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30 22 38 Face to Face The Wow Factor Fine Feathers Elsa Rhae’s fanciful creations— Nancy O’Connor believes Once available only for the which use her own face as a school gardens can plant a seed privileged few, the pristine canvas—have turned the of wonder that inspires kids to examples of 19th-century young free spirit into an rethink their relationship with ornithological illustration in Internet star. food. KU’s John Gould collection are now accessible to a worldwide By Chris Lazzarino By Steven Hill audience.

By Chris Lazzarino

Cover photograph by Steve Puppe

Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 112, No.5, 2014 ISSUE 5, 2014 | 1 Lift the Chorus McSorley’s toast Steven Hill [“True Crime,” issue No. 3, 2014]. T including 2) I have Colorado hiking classroom, her beloved chair, the wonderful story by Bob associates who liked Katherine on strolls down Jayhawk Day [“We’ll Always Have Millett’s piece about mountain Boulevard. ... these were McSorley’s,” issue No. 4] in the climber Lynn Hartwell Prebble precious moments for me and most recent edition of Kansas [“Peak Performer,” issue No. 3, any impressionable young man Alumni! I love reading about 2012]. or woman on their singular the work of our alumni, and Jay Janzen, c’62 journey growing up. the McSorley’s essay is a great Golden, Colorado As touched on gracefully in example of the sort of thing Chris Lazzarino’s prole, Mary that makes me dive into the Editor’s Note: We received values benevolence, retrospec- magazine the day it arrives! several angry responses to a letter tion and introspection as Sandra Bornholdt Cook, c’64 that appeared in issue No. 4, means of connecting with Piedmont, California 2014, regarding alumnus Steve Doocy’s appearance as master of (and, cleverly, empowering) Cover credit ceremonies at the Rock Chalk Ball others. e piece captures her in Kansas City. Those who wrote K essence with heart and clarity. I Vivid lecture did not wish their letters to be crew for the clever, colorful was moved. published, but they requested that Kansas Alumni cover [“Story “... Life is bigger than K N’ we respond. Lines,” issue No. 4] featuring ourselves,” she says. Indeed, [“Who’s counting,” Li the The Alumni Association and its painted bricks as books! kindness shis us out of the Chorus, issue No. 4] reminded magazine strive to remain Contemporary titles authored center-of-our-own-world me of another professor who nonpartisan, but in publishing the by alumni Laura Moriarty, perspectives, and Mary, from oen had students who were letter about Mr. Doocy, we Gillian Flynn and Robert Day the moment I met her at not enrolled in his class attend inadvertently introduced partisan arranged on steps among Honors Program orientation, the nal lecture of his course: discussion into the magazine. We regret the error. classics written by Charles was generous and respectful. philosophy professor Cliord Mr. Doocy’s appearance at the Dickens, Virginia Woolf and She listened, and I very much P. Osborne. I attended once Rock Chalk Ball was completely Mark Twain perfectly captured enjoyed listening back. I loved and those present gave him a nonpartisan in nature; he agreed one of summer’s most endur- her brilliant independence. I standing ovation. to participate because of his ing, pleasurable pastimes— valued the moments spent with Franklin Shobe, c’64, g’77 allegiance to the University of reading a brick-thick page- her. It all felt authentic. And it Muncie, Indiana Kansas—a loyalty that thousands turner while sipping a cold was, and is today. of alumni share, regardless of our drink on a shaded porch. End How tting that the topic of political aliations. of story. family anchors the piece. Mary Not just for Kimberly Gronniger, g’83 hosted an English alumni Topeka gathering in New York City on Jayhawks May 2, where a large number of East Coasters spent the Y Mary’s chair evening reconnecting, meeting invites letters commenting on new members of the “family,” the content of the magazine, so I, , Mary Klayder and generally basking in the here’s mine: [“It’ll Be Fine,” issue No. 4] familiarity and comfort of the I usually (read, almost a friend, adviser, professor, Kansas- and Mary-ness of it all. always) nd at least one of the Your travel guide, sage, and, perhaps Yes, the chair is a fantastic, feature articles to be of opinion counts most in uentially, a vivid tangible, nostalgic thing. But, signicant interest to me and/ Please email us a note conversationalist. thankfully, Mary’s magical or people I know who are not at [email protected] Mary’s passion for literature, chair can reach out its arms KU-connected. to tell us what you think of for stories and storytelling, is and embrace you wherever you Two recent examples are: your alumni magazine. the root of her empathy. What are in the world. 1) Two attorney friends from is storytelling if not the relation Cheers, Mary. Kansas (not KU) were inter- of shared experiences? In her David Wilcox, c’10 ested in the Jesse James Brooklyn, New York investigative history article by

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 2 Lift the Chorus Letters from our readers Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Steven Hill 5 First Word e editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 Dan Storey 6 On the Boulevard KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 Communications Coordinator Leah Kohlman, c’11 8 Jayhawk Walk Surplus supplies, lottery luck, forever friends Advertising Sales Representative and more David Johnston, j’94, g’06 Editorial and Advertising Oce KU Alumni Association 10 Hilltopics 1266 Oread Avenue News and notes: Special advocate helps students; Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 KU Hospital targets western-Kansas health care. 785-864-4760 800-584-2957 www.kualumni.org 16 Sports [email protected] New coordinators move to football fore; soccer scores big in Rock Chalk Park debut. KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. $55 annual subscription includes member- 44 Association News ship in the Alumni Association. Oce of Publication: 1266 Oread Ellsworth Medallion honors Shirk and Howard; Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. Millies celebrate stalwart community volunteers.

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director for e Merc Co-op, the city’s customer-owned food cooperative and natural grocery. She also leads Growing Food, STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE Growing Health, an innovative partnership of e Merc’s non- prot foundation and the Lawrence Public Schools to create school gardens across the city. O’Connor, g’95, teaches students about healthy eating by putting them to work outside, tending plants that produce wholesome fare for their own school cafeterias. Associate Editor Steve Hill traces O’Connor’s winding trek from New Jersey through Illinois to Kansas and her abiding passion for the simple wonders of homegrown food. Another odyssey is the subject of our third feature. Kansas Alumni rst described KU’s lustrous John Gould Ornithological Collection in a 1985 cover story; now the collection has arrived at its ultimate destination, the Internet. anks in part to a National

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agazine-making is messy, full of spills and surprises—and therein lies the fun. Our early plans for this issue of Kansas M O’Connor Alumni did not even mention Elsa Rhae Pageler, the young alumna who graces our cover, but a er we learned the Internet favorite was one of our Endowment for the Humanities grant, sta own, we wanted to share her artistry. Pageler, members in the Kenneth Spencer Research c’13, de ly wields brushes and paint to Library have completed a painstaking transform her face into astonishing four-year project to catalog and digitize the characters. vibrant, richly detailed illustrations and Using skills she developed as a student manuscripts of Gould, a 19th-century video assistant for KU Marketing Communi- British ornithologist, and his team of cations and Kansas Athletics, along with talented artists. Lazzarino recounts the techniques she learned from a course on stage fascinating tales of a gi ed scientist; an makeup, the lm and media studies graduate eccentric, obsessive collector; a revered KU has launched a promising online enterprise. scholar, E. Raymond Hall, c’24; and a As Associate Editor Chris Lazzarino explains, visionary chancellor, Deane Malott, c’21. her ingenuity and social media savvy oer Nearly 70 years a er the collection rst lessons for fellow new graduates—and landed on Mount Oread, fans can view the perhaps those not so new—in the ne art of luminous birds via the Internet, where there creating a career. is plenty of room for 19th-century masters Nancy O’Connor is a familiar face in like John Gould and 21st-century magicians Kansas Alumni, 1985 Lawrence as longtime education and outreach like Elsa Rhae Pageler to dazzle us all.

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 5 On the Boulevard DAN STOREY (4) STOREY DAN

Despite complications posed by ongoing construction of two new residence halls, move-in day on Daisy Hill was the usual hive of activity, as parents pitched in, old friends got reacquainted and students settled in for the start of fall classes Aug. 25.

Exhibitions Lied Center events NOVEMBER Murphy Hall events Selected items from the John 2 Vienna Boys Choir SEPTEMBER Gould Ornithological SEPTEMBER 9 Beatrice Rana, piano Collection, Spencer Research 15 19 KU Collage Concert 14 Rennie Harris Kansas Virtuosi Library, through Nov. 15 24 Jazz at Lincoln Center Puremovement 25 Brass Ensembles “Conversation XIX: Phases: with Wynton Marsalis Multinational Works, to University Theatre OCTOBER 28 Now,” Spencer Museum of Yun-Chin Zhou, piano 20 Collegium Musicum Art, through spring 2015 30 KUSO with Joshua OCTOBER 27 Tuba/Euphonium “Cabinet of Curiosities,” Roman, cello 3-5, 7-9 “Proof,” by David Consort Empire of ings, Spencer Auburn, directed by Museum of Art, through OCTOBER Amanda Boyle, William Inge NOVEMBER 2015 5 Sphinx Virtuosi Memorial eatre 6 Trombone Choir “World War I & e End of 6 Joyce Castle, 17-19, 24-26 “Tovarich,” by Empires,” Spencer Museum Mezzo-soprano Jacques Deval, directed by 17 Kansas Virtuosi of Art, through 2015 John Staniunas, Craon- 9 e Midtown Men Preyer eatre Performances “Forms of ought,” Spencer 15 “Basetrack” Museum of Art, through NOVEMBER OCTOBER 2016 16 Colin Jost, co-anchor of SNL’s “Weekend Update” 14-16, 21-23 “ e Big 3 Jazz Ensembles I, II and “ is Land,” Spencer Meal,” by Dan LeFranc, III, Lawrence Arts Center Museum of Art, through 18 Circo Comedia directed by Peter Zazzali, 28 Jazz Combos I-VI, 2016 25 An Evening with Leo Stage Two! Lawrence Arts Center Kottke 28 “Anything Goes”

6 | KANSAS ALUMNI NOVEMBER 29 Julian Go Lecture, Hall NOVEMBER OCTOBER 7 Alaturka and Jazz Ensemble Center 3 Emporia 1 KC Chapter Hawktowber- I, Lawrence Arts Center 29 Frank Calzon and 3 Wichita fest at Boulevard Brewing 10 Marifeli Perez-Stable, “Is It Company Wind Ensemble, Kau - 3 Manhattan man Center for the Perform- Time to Recognize Cuba?” 4 Jersey Shore alumni ing Arts Dole Institute of Politics 4 Topeka picnic, Wall, New Jersey 17 Percussion Group, Spencer 30 Ayesha Hardison, 5 Independence 5 KU Night at the India- Langston Hughes Visiting Museum of Art 5 Liberal napolis Repertory eatre Professorship Lecture 18 Jazz Singer & Jazz Combo 11 Kansas City 11 Member Tailgate at the I, Lawrence Arts Center Kansas Union NOVEMBER 12 Arkansas City 15 Houston networking 3-4 Amy Wilentz, Humani- 12 Chapman ties Lecture Series breakfast Lectures 17 Johnson County Blue 16 Science of Beer at Gella’s 6 Sean Kalic, “e Siege of Valley SEPTEMBER Budapest: A Decisive Battle Brewing Company, Hays 20 16-17 Katherine Boo, against Nazism,” Dole Evolution of the Jayhawk, Humanities Lecture Series Institute of Politics Alumni events Northern Colorado 21 17 “e Media and the Evolution of the Jayhawk, SEPTEMBER Midterms,” Dole Institute of Academic Calendar Colorado Springs, Colorado Politics 17 Houston networking 21 Denver networking breakfast 20 Wojciech Lesnikowski OCTOBER breakfast 18 Denver networking Retrospective 11-14 Fall break 22 Evolution of the Jayhawk, breakfast Denver OCTOBER 18 Denver Hawktoberfest 23 Kansas Honors Lawrence Guided Wine 2 Tuttle Lecture, Woodru 20 Member Tailgate at the Testing Auditorium Program Kansas Union 25 Jayhawk Roundup 2 “From Berlin to Baghdad: 20 SEPTEMBER School of Education When Art Historians Go to Party on the Patio NOVEMBER War,” Franklin D. Murphy 17 Wellington 21 8 Member Tailgate at the Lecture Series, Spencer KU Day at the Sunset 22 Sedgwick County Kansas Union Museum of Art Zoo, Manhattan 24 Leavenworth 21 9 Veterans Day Run 2 Gregory Hospodor, KU Day with the Miami “Forgotten Transcendence: 24 McPherson Dolphins 10 Evolution of the Jayhawk, the Battle of Buena Vista, 22 Evolution of the Jayhawk, Los Angeles OCTOBER 1847,” Dole Institute of Houston 11 Evolution of the Jayhawk, Politics 1 Hutchinson 23 Evolution of the Jayhawk, San Diego 7 John Symons, Humanities 1 Lawrence Austin, Texas 12 Evolution of the Jayhawk, Lecture Series 1 Dodge City 24 Evolution of the Jayhawk, Phoenix 9 Dave Owen and Bill Roy Jr., Fort Worth, Texas 8 Garden City 13 Evolution of the Jayhawk, “Your Story, His Story, the 25 Evolution of the Jayhawk, Portland, Oregon Legacy: the 1974 Dole-Roy 8 Salina Irving, Texas 15 Member Tailgate at the Senate Race,” Dole Institute 8 Shawnee Mission of Politics 25 KU College of Liberal Kansas Union 9 Hays Arts & Sciences Distin- 16 Events listed here are highlights Tanya Fields, “Eco-War- guished Alumnus Reception 15 Garnett from the Association’s busy calendar. rior of the Food Revolution,” honoring William Fisher, For complete listings of all events, Dole Institute of Politics 20 El Dorado Austin, Texas watch for emails about programs 23 Sen. Bob Bennett and Sec. 22 Southern Johnson 27 Member Tailgate at the in your area, visit kualumni.org Dan Glickman, “We Can Fix County Kansas Union or call 800-584-2957 It: A Bipartisan Blueprint to Strenghten Our Democracy,” Dole Institute of Politics ISSUE 5, 2014 | 7 Jayhawk Walk

Parallel lives diverge

C C C J grew up together on the same Lawrence street; attended the same elementary, middle and high schools; and jammed in the same bands from sixth grade through college, where Chris played drums and Cody mellophone in the Marching Jayhawks and basketball pep bands. Chris was majoring in music education and Cody in physics when each decided the best route to his chosen

LARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY LARRY profession—teaching—was through the UKanTeach program. ey switched within a week of each other and found themselves in the same classes, too. ey knew it had to end, of course, come graduation day, but not before they shared one last milestone: e walk down the Hill. As it happened, Cody broke his ankle two days before Commencement. Trash into treasure “A lot of people were like, ‘Dang, that’s too bad you won’t be able to go down the hh, spring. It’s a bittersweet season. Goodbyes. New beginnings. A heckuva Alot of stu that needs moving out before students can move on. KU Surplus makes sure tons of forsaken futons, deep-sixed desk lamps and other superfluous necessaries from campus residence halls find a use other than DEBRA CARTER refuse. Working with Student Housing and social service groups, the waste reduction eort overseen by the Center for Sustainability helped “divert and donate” 1,534 pounds of food, 5,000 pounds of clothing, 623 pieces of campus furniture and 539 “personal appliances and decor items.” Nonperishable food—left in handy bins in residence halls—went to Just Food, the Douglas County food bank founded by the late dean of social welfare Ann Weick. Clothing went to Planet Aid in Kansas City. Other items (enough to fill a 50-foot semi trailer) went to Lawrence Creates Makerspace, a shared workshop for artists, designers, inventors and other creative people. A garage sale raised money to fund scholarships for 15 college students to use the space. “To us it’s a win-win-win,” says Eric Kirkendall, c’73, g’79, g’82, director of the makerspace. “We keep things out of the landfill, we raise some funds and we give students memberships. Students will give us new skills, capabilities, energy— all those things you get from students.”

Carter and Janousek

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI But the puzzle of how to free a football player from his protective gear becomes in nitely more complex when it’s faced by emergency responders treating an athlete with a possible neck or Cha-ching! spine injury. ith a $2 million lottery prize “You want to keep the Wlight-speeding its way to his cervical spine aligned bank account, an unmarried, 51-year- throughout everything old KU employee already had MEDICAL NEWS NETWORK, THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS NETWORK, MEDICAL NEWS you do, whether it’s celebration plans in mind when in putting an airway in, early June he claimed his winnings for taking o the shoulder matching ﬁ ve numbers—but not the pads or taking o the Powerball, which would have been helmet,” says Dennis worth $100 million—in the May 17 Hill,’” says Janousek, c’14. “Chris was like, Allin, m’83, chair of the emergency Powerball drawing. ‘Well, that changed his day a bit, but he’s department at University of Kansas “There are parts of the Caribbean,” still doing it.’” Hospital. “We want to maintain the he told Kansas Lottery o cials, “that Do it he did, with a little help from a alignment because we want to take no will see my face.” pair of crutches—and an old friend to run chance of having any further injury to the The Kansas Lottery is one of the few interference. spinal cord.” state lotteries in the country that “I was watching out for him the whole KU Hospital in July hosted a clinic for allows big winners to remain time,” says Carter, c’14. “It’s one of those hospital sta to learn from Kansas City anonymous, which is exactly what our things. Our rst day of kindergarten was Chiefs trainers, who demonstrated how to new best friend did. Well, he would be together; our last day of college was gently pull a helmet and pads free while our new best friend, except we don’t together. I had to walk a little slower to maintaining support for the head and know who he is. Or where on campus take it in with him, but he made it well neck. he works. Even the rumor mill has worth it. He’s a hilarious dude.” Chiefs trainers noted during the clinic been oddly muted on the matter, Now that they’ve taken their rst that on- eld personnel would likely making the latest BMOC a certiﬁ ed teaching jobs (Chris at Olathe Northwest remove the face mask from the helmet of Man of Mystery. High School and Cody at their alma mater, an NFL or college player headed to the “I’m a positive person and I always Free State High School) the friendship hospital, but that might not be the case for felt like I’d win,” he told the lottery may change, but it won’t end. high school or youth athletes, so they crew, adding that he had no plans to “I think I was supposed to learn demonstrated how it’s done, along with quit his job. “I thought about the something from breaking my ankle,” how to cut away shoulder-pad straps. people who’ve won and I thought, why Janousek says. “Looking back I guess it When pursuit of gridiron glory ends in not me?” was knowing he was still there.” the hospital, victory suddenly takes on a After signing his winning ticket and drastically di erent de nition. anks to tucking it safely in his backpack, Mr. X their summer training, KU’s ER profes- waited two weeks to trek to Topeka to A delicate response sionals stand ready to be every area game’s claim his $2 million. most important receivers. “That backpack,” he said, “has gone to football’s ferocity everywhere with me.” T of draping From Topeka to the tropics ... that’s themselves in tape and pads is a football one lucky backpack. player’s time-consuming chore. It’s worse a er the game, when, exhausted and aching, they must somehow peel away Saran-wrap-tight jerseys and pants and free themselves of massive shoulder pads festooned with buckles and laces that challenge a big man’s bruised and weary hands.

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 9 Hilltopics by Steven Hill

“I tell everyone I have no magic wand; I don’t have power,” Rasnak STEVE PUPPE STEVE says. “My only power is the power of persuasion, of advocacy. I can’t say, ‘Don’t worry; forget your ﬁnals.’ But I can let people know there’s a valid reason for a student’s request, and let students and their families know what the options are.”

with the loss. She has also helped students deal with academic setbacks during the semester. Oen the Student Special Advocate’s role is knowing which existing services to happen when students move from their put students in touch with. “It’s legwork. The personal touch hometowns to a college campus. Phone calling, emailing, making contacts, In newly created role Whatever the issue, Rasnak is the go-to that’s what I can do,” she says. She writes source for students who need a little help professors, assuring them there’s a as student advocate, Rasnak navigating the many options that exist at legitimate reason for a student’s need, and helps Jayhawks in need KU to assist students facing a make-or- connects students with campus programs break moment in their college careers. designed to address their speci c issues. ith more than 25,000 students “ey’ve gone o the road and they can “It’s taking the time to make the contacts,” Wreturning to Mount Oread for the continue in that direction,” Rasnak says, Rasnak says, “and then following through start of classes in August, odds were pretty “or they can correct and get back on track to make sure it all gets done.” good that at least a few would nd the without too many problems. e getting Similar advocacy roles were lled in past transition from careless summer to back on track is the part I help with.” decades by the dean of men and dean of demanding school year less than smooth. So far this semester Rasnak has helped a women (and aer a merger of the two Many of those students wound up in student with chicken pox and another oces in the 1970s by the dean of stu- Mary Ann Rasnak’s Strong Hall oce, facing a hospital stay secure delayed starts dents). Rasnak says the current setup, where a hint to the kinds of interactions to their classes. Last spring she arranged created with the help of Lucy Russell, that unfold there can be found in the nal exams out of state for a graduating assistant vice provost for undergraduate contents of a small round table: a vase of senior who lost a sibling two weeks before studies, is modeled on “retention con- owers, a box of tissues, a bowl of semester’s end and returned home to deal cierge” positions established at other chocolates. In her recently created job as KU’s Student Special Advocate, Rasnak since January has oered aid and comfort to 180 “I’m a personal contact for students who are students dealing with the kinds of personal experiencing some pretty signﬁcant kind of challenges that can easily derail a college career: the death of a family member, circumstances. I hate to call them crises, but often physical or mental health issues, or simply they are.” —Student Special Advocate Mary Ann Rasnak the daunting cultural change that can { }

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI schools as part of a documented retention turning it over to someone else when she Best care, anywhere strategy. retires in May. While she’s not fond of the concierge Her advice to her successor may sound a Grant funds KU Hospital project label (“My fear,” Rasnak jokes, “is that if lot like the wisdom she shares with those you say ‘concierge’ everybody is going to who come to Strong Hall seeking help. to improve rural response want basketball tickets”), she recognizes “I tell everyone I have no magic wand; I to heart attack and stroke the role a student advocate can play not don’t have power,” Rasnak says. “My only only in helping individual students, but power is the power of persuasion, of new health care initiative led by the also in boosting the institution as a advocacy. I can’t say, ‘Don’t worry; forget AUniversity of Kansas Hospital will try whole. your nals.’ But I can let people know to reduce deaths from heart attack and “Bold Aspirations has set some pretty there’s a valid reason for a student’s stroke in western Kansas by 20 percent. speci c retention goals,” Rasnak says of request, and let students and their families Funded by a three-year, $12.5 million the KU strategic plan that established a know what the options are.” grant from the Centers for Medicare and freshman retention target of 90 percent. Nor does she have a monopoly on Medicaid Services, the Kansas Heart and “One thing we know about keeping wanting to help: ere’s no shortage of Stroke Collaborative will work to improve students is that if they feel a connection to people on campus the University, they are more likely to want willing and able to to come back and make a go of it, even if help students, things didn’t go as well as they wanted. In Rasnak says— PUPPE STEVE terms of that overall retention plan, I’m which may be the one of those threads of connection.” best news of all for Rasnak lled a similar role as director of those who need it. the Academic Achievement and Access “A young man Center, which as part of the Oce of came into my oce Undergraduate Studies oers many of the and said, ‘ey told services students will be referred to. me to see you. ey Approaching retirement, she welcomed said you’re the only the opportunity to focus speci cally on one who can help.’ helping students without the administra- Well, I’m not the tive demands directing a center brings. only one, but I’m a She hopes to hone the concept of the good place to Student Special Advocate job before s t ar t .” MacArthur

UPDATE

wo years after it began, helping veterinarian Casey four more deals should be Tthe School of Business Thomas sell his Junction ﬁnalized in the coming program that matches City practice to K-State months, according to Wally prospective buyers and graduate Julie Ebert. In April, Meyer, director of the

COURTESY KU SCHOOL OF BUSINESS SCHOOL KU COURTESY small-town business Red Tire helped Kansas school’s entrepreneurship owners ready to retire Ventures Publishing owner program. [“Open for Business,” issue Joel Klaassen, j’68, find a “It’s a great start that No. 5, 2012] is seeing its buyer for his company, validates the concept,” e orts to promote a healthy which produces Hillsboro’s Meyer says, “but there is rural economy pay o . community newspaper and still miles to go. Our view is The Redefining several other publications. that once we prove Retirement program (Red More than 100 business ourselves in Kansas, there’s Tire, for short) brokered its owners and 150 potential no reason this concept can’t first deal in February, buyers have signed on, and be taken national.”

Ebert and Thomas

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“Ideally, we can educate and prevent heart attacks and stroke before the Value judgment: The School of Law is occurrence,” MacArthur says. “And if you have a heart attack or stroke, can you ranked the No. 18 “best value” law rehabilitate and prevent further health care school by National Jurist magazine, problems?”

STEVE PUPPE STEVE A quick emergency response is key to which highlights aordable law successful treatment of heart attack and schools whose graduates excel on the strokes, and response times in rural counties are oen longer because of bar exam and at finding jobs as attorneys. distance. But cultural factors also come Dean Stephen Mazza hailed the ranking as reflecting “our into play, according to Jeter. “People out here tend to not run to the broader definition of value—one that goes beyond our emergency room or their doctors if they aordable tuition to consider how well our graduates are have chest pains or symptoms that might suggest a stroke,” he says. “We have a lot of prepared to excel in their careers.” independent, strong-willed—even stubborn, I suppose—folks, that if they would seek care earlier we could deal with their problem a lot quicker and maybe treatment and education of heart attack Hospital, Phillips County Hospital, Russell even resolve it completely.” and stroke risk in the predominantly rural Regional Hospital, Sheridan County Grant funding will help pay for more region, with a goal of reducing costs while Health Complex and Trego County-Lemke education eorts (which could include delivering better outcomes for patients. Memorial Hospital. community presentations, advertising “More than 5,000 Kansans died of heart Also integral to the network is Hays campaigns and teaching schoolchildren to disease in 2011, and 1,333 Kansans died of Medical Center, the transfer destination recognize signs of stroke in their parents cerebral vascular disease, or stroke,” says for many of those patients. or grandparents) than have previously Barbara MacArthur, g’81, vice president of A tertiary care facility that oers full been possible, Jeter says. cardiac services at University of Kansas cardiac services, HaysMed expects to treat “We haven’t had the resources to Hospital in Kansas City. “ e highest 90 to 95 percent of patients in the project’s overcome those cultural obstacles,” he mortality rates for those deaths were target area, according to John Jeter, c’77, says, “and KU hasn’t had as much presence actually in rural communities. So we know m’81, president and chief executive ocer. out here as they’d like to. So the grant will this is a health care issue for our state.” “We take care of those patients now,” allow both of us to go aer this in a much e project’s goal is to establish “a level Jeter says. “I think what we’re trying to do more eective way.” of care that will benet you regardless of with the grant is take care of them in a It could also reduce health care costs in geography,” MacArthur says. more coordinated fashion that results in the long run. “We want to look at integrating care better outcomes.” “ ese are chronic, progressive dis- across all levels, so that if you are at risk or e project will set up a reliable system eases,” MacArthur says, “and if we can have a heart attack or stroke in western that ensures doctors all along the chain of manage them step by step through that Kansas, your chances for survival and care are working together to standardize trajectory [of prevention to rehabilitation] recovery would be the same wherever you treatment for heart attack and stroke and we think patients will do better and it will are .” using established standards that indicate cost us less.” To do that, the hospital will set up a when a patient needs to be transferred for rural clinically integrated network that a higher level of care, MacArthur says. includes primary care providers—the e Kansas Heart and Stroke Collabora- A new day for shade doctors, nurses and emergency medical tive also will enable the University of technicians—and 10 Critical Access Kansas hospital to more eectively share Jayhawk Boulevard upgrades Hospitals that form the rst line of defense its technology and expertise with health include new storm sewer that for rural heart attack and stroke patients. care providers in western Kansas. e funnels rainwater into plantings e 10 hospitals are Cheyenne County program will use telehealth technology, Hospital, Citizens Medical Center, Gove health data exchanges and integrated care hase 2 of the $11 million Jayhawk County Medical Center, Ness County management to treat patients closer to PBoulevard improvement project Hospital District 2, Norton County home. Health education will focus on wrapped just in time for the start of fall Hospital, Pawnee Valley Community prevention and rehabilitation. classes Aug. 25, and many of its benets

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI are immediately obvious: a new concrete 200 trees and 80,000 square feet of Milestones, money street surface, new sidewalks, expanded additional plantings, at a cost of $1 crosswalks, LED lighting and removal of million, all of which is being raised by KU and other matters street-side landscaping that had long ago Endowment from private donations. (For lost its luster. further information on how to assist the Less visible are the upgrades that will project, contact KU Endowment at

give new trees and bushes a great chance 785-832-7400.) PUPPE STEVE at survival through hot and dry Kansas “e beauty of our campus is a real summers: installation of a stormwater asset, and this will only enhance it,” says sewer (remarkably, Jayhawk Boulevard’s Endowment assistant vice president Dale rst) that channels rainwater into custom Slusser, assoc. “e atmosphere on the Hill soil engineered to retain moisture in the is so important for recruiting students and curbside “vegetated swale,” with the in shaping their KU experience.” soil- ltered overow draining into the e third phase of Jayhawk Boulevard n Gov. Sam Brownback, l’82, appoint- storm sewer. improvements will extend from Sunower ed three new members to the Kansas “A big part of the improvements has Road to 14th Street. e nal phase, Board of Regents: Joseph Bain, l’05, been putting in catch basins and the storm scheduled for summer 2016, will reach Goodland; Bill Feuerborn, Garnett; and sewer to direct stormwater runo in a 13th Street and, depending on remaining Zoe Forrester Newton, Sedan. They will more purposeful manner,” says Paul funds, possibly beyond. serve four-year terms. Graves, deputy director of the Oce of Also underway is a recon guration of Design and Construction Management. Engel Road on Daisy Hill. e new Engel, n Karen Miller, assoc., dean of the “at should have a measurable osetting scheduled to open this month, will wind School of Nursing for the past 18 of the need to use treated water for behind the new residence hall now under years and dean of the School of Health irrigation, from watering trucks, faucets or construction to provide a landscaped quad Professions for the past 16 years, will hydrants, during dry periods.” between Hashinger and Lewis halls and step down from both positions in June. e new system is ecologically friendly the two new halls. (Construction of the Seven programs in the two schools while also protecting expensive second new hall will begin aer the 2015 were ranked as top-25 public school investments. closing of McCollum Hall.) programs in the most recent U.S. News Landscaping for the entire four-summer Engel Road’s 15th Street access point and World Report rankings. Miller will project, which so far has reached from the will be moved west, closer to Templin remain at KU as a tenured professor in Chi Omega fountain to the four-way stop Hall. the School of Nursing. at Sunower Road, is estimated to include —Chris Lazzarino n Eli Michaelis, assoc., University Distinguished Professor of Pharm- acology and Toxicology, will step down from his role as director of the Higuchi

DAN STOREY DAN Biosciences Center after 25 years. Succeeding Michaelis is William Pick- ing, PhD’90, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Michaelis will continue his research on brain function, the nervous system and the diseases of aging.

n Charles, b’54, and Sharon Lynch Kimbell, d’58, gave $435,000 to establish a scholarship for Hutchinson High School students who are incoming KU freshmen. The renewable scholarships—which will eventually support four students concurrently—provide Construction crews ripped out old pavement and put down a new concrete roadbed on $5,000 per student per year. Jayhawk Boulevard this summer as part of an $11 million, four-summer project that also brought new sidewalks and an eco-friendly stormwater system to Mount Oread’s main drag.

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 13 Hilltopics ADMINISTRATION TEACHING creating a diverse community of scholars. Thomas heads eort omas replaces Fred Rodriguez, assoc., Chancellors fund who retired in 2013. to increase campus diversity On the job since July, omas plans a new business professorship E. N T III, who helped climate study to help determine how F KU Archie design and launch the campus diversity successful the University is at creating a Dykes, assoc., and Gene Budig have program at the University of South “diverse, equitable and inclusive teamed up to establish the Dykes-Budig Florida, will guide KU’s e orts to improve environment.” Teaching Professorship at the School of the diversity of its faculty, sta and Diversity, he stresses, is not measured Business. students as the University’s new vice strictly by race and ethnicity. It can also Dykes and his wife, Nancy, assoc., provost for diversity and equity. involve demographic subsets like transfer joined Budig and his wife, Gretchen, Creating a more diverse campus students and working mothers. assoc., to create the $100,000 endowed community is one goal of the University’s “e key piece, I think, is you want to be award, which honors teaching excellence Bold Aspirations strategic able to create an environ- with a one-year professorship that plan, which lists profes- ment where all individu- provides additional salary and travel sional development als feel—I call it wanted, support to a research professor in the participation by faculty needed and expected— school who has demonstrated outstanding and sta and numbers of from the institution,” teaching skills. e rst recipient is Suman minority faculty mem- omas says. “We really, Mallik, associate professor of supply chain bers, sta and students as really want you here. And management and decision sciences. key metrics for gauging we really need you to be Dykes, KU’s 13th chancellor, served the progress. e position was successful, and we expect University from 1973 to 1980. He and elevated to the vice you to be successful. at Nancy live in Leawood. Budig, KU’s 14th provost level in 2011 in MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS KU COURTESY then becomes a culture of chancellor, served from 1981 to 1994. He recognition of the individuals working hard and Gretchen live in Isle of Palms, South importance of the to achieve at their highest Carolina. University’s mission of l e v e l .” “Both chancellors made considerable Thomas

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FAMOUS FLIER Studies and U.S. History and foreshadowed the reception she master’s degrees in theatre and often got as a woman aviator. Historical interpreter Leslie museum studies, has portrayed After a harrowing trans-Atlantic Goddard portrayed pioneering famous women (Jane Austen, flight that included fire, ice and Kansas aviator Amelia Earhart Jacqueline Kennedy and Estée fuel leaks, there were two in a first-person presentation Lauder) for more than a decade. questions everyone asked: that spanned Earhart’s Atchison She has written two books of “Was I afraid? No. And what girlhood to her ill-fated 1937 Chicago history, Remembering did I wear?” attempt to become the first Marshall Field’s and Chicago’s person to fly around the world Sweet Candy History. QUOTES: Having set her at the equator. sights on one last challenge, OF POLITICS DOLE INSTITUTE J. ROBERT COURTESY ANECDOTE: Goddard Earhart felt pressure to push WHEN: July 16 related how Earhart’s formative ahead with the 1937 flight years in Atchison—which despite setbacks that required WHERE: Robert J. Dole included thrill-seeking sledding her to reverse the flight’s Institute of Politics and caving adventures that direction. “Things were moving elicited disapproval from elders so fast, I knew I had a small BACKGROUND: Goddard, who found such behavior window of time to capture who holds a PhD in American unbecoming of a girl— these last great aviation prizes.” {

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI contributions to KU during their tenures,” projects and startup funds for new faculty, Milestones, money said Neeli Bendapudi, PhD’95, dean of the postdoctoral fellowships and undergradu- School of Business, “and this gi is ate student research projects. A major and other matters another sign of their commitment to the initiative is to enhance Kansas bioinfor- KU student experience. Both recognize matics research that builds biological the importance of teaching and instruc- information databases. n Donors set a new record for private tion to the University.” “is award will continue to enhance giving in 2014. For the ﬁscal year that and strengthen our network of research- ended June 30, alumni and friends of the University donated more than $253 RESEARCH ers, students and others in the biomedical eld, and help researchers in Kansas million to KU, a 45 percent increase NIH grant for bioscience research remain competitive for national research from 2013 levels. renewed for $19 million grants,” says Douglas Wright, professor of The gifts count anatomy and cell biology and director of toward Far Above: A N I H the multidisciplinary program. “It also The Campaign grant that has brought in $64 million since brings together universities in Kansas that for Kansas. Set to 2001 to help Kansas enhance its research work together to help make students and continue through capacity will continue for another ve faculty successful in their biomedical 2016, the capital years at KU Medical Center. research.” campaign had e Kansas Institutional Development Ten campuses in Kansas and Oklahoma raised $1.15 billion Award Network of Biomedical Research are part of the K-INBRE network, includ- of its $1.2 billion Excellence (K-INBRE) funds faculty ing KU Medical Center, which leads the goal through June. development, retention and infrastructure grant. e other campuses are KU’s projects that support research in cell and Lawrence campus, Emporia State Univer- n A $227,000 grant from the developmental biology. It also tries to sity, Fort Hays State University, Haskell National Science Foundation will fund inspire undergraduate researchers to Indian Nations University, Kansas State a three-year study on state and local pursue careers in biomedical research. University, Langston University, Pittsburg climate risk governance by Dorothy e latest grant commits $19 million to State University, Washburn University and Daley, associate professor of public numerous initiatives, including research Wichita State University. aairs and administration. Daley will collaborate with researchers at Western Washington University, Washington State University-Vancouver and the Environmental Council of the States in Washington, D.C. The project examines COURTESY KUMC COURTESY the environmental impact of state and local climate actions.

n Patrick Dooley, professor of visual communication design in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, received the 2014 AIGA Kansas City Fellow Award in September. The award, presented by the Kansas City chapter of the professional association for design, recognizes a designer with at least 15 years of experience who has made a signiﬁcant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within the local and regional design community, as well as in the “I’ve always believed the lure of ﬂying is the lure AIGA chapter. {}of beauty.” —Amelia Earhart

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 15 Sports by Chris Lazzarino

Changes for KU football this season

STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE include the addition of John Reagan, Charlie Weis’ ﬁrst oensive coordinator, and helmets emblazoned with supersized “Fighting Jayhawks,” created in 1941 by Gene “Yogi” Williams, m’54.

three Big 12 games, and, in two seasons under Turner Gill and two with Weis, the Jayhawks went 9-39. Bowen’s father, Charley, was a high school All-American at Lawrence High School, and his older brother, Charley Jr., ’94, was a four-year letter-winner at KU Weis hands o “From the very rst phone call,” Reagan who made a reputation as a fearless, says, “he said that he wanted to give up hard-hitting safety. Clint followed his Reagan returns to run oense; control of the o ense, that he was ready to brother to the Jayhawks’ defensive Bowen takes control of defense be a head coach and he wanted somebody backeld, and in 1993 led the team with to come in and run the spread o ense. 114 total tackles and won KU’s prestigious harlie Weis made his professional at is exactly what he has done, from my Willie Pless Tackler of the Year award. Creputation, and won four Super Bowl perspective.” He joined coach Glen Mason’s sta as a rings, as a guru of state-of-the-art NFL For his third season as head coach at graduate assistant in 1996, and followed o enses. But his rst two seasons at KU Kansas, Weis devised an unusual coaching Mason to Minnesota before returning as a proved that old-school inclinations—rely- structure: Not only has a Super Bowl- graduate assistant for coach Terry Allen. ing on big-armed quarterbacks to sling the proven o ensive mastermind removed Aer a year as director of football opera- ball downeld from a static post behind himself from designing the o ense and tions, Bowen in 2001 began a string of the line—are not a good t in the modern calling plays, but another NFL assistant coaching jobs that Big 12, where spread o enses and mobile veteran, Dave Campo, who ended with Mangino’s quarterbacks toy with defenses. So, shortly won three Super Bowl rings departure in 2009. Follow- aer the Jayhawks nished 2013 with the in his 19 years with the ing one-year gigs at worst o ense in the conference, perhaps Dallas Cowboys, is Western Kentucky and even the country, Weis red himself as coaching cornerbacks; North Texas, Bowen o ensive coordinator and went shopping although Campo retains coached safeties in Gill’s for a replacement. oversight of the defense nal season, and was He didn’t shop for long. Weis privately as assistant head coach, retained by Weis. scouted Rice o ensive coordinator John linebackers coach Clint “I have seen a lot of Reagan during the season—“I’m probably Bowen, d’96, is now the things come and go through the only person in Lawrence who ordered defensive coordinator. As he the years,” Bowen says, “from Rice games on pay-per-view”—and once did last year, Bowen calls game-day Weis being a kid going to games to now. he had a chance to talk with Reagan, KU’s plays. I know our fans are all hungry for us to be o ensive line coach and run-game Nobody in the Anderson Family successful, for this university, for this coordinator under Mark Mangino, Weis Football Complex feels greater urgency town, for this program. So it’s on us, as assured Reagan the o ense would be than Bowen to turn around a string of coaches, players and everyone involved in his to run. dreadful seasons: Since 2009, KU has won this organization, to get our jobs done.”

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI Bowen is careful to not let urgency morph into panic. In the calm, straight- talking manner that won him devoted fans “This is the best we’ve felt, by a wide margin, about and many lifelong Lawrence friends, he the talent we have here. That being said, we’ve done counsels players to not get caught up in a futile rush to change the past or recklessly very little to back it up, from me right on down.” grasp at the future. In Bowen’s mindset, —head football coach Charlie Weis only today counts. {} “You show up and give the best eort you possibly can,” he insists, “and never cheat the system and never cheat the and Taylor Cox were both lost for the not have started any better. process.” season to leg injuries sustained days apart “I’ve been practicing that every single As Kansas Alumni went to press, only during training camp, and their replace- day, and I’ve never scored one until today,” one step in the 2014 process had yet ments, freshman Corey Avery and Salazar said a er the 3-1 victory. occurred, a 34-28 victory Sept. 6 over junior-college transfer De’Andre Mann, Four days later, athletics ocials Southeast Missouri State. e Jayhawks combined for 211 yards rushing. Senior announced that the soccer team would sensation Tony Pierson racked up 139 return to the Jayhawk Soccer Complex to yards and a touchdown with three carries allow the new eld’s Bermuda turf, which and four receptions, and Cozart completed suered in the mild summer, to improve. STEVE PUPPE STEVE 50 percent of his passes for 196 yards, e team hopes to return to Rock Chalk three TDs and no interceptions. Park in time for the Big 12 opener Oct. 3 “When is the last time they’re up 24-0 in against Oklahoma State. the rst quarter?” Weis noted. “Sometimes Despite that disappointment, soccer ran people don’t only have a tough time its record to 6-0, its best start to a season handling failure; sometimes when you since 2004. have success you get shocked, too. ... I think they might not be used to success, to be playing on top. I think it might have Bowen caught them o-guard a little bit, but I Go for the kill couldn’t have asked for much more in the Painful NCAA Sweet 16 exit opened the game by scoring on four rst quarter.” consecutive possessions, and for the rst Weis also proved to be a man of his motivates senior outside hitters quarter of the rst game of the season, word—with one small exception. Reagan’s new stretch oense, led by mobile “I le [Reagan] alone. I called one play, hose of us on the outside looking in sophomore quarterback Montell Cozart, and that was kneeling down on the last Tcarried nothing but great memories and Bowen’s experienced defense, play of the game. So if you want to know from volleyball’s thrilling 2013 season: anchored by speedy senior linebacker Ben how many plays I called, I called one.” A er its best-ever, second-place nish in Heeney— “He might be as good as any the Big 12, KU qualied for its second- defensive player in the league, period,” consecutive NCAA Tournament and, for Weis says—were o and running. the rst time in program history, advanced From the second quarter on, Southeast Sweet and sour to the Sweet 16 with an adrenaline-fueled Missouri outscored KU, 28-10. four-set victory over Creighton. In the “We have a bunch of older guys now and Soccer opens in style, but ﬁeld tournament’s rst-round, the Jayhawks they’re tired of losing,” Weis says. “is is conditions delay Rock Chalk Park triumphed over Wichita State to avenge the best we’ve felt, by a wide margin, about their 2012 NCAA loss to the Shockers. the talent we have here. at being said, occer’s season was not yet two minutes But players remember it dierently. we’ve done very little to back it up, from Sold when junior midelder Liana eir lasting memory of 2013 wasn’t me right on down.” Salazar, racing toward the Wyoming goal, NCAA wins in Allen Field House, but the Despite Southeast Missouri’s comeback, stopped a crossing pass with her head, Sweet 16 sweep by Washington, at UCLA. capped by a 26-yard touchdown pass with bounced the ball just high enough to “We didn’t play competitively. We played 1:33 remaining, there were plenty of retain control, and swi ly executed the scared,” says senior outside hitter Chelsea positives for Weis to emphasize in his most thrilling of soccer shots, a bicycle Albers, who electried the home crowd postgame analysis. kick into the goal. e season opener with 18 kills and 17 digs in the second- Senior running backs Brandon Bourbon and Rock Chalk Park debut could round match against Creighton. “I think

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“We’re not going didn’t even start playing until that last set to rally with people; [26-24, UW] and at that point it was too JEFF JACOBSEN we want to put the late,” McClinton says. “Part of that was just ball away.” nerves. We’d never been to the Sweet 16 Senior outside before. So now we have that experience. hitter Sara McClin- We know how to play with that pressure, ton—an Omaha so we can can take that into this year and native and Nebraska hopefully we will advance even further.” high-school rival of As of press time, the Jayhawks were 5-1, Albers, of Papillion, including a four-set victory over previ- whom she now ously undefeated Denver in their rst true considers her best road game of the season. friend—also used “I don’t think we’ll be under the radar,” Sara McClinton soars for a kill during KU’s 3-1 victory Aug. 30 over the Sweet 16 loss to says 17th-year coach Ray Bechard, fuel her preseason reigning two-time Big 12 Coach of the Creighton. “You know it’s going to be a kill when you’re in the air. You training. Like Year. “I think we have a higher-prole know you’re going to be able to crush the ball. You can just feel that Albers, McClinton, reputation now, aer the last couple of coming o your hand. It’s amazing.” who played overseas years. But it comes back to the fact that for the USA Devel- last year doesn’t equal this year, and two that’s something that we can look back on, opmental Program for the second con- years ago doesn’t have anything to do with because that wasn’t the type of Kansas secutive summer, focused on improving this year. It’s all about what this group volleyball that we want to play. ose her athleticism and skill sets to enable her wants to get done.” [NCAA Tournament] games will set us up to remain in the game as a “six-rotation” KU opens Big 12 play Sept. 27 at for future games, so when people look at player, rather than getting removed when Oklahoma. e rst conference game in us they’ll know that Kansas is going to it comes her turn to rotate to the back line. the Horejsi Family Athletics Center is Oct. compete, Kansas is going to attack. “Our match against Washington, we 1 against Kansas State.

UPDATES Redshirt freshman Grace Antonio and No. 24 Wake hurdler Michael Stigler, will remain the Memorial Morgan was named Big 12 Forest. Salazar led the Big 12 in three-time winner of the Big 12 Stadium Kansas Relays Runner of the Week following points (11) and goals (5). ... 400-meter hurdles, repeated as record-holder in the mile,” her victory Aug. 30 at the Bob Top-10 finishes by juniors winner of KU’s Male Athlete of three-time Olympian Jim Ryun, Timmons Classic. Connor Peck and the Year. Volleyball alumna j’70, told Runner’s World. “I can Morgan, a Lawrence Ben Welle pushed Caroline Jarmoc, e’14, was be assured that record is set in native, beat Oral men’s golf to a named Female Athlete of the concrete.” With the opening of Roberts’ Samantha third-place finish at Year, and volleyball also won Rock Chalk Park, which hosted JEFF JACOBSEN Watson, who won the Michigan awards for best team GPA last spring’s Kansas Relays, the the traditional cross invitational at Ann (3.42) and for community stadium’s track was removed country opener last Arbor. ... Senior service and school spirit. ... and replaced with turf, greatly year, by more than cornerback Dexter Former coaches Ted Owens, improving player safety. ... 30 seconds; her 5K McDonald was Larry Brown and Roy Williams Relief pitcher Brett Bochy, time of 18 minutes, Morgan named Big 12 on Oct. 27 will join coach Bill ’12, on Sept. 2 was called up by 49.1 seconds was the best meet Defensive Player of the Week Self at a 60th-anniversary the San Francisco Giants, where mark by a Jayhawk in four after intercepting two passes in celebration for Allen Field he joined his father, manager years. ... the opener against Southeast House. Ticket information is Bruce Bochy. “When Bruce Soccer’s Liana Salazar was Missouri State. McDonald, the available at kuathletics.com. ... goes out there and gives [Brett] named Oensive Player of the first KU defender to win the KU track fans will want to the baseball,” says KU coach Week Sept. 2 after scoring weekly award since 2010, also visit RunnersWorld.com for an Ritch Price, “that will be one of three goals and an assist in recorded two pass breakups engaging history of the Kansas the greatest days in baseball matches against UT-San and two solo tackles. ... Senior Relays in Memorial Stadium. “I history.”

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Sept. 20 Central Michigan • Sept. 27 Texas • Oct. 11 Oklahoma State • Nov. 8 Iowa State • Nov. 15 TCU Sports Photographs by Steve Puppe

With the field now ringed by extended turf and a welcome appearance by center judge Cat Conti, the first woman to o ciate a Big 12 football game, the Sept. 6 season opener at Memorial Stadium featured a fierce tackle by linebacker Victor Simmons (27), nifty moves by receivers Justin McCay (19) and Nick Harwell (8), and plenty of cheers for KU’s 34-28 victory over Southeast Missouri State.

Sept. 20 Central Michigan • Sept. 27 Texas • Oct. 11 Oklahoma State • Nov. 8 Iowa State • Nov. 15 TCU ISSUE 5, 2014 | 21 22 | KANSAS ALUMNI ev Lockwood heard the knock at the door and thought, “Milk Nancy O’Connor’s big idea starts with a little seed: Bman.” A dairy delivery was scheduled to ready the West Middle To boost childhood nutrition, bring kids back to the garden School cafeteria for the return of more than 600 students from summer break, and Lockwood, the food services manager Lockwood and her sta, who are happy to delivery was “a momentous day” in the at West for 13 years, had a ton of chores to receive the bounty that usually awaits ve-year-old eort to bring local food complete before the following day’s lunch them when they arrive on Monday into school cafeterias, O’Connor says, service, the rst of the school year. mornings. “Mondays are like Christmas “because the cafeteria actually placed Stowing a thousand pints of milk in the around here,” Lockwood says, “because we an order with us, instead of us saying, walk-in cooler would check one more box get to see what they’ve picked for us this ‘Here, would you like this?’” at subtle on her long to-do list. week. It’s always good. You can’t beat from distinction—the dierence between But when she opened the door, Lock- your own garden.” helping the school meet a need rather wood was greeted not by a semi-driver on e moment marked an important step than pushing vegetables on an already a routine milk run, but by ve stoked, for Growing Food, Growing Health, the harried cafeteria crew—is the dierence grinning teenagers bearing 20 pint baskets school garden project that Nancy between being wanted and being tolerated, of perfect red cherry tomatoes and a box O’Connor, g’95, founded in 2010 as the and the great care that went into making of three dozen sleek, dark green cucum- education and outreach director of e the best possible impression was plain to bers—a harvest picked just that morning Merc, Lawrence’s customer-owned food see in the gleaming produce and on the from the 250 tomato plants and 150 feet of co-operative, and as executive director of beaming faces of the young people who cucumber vines growing a few steps from the natural grocer’s nonpro t Community grew it. the cafeteria kitchen. Mercantile Education Foundation “To give them 20 pints of perfect cherry “ey all had their arms full of the most (CMEF). For the rst time, the school tomatoes we handled every single tomato,” beautiful colors,” says Lockwood, “and gardeners and their Merc employers are O’Connor says. “We hand-sorted them. they were so excited. It just made my day.” concentrating their eorts on a few select We washed the cucumbers and dried them e kids—Lawrence Public School crops—namely cucumbers, tomatoes and and arranged them in a lined box. It was students who tend the West garden as paid (later this fall) lettuce—and trying to grow ceremonial, six of us carrying it in there. employees of e Merc Co-op—also came all of those foods that the school cafeteria And the kids were like, ‘Bev, Bev, open the bearing a bouquet of cut owers for needs for its salad bar. e mid-August box and look at the cucumbers.’

by Steven Hill | Photographs by Steve Puppe

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 23 “We talk about the wow factor,” “How do we crack this nut? This is tough. Because kids O’Connor continues. “Because if the cafeteria sta open that produce and go, are bombarded with other messages. Eat this: ‘Wow!’ then we can make headway. But if they open a box and sigh, ‘We can deal It’s tasty, yummy, salty, fatty, you’re gonna love it. with this,’ then where are we at? We have to make it easier for them to want us than Drink this soda: You’ll be hip. And we’re going, not want us.” Generating “wows” is the strategy ‘Would you like a carrot?’” behind O’Connor’s quest to reverse some alarming health trends. Numerous studies have demonstrated that childhood obesity messages. Eat this: It’s tasty, yummy, salty, ectures don’t work. Passion alone rates have been on the rise nationwide; the fatty, you’re gonna love it. Drink this soda: Ldoesn’t change minds. O’Connor still Centers for Disease Control reports that in You’ll be hip. And we’re going, ‘Would you remembers the exact moment—an the past 30 years obesity has more than like a carrot?’” awkward encounter with a classroomful of doubled in children and quadrupled in O’Connor decided to counter the media Southern Illinois University students— adolescents: Nearly 21 percent of 12- to blitz of food advertising with a little local when that realization struck. 19-year-olds were considered obese in persuasion: Make healthy, fresh food It was during the 1970s, the height of a 2012, compared to 5 percent in 1980. grown on school grounds available to kids, back-to-the-land movement that inspired Altogether, a third of children and and let them taste—and decide—for idealistic youths to move to the country adolescents are classied as overweight or themselves. and, as musician John Prine spoofed, blow obese, but even a healthy weight is no “We wanted to create a garden that put up the TV, throw away the paper, plant a guarantee that kids are eating right. A food in front of youth in an understand- little garden and eat a lot of peaches. 2014 Vital Signs report by the CDC says able way: at’s my garden. ose are O’Connor and her husband, Jim Lewis, that 9 in 10 kids don’t eat enough tomatoes. at’s what cucumbers are like. lived in a little shack of a house in rural vegetables. Because as an educator, you’re asking, southern Illinois. e county’s old-school “It’s like, ‘God, how do we crack this ‘What’s the inroad here?’ How do we talk farmers got a kick out of the new neigh- nut? is is tough,’” says O’Connor, who to kids about food and not just be a bunch bors, decided the young folks might be fun earned a master’s degree in community of talking heads saying, ‘Don’t drink so to know, taught them the dierence health from the department of health, much soda; don’t eat fast food.’ It has to be between straw and hay. “We had an physical education and recreation (now a deeper understanding of this is what outhouse and raised chickens and bees health, sport and exercise sciences). food is, this is what it tastes like, this is and the whole garden thing,” O’Connor “Because kids are bombarded with other where it comes from.” recalls. “It sounds stereotypical, but it made a lot of sense. We were of that time, and it was a very honorable and simple lifestyle. ere was a lot of personal satisfaction in learning about food and realizing we could grow it.” In Carbondale, O’Connor joined a women’s collective devoted to whole foods. ey hosted community dinners and taught classes, and aer the group dis- solved, O’Connor took the kitchen gear and started a whole foods bakery, Ozark Ovens, that she and Lewis ran for years. Passion was the fuel that kept her going. “Nothing was too much,” O’Connor says. “Working seven days a week and around the clock on Friday nights to get ready for the farmer’s market. Cooking for 300 people, not getting paid? Sure! A guru is coming to town; would you like to cook for him for free for ve days? Sure! I didn’t even think about it. e thought was I had

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI endless personal resources and passion year of 1968, college looked like a good “Kids get jazzed about their football team; we’d and I’m gonna do this.” way out of Rahway. She enrolled at like to see them get jazzed about their school Carbondale’s food culture then was Mundelein College in Chicago—like her garden,” says O’Connor (p. 22), who launched similar to Lawrence’s now, O’Connor says, high school an all-women’s Catholic the Growing Food, Growing West garden in but it was a long way from the gritty, institution—and took a summer job in a 2010 and has since expanded the program to blue-collar ethos of Rahway, New Jersey, factory making processed meat patties. include two elementary-school gardens. where she grew up. Her family gathered “I remember saying, ‘Who buys these?’” for dinner every night, without fail, and on O’Connor recalls. “I didn’t eat good food, the table was typical 1950s fare. “I never but I knew this was really bad food.” ate broccoli. Never had an avocado. Didn’t Two years later, on line in the college know what whole wheat was. Jello was a cafeteria, she was stunned to see the dinners and instant cakes. When she fruit serving. I was a meat-and-canned- patties again. “I went back and said, ‘Can I discovered the Whole Earth Cook Book in vegetables-at-every-meal gal.” see the box these came from?’” ey were an Evanston bookstore, it was a revelation. She attended a Catholic, all-girls high from the same Jersey factory she’d worked “I read it like a book—like, wow, there’s school because the public school was in. “I wasn’t elevated in any kind of a lot here,” she says. “I wasn’t looking for considered rough, but by the time thinking about food, was just this kid who recipes; I was looking for direction.” O’Connor was 15, she and her sister were slogged out a summer in a food factory She’d decided, a er four years of college, on their own: Both her parents died making stu I’d never eat, and then I saw it that she didn’t want to “do the whole suddenly—her father of a heart attack and at college and went, ‘Arrrgh!’ e women I straight-and-narrow thing;” that being an her mother, ve years later, from a brain worked with told me prisons bought them, art major seemed, to her, somehow hemorrhage. She is asked if extended but obviously colleges did too.” self-involved and hollow when her peers family stepped in to help them through Like many of her generation, O’Connor were ghting and dying in Vietnam. She that traumatic time. “No, it was pretty was beginning to rethink her relationship le without graduating, went back to New sloppy,” she says, and the deance that with food. Born in 1950, she’d grown up at Jersey, sold her parents’ house and traveled colors her voice suggests the toughness a time when Americans, having gotten the country before moving to southern that saw her through is still present 50 past the lean years of Depression and Illinois and meeting Lewis and seemingly years on. “Not to get too much into that, wartime rationing, nally had the means nding her calling as an educator and but it was a survival thing for a while, and to enjoy meat at every meal, an era when advocate for healthy eating. it wasn’t very pretty.” big food companies wooed homemakers Which all seemed ne until the day she When she graduated in the tumultuous with the convenience and ease of frozen stood before the class of dietitian students

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 25 and realized they weren’t buying her spiel. precedes behavior change.” It was the same pride-and-joy for Running for Food, “ ey thought they were better and method she used in Illinois, the same Running for Health, the big fundraiser smarter than us because they were in method she’d use at e Merc and in that brings 250 runners and volunteers to school,” O’Connor says. ey didn’t think classroom visits to schools. “Give people West for a fun run, farmer’s market and much of the countercultural collective’s food that’s oered with great respect and garden tours. ideas on nutrition. “I remember thinking, no judgment and energetic intent, and e garden shed is the picture of order: ‘ is is not friendly. is is going to be then you get their attention a little bit,” she A chalkboard displays a long chore list for contentious.’ It was uncomfortable.” says. “ at’s the wow factor—when you get the day and pegboards hold watering cans e encounter convinced her that someone’s attention with food that’s so and tools, each item neatly labeled and passion wouldn’t carry the argument beautiful they just have go, ‘Wow!’” spotlessly clean. A barrel composter stands without credibility to back it. She needed ready to turn garden weeds and vegetable credentials. scraps into black gold, and a shining, By then the mother of two boys, ansas can be tough on growers, and stainless steel commercial-grade sink— O’Connor nished her Mundelein degree, Ktoday—a workday for the ve West installed by the school district—is lled wrapping up the nal transfer credits at gardeners—is a perfect example. Temps with cold water, set for cleaning the day’s KU, and started working toward her are well on their way to 100, the sun is harvest. master’s degree on the Hill. For her thesis, unrelenting and there’s not even a rumor e pleasant appearance is no accident: she cooked plant-proteins (beans, grains, of breeze to provide relief. O’Connor and her crew, which includes tofu) for undergrads in health-education But the garden looks great. Flowers are Lily Siebert, education and outreach classes and measured their attitudes with blooming, and the tomato plants and apple assistant at e Merc, and Crystal Ham- pre- and post-meal surveys. trees are heavy with fruit. Carly, Di, Maya, merschmidt, CMEF’s garden coordinator, eir attitudes toward vegetarian food Hope and Elise are busy harvesting know their presence on school grounds is changed aer eating the food—signicant, cucumbers, pulling weeds and putting contingent on things looking nice. No O’Connor says, “because attitude change down mulch. ey are readying their principal wants a weed patch on his lawn.

26 | KANSAS ALUMNI But the blooming owers and weed-free “And when it appears on their salad bar vegetable beds and neatly mulched paths with a little sign that says, ‘Grown in your serve another purpose: to draw in the school garden,’ they’re starting to build entire student body, even those who may connections.” not particularly like vegetables. Bev Lockwood, from her vantage point “If a kid goes to school here and never in the West cafeteria, agrees. touches one piece of produce out of this “Usually I’ll say, ‘Now, I’m just going to garden,” O’Connor says, “I still think we’ve give you one tomato. Try it.’ And those are made a change. Even the kid who just the ones who come back the next day and walks by the garden everyday, and it’s ask for more.” She’s seen students pointing always clean and tidy and there are out the garden to visitors as a source of owers, it still says something to them, pride, and that carries over to the lunch like the Golden Arches say something line. During the rst week of school, she to them.” had to switch out serving utensils in the e idea behind the garden is to wow tomato bowl—demand was so high that students—all students—with a dierent hard-to-handle tongs were creating a kind of blitz. bottleneck in the serving line. “At rst they “We’re gonna make a statement that is took pride in the fact that the food comes so big that you cannot ignore the fact that from their own garden, but aer that they you’ve got this gigantic garden outside came back because it tastes good.” your school. We’re not gonna go away here It’ll take more than a few cherry with some puny 15-minute lesson on tomatoes to counter the most alarming nutrition. We’re gonna just bowl you over trends in childhood nutrition, of course. with a garden that’s got owers, and an We all scream for ice cream, not green archway—we’re gonna make you pay beans. (Even the student gardeners, taking attention to this. Even if we understand a break to enjoy Popsicles and sliced that some of it is on an unconscious cucumbers in the shade of an oak, get level—just like they get bombarded all more excited about the frozen treats than the time with media messages about what the veggies.) But the lessons are sinking in. to eat. Pulling weeds later, Maya notes how

Student gardeners are chosen after a rigorous application process and work as paid employees of The Merc Co-op. Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples and other garden produce are sold to the school cafeteria or The Merc, with all proceeds beneﬁting Growing Food, Growing Health.

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 27 bringing home produce for herself and her bigger part of the menu in the cafeteria. working to build a model that can serve as family has made her more aware of what Making school gardens part of a system- an example for the elementary and high she eats, and “smarter about my food wide change is her ultimate goal. schools. choices and helping other people make “When we go into a classroom, we get Johnson credits West for the growth of smarter decisions about food choices.” maybe those 30 kids. But the thing about gardens at the school and district levels, “It also makes you realize how much the gardens is, I feel like what we’ve built is and says the Growing Food, Growing labor goes into food,” adds Hope, whose a tool, a really eective hands-on tool, and Health plot has already set the standard grandparents keep a big garden and run a the next challenge is building it into the that other school gardens aspire to. ranch, MJ Farms, that sells beef to e curriculum. en you have the ability to “ e West garden was the beginning, Merc. “Before, you could just drop by a have 600 kids taste tomatoes, not just 30.” was the model,” Johnson says. “Oen you grocery store and get a pint of raspberries. Signs suggest the Lawrence Public have a starter where things don’t go so But now I know it takes forever to harvest Schools are on board. e district’s other well, and that makes people wonder a pint of raspberries, and you might get three middle schools all have school whether they need to move forward. at some scratches. It just makes you appreci- gardens (one started with the Merc’s help). was not a question here. West was 100 ate and savor food a little more.” Several elementary schools (including percent a piece of us wanting to move When the comments are relayed to Sunset Hill, which the Merc also started) forward in spreading the gardens.” O’Connor, she’s thrilled. “ ey get how have had gardens as well; most are on extraordinary it is, and that’s profound for hiatus now because of construction, but how young they are, don’t you think?” architects included dedicated garden Getting a thoughtful response from ve spaces in their expansion plans. is Weekly sampling sessions at The Merc allow students is good. Letting the occasional summer the district hired Denise Johnson students to promote the garden and its roomful of students taste fresh vegetables as K-12 curriculum coordinator for health produce. “We look for leaders, because this for themselves, as O’Connor has been and wellness, and it is also hiring a isn’t just about how well you grow tomatoes,” doing for 22 years as e Merc’s education half-time school garden coordinator. O’Connor says. “It’s about public speaking director, is good too. Better still would be Johnson will spend half her time working and communicating with your peers; these using school gardens at every Lawrence on wellness issues (including nutrition) public school to teach kids the economic and half working with food services on youths are our greatest advocates.” and nutritional importance of local food farm-to-school initiatives. Among her rst The West garden crew: Elise, Hope, Crystal in the classroom, while making fresh, tasks is to help the middle school gardens Hammerschmidt, Carly, Nancy O’Connor, student-grown fruits and vegetables a collaborate and rene their missions, Maya, Lily Siebert and Di.

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI As a teacher at Hillcrest Elementary, servings for school lunches. Even the makes the good stu sweeter. Johnson saw O’Connor at work with her White House vegetable garden has In August, she spoke to Fulbright kids many times, in her classrooms and on inspired political sniping. scholars visiting KU’s Applied English eld trips to e Merc, and it made her a ere’s also the undeniable fact that Center, as she does every year. Later a school garden advocate before she took plenty of kids will toss their federally half-dozen of the “brilliant, bold, amazing her current job. mandated fruit and veggie serving straight people,” from Niger, Tajikistan, Indonesia “I saw it when the kids worked in the in the trash. Not to worry, O’Connor says. and other far-ung locales spent a garden and then brought the food in,” All part of the process. morning at West Middle School, pulling Johnson says. “ere’s no way in the world “e point is, we’re giving kids the best weeds and picking tomatoes side-by-side they would have tried a turnip, except they food. e big dream is that becomes a with the student gardeners. At the end of grew it and they picked it, so by golly they cultural shi and kids eat better because the day, everyone shared a watermelon. were going to eat it. It makes such a it’s so good they can’t deny it’s good. at “We talked about the experience, and why di erence.” they stop asking where the French fries are they were here, and we sat around the because they’ve gotten used to sweet table and slurped up the watermelon. It potato fries.” To people who complain was hot. Everybody got messy. It was so here will be failures, of course. there’s too much waste when kids are intimate, so rich, that it was like, ‘is is TO’Connor—who says she’s always served healthy food, she counters, life-changing stu !’ People talk about been an “in-the-trenches kind of gal”—is “embrace the throwing away. ey don’t go chefs’ reductions, how intense they are: no Pollyanna. (ere’s as much Jersey steel from zero to 60, from McDonald’s to black at was an educational reduction.” as hippie fairytale in her backstory, don’t bean stew, without something in between.” She shakes her head, a big grin creasing forget.) Her war metaphor is apt, as should Like her young gardeners, O’Connor has her face, ailing for words before nally be evident to anyone who has followed the learned to savor the fruits of her labors. lighting on just the right one to capture the political battles over federal requirements Yeah, it takes time—and you pick up a few wonder of it. “Hoooooo, yeah,” she says. that set minimum fruit and vegetable scratches along the way—but that just “Wow!”

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 29 30 | KANSAS ALUMNI t Face o Face ‘Elsa Rhae’ paints fanciful faces to worldwide acclaim, helping her sni the ﬁrst scents of special-eects stardom

aces grab. Faces sell. Faces work when the video game “Halo,” and a slew of sinister n all else fails. Visual storytellers know slayers from the Mortal Kombat franchise, this, and diligently place happy human by Chris including Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Quan Chi, Ermac faces anywhere they hope to attract and and Baraka. holdF the attention of readers or viewers. Sad Lazzarino While many are menacing, there’s a noticeable human faces work, too. Crying, laughing, n lack of blood and gore. grimacing ... the emotion isn’t what matters. “I don’t really do the horror looks,” Pageler says Turns out, it’s not really the human part, either. Portraits by while seated behind her makeup table in the Shapeshi ing sensation Elsa Rhae Pageler— Steve Puppe unnished basement of her rented home on a “Elsa Rhae” to her many thousands of admirers— leafy suburban street in Overland Park. “I’ve never has got faces, loads of ’em, and the only one n really cared for that. ey’re not very nice. I’m that’s human—hers—is the one she splashes more of a owery-type person.” about the least. Hence, an homage to Shel Silverstein’s e Pageler, c’13, who swept to sudden and unexpected Internet Giving Tree. A black-and-white “face-on-face” illusion, inspired fame in May, transforms her sublime Midwestern beauty into by the Russian photographer Alexander Khokhlov and makeup playful adaptations of pop-culture characters from video games, artist Valeriya Kutsan. Or, in honor of Earth Day, Captain Planet, movies, television and cartoons. from the video game “Captain Planet and the Planeteers.” e ghoulish White Walker, from HBO’s “Game of rones,” And, perhaps most elegantly, her “Winter Wash,” inspired by a rocketed her to Internet stardom, but she’s built her fan base with painting Pageler once saw of a face with a white stroke down the a steady stream of equally thrilling visages, including e Joker, middle; in Pageler’s version, a diagonal strip across her face lled e Grinch, the “Star Wars” Sith Lord Darth Maul, Katniss from with owery color represents the spring she yearned for, while the “e Hunger Games,” V for Vendetta from the graphic novel and at-white portions bordering the spring cheer represented an icy the Wachowski brothers’ movie, Master Chief and Cortana from season deating her spirits.

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 31 “I twisted it around,” she writes on the caption on her YouTube video, “and used this to symbolize my dislike for winter and how I wanted it (very badly) to go away.”

he transformation that blossomed into TElsa Rhae, queen of the Internet face painters, began just a year and a half ago, when Pageler purchased a makeup kit for her stage makeup class, the nal elective course for her KU lm and media studies major. Already experienced with years of interest in applying creative makeup, Pageler began experimenting. She hunted through the Internet for ideas and inspirations, and, encouraged by family and friends, began pushing her new hobby to extremes. In late spring 2013, shortly before her KU graduation, she did an Iron Man face and posted a photograph to a makeup chat group on Reddit, a networking and news site where community members can explore particular interests in “subred- dit” bulletin boards. e response was fast, but also furious: Pageler admits that she committed the grave sin of digitally manipulating and enhancing the posted image. In the parlance of our times, she got amed. “People just ate me alive,” she recalls. “But, it got on the front page, which was crazy.” Having learned her lesson—“It makes me sound really bad; I don’t ever Photoshop my images”—Pageler instead focused on creative and righteous wayfaring into the mysterious, worldwide audience of makeup and face-painting a cionados. e rst little breakthrough came last fall, shortly aer she created a Facebook page dedicated to her “Elsa Rhae” alter ego, when she shared an image of the deathly creepy skeletal mouth and teeth she’d painted over her own mouth and cheeks. “I created it by opening my mouth over and over to see the shape of my teeth,” she wrote on Facebook, “then drawing them on top of my mouth area. It was pretty fun, took me about an h ou r.” Made even more startling with her innocent, wide-eyed expression, the image captured the fancy of fans looking for Halloween makeup inspirations. “I don’t know if I ever had as many likes on my Facebook as that one,” she says.

The many faces of Elsa Rhae include (this page, from top) Captain Planet, Scorpion and (p. 33) White Walker from “Game of Thrones.” From her austere home studio (r), Pageler documents each step (p. 33) in the creation of her fanciful faces.

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 5, 2014 | 33 But the big break, the face that launched a thousand likes, was (“You can’t makeup this stu,” HungtonPost.com declared on still more than six months away: On May 18, she posted to May 21.) Facebook one of her masterpieces, White Walker, along with a She still sorts through a daily ood of Facebook and YouTube link to a stop-motion video on YouTube showing the work in comments that oer tantalizing clues to Elsa Rhae’s worldwide progress. A friend asked permission to post it to Imgur, a massive reach. clearinghouse for online images. “I thought it was going to last a day, maybe two days, but it kept And, in the parlance of overnight Internet sensations, boom going. It kind of lasted about a week, and then slowly died down goes the dynamite. over the next few weeks, but then there are these bursts. ere’s “It blew up,” Pageler recalls. “It went to Reddit and e Chive magazines and newspapers all over the world that people say and HuPost-UK and then the Hungton Post. Ashton Kutcher they’re coming from. I guess I was on some television station in put me on his blog. en the No. 1-subscribed YouTube channel Argentina. I don’t really know where they’re from, but they keep put me on their Facebook page, twice, and that got me a lot of coming.” subscriptions.” On the quiet weekday aernoon when Kansas Alumni visited

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 5, 2014 | 33 Pageler at her home studio, her mobile phone buzzed just as she began work on her rst practice attempt at a new face she hoped to soon reveal to her Facebook fans. She glanced at the screen and said, “at’s a European phone number. I should probably take it.” On the other end of the line was a producer from “Weekend,” a show on the UK network ITV, calling to rm up plans for a Skype video interview the next day. As she distractedly listened to a very British and very lovely voice that was charmingly insistent enough to be heard 10 feet from Pageler’s phone, Pageler continued to putter around with her paints and brushes, and nally signed o with the assurance that she would be ready at the appointed hour. “ey Skype people who do weird things, and I guess I’m one of them,” she explained with a smile. “e world’s smallest horse. A 14-year-old body builder. And they found me.” As she returned her attention to the tray of colorful paints awaiting her, Pageler glanced up and added, “ey say ‘brilliant ... Brilliant!’ aer everything.”

nlike most special-eects wizards, UPageler isn’t too concerned about secrecy. In fact, she shares with her fans makeup and face-painting tutorials and stop-motion videos that capture every step of a face’s creation. She also creates makeup videos for Cate McNabb Cosmetics, an online retailer. Her own face-painting education came thanks to a friend’s suggestion that she contact Creative Carnivals & With “Winter Wash” (above), Pageler illustrated her yearning for the return of spring. To help her fans Events, a Kansas City company. ere celebrate the World Cup (p. 35, l-r), Pageler posted a video tutorial on how to face-paint a Brazilian she met MJ Matthews, who owns an aliated company called Sister Act ﬂag, and she honored her tastes for nature and kindness with “Face to Face” and The Giving Tree. Face Painting. Matthews and Pageler formed a quick bond, based on mutual admiration for each other’s talents and their shared dedication to sional. It’s a talent. It’s a weird talent, but it’s a talent.” their unique art form. Matthews and Pageler met last summer in Matthews’ Overland “It’s the complete opposite from doing makeup,” Matthews Park home, where Matthews explained how to use water-based explains. “e shading and things you learn as a makeup artist paints, high-quality and expensive brushes, sponges, even Elmer’s help, but it’s a dierent form. You’re painting, and you’re painting glue sticks. on something that moves and something that is three dimen- “We sat down in my kitchen one aernoon and just played,”

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 5, 2014 | 35 Photographs of ﬁnished work and doodle illustrations courtesy of Elsa Rhae Pageler

Unlike most special-eects wizards, Pageler isn’t too concerned about secrecy. In fact, she shares with her fans makeup and face-painting tutorials and stop-motion videos that capture every step of a face’s creation.

Matthews says. “I gave her a bunch of products, some really good Buddy, a lovable old dog who came with the house, can’t brushes and some advice. And other than that, she ran with it. navigate the stairs, and her Shiba Inu puppy, Kamp, is, for now, She was one of those people who jumped in with both feet and too high-spirited to join his mama when she’s getting in the zone was ready to go, and she hasn’t looked back. for a couple of hours of face painting. (“I try to freak them out,” “She’s having a blast. She’s so stinking talented, and she’s savvy. Pageler concedes when asked whether she ever rushes upstairs to She understands the social media thing. She’s found this little startle the dogs, “but even Kamp, as a puppy, is too smart.” She niche, she has a huge following, and she’s reaching out there to a pauses, then adds, “But I do freak out my boyfriend. Usually much broader audience and is saying, hey, this is an art form, it when I paint my eyes on.”) can be a lot of fun, and it’s available.” So, with the pooches and her Tegu lizard Yoshi safely Pageler continues to book jobs with Sister Act, especially for big ensconced upstairs, Pageler is alone in the basement—always, events like the annual Monster Dash 5K. She does the tutorial except when humoring nosy reporters—when she makes faces videos with Cate McNabb Cosmetics (and even rents her home that whirl worldwide and set the Internet ablaze. from the company president), and is a liated with a Polish It’s all rather mundane, in its eclectic way, and Pageler nds that manufacturer that supplies her with a variety of colored contact comforting. lenses. She purchases her own brushes, which cost $10 to $20 “Nobody ever watched me do this before,” she says, dgeting apiece, and trays of water-based face paint and cosmetic-grade while trying to navigate her way around a new face that wasn’t Liquid Latex. really coming together as she’d hoped. She has a charming, open She creates her fanciful faces by alternating glances at the manner of sharing what’s on her mind, revealing a creative spirit screen of her battle-worn MacBook Pro laptop, which displays that doesn’t have much patience with linear logic. Internet images of the face of the day, and a small mirror that “I’m trying to gure out my style still,” she explains, blending a doesn’t have a bulb and isn’t plugged in anyway. Light boxes on neutral-colored face-paint foundation with her stippling brush, tripods ank her workspace, and a tripod-mounted Nikon D600 “and I don’t think it really needs to be gured out.” clicks away like a metronome, capturing an image every three seconds. “To do that in a mirror, backwards, and have it come out he secret, if she has one, is that for Elsa Rhae Pageler, it’s not correct is hard to do,” Matthews explains. “I would say that out of Treally about the face painting, but about facing life, nding a about 17 of my artists, maybe there are three or four who can way to live it on her own terms. paint on themselves and paint well on themselves. at is really She came to KU to study lm, with hopes of one day making tough, and the intricacy of what she does is amazing.” her way to directorial stardom in Hollywood; one trip to Los

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 5, 2014 | 35 Angeles immediately convinced Pageler that Southern California wasn’t for her. She honed her video production skills with KU Marketing Communications, in the O ce of Public Aairs, and, during her senior year, Kansas Athletics, where she shot footage at football and basketball games and cut together inspirational highlight lms for the soccer team. “Once she got her feet wet and really started feeling comfort- able, you could tell that there were little sparks of creativity, some air in what she did,” says Frank Barthell, g’81, electronic media coordinator for Marketing Communications. “She didn’t try to jump ahead. She learned the basic skill set, the mechanics of it, and then started learning the soware, and o she went. It was clear that this is what she wanted to do, and she really took advantage of the opportunity.” Pageler has edited her own videos since junior high and has maintained a personal video channel “since YouTube started,” and now her hobby seems primed to put her in position to attract oers that would allow her to take her creative passions into big-budget lm production. It’s a question she elds oen from friends and fans, and her answer remains: “I don’t know. I’ve always kept my options very open. I wanted to be a director in Hollywood, and now everything is so dierent. So I don’t know if this is going to continue. I love it, and I’m going to continue doing it for at least the next long while and see what happens, but I don’t know. It’s denitely a cool path that has opened up.” Pageler was recently notied that she’d been named a “YouTube partner,” which means YouTube places ads on her video pages and gives her a cut of the revenue. How much, exactly, she still has no idea, but for now, the business details aren’t yet the primary concern. She admits to being “the most frugal person you will ever meet,” so it won’t take much for her to build up enough YouTube funds to realize her dream of “working from wherever I want, whenever I want.” “Truly,” Pageler says, “my whole passion is to be able to work through making YouTube videos. at’s been my goal, and so that’s kind of why I took face painting into the videos, so that I could maybe have a chance of getting there. “And now it is happening. Face painting is a hobby that I’m trying to mash together with my career-type passion, and it’s sort of now kind of working out a little bit for me.” She glances up from her mirror and smiles, the makeup not yet concealing her happy, human face. Brilliant. Brilliant!

From top, Marvel Comics’ Venom; Vault Boy, from the “Fallout” video game; and Master Chief of “Halo.” For more fantastic faces n facebook.com/ElsaRhae n youtube.com/user/ElsaRhae

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 5, 2014 | 37 36 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 5, 2014 | 37 38 | KANSAS ALUMNI Fine Feathers Sumptuous Gould Collection ﬁnds its ﬁnal home, online and accessible to all

or its time, the technology that expensive. Only wealthy patrons and ornithologist or bibliophile to appreciate F19th-century British ornithologist institutional clients, such as museums, their distinctive cramanship. ey’re John Gould relied upon to produce his could a ord the hand-colored lithographs, beautiful, visitors say, and so big!” magnicently illustrated books on birds of so until smaller, cheaper volumes were And now, thanks to the 21st century’s the world was state of the art. later created on lithographic color presses, dramatic redenition of state of the art, “Lithography had been invented around Gould’s magnum opus—47 large-format the entire collection—plus more than 1800, and the mid-19th century was, in volumes of sumptuous illustration and 2,000 work-in-progress manuscript pages some respects, the height of natural- authoritative scientic descriptions— of paintings, drawings and sketches, many history illustration,” says KU special was beyond the reach of all but the with edits, doodles and even a grocery list collections librarian Karen Cook. “By the privileged few. in Gould’s own hand, which are essentially mid-century they had perfected the crayon “ese are not the kind of books to unique to KU’s Gould Collection—are shading technique, which was used for snuggle up with on a frosty winter available online, free and in exceedingly these illustrations. It provides a tonal evening,” the late KU graphics curator ne detail to everyone in the world, thanks background and helps bring out the shape James Helyar wrote of the Gould Ornitho- to a massive cataloging and digitization of the bird, the texture of the feathers. logical Collection in a 1985 Kansas Alumni project funded in part by a grant from the en coloring by hand, which was the article. “No, these are serious books, nearly National Endowment for the Humanities. nal step, sort of colors the shading that is 50 of them, each measuring 15 inches by “In fact, you can see more than you can already there. It makes a wonderful 22 inches and weighing as much as 25 see with the naked eye,” Cook says of KU’s combination.” pounds. Resplendently bound, some in red online presentation of the beautifully But the process, which involved teams leather, each is heavily decorated and preserved books. “You can enlarge them of sketch artists, ne artists, coloring lettered in gold; even the edges of the and identify the techniques the artists are specialists, and a complex and labor-inten- pages are gilded. It doesn’t take an using in order to create the images. For me sive printing process, was prohibitively that’s really exciting.”

by Chris Lazzarino

Illustrations courtesy

Left: Green-billed toucans, from Kenneth Spencer Research Library Family of Toucans Above: Purple-breasted carib, from Family of Hummingbirds ISSUE 5, 2014 | 39 society governess with impressive artistic Humming Birds,” the queen wrote in 1851, skills. While beginning their family, John aer visiting Gould’s personal collection of STEVE PUPPE STEVE and Elizabeth also collaborated on their stued hummingbirds at London’s rst illustrated ornithology book, on birds Zoological Gardens. of the Himalaya Mountains, with 80 plates Gould’s 20th-century fans included issued from 1830 to 1833. famed naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Not satis ed with working from skins Attenborough, who, in his preface to the collected by others, Gould in 1838 1987 biography John Gould—Bird Man, organized a trip with his wife to Australia, wrote, “I saw plates of his birds of paradise one of the rst to study the continent’s when I was a boy and I remember now the birds and mammals. (Gould later pro- bounce my heart made. ... Few of us, who duced three illustrated volumes on remain his devoted public a century aer Australia’s mammals, his only non-bird his death, can hope to own one of his books.) ey returned in 1840, but massive sumptuous folios complete, but Elizabeth died the following year, a few many of us can and do hang plates from days aer giving birth to their eighth child. them on our walls.” Gould hired little-known Henry Richter, the son of an eminent artist, to help complete the Australia books, a collabora- hortly aer Gould’s death, in 1881, a tion that continued for 40 years; he also SLondon bookseller and publisher collaborated with other artists, most purchased publication rights to his works Karen Cook says 10 years spent studying notably the landscape artist Edward Lear and, more crucially, also paid 5,000 botanical illustration while working at London’s and German painter Joseph Wolf, who pounds (roughly equivalent to about British Library deepened her appreciation for once described Gould as “the most $550,000 today) for 30 tons of original Gould’s work: “The shading, the ﬁne brushwork uncouth man I ever knew.” artwork, lithographic proofs, illustration ... I know how dicult it is to create an e ect More charitable impressions were held plates and unsold text. Facing nancial like that.” by the likes of Charles Darwin (for whom diculties, the rm in 1934 oered much Right: Great northern loon, by Henry Richter, Gould created the ornithology volume for of it for sale, and its catalog in 1936 lured with Gould’s corrections Darwin’s series e Zoology of the Voyage Ralph Ellis Jr., a 28-year-old American P. 41: Gould portrait and, from Birds of Australia, of the H.M.S. Beagle), Charles Dickens and book collector. even Queen Victoria. “It is impossible to Born in 1908 to a wealthy Long Island, red-winged fairywrens imagine anything so lovely as these little New York, family, Ellis was a sick child.

he collection’s journey from eld Tobservations around the globe to London studios and print shops to a 1945 arrival at the University and now instant online accessibility is, given the backsto- ries of its prominent players, appropriately improbable. John Gould, born in 1804 in Dorset, England, developed an early interest in natural history and taxidermy. He was 14 when his father took a job as foreman at Windsor Castle’s Royal Gardens; he joined his father there, and his diaries include his memories of picking dandelions for Queen Charlotte’s tea. He continued as a gardener in training at Ripley Castle, in Yorkshire, but in 1825 returned to London to go into business as a taxidermist, and two years later was named curator for the Zoological Society of London. In 1829 he married Elizabeth Coxen, a

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI His family moved to South Carolina, where he, like John Gould a century earlier, became interested in natural history in general and birds in particular. Ellis was 15 when he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, and there he continued exploring his fascination with the natural world, this time under the tutelage of senior scientists at the Univer- sity of California who took the curious boy under wing. His formal education never took hold; although he participated in numerous eld trips with California scientists, and is said to have made contributions to the university’s notable collections, Ellis became ill during a Harvard Zoological Expedition Gould’s birds, to Australia and set aside his aspirations of online and in person becoming a eld scientist, choosing instead to devote himself to collecting he entire John Gould Ornithologi- natural-history books. Tcal Collection can be viewed And collect he did. Once described as online at luna.ku.edu:8180/luna/ suering from “galloping bibliomania,” as servlet/kuluna01kui~19~19. It can be well as “frequent attacks of bizarre and searched by such categories as book, unbalanced behavior,” Ellis indulged in year, species and artist, or easily book binges that only increased aer his browsed. father’s death in 1933, which le the family All of Gould’s text pages, which an estate worth today’s equivalent of museums were not interested, but, as it accompany each illustration, are approximately $13.5 million. Despite their turned out, a most unlikely institution way included, as is KU’s entire collection wealth, his mother was at times forced to out in Kansas would be. of unpublished manuscript pages, sell family property to pay his bills, yet E. Raymond Hall, c’24, named director which magnificently illustrate Gould’s Ellis continued adding to his scholarly of KU’s Natural History Museum in 1944, work process. (A few smaller library. studied for his doctorate at Berkeley with volumes, with few illustrations, are When he received notice of the Gould one of the scientists who had befriended held by KU but not digitized.) sale, Ellis managed to make his way to young Ralph Ellis, and, thanks to their Note that each image can be London, and over the next year and a half shared interest in natural history, Hall and magnified for close inspection of spent today’s equivalent of about $1 Ellis maintained their acquaintanceship artistic detail, as well as a study of million. His purchases included a com- over the years. It’s likely that Hall sug- composition, flora and other plete set of Gould’s 47 large-format books gested Ellis stop in Lawrence on his way to elements. as well as more than 2,000 work-in-prog- New York in 1944, but there is no evidence A public exhibition featuring a ress manuscript pages. of a visit; what is known is that Hall selection of original works is now “He did not purchase absolutely convinced Chancellor Deane Malott, c’21, underway at Spencer Research everything that was on oer,” Karen Cook himself a bibliophile, to visit Ellis while on Library, through Nov. 15. says, “but he made a pretty good his own trip to New York, and within a —C.L. selection.” month the University oered Ellis a home When he returned to California, Ellis for his books as well as an ocial position was committed to a mental institution, at KU and a small salary. was racked with debt and alcoholism, and Ellis accepted, and apparently noti ed was divorced by his rst wife. In 1944, his wife—who had by then returned to facing continuing money troubles, Ellis California to pack and ship the collec- and his second wife traveled to New York tion—to have the shipment diverted to City, where he hoped to nd a buyer, or an Lawrence. e contract between KU and institutional home, for his 65,000-item Ellis, signed in May 1945, allowed Ellis to collection. Eastern universities and take the collection back at any time, aer

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 41 When Sauer moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, in the early 1950s, he was shocked to learn that the world’s most important Gould collection was 75 miles away, at KU. ( ough dozens of complete sets of Gould’s published works are held in institutions worldwide, it is estimated that KU owns 85 percent of all known unpublished manuscript pages.) Sauer threw himself into assisting curators with unpacking and cataloging, and took on original research of his own, including a Gould chronology and bibliography, published in 1982, and a ve-volume set of Gould’s correspon- dence, the last volume of which was published in 2003, the last year of Sauer’s life. Reference drawing of a red-billed chough In 2010, KU Libraries applied for NEH grants to digitize the collection, and was reimbursing KU for its expenses, but also awarded the funding in spring 2011. What assured that it would pass to the Univer- was estimated to be an 18-month project sity’s holdings upon his death. got delayed by equipment breakdowns and e Ellises moved with the collection to stretched into three years, during which Lawrence in spring 1945, and he joined his time the entire collection was cataloged, beloved books in an oce in Strong Hall. curated and photographed. e idyll did not last. Ellis died alone, Even so, the immensity of the Gould reportedly of pneumonia, six months later Ornithological Collection wasn’t fully while on a hunting trip in California. His grasped until it made its way online. wife contested KU’s ownership of the “It really needed the digital age,” Cook Gould books and manuscripts, claiming says. “I think it didn’t strike you all at once that her husband was not in his right mind because it was so dicult to see a lot of it when he signed the contract, but courts at one time. It wasn’t totally cataloged, the ruled in KU’s favor, and in 1950 the Ralph books are very large and awkward to get N. Ellis Jr. Collection ocially joined KU out, the drawings were not all processed, Libraries, becoming the cornerstone for half of them were in boxes and the other the new Department of Special Collections half were in piles. in 1953. “So it’s only now, when I can see It still awaited cataloging and research, everything online at our website, that I can which could not begin in earnest until the get more of an overview and be over- 1968 opening of the Kenneth Spencer whelmed by the scope of it.” Research Library, and even then relied in A long and dicult migration nally part upon yet another unlikely character reaches its destination, in the ether of the to assist in the journey: dermatologist Internet, where high art meets high tech. Gordon Sauer, whose lifelong passion for Its aerie might be unlikely, but bird Gould’s work was sparked when he watchers and book lovers, scientists and purchased some Gould prints in an artists, can all rejoice together: John antique shop shortly aer Gould’s beautiful birds are here, there and World War II. everywhere, awaiting your discovery.

Left: Chick drawings for Gould’s illustration library Right and opposite: Sketches and ﬁnal illustration for Elliot’s bird of paradise, from Birds of New Guinea

42 || KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 5, 2014 | 43 Association Shirk, an Alumni Association Life Member, received the Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Award in 1989 for her volunteer service. e honor is named for her longtime friend Clodfelter, b’41, who 5, when her father gave her 100 shares of worked for the Association for 42 years Ellsworth tradition Kansas Power & Light stock. and retired in 1986. ey hosted many Jayhawks emulate example She became a part-time Association sta alumni events together. member in 1945, working for almost 25 “One of the most powerful attributes of legendary leader years, but her volunteer service has that Margaret has is the sense of family continued long beyond her employment and friendship,” says KU Endowment he combined KU service of Jay (“I don’t think I’ve ever missed a Com- President Dale Seuferling, j’77. “It really THoward and Margaret Lewis Shirk mencement,” she says). She also has impressed me over the years, watching the spans more than seven decades, starting in faithfully participated in the annual Gold 50-year classes returning for their the 1940s, when Shirk, c’39, began Medal Club reunions for graduates who reunions and seeing faces light up because volunteering for the Alumni Association have passed their 50th anniversaries; Margaret knew them and knew their and KU in the era of Fred Ellsworth, c’22, during the 2014 event in April, she told families. All those connections came forth, longtime executive director of the sta members, “Be sure to call me if you making alumni feel so tied to the Univer- Association. need any help.” sity through Margaret.” As a student, Howard, Shirk met her husband, Howard, a Salina native, travels fre- b’79, guided Student Union David, c’39, captain of the quently to Lawrence from his home in Activities as president, and 1938 KU football team, at Austin, Texas—most recently for meetings he has steadfastly served his the gas station where he of the steering commmittee of KU alma mater as a graduate, worked, and they were Endowment’s Far Above campaign. As a volunteering for the KU HOWARD JAY COURTESY married 69 years before his trustee, he also serves on Endowment’s Memorial Unions, the death in 2009. During his investment committee. Howard and his Alumni Association and career as a high school wife, Julia, are members of the Chancellors KU Endowment. teacher and coach, they Club, and they have supported a variety of Shirk and Howard are lived in Augusta, Abilene KU programs, including a professorship in this year’s recipients of the and Topeka. Following his humanities and Western Civilization Fred Ellsworth Medallion, retirement, the Shirks honoring his parents, Jack, b’51, and the Association’s highest returned to Lawrence and Shirley Rice Howard, d’51. Howard also honor for extraordinary Howard the family farm. ey has pledged $1 million from his estate to KU service. e Associa- invited many prospective support the Alumni Association. tion created the award in KU students to their home Howard’s service to Endowment 1975 to honor Ellsworth, through the years, and they overlapped his years as a volunteer leader the organization’s longest- hosted countless parties for for the Alumni Association. A Life serving chief executive, fraternities, sororities and Member and Presidents Club donor, he known as “Mr. KU” for his other KU groups; the served on the national Board of Directors dedication. SHIRK MARGARET COURTESY mention of “Shirks’ Barn” from 2003 to 2012 and led the organiza- Shirk, who celebrated her conjures memories for tion as national chair from 2010 to ’11. 97th birthday in August, generations of Jayhawks. During those years, Board members still lives on her family’s Shirk continues the repeatedly raised concerns about KU farm just north of Law- tradition, hosting KU student recruitment, so former national rence, in the home her and community events in chair Joe Morris, b’61, appointed Howard father built in 1920. She got the barn. to lead a task force and recommend to know Ellsworth as a Shirk e Shirks have contrib- measures to strengthen recruitment. student and soon began uted to the University Based on a study of tuition discounts volunteering to help at Commencements through KU Endowment as members of that universities in neighoring states used and alumni reunions. e day aer her the Chancellors Club, and they supported to recruit legacy students, Howard and graduation, she began working for the Kansas Athletics through the Williams Association president Kevin Corbett, c’88, Kansas City Board of Trade, using her Education Fund and as season tickethold- worked with KU leaders to develop the economics degree and continuing her ers for football and basketball. She still Jayhawk Generations Scholarship for passion for stock trading that began at age attends KU games. academically qualied students from

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI out-of-state KU families. e team convinced the Kansas Legislature to A NOTE FROM KEVIN approve partial tuition waivers for all Regents schools, and the Jayhawk Genera- Association’s student programs help new Jayhawks feel at home tions program began in 2009. “Jay has been a leader, a philanthropist, a mentor and a friend to many sta, n the ﬁrst day of classes, when the students and alumni across the country,” Otemperature surged above 100

Corbett says. “He has given his talents, degrees, I was walking back from Strong ROMBECK TERRY resources and time to make KU the best Hall down through Marvin Grove toward university it can be.” the Adams Alumni Center when I noticed Howard’s service to the Alumni Associa- a student walking up toward the tion actually began in 2000, when he Campanile, flipping a campus map in became the Association’s alumni represen- every direction imaginable. It was another tative to the KU Memorial Unions, seasonal sighting of a lost freshman returning to the organization he had trying to navigate his way across served in his student years as president of Mount Oread. SUA. In 2003, he provided gis for the I approached him and asked if I could part of the powerful, worldwide Jayhawk Traditions Tower, a focal point of the help him with directions. Red in the face network. Students today understand Kansas Union renovation that features from the heat, he said, “Yes, thank you. better than most generations the concept exquisite campus views and plaques I’m looking for the Spencer Museum of of building networks, whether they be honoring KU students, faculty and sta Art and the Alumni Association.” social or career. While the likes of members for their leadership. At the base I first told him he was going the wrong Facebook and LinkedIn provide electronic of the tower on the rst oor is the Rock direction and to follow me. His name was links, there is simply no replacing the Chalk Stone, a tribute to KU’s famous Steven and he was indeed a freshman— Jayhawk-to-Jayhawk connection that the chant. from Minnesota, studying art and theatre. KU Alumni Association seeks every day Howard’s speech on May 3, 2003, during We chatted about why he chose KU and to expand for the benefit of students, the dedication of the Rock Chalk Stone is his reasons were common: academic graduates and members. framed above an engraved limestone slab reputation, campus beauty, a scholarship In today’s highly competitive world of from Old Fraser Hall. During his speech, and campus traditions. higher education, we are firmly Howard recalled a conversation with After his class at the art museum, he committed to helping students while on someone who “has the unfortunate burden was coming to the Alumni Association to campus and as graduates. Thanks to of not being a KU grad,” he said. When she pick up his Student Alumni Association generations of compassionate and loyal asked him what makes KU such a special packet of goodies. I explained that by alumni and friends, helping members place, he likened her question to “Why do joining the Student Alumni Association, navigate the Jayhawk network has been you love your parents?” he became part of one of the largest the Association’s forte since 1883. “As I tried to list for her the many things student organizations on campus, if not As always, thank you for your that distinguish KU and make it such a the largest, with more than 1,200 membership and for all the opportunities special place, it occurred to me that this members. your support provides for students like structure, this tower, embodies three of the It’s likely not a well-known fact that Steven. Rock Chalk! very qualities I was trying to explain: anyone can join the Alumni Association. —Kevin Corbett, c’88 tradition, beauty and excellence.” You do not have to be a graduate to be a KU Alumni Association president

All in the family a special bond with her father, Sheldon university. If I called and complained Whitten-Vile, c’83, m’87. about walking up the Hill every day, he Scholarship helps Jayhawk clans “I loved hearing stories about his would understand. Or if I told him I was extend lineage; apply by Nov. 1 college days in Lawrence, like how he used going sledding near the Campanile he to sit and read by Potter Lake every spring, would know what a breathtaking view I or Hannah Whitten-Vile, b’14, of or the great restaurants he used to always would see with the snow over campus. He FOakland, California, the Jayhawk frequent on Mass Street,” she says. “For an knew how special it felt to nally walk the Generations Scholarship for out-of-state out-of state-student, it made Lawrence feel Hill on graduation day because he is a legacy students meant more than nancial a lot closer to home to know that my dad Jayhawk, too.” aid. Her experience at KU helped her forge used to be a proud student at the same Whitten-Vile is one of 424 Jayhawk

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Generations Scholarship recipients since the program began in 2009. “For some students who would come to KU regardless, the Jayhawk Generations Scholarship is icing on the cake, but for others like Hannah, the scholarship is the

linchpin that makes it possible for them to (2) HANNAH WHITTEN-VILE COURTESY attend their top choice,” says Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, the Alumni Associa- tion’s director of legacy relations. “More than 150 Jayhawk Generations Scholarship recipients set foot on the KU campus this fall. is is double the number we saw two short years ago in the fall of 2012. It’s Sheldon Whitten-Vile and his daughter, Hannah, a Jayhawk Generations Scholarship recipient, gratifying to see more students take us up celebrated her KU graduation in May. Hannah followed her dad to the Hill—and to the same on this incredible oer.” apartment—three decades after his student years. Students are automatically considered for the Jayhawk Generations Scholarship when they apply to KU. Nov. 1 is the e “Millie” recognizes Jayhawks who the local KU Jayhawks grow from a deadline for applicants who will be Fall have served as KU ambassadors in their handful of participants to about 200 2015 rst-time freshmen. Applicants must local communities for 10 years or more faithful. Before her retirement, she spent meet the academic qualications and have and honors the memory of Clodfelter, her career in information technology, a parent, stepparent, grandparent, step- b’41, for her 47 years of service to the including 16 years with Marion Laborato- grandparent or legal guardian who University, including 42 years working at ries and a liated companies in the Kansas attended KU. e renewable scholarship the Association. City area. She retired from Aventis includes three tiers, based on students’ Christensen, a native of Marion and a Pharmaceuticals in 2000 but returned to GPAs and ACT/SAT scores, and amounts Jayhawk Society and Life Member, has work as director of information technol- range from $19,864 over four years to helped recruit prospective students and ogy for North Kansas City Hospital before $50,032 over four years. For details, visit served as the Marion County coordinator retiring “for good” in 2004. jaygen.ku.edu/. for the Kansas Honors Program since Corman, of Lawrence, served as the “I’m a member of the Alumni Association 1977. He has volunteered as a member of University architect from 1996 until he Jayhawks for Higher Education, and he retired in 2010. Before he was hired at KU because I believe in the University of Kansas. contributes to the Williams Education by Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway, Tried and true Fund for Kansas Athletics. He played Corman spent 31 years as sta architect I believe in the demands of the students, Volunteers earn ‘Millie’ honor football at KU and began his career as a and director of facilities for the Kansas teacher. He later joined his father in Board of Regents and, before that, 10 years the prestige of the education and the for their staying power business and took over Lynn Farm in private practice in Topeka. He launched Equipment, an international dealership, his career shortly aer his World War II excitement of our athletics. ” ix volunteers are the recipients of the until his retirement in 2006. service—during which he saw combat at —Darrell Stuckey, c’09, Proud Member, Professional Athlete, San Diego Chargers S2014 Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Cliord is a Jayhawk Society member the Battle of Okinawa as a U.S. Navy Award. ey are Jim Christensen, d’64; who has been active in the Las Vegas Seabee—with the state architect’s o ce, Dee Burrows Cliord, c’71; Warren chapter since retiring in the area in 2005; helping to design Allen Field House. Corman, e’50; Scott Ennis, d’83; Kelly she currently serves as chapter leader. She Corman regularly hosts campus bus tours Tell us why you are a PROUD MEMBER! Finnerty, e’98; and Leland Hansen, p’71. was the watch site coordinator and helped Continued on page 48 Thank you for your loyalty. www.kualumni.org/proudmember

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46 | KANSAS ALUMNI “I’m a member of the Alumni Association because I believe in the University of Kansas. I believe in the demands of the students, the prestige of the education and the excitement of our athletics. ” —Darrell Stuckey, c’09, Proud Member, Professional Athlete, San Diego Chargers

Tell us why you are a PROUD MEMBER! Thank you for your loyalty. www.kualumni.org/proudmember for Association events, and he serves on the executive committee of the Associa- tion’s Veterans Alumni Chapter, for which he helps raise funds for Wounded Warrior scholarships. He has received distinguished alumnus awards from the schools of Engineering and Architecture and in 2011 served as grand marshal for the KU Homecoming parade. He currently works part-time for the School of Engineering as Great Plains Golf The Garden City Elliot & Pﬁefer an adviser for construction projects. He Tournament Telegram Golden Belt Bank and his wife, Mary Crissman Corman, GARDEN CITY, KS The Golf Club at Great Plains c’73, are Life Members and donors to the Presidents Club. Commerce Bank Southwind Dermatology Ennis, also currently of Las Vegas, was a The Watering Hole Hays Medical Center Jack and Marsha Cook longtime KU volunteer in the El Dorado DJ’s Lock and Key Vollersten Family Insurance Planning, Inc. area. A former Kansas Honor Scholar, Rick & Bonnie Erwin Dentistry LLC Jeter Law Firm LLP Ennis served as the co-coordinator and coordinator for the Kansas Honors Fry Eye Associates Weathercraft Rooﬁng Kansas Natural Gas Program in Butler, Elk and Greenwood Wesco Distribution Kippes Insurance Garden Surgical counties since 1998. Ennis is an Associa- Associates Western Irrigation Curt & Jennifer Kitson tion Life Member and volunteers as a Dale and Delores Gillen Western Motor Alan, Andrew & Lori member of Jayhawks for Higher Educa- tion. As a KU student, he assisted the GMCN Architects Western State Bank Moore football and baseball programs as an Oil Company of Goldbug Farm Families athletic trainer. He devoted his career to Golden Plains Credit America education, serving as a teacher and coach Union Smoky Hill Golf Production Drilling in Paola and athletics director, assistant Tournament principal and principal in El Dorado J & J Pharmacy Aleah, Adelena, Amaya before retiring and moving to Las Vegas. HAYS, KS & Brock Schippers Jayhawk Farms Finnerty is an annual member and has Keller Leopold Insurance Adams, Brown, Beran Steinert Liquor assisted KU and the Association in the Keller-Miller CPA’s & Ball Steward Tank & Well Twin Cities area for 10 years. He helped increase membership and participation Lewis, Hopper America’s Best Steaks Service through organizing local KU events and Anderson & Wichman The Meckenstock and Dick, LLC watch parties, and he serves on the Twin Richard Lightner Auto World Group Cities alumni board. He is a senior Lozar Plumbing Bank of Hays Toby Jugs mechanical engineer at Starkey Hearing Technologies in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Main-Palmer Family Brungardt Hower Ward Werth Wealth Hansen, of Hiawatha, has served as the Carrico Implement Co. Management Dentistry Brown County Kansas Honors Program Mr. Pool Randy Cook coordinator for the past 30 years. He is Overhead Door Crawford Supply Co. also a member of Jayhawks for Higher Education. For the School of Pharmacy, he Plaza Pharmacy Je & Connie Curtis Southwest Golf hosts rst-year pharmacy students as a Discover Drilling Tournament Premier 4 Farms preceptor and supports academic pro- LIBERAL, KS Bette Jo, Sharon & Kurt Downing-Nelson Oil grams as a member of the dean’s club. Roberts Eagle Communications Al Shank Insurance Hansen and his wife, Debbie Crawley Hansen, c’73, are Life Members. He began Smith Auto & Truck Parts Elite Realty Group High Plains Pizza his pharmacy career at Tice Rexall Drug in Erick and Debbie Tatro Plumbing Hiawatha following his KU graduation Nordling and became the local hospital’s rst full-time pharmacist in 1978. He is the owner and pharmacist of Tice Healthmart, which he purchased in 1992.

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI Jayhawks to their stables near Andover. academic and athletic programs in Since 2002, the event has raised more Wichita and recruit high school students than $760,000, annually drawing about to KU—and, besides that, it’s just so 500 alumni and friends. much fun.” is year’s event is chaired Special guests at this by Glenn, ’79, and Camille year’s event will include a

Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98; STOREY DAN scurvy mate who bears a Party like pirates she leads the Alumni striking resemblance to Association this year as Captain Jack Sparrow Jaunty Jayhawk Roundup national chair. “ e from the “Pirates of the features ’Hawks Ahoy theme Roundup allows area KU Caribbean” lms. For supporters to gather for an those who missed his ichita’s annual Jayhawk Roundup, exciting evening of enter- entertaining save-the-date Wthe largest KU event in the area, tainment while raising funds video, visit www.Jayhawk- will oer dazzling auction treasures, plenty that will impact the Associa- Roundup.org to view his of grub and grog, and rowdy revelry Oct. tion’s eorts,” Camille says. antics—and make 25, when hosts David, b’75, e’75, and Janet “ e support enables the reservations aboard Lusk Murn, d’75, welcome fellow Association to host ’Hawks Ahoy.

Life Members Elizabeth A. Llewellyn & Rhonda A. Roy Sandra L. Hull Kenneth C. Sackin e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Ruben J. Lopez Anne E. Salvato memberships July 1 through Aug. 31. For information, Jason K. Marlin John A Sanford visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. Ann B. Marsh-Meigs Anthony R. Santaularia Patrick M. McCarty Clark A. Sexton Daniel C. & Patty Ahlert Deanna K. Fox Amy E. McVey Stephanie L. Shipley-Barry & Theresa D. Anderson Marc B. & Camille Farrell Fried Richard J. Meier Sean G. Barry Tracy L. Bahm Yolanda E. Gay James C. Mifsud Scott C. Smith The Hon. Brian J. Barker Andrew W. George Reginald L. Mitchell II & Hilda N. Soza Morgan A. Barrier-Gahagan Laura M. Graham & Jeremy B. Meghan L. Misenhelter Thomas L. Talkington Charlotte A. Bartelsmeyer Kohn Avraham M. Mor Steven K. & Kammi Patricia Ramirez Battese J. Aaron & Sheila Grantham Jay P. Morley Thompson Lindsey Easton Benne Adam M. Greenhaw John D. & Amy Schwindt John G. & Ona Swearingen Chad A. Blackwelder Stephanie Hearn Nachtigal Tonge Edward Kelly & Elizabeth Mark F. Heinrich Kashif Naseem Tim Travis Sherwood Bond Hedi Hurst Heinz Laird G. & Karleen Noller Mary Kaye Dial Tyson Darin A. Brubaker Arthur D. Hess Gilbert E. Oaks III Robbie & Madi Thornton Brenda S. Bruner Douglas J. Hirsch Lauren L. Oberzan & Devin P. Vannaman Kristen L. Byington Chris A. Howell Byrne Melanie Botts Viola Horst Claus Thomas A. & Alyx Schmidt Michael L. Odrowski Nancy Douglas Wallace James R. Colahan Hubler Timothy W. & Virginia Suh David B. Weaver Wilda Vermillion Connell Jody L. Huxman Olsen Billy R. Wedgeworth Seth W. Connelly Norene D. Jacobs Alejandro & Ann M. Ortega Barbara M. Wells Christopher K. Costello Erica Hood Jones Sallie S. Page-Goertz & Jayne E. Whitehead Amanda M. Covert Steven A. Jones Kenneth K. Goertz Jarrod D. Williams Russell H. DeTrempe Whitney N. Jones Kim Parson Kendall D. Williamson W. Thomas & Darrella D. Deborah S. Jordan Vishal K. Patel Jonathan R. & Hilary Smith Deubel Tracy L. Kaufman Charissa A. & Michael Wingate Brandi L. Dixson Dee Klausman Patterson Nicole Keene Woods Shanthi G. & Bill Eckert Philip J. Kliewer Matthew J. Pjesky Davis A. Woodward Jamie A. Epstein Christopher L. Klockau Rande C. Pouppirt Heather Linhart Zang Bryan J. Erickson Jay P. Kreitzer Brett A. & Kathryn Meade Denton A. Zeeman Samona L. Estwick Debbie Leonard Reber Je Foster Kimberly A. & Jordan M. List Laura J. Roddy ISSUE 5, 2014 | 49

Class Notes by Karen Goodell Lawrence Community Shelter. He was honored with a 2014 Substantial Citizen Award from the Lawrence Kiwanis Club.

Joe Gray, e’44, serves as honorary Arizona Speciality Physicans in Phoenix. David Black, p’63, a pharmacy 44 chair for the Agri-Business Expo He and Barbara Froman Brainard, d’57, 63 consultant at Kingman Community Center capital campaign. He’s board live in Litch eld Park. Hospital, has been honored by the Kansas chairman of Gray Manufacturing and for State Board of Pharmacy for 50 years of Vektek, and he lives in St. Joseph, Jean Eckles Siegfried, d’58, has service. He lives in Derby. Missouri. 58 been elected to the board of Carl Peck, c’63, m’68, received the 2014 directors of Mad Cow eatre. She lives in Nathaniel T. Kwit Memorial Distinguished Bill Lienhard, b’52, former senior Winter Park, Florida. Service Award this fall from the American 52 vice president of First National Bank College of Clinical Pharmacology. He’s and a member of KU’s 1952 national e Hon. Edward Larson, l’60, was founder and chairman of NDA Partners, championship basketball team, makes his 60 honored last spring with the KU and he lives in San Luis Obispo, Califor- home in Lawrence. School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni nia, with his wife, Barbara. Award. He is a retired justice of the Kansas Dean Smith, d’53, former University Supreme Court, and he lives in Topeka. Terry Barnhart, b’64, and his wife, 53 of North Carolina basketball coach, William Seavers, g’60, owns Environ- 64 Carolyn, live in San Jose, California. was honored last spring with a plaque at mental Technology Group in Hauppauge, Ron Koger, g’64, EdD’75, serves as Topeka High School, his alma mater. He New York. He lives in Centerport. interim president of Southern Polytechnic lives in Chapel Hill. Gary Thompson, b’60, f’68, g’74, plays State University in Marietta, Georgia. in the Tulatin Valley Community Band in William Brainard, p’56, c’57, m’61, Tulatin, Oregon, where he and his wife, Richard Dalrymple, d’65, a profes- 56 practices orthopedic surgery with Sandi, assoc., make their home. 65 sor of math and physics at Minne- Paul Walter, PhD’60, was named the sota West Community and Technical recipient of the American Chemical College, lives in Worthington with his School Codes Letters that follow names Society’s 2015 Charles Lathrop Parsons wife, Dianne. indicate the school from which alumni earned Award for outstanding public service. He Curtis Harris, c’65, m’69, received the degrees. Numbers show their class years. is retired chair of the chemistry depart- American Association for Cancer a School of Architecture, ment at Skidmore College in Saratoga Research’s Award for Excellence in Cancer Design and Planning Springs, New York. Paul and Grace Epidemiology and Prevention. He’s head b School of Business Carpenter Walter, c’57, make their home of molecular genetics and carcinogenesis c College of Liberal Arts in Savannah, Georgia. at the National Cancer Institute’s Center and Sciences for Cancer Research in Bethesda, Mary- d School of Education Joyce Malicky Castle, f’61, was land. Curtis and Tance Thomson Harris, e School of Engineering 61 named a KU Distinguished Professor d’65, live in Garrett Park. f School of Fine Arts of voice. Joyce, who lives in Lawrence, Frederick Slicker, c’65, l’68, is president g Master’s Degree performed in Brazil earlier this year. of Slicker Law Firm in Tulsa. He received h School of Health Professions Nancy Topham Chadwick, c’61, has been the Oklahoma Bar Association’s John E. j School of Journalism l School of Law re-elected to the California State Board of Shipp Award for Ethics and the Tulsa m School of Medicine Community Colleges Trustees. She lives in County Bar Association’s Neil E. Bogan n School of Nursing Oceanside. Award for professionalism. p School of Pharmacy Robert Ebendorf, f’61, g’63, received the PharmD School of Pharmacy Society of North American Goldsmiths Benjamin Cutler, b’66, retired in s School of Social Welfare Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in 66 June as chairman and CEO of u School of Music Greenville, North Carolina, and is a USHEALTH Group. He and Mary DE Doctor of Engineering distinguished professor of art at Eastern Williams Cutler, ’66, live in Fort Worth, DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Carolina University. Texas. DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy Michael, e’61, and Roberta Johnson David Dwyer, b’66, is general partner EdD Doctor of Education Garrison, c’62, moved last spring to Port and founder of Visa Ventures in Boulder, PhD Doctor of Philosophy Kathryn Mize Dwyer, (no letter) Former student St. Lucie, Florida. Colorado. He and assoc Associate member of the Loring Henderson, c’61, retired as d’67, live in Fort Collins. Alumni Association founding executive director of the Sandy Kaiser Praeger, d’66, received a

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI 2014 Substantial Citizen Award from the Lawrence Kiwanis Club. Sandy lives in Lawrence and is Kansas insurance commissioner.

James Berzina, g’68, continues to 68 live in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he’s retired city manager. Robert McAdoo, b’68, c’68, is managing director of Imperial Capital in Los Angeles. Alan Mulally, e’68, g’69, serves on the board of directors audit committee at Google. He retired in June as CEO of Ford Motor Company. Alan and Jane Connell Mulally, d’69, live in Dearborn, Michigan. Ward Russell, f’68, received a lifetime achievement award from KU’s Depart- ment of Film and Media Studies. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he’s a cinematographer and photographer.

Patricia Cahill, c’69, g’71, serves as 69 vice chairman of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She is assistant professor of communication studies and general manager of KCUR-FM at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Robert Dotson, j’69, received an Alumni Achievement Award last summer from lives in Missoula. year. He lives in Orlando, Florida. Delta Tau Delta. He is responsible for Larry McElwain, c’70, has been named William Penny, e’72, president of American Story, a news report featured on CEO of the Lawrence Chamber of Penny’s Concrete, has been named to the NBC’s “Today Show.” Bob and his wife, Commerce. Lawrence Business Hall of Fame. He and Linda, live in New York City. Sandra Smith, j’70, g’72, has retired Marlene VanGundy Penny, c’71, make Charles Peer, b’69, is retired in from the Carlson School of Management their home in Lawrence. Fairway, where he and Pamela Kulp Peer, at the University of Minnesota. She and Francie Stoner, c’72, c’73, was honored d’71, make their home. her husband, James Murphy, moved from last summer by Capital Who’s Who Kent Saylor, b’69, l’72, owns Saylor Minneapolis to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Branding for her contributions to the eld Insurance Service in Sabetha, where he Joe Vaughan, j’70, serves as honorary of communication, motivational speaking and Donna Porter Saylor, d’69, live. chairman of Wyandotte County’s United and healthcare implementation. She’s CEO Linda Harmon Thomas, n’69, is RN-BSN Way campaign. He lives in Prairie Village and partner at DifCom Designs. Francie coordinator at Murray State University in and owns Joe Vaughan Associates and her husband, Bill, are residents of Murray, Kentucky. She lives in Hanson and Publishing. Weston, Missouri. was appointed to the board of Baptist Kathryn Warren, c’72, earned a doctor- Health Madisonville. Denise Dotson Low-Weso, c’71, g’74, ate in education with a specialization in 71 PhD’98, wrote Melange Block, a book online learning design last spring from Elizabeth Fager, d’70, received an of poetry published by Red Mountain Capella University. She lives in Egg 70 honorary doctor of humane letters Press. Denise founded the creative-writing Harbor, Wisconsin. last spring from Washburn University, program at Haskell Indian Nations where she serves on the board of trustees. University in Lawrence, and is a former Tonda Rush, j’73, l’79, owns Ameri- She and her husband, Duane, c’68, make Kansas Poet Laureate. 73 can Press Works, an association their home in Topeka. management and public-aairs rm in Sally Mauk, c’70, retired as news Carmelo Monti, a’72, published Falls Church, Virginia. She lives in director of Montana Public Radio. She 72 Is Your Mind Like Your Hair? last Arlington.

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N Crown Automotive N KU Alumni Association N Dunkin Donuts N KU Athletics N Executive AirShare N Liberty Mutual N First National Bank N TaylorMade/Adidas N Johnny’s Tavern

Barbara Beeson Stuber, f’73, wrote Foundation in Topeka. She’s president inducted into the Kansas Teachers’ Hall of Girl in Reverse, which was published in and CEO of the Community Health Fame. May by Simon and Schuster. Barbara and Center of Southeast Kansas, and she Rebecca Gartung Lyons, b’76, is a her husband, Jack, c’62, m’66, live in makes her home in Pittsburg, with her principal at Lyons Consulting. She and her Mission Hills. husband, Max. husband, Michael, live in St. Petersburg, Perry, l’73, and Janet Beebe Warren, Patrik Neustrom, c’74, practices law Florida. d’73, were honored by the KU School of with Neustrom & Associates in Salina and Stanley Moore, c’76, retired from a Law with a James Woods Green Medal- serves as the 2014-15 president of the 38-year career with Dow Chemical, lives lion. ey live in Lawrence. Kansas Association for Justice. in Lake Jackson, Texas, with his wife, Karen. James Bartley, m’74, is an associate Sheila Bair, c’75, l’78, is senior 74 clinical professor at the Loma Linda 75 adviser for Pew Charitable Trusts in Bill French, j’77, retired a er a University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Washington, D.C. She lives in Chevy 77 37-year career in technology sales California. He also serves on the board of Chase, Maryland, and was elected a trustee and marketing with IBM, EMC and the American College of Medical of the RAND Corporation. CISCO. He lives on a farm and ranch near Genetics. John Ryan, g’75, PhD’85, retired as a St. John. William Cathcart-Rake, m’74, has been professor of history at Kansas City Kansas Elizabeth Llewellyn, c’77, vice president named campus dean of the KU School of Community College. John and his wife, of mission integration at Alegent Creigh- Medicine in Salina, where he and Ruth Lois Moushey, d’75, n’77, g’84, live in ton Health, was honored last summer by Cathcart-Rake, c’71, g’76, live. Overland Park. the Women’s Center for Advancement for Sara Lytle, f’74, became advertising her commitment to helping women. She chair of the Santa Barbara Studio Artists Katherine Conway-Turner, c’76, lives in Omaha, Nebraska. board. She and her husband, Fred Davis 76 PhD’81, serves as president of SUNY III, live in Santa Barbara. Bualo State in Bualo, New York. Hannes Dear Combest, j’78, Krista Postai McCoy, j’74, has been Bertina Bender Hiss, d’76, teaches 78 received the National Auctioneers appointed a trustee of the Sunower math at Great Bend High School. She was Association Presidential Award of Distinc-

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI tion earlier this year. She lives in Lawrence with her husband, Lawrence, b’78, of Wayne County in Goldsboro, North and has served as CEO of NAA since 2008. co-founded Bridge of Hope and is active Carolina. Peter Gilligan, PhD’78, director of in the Junior League and other civic clinical microbiology-immunology organizations. Karen Arnold-Burger, c’79, l’82, was laboratories at the University of North e Rev. Sharon Howell, ’78, serves as 79 nominated to be a Kansas Supreme Carolina, received the 2014 Hardy interim president of the St. Paul School of Court justice. She serves on the Kansas Diagnostics Professional Recognition eology in Leawood. Her home is in Court of Appeals and lives in Overland Award last spring from the American Lawrence. Park with her husband, Kurt, ’78. Society for Microbiology. He and his wife, e Hon. Julie Robinson, j’78, l’81, Mark Copeland, b’79, manages special Lynn Smiley, c’74, live in Chapel Hill. received the KU School of Law’s Distin- delivery for Allscripts-Liberty Hospital in Joanna Miranda Glaze, j’78, was guished Alumni Award. She lives in Liberty, Missouri. He and his wife, honored last spring by Pi Beta Phi Lawrence and serves as a judge of the U.S. Melanie, live in Overland Park. Fraternity for Women for her community District Court. David, j’79, and Julie Updegra Mikols, service. Joanna, who lives in Kansas City George Wood, g’78, is county manager c’82, returned home to Chicago a er a

PROFILE by Steven Hill

‘Half-pint Ironman’ eyes coaches for the triathlon’s biggest race Leukemia and Lymphoma Society PHOTOGRAPHY COURT AMANDA hem Suthiwan’s ai immigrant program where she Kparents stressed academics over started, and she athletics, so she had little experience with recently was asked to sports as a kid. Not until high school represent the group in would she try tennis, gymnastics and 2015 in a coveted cheerleading. charity slot at the An exception was the River Run, a race sport’s preeminent held each May at Wichita’s Riverfest. Every event: e Ironman year Suthiwan ran the 2-mile loop with World Championship her father. “Back then I didn’t know what a in Kona, Hawaii. “When I was training for marathons, I thought people who did Ironman PR [personal record] was,” she says, “but “It’s been my dream were crazy,” Suthiwan says. “Now I’m one of them.” every year I tried to set a new one.” to make the World e constant push to improve stayed Championship,” with Suthiwan, c’01, as she began running Suthiwan says of the iconic race that does it,” she says, “or the person who marathons a er moving to Colorado in started the triathlon craze. “It’s the original might be 100 pounds overweight and 2001. By 2009 she’d completed more than Ironman; it’s back to the roots of the sport. they’re out on the same course as the a half-dozen with Team In Training, an It’s like getting to play in the Super Bowl.” professionals.” endurance-sport training program that Kona is a big jump for an athlete who Besides the physical demands posed by raises money for the Leukemia and says she was a “late-blooming bench a grueling Kona course, the World Lymphoma Society. She switched to warmer” in every sport she tried. But the Championship brings another daunting triathlons a er the program’s triathlon important thing, she believes, is she tried. challenge for charity participants: a coaches told her she’d have more fun with “Never in a million years would I have $75,000-fundraising commitment. the tri team. thought I’d be able to run a marathon,” Her coach, Nicole Drummer, says Now the self-described “half-pint says Suthiwan. “Never say never. If you Suthiwan brings to fundraising the same Ironman” has completed three Ironman have a dream, go for it.” competitive drive that fuels her racing. races (most recently the Ironman 70.3 at attitude inspires both her coaching “I know she’s going to map out what she Kansas, a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and and competing in the demanding sport. needs to do to get there. at’s part of the 13.1 mile run at Clinton Lake in June) “For me, it’s not so much the profes- Type A triathlete,” Drummer says. “Some with the Ironman Foundation Newton sional athletes or really elite amateurs, of them want to know how to get that Ambassador Running team. She now it’s the 85-year-old guy who goes out and A-plus.”

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76,000-mile, yearlong trip around the Toni Eilerts, c’82, is a senior sta lives in Hopkins, Minnesota. world. ey visited six continents and 38 geologist at Range Resources in Fort Beverly Fuller Mortimer, d’83, is countries. Worth, Texas. She lives in Keller. superintendent of schools for USD 333. Lucynda Raben, c’79, owns Tallgrass Gregory Friesen, a’82, president and She lives in Concordia and was appointed Dentistry in Wichita. In April, she was director of design for CSNA Architects, to the state K-12 Student Performance and named the Kansas Dental Association’s lives in Colorado Springs. E ciency Commission. 2014 Dentist of the Year. David Hill, f’82, is vice president and Ronaldo “Nick” Nicholson, e’83, is road distinguished designer for Lenovo in and highway division capital district Phillip Anderson, j’80, works as a Morrisville, North Carolina. He and his manager for Parsons. He lives in Washing- 80 digital marketing specialist for wife, Jena, live in Cary. ton, D.C. Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Illinois. e Hon. Mary Murguia, c’82, j’82, l’85, Frank Tsuru, e’83, is president and CEO Laura Ice, d’80, is deputy general received a Distinguished Alumni Award of M2Midstream in Houston, where he counsel for Textron Financial Corporation from the KU School of Law. She is a judge and Stephanie Skelton Tsuru, h’83, make in Wichita. She received the Howard C. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th their home. He also serves on the Univer- Kline Distinguished Service Award from Circuit, and she makes her home in sity of Texas Lands Advisory Board. the Wichita Bar Association. Phoenix. Rolfe Mandel, g’80, PhD’91, was named Dereck Rovaris, c’82, was named vice Jason Engel, b’84, is vice president a KU Distinguished Professor. He lives in president for diversity at Louisiana State 84 and chief regulatory counsel for Topeka and is an internationally known University in New Orleans. Experian in Costa Mesa, California. He geoarchaeologist. Beverly Allen Schnitzer, h’82, works as a lives in San Juan Capistrano. Christian Miller, c’80, serves as president lymphedema specialist and physical Peter Goering, PhD’84, received a of the Dallas County Dental Society. He therapist at CARES Health Services in Distinguished Achievement Award from and his brother, Matt, c’80, own Miller Mobile, Alabama. Bethel College in North Newton. He and Miller, a restorative dental practice in Laura Stephenson, g’82, PhD’86, is dean works as a research toxicologist at the Plano, Texas. of arts and sciences at Washburn Univer- Food and Drug Administration, and he David Rebein, l’80, is a partner in the sity in Topeka. She and her husband, lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dodge City law rm of Rebein Bangerter Francois Henriquez, live in Lawrence. Connie Larsen Hodges, s’84, plans to Rebein. He also serves as 2014-’15 retire in December as president of United treasurer of the Kansas Association for MARRIED Way Northeast Florida in Jacksonville. Justice. Beverly Allen, h’82, to Edward Sheryl Kidwell, ’84, is assistant director Thomas Tingle, a’80, is senior vice Schnitzer, March 23 in Fairhope, Alabama. for residential dining at KU. She lives in president and national director of sports ey live in Spanish Fort. Lawrence. and entertainment for Skanska. Tom and David Sullivan, b’84, is CEO at SDI in his wife, Patricia, live in Shawnee. Sandy Clark, j’83, was named Chicago. 83 managing editor of the Philadelphia Craig Vaughn, e’84, is managing partner Daniel Crabtree, l’81, was conrmed Inquirer. She lives in Wyncote. of Environmental Resources Management. 81 by the U.S. Senate to serve as a judge John Dicus, b’83, g’85, is chairman and He and his wife, Cynthia, live in Long- of the U.S. District Court for Kansas. He CEO of Capitol Federal Savings in Topeka, mont, Colorado. and his wife, Maureen Mahoney, l’90, live where he and Brenda Roskens Dicus, b’83, Martha Warren, c’84, l’87, received a in Kansas City. make their home. He received a Disting- James Woods Green Medallion from the Scott Somes, c’81, works for Good ished Alumni Award from the KU School KU School of Law. She is a partner at Times Restaurants in Golden, Colorado, as of Business. Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City. COO of Bad Daddy’s Franchise Develop- Donald Hall Jr., g’83, was honored with Andrew Welch, b’84, joined Inland ment. He and Christie Coulter Somes, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the American Lodging Group as executive c’82, live in Vail. KU School of Business. He is president vice president and chief nancial o cer in and CEO at Hallmark Cards, and he lives Orlando, Florida. Michael Bicknell, b’82, is vice in Mission with Jill Shackelford Hall, c’78. 82 president of dealer sales and Martin Haynes, a’83, works as a Mark Deatherage, l’85, received a marketing for Omni United USA. He lives designer at 360 Architecture in Kansas 85 James Woods Green Medallion the in Littleton, Colorado, with his wife, City. He and his wife, Patricia Thomas, KU School of Law. He’s a partner in the Vickie. g’86, live in Overland Park. Phoenix rm of Gallagher & Kennedy. Robin Hayes Bowen, h’82, was elected Theodore Lorenzi, e’83, has been named James Hoko, g’85, PhD’88, will become this summer as president of Arkansas Tech vice president of engineering and sustain- director of behavior services for Area University in Russellville. ability at Marcus Hotels & Resorts. He Cooperative Educational Services in

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Hamden, Connecticut, on Jan. 1. Sunower Foundation. She’s a principal at and accountability for the Putnam County Joseph McMahon, j’85, manages Pershing Yoakley & Associates, where she Charter School System in Eatonton, national sales for KHBS-KHOG in Fort advises doctors and hospitals about Georgia. She and her husband, Clarence, Smith, Arkansas. He lives in Lowell. healthcare regulations. Martha lives in live in Gray. Robyn Nordin Stowell, c’85, was named Leawood. Steven Hu, b’89, g’91, was named 2014 in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: Kansas City Father of the Year by the America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Bryan Becker, m’88, received a 2014 National Center for Fathering. He man- She’s a partner in the Phoenix rm of 88 Leadership Award from Becker’s ages information technology at Capital Stinson Leonard Street. Healthcare. He is associate vice president Federal Savings Bank in Topeka. James Wright, l’85, lives in Fairfax, of hospital operations at the University of Virginia, and is a principal with Wright Illinois Hospial and Health Sciences Gregory Burger, p’90, p’92, teaches Tax Consulting. System and CEO of the University of 90 medication safety and error Illinois Hospital in Chicago. prevention for the KU School of Phar- Richard Ferraro, g’86, PhD’89, has Timothy Cook, c’88, has been promoted macy. He’s a medication safety pharmacist 86 been named editor-in-chief of to president of Shick USA. He and Hunter at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Greg lives Current Psychology. He’s a distinguished Gibbs Cook, c’91, g’96, live in Kansas City. in Lecompton. professor of psychology at the University William Covington Jr., ’88, chairs the Bradley Harris, c’90, is a senior philan- of North Dakota in Grand Forks. curriculum, assessment and administra- thropic adviser for the Arizona Commu- Curt Landis, g’86, l’92, serves as admin- tive division of the Broadcast Education nity Foundation in Phoenix. istration director of decision support at Association. He lives in West Monroe, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in Louisiana. Eric Finkbiner, p’91, works as a Milwaukee. He lives in iensville. e Rev. Kevin Hopkins, s’88, serves as 91 clinical pharmacist at the KU Erick McCurley, g’86, is senior vice minister to Baker University in Baldwin Medical Center in Kansas City. He and president at Marsh & McLennan in City. He lives in Leavenworth. Karen Mitchell Finkbiner, p’92, live in Leawood. He and Karen Simpson McCur- James Larson, PhD’88, wrote “A” is for Tonganoxie. ley, g’87, live in Overland Park. the Alchemist: A Winnie and Winslow Jon Mohatt, b’91, g’97, is chief nancial Jamsheed Mehta, g’86, is deputy town Adventure. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, ocer at Kalispell Regional Healthcare in manager of Marana, Arizona. where he was longtime artistic director of Kalispell, Montana, where he and his wife, the Omaha eater Company. Courtney, make their home. Gary Gould, e’87, g’91, has been Jacob Winzenz, g’88, has been David Morris, a’91, is a principal with 87 promoted to senior vice president of appointed nance director for the city of the Beck Group in Denver. operations at Continental Resources in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Angela Jacobson Watson, b’91, is vice Oklahoma City. He and Elizabeth Kens- president of international sales for United inger Gould, d’91, live in Edmond. MARRIED Parcel Service. She lives in Weston, Joseph Hattesohl, b’87, is chief nancial Michael Frakes, c’88, to Malisa Iannino, Florida. ocer at Research Aliates in Newport June 14 in Boston. Michael directs clinical Beach, California. He and Hope Strampe services and organizational quality for BORN TO: Hattesohl, b’93, live in Aliso Viejo. Boston MedFlight, and Malisa is a nurse in Bo, c’91, and Caroline Koch Gollier, j’00, Gregory Kaul, j’87, is general manager the neonatal intensive-care unit at the c’00, son, Benjamin Joel, July 29 in of Hello! Texas Destination Management. University of Massachusetts Medical Lawrence, where he joins a brother, Elijah. He and his wife, Shannon, live in Dallas. Center. ey live in Mans eld. Bridget Huerter Richards, j’87, directs Robert Burns, g’92, is president and communications for Blue Ocean Enter- Gary Allen, PhD’89, serves as 92 CEO of City First Homes in prises in Fort Collins, Colorado. She and 89 deputy director of the Instrumenta- Washington, D.C. He lives in Alexandria, her husband, Chris, live in Evergreen. tion Training Analysis Computer Simula- Virginia. Martha Aaron Ross, c’87, l’90, has been tions Directorate at the U.S. Army Joint Tara Ferguson, c’92, received a National appointed to the board of trustees of the Multinational Readiness Center in Endowment for the Humanities grant to Hohenfels, Germany. study Mozart in Vienna, Austria, last Frederick Gould, l’89, and his wife, Julie, summer. She teaches at Desert Marigold received a James Woods Green Medallion School and lives in Phoenix. from the KU School of Law. He practices Scott Hanna, j’92, g’00, was promoted to law in Seattle, where they live. vice president of business development for Kelly Herman-Roberts, d’89, is assistant Skyline Displays. He and Mendi Stauer superintendent for student achievement Hanna, j’94, live in Lenexa.

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI Clay Pearson, g’92, is city manager of board and CEO of NIC-USA Inc. in Mark Button, j’95, directs commu- Pearland, Texas. Olathe. Harry and Cindy live in Lawrence. 95 nications for the Texas Golf Katherine Blatherwick Pickert, c’92, Chris Moeser, c’93, j’93, is of counsel Association in Dallas, where he lives. g’98, has been appointed to a three-year with Ballard Spahr in Phoenix, where he Mary Hinton, g’95, has been selected as term as a trustee of the Pi Beta Phi and Susan Brinkman Moeser, j’92, make the 15th president of the College of Saint Foundation. She’s a client-relationship their home. Benedict in St. Joseph, Missouri. manager for Pegasus Capital Management. Frank White III, c’93, is vice president of Kate and her husband, Allen, c’92, j’97, live Source One Group in Blue Springs, MARRIED in Lawrence. Missouri. He lives in Lee’s Summit. John Blair, c’96, to William Black, 96June 14 in Provincetown, Massachu- Harry Herington Jr., l’93, and his Blythe Focht Talbott, j’94, is setts. ey live in Washington, D.C., where 93 wife, Cindy, were honored by the 94 director and independent fashion John is director of intergovernmental and KU School of Law with a James Woods consultant for Vault Denim. She and her external aairs at the U.S. Department of Green Medallion. He’s chairman of the husband, Steven, c’92, live in St. Louis. the Interior. William manages projects for

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino STEVE PUPPE STEVE

Professor pursues pews for tion and teen preg- health outreach studies nancy. She brought that “community-engaged er earning her KU bachelor’s degree approach” to UMKC, Ain electrical engineering, Jannette where she works closely Berkley-Patton worked for three years at with African-American AlliedSignal Aerospace in Kansas City, churches on health- building components for nuclear weapons. disparity issues of en came three years with Alcoa, based particular urgency to in Dallas, selling aluminum sheets to the black community. aerospace companies across the country. Funded by an “I was part of the war machine,” $850,000 federal grant, Berkley-Patton, e’88, g’97, PhD’04, says Berkley-Patton and Jannette Berkley-Patton says her studies are extensions of such from her oce at the University of community volunteers 1990s initiatives as the Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing Missouri-Kansas City, where she is a newly last fall conducted of AIDS and the National Week of Prayer. tenured associate professor of psychology health-needs assess- and director of the Community Health ments with 450 Research Group. members of 11 Kansas City churches, of church. ey’re hearing a sermon, Berkley-Patton grew up near 39th and focusing on diabetes, heart disease and they’re hearing a testimonial, they’re doing Prospect, in what she calls “inner-city stroke; that project launches this fall in six responsive reading, and all of those things Kansas City.” While living in Texas, she metro KC churches. She also recently have been tailored around the health gravitated toward the urban neighbor- received a $3.2 million grant to assess HIV outcomes and prevention messages that hoods of South Dallas, where she spent testing in 14 African-American churches. we’ve designed into the project.” her weekends counseling girls. “ at’s Her studies build upon existing church e work demands countless hours, where I found my joy,” she recalls, and six hallmarks of inspiration, communication including evenings and weekends, but years into a successful career, she le it and support. Messages are delivered by that’s nothing new for Berkley-Patton, who behind to enroll in graduate school at KU. pastors during sermons and extend into lived in Grandview, Missouri, the entire Studying under Steve Fawcett, g’73, Bible study groups, social events, bulletins time she was in graduate school in PhD’74, Distinguished Professor of and even scripted telephone outreach. Lawrence, commuting three hours a day applied behavioral science, Berkley-Patton “On any given Sunday, over 50 percent with two toddlers at home. focused on community-based health of black folks are in somebody’s pew,” “I have a ball,” she says. “I work incred- improvement projects that addressed Berkley-Patton says, “and these messages ibly long hours, but I absolutely love youth substance abuse, violence preven- are woven into the whole existing process what I do.”

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 59 Class Notes the law rm of Latham & Watkins. disaster outcomes. Lisa lives in Long John, p’05, and Sue Hamon Kollho, Island City. p’97, own Kollho Pharmacy in Junction Mindi Stoppel Davidson, b’98, is David Mitchell, c’01, g’03, is an assistant City. 98 vice president of human resources professor of public administration at the Anthony Santaularia, c’05, directs real for First Bank Kansas in Salina, where she University of Central Florida in Orlando. estate for Running Specialty Group in and her husband, Todd, b’95, make their Amanda Witty, d’01, g’05, and Bryan Denver. home. Harrity, c’04, j’04, make their home in Michael Goodwin, g’98, was named Overland Park with their son, Bennett, 1. MARRIED senior vice president and chief informa- Bradley Thies, b’05, g’07, to Alexandra tion ocer of PetSmart. He lives in Janice Keller Williams, j’02, directs “Sacha” Nana, Feb. 8 in Kansas City, where Leawood with his wife, Monica. 02 data analysis and reporting for the they live. Bradley owns Barr Assurance & Emporia State University Foundation. She Advisory, and Sacha works for Hallmark Jordan Smith Rose, c’99, g’08, and her husband, Bryan, live in Emporia. Cards. 99 received the Bobs Award from the Jerey Larkin, c’06, joined Person- Lawrence Schools Foundation. e BORN TO: 06 alized Family Dental Care in $10,000 annual prize honors outstanding Andrew, a’02, and Melissa Biggs Lawrence, where he lives. teachers. She teaches chemistry at Free Moddrell, c’03, son, Max, April 27 in Kate Morrand, f’06, manages the U.S. State High School in Lawrence, where she Chicago. Navy’s Archaeology and Conservation and her husband, Micah, c’01, make their Laboratory and the Archaeological home. Scott Meyer, c’03, is associate Artifact Loan Program. She lives in 03 commissioner for the Colonial Washington, D.C. BORN TO: Athletic Association. He and Amanda Toni Argueta Witt, p’06, manages the Kevin Yoder, c’99, l’02, and Brooke Wilcox Meyer, j’01, live in Richmond, Hy-Vee Pharmacy in Lawrence, where she Robinson Yoder, l’05, a daughter, Caroline Virginia. and her husband, Jason, ’10, live. Lucille, Nov. 7 in Merriam. Kevin is a U.S. Stephanie Smith, c’03, l’07, lives in congressman representing the 3rd District Wilmington, Delaware, where she’s an MARRIED of Kansas, and Brooke is chief of sta and associate with Rawle & Henderson. Mary Ann Mohr, b’06, and Mishkin director of government relations for Santa, assoc., May 25 in South Padre Kansas City University of Medicine and Jason Farley, b’04, was named to Island, Texas. ey live in Austin, where Biosciences. 04 the Master Builders of Iowa future Mary Ann is a recruiter for Embarcadero leadership program. He lives in Des Technologies and Mishkin directs tax Caleb Stegall, l’00, was appointed Moines and works at Whiteld & Eddy. resolution at Five Stone Tax Advisers. 00 by Gov. Sam Brownback to serve as Kathryn Domet Putnam, j’04, practices a Kansas Supreme Court justice. He makes law with Slowiaczek, Albers & Astley in Paul Lantis, c’07, l’10, is associate his home in Lawrence. Omaha, Nebraska. 07 attorney with Obermayer Rebmann Juan Toledo, p’04, lives in San Diego, Maxwell & Hippel in Philadelphia, BORN TO: where he’s a clinical pharmacist at UCSD Pennsylvania. Molly McNearney Kimmel, j’00, and Medical Center. Wendy Lynn, l’07, works as an associate Jimmy, daughter, Jane, July 10 in Los for Glynn & Finley in Walnut Creek, Angeles, where Molly is head writer at MARRIED California. She lives in Dublin. Jimmy Kimmel Live! Julie May, c’04, to Dontrell Austin, July Brian McTaggart, c’07, and his wife, 12 in Fort Worth, Texas, where they live. Kari, will celebrate their rst anniversary Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, j’01, Oct. 5. ey live in Chicago, where Brian 01 directs news and media relations for BORN TO: is a surety account executive at AON. KU’s Oce of Public A airs. She and her Drew Thomas, c’04, g’11, and Abbey, Amy McVey, c’07, is a consulting husband, Gregory, c’02, live in Lawrence. daughter, Vera Catherine, June 3 in meteorologist for TRC Environmental. She Kelli Deuth Calhoon, e’01, is senior Overland Park. Drew is a high-school lives in Dracut, Massachusetts. manager and air-quality consultant for instructional-resource teacher for Olathe Whitney Novak, j’07, is a research ENVIRON International in Overland USD 233. attorney with the Kansas Court of Appeals Park. She and her husband, Bradley, ’98, in Topeka. She lives in Shawnee. live in Shawnee. Joseph Bain, l’05, serves on the Lisa Gargano, c’01, works for the New 05 Kansas Board of Regents. He is vice David Harmon, g’08, m’10, is an York City Department of Health and president of the law rm of Cure and Bain 08 instructor of medicine at Oregon Mental Hygiene, where she’s a scientist for in Goodland, where he lives. Health and Science University in Portland.

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Mark Hulsey, c’08, has been promoted respiratory therapist at Children’s Mercy to senior vice president of production and Jill Custer, b’09, works as a client Hospitals & Clinics in Kansas City. executive producer at the Big Ten Network 09 service coordinator for MLB.com in Chicago. in New York City, where she lives. Erica Braker, b’10, manages market- Jenna Custer Jones, d’08, c’11, g’12, is Samuel Jeter, c’09, and his wife, Anna, 10 ing for Unbound in Kansas City. an assistant principal at Spring Hill Middle celebrated their rst anniversary Sept. 14. Nathan Carter, b’10, g’11, works in School. She and her husband, Erik, make ey live in Kansas City, where Sam is an senior transaction advisory services at their home in Olathe. associate with Polsinelli. McGladrey in Dallas. Megan Hodges McCord, c’08, works as Alyssa Boone Williamson, f’09, l’12, Blake Phipps, c’10, m’14, practices an ABA implementer for Partners in practices law with Quintairos, Prieto, medicine at the John Peter Smith Hospital Behavioral Milestones. She and her Wood & Boyer in Los Angeles. She and in Fort Worth, Texas. husband, Brett, a’06, live in Olathe. her husband, Robert, b’06, l’11, live in Patricia Ryberg, PhD’10, has received a Bryce McMichael, d’08, directs IEG in Playa Del Rey. research grant from the National Science Chicago. He and Elizabeth Buddig Foundation for her work on Antarctic McMichael, d’07, g’13, live in Clarendon MARRIED paleobotany. She’s an assistant professor of Hills. Andrew Stiles, c’09, and Brianna Fenn, biology at Park University in Parkville, Darin Olivarez, b’08, g’09, manages d’13, Jan. 4 in Lawrence. Andy coordinates Missouri. project accounting for Black & Veatch in enrollment and is an adviser at Ottawa Patrick Salyer, b’10, joined Kennedy & Overland Park. University, and Brianna is a receptionist at Coe as an associate. He makes his home in Kelli Stout, c’08, is an associate with the Luthi & Rosentreter Eye Care in Olathe. Wichita. Kansas City rm of Husch Blackwell. BORN TO: Amanda Austerman, n’11, works as a MARRIED Jordan Ferguson Lisher, b’09, and Carl, 11 nurse at Lee’s Summit Medical Center Ryan Naylor, c’08, to Myka Maxwell, ’10, son, Pierce Michael, in Lawrence, in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, where she lives June 14 in Oklahoma City. ey make where Jordan coordinates prospect with her husband, Tim. their home in Edmond. management for KU Endowment. Carl is a Elliot Johnson, b’11, g’14, coordinates

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI development for Health Care Access in clean water and medication to people in designer for Treanor Architects in Lawrence. impoverished areas of Peru and Lawrence. Anthony Mott, n’11, works for St. Luke’s Guatemala. Casey Eisenbarth, g’12, works as a of Kansas City. He lives in Roeland Park. speech-language pathologist for the Kashif Naseem, e’11, works as a MARRIED Shawnee Heights school system. She lives reservoir engineer for Schlumberger Anthony Mott, n’11, to Crystal DeLo- in Topeka. Technology. He lives in Houston. renzi, May 17 in KU’s Danforth Chapel. Timothy Ellis, c’12, received a ve-year Michael Tetwiler, c’11, a student in the ey live in Roeland Park, and Anthony teaching fellowship from the Knowles KU School of Medicine, has been accepted works for St. Luke’s Health System. Science Teaching Foundation. A Manhat- into Harvard’s master’s program in public tan native, Timothy lives in Lawrence. health and received a Fulbright Scholar- Joshua Baden, c’12, is an actuarial Emily Franke, b’12, coordinates develop- ship to study in Peru. He helped found the 12 assistant at Se2 in Topeka. He lives ment for Ronald McDonald House Coalition for Global Community Health, a in Lawrence. Charities in Austin, Texas. nonpro t organization that helps provide Kelli Blacklock, a’12, g’14, works as a Anne Salvato, c’12, g’14, works as a

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino

Sharapova latest superstar e man who hired him, Tex Swain— whose brother, Gary, was then John

to turn to Groeneveld GROENEVELD SVEN COURTESY McEnroe’s manager—tried to convince he coaching philosophy that guides Groeneveld to resume playing; Groeneveld TSven Groeneveld as coach of Maria insisted he wanted to devote himself to Sharapova—2014 French Open champion coaching. and one of the world’s most popular at’s when Swain’s brother dispatched a female athletes—grew out of a frustrating request for a coach to spend 10 days with end to his brief KU tennis career. Monica Seles, then the world’s top-ranked An unconventional path to Kansas, player, as she prepared for a tournament in from his native Holland, through a family Japan. Swain oered the gig to Groeneveld, move to South America and then two Seles won, and his career took o. years as an NAIA champion at a small For the next decade and a half he Missouri college, created a confusing coached such stars as Seles, Mary Pierce, transcript, which in turn led to a startling Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario and Greg Sven Groeneveld with Maria Sharapova’s NCAA ruling: On the eve of his senior Rusedski. French Open trophy shortly after her June year, Groeneveld, ’89, was told he had In 2006 Groeneveld joined Adidas as its victory. It was a second for both: she also won exhausted his eligibility. rst director of player development, in Stade Roland Garros in 2012, and he A Big Eight singles champion in 1987, coaching all of the brand’s players. He coached Ana Ivanovic to the ‘08 title. Groeneveld remained at KU as an assistant helped Ana Ivanovic to the 2008 French to coach Scott Perelman, but le before Open title and worked with Andy Murray completing his degree, hung up his racket and world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki. and worked construction for six months His run with Adidas ended when career is to see the person, not just the before returning to Holland. Sharapova, eager to resume her place player. Groeneveld says he is calm, “at’s why I’ve had the success,” among the tennis elite aer a frustrating observant and analytical, yet he played Groeneveld says, “because I go to the and injury-shortened 2013, asked him “forward and aggressively.” e style did person and I make sure they don’t make to join her team. not suit his personality, a lapse in judg- the mistakes I made. You learn from your “A coach’s role varies in dierent stages ment he wants to help his players avoid. mistakes, not only in tennis but in the of the player’s career, but my main role has “I nd the character, their strength, their daily activities of your life.” been performance, which is results related. inner drive, their passion, their motiva- Shortly aer nishing college in At the end of the day, what I’m doing, it’s tion, and then I assess: How do I match Holland, Groeneveld in 1991 accepted an about getting the trophy.” their game to their personality? Who is the oer to coach at a tennis school in Japan. Another lesson gleaned from his playing person that makes the player?”

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speech-language pathologist for the Pacic Megan Ritter, c’12, and Steven Belgeri, Zhi Qiao, l’13, is an associate with the Autism Center for Education in Santa c’12, May 24 in St. Louis, where they live. Tian Yuan Law Firm in Beijing, China. Clara, California. Megan is the St. Louis regional admissions Daodil Reumund, j’13, is an assistant Taylor Teague, c’12, teaches rst grade representative for the KU O ce of account executive for Pierpont Communi- in Dallas. Admissions, and Steven is a manufactur- cations in Houston. Keith Yackle, b’12, is a delivery consul- er’s representative for Central Marketing tant for Cerner in Kansas City. Associates. MARRIED Amy Schrumpf, p’13, and Christopher MARRIED Chanda Machebe, e’13, works as an Carter, p’13, May 24 in St. Louis, where Ian McGonigle, b’12, to Mary-Rachel 13 engineer trainee for the Oklahoma they live. Amy is a pharmacist at Bellevue Dick, June 7 in Dana, Indiana. Ian works Department of Transportation in Okla- Pharmacy in Maryland Heights, and for the Altria Group, and Mary-Rachel is a homa City, where she lives. Christopher is a pharmacy resident at television sportscaster. ey make their Nicholas Purifoy, l’13, practices law with Barnes-Jewish Hospital. home in Wichita. Disability Professionals in Kansas City.

PROFILE by Margie Carr STEVE PUPPE STEVE

Tenacity propels Thomas awareness of disability in life and career issues, and made a lasting impact on the group and erhaps no one is better suited to work future students. Aer being Pwith children with autism than trapped in a newly remod- Carmen omas. “I know how a disability eled Wescoe Hall elevator can scare people o,” she says. “But I think (the control panel was when the kids see me, we connect on a beyond reach of her mouth deeper level.” stick and foot), she served Born with bilateral amelia, a condition on KU’s Americans with that le her without arms and with Disabilities Act (ADA) shortened legs, omas, c’12, relies on a Review Task Force. She and Carmen Thomas, a paraeducator and autism specialist with mouth stick for most things others use other AbleHawks success- Olathe Public Schools, says her personal experience with a their hands for, and a specially designed fully advocated for hiring a disability helps her connect with the autistic schoolchildren she wheelchair which she operates with her full-time sta member works with. “They know I am not one to give up on them.” right foot. “One of the boys calls it devoted to accessibility ‘Carmen’s car!’” she says, laughing. issues and ADA education. Her wheelchair may make her popular omas also brought her aable tional desire and dedication” in overcom- with preschoolers at Olathe Public School’s personality to the group. ing di culties presented by disabilities. Harmony Early Childhood Center, where “When I got there it was all about “Nothing holds her back,” says Pat she works as a paraeducator and autism advocacy; there was nothing social about Terick, award committee chairman, noting specialist, but what makes her such an it,” she says. She began organizing monthly that her selection was a natural t. “Pete asset to a population oen considered social gatherings such as game nights and was an early advocate for special education di cult to reach are the personal traits— dinners. “It is important to have get- in the state, and we liked that Carmen is in the tenacity and outgoing nature—she has togethers to forget the stresses of school— the classroom working with special needs exhibited all her life. at least for a little while.” students.” Although doctors thought she would Her accomplishments and determina- omas likes working with the students never walk, she taught herself. She can tion impressed the Cerebral Palsy as well. “I know things don’t always come walk for short distances, usually around Research Foundation, which last year gave easily,” she says, “but I like nding her apartment. “I fell a lot in the begin- her the Peter John Loux Award, started by solutions, nding ways around the ning,” she says, “but I didn’t give up.” former Kansas House of Representatives obstacles these kids face.” At KU, omas joined AbleHawks, a minority leader R.C. “Pete” Loux to —Carr, d’84, g’89, PhD’04, is a Lawrence student organization that heightens recognize those who demonstrate “excep- freelance writer.

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Maria Rocha Arandia, e’14, works as manager for Uber in Dallas. director of development for the Oklahoma 14 a chemical engineer for Black & Matthew Gasparovich, e’14, works as a State University Foundation in Stillwater. Veatch in Leawood. She commutes from product engineer for SOR Inc. in Lenexa. Larkin Jaynes, s’14, works as an inten- Lawrence. Lauren Giarratano, j’14, works for the sive in-home therapist for KVC Behav- Sean Barker, g’14, is president and National Agri-Marketing Association in ioral Healthcare in Kansas City. Microso architect at SkyScape Technolo- Overland Park. Jessica Joe, b’14, is a marketing and gies. He lives in Grain Valley, Missouri. Dylan Gondek, c’14, manages accounts events intern at Sprint in Overland Park. Megan Bracciano, u’14, teaches music in for Valor Group. He lives in Lawrence. Anna Kimbrell, l’14, g’14, is an associate the Lawrence public-school system. Israel Grafals, c’14, is a senior loan with Husch Blackwell in Kansas City. Benjamin Buyanovsky, e’14, is an ocer for Delmar Financial in St. Louis. Madeleine Klusman, c’14, is executive assistant electrical engineer with Burns & Taylor Hatﬁeld, ’14, is assistant soball director of Five Star Quality Care in McDonnell in Kansas City. He lives in coach for the Lady Tigers at Cowley Overland Park. She lives in Weston, Spring Hill. College in Arkansas City. Missouri. Jacob Clauton, c’14, is a research Mark Hays, c’14, manages stang for Veerendra Koppolu, PhD’14, is a assistant at the Kansas Geological Survey. Supplemental Health Care. He lives in molecular biology research scientist for His home is in Paola. Overland Park. Metaclipse erapeutics in Atlanta, where Ashley Ennis, p’14, works as a pharma- Sean Heard, e’14, works as a mechanical he makes his home. cist with Walgreens in Wichita. engineer with SmithGroupJJR in Chicago. Jill Langlas, e’14, works as a project James Ferguson, g’14, is a database Julie Hettinger, d’14, is a project engineer for Chevron Phillips Chemical analyst at Russell Stover Candies in Kansas coordinator at Anschutz Health and Company. She lives in Wheaton, Illinois. City. Wellness Center in Aurora, Colorado. Jordan McNally, e’14, is associate Bethany Gagelin, d’14, works as a Kelli Hobbs, c’14, works as a customer- southern production engineer for Conti- seasonal sales representative for the service specialist for Sophia Global in nental Resources. She makes her home in Kansas City Chiefs football team. Lawrence, where she lives. Edmond, Oklahoma. Shanah Gaskill, b’14, is community Craig Jackson Jr., g’14, is associate Emily Mills, g’14, works as a learning

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI consultant for e Hartford in Overland Avondale, Arizona. He’s a mechanical McDonnell in Kansas City. She lives in Park, where she lives. engineer. Leavenworth. Kelsey Nelson, d’14, teaches physical Katherine Rowe, e’14, works as a drilling Kaitlyn Winkler, d’14, is an o ce claims education for the Gardner Edgerton engineer for Occidental Petroleum. She adjuster for Farmer’s Insurance. She makes School District. Her home is in lives in Overland Park. her home in Olathe. Overland Park. Theresa Ruperd, g’14, is an administra- Mark Withrow, g’14, works as a labora- Riley Noll, e’14, works as a structural tion director for the American Institute of tory technican for Triumph Foods in St. engineer for CEO Structures in Mission. Musical Studies in Kansas City. Joseph, Missouri. He lives in Valley Falls. Elaina Smith, u’14, works as a customer Jennifer Ohler, d’14, works as a profes- support specialist for Uhlig. She makes her MARRIED sional services consultant with the Cerner home in Olathe. Morgan Shockley, s’14, to Andrew Corporation in Kansas City. Erin Smith, PhD’14, is a research Haney, June 6 in Tivoli, Italy. She is a Cody Paul, c’14, is a performance associate at Mathew Greenwald and residential care specialist at Kids TLC in modeler with Westar Energy in Topeka. Associates in Washington, D.C., where she Olathe, and he’s a correctional o cer for He lives in Lawrence. lives. the Douglas County Sheri’s O ce. ey Tanner Poppe, d’14, plays baseball with Lauren Spain, c’14, is a university live in Lawrence. the Brevard County Manatees in Viera, service adviser at Washburn University in Florida. e Manatees are the Class Topeka, where she lives. BORN TO: A-Advanced a liate of the Milwaukee Angela St. Louis, s’14, works for Larissa Johnson Edmonds, g’14, and Brewers. His home is in Lawrence. ReDiscover in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She Brent, daughter, Lilly Elyse, May 9. Larissa Nicole Rissky, e’14, is a process engineer lives in Liberty. is a nurse at Olathe Medical Center, and with Chevron Phillips Chemical Com- Lisa Scrivener Vachalek, g’14, is an they make their home in Eudora. pany. She lives in Tecumseh. associate social-media analyst for Intouch Allen Reinhardt, c’14, and Bernadette, Katie Yohe Roberts, d’14, teaches for Solutions. She lives in Lenexa. daughter, Morgan Jane, Jan. 19 in Law- the Cartwright School District. She Chelsea Weeks, j’14, is assistant rence, where Allen works for General and her husband, David, e’13, live in marketing coordinator for Burns & Dynamics.

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 67 In Memory b’78, e’84, and John, b’84; a daughter, Cynthia, c’75; a sister; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Wallace Rouse, e’49, 86, Jan. 18 in Dorothy Moore Harbaugh, d’32, Sue, assoc.; two sons, Kevin, ’78, and Kelly, Delavan, Wisconsin, where he was a retired 30s f’32, 102, March 1 in Enid, ’82; a daughter, Susan Harmon Coleman, engineer and a retired lieutenant colonel in Oklahoma, where she was a retired teacher. n’94; and four grandchildren. the U.S. Army Reserves. He is survived by She is survived by a son, Hank, assoc.; a Mary Ewers Heimann, b’42, 93, March his wife, Rosalie; two daughters, one of daughter; three grandsons; and four 20 in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she did whom is Anne Rouse Maraccini, c’80, d’82; great-grandsons. volunteer work. She is survived by three ve sons, one of whom is omas, c’85; a C. Kenneth Harris, c’39, 96, Jan. 2 in daughters, a son, two grandsons and two sister, Mary Jo Smith Jones, c’57; and many Ottawa, where he was a partner in Central great-granddaughters. grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Check Company. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Hyde, n’48, 88, July 23 in Marjorie Jean Spurrier Sirridge, m’44, Jane, assoc.; two sons, one of whom is Scott, Courtland, where she was a retired nurse. 92, July 30 in Kansas City, where she was a ’74; a daughter; ve grandchildren; and six Her twin sister, Beverly, n’48, survives. professor emerita of medicine and dean of great-grandchildren. Robert Jelinek, c’48, m’53, 88, March medicine at UMKC. She is survived by a Harry Reitz, b’37, 98, June 19 in Eudora, 21 in Granite Bay, California, where he daughter, Mary, ’64; three sons, Stephen, where he was a retired captain in the U.S. was a retired physician. Surviving are his c’70, g’72, m’75, Patrick, c’71, l’74, and Marine Corps and a former life-insurance wife, Meryl, a son, a sister and two Christopher, ’76; and 11 grandchildren. agent. Surviving are a son, Joe, b’60; ve grandchildren. Margaret Leisy Steineger, s’49, 88, May grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and Charles “Bud” Keller, e’45, 88, June 4 in 16. She divided her time between homes in a great-great-grandson. Overland Park, where he was a retired Delray Beach, Florida, and Kansas City, John Sheaks, b’37, g’43, 101, July 11 in executive partner at Black and Veatch. where she was former board chair of the Wichita, where he was a businessman. He is Surviving are his wife, Marie; two sons, Kansas Arts Commission. Surviving are survived by a daughter, Susan Sheaks Charles V, e’68, g’70, and William, ’84; a two sons, John III, b’72, and Chris, g’92; Hammons, c’66; a son; ve grandchildren; brother, John, b’52; a stepson; a stepdaugh- two daughters, Cynthia Steineger Blair, a’74, and ve great-grandchildren. ter; two grandchildren; and ve and Melissa, j’77; and a granddaughter. great-grandchildren. Lafe Bauer, c’44, m’49, 94, March Martha “Marty” Learned, ’48, 87, May Victor Aldea, e’56, 84, Oct. 19 in 40s 14 in Mission. He had been chief 14 in Lawrence, where she was an accoun- 50sLa Junta, Colorado, where he was of anesthesia and president of the medical tant at Allen Press for 47 years. She is retired vice president of Western Canning. sta at St. Mary’s Hospital in Kansas City. A survived by two brothers, George, c’49, Among survivors are his wife, Dona memorial has been established with KU g’52, m’55, and Robert Jr., c’51, p’54. Benscheidt Aldea, b’56; three daughters; a Endowment. Surviving are three sons, two Alice Shankland Miller, ’47, 89, May 17 son; and eight grandchildren. of whom are Martin, c’69, m’73, and James, in Kansas City, where she was active in e Rev. Robert Alpers, c’55, 79, May 31 ’76; three brothers; a sister, Pera Bauer community aairs. She is survived by a in Hendersonville, North Carolina, where Eichelberger, ’49; and ve grandchildren. son, David, j’78; a daughter, Allison Miller he was retired aer a 55-year career as a Sara Jayne Scott Breyfogle, d’48, 86, Frizell, n’81; a sister, Betsy Shankland Gill, pastor in the United Church of Christ. He is April 17 in Leawood, where she was a c’59; and three grandchildren. survived by his wife, Dorothy; two sons; founder of the Olathe Service League. She W. Keith Moore, g’48, PhD’51, 91, July two daughters, one of whom is Debra is survived by a son, Scott Kreamer, c’74; a 26 in Marshall, Michigan. He was a Alpers Puga, ’76; a stepson; and seven daughter, Kate Kreamer, d’75, g’86; a professor emeritus of math at Albion grandchildren. stepson; a stepdaughter; and two College. Surviving are his wife, Mary Rebecca Larson Bohon, c’50, 86, May 24 grandchildren. Margaret Felt Moore, c’45; three sons, two in Overland Park, where she was a retired Robert Castor, b’47, l’49, 91, May 20 in of whom are Timothy, f’79, and Donel, physical therapist. Surviving are two Leawood, where he retired from a career in l’81; a brother; seven grandchildren; and daughters, Barbara Bohn, h’77, m’82, and construction. A memorial has been ve great-grandchildren. Beth Bohon Dixon, ’81; a sister, Virginia established with KU Endowment. He is William O’Brien, c’49, 88, April 25 in Larson, d’52; two grandchildren; and two survived by a son, Robert, ’73; a daughter, Leawood, where he was former vice great-grandchildren. Melinda Castor Korte, ’80; eight grandchil- president and board secretary of Home George Corcoran, c’54, 91, June 1 in dren; and seven great-grandchildren. Savings Association and a vice president of Lawrence, where he practiced law and was e Hon. Kenneth Harmon, b’47, l’50, C.F. Curry and Company. He is survived an administrative law judge and special 92, July 18 in Lawrence, where he was a by his wife, Harolyn Clark O’Brien, d’49; assistant attorney general. He is survived by retired judge. He is survived by his wife, three sons, Clark, c’76, m’79, William, a daughter, Mary Corcoran McCracken,

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI d’72; a son, George, c’81; nine grandchil- and three great-grandchildren. Gomer Stukesbary, p’50, 87, May 21 in dren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Joan Happy James, d’50, 85, July 5 Ness City, where he operated Rexall William Decker, c’57, June 13 in in Raymore, Missouri, where she was Pharmacy for many years. He is survived Parsons. He is survived by a son and two active in church and community a airs. by his wife, Becky, assoc.; two daughters; a daughters, one of whom is Dianne Decker She also helped run James Printing. son, Robert, d’73; three granddaughters; Bomar, ’80. She is survived by her husband, Roger, and ve great-grandchildren. John Eriksen, b’57, 78, May 8 in j’48; two sons, Roger, b’76, and Evan, j’78; Jerry Ward, ’50, 86, May 28 in Great Hutchinson, where he was retired vice a daughter; eight grandchildren; and ve Bend, where he was a retired attorney. He president of business development at First great-grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Norma Souther National Bank. He also was a board Edith Malott-LaBonte, c’50, 84, July 9 Ward, ’51; two sons, Martin, b’74, j’77, and member of the KU Alumni and Endow- in Palo Alto, California. She is survived William, ’78; a daughter, Dana Ward ment associations and of the Greater by a son; a daughter; a sister, Janet Malott Peters, d’77; six grandchildren; and a University Fund. A memorial has been Elliot, f’50; a brother, Robert Malott, c’48; great-grandchild. established with KU Endowment. He is three grandchildren; and three Charles Wertz, d’57, g’63, 79, March 9 survived by his wife, Jane Faubion Eriksen, great-grandchildren. in Sherman, Texas, where he was a music ’58; a son, Je , b’79; a daughter, Jana, c’81; Robert Pope, e’52, g’58, 82, March 2 in educator. He is survived by his wife, and ve grandchildren. Ballwin, Missouri, where he was executive Georgia; a son, Brad, f’78, d’81; four Forrest Fernkopf, g’58, 85, May 25 in director emeritus of eta Tau engineering daughters, one of whom is Marcy Wertz Topeka, where he had a 41-year career in fraternity. He had been editor-in-chief of Gaston, ’79; four stepsons; 28 grandchil- education and had supervised student the fraternity’s magazine, e Gear of dren; and 12 great-grandchildren. teachers at Washburn University for eta Tau. Bob and a friend developed a John Whitmore, e’52, 89, April 3 in several years. Surviving are three daugh- professional strong-man act called e Conklin, New York. He owned a research ters, one of whom is Louann Fernkopf Iron Men, which performed at venues and development company and had Fulmer, ’82; a sister; Donna Fernkopf across the nation and on several national helped design the Hubble Space Telescope. Parmiter, assoc.; six grandchildren; and TV shows. He is survived by two sons; two daughters, three great-grandchildren. Diana Sherwood Rinehart, d’51, 84, May one of whom is Jennifer, assoc.; two Cynthia Patterson Goodwin, c’55, 81, 16 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was stepsons; a stepdaughter; a brother; four July 27 in Chestereld, Missouri. She is active in Republican politics. She is grandchildren; ve stepgrandchildren; and survived by her husband, Lynden, c’54; a survived by her husband, William Jr., c’52; seven stepgreat-grandchildren. daughter; a son; a brother, Richard four sons, one of whom is William III, Howard “Press” Wilson, c’50, l’52, 90, Patterson, b’59, g’60; and two d’73; and seven grandchildren. July 12 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was grandchildren. Jadeen Scott Rivard, ’50, 80, April 28 in a retired oil and gas landman. He is Dean Grimm, e’58, 83, April 26 in Leawood, where she was active in her survived by his daughter, Eve Wilson Parker, Colorado, where he was retired church and in PEO. Among survivors are Messick, c’81; three sons; a brother; and from a career with NASA. In 2010, he her husband, Mark, b’53; three daughters; seven grandchildren. received KU’s Distinguished Engineering and a son. Dennis Wolfe, ’50, 90, Jan. 31 in Keller, Service Award. He is survived by his wife, Robert Schaeer, ’55, 83, April 23 in Texas, where he was a retired sales Eunice, assoc.; a son, Gregory, e’85; a Liberty, Missouri. He participated in track representatiave for Armco Steel. He is daughter; a brother; and ve and eld at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki survived by a son, two daughters, a sister, grandchildren. and had been president of Krug Litho Art six grandchildren and two Bill Herwig, b’50, 85, May 17 in Co. He is survived by his wife, Evie, a great-grandchildren. Overland Park, where he was retired from daughter, a son and ve grandchildren. D. Spencer Yohe, b’50, l’54, 88, June 2 a career in the oor-covering industry. Donald Slawson, c’55, 80, July 7 in in Villa Park, California, where he was a Among survivors are his wife, Betty; a Wichita, where he founded Slawson former partner at Arthur Andersen & daughter; and two sons, Robert, c’77, Companies, an independent oil-explora- Company. A memorial has been estab- and Mark, c’85. tion rm. He was former chairman of the lished with KU Endowment. He is Glen Hutchison, m’50, 92, May 9 in Kansas Board of Regents and had been survived by three sons, omas, e’73, John, Overland Park, where he was a retired past president of the KU Alumni Associa- b’77, and Rob, ’82; a sister; a brother; seven anesthesiologist and family physician. He tion and of the KU Athletics Board. He grandchildren; and seven is survived by his wife, Nada; two sons, received the 1984 Ellsworth Medallion for great-grandchildren. Michael, m’78, and Marc, m’79; two his service to KU. He is survived by his Marianne Gear Zoller, c’51, 84, April 20 daughters, one of whom is Marla Hutchi- wife, Judith Garver Slawson, ’57; three in Long Beach, California, where she had a son Crockett, n’78; two brothers, one of sons, two of whom are Todd, e’84, and career in real estate. She is survived by whom is David, ’45; six grandchildren; Craig, c’80; and ve grandchildren. three sons, one of whom is Je rey, c’77; a

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 69 In Memory daughter; seven grandchildren; and a Hutchinson, where he had been a judge, a Terrence Hofstra, c’74, 66, June 3 in great-grandson. defense attorney, a prosecutor and an Arcata, California, where he was retired assistant U.S. attorney. He is survived by a chief of resource management and science Virginia Paus Adler, ’64, 72, son, John, c’91, g’96; a daughter, Christina at Redwood National Park. In 2008, he 60sJuly 7 in Darien, Illinois. Two Rome Edwards, c’98; and six received a Meritorious Service Award, the daughters, a son, a brother and six grandchildren. second-highest honor given by the U.S. grandchildren survive. Virginia Smith Slone, d’61, 75, July 10 in Department of the Interior. He is survived Judith Bock Carey, d’62, 73, April 22 in Redding, California. She is survived by her by his wife, Marilyn; two daughters; his New Braunfels, Texas. She was a former husband, Michael, two sons, six grandchil- mother; and a brother, Gordon, b’60. teacher and is survived by three sons; a dren and two great-grandchildren. Carol Haverkamp Hood, d’74, 61, July sister, Jane Bock Fortin, d’54, g’94; and Joe Terrell, ’62, 74, June 12 in Kansas 11 in Waterville, where she was a retired seven grandchildren. City. He worked for Ford Motor Company music teacher. She is survived by a Earlene Pierce Dean, n’61, 74, Jan. 2 in and for BASF. Surviving are two sons; a daughter, Tonja Hood Metcalf, ’99; her Anaheim, California. She is survived by brother, Robert, d’66, g’75; and seven mother; a brother; three sisters, one of her husband, Murrel, assoc.; two sons; a grandchildren. whom is Diane Hood Bean, assoc.; two daughter; and seven grandchildren. C.E. “Chug” Tuttle, c’61, 78, March 29 in grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. Susan Ault Glenn, ’67, 69, March 27 in Leawood., where he founded the ChrisKev Robert Jones, c’70, l’73, 65, July 11 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is survived Company. He is survived by his wife, Bee; York, Pennsylvania. He had a 41-year by her husband, Larry, b’67; two sons, one two sons, one of whom is Kevin, c’99; and career with the Washington, D.C., law rm of whom is Brian, d’99; and four three grandchildren. of Arnold & Porter and also served as grandchildren. W. Eugene Werner, g’64, EdD’70, 83, special counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Ralph Hagenbuch, c’60, 80, April 13 in May 30 in Topeka. He was a retired Committee on Ethics and as an adjunct Wenatchee, Washington. He lived in professor of school administration and professor of law at Georgetown University. Pateros and is survived by his wife, Betty, curriculum and instruction at Emporia He is survived by his wife, Joy, two and three sons. State University. He is survived by four daughters, a son, two brothers and ve Robert La Forte, PhD’66, 80, July 11 in daughters, two of whom are Stephanie grandchildren. Galveston. He was a professor emeritus of Werner Aldridge, c’78, and Rachel Werner William Laerty, c’75, m’78, 60, May 5 history at the University of North Texas in LaHue, h’94; a son; two sisters; 12 grand- in Kansas City, where he was a professor of Denton and is survived by his wife, children; and three great-grandchildren. medicine at UMKC. He is survived by his Frances, three sons, seven grandchildren Cecil Williams, l’60, 78, May 18 in partner, Kevin Foxworth, and two sisters, and ve great-grandchildren. Fraser, Colorado, where he had a long Laine Laerty Smith, d’65, and Patricia Janeth Auer Levitt, d’61, 75, April 8 in career as an attorney and judge. He is Laerty Ballard, c’72. Alhambra, California, where she was a survived by his wife, Martha “Marty” Jane Sullivan Martin, s’79, 73, June 11 retired music and special-education Ormsby Williams, ’61; a daughter, Allison in Solomon, where she was a retired teacher. She is survived by her husband, Williams, c’91; two sons; and ve counselor. She is survived by her husband, Tom; two daughters; a sister, Mary Lou grandchildren. James, assoc.; two daughters, one of whom Auer, d’63; and two grandsons. is Mary Martin Benson, g’90; a son; a David McKnight, m’62, 81, March 11 in Lynn Neudoerer Beahm, sister; and six grandchildren. Emporia, where he was a retired radiolo- 70s d’70, 65, Dec. 25 in Irving, James Olson, j’74, g’92, 67, April 11 in gist. A sister, Mary Palenske, ’81, survives. Texas. Two daughters, a son and a Tecumseh, where he was former executive Neil Niewald, b’64, 71, April 23 in grandson survive. director of the Community Resources Wichita, where he had a career in nance Betty Jo Canning Charlton, c’70, g’76, Council. He is survived by his wife, Anne and money management. He is survived 91, July 22 in Lawrence. She was the rst Stauch, h’76; a son; three sisters; two by his wife, Barbara Higginbottom woman elected to the Kansas Legislature, brothers; and a granddaughter. Niewald, f’64; a daughter, Molly, ’90; a and in 1997 she was inducted into the KU son; and two grandchildren. Women’s Hall of Fame. Survivors include Kay Clancy Dolson, g’84, 72, Barbara “Bobbi” Mattix Richards, two sons, one of whom is Richard, c’78, 80sFeb. 11 in Kansas City, where she d’69, 67, March 26 in Garnett, where she h’80; and two granddaughters. had been a speech pathologist. She is was a self-employed nancial manager. A Ernest Hall Jr., m’78, 60, May 6 in survived by her husband, Ed, b’60; two memorial has been established with KU Spring eld, Missouri, where he was a daughters, one of whom is Jennifer Dolson Endowment. She is survived by her physician. He is survived by his wife, Orvis, d’96; a son, Michael, b’86; two husband, Stephen, g’72; and a son, Kyle, Andrea, assoc.; ve daughters; a son; two sisters; and 11 grandchildren. g’02, PhD’11. stepdaughters; three stepsons; his mother; Patrick Gaston, l’85, 63, April 22 in Richard Rome, l’61, 80, June 15 in two sisters; and 21 grandchildren. Kent, Washington, where he was a retired

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI case ocer for the U.S. Department of Midwest. He is survived by his parents, as a records specialist with the KU Alumni Homeland Security. He is survived by his Michael, m’85, and Mary Pat Lange, assoc.; Association, where for many years she was wife, Jane, assoc.; a daughter, Amelia a brother; and his grandparents. the curator of KU class banners. Among Gaston Scheuer, d’10; and two brothers. Chester Nez, f’12, 93, June 4 in Albu- survivors are her husband, Ronald, a sister Joan Kay Raab, c’81, n’83, 55, July 11 in querque, New Mexico, where he was a and a brother. Overland Park, where she had a 25-year retired corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. Walter “Stitt” Robinson, 96, June 20 in career as a nurse. She is survived by her He was the last surviving member of the Lawrence, where he was a KU professor mother, Kay Raab, g’78; and four brothers, original 29 Navajos recruited by the emeritus of history. A memorial has been Stephen, c’75, Louis, ’76, Mark, c’79, and Marine Corps during World War II to established with KU Endowment. He is omas, ’83. develop the military code used for survived by his wife, Constance Mock Virginia “Ginny Pat” Volk, c’81, 55, communication during the battles of Robinson, ’57; a daughter, Barry Robinson April 17 in Arlington, Virginia, where she Guadalcanal, Guam and Peleliu. e code Cook, d’73, g’87, EdD’98; a son, Walter, was retired from a 32-year career with the talkers, who used Navajo as the code c’75; a sister; and a grandson. Federal Aviation Administration. Among language, were forbidden to tell anyone Dennis Saleebey, assoc., 77, July 16 in survivors are two brothers, Dietrich, b’76, about their work until 1968, when the Lawrence, where he was a KU professor and Richard, ’79; and a sister, Elizabeth, information was declassied. In 2001, emeritus of social welfare. He had chaired c’79, m’84. Chester received a Congressional Gold the doctoral program and had helped Medal from President George W. Bush. found the school’s Strengths Perspective, Todd Holloway, ’91, 45, April 10 Survivors include two sons, nine grand- which focuses on an individual’s strengths 90sin Lawrence. He had been a nurse children and eight great-grandchildren. and available resources to solve problems. at Select Specialties Hospital in Kansas Donvontae Walton, g’14, 24, July 7 in A memorial has been established with KU City. Surviving are his mother, Judith Blacksburg, Virginia, where he was a Endowment. He is survived by two Holloway, g’75; a sister, Jill Holloway residential learning coordinator at daughters, one of whom is Meghan, s’97; Dunham, s’85, s’90; and two brothers, Virginia Tech. He is survived by his father, two sons, one of whom is John, ’91; and Kevin, ’80, and Rick, ’08. Elem, ve brothers and sisters and his two sisters. His wife, Ann Weick, assoc., Amy Kvasnicka, c’92, 45, June 7 in grandmother. died May 31. Lawrence. She taught in the Basehor and Owen Spitz, e’58, g’70, 81, May 21 in Linwood school districts before joining THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY Lawrence, where he was retired from a Sumner Academy in Kansas City, where Ruben Bunag, g’62, 83, June 17 in 33-year career with the Kansas Geological she taught Spanish for more than 17 years. Lenexa. He was a retired KU professor of Survey. He is survived by his wife, Connie She is survived by her mother and pharmacology. Surviving are his wife, Rainwater Spitz, d’73, g’82; two sons, stepfather, her father and stepmother, a Proserna; a daughter; a son, Royce, c’83; William, e’82, and John, e’89; a daughter, brother, a sister and a stepsister. eight grandchildren; and four Anne, c’91, e’91; seven grandchildren; and Kiran Ahuja Minocha, m’93, 45, June 25 great-grandchildren. three great-grandchildren. in Overland Park. She practiced internal Owen Henson, g’52, EdD’61, 87, July 2 Ann Weick, assoc., 73, May 31 in medicine at Menorah Medical Center and in Topeka, where he had been acting Lawrence, where she was dean emerita of is survived by her husband, Hans; three superintendent and deputy superintendent the KU School of Social Welfare. Her work sons; and two brothers, Deepak Ahuja, of the Topeka Public Schools. He also was helped pioneer and grow KU’s Strengths c’83, m’87, and Alok Ahuja, c’84. an adjunct professor of education at KU Perspective, a model of social-work and at Emporia State University. Surviving practice. A memorial has been established Tyler Martine, a’01, 35, May 9 in are a son; a daughter, Chris Henson, g’80, with KU Endowment. She is survived by 00s Oakland, California, where he g’82, PhD’83; two grandchildren; and two daughters, one of whom is Meghan was an architect with Skidmore, Owings & three great-grandchildren. Saleebey, s’97; two sons, one of whom is Merrill. He previously had worked for John Myers, d’62, g’67, 73, May 8 in John Saleebey, ’91; a brother; and a sister. WRNS Studio. Surviving are his wife, Topeka. He served on KU’s faculty and Her husband, Dennis Saleebey, assoc., Jennifer Larrabe Martine, ’03; and a son. sta for 16 years and later was economic died July 16. Joseph York, g’00, 65, June 26 in development specialist for Topeka and Ruth Bruhns Wiley, assoc., 78, June 27 Overland Park. He is survived by a owner of Myers Consulting Services. He is in Lawrence, where she was an accountant daughter, his mother, a brother, a sister survived by his wife, Sally Ann Mott in the KU comptroller’s oce and also and a granddaughter. Myers, d’66; a son, John Jr., ’93; a daughter, worked for KU’s department of housing. Kristina Myers Kaiser, c’93, j’99; and two Surviving are her husband, Arnold, assoc.; John “Jack” Lange, ’17, 19, July 13 grandsons. two daughters, Sandra Wiley Barnett, b’79, 10sin Lawrence, where he founded a Betty Banks Howe Otto, assoc., 71, July g’84, and Lisa Wiley Horkey, b’82; a sister; band, e Faded Age, that toured in the 23 in Tonganoxie. She had a 47-year career and ve grandchildren.

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Theatre professors John Staniunas and Peter Zazzali guided the new Kansas Classical STEVE PUPPE STEVE Repertory Theatre through its ﬁrst season this summer, directing two plays that shared one set.

“ e actors were running back and forth from one rehearsal to another, having to change their game and working with two directors who work in very dierent ways,” Staniunas says. e creation of the Kansas Classical Repertory eatre is part of University eatre’s push to professionalize its summer oerings. Half of the company consisted of KU students, and half were students from professional actor training programs. e Jayhawks are mostly recent graduates. “ ere’s no greater test,” adds Zazzali, “ is is the last thing they’ll do here,” Round and round assistant professor of theatre and director Staniunas says. “So it’s their rst profes- of “ e Comedy of Errors.” “It gets sional gig.” Rotating repertory challenges schizophrenic. Not only because you’re in e theatre hired one professional student actors, faculty directors two dierent productions, but those two equity actor and hopes to build on that dierent productions are dierent worlds, number in future. e BFA and MFA eter Zazzali and John Staniunas say dierent styles.” students from the professional programs Pthe dozen or so actors who performed Repertory theatre—a company of actors have a lot of production experience as in the new Kansas Classical Repertory performing a series of plays, opening and well. e result is a “mature, professional eatre company’s inaugural season this closing one production before moving on quality” experience, according to summer met the kind of challenge that to the next—is fairly common in the Staniunas. helps create careers on the stage. theatre world. Less common is rotating “It’s really raised the game for every- Performing in two plays—“ e Comedy repertory, where multiple plays are all body,” Zazzali says, “especially for our KU of Errors” and “ e Boys from Syracuse”— open simultaneously. students, to be exposed to that sort of at the same time, the actors had to learn Less common still is rotating rep in c omp any.” multiple roles for very dierent theatre which the plays share the same set, as the e directors count themselves among styles. KU company’s productions did through- those pushed to raise their game by the “ ey have to have the abilities to do out July at the Craon-Preyer eatre in rotating repertory format. Shakespeare and a musical, which are two Murphy Hall. “ e Boys from Syracuse,” “Rotating repertory is just so challeng- of the most dicult things to do in by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and ing and demanding,” Zazzali says. “You’re theatre,” says Staniunas, professor of George Abbott, opened July 11; Staniunas trying to accomplish twice as much with theatre and director of “ e Boys from transplanted the 1930s musical comedy to the resources that would generally go to Syracuse,” a 1938 musical based on a Victorian “steampunk” setting. e play just one production. But it can be doubly Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity. it’s based on, Shakespeare’s “ e Comedy rewarding for the audience, in this case “You’re singing and dancing and using of Errors,” opened July 12; Zazzali staged especially so because the shows have very verse. It takes chops, and it gives them his production of the Shakespeare classic closely related narratives that are told in what I call ‘railroad tracks.’ If they can in homage to commedia dell’arte, which very dierent ways.” do this, they’re going to have the ability has origins in 16th-century Italy. Kansas Classical Repertory eatre will to do a lot of other things.” Rehearsals were intense. perform every July, providing some

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI structure to the theatre department’s Child Health Development and co-direc- unfortunately, oen involve water. Autistic summer o erings. tor of the Kansas Center for Autism children can be particularly entranced by “When you’re starting anew each Research and Training. “And then the water, for the way light plays o the summer, it’s always dicult to decide, other thing we know is that they don’t surface and, when submerged, the thrill of ‘Well, what should we do now?” Staniunas have the same kind of social knowledge. A the unique sensations they feel on their says. “Now we’ve got a sort of charter as to little 2-year-old is not going to take o and bodies. Once exposed to such experiences, where we want to take the summer.” not come back; some of them don’t even they will do whatever it takes to return, —Steven Hill leave their parent’s leg, and if they do and oen with tragic consequences. something scares them, they’re back. As with another of his current research “Kids with autism don’t have that kind projects, in which rural caregivers and of social perception, that kind of bonding, school specialists across Kansas are being Beacons of hope and that kind of fear of strange and trained to assist in autism evaluations, unusual situations. And, a lot of them do with expert consultation provided via KU’s Locator device will ease worries have a very excellent memory.” telemedicine technology, Reese hopes to for parents of austic children Reese estimates that 60 to 70 percent of involve the wider community in address- autistic people, from toddlers to adults ing autism’s unique challenges, many of hortly before noon on a sunny across the autism spectrum, will at some which play out with life-or-death urgency. Ssummer day, 5-year-old Gene Cory- point wander, or, as the researchers Emergency responders are already being Ferguson slipped unnoticed from his describe it, “elope.” trained in how to best interact with grandparents’ home in rural Cass County, With funding provided in part by a autistic children and adults, and he hopes Missouri. By that evening, July 8, break- grant from the National Institute of Child that dangers of particular threats—such as ing-news headlines delivered devastating Health and Human Development, Reese water—gain greater appreciation among reports that police divers had found the and his team of KU researchers in 2010 those who will be the rst to provide help. child’s body submerged in an algae-cov- joined with Intellispeak, a Lawrence-based “is is a real translational project,” ered pond just 100 feet from the house. developer of high-tech health care Reese says, “something that’s going to be While heartbreaking for family and products, to create hand-held locator useful in so many ways.” neighbors, the tragedy also added yet devices that would o er parents much- —Chris Lazzarino more urgency to KU Medical Center needed peace of mind while also poten- research devoted to helping parents and tially allowing for greater autonomy for police quickly nd autistic children such their children. as Gene who wander from home, driven to When activated, the device, which A novel KU journey repeat strong memories of previous resembles a standard mobile phone, sensory experiences. displays arrows that guide parents or Moriarty’s latest chapter is “We know that one of the characteristics searchers to a lost child (or adult) who is as author of Common Book of autism is having an intense interest in outtted with a locator beacon, either in a something, being fascinated by particular cellphone that children like to carry or ven before they arrived at KU in objects or particular things,” says Matt hidden in a shoe or bracelet. Unlike the EAugust, incoming freshmen and other Reese, PhD’87, director of the Center for currently available GPS-based devices, newcomers had homework: read the novel Reese says, this system e Center of Everything, chosen for the also works inside build- third installment of the campus commu- ings: think supermarkets nity reading and discussion program

STEVE PUPPE STEVE and shopping malls, where called KU Common Book. autistic children who If it’s any solace, they weren’t alone in manage to break free and their summer assignment. Author Laura bolt are quickly lost in a Moriarty, s’93, g’99, newly tenured crowded, confusing scene. associate professor of English, also had to “We all see these news return to her debut novel, published to reports when children go wide acclaim in 2003. missing. It’s scary, and for “To be honest, I haven’t read it,” Mori- parents, it’s incredibly arty said in late July. “I’ve never re-read stressful,” Reese says. one of my books. Even when I do a “Parents tell us, ‘We don’t reading on book tours, there’s something sleep. We sleep in shis.’” kind of painful about reading your own Reese e scariest scenarios, prose. I’m sure it will be strange. I wrote it,

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of course sometimes anxious or bewil- toil in relative anonymity, but it’s all dered, but even then, I understood that happening where she continues to work as STEVE PUPPE STEVE being here, being part of a community so a teacher and writer. focused on research and learning, was a “I wasn’t sure, when I was writing it, gi. Now that I’m on the faculty, I still feel what I was doing,” she recalls. “People fortunate to be part of this kind of would ask me what my book was about, community.” and I would say it’s about a girl growing up Students already have interacted with in Kansas. eir eyes would sort of glaze Moriarty on an Internet video chat, with over and I would think, ‘Oh my god, what questions submitted via Twitter am I doing? Is this going to work? Is this (#KUCommonBook). Moriarty’s keynote ever going to be published?’ address is set for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 23, in the “And to think that now not only was it Lied Center. e primary event will be published, but it’s going to be the common followed the next book at the very university where I wrote morning by a and where I learned so much about smaller-scale ques- writing and where I walked around while I tion-and-answer was hoping and working on it, it’s pretty session, this time amazing.” scheduled for the —Chris Lazzarino Laura Moriarty says she is eager to Natural History experience her novel’s reception as the Museum’s Panorama KU Common Book: “The book has room, which Moriarty enjoyed a pretty wide audience, so I’ve used as a setting in Fourth and long already had some experience with her book. people talking about it, which is “I got my under- Sportswriter examines football’s wonderful, but it will be so interesting to grad here in social ability to alter destinies have that take place not just in a campus work, then I went community, but my campus community.” back for graduate school in creative he Sunshine State is perhaps unri- writing and now I’m teaching here,” says Tvaled in its cultivation of champion- Moriarty, who has published four novels ship tennis players, golfers, swimmers, with a h scheduled to be delivered to sprinters and baseball players, yet, from I remember writing it, I’m the same her editor next spring. “It’s the only Key West to Pensacola, football is Florida’s person who wrote it, but it will seem in university for me. I really do love it. And I passion, and enclaves in South Miami, some ways like someone else did.” love teaching. I like that I’m at the same Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville and the tiny e Center of Everything, the rst novel place where I was a student. Everglades towns of Pahokee, Belle Glade chosen for KU Common Book by Chan- “ere’s this nice continuity to that. I’m and Immokalee are rightly proud of their cellor Bernadette Gray-Little, on a just so honored that this is happening.” football stars. recommendation from the program’s Moriarty’s most recent novel, e Few, however, can equal one tiny Fort review committee, was selected in part for Chaperone, enjoyed strong reviews and Myers neighborhood—Dunbar—which its explorations of a young woman’s sales, including a movie deal, and has has produced nearly two dozen NFL growth through a dicult home life in taken Moriarty around the country on players, including superstars Deion small-town Kansas, with particular focus publicity tours. Yet despite her hesitance to Sanders, Jevon Kearse and rookie sensa- on issues of economic inequality and again read the book that launched her tion Sammy Watkins, the No. 4 overall educational opportunity. career, Moriarty seems intent on soaking pick in the 2014 NFL Dra. at the novel’s journey also happens to up the experience. Not only is the ongoing Fourth Down in Dunbar, by veteran Fort lead its protagonist, Evelyn Bucknow— attention unusual for authors, who tend to Myers sportswriter David A. Dorsey, j’94, whom we meet as an inquisitive 10-year- reveals how Dunbar’s unfortunate legacy old in ctional Kerrville, Kansas—to of drugs and gangs helped create a Mount Oread is a happy bonus. More online community passion to steer promising “I remember when I was writing this o view Moriarty’s video chat with athletes away from the dangers of the book, I was thinking a lot about what it Tstudents and see the complete street, encouraging instead athletic meant for me to come to KU as an schedule of events, visit excellence that oers the promise of undergraduate,” Moriarty says. “As a new ﬁrstyear.ku.edu/commonbook/2014. university educations and, potentially, NFL student from a small, faraway town, I was paydays that can foster generational

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI Helsinki announced in the journal Nature mountain belt. Previous seismic models Fourth Down in Geoscience that they had identi ed and estimated that earthquake energy would mapped a previously unknown and active disperse north and south; now Taylor and Dunbar, by David A. fault line about 40 miles long in the high, his colleagues say a major seismic event Dorsey western Himalayas. would also radiate east and west, magnify- $24.95, University e discovery potentially represents a ing damage forecasts. Press of Florida leap in the understanding of geologic Working in collaboration with Nepalese pressures that created the Himalayas, with scientists, Taylor is spreading the word larger implications for the entire notion of about the startling new forecasts among mountain formation worldwide. municipal governments, school o cials At a human level, the newly identi ed and operators of the country’s hydroelec- change for an extended family. fault system—which runs east-west, as tric plants. He hopes to convince o cials “Dunbar introduced America to crack opposed to previously known faults, which to build safer school buildings and educate cocaine in its cruelest form,” Dorsey are oriented north-south—creates fright- citizens about emergency preparedness. writes. “ e same drug culture that ening scenarios of immense devastation. “ ey’re very open,” he says of Nepalese threatened these young athletes, destroy- Kathmandu, with a densely packed reception to his research. “ ey’ve ing some of the most promising among population of about 2.5 million, is just 140 experienced large earthquakes in the past, them, also once protected them, providing miles from the recently identi ed Tibrikot they know they occur, and if there’s any teenagers wads of cash, clothes, shoes, and fault, and a regional capital, just 62 miles way that we can help them understand support to keep them out of the drug from the fault, has 30,000 residents. better, they are very receptive to that.” business and on track toward their goal of Taylor and his colleagues determined Taylor has traveled throughout Nepal reaching the NFL.” that two quakes of a magnitude 7.9 or and Tibet since 1998. He rst identi ed With unrivaled access to an insular greater occurred along the fault between the new fault by studying satellite imagery, community, Dorsey examines football’s the years 1165 and 1400. at’s the same and two years ago received funding from place within the context of its local culture, magnitude of the earthquake that in 2008 KU to travel to Nepal for closer analysis, bravely tackling di cult and sensitive killed more than 70,000 people in nearby which, a er complex data analysis, issues of race and economic disparity. Sichuan, China. con rmed his initial suspicions. Fourth Down in Dunbar provides impor- “If you have the same process occur in “I’m basically an overeducated back- tant reminders that, when the true Nepal, which is poorer and has less packer who looks at the world very opponent is found on the streets rather infrastructure, you could increase the similarly to regular people, but just than across the line of scrimmage, sport in death rate by an order of magnitude, through a di erent lens,” he says. “I try to American society is about so much more easily,” Taylor says. understand the timing and the rate at than the scoreboard. Young lives, not wins Taylor, who completed postdoctoral which these mountains build. It’s very and losses, hang in the balance. studies at Caltech before joining KU in fascinating. I love it.” —Chris Lazzarino 2005, says previously held assumptions about plate tectonics’ role in the formation —Chris Lazzarino of mountain ranges are no longer entirely Nepal’s peril valid. e model works well for rigid oceanic plates, he says, where deformation PUPPE STEVE Geologist identiﬁ es dangerous is concentrated around the edges, “but that doesn’t work for the continents. Deforma- fault line while advancing new tion occurs all the way throughout the ideas on Himalaya formation plates; they get crumpled and mashed up and they kind of ow. So they are funda- arthquake dangers that loom over mentally not plates. at’s a major focus of ENepal took an ominous turn earlier my research, to really characterize how the this year with the announcement by a KU continents form.” geologist and colleagues refuting long-held In the case of the Himalayas, it had been theories about plate tectonics that formed assumed that pressures applied by the the Himalayas are not entirely accurate. Indian subcontinent’s northward creep of Mike Taylor, associate professor of about 5 centimeters a year crumpled the geology, and colleagues from the Univer- Eurasian plate. Taylor’s research contends sity of Houston, Dalhousie University in that along with those pressures, there also Canada and Finland’s University of is an east-west stretching of the Himalayan Taylor

ISSUE 5, 2014 | 75 Glorious to View Photograph by Susan Younger

The stone walls of Marvin Hall— built in 1908 from Oread limestone quarried nearby—tower above Jayhawk Boulevard beneath a blue summer sky.

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