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Contents Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine

FEATURES

Fire Drills 28 Who trains heroes? KU’s Fire Service Training program, the statewide source for lessons in dousing blazes and so much more.

BY STEVEN HILL

Piano Man 34 Furniture furnishes inspiration for Wendell Castle, who sculpts objects as simple as a coat rack or as stately as a Steinway.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

COVER Jayhawk v. Jayhawk Quintessential KU 36 Oyez! Oyez! Draw near and give your attention To honor our magazine’s 22 as KU attorneys make their cases before the anniversary, we pose the age- U.S. Supreme Court. old question: How do we love our alma mater? BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Let us count 100 ways.

BY KANSAS ALUMNI STAFF Photographs by Earl Richardson Illustrations by Larry Leroy Pearson Cover design by Susan Younger

36 Volume 100, No. 1, 2002 Gerhard and Harrison reply: 1. No, the earth appears to have been Lift the Chorus cooling over the last 8,000 years, but the trend consists of ups and downs. The earth appears to be warming from the Little Ice Age, circa 1100 to 1850. News service the volunteers and the contributors who 2. The Little Ice Age was preceded by acts quickly make Audio-Reader possible. the Medieval Warm Event (MWE, circa Emlin (Pete) North, j'51 850-1100) during which the Viking agri- thought it would Audio-Reader volunteer cultural colonies were established in Ibe of interest to Topeka Greenland. It appears that the Vikings your readers to settled Greenland in the 860s, and the know of the impor- western farm community died out by tant role Audio- Getting warmer ... colder ... about 1350 and the other sometime Reader [“A Way between 1500 and 1540, when an expedi- With Words,” issue The article about Drs. Lee Gerhard and tion found the body of the last Viking, No. 5] played in William Harrison [“Hot Topic,” Hilltopics, who presumably had buried everyone communicating the events of Sept. 11 to its issue No. 5] was the first time, as far as I else before perishing. Botanical evidence thousands of listeners who depend on it for can remember, that I have read an article suggests that the MWE Europe was information about the world around them. [about global-warming research conducted] warmer than today. On learning of the terrorist attacks, by geologists. 3. That is a correct assumption. Either Director Janet Campbell and her Audio- I wish to pose a few questions. I think starvation or epidemic disease in Reader staff downloaded the latest news their answers should help reduce the heat response to colder temperatures and lack from the Internet and passed it along to vol- (no pun intended) this subject generates. of nutrition appears to be the cause of the unteers Donna Laushman and Mary Ann 1. On a millennial scale, do we know if colonies’ death. Physical stature declined Strong, who incorporated the reports in the earth is still warming up from the last from an average of about 5 feet, 10 inches their live morning newspaper broadcast. ice age? to 5 feet, 5 inches during the decline, fur- From the Internet, staff learned that In- 2. Was the earth warmer 1,000 years ther suggesting that they toughed it out Touch, the radio reading service in New ago than it was today? I ask this question as long as possible, but succumbed to York, had lost its broadcast tower in the col- because we know that the Vikings estab- harsh conditions. lapse of the World Trade Center. In-Touch, lished settlements on Greenland which 4. We do not know where the just like Audio-Reader, provides program- existed for 300 to 400 years. Mendenhall Glacier front was 1,000 and ming to reading services all over the world, 3. Was the earth colder 500 years ago? If 500 years ago. ... Earth’s climate changes and we quickly realized that these services the earth was cooling, that could explain all the time, in both directions, at many would be depending on broadcasts that were why Viking colonies in Greenland disap- scales. There is no “flat line” in climate. not going to come. To meet this need, peared. We believe that natural earth and solar Audio-Reader sent out a message to reading 4. The Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, processes are the major driving forces of services everywhere that it would read the Alaska, has receded over the last 200 years. climate change. Human contribution is most current news from the USA Today Obviously this trend started before humans possible, but is most likely to be masked Web site. had perturbed the atmosphere to any signif- by the much greater amounts of natural Audio-Reader program manager Lori icant degree. Is there any evidence to show change. Miller learned that the Topeka Capital- where the front of the glacier was 500 and Lee Gerhard and William Harrison Journal and Lawrence Journal-World 1,000 years ago? Kansas Geological Survey would print special editions that afternoon. In conclusion, I would like to make clear She drove to Topeka to get the Capital- that I am in favor of reducing deforestation Journal, and the information from both and reversing activities of the last 200 years Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the newspapers was incorporated into the that cause atmospheric pollution. We must editor. Our address is Kansas Alumni afternoon and evening schedules. recognize, however, that whatever we do magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. If you would like to This is how KU’s Audio-Reader was may have little or limited effect on whatever respond via e-mail, the Alumni Association’s the information link to a large part of global warming does take place in this address is [email protected], or visit the world on a day that will be long century. our Web site at www.kualumni.org. Letters remembered. It is another reason why James H. Short, PhD’54 appearing in the magazine may be edited KU alumni can be proud of the institution, Montgomery Village, Md. for space and clarity.

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Publisher Fred B. Williams 18 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Art Director Susan Younger, f’91 DEPARTMENTS Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j’86 2 LIFT THE CHORUS Staff Writer Letters from readers Steven Hill FIRST WORD Editorial Assistants 5 Karen Goodell; Andrea E. Hoag, c’94 The editor’s turn Photographer ON THE BOULEVARD Earl Richardson, j’83 6 KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 8 JAYHAWK WALK Advertising Sales Food (or lack thereof) for thought, a new man Representative for Maytag, a novel Rock Chalk Revue duet Jana Caffrey, j’01

Editorial and Advertising Office 10 HILLTOPICS Kansas Alumni Association News and notes: a visit by Sara Paretsky and 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 KU’s stellar ranking in national student survey 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 www.kualumni.org SPORTS e-mail: [email protected] 18 Mark Mangino begins a new football regime

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published 40 ASSOCIATION NEWS by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. 2002 nominations for the Board of Directors $40 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, 42 CLASS NOTES Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Profiles of a songstress, a QB turned coach, a Lawrence, KS. photographer who saw it all on 9-11, and more POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS IN MEMORY 66044-3169 © 2002 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- 58 member issue price: $7 Deaths in the KU family KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loy- 60 ROCK CHALK REVIEW alty, friendship, commitment, and communication among all Book reviews, an alumna filmmaker, Billy graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff Taylor and geologists’ prescient predictions and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to achie ve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and 64 OREAD ENCORE its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for Lynette Woodard charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 3 Salute those who have soared to new heights The Association asks for nominations for true-blue leaders who have proven their commitment to higher education through lifetime service to the University.

Each year we Nominations may come from any source and honor individuals should include a recent resumé of the candi- with the Fred date’s service history, including career, pub- Ellsworth lished works, previous honors and service to Medallion, the the University. Letters of support may also be highest honor for included. service to KU that the Association bestows. The deadline for nominations for the 2002 Recipients of the prestigious medallion Ellsworth medallion awards is March 29. are selected from nominations submit- Please send your nomination to Fred B. ted to the Alumni Association and Williams at the Kansas Alumni reviewed by a special Selection Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, Committee. Recipients will be Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. honored at an awards cere- mony in the fall. BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

as style. The calendar, pages 6 and 7, now includes Alumni Association events along with campus activities. Sports fans will find that these schedules have taken their rightful place in the sports pages. The Hilltopics section, which begins on page 10, has grown to eight pages, making room for highlights from the academic schools that replace the back-of- the-book Schoolwork department. Those final pages now showcase our ansas Alumni has always taken ing an interest in our own past and help- new Rock Chalk Review section, which tradition seriously. So as we ing to create an atmosphere favorable to includes book reviews and news from the prepared to begin a new year the growth of worthy traditions that The exhibitions and explorations of academe. and add a third digit to the vol- Graduate Magazine has undertaken to In this history-making year, we will Kume number of the magazine—Volume publish articles dealing in a manner more honor old KU more often, adding nostal- 100—we dutifully considered how best to or less intimate and personal with the gic tributes throughout Class Notes. celebrate. Like any family’s curious past life of the University.” Written by Promotional Writer Andrea E. descendants, we rummaged through the So, to honor our anniversary and the Hoag, these are called Then Again. papers of our forebears—in our case, early philosophy that still guides the magazine, Finally, the back page, Oread Encore, issues of The Graduate Magazine, the we offer our cover story, “Quintessential will feature memorable images from KU’s Alumni Association’s first periodical, KU,” a sentimental tribute to traditions past and present. This issue hails the tal- established in 1902. past and present. Admittedly we stray a ents of Lynette Woodard, c’81, whose Perhaps foretelling the temperament of bit from O’Leary’s definition: You will career is remembered in a Smithsonian those to follow, editor R.D. O’Leary, find the silly (he might use another adjec- exhibition on display in February at the c1893, was not bashful. In December tive) as well as the solemn among our Winter Olympics. 1904, he expounded on University tradi- litany. And you no doubt will add your Also in this issue, Steve Hill explains tion, strictly defining the term. own favorite haunts and habits to this the critical statewide assistance offered “Indeed, the absolute limits of human random yet respectful collection. through KU’s Fire Service Training pro- stupidity in any direction are not easy to Volume 100, No. 1, also unveils a new gram. Ever the intrepid reporter, Steve determine,” he wrote, “and it may occa- look for Kansas Alumni. We couldn’t let a even took his turn as a firefighter. sionally happen that a custom which was birthday pass without spiffying up the Chris Lazzarino traveled to the U.S. in its origin silly and pointless, and which magazine a bit, beginning with an elegant Supreme Court, where he witnessed the owes its wretched being to efforts of nameplate and cover design by Art rare battle between a sitting dean of law, would-be tradition makers, may succeed Director Susan Younger. Inside, our con- KU’s Stephen McAllister, c’85, l’88, and in maintaining a sickly existence.” tents page has stretched to two, allowing one of his former students, Matt Ouch. Wonder what O’Leary would more upfront explanation of each issue’s Wiltanger, l’97. The adversaries observed say about Roy’s Boys, those chest-paint- offerings, and, throughout the pages, the solemnity that the nation’s highest ing Allen Field House cheerleaders who you’ll notice Susan’s finesse in creating court demands, but they couldn’t resist a lived for their five seconds of ESPN fame? more white space to ease your choices as friendly quip or two. As the arguments But O’Leary’s chief tenet of tradition you browse the stories. Though we have concluded, the two preferred to dwell not remains intact. The power of true tradi- retained our favorite type fonts, Berkeley on their legal differences but on their tions, he wrote, “lies in the enduring and Gill Sans, they have traded places in shared bond and the landmark day for affection for a precious past which is kept the essential Class Notes and In Memory their alma mater. Jayhawk affection, it alive in generous minds. ... sections to improve readability. seems, endures among generous minds “It is with the sincere desire of foster- There are changes to substance as well long after the days of R.D. O’Leary.

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■ Special events FEBRUARY 7-10 “Let America Be America Again: EARL RICHARDSON An International Symposium on the Art, Life & Legacy of Langston Hughes,” featuring poet and novelist Alice Walker Jan. 31 and actor Danny Glover Feb. 7, both at the Lied Center; plus symposia led by national and KU scholars and community events. See kuce.org/hughes.

MARCH 7-9 Rock Chalk Revue, Lied Center

APRIL Ceramics students displayed feats of clay at their annual sale Dec. 6 in the Art and Design Gallery. 12-13 Gold Medal Weekend, Class of 1952 and Gold Medal Club ■ Exhibitions “American Indians of the Northwest reunions Coast,” through March 8, Museum of “Hatching the Past: Dinosaur Eggs, Anthropology Nests & Embryos,” Natural History “From Reservation to Corporate ■ Lectures Museum, through Jan. 31 Office: Donations of Southwest Art,” FEBRUARY “Signs of Faith: Photographs from the through Aug. 18, Museum of Collection,” Spencer Museum of Art, Anthropology 21 Frances Reid & Deborah Hoff- through Feb. 3 mann, “The Making of a Documen- Art Department Faculty Exhibition, tary: Long Night’s Journey into Day,” “Form, Line & Light: The Work of Art and Design Gallery, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union Shinoda Toko and Park Kwang Jean,” Feb. 18-March 1 through Feb. 24, Spencer Museum Graduate Student Exhibition, Art and of Art Design Gallery, March 3-8 “Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Home from the Spanish Civil War by American Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS ■ Volunteers,” Spencer Museum of Art, University Theatre University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 Jan. 19-March 10 Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 FEBRUARY Museum of Anthropology ...... 864-4245 “Tim Rollins/KOS for Lawrence 4-8, 9 “Tomato Plant Girl,” KU Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 Celebrate Langston Hughes,” Spencer Theatre for Young People Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798 Museum of Art, Feb. 9-May 26 14-17, 19-22 “The Waiting Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 “Contemporary Ceramics East and Room,” Inge Theatre Series Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 West,” Spencer Museum of Art, Feb. KU main number ...... 864-2700 23-May 19 MARCH Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS 1-3, 7-9 “Othello,” University Theatre Series

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI MARCH ■ Lied Center events 26 New York Chapter: Ice skating party 3 Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis/St. JANUARY 26 College Station: KU vs. Texas Paul, New York and Portland chapters: 20 Phoenix Bassoon Quartet A&M pregame rally KU vs. Mizzou TV watch parties 25 Hart Rouge 28 Dallas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 4 Kansas City Chapter: Big Blue Portland and New York chapters: Monday FEBRUARY KU vs. Mizzou TV watch parties 7 Wichita: KU Symphonic Band 2 Pilobolus Dance Theatre pre-concert reception FEBRUARY 5 Harolyn Blackwell, soprano, & 7-10 Kansas City: Big 12 Tournament Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano, 1 Kansas City Chapter: Rock Chalk pregame rallies “America Sings: A Celebration of Ball 2002, the Kansas City Marriott 7-10 Minneapolis/St. Paul, American Composers” Downtown, Muehlebach Tower New York and Portland chapters: 8-10 “STOMP” 4 Portland Chapter: KU vs. K-State Big 12 Tournament TV watch parties TV watch party 12 Jazz Ensembles, I, II & III 5 Triangle-Piedmont Chapter: 14 Nnenna Freelon, jazz vocalist Discount Night at the ■ Kansas Honors 17 The Academy of St. Martin in the Hornets Fields Chamber Ensemble Program 8-9 Lawrence: KHP chapter 18 Vocal Jazz leaders’ summit FEBRUARY 20 Concert & University bands 9 Dallas, Portland and New York 6 LaCygne: Rick and Janice Wurtz, 21 University Symphony chapters: KU vs. Texas Tech TV 913-795-2531 24 Joy of Singing watch parties 7 Larned: John Adams, 620-285-2053 28 St. Petersburg Philharmonic 11 Minneapolis/St. Paul and Portl 11 Fort Scott: Gary and Sally Cullor, Orchestra and chapters: KU vs. Texas TV 620-223-4441 watch parties 13 Garden City: Geneen Love, MARCH 11 Austin: KU vs. Texas 620-275-5512 pregame rally 1 Symphonic Band 20 Dodge City: Melaney Vogel, 2 Los Angeles Guitar Quartet 12 Wichita: School of Education 620-225-8428 Professional Society 10 Verdi’s “Rigoletto” 21 Holton: Matt and Paula Taylor, 16 New York Chapter: KU vs. Baylor 12 SQUONK 785-364-3241 TV watch party 27 Great Bend: Mary King, 18 Dallas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 620-793-6168 Portland and Valley of the Sun ■ Alumni events chapters: KU vs. Iowa State TV MARCH watch parties JANUARY 4 Pittsburg: Rodney and Karen 18 15 Portland Chapter: KU vs. Scottsdale: Southwest Open golf Odgers, 620-231-6211 tournament Oklahoma State TV watch party 5 Hiawatha: Leland and Debbie 21 16 New York Chapter: Activity New York Chapter: Third Thirsy Hansen, 785-742-7983 Thursday meeting 13 Atchison: Bill and Donna Roe, 21 17 New York Chapter: Third Thirsty Houston: School of Engineering 913-367-7497 Thursday Professional Society 24 Portland Chapter: KU vs. 19 Boston, Minneapolis/St. Paul For more information Nebraska TV watch party chapters: KU vs. Oklahoma TV about Association events, watch parties 25 Kansas City Chapter: Big Blue call 800-584-2957 or see the Monday 23 Portland Chapter: KU vs. Iowa Association’s Web site, State TV watch party www.kualumni.org.

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 7 Jayhawk Walk BY HILL & LAZZARINO

close the store at 14th and Massachusetts for personal reasons. He declined several offers to sell. “It’s Phil Zone ’cause it’s Phil’s own,” Sisson says. “It’s a reflection of everything I like, everything I do. I don’t want to see a Phil Zone that’s not me.” With its eclectic inventory of Hacky Sacks, tie-dye kits, golf discs, smoking paraphernalia, incense, skateboards and wind- surfing gear, the Zone was a throwback in an era of Just Socks specialization—a general store for fun-seekers. Sisson was struggling to put himself through school when he CHARLIE PODREBARAC set up shop in 1989, using the proceeds from a student loan and the sale of T-shirts com- Let ’em eat cake Zoned out memorating the Jayhawks’ NCAA championship. “It’s been oping to draw attention to the plight of Afghan refugees, the he Phil Zone, the funky lit- tough putting that sign in the HKU Greens in October hosted a 36-hour f ast and teach-in at Ttle shop that became an window. People get emotional the Kansas Union. Professors and local clergy spoke, but the uptown Lawrence landmark, when they find out I’m closing.” biggest mouthful came from a rival student group, the KU has shut its doors for good. Sisson plans to leave Objectivists, who placed a table near the f asters and served cake. Despite strong sales, owner Lawrence, though his final desti- Their objection? “By focusing on the Afghan refugees, the Phil Sisson, ’99, decided to nation remains unsettled. “If Greens basically criminalize our action against Afghanistan, which would cripple our ability to defend ourselves,” says Overland Park junior Rachel Cauthon, a biochemistry major and president of the two-month-old student group. “We wanted to say [the United States] has a right to do this and should.” Objectivism, a philosophy expounded by author Ayn Rand in The Virtue of Selfishness and other works, holds that “each of us EARL RICHARDSON should do what is best for ourselves, that sacrificing ourselves is not a virtue,” says Cauthon. “We have to appreciate our country and appreciate what makes us so wealthy, which is capitalism.” The Objectivists celebrated capitalism by dishing out American flag cake beneath a sign that read “Cake or Death?” “I’m not sure if they got the whole Marie Antoinette irony or not,” says Lawrence senior Galen Turner, a history and religious studies major who is president of the Greens. “We certainly got some chuckles from it.”

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI someone told me tomorrow repairman- they had a seat on the shuttle with-time-on- to Mars, I’d probably take it. his-hands, Ol’ I’m flexible.” Lonely. Gordon Jump, who has ◆ ◆ ◆ portrayed Ol’ Lonely since Rock Chalk one up 1989, graduated from Kansas for the sisterhood State in the ou’d think that people 1950s; a year Ywould have had enough of ago, he met his new Maytag silly love skits. The women of sidekick—so far known as “the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi apprentice,” or “the kid”—and Beta Phi certainly have, so they Jump soon discovered that teamed up for the first all- Mark Devine, c’91, is a KU man. female show in the history of “He tells everyone, ‘Yeah, EARL RICHARDSON Rock Chalk Revue. Mark’s great ... and I then I Anarchy takes a holiday “We couldn’t do another find out he’s a Jayhawk,’” sappy love story,” says Megan Devine deadpans. “And I tell n punk rock circles, The Pirate House is an underg round music Murphy, one of the Kappas’ them, ‘Gordon’s just mad he Imecca: Since residents began staging shows in 1999, f ans have Rock Chalk directors. “And didn’t have the grades to get flocked to the up-close-and-personal venue at 14th and K entucky, since we’re doing this with the into KU.’” where underground bands such as Creation Is Crucifixion and Pi Phis, it obviously won’t be a Devine, a theatre veteran Soophie Nun Squad rock the living room, crash on the couch and love story ...” who ran track and played a help cook breakfast the next day. The duo’s show, “Doin’ supporting role in “Macbeth” After 500 fans descended on the front lawn for a Locust show Time,” tells the tale of a young at KU, says he first tasted the in June, landlord Betty Crow finally keelhauled her young crew. woman wrongly convicted of a pop-culture impact of his new The five residents agreed to remove all exterior decorations crime who convinces fellow TV gig when a Chicago Sun- (including the signature Jolly Roger and an anarchy symbol con- inmates to help her escape. Times front page announced structed of Christmas lights) and limit gatherings to 10 people. “Judges like really traditional him as Maytag’s new icon more The Pirate House looked to be scuttled. shows,” Murphy says, “so it prominently than news of But after reading newspaper accounts of the house’s benefit was a risk.” former President Reagan’s concerts for Douglas County Senior Services and the Leonard But the judges set a prece- latest health problem. Peltier Defense Committee, Crow decided to let the shows go dent, accepting “Doin’ Time” “President Reagan gets this on—with a few changes. “We’ve always tried to keep it fun, with for the 53rd-annual Revue. tiny blurb on the bottom, more of a carnival atmosphere than a party,” says resident Though the final verdict won’t and right there on top Dave Strano. “Now we’re going to focus more on the be rendered until March 7-9 at is a big picture of music.” They’ll start shows earlier, ban alcohol and the Lied Center, the Kappas and my stupid mug,” limit crowds. Pi Phis hope to be found guilty he says. Meanwhile, The Pirate House is trading its of stealing the show. “This is such skull and crossbones for Spackle and a spit a weird shine: Painters stripped the house of its props ◆ ◆ ◆ business.” this fall. They’ll likely return, though with a lower profile. Ditto for the shows, including a Maytag men show special concert every Nov. 4, which the grateful tenants have dubbed Betty Crow Day. “I’m sure we’ll their true colors have a huge show, maybe with some bands she’d be he KU-KSU rivalry took its more into,” Strano says. “Well, maybe not huge.” Tlatest spin by rum- pling the once-sedate life of Maytag’s

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and Marilyn Stokstad, Paretsky’s impassioned address was a tribute, recalling the ways in which these two longtime KU leaders

EARL RICHARDSON changed a campus, a nation and the lives of thousands of young women. As the inaugural speaker in the University’s Emily Taylor and Marilyn Stokstad Women’s Leadership Lecture, Paretsky began by remembering her first meeting with Taylor and Stokstad. In fall 1964, Taylor, ■ The speech was a dean of women, and Stokstad, homecoming for professor of art history, invited a Lawrence native Paretsky, group of freshman Watkins schol- whose father, David, was ars, including Paretsky, to dinner. a KU professor of micro- The hosts posed a question to biology. Her mother, the young women: What did they Mary, was the children's plan to do with their education? librarian at the Lawrence “In the Kansas of my child- Public Library. hood, even living as I did with progressive, intellectual parents, I knew I was destined for marriage and motherhood,” Paretsky said. “So when these two formidable Powerful voice women asked us what we wanted Mystery writer Sara Paretsky uses to do with our lives, I went numb. I didn’t have an answer.” inaugural lecture to remind women Taylor and Stokstad countered of feminism’s triumphs, struggles the confusion and hesitation with a bold call to action: Make your ollowing a fiery speech by famed mystery education count in the professional world as well writer Sara Paretsky, c’67, two alumnae as at home. “It was an exhilarating, frightening greeted each other as the crowd filed out night for me,” Paretsky said. “For the first time, an of the Kansas Union Dec. 3. The friends adult expected me to do something, challenged smiled,F and the 50-something alumna offered a me to do something serious with my life.” shorthand review of Paretsky’s message. Taylor, dean of women from 1956 to 1974, “Sometimes we forget what it was like,” she said. went on to lead the Office of Women in Higher The 40-something graduate nodded in agree- Education at the American Council on Educa- ment, thankful she had brought her 15-year-old tion until 1985. KU’s Women Resource Center is daughter along to hear Paretsky, a Lawrence named for her. Stokstad, whose gift to the native, describe what it was like for women at the KU Endowment Association helped establish University and across the nation in the 1960s. For the lecture series, is now the Judith Harris some, her speech was a poignant reminder; for Murphy distinguished professor of art history and younger listeners, it was a startling history lesson. the author of Art History, the nation’s foremost But for the two guests of honor, Emily Taylor textbook in the field.

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 10 Paretsky clearly took the advice and examples voice has been exhausting, but let me assure you of Taylor and Stokstad to heart as she pursued of this: When you speak and when you are heard, her career. In 1982, while working as a manager you are committing a political act. Those who are for CNA Insurance in Chicago, where she had set- silenced have no access to change, to choice, or to tled after earning graduate degrees from the control over their lives. We must pledge that we University of Chicago, she startled the fiction will speak. We will not be silenced. We will be world with her first novel, Indemnity Only. heard.” The mystery featured a breakthrough character, —Jennifer Jackson Sanner a tough female private investigator, V.I. Warshawski. Last fall, Paretsky’s 12th book, Total ◆ ◆ ◆ Recall, was published to glowing reviews. “If it had not been for the support of the women’s movement, the support and the model Unlimited of women like Emily Taylor and Marilyn Stokstad, I don’t know if I ever would have created V.I. engagement Warshawski or been here talking to you about speech and silence,” Paretsky said. KU rates high in a national Only by speaking out have women won the survey that measures the quality “Students struggles that are so foreign to today’s generation, of students’ college experience said Paretsky, who chronicled triumphs of the and parents past 30 years while cautioning against compla- cency or retreat. As others had done for her, she new survey that offers an alternative to should be challenged the young women in the audience. the college rankings compiled by national asking colleges “When I graduated from KU, women earned news magazines like U.S. News and 57 cents for every dollar men made,” she said. World Report gives KU high marks for the kinds of “Your starting salary will probably be about the challengingA students to learn. questions same as that of your male peers when you gradu- The National Survey of Student Engagement ate. Unfortunately, 10 years down the road your collected information from more than 155,000 NSSE asks.” pay is likely to be 73 cents for every dollar your freshmen and seniors at 470 four-year colleges male friends are making—or even lower. After two and universities. Rather than rating schools on decades of closing the gap between men’s and women’s earnings, we’ve spent much of the ’90s actually losing ground.” Gains in the workplace have been tempered not only by recent downturns but also continuing violence against women and political strife KELLY HEESE/UNIVERSITY RELATIONS KELLY over reproductive rights, the depiction of women in popular culture, and the meaning of feminism—a term Paretsky said had been attacked so successfully that many young women were now afraid to use the word. She urged the new generation to use the word proudly and to resist the forces that inhibit them from ■ A new survey lauding KU says interaction between students and faculty—including speaking their minds. the School of Law’s annual walk to old Green Hall (now Lippincott), led by Martin “I know in my own case Dickinson Jr., Robert A. Schroeder professor of law—is one sure way to judge the the effort to find and sustain a quality of a college education.

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the basis of institutional resources and public rep- University scored higher than 90 percent of utation, the survey measures student engagement schools in the category of “enriching educational in five areas: levels of academic challenge, active experiences” and higher than 88 percent of and collaborative learning, student-faculty interac- schools for the level of academic challenges pre- tion, enriching educational experience and sup- sented to undergraduates. portive academic environment. The standards are Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway welcomes the Researchers gain intended to determine how effectively colleges are news that KU does well as judged by the survey’s contributing to learning. rigorous standards. space in former “Students and parents should be asking col- “Being nationally ranked, as in the U.S. News Oread Labs leges the kinds of questions NSSE asks,” says Russ rankings, is always gratifying,” Hemenway says. ike many other Edgerton, director of the Pew Forum on “This survey is even more satisfying because our Undergraduate Learning, which co-sponsors the own students give the University flying colors. Lawrencians, L survey with the Carnegie Foundation for the That is high praise and speaks volumes about the some biology, chemistry Advancement of Teaching. “How much do stu- quality of the KU experience and the caliber of and biomedical dents study and how rigorous are their assign- our faculty and staff.” ments? How much writing is expected? How often The NSSE survey asks students whether they researchers are moving do students interact with their teachers in mean- discuss grades, assignments and career plans with west, thanks to a $3.6 ingful ways? Policy makers and accrediting bodies their professors, and whether they work with pro- million purchase of three should be asking these questions, too.” fessors on research projects or other activities out- KU scored higher than approximately 96 per- side of class. It also measures participation in buildings on Wakarusa cent of the schools surveyed for interactions practicums and internships, examines the nature Drive formerly owned between upperclassmen and faculty members. The and amount of assigned academic work, and by Oread Laboratories. The KU Center for Research purchased the buildings, with 55,000 square feet of research Report Card and office space, EARL RICHARDSON at less than half their appraised value.

ith its largest gift ever, the Capitol Federal WFoundation in November boosted KU First $2 million closer to its $500 million goal, creating a distinguished professorship in finance at the School of Business. The foundation’s pledge will establish the ■ Jack Dicus, chairman of the Capitol Federal Foundation Capitol Federal Distinguished Professorship in Financial Markets and Institutions with the KU Endowment Association. It will also allow the business school to add another faculty position and give additional support to continuing education programs for the financial sector. The foundation timed the gift to take advantage of the Kansas Partnership for Faculty Distinction. That program, established by the Legislature in 2000, makes interest earned on distinguished professorships eligible for matching support from the state. Capitol Federal chose to support the professorship for several reasons, according to Jack Dicus, b’55, foundation chairman and a KU Endowment Association trustee. "In a sense, this is a means to an end," Dicus says. "We need highly skilled people who can teach and inspire future members of the finance industry, whether in the sphere of international commerce or in the local home-finance market. Also, we feel that through teaching, advising and research, the individual chosen to hold this professorship can have a major positive impact on the lives of business students." The School of Business hopes to fill the professorship by fall 2003.

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI queries students on the complexity of cognitive tasks presented to them and the standards that faculty members use to grade their performance. EARL RICHARDSON ◆ ◆ ◆ Hackers beware Internet security classes prepare students to battle villainy in cyberspace

overnments, corporations and private citizens aren’t the only groups that altered the way they do business in the Internet age: The rise of a global com- Gputer network has also enhanced the ability of the ill-intentioned to wreak havoc. “One of the biggest threats is that one hacker with a lot of experience can write a program that users to attack a network system. ■ Professor Gary Minden can be used by a lot of people without much “One person—who can be anywhere in the puts students and CEOs on expertise,” says Gary Minden, e’73, PhD’83, a pro- world—develops the expertise and gives it away guard against the dangers fessor of electrical engineering and computer sci- for free on the Web,” Minden says. It only takes a of computer hackers. ence who teaches two popular courses in Internet few “script kiddies”—young, inexperienced hack- security. “Anyone can download it and start ers who run damaging programs without know- attacking computer systems, and that’s kind of ing how or why they work—to cause considerable scary.” damage to corporate or government network sys- Minden’s courses, Information Security I and tems. II, teach students how to combat computer hack- In June, Minden and Greg Freix, g’99, director ers who might want to breach the privacy and of information technology for the School of security of computer networks. The first course Business, conducted a CEO security summit to addresses possible security risks and techniques alert Kansas City area business leaders and school network administrators used to counter them. districts to the very real threats posed by com- The second course is a hands-on practicum in puter hackers. Bank security experts, FBI agents which teams of students set up their own secure and students from Minden’s classes shared their networks with password systems, firewalls and fil- knowledge about the tools and techniques used ters, then take turns probing one another’s net- by hackers. works for weaknesses. “What we tried to do is raise CEO’s awareness “We’ll have one team look at another’s system of the importance of security in their businesses. to try to find holes in it,” says Minden, who start- It’s as important as monitoring your capital, moni- ed teaching the course in 2000. “You could call toring your finances, monitoring your human that hacking, but I like to think of it as auditing.” resources,” Minden says. “You have to think of The potential for mischief in cyberspace is information security as an equal to those things.” greater than in the real world, Minden says, A second CEO summit for business leaders because the level of expertise required to do harm later this year will stress the same Internet secu- is much lower. “If someone wants to break into rity principles that Minden teaches his students. your car or home, that person needs to have “The point we want to make is that if informa- developed the skill and expertise to pick the tion stops flowing, your business shuts down, just lock.” the same as if there were a fire in your manufac- But skilled hackers often develop software turing plant,” he says. “So you have to be tools that allow even inexperienced computer careful.”

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■ Professor Bill Narayan, one of the world’s foremost AIDS researchers, recently landed the largest grant ever given by the SHARI HARTBAUER National Institutes of Health to a KU Medical Center researcher. But the $10.5 million grant won’t be used in his hunt for an AIDS vaccine; it will allow Narayan and other senior researchers to mentor junior “This allows faculty across the state. us to focus on the next tion’s work force in biomedical research,” says Donald Hagen, generation’s executive vice chancellor of KU work force in Medical Center. “These grants will encourage undergraduates, biomedical graduate students and young research.” faculty members, with mentoring from senior faculty as well as research dollars.” Narayan, one of the world’s foremost AIDS researchers and KU’s chairman of microbiol- ogy, molecular genetics and immunology, received a five- year, $10.5 million grant, the largest ever given by the NIH to a KU Medical Center researcher. His so-called COBRE (Commitment of Biomedical Research Excellence) grant is designed to mentor beginning Everybody get together researchers and provide seed money to develop projects. Two important NIH grants promise to boost Narayan and a grant commit- statewide collaboration in biomedical research tee will search for potential recipients at the state’s three ich grants from the National Institutes of PhD-granting institutions: KU, Kansas State and Health usually accompany headline-grab- Wichita State. bing research that promises to cure what Hunt’s BRIN (Biomedical Research ails us. Two recent NIH grants pulled in Infrastructure Network) grant, worth $6 million byR a pair of senior KU Medical Center researchers over three years, is aimed at encouraging under- total a whopping $16.1 million, yet the dazzle— graduates considering careers in biomedical except for the dollar figures—is of a distinctly sub- research, and also will provide assistance to some tle variety: Grants won by Bill Narayan and Joan graduate students and new faculty hires. The Hunt don’t promise to analyze disease and illness grant administered by Hunt, distinguished profes- directly, but do intend to guide researchers from sor of anatomy and cell biology, will also use the across the state in many such attacks on biomed- latest telemedicine-style technology to deliver ical mysteries. instant research instruction to students through- “This allows us to focus on the next genera- out the state, including all Kansas Board of

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI Regents institutions, as well as Washburn KC reading grant University in Topeka and Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. targets behavior “This will be a very collaborative process,” by young students Hagen says, “which is great.” Visitor new reading center Hagen points out similarities between these two most recents NIH grants and a $9.9 million On being an American Aat KU’s Juniper NIH grant secured in 2000 by Gunda Georg, Gardens Children’s University distinguished professor of medicinal upreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, poten- Project in Kansas City, chemistry, which unites 19 cancer researchers tially the next chief justice of the United S Kan., will focus on from across the state. The University and the States should the aging William Rehnquist step Kansas City metropolitan area both have primary down soon, made a lively visit to the School of improved classroom dis- goals of greatly increasing life-sciences research; Law as Page Jurist in Residence. cipline to help children judging by the success of these research propos- develop reading skills. als, it appears evident that institutional bound- WHEN: Nov. 15 and 16 aries will fade as collaboration among researchers The program, funded throughout the state and Kansas City becomes WHERE: Green Hall with a five-year, $6.24 the norm. million grant from the “KU’s vision, shared with our colleagues across BACKGROUND: When he first visited in the state and many state leaders, is that Kansas 1996, Scalia seemed weary, even hinting at U.S. Department of can be a major player in biomedical research,” retirement. Not so this time. Scalia was in an Education, will train edu- says Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. “We have energetic, good-humored bloom while fielding cators from eight Kansas an obligation to educate the next generation of questions from law students; he even got in a Kansas researchers so they can take part in this day of upland bird hunting with Gov. Bill Graves City elementary schools effort.” at Ringneck Ranch in north-central Kansas. that agree to implement It is also doubtless that broad collaboration discipline programs received a huge stamp of approval among ANECDOTE: Scalia said he saw no imme- research insiders when Narayan and Hunt agreed diate constitutional barriers, “in appropriate cir- rewarding appropriate to lead the way. cumstances,” to military tribunals for foreign behavior. Narayan and his KUMC research team devel- terror suspects captured and tried overseas. oped the first vaccines to prevent sexual transmis- “Nobody wants to cap- sion of an AIDS-like virus in monkeys, as well as a ture Osama bin Laden and therapeutic vaccine that helped monkeys already bring him back here to be infected. Narayan is awaiting FDA approval for tried by Judge [Lance] Ito clinical trials on humans. Says Hagen: “Dr. for two years.” Narayan is going to, I’m convinced, be instrumen- tal in the irradication of AIDS in the world.” QUOTE: “We were RASMUSSEN TRACY Hunt, c’56, PhD’83, has performed landmark not Americans until we studies in the immunology of pregnancy that are had this document that acclaimed worldwide, and her mentoring and made a nation of us. We’re teaching abilities are in demand across the nation. the only people in the “Dr. Hunt is an internationally renowned scientist world who identify our- in the field of human reproduction,” says Michael selves as a nation not by Welch, KUMC’s vice chancellor for research. “This where we have been or respect enabled her to put together this consor- where our ancestors lived tium of Kansas universities and colleges in an or our blood or our race. unprecedented collaborative effort.” We identify ourselves by Says U.S. Sen Pat Roberts: “Kansas has fidelity to certain political the intellectual talent to attract more public and principles. That’s a very SCALIA private funding for research activities, and this strange thing. There’s grant from the NIH is proof we can use Kansas never been anything like this before, so in a talent to advance new biomedical knowledge very real sense, you don’t know who you are if and also encourage students in Kansas to you don’t understand the Constitution.” enter the field.”

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LIBERAL ARTS Martin finds HOPE at end of difficult year Update Craig E. Martin, professor of ecology n a career that has spanned nearly 30 years—so and evolutionary biology, endured the EARL RICHARDSON lowest of lows in May when one of his Ifar—psychology professor Rick Snyder ("The Hope students, Shannon Martin, c’01, was mur- Doctor," issue No. 4, 2000) has received plenty of dered while on a research trip to Costa attention for his research, both inside and outside of Rica. academia. Snyder, best known for helping pioneer the But Martin found reason to smile last field of positive psychology with his work on hope, fall. On Oct. 19, he was named a has seen his ideas profiled in CNN documentaries Chancellors Club teaching professor; one and in the frames of the popular Doonesbury comic month later, he won the Honor for the strip. Outstanding Educator (HOPE) Award, Now it’s his classroom work that’s drawing raves: given by the senior class. Snyder won three prestigious teaching awards last fall. SNYDER “It’s been a most bizarre year,” Martin The Council for Advancement and Support of Education, which recognizes out- says. “I’ve gone from incredible lows to standing undergraduate instruction, named Snyder the 2001 Kansas Professor of the incredible highs, the highlights of my Year. The University awarded him the Byron T. Shutz Award for Distinguished Teaching career.” and named him the M. Erik Wright distinguished professor in clinical psychology. The professorship will allow Snyder to step down as director of the clinical psychology INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS program after 28 years. "For the first time in my career I will be able to focus on teaching and research Alumnus speaks for allies without having to tend to administrative duties," Snyder says. "I thought it was time to in war on terrorism practice what I preach with my faculty—that everyone deserves to do what they enjoy doing and what they’re good at. For me that’s teaching and research." Kenton Keith, c’61, former U.S. ambassador to Qatar, seemed to be entering the quiet phase of his career when he left the foreign service in EDUCATION Doo-Sik Kim, a lawyer and law school 1997 and joined a Homesickness spawns professor in Korea who specializes in dis- nonprofit cultural ability policy and rights. Now the site— center in Washing- home page for disabled www.sped21.org—serves as a clearing- ton, D.C. A Web site built to ease a Korean stu- house for families in Korea and the WALLY EMERSON WALLY His rest is over. dent’s homesickness has evolved into an United States who have children with Keith (profiled in international forum for families of chil- disabilities. It includes a message board issue No. 2, 2001) yet dren with disabilities. where families can post questions for again accepted his When Jiyeon Park, PhD’01, first doctors, lawyers and special education country’s call to serv- arrived at KU, she missed her home and professionals or share their stories with ice, in November family in South Korea. To cheer her up, other families. In six years it has received heeding a State Park’s husband constructed a home 118,000 hits. Department request page featuring family stories and photo- Many of the queries come from fami- KEITH that he direct the graphs of their daughter. She quickly lies in South Korea, where attitudes Coalition Information Service, represent- saw the potential to help more than toward children with disabilities can be ing more than 40 countries united in the just herself. less accepting than in the United States, war against terrorism. “When he showed me the site I said, Park says. An unexpected benefit of the “People have a tendency to look at ‘Wow, this can be a really cool way to site is that the families themselves are Afghanistan and say it will always be this communicate with a lot of people,” Park often the best source of information. way, violence and feudalism and back- recalls. “It can be a good tool to help “Since I live in Kansas I don’t know a lot wardness,” he told the Kansas City Star families of children with disabilities.” about the school system in Korea. But a in Islamabad, Pakistan. “What we are try- Park, a postdoctoral fellow at the mother who lives in Korea and knows ing to communicate is that the future Beach Center on Disabilities, redesigned about the situation there can answer that need not be this way.” the page with help from her husband, specific question.”

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI POLICE REPORT Vintage furniture targeted Milestones, money and other matters in campus theft spree ■ ANOTHER TIGHT BUDGET YEAR looms for the state Distinguished chairs—as well as tables, and the University, prompting Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway a sofa and even a clock—were stolen last in December to ask faculty and staff to plan spending cuts of 2 fall from Nunemaker Hall and percent this fiscal year and 5 percent next year. Proposed cuts Ecumenical Christian Ministries. In an from Gov. Bill Graves that would trim state funding for KU by odd turn of events, the furniture was nearly $10 million necessitated the contingency planning. Also in secretively returned by the culprits or December, Provost David Shulenburger conducted more than a recovered by police, and two 22-year-old dozen forums briefing faculty, staff and students on a likely men were later arrested. tuition hike to help offset state cuts. At the request of the The designer furniture was original Board of Regents, Kansas schools are working together to bring equipment for both buildings. tuition into line with schools in bordering states. “The specula- Ecumenical Christian Ministries lost six tion I’ve seen in the press that we’re talking about much larger tuition increases than K- chairs and three tables, worth a total of State just isn’t true,” Shulenburger says. “We’re going to end up with a tuition rate that’s in about $2,000, in a theft Oct. 21. ECM the very close ballpark to K-State’s.” More tuition forums are planned for spring. “We was outfitted with its Herman Miller col- haven’t ended up with unanimity about what we should do,” Shulenburger says of the ses- lection when it was built in 1960. sions, “but we have certainly ended up with a set of people very concerned about the Benefactor Irene Nunemaker, c’22, University and an understanding that we must do something to improve our financial situa- personally selected furnishings for the tion if we are to remain a top quality university.” For more information on the issue, visit home of the University’s Honors http://www.ku.edu/tuition. Program, which lost numerous pieces worth a total of more than $13,000 in ■ MABEL RICE, distinguished professor of speech-language-hearing and director of the two October raids. child language doctoral program, has developed the first diagnostic test for speech language The Rev. Thad Holcombe, pastor at impairment, a childhood learning and communication disability that can hinder learning and ECM, was notified by an anonymous frequently goes undiagnosed by traditional language testing. Rice, PhD’78, and Kenneth caller that he could recover items at the Wexler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed the test, which clinicians can water towers between ECM and the use to diagnose children between 3 and 8 years old. Adams Alumni Center. In a midnight excursion, he found everything except ■ STEVE SCHROEDER, director of the Schiefelbusch one table. Nunemaker staff received simi- Life Span Institute from 1990 until his retirement in August, lar calls, leading them to find some of received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the their pieces outside the Lied Center. Association of University Centers on Disabilities for his An anonymous tip later led police to a contributions to people with disabilities and their families. residence on 12th Street, where the rest The award is the highest given by the association. of the furniture from both Nunemaker and ECM was recovered. “All of these ■ ROBERT FOSTER will end his 30-year tenure as direc- pieces are classics,” Holcombe says. tor of bands in May. “If my bands are to be remembered for

“They knew what they were doing.” anything, I hope it is for quality and class,” says Foster, who RELATIONS DICK/UNIVERSITY STEVE R. Holcombe says he tentatively agreed to will continue to teach in the department of music and dance. diversion pleas for the two charged stu- Under Foster’s direction, the Marching Jayhawks in 1989 won dents; he also cautions that there are lim- the coveted Louis Sudler National Intercollegiate Marching its to an amicable attitude forgiving col- Band Trophy, the nation’s top honor. lege kids who make stupid mistakes. “They’re testing the ■ THE COMMISSION THAT OVERSEES KU Medical boundaries,” Center has a new member. Gov. Bill Graves appointed Holcombe says. Edward Nazar, a Wichita lawyer, to the University of Kansas Hospital Authority in August. Reappointed were Leavenworth lawyer Edward Chapman, c’54, l’59, and Wichita surgeon George Farha.

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powerful Oklahoma Sooners, stepped forward as the coach willing—and eager— to reinvent Kansas football. “I can’t tell you how proud I am to be

EARL RICHARDSON your football coach,” Mangino said at the basketball game. “It’s an exciting day for me to be back in the state of Kansas, where I belong.” Mangino, a 45-year-old native of northwestern Pennsylvania, a true cradle of football, got his big break in 1991, when he was asked to join coach Bill Snyder’s staff at Kansas State. Mangino was, at the time, a high school coach in Ellwood City, Pa. When given his opportunity, Mangino immediately showed a flair for recruiting (he was the recruiting coordinator who helped engineer the Wildcats’ admirable ■ Athletics Director Al turnaround by convincing top athletes Bohl (right) introduced that Manhattan, as unlikely as it sound- Mark Mangino as KU’s ed at the time, was the place they should new football coach at play football). In 1997 he was named K- halftime of the Dec. 4 State’s running-game coordinator, and in KU-Wake Forest men’s 1998 he was named assistant head coach. Former KSU assistant Bob Stoops basketball game. took over at Oklahoma in 1999 and immediately hired Mangino as assistant head coach, run-game coordinator and True believer offensive line coach. OU offensive coordi- Former OU assistant Mark Mangino nator Mike Leach became head coach at Texas Tech in 2000, and Mangino took brings a championship attitude control of the Sooners’ offense. In the that promises to revive KU football two years Mangino managed Oklahoma’s pro-style offense, the Sooners went 23-2, o much for halftime socializing along Allen and in 2000 won the national championship. Field House concourses. When the KU and “Mark is a very disciplined and thorough coach Wake Forest men’s basketball teams left the who has the fire and the emotion you need to court midway through their nationally tele- motivate a team,” Stoops said when Mangino got Svised game Dec. 4, the rowdy crowd stayed put. the KU job. “His track record at OU and Kansas Athletics Director Al Bohl had a special guest to State is one of great success. That’s a reflection of introduce. his leadership. He was an excellent leader for our “Man-Gi-No! Man-Gi-No!” offense.” OK, so the surprise was out, and the Jayhawk For his efforts during OU’s championship sea- faithful could not contain their glee. After a long, son, Mangino won the coveted Frank Broyles bleak season—coach Terry Allen was fired with Award, given to the country’s best assistant foot- three games remaining and the Jayhawks finished ball coach. The offense he directed that year aver- 3-8—Mark Mangino, offensive coordinator for the aged 134.6 rushing yards a game, yet ultimately

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI relied on short and intermediate passes that made a star of Josh Heupel, a former “I want you to know we’re going to put a football team junior-college transfer. An accurate though not dazzlingly strong passer, together and build a program you can be proud of. Get Heupel became consenus All-American in ready next fall to be waving a lot of wheat.” Mangino’s offense. “Our offense [at KU] will look similar in some ways to OU,” Mangino says, “but Ralph Friedgen (national coach of the The linebackers coach will be Dave there will be some things that I had year in 2001) as “my kind of guy,” and Doeren, secondary coach and recruiting planned to implement at OU next year warned detractors, “I still play a pretty coordinator for Montana, which won the that we will work on at KU.” mean game of racquetball.” Div. 1-AA title in 2001. KU’s secondary Fans are eager to see Mangino’s foot- “Don’t judge people by the way they coach will be Pat Henderson, formerly an ball philosophies and player development look,” Mangino said, drawing applause assistant at SMU, Tulsa, Purdue and unfold at KU. More important questions, from athletics department staff, coaches Arizona State. though, have already been answered. In and athletes. “It’s not what you look like, Two first-year assistants were retained: his prominent role as KU’s head football it’s how you work and how you do your Travis Jones, who will again coach the coach, Mangino can be counted on to job.” defensive line, and Clint Bowen, d’96, serve the University as a forthright and Mangino named Nick Quartaro, assis- who coached KU special teams and tight good-humored ambassador. tant head coach at Iowa State, as his ends. Bowen’s assignment on Mangino’s At his Dec. 4 news conference, offensive coordinator. Quartaro, former staff has yet to be determined. Mangino introduced his family: his wife, head coach at Fordham and Drake, As he stood before his adoring flock of Mary Jane; his daughter, Samantha, a worked as a KSU assistant with Mangino. fans in Allen Field House, Mangino said, KU sophomore who selected Mount Bill Young, defensive line coach with the “From now on, I’m going to earn that Oread on her own as an incoming fresh- NFL’s Detroit Lions, was named defensive applause from you.” He also made a man in fall 2000; and his son, Tommy, a coordinator. Before joining the Lions in promise: “I want you to know we’re going high-school junior who was the starting 2001, Young spent three years as defen- to put a football team together and build quarterback at Norman North High sive coordinator at the University of a program you can be proud of. Get ready School. Also in attendance was Mangino’s Southern California. next fall to be waving a lot of wheat.” brother, Matt, an attorney who caught a Mangino named Dave Borberly, offen- predawn flight out of Pittsburgh, Pa., to sive line coach at Notre Dame the past ◆ ◆ ◆ arrive in Lawrence in time for the news four seasons, as his offensive line coach. conference. “I learned a lot from Bob Stoops,” Anybody’s game Mangino said. “I learned a lot about character, staying calm when things are tough, smiling when everybody else is Basketball answers challenges frowning. Another thing I learned from EARL RICHARDSON with wealth of playmakers Bob is that you’ve got to enjoy the journey, enjoy life as it goes, and that no matter what anybody tries to tell you, football fter negotiating a tough precon- is not life or death. It’s your family, your ference schedule with only one faith and the people around you who you loss, men’s basketball coach Roy believe in that should be important to Williams felt good about his you.” teamA going into Big 12 Conference play. Mangino was asked five direct ques- And he wanted his players to feel good, tions about his weight, and the vibe in too. Hadl Auditorium instantly switched from “I looked in this morning’s USA Today upbeat to tense and uncomfortable. The … and our schedule ranked as the 26th only person laughing it all off was most difficult in the country,” Williams Mangino. He said he never did find the said after the second-ranked Jayhawks weight room at OU or K-State, only the withstood a late rally to beat pesky film room, and he had the sit-up board ■ Mark Mangino’s busy first day concluded Valparaiso, 81-73, in Allen Field House tossed out as “a useless piece of material.” with the most important introduction of all: to Jan. 2. The win was KU’s 11th straight He said he admired Maryland’s rotund the Jayhawk faithful in Allen Field House. since dropping the first game of the sea-

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 19 Sports son to Ball State, 93-91, in the EA Sports ball, what we’re asking ble against Wake Maui Invitational. The winning streak for. That’s a real posi- Forest, posting 10 included back-to-back wins over third- tive for us.” points and 11 ranked Arizona, 105-97, in Tucson, and The court savvy rebounds. The sur-

23rd-ranked Wake Forest, 83-76, in has translated into gery and a sprained EARL RICHARDSON Lawrence. an efficient, fast- ankle in late “To play that kind of schedule and breaking offense: December have lim- accomplish what they did, I think they After their first ited his playing time should feel very good,” Williams said. dozen games, the to about 15 minutes The Jayhawks have been impressive Jayhawks led the per game. early, particularly on the offensive end. nation in scoring, averag- Gooden has been With freshman Aaron Miles playing well ing 92 points a game, and especially impressive on at point guard, and junior Kirk Hinrich ranked second in field-goal offense, posting nine double- and senior Jeff Boschee rounding out the shooting, at .515. doubles, tops in the Big 12 Conference. three-guard lineup, Williams has enjoyed The dominating inside play of juniors After pouring in 30 points against the luxury of having a trio of potential Nick Collison and Drew Gooden, and Valparaiso, he led the team in scoring, at floor-leaders on the court at the same promising freshman Wayne Simien, has 20.5 per game, and rebounding, at 12.3 time. contributed to the offensive efficiency. per game. Collison has contributed at “It’s really unique to have three Simien, who led the team in scoring and both ends of the floor, averaging 15.7 perimeter players who at some time have rebounding in the preseason, sat out the points and 8.4 rebounds while blocking started at the point for us,” Williams said. first five games after arthroscopic surgery a team-high 23 shots. His .637 field-goal “All three have a good understanding of on his left knee, which he injured in percentage is second only to Simien, who what we’re trying to do, how to push the practice. He debuted with a double-dou- has put up only a third as many shots. With so many players making solid contributions, Williams finds it hard to pinpoint a team leader. Which is fine with him. “When you need leaders is at tough Updates times during the game,” Williams says. “Sometimes somebody has to just step ide receiver Harrison Hill has officially up and make plays. We’re fortunate Wreceived a rare, sixth year of eligibility from EARL RICHARDSON because we have three, maybe four play- the NCAA. Hill, sidelined as a freshman with a makers who can do that.” broken ankle, broke a shoulder blade during a In the Tulsa game, a 93-85 victory at punt return against UCLA Sept. 8. Hill needs 25 Kemper Arena Dec. 29, it was Hinrich receptions to become KU’s all-time leading receiv- who took over, tallying six points, three er. ... key rebounds and a steal in the game’s Who will throw the passes Hill hopes to catch? final 2:24 after a late Tulsa rally trimmed Might be junior Zach Dyer, sophomore Kevin Long HILL a 15-point KU lead to 5. Against Valpo, or Bill Whittemore, a transfer from Fort Scott Collison and Gooden added big baskets Community College. But it won’t be Mario Kinsey, the troubled starter for most of to quash a late rally. And against Arizona, 2001. “Whoever gets the job,” Kinsey said during the coaching search, “I’m ready to be a Boschee three helped preserve the 105- coached. We don’t want it to be easy around here. We want it to be hard.” Three 97 win, KU’s first against a top-10 team weeks later, Kinsey was dismissed from the team for unspecified policy violations. ... since 1997. Coach Marian Washington said before the season that her women’s basketball team “So far this team has been able to faced a rebuilding year, and she was right. The Jayhawks lost their Big 12 home opener answer some challenges, and step up and to Texas A&M, 58-51, dropping to 5-10 overall and 0-2 in the conference. “I’m staying make some plays when they have to,” positive,” Washington said after the A&M loss. “I think our future is bright.” ... Williams said. But he still sees plenty of Student seating in Allen Field House has become a hot topic in Student Senate. A room for improvement in a squad many delegation of student representatives who campaigned last year on a platform that are hailing as his best since the 1996-’98 included a push for revised basketball seating met late last fall with Athletics Director teams featuring Jerod Haase, Scot Al Bohl. Both sides said the discussions were informative, though neither predicted Pollard, Jacque Vaughn, Raef LaFrentz quick changes. and Paul Pierce. “I’m crazy enough that I’d like to be

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI 12-0,” Williams said as he prepared to kick off Big 12 play against Colorado on Jan. 5. While crediting his team’s Sports Calendar progress in preconference play, he cau- tioned against comparisons with the great Kansas teams of the past—especially before this team played a single game in ■ Men’s basketball ■ Swimming & diving the Big 12, which many, including Williams, believe is the toughest since the JANUARY JANUARY league expanded in 1997. 19 Oklahoma 19 Nebraska “It’s hard to say when you’re 12 games 23 at Iowa State into a season,” Williams said, noting that 26 at Texas A&M FEBRUARY the intensity level always rises when con- 28 Missouri 2 Arkansas ference play begins. “I think we were the 8 at Iowa best team in the country in 1997 until FEBRUARY 9 at Iowa State Jerod broke his wrist. That was such an 2 Colorado 18-24 Big 12, College Station, Texas experienced team,” he said of the veteran 4 at Kansas State club that posted 69 wins against only six 9 Texas Tech losses. “I don’t know that this team can 11 at Texas ■ Indoor track & field do that, but maybe they can surprise 16 Baylor me.” 18 Iowa State JANUARY —Steven Hill 24 at Nebraska 26 at KSU Triangular, Manhattan 27 Kansas State FEBRUARY ■ Veteran ball handlers such as Jeff Boschee MARCH 1 (p. 20) and talented freshmen such as Aaron Jayhawk Invitational 8-9 at Iowa State Invitational Miles have fueled a high-powered offense that 3 at Missouri 7-10 Big 12 Tournament, 22-23 Big 12, Lincoln, Neb. leads the nation in scoring. Kansas City, Mo. ■ Softball ■ Women’s basketball FEBRUARY JANUARY 8-10 at Arizona State Invitational EARL RICHARDSON 19 at Nebraska 15-17 at UNLV Invitational 23 at Kansas State 26 Oklahoma State MARCH 29 at Colorado 1-3 at Florida State Invitational 5 Washburn FEBRUARY 8-10 KU Holiday Inn Invitational 2 at Oklahoma 6 Iowa State ■ 9 at Missouri Baseball 13 Nebraska FEBRUARY 17 Kansas State 23 at Iowa State 12 Ottawa 26 Texas 15-17 at Centenary, Shreveport, La. 19 Kansas Newman MARCH 22-24 Wisconsin-Milwaukee 5-9 Big 12 Tournament, 26 Creighton Kansas City, Mo. MARCH 1-3 Northwestern 5 Nebraska-Omaha

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 21 or magazine publishers, On the this milestone is a rarity. occasion Note the fine print on the of the contents page: Volume 100, No. 1. The first issue of our magazine’s F100th year. Since The Graduate 100th Magazine first appeared in 1902, the birthday, Alumni Association’s magazine has told time travel the stories of KU—and tried to preserve the essence of the KU experience for through those whose lives are marked by their memories time on the Hill. of old KU In celebration of our magazine’s centennial, Kansas Alumni (upstart descendant of The Graduate Magazine) has compiled an irreverent yet heartfelt list of sights, sounds, tastes and treats that unite so many Jayhawks. In this season of list- making, consider this a roster of things to do, or to have done, to confirm your KU affections. Our University on the Hill reveals its charms in countless ways, so please don’t consider this list complete. To honor our anniversary, it stops at an even—but by no means exhaustive—100. As true Jayhawks know, the KU experience, though shared by many, remains, at its heart, personal. And always unique.

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ Cheer the Marching Jayhawks ■ Greet friends of the feather with, “How down the Hill and into Memorial ’bout them ’Hawks!” Thank the traditions Stadium. Join their chant: “Go gods that “Beak ’em Hawks!” didn’t take. Jayhawks! Rip their lips off!” Follow the parade beneath the stands, where ■ Just wait ’til basketball drummers flaunt the booming season. acoustics. Take your seat in time to see the band sprint down the stairs.

✱ Accessorize Uncle Jimmy.

■ Celebrate spring by marveling at the red (oops, crimson) tulips in ■ Take a dunk in the Chi-O Fountain— front of Hoch (oops, Budig). ✱ voluntarily or otherwise. Admire ■ Stump KU Info. Comanche’s ■ Survive Chem 184. arrow ■ Meet your true love on wounds. ■ Stop. Listen to the carillon’s Wescoe Beach. Steal a kiss at chimes. Marvel at the skyline. the Pi Phi Bench. Pop the ■ Shake a tail Realize your time here is all question in Marvin Grove. feather at the too brief. Say ‘I do’ in Danforth Dine-A-Mite. Chapel. ✱ Hug a mascot. ■ Get soaked in the vector hose water ■ Preferably KU’s. 1969 Orange Bowl. So close ... balloon battles between Oliver and Naismith halls. ■ ■ Linger by the lilac hedge. Gaze longingly at the Fraser flags while driving in from Kansas City. ■ Attend a lecture that’s not assigned. ✱ Try talking your way past a Ask a question. Boulevard booth attendant. Look sheepish while backing up. ✱ Run to Joe’s. (Hot Donuts Now!)

■ Apologize for Wescoe Hall to a campus visitor.

■ Fight for a residence hall elevator on moving day.

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 23 ■ Visit the rare-book room at Spencer Research Library. While you’re there, check out the view of the Campanile and Memorial Stadium.

■ Move a freshman to tears with the story of the poor architect who killed himself when Strong KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE, SAN DIEGO Hall was built backward. Don’t tell ✱ Make instant friends in far- the neophyte it’s only legend. away places—such as: Uncle ✱ Mo’s (Seattle), Kincade’s Jump out of your shoes (Chicago), and Kansas City when the whistle blows. Barbeque (San Diego). ■ Study some anatomy at Jimmy’s Jigger. ■ Get rained on at the Kansas Relays. ■ Don’t care what Pachacamac is or who’s in it. ■ Wonder why our runners wear pink. ■ 8-4-2-1-2-1-2. Hello, Pizza Shuttle? ■ Wonder whether your roommate is in ■ Dodge flying plastic cups in Memorial Pachacamac. ■ Buy candy by the pound at the Kansas Stadium. Union; smile as others longingly eye your ✱ ■ Give Sarge (the four-legged campus red-and-white striped bag. The Kansas Comet: No. 48 mascot, not anyone affiliated with in our programs, No. 1 in ROTC) a good scratch behind the ears. ■ Resign yourself to the Freshman 15. our hearts. Shop for new (larger) jeans. ■ Don’t wave your wheat against the ■ Lose your bus pass a week after you grain. ✱ bought it.

■ Hang out Harmonize ■ with Remember the magic bus that took to the Rock the Jayhawks to Chalk Chant. Tan Man between Kansas City in Sway to the 1988. alma mater. classes. ■ Wonder, “Why ■ Chuckle— all the red tile or wince—at roofs?” Rock Chalk Revue. ✱ Take a cam- ■ Bet lunch on who can name the most ■ pus tour with Eat, drink and be athletes in All-American Room murals at Professor Ted merry on Mass Street. the Adams Alumni Center. Wish The Johnson. Find Learned Club was still cooking so you ■ out why all the Picnic with your sweetie could collect immediately. at Potter Lake. red tile roofs.

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI ■ Clean up your act on ■ Go GDI. ■ Play flag football on the fields behind Parents’ Weekend (if Robinson. Or mud football anywhere. you’re the student). ■ Serenade a sorority. ✱ Snarf a Woo ■ Clean up your act on Parents’ burger at The Weekend (if you’re the parents). ■ Have your photo Wheel. Or a taken with Phog outside cheeseburger at ✱ Beware the Phog. Allen Field House. Johnny’s. ■ Write a letter to the UDK. ■ Champs! ■ Admire the afternoon sun through the ■ Wonder who exactly votes ■ Tour the Hall of Fame portraits burning-bush window for the HOPE Award. Care in Allen Field House. at Smith Hall. who wins. ■ “I’m staying.” ✱ Dig dandelions. ■ Go to the Homecom- ■ Sprain your ankle in a pickup ■ Turn to Class Notes first ing parade. Wonder where basketball game in Robinson (usually ... but not now). Gymnasium. everyone else is. ■ Sing “Bye Bye Miss ■ Twist the night away at ✱ Pledge a Greek house. American Pie” at The the Red Dog Inn and have Within the hour, own a key Wheel. In the corner a gas with the Gaslight booth. On Friday afternoon. chain, emblazoned sweatshirt Gang at the Gaslight Tavern. and plaid shorts. When you’re supposed to be in English class.

■ Tag along with grade-school field trip- pers while they tour the Natural History Museum’s panorama.

■ Join the schol hall kids for a Loopy Day water fight on any Thursday at midnight.

■ Decode the Timetable.

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 25 ✱ Describe the ordeal of ■ Sneak a moment at Alumni Place foun- “pulling cards” to your com- tain to soak in its charms. Keep them to puter-age kids. yourself.

■ ■ Study on the Potter Lake bridge; Find out Mom and Dad were right appear on the campus phone-book cover. about a thing or two. Reserve the right not to tell them. ■ Discover you can’t go home again. ✱ Unless Mom’s doing the laundry. Pick up a 7-10 split at the Jaybowl. ■ Applaud an amazing Lied Center performance. There are some things we don’t miss about Hoch. ■ Flippin’ with the Dipper ■ Change your major. ■ Crack your back with a gargantuan ■ Share the holiday backpack. spirit at Vespers. ■ Huddle around the ■ Order radio and listen in as Clyde Lovellette scores a half Veggie 33 and KU topples St. from Yello Sub. John’s for the 1952 Remember: NCAA title. Call-ins are fast. ✱ Find a sled— better, borrow one from the ■ Send a pizza to cafeteria—for a snowy ride The Outlook. down the Hill.

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI ✱ Protest something.

■ Gawk at the gargoyles atop Dyche Hall.

■ 2:10 a.m., March 24, 1957: A few hours and miles from a one-point, triple-over- time championship-game loss to North Carolina, the Jayhawks, led by Wilt Chamberlain, enter the Kansas Union Ballroom. Louis Armstrong cuts away from “Royal Garden Blues” and kicks into “When the Saints Go Marching In.” You were there. Even if you weren’t yet born, if you are a Jayhawk, you were there. Tell the grandkids.

■ Discover that Jim Carothers’ “The Literature of Baseball” is tougher—and even more fun—than it sounds.

■ Warn your kids: The Parking Department might occasionally forgive, but never forgets.

✱ Marvel at L.L. ■ ✱ Dyche’s Party pic! Stand outside a dorm in your mustache pajamas during a 4 a.m. false ■ Pick a favorite downtown coffee shop. alarm. and groovy Pledge your allegiance for four years and duds. beyond. ■ 1948 Orange Bowl. Fumble? No way!

■ Fall under the spell of Rossetti’s “La ■ Drop. Add. Drop. Pia de Tolommei” and the Spencer Add. Drop. Add. Museum of Art. Drop. Add.

✱ Walk through the Campanile door to door—and down the Hill. Relish every step, every friend, every memory.

Photographs by Earl Richardson, University Archives and University Relations. Illustrations by Larry Leroy Pearson

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 27 EARL RICHARDSON WHEN THEY NEED TO FEEL THE HEAT, FIREFIGHTERS ACROSS KANSAS TURN TO KU’S MOBILE FIRE SERVICE TRAINING

wo weeks before Christmas, firefighters from the Wichita Fire Department are gathering at the city’s training facility for T a day of live burns. With 365 firefighters spread across 18 stations, the Wichita department is the largest in Kansas. As is true for most big-city crews, their training is ongoing and continuous. Nevertheless, the roughly 20-acre facility near the Boeing plant in south Wichita is a modest affair: An apron of concrete surrounded by a chainlink fence holds a training tower, a few fire hydrants and a single building hous- ing a garage and a classroom. The only other permanent equipment visible this morning is an antique red fire engine parked on the perimeter, its roof caved in, its days of service long past. Notably absent is a permanent burn facility, a building that can be used over and over to give hands-on training in dealing with the one scenario that, despite the mission creep that has transformed fire departments in the past few decades, is still the meat and potatoes of the firefighter’s steady diet of disaster: structure fires. Wichita’s burn facility was torn down a decade ago, and funding for a new one has not materialized. So this morning the largest fire department in Kansas is relying on the Live Structural Fire Training Lab, a portable burn trailer provided by KU Fire Service Training. Using a fleet of mobile props to simulate car fires, fuel spills, airplane crashes, building fires and propane explosions, KU Fire Service Training last year conducted hands-on classes in 96 Kansas counties. The Division of Continuing Education program reached clients from 28 states and one

BY STEVEN HILL

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 29 ardous materials and responding to terrorism. We serve everybody from rookies to chiefs.” KATHERINE HUGGINS KATHERINE . ■ Lawrence firefighters enter t the Wichita training grounds, the burn trailer during a Capt. John Turner, commander September demonstration for of Station 5 and the director of the Kansas Board of Regents. .today’s exercise, briefs his troopsA on the training objectives. Two Fire Service Training logged 75,000 miles last year deliver- engine crews are on hand, one to attack the fire and one to provide safety and ing portable training props backup for the attack crew. Turner tells such as the propane-fueled the backups to spray the walls of the car-fire simulator (p. 28) to trailer with water, which will help moder- Kansas fire departments. ate the interior temperature for the firefighters inside and protect the structure. “Let’s make sure we take good care of KU’s equipment,” Turner says. “We don’t want to send back an axle and two smoking wheels.” Then he sends the firefighters out to get their first look at their classroom for the day. KATHERINE HUGGINS KATHERINE KATHERINE HUGGINS KATHERINE The battered, rusted rig parked on the apron—basically a cargo container welded onto the bed of a semitrailer—is outfitted to simulate a one-room structure. To the untrained eye it would seem to simulate an oven. Firefighters walk up a set of stairs, then enter a side door from a small porch. A quick left turn leads through a small anteroom to a second door that leads to the burn chamber, a windowless room with steel walls and a plywood and steel floor. Two additional doors at the front of the trailer provide Canadian province through a contract to exits—cold comfort since that’s where the train U.S. Army firefighters at Fort Riley fire will be built. and via its annual conference on terror- An ignition team hauls in bails of ism. Fire Service Training also serves the excelsior, wood shavings used for pack- state’s community colleges, testing and ing material in the days before foam certifying fire science students in first day you walk on the job at the fire peanuts. A Salvation Army couch is Hutchinson, Johnson County and Kansas department all the way through how to added to the pyre. Outside, the backups City. But the primary students for the be a company officer in charge of a crew take their positions. Each member of the program’s classes, conferences and field or an engine company,” says Glenn fire-attack crew dons a self-contained training exercises are the nearly 16,000 Pribbenow, a former firefighter who now breathing apparatus, a mask and air tank paid and volunteer firefighters at 673 fire directs Fire Service Training. “That that allow firefighters to breathe amid departments across Kansas. includes your basic skills like handling the smoke and heat of the fire. One last “The spectrum of what we can deliver ladders and stretching hose to more check ensures that all skin is covered by runs from the basic skills you need the advanced things like handling haz- protective gear. The crew establishes

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI radio contact with the incident com- The level of experience varies widely helped run the U.S. biolological weapons mander coordinating the exercise. Then for Wichita’s firefighters. At Station 5, program from 1948 until it was discon- the firefighters move into the trailer, located at Second and Hillside in the tinued in 1969, and Ken Alibeck, former where the main attack hose is charged city’s urban core, fires are frequent: first deputy chief of the Soviet Union’s and a backup hose stands ready. The igni- Turner recalls fighting four on his first offensive biological weapons program tion team lights the fire and leaves, shut- 24-hour shift. For others, like Jason Fager, who defected to the United States in ting the doors behind them, and the experience accrues more slowly. After 1992. “These are worldwide experts in three are momentarily in the dark, braced three years on the job, Fager has had only the field and it’s just a once-in-a-lifetime for action. one fire in which he was “first-in on the experience to be able to go listen to those They don’t wait long: A tendril of hose” with the fire-attack crew. “This gave folks,” Keeton says. “We look to KU for flame curls upward, takes root in the me a chance to see how fire works, how it that kind of training.” couch cushions and blossoms, with star- builds and how it can hit the ceiling and All well and good. But for the rank- tling speed, into a glowing garden of fire roll back on you,” Fager says after work- and-file fireman, it’s still hard to top the that blazes up the wall like a malignant ing the hose on three fires in the trailer in more everyday thrill of fighting fire. vine. Dense, black smoke and com- one afternoon. “You get a sense of the “It’s a lot different than the real thing, bustible gases released by the burning heat and find out how well you can toler- because you know right where the fire is furniture build against the ceiling, and ate it. This was very educational. It gives a and you know where you have to go to as the heat intensifies the gases ignite guy a little bit of confidence when it get out,” says firefighter Dave Shonka, still and flames roll over the heads of the comes time to face the real thing.” beaming after his turn in the trailer. “But attack crew, who’ve been standing, hose Being a firefighter, of course, is about this is what it’s all about. We do a lot of in hand, studying the developing fire. more than just pointing a hose. As the things in the fire department, but this is Now they kneel, hunkering down in the events of last September made all too why guys sign up—to put out fires.” relatively cooler, clearer air near the floor. clear, firefighters are often the first line A quick blast of water vanquishes the of defense against an array of scourges. fire, but the resulting steam intensifies “For whatever reason, fire depart- the heat and does nothing to improve ments have kind of turned into the . visibility. catchall,” Keeton says. “For any type of ire Service Training started in “The purpose today is to keep things disaster, whether it’s white powder in a 1949 when the Legislature called simple,” Turner explains later. “A lot of piece of mail or a bomb or a car wreck, on KU to start a “travelling the preliminary steps—running the hose, the fire department is the first thing they instruction service” to help train finding the fire—are eliminated, so we can call. The responsibilities of fire depart- firefightersF and boost fire protection focus on attacking the fire.” The burn ments have grown, and to be prepared across the state. The emphasis was—and trailer allows firefighters to do this in a to address all that requires constant train- is—on portability. controlled environment, and to do it ing.” “Firefighters need to safely and repeatedly. The other live-fire To do it all in-house is a tall train together because training option—setting fire to con- order, according to Keeton. “What they are a team,” says demned houses donated to the city— I rely on KU for is to augment JoAnn Smith, dean of requires much more preparation. To our training by doing some “YOU GET continuing educa- ready a 700-square-foot house for a live specialized training above A SENSE OF tion. “They need burn in November, Wichita firefighters and beyond what we can THE HEAT AND to train on logged 110 hours patching walls, remov- provide.” For an exam- ing the chimney and floor coverings, and ple, he points to the FIND OUT HOW doing everything else necessary to satisfy officer leadership WELL YOU CAN Environmental Protection Agency and courses Fire Service TOLERATE IT ... IT GIVES National Fire Protection Association Training will teach in guidelines. “The burn trailer allows us to Wichita in January, and A GUY A LITTLE BIT OF do live burn training without all that prep the anti-terrorism con- CONFIDENCE WHEN IT work,” says Charles Keeton, chief of safety ference it will co-host COMES TIME TO FACE and training for Wichita Fire Department. with the Wichita Fire “They can pull it up and the next day we Department this spring. THE REAL can walk in and start training. It is really Conference speakers have THING.” convenient for us.” included William Patrick, who

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 31 their own equipment because not every only train on ladders, say, maybe once a those who use its services. Too often, the fire truck is alike.” year. We have to make sure the training small, mostly volunteer departments like Smith, now in her first year as dean, is intense. We have to make damn sure Schwindamann’s—where the need for has been troubled by the low level of we get through it and get it right.” training is often the highest—have a funding for Fire Service Training. Last When the burn trailer rolled into tough time affording the training. year, the program received $250,000 Marysville in November, it was as if “Those departments out in the sticks in state money—only about $16 per Christmas had come early. of Kansas may have an annual budget of Kansas firefighter. Smith and Pribbenow “For some of these guys it’s the one $1,000, just enough to keep fuel in their say the program has had no budget time of year they get to face a fire in a vehicles,” Pribbenow says. “When some- increase in 16 years and has in fact lost controlled atmosphere,” Schwindamann thing breaks they have to go to the town money to state budget recisions. With says. “You can’t really stand back and commission and ask for $200 to fix it. the budget again in crisis, more cuts explain what’s going on when someone’s They pick up the phone and ask us for a are likely this year. house is burning down. This is the only basic 12-hour class, and we say, ‘Sure, Speaking at a Lawrence conference way we can get that training—there’s no we can do that for you. That’ll be $800.’ hosted by Fire Service Training in academy for us.” “You can imagine the potential for December, the dean told But with state resentment when they say, ‘But you’re the attending firefighters funding limited, the state training agency; we’re supposed that she had the support Fire Service to come to you for help. And you say of the chancellor and the Training must you won’t help unless I pay you?’ provost to fight for more raise a big chunk “The people who need our help money for firefighter of its budget the most are the one’s who can least training. The issue hits RICHARDSON EARL (about $150,000 afford it,” he says. “That’s our biggest close to home for Smith: last year) from challenge.” She has a brother who is a career firefighter in Kansas City. In a state where 95 percent of firefighters are volunteers, proper training is a moral imperative, Smith suggests. “If they are willing to put their lives on the line, we owe it to them to train them RICHARDSON EARL with the best techniques. It’s the right thing to do. It’s a debt we need to clear to these people who serve the state.” Indeed, if Fire Service Training helps big-city departments like Wichita, it is absolutely crucial for the small volunteer forces that form the vast majority of the state’s fire departments. William Schwindamann, a volunteer firefighter in Marysville, took time off from his job as a carpenter and plumber to attend the December conference, a “train-the-trainer” session that prepares both volunteer and career firefighters to teach training courses in their own departments. “These guys [career firefighters] get training every day,” Schwindamann says. “We ■ At a Firefighter I certification test administered by Fire Service Training, Johnson County Community College fire science students Don McReynolds, left, and

EARL RICHARDSON EARL Andy Laws rush to don their protective "bunker" gear within 60 seconds. Alexandria Township firefighter and FST field instructor Paul Soptick guides Laws through the restricted-space maze on test night (p.32).

Kansas State Association of Fire Chiefs and the Kansas State Association of Professional Fire Chiefs, will ask lawmakers to levy a surcharge on car tags. The proposed fee, variously estimated between $1 to $4, could raise from $2 to $9 million annually for fire service training. The details of the proposal Some funding relief has come from copy of a videotape. It fades further and were still being worked out at press time, two federal grants. A Federal Emergency further because you forgot something, he but it will likely call for an oversight Management Agency grant, now in its forgot something and the next guy forgot board, representing a broad range of fire fourth year, provides $80,000 for anti-ter- something. The guy at the end of the line service and allied organizations such as rorism programs, and a National Fire is far less trained because it was all done community colleges and the state fire Academy grant for $30,000 allows the informally.” marshal’s office, to oversee the money. program to offer NFA classes at no cost to Another drawback, Pribbenow says, is KU Fire Service Training would remain firefighters. But while the grants have that training becomes “a low-bid” enter- the main state-funded provider of fire- boosted class offerings by one-third, pur- prise. “It gets done by whoever will do it fighter training in Kansas. chased much-needed classroom equip- the cheapest. Sometimes you get people “I think it’s going to work,” Pribbenow ment and underwritten the annual con- willing to do whatever it takes: ‘You want says. “I think it’s going to happen. ference on terrorism, they have also to be trained to Firefighter I in two days? The support is there” from the state fire increased the workload of an already Two days it is.’ It happens to be an 80- service to put forth a proposal. Whether overburdened staff. More importantly, the hour course, but they’ll take your money, that proposal has a fighting chance of grants don’t address the shortage of basic give you a certificate and go home.” attracting support from lawmakers in a firefighter training. Ultimately, fire protection suffers, he painfully tight budget year is another “The terrorism money is important, says. “You can track it all the way down matter altogether. Pribbenow thinks the but the basic training is what is critical, to the average citizen, who doesn’t have timing is right to rectify what he calls “a because it teaches the fundamentals that the fire protection he thinks he has.” long history” of underfunding firefighter are applicable to everything else,” Smith training in Kansas. says. “Whether they are responding to “The Legislature has told us that if hazardous materials, a car fire or a burn- there’s a year in which to put forward ing building, they use the same funda- . an initiative for the fire service, this is it, mental skills.” oping to end the chronic fund- because of the sensitivity of the Sept. 11 Pribbenow sounds a similar alarm. ing crisis, representatives of issues. The fire service has kind of been “The bottom line is people go untrained” the state’s fire service plan to held up in front of the nation and they’ve in the absence of adequate funding, he present a proposal to the gotten a good look at what we do. says. Newcomers rely on hand-me-down HLegislature when it convenes in January. “Everybody’s minds and hearts are instruction from veterans, and things Members of the Fire Service Alliance, a with us,” he adds. “Whether their inevitably get lost in the translation. lobbying group that represents the pocketbooks can afford it or not is “Eventually it’s like a fifth-generation Kansas State Firefighters Association, the another issue.”

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 33 FURNITURE SCULPTOR

WENDELL CASTLE AND HIS

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THRILL CAMPUS AUDIENCES

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO EARL RICHARDSON

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI o. 10 of 10: If you hit the bull’s- and certainly no furniture category, so judge of its beauty or value.) eyeN every time, the target is too near. the carved “chair” was placed in the For the design students, Castle has Rules of thumb are nifty things. sculpture division. brought along a slide show of his art fur- Sculptor Wendell Castle keeps 10 of Categorization never got any easier. niture: A grandfather clocked draped them handy. Though they are for sale “I did this being very naive,” he says, entirely in a sheet (though the brilliant ($20 for the set, plus $3 shipping and later adding, “I’m suspect of people who piece, in the Smithsonian’s permanent handling) on his Web site, in person he know why they do things. I think you fig- collection, is actually solid mahogany); a distributes them free. More than free, ure it out after you do it.” coffee table with one leg on the floor and actually. Happily. Steinway & Sons solidified Castle’s one leg on the wall (“With this table, it’s Funny how it works with artists who reputation when it commissioned him to the leg that’s important”); a dining table become famous by breaking rules: They fashion the cabinet for its 500,000th that hangs from the ceiling; a chest of tend to stay young, even as their years grand piano. The commemo- and wisdom advance to a place where rative piano, which debuted their own rules become helpful things. at Carnegie Hall in 1988 and “Carry a sketchbook.” has since toured the world, The 68-year-old artisan—who 40 years features massive legs and

ago created the sculpture genre of art fur- striped woodwork, and EARL RICHARDSON niture and last fall made his first official Castle even carved the signa- visit to campus since he left here as a tures of all 832 Steinway per- young man—is, so to speak, a big draw. formers into the wood. KU design students fill an Art and The piano was brought to Design Building lecture room to capacity Lawrence for the School of to hear him speak. He produces his Fine Arts’ Collage Concert sketchbook from his canvas shoulder Oct. 11 at the Lied Center, bag, proving he follows his own advice. and Castle, who donated one He continues: “Carry a pencil. Don’t of his coat racks to the carry an eraser. I don’t believe in erasing. event’s fundraising auction, You’ll probably erase the wrong line.” was eager to be reunited with So much for the art instruction. his most famous piece. Castle, f’59, g’61, spends the rest of the While the concert’s stage manager ran drawers with many legs, some of which session teaching thought, creation and through afternoon lighting checks, Castle don’t reach the floor; his own personal appreciation. His charisma alone is entered the empty hall and approached dining table, with holes and hoops (“My enough to hold the students’ attention: the stage almost reverently. He stood dining table wears earrings”); a clock He is tall, lean and dapper, and sure to before his piano, then reached out a that tells time with arms, not hands. go home with the big teddy bear should hand and gently rubbed at some worn “He changed the way people thought any carnival huckster try to guess his age. spots, scars from the instrument’s heavy about furniture design,” says Lois Few could guess his weight in the art travel schedule. Greene, chair—what would Castle make world, either. From his workshop near “I haven’t seen the piano in about six of that?—of the department of design. Rochester, N.Y., Castle carries on a career years,” he says softly. “He remains that innovative to this day.” he began on Mount Oread as a sculpture Castle notices that the keyboard is Castle again warns the students about graduate student. Studying under the oddly perfect. It is too white, entirely the perils of straying far from paper and light, sure touch of two legends of the unchipped. He wonders aloud whether pencil: “An idea is an inconsiderate thing. KU art faculty—Elden Tefft, f’49, g’50, the keyboard might possibly be new, but It can come at any time. You better leave and Bernard “Poco” Frazier, f’29—Castle he can’t imagine that it is. And then, just the door open.” He explains that he has emerged with something new. Decades as quickly, he seems to lose interest in in his workshop an old Volkswagen van, later, he admits he still doesn’t under- any further inspection or reintroduction. “huge and totally impractical,” into which stand why he tried to “connect two previ- He leans against the piano for photo- he escapes on journeys through his imag- ously unconnected things,” sculpture and graphs, but there is seemingly not much ination. It is his “environment for con- furniture. He created the fanciful “Adult of a love connection. Perhaps artists templation,” and when he switches on a High Chair,” and in 1960 submitted it to who send their work into the world warning light, his staff, family and a show at Kansas City’s Nelson Art are trained to make a clean emotional friends know he is not to be interrupted. Gallery (now the Nelson-Atkins break. (See rule of thumb No. 1: If you “You are innocent when you dream,” Museum). There was no craft category, are in love with an idea, you are no he says. “So dream.”

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 35 In a case before the nation’s highest court, KU’s dean of law faces a learned opponent—a former student

reen Hall, home to KU’s School of delightful mentor vs. protégé twist that swells KU BY CHRIS Law, is open but vacant. It is pride and stokes a friendly rivalry, McAllister’s LAZZARINO Wednesday, the day before opponent in McKune v. Lile is a 30-year-old Thanksgiving. A few faculty mem- lawyer he helped train: Matt Wiltanger, l’97, stud- bers drift through to check mail- ied constitutional law under Professor McAllister boxes, but the main office has oth- and learned legal tactics on the vigorous KU Gerwise been abandoned to the holiday. Stephen moot-court team coached by McAllister. McAllister, the school’s 38-year-old dean, enters The case to be decided concerns Fifth the emptiness, wearing casual-Friday attire. He Amendment protections as they apply to prison- unlocks his door, flicks on the light. His large, ers. Wiltanger represents Robert Lile, a convicted square room is perfectly tidy. rapist imprisoned since 1983 in Lansing Where there is order, though, one would surely Correctional Facility. Lile, who maintains he was have expected papered chaos: boxes of research wrongly convicted, claims the prison’s treatment stacked randomly, law books spread across tables, program violates his constitutional protection legal pads filled with furious scribbles. One week against self-incrimination because participants from today, McAllister will, for the third time in must take responsibility for their crimes and tell his fast career, stand before the nine justices of the of any sexual offenses the state might not be U.S. Supreme Court and say, “Mr. Chief Justice aware of. and may it please the court,” beginning his argu- McAllister represents the state of Kansas and ment on behalf of the state of Kansas in the mat- Warden David R. McKune, who maintain that sex ter of McKune v. Lile. offenders are not forced to participate and there- McAllister, c’85, l’88, will become one of the fore are not compelled—the central factor in this very few (if not first) sitting law deans to argue a dispute—to offer any information. case before the U.S. Supreme Court. And in a Wiltanger, a fourth-year associate in the

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI STEVE BARRETT

Overland Park office of the Kansas City legal giant a particular hurry to get back to his home office ■ After arguing McKune Shook, Hardy & Bacon, has been furiously and review his court papers. v. Lile inside the U.S. preparing for months. He already won a unani- “I feel fairly confident. I’ve done this before, Supreme Court, Matt mous victory for Lile at the 10th U.S. Circuit so I know what to expect.” Wiltanger, left, and Dean Court of Appeals in Denver, but his opponent was Stephen McAllister take not McAllister—a clerk for two Supreme Court jus- their rivalry outside and tices and the author of an authoritative journal ashington, D.C., feels old and try to settle the dispute article on U.S. Supreme Court practice. tired in late November. There are the old-fashioned way: “I’m reviewing briefs again,” Wiltanger says, few tourists, and locals seem intent “reviewing Supreme Court law, practicing oral on keeping the scary world at with thumb wrestling. arguments, drafting outlines, revising outlines, bayW with fixed scowls. crying, praying … and not necessarily in that Leaves covering Capitol Hill are unraked; the order.” large pool directly west of the Capitol emits a At Shook, Hardy & Bacon, long hours are the stench at the leeward corner, where uncollected price for success. Single-minded, anti-social cram- grime stagnates; the U.S. Capitol itself, for now ming is so common as to have a name: “The still closed to visitors, is ringed by heavily armed Cave.” officers and jury-rigged barricades. When first McAllister has no cave. He does not enjoy the lady Laura Bush took delivery of the national luxury of walking away from daily administrative Christmas tree, there wasn’t much cheer: the chores. In fact, on this Wednesday before White House, too, is closed to the public. Thanksgiving, one week before oral arguments, “People are scared to come here,” a taxi driver McAllister spent the morning at a meeting of cam- moans. “This is bad.” pus deans. Yet he is relaxed and, as always, smiles In this season of fear and war, our national city and laughs easily. He doesn’t even seem to be in looks like an abandoned backlot where once they

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 37 “It’s easy to get overawed by the majesty of the whole thing. The place is magnificent. The justices are impressive, they’re ready, they’re smart, they’re into the case. But at the end of the day, it’s about the law and the rules that govern us.” filmed movies about the American heart tains and take their seats. sonable expectation. The state also main- of democracy. The focus seems to be on “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!” Talkin continues tains it has never leveled charges based shutting down, holing up and somehow with precision. “All persons having busi- on statements made during treatment. getting by. ness before the Honorable, the Supreme The court agreed with Lile, and in All except for the Capitol complex’s Court of the United States, are admon- 1998 issued an injunction, based on his eastern landmark, whose marbled ished to draw near and give their atten- Fifth Amendment claim, preventing war- majesty is untarnished, its 16-columned tion, for the Court is now sitting. God den McKune from transferring Lile to grandeur unruffled. save the United States and this maximum security. Kansas appealed to Supreme Court security guards scan Honorable Court!” the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, at bags, visitors pass through metal detec- And Matt Wiltanger. which point Wiltanger was handed Lile’s tors and marshals pace the Court “My goals,” he later admits, “were to case by Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Chamber, eyeing everyone in the room not pass out, not wet myself and not At the 10th Circuit, three judges (which, except for a 44-foot ceiling, is vomit.” decided the Fifth Amendment matter smaller and more cramped than new visi- would be solved if the state granted tors might imagine). Otherwise, unlike immunity or confidentiality for state- the rest of Washington, it is business as obert Lile maintained at trial ments made in treatment, so they voted usual. that the sexual encounters 3-0 in favor of Lile. It was Wiltanger’s Which means intense. described by prosecutors as rape first oral argument in a criminal case, “No scrambled eggs, no corn flakes,” were consensual. His jury dis- and McAllister, who happened to be in McAllister advises Wiltanger when they Ragreed and sentenced him to life. At the the courtroom for a different case, stuck bump into each other at about 8:30 a.m. state’s penitentiary in Lansing, Lile around to watch. in the court’s basement cafeteria. earned his way to minimum security, “I was teasing him, saying, ‘Look, if “Beverages only. Juice and coffee.” where he could keep a prison job, receive you win this thing, I’m going to be in it They are here to argue an important visitors and live in a modern cell. [when the state appeals to the Supreme case, but the first case on Nov. 28, a First As he neared his first parole date, Lile, Court],’” McAllister recalls. Amendment test of a law designed to like other sex offenders approaching a The Supreme Court agreed to hear protect children from Internet pornogra- possible release date, was ordered—or, Kansas’ appeal so it could settle ques- phy, is the biggest so far this term. depending on the viewpoint, offered the tions about inmates’ Fifth Amendment Solicitor General Theodore Olson will chance—to enter the state’s Sexual Abuse rights, especially since therapists say it’s argue for the government—a task the Treatment Program, which requires imperative for sex offenders to accept solicitor general usually assumes only inmates to accept responsibility for their responsibility. The U.S. government and about six or seven times a year. Reporters crimes. Lile refused to participate and 18 states officially supported Kansas. clamor for credentials and spectators was automatically downgraded from min- “Whatever they do here, 200 and arrive early to get in line for seats. imum to maximum security. “Think some years after the framers and first In the Court Chamber, where there ‘Shawshank Redemption,’” says one of Congress put the Bill of Rights in, we’re isn’t room for one more spectator, lawyer his former attorneys, “only worse.” helping the court define what that means or reporter, a clock hangs behind the jus- In federal district court, Lile’s court- for all Americans,” McAllister says. tices’ mahogany bench. The second it appointed advocates from Shook, Hardy “That’s inspiring to me.” clicks 10—the second—Marshal Pamela & Bacon successfully argued the state In this particular case, though, Talkin bangs her gavel and announces, had tried to compel him, at the risk of McAllister has another reason for jump- “The Honorable, the Chief Justice and losing prison privileges, to be a witness ing in so eagerly: A week after arguments the Associate Justices of the Supreme against himself. The state argued it had in Washington, McAllister craftily con- Court of the United States,” during not compelled Lile to say anything; when fides that while clerking for now-retired which the nine national elders emerge he refused to participate, he simply lost Justice Byron White, he wrote a pool like phantoms from behind heavy cur- privileges to which inmates have no rea- memo circulated throughout the court

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI about a similar case from Montana. A which are only about five feet from the first was, ‘Stop kicking my ass.’” parolee faced losing his probation for bench, adding to the chamber’s con- When arguments end, the last two refusing to accept responsibility during gested feel. “You’ll do great,” the dean people out of the Court Chamber are treatment, and the Supreme Court agreed whispers to Wiltanger moments before Matt Wiltanger and Steve McAllister. to hear his appeal. His probation ran Chief Justice William Rehnquist calls for “My first question was to find out if I out—meaning the case was moot—before McKune v. Lile. “It’s gonna be fun.” did an OK job,” Wiltanger says. “He said it was heard in Washington, but Most of the reporters leave to get inter- I had, and I said, ‘You’re not lying to me? McAllister never forgot that memo writ- views outside; their doyenne, New York You’re not stringing me along, are you?’” ten a decade ago. Times reporter Linda Greenhouse, stays Says McAllister: “After 10 or 15 min- “I knew this was out there, and I knew put and watches the Kansas case closely. utes I knew he was doing a great job, I they were interested in it,” he says. “I’d Another hint of the gravity of McKune v. thought and hoped I had done a great been looking to this issue for 10 years.” Lile: Except for Clarence Thomas, who job, and so for the school it was a great Score one for the dean. rarely asks questions, every justice grills day. It really showed the school off well. both Wiltanger and McAllister. Cases have to turn out one way or “It really is an interesting case,” another. Somebody wins and somebody isiting the Supreme Court is a McAllister says, “and I think the justices’ loses, but I’m convinced there was some powerful experience; for lawyers activity confirmed that. They showed that excellent lawyering on both sides.” who must keep their wits to it was a hard case, they were interested in After a pause, he adds, “Of course, make strong arguments, the it and some of them were undecided you’d rather be able to say, ‘I’ve never lost Vexperience can be too much. “It’s easy to about what to do.” in the Supreme Court.’” get overawed by the majesty of the whole When it comes Wiltanger’s turn to Until the court issues its decision, thing,” McAllister says. “The place is argue, the justices pepper him with diffi- which might not be until early summer, magnificent. The justices are impressive, cult questions and he confidently stands both mentor and protégé can rightly they’re ready, they’re smart, they’re into his ground. His biggest fan in the court- make that claim. And it’s clear neither the case. But at the end of the day, it’s room (except for his parents) sits two feet expects to be the one to have to take it about the law and the rules that to his right, beaming with pride and back. govern us.” pointing to a note scribbled on a pad of “I’m looking for a movie deal,” When arguments in the Internet case paper: Slow down. Wiltanger says. “But I don’t want Robby end, McAllister and Wiltanger prepare to “That was actually the second note he Benson playing me. That’s all I ask.” take their seats at the lawyers’ tables, passed to me,” Wiltanger deadpans. “The

KU lawyers fill court’s docket ean Stephen McAllister’s argu- the state must not only show that his ment against alumnus Matt client is likely to reoffend, but also that DWiltanger was the Supreme he cannot control his behavior. Court’s second contest of the fall pitting Donham, 59, is a former fighter pilot KU lawyers against each other. and engineer who came to KU for a On Oct. 30, Kansas Attorney General midlife career change. He maintains a Carla Stovall, l’83, g’93, faced Olathe storefront practice in Olathe, and has like to see more KU cases up there, lawyer John Donham, l’88, in Kansas v. said the case has taken so much time where KU lawyers are involved, and I Crane, a test of the sexual predator law that he lost his other clients. Yet think it can happen.” that allows the state to indefinitely con- Donham kept up Crane’s battle all the McAllister says the Supreme Court fine convicted sex offenders, after they way to the U.S. Supreme Court, whose appearances do more than polish the law have served their sentences, for care and decision is expected sometime by school’s image. Students are watching treatment. summer. closely, he says, and taking notes. The U.S. Supreme Court already “I think it’s very inspiring for all of “They realize it’s not an unreasonable upheld Kansas’ controversial law, by a us,” McAllister says of the Supreme dream to think, ‘Someday I might argue 5-4 vote in 1997, but Donham, the court- Court’s heavy KU presence. “It really at the Supreme Court.’ It shouldn’t be an appointed lawyer for convict Michael boosts morale. People feel good about unreasonable dream. It’s not.” Crane, has so far successfully argued that the school, and I’d like to keep it up. I’d —C.L.

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 39 Association

ber, Bartlesville, Okla. He is Board election nears president of Worldwide Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Six members are nominated for for Phillips Petroleum Co. He the Association’s national board; began his career with Phillips members to receive ballots in March in 1972 and worked in Norway, Indonesia, Singapore he Association’s annual election process and the United Kingdom, for the national Board of Directors began including a stint as chairman in mid-December, when a nominating and managing director of committee of Association members United Kingdom exploration RISLEY Tselected six alumni for the 2002 ballot. They are: and production from 1994 until 1997, when he Con Keating, c’63, life member, Lincoln, Neb. He returned to company headquarters in Bartlesville. is a shareholder in the 11-member law firm of He serves on the School of Engineering Keating, O’Gara, Davis and Advisory Board and as an Association ’Hawk-to- Three winners Nedved. A trial lawyer for 35 ’Hawk mentor for a current KU student. He and will begin their years, Keating has created a his wife, Jill, belong to the Chancellors Club and mediation service to resolve Williams Educational Fund. five-year terms disputes before trial. Janette Crawford Rudkin, July 1. Ballots, As a student, Keating let- c’73, annual member, tered in football and played Sunnyvale, Calif. She is a con- including addi- on the winning 1961 Blue sultant in information design, tional biographi- Bonnet Bowl team. With his technical writing and editing, cal information wife, Barbara Schmidt desktop publishing and mar- Keating, d’63, he is a member KEATING ket research. She previously and candidates’ of the Chancellors Club of worked as a member of a the KU Endowment Association and the Williams strategic planning group for a statements, will Educational Fund of the KU Athletics Corp. subsidiary of British RUDKIN be wrapped Joe Morris, b’61, annual Jayhawk Society member, Petroleum. Leawood. Morris is chairman She is a member of the Board of Advisors for around the No. of The Capital Corp., after the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity 2 issue of more than three decades in Research Center and a ’Hawk-to-’Hawk mentor. As the banking industry. During a student she was president of the All Scholarship Kansas Alumni his career, he chaired Hall Council. She and her Western Financial Corp. and husband, Tom, c’73, are its subsidiary, Columbia members of the Chancellors Savings, and later chaired Club. Commercial Guaranty Michael Sauder, b’71, life Bancshares and its sub- member, Fair Oaks Ranch, sidiary, First Commercial Texas. Sauder retired in 2001 MORRIS Bank, Overland Park. from a career in the travel He is a trustee of the KU Endowment industry that began with Association and a member of the School of KU’s trip to the Orange Bowl Business Board of Advisors. Morris and his wife, in 1969. In 1973 he and his Susan, are members of the Chancellors Club and SAUDER wife, Margi Elder Sauder, the Williams Educational Fund, and they have d’71, moved from Leavenworth to San Antonio, volunteered for Jayhawks for Higher Education. where he purchased Rennert World Travel, the Allyn Risley, e’72, annual Jayhawk Society mem- oldest travel agency west of the Mississippi. He is

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI an adviser to Alamo Rent a Car and Norwegian Cruise Line, and he hosts a local weekly radio show on travel. Sauder has helped coordinate sites for alumni events in San Antonio, most recently for the 2001 NCAA Tournament The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, Southeast Regional. commitment and communication among all graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Paul Whipple, e’61, life member, staff and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to Bridgewater, N.J. He recently retired from achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. a career in the telephone, aerospace and information industries. He worked for Board of Directors Bell Labs, Bellcomm, AT&T and Bellcore Deloris Strickland Pinkard, ALUMNI CENTER CHAIR in areas including systems engineering, g’80, EdD’95, Kansas City Bryan Greve Janet Martin McKinney, David R. Rankin, p’63, Director of AAC Services manned space flight, software systems c’74, Port Ludlow, Phillipsburg and Jayhawk Society planning, national security, strategic plan- Washington ning and project Membership EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR DIRECTORS TO JULY 2004 Mike Wellman management. In Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, Director of Special Projects retirement he works Mission Woods Leawood and AAC Facility Manager as a tax professional EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mary Kay Paige McPhee, FINANCE with H&R Block. Jim Adam, e’56, d’49, Kansas City, Missouri Dwight Parman An Association Overland Park John W. Mize, c’72, Salina Sr VP for Finance & Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Treasurer life member since Mission Woods DIRECTORS TO JULY 2005 COMMUNICATIONS his graduation, Reid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, Chris Lazzarino Whipple partici- Overland Park Pinehurst, North Carolina Managing Editor, Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, pates in events with Sydnie Bowling Kansas Alumni Magazine Port Ludlow, Washington the New York WHIPPLE Kampschroeder, c’65, Jennifer Sanner Cordell D. Meeks Jr., Naperville, Illinois Sr VP for Communications Metropolitan Area alumni chapter. He c’64, l’67, Kansas City Craig B. Swenson, e’59, and Editor, Kansas Alumni and his wife, Laura, have traveled fre- Deloris Strickland Pinkard, Lee’s Summit, Missouri Magazine quently on Flying Jayhawks trips. g’80, EdD’95, Kansas City Susan Younger Carol Swanson Ritchie, Members of the Association’s nominat- DIRECTORS TO JULY 2006 Art Director d’54, Wichita ing committee were Bradley Scafe, chair, Jill Sadowsky Docking, Linda Duston Warren, MEMBERSHIP c’78, g’84, Wichita c’80, Overland Park; Bradley Korell, l’97, c’66, m’70, Hanover Sheila M. Immel Austin, Texas; C. David Lawhorn, c’78, Marvin R. Motley, Sr VP for Membership VICE CHAIRS c’77, l’80, g’81, Leawood Jennifer Mueller m’85, Lawrence; David Polson, ’71, Gary Bender, g’64, David B. Wescoe, c’76, Director of Student Lincoln, Neb.; and Sheri Pierce Williams, Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mequon, Wisconsin Programs s’74, Topeka. Colorado Springs, Colorado Michelle Senecal de MEMBERSHIP SERVICES To nominate additional candidates, HONORARY MEMBERS Fonseca, Carolyn Barnes members must submit petitions signed Gene A. Budig, EdD, b’83, London, England Director KHP Princeton, New Jersey by at least 100 paid members, with no Tim S. Dibble, d’74, Kirk Cerny E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., more than 50 from the same county. Issaquah, Washington Sr VP for Membership PhD, San Antonio,Texas Patricia Weems Gaston, j’81, Services Nominees’ photographs and biographical Archie R. Dykes, EdD, information must accompany petitions; Annandale, Virginia Kelly Kidwell Goodlettsville, Tennessee Assistant Director of all materials must reach the Association Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Chapter and Constituent DIRECTORS TO JULY 2002 by Feb. 15. Mail to the Alumni Lawrence Programs Lewis D. Gregory, c’75, W. Clarke Wescoe, MD, Donna Neuner Association Nominating Committee, 1266 Leawood Mission Director of Membership Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Lynwood H. Smith, Services Ballots will accompany the next issue b’51, m’60, Lawrence Administrative Staff of the magazine. Each copy will include Linda Duston Warren, RECORDS c’66, m’70, Hanover ADMINISTRATION Bill Green one or two ballots, depending on the Kay Henry Sr VP for Information number of voting members in a house- Sr VP for Administration and Services DIRECTORS TO JULY 2003 hold. Annual and life members are eligi- Human Resources Nancy Peine Sidney Ashton Garrett, Fred B. Williams Vice President for Records ble to vote; the Association’s bylaws pro- c’68, d’70, Lawrence hibit associate members (those who did President and CEO not attend KU) from voting.

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1920s 1942 and president of Fidelity Banks in Frances Henkes Bodde, c’29, cele- Eileen Martin Botinelly, f’42, and her Topeka, recently received the Patrick brated her 93rd birthday last August. husband, Theodore, live in Lakewood, Henry Award from the National Guard She makes her home in Leavenworth. Colo. Association for his support of the U.S. Carl Gauck, ’27, and his wife, Gladys, military. make their home in Peoria, Ariz., where 1943 Nancy Nelson Stanley, ’48, makes her Carl plays golf twice a week. Sybellee Overholser Manning, n’43, home in Mesa, Ariz. c’43, is retired in Champaign, Ill. 1930s Mary Meyer, n’43, g’78, does volun- 1949 Alberta Beverly, c’30, a retired educa- teer work in Kansas City. Elizabeth Templin Alley, n’49, teaches tion administrator, lives in Washington, computer courses at Swan Creek D.C. 1944 Retirement Village. She lives in Toledo, Hugh Hadley, c’36, makes his home in Mary Rhodes French, n’44, lives in Ohio. Kansas City with his wife, Freda Brooks Redlands, Calif., where she enjoys music, Margaret Newell Humphrey, n’49, Hadley, c’35. reading and gardening. makes her home in Fort Collins, Colo. Fred King, c’39, m’44, stays busy dur- Betty Austin Hensley, c’44, traveled to Jack Isaacs, p’49, lives in Coffeyville. ing retirement with bridge and golf. He Spain last year with the Amerian Flute Stanley Kelley Jr., c’49, g’51, is retired and his wife, Gail, live in Sacramento, Orchestra. She lives in Wichita. in Princeton, N.J. Calif. Mary Matchette Schumacher, n’44, Roberta Taylor Oberholtzer, n’49, Marjorie Stacy Nation, d’33, keeps and her husband, George, enjoy traveling makes her home in North Syracuse, N.Y. busy in retirement with bridge, playing in their motorhome. They live in Peoria, the piano and volunteering with the Ariz. 1950 Welcome Wagon. She lives in Lawrence. Lamont Gaston, c’50, m’53, is retired Orlando Nesmith, c’38, is recovering 1945 from a career as an academic physician at from a hip fracture in Half Moon Bay, Evelyn Carlson Smith, n’45, and her the University of Missouri-Columbia. Calif. husband, Richard, recently moved to a Peggy Shinn, b’50, lives in Topeka. Martha Peterson, c’37, g’43, PhD’59, duplex in Wichita. recently was inducted into the Salina 1951 High School Hall of Fame. She lives in 1946 Norman Benteman, p’51, makes his Madison, Wis., where she’s retired from a Mary “Mimi” Nettels Gillin, c’46, home in Concordia, Mo., where he’s career in education. She was dean of makes her home in Prairie Village. retired. women at KU and at the University of Jeanne Carey Kingman, n’46, is active Marilyn Marks Miller, j’51, is retired Wisconsin and was president of Barnard in church work and is learning to use a assistant dean of law at Rutgers College in New York City and Beloit computer. She lives in Washington, D.C. University. She and her husband, College in Beloit, Wis. Kenneth, c’49, g’51, live in Madison, N.J. Merle Cook Rammelsberg, n’36, and 1947 He’s a retired professor of political sci- her husband, Allen, divide their time Shirley Otter Ambrose, f’47, is an ence at Rutgers. between homes in Mesa, Ariz., and interior designer for Glenmoor in St. Clifford Pfeltz, g’51, EdD’57, lives in Centerville, Ohio. Augustine, Fla. Bloomington, where he’s a retired profes- Mary Ann Post Boliaris, n’47, does sor of education at Illinois Wesleyan 1940 volunteer work with a hospice and at her University. Martha Irwin Garrard, c’40, makes church. She lives in New Berlin, Wis. her home in Columbus, Ga. Jeanne McMullen Summerford, n’47, 1952 makes her home in Excelsior Springs, Jerome Grunt, PhD’52, is retired in 1941 Mo. Kansas City. Helen Otte Wallace, n’41, lives in John Rockwell, c’52, keeps busy dur- Newton, Iowa, where she works part 1948 ing retirement with golf, reading and time in a funeral home. Anderson Chandler, b’48, chairman walking. He lives in Santa Rosa, Calif.

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1953 year sabbatical in France, where he stud- Ronald Duncan, d’61, retired last year. Jeannine Prichard Dahl, n’53, works ied polymer engineering. He lives in Stockton, Calif. as an American Red Cross disaster nurse. Ronald Groening, e’58, is a senior staff Louis Geiler, e’61, g’63, is retired in She lives in Scottsdale, Ariz. engineer with Lockheed Martin in Omaha, Neb. Robert Garrity, b’53, l’56, owns an Philadelphia. Robert Hinton, e’61, performed with accounting business in Shawnee. Sandra Herron Hanson, n’58, g’74, the Chancel Choir of Chapelwood United Richard Glover, m’53, enjoys hunting, lives in Overland Park and is an assistant Methodist Church last summer at the fishing and travel during retirement. He professor of pediatric nursing at the KU World Methodist Conference in Brighton, lives in Newton. Medical Center. England. He lives in Houston. Phyllis Scott Johnson, f’53, coordi- Tom Hedrick, g’58, recently was Karen Johnson, c’61, directs the test nates art for the Clovis, Calif., school dis- inducted into the Kansas Association of kitchen for Reiman Publications in trict. She lives in Fresno. Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He lives in Greendale, Wis. Lawrence. Richard Meidinger, c’61, m’65, keeps 1955 Ann Hunter McCord, n’58, coordi- busy during retirement with travel, gar- Maxine Bednar Allen, d’55, g’59, is a nates clinical trials at the Northwestern dening, photography and woodworking. retired school administrator in Overland University HIV Clinic in Chicago. He and Barbara Bowman Meidinger, Park. Carolann Gregson Reich, n’58, is a d’65, live in Auburn, where she owns Paul Barker, c’55, lives in Aurora, board member at Lafayette Regional and Landesigns. Colo., where he’s a retired minister. Pathways Community Behavioral Jerome Niebaum, d’61, recently was Duane Krug, b’55, and his wife, Healthcare. She and her husband, inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Marcia, moved recently from Vienna, Va., Robert, live in Odessa, Mo. Association for Computing Machinery’s to Wichita. He’s retired from a career Special Interest Group for University and with the U.S. Treasury. 1959 College Computing Services. He is assis- Ronald Baker, b’59, is a special agent tant vice chancellor for information serv- 1956 with Prudential Financial in Kansas City. ices at KU, and he lives in Lawrence. Shirley Woodhull Decker, b’56, works Robert Macy, j’59, was inducted last Robert Shelton, e’61, lives in as an advertising representative for the year into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Goodyear, Ariz., where he’s retired. Grove, Okla., Sun Daily. Fame. He lives in Las Vegas and retired Sharon Mather Wagner, d’61, was recently after a 30-year career with the named Overall Outstanding Kansas Art 1957 Associated Press. Educator of the Year recently by the Norman Arnold, b’57, sells insurance Kansas Art Education Association. She for Primerica in Overland Park. 1960 teaches art at Felten Middle School in Thor Bogren Jr., c’57, makes his home Alan Forker, c’60, m’64, received a Hays. in Columbus, Ind., where he’s a retired Laureate Award recently from the Presbyterian minister. American College of Physicians-American 1962 Mary Dawson, PhD’57, is a paleontolo- Society of Internal Medicine. He’s a pro- Lu Ann Brinnon Naugle, c’62, works gist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural fessor of medicine at UMKC and makes as an office manager at Wichita State History in Pittsburgh, Pa. his home in Leawood. University. Edward Graham, c’57, l’60, a retired Fran Marvin Pearson, c’60, m’65, lives Lee Nicholas, b’62, is an assistant pro- executive with Maytag, lives in in Fayetteville, Ark., with her husband, fessor of business at the University of Vancouver, Wash., with Julie Nicholson Daniel. Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Graham, d’59. Donna Lamb Simmons, d’60, g’64, Jerry Palmer, c’62, l’66, practices law John Mull, c’57, m’61, makes his home teaches piano in Camarillo, Calif. with Palmer, Leatherman & White in in Hutchinson, where he’s retired. Topeka. John Risbeck, e’57, e’58, is a retired MARRIED Rebecca Carman White, n’62, and her mining engineer. He lives in Rolla, Mo. Kathleen Roberts, d’60, to Phillip husband, Ron, recently celebrated their Thomas Schafer, e’57, enjoys golf, Woods, July 28. They live in Lenexa. 41st anniversary. They live in Redding, bridge, traveling and church work. He Calif. lives in Kingwood, Texas. 1961 Joseph Bauman, e’61, is president and 1963 1958 CEO of Cardinal Brands in Lawrence. Marjorie Burnett Candlin, d’63, makes John Dealy, e’58, dean of engineering Ilene Smith Brawner, n’61, d’67, her home in Lawrence with her husband, at McGill University in Montreal, directs continuing nursing education at Robert. Canada, recently returned from a one- the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. Fred Green, c’63, directs international

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 43 Class Notes summer programs for the law school at ness analyst for Boeing. He lives in and Public Service. UMKC. He recently participated in a cere- Everett, Wash. Judith Bodenhausen, c’64, works for mony to install a memorial at KU’s Fenton “Pete” Talbott, c’63, g’65, is the Berkeley, Calif., school district. She Kappa Sigma fraternity for fraternity an operating affiliate for McCown De and her husband, Joel Brooks, live in members who died in military service. Leeuw & Co. in New York City. Oakland. Christopher Hadley, c’63, retired last Charley Kempthorne, d’64, d’66, year from a career in counseling and edu- 1964 wrote Gary’s Luck, a novel that he plans cation. He and his wife, Helen, live in Patrick Baude, c’64, l’66, a professor to self publish. He lives in Manhattan. Oakland, Calif. of law at Indiana University- Sharon Brasier McBride, n’64, is a James Keenan, m’63, is retired in Bloomington, recently gave the inaugural resource specialist and school nurse in Tulsa, Okla. lecture celebrating his appointment to Shawnee Mission. She lives in Merriam. Eben Porch III, b’63, works as a busi- the Ralph F. Fuchs Professorship of Law Duane Patton, d’64, manages member

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Even at 100, Barnett still country filled the ballroom, and on a shining star Barnett’s arm was her friend and former he hippest 100-year-old woman stage partner, Harry Belafonte. in the country? We’ll vote for Case closed? Not yet: Etta Moten Barnett, f’31. Sure, “Sidney Poitier could not come,” says she made famous the role of Barnett’s daughter, Sue Ish. “So he sent a T“Bess” in George Gershwin’s great note. We read it out loud for everyone to Broadway musical “Porgy and Bess.” hear. He told everybody what a crush he She finished high school and then had on my mother.” earned her KU degree in voice A crush? Sidney Poitier? after she already had three daugh- So inquiring minds have to know: ■ Etta Moten Barnett, Broadway’s beloved ters and divorced their father. She Did Barnett blush? “Bess,” turned 100 Nov. 5. traveled the world with her sec- “You bet she did!” Ish says, laugh- ond husband, Claude Barnett, ing. “She said, ‘Aw, he’s just saying encouraged her performances on the founder of the Associated Negro that.’” Hill (including a popular radio show), Press, and had her picture taken Her big birthday party, more and Swarthout urged her to first try the holding one of Emperor Haile than a year in the planning, was stage before following through with her Selassie’s prize leopards by a just one highlight of Barnett’s plan of becoming a music teacher. “That leash (the print of her own dress busy fall. She was honored at meant a whole lot to me,” Barnett says. more fabulous even than the leop- the Chicago International Film She has endured more than her share ard’s fur). Festival (where she offered Halle of pain, especially recently. Barnett lost She was the first black woman Berry some lessons in enduring her youngest and middle daughters in to perform in the White House, beauty); she saw a play based the past two years, yet she carries on, in 1934, when she sang “My on her life, “Papa’s Child,” determined to match aunt Effie Moten Forgotten Man” for President debut in Chicago; and she Irvin’s family record of 105. Roosevelt at his birthday party. received KU’s Pioneer Woman “She lights up a room,” Ish says. Credentials enough. But the Award from Toni-Marie “When Mother goes into a room, you highlights of a long and fabulous Montgomery, dean of fine arts. can just see her; her expression changes. life all got trumped Nov. 11, six From her grand, columned She lights up, too.” days after her 100th birthday, home in Chicago, Barnett Says Belafonte: “In her we found when family and friends threw recalls lasting influences of another dimension to being black in our Barnett a party at the Hyatt her voice professor, Alice time. She was a true shining star.” Regency in Chicago. More than Moncrief, and fine arts dean May we be so bold as to correct 500 admirers from around the Donald Swarthout: Moncrief Harry Belafonte? Not was. Is.

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI recruitment for the Golf Course recently was inducted into the American Superintendents Association in Lawrence. College of Nurse-Midwives. Mary Longenecker Smith, n’64, enjoys Gale Wagner, g’66, PhD’68, lives in hiking, skiing, snowshoeing and volun- College Station, where he’s a professor of teer work in Estes Park, Colo., where she veterinary pathobiology at Texas A&M lives with her husband, McClure, m’65. University. 1965 1967 Barbara Bauerle Glanz, d’65, wrote Barry Kaufman, d’67, is a vice presi- Motivating and Retaining Frontline and dent at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in Professional Staff: Handle with CARE, Houston. which will be published this spring. She George O’Donnell, c’67, lives in lives in Western Springs, Ill., and is presi- Kansas City, where he’s vice president of dent of Barbara Glanz Communications. Rubber Craft Products. Susanne Shelton Hetrick, d’65, makes her home in Linwood, N.J. 1968 David Richwine, c’65, directs develop- Daniel Atkisson, d’68, supervises ment at the Smithsonian National Air and insurance compliance for the Ohio Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Department of Insurance. He lives in William Roumas, a’65, works for Hilliard. Devine deFlon Yaeger Architects in Susan Hartmetz Bonett, ’68, directs Kansas City. the Trails Regional Library. She and her husband, Herman, g’63, PhD’76, live in 1966 Warrensburg, Mo. Byrne Blackwood, PhD’66, a professor Patricia May Farrar, n’68, lives in emeritus of theater and dance at Denver with her husband, Bill, c’66, Southwest Missouri State University, m’70. They recently traveled to Lima, recently received an award of apprecia- Peru, where they participated in short- tion from the university for service to his term medical missions. profession. He lives in Springfield. Linda Keller Fornelli, n’68, works as a Catherine Wheeler Bowen, g’66, lives school nurse in Carlsbad, Calif. in Wilmington, Del., with her husband, Robert Kreutzer, b’68, is vice presi- Clement. dent of the Kansas Plumbing, Heating, Howard Cohen, a’66, owns an architec- Cooling Contractors Association. He lives ture business in Scarsdale, N.Y. in Garden City, where he’s president of Deborah Ferris, c’66, is vice president Tatro Plumbing. at Van Kampen Investments in Kansas Dwight Wallace, b’68, l’71, a partner City. in the Wichita law firm of Martin, Pringle, Paula Heide Hirsch, d’66, works as a Oliver, Wallace & Spikes, recently joined proposal development specialist and tech- the National Academy of Elder Law nical writer for Global Management Attorneys. Systems in Bethesda, Md. She lives in Theodore Wilch, c’68, is senior attor- Germantown. ney examiner at Realty Title Commercial Edward Kangas, b’66, g’67, recently in Independence, Mo. retired as board chairman of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He lives in New 1969 Canaan, Conn. Kay Fisher Abernathy, d’69, teaches Sue Tomlinson Reid, c’66, serves as French and life sciences at El Dorado president of the West Texas Geological High School. Society. She does geological consulting in Harlan Jennings Jr., g’69, is an associ- Midland, Texas. ate professor of voice at Michigan State Pam Allen Spry, n’66, is a professor of University in East Lansing. nursing/midwifery at the University of Chestine Kurth, n’69, directs records Colorado-Denver. She lives in Aurora and and research at Central Wyoming

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College in Riverton. June Wall Snyder, n’72, is a school Ellerbe Becket in Kansas City. David Wiebe, e’69, is a principal engi- nurse practitioner in Pittsburgh, Pa. Daryl Hartter, d’74, lives in neer at Siemens Westinghouse Power in Lawrence Tenopir, d’72, g’78, l’82, Columbus, Ohio, where he’s a senior Orlando, Fla. lives in Topeka, where he’s a partner in research scientist at Batelle Memorial the law firm of Tenopir & Huerter. Institute. 1970 Kent Wilson, c’72, is a financial repre- Larry Lisbona, a’74, a’77, is president Jeffrey Arbuckle, b’70, l’73, serves as sentative for Northwestern Mutual Life in of LNL Associates in Olathe. president of the Kansas Bar Association’s Kansas City. Judy Raney, d’74, is postmaster of tax law section. He’s special counsel with North Kingstown, R.I. Foulston & Siefkin in Wichita. 1973 Allen Worob Jr., g’74, president of Edna Brooks Hobbs, g’70, a retired Jill Casado, c’73, l’76, recently joined Woroco International, works with advis- teacher, makes her home in Wichita. Commerce Trust in Wichita as a senior ers to the White House Domestic Policy Mae Belle Kessel, n’70, recently trust administrator. Council on programs for vocational reha- became a professor of nursing at Steven Cohen, j’73, works as a flight bilitation of the profoundly disabled. He Northern Michigan University in attendant for United Airlines in lives in Rochester, N.Y. Marquette. Washington, D.C. Mary Lippitt Nichols, c’70, g’72, 1975 PhD’75, is dean of continuing education 1974 Jeffrey Fried, c’75, chairs the Delaware at the University of Minnesota- Ron Brozanic, j’74, works for Quest State Hospital Association and is presi- Minneapolis. Communications in Omaha, Neb. dent-elect of the Chamber of Commerce Larry Spikes, c’70, is managing part- Michael Clay, a’74, is a principal in in Lewes, where he lives. ner of the Wichita office of Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Spikes. Wayne Whitney, c’70, works as an investment consultant for Raymond James Financial Services in Lawrence. 1971 Patrick Cantwell, d’71, owns Unicity, a preventative health-care and sports nutri- tional company in Wichita. Jerry Fife, e’71, is a product manager for Sony Electronics. He lives in Oakland, N.J. Lauren Collier Swindler, d’71, writes children’s stories in Normal, Ill., and her husband, James, c’73, g’73, g’76, PhD’78, chairs the philosophy department at Illinois State University. Elizabeth Hartley Winetroub, d’71, g’73, makes her home in Leavenworth. 1972 Theodore Curry, b’72, g’74, g’75, directs the school of labor and industrial relations at Michigan State University, where he’s also a professor of human resource management. He lives in East Lansing. Charlene Barash Muller, d’72, works for J.D. Reece Realtors. She lives in Shawnee Mission. Pamela States Owens, d’72, teaches school in Blue Springs, Mo.

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI Jacqueline Sloan Hall, b’75, is presi- Generale. He lives in Thessaloniki, Greece. she joins two brothers, Harris, 9, and dent of Hall & Associates in Satana. Gregory Weisenstein, EdD’75, is dean Tyler, 4; and two sisters, Emily, 7, and John Hall, b’75, is vice president of of education, health and human develop- Kelly, 2. Clay practices law with Proenza, B&H General Supply in Leawood. ment at Montana State University in Roberts & Hurst. Carolyn Chinn Lewis, c’75, recently Bozeman. was named assistant director of KU’s Sally Lovett Zahner, j’75, directs pub- 1976 Spencer Museum. She lives in lic relations for the Salvation Army in Stephen Canfield, c’76, lives in Lecompton. Kansas City. Highland Heights, Ohio, with his wife, Sandra Shereman, d’75, makes her Polly, and their daughters, Mackenzie, 6, home in Palo Alto, Calif. BORN TO: and Delaney, 4. Dimitri Theodoridis, g’75, manages Clay Roberts, b’75, and Lisa, daughter, Steven Case, d’76, g’92, PhD’02, is the Salonica branch of the Societe Kaitlyn Carol, Aug. 17 in Miami, where project director for the University’s

Profile BY SARA ECKEL

Photographer records value. He took them to the New York New York tragedy Times, where editors purchased four n the morning of Sept. 11, frames for their wire service. “They were Kristen Brochmann first real- very excited to have the images,” he says. ized something was awry “And even though they didn’t run in the KRISTEN BROCHMANN COURTESY when his cab turned a corner Times, the executive editor said that hav- Oby the New York Stock Exchange in lower ing them made their coverage complete. Manhattan. “It looked like a ticker-tape At the time, I really didn’t care what hap- parade, soot and paper flying every- pened to the images. Other photojour- where,” says Brochmann, c’71. nalists were coming up covered in dust. After arriving at his destination, a Wall These guys were the real deal. I was just Street skyscraper blocks from the World a guy with a camera.” Trade Center, Brochmann learned that a Even after one of the pictures made plane had crashed into one of the towers, the cover of Newsweek, Brochmann but he still hadn’t grasped the enormity remains humble—in part because the of the situation. “I assumed it was a small tragedy is so overwhelming. “People say, ■ On routine assignment near the World Trade craft, an accident,” he says. A commercial ‘I really like your photo, but,’ or ‘Great Center, photographer Kristen Brochmann photographer, Brochmann was on hand job, but ...’ I was extremely ambivalent snapped a Newsweek cover photo of the to photograph executives and panoramic about it for a long time.” second plane crash at the towers. shots from the skyscraper. When he and The Newsweek cover didn’t change his clients reached the 59th floor, he saw Brochmann’s career “one iota,” and that’s Brochmann, c’48, g’69. He takes comfort the second plane hit. “I put the camera to fine with him. His primary work is large- in the way the terrible events have my eye and started shooting as fast as I format still-life photographs for catalogs, bridged the gulf between New Yorkers could.” He got six exposures before including the auction house Christie’s. and the rest of the country. “When everyone was ordered out of the building. He has also published photographs in you’re a New Yorker, people are nice but Outside, streets were jammed with peo- the New York Times Magazine and in a they think you’re from the moon. Now ple, fire trucks, ambulances and falling book, Feasts Afloat. His career began in there’s more of a perception that New debris. “My instinct was to vacate the 1975, when he was hired as a photogra- Yorkers are like us.” area,” he says. “I wasn’t a photojournalist pher’s assistant after tinkering with the After all, he says, we had the same and I knew the area needed to be cleared medium for years. “I basically made a job experience. “My being on Wall Street for the firefighters and medical workers.” out of my hobby,” he says. made it more immediate, but it still res- Photojournalist or not, Brochmann Brochmann has lived in New York onated as much with someone sitting in realized the stunning pictures of the City for 20 years but still returns to their kitchen watching it on TV.” tower sliced by huge fireballs had news Lawrence to visit his mother, Marylee —Eckel is a Brooklyn free-lance writer.

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Roger Ward, c’76, is curator of owns Raben Dental. European art at the Norton Museum of Then Again Art in West Palm Beach, Fla. MARRIED Shelley Keith, f’79, to David Hickman, n 1902, 1977 March 29. They live in Lynn Haven, Fla. Isculptors Larry Bonura, j’77, is a technical writer Joseph and for MultiGen-Paradigm in Addison, 1980 Vitruvius Texas. Jill Jones Bess, c’80, lives in Los Frazee Vicky Sanford Howard, f’77, owns Gatos, Calif., with her husband, Rick. worked out- Howard Design in Overland Park. He’s director of marketing for Adobe. side Dyche Daryl Jones, d’77, teaches in Austin, Susan Wesche Todd, c’80, g’97, Hall on stone Texas. teaches special education at Turner gargoyles to High School in Kansas City. adorn the 1978 nearly complete building. Fred Pickett Drew Frackowiak, c’78, l’83, practices 1981 and Antonio Tommasini, two students law in Overland Park. Robert Brown Jr., c’81, e’81, recently who showed particular interest in the Michael Goldenberg, f’78, is creative was promoted to vice president of mar- work, were rewarded with a chance to director for Hancock Graphics in Waco, keting and customer support at Daniel try their hand at stonecutting. Their Texas. Industries in Houston. gargoyle, a feathered creature rumored Stephen Lauer, c’78, lives in Kansas Brett Conley, j’81, g’85, directs finan- to be an early Jayhawk, still adorns City, where he’s a clinical assistant pro- cial planning and reporting for Sprint in Dyche a century later. fessor of pediatrics at the KU Medical Overland Park. —Andrea E. Hoag Center. Chip Piper, c’81, works as assistant Eric Morgenstern, j’78, president of bureau chief for the State of Illinois. He Morningstar Communications, recently lives in Springfield. Kansas Collaborative Research Network. was elected to the Public Relations Debbie Travers, n’81, studies for a He lives in Overland Park. Society of America’s College of Fellows. doctorate in information science and Rhoda Ankermiller Ertel, g’76, trains He lives in Overland Park. medical informatics at the University of nursing home volunteers for the North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Shepherd’s Center. She lives in Raytown, 1979 Timothy Wagstaff, b’81, is national Mo. Rian Ankerholz, c’79, l’82, recently sales manager for Bushnell Performance Robyn Meyer Hart, c’76, g’79, m’84, received a Kansas Bar Association Pro Optics. He lives in Wichita. specializes in therapeutic radiology at St. Bono Certificate of Appreciation. He Joseph Health Center in Kansas City. practices law with Ankerholz & Smith in BORN TO: Stephen Jennings, b’76, is an opera- Overland Park. David Kipp, e’81, and Andrea, son, tions officer at DST Systems in Kansas Nancy Tudor Griffin, b’79, manages Archie Almy, March 12 in Kirkwood, Mo., City. customer support for Sagebrush Econo- where he joins three brothers, Steven, 11; John Kraft, p’76, co-owns Family Clad Books in Topeka. Woody, 5; and Jasper, 4. Prescription Shop in Wichita and Kurt Gunter, m’79, and his wife, Medical Center Pharmacy in Hutchinson. Carrie-Ann, live in Lexington, Mass., with 1982 He lives in Wichita. their sons, Timothy, 13; Jonathan, 10; Marcia Bailey, n’82, is treatment area Joyce Hudson Martin, c’76, g’80, and Jacob, 1. Kurt is senior vice president nurse manager at the KU Cancer Center directs development, annual fund and of clinical and regulatory affairs for in Kansas City. constituent relations for the Washburn ViaCell in Boston. Lisa Edmund Jackson, p’82, works as a Endowment Association in Topeka. Deborah Haynes, m’79, serves on the pharmacist for Walgreen’s in Austin, Galen McFarland, g’76, teaches busi- board of the Wichita State University Texas. ness administration at Fort Hays State Foundation. She practices medicine with David Leek, j’82, is vice president of University in Hays. Preferred Medical Associates in Wichita. sales and marketing for TRI in Liberty, Debra Tryon Moore, ’76, is senior vice Randy O’Boyle, j’79, directs legislative Mo. He lives in Leawood. president of economic development for affairs for the U.S. Pacific Command in Brian McCormally, l’82, directs the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Camp Smith, Hawaii. He and his wife, enforcement for the Office of the Scott Sidesinger, c’76, recently became Jane, live in Honolulu. Comptroller of the Currency in a senior commercial closer for Realty Lucynda Raben, c’79, is president of Washington, D.C. He lives in Fairfax Title Commercial in Kansas City. the Wichita District Dental Society. She Station, Va.

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI Michael Niedenthal, g’82, is vice presi- baccalaureate program at King High Coffeyville Community College. He is dent of operations at the Mid-America School. minority leader in the Kansas House of Manufacturing Technology Center in Representatives, and he lives in Overland Park. He lives in Lawrence. 1984 Coffeyville. Cathy Ruhl, n’82, works as a certified Richard Boyd, c’84, makes his home in Ann Kuglin Jones, n’85, g’90, g’99, is nurse midwife at Mary’s Center Maternal Broken Arrow, Okla. vice president of oncology services for Child Health Clinic in Washington, D.C. Sherlyn Wyatt Manson, d’84, directs Alegent Health Systems in Omaha, Neb. Laura Armato Tyler, j’82, and her hus- corporate communications for Farmland Tina Barta Theis, n’85, g’98, lives in band, Steven, adopted a daughter, Mia Industries in Kansas City. Leavenworth with her son, Cody, 8. She’s Lee, last year from China. Mia was 2 in Jerry Sass, g’84, is copy desk chief at a nurse practitioner at the Family Health November. Their home is in Kansas City. the Oregonian, where his wife, Susan Center. Gage, j’89, leads the crime and justice Diane Yetter, b’85, is president of 1983 team. They live in Portland with their Yetter Consulting Services in Chicago. Nancy Anderson Bonner, s’83, re- son, Samuel, 1. cently joined the Bert Nash Community Lanny Welch, c’84, recently became BORN TO: Mental Health Center in Lawrence. coordinator of the Anti-Terrorism Task Paul Loney, c’85, m’89, and Catrina, Donald Hall Jr., g’83, is president and Force for the Kansas District of the U.S. son, Eli James, Oct. 8 in Lawrence, where CEO of Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. Attorney’s Office in Wichita, where he is he joins three sisters, Elise, 9; Adelle, 8; He and Jill Shackelford Hall, c’78, live in chief criminal prosecutor. and Olivia, 5. Paul is an emergency physi- Shawnee Mission. cian at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. 1985 BORN TO: Nancy Colburn, n’85, coordinates pro- 1986 Viola Perrill Young, c’83, and Thomas, grams for Gentiva Health Services in Sara Dickey Goodburn, j’86, is presi- son, Thomas Sterling, July 24 in Lutz, Overland Park. dent of the Greater Kansas City Alumnae Fla., where he joins a sister, Isabel, 2. Jim Garner, c’85, l’88, recently was Association of Alpha Delta Pi. She lives in Viola teaches Spanish in the international honored as a distinguished alumnus of Roeland Park.

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Kendal Nelson, b’86, works as a pri- BORN TO: Liberty Savings Bank. vate wealth management relationship David Moser, b’86, and Susan, son, manager for Intrust Bank in Wichita. Joseph, June 19 in Golden, Colo., where 1987 Phyllis Pancella, c’86, recently per- he joins a sister, Abigail, 2. David directs Scott Fiss, b’87, is a principal with formed the part of the duchess in global strategy and planning for Sun Johnston Insurance in Kansas City. “The Grand Duchess of Gherolstein” Microsystems in Broomfield. Denise Stephens Kahler, j’87, works with the Opera Theater of St. Louis. Martin, c’86, l’89, and Janet Keating as senior manager of membership for the She lives in Kansas City. Weishaar, h’88, g’96, twin daughters, Golf Course Superintendents Association Jillian Mae and Allison Marie, May 24 in in Lawrence. MARRIED Overland Park, where they joins two John Miller, b’87, l’90, and his wife, Theresa Fuller, d’86, to Steve Wipfler, brothers, Connor, 5, and Ryan, 3. Martin Loraine Reesor, PhD’95, make their Feb. 17 in St. Louis. is vice president and legal counsel at home in Overland Park. He’s assistant

Profile BY MEGAN MACIEJOWSKI

Donohoe’s latest team rolls to undefeated season outside. While he reeled in fish from his boat, his players RICHARDSON EARL he most memorable pass Kelly waded in the shallow water Donohoe made as KU’s quarter- and struggled to get any bites. back revealed a hint of the fire While the coach gloated that would shape his future as a about how much fun he was Tsuccessful leader. While the Jayhawks having, the players took com- warmed up on the field in Norman, fort in one another’s misery. Okla., a group of rabid Sooners fans They bonded. Even though taunted Donohoe and his teammates. their unity was predicated on Donohoe caught the eye of his coach, collective frustration, it was Glen Mason, and, after getting a subtle unity nonetheless. nod of approval, launched a zinger over Donohoe says his style is a the head of his receiver and right into the mosaic of pieces gathered from numbers of a stunned heckler. leaders he has known. From ■ Former KU quarterback Kelly Donohoe coached “It was the best pass I threw all day,” high school coach Bob Barrett, Blue Springs High School to an undefeated, state-champi- Donohoe says. “They were on me the rest he learned to be attentive to onship season. of the game, but it was worth it.” detail. From Bob Valesente, the The overmatched Jayhawks lost, 63-14, coach who recruited Donohoe on that October day in 1988, but to Kansas out of Harrisonville, Mo., Springs, he was responsible for trans- Donohoe’s progress since then has been Donohoe learned “the importance of forming a struggling Raytown South right on target. This season, Donohoe, corny things—like how you walk on and program into a playoff contender. c’90, g’91, Blue Springs High School’s sec- off the field.” From Mason, he learned “Being a high school coach, I get to ond-year coach, led the 14-0 Wildcats to how to measure a person’s commitment. have a pretty normal life and spend time the Missouri 5A state championship. “I was at KU during the lean years,” with my family,” says Donohoe, who has “This year was magical,” he says. “We he says. “When Mason came in, he two children with his wife, Jennifer. “I’ll played a tough schedule, and the fact that cleaned house pretty good. We lost a lot never say never about coaching in col- we came through it unbeaten is a tremen- of people. But it was nice to be part of lege, but I don’t ever want to lobby for a dous testimony to our players.” the beginning of a turnaround. Mason job. Sometimes I do worry about what It is also testimony to Donohoe’s cre- had a way of instilling confidence in you my next itch will be, but right now I’m ative leadership. Before the season, he and making you believe you were better very happy.” took the seniors on a fishing trip to than you were.” —Maciejowski, j’98, former Kansas Warrensburg, Mo. While he slept com- Donohoe, 34, has made his players Alumni staff writer, is now a sports-radio fortably in a Winnebago, the kids camped believers, too. Before coming to Blue broadcaster in Kansas City.

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI city attorney for Olathe, and she works in BORN TO: Calif., where she joins a brother, Paul, 4. the school of education at UMKC. Michael Delargy, b’87, and Terry, son, Carl is a free-lance film composer. Douglas Roe, b’87, directs finance and Tyler, Aug. 10 in Reno, Nev., where Mick Linda Simpson Peterson, c’88, l’91, business operations for Cingular is senior vice president and chief financial and Donald, l’89, g’89, daughter, Sophia Wireless. He lives in Little Rock, Ark. officer of iGO. Grace, June 2 in Wichita, where she joins Patricia Donahue Wahlstedt, ’87, Susan Coleman Harris, c’87, and Ian, Valerie, 10; Alexandria, 8; and Samuel, 6. enjoys traveling, golf and gardening dur- son, Michael Ian, March 14 in Dallas, Linda practices law with Kansas Legal ing retirement. She lives in Lake Quivira. where he joins a sister, Claire, 3. Susan is Services, and Donald practices law with John Weber, c’87, is area manager for a research consultant at the University of Powell Brewer Gough & Withers. Manpower Technical in Wichita. North Texas. John Weber, c’87, and Kriste, daughter, 1989 MARRIED Elizabeth Ann, July 18 in Wichita, where Kathleen Atkinson, b’89, g’90, is a Paul Ahlenius, e’87, to Patty Putthoff, John is an area manager for Manpower. research account supervisor for Barkley May 26 in Topeka, where they both work Evergreen & Partners in Kansas City. for the Kansas Department of 1988 Kurt Bachman, b’89, owns Kurt Transportation. Paul is a bicycle and Larry Murrow, c’88, m’82, practices Bachman Building in Wichita. pedestrian coordinator, and Patty is a medicine in Pittsburg, where he and Brian Bartlett, b’89, manages Ernst & computer programmer/analyst. Kelley Connors Murrow, j’90, live with Young in Dallas. Elizabeth Knight, c’87, to Wyette their sons, Bailey, 4, and Aidan, 2. Jane Hutchinson Castanias, c’89, l’92, Spotts, Sept. 7. They live in Overland and her husband, Gregory, celebrated Park, and she manages applications pro- BORN TO: their first anniversary Dec. 2. They live in gramming for Universal Underwriters Carl Johnson, f’88, and Mary, daughter, Fairfax, Va. Group in Shawnee Mission. Teresa Rebecca, June 25 in Los Olivos, Deborah Stoltz Harding, j’89, directs administration and marketing for Martin Pringle Oliver Wallace & Spikes in Wichita. Timothy McNary, j’89, manages marketing for Spencer Stuart in Chicago. Kenton Snow, c’89, recently joined the Kansas City law firm of Lathrop & Gage.

MARRIED Tara Gunn, c’89, g’94, to Darrell Hormell, Sept. 22 in Maitland, Fla.

BORN TO: Steph O’Shea Eberwein, c’89, and David, a son, Jack Henry, Nov. 25, 2000, in Littleton, Colo. They live in Highlands Ranch, where Steph works for Tap Pharmaceuticals. 1990 Keri Hoffsommer Breon, e’90, coordinates process management for Water District No. 1 of Johnson County. He lives in Overland Park. Dale Fox, e’90, works as an engineer for Willbros Engineers in Tulsa, Okla. Chad Gillam, c’90, l’94, practices law with Kennedy & Christopher in Denver, Colo. Anson Gock, g’90, works as a transportation planner for the North Carolina

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Department of Transportation. He lives he works at Design Alliance in Boulder. is an anesthesiologist with Vanguard in Durham. Their home is in Arvada. Anesthesia and Michael practices medi- Christopher Horan, j’90, writes and Cheryl Stallwitz, e’91, to Wesley cine at the Sterling Regional Medical produces for Fasone Garrett Boehm Pudwill, June 2 in Nassau Bay, Texas. Center. Advertising and Marketing in Kansas She’s an automation alliance manager Stacie Porto Doyle, c’92, and James, City. with Conoco, and he’s a mechanical engi- son, James Louis IV, June 25 in Stacey Hudson, f’90, is a partner in neer at Shell Chemical. They live in Cincinnati, where he joins a sister, Julia, HDN, a graphic design business. She Seabrook. 2. lives in Washington, D.C. David, b’92, l’95, and Christina Dunn BORN TO: Staker, c’96, daughter, Gabrielle Rose, BORN TO: Kevin, c’91, m’99, and Dayna Fancher July 27 in Kansas City. David is vice pres- Jeffery, c’90, and Tracy Arnold Hughes, d’91, g’94, son, Spencer Alan, ident of Prairie Capital Management, and Chapman, c’90, daughter, Ada Cossette, Aug. 24 in Lawrence, where he joins two Christina is an occupational therapist at March 25 in Farmington Hills, Mich. brothers, Trevor, 5, and Harrison, 2. Shawnee Mission Medical Center. Jeffery is a software engineer for Gale Kevin is a family practice physician at the Research Co., and Tracy edits reference Cotton-O’Neil Clinic. 1993 book articles. Mark, c’91, and Kimberly Zoller James Nelson, b’93, owns House of Jana Vohs Feldman, b’90, and Andrew, Wewers, j’91, daughter, Chandler Carpets in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he son, Seth Adam, May 4 in West Liberty, Katherine, Oct. 10 in Grapevine, Texas, and Kember Carlsen Nelson, c’93, live Iowa, where he joins two brothers, where she joins a brother, Jared, 2. Mark with their children, Mitchell, 4, and Parker, 4, and Noah, 3. Jana is senior practices law with Allison, Johnson & Lauren, 1. project director for NCS Pearson. Williamson, and Kimberly manages John Schwartz, c’93, g’96, l’01, coordi- Bernd Reckmann, g’90, and Susanne, global accounts for Worldcom. nates student organization risk manage- daughter, Pia Marie, April 25 in Cologne, ment services at Texas A&M University Germany, where she joins a brother, 1992 in College Station. Felix, 3. Rueneaka Baptiste, c’92, s’01, directs Curtis Staab, b’90, and Beth, son, the children’s program at Women’s MARRIED Collin Robert, Sept. 23 in Lansdale, Pa. Transitional Care Services in Lawrence. Richard Parker, c’93, to Kristin Curtis manages field sales planning and Christopher Eaton, e’92, is an associ- Belcher, Sept. 22. He’s an attorney with support for Merck in West Point. ate with Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Latham & Watkins, and she’s an attor- Gary, c’90, g’93, and Andrea Boyd Kansas City. ney with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. Steinle, c’90, g’96, son, Jackson Daniel, Melissa Shimanek Ginther, h’92, They live in Chicago. Aug. 28 in The Woodlands, Texas, where works as an occupational therapist at he joins a sister, Natasha, 4. Gary and Hays Medical Center. BORN TO: Andrea work for Anadarko Petroleum, Elizabeth Horst, ’92, is a foreign serv- Scott, e’93, and Kirsten Kistler where he’s a system analyst and she’s an ice officer with the American Foreign Douglass, a’94, daughter, Chloe Marie, exploration geologist. Service Association. She lives in Apple Aug. 6 in Dallas. Scott is senior project Valley, Minn. manager for Collegiate Development 1991 Earl Lewis, e’92, recently was pro- Services, and Kirsten manages projects Brett Brenner, c’91, j’91, l’94, practices moted to manager of the hydrology and for Interprise Design. law with the Equal Employment evaluation unit at the Kansas Water Matthew, b’93, and Angela Bryan Opportunity Commission in Office. He lives in Topeka. Tucker, c’93, son, Max Alexander, Aug. Washington, D.C. Louis Lopez, j’92, is a legal adviser to 10 in Prairie Village. Matthew is an Hugh Gill, b’91, g’95, l’95, lives in the chairman of the U.S. Equal account vice president for UBS Paine Wichita, where he’s an attorney with Employment Opportunity Commission Webber, and Angela coordinates business Hinkle Elkouri. in Washington, D.C. He lives in development for NYDIC Open MRI. Mike Roberts, c’91, l’93, is an associate Arlington, Va. with the Kansas City law office of Shook 1994 Hardy & Bacon. BORN TO: Christopher, c’94, g’98, and Jennifer Susan Lynch Brown, ’92, and Karey, Sundgren Brull, c’94, m’98, live in Hays MARRIED daughter, Isabella, Sept. 5 in St. Louis. with their sons, Jacob, 6, and Paul, 1. Denise Kettler, j’91, to Gregg Miller, Nanette Cabrera Colip, c’92, m’96, Dustin Daugherty, c’94, is vice presi- July 14 in Copper Mountain, Colo. She and Michael, m’95, son, John Parker, dent of marketing at TechGroup in works at Penton Media in Golden, and Aug. 11 in Sterling, Colo., where Nanette Spokane, Wash.

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI Peter Fulmer, j’94, owns Cock O’ The Springs, Colo. Ferguson, c’96, Sept. 8. She’s a postdoc- Walk Bar & Grill in Oklahoma City. Barclay Wilson Milton, n’95, is a nurse toral fellow at Washington University in Claudette Metsker, n’94, g’96, works practitioner at Christie Clinic in St. Louis, and he’s an attorney with Wilke in the blood and marrow transplant unit Champaign, Ill. and Wilke. at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City. Julie Lee Sankey, p’95, manages the Todd Getto, ’95, to Molly Dillon, Sept. pharmacy at Dillons in Salina. 22 in Pittsburgh, Pa. He’s an independent 1995 Paula Seeger, ’95, works as a library contractor, and she’s a restaurant owner. Vance Crain, n’95, h’01, is a nurse associate at the Dane County Law Library They live in Morgantown, W. Va. anesthetist at Truman Medical Center in in Madison, Wis. Kansas City. BORN TO: Sarah Haughey, c’95, works as assis- MARRIED Kelly Harrell Herndon, d’95, and Tim, tant manager of Eddie Bauer in Colorado Angela DeSandro, c’95, and James daughter, Ivy Lee, Aug. 21 in Overland

Profile BY STACY SMITH COHEN

Turbans help ease pain of chemotherapy the design was chic. She ran home and cut up all of her T-shirts to have match- hen people compliment ing turbans for different outfits. Judi Sterling Gitel’s stylish “Everyone just kept saying how beau- head covering, she jokingly tiful they were,” Gitel says. “Once I fin- replies, “I had cancer and ished chemo I started toying with the nowW I wear a T-shirt on my head.” idea of doing this as a business.” It’s easier now for Gitel, f’78, to reflect Nine months after her devastating on her fight with breast cancer in 2000 diagnosis, Gitel and her friend Eileen and find humor in her ordeal. But on the Essman, who both live in St. Louis, day she discovered the lump, she was not turned tragedy into triumph. They prepared. “When the doctor told me I formed Judileen Creations and began had a tumor, I got hysterical,” she says. making the turbans, which they call “But once I finished crying and getting Topsy-Turbees. Within a couple of upset, I thought, ‘What good is this going months, the pair had sold 130 turbans to do me?’” to area hospitals and gift shops, paying After a lumpectomy, Gitel, 45, faced off their initial $1,800 investment. The ■ months of chemotherapy, and, like most turbans retail for $25, and a portion of Cancer survivor Judi Gitel fashioned home- patients, she lost her hair. Gitel’s hus- each sale goes to the American Cancer made turbans after losing her hair to band, Scott, sheared his hair, too, in sup- Society for breast cancer research. chemotherapy; with the encouragement of port. “She’s a very strong woman,” he Scott Gitel says he is amazed at his friends and family, she launched a business so says. “She’s the kind of person who wife’s ability to remain upbeat. “She’s other women can still feel attractive while would not let this get her down.” turned a very scary thing into something enduring cancer treatments. Gitel wanted to feel attractive, but positive,” he says. when she tried wearing wigs, they were Even though her hair has returned, feel better about themselves. While per- uncomfortable and didn’t stay in place. Gitel says she still wears her turbans forming at a nursing home last summer, As a singer, she wanted something fash- sometimes, as does her partner, who Gitel fitted a turban on an elderly ionable to wear while performing in sen- never had cancer. “I’d love it to become a woman recovering from cancer. ior-citizen centers and nursing homes. fashion statement for people with hair “She looked in the mirror and the Then she learned at an American Cancer and without,” she says. “It absolutely look on her face … I knew I had done Society workshop how to make a turban improves people’s self-esteem.” what I wanted to do. I had made some- out of a T-shirt. To Gitel, the business is more than a one happy.” The lightweight cotton material was chance to earn extra money; the turbans —Cohen, j’91, is a free-lance writer soft and breathable; once she added trim, allow her to help other cancer patients in Baldwin City.

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Park. Kelly is a senior clinical research associate for Quintiles, and Tim is an associate principal for Landplan Engineering. They live in Lawrence. 1996 Thomas Field, c’96, j’96, g’98, manages executive communications for the Golf Course Superintendents Association in Lawrence. He lives in Olathe. Sandy Gardner, m’96, and her husband, Tom DeWees, live in Cincinnati with their daughter, Mary Kate, 1. Sandy is an obstetrician/gynecologist at Queen City Physicians. Stacey Brown Garza, d’96, works as a personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness in Houston. Octavio Hinojosa-Mier, c’96, works as a legislative correspondent in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, c’76, l’82. Nancy Jones, h’96, manages the labo- ratory at Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, Mo. Bassam Mattar, m’96, is a medical oncologist with the Cancer Center of Kansas in Wichita. Shelley Norris Lane, n’96, g’01, works as a nurse at Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine in Lawrence. Jonathan Lassman, d’96, g’01, teaches math and coaches in Lee’s Summit, Mo. Erika Nelson, c’96, l’01, recently joined the Kansas City law firm of Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin. Angelia Paulsen Pebley, n’96, works in the emergency room at St. John’s Hospital in Leavenworth. She lives in Tonganoxie. Roxanne Perucca, g’96, is president- elect of the Infusion Nurses Society. She lives in Overland Park. Tatiana Spektor, g’96, PhD’98, lives in Ames, Iowa, where she’s an assistant pro- Springs, Colo. He’s online news and BORN TO: fessor at Iowa State University. community publishing editor for the Lori Collier Fisher, c’96, and Andrew, Karyn Whitaker Winter, n’96, is a car- Augusta Chronicle, and she’s managing b’97, daughter, Sydney, May 28 in diovascular nurse clinician at editor of Quail Unlimited magazine. They Littleton, Colo. Lori coordinates projects Cardiovascular Consultants in Shawnee live in Augusta, Ga. for the Carpet Studio, and Andrew is a Mission. Jon Sides, c’96, m’01, to Amy Hannah, salesman for Shaw Contract Flooring. June 16 in Kansas City. He practices fam- Brian, ’96, and Jill Tibbetts Luse, MARRIED ily medicine at Smoky Hill Family c’97, daughter, Abigale Elizabeth, Douglas Bradley, j’96, g’99, and Holly Practice in Salina, and she works for Sept. 7 in Topeka, where Brian is a Hetager, j’99, Sept. 1 in Colorado Child Abuse Prevention Services. pharmaceutical sales representative for

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI Abbott Laboratories. Chris Howell, b’98, recently became Brian, e’96, and Ashley Bolton business banking officer for Emprise Sandefur, d’01, daughter, Harper Gray, Bank in Wichita. Then Again Oct. 9 in Lawrence, where Brian is a Dawn Maack, s’98, works as a special- mechanical engineer at Hallmark Cards. ist with the Working to Recognize s the University celebrated its Alternative Possibilites program in the A75-year anniversary in 1941, 1997 Baldwin City School District. students were irritated with plans to Jennifer Cavanaugh, c’97, g’99, s’01, Jaime Powell, j’98, directs studio initia- hold classes on Saturday, a day once works at Prairie Park Elementary School tives for Kodak in Los Angeles, where she reserved solely for football and revelry. in Lawrence as a specialist with the also manages marketing and public rela- Discontentment grew after an excep- Working to Recognize Alternative tions for Digital Cinema. tional victory over Kansas State. Possibilities program. Wendy Rohleder, c’98, l’01, is a pre- Students felt the triumph warranted a Ken, b’97, and Sarah Phillips Fleming, law adviser at KU. She lives in Lawrence. school holiday but the administration c’97, celebrated their first anniversary in Ashley Udden, c’98, l’01, recently refused, leading to a “strike” march November. He’s a marketing analyst with joined the corporate department at down the Hill to Massachusetts Street. R.R. Donnelley & Sons, and she works Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin in Kansas —Andrea E. Hoag for Allstate Financial. They live in City. Schaumburg, Ill. Britton Haney, d’97, f’97, teaches math MARRIED and is a drumline instructor at Shawnee Adrienne Boully, j’98, and Miles Rost, Mission Northwest High School. He and b’98, Sept. 29. They live in Overland Amy Monson Haney, b’97, live in Park. Shawnee, and she’s a sales trainer for Aaron Jack, c’98, and Andrea Gibson, Hallmark Cards. n’01, Aug. 1. He’s vice president of region- Teresa Veazey Heying, j’97, coordi- al sales at Travelers Citigroup, and she’s a nates publicity and outreach for the critical-care nurse at Olathe Medical Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State Center. They live in Overland Park. care and corporate law with Lathrop & University. Kevin Lafferty, e’98, to Jennifer Parks, Gage in Overland Park. DeAnn Gerdes Steinle, g’97, has been Sept. 8 in Wichita. They live in Westland, promoted to associate director of busi- Mich. MARRIED ness masters programs for KU’s School of Leah Robuck, c’98, and Todd Dery, Kevin Strah, c’99, to Gretchen Leif, Business. She lives in Lawrence. c’99, Sept. 2. Their home is in Chicago. Feb. 24. Their home is in Basehor. Corey Stone, f’97, lives in Coralville, Jennifer Pownall, c’98, and John Ryan Zug, c’99, and Jill Simpson, d’01, Iowa, where he’s web technical lead for Schwaller, e’99, Sept. 22. They live in Aug. 18 in Pittsburg. He’s an assistant Diversified Software Industries. Charlotte, N.C. golf professional at Alvamar Golf Club in Lawrence, and she’s a housewares cate- MARRIED BORN TO: gory specialist at PackerWare. Lori Golon, m’97, and Jeffery Thorne, Traci Darrow Lanning, p’98, and g’99, June 2. Lori has a private pediatrics Lawrence, son, Luke Tyler, July 28 in BORN TO: practice, and Jeffery is a public account- Marion, where Traci is a pharmacist at Robert, b’99, and Jennifer Avila ant. They live in Lenexa. Marion Pharmacy. Martin, d’02, daughter, Hayden Grace, Patrick Koehler, h’97, to Bethany Sept. 25 in Olathe. Robert is a computer DeMone, Aug. 11 in Nova Scotia. They 1999 operator at Osborn Labs, and Jennifer live in Stewartville, Minn., and he’s a res- Michael Hauser, f’99, is an environ- manages women’s activewear for piratory therapist at Mayo Medical Center mental graphic designer for Gould Evans Nordstrom. in Rochester. Goodman Associates in Kansas City. Danielle Stebbins, c’97, m’01, and Luis Martin, f’99, works as a graphic 2000 Carlo Jurani, m’99, Sept. 22. They live in composer for Gill Studios in Lenexa. Catherine Bolton, s’00, s’01, is a crisis Prairie Village. Carice Riemann, c’99, s’01, works clinician at Family Service and Guidance at Central Junior High School in Center in Topeka. She lives in Lawrence. 1998 Lawrence as a specialist in the Working Daniel Thalmann, c’00, serves on the Elizabeth Neher Heflin, m’98, prac- to Recognize Alternative Possibilities Barnes-Hanover-Linn school board. He tices pediatrics at Via Christi Regional program. lives in Linn. Medical Center in Wichita. Rachel Rubin, l’99, practices health Angela Willems, n’00, is a nurse at

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Western Plains Medical Complex in 2001 Melissa Cooley, c’01, edits copy for the Dodge City. Christy Asher, e’01, works as a Hutchinson News. mechanical engineer with Henderson Megan Deines, j’01, coordinates BORN TO: Engineers in Lenexa. accounts for GlynnDevins in Overland Matthew, c’00, and Lynne Sherry Eric Beightel, ’01, coordinates permit- Park. Berry, n’00, daughter, Emma, Sept. 7 in ting for Brungardt Honomichl & Co. in Kelli Deuth, e’01, is a project consult- at Kirtland AFB, N.M., where Matthew Overland Park. He lives in Lawrence. ant for Trinity Consultants in Olathe. serves in the U.S. Air Force. Joel Carlberg, e’01, commutes from Anne Hendricks, j’01, works as an David Pickering, g’00, g’02, and Lawrence to Overland Park, where he’s a administrative assistant for Quinn Melinda, son, Matthew, Sept. 16 in Provo, mechanical engineer for Henderson Gillespie & Associates in Washington, Utah. Engineers. D.C.

Profile BY MICHAEL L. KING

Wall Street tragedy fails to stop Journal’s presses already on the ground,” recalls Austin, who joined the Journal 30 years ago as a anforth Austin’s job is to get reporter after a brief stint in the U. S. The Wall Street Journal printed Army’s psychological warfare unit. and delivered each day. Standing alongside the Hudson River, Despite being forced from its Austin conferred with Paul Steiger, the DManhattan offices Sept. 11, the Journal Journal’s managing editor. They consid- didn’t disappoint its almost 2 million ered re-entering their Manhattan offices, readers. and wondered how they would get the “Every profession has its equivalent of paper out. “We decided we would try to ‘the show must go on,’” the Salina native regroup down in New Jersey.” says matter-of-factly. “For us, it’s getting According to Steiger’s then-deputy, the paper out every day. We had backup James Pensiero, staffers moved “like an plans and they worked.” army retreating from defeat to a pre- Austin, j’68, is general manager of The pared position. We at least had a place Wall Street Journal, the jewel of Dow in which to carry on the fight.” That Jones & Co.’s publishing empire. He place was the Dow Jones facility in directs all non-news functions, including South Brunswick Township, N.J., where ■ Danforth Austin led The Wall Street Journal’s advertising, circulation and production. the New Yorkers took over two small crisis response on Sept. 11. The relocated At 8:42 a.m. on Sept. 11, Austin worked conference rooms. Twice before they had Journal distributed 1.6 million papers out of alone in his office. A handful of editors used those rooms for Saturday morning a normal run of 1.8 million. and managers milled about. practice runs of the Journal. “I was preparing a presentation for our This time it was the real thing, and board of directors when I heard a low there weren’t enough computers. “We “We didn’t know if all our people had whistling sound, then loud clattering had just enough computers to get start- survived. We just kept working.” sounds, like construction. I noticed the ed,” Austin says. “Then we sent people For Austin, the payoff for getting the birds normally perched on our building out through eastern Pennsylvania with newspaper out came Sept. 12, when had all taken flight.” trucks, trying to find more computers.” phone calls and e-mails poured in from Austin joined other staffers down the With about 55 workstations in place, grateful readers. A subscriber in Chicago hall, watching the Trade Center towers in they produced a 32-page, two-section wrote: “Once I saw The Wall Street helpless disbelief. “When the second paper. Journal on my doorstep, I knew some- plane hit, we had to evacuate,” he says. “By 5 p.m., we had about 40 people,” how we’d be all right.” Once outside, the tragedy began to feel Pensiero remembers. That compares with —King, j’75, is a writer and attorney more real. “There were human remains a normal New York staff of almost 400. in Cleveland.

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI Emily Hughey, j’01, c’02, works as a Darby’s the family permanency case 2002 magazine editor for Showcase Publishing manager for The Farm Inc. Juliette Ast, c’02, is a traveling consult- in Prairie Village. Karen DiVita-Johnson, l’01, g’01, to ant for Kappa Kappa Gamma. She lives in Angela Johnson, g’01, is an admissions Casey Johnson, May 18. Karen is a state Wichita. counselor for Washburn University in representative for District 16 in Overland Peter Doddema, c’02, manages text- Topeka. Park and Casey is a physician in pharma- books for Nebraska Book Co. in Daniel Krier, PhD’01, and his wife ceutical research. Lawrence. Judy, live in Williamsburg, Va., with their Brian Emory, g’01, to Carrie Pettit, Chaussee Druen, c’02, works for Frito- daughters, Adele, 4, and Johanna, 1. June 3 in Olathe. They live in Stoughton, Lay in Topeka. Daniel is a professor of sociology at the Wis. Vicki Knapp, PhD’02, coordinates the College of William and Mary. Christina Fritz, h’01, and Jason Smith, early autism program at Summit Jennifer McGhee Loeffler, d’01, co- h’01, July 14 in Las Vegas. Their home is Educational Resources in Tonawanda, owns L&B Improvements in Berryton. in Lawrence. N.Y. Melissa Long, j’01, is a public affairs Kimberly Heinen, c’01, to Joshua Hans Sherman, c’02, is an underwriter specialist for the American Red Cross in Wheeler, June 16 in Kelly. They live in for American International Group in New Portland, Ore. Lawrence, where Kimberly studies for York City. Hemang Parekh, g’01, works as a a master’s in speech pathology at KU, development engineer for Xilinx in San and Joshua is a maintenance repair MARRIED Jose, Calif. technician at KU. John Gallagher, c’02, to Meggan Marie, Kim Pham, e’01, recently joined Anne Hoagland, c’01, and Brandon Sept. 4. Their home is in Wichita. Henderson Engineers as a mechanical Bauer, d’01, Sept. 1. Their home is in engineer. She lives in Kansas City. Leavenworth. Anitha Rajesh, g’01, is a software engi- Janet Pontious, b’01, to Jody neer for General Electric Medical Systems McKinney, June 22 in Erie, where they School Codes Letters that follow in Milwaukee. live. She works for Labette County State names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school Jennifer Scott , f’01, works as a market- Bank in Parsons, and he works for from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers ing specialist for VML. She lives in Stevenson’s Auto Clinic in Chanute. show their class years. Chesterfield, Mo. Kimberly Porter, n’01, to Brian Craig, Christine Snow, j’01, is an account May 26 in Excelsior Springs. They live in a School of Architecture and Urban executive for KKHK Radio in Denver. Overland Park. Design Rebecca Stauffer, j’01, works as a pub- Stacy Stratton, c’01, to Aaron b School of Business lic relations account executive for Barkley Alexander, May 5. Their home is in c College of Liberal Arts and Evergreen & Partners in Kansas City. Wichita. Sciences Andrew Tate, b’01, lives in St. Paul, Emily Trivette, g’01, to Christopher d School of Education Minn. He’s a financial associate for North Field, June 9 in Stanley. She teaches spe- e School of Engineering Star Resource Group in Minneapolis. cial education at Tryon Elementary f School of Fine Arts Jennifer Vogrin, j’01, coordinates School in Bessemer City, N.C., and he’s a g Master’s Degree accounts for GlynnDevins Advertising superintendent at Pulte Homes in h School of Allied Health and Marketing Services in Overland Charlotte, where they live. j School of Journalism Park. Kate Wooldridge, g’01, to Chad Krug, l School of Law May 26. She’s a speech-language patholo- m School of Medicine MARRIED gist in Wellsville, and he’s a teacher and n School of Nursing Kevin Bockwinkel, e’01, to Melanie coach in DeSoto. They live in Gardner. p School of Pharmacy Shenk, June 9 in Wichita. He’s a process Amanda Wyman, e’01, and Manuel s School of Social Welfare engineer with Stratco in Leawood, and Martinez, e’01, Sept. 22. They live in DE Doctor of Engineering she’s the corporate benefits and human Aurora, Colo. DMA Doctor of Musical Arts resources manager for Huhtamaki EdD Doctor of Education Americas in DeSoto. They live in Lenexa. BORN TO: PhD Doctor of Philosophy Amber Burton, c’01, and Richard Sarah Heironimus-Bishop, c’01, and (no letter) Former student LeMaster, ’03, Sept. 22. They live in Jacob, daughter, Evelyn Rose, Sept. 5 in assoc. Associate member of the Wichita, and she’s a field technican for Lawrence. Alumni Association IT Corp. Sara Batley Murry, c’01, and Leo, Darby Cochran, s’01, to Chris Wilson, daughter, Autumn Jane, Sept. 28 in Aug. 18. They live in Emporia, where Gardner.

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1920s Jewelry and worked for the Internal Forest, Ill. He is survived by his wife, Helen Harshberger Dolbier, c’25, 97, Revenue Service. A memorial has been Isabel Townley Voss, c’37; a son; two Sept. 4 in Lawrence. She taught at established with the KU Endowment daughters; two grandchildren; and two Cordley Elementary School and had Association. He is survived by his wife, great-grandchildren. owned a preschool before retiring. Zorine; two sons, Barry, c’65, and Several cousins survive. Bernard, c’74; a daughter, Barbara Becker 1940s Irene Bodley Haines, ’24, 99, Sept. 8 Dierks, c’77; a sister; and three grand- Marshall Brewer, m’46, 81, Dec. 9, in Shawnee. She worked in the banking sons. 2000, in Ulysses, where he practiced med- business and had written a book about Virginia Smith Davis, c’38, 84, Aug. 3 icine for many years. He is survived by his St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Kansas in Woodbridge, Va., where she was a wife, Roberta Brown Brewer, assoc.; a City. Survivors include a daughter, Louise retired high-school mathematics teacher. daughter, Marsha Brewer Reynolds, f’80; Haines Sherman, c’80; two sons, one of She is survived by a son; a daughter; a two brothers; and a twin sister. whom is Thomas, b’56; 12 grandchil- sister, Blanche Smith Morrell, c’41; three Jefferson King Jr., ’45, 79, Sept. 15 in dren; 17 great-grandchildren; and five grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. Wichita, where he had owned King Cattle great-great-grandchildren. Chester Friedland, d’39, 85, Jan. 10, Co. He is survived by his wife, Nadine Fox Carl Johnson, c’29, l’31, 91, Aug. 29 in 2001, in Bath, N.Y., where he was retired King, c’43; three sons; four grandchildren; Fremont, Neb. He owned and operated a from a career at Bath Veterans Hospital. and three great-grandchildren. lumber business and was past president He is survived by his wife, Edna, four Peter Macdonald, ’49, 85, Sept. 13 in of the Nebraska Lumber Association. He daughters, two sons and 13 grandchil- Hutchinson. He was former president and is survived by his wife, Betty; a stepson; a dren. chairman of Harris Enterprises and had stepdaughter; four grandchildren; and Frances Ware Huls, c’37, 85, July 4 in been publisher of the Hutchinson News two great-grandchildren. Chadron, Neb., where she taught govern- when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. He Frank Strong, ’28, 93, Oct. 12 in ment and civics at Chadron High School was a trustee of KU’s William Allen White Prairie Village. He was former dean of for many years. She is survived by a School of Journalism and Mass law at Ohio State University and was a daughter, Cynthia Huls Gorr, d’65, g’67; Communications and had received the professor of law at the University of two sons, one of whom is David, b’75; school’s Legacy Distinguished Service North Carolina. He funded the seven grandchildren; and eight great- Award. A memorial has been established Children’s Literature Collection in KU’s grandchildren. with the KU Endowment Association. He School of Education. Surviving are a son; Loraine Mace McCoy, ’31, 92, Sept. 9 is survived by his wife, Barbara; two a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Strong in Dodge City. She is survived by a daughters, Heather Macdonald Smith, Brennan, d’60; four grandchildren; and daughter, Charlene McCoy McDonald, j’68, and Janet Macdonald Miller, c’72; three great-grandchildren. ’57; three grandchildren; and eight great- and three grandchildren. grandchildren. Rita Lemoine Modert, ’46, 78, Sept. 25 1930s Annabelle Peterson Morris, ’39, 85, in Kansas City. She is survived by two Lola Terrass Adams, n’32, 90, Aug. 31 Oct. 7 in Lansing. She was retired from a sons, Stephen, c’73, and Christopher, c’75; in Topeka. A brother and a sister survive. 46-year career with Southwestern Bell three daughters, one of whom is Diane Everett Anderson, ’32, 93, June 25 in Telephone and is survived by a step- Modert Koranda, d’71; a sister, Deneise Topeka. He worked at Gages Plumbing, daughter; a stepson, Robert Morris, b’60; Lemoine Herrick, c’40; and 12 grandchil- Heating and Air Conditioning and later and three stepgrandchildren. dren. worked in real-estate development. A Carl Peterson, b’38, 85, Sept. 3 in Helen Edlin Ruhlen, d’42, Sept. 26 in memorial has been established with the Orange Beach, Ala. He lived in Kent, Oklahoma City. She is survived by her KU Endowment Association. He is sur- Wash., where he was retired after a career husband, Stafford, e’40; a daughter, vived by his wife, Kyle; a son, Dana, b’59; as an auditor with Boeing. Survivors Catherine Ruhlen Rice, d’68; a son; and a daughter, Sally Anderson Martell, d’58, include two sons, one of whom is James, three grandchildren. g’92; seven grandchildren; and 10 great- e’68; a daughter; and two grandchildren. Margaret Eberhardt Shanklin, d’43, grandchildren. Arthur Voss, c’35, g’37, Sept. 14 in La g’45, 88, Sept. 20 in Kansas City, where Jack Becker, ’37, 86, Sept. 13 in Prairie Jolla, Calif. He was a professor emeritus she was a retired art teacher. She is sur- Village. He was president of Meyer of English at Lake Forest College in Lake vived by a daughter, Mary Margaret

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI Shanklin Murbach, f’72; a son; a sister, and three grandchildren. Krouse, n’73; a son; his parents; a brother, Katherine Everhardt Selma, c’41, g’67; Robert Kennedy, c’53, g’59, 70, Sept. Alan, c’88; and two sisters, one of whom is and four grandchildren. 14 in Hamilton. He was retired from the Joan Krouse Worthington, b’78, g’80. Robert Teel, b’49, 74, Sept. 9 in Kansas Department of Urban Renewal Stephen Lichty, e’74, g’79, 49, Sept. 20 Columbus, where he owned Teel Tax and Police Procedures. A son, two daugh- in Spring, Texas, where he was director of Service and had been city treasurer for ters, two sisters and five grandchildren storage and transportation for Coral many years. Surviving are his wife, survive. Energy. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Marianna Westervelt Teel, assoc.; three Richard Piper, ’50, 77, Sept. 15 in Steffens Lichty, ’75; two daughters; his sons, two of whom are Gregg, b’80, and Hutchinson, where he was retired direc- mother, Marjorie Free Lichty, c’46; and two Dean, d’87; a daughter; two sisters; and tor of development at Hutchinson brothers, James, a’75, and Thomas, j’81. eight grandchildren. Hospital and had worked in automobiles sales and management. He is survived by 1980s 1950s his wife, Barbara Johnson Piper, c’49; a Lisa Lewis, c’88, l’91, 36, Sept. 28 of Shelley Bates, b’51, Feb. 28, in son, Scott, c’73; and a daughter, Kristen, injuries sustained in an automobile acci- Chicago, where he worked for Ford c’91, g’97. dent near Topeka, where she lived. She was Motor Co. He is survived by his wife, Donald Smith, c’53, 70, Sept. 12 in St. an attorney for the Kansas Department of Bessie Kopplin Bates, assoc. Petersburg, Fla., where he was retired Administration and is survived by her hus- John Garrett, c’52, 71, Sept. 17 in after a career with Travelers Insurance in band, Mitch Taylor; a daughter; her par- Middletown, R.I, where he was retired Hartford, Conn. He is survived by his ents, Robert, c’61, l63, and Jane Sramek from Purvis Systems. He served 24 years wife, Nancy; two sons; a daughter; a Lewis, d’62; a brother, Robert, c’85; a sis- in the U.S. Navy, retiring in 1977. brother, John, c’56, g’64; and three ter; and her grandmother, Marvel Surviving are his wife, Mary; two sons; a grandchildren. Hotchkiss Lewis, ’38. sister, Patricia Garrett Conner, d’54, g’78; and a brother, Charles Garrett, b’57. 1960s 1990s George Gordon, b’53, 69, Sept. 4 in Charles Lanning, c’65, m’69, 58, Aug. Martin Erazmus, ’91, 39, Sept. 6 in Topeka, where he was a real-estate 22 in Raleigh, N.C. He was a physician at Colusa, Calif., of injuries sustained in a investor and property manager. Two sis- Duke University Medical Center and had truck accident. He was a truck driver for ters, one of whom is Jean Gordon pioneered the heart program at Wake Mercer Industries in Portland, Ore., where Dibble, d’55, survive. Forest Medical Center. Surviving are his he lived. He is survived by his parents, a Lee Hall, e’50, July 19 in Omaha, wife, Mary Kay Dunlap Lanning, d’65; daughter, two sons, a brother and three sis- Neb., where he worked for the Corps of three sons; his mother; a brother, ters, one of whom is Le-Thu, d’95, g’01. Engineers. He is survived by his wife, Edward G. Lanning, c’73; three sisters, Alice, a daughter and a son. one of whom is Mary Lanning Benson, The University Community John Hallewell, m’59, 67, Aug. 29 in c’66; and two grandchildren. John Katich, assoc., 51, Oct. 5 in Ganllwyd, Wales, Great Britain, where he Lonnie Markley, c’65, 61, Sept. 21 in Lawrence, where he was associate profes- had retired after a career as a surgeon. Merriam. He had been a physical thera- sor of journalism. A memorial has been Survivors include his wife, Mary Etta, a pist for 35 years and is survived by his established with the KU Endowment daughter and a son. wife, Beth, g’77; a daughter, Melinda, Association. He is survived by his wife, Eugene Hixson, e’51, 79, Sept. 11 in j’01; and a sister. Laura Sadler Katich, assoc.; three daugh- Dayton, Ohio, where he was retired after Stephen Vormehr, b’69, 53, Sept. 20 ters, two of whom are Jessica, c’01, c’02, 46 years of military and civilian service in Lawrence, where he owned Mid and Lisa Katich McDermott, f’01, g’02; his at Wright-Patterson AFB. He is survived America Concessions. Surviving are his mother; three brothers; and two sisters. by his wife, Judy, a son, a daughter, a wife, Vicki Gans Vormehr, f’77; a son; Hester Miller Thurston, c’43, n’43, stepdaughter, a stepson, two brothers, a two daughters; and three sisters, one of Sept. 7 in Overland Park. She was a profes- sister and nine grandchildren. whom is Leslie Coover Cady, d’62. sor emerita of nursing at KU, former dean Sally Six Hersh, c’55, g’56, 68, Oct. 11 of nursing at the KU Medical Center and in Lawrence, where she taught speech, 1970s had established a nursing exchange pro- drama and mass media at West Junior Bruce Anderson, c’74, Aug. 29 in gram with the University of the High School. She developed a curricu- Littleton, Colo. Among survivors are his Philippines. A memorial has been estab- lum in children’s theater and creative mother, Florence, a sister and a brother. lished with the KU Endowment dramatics at KU, where she also estab- Dean Krouse, b’72, 51, Sept. 28 in Association. She is survived by a daughter lished a children’s theater. She is sur- Kansas City, where he was a systems ana- and a sister, Virginia Thurston Spomer, vived by a son, Christopher, m’90; a lyst with American Century. Among sur- c’46. daughter; a brother, Fred Six, c’51, l’56; vivors are his wife, Deborah Jones

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■ Introducing actor and screenwriter Laura Kirk at the Lawrence screening, Kevin Willmott, assistant professor of theatre and film, said “We are here to celebrate a miracle. Independent films are always a miracle, and it’s a

EARL RICHARDSON beautiful thing when miracles happen.”

Cannes International Film Festival. Kirk stars as Lisa Picard, a struggling actor who appears to be on the brink of fame, and Dunne plays a docu- mentary filmmaker who shadows Picard and her best friend, actor Tate Kelly (DeWolf). A gaggle of celebrities—including Sandra Bullock, Carrie Fisher, Buck Henry, Spike Lee and Charlie Sheen—make cameo appearances. The New York premiere in August attracted more celebrities, including Richards, who dubbed the movie “refreshing,” before adding: “Don’t know how it’s going to play in Peoria, though.” No need to worry about that. “There’s a Midwestern humor in the film that From Cannes to Kansas comes out, and that people were getting,” Kirk said Laura Kirk spins the actor’s after the Lawrence hard-knock life into big-screen gold screening, which drew 600 people and he posed for paparazzi at Cannes. prompted Liberty She partied with Rolling Stone Keith Hall to extend the Richards at Lotus. She promoted her movie’s one-night movie “Lisa Picard is ‘Famous’” at run to two weeks. Sindependent film festivals from East Coast to “It’s not mean West, sitting in darkened theatres as movie spirited; we’re mak- stars tittered and giggled at her spirited, self-dep- ing fun of ourselves instead recating spoof of young actors struggling to make of others.” it big in the Big Apple. It’s the first starring role and first screen- But after spending four years bringing the roles writing credit for Kirk, a Lecompton native who that she and co-star Nat DeWolf wrote for them- moved to New York in 1990 to pursue an acting selves to the big screen, the event Laura Kirk most career. A “mockumentary” in the style of “Waiting looked forward to was the night she could finally For Guffman” and “Best in Show,” “Lisa Picard Is show her film to a hometown audience. ‘Famous’” satirizes the quest for fame. The fact “This is the most important screening of all to that many of the indignities and embarrassments me,” Kirk, c’89, told a sellout crowd at Liberty suffered by Picard are drawn from Kirk’s own Hall before the Oct. 26 Lawrence premiere of experience made the screening for her family, “Lisa Picard is ‘Famous.’” The department of the- friends and KU colleagues even sweeter. atre and film sponsored the screening. “It was nice to share how hard it is, because I Directed by Griffin Dunne, the film was one of don’t think everybody has a sense of that. You get a handful of American movies invited to the 2000 calls from people asking, ‘When are you going to

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI be in a film for longer than two scenes,’” publicity juggernauts of big studio marriage if they want to continue their Kirk says, laughing. “This was kind of a movies, “Lisa Picard Is ‘Famous’” has employment. October falls for a handy- 90-minute version [explaining] why.” struggled to attract an audience, relying man, and a married one at that. Although Kirk and DeWolf planned the project mainly on reviews and word-of-mouth. her beau, James, says he will leave his as a 20-minute “calling card” they could Yet Kirk would have it no other way. wife, the second October delivers the present to directors when auditioning for “There’s no better feeling than to have news to him, he flies. roles. But their friend, Academy Award done it yourself. There’s something so And so does October. She returns to winner Mira Sorvino, encouraged them great about having co-written it, and not Chillicothe, Ohio, where she and her sis- to expand it into a full-length film. After just having been one of the hundred peo- ter were reared by their aunts after the reading their first script, she signed on as ple who auditioned for the part,” she tragic death of her mother and the mys- producer. says. “It has been completely empower- terious death of their father in prison. “I thought that the characters and ing to do it that way, and I really felt that Back home with her family, October has their rapport was very funny and intrigu- most on the stage at Liberty Hall: ‘Here I the baby and just can’t muster any feeling, and also truthful,” Sorvino says. “I am, at home, and here’s what I’ve done.’ ing for him. So she gives the baby—for had lived the same lifestyle; every strug- It was something I could be proud of in a perpetuity—to her sister and brother-in- gling actor in New York suffers the same way that means a lot more.” law. Only later, back in Kansas City, does slings and arrows that Lisa and Tate do. —Steven Hill October realize what she’s done. There was a lot of comic potential.” This event, about a third of the way Kirk and DeWolf wrote the roles to into the novel, provides October Suite showcase their acting talents, and their with its central question: How do we insistence on starring made it harder to move on and live with the mistakes of find a studio to make the picture, even the past? What Clair repeatedly demon- with Sorvino’s backing. But they stood strates throughout the rest of the novel is ■ October Suite firm, turning down offers to sell the that while the aftermath of such deci- By Maxine Clair script. sions certainly contains overwhelming “We put all our eggs in one basket, Random House, feelings of loss, heartache and self-doubt, there’s no doubt,” Kirk says. “But we $23.95 the ability to endure, in and of itself, is couldn’t have auditioned for these parts triumph. and gotten them.” Clair, c’62, KU English department’s Propelled by glowing reviews in the 2001 Langston Hughes visiting professor New York Times, Rolling Stone, Los and professor of creative writing at Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly OREAD READER George Washington University, unfolds and elsewhere, “Lisa Picard Is ‘Famous’” her soft-spoken family drama against a opened in New York, Los Angeles, Sins of the past richly detailed historical backdrop filled Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Historical family drama explores with landmarks, neighborhoods and other major cities last fall. Though it has pain of life’s bad decisions musicians familiar to Kansas City—from not transformed Kirk’s acting career, the Swope Park to Lincoln Theatre, Bryant’s film has given it a boost. It also spawned ctober Brown, the protagonist to Bird. Moreover, in a time of horren- a new career as a writer. “I found that I in Maxine Clair’s graceful, dous segregation, Clair never explicitly loved writing screenplays. It has com- quiet novel October Suite, holds forth on the topic, instead choos- pletely opened up my world. Now I have thinks she’s made it. In the ing the far more incisive and powerful a literary agent and an acting agent.” Osegregated world of the 1950s, the 23- technique of dropping small clues and She and DeWolf have written two year-old has secured a job and is “thank- telling details of the race-conscious world more screenplays and are hoping to cre- ing her lucky stars for a room in the best October must navigate. ate a TV show based on Picard and Kelly. house for Negro women teachers in There’s a jazzy quality to Clair’s prose, Meanwhile, the movie will be released on Wyandotte County.” which often breaks into a poetic riff or DVD in January. They’ve also written a That’s when the trouble starts—with a suddenly explodes with emotion. The tongue-in-cheek self-help book, The Joy of capital “T,” and that rhymes with “P,” notes may often ring bittersweet, but in Always Being Right. “It’s a social guide for which stands for “pregnant.” See, the October Suite, Clair plays them with pol- people who are always right, with advice young ladies who have the privilege of ished rhythm. on how they can integrate themselves staying at Pemberton boarding house are —Mark Luce, c’92, g’98, former into the world,” Kirk says. “We’re defi- supposed to be morally upright, and the Kansas Alumni staff writer, serves on the nitely sticking to humor.” teachers for Superintendent Aldredge’s board of directors for the National Book In a marketplace dominated by the district must also avoid turpitude and Critics Circle.

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give-and-take among them. Then, in his tures live interviews and performances Jazz own sweet way, he urged more interplay: from jazz musicians. “Bring the audience in in a more defini- Taylor grew up in a musical family in messenger tive way,” he gently advised the young North Carolina and Washington, D.C., musicians. “So I would know you’re play- where an uncle first turned him on to Billy Taylor spreads ing to me. Pull me in to what you’re blues and jazz. He studied classical piano the gospel of jazz doing a little more.” to learn more about the instrument, but It’s a message that Taylor, the 80-year- jazz—which he remembers as being old “ambassador of jazz,” has delivered everywhere then; in movies, in clubs, on eated in the many times, and one he’s taken to heart. the radio—captured his imagination. By second row Since the 1950s, when he began com- 1942, when he graduated from Virginia of a packed plementing his distinguished career as a State College with a music degree, he rehearsal pianist with forays into broadcasting and was ready to try his hand in New York. Sroom, legendary education, Taylor has been more than a jazz icon Billy musician: He’s widely recognized as the Taylor listened leading advocate of the art form he calls closely as a stu- “America’s classical music.” dent quartet “I hear people say jazz can’t be

ran through defined,” Taylor said. “It can be defined. EARL RICHARDSON the Dave Jazz is a way of playing—free, improvisa- Brubeck stan- tional, spontaneous—and it is also a dard “In Your repertoire. It takes aspects of our culture Own Sweet and puts them to music. It can be Way.” In thought of as a metaphor for freedom.” Lawrence to perform with his trio and Taylor started broadcasting in 1958, singer Kevin Mahogany at the Lied hosting “The Subject Is Jazz,” the first Center Nov. 9, Taylor visited Murphy educational TV series on the music. In Hall to present a master class and talk the 1970s he helped bring jazz to net- about jazz education and performance. work television as bandleader on the Keeping time with a loafered foot, he “David Frost Show,” and in 1981 he nodded his head intermittently, his gaze began contributing profiles of musicians intent behind his signature broad-paned on Charles Kuralt’s CBS news show glasses, a professorial figure in tweed “Sunday Morning.” Since 1961 he has ■ jacket and tie. hosted jazz radio shows. His current Pianist Billy Taylor held forth on jazz When the students of KU Jazz Combo National Public Radio show, “Billy history and performance for students, faculty I finished, Taylor praised the musical Taylor’s Jazz at the Kennedy Center,” fea- and visitors in Murphy Hall.

Castles in the sand ■ The collapse of chalk-rock monument t’s called “rephotography.” After discovering “Castle Rock” was Ia series of Grand Canyon photographs predicted by KU scien- taken in the 1890s by S.W. Williston, a KU tists. The image at left geologist and paleontologist, a team of cur- was photographed in rent KU geologists in the early 1990s 1992. The image at right planned to recreate the photographs and shows the formation’s examine the two sets for changes. As a prac- COURTESY, KANSAS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY COURTESY, current profile, pho- tice run, they first visited Castle Rock, in tographed in 2001. Gove County, west of Hays, which also had been a subject of Williston’s.

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI Within two days of his arrival there, ers, top a small (and shrink- Taylor hooked up with tenor saxophon- ■ From Hell to ing) band whose art cap- ist Ben Webster, who invited him to join Jackson Hole: A tures the West and his band, and pianist Art Tatum, who Westerners truthfully, bril- poetic history of became his mentor. He went on to liantly and defiantly. Add to the American West become the house pianist at Birdland their number Michael L. and played with some of the greatest By Michael L. Johnson, KU professor of names in jazz: Duke Ellington, Charlie Johnson English. “Bird” Parker, Dizzy Gillespie. Bridge House From Hell to Jackson Hole, When Jazz Combo I wrapped up, Books, $18.95 Johnson’s fifth book of Taylor asked audience members what poetry, is a masterwork of they thought. His point to the students: insightful history and snap- Pay attention to your listeners. “The audi- py biography. With a range ence helps you shape what you have to OREAD READER of poetic forms, Johnson concentrates on say,” Taylor said. “One thing to keep in True West real people, past and present: explorers, mind is that you’re making a personal A KU professor’s new book of poetry is gunfighters, Indians and everyday folks statement. Your job is to say, ‘Here, this faithful to its broad subjects: dreams and who are worth knowing about. His poet- is something special. Check it out.’” dreamers of the American frontier ry is true. He cares about his subjects For the next few minutes Taylor did and encourages his readers to care, too. exactly that. A question occasioned an Ponder, for instance, the sad end of an off-the-cuff lecture on jazz history from he art of the American West— ancient culture, presented in haiku: the man who has experienced so much whether in pictures, words or “Hungry, the Sioux chiefs/sign a treaty: of it firsthand. He began by tracing the music—tends too often to be sim- the Black Hills/for government food.” music’s roots from Africa to Southern plistic, trivial or, at its most egre- When Willa Cather moved to Nebraska blues, then sat at the piano to illustrate Tgious, a flimflam to fleece tourists and as a child, Johnson writes, she “... discov- his point. A traditional 12-bar blues pro- wanna-be Westerners. In the parlance, ered the truth/under the skin/of its gression lead Taylor to a Miles Davis it’s all hat and no cattle. True Westerners inhabitants.” Bat Masterson was a tune; bassist Chip Jackson and drummer are unfailingly big-hearted, entertaining “Buffalo hunter, fell gunfighter,/lawman, Winard Harper jumped in. Next came and original; they don’t appreciate being bar dog, blowhard, sportswriter.” George Gershwin, and then Lester Young underestimated, and the “art” that por- From Hell to Jackson Hole is that and Parker and John Coltrane. The jazz trays them rarely does them justice. exceedingly rare book that is so good as messenger skipped from song to song The West is so much more than big to be worthy of making demands: It with effortless grace, weaving words and skies and cattle drives. It is, at its most must be thoughtfully considered by any- notes into his very own history of the glorious, curious people exploring life in one who cares about the West as it once form. Everyone listened and learned. a curious place. Georgia O’Keeffe, among was and still might be. —Steven Hill painters, and Edward Abbey, among writ- —Chris Lazzarino

After that visit, the team from Kansas most recent collapse, at Castle Rock, tography.” Rummage through vacation snap- Geological Survey fired off a report in 1992 brought a flood of calls to Kansas Geological shots taken at natural landmarks and try to for the journal Kansas History, predicting Survey. recreate them with new photographs; peo- imminent (on a geologic scale) doom for “All these people were saying what an ple might not be the images’ only subject to Castle Rock’s tallest spire. Last July, the KU awful thing it was, a really terrible thing,” have changed with age. scientists were proved correct when it top- says Rex Buchanan, the survey’s associate “I remember a line by Willa Cather: pled following a summer thunderstorm: No director. “I don’t mean to negate the impor- ‘Detail was precious because detail was so precise photography needed to detect this tance of landmarks, but erosion happens. It’s rare,’” Buchanan says. “When you are in a geologic alteration. not some sort of Shakespearean tragedy. It’s landscape with so few landmarks, you tend It was, in fact, the area’s third such monu- what nature does.” to care deeply about those you have.” mental collapse since 1986, when the Sphynx Buchanan suggests that observant citizen- —Chris Lazzarino fell, followed by Cobra Rock in 1998. The scientists might engage in their own “repho-

ISSUE 1, 2002 | 63 Oread Encore BY CHRIS LAZZARINO JUDY GRIESEDIECK JUDY

■ A 1984 photograph of Harlem Globetrotter Lynette Woodard with her young fans is included in Game Face, an exhibition and book celebrating women’s athletics.

Faithful”— is part of Game Face, an exhi- Game faces bition and book project that celebrates female athletes, including famous pros A photographic tribute to women’s athletics and energetic amateurs. The exhibition includes KU’s own living legend recently finished a six-month run at the Smithsonian Institution and now moves oach Marian Washington remembers the to Salt Lake City to be featured next month at Harlem Globetrotters poster Lynette the Winter Olympics. Woodard kept above her locker. “There Also included in the project are two photo- was not a woman in that poster, so what graphs taken by KU alumni: “Mutton Busting,” Cwould make her continue to have such a dream? a youth-rodeo photograph by Raymond But it was hers, and she made it happen.” Brecheisen, j’84, and “Spanish Bronze,” a kayak- Woodard, c’81, led the U.S. women’s basketball ing photograph from the 1992 Barcelona team to the gold medal in the 1984 Olympics, Olympics by Julian Gonzalez, c’83. Gonzalez’s then completed her dream by joining the image graced the cover of the June 2001 Globetrotters for two years. After a ’Trotters game Smithsonian magazine, and Brecheisen’s was fea- in ’84, photographer Judy Griesedieck was wait- tured in the magazine’s story about Game Face. ing along with Woodard’s young fans. “I think that in the pureness of sports, people “I think the photographer saw in that crowd don’t really see gender,” Woodard says. “That’s that there were so many little boys,” Woodard how my first dream developed for the says. “That was something new, and I never Globetrotters. I didn’t see that they were a male noticed.” team. I just looked at the basketball and said, The Woodard photograph—“Globetrotter ‘You know, I could do that.’”

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI 2002 promises to be the best year yet for Flying Jayhawks trips. All rates are per person, double occupancy. Dates and prices are subject to change. ▼ Trans-Panama Canal Cruise Alumni College in Norway JAN. 18-29 $2,295 and up plus air JULY 1 – 9 $2,395 Mysteries of Earth Alumni College in Ireland JAN. 20 – FEB. 13 $36,950 JULY 21 – 29 $2,295 Exploring the Rain Forests, Reefs & Hidden Fjords and Glaciers Mayan Temples of Belize, Tikal & Honduras of Alaska’s Inside Passage FEB. 9 – 16 From $2,895 AUG. 3 – 10 From $2,080 Prague Deluxe Escapade Alumni College in Scotland FEB. 23 – MARCH 2 $1,395 AUG. 14 – 22 $2,395 Rediscovering Cuba’s Rich Cultural & Danube River–From Vienna Historical Heritage to the Black Sea MARCH 29 – APRIL 4 $3,395 from Miami AUG. 14 – 27 From $4,595 Alumni College in England’s Lake District Côtes du Rhône SEPT. 2 – 10 $2,395 Passage APRIL 23 – MAY 6 Alumni College in Tuscany From $3,895 SEPT. 4 – 12 $2,395 Alumni College in The Human Odyssey: A Search for our Burgundy Beginnings MAY 1 – 9 $2,295 SEPT. 12 – 30 $32,950 from London Medieval Seaports Kenya Wildlife Safari of Western Europe SEPT. 16 – 26 From $4,595 MAY 1 – 12 From $4,460 The Galápagos Alumni College in Normandy Islands MAY 20 – 28 $2,295 SEPT. 27 – OCT. 4 From $2,235, plus air package Cruise the Elbe Passage from Miami. MAY 27 – JUNE 10 From $4,095 Alumni College in American Orient Express, National Parks of Italy’s Veneto the West District MAY 29 – JUNE 5 From $3,190 OCT. 7 –15 $2,395 Alumni College in Provence Renaissance Cities of Italy JUNE 4 – 12 $2,395 OCT. 18 – 29, 2002 From $3,895 Alumni College in the Italian Lakes District Florence Deluxe Escapade JUNE 11 – 19 $2,395 NOV. 1 – 8 $1,695 Alumni College in Greece Germany’s Legendary Holiday Markets JUNE 18 – 27 $2,395 DEC. 1 – 9 From $1,900

* Two late additions are a late-August cruise to British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest and an October trip to Colonial Mexico. Please contact the Association for details on these trips.