson students to Chancellor Robert E. friend and I grin Auditorium for a Brown Bag Hemenway, who has graciously agreed alongside our Concert performed by pianist Amir to carve 30 minutes from his sched- favorite J-school Khosrowpour, Irvine, Calif., sen- ule to talk with them pals, all beaming ior, the subject of about his scholarly beneath red-tasseled mortarboards our cover story by passion, Zora Neale despite the dreary confines of Allen Chris Lazzarino. Hurston. When I met Field House. (See my previous whining Jack Winerock, Hemenway nine through the years about rained-out professor of years ago, we spent a Commencement for the Class of 1981.) music, has said morning discussing With the photo, I send a vow to my that his plans for KU and buddy: Only this college souvenir is on Khosrowpour is the literary impact of display in my office. The party pics are possibly the best pianist ever to study at Hurston, a brassy, beautiful voice of the stowed safely in scrapbooks. KU. Named the nation’s best collegiate Harlem Renaissance. Among the notes for the Ft. Scott pianist in 2002, Khosrowpour is audi- Ever the would-be Kansas Honors Program are greetings to tioning for graduate programs; he has English major, I an alumna mom whose daughter was his eye on New York City. want these students among the high-school seniors we hon- His charm as lush as his talent, to hear Hemenway ored, and a note to Rob Weaver, KU pro- Khosrowpour first chats up the audience, on Hurston. fessor of molecular biosciences, who winning fans even before he touches the Finally, I head rode along with two student musi- keys. Then he sits down to treat us to a home in high cians and me the two hours to Ft. midday reverie like no other: J.S. spirits, eager to Scott and delivered a warm, wise Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C, share my day speech to the young scholars. Claude Debussy’s Etude No. 6 with the family. On the drive home, Weaver and and Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata No. My smile and a contented I bonded over KU basketball, 7, Opus 83. As he introduces each sigh signal that it’s safe to approach alternately pounding the steering piece, Khosrowpour graciously Mom even before she kicks off her wheel or the dashboard and shouting as explains each composer’s intent in the shoes. Bob and Max told the doleful tale of the context of musical styles and history. Tomorrow, I’ll have to suffer through Jayhawks’ horrible night in Stillwater. Already an accomplished performer, this a meeting or two. But for today, I mur- Next I sort through files of story ideas virtuoso student teases and teaches, mur thanks.

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 7 Jayhawk Walk BY HILL, LAZZARINO AND SANNER

The beauty of brains

n increasingly risque calendar show- Aing undergraduate women in their undergarments has met its match: a poster-size “KU Women of Distinction” calendar that enchants with the allure of achievement. Kathy Rose-Mockry, d’78, g’85, direc- tor of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, says the free “Women of Distinction” calendar was not created to counter the infamous version that sells for $9.95. But she won’t mind if it domi- LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY nates dorm-room walls. “It’s an inspiration for our young women looking to go forward in their careers, to see all of these women who are accomplishing such fabulous things,” Rose-Mockry says. “And many men feel Icy reception? good about the positive depiction.” With photography by Kansas Alumni’s is pregnant wife was four days overdue. The kitchen sink was rusted through. Earl Richardson, j’83, and design by Mike HAnd there was pressing work at the entomology lab. Fairchild, f ’89, the dazzling poster does So what did PhD student Jason Botz do when a February snow storm buried justice to its subjects, including students, Lawrence? faculty and Gov. Kathleen He built a 7-foot high igloo in his front yard, of Sebelius, g’80. course. Role models rather than bikini The two-day project began when a book about models? What a smart idea. snow forts inspired Botz and his 4-year-old to start their own. After a two-day break for the birth of his third son, Botz finished his ice house. Even his mother-in-law, visit- ing from Phoenix to tend to mother and child, was pressed into service to hold snow blocks in place. To crown his triumph, Botz spent a night in the igloo. Outside, the temperature fell to 9 degrees; inside it was 40. Warmer, perchance, than in the house? “I’m happy that it’s all done,” his wife, Erin Botz, told the Lawrence Journal-World with an apparent surplus of spousal restraint. Jason might want to make his next project the kitchen sink. After all, where’s he gonna sleep when the igloo melts?

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI Need Atkins answers? Weight no more

ecause the best arguments these days are about the Atkins Bdiet, KU researcher Joseph Donnelly accepted a challenge (and $10,000 to cover University expenses) from the BBC to get to the meat of the matter: Do Atkins dieters burn energy faster because of their high-protein diet? Donnelly says no. At least that was the finding of his made-for-TV, “mock-up demonstration” involving twin men, one on an Atkins-style diet, the other on a Get your rah-rahs out low-fat regimen. After two weeks, Donnelly isolated them in KU’s calorime- ay heed, all who enter: Allen Field ter chamber to gauge metabolic rates. PHouse boasts one of the best He married well The result? “We found no difference student cheering sections in college whatsover,” Donnelly told the Lawrence basketball. or an actor, nothing stokes celebrity like Journal-World, also noting that he has While naming Duke’s Cameron F”Must-See TV.” Jusk ask friend of applied for funding for a full study. Crazies the undisputed champions of “Friends” Paul Rudd, ’92, whose character, Donnelly also recently reported on a cheering, Sports Illustrated On Campus Mike, married the flighty Phoebe in the 16-month, $2.4 million in January picked six sections likely to Feb. 12 episode of the NBC show that’s study, which give the Dukies the devil. The Phog’s raking in ratings for its long goodbye. showed, con- fanatics won honorable mention for Rudd, whose film credits include trary to popu- honorable behavior: The rabid under- “Clueless” and last year’s “The Shape of lar notions, grads of Mount Oread, opined SIOC, Things,” (directed by fellow alumnus Neil exercise alone are “known as some of the classiest LaBute, g’89), appears next with comedian does not lead kids out there.” Will Ferrell in “Anchorman.” Meanwhile, people to eat That angelic rep results from former Rudd’s fast becoming a fashion trend as the better. “In weight coach Roy Williams’ penchant for new face of men’s wear. In the management, many shushing student taunts: One wave ads, he’s playing chess, strumming a guitar, people think they can from Ol’ Roy and the crowd went mild. and just hanging out in Ellis attire. exercise and eat anything they want,” he “Whether new boss can main- Not bad for a guy whose high-school says. “You have to consciously change tain such control is yet to be seen,” hangouts included the Quick Trip and your diet, along with the exercise.” notes SIOC. Godfather’s Pizza in Overland Park. We’ve got no beef with that.

They make beautiful music a Lawrence High junior. “I told him he was EARL RICHARDSON hey marched to the beat of the same out of tune,” she says, “and he didn’t Tdrummer through two football sea- speak to me for two years.” sons. This summer they’ll step in time to Until fate and the KU band reunited “The Wedding March.” them. They began dating shortly after each Kellie Lankford and Dustin Bauerle, landed a drum major spot in 2002. Bauerle drum majors for the , proposed by writing a song for Lankford plan a June wedding. Music will figure and performing it at the church where they prominently, as it has in their courtship. met. They celebrated their engagement at The two met while playing a church the Tangerine Bowl Parade. concert. Bauerle was at KU; Lankford was May they always be in harmony.

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 9 Hilltopics

Museum of Art before a pri- vate burial at KU’s Pioneer Cemetery. Wescoe’s KU career

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES began in 1951, when Franklin Murphy, c’36, then dean of medicine, recruited Wescoe from to teach pharma- cology at the School of Medicine in Kansas City, “The best place Kan. Later that year, when in the world Murphy became chancellor, he said to Wescoe, his to stay young is friend and protégé, “Sit in a university. tight.” Soon after, at age 32, For instance, Wescoe became KU’s dean of medicine, the youngest I’m wearing a in the nation. flashier sport When Murphy announced he would leave coat than you Lawrence to lead UCLA, he are.You can’t do Fond farewell again cautioned Wescoe: that in business.” “Sit tight.” In 1960, Wescoe Clarke Wescoe, KU’s graceful guide succeeded Murphy as KU — Chancellor Wescoe through the 1960s, dies at 83 chancellor, embarking on a in June 1969 to tumultous ride that forever Kansan reporter changed the University. Richard Louv, j’71. hancellor W. Clarke Wescoe’s years in “Chancellor Wescoe was a great leader of this University history were marked by university during one of the most challenging growth and turmoil. Student enroll- and turbulent periods in its history,” said ment nearly doubled. State funding Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. “As a testament Cand research grants soared. New buildings to his considerable talent, he skillfully managed sprang up, including the residence halls on Daisy to enhance the quality of education while also Hill. KU hired more professors and made room defusing explosive campus unrest and respond- for student leaders in University governance. It ing to the near doubling in enrollment. grappled with student outrage over racial dis- “This university is a better place thanks to the crimination and the Vietnam War and alumni dedication and many personal and financial con- anger over the 1965 razing of Old Fraser Hall. tributions of Clarke Wescoe. He was a true Such events in part define the Wescoe era, but Jayhawk, and he will be missed.” stout cigars and sweet songs depict the Wescoe At that memorable Commencement in 1969, style, which endeared KU’s 10th chancellor to the Alumni Association and the University offi- Jayhawks for decades after his tenure. cially confirmed the KU family’s affection for Wescoe, the “singing chancellor” who grace- Wescoe—and surprised the chancellor—by fully exited Mount Oread with a song at Com- bestowing on him KU’s highest honor, the mencement 1969, exited this life Feb. 29 in Distinguished Service Citation. Wescoe, a gradu- Mission, after a long illness. He was 83. Services ate of Muhlenberg College in his native were to be held March 10 at the Spencer Allentown, Pa., and Cornell University, was the

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI first non-alumnus to receive the DSC. “We reject Progress, KU’s first cap- the term adopted son, even foster or chosen ital fundraising cam- son,” the citation read, “and proclaim that paign, and his financial though you have never matriculated at the commitment to KU University of Kansas, the name William Clarke continued through the Wescoe will always be listed among her most years. He and his wife, illustrious sons.” the late Barbara Benton

Said son then burst into song, much to the Wescoe, ’44, made sig- ARCHIVES (2) ASSOCIATION ALUMNI delight of the Memorial Stadium throng: nificant contributions, I’m leaving Lawrence in the morning, including 46 gifts of art Ding dong the Carillon will chime. to the Spencer Museum Boys, you will miss me, of Art. Longtime schol- Girls, you can kiss me ars and collectors of But get me out of town on time. Asian art, the couple in The crowd rose to applaud, students waving 1987 donated the “Tai Chi Figure” sculpture by the wheat as if Gale Sayers had just stormed Zhu Ming, which stands in front of the School of down the sidelines to score. Wescoe’s choice of a Law’s Green Hall. tune from “My Fair Lady” echoed his 1966 Two KU structures honor the former chancel- “The time is Convocation serenade from the same Broadway lor: Wescoe Hall, the humanities building in here when we and film classic, to the tune of “On the Street Lawrence, and Wescoe Pavilion at the Medical who have great Where You Live”: Center in Kansas City, Kan. Here on Lilac Lane in the heart of town Wescoe returned to Lawrence often through public responsi- You can hear this Clarke in almost any the years. In 1990, he and former chancellor bilities must part of town Murphy celebrated KU’s 125th anniversary at a Here excitement pours lecture in the Kansas Union. After the two shared abandon, reluc- out of all the doors anecdotes from their careers at the Med Center tantly, but per- here on this, on the Hill where we live ... and on the Hill, Wescoe concluded the evening manently, this ...People stop and stare on behalf of his mentor: “Franklin and I are tied They don’t bother me by a singular bond of affection and respect, and antiquated For there’s nowhere else on earth where our love for the University of Kansas. structure.” I would rather be... “Once it touches you, it has you forever.” Vowing to begin a second career before he Wescoe is survived by his daughter, Barbara —W escoe on turned 50, Wescoe left KU to become vice presi- Wescoe Porto, c’67, g’83, Leawood; his sons, the razing of dent for medical affairs and research at Sterling William Jr., d’68, Minneapolis, and David, c’76, Drug Inc. He retired in 1985 as chairman and San Diego; five grandchildren, including Stacie Old Fraser, chief executive officer of the firm. Porto Doyle, c’92, Cincinnati; and two great- 1965 As chancellor, Wescoe had led the Program for grandchildren. —Jennifer Jackson Sanner

A 1966 rally (p.10) typified Wescoe’s informal style, which served him well with students in good times and bad. At left,Wescoe and his youngest son, David, strolled along the makeshift stands south of Memorial Stadium with President James McCain.Wescoe surprised the KU community in September 1968 by announcing at Opening Convocation his plans to leave KU the following June.The Topeka Daily Capital’s editorial page commented on Wescoe’s choice: “It is characteristic of his free and often joyous spirit that he moves boldly into an uncharted field other men often dream of but seldom dare.”

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TRADITIONS “The uniforms,” director Lynch says, “are part of a larger master plan to New uniforms invigorate rebuild the Marching Jayhawks.” Marching Jayhawks’ pride Fundraising continues, with a goal of Visitor Fans who fill Memorial Stadium are $1 million to endow a fund that will used to cheering bands of a different allow musicians to receive small hono- New models color: High schools from across the state raria, rather than paying an average of annually march to the Hill for Band Day $200, as they now must. ormer Congressman J.C.Watts Jr. and turn the stadium turf into a rainbow Contributions should be sent to KU Fspoke at the School of Business’ J.A. sea. Now the Marching Jayhawks will Endowment Association, P.O. Box 928, Vickers Sr. and Robert F.Vickers Sr. parade in jazzy new uniforms of their Lawrence, 66044-0928. The uniforms Memorial Lecture Series at the Lied own, tweaking traditions of the past few can been be seen at the School of Fine Center. He advocated reducing federal decades while paying homage to earlier Arts Web site, www.ku.edu/~sfa. income taxes and times in the history of KU bands. —Chris Lazzarino replacing current A fund drive fueled by coverage in the systems for education, Lawrence Journal-World generated more Social Security and than $150,000 to replace tattered duds other domestic pro- in use since 1978. Band faculty then grams with new unveiled a design that caught many by models that stress surprise with its heavy use of black, competition. which was favored during director WHEN: Jan. 29 Russell Wiley’s tenure, from 1934 to ’68, and is back in vogue with young musi- STATE FUNDING BACKGROUND: cians. The uniforms feature black pants, Voters in his native shoes, hats, gloves and jacket trim. Enrollment boosts tuition pot, Oklahoma elected “The design reflects both the tradi- but budget still unresolved Watts to the U.S. tions of the band and the University,” As the University waits to learn how House of says John P. Lynch, director of bands, much money it will get from the Kansas Representatives in “and also heads in a new direction.” Legislature, at least one piece of the 1994. He chaired the House Republican The uniforms include jacket options funding puzzle exceeds expectations. Conference for four years before leaving with varying designs and differences in Record spring semester enrollment of politics in 2002. He now chairs J.C.Watts EARL RICHARDSON weight and material, so performers won’t 27,772 students produced a Companies.An ordained minister,Watts roast in August or freeze in November. modest windfall of $250,000 first earned national attention as the The uniforms also reflect changing in tuition money. quarterback at the University of tastes among young musi- That may be just a drop in Oklahoma. He led the Sooners to two cians, and it is critical the budget bucket, but it high- Orange Bowl victories. that high-school recruits lights a central fact of the ANECDOTE: Watts co-sponsored like the look if they are University’s fiscal situa- the American Community Renewal Act, to be convinced to help tion: Chancellor which President Bill Clinton signed in bolster the sound. Robert E. 2000.The bill encouraged urban business The Marching Hemenway’s insis- growth through local tax credits and Jayhawks fielded tence on tuition other incentives.Watts said similar local 140 musicians in ownership and initiatives could achieve results more effi- 2003. The goal for tuition increases ciently than federal programs. this fall is 200, with for KU is start- an ultimate target of 300. ing to pay off, QUOTE: “If you really want to cre- no small mat- ate poverty, weaken the link between the The new uniform combines ter in an era effort and the reward. ... Real compassion features of the 1980s-era cape of tight state is exercised by people who live in the with black trousers, shoes and hat, budgets. same ZIP code as those they’re helping. echoes of the 1960s-style that “It’s not a huge Me trying to do that from Norman to amount, but it Lawrence would be like giving a haircut will honor tradition and streamline the look on the football field. helps,” says Lindy over the phone.” Eakin, b’78, g’80,

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI g’88, PhD’97, vice provost for adminis- tration and finance. “Ten years ago it Milestones, money and other matters wouldn’t have mattered, but now even a small enrollment growth can save us pain somewhere else.” THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL The five-year tuition plan, now in its treated a record 18,746 patients in fiscal 2003. Patient second year, generates about $10.8 mil- volume is up 8 percent since 2002 and 43 percent lion annually. Twenty percent goes to since the hospital became an independent state need-based student aid; the rest is dis- authority five years ago.To accommodate the growth, tributed by the Ad Hoc Committee on the hospital is in the midst of a $147 million building University Funding, which is composed campaign that includes the addition of a sixth floor, expansion of the cancer center, a new of students, faculty and staff. In its first heart hospital and new emergency department and investment in new diagnostic and treat- year, tuition enhancement pumped $2.4 ment technology.“The Hospital Authority structure has given us the ability to quickly and million into technology improvements efficiently invest in improvements to meet patient demands,” says Irene Cumming, president on campus. Projects range from the and CEO of the hospital.“This not only allows the hospital to provide the level of quality widely accessible Kyou Web portal to care patients expect from us, but it provides the space and technology to support the items for academic units: a Dead Sea teaching and research missions of the University of Kansas.” Scrolls CD for religious studies, a new piano for theatre and film, biofeedback THE LAW SCHOOL drew high rankings from a pair of magazines for prospective sensors and software for education’s and current law students. National Jurist and its sister publication, PreLaw Insider, rate KU Center for Psychoeducational Services. second in the nation among public university law schools that provide “the best bang for The good enrollment news continued the buck.” The law school also was one of only 11 nationally (and the only law school in an upbeat trend on budget matters this the Big 12) to receive an “excellent value” designation. spring. The higher-ed recommendations of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, g’80, which KIMBERLY TEMPLETON, associate professor of included a 3 percent salary increase for orthopaedic surgery at KU Medical Center, is the first University employees and $8.9 million Daugherty Women in Medicine Professor. Funded by a to make good on faculty salary increases $500,000 gift from Joy McCann Daugherty and her hus- promised in 1999 by SB 345, drew band, Robert Daugherty Jr., c’56, m’60, of Tampa, Fla., the endorsements from not only KU and the professorship recognizes female faculty members who Board of Regents but also the Senate mentor, encourage and inspire women pursuing medical Ways and Means Committee. On Feb. careers. It is believed to be the only position of its kind in 26, the House approved the Bioscience the nation. Initiative Act, sponsored by Rep. Kenny Wilk. Over 12 years the bill would rein- ROBERT C. ROWLAND, c’77, PhD’83, chair of communications studies, won the vest $500 million in taxes paid by bio- $10,000 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism for “Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: science companies in local bioscience Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use” (Michigan State University Press). Co- efforts. Much of that money would bene- written with David Frank, the book examines the roots of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. fit bioscience research at KU, the Med Center and Kansas State University. MADISON DAVIS LACY, a four-time Emmy winner, is the 2004 Langston Hughes Testifying before the Legislature Feb. Visiting Professor.An independent film producer, Lacy’s films include “Eyes on the Prize II,” 9, Hemenway acknowledged the rosier “Richard Wright— Black Boy,” and “Beyond Tara— The Extraordinary Life of Hattie fiscal picture. “The economy of the state McDaniel.” Lacy was also a consulting producer on Ken Burns’ “Jazz” series. has stabilized, the outlook for business is improving, and the spirit of the people PHARMACY DEAN JACK FINCHAM will join the University of Georgia when his of Kansas is more optimistic than it has 10-year deanship ends in May. Fincham, who resigned his administrative post last August, been in quite some time.” However, he returns to Georgia, where in 1983 he began his academic career, as the Albert W. Jowdy noted that KU’s “most serious chal- professor of pharmacy care, which promotes excellence in pharmacy care through instruc- lenge”—a $6.4 million funding shortfall tion and scholarship.“I certainly could have stayed here at KU and been very happy and for unavoidable cost increases such as productive,” he says.“But this chance to have a named chair is a great opportunity.” health insurance premiums and other Fincham oversaw huge increases in research funding (KU was ranked No. 2 in 2003 for fringe benefits—is not addressed in National Institutes of Health pharmacy funds at $13.6 million) and implementation of the the budget. entry-level doctor of pharmacy degree program.A search is underway for his replacement. —Steven Hill

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 13 Sports

and Nick Collison draw acco- lades (and defensive pressure) while he contributed 15.9 EARL RICHARDSON points per game to the coun- try’s highest-scoring offense. Averaging 16 points this sea- son, second only to Wayne Simien’s 17, he’s been a steady, if quiet, force. Only twice has Langford failed to score double digits, in back-to- back games against No. 19 Texas Tech and No. 10 Oklahoma State. With his Leap Day per- formance, Langford vowed to be a louder leader. On the eve of March Madness, he sounds Keith Langford will try ready to add fiery words to to spark the Jayhawks’ fearsome deeds. postseason play with vocal “I have to be more vocal, leadership and grace more active,” he said after the under pressure. 79-58 win. “When I play well, when I have a lot of energy, the guys play better, with a lot more energy too.” Energy—or a lack of it—has been an issue this up-and- down year. A solid 7-1 start in conference play (with home wins over , 65-56, Fire and ice and Texas Tech, 96-77) drove Always one cool customer, Langford the Jayhawks to a first-place vows to energize a late-season surge tie midway through the Big 12 season. But four straight road losses dropped KU out of n the second half of a Feb. 29 win over contention. Double-digit defeats at OSU and Oklahoma, in the midst of an 11-3 run that Nebraska even caused coach Bill Self to question put the game away, junior guard Keith his players’ hunger. ILangford caught a perfect alley- For a team that has at times looked more tired oop pass and ripped down a rim-rattling dunk than inspired, Langford’s newfound fire could be that set the Allen Field House crowd—and a much needed boost. Says Self, “We key off of Langford himself—roaring. Keith more than anybody.” His aggressive play For most of his KU career, the Fort Worth, not only pumps up teammates, but also makes Texas, native has allowed his high-flying acrobat- the game easier for them. After Langford hit a ics and slashing drives to speak for him. Last three with 25 seconds left to send the Iowa State year, Langford was content to let Kirk Hinrich game to overtime, Self called it “the biggest shot

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI anyone’s made all year.” But Miles noted less flashy contributions, crediting Langford’s relentless attacks on the bas- “To see the love that she gives other people and her giving ket for creating good looks for perimeter spirit ... I saw the truth from that.” shooters like J.R. Giddens. “Keith’s play —L ynette Woodard opened a lot of that up,” Miles says. “He was key.” Ice-cold steadiness under pressure for which Washington said she had dis- earned Langford the nickname Ke- Sad and sudden closed to her boss only that morning. Freeze in high school. At KU, his on- Citing health, Washington “I didn’t think I needed a press con- court cool—a contrast to Giddens’ ebul- ference,” Washington said, “but [Perkins] lience and Miles’ and Simien’s urging— retires during 31st season thought that since I hadn’t missed a strikes some as stoic. Fans griped when he first shock came Jan. 29. game in 31 years, people might be inter- he called a home loss to Richmond “no Reporters and videographers ested in knowing why I was not on the big deal.” But those who know him rushed to Hadl Auditorium for a sideline.” don’t question his competitive heart. Thastily called news conference, With , c’81, the “I got all the trust in Keith; I believe the topic of which was still a secret with- greatest player in KU history, taking over in Keith so much,” Miles says. “When it’s in the athletics department. Rumors as interim coach, the Jayhawks two tough, Keith wants the ball.” were swirling that Marian Washington, nights later upset Oklahoma State, 74-61, Nor is the journalism major shy about in her 31st year as women’s basketball easing the pain speaking his mind. In a weekly column coach, might have been ousted in the of Washington’s for the University Daily Kansan this fall, midst of her fourth-consecutive disap- sudden depar- Langford swatted critics and gave shout- pointing season. ture and the lin- outs to teammates. After the losses to But when Washington, g’78, entered gering memory OSU (80-60) and Nebraska (74-55), he Hadl Auditorium clasping hands with of her final guaranteed a win over Baylor, then tal- athletics director , the man game, a 76-49 lied 19 and 7 to help make it so. In the who had made it clear at his own intro- home loss to interview room, his blunt words stem ductory news conference last June that Missouri that from a refreshing impatience for jock- women’s basketball had to turn it dropped the talk cliché: Asked if the loss in Lincoln around fast, faces fell blank. At that Jayhawks to 8-9 made for a long bus ride home, Langford moment, the know-it-alls knew nothing. overall and 1-5 said, without malice, “It would have been Perkins and Washington explained in the Big 12. Washington and Woodard a long bus ride even if we had won.” her decision to step away from the team The giddiness Clearly, if KU mounts a postseason on a medical leave of absence, the need did not last. The Jayhawks lost their next run, Langford won’t be the only reason. nine, and in the midst of that sour Self will hope Simien, bothered by a sore stretch, Washington announced that her groin much of the year, holds up under leave of absence was, in fact, retirement. the tournament grind. He’ll hope With that, one of the modern icons of Michael Lee, back from a broken collar life and sport on Mount Oread had sud- EARL RICHARDSON bone, has more big days like his 12-point denly slipped back into the healing performance against Oklahoma, that seclusion of a private life she has always senior Jeff Graves (whose on- and off- guarded closely. Her undisclosed health court antics have punctuated the team’s issues were “not life-threatening,” inconsistency) maintains focus. He’ll Washington said, but required immedi- also need solid play from freshmen ate attention. “I cannot address these Giddens and David Padgett. issues and at the same time devote the But Langford’s spark—in words or time it takes to lead a major-college bas- deeds—will be welcome. After he sent some heat Lee’s way against OU, Lee credited his fellow junior for breaking Marian Washington waved goodbye for his funk. good Feb. 28.Also honored at the home finale “I needed it,” Lee said. “This team was the team's only senior, guard Leila Mengüç , needs it.” of Stockholm, Sweden, who was named first- —Steven Hill team Academic All-Big 12 for the third time.

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 15 Sports ketball program,” she said Feb. 27. Washington is scheduled this sum- mer to receive the highest professional honor of her career, induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame June EARL RICHARDSON 11-12 in Knoxville, Tenn. Her interim replacement (and most prized recruit) also received an important honor: Woodard on Feb. 15 was announced as a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, named for KU’s first men’s basketball coach and the game’s inventor, . In 1973 KU hired Washington as its fourth women’s basketball coach, and the third in as many seasons. She went on to win seven conference titles, six conference tournament championships, and 20 or more games in a season 17 times. Her teams made it to 11 NCAA Tournaments and twice advanced to the Sweet 16. She coached four All- A long dry spell is over for swimming and diving, which finished third at the Big 12 meet, its Americans, and was an assistant on the best placing since 1999. Second-year coach Clark Campbell—a bove with seniors Kristen Johnson gold-medal 1996 Olympic team. and Whitney Sondall and junior Amy Gruber—g uided the Jayhawks to a huge win over Minnesota “She’s been a great coach, mentor and and Wisconsin, both nationally ranked at the time, at the Minnesota Invitational in late November, great friend,” Woodard said. “She’s been as well as dual victories over the likes of Miami, Nebraska, Iowa State and Arkansas. a positive motivating force for me and a great influence and role model in the way that she lives her life. To see the love that she gives other people and her giv- ing spirit, I’ve watched her and I saw the truth from that.” Updates At press time, Perkins had made no official comments about hiring a perma- enior Leo Bookman won the 200-meter dash at the Big 12 indoor track and field nent replacement, so it is not known Schampionships in 20.58 seconds— the fastest time in the country so far this year, whether Woodard, with so little head- the third-fastest in the world, and a meet record. ...The first class of inductees to coaching experience, would be seriously the new Kansas Relays Hall of Fame includes the biggest names in KU track and field considered. Perkins came to KU from history: coaches Bill Easton and Bob Timmons; milers Glenn Cunningham, Connecticut, where the women’s basket- and Wes Santee; Olympic 10,000-meter champion ; and four-time Olympic ball program is one of the best in the discus gold-medalist . For ticket information for the April 17 banquet, con- country. It is not thought that there is tact the relays office at 785-864-3486.The relays are set for April 15-17. any possibility of luring UConn coach The Ward family of Russell Stover Candies fame, as well as several anonymous , a statewide sports hero donors, committed a total of $12 million to build a Hall of Athletics and to fund in Connecticut, though there might be major renovations to Allen Field House. ... Men’s golf won the 17-team Roadrunner some interest in assistant . Intercollegiate March 1-2 in San Antonio. KU was led by freshman Tyler Docking, of Another possible candidate would be Olathe, who shot a final-round 69 to finish tied for third. ... sold out its box- first-year Michigan coach Cheryl Burnett, seat season tickets to for the first time in team history. Plenty of d’81, a former teammate of Woodard’s general admission season tickets and game-day tickets remain.The Jayhawks opened who built a stellar reputation at the season 12-7-1. ... Softball was scheduled to debut its new field,Arrocha Ballpark, Southwest Missouri State, where she in the Hampton Inn/Jayhawk Classic March 6-7. Built with a $2 million gift from coached one of the game’s brightest Kansas City businesswoman Cheryl Womack, ’75, the field is named for Womack’s stars of recent years, Kansas native father, Demostenes Arrocha.Through 13 games, senior Kara Pierce (4-2) and fresh- . man sensation Kassie Humphreys (5-2) held opponents to a .213 batting average. —Chris Lazzarino

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI Men’s golf Sports Calendar MARCH 22-23 at Western Intercollegiate, Santa Cruz, Calif. 29-30 at Stevinson Ranch Softball 21 at Wichita State Intercollegiate, Stevinson, Calif. 23-25 at Baylor MARCH 27 at Southwest Missouri State APRIL 13-14 at Southern Illinois 30-May 2 at Texas Tech 9-10 at Intercollegiate at MacGregor Downs, Cary, N.C. tournament, Carbondale MAY 16 at UMKC 26-27 at Big 12, Hutchinson 18 Bradley 4 Southwest Missouri State 20 at Portland State 7-9 at Texas 21 at Oregon State 11 Oral Roberts Women’s golf 23-24 at Oregon 14-16 Missouri MARCH 27-28 at Baylor 21 Kansas State 31 Nebraska 22-23 at Kansas State 15-16 at Anteater Invitational, 26-30 at Big 12, Arlington, Irvine, Calif. APRIL Texas 21-23 at Betsy Rawls 1 Creighton Longhorn Invitational, Austin, 3-4 Texas Tech Texas 27-28 at Mountain View 7 at Missouri Track & field 10-11 at Texas A&M Collegiate, Tucson, Ariz. 13 Wichita State MARCH APRIL 14 Missouri 18 at Emporia State 17-18 Oklahoma State 12-13 at Susie Maxwell 19 Southern Illinois APRIL Berning Classic, Norman, Okla. 23-25 at Big 12, College Station, 21 at Arkansas at Texas Relays 2-3 Texas 24-25 at Oklahoma 9-10 at John McDonnell 28 at Nebraska Invitational, Fayetteville, Ark. MAY Tennis 14-17 Kansas Relays 1-2 Texas 22-24 at Drake Relays MARCH 4 Oklahoma City 29-May 1 at Big 12, 14 Texas Tech 8-9 Iowa State Norman, Okla. 20 at Colorado 13-16 at Big 12, Oklahoma 23-25 vs. Boise State, Louisiana City Tech and Hawaii, at Honolulu Rowing APRIL Baseball MARCH 3 Iowa State 27 Texas MARCH 5 Oklahoma 12-14 Arkansas-Little Rock APRIL 10 Baylor 17 at 16 at Oral Roberts vs. Tulsa and Drake 3 Nebraska 20-21 Western Illinois 10 Kansas Cup, vs. KSU and 18 Missouri 26-28 at Nebraska Cincinnati 24 at Texas 17-18 at Knecht Cup, Camden, N.J. APRIL A&M 24 at Minnesota 2-4 Oklahoma 25 at Texas 7 Wichita State 29-May 1 at Big 12, 9-11 Texas A&M MAY Norman, Okla. 16-18 at Oklahoma State 1 at Big 12, Manhattan

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 17

Stage Presence

Don’t laugh: Amir Khosrowpour might be the best pianist ever to study at KU. He has the prize to prove it.

his is what you should that might envelop an intense-eyed con- and shape of his grand piano. Amir know about Amir cert pianist: Ha ha! The world is funny. shares this room, and the piano, with his Khosrowpour: He not only Why so serious, everyone? friend Melanie Hadley, herself a much- won a piano, he won a He stuck the front panel from a box honored senior in piano performance. glossy black Steinway & of Teddy Grahams to his practice-room “She is so good,” Amir says of Hadley, Sons grand piano, worth wall. He’s not sure why. He drives a and she returns the compliment: “I’ve aboutT $35,000, and in March 2002 he groovy Vanagon that tends to break always thought that he has such a natu- was named the best collegiate piano down in busy intersections on busy ral, carefree approach when he plays. He player in the country, for which he won mornings and snarl the commute from is amazingly quick with things.” the Steinway. His performance mentor west Lawrence. The VW is a really awful On the close-in walls, painted that says Amir is likely the best pianist ever tan-on-brown, and the first three letters certain institutional green-gray, there’s to study at KU. of his license plate, held in place with a the Teddy Grahams box, and a similar He is thin but not slight, and his frame, are “POO,” tribute to Crunch Bars. Taped to another long, strong fingers have the well-cared which probably makes him laugh every wall are carefully arranged newspaper for appearance of important tools taken time he sees it; it’s a euphemism he and magazine clips featuring performers, seriously. tends to use in conversation, when screamers and crushed pianos. He has great black hair, a neatly- describing particular performances that Amir adjusts a plush, leather-topped trimmed beard and dark eyes. When he were less than his best. piano bench. He is asked whether the plays, he is a master of the dramatic Nothing about Amir Khosrowpour is bench, a fine piece of furniture in its pause, stretches of silence between expected. Or ordinary. own right, was part of the piano prize movements that allow him to catch up to package. changing moods of the music and his “Yes,” he says, “the piano came with audience to catch up to him. the bench.” A pause as he considers this. This too: The guy with the Steinway “ ou wanna hear some “Actually, the bench came with the and the beard and the intense eyes and Beethoven?” piano,” and again the quick laugh. the rock-your-world musicality likes to The cinder- practice “Just tell me when you want me stop,” laugh. A lot. It’s often a double staccato room in the upper reaches of he says, and then … Beethoven, booming ha ha! that he uses to defuse the aura YMurphy Hall is almost exactly the size around a jail-cell-sized room, played with

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 19 been broken exactly once. “He can be very light-hearted, and make a joke about something, and then he sits down at the piano and he’s a completely different person,” Winerock explains. “He just gets into the music, with a great deal of focus. He zeroes in, and the audience responds very well.”

mir Khosrowpour is the son of Iranian immigrants. His father, who might have been a noted A violin player had he been given the chance to study, insisted that both of his sons take music seriously. The older brother, Iman, plays the violin, and Amir was steered toward the piano. “I hated it,” he says. “Who wants to practice when you’re 7?” Growing up in Irvine, Calif., Amir studied for almost 10 years with Scott McBride Smith, g’76, an alumnus who ferocity and delicacy and precision and rarity. During her residency at KU, the suggested he come to Lawrence one passion. composer Gabriella Frank advised Amir summer for KU’s International Institute Stop? Who said anything about not to consider doing both. “This is right for Young Musicians. That’s where he stopping? before I told her that I’m a double met Winerock, and where Winerock major,” Amir says. Ha ha! decided Amir had to come to KU. “As good a pianist as he is, he could While in Los Angeles on other busi- be an even better composer,” says Amir’s ness, Winerock had dinner at the oncentration: Yes, he laughs. composition mentor, Professor James Khosrowpour home: “His father said, No, he doesn’t practice as Barnes, f’74, g’75. “He is one of the most ‘Why go all the way to Kansas?’ I knew much as he should. By his cal- talented people I have ever worked with. USC was one of the schools we had to culations, he generally spends There are people 55 years old who can’t compete with, so we were able to put Cabout two hours a day in the practice write music like that.” together a very attractive financial pack- room, unless he is on deadline for a per- Murphy Hall’s small practice rooms age, which is essential to attract high- formance, in which case he might aver- are not soundproof, and on an otherwise quality musicians. It’s no different than age four hours a day. quiet Saturday afternoon, the long hall- recruiting outstanding academic or “I think he probably does practice way running the length of the practice sports people.” less than maybe other people who have suites fills with a jambalaya of wood- Winerock says six or eight of his stu- accomplished as much,” says his mentor, winds and piano. From the room next to dents in the past 15 years have advanced Professor Jack Winerock. “But he’ll work Amir’s an engaging piano can be heard, for the situation. If he has an important but he doesn’t notice until asked. engagement in three weeks, he’ll focus “I remember once I was practicing in for those three weeks.” Winerock hints here, and I stopped, just for a break, and Fliers for his senior recital (above left) help that he isn’t entirely pleased with these the girl next door was playing this Liszt set the happy tone Amir adores. Melanie habits, but adds, “Sometimes he prac- sonata. She was right at the second Hadley and Professor Jack Winerock (right) in tices in the middle of the night. He theme, this beautiful, beautiful theme, a one-on-one workshop that is a hallmark of doesn’t sleep too much.” and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s beautiful!’” music education at KU. At the piano in The practice habits are not a matter of Another small pause … Swarthout Recital Hall (far right),Amir's hands laziness, or over-reliance on pure talent. “But that was the only time.” are, as always, a blur. Amir is a double major in piano per- Four years of close-quarters formance and composition, an extreme rehearsals, and his concentration has

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI PHOTOGRAPHS BY EARL RICHARDSON to the finals of the Collegiate Artist between two that we really liked,” he Baltimore, and Rice University in Performance Competition, sponsored by says. “The other one had really nice Houston. He will focus on performance the Music Teachers National Association, action, really nice sound. It was very for two years, and says he’s eager to and one came in second. Until Amir, good. But the one that I ended up pick- spend six hours a day practicing. none had won. ing had a little extra personality to it, a Perhaps he senses what could be. In November 2001, Amir was the only little extra character.” “I would say he may be the most tal- Kansas performer to enter the state com- It suits the owner. ented pianist to have walked in here,” petition: “Which is good,” he says, Winerock says. “He can have a major “because I played like poo.” career.” Winerock offers similar career He won regionals at Columbia, Mo., predictions for Hadley, who has per- in January 2002, advancing to nationals lastered to the walls outside formed at the Kennedy Center and as in Cincinnati that March. Despite “two Swarthout Recital Hall the orchestral soloist with the Kapella obvious mistakes” that could have cost evening of Nov. 22 are fliers him the prize, Amir Khosrowpour was announcing the “AMIRPIANO” named the competition’s national cham- seniorP recital. “8-year-old maturity at its pion. He and a friend traveled to New finest.” “Loner seeks friends.” “Bring a York City to pick out a Steinway. date and make out!” “It’s all memo- “I spent a lot of time choosing rized!” “Free food!”

“As good a pianist as he is, he could be an even better composer. He is one of the most talented people I have ever worked with. There are people 55 years old who can’t write music like that.” —Pr ofessor James Barnes...

The room is crowded when Amir Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia, and strides onto the stage, wearing a red received the Presidential Scholars shirt, sky-blue tie, dark jacket and black Medallion from President Bill Clinton. pants. He nods to the audience and sits If their talents are rare, Winerock at a lovely black piano (not his own). says, their camaraderie is not. Before each piece, he discusses the “One of the happiest things about our music to come: Beethoven’s 32 department and division is that the kids Variations on a Theme in C Minor; are so supportive of each other,” Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Opus 16; his Winerock says. “In other places things own composition, Ghost Stories, Opus get very competitive and unpleasant. 2; and Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 7, Here, they are best of friends.” Opus 83. When his practice-room recital is The music speaks, sings, screams done and the Beethoven returned safely through his fingertips. Confident musi- to the 19th century, Amir shares the cality, Amir’s trademark, fills the hollow essence of why he wants this so much: “I hall with a complex fire of moods and just get such a kick out of the music,” he movements. says. “I would like to express it to other “It was one of the best undergraduate people. I would like for them to get a piano recitals I ever went to,” Professor kick out of it, too.” Barnes says. “He can play, he writes, he Amir smiles, but he is not laughing. It has great stage presence. He’s got it all.” is not a ha ha! moment. Amir graduates in May, and is audi- About the playing of music, and espe- tioning for The Juilliard School in New cially the sharing of music, he is York City, The Peabody Institute in serious.

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 21 BY STEVEN HILL

n 1904 novelist Upton Sinclair began researching The Jungle, his now classic expose of America’s meat- packing industry. In the slaughterhousesI near Chicago’s stockyards, Sinclair found abysmal conditions. A mostly immigrant workforce toiled on unsafe and unsanitary killing floors for slave wages, bullied and cheated by employers who took advantage of their powerlessness in an unfamil- iar land. The Jungle caused an uproar when it appeared in 1906. President Theodore Roosevelt summoned Sinclair to the White House to dis- cuss his findings. Public outrage at the novel’s grisly accounts of tainted meat spurred Congress to pass food safety laws. Gains for workers— Sinclair’s main concern—were slower to come. “I aimed at the public’s heart,” he famously lamented, “and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI EARL RICHARDSON

Anthropologist Don Stull’s research on the meat and poultry industry calculates the high cost of cheap food

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 23 “I’m not anti-meat,” says Don climate-controlled confinement facilities Stull, whose research on Garden where pigs are reared from birth to City immigrants led to a 15-year bacon in hermetic seclusion, chicken

EARL RICHARDSON study of the meatpacking industry plants where workers suffer debilitating repetitive-stress injuries processing 200 and its effect on rural communities. chickens a minute for $6.80 an hour. “Beef production and processing is In each town they found a workforce an immensely important part of our exploited by low wages that lock packers state’s economy, and I support it (and the farmers who supply animals) in completely. I just think the industry poverty and strain the social safety net of could pay a fair wage and it would the communities they live in. only add pennies a pound to the “It’s still dangerous, still difficult and cost of our meat.” the pay is still poor,” Stull says. “The work is still largely done by immigrants. There are still issues of food safety. In 1906, when The Jungle was published, it was rat feces. Today it’s e-coli or mad cow.”

n 1906, five companies that made up the “Beef Trust” controlled 55 percent of the market. Today four Icompanies control about 85 per- cent. That near monopoly gives corpora- tions immense leverage over farmers and workers. “The story of meatpacking in America A century after Lewis first came to is a tragedy,” Fast Food Nation author Eric “back of the yards,” the tenement slums Schlosser writes in his introduction to where workers lived, meatpackers and Garden City to work in the meatpacking Stull’s book. “It defies our traditional their communities are once again getting plants there. belief in progress. It shows that things a raw deal from the huge corporations Stull and Broadway, head of the geog- don’t always get better in this country— that control the industry, says Don Stull, raphy department at Northern Michigan and indeed can get much worse.” professor of anthropology and co-author University, documented the problems Yet it hasn’t always been that way. of Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and caused by explosive growth, cultural dif- Powered by strong unions after World Poultry Industry in North America. ferences and high turnover in the plants War II, meatpacking steadily gained “There’s no doubt that if Upton and the town’s schools. The project won strength as one of the best-paid jobs in Sinclair were to walk onto a modern a $150,000 Ford Foundation grant and U.S. manufacturing. By 1960, the average packing floor, he would not be particu- was featured in a 1991 PBS documen- packer’s wage was 15 percent higher larly surprised,” Stull says. “The basic tary, “America Becoming.” It also spurred than the average manufacturing wage. issues that Sinclair tried to alert the pub- the researchers’ interest in further Although meatpacking was still “a tough, lic to are still the same.” exploring the industry’s impact. dangerous job,” Schlosser notes, “it had Co-written with Michael Broadway “We wondered if what we were seeing finally become a good one, too.” and published this winter by Wadsworth in Garden City was unique to Garden That same year Iowa Beef Packers Thomson as part of its series on contem- City or was happening in other industry opened its first plant, bucking industry porary social issues, Slaughterhouse Blues towns,” Stull says. To find out, they tradition by building not in Chicago or brings together 15 years of research on extended their study to rural meatpack- Kansas City, but in small-town Iowa. By the meat and poultry industry’s effect on ing communities in Canada, Iowa, the 1970s, IBP’s method of locating rural communities. It grew out of a Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kentucky. plants closer to the farm and further research project launched in 1987 to They toured “disassembly lines” from the regulatory scrutiny and wage study what happened when Mexican where live cattle are reduced to cooling competition of big cities had begun to and Vietnamese immigrants flocked to sides of beef in only 42 minutes, huge revolutionize the industry.

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI Stull’s work in applied anthropology dent of the Society of Applied dramatically. “So it’s very important that examines how this revolution has trans- Anthropology, Young edits the Case we have these types of efforts in place, formed the rural communities where the Studies on Contemporary Social Issues that we work together so we can con- plants locate. After 15 years, he has a series. tinue down that road to progress,” pretty clear idea of what will happen In Garden City, Stull’s work inspired a Reynaldo Mesa says. “My hat goes off to when a meatpacking plant comes to five-state multicultural conference now Donald because he exposed so many of town: demands on health care and in its 12th year, and a Cultural Relations those ideas.” schools rise; pressures on food pantries Board started with his input helps the Elsewhere, Stull’s efforts have drawn and indigent support services increase; city deal successfully with tensions. The mixed reactions. The native Kentuckian crime soars; housing, road, water and town’s response to Stull’s efforts—in reckons he’s become “the darling” of the sewer systems are strained. 2001 former mayor Dennis Mesa gave Sierra Club there for his views on the “These companies bring jobs, but the him the key to the city—proves the value devil’s bargain that communities make jobs come with costs,” Stull says. “And of his work, Young says. “They credit when they do business with big chicken. you can’t expect much help with those him with helping them adapt to the But when Tyson Foods opened a pro- costs from the meatpackers.” meat industry. He hasn’t solved all cessing plant in his hometown, Sebree, Pinpointing problems isn’t enough. their problems, but he has given them his straight talk “caused some discom- Stull also wants to make a difference, significant help in dealing with those fort” for his relatives. Now 12 chicken and that means speaking out—at town problems.” houses holding 25,000 birds each stand meetings and churches, before environ- The multicultural conference and within sight of the 200-year-old farm- mental and citizens groups, and in Cultural Relations Board have been “very house where his father was born and books and articles—for what he believes important to our folks here,” says cur- where he plans to retire. “It’s very impor- is right. rent Garden City mayor Reynaldo Mesa. tant to me, and I do have very strong “We have taken sides, but we’ve taken As Vietnamese and Mexican immigrants personal feelings about it,” Stull says. sides out of careful study, careful drawn by the promise of meatpacking “I’m open about it; I put it right out on thought,” he says. “We’ve done our best jobs mixed with an established white the table.” to consider all sides and we’ve reached and Hispanic-American population, the Also frequently on the table, in Stull’s our conclusions. I believe we then have ethnic makeup of the city has changed Lawrence home, is meat. He eats more an obligation to stand up and say, ‘This is what’s going to happen if you choose to have a meatpacking plant.’” “It’s still dangerous, still difficult and the pay For applied anthropologists, “The real test of your academic merit is whether is still poor. The work is still largely done by this stuff can be put into practice,” says John Young. Chairman of Oregon State’s immigrants. There are still issues of food safety.” anthropology department and past presi-

meat now than before he started his research, but he’s more thoughtful about where he shops. Encouraging thoughtful SUSAN YOUNGER decision-making is the ultimate goal of his work. “Eating is a political act; when you decide where to shop you make decisions about what producers to sup- port,” Stull says. “A lot of that decision- making is unconscious. We want to make it conscious. “We are pushing the cost of our meat onto communities and onto taxpayers. Our food is cheap compared to other countries, but we’re paying in a lot of other ways for it. I think Americans ought to think about that.” Food for thought, indeed: One man’s meat is another man’s poison.

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 25 BY SARA ECKEL aughTrac sage to the Orient?” deadpanned host Jon Stewart. “I had no idea that NASA L was so concerned with the spice trade.” The show gained a following after STEWART BAILEY’S t’s January 12, 2004, at Stewart began hosting in 1999, but it Comedy Central’s world news really hit the national radar during the COMIC JOURNEY headquarters in New York City. 2000 election. Its offbeat but incisive Producers and writers at “The coverage, Indecision 2000, made even FROM NBC PAGE TO Daily Show With Jon Stewart” nonevents like the national political con- gather around a television, ventions entertaining and won a ‘DAILY SHOW’ watching “The Simple Life,” the Peabody Award for Excellence in Fox reality show in which two socialites Broadcasting. Last year, “The Daily PRODUCER PROVES roughI it on an Arkansas farm. Co-execu- Show” won two Emmys, beating out late- tive producer Stewart Bailey explains night Goliaths David Letterman and Jay THAT NICE GUYS DO that staff members want to spoof the Leno for best comedy or variety show. FINISH FIRST program in its coverage of the Iowa The “fake news show,” as staff members Caucus. “Howard Dean grew up on Park call it, is considered so influential that Avenue. John Kerry is a multimillionaire. nearly every Democratic candidate has So we want to show these rich guys try- appeared on the program. John Edwards ing to do farm chores,” says Bailey, j’90. even announced his candidacy on The idea is perfect for “The Daily Stewart’s couch. Show.” Mixing talk-show coziness with As one of three executive producers, biting satire, the program parodies the along with Stewart and Ben Karlin, news with often-scathing social commen- Bailey rated an on-stage appearance on tary while maintaining a goofy charm. Emmy night. But he wasn’t exactly bask- Hypocrites, grandstanders and high- ing in Hollywood glory; he was worrying ranking half-wits are primary targets. about his pants. “I was afraid they were Needless to say, the nation’s politicians going to fall down. I had a cummerbund and news media provide ample material. and a belt, but the pants didn’t have belt Lampooning the reverent coverage of loops. So I’m thinking, ‘Wow, this is the NASA’s colossally expensive Mars expe- largest number of people who have ever dition, the show played a clip of George looked at me, what if my pants fall Bush opining that NASA scientists were down?’” going to Mars for the same reason the great explorers crossed the seas to the New World. “To find a northwest pas-

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In a heather-gray sweater, jeans and wire-frame glasses, Bailey looks like George Stephanopoulos’ taller, hand- somer brother. His penchant for telling disarming stories is more than mere sandbagging. Bailey has a gift for making others feel relaxed and welcome, a qual- ity that serves him well as he prepares guests for interviews with Stewart. It also helps keeps his staff in good spirits when the jokes don’t come. “He’s like a tousle-haired father figure,” says corre- spondent Stephen Colbert. “He’s a father figure who somehow seems younger than you. I think it’s the Retin-A.” Because he shepherds all the show’s field reports, Bailey’s job is particularly intense this election year, as “The Daily Show” sends correspondents out to cover primaries and both political con- ventions. For the most part, today’s meeting on the Iowa Caucus has gone well. In his exposed-brick office, Bailey huddles with Colbert, field producer Kathy Egan, researcher Matt O’Brien, and writers Steve Bodow and Eric Drysdale. Sitting on couches strewn with bags and coats, they brainstorm interview questions for Colbert—whose dead-on impersonations of the pompous, arched-eyebrow manner of television journalists make it difficult to watch Stone Phillips with a straight face again. The jokes center on the Democrats’ presumably slim chance of beating Bush

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 27 in November. Bailey suggests they try to play the two candidates against each other. “Perhaps we could get them to say something about how revealing the other candidate’s clothes were,” he says. “Dean was showing a lot of forearm,” says Bodow. The group bounces around mildly funny questions about Kerry, a deco- rated war hero, being a bronze medalist. Occasionally they stare into space or break off bits of a communal candy cane from the coffee table. Then Drysdale, who up until this minute appeared to be asleep beneath a pile of coats, says in a slow drawl: “A lot of people say you can’t win, but a lot of people said that Dukakis couldn’t win.” Everyone laughs. Bodow adds, “But he did win … Massachusetts.” As Bailey laughs appreciatively, the group gains momentum. Colbert—at vari- ous times lying on a couch, sitting on the floor, lobbing a Hacky Sack bag and picking up stray bits of candy cane with

“He’s an incredibly funny person and he someone who’s not doing it for you, but supporting has the rare gift that he makes the rest you and being enthusias- tic and keeping the ball of us funnier and more creative.” in the air. And he has a —St ephen Colbert lot of balls to keep in the air.” the tip of his finger—pantomimes a hilari- gag, Egan suggests they watch a ous bit in which he role-plays a disen- video of the first episode. It only franchised voter playing a game on his confirms what they feared: “The cell phone during a sit-down with a Simple Life” is a terrible show. ife is definitely hectic stumping politician. “I’m sorry, Senator Paris Hilton and fellow rich girl for Bailey, especially could you hang on a second? I’m just Nicole Richie are boring brats who now that he and his about to reach level four,” he says. shriek at bugs and refuse to pluck Lwife, Jennifer, have a In an office with a Lite-Brite, a Mr. chickens. 1-year-old son, Jack. With Potato Head and a KU basketball sched- The viewing does not produce any Jennifer also working full time, ule, it’s easy to forget this isn’t late-night laughs, but Bailey remains optimistic. as the entertainment editor for dorm chat or the tail end of a house “We’ve still got some good jokes that Elle magazine, the hours pass party; you half expect someone to nudge we wrote before,” he reminds Egan as quickly at the Bailey home in you on the elbow and pass you a bong. the meeting adjourns. Brooklyn Heights. “I think about But while Bailey may look like he’s sit- That laid-back, unflappable manner being at KU. I’d have a class at ting back and riffing with friends, he’s keeps the writers and producers on noon and then one at four, so I’d also monitoring and guiding the conver- track. “He’s an incredibly funny person just hang out for a couple of hours. sation. When he sees that Colbert has and he has the rare gift that he makes It’s such a different life,” he says. enough interview questions, he brings the rest of us funnier and more cre- Not that Bailey has any com- the staff back to “The Simple Life” spoof. ative,” Colbert says of Bailey. “The plaints. After all, this was

Since no one is able to come up with a best thing is to have exactly what he EARL RICHARDSON (2)

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI dreamed of when he was idling on 1990, he found out. Bailey moved to don’t want to work on SNL or Wescoe Beach in the late ’80s. In fact, he New York City and got a job as an NBC Letterman now. You want to be on the says in many ways his life has exceeded page, which required him to wear a poly- next Letterman.’ And I realized he was his expectations. “I used to watch ester suit and name tag and lead studio right.” Letterman and think, ‘Those guys must tours. “When you can throw your suit on When he started working on “The Jon be having so much fun. How does one the ground and it doesn’t wrinkle, then Stewart Show” in 1993, Bailey had an get there?’” you know you’re officially at the bot- inkling that Stewart could be the next After receiving a journalism degree in tom,” Bailey says. big thing. “Jon was closer to my age, so I Friend Laura Kirk, had more in common with him comed- c’89, an actor and ically,” Bailey says. “He’s really smart and writer, met Bailey in funny and that’s a combination that gen- New York in the early erally wins in life.” As a researcher, Bailey ’90s, when a group of found wacky guests for the show, includ- KU alumni gathered to ing a group of guys who could link any watch Jayhawk basket- actor to Kevin Bacon through his films, COURTESY STEWART BAILEY (2) STEWART COURTESY ball games and play leading Bailey to coin the now-famous Boggle. Kirk says he’s term, “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” still the same guy who In 1996, Bailey was hired as a field wore those flame-retar- producer for “The Daily Show,” where he dant suits, just with eventually met Colbert—the two bonded better clothes: “He’s because the budget was so tight that the guy who will they had to share a desk and phone. always return your e- Finally, in 1999 Bailey was reunited with mail.” Back in the his old boss when Stewart replaced Dacron years, Bailey Craig Kilborn as host. passed the ultimate loy- alty test for an actor’s friend: He went to some really bad plays. “Horrible, Off-Off n the end, Bailey was right about Broadway, six-people-sitting-in-a-weird- “The Simple Life” segment. Hilton storefront plays. Stewart came to see and Richie’s miserable personalities those,” Kirk says. Ihave no bearing on the skit, which When he wasn’t patronizing the arts, turns out to be very funny, despite a last- Bailey got a little closer to his childhood minute crisis—Colbert was given only 45 television idols, holding studio- and pro- seconds with Dean and had no access to duction-assistant positions at “Late Kerry. But the time is used wisely: Night With David Letterman” and Colbert asks Dean what the cow says. “Saturday Night Live.” Mostly, he Dean answers with a long-winded trea- answered phones and handed stars their tise on corporate special interests, farm- dressing room keys. Occasionally, the ers’ rights, state taxes and the divide work got more glamorous. When Miss between the rich and the poor. Russia visited a nearby local news broad- Colbert’s reply: “I’m sorry—the cow cast, Letterman had a camera follow says moo.” Bailey as he asked the beauty queen to “The Simple Life” spoof just needed visit Dave. She declined at first, but after to return to its original, simple origins. Bailey upped the ante with a carton of “We came back around to embracing As co-executive producer of “The Daily cigarettes she agreed. the corniness of the idea,” says Bailey. Show With Jon Stewart," Stewart Bailey (p. 27) All of this was thrilling for a 23-year- It can be hard to keep track of what’s works behind the scenes to make Stephen old from Topeka, but after a few years funny while you’re working on a piece, Colbert (with Bailey, left) and other field cor- Bailey was itching to do something more since you hear each joke several times, respondents look good.At the 2003 Emmys, than transfer calls to Lorne Michaels. “I he explains. “Anytime you satirize it’s Bailey lingers on the red carpet with his wife, realized that it was going to take me a always going to be a weird comic Jennifer, and shares the spoils of victory with very long time to rise though the ranks. I journey.” host Jon Stewart. told my father about it and he said, ‘You —Eckel is a Brooklyn free-lance writer

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Snowbound Jayhawks dug out from a blizzard to celebrate at the ninth annual ball, which sup- ports KU student scholarships. Come together Beatlemania stokes KU spirits at Kansas City’s Rock Chalk Ball

n a perfect convergence of sentiment and serendipity, alumni volunteers chose a Beatles-inspired band, Liverpool, to play at Ithe Rock Chalk Ball and set the date for Feb. 6, the very weekend that the nation reveled in nostalgia over the Fab Four’s first appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964. Alumni responded by packing the dance floor in record numbers and with record endurance, twisting and shouting with Liverpool from the era of mop tops and skinny ties to the heyday of Sgt. Pepper. The ball, which began in 1996 as a benefit for KU National Merit Scholars, now supports schol- arships for high-achieving Kansas students.

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI that responsibility to heart,” Williams Alumni and KU Endowment associa- She set records said. “She adhered to the highest stan- tions maintain the continuing growth in dards through the many changes in tech- a database that now includes 365,000 of alumni straight nology. We will miss her.” records. Through the years, Peine helped When Peine was hired as an alumni design new systems and procedures and From punch cards to Internet, records coordinator in 1966, the Alumni trained scores of staff members. Her pro- database doyenne knew it all Association’s records resided in row motions reflected increasing responsibili- upon row of index cards. In 1978, the ties. First a coordinator, she later became ancy Peine, the Alumni system moved to its first generation of an assistant director. In 1988 she NAssociation’s vice president of computers and became nationally touted became director of alumni and member- alumni and membership records, turned by IBM and alumni relations profession- ship records, and in 1996 she was pro- 65 Feb. 27 and promptly retired. als as a model for alumni records sys- moted to vice president. “That’s our Nancy,“ said Fred B. tems. At that time, the database included Peine is moving from Jefferson Williams, president and 100,000 records. County, her lifelong home, to Maricopa, CEO, at a staff retirement Since then, revolu- Ariz., with her husband, Richard. She’s luncheon in Peine’s honor. tions in computing eager to settle in a new home and adopt “She’s by the book.” have helped the a new dog, who will succeed her beloved Her precision and per- Prince. Never one to make speeches, sonal warmth made Peine Among Nancy’s Peine bid farewell to her professional a staff stalwart for 38 retirement gifts was a home with a simple, heartfelt thank-you years. “Nancy understood portrait of her late dog, for the friendships she’s known through implicitly the Association’s the years: “You are a great group, and Prince, by Oklahoma role as the keeper of you’ve made me feel very special.” City artist Brent alumni records for the We couldn’t have said it better, University, and she took Learned, f’93. Nancy. Our thanks to you, too.

"Liverpool" paid tribute to the Beatles, coaxing couples to stay on the dance floor until late into the evening. Before Jayhawk Roundup dinner and dancing, a silent auction wooed alumni buyers, who cast their bids and shared cocktails with KU friends. Chairs for Rock Chalk Ball 2004 were Jenny and Jeff Spencer and Mike and Bonnie Maddox, who worked with fellow volunteers and Association staff to host the event at the Overland Park Convention Center & Sheraton Hotel.

Nearly 450 KU alumni and friends gathered Nov. 1 in Wichita for the first Jayhawk Roundup. Leading volunteers for the event were Honorary Co-Chairs Scott and Carol Ritchie; Lynn Loveland, development director for the School of Medicine-Wichita; Sue Watson; and Honorary Co-Chairs Janet and David Murfin, who hosted the party in their stables.The roundup raised $51,000, which will be divided evenly to endow scholarships for KU students from the greater Wichita area and enhance clinical education programs for medical students on the Wichita campus.

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Thanks to these Jayhawk Society members Stuart B. Harwood Catherine R. Strecker who have joined and renewed in Dec. 2003. John A. Head Monty E. Strecker Ohio Susan J. Held Becky Stukesbary Mary L. France Eaton Bob G. Henre Gomer Q. Stukesbary Guy O. Mabry Marcella J. Holliday E. Michael Summers Alabama Bill P. Sterbens Gene Hotchkiss Linda Ellis Thompson Oklahoma Paul E. Dixson John T. Wieland Kent A. Huston Anne S. Wehage-Zickwolf R. Clio Robertson Arizona Indiana Christopher D. Jarvis Randy L. Wenger Oregon Richard E. Comfort Margaret F. Nelson Keri Magnuson Jarvis J. Kay Miller Wertzberger Dorothy Estella Smith Jill Osterhout Frier Barbara Mc Clure Spencer William W. Jeter Henry A. White Jr. Pennsylvania Scott M. Frier Dale W. Johnson Janice K. White William E. Gregor Charles W. Keller Iowa Katharine Ross Johnson Barry C. Wood Karen S. Allen Renee E. Jones Frederick D. Zickwolf Billy R. McDonald Tennessee Larry L. Allen Robert E. Jones Jr. Mary Hoffman McDonald Michelle Beatty-Eakin Richard L. Dyson Janice M. Kennedy Maryland Larry W. Osa Marshall C. Eakin Ron E. Thielenhaus Steven C. Klein Troy W. Greisen Jane Hanna Reeble Arnold H. Henderson Donald J. Westerhaus William P. Klein Texas Shelley Markle Stallings John P.N. Massad Colette L. Kocou Ruth Cooper Steven I. Walsh Kansas Pamela L. Tuma Clara L. Krentzel Christine Ehlig Economides Dena Smith Adams California Ed Kuklenski Michael J. Economides John M. Adams Massachusetts James G. Berryman James M. Kuklenski Jay Howard Robert E. Allen Jr. John R. Regier Kelli Lees Cruz Marvin E. Lampton Rick E. Ingram Janice H. Amos Joseph H. Guerrein III Suzanne R. Leasure-Dwyer Michigan Norma L. Kober Mrs. Richard A. Barber Nancy J. Kelpe M. Sue Malloy Carolee McDaniel Caylor Daniel J. Lyons Beth Barbour Harwood G. Kolsky Mary M. Martin Dirk A. Frazier Maryanne Lyons Randy Barbour Vivian Johnson MacRae Thomas A. Matches Richard D. Ringstrom Roderick E. 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Strange Edmond G. Feuille Fran Hawkins Rast-Nelson New Mexico Del Johnson Amy Finch Robert J. Friesner Terry A. Johnson Georgia Ann E. Redmond Robert B. Fiss Matthew D. Henrichs David Rosen Jeffrey H. Flora New York International Errol G. Jacobi Carol A. Ryse Roger L. Fort Lawrence J. Dugan Brazil Michael Ryser Bryant T. Hayes Pedro Cabrero-Vazquez Hawaii Ginger K. Franz Mary Curtis Schroeger Barry S. Mordin Analia M. Lenguaza James E. Quinn Miles A. Franz Anne J. Schroeppel Lonnie R. Slapa Charles L. Frickey Japan Idaho John E. Schroeppel Betty Hauck Goolsbee North Carolina Sachiko Sugawa Kushiro Darleene Overstreet William P. Schutte Robert L. Goolsbee Marvin K. Self Jr. Gay E. Barnes Illinois Christina Dunn Gyllenborg Bernie C. Shaner Jr. Skyler J. Carey Jason T.M. Dinneen Scott C. Gyllenborg Donetta Skeens Shane Jeffrey V. Meyer Mark P. Gormely Barbara L. Haberstroh Thomas G. Shrimplin Kathleen J. Turner Nancy Bell Johnson Christopher D. Hanna James C. 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1941 1957 Rock and teaches at the University of Elias Burstein, g’41, and his wife, Sally Waddell Graber, c’57, works as Arkansas. Rena, celebrated their 60th anniversary an administrative assistant for the Howard Ellington, a’61, serves on the last year. They live in Narberth, Pa., and Kansas Insurance Department in board of the Frank Lloyd Wright Elias recently was elected a fellow in the Topeka. She commutes from Lawrence. Building Conservancy. He’s a self- American Association for the Mary Avison McKean, c’57, and her employed architect in Wichita. Advancement of Science. husband, James, ’60, retired from mis- Robert Sears, e’61, g’63, recently sionary service last December. They live joined Henderson Engineers in Lenexa 1942 in Colorado Springs. as a project manager for the civil divi- John Pfitsch, g’42, wrote Pfitsch Tales: Neil Schimke, c’57, recently became sion. He lives in Overland Park. 50 Years of Grinnell . He medical education director at Providence coached and was athletics director at Health in Kansas City. He lives in 1962 Grinnell College for 50 years. John and Leavenworth. Richard Guthrie, b’62, lives in Emily Hollis Pfitsch, b’46, make their Marilyn Priboth Wells, d’57, is presi- Lenexa. He recently was inducted into home in Grinnell, Iowa. dent of Catholic Family Federal Credit the Kappa Sigma’s Gamma Omicron Union in Wichita. chapter Hall of Fame. 1946 Mary Turkington, j’46, chairs the 1958 1963 Kansas Turnpike Authority and the Robert Hartley, j’58, is co-author of Kent Converse, d’63, makes his home Topeka Public Building Commission. An Uncertain Tradition: U.S. Senators from in Garfield, where he’s a retired farmer. She lives in Topeka. Illinois, 1818-2003. He lives in Roy Knapp, e’63, g’69, g’73, recently Westminster, Colo. was inducted into the Kappa Sigma’s 1950 Gamma Omicron chapter Hall of Fame. Rosemary Hall Stafford, c’50, makes 1959 He lives in Norman, Okla. her home in Concord, Calif. She’s an Beth Greathouse Tedrow, d’59, was Paul Ruhter, c’63, g’65, manages avid traveler who has visited 108 coun- honored last year when Garden City health support for Bechtel BWXT Idaho. tries. Community College named its new stu- He lives in Idaho Falls. dent center after her. Beth is dean of stu- 1953 dent services at GCCC. 1964 Charles Hoag, b’53, was inducted last Dennis Daugherty, c’64, d’65, is exec- year into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of 1960 utive secretary of the Church Club of Fame. He makes his home in Topeka. James Pusateri, c’60, l’63, retired last New York, an Episcopal laypersons asso- Jack Stelmach, m’53, recently year after more than 26 years as a federal ciation. He lives in Manhattan. received the Samuel Reaves Award for bankruptcy judge in Topeka. He and his Vernon Dietz, d’64, retired recently Outstanding National Leadership from wife, Jacqueline, live in Naples, Fla. after 40 years as a public-school teacher Shepherd’s Centers of America. He and Fran Hawkins Rast-Nelson, d’60, and and administrator. He and his wife, Patricia Scherrer Stelmach, c’45, c’46, her husband, Rick, keep busy with trav- Verda, live in Lakin. live in Leawood. She was named Kansas eling since his retirement from TWA. Gary Flickinger, e’64, retired last fall City’s 2003 Panhellenic Woman of the They live in Lake Quivira. from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Year. He lives in Tacoma, Wash. 1961 Robert Guenthner, c’64, l’67, is presi- 1956 Don Bosseau, g’61, retired last year as dent of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Wayne Gerstenberger, c’56, works as university librarian and dean at the Kennedy in Wichita. a consultant for the San Francisco University of Miami. William Textor, a’64, general manager Department of Public Transportation. Barbara Rey Bowlus, g’61, received a of J.D. Reece Realtors and Reece & He lives in Antioch. certificate of merit last fall from the Nichols, recently was inducted into the Leonard Morti, e’56, owns M&M American Association of German Kappa Sigma’s Gamma Omicron chapter Engineering in Edmond, Okla. Language Teachers. She lives in Little Hall of Fame. He lives in Overland Park.

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1965 Shield of Kansas. He lives in Auburn. Topeka, where she lives. Philip Harrison, c’65, is president of Robert Pearson, b’67, recently was Paul Clendening, c’69, recently was the Culver Legion. He operates Harrison elected a regional director of the named president and CEO of & Harrison Land Development in National Association of State Boards of Community Health Charities. He lives in Lawrence. Accountancy. He’s a tax partner with Overland Park. Elizabeth Wilbur Hendrix, d’65, g’93, BKD in Kansas City. Mary Endres Hertach, c’69, received retired as a teacher in Lawrence last fall Janet Miller Steury, d’67, is president a nurse educator certificate last year and moved to Shell Knob, Mo., where of the board of the Ladies Union from the KU Medical Center. She lives in she lives with her husband, Philip. Benevolent Association. She and her hus- Hutchinson. Byron Loudon, c’65, practices law in band, Jack, c’67, live in St. Joseph, Mo. Thomas Homquist, d’69, retired Overland Park. He’s a captain with American Airlines. recently after a 33-year career with the William Wilkerson, c’67, chairs the YMCA. He lives in Wichita Falls, Texas. 1966 board of Haas & Wilkerson Insurance in Michael Isom, d’69, g’70, is retired in Joan Danielson Bell, d’66, retired Shawnee Mission. Kensington. recently from a 29-year career at the Carol Sullivan Wohlford, c’67, directs Gene Muller, g’69, PhD’82, is a profes- Menninger Clinic in Topeka. the Andover Public Library. She lives in sor at El Paso Community College in El Kerry Davis, c’66, g’69, teaches math Wichita. Paso, Texas. He was listed in a recent and German at York Comprehensive edition of Who’s Who in America. High School in York, S.C. 1968 Thomas Murray, c’69, recently joined Linda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, David DeTar, c’68, practices dentistry the Overland Park law firm of Lathrop was honored in February by the in Joplin, Mo. He recently was board cer- & Gage. He lives in Lawrence. American Medical Women’s Association tified by the American Board of General Marcia Walsh, g’69, l’73, serves as a as an outstanding woman physician in Dentistry. municipal court judge in Kansas City. Kansas and one of 50 Local Legends in Frederick Hack, c’68, and his wife, the nation. She and her husband, Roger, Sheryl, will celebrate their first anniver- 1970 c’54, m’57, are physicians in Hanover. sary in May. They live in Gladstone, Mo., William Basow, c’70, m’74, practices Linda is national chair of the Alumni and Frederick works as an insurance occupational medicine in Fort Collins, Association. agent. Colo. Carol Lavery, c’68, retired from the Thomas French, e’70, is president 1967 Idaho National Nuclear Engineering and chairman of Thomas French Builder Kelly Cap, c’67, recently moved to Laboratory. She lives in Idaho Falls. Inc. in Kansas City. He lives in Bucyrus. Tucson, Ariz., where he’s a revenue offi- Patrick Michaelis, b’68, is president of William Lynch, b’70, l’73, practices cer with the U.S. Treasury Department. UMB Bank. He lives in Topeka. law with Husch & Eppenberger in John Carter, f’67, c’73, is president- Nancy Thompson Preston, c’68, co- Kansas City. He recently was listed in elect of the College of Diplomates of the owns Preston Insurance Agency in the Kansas City Business Journal’s “Best American Board of Orthodontics. He Henderson, Texas. She recently received of the Bar” feature. practices in Overland Park. the Rusk County Lifetime Achievement Terence Toler, c’70, works as plan- Patrick Casey, d’67, makes his home Award for volunteer service. ner/area coordinator with SEMA State in Mount Airy, Md. Bill Sampson, c’68, l’71, is a partner in Emergency Management Agency in Gary Fincham, p’67, works as a phar- the Overland Park law firm of Shook, Jefferson City, Mo. macist for Knoll Patient Supply in Hardy & Bacon. He commutes from Jeff VanCoevern, b’70, is CFO opera- Lawrence. Lawrence. tions manager for Nulyne in Knoxville, William Fleming, c’67, recently was Mary Jeannine Kerwin Strandjord, Ark. He lives in Bella Vista. appointed to the board of regents at b’68, recently became chief integration Texas Woman’s University. He lives in officer at Sprint. She lives in Leawood. 1971 Houston. Sharon Zongker Bach, g’71, works as John Friesen, PhD’67, is a professor of 1969 a transcriptionist for Medquist. She lives education at the University of Calgary in Alicia Clair, d’69, g’75, PhD’79, in Brevard, N.C. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. received the 2003 American Music Jennifer Gille Bacon, c’71, l’76, is vice Robert Gould, a’67, makes his home Therapy Association Lifetime president of Shughart, Thomson & in Mission Hills and is president of Achievement Award last fall. She directs Kilroy in Kansas City. She lives in Gould Evans Associates. the music therapy program at KU and Leawood. Howell Johnson, c’67, m’71, is associ- has a clinical practice with the VA Michael Callaway, b’71, lives in ate medical director of Blue Cross/Blue Eastern Kansas Health Care System in Virginia Beach, Va., and is senior princi-

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI pal consultant for IBM. Marc Colby, b’74, is managing partner William Dobak, g’74, PhD’96, co- Augustus diZerega, c’71, g’74, teaches of New England Financial in Wichita. He authored The Black Regulars, 1866-1898, at Whitman College in Walla Walla, recently was honored by the American which won an award last year from the Wash. Red Cross for his fundraising efforts. Western History Association. He lives in Linda Hammer-Brown, d’71, is a spe- Jenise Thomas Comer, s’74, serves on Hyattsville, Md. cial-education teacher with the Madera the nominating committee of the James Doepke, d’74, directs bands at County Office of Education. She lives in Association of Social Work Boards. She’s Waukesha North High School in Fresno, Calif., and enjoys acting. a professor of social work at Central Waukesha, Wis. Armin Landis, d’71, lives in Missouri State University, and she lives David Suptic, e’74, g’82, is a field engi- Oskaloosa. He’s principal at Perry in Kansas City. neer at the Mid-America Manufacturing Middle School. James Martin, e’71, g’73, recently was promoted to associate director of Professional Engineering Consultants in Topeka.

1972 Mignon Lawhon Heizer, b’72, is a shareholder and CPA at G.B. Adams & Associates in Houston. She lives in Sugar Land. Stephen Hill, c’72, e’78, directs con- struction for Caltrain. He lives in Jordan, Minn. James Llewellyn, g’72, was honored recently when the Llewellyn Presidential Scholarship was established in his name at Greensboro College in Greensboro, N.C. Tedi Douglas Tumlinson, d’72, teaches fifth grade in Bullhead City, Ariz.

1973 James Boyle, f’73, owns Safe Haven Home Inspection Services in Fenton, Mo. Pamela Wright Calbeck, n’73, makes her home in Olathe. She’s an assistant professor at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park. George Devins, j’73, is president and chairman of GlynnDevins Advertising and Marketing in Overland Park. David Johnson, c’73, recently became assistant administrator for weather serv- ices at the NOAA National Weather Service. He lives in Burke, Va. Steven Zimmerman, c’73, lives in Topeka, where he’s an assistant store manager at Dillard’s.

1974 Donald Clay, c’74, works as a self- employed antiques dealer in Point Clear, Ala.

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Technology Center in Overland Park. Christopher Herre, a’77, commutes from Bonner Springs to Olathe, where 1975 he’s president of Rose Companies Inc. James Clark, l’75, recently was Joseph Kellogg, g’77, is senior vice appointed legislative counsel for the president for homeland security with Kansas Bar Association. He lives in Oracle Corp. and a director of GTSI, a Lawrence. government technology solutions Nicholas Moos, c’75, g’79, directs provider. He lives in Fort Bragg, N.C. field operations and is a vice president at Marvin Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, recently Price Management. He lives in Bonner became an assistant vice president of Springs. sourcing at Sprint. He lives in Leawood. Warren Newcomer, b’75, is president Jeffrey Smith, f’77, was named 2003 of Newcomer Funeral Service Group in Teacher of the Year by the Oklahoma Topeka. chapter of the American String Teachers’ Association. He lives in Tulsa. 1976 John Works Jr., c’77, lives in Gregory Dodson, c’76, works as a Englewood, Colo., and is managing physician assistant at John D. Archibold director of Emerging Markets Finance Medical Center in Thomasville, Ga. He International in Denver. was named Physician’s Assistant of the Year last year by the Georgia Association 1978 of Physician Assistants. Jeffery Armstrong, c’78, recently Russell Donnelly, j’76, recently was joined Lawrence Oral Surgery. He lives promoted to senior account executive at in Lawrence. radio station KFKF in Kansas City. Craig Dunn, d’78, is executive director Glenn Goldstein, c’75, m’81, practices of VSA Arts of Minnesota in dermatology at the Dermatology and Minneapolis. He lives in St. Paul. Skin Cancer Center in Leawood. He lives Kevin Hicks, b’78, is CEO of Overland in Overland Park. Park Regional Medical Center. His home Rex Niswander, c’76, was executive is in Leawood. producer of Tango Nuevo: The Music of Laura Pinkston Koenigs, c’78, m’82, Astor Piazzolla, a CD by the Tali Roth directs adolescent medicine at Baystate Trio. He lives in New York City. Pediatric Associates in Springfield, Mass. Alan Solomon, g’76, PhD’85, makes She lives in Longmeadow. his home in Canton, N.Y., and is dean of Jackie Shelton McClain, l’78, is vice the Crane School of Music at the State chancellor of the California State University of New York at Potsdam. University System and was the recent Ted Wiedeman, c’76, is president of recipient of the Donald Dickerson Award Reeves-Wiedeman in Lenexa. for Service from the College and University Professional Association for 1977 Human Resources. She and her hus- Jacqueline Eyring Bixler, g’77, band, Thomas, ’81, live in Los Alamitos. PhD’80, recently was named an alumni Stephen Scheve, j’78, l’81, recently distinguished professor of Spanish at became a partner in the trial department Virginia Tech. She lives in Blacksburg. at Baker Botts in Houston. Paul Black, b’77, owns Imaging Solutions in Wichita. 1979 Mary Carson, c’77, l’80, practices law Patricia Volder Adams, e’79, g’93, has with Triplett Woolf & Garretson in joined the Larkin Goup, a consulting Wichita. engineering firm in Kansas City. She Warren Chelline, g’77, PhD’83, serves lives in Overbrook. as a minister in the Church of Jesus David Baker, b’79, is a partner in the Christ of Latter Day Saints. He lives in Overland Park law firm, Fisher Patterson St. Joseph, Mo. Sayler & Smith.

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI LaDonna Hale Curzon, j’79, owns dent of scientific products distribution at in America. He practices with Woolf, President C-Box Purses and is executive Cardinal Health. He and his wife, Ann, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter in director of the Capital Area Boat Owners live in Omaha, Neb., with their sons, Knoxville, Tenn. Association in Washington, D.C. She Van, 17; Jace, 14; and Gage, 10. Richard Reischman, e’79, is vice prei- lives in Alexandria, Va., with her hus- Stephen Koontz, e’79, works as dent of operations at Southern Star band, Elliott, and their daughters, technical manager for Chevron Phillips Central Gas Pipeline. He lives in Rachel, 14, and Sarah, 13. Chemical in St. James, La. He and Jane Tonganoxie. Gonzalo Encisco, c’79, g’82, recently Wilkins Koontz, d’79, live in Prairieville. became vice president and chief geosci- She teaches fourth grade at Central 1980 entist at Spinnaker Exploration in Elementary School in Duplessis. Scott Bloch, c’80, l’86, recently was Houston. James McCarten, b’79, was listed in appointed by President Bush to head the Gary Hough, j’79, is region vice presi- the 2003-’04 edition of The Best Lawyers U.S. Office of Special Counsel. He lives

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Steeled by cancer, Fornelli hard to find—not because NANCY PIERCE forges business victories it was rare, but because they purchased in small hen stock cars tumble batches that weren’t of through turn three or go much interest to big dis- airborne down the back- tributors. Wstretch, Greg Fornelli Fornelli convinced his won’t be whooping it up alongside the bosses that he should start action-crazed race fans. But as long as marketing to NASCAR the drivers walk away unhurt, he might teams, but the company let himself cheer just a little. eventually decided it was “Wrecks are OK,” Fornelli says from too much effort for too lit- the shops of his Charlotte, N.C., busi- tle return and ended the ness, Stock Car Steel & Aluminum. experiment. “Wrecks help business.” Fornelli didn’t agree Greg Fornelli’s steel distribution business meets demands of Fornelli, c’90, turned his battle with a with the decision, but at NASCAR race teams that buy “real small amounts of a whole rare form of cancer into a life-affirming about that time, in the lot of different things, rather than tons of a couple of things.” triumph that has made him a behind- mid-1990s, he found him- the-scenes NASCAR star and winner of self facing bigger troubles: the 2003 North Carolina Small Business Doctors diagnosed a mass in his jaw as industry eager for one-stop shopping for Person of the Year award. cancer. its steel and aluminum. Even his opti- After graduation, Fornelli entered his Despite radical surgery, eight months mistic business projections were father’s trade, steel sales, but the fit was of chemotherapy and the grim prognosis “crushed” by soaring sales, and he now not quite right. So he worked for four of a 17-percent survival rate for his type owns a 25,000-foot warehouse and sup- years at Johnny’s Tavern in Kansas City of cancer, Fornelli spent his convales- plies “literally 100 percent” of the Nextel while planning to open his own restau- cence drafting a business plan. Cup, Busch Grand National and rant. That didn’t take, either, so Fornelli “I quit a pretty nice job with great Craftsman Truck series. moved to North Carolina and returned benefits, and my wife thought I was “I’m not looking for glamour, but to the steel business. insane,” he says. “But I was always trying steel is a conservative, old-fashioned Charlotte is America’s stock-car racing to make long-term plans. I never, ever industry, and I was used to restaurants, headquarters, and soon Fornelli was thought I wasn’t going to make it.” bars, places with high energy. fielding complaints from team managers Indeed, when Fornelli set out in “Now I feel I’m more in the NASCAR and mechanics that the raw material November 1996 with a little pickup industry than the steel industry, and I they needed to build their race cars was truck and trailer, he found a racing absolutely love it.”

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 37 Class Notes in Alexandria, Va. Rick Ingram, g’81, PhD’84, lives in mortgage originator. Kevin Carpenter, c’80, works as a Dallas, where he’s a professor of psychol- Lisa Massoth Gaspard, j’83, works as financial planner for American Express ogy at Southern Methodist University. a financial planner for Nation Smith Financial Advisors. He lives in Avon Scott Smith, g’81, recently became Hermes Diamond in San Diego, where Lake, Ohio. Central division president of HNTB in she lives with her daughters, Hannah, Charles Holt, c’80, is a family-practice Kansas City. He’s also a consulting engi- 13, and Claire, 8. physician in the U.S. Army Reserve in neer with the Kansas Turnpike Marianne Hudson, c’83, manages Indianapolis. He currently serves in Authority. strategic alliances for the Kauffman Kosovo in the Balkans. Vickie Walton-James, j’81, is Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in Barbara Kinney, j’80, owns Kinney Washington bureau chief for the Chicago Kansas City. Photography in Seattle. She was featured Tribune. She lives in Vienna, Va. Clayton Hunter, j’83, directs catering last year on Nikon’s Web site, for Hilton Garden Inn in Kansas City. www.nikonnet.com, for her work as one 1982 Dan Meyer, e’83, a’83, is principal of four official photographers for the James Kindscher, m’82, is a professor owner of Rau Construction in Overland Clinton White House. of anesthesiology at the KU Medical Park. Gus Meyer, e’80, is principal owner of Center. He lives in Overland Park. Sindey McCleery Schueler-Platz, Rau Construction in Overland Park. Scott Vignery, e’82, manages quality c’83, supervises the forensic laboratory assurance for Purolator in Greensboro, for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, 1981 N.C. He lives in Burlington. where she was the agency’s employee of Gerald Donohue, b’81, is executive the year last year. Sindey lives in director of the Academy of General 1983 Lawrence. Dentistry in Chicago. He lives in Scott Braden, c’83, recently joined Westmont. Peoples Bank in Lawrence, where he’s a BORN TO: Thomas, j’83, and Julie Calhoon Hutton, b’86, son, Samuel Charles, Nov. 6 in Colorado Springs, where he joins two sisters, Sarah, 13, and Kathryn, 10.

1984 Betty Boys Drees, m’84, recently became dean of medicine at UMKC. She lives in Overland Park. Michael Kelly, e’84, g’93, manages quality and information systems at Midwest Transplant Network in Westwood. He lives in Lenexa. Jeffrey Shackelford, c’84, is president and COO at Tech Guys in Overland Park.

BORN TO: Dana Schmidt Arth, j’84, l’87, and Christopher, b’87, son, Johnathan, Sept. 8 in Overland Park, where he joins two sisters, Emily, 13, and Paige, 11, and two brothers, David, 7, and Sam, 3.

1985 Steven Bergstrom, c’85, j’87, directs sales for the Jayhawk division of Glazer’s of Kansas. He lives in Topeka. Mary Pratt Brown, g’85, manages the production center at the Hallmark plant in Lawrence. She lives in Lenexa.

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David Danner, j’85, is a salesman James Schneck, b’86, g’88, is audit BORN TO: for Mihlfeld Associates. He lives in manager for the National Science Kelli Lees Cruz, c’87, and Jon, daugh- Kernersville, N.C. Foundation. He lives in Alexandria, Va. ter, Catalina Winifred, July 24 in San Diego, where she joins a brother, 1986 MARRIED Connor, 4. Scott Hartman, g’86, is CEO of Ann Ritchie, c’86, to Ray Logan, Nov. NovaStar Financial in Westwood. He 29. They make their home in Wichita. 1988 lives in Shawnee Mission. Jeff Foster, c’88, owns and operates Michael Johnson, e’86, makes his 1987 Rhythm & Brews Coffeehouse in St. home in Overland Park, where he’s pres- Patrick Sturgeon, j’87, directs opera- Louis. ident and chairman of Excel tions for North American Sports Net- David Fritz, e’88, m’93, is a Constructors. work in Dublin, Ireland. neurosurgeon with Neurosurgical

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Tyrell teaches Londoners discusses nuances of meat- smoking concepts. joys of KC-style barbecue “They’ll be listening to me STEVE FORREST with their heads cocked, and s Bryan Tyrell figures it, I’ll say, ‘Trust me, this is what “you can’t sling a dead cat in I want to do, this is the right Kansas City without hitting way to do this.’” A a barbecue restaurant,” so And sauce? Forget about it. he wasn’t all that surprised when a It doesn’t exist in London, London restaurateur showed up at except in a straight, institu- Oklahoma Joe’s, at 47th and Mission tionalized formula that would Road in Kansas City, Kan., looking for win no love in the States. some advice on opening a barbecue “There’s not even a KC joint across the pond. Masterpiece over here,” Tyrell Tyrell, c’84, then Oklahoma Joe’s says. “So I’m in the process of catering manager, first agreed to hire on doing my own and marketing Bryan Tyrell says American barbecue lovers living in as a long-distance consultant; in March it under the Bodean’s name.” London are flocking to Bodean’s:“It’s rewarding to have 2003 he jumped in whole hog and The restaurant has been a people walk out the door actually thanking you for having moved to London, where he is director fast hit with ex-pat Amer- a restaurant.” of operations for Bodean’s BBQ. icans, and Bodean’s British “It’s going over great,” Tyrell says and Continental customers “People think they’re starving for bar- from London, during the lull between are delighting in such novelties as becue? They’re starving even more for lunch and dinner. “We were just nomi- smoked-chicken gumbo and pulled- good Mexican food.” nated for the Carlton Awards, the equiv- pork sandwiches. The barbecue business is challenge alent of restaurant awards in London, Londoners might also soon experi- enough for now, and Tyrell is confident for best American restaurant.” ence more New World specialties, he’s a qualified ambassador after spend- Since his arrival, sales of saucy slabs thanks to Tyrell: “Ultimately, I would ing six years learning from one of the have first depended upon the business like to do a proper sports bar, and best, Jeff Stehney, c’84, owner of of barbecue education. Tyrell discovered maybe a little bit down the line we’ll Oklahoma Joe’s and creator of his own that the British have different names open a Mexican restaurant. When award-winning sauce. for some cuts of meat, or don’t offer Americans get together over here, they “I’m still getting used to watching American varieties at all. And restaurant start talking about Mexican food. They people eat wings and ribs with a knife employees still give him funny, “you- say, ‘Have you heard about this place and fork,” Tyrell says. “It’s a little discon- want-me-to-do-what?” looks when he over there?’ And somebody says, ‘No, I certing for me.” explains how to mix the beans or went there and it’s horrible.’

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI Associates in Topeka. April 28 in Apex, N.C. Patrick is an March 27 in Northglenn, Colo. Bradley Perry, j’88, lives in Topeka, associate with the Raleigh law firm of where he’s vice president at Intrust Patterson, Dilthey, Clay & Bryson. 1990 Bank. Leigh Borden Knubley, c’90, manages Praful Shah, g’88, PhD’90, directs 1989 compliance and human resources at the product development for Myogen. He Jerome Lonergan, g’89, recently KU School of Medicine in Wichita. lives in Superior, Colo. became president of Kansas Inc., an eco- Stephen Wade, j’90, publishes the David Welsh, b’88, is assistant athletic nomic development organization. He Morning Sun in Pittsburg. He recently director at in lives in Topeka. was profiled in Presstime magazine’s “20 Lubbock. Under 40” issue. MARRIED MARRIED Kim Lock, b’89, and Ernest Bittner, BORN TO: Michael Wingard, c’88, to Annette b’90, Aug. 2. They live in Overland Park Derek, j’90, and Jennifer Shaw Aguilar, May 5. They live in McAllen, and both work for Sprint, where Kim is a Schmidt, l’94, daughter, Caroline Texas, and he’s a self-employed marketing manager and Ernest is a Gaynel, Oct. 20 in Independence. optometrist. financial analyst. Derek serves in the Kansas Senate, and Jennifer lectures on political science BORN TO: BORN TO: at Pittsburg State University. Laurie Heaton, b’88, and Rodney Jeffrey Suggs, j’89, and Coleen Fannin, son, Brooks Fannin, Sept. 22 in Moriarty-Suggs, son, Samuel Jeffrey, 1991 Austin, Texas, where he joins a brother, Dec. 30 in Visalia, Calif., where he joins Keven Berman, a’91, is vice president Parker, 3. a sister, Hannah, 2. of Hoefer Wysocki Architects in Kansas Patrick Meacham, c’88, and Te d To w, c’89, and Catherine City. Sharmane, daughter, Erin Reagan, Traugott, p’91, son, Jacob Cyrus, Jay Coffman, c’91, manages operations

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Pharmaceuticals in Kansas City. She lives in Olathe. Leslie Wright Goodwin, j’92, and her husband, Bill, live in Scottsdale, Ariz., with their children, Thomas, 3, and Elise, 1. Teresa Mulinazzi Kempf, b’92, works for American Financial Advisors in Lawrence. She lives in DeSoto. Brian Robison, c’92, is a partner in the Dallas law firm of Vinson & Elkins. Ronald Roecker, j’92, commutes from Hermosa Beach, Calif., to Santa Monica, where he’s senior director of communications for the Recording Academy. Jennifer Sorem, c’92, is a senior loan officer for Lending Edge Mortgage in Colleyville, Texas. She lives in Flower Mound.

BORN TO: Susan Brinkman Moeser, j’92, and Chris, c’93, j’93, daughter, Claire Evelyn, Nov. 17 in Phoenix, where she joins a brother, Jack, 2. Chris practices law with Steptoe & Johnson in Phoenix.

1993 Tony Brizendine, a’93, manages proj- for Mypromstore.com in Leawood. He Neill, Sept. 11 in Sioux Falls, S.D. ects for WPH Architecture in Portland, lives in Baldwin City. Brandon Becicka, c’91, and Andrea, Ore. Darin Kempke, b’91, is a partner in daughter, Brennan Christine, Sept. 27 in John Mullies, b’93, h’97, recently was KPMG International. He lives in Olathe. Flower Mound, Texas. promoted at Cerner Deutschland, where Melanie Leary, l’91, practices with the Bryan Ruby, c’91, and Karen, son, he leads global projects. He divides his Demco Law Firm in Seattle, Wash. Logan Richard, Sept. 17 in Sioux Falls, time between homes in Overland Park S.D., where Bryan is the information and Innsbruck, Austria. MARRIED technology officer for the National David Murdock, b’93, recently moved Melanie Botts, j’91, to Ivano Viola, Weather Service. to Boston, where he’s senior manager Oct. 4 in Sydney, Australia, where she’s Gregory Rupp, b’91, and Jennifer and leader of the Executive Financial senior copy editor for Dow Jones Creswell Roth, c’93, l’98, daughter, Counseling Practice for New England. Newswires. Serena Josephine, Nov. 14 in Lawrence. Nancy Racunas, c’93, l’96, is a share- Sherrie Tubbs, d’91, to Brent Craig Stoppel, j’91, and Lora, daugh- holder in Polsinelli Shalton & Welte in Wiedeman, Sept. 27. They live in Colby. ter, Paige Olivia, Nov. 18 in Lawrence, Overland Park. Chadwick Waetzig, b’91, to Elizabeth where she joins two brothers, Nolan, 7, Jill Raines, j’93, supervises manage- Williams, Aug. 2 in San Juan Island, and Grant, 6. ment for MMG Worldwide in Kansas Wash. He’s a senior vice president with Matthew, j’91, and Paula Birkbeck City. She lives in Roeland Park. Marriott International, and she teaches Taylor, j’92, son, Carson Heath, Sept. 7. Munro Richardson, c’93, directs spe- at Georgetown University. They live in They live in Holton, and their family cial projects for the Ewing Marion Gaithersburg, Md. includes a son, Ryan, 3. Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. Daryn Schwartz, j’93, is an internal BORN TO: 1992 communications consultant for Allstate Mitchell, a’91, and Sarah Ann Lori Calcara, j’92, recently became Insurance. He lives in Chicago. Johnston Aidinger, a’91, son, Aiden a sales representative for TAP Cynthia Weller, b’93, recently became

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI a wholesale account executive with accounting content for Aspen Publishers Lawrence. She lives in Topeka. National City Home Equity. She lives in in Chicago. Susan Snider Price, g’94, is an educa- Prairie Village. Marc Hurlbert, c’94, is associate direc- tional diagnostician at V. Field Middle tor of strategic planning for the Juvenile School. She lives in The Colony, Texas. BORN TO: Diabetes Research Foundation in New Thomas Hilbert, d’93, and Dari, son, York City. BORN TO: Maurice Robert, June 30 in Seneca. Timothy Nester, b’94, lives in San Joseph Bernstein, c’94, and Leah, son, Jamie Howard, s’93, and Amy, son, Francisco and is vice president and con- Daniel Jordan, Nov. 20 in Atlanta, where Holland, Dec. 18 in Portland, Ore. troller at Comcast Cable he joins a sister, Hallie, 4. Communications in San Ramon. To n y, b’94, and Catherine Bubb 1994 Janelle Phillips, e’94, works as a proj- Campbell, b’94, daughter, Kristen Rachel Cannon, b’94, manages ect engineer for Landplan Engineering in Elizabeth, Sept. 15 in Overland Park,

Profile BY STEVEN HILL

Alumnus works to engage an acquaintance end in defeat. young people in politics “That was a wakeup call,” Gallaway says. “I realized politics doesn’t always apturing the presidency of the work out like you expect. But it wasn’t Young Democrats of America, until I got to KU that I finally felt like I as Chris Gallaway did in was someplace where I could start mak- CHRIS GALLAWAY COURTESY CAugust, isn’t so different than ing a difference in those elections.” the race for the White House. Intense The first Kansan to head the Young state-by-state campaigning is required to Democrats, Gallaway will try to make a win the top spot at the 43,000-member difference on the biggest stage of all: the group in Washington, D.C., the official U.S. presidential race. youth arm of the Democratic party. Increasing young-voter turnout in “I ended up being unopposed,” says November is his goal. He’s busy prepar- Gallaway, ’00, of his election at the ing local chapters to disprove the con- group’s national convention in Buffalo, ventional wisdom that young people N.Y., “so I must have done something don’t vote. As president of the Young Democrats of right in the process.” “We find that young voters respond if America, Gallaway will make voter turnout a Judging by his rise through the politi- they are motivated by other young vot- top priority.“We can’t rely on the candidates cal ranks, he has done lots of things ers,” Gallaway says. “They don’t respond or the senior party to do it; we have to take right since arriving at KU in 1995. An to TV ads or mailings geared toward soc- it upon ourselves to engage young people in internship with state Rep. Rocky cer moms or seniors. But if their peers the process.” Nichols, Topeka, hooked Gallaway on talk to them about why they should politics during his freshman year. He vote, they respond.” became president of the KU chapter of Among the highlights of Gallaway’s Gallaway believes. It’s essential to a the Young Democrats in 1997 and was two-year term is the chance to serve as a healthy democracy. elected state president of the group in delegate at the July Democratic National ”I really want to make a difference in 1998. That same year he went to work Convention in Boston. He’s looking for- turning out young people to the polls, to for the Kansas Democratic Party and by ward to helping the party make good on make sure that young voters are not 2000 was its executive director. a promise to involve more young people ignored in the political process,” he says. A heady rise for a 27-year-old from in the event, from the platform discus- “You hear candidates say that young tiny Dwight, Kan., population “300- sions to the entertainment. people don’t matter because they don’t something,” whose first political lesson Ultimately, engaging young voters is vote. I want to be one of the people who was seeing the Statehouse campaign of an issue that transcends party affiliation, helps change that.”

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 43 Class Notes where she joins a sister, Alexis, 2. Tony Jody Neff, c’96, m’00, practices sur- BORN TO: is a senior audit manager with KPMG gery at Medical Center Paul, e’97, a’98, and Donna International, and Catherine is a senior in Dallas, where he and his wife, Heidi, Schnur Birkholz, g’98, daughter, Alexina financial analyst for Sprint. make their home. Christina, Oct. 14 in Sheridan, Wyo. Heather Bowers Davis, b’94, and Matthew Ritchie, c’96, lives in Paul does design and Web development Robert, son, Anson Robert, Nov. 6 in Wichita, where he’s president of R-Con for Mountain West Group, and Donna Lewisville, Texas, where he joins three Corp. is an extension educator at the brothers, Alec, Ashton and Aiden. . MARRIED Jill Newport Helmle, c’97, and Chad, 1995 Heather Hubert, c’96, to Richard son, Beck Newport, Oct. 28 in Ithaca, Angela Capra, c’95, coordinates meet- Steger, Oct. 25 in Wichita, where she’s a N.Y. Jill is a consultant with Concept ings and membership for Diversified human-resource trainer at Heartspring Systems Inc. Consultants in Mission. and he’s a civil engineer at Koch Dana Wilfong Wilson, c’97, and Melissa Fleck, c’95, works for UPS in Industries. James, e’99, daughter, Nora Jean, Nov. 1 Roswell, Ga. She lives in Decatur. in Manhattan, where Dana studies veteri- Gregory Wolf, l’95, is a partner in the BORN TO: nary medicine at Kansas State Overland Park law firm of Shook Hardy Pedro Cabrero-Vazquez, g’96, and University. James works as a consultant & Bacon. Analia Lenguaza, g’96, daughter, Milena for Advantage Tech. Cabrero Lenguaza, Sept. 28 in East BORN TO: Hartford, Conn. Pedro is a customer 1998 Justin, b’95, and Jean Pinne technical representative for United William Nicks, b’98, is a senior Anderson, c’96, son, Joshua Frederick, Technologies. accountant with BKD in Kansas City. He Oct. 20 in Lawrence, where he joins a Corinne Clanton, d’96, son, Caden lives in Olathe. brother, Jack, who’s nearly 3. Justin Michael Clanton Pimentel, July 20 in Jason Purinton, b’98, works as a practices dentistry with Wilkerson, Portland, Ore. financial consultant for Fleet Boston Anderson Anderson. Daniel, b’96, and Tricia Milsap Financial in Overland Park. Gina Poppenga Hendren, n’95, and Hare, h’98, twins, Brecken Jo and Glenn Warning, g’98, manages global John, m’96, son, John Spencer, Oct. 5 in Brynn Louise, July 3 in Cedar Park, marketing communications for Holister Arlington, Va. Texas, where they join a brother, in Libertyville, Ill. He lives in Wilmette. Leslie Ain McClure, c’95, and Craig, William, 3. Kyle Wegner, d’98, is general man daughter, Lillian Doris, Aug. 1 in Ann Jason Hatfield, c’96, m’00, and Kasey, ager of Stone Creek, a restaurant in Arbor, Mich. son, Ryan Thatcher, Oct. 23 in Bronx, Lawrence. John, c’95, g’02, and Carrie N.Y., where Jason practices emergency Hoffmann Pepperdine, e’96, daughter, medicine at Jacobi Medical Center. MARRIED Josephine, Oct. 14 in Lawrence, where Craig Novorr, b’96, and Alyson, son, Sara Necessary, s’98, to Michael Bess, she joins a brother, Will, 2. John is a Tyler, Jan. 9 in Overland Park. Nov. 7 in Las Vegas. They are stationed senior consultant for Hartsook at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., where Companies. 1997 they are both captains and F-15E Lynn Fischer Schreiner, c’95, j’95, Miles, b’97, and Ginger Kelly Franz, instructors. and Greg, twins, Colby George, and d’97, g’02, live in Leawood with their Steven Tramba, c’98, and Julie Alexandra Beth, May 29 in Harper. Lynn son, Drake, 1. Miles is an account execu- Pflomm, c’99, Sept. 13 in Des Plaines, owns the Maxwell Group in Kingman. tive with Tek Systems. Ill. He’s a branch quality analyst for Amanda Goller, j’97, is a senior Grainger Industrial Supply, where she 1996 research analyst for McKinsey & Co. in coordinates university relations. They Kirtus Bocox, b’96, has been pro- London. live in Chicago. moted to federal tax manager at KPMG Jason Leiker, c’97, l’02, g’03, practices in Kansas City. law with Duggan Shadwick Doerr & BORN TO: Nicole Depetro, f’96, works as a Kurlbaum in Overland Park. Donika Fry Kaplan, c’98, and Adam, dance movement therapist for Motions Michele Jeter Park, c’97, coordinates son, Brady Keller, July 8 in Overland with Emotions. She lives in Deerfield clinical research data for Kansas City Park. Beach, Fla. Cancer Centers in Lenexa. She lives in Zachary Morin, j’98, and Sarah, son, Nancy Euston, j’96, is group media Olathe. Emmett Zachary, Dec. 2 in Buzzards Bay, supervisor at Barkley Evergreen & Tim Skarda, b’97, g’03, owns Allied Mass. Zachary is an account executive Partners. She lives in Leawood. Business Group. He lives in Kansas City. with Fiberlink Communications in

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Norwood. Wysocki Architects in Kansas City. of Kansas in Andover. Craig, d’98, and Amy Leiszler Bethany Dixcy York, b’99, is an asso- Robert Easterling, c’00, is a research Weishaar, d’98, g’02, daughter, Molly Jo, ciate product manager with Black & analyst with the Kansas Juvenile Justice Nov. 21 in Lawrence, where Amy teaches Decker in Lake Forest, Calif. She lives in Authority in Topeka. at Southwest Junior High School. Craig Laguna Hills. Matthew Tinnel, c’00, l’03, lives in directs business develoment at Security Wichita, where he’s an associate with Benefit Group in Topeka. MARRIED Gilliland & Hayes. Erin Dametz, b’99, to Tim Deneke, 1999 Aug. 9 in Olathe. She’s a senior under- MARRIED Kari Haverkamp Coultis, b’99, g’01, writer with The Hartford, and he Stacia Donovan, b’00, g’01, and l’03, recently joined Hinkle Elkouri in works for Heritage Tractor. They live Brian Sheern, c’01, l’05, Aug. 30 in Wichita as an associate attorney. in Lenexa. Wichita. She’s a distribution planner at Jason Novotny, c’99, manages a Renee Greenberg, f’99, to Scott Payless ShoeSource, and he’s completing branch of Intrust Bank in Topeka. His Brown, July 13. They live in Arlington a law degree at KU. They live in home is in Lawrence. Heights, Ill., and Renee is a band teacher Lawrence. Ken Soh, e’99, works as a software with Music Education Services. Julia Lipe, d’00, and Brian engineer with UGS PLM Solutions in Humphrey, c’00, Dec. 27 in Tulsa. She Seattle. He lives in Bellevue, Wash. BORN TO: studies medicine at the University of Matthew Swatek, b’99, is an invest- Carrie Moore Cox, n’99, and Joshua, Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in ment adviser representative for MetLife d’00, g’01, son, Tyler Joshua, Sept. 29 in Oklahoma City, and he’s an environmen- Resources in Overland Park. He and his Fort Collins, Colo. tal specialist with the Oklahoma City wife, Cindy, live in Kansas City with County Health Department. their son, Jacob. 2000 A.J. Ravgiala, c’00, and Aimee Price, Katherine Brune Waynick, a’99, Kimberly Allman, m’00, practices c’00, July 6 in Evergreen, Colo. They live works as a project architect with Hoefer medicine with Family Physicians in Austin, Texas.

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Jessica Slavik, c’00, to Nicholas Weaver, Nov. 1. They live in Woodridge, Ill., and she works for Morley Sales Co.

2001 Jeremy Applebaum, b’01, g’03, is a controller for Haven Financial Group in Shawnee Mission. Bradley Armstrong, EdD’01, lives in Liberty, Mo., where he’s principal at South Valley Junior High School. Jaime Beeson, j’01, is a media buyer with Barkley Evergreen & Partners in Kansas City. Deanna Berney, b’01, g’02, works as an accountant for BKD in Kansas City. Marjorie Bott, PhD’01, recently was appointed associate dean for research at the KU School of Nursing in Kansas City. She lives in Olathe. Lucas Miller, p’01, commutes from Jamestown, N.C., to Greensboro, where he’s a pharmacist at Eckerd Drug. Amanda Pitler, j’01, works as an account executive for Sullivan Higdon & Sink in Kansas City. Kathy Richardson, c’01, is a haz- ardous-waste materials technician for the city of Lawrence. Emory Rogers, c’01, works as a gov- ernment relations specialist for the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Va. Joshua Scofield, j’01, directs sports for radio station KREP in Belleville. He lives in Munden. Callie Shultz, b’01, g’03, coordinates health and safety education and directs marketing for the American Red Cross in Lawrence.

MARRIED Jack Chambers, e’01, g’03, and Jennifer Williams, c’02, Oct. 18 in Kansas City. They live in Overland Park. Nicole Charpentier, c’01, to Justin Gargiulo, July 19 in Prairie Village. Their home is in Somerville, Mass.

BORN TO: Derek Helms, j’01, and Tasha Keathley, c’02, c’03, son, Jack Alexander Deslauriers Keathley, Sept. 18 in Lawrence, where he joins twin sisters,

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI Liliana and Ella, 3. account executive for Worlds of Fun and Christina Wilson, c’03, to Neal King, Jennifer Colling Sesley, g’01, and Oceans of Fun in Kansas City. Oct. 25 in Lawrence, where they live. Danielle, daughter, Isabella, June 3 in Thais DaCosta Brandao, j’03, works Casper, Wyo., where she joins a sister, as an account executive for the BORN TO: Victoria, 6. Jennifer is a clinical dietitian Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore. Neil Hamill, m’03, and Elizabeth, son, at the Community Health Center of Joshua Ellwanger, l’03, practices law Owen Patrick, July 18 in Kansas City. Central Wyoming. with Armstrong Teasdale in Kansas City. Neil is an obstetrics/gynecology resident He lives in Lenexa. at KU Medical Center. 2002 Katherine Hollar, j’03, is an account Richard Ludwick, e’02, works as a executive with Sturgesord ASSOCIATES chemist with Quintiles Transnational Communications in Kansas City. Richard Clement wrote Books on the Corp. He and Laura Dercher Ludwick, Matthew Kim, c’03, works as a finan- Frontier: Print Culture in the American d’90, live in Overland Park. She’s a sen- cial adviser for American Express in West, 1763-1875. He’s special collections ior technical business representative for Long Beach, Calif. librarian at KU’s Spencer Research Midwest Research Institute. Timothy Knight, d’03, works as an Library, and he makes his home in Sara Nistler, c’02, manages business office assistant at Panza, Maurer, Lawrence. retention and expansion for the Olathe Maynard in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Chamber of Commerce. She lives in Shannon Moore, b’03, is an account- Overland Park. ant with McGladrey & Pullen in Kansas Shannon O’Toole, f’02, g’03, is assis- City. She lives in Gardner. tant director of elementary music for the Conor McCoy O’Neil, c’03, works for School Codes Letters that follow Seaman School District. She lives in Novus Print Media in Plymouth, Minn. names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school Topeka. Ann Ballard Spaulding, c’03, is an from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Sarah Seifert, b’02, g’03, works as a assistant broadcast buyer for Barkley show their class years. tax consultant with Ernst & Young in Evergreen & Partners in Kansas City. a School of Architecture and Urban Atlanta. Nikole Draper Thompson, n’03, Design Brandee Smith, j’02, writes for Vance works as a nurse at Overland Park b School of Business Publishing. She lives in Overland Park. Regional Medical Center. c College of Liberal Arts and Kerry Tubbs, j’02, is an account repre- Caroline Vernon, c’03, recently moved Sciences sentative with Weyforth-Haas Marketing from Des Moines to Zimbabwe, where d School of Education in Overland Park. she works for the Maryknoll Mission Katherine West, j’02, coordinates traf- Association of the Faithful. e School of Engineering fic for GlynnDevins Advertising and Sara Wunder, c’03, is a zookeeper at f School of Fine Arts Marketing in Overland Park. the Kansas City Zoo. g Master’s Degree h School of Allied Health MARRIED MARRIED j School of Journalism Trent Guyer, b’02, and Catherine Andrew Garcia, b’03, and Jessica l School of Law Brinton, c’03, Oct. 4 in KU’s Danforth Allio, d’02, Aug. 9 in Las Vegas. Their m School of Medicine Chapel. They live in Moundridge. home is in Lawrence. n School of Nursing Jodie Johnson, d’03, and Kyle Beisner, p School of Pharmacy BORN TO: g’04, June 6 in Lawrence, where she s School of Social Welfare Jeffery Glasgow, h’02, and Kerry, son, works for DCCCA and he works for DE Doctor of Engineering Grant William, Oct. 11 in Lawrence, Jayhawk Beverage. DMA Doctor of Musical Arts where Kerry works for the KU Dylan Kruger, c’03, to Katherine Endowment Association. Jeffery com- Allen, March 8 in Lawrence. He works at EdD Doctor of Education mutes to Topeka, where he’s a nurse Kruger Technologies in Lenexa, and she PhD Doctor of Philosophy anesthetist with the St. Francis Health works for the Shawnee Mission school (no letter) Former student Center. district. They live in Olathe. assoc. Associate member of the Heather Pearson, d’03, and Ryan Alumni Association 2003 Schulze, c’03, Aug. 9 in Lawrence. She Mark Belot, j’03, works as an account studies physical therapy at the KU executive for Fallon in Minneapolis, Medical Center, where he’s working on a Minn. doctorate in microbiology. They live in Maren Bradley, c’03, is a group sales Lenexa.

ISSUE 2, 2004 | 47 In Memory

The Early Years Herman Davis, ’33, 97, Jan. 7 in St. five grandchildren. Theodora Banker, c’27, 98, Dec. 21 in Joseph, Mo. He had a long career with Virginia Evans Ladd, d’32, 92, Dec. 2 Russell, where she had been office man- the Kansas City Police Department and in Eureka, where she was a retired music ager at L. Banker Merc. Co. Two later taught criminalistics at Kansas City, teacher. She is survived by two daugh- nephews and a niece survive. Mo., Community College. Surviving are ters, one of whom is Nancy Ladd Knoff, Arnstina Cissna Cress, c’19, Nov. 3 in four sons, three of whom are Howard, d’64; five grandchildren; and five great- Fort Scott. She is survived by a son, c’60, John, b’62, and Stanley, ’68; two grandchildren. Charles, c’59; and a daughter. sisters; nine grandchildren; nine great- Lou Lyon, e’36, 88, Oct. 7 in Verna Ayers Shry, c’28, 99, Dec. 28 in grandchildren; and three stepgrandchil- Albuquerque, N.M., where he was a Skokie, Ill. She is survived by a daughter, dren. retired chemical engineer. A memorial a son, seven grandchildren and three Hugh Edgerton, c’39, 87, Oct. 16 in has been established with the KU great-granddaughters. Wichita, where he had owned and oper- Endowment Association. He is survived ated the House of Carpet before retiring. by his wife, Jo, a son, a daughter and two 1930s He is survived by his wife, Margaret; two grandchildren. Etta Moten Barnett, f’31, 102, Jan. 2 daughters, one of whom is Carolyn Verna Severtson Merry, d’36, 89, in Chicago. She was a singer who Edgerton Nickel, c’72; a stepson; a step- Nov. 29 in Hutchinson, where she was a appeared on Broadway in “Porgy and daughter; a sister, Mary Edgerton retired bookkeeper for Boeing. Several Bess” and in the Hollywood films Ranney, c’39; 10 grandchildren; and a nieces and nephews survive. “Flying Down to Rio” and “Gold Diggers great-granddaughter. Doris Wood North, c’39, 84, Sept. 25 of 1933.” In “Rio,” the song she sang Virginia Papenhausen Filkin, n’38, 87, in Issaquah, Wash. She is survived by while Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Nov. 5 in Northville, Mich. A memorial her husband, Ray, e’42; two sons, danced, “The Carioca,” was nominated has been established with the KU Edward, c’67, m’71, and Charles, c’74; for an Academy Award. She also was Endowment Association. She is survived two daughters, one of whom is Judith invited to sing at the birthday party for by a son, a daughter, a sister, five grand- North Wright, c’65; a sister; and seven President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934. children and a great-grandson. grandchildren. A daughter, several grandchildren and Hugh Hadley, c’36, Dec. 13 in Kansas Minnie McDaniel Robertson, c’34, several great-grandchildren survive. City, where he had been an editor and g’37, 93, Nov. 24 in Medford, Ore., John Breyfogle, l’30, Jan. 11 in columnist for the Kansas City Star for where she was a retired teacher. A Phoenix. He practiced law in Johnson more than 30 years. He is survived by brother and a sister survive. County for many years and had lived in his wife, Freda Brooks Hadley, c’35; two Helen Sanderson Schenck, c’35, Dec. Olathe. He is survived by his wife, Sara daughters, one of whom is Elinor Hadley 1 in Royal Oak, Mich. She is survived by Jayne Scott Breyfogle, d’48; a son, Stillman, c’60; two sons, one of whom is three sons; a brother, Milton Sanderson, Robert, c’63; a daughter, Ann Breyfogle Fred, c’68; two brothers; five grandchil- c’32, g’33, PhD’37; and five grandchil- Johnson, n’88; two stepsons, Scott dren; and nine great-grandchildren. dren. Kreamer, c’73, and David Kreamer, c’79; Bette Wasson Hamilton, c’38, c’39, W.R.“Bub” Shaffer, c’36, 89, Dec. 21 a stepdaughter, Kate Kreamer, d’75, g’86; g’42, 87, Jan. 13 in Shawnee Mission. in Russell, where he was former presi- seven grandchildren; and two great- She taught at UMKC for many years and dent and board chairman of Home State grandsons. is survived by a daughter, Anne Bank. The former Shaffer-Holland Center William Cooksey, p’30, 96, May 7 in Hamilton Meyn, d’68; a son; six grand- used by athletes at KU for strength train- Garnett. Surviving are two sons, Robert, children; and six great-grandchildren. ing was named for him. He is survived e’61, g’62, and Richard, e’66; a daughter, Henry Hood, e’32, Feb. 26, 2003, in by his wife, Kaye, a stepson, a step- Linda Cooksey Ward, d’67, g’68; and Rochester, N.Y. Among survivors are a daughter and several stepgrandchildren. two grandchildren. daughter, Judith Hood Nitz, d’59; and Paul Woodmansee, c’34, 90, Jan. 9 in Orene Yowell Crockett, f’38, 87, Jan. two sons, one of whom is Carl, e’62. Lakewood, Colo. He had worked in the 1 in Shawnee Mission, where she was a Clara Gille Meeter, c’39, 86, Nov. 6 in insurance business and in portfolio man- retired music teacher. She is survived by Mount Pleasant, Texas. She is survived agement. Among survivors are a son; a two stepsons, one of whom is Scott, l’84; by three daughters, one of whom is daughter; and a brother, Richard, c’32. and two stepgrandchildren. Kathryn Young Klingaman, c’70; and Riley Woodson, e’35, 95, Jan. 2 in

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI Shawnee Mission. He was retired execu- Gloucester, Va. She had been a nurse, a Thomas, b’70, l’73; a daughter, tive partner and head of the power teacher, a business manager and a home- Carol Poos Maloney, ’67; three sisters; division of Black & Veatch. A memorial maker. Surviving are her husband, four grandchildren; and a great- has been established with the KU Ronald, c’47, g’49; a daughter; a son; a grandson. Endowment Association. He is survived sister; and two grandchildren. George Pyle, c’48, 76, Jan. 1 in by his wife, Virginia; a son, Donald, c’53, Virginia Griffin Scruggs Hickey, ’40, Hutchinson, where he had been city m’56; a daughter, Marjorie Woodson 85, Dec. 15 in Joplin, Mo. She had been manager from 1967 until 1989. He is Brownlee, ’57; six grandchildren; and 10 president of the Hutchinson Coca-Cola survived by his wife, Donna Bower Pyle, great-grandchildren. Bottling Co. before moving to Joplin. c’51; three sons, two of whom are Eric, Survivors include her husband, Larry, f’83, and Christopher, c’88; a daughter, 1940s b’43; a son, William Scruggs, g’69; a Mary Pyle Baker, c’89; three brothers; a Frank Alderson, c’48, 79, Oct. 24 in daughter; six grandchildren; and six sister; and six grandchildren. Alexandria, Va. He did investigative work great-grandchildren. Vernon Sanders, e’49, Oct. 13 in San for the Civil Service Commission in Olga Carl House, f’42, 83, Nov. 4 Antonio. He is survived by his wife, Washington, D.C., for many years. He is in Fayetteville, Ark. She is survived by a Charlotte; two daughters, a son, two survived by his wife, Patricia, two sons daughter; three sons, one of whom is stepdaughters, a stepson and three and four grandchildren. Jerry, b’73; two sisters, Erna Carl grandchildren. Alfred Burgert, b’48, l’50, 79, Dec. 16 Gilliam, f’42, and Rita Carl Orr, ’52; Alexander Shifrin, c’40, m’46, Nov. 29 in Pittsburg, where he was former presi- a brother, Rudolf Carl, ’47; seven in Kansas City, where he practiced medi- dent, CEO and director of First State grandchildren; and two great-grand- cine for many years. He is survived by Bank & Trust. He is survived by his wife, children. five daughters and three grandchildren. Betty Koontz Burgert, c’48; a daughter, Warren Jones, a’47, 84, Sept. 25 in St. Kathryn Pees Stitt, c’44, 81, Nov. 9 in Maretta Burgert Jeuland, c’71; two sons; Paul, Minn. He lived in Santa Fe, N.M., Overland Park. She is survived by her and three grandchildren. where he moved after retiring as partner husband, Ronald, m’45; a daughter, Lois Wilson Claflin, c’41, 84, Sept. 30 in the Topeka architecture and engineer- Martha Stitt Schwegler, n’70; two sons, in Kansas City, where she was a retired ing firm of Van Doren, Hazard and Ronald, c’71, m’75, and Richard, c’75; customer-services representative for Stallings. Survivors include his wife, six grandchildren; and three great-grand- Security Bank. She is survived by two Margaret; two sons, Bruce, c’68, and children. daughters, one of whom is Mary Claflin Mark, c’72, m’75; two brothers, Martin, Dean Stoneback, ’44, 81, Jan. 7 in Funyak, c’75; a brother, Claude Wilson b’46, g’47, and Harold, b’49; three Lawrence, where he was a farmer. He is Jr., e’50; a grandson; and two stepgrand- grandchildren; and two great-grand- survived by three daughters; a son, children. children. William, c’78; a brother, Ray, b’41; three David Clymer, j’48, 79, Dec. 12 in El John Margrave, e’48, PhD’51, Dec. 18 grandchildren; and four great-grandchil- Dorado, where he owned and operated in Houston, where he was a professor of dren. the El Dorado Times. He is survived by chemistry at Rice University. Surviving Edward Surface, c’48, April 5 in his wife, Sherry, assoc.; a son; three are his wife, Mary Lou Davis Margrave, Waco, Texas. He had been a Social daughters, one of whom is Sarah Clymer b’48; a son; a daughter; a sister; and five Security claims representative and is sur- Stern, j’71; three grandchildren; and a grandchildren. vived by his wife, Doris; three daughters, great-grandchild. Ernest Mitts, c’48, m’51, 81, Sept. 5 in one of whom is Molly Surface Kirschner, Harold Feder, e’44, 82, April 3 in Overland Park. He was a retired physi- h’83; and a brother, James, c’42, g’48. Boulder, Colo., where he was president cian and is survived by his wife, Helen; Margaret Stookey Turner, f’40, 85, of Fisher Nut Co. He is survived by his two sons, one of whom is Warren, c’72; Aug. 12. She lived in Eugene, Ore. Two wife, Zetta Fisher Feder, assoc.; a daugh- four daughters, two of whom are Valerie daughters, four grandchildren and three ter; a son; a brother; and four grandchil- Mitts Wilson, c’78, and Helen Marie great-grandchildren survive. dren. Mitts Lysaught, c’84; a stepson; a step- Adrian Wallace, b’48, Oct. 9 in Ronald Hadley, a’49, Dec. 15 in Sun daughter; a brother; a sister; 16 grand- Odessa, where he had owned a car City Center, Fla., where he was retired children; four stepgrandchildren; and dealership and was a wheat farmer. He from a long career with Boeing. He is two great-grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Joan, and his survived by his wife, Lucille; two sons, John Poos, b’42, 83, Dec. 10 in brother, George, c’50. one of whom is Stephen, d’74; two Wichita, where he was a partner in C.D.Williams Jr., b’48, 80, Dec. 14 in daughters; two stepdaughters; a brother; Corporate Finance Associates. A memo- Anthony, where he was a farmer, a car 12 grandchildren; and 12 great-grand- rial has been established with the KU dealer and a banker. He is survived by children. Endowment Association. He is survived his son, David, c’85; a daughter, Eileen Jean Spring Herd, c’49, 81, Dec. 18 in by his wife, Martha, assoc.; a son, Williams Ochoa, d’84; and a grandson.

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1950s c’74, g’77; two sisters, one of whom Timmons Spears, ’55, 68, Dec. 14 near Lawrence Abbott, e’50, 83, Jan. 14 in is Erin Gasper Marcus, c’57; and a Tucson, Ariz., where they lived, when the Wichita, where he was a retired aeronau- granddaughter. plane Joe was flying crashed. Joe had tical engineer with the Federal Aviation Richard Harper, f’51, 73, June 21 in been a general practitioner for many Administration. He is survived by three Burley, where he was a title officer and years in Cabool, Mo., and Judith had daughters, one of whom is Mary, office manager at Cassia County managed his office. Survivors include a PhD’00; a son; two sisters; and five Abstract. He is survived by his wife, son and two daughters, one of whom is grandchildren. Beth, a son, a daughter, a sister, a Catherine Spears Spillman, d’80. Jerry Alberts, b’55, 70, Jan. 17 in brother, two grandchildren and two Everett “Jack” Sutton, c’51, June 9 Springfield, Ill. He was guidance director stepgrandchildren. in Lyons, Colo. Surviving are his wife, and a tennis and basketball coach at James Hibbard, e’58, 68, Nov. 24 in Shirley; two sons; and a brother, Lincoln Community High School for 34 Battleground, Wash. He had been a civil Carl, e’43. years. Survivors include his wife, Hazel; engineer for the city of Huntington Robert Williams, ’54, 91, Dec. 31 in four sons, one of whom is John, c’93; Beach, Calif., and is survived by his wife, Wichita, where he moved after a long and three grandchildren. Jane; three sons; a brother, John, c’59, career as a geologist in Chanute. His Paula Aronhalt Bartlow, d’59, 71, PhD’70; four grandchildren; and a great- wife, Helen Cronemeyer Williams, ’54; a Aug. 22 in Portland, Ore., where she was grandchild. son; a sister; and two grandsons survive. a retired professor of French. She is sur- Kenneth Hillyer, c’50, m’58, 76, Sept. vived by a daughter; a son, Stephen, 20 in Eugene, Ore. He had been an anes- 1960s d’81, g’01; a sister, Francile Aronhalt Hill, thesiologist at Sacred Heart Medical Norma Groom Bennett, j’68, 57, d’56; and four grandchildren. Center and is survived by his wife, Nov. 2 in Weatherby Lake, Mo. She James Childers, d’52, 76, Nov. 21 in Francee; two sons, one of whom is Jon, worked in advertising and graphic Lawrence, where he worked for the U.S. m’92; a daughter; a brother; a sister, arts for 35 years and owned Big Stick Postal Service. He is survived by his wife, Jean Hillyer Smith, n’53; and six Productions. Her husband, Henry, Merl; three sons, two of whom are grandchildren. survives. James, c’94, and John, d’90; two broth- Mildred Lacey, s’55, 91, May 29 in Thomas Diehl, f’61, 71, Nov. 16 in ers; two sisters, one of whom is Clara Little Rock, Ark. She had been a social Kansas City, where he was retired from Childers Westphal, d’51; seven grand- worker. A sister survives. Commerce Bank. His mother, a brother children; and four great-grandchildren. Frank Obenland, c’50, 75, Dec. 25 in and two sisters survive. Betty Frazier Clark, d’52, 73, Jan. 5 Lawrence. He had been executive vice Darlene Becker Luallen, c’64, 61, in Prairie Village. She had been a teacher president of the Bank of Perry, and he Nov. 22 in Wichita, where she had and is survived by her husband, had been mayor of Perry before moving worked at the YWCA Crisis Center. She Frederick; three sons, Dan Craig, b’81, to Lawrence. Survivors include his wife, is survived by her husband, Ron, two l’84, Mark Craig, d’89, and Guy Clark, Donna; a stepdaughter, Linda Condray sons, a brother, a sister and a grand- ’88; and six grandchildren. Saldana, d’74; and a stepson. daughter. James Curry, b’57, 69, Dec. 12 in Judith Cotton Runnels, n’58, 68, Nov. John Olson, b’60, 66, Oct. 28 in Wichita, where he was retired from Myer 20 in Weed, Calif. She had been a nurse, Jamestown, N.C. He had a career in the Nursery. A sister and a brother survive. a lobbyist for the Kansas State Nursing textile industry and is survived by his Patricia Corder Deeds, ’53, April 23 Association, a member of the Kansas wife, Barbara, a son and a grandson. in Houston. She is survived by her hus- House of Representatives and executive Karen Plisky, d’69, Sept. 26 in band, Charles, c’51; two sons, Robert, director of economic lifelines for the Overland Park. She was the developmen- c’77, and Charles, c’75; a brother; and Kansas Highway Coalition. Surviving are tal disabilities teacher at Martin City two grandsons. her husband, John, c’57, m’61; a son, Middle School for 25 years and is sur- John Fifield, b’53, 73, Nov. 8 in John, ’83; two daughters, Ruth Marie, vived by her parents, Robert, assoc., and Overland Park, where he owned The ’83, and Laura Runnels Fleming, c’85; a Rosemary Hoover Plisky, ’45; and a sis- Workshop. He is survived by his wife, brother, Corlett Cotton, b’60; and five ter, Carol Plisky Huskey, c’78. Charleen, two sons, two sisters and grandsons. Gerard Schroepfer, j’64, 68, Jan. 3 in seven grandchildren. Alvin Schmid, a’56, 73, June 16 in Woodbury, Minn., where he was retired Arthur “Beezie” Gasper, ’54, 77, Jan. Rhinelander, Wis. He owned Design from a long career with 3M. Among sur- 9 in Kansas City. He lived in Lawrence Group Inc. and is survived by his wife, vivors are a son, two daughters, a sister, and had been a salesman for Munns Nancy Russell Schmid, c’55; two daugh- a brother and two granddaughters. Medical Supply in Topeka. Surviving are ters, one of whom is Susan Schmid his wife, Charmaine; a daughter, Sally Searls, ’82; and two grandchildren. 1970s Gasper Bozarth, c’77; a son, Stephen, Joe Spears, m’54, 78, and Judith Robert Bodell, c’75, 55, Oct. 4 in

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI Portland, Ore., where he was a computer 1980s wife, Marrillie Cochran Good, ’65; a mapper for Northwest Natural Gas. A Wade Baker, ’80, 52, Sept. 13 in daughter, Carolyn Good Blakeman, f’85; sister survives. Kansas City. He is survived by his par- two sons, Jeff, a’78, and James, c’78; a Janie Choice Cavitt, d’73, l’78, 56, ents, Joe Baker, g’59, and Cynthia; a brother; and seven grandchildren. Dec. 3 in Prairie Village. She was deputy brother; and a sister, Joanna Baker Paul Gump, 83, Nov. 13 near district counsel for the U.S. Army Corps Grogan, g’92. Lawrence, where he had been a profes- of Engineers and had recently been Kevin Caldwell, b’83, 47, Nov. 2 in sor of psychology at KU. He lived in admitted to the bar of the Supreme Kansas City, where he worked in the Oskaloosa and is survived by his wife, Court of the United States. Surviving are healthcare and restaurant fields. He is Natalie Stronin Gump, assoc.; a son; two her husband, Bruce, c’67, l’80; three survived by his parents; and five broth- daughters, Deborah, j’77, and Martha daughters, two of whom are Jennifer, ers, two of whom are Richard, c’65, and Gump Benedict, c’80; two brothers; and c’92, m’97, and Lindsey, ’04; her parents; Christopher, c’79. three grandchildren. and three sisters, one of whom is Paula Robert Lindeman, b’83, 43, Dec. 28 Jeremy Matchett, p’56, g’75, PhD’76, Choice Timmons, g’82, PhD’94. in Overland Park, where he was a certi- 69, Oct. 11 in Lewistown, Mont. He was Robert Johnson, b’78, 55, July 21 in fied financial planner. He is survived by associate dean of pharmacy at KU for 16 Santa Monica, Calif. He was an attorney his wife, Mindy; a daughter; and a sister, years and had returned to full-time and is survived by his wife, Fay; a daugh- Katherine Lindeman Wells, d’77. teaching and research in the pharmacy ter; a son; his parents; and two sisters, Alan Ptacek, c’83, 43, Dec. 16 in practice department on Aug. 1. Survivors Nancy Johnson Morris, n’68, and Gloria Hamilton, N.J. He had worked for include his wife, Gayle Barry Matchett, Johnson Walker, ’03. Lucent Technologies. His father, Michael ’59; two sons; a daughter, Kera, c’88; a John Keiter, PhD’74, 64, Oct. 6 in Ptacek, ’52; his mother, Georgia Ptacek, brother; and four grandchildren. Kansas City. He is survived by his wife, c’53; and a brother, Russell, ’04, survive. Harry Statland, m’39, 86, Dec. 20 in Bobbi, two sons, two daughters, two Dale Tinberg, e’84, 44, Oct. 16 in Kansas City, where he was a retired brothers and six grandchildren. Overland Park, where he was an automo- physician. He had been an associate clin- Deborah Baeder Northam, d’72, 54, tive technician. He is survived by two ical professor of medicine at the KU Jan. 4 in Lincoln, Neb. She lived in daughters; a son; his parents, Eugene, Medical Center for many years and is Shawnee Mission, where she was a c’50, and Darlene Schwendiman survived by his wife, Alice; two step- teacher. Surviving are a daughter, Megan Tinberg, c’81; and a sister, Lori Tinberg daughters, two stepsons, one of whom is Younger, s’96; a son, Nate Younger, c’01; Roberts, c’86. William Nast, j’83; a brother, Morris, her parents; a sister; and two brothers. Patrick Vickers, j’85, 41, Nov. 10 in c’42, m’44; and six grandchildren. James Oakson, j’74, 51, Nov. 10 in Leawood, where he worked with Real George Thomas, 93, June 14 in Kansas City, where he worked for Foods. He is survived by his wife, Polly Lawrence. He drove a bus for baseball Phoenix Office Products. A memorial has Carney Vickers, ’86; a son; three daugh- and men’s basketball teams for many been established with the KU ters; his mother, Susan, assoc.; a sister, years. Survivors include a son; two Endowment Association. He is survived Casey Vickers Roth, c’80; and a brother, daughters, one of whom is Rosemary by his wife, Patricia Gray Oakson, d’74; a Robert Jr., c’83. Thomas Crouch, ’61; a sister; and two daughter, Jennifer, j’00; his parents, brothers, one of whom is Fred, ’49. John, c’40, and Joan Oakson, d’42; a 1990s Francis Winterburg, e’48, 82, Jan. 11 brother, John, b’64, g’65; and a sister. Betsi Brooks Krumm, d’95, g’98, 32, in Lawrence, where he taught in KU’s Lee Anne Schuler, ’77, 49, Nov. 6 in Oct. 3 in Kansas City, where she was a engineering department for many years. Mission. She worked for the U.S. teacher. She is survived by her husband, He later worked for Phillips Petroleum in Department of Education and is sur- Berent, c’93, m’98; two daughters; her Stavanger, Norway. He is survived by his vived by her husband, Pat Wiley; her parents, Robert, j’64, and Cheri Keltner wife, Ardella LaVerne Offen Winterburg, parents, Charles “Joe” Schuler, e’48, and Brooks, s’64; a brother, Robert, assoc.; c’74; three daughters, Vashti, c’74, g’76, Rosie; two brothers, one of whom is two sisters, one of whom is Staci Brooks Martha Winterburg Chapin, j’72, and Mark, f’73; and two sisters, one of whom Tate, c’89; and her grandmother. Marie Winterburg Mack, d’86; a son, is Kim Schuler Wright, ’84. Roy, e’84; and seven grandchildren. Philip Smith, d’70, f’72, g’76, 55, Nov. The University Community 11 in Memphis, Tenn., where he headed Lawrence Good, g’63, 79, Nov. 18 in Associates the cataloging and library systems at the Kansas City. He lived in Lawrence, Katherine “Kitty” Hall Wagstaff, 88, University of Memphis. A memorial has where he was the principal in the archi- Oct. 21 in Mission Hills. She is survived been established with the KU tecture firm of Lawrence R. Good & by a daughter; two sons, Robert, l’66, Endowment Association. A sister, Linda Associates. He taught architecture at KU and Thomas, l’72; 10 grandchildren; and Smith Winters, c’66, survives. from 1958 until 1963. Surviving are his two great-grandchildren.

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(largemouth bass earn that distinction), they do prey on minnows. But if sunfish make

EARL RICHARDSON so-so predators, they appar- ently make great nannies. “The sunfish will fan the nest to remove silt and keep Doctoral student the eggs well oxygenated,” Bridgett Chapin, g’99, Campbell says. They also ward and aquatic ecologist off predators the tiny minnow Scott Campbell, c’80, would be helpless to stop. g’82, use underwater The discovery enabled video equipment to Campbell and his colleagues observe Topeka Shiners. to successfully propagate shin- ers in captivity. Scientists have Researchers at Kansas been trying to manage that Biological Survey have feat for years, but none had developed a propagation succeeded. Until now. technique to help Using sunfish “associates” rejuvenate the endan- and 1-inch diameter gravel in gered species. 2 to 6 feet of water, survey biologists raised 20,000 shin- ers in ponds at the KU Field Sun and shine Station and Ecological Sunfish key to boosting endangered Topeka Shiner Reserves from a stock of 290 wild fish captured from a Kansas stream. Their propaga- ig fish eat little fish. This simple fact is a tion “recipe” has been duplicated by fish biolo- seemingly irrefutable tenet of natural gists at the Missouri Department of law—and bait fishing. But in the case of Conservation. KU has also received requests for Bthe endangered minnow known as the shiners from researchers at the University of Topeka Shiner, a bigger fish may hold the key to Minnesota, Kansas State and the Department of the little fish’s survival. Defense. Researchers at the Kansas Biological First identified in a Topeka creek in 1884, Survey have found that Topeka Shiners Topeka Shiners once thrived in small prairie hatch more young when they streams from Minnesota to Kansas. They have lay their eggs on sun- disappeared from 90 percent of their range in the fish nests. Using past half century. Numbers dwindled so much superior numbers that the fish was added to the federal endangered as a shield, dozens species list in 1998. of shiners dart in and The propagation technique pioneered at KU is spawn among a sunfish’s eggs. a big boost for those working to re-establish the “Then they allow the sunfish to assume all the species. duties of tending and protecting the nest,” says “People have been very hesitant to use their Scott Campbell, c’80, g’82, research associate own endangered populations for study,” at the survey. Campbell says. “Now we have enough captively It’s a risky move: Although sunfish are not propagated fish that we can provide them with among the most voracious shiner predators fish to study.” GAROLD SNEEGAS GAROLD

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI The scientists in turn hope to answer have all kinds of choices,” she says, “and Johnson, who oversaw the collection for questions about how the minnows the more you know the more colors you five years in the mid-1980s. respond to pesticide runoff and changes can have.” Now there is nothing left even to pay in water clarity and temperature. Those Now Schwartz is delivering the sad hourly wages for an assistant to carry on answers should aid the U.S. Fish and news that KU’s palette of rare recordings the cataloging. Schwartz says a private Wildlife Service effort to rebuild dwin- is drying up. The Archive of Recorded gift of about $125,000 would give mod- dling shiner populations. Sound, an administrative orphan that ern life to the entire collection as an Perfecting the propagation technique Schwartz manages, has essentially run accessible, preserved resource. She also also helps convince scientists that they out of money. The treasure-trove over- is applying for federal grants, and con- can respond if an environmental crisis flowing with recordings and ephemera cedes that the School of Fine Arts can’t threatens a local shiner community. That certainly won’t be discarded, but it won’t afford to fund the archive as well as the happened two years ago in Willow be cataloged, organized or digitized more mainstream Thomas Gorton Music Creek, a small stream on the Kansas- either. (Only about 5 percent of the col- and Dance Library. Colorado border. Someone illegally lection is indexed online.) And students, At every turn and on every shelf, introduced largemouth bass to the faculty and researchers who hope to dig unknown musical treasures, dating as far stream, nearly wiping out native shiners. through it may now do so only with an back as the earliest days of recorded Because they live in small, isolated appointment. sound, yearn to sing out their secrets. headwaters, Topeka Shiners are sensitive Among many collections, most noted Their silence could become permanent. to such small-scale changes. “Now that are the Wright Jazz Archive, donated by To illustrate the urgency, Schwartz we know we can rescue these fish and the late KU jazz legend Dick Wright, points to long shelves of reel-to-reel maintain them in captivity,” Campbell f’53, g’56, and the incomparable Seaver tapes in tired boxes. says, “we know we can act quickly in a Opera Collection, gathered by professor “These are operatic performances that crisis situation.” emeritus and opera broadcaster James are not available anywhere else,” To Campbell and his colleagues, it’s Seaver. Though housed in Murphy Hall, Schwartz says, her enthusiastic tone not simply a question of saving a tiny the collection has never had much of an dropping to melancholy. “We need to minnow. It’s about saving the unique official home since being cut loose in the digitize them as fast as humanly possi- prairie habitat the minnow calls home. 1980s by University Libraries. It survived ble. We are likely to get one good play “To many people, the Topeka Shiner since 1998 on a $54,000 gift from out of them and then that’s it. In the is just bait. But unlike a lot of species, it Maurine Waterstradt Adams, c’45, of meantime, they are sitting here falling is intolerant of environmental stress,” Osage City, and her late husband, Paul, apart.” Campbell says. “So it’s very valuable in c’45, m’47, and in recent months on a —Chris Lazzarino gauging the health of the overall environ- gift from Librarian Emerita Ellen ment, which ultimately affects humans’ welfare.” After all, big fish eat little fish. —Steven Hill EARL RICHARDSON (2) Song sung blue A treasured musical archive of jazz, opera and ephemera fights for its life

oberta Freund Schwartz, assis- tant professor of historical musicology, suggests student Rmusicians should learn swaths Roberta Freund Schwartz hopes a benefactor will rescue of musical styles as a painter would the Archive of Recorded Sound from imminent obscurity. know the colors in a tray of oils. “You

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and Management. Their paper revealed OREAD READER that border counties emit up to 600 per- cent more air pollution than do interior True crime time

EARL RICHARDSON counties and up to 55 percent more water pollution. Taut tale shows how Kelly However, border counties are not went out in a blaze of stupidity always dirtier. Border and interior coun- ties produce equal amounts of the types hatever roguish glamour of wastes that are stored at the site we might endow on where they were produced or at a land- Prohibition-era gangsters, fill within the same state, according to W save none of it for George Whitford. This suggests to Whitford that R. “Machine Gun” Kelly. states use one standard when regulating In his terrific true-crime history pollution that stays home and another Machine Gun Kelly’s Last Stand, author for pollution that can cross state lines. Stanley Hamilton, j’55, of Arlington, Va., This double standard even shows up shows that the notoriety Kelly chalked in the air pollution produced on the up as a stylish rum-runner and second- Whitford eastern and western borders of states, rate bank robber led to disastrous over- Whitford said. Eastern border counties confidence: namely, Kelly’s surety that produce more air pollution than their he could keep pace with the widow counterparts on western borders do. Kathryn Brooks Thorne, who might Whitford believes that the difference have killed her third husband and used Pass the muck may come from regulators taking into his estate to go on a binge that landed account the prevailing winds, which her in Kelly’s lap in a Texas honky-tonk. Pollution tolerated more in blow from west to east. Regulators may Kelly, by Hamilton’s persuasive border counties, study finds be more lenient with smog produced on account, fell fast, fell hard, and eagerly a state’s eastern border that quickly became a fool for the hard-drinking ansas and Missouri have a blows over the state line. sociopath. It was Kathryn who paid famous feud, but research indi- Whitford and Helland did their com- $250 for the pawn-shop machine gun cates that they are not alone in parison using information from the that would become her husband’s dubi- Ktreating their neighbors poorly. Toxics Release Inventory, or TRI. The ous trademark, and it was Kathryn who Apparently, many states view their neigh- Environmental Protection Agency uses insisted he spend endless hours practic- bors as a convenient dump for pollution. the TRI to track emissions of 600 differ- ing with a gun he would never have the Andrew Whitford, assistant professor ent toxic chemicals. Companies that pro- gumption to fire in anger. of political science and environmental duce at least 25,000 pounds of a toxic In summer 1933, Kelly made another studies, has published a study showing chemical must report their releases to bad decision, scheming with a Joe that counties in a state’s interior produce the TRI. Whitford and Helland used TRI Nobody named Albert Bates to kidnap a less air and water pollution than do data from 1987 to 1996 for all counties businessman. They chose Oklahoma counties that border another state, in the United States. City oil executive Charles Urschel. They another nation, the ocean, or a Great Whitford says his research raises chose poorly. Lake. Whitford and co-author Eric some serious questions about the cur- Kelly and Bates stormed Urschel’s Helland of Claremont McKenna College rent system of regulatory federalism home during a Saturday-night bridge believe that the increased pollution in used to control pollution. Under this game with the neighbors, and in the border counties arises in part because system, the federal government enacts ensuing adventure, which composes state regulators are more tolerant of con- laws such as the Clean Air Act and the about the first third of Hamilton’s book, tamination that can drift into another Clean Water Act. Enforcement of these stashed their blindfolded captive on the state or out to sea. laws then falls to the states because the north Texas farm belonging to Kathryn’s “The way we think about it is, ‘Fish EPA and other federal regulatory agen- mother and stepfather. don’t vote,’” Whitford says. “There is a cies do not have enough resources. Urschel kept his cool and made men- greater chance of waste migration to “We’re finding an effect that shouldn’t tal notes of everything he could take in nonrepresented populations.” be there if you buy the whole idea of reg- with his remaining senses, including Whitford and Helland published their ulatory federalism,” Whitford says. flight patterns of an airplane he heard research in the November issue of the —Michael Campbell, g’93, is a Eudora each morning. When the family paid the Journal of Environmental Economics free-lance writer. astounding ransom of $200,000, Kelly

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI and Bates released Urschel near Urschel replied, “We have Norman, Okla. Their parting threat was thrown our lot with Law and Machine Gun Kelly’s that Urschel not aid the FBI in its search. Government and are in this Last Stand Urschel returned to Oklahoma City fight to the finish. The Urschel By Stanley Hamilton near midnight, slipped past sleepy family does not waste one reporters and entered his home by the moment in giving gangland its University Press of back door. He told lawmen everything answer.” Kansas, $29.95 he knew, and the next morning told While serving his life sen- reporters he remembered nothing. tence on Alcatraz Island, Kelly The bluff worked, and Urschel’s was both audacious and descriptions helped an agent sketch a ashamed in yet another letter to plan of the house that proved to be a vir- Urschel, which Hamilton reprints in full after the breathless drama of a kidnap- tual aerial photo of the property. The FBI in a splendid appendix filled with docu- ping in progress. tracked down the flight he heard, an ments, letters and biographical sum- But he is to be praised for another American Airways route to Amarillo, and maries for all of the major players. matter of judgment: The well-paced zeroed in on the farmhouse. Near the end of a rambling letter that book is the right length. Although it J. Edgar Hoover saw to it that his nas- shows the pitiful crook’s wasted intelli- offers societal context, personal histories cent FBI made its first splash by cracking gence and insights, Kelly can’t resist a and two trials, as well as a complex the case; Bates and others were put to final barb: “How is your bridge game? crime examined from start to finish, the speedy trial, even while the Kellys were Are you still vulnerable? I don’t mean book is a prompt read; in this regard, still on the run. During that first trial, that as a dirty dig but you must admit Hamilton shows the restraint of a confi- Kelly wrote Urschel a remarkable letter, you lost your bid on the night of July 22, dent storyteller. which was read in open court. 1933.” And this time Kelly signs off, “Of Machine Gun Kelly’s Last Stand should It began, “Ignorant Charles,” and got course, I should enjoy hearing from you earn reputable standing in true crime, a less friendly from there. anytime. With best wishes, I am, Very competitive genre regularly noted for its “You are living on borrowed time truly yours, Geo. R. Kelly, Reg. No. 117.” terrific new entries. Best of all, Hamilton now,” Machine Gun threatened from Hamilton makes missteps in his book, paints no sympathy for criminals who afar. “I am spending your money to have notably his decision to include fictional rain destruction wherever they roam, you and your family killed—nice eh?” He riffs of thoughts and conversation. and he returns to the national memory a signed it, “Your worst enemy, Geo. R. Thankfully they are in italics, and so can resolute family that refused to cower. Kelly,” adding, “See you in hell.” be easily ignored, and are infrequent —Chris Lazzarino

Coming attractions At the end of the January festival, Willmott landed the biggest prize: a deal with IFC Films, distributor of the 2002 hit t has been a very good winter for Kevin “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” Willmott and his film “CSA: The I “What it boils down to is you’ve got to Confederate States of America.” get the movie to the audience,” Willmott In a span of weeks, the assistant profes- says.“‘CSA’ is a unique film. In many ways it sor of theatre and film landed big-name sells itself. People are curious. But you still support, critical acclaim and a distribution need the right marketing.” deal for his satirical mockumentary-style The film could reach theatres as early as film about what life in the United States September. might have been like had the South won For “CSA” director of photography Matt the Civil War. Jacobson, the festival marked a second In December,Willmott learned the straight Sundance success.The associate movie he wrote and directed would show professor of theatre and film was one of at the Sundance Film Festival. On the eve of three cinematographers on “Bukowski: Born the festival, filmmaker Spike Lee joined the Into This,” a feature documentary of the project as executive producer.“CSA” sold 2003 Sundance Festival.The portrait of poet out all of its Sundance screenings and drew Charles Bukowksi hit screens in March. rave reviews from film critics. Willmott and Jacobson —Steven Hill

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tive specialist, Cindi Hodges. “They make this feel more like a humanities building.” The windows were donated in 1936 and ’37, and for 40 years graced Spooner Hall’s art museum. When the Spencer Museum of Art opened and Spooner was closed for ren- ovations, the philosophy department requested the windows. But before they could make it the few hundred yards down Jayhawk Boulevard, they were lost. Utterly, officially, lost. Richard De George, University distin- guished professor of philosophy, refused to give up, and in 2002 coaxed the Univer- sity into a final search. And voilà, the win- dows were found, in the Spencer Museum’s basement. “Stained-glass windows in Wescoe Hall seemed like an oxymoron,” De George said Professor Richard De at the dedication that came 24 years late. George became entranced “The brick and mortar don’t matter. It is by the stained-glass win- the spirit that this building contains that dows in 1959, his first year gives it life and meaning. These windows at KU, when he passed reflect that spirit and tell students and all Spooner Hall on his daily who enter that there is richness, color, treks up 14th Street.

Windows on the world EARL RICHARDSON (2) Wescoe Hall belatedly acquires touches of elegance befitting its stature as home of the humanities

he humanities explore the rainbow of imagination, thought, fineness of expression and human intellect and curiosity, but on greatness harbored within these walls. Mount Oread they are headquartered in “The light shines through the glass as it comes Ta building whose color scheme runs from within. Knowledge and the humanities can from gray to dirty gray. similarly transform students and produce a light Now comes a burst of beauty, just inside the that shines from within. The windows belong to east doors, where the department of philosophy us all, and represent us all.” recently installed lost-and-found stained-glass And, for the first time in three gray decades, windows depicting Socrates and Plato. the windows make Wescoe Hall a place worth “It’s nice now to come into the building on a visiting, for the simple joy of seeing the cold winter’s day,” says philosophy’s administra- sights.

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