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FEATURES

Dire Diagnosis 24 Six counties have no pharmacist and another 30 have only one. A $50-million proposal aims to relieve that shortage by expanding the only pharmacy program in the state—KU’s.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

The Art (and Science) of Teaching 40 The Center for Teaching Excellence urges faculty to tackle their classroom work with the same scholarly bent they bring to research. CTE’s ideas are changing the way we talk about teaching.

BY STEVEN HILL

COVER You Gotta Have Faith 32 Wild, wonderful and worth waiting for: The greatest season in KU football history wraps up with an win.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Cover photograph by Steve Puppe

Volume 106, No. 1, 2008 24 Lift the Chorus Track back in the pink? I was turning the pages of my scrap- books, remembering old girlfriends, the Honorable mentions behavior. I have a friend who raises great days of living at Oread Hall as a stu- about 100 head of buffalo within 100 dent, and the glory days of Kansas track “With Honors” by Chris Lazzarino miles of Lawrence. He confirms what and field when the July issue of Kansas [issue No. 6, 2007] was very inspiring Ms. Brown says about the meat from Alumni reached my hands. and gave credit to the integrity of your grass-fed animals having much lower A wonderful publication is Kansas magazine. fat content. Alumni. It keeps me posted on current As one of many However, he knows how dangerous KU events and what has happened in the who served in these animals are. A buffalo can leap a 5- lives of students past. I enjoyed the piece Vietnam, I com- foot fence just like a deer and frolic in the on the 2007 track and field season mend Cpl. Josh field with the agility of puppies. But they [“Gold rush of ’07,” Sports]. What a great Goetting, and the also can run faster than a horse for a mile job coach Stanley Redwine has done others identified or more, and the herd bull, when threat- with this program. Kansas track and field in the article, for ened, can and will toss a calf into the air is back competing for conference and their service in a like a pillow and then gore it to death. national championships, and outstand- time of crisis and They are not domesticated animals. ing individual performances once again threat to our The picture of Ms. Brown standing in grab headlines. country. I look front of the bison suggests that this is as I attended the 2007 Big 12 Outdoor forward to seeing safe as posing in front of cows. It is not, Championships in Lincoln, Neb., and Cpl. Goetting’s name as a graduate of just as it is not safe for motorists along came away so proud of our team. I was the KU School of Law. I-70 near Hays to get out and pose with reminded of the days of Wes Santee, Al I have enjoyed reading the magazine the bison. Check this out and then warn Oerter, Cliff Cushman, , Jeff for the past 47 years and keeping up your readers that Ms. Brown’s pose Buckingham, Kristi Kloster-Burritt, Cliff with the school’s activities in my should not be attempted. Wiley and Candace Mason Dunback. At Lawrence birthplace. John P. Hastings, c’67 the same time, I understood that our cur- Cecil Wayne Williams, l’60 Leawood rent group of kids has been able to reach Colonel, USAF (Ret.) back and reconnect with Kansas track Fraser, Colo. and field tradition. The gap between the champions of the past and those of the Let me say how much I enjoyed the present has been closed. recent “First Word” column by Jennifer Indeed, we thank so much coach Red- Jackson Sanner [issue No. 6, 2007]. wine and his many fine athletes: Ashley Arlington is one of my favorite places in Brown, Colby Wissel, Crystal Manning, this world. My wife, Shirley, and I are Julius Jiles and Barrett Saunders, to name blessed to have visited the cemetery with a few. To those who hold KU track and kids, kids-in-law, grandkids or alone at Editor’s note: Photographer Jamie Roper, a field close to our hearts, the resurrection least 20 to 25 times through the years. former resident of Hays well acquainted of our beloved program is much appreci- Goose pimples, chills and a few tears with the ways of buffalo, used a long lens to ated and long awaited. each occasion. Thanks for the great story compress the distance in this photograph—as However, to this old buff the resurrec- and touching memories. a result, the bison and Ms. Brown appear tion is not complete until our team once Larry Welch, c’58, l’61 closer together than they actually were. The again competes in the pink and blue, the Lawrence landowner was also nearby to monitor the uniform that speaks loudly of the great situation, according to Roper. “We were tradition of Kansas track and field. Where the buffalo rampage near the pickup and ready to dive for cover The time is now: Bring back the pink if it came to that,” Roper reports, “because and blue! Your article in the July 2007 issue Mr. Hastings is right: Buffalo are not cows.” Kirby D. Clark, d’61 about Hilary Brown and her Local Burger But they are freaky when they look at you. Tonganoxie restaurant at 714 Vermont St. [“Rare Burger,” Rock Chalk Review] was inter- esting, but it may suggest dangerous What do you think about Kansas Alumni? E-mail us at [email protected]

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Publisher 8 Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 DEPARTMENTS Creative Director LIFT THE CHORUS Susan Younger, f’91 2 Letters from readers Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 5 FIRST WORD Steven Hill The editor’s turn Editorial Assistants Karen Goodell 6 ON THE BOULEVARD Katie Moyer, j’06 KU & Alumni Association events Photographer 8 JAYHAWK WALK Steve Puppe, j’98 White Owl’s a hoot, mascots wed, finals on ice Graphic Designer and more Valerie Spicher, j’94 10 HILLTOPICS News and notes: Debaters make strides; Editorial and Advertising Office campus conservation pays off. KU Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 18 SPORTS 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 : Men take perfect record into Big 12 www.kualumni.org play and women post impressive start. e-mail: [email protected] 46 ASSOCIATION NEWS KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by Rallies rev football fans, Chapter Challenge kicks the KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, off and more. May, July, September and November. $50 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publi- 50 CLASS NOTES cation: 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Period- Profiles of a pop-up artist, a family doc, icals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. an arts icon and more POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas 68 IN MEMORY Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS Deaths in the KU family 66045-3169 © 2008 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- member issue price: $7 72 ROCK CHALK REVIEW Students win Disney accolades; updates his life story. 76 OREAD ENCORE The view from On the Hill

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BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER First Word

special events, a rarity in December. Maureen Mahoney, who hosted the l’90, handed me a plastic bag filled with Flying Jayhawks newspaper clippings from 1948, when trip with her the Jayhawks first played in the Orange husband, reports Bowl. She thought the brittle scraps that the watch might soon come in handy. party was the Her mother, Alberta Cornwell highlight of the Mahoney, c’47, c’49, had saved the trip for their mementos from her years on the Spirit fellow travelers. Squad. Over the phone days later, Not so long ago, Alberta explained that 60 years ago she these alumni had sold a pint of blood and borrowed might have gin- money from another cheerleader, Joanne gerly checked the Woodward Goodhart, c’48, to make the KU-KSU score, trip to . Still short the train fare, wincing at the “I just grabbed my skirt and sweater, result. hopped on the train and went,” she said, ■ When in Sicily, watch the ’Hawks–at least that’s the motto of this Four weeks a tinge of youth- stalwart group of Flying Jayhawks travelers. later, the Corn- ful mischief in huskers came to her voice. Lawrence. The Mahoney also oach pinpoints sight of sold-out Memorial Stadium, exuded pride, Oct. 6 as a pivotal day in KU’s awash in royal blue, not Nebraska red, saying she was dream season, and rightly so: was as wondrous as the final score. “so, so lucky” to The Jayhawks beat the Another sight to behold appeared attend KU, where CWildcats in Manhattan for the first time Nov. 23, the Friday night following she thrived under since 1989. Thanksgiving. More than 4,000 Jay- the tutelage of But Oct. 6 might also mark the date hawks risked frostbite to fill a Prairie the indomitable when KU partisans first experienced the Village parking lot for an extraordinary Cora Downs, early onset of a syndrome not normally rally. The Association, KU Athletics and PhD’24, profes- prevalent until spring. Characterized by the Williams Educational Fund created a sor of microbiol- obsessive thoughts and manic outbursts, home away from home at the Corinth ogy. Clearly her the condition struck unexpectedly, Square shopping center on the eve of gratitude for Mahoney spreading quickly over vast distances. that game against you know who. The great teachers has Consider the following: band blared, the Rock Chalk roared and burnished her school spirit through the As the sun set that evening over our football favorites appeared two sto- years. Catania, Sicily, 5,598 miles from ries tall on a gargantuan video board, Indeed, it is the total KU experience Manhattan, Jayhawk tourists from the giving thanks for KU tradition and that Jayhawks celebrate, even when States huddled in a dark room. Ignoring tried-and-true fans. they’re not in the grip of football fever. the enticements of the picturesque By Dec. 4, we marveled at the At Kansas Alumni, we’re privileged to village they had traveled so far to see, the prospect of another Orange Bowl after revel in the many aspects of that incom- contingent watched KU vanquish K-State nearly 40 years. That night, Kansas City parable experience. In this issue, we offer in real time on a big screen, thanks to the alumni gathered to hear Chancellor the latest examples of KU’s commitment foresight of Craig Stoppel, j’91, who had Robert E. Hemenway share a preview of to creating vibrant classrooms and meet- tucked in his suitcase a gadget to connect the 2008 Kansas legislative session. ing the health care needs of the state and a laptop in Sicily to his home computer Amid discussion of KU’s dedication to the nation. And, hallelujah, there’s a in Lawrence. Lora Stoppel, assoc., the cancer research and expanding phar- bonus: a cover story of football glory. Alumni Association’s vice president for macy education, talk turned to football— Rock Chalk, Jayhawk.

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15 The Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and the Band of the Coldstream Guards 17 Takács Quartet with Joyce Yang, piano 19 “The Musical Misadventures of Flat Stanley” 19 “Catch-22,” Aquila Theatre Co. 21 “Ring of Fire” 21 Symphonic Band & University Band 26 KU Symphony Orchestra

MARCH 9 The Aspen Ensemble 11 Bales Chorale Concert, Bales Organ Recital Hall 12 Pilobolus Dance Theatre

■ ■ One of the hottest Orange Bowl events in chilly South Florida was the Alumni Association’s Lectures pregame rally at Calder Race Course, adjacent to Dolphin Stadium, where 5,000 fans, as well as Big FEBRUARY Jay and the , got their game faces on. A few of the younger ’Hawks warmed up 11 Phil Carrizzi, Hallmark Sympo- with a touch football game in the track’s grassy paddock, then posed for a team picture. sium, 3139 Wescoe Hall 25 Sean Adams, Hallmark Sympo- sium, 3139 Wescoe Hall ■ Exhibitions ■ University Theatre 27-28 Paul Muldoon, Humanities “An Idyllic Vision: The Modern Japan- Lecture Series, Kansas Union ese Landscape,” Spencer Museum of FEBRUARY Art, through the spring semester 9-10 “Rumplestiltskin,” by MARCH “El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios,” Moses Goldberg 10 Roger Black, Hallmark Sympo- , 29, March 1-2, 6-8 “Twelfth sium, 3139 Wescoe Hall Feb. 2-May 18 Night,” by William Shakespeare “Reframing Society: Russian Construc- ■ Special events tivist Photography,” Spencer Museum ■ Lied Center Events of Art, Feb. 2-May 18 FEBRUARY FEBRUARY Art Department Faculty Exhibition, 23 Life After KU: Educational Art & Design Gallery, Feb. 17-29 3 Prairie Wind Festival Concert Sessions for the Class of 2008, “Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contem- 7 Jazz Ensembles I, II and III Adams Alumni Center porary Art of the 1960s,” Spencer 8 Philip Glass, solo piano Museum of Art, March 1-May 18 MARCH 14 KU Wind Ensemble 10-14 KU Spirit Week

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■ Academic calendar

MARCH 17-23 Spring break

■ Alumni events

FEBRUARY 2 Boulder: KU vs. Colorado Pre-game event 6 Phoenix: School of Engineering Alumni Reception 16 Kansas City Membership Drive starts 18 Hays: North Kansas Chapter Reception with Chancellor Hemenway 19 Denver Chapter: KU Alumni Night with the Denver Nuggets MARCH 9 Neodesha 20 San Francisco Chapter: KU 1 Lawrence: Flying Jayhawks 10 Logan Alumni Night with the Warriors Annual Reunion 16 Scott City 20 Great Bend: West Central Kansas 13 Kansas City: Big 12 21 Greensburg Honor Roll Chapter Reception with Chancellor Tourney Kickoff Party Hemenway 13-16 Kansas City: 24 Portland Chapter: KU Alumni Big 12 Tournament Information about Night with the Trailblazers watch parties and 28 Dallas: School of Engineering ■ Kansas other Association Alumni Reception Honors events, call 800- Program 584-2957 or see FEBRUARY the Association’s 4 Pittsburg Web site, 11 Beloit www.kualumni.org. 11 Fort Scott 13 Great Bend 18 Holton 20 LaCygne Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS 21 Larned University Theatre tickets ...... 864-3982 27 Hiawatha Spencer Museum of Art ...... 864-4710 Natural History Museum ...... 864-4540 MARCH Hall Center for Humanities ...... 864-4798 5 Washington Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 26 Atchison KU Info ...... 864-3506 Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 APRIL KU main number ...... 864-2700 Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS 2 Oakley Booth Hall of Athletics ...... 864-7050 3 Pratt Dole Institute of Politics ...... 864-4900

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Spirit man behind the bench after he and lineman James Sincerest flattery, though, came from the McClinton met by chance. “He’s a very true-blue bird himself. In homage to KU’s he hallmarks of a first-rate college mas- passionate dude, a man of faith,” McClinton newest superfan, donned tie-dye for Tcot are there. Bright costume? Check. says. “He had his own cheering section! He a halftime performance. Manic dance moves? Check. Willingness to was striking up the crowd, had ’em going. “The Jayhawk dressed as me?” White do anything to inspire fans to new heights Like I said, passionate.” Owl enthuses. “That’s not something that of adoration? Check, check, check. White Owl’s fame spread via You Tube happens every day, man! I was overjoyed!” No, the cheerleader in question isn’t (multiple videos show him grooving his White Owl overjoyed? That we’ve gotta Big Jay, but one Jimmy Neil Tucker. In the limber-limbed victory dance) and College see to believe. tradition of Tan Man, that 1980s campus Humor.com (which STEVE PUPPE fixture, Tucker—better known by his credited him as one Native American moniker, White Owl— reason for football’s attracted attention this fall with his high- historic success). spirited shenanigans on Wescoe Beach. Clad in tie-dye duds, Rasta hat and abun- dant beads and bangles, the 60-year-old former student strutted the steps sharing his irrepressible enthusiasm and pro-KU message with anyone who’d listen. “I want to inspire people to be their best,” says Tucker, ’82. “If we don’t seize the day, don’t grab it and celebrate it, we lose one of the reasons we’re here.” Such gusto resonated with the football team, which supplied White Owl with seats PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSICA VIRTUE

Mascot love hen we heard Big Jay and were getting married, we thought it sounded like a Wmarketing idea gone bad. The crazy kids get along so well. Why complicate matters? Turns out we needn’t have worried: It’s the folks inside the suits who are in love. Christopher Veit, e’05, and Jessica Virtue, c’06, j’06, met while serving on the mascot squad. Being among the select few who fill the big yellow shoes of our feathered icons gave them ample time to get acquainted. A shared passion for all things crimson and blue sealed the deal. They tied the knot Oct. 20, “the only stretch during football season with two away games,” says Virtue. “One for the wedding, one for the honeymoon.” The festivities had a suitably KU flair: The best man and two bridesmaids were former mascots, and Big Jay and Baby Jay made an appearance, too. “One of the nice things about KU’s mascots is we have two, so you can kind of play off each other,” says Veit. Adds Virtue, “It’s nice to find someone you can play off so well.”

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he University’s new emergency notification system debuted on the CHRIS LAZZARINO T first day of finals week, as freezing rain bore down on Lawrence. With a burst of e-mails and mobile-phone text messages, administrators cautioned students that should ice force KU to close, final examinations could not be made up until Jan. 17, the first day of spring semester. PEARSON LEROY LARRY KU began tracking closures in 1972, and in those 35 years, classes had been canceled during finals only once, due to Vietnam War protests; alas, while the rain arrived as forecast, temperatures hovered close enough to freezing that streets and sidewalks were reduced to slushy messes rather than skating rinks, so intrepid test-takers trekked on through the dreariest day imaginable. KU an EU PTPer Never, however, did the prospect of a trip to the Orange Bowl sound lovelier. he Nov. 24 KU- football game Twas broadcast coast-to-coast by ABC, and then some. Thanks to the North American Sports Network, based in This place is for the birds Dublin, Ireland, fans in more than 10 mil- lion homes in 37 European countries were ount Oread’s latest building took only weeks to complete, required no state funds able to watch the game live. Mand encountered zero red tape. Best of all, feathering this nest requires nothing When Patrick Sturgeon, j’87, joined more than twigs and mud. NASN four years ago, the satellite-cable Teacher Mike Pisani, c’96, who since 2005 has helped kids at Hilltop Child Develop- sports network only reached Ireland and ment Center build birdhouses for a winter project, got into the act himself with a realistic the United Kingdom. Now it’s nearly as replica of Fraser Hall. The mini-Fraser, complete with twin cupolas and flags, as well as ubiquitous across Europe as its new owner, perches and nest holes, was auctioned with 28 children’s creations. The entire project ESPN, is stateside. raised $530—and that ain’t chicken feed. “Anything on ABC, CBS or ESPN, we “They have a good time doing it, and the money goes to have deals in place with those networks so Hilltop families who need some help with the holidays,” says we’re able to have our picks of the best Pat Pisani, g’68, Michael’s mother games,” says Sturgeon, NASN’s director of and longtime director of the cen- operations. “So we’ve always shown a lot ter. She notes this is the first in a of KU basketball.” line of KU birdhouses. Up next NASN’s blanket coverage of all March R. STEVE DICK, UNIVERSITY RELATIONS year is the Campanile. Madness video feeds has helped turn “I almost expect they’ll countless Europeans into be keepsakes more than fanatics—all the way down to accented working birdhouses,” screams of, “Gimme the rock, baaaby!” she says. Guess Big “People are learning catch phrases from Jay will have to people like Dick Vitale, John Madden, Chris crash elsewhere. Berman,” Sturgeon says. “We’re truly bringing America to the Europeans.” But must we export Dick Vitale? OK, fair enough. Serves ’em right for making us watch their soccer every four years.

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 9 Hilltopics BY STEVEN HILL

KU has a long legacy of success in debate. The Resolved program ranks fourth in the number of National Debate Tournament national championships After cutbacks in competition, KU debate (four) and third in final four appearances (13), regains national prominence with endowment and it has qualified for the tournament in 40 con- and tournament success secutive years. No other public university ranks as high in any of those categories. Harris has won two different national coach of the year honors magine that KU’s top-10 basketball team since 2006, and last year the team ranked third in could send only its starting five to the Maui the last poll of the season and reached the final Invitational in November because it needed four of one of the two national title tournaments. to save limited travel funds for the NCAA At the time of the October reunion, the 2007 Itournament in March. squad ranked No. 1 in the country. That problem—inconceivable for the basketball “It has been transformative in allowing us to Jayhawks—has been all too real in the past few compete with those schools that we define as years for KU’s debate program. Despite its status our peer institutions,” Harris says of the new as a perennial powerhouse, KU debate had to cut endowment, which is split among travel, student back on the number of students it could scholarships, research and send to tournaments because the budget recruiting. “In debate, that’s wasn’t keeping pace with the rising cost the Ivy Leagues and private of travel. schools—Harvard, Dartmouth, ■ Coach Scott Harris (left, Debate alumni decided to do some- Northwestern, Emory.” with former team captain thing about that, formulating a plan in Though financial support for Jonathan Wright, c’07, 2001 to raise $1 million in five years debate remained steady through- j’07) leads a resurgent and $3 million in 10. At a reunion out the past decade, KU lost debate program that is this October, the former ground to other schools that benefiting from increased debaters announced that increased their budgets. In fact, alumni fundraising. they had reached the $1 Harris says, “it wasn’t just the million milestone. big programs” who were leaving The new funds have led the Jayhawks in the dust. to a resurgence for debate Schools like Missouri State and at KU. UMKC were able to lure students “The alumni fundrais- with better scholarship offers and ing has allowed us to con- bigger travel budgets. tinue to travel debaters Mark Gidley, c’83, c’83, and nationally, and that has Zachary Grant, c’83, are two of a been critical,” says number of alumni who helped Scott Harris, debate organize the fundraising cam- coach since 1991. paign in a bid to return the KU “We had fallen to program to the top. But Gidley, being able to travel who won the national champi- only a handful of onship with Rodger Payne, c’83, students, but now in 1983, says the renewed sup- we have returned port for debate isn’t all about to being one of championships. the top pro- “We like winning, but we also grams in the want to see more students par-

country.” ticipate in debate,” Gidley says. STEVE PUPPE

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI “That takes resources. Even with a $1 million endowment, we’re traveling about 25 students on a budget that’s really set up for 12 to 15.” Gidley and fellow alumni hope $3 million would not only put the current debate ranks back in the black, but would also ensure the program’s long-term health. Toward that end, an alumni advisory committee headed by Joel Goldman, R. STEVE DICK, UNIVERSITY RELATIONS STEVE DICK, R. c’74, l’77, has pledged to match the first $160,000 in donations. The goal, Gidley says, is to broaden support beyond just debate alumni. “We’re trying to get a funding platform from across the Univer- sity, because if you’re a loyal Jayhawk, you should be proud of KU debate. We want to make sure that it’s still around 50, 100, 150 years from now.” Debate prepared Gidley well for his career in law. He is a partner at White and Case, LLP, where he heads the global competition practice. “It’s something that sticks with you your whole life,” he says. “Debate helps you in the board ■ Craig Martin and Edward McBride Jr. won the HOPE Award in November. It marks room just as it helps you in the classroom.” only the second time that the honor, given annually by the senior class, has gone to That’s a sentiment that Harris hears a lot from multiple winners. his former debaters. “Most of our alumni, when they come back, say debate was the best educational experience neers didn’t get involved in campus activities they had at KU. It’s an opportunity to have an much,” says McBride, e’66, g’73. “To motivate incredibly intensive educational experience on engineering students to get out and vote wasn’t several levels.” easy for an engineering faculty member to do, On that point there’s no argument. and I think he was very proud of having done it. I “The HOPE is think he’d be reasonably proud that I won.” the most meaning- ◆ ◆ ◆ McBride teaches six classes and runs review ful award and the sessions for five or six others. “I think the students appreciate that a lot,” he most important HOPE won says, noting that the Sunday sessions are packed. because it comes “It’s a lot of people for a Sunday, so the students Two get student-generated obviously think it’s worthwhile.” from students.” award for progressive teaching Craig Martin, professor and chair of ecology —Craig Martin“... and evolutionary biology, also won the HOPE in lecturer with five years on the KU 2001; he joins only two others—Clark Bricker and faculty and a professor who has spent C.R. “Rick” Snyder—to win multiple times. He is a his entire 28-year career in Lawrence Chancellors Club Teaching Professor and the win- received the 2007 Honor for an Out- ner of numerous other teaching awards since Astanding Progressive Educator Award. joining the KU faculty in 1980. It was only the second time in the 48-year his- “To me the HOPE is the most meaningful tory of the HOPE that the award went to two fac- award and the most important because it comes ulty members in the same year. Winners were solely from students,” Martin says. “Because it’s announced on the field during the Nov. 17 foot- seniors, they are choosing from among 40 or 50 ball game against Iowa State. different professors they’ve had over four years. Edward McBride Jr., a lecturer in civil and envi- So that makes it that much more meaningful.” ronmental engineering and a finalist in 2005 and Martin says the award was bittersweet this 2006, joins his father, the late engineering profes- year. He suffered a stroke in September, which sor Edward McBride Sr., who won the HOPE forced him to stop teaching his 1,000-student award in 1974. intro biology course. “It meant a lot to him because back then engi- “This group of students was just so personal; it

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really tore me up to have to stop teaching that million-and-a-half one way or another.” course,” says Martin, who received more than 400 Ideker says Chevron had to pay KU about letters from students while in the hospital. He $500,000 in each of the first two years of the deal. reports that his doctors “are rather amazed” at the “Early on in a project that happens sometimes,” speed of his recovery. He will be back in the class- he says. “It’s a matter of settling the dust and get- room for an upper level course in January and ting things tweaked up.” plans to resume teaching the introductory course Figures for year three of the deal, which ended next fall. on June 30, 2007, are still being calculated.

STEVE PUPPE Chevron first approached the University in ◆ ◆ ◆ 2000, when it performed a feasibility energy analysis, which Ideker calls a “quickie overview,” to determine if formulating a more detailed plan Lights out would likely identify significant savings. In 2001, Chevron did a comprehensive energy analysis Improvements designed to boost that specified $20 million in improvements. campus energy conservation efforts Construction on those improvements began in are paying big dividends fiscal 2002 and finished in 2003. Chevron replaced a large boiler in the power plant with a Pride pays off hree years after it began, a partnership more efficient model, replaced pipes east of Mal- The “Proud To Be A between the University and Chevron ott Hall to improve the efficiency of a central cool- Jayhawk” tailgating Energy Solutions that aims to cut energy ing unit for five buildings, reworked a major consumption through equipment electrical distribution system across campus to fundraiser, which Tupgrades and conservation measures is saving improve efficiency and reliability, replaced auto- donates $1 from every KU better than $1 million a year on utility bills. flushing mechanisms on toilets to cut water use, football program sold at Known as an energy performance contract, the and added automated controls to several campus home games, generated agreement began in fiscal 2004 after two years of buildings to allow fine-tuning of heating and cool- construction projects to upgrade heating, cooling ing systems. nearly $5,000 this fall. and lighting systems in several locations across In the Kansas Union, for example, room reser- The campaign has raised the Lawrence campus. The $20 million, 19.5-year vations are entered into a software program con- $25,000 since it began in contract calls for KU to finance the nected to the building’s climate controls. The 2002. Four KU groups improvements, which Chevron completed, will split this season’s and pay for con- proceeds: KU Math and struction costs Science Center, the with energy sav- Mi Familia program, ings. Chevron guarantees the International House and University that it the Commission on the will save at least Status of Women. $1.5 million annually on its utility bills for the life of the contract. “The contract says that if you don’t see that million-and- and-a-half in savings, we will cut you a check to make up the differ- ence,” says Rod Ideker, an energy resource manager for Chevron Energy Solu-

tions who works at KU. “So PEARSON LEROY LARRY you are going to see the

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI program automatically turns the heating or cool- ing on when a room is in use and off when it’s empty. Perhaps the most dramatic change, Ideker says, is the replacement of 20,000 light fixtures Visitor with efficient fixtures that reflect more light while using fewer lamps and lower wattage bulbs. “We Monsters of the deep cut the number bulbs in half and the bulbs use two-thirds as much power,” he says, “but the light aleontologist Mike levels in the building are higher.” PEverhart, adjunct cura- According to figures released by Don Steeples, tor of paleontology at the STEVEN HILL vice provost for scholarly support, during Energy Sternberg Museum in Awareness Week in November, conservation prac- Hays, talked about the tices on the Lawrence campus helped slash elec- Kansas fossil find that tricity use by 13,292,950 kilowatt hours in fiscal inspired National Geo- 2006, which amounted to savings of more than graphic’s new 3-D IMAX $500,000. Natural gas consumption also dropped film, “Sea Monsters: A Pre- by 608,310 therms. The cutbacks lowered the historic Adventure.” University’s carbon dioxide emissions by more than 15,000 tons and saved enough electricity to WHEN: Nov. 15 power 490 homes for one year. Doug Riat, director of facilities and operations, WHERE: Natural says the contract allowed KU to take care of History Museum deferred maintenance projects—like upgrading the campus electrical system—that were still years BACKGROUND: Everhart is credited from being funded through traditional sources. with rediscovering a 1922 paper by Kansas “This contract allowed us to go ahead and get paleontologist Edward Sternberg, describing a some of those projects done,” Riat says, “and dig near Logan County that unearthed a that’s what made it attractive at that time. Now I mosasaur skeleton that featured the swallowed “Mosasaurs are think that energy savings is a bigger issue because remains of a small plesiosaur. After examining the bad guys in clearly we’re paying more for utilities than three the specimens in the Smithsonian Institution, he the movie. Some- or four years ago. Every kilowatt hour or therm brought them to the attention of National Geo- we reduce provides even greater savings than we graphic. times extinction is would have thought when the contract was a good thing—you signed.” ANECDOTE: Everhart said he hoped While equipment improvements produce National Geographic might do a magazine story would not want to “automatic” savings, there’s room for individuals on the unusual specimen; instead, the society share your oceans to conserve. Ideker supervises four energy moni- decided to make a 40-minute film that uses with these guys.” tors, environmental studies students hired to stunning 3-D animation to bring these long- —Mike Everhart walk through campus buildings. They look for extinct creatures to life. They enlisted him as an open windows, lights or computers left on in adviser on the film (parts of which were filmed empty offices, and other energy wasters, and they at KU) and later asked him to write a compan- talk with students and staff about conservation ion book, Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of steps they can take—like turning off lights. the Deep. “We have a software program that gives us real-time data on electrical meters in individual QUOTE: “We had to teach the animators buildings, and we can see the kilowatts dip on how the animals would actually swim, and we days an energy monitor walks through,” Ideker didn’t want them to make these creatures look says. “The next day it stays down. like underwater Bambis—which they kept “Usually by day two people have forgotten and wanting to do. It took months to get the anima- it goes back up again,” he says. “But what seems tors to the point that they were working with like a simple thing works. We’ve seen the evi- us instead of against us.” dence of that.”

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FUNDRAISING KUEA posts endowment gain, elects new trustees STEVE PUPPE Strong donations and a solid return on investments raised the University’s endowment to $1.24 billion in 2007, an increase of 18 percent. A record 43,400 donors contributed $94.3 million to the KU Endowment Association during the fiscal year, which ended June 30. The long-term invest- ment program, which makes up almost two-thirds of the endowment’s total assets, gained 19 percent. The strong showing allowed KUEA to distribute $94.9 million to the Univer- sity: $24.3 million for student aid, $20.8 million for faculty, $18.2 million for pro- grams, $17 million for capital support ■ Mazen Dimachkie (first row, second from left) and his staff at the Peripheral Neuropathy Clinic at and $14.6 million for books, equipment KU Medical Center were awarded national center designation by the Neuropathy Association this and supplies. Since it was founded in fall. The designation recognizes excellence and makes available advanced treatments to clinic patients. 1891, KU Endowment has provided $1.4 billion in support to the University. The figures were released at the Daicoff, c’77, Ridgewood, N.J., managing MEDICINE November annual meeting, which also director and senior credit policy officer Nerve disorder clinic saw election of three new trustees to the at Standard & Poor’s; and Brian Mitchell, receives center designation association’s board: Tom Bowser, j’68, b’86, Elkhart, a third-generation farmer Olathe, president and CEO of Blue Cross and owner of the 33,000-acre Mitchell KU’s Peripheral Neuropathy Clinic in and Blue Shield of Kansas City; Cathy Farms. October became one of only seven such clinics nationwide to receive National Neuropathy Center designation from the Neuropathy Association. The coveted designation recognizes excellence in care, education and Update research connected with the disease, and he University on Nov. 15 successfully tested a it will allow the clinic to expand its serv- CHARLIE PODREBARAC Tnew system to provide emergency alerts via ices for patients with peripheral neuropa- text messaging. thy, a nerve disorder that causes tingling, More than 11,000 students, faculty and staff numbness and pain in the hands and members have signed up for the alerts, which are feet. The disorder affects up to 20 million sent as a text message to their cell phones. Americans, including half of all diabetes The text alerts are part of a larger effort to patients. improve KU’s emergency response system “This will make us a one-stop shop for (“RUOK?”, Hilltopics, issue No. 4). Text messaging patients, so to speak,” says Mazen is seen as particularly important in reaching stu- Dimachkie, center director. “They will be dents. “There’s something of a generational divide,” says Marlesa Roney, vice provost able to have their needs met across the for student success. “People my age use e-mail, but for most students today, text mes- entire spectrum of diagnosis, treatment, saging is one of the primary forms of communication.” counseling and education, and rehabilita- KU will also use e-mail alerts, voice-mail messages and Web page alerts to commu- tion.” nicate during emergencies. In , the fire alarm systems in many buildings allow In addition to receiving advanced public address broadcasts. diagnostic tests and treatments, Dimachkie says, patients can enroll in the clinic’s research database. Enrolled

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patients are eligible to participate in research studies testing experimental Milestones, money and other matters treatments that explore nerve regeneration. ■ AN $11 MILLION GRANT from the National Institutes of Health will help build the Center for Biomedical Research Excellence at the KU Medical Center. The multidisciplinary DOLE INSTITUTE center will conduct research on molecular regulation of cell development and differentiation Presidential politics and public that aims to find new ways of repairing damaged organs and tissue. KU is one of three uni- service topics of Dukakis talk versities to receive the Institutional Development Award, which goes to states that have not traditionally received high levels of NIH funding. Michael Dukakis shared his views on his own 1988 campaign for president ■ JEROME DOBSON AND ADRIAN MELOTT have and the current presidential nominating been named fellows of the American Association for the process during a Nov. 29 visit to KU’s Advancement of Science, the world’s largest science society.

Dole Institute of Politics. (2) UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Dobson, professor of geography, was recognized for “diverse Dukakis, who won work on geographic information systems, advanced remote the Democratic party’s sensing and large area change analysis, as well as for exemplary nomination but lost the editorial and administrative work in geography,” according to general election to then AAAS. Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, was recog- Vice President George nized for “distinguished contributions to cosmological large- H.W. Bush, said he Dobson scale structure, for organizing public support for teaching should have responded evolution and for interdisciplinary research on astrophysical to attack ads and impacts on the biosphere.” They will be honored at the associa- stayed with the grass- tion’s February annual meeting in Boston. roots, door-to-door campaigning that ■ A $2.4 MILLION GRANT from the National Math and Dukakis served him well in the Science Initiative will help launch UKan Teach, an effort to boost primary. He called grass-roots organizing the number of qualified math and science teachers in U.S. the key to the Democratic party’s future. schools. A collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts “This red-state blue-state stuff, I don’t and Sciences and the School of Education, the program is buy it,” Dukakis said. “I think there are a designed to grant a degree in math or science and a teaching lot of disaffected Republicans. For the license in four years. Democratic party to basically concede Melott half the country without a fight is a los- ■ CHANCELLOR ROBERT E. HEMENWAY was elected to the executive committee ing strategy.” of the Association of American Universities. The 11-member committee oversees the Wash- Dukakis called for reform of the nomi- ington, D.C.-based organization that represents 60 of the nation’s most prestigious research nating process, as well, calling the cur- universities. rent primary campaign for both parties “preposterous.” ■ WAYNE SAILOR, g’67, PhD’70, professor of special education and associate director “This has to be the last time we have a of KU’s Beach Center on Disability, won the 2007 Distinguished Research Award from the primary where states are leapfrogging Arc of the United States, the world’s largest community-based organization for people with one another. Next time the Iowa caucus intellectual and developmental disabilities. The national award annually recognizes an out- will be at Thanksgiving. The whole thing standing researcher whose work has a significant impact on life with disabilities. is crazy.” The former Massachusetts governor, ■ JAN ROSKAM this fall received a lifetime achievement award from the American who now teaches at Northeastern Uni- Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The honor recognizes his achievements in airplane versity and UCLA, met with KU students design, education, configurations design and textbook writing. Roskam retired from the during his visit. University in 2003 as the Ackers Distinguished Professor of Engineering. “We are producing fabulous young people in this country,” he said. “There’s ■ THIRD-YEAR LAW STUDENTS LUKE SINCLAIR AND DAVID BRITTON a very strong instinct for public service, took first place at the National Criminal Procedure moot court tournament in San Diego more than I can remember. I’ve never this fall. They defeated teams from 40 law schools to become the first KU students to win seen anything like this, in terms of their the event. desire to serve and be involved.”

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Robinson, the New York City native often referred to as the heart and soul,

STEVE PUPPE even the “glue,” of the KU men’s basket- ball team, scored just five points in Kansas’ first road game of the season against Southern California, the Jay- hawks’ only ranked pre-conference opponent. USC freshman sensation O.J. Mayo missed 15 of 21 shots from the field, and was off the mark on eight of his 11 3-pointers in the 59-55 KU win, largely because of Robinson’s diligent 33 minutes of defense. “I don’t care if he makes shots. I don’t care if he has seven assists and only two points,” Self says. “What I care about is whether our team is a lot better when he’s in the game. And if that’s the case, we’re usually going to play pretty well.” ■ With his ball-hawking Playing “pretty well” is just what the defense and playmaking Jayhawks have done so far this season. Entering conference play, KU is unde- abilities, senior Russell feated, rolling over nearly every oppo- Robinson spearheads a KU nent with a 25-point average scoring attack that leads the nation margin, a gap that is No. 1 in the nation. in margin of victory. Along with the USC nail-biter, Kansas has endured only two other close calls— an overtime win over Arizona, 76-72, in November and a hard-fought contest against , 71-66, on the road Dec. 18. Although Self says he doesn’t judge Unbeatable balance Robinson by stats sheets, the veteran is Senior guard Russell Robinson adds posting more numbers than ever before in his KU career. Setting a pace to crack stability to a KU team full of promise the school record books and lead the team in assists for the third consecutive ill Self explains that, when it comes to year, Robinson dished out a career-best 11 assists assessing his players, senior guard Rus- against Ohio—the most by a Jayhawk since Aaron sell Robinson is a breed apart. Robinson Miles registered 11 during a February 2001 con- is the one Jayhawk on the men’s basket- test. His eight steals against Yale Dec. 29 were a ballB squad whose performance is evaluated using career high, and one swipe short of tying the KU one simple standard—the outcome of the game. single-game record held by Miles. “The only way I think you grade him [Robin- Junior guard Mario Chalmers is no stranger to son] is if we win or not, because he can impact a record-breaking performances. Along with his game in so many ways that don’t show up in the 23-point showing against UMKC that tied a career stats sheet,” Self says. best, he leads the Big 12 and ranks fifth nation-

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI ally in steals. Self calls him “the best anticipator I’ve ever coached,” but “What I care about is whether our team is a lot better when Chalmers attributes his sense of anticipa- he’s in the game. And if that’s the case, we’re usually going to play tion to Robinson’s relentless perimeter defense. “Most of my steals come from pretty well.” —Coach , on guard Russell Robinson Russell’s defense and from him pressur- ing the ball. Whoever he is guarding STEVE PUPPE wants to get rid of the ball and I just try bother Self. “I think that’s the strength of to read the passing lanes,” Chalmers our team,” the KU coach says. “I heard says. Brandon do our coaches show a little bit Chalmers’ fellow junior guard Bran- ago and he said ‘a different guy a differ- don Rush has exceeded expectations in ent night,’ and that’s one of the great his recovery from ACL knee surgery. things [about this team]. We’ve got Although Rush’s projected return was multiple go-to guys.” early December, he played 12 minutes Heading into Big 12 play, one word and scored seven points in his season enters every conversation about KU— debut against Washburn Nov. 15. He balance. The first 11 games revealed returned to the starting lineup one seven different leading scorers. Four month later, when KU defeated Ohio in Jayhawks have double-digit scoring aver- Kansas City’s Sprint ages, led by sophomore Center, where Big 12 forward Darrell Arthur. tournament play will The upperclassmen be held in March. STEVE PUPPE bring experience to the Robinson’s fellow floor, and a deep bench senior starter, forward gives Self plenty of pro- Darnell Jackson, has ductive player combina- emerged as a major tions to work with. frontcourt force, lead- Such a responsive ■ Sophomore Danielle McCray leads the ing the team in team disposition Jayhawks in scoring with 16 points a game. rebounds and averag- resulted in a perfect ing double-digit scor- 15-0 non-conference ◆ ◆ ◆ ing each game. record, which will pre- “D-” dedicates pare the Jayhawks to every play to his late face two major confer- The young and grandmother, who ence road tests against passed away following nationally ranked Texas the restless complications from a (Feb. 11) and Texas car accident caused by A&M (March 8). Youth movement gives way a drunken driver in On the floor or off, to sophomore growth spurt 2005. This season, he Robinson does his best already has much to to be the glue that holds for women’s basketball team dedicate, recording Robinson KU in perfect balance. hen she analyzed her personal bests in both scoring and After their impressive pre-conference team’s prospects for the rebounding. showing, the Jayhawks have their sights coming season, fourth-year With the return of two critical players, set on a fourth consecutive league crown, women’s basketball coach (Sophomore guard Sherron Collins was and of course, a shot at the national title. WBonnie Henrickson cited speed, athleti- out six games after surgery on his left “We’re seniors. This is our last go cism and size. She hoped for improved foot), a slew of seniors thirsty for a around. We’re going to go out with a outside shooting, and said a key would national championship, and a few bang and leave our mark on Kansas,” be steady play from the point guards. promising freshmen, the Jayhawks seem Robinson says. But those are just the details. What to have found the secret to a successful If he’s right, March will see the well- Henrickson’s young Jayhawks needed season. balanced Jayhawks tip the scales in their most of all was confidence and, ulti- No player has developed into an favor. mately, victories. apparent go-to guy, but that doesn’t —Katie Moyer With half of the roster taken up by

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STEVE PUPPE They did not suffer a home loss until McCray’s injury. opening play Jan. 9 “Kelly is being more aggressive, taking against Oklahoma State. better shots, and defensively being more “When a freshman messes up, I about solid,” Henrickson says. “But the key blow a gasket, and that happened every thing for Kelly is that she was prepared third possession last year,” Henrickson mentally. She wasn’t hanging her head says. “This year, we’re playing with more and pouting. She stepped in and is play- confidence, offensively our balance is ing with a lot of confidence.” better, and more players are playing with McCray rejoined the starting lineup at experience.” Xavier, scoring 24 points for her third Henrickson’s optimism might have 20-plus-point game of the season; as the been derailed in mid-December, when Jayhawks entered conference play, she McCray was diagnosed with a “stress had scored in double figures in every reaction” in her left leg. Though she game in which she’d played. ■ Sophomore Kelly Kohn started every game missed only three games, McRay’s “Everybody is relaxed, playing within last year; now she’s a key reserve. Her coach uncertain status could have put her themselves,” McCray says. “It’s really fun cites Kohn’s good attitude as critical for the youthful teammates into a spin. right now—better than last year, that’s for young team. Instead, Henrickson says, the sure.” Jayhawks rallied, and none more than Adds McIntosh, the team’s senior freshmen, and four new starters, the McCray’s fellow sophomore Kelly Kohn. leader, “Come Big 12 time, we plan on 2006-’07 Jayhawks opened their season Kohn was one of only two Jayhawks to being in the top half of this thing. This 4-1, then lost 15 of their next 17 games. start all 31 games season, and she led the team is better and more experienced Henrickson’s young ’Hawks closed team with 1,019 minutes. than last year, and we’re willing to put in strongly—they beat Colorado in overtime, She lost her starting job this season, the dirty work to get it done. I think toppled Texas for the second time in as yet was in good spirits and eager to con- we’re ready.” many seasons, beat rivals Kansas State tribute when called upon following —Chris Lazzarino and Missouri, then upset Oklahoma State in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament—but still they finished the season 11-20. “When we played all those young kids last year, it was painful, to be honest with Updates you,” Henrickson says. “But for the growth of the team it was the best thing to do, to let them play, gain experience, ot only did football enjoy unprecedented success, to learn and grow.” Nbut the Athletics Department as a whole is on This year, with the solid leadership of quite a roll. As the men’s and women’s basketball teams seniors Taylor McIntosh (a rebounding headed into conference play in the second week of Jan- uary, those two squads and the football team enjoyed specialist averaging nearly eight boards a Langford game) and Jamie Boyd; the offense of an utterly remarkable combined record of 40-3. And sophomore Danielle McCray, with a don’t think any of that’s been lost on Strong Hall: Provost Richard Lariviere expects team-leading 16 points a game; super- a “dramatic” surge in admissions applications. “These successes,” he says, “make smooth sophomore Sade Morris’ 12 institutions visible and raise them in the consciousness of virtually everybody in the points, four rebounds and three assists a country.” ... game; freshman center Krysten The softball and teams last fall raised a combined $9,460 to benefit Boogaard’s inside presence; and junior breast-cancer research, and on Jan. 8 handed checks to the Susan G. Komen Breast point guard Ivana Catic’s four assists a Cancer Foundation. Since its creation in 1982, the Komen Foundation has raised game, the Jayhawks not only charged out more than $740 million for research. ... Former KU guard Keith Langford, ’05, on to a fast start, but also kept up the pace. Dec. 28 signed with the , becoming the ninth Jayhawk on an NBA After starting 11-1, the Jayhawks roster this season. ... Former KU catcher and third baseman Rob Thomson, ’86, the posted their second loss Dec. 21 at Jayhawks’ team MVP in 1984 and ’85, has been hired as the New York Yankees’ bench Cal-Berkeley, then rebounded with con- coach by new manager Joe Girardi. Thomson’s .443 batting average in ’84 remains secutive victories over Boston University the KU record; he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 1985, became a coach in ’88, at home and at Xavier in Cincinnati. and joined the Yankees in 1990.

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Tennis Sports Calendar FEBRUARY 2 at Arkansas 3 at Tulsa Men’s basketball 11-15 at Big 12 Championship, 10 Illinois Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City 16 UMKC JANUARY 23 at Kentucky 26 Nebraska Swimming & diving 24 at Eastern Kentucky 30 at Kansas State JANUARY MARCH FEBRUARY 26 Iowa 1 at BYU 2 at Colorado 5 at Kansas State FEBRUARY 4 Missouri 9 New Mexico 8 at Iowa State 9 Baylor 14 at Colorado 27-March 1 at Big 12 Champi- 11 at Texas 16 at Missouri onship, Austin, Texas 16 Colorado 23 at Oklahoma State Men’s golf 27 at Iowa State FEBRUARY JEFF JACOBSEN MARCH 7 at Hawaii-Hilo Invitational 1 Kansas State 25 at The All-American, Houston 3 Texas Tech MARCH 8 at Texas A&M 10 at Cajun Classic, 13-16 at Big 12 Champi- Lafayette, La. onship, Sprint Center, Kansas City 14 at Schenkel-EZGO Invita- tional, Statesboro, Ga. Women’s basketball Women’s golf JANUARY ■ Senior Terri Schramka (center), here vs. Iowa State, was FEBRUARY 26 Texas A&M eighth in the Big 12’s 200 backstroke and was named first team 17-19 at Papa John’s Collegiate, 30 at Oklahoma Academic All-Big 12. Miami, Fla. FEBRUARY 25-26 at Fresno State 2 Iowa State Indoor track & field Invitational 9 at Kansas State JANUARY MARCH 13 Colorado 25 Jayhawk Invitational 17-19 at Betsy Rawls Invitational, 17 Nebraska Austin, Texas FEBRUARY 20 at Texas Tech 1-2 at Husker Invitational 24 at Missouri Softball 8 at New Balance Collegiate Invita- 27 Texas tional, New York City FEBRUARY MARCH 15-16 at ISU Classic, Ames, Iowa 8-10 at Central Florida Invitational, 1 at Iowa State 15-16 at Tyson Invitational, 15-17 at UNLV Invitational 5 Kansas State Fayetville, Ark. 22-24 at Houston Invitational 29- March 1 at Big 12 Indoor, Lin- coln, Neb.

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 23 Dire Diagnosis

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

■ Pharmacy Dean Ken Audus and pharmaceutical chemistry graduate student Kelly Desino, g’06, in a West Campus laboratory. In Greensburg (opposite page), Jamie McElwain and her husband, Vic.

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI Kansas towns need more pharmacists. KU hopes to meet the need.

AMIE ESTLACK MCELWAIN GREW UP WORKING IN HER HOMETOWN PHARMACY. SHE DISHED OUT TREATS FROM THE MARBLE-TOPPED SODA JFOUNTAIN, RANG ORDERS AT THE CASH REGISTER, AND GENERALLY SAW TO THE UNNOTICED TASKS GIVEN OVER TO KIDS WORKING IN MAIN STREET BUSINESSES ACROSS KANSAS, ACROSS TIME. SHE DREAMED OF GETTING OUT, BUT ONLY LONG ENOUGH TO ONE DAY GET BACK.

“I liked science; I loved chemistry,” have been slim: “I had thought, well, I recalls McElwain, p’50. “But I couldn’t suppose I should retire one of these expect my folks to put me through days. But I liked being a pharmacist. I medical school, and pharmacy school liked it less and less with all the regula- didn’t take as long, so that’s what I tions and extra paperwork and whatnot decided to do.” that was coming to us ... When I started She was one of six women in her class in pharmacy, it was so much different. It of 66 to graduate from KU’s School of was simple. You knew your people and Pharmacy in 1950. She worked in Pratt, you had time for them.” Haviland and, finally, her hometown, On May 4, 2007, McElwain’s decision SUSAN YOUNGER Greensburg; in 1983 she bought Hunter to retire was made for her, by the tor- Drug, the store where she had worked nado that destroyed her hometown and as a girl. killed 12 of its citizens. Although McEl- “People who were traveling through wain’s rural Greensburg home was this way always stopped, and of course spared, her colleagues from neighboring the local people would come in and counties still spent days trying to get in visit,” she says. “People would sit at the touch with her. Ten days after the tor- fountain while they waited for their nado, a small team of Kansas pharma- medicine to be ready. It’s kind of a cists arrived to sift through the remains relaxed atmosphere. You know, I always of Hunter Drug, securing medicines and worked in a pharmacy with a fountain. controlled substances and completing an I can’t imagine one without them.” inventory for McElwain. She was 78 last spring, still going They even salvaged the fountain’s strong. Hunter Drug wasn’t for sale, original marble countertop. but even if it were, McElwain knew, “There was only about 20 feet of roof STEVE PUPPE prospects for finding a buyer would left,” says pharmacist Rich Bieber, p’70,

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 25 “We need pharmacists out here, and only one Independent Pharmacy Service Corpora- tion and as a relief pharmacist for col- school in this state makes them. That’s KU.” leagues who are ill or need a brief vacation. “I could probably work eight —Allen Dinkel, Hoisington City Manager days a week as a relief pharmacist if I wanted to. I don’t, and I can’t.” Pharmacy dean Ken Audus, PhD’84, and his colleagues and predecessors for of Great Bend. “Everything else had col- under burdensome paperwork and years have been aware that increased lapsed down onto the pharmacy itself. slow reimbursements that have become demand was not being met. A third of There wasn’t much we could do.” side effects of the Medicare Part D drug pharmacists in Kansas are older than 50, Reluctantly, McElwain conceded that program. and the average age of independent phar- her time as a health care professional was Pharmacists, too, are aging, and as the macy owners is 54. “We’ve got some done: “I was 78,” she says, “when I was business becomes more difficult, espe- work to do, in terms of replacing them in forced to quit.” cially for independents competing with the future,” Audus says. “And we’re the The greater tragedy is that Kiowa national chain outlets, it’s increasingly only game in town.” County is now one of six in the state— difficult to replace retirees with today’s No longer will answers of the past suf- Wallace, on the Colorado border; Kiowa highly trained Doctor of Pharmacy grad- fice. In 1996, KU’s School of Pharmacy, and Stafford, in south-central; Chase and uates, who can, as one observer noted, the only such institution in the state, Wabaunsee, in the Flint Hills region; and find a good job anywhere in the country increased its class sizes from 85 students Doniphan, in the northeast corner—with- with no more than two phone calls. to 94; in 2001, that number was nudged out a pharmacy. Two years ago, there “It’s something that in the next few to 105, accomplished, according to were only two. Another 30 counties years is going to get worse instead of bet- school lore, by “emptying all the closets.” have only one, and as many as seven ter,” says Bieber, who works as a To meet this crisis, KU and its super- independent pharmacies statewide are statewide representative for the Kansas vising governing body, the Kansas Board thought to be within 18 months of closing if buyers aren’t found. A statewide crisis looms, and the awful tornado that finally shoved Jamie McElwain into retirement is but one SUSAN YOUNGER twist in the darkening story.

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he Kansas pharmacy crisis is part of a national trend. Patients are aging, requiring more medi- cines, and as pharmacists hustle Tto meet the demand—filling 200 prescrip- tions is considered a full day’s work, and a reasonable safety limit, yet pharmacists today frequently top 400—they also labor

■ Vic and Jamie McElwain (right) used to visit with friends in their pharmacy, Hunter Drug; since the May 2007 tornado, they socialize at The Lunch Box, Greensburg’s only remaining restaurant. Rich Bieber (opposite page), a Great Bend pharmacist with statewide perspectives, helped salvage medicines from McElwain’s destroyed pharmacy.

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Counties with zero pharmacies Counties with one pharmacy of Regents, are asking the Kansas Legisla- requests and it passes the Legislature, deferred maintenance funds finally ture for $50 million to build a new home the best-case scenario would have the approved by lawmakers last year, Audus for the School of Pharmacy and add a Wichita program accepting 20 students approached his new boss, Provost satellite program at the School of Medi- in fall 2009 and the Lawrence building Richard Lariviere, about revisiting the cine-Wichita. If Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, opening a year or two later. pharmacy expansion. g’80, includes the proposal in her budget Adding another four years before “When I understood how urgent this those students would begin practicing problem was, I realized we had to make their clerkships around the state means this a very high priority,” Lariviere says. that the soonest KU could deliver more “Last year, we had 440 qualified appli-

STEVE PUPPE pharmacists would be 2013. cants for the 105 seats that are available. Ultimately, KU hopes to nearly double So my first reaction was, why don’t we its total number of pharmacy slots, to just admit more students? Well, we have 190, but that number would almost cer- the instructional capacity to do so; we tainly be even more years away. have the faculty to admit a few more stu- “We need pharmacists out here,” says dents. But we are at the absolute maxi- Allen Dinkel, city manager of Hoisington, mum allowable [class size], according to which has been without one since Janu- the accrediting agencies, given our physi- ary 2007, “and only one school in this cal infrastructure—lab space, classroom state makes them. That’s KU.” space and teaching facilities in general. Audus says that when he accepted the “This means we can’t put a patch on deanship three years ago, Chancellor this. We have to do something really fun- Robert E. Hemenway and then-Provost damental with regard to the physical David Shulenburger gave him the green infrastructure. So that’s why we’re doing light to begin planning an expansion. this, to provide more pharmacists for the But larger crises, including the burgeon- state of Kansas, and to hold onto some of ing deferred maintenance backlog, took the qualified applicants we can’t accom- precedence; with a first installment of modate now.”

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■ Pharmacy’s Ken Audus (above) and S. Edwards Dismuke (right), dean of the School of Medicine-Wichita, are eager partners in the proposal to open a School of Pharmacy branch at KU’s Wichita campus. “It’s important to understand that Wichita is a key component to our strategy,” says Provost Richard Lariviere. MIKE SHEPHERD/KUSM-W

◆ ◆ ◆ legislators,” Lariviere said in early December, n fact, KU’s ultimate pharmacy pro- “and the response has posal is for a $150 million complex been—from the perspec- attached to the Simons Biosciences tive of a rookie, mind Research Laboratories, home to you—remarkably posi- IKU’s renowned pharmaceutical chem- tive. In most of the istry department, on West Campus. The instances, I haven’t even first phase calls for a $50 million build- finished my spiel before ing dedicated almost entirely to teaching. they say something Because it can’t be paid for with revenue along the lines of, ‘You know, my aunt none of which would be paid for with streams available to high-profile research had this problem and couldn’t get her state funds—would increase pharmacy’s programs, tuition covers only about 30 medications.’ They aren’t new to this.” West Campus complex to about 250,000 percent of instruction costs and the Uni- The proposed pharmacy teaching square feet, exceeded only by Malott versity can’t issue its own bonds, KU offi- building would, at about 118,000 square Hall’s 310,000. cials say they must take the request to feet, be virtually identical in size to the “We’ve got faculty in seven different the Statehouse. nearby Multidisciplinary Research Build- buildings now,” Dean Audus says. “It’s a “We’ve spoken now to probably 40 ing. The second, $100 million phase— little bit hard to run a coherent profes-

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI show the people of Kansas that in fact says, until one delves further. A phar- one of our very top missions is to serve macy is, to his view, a feeder business: the entire state, and there’s nothing more When Hoisington residents drive to practical than producing the health care Great Bend to fill prescriptions, what else professionals that all of Kansas needs.” might they purchase? Will they still patronize, for instance, the hometown ◆ ◆ ◆ grocery that made a considerable invest- ment to rebuild after the 2001 tornado? oisington, a town of 3,000 in How does it look to young families south-central Kansas, for years who might consider relocating to Hois- had two pharmacies. The tor- ington, or current residents mulling nado that ripped through the opportunities elsewhere, if they can’t Hcenter of town in April 2001 destroyed even fill prescriptions in their own home- one, and its 69-year-old owner chose not town? And what about Hoisington’s to rebuild; the remaining pharmacist in growing senior-care community, served sional program when you’ve got people early 2007 accepted a buyout that closed by a local hospital that in recent years scattered across campus. If we build a his pharmacy and, according to city offi- underwent a $5 million renovation and new home, we’ll all be in one location.” cials, agreed to his new, out-of-town addition? And, if the School of Pharmacy leaves employer’s demand that a restriction be “A 10-mile drive isn’t that far. When its Malott Hall headquarters, that space placed on the building to prevent you’re 90, it is,” Dinkel says. “This is one could be used for expanded undergradu- another pharmacy from opening there of those things that you do to preserve ate instruction in the basic sciences—an for five years. the life of a community. A pharmacy is added bonus. “We have seven doctors in our town, one of the pieces of the total puzzle in A key component in KU’s pharmacy plus four mid-level providers, such as proposal is expansion to Wichita, where physician’s assistants and nurse practi- $5 million of the state’s funds would add tioners,” says city manager Allen Dinkel. a second level to the Kansas Health “We feel fortunate that for a town our Foundation Building, which was size we have a very active medical designed to accommodate exactly this community, but the bottom line is, they SUSAN YOUNGER (2) sort of vertical growth. all write prescriptions, and the nearest KU leaders and pharmacy profession- pharmacy is now 10 miles away in als note with pride the School of Medi- Great Bend.” cine’s success in placing primary-care Ten miles doesn’t seem like such a physicians within the state: KU is the burden, does it? Perhaps not, Dinkel only school in the nation with more than 20 percent of graduates entering family medicine residencies, and the rural pre- ceptorship program is considered a national model for attracting young doc- tors to underserved areas. Pharmacy expansion proponents hope a presence in Wichita will foster similar success, with students from southeastern, central and western Kansas—most of whom would presumably be more likely to remain in the area after graduation—fill- ing most of the eventual 40 pharmacy slots created by expansion to Wichita. ■ Allen Dinkel (above), city manager of Hois- “We all know that it’s important to train people all over the state, and I think ington, where lamppost iron works commemo- the same thing applies to pharmacy,” rate two terrible tornadoes the south-central says S. Edwards Dismuke, dean of the Kansas town has overcome in the past century. School of Medicine-Wichita. “The whole university has redoubled its efforts to

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 29 Proposed new pharmacy building COURTESY COURTESY GLPM ARCHITECTS

Moran trying to keep a community vital.” Recognizing the civic emergency, Hoisington’s municipal officials and business leaders reacted swiftly, applying for, and receiving, a $75,000 rural devel- opment grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build a new pharmacy structure near the hospital. They are cur- rently in the midst of promising negotia- tions with two KU pharmacy students, a couple engaged to be married, offering free rent and utilities for five years, plus low-interest business loans, should the graduates choose Hoisington. “There’s a crisis in community phar- macy,” says U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran, c’76, l’82, “and the circumstances are only going to get worse. Hoisington is an example of a community that under- stands how critical this issue is.” Moran, who represents Kansas’ 1st Congressional District, is a co-founder of the bipartisan Community Pharmacy Caucus, dedicated to educating members and fellow legislators while also offering federal advocacy for pharmacists. Problems created by Washington policies center on slow reimbursements provided under new prescription drug benefit plans—some independents have relied on bank loans while awaiting reim- ■ bursement for thousands of dollars in The first phase of the proposed West Campus expansion would be a 118,000-square- drug expenses—and infamous bureau- foot building dedicated almost entirely to pharmacy instruction. If funds are approved by cratic paperwork. Those headaches, state lawmakers, the building could be open for classes by fall 2010. Moran argues, are now “significant com-

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI “We all know that it’s important to train people all over the state, and I think the same thing applies to pharmacy. One ponents in whether there are people who are interested in being a pharmacist.” of our very top missions is to serve the entire state, and Moran, a Republican, notes that one of the first pieces of legislation offered by there’s nothing more practical than producing the health care the pharmacy caucus was introduced by professionals that all of Kansas needs.” —S. Edwards Dismuke himself, representing one of the coun- try’s most rural districts, and a Demo- cratic colleague from New York City who represents Brooklyn and Queens. for communities across our state,” Moran More than 60 percent of KU phar- “They’re facing the same challenges says. “And now it is also clear that KU macy graduates live and work in Kansas, we are, in keeping pharmacies available recognizes that more needs to be done. and 90 of the 105 admitted for fall 2007 to people who live in the core of the city,” This issue is important and needs direct are Kansas residents. Moran says. “So there’s a receptive audi- and immediate attention.” Increasing class sizes won’t be as easy ence for this across the Congress.” as funding new buildings: In their final Moran says he is aware of the $50 mil- ◆ ◆ ◆ year of training, pharmacy students lion pharmacy expansion proposal work- rotate through nine clerkships around ing its way through the Statehouse, and ecent KU graduates have pur- the state, meaning 945 such clerkships he supports the University’s effort to chased pharmacies in Oakley, must be available each year. Adding increase its pharmacy class sizes, espe- Atchison, Osage City, Johnson another 85 students—the maximum cially with expansion in Wichita. City, Minneapolis, Leoti, Arma, growth proposed by current expansion “Almost all of the pharmacists that I RMeade, Goodland, Scott City, Lakin and plans—means pharmacy administrators come across in Kansas today are gradu- Phillipsburg, and, if final contracts are would have to find another 765 clerk- ates and very loyal alumni of the Univer- approved as expected, Osborne will wel- ships. sity of Kansas, so clearly KU has been come a young pharmacy alumna to town “Where all this becomes circular is, doing something that’s very important this month. we’ve got pharmacists out there who, because of the shortage, are so busy that they can’t serve as preceptors for our stu- dents,” Dean Audus says. “So now you don’t have the ability to train because you don’t have enough pharmacists out there. That’s where we’re going to run into the limiting step.” But, Audus says, it can and will be overcome. Like many of his colleagues, he became enamored of the profession by working in his hometown drugstore— in his case, Knutson’s, in Clark, S.D. There the pharmacist encouraged his interests in science while also enduring business fluctuations that, to Audus’ way of thinking, called to mind the famous resiliency of Plains wheat farmers. “It’s a scary time,” Audus says, “but pharmacists have always managed to be pretty shrewd businessmen. And they’ve always managed to do well.” He notes that plans for the new phar- macy building call for a museum dedi- cated to the history of Kansas pharmacies—including, of course, a soda fountain. Funny, but Jamie McElwain happens to know of one that needs a good home.

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 31 32 | KANSAS ALUMNI You Gotta Have A DETERMINED COACH AND HIS PLAYERS Faith CAP A MOST REMARKABLE SEASON WITH ORANGE BOWLVICTORY

omewhere along this wild ride, national press discovered the

Jayhawks. Reporters from the JEFF JACOBSEN coasts uncovered the remark- able story of the 116-year-old Kansas-MissouriS football rivalry—“...trash talking is focused on which state’s resi- dents behaved more abominably amid the Civil War,” explained the Wall Street Journal—and they burrowed into the improbable stories of the star corner- back, , and the undersized , Todd Reesing. And, sure enough, they discovered the oversized coach, Mark Mangino. Never mind that Mangino was in his sixth season at KU, and earlier in his career was named the national assistant coach of the year following Oklahoma’s Youngstown State, married his sweet- and their two young children packed up championship season of 2000. He’d heart, went to work as a “first responder” and moved a thousand miles for Dad’s guided KU to bowl games in 2003 and on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and there, chance to work long hours for one of the 2005? Never mind that, too, because that so the stories go, he “saw a lot of blood.” most notoriously demanding coaches in distant past had not yet been sanctified So Mangino considered his options, the country. by national pundits now filing into then talked his way into no- or low-pay- Then on to Oklahoma, and then, in Mangino’s Tuesday news conferences in ing gigs as an assistant with local high 2001, Kansas, and now, in 2007, into the Hadl Auditorium. schools and colleges. He returned to midst of a magical season that saw Most of all, they found out that Youngstown State to finish his degree Mangino’s then-undefeated team climb Mangino never seemed to have had it and worked tirelessly as an assistant to No. 2 in the national polls on the eve easy. He’d grown up in tough-as-nails coach, full-time student and, at nights, of the Nov. 24 game against Missouri. New Castle, Pa.—“...one of those great ambulance driver. Kansas lost that game, 36-28, but Rust Belt cities between Cleveland and Eventually he got his big break when still received a bid to the Jan. 3 Orange Pittsburgh,” the Kansas City Star told its Bill Snyder offered him a job at Kansas Bowl, one of the elite Bowl Champi- readers—ducked a football scholarship to State. Mark and Mary Jane Mangino onship Series events. The neat-and-tidy

■ Coach Mark Mangino surrounded himself in the Orange Bowl with good BY CHRIS LAZZARINO players (including quarterback Todd Reesing, left) and, most important, a PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVE PUPPE loving family (above): his wife, Mary Jane; son, Tommy, a Washburn senior; and daughter, Samantha Mangino Hardy, j’04.

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 33 heart-warmer was still there for the “Just because of the particular job I harvesting, so during a news conference have, and the great interest in sports that in Fort Lauderdale’s landmark Pier 66 the public has, everybody wants to know resort hotel, overlooking yachts and about my story. And certainly there have fishing boats that bob expensively in the been aches and pains. But there are thou- Intracoastal Waterway, a local reporter sands of people who work in jobs that devised yet another way to cast about have a real impact on people’s lives who for the Mark Mangino saga. did the same thing that Mary Jane and I “For outsiders, the path that you’ve did. And we don’t read about them in taken to get here is very amazing,” said newspapers enough.” the young sportswriter from West Palm Doctors who sleep two hours a night Beach. “Can you talk at all about the sup- while training as residents, Mangino port that your wife has given you as cited as an example. His buddy from the you’ve gone on that ride?” old neighborhood who is now a cardiolo- “I’ve talked about my life story for when she got mixed up with me, she gist saving hundreds of lives a year. Busi- three months now,” Mangino responded. knew what she signed up for. And she’s ness owners, corporate executives, “I’ve talked about every member of my been great. attorneys, all guys from the same streets family and what they’ve done.” “But my wife has made it clear, she as Mangino who work really hard and, Here’s where he might have been has been adamant about this and I agree like everyone else, are more fascinated by expected to stop. Maybe even get snap- with her, that we haven’t done anything a football coach than their own careers. pish. Mangino has never been comfort- that’s unique. There are people who are “My grandfather,” Mangino contin- able talking about himself, and clearly doctors, lawyers, business people, jour- ued, “he had a job. He worked with a he’d had enough of it. nalists, who had to eat bologna sand- pick and shovel for 40 years on the Penn- Instead, he continued: wiches, lived in crummy apartments, sylvania railroad. That’s a job. This? This “My wife has been fabulous. She counted change at the gas pump to make is fun. This is just hanging out and hav- comes from a football background. ... sure they get to work, because it was a ing a good time with your players.” She had been around it all her life. So path to where they wanted to be. Mangino smiled, his big, friendly face

Victories by the dozen

Game 1: Sept. 1, vs. Central Michigan Game 4: Sept. 22, vs. Florida International Record: 1-0; Rankings: None Record: 4-0; Rankings after game: None Sophomore Todd Reesing makes his first Non-conference schedule ends in another start in a 52-7 thumping of Central Michigan, offensive flurry as the Jayhawks rack up 615 which eventually won the Mid-American yards of offense in a 55-3 victory. The high- Conference and lost the Motor City Bowl to light, though, was Aqib Talib’s 100-yard inter- Purdue on a last-second . ception return for a touchdown. Game 2: Sept. 8, vs. Southeastern Louisiana Game 5: Oct. 6, at Kansas State Record: 2-0; Rankings after game: None Record: 5-0; Rankings after game: 20th AP, Coaches More razzle-dazzle from new offensive coordinator Ed Warinner’s spread offense After the season’s lone bye week, KU top- in a 62-0 KU victory. ples the 24th-ranked Wildcats in Manhattan, 30-24. Key indicators of future success: Game 3: Sept. 15, vs. Toledo Reesing wasn’t rattled after throwing an Record: 3-0; Rankings after game: None interception on KU’s first play, and the Jay- KU avenges last season’s 37-31, double- hawks bounced back from a fourth-quarter overtime loss with a 45-13 victory while lead change following another interception. recording their third-consecutive game with “That was the kind of game,” Talib said, “we more than 500 yards in total offense. would have given away last year.”

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI actually beaming, and, by every sign pos- sible, he seemed to mean what he said. He was having fun. The Orange Bowl, set to kick off in about 24 hours? The biggest game of his life? The biggest game in KU football history? The last chance to shut down the doubters who harped endlessly about a “cupcake

■ Big Jay whipped up the crowd (opposite page) at the Oct. 13 Baylor game; Todd Reesing in the closing minutes of the Nov. 17 victory over Iowa State, the Jayhawks’ last game of the season in Memorial Stadium; and defenders Jake Laptad, Jeff Wheeler and Joe Mortensen punish a Mizzou ball- carrier Nov. 24 in Arrowhead Stadium. Featured on the front cover are Reesing and senior running back Brandon McAnderson.

Game 6: Oct. 13, vs. Baylor and ESPN2’s national audience finally gets point headline splashed across the top of Record: 6-0; Rankings after game: 15th to see one of the season’s great stories. The the Kansas City Star’s sports section. AP, Coaches; 13th BCS crowd of 85,341 is the second-largest KU Game 12: Nov. 24, vs. Missouri, Arrowhead ever plays in front of, topped only by the KU advances to 2-0 in the Big 12 after Stadium 100,118 at Michigan in 1979. weathering more than two hours of rain Record: 11-1; Rankings after game: 7th delays during a 58-10 drilling of the Bears. Game 9: Nov. 3, Nebraska AP; 5th Coaches, BCS Game 7: Oct. 20, at Colorado Record: 9-0; Rankings after game: 5th AP, On a frigid night in Kansas City, KU scored Record: 7-0; Rankings after game: 12th Coaches; 4th BCS three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to AP, 10th Coaches, 9th BCS 76-39 over Nebraska. ’Nuff said. get within 34-28 with 2:03 remaining; a late safety sealed Mizzou’s hard-fought, 36-28 vic- The Jayhawks win where Oklahoma couldn’t, Game 10: Nov. 10, at Oklahoma State tory. Gutsy performances by numerous hob- beating Colorado, 19-14, to go 3-0 in the Record: 10-0; Rankings after game: 4th bled Jayhawks, who hadn’t had a week off conference. “Our kids, technically, wore Col- AP, Coaches; 3rd BCS orado down in their own stadium,” coach since after the Sept. 22 game. Receiver Marcus Henry catches eight passes Mark Mangino said before the Orange Bowl. for 199 yards and three TDs in another Game 13: Jan. 3, vs. Virginia Tech, FedEx “After that game I thought we had a chance nationally televised road victory over a Big Orange Bowl, Miami to be pretty good.” 12 South team, 43-28 in Stillwater. Record: 12-1; Rankings after game: 7th Game 8: Oct. 27, at Texas A&M AP, Coaches; 8th BCS Game 11: Nov. 17, Iowa State Record: 8-0; Rankings after game: 8th AP, KU, ranked eighth in all major polls after Record: 11-0; Rankings after game: 2nd Coaches, BCS the final week of the regular season, upsets AP, Coaches, BCS KU stuffs power running back Jorvorskie third-ranked Hokies, 24-21, on a dramatic KU sets up the Arrowhead Stadium show- Lane on fourth-and-1 at the Jayhawks’ 9- evening in Dolphin Stadium, capping the down vs. Mizzou with a 45-7 victory over the  yard-line, wins 19-11 in hallowed Kyle Field, greatest season in KU footbal history. Cyclones. “Bring It On!” screams the 140- —C.L.

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 35 schedule” that somehow did all the winning for KU? Don’t worry. Be happy. Play. Have fun. “You know,” Mangino said, “we’re playing a football game. We’re not going to fight a war. The kids should enjoy the experience.” Maybe the game was won right then and there. Or during similar speeches and rap sessions that Mangino believes in as much as he does the minutia of game planning. “Number one, it’s still about playing football. Don’t be distracted,” Mangino told his team before the Missouri game. “Number two, you should have the same friends today that you had a year ago today, and if you do, you’re going to be just fine.” Or, “This is what the players who came to Kansas on faith had hoped for. We told them that if you just work hard, do the right thing, let’s all be on the same page and let’s pull together, then maybe something great can happen for the program. Maybe. “Those kids who came on faith and believed in what we were doing, their opportunity is here.” At 8:21 Eastern time, on the chilly evening of Jan. 3, the impossible finally happened. The ball was kicked off in a BCS —the legendary Orange Bowl, in Dolphin Stadium—and it was kicked by the . During the long 10 days of game preparations and beach parties in South Florida, a fan stopped Mangino outside ■ Brandon McAnderson (top) the team hotel and said, “Coach, I think rushed for 79 yards in the your team has done the unthinkable.” Orange Bowl, boosting his sea- “When I got on the bus,” Mangino son total to 1,125. Cornerback later said, “I thought about it, and I said, and punt returner Aqib Talib ‘I think that guy’s right.’ Nobody would (left) and offensive tackle have even given this a thought. We told Anthony Collins (above), both the kids that we’re in this together. We’re juniors, chose to end their KU going to work together, we’re going to careers after the Orange Bowl coach you. We’re going to get after your by declaring themselves eligible butt when you do things wrong. We’re for the NFL draft. The Jayhawks going to pat you on the head when you do things right. We’re going to have fun will now likely return nine together. We’re going to work hard starters on defense and six on together. If you believe in us, we trust offense. you, you trust us, then we’ll have a chance.

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI “Faith is believing in something you ■ ZZ Top (below) reminded its fans that every girl’s crazy ’bout a sharp dressed man, but can’t see. We’re lucky to have those kind Jayhawk fans were even crazier for Joe Mortensen’s blocked field goal (above), which prevented of kids, players who have faith.” the Hokies from tying the game: “I was able to get through,” he said, “and fortunately I made the No surprise, really, that this man, a block. It was a huge play.” believer in himself and his assistants and his players and his administrators and university and alumni and fans, would be named national Coach of the Year. And it wasn’t just about winning 12 games.

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ive weeks and five days. A long time to wait after the final game of the regular season, the nation- ally televised rivalry renewal Fagainst Missouri in Arrowhead Stadium. The bitter disappointment of that bitterly cold night seemed a distant and fading memory as game time finally–finally!– arrived at Dolphin Stadium, in the subur- ban borderland between South Florida’s Dade (Miami) and Broward (Fort Laud- erdale) counties. gregating before noon in a welcoming It was cold there, too, but only by sports bar that was eager to host the true local standards. Overnight temperatures blues, and the 5,000 who then gathered dipping near freezing were no laughing at the Alumni Association’s festive bash matter to locals, whose tourism and cit- at Calder Race Course, adjacent to the rus industries were terrorized by the stadium. coldest weather they’d seen in five years. While fans partied less than a mile But to the hardy Jayhawk faithful, the away, Mangino unveiled his final sur- believers who left Kansas in a deep freeze prise: Red jerseys, the players’ favorites, and heard daily reports from back home hung in their lockers. (“We just think of temperatures plunging close to zero, they look real slick,” Reesing later ex- the chilly night was a breeze—especially plained.) They’d never lost in five previ- for the thousand or so who began con- ous games in the red shirts, dating back

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 37 Postseason honors Coach Mark Mangino: Coaches Association, Football Writers’ Association of America, Home Depot, Walter Camp, Sporting News, Woody Hayes national Coach of the Year; Big 12 Coach of the Year (Big12 Coaches) and Big 12 Co-Coach of the Year (Associated Press). Junior CB Aqib Talib: Orange Bowl MVP; Jack Tatum Award for nation’s top defensive back; Bronko Nagurski Award (best defensive player) finalist; AP, Walter Camp, FWAA, Sporting News, SI.com, CBSSportsline.com All-America first team; Big 12 Coaches, AP All-Big 12 first team. Junior OT Anthony Collins: to 2005, and the Jayhawks charged into backer Joe Mortensen might have been AP, Walter Camp, FWAA, SI.com, CBS Virginia Tech with a fury. the play of the game—sophomore safety Sportsline.com All-America first team; Big With 5:15 left in the first quarter, Justin Thornton intercepted a Tech pass 12 Coaches and AP All-Big 12 first team. Talib—a junior who four days later would and returned it 30 yards, setting up a Senior WR Marcus Henry: Big 12 declare himself eligible for the NFL draft, 2-yard touchdown run by Reesing. Coaches All-Big 12 second team. as did his fellow All-American, Anthony Again Tech countered, scoring on a Collins, a junior offensive tackle— 20-yard pass with 3:00 remaining, but Junior kick returner Marcus returned an interception 60 yards for a the Hokies’ ensuing onside kick was Herford: Big 12 Special Teams Player touchdown. recovered by KU. Three first downs later, of the Year. A 32-yard Scott Webb field goal early KU had the ball at the Virginia Tech 1- Senior DT James McClinton: Big the second quarter gave KU a 10-0 lead, yard line and, with the clock ticking 12 Coaches, AP All-Big 12 first team; AP, which soared to 17-0 after a 13-yard down, Reesing heaved the ball straight Sporting News All-America second team. touchdown pass from Reesing to senior up into the dark Miami sky. Junior MLB Joe Mortensen: Marcus Henry with seven minutes KU 24, Virginia Tech 21. Orange Bowl Big 12 Coaches, AP All-Big 12 first team. remaining in the half. champs. Sophomore QB Todd Reesing: Virginia Tech, the third-ranked team The celebration was more exciting Davey O’Brien Award semifinalist; in the country and champions of the than any Jayhawk had dared dream. Vet- Big 12 Coaches All-Big 12 second team. Atlantic Coast Conference, charged back eran team manager Todd “Leaper” with a 13-play, 68-yard drive, capped by a Williams cried tears of total joy, hugging Freshman CB Chris Harris, AP Big touchdown that cut KU’s lead back to 10 everyone who came near. Players 12 Defensive Newcomer of the Year. at halftime (during which ZZ Top grabbed for championship caps, then Academic honors: Junior DE Russell whipped the crowd into a frenzy and stormed the Fox Sports broadcast stage, Brorsen; sophomore WR Micah Brown; then played exactly one song). senior WR Jeff Foster; junior DE John Tech coach Frank Beamer is famous Larson; junior OG Adrian Mayes; sopho- for special-teams creativity, and he ■ more WR ; senior S Sadiq proved it again with his team’s return Justin Thornton (above) returned a fourth- Muhammed; sophomore QB Todd of KU’s first punt of the second half, quarter interception 30 yards, setting up KU’s Reesing; junior LB Mike Rivera; senior a reverse that went for an 84-yard final score: “I was able to read the quarterback’s S Brian Seymour; sophomore RB Jake touchdown. eyes, so I got a good break on the ball.” After Sharp; freshman CB Phillip Strozier; Leading by three seemingly shaky their victory, players snapped up the champi- senior PK Scott Webb; sophomore DE points—a 25-yard, fourth-quarter field- ons’ caps, and Mangino held aloft the pro- Jeff Wheeler. —C.L. goal attempt blocked by junior line- duce—a product of his team’s hard work.

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI where one of the all-time KU greats, run- “They beat us,” said sophomore line- ning back , was working as backer Cody Grimm. “We’re just going to an analyst. Riggins, ’81, was a member of have to deal with it.” the 1968 KU team that lost the ’69 But the Jayhawks, who, like the rest of Orange Bowl to Penn State, 15-14; not far the country, mourned deeply after the away, enduring the wet, breezy cold, was Virginia Tech shootings, were focusing another legendary Jayhawk who had on their justly deserved spoils. “It’s the been part of Orange Bowl heartbreak, greatest day of my life, man,” Joe coach , d’48, whose ’47 Mortensen said. “Words can’t describe Jayhawks lost to Georgia Tech, 20-14. how I’m feeling right now.” “They finally got the demons out,” “Ecstasy,” Todd Reesing said, filling in Riggins said as he left the field. “This is a the blanks. whole new outfit. It’s a whole new start “The game lived up to the hype,” for KU football.” Justin Thornton said. “The atmosphere here was fantastic right from the first ◆ ◆ ◆ kick. Our fans were great. Really great. They were part of this, and this just puts n unfortunate reality of this an exclamation point on the season.” year’s Orange Bowl reaches far The 12-1 season. beyond the game. Virginia Tech Impossible to believe? time for Mrs. Mangino to find her way to lost 32 students and faculty in Maybe. For most. family and friends. Athe unimaginable horrors of April 16, As he left the field, flanked by a posse But as they walked, the frenzy faded 2007, and its football team never shied of Florida’s finest, Mark Mangino away and there came from the big man from its duty to help Hokie Nation heal. glanced over his left shoulder and saw one more smile. The sort of smile shared “Virginia Tech needed to rally around a his biggest fan of all trailing close behind. between husband and wife. The unspo- football team,” Beamer said before the Mary Jane Mangino was being escorted ken toast that proclaims, “Well, we did it, Orange Bowl. by a Dade County deputy, who had an honey.” After his team’s loss, Beamer said, arm draped gently, yet firmly, around Mark Mangino was beaming, but he “Over there in that dressing room, her shoulder. wasn’t looking at the scoreboard. He was there’s some hurt, hurt guys. But Hokie The momentum all around was surely looking at his bride. Nation is closer and more caring than it’s set in motion. Time for Mr. Mangino to The woman who signed on and stayed ever been.” get to the postgame news conferences; for the ride.

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 39 A KU center devoted to student learning shows that teaching and research indeed go hand in hand

anny Anderson was chair of Spanish and Portuguese when the department won the 2007 Departmental Award for Exceptional Teaching and Learning. The award is given annually by KU’s CenterD for Teaching Excellence, which began in 1997 as a grass- roots effort by faculty to improve student learning. Anderson had sought help from the center designing a course for upper-level Spanish majors. He wanted to encourage students to see language and literature less as academic subjects and more as topics with real-life relevance. He thought service learning, which incorporates volunteer activities in the community, might help make the connection.

BY STEVEN HILL

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI “ ometimes I have the feeling that, the center’s offices, where explain their dealings with Lawrence’s in the era of television and film speakers helped professors think about Spanish-speaking people. Many students and video games, students are not what they hoped to accomplish with have since told him the class helped as interested in reading as I was their courses. Breaks between sessions point them toward careers. S25 years ago,” says Anderson, now an allowed time to design syllabuses and “None of them has told me they’ve associate dean in the College of Liberal class exercises. A research library and become great readers of literature,” he Arts and Sciences. “I design an upper- class portfolios put together by other says. “But I know in that classroom they class with topics I think are faculty members provided ideas. had very engaged discussions that really interesting. I come to class really What Anderson came up with was revolved around their ability to interact excited about the discussion, and I’m Spanish 494, “Spanish Through Service with the literary text, and that’s what I sometimes frustrated that my students Learning.” Offered in spring 2006, the was trying to get them to do. It’s one of have not read the text or read it only course combined readings, documentary the real struggles of working with litera- superficially. They feel like it’s distant films and 20-hour community service ture, to get people to think of it as some- from them.” projects. For at least two hours a week, thing that’s real, that’s part of our lives.

Compared to many STEVE PUPPE schools, KU ranks high in student engagement. A 2005 book, Student Success in College, included KU as one of 20 universities (and one of only two public schools) profiled for “effective educational practices” involving students in their educa- tion. The 20 schools were chosen from more than 700 that took the Anderson National Survey of Stu- dent Engagement in 2004. The 2007 students worked as medical translators For people to be in touch with that really NSSE survey shows KU students remain during prenatal examinations, tutored did accomplish what I’ve wanted to “well-engaged.” In four of five categories elementary schoolchildren learning accomplish as a literary professor.” KU seniors posted higher scores than English as a second language, and served Anderson credits the Center for three groups: 33 Carnegie Doctoral as interpreters during parent-teacher Teaching Excellence helping him make Research Extensive Institutions, 16 conferences. The literature and films they that breakthrough. schools from the Association of American studied addressed immigrant experience “I don’t think I could have Universities and 10 schools from the and identity. The service projects drove succeeded,” he says, “without CTE.” Association of American Universities home the human experience behind Data Exchange. those themes, reminding them that ◆ ◆ ◆ Nevertheless, Anderson and his fellow literary texts aren’t merely dusty books KU professors must look for ways to on a shelf. They are life stories. reat scholars do not necessar- spark student interest by relating the Students became more interested in ily make great teachers. subjects they teach to topics that grab the literary works, which Anderson “I took classes from people students’ attention. Believing his expected. Discussions were energetic— who did brilliant work, who I students to be highly interested in often starting before class began. Stu- Gstill admire greatly,” says Shannon contemporary social issues such as immi- dents were bursting to share what they’d O’Lear, a faculty fellow at the Center for gration, Anderson decided to try service learned. What surprised Anderson were Teaching Excellence who earned her learning to connect Spanish literature the connections they made: Rather than PhD at Syracuse. “But, oh, the classes and language with life experience. use their community service experiences were mind-numbing.” Working with CTE’s Service Learning to understand the texts, as he antici- KU is a research university. Research Institute, he attended a two-day retreat at pated, students began using the texts to and the grant money it attracts are

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 41 integral to the intellectual and financial with what’s going on, and students aren’t critical inquiry to seek answers to partic- health of the University. Research is also getting information that was current ular questions. They share their work, a major factor in whether or not a faculty when that person went through graduate through peer-reviewed journals, creating member wins tenure. school.” a body of knowledge that benefits all. KU is also the flagship university of Still, most agree that the majority of a Bernstein favors a similar model for the state. Teaching is integral to its graduate student’s preparation is geared thinking about teaching. His “inquiry” mission to educate Kansans. toward becoming a scholar, with much approach differs from what he calls “Of course the focus is on research, less time spent on learning to teach. “drive-by faculty development,” in which and there’s a very good reason for that. “Often we are trained from early in professors attend a lecture on teaching Although teaching is important, our our graduate career how to do a research and go away informed. research is our universal currency. It’s presentation, how to write a proposal, all “The inquiry model is, you come in our publications, our grants,” says the things you have to know to be a good and we invite you to figure out how you O’Lear, associate professor of geography researcher,” O’Lear says. “There’s a recog- can investigate your own teaching,” he and environmental studies. “It’s the over- nition that what you’re doing in research explains. “What would you look for?

STEVE PUPPE What evidence would you gather about your teaching? What do you know about what stu- dents are learning? It’s an approach that engages faculty as investigators.” CTE hosts faculty seminars and guest speakers, and it awards grants and offers work- shops such as the one Anderson attended to O’Lear give professors the time and direction to over- head we bring to the University. is complex and multidimensional; there’s haul a class or design a new one. It also “But at the same time it’s important to an extra layer of reflecting on the encourages faculty who’ve adapted inno- remember there are all these undergrads research. We’re not always very good at vative teaching approaches to share their out there who need teaching.” doing that with teaching.” work and results through portfolios, Teaching and research don’t have to which are posted on the CTE Web site. be viewed as an either-or proposition. ◆ ◆ ◆ The result is a kind of faculty com- “I think at large research institutions mons, where on any given day there we have the reputation that teaching and oing that with teaching, of might be a faculty seminar on the use of research are in competition, and you course, is exactly what the technology in the classroom, a meeting have to do one and not the other,” says Center for Teaching Excellence to discuss proposed changes in the way Holly Storkel, associate professor of is all about. What may surprise faculty performance is evaluated, or a speech-language-hearing. “I don’t think Dsome is how much the method CTE discussion period where professors can that’s really the case.” employs is borrowed from research. toss out questions or observations about Success in the lab leads to break- When he took the job as director of their own classroom experiences. Often throughs in the classroom, says Storkel, CTE in 2002, Dan Bernstein had been the discoveries happen by chance. who won a $1.75 million NIH grant in involved for a decade in a national con- O’Lear recalls a session on “clickers,” 2006 and a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for versation about teaching. He was inter- electronic devices used to solicit answers Teaching Excellence in 2007. ested in the idea of treating teaching from students. Though she doesn’t use “I think my research enhances my much the same way researchers treat them, she was intrigued by something a teaching, because I bring that new infor- their research: as a kind of rigorous, professor did: He had two students share mation into the classroom. Teachers who scholarly inquiry. a device. “At that point it wasn’t about conduct research are staying up to date Researchers are investigators who use technology; it was about cooperation,”

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI O’Lear says. Similarly, Anderson recalls a session that outlined a technique called a “thinkaloud,” a brainstorming exercise Center for Teaching Excellence programs that allows professors to gain insights into students’ cognitive styles. He hasn’t • Best Practices Institute: Intensive two-day workshops where used it—yet—but someday he might. teachers plan course changes to be implemented the following For Storkel, the inquiry process led to academic year. “This is the best entree for faculty members into what redesign of an upper-level course that the center does,” Dan Bernstein says. asked speech-language-hearing students to apply findings from clinical research • Course Portfolios: Online lesson plans and to specific patients. She had noticed that examples of student work make public the students demonstrated mastery of the process and result of an inquiry into student course material on a comprehensive learning. Portfolios give faculty members a chance to share with other exam, but they had trouble applying faculty what they’ve learned about teaching. research evidence to clinical practice. They also did a poor job finding evi- • Faculty Fellows: Shannon O’Lear and Catherine Weaver, assistant dence on their own. She devoted more professor of political science, serve as faculty consultants to Bernstein class time to finding and interpreting evi- and help him carry out the center’s mission. Duties include coaching dence, and adapted clinical cases from faculty and participating in center seminars and programs. her own research to demonstrate and assess how well students applied that • Teaching Teas: Informal afternoon gatherings at which information to patients. Storkel received faculty members can discuss specific topics of interest and a stipend that gave her time to develop share their classroom experiences. new course materials, and Bernstein and the CTE staff provide expertise and • Faculty Seminar: Semester-long classes with readings that explore a logistical support. particular theme related to teaching. Faculty must “I would have these impressions of apply, and those accepted receive a stipend. whether or not students were learning certain things,” Storkel says. “But it was • New GTA Conference: Orientation session pre- Dan who said, ‘You know, you could pares new teaching assistants for classroom service. actually put that on a graph.’” By charting student performance on • Departmental Ambassadors: Twice-semester reading quizzes, for example, she pin- meetings with departmental representatives keep pointed where students understood the academic units across campus informed of important material and where they didn’t. Extend- teaching developments, and keep the center aware of ing those charts over subsequent semes- teaching issues important to faculty. ters, she tracked which changes were bearing fruit. After she redesigned the course in 2005, for example, the number of students earning an A-average on The inquiry approach focuses on do we mean by peer review of teaching?” reading quizzes leapt from 25 percent to determining whether students leave a Bernstein says. “My notion is that it’s not 86 percent. Most were A-pluses. class with an understanding and ability just sitting in someone’s class and watch- The makeover worked because Storkel they didn’t have before. The emphasis ing them teach, because teaching is not a focused on improving student learning shifts from a subjective review of per- performance.” rather than improving teaching. formance to an objective analysis of This new approach affects not only “We tend to think of teaching as just a learning. It all goes back to Bernstein’s how faculty members evaluate teaching, performance: I know what I know and belief that teaching can be approached but also how students do so. Changes are my job is to perform it in some way that with the same intellectual rigor as underway for the role of student evalua- students will like, and if I do that they’ll research. tions in tenure review, Bernstein says, magically learn,” Bernstein says. “It’s very “If peer review of research is our most noting a “gradual shift away from a total much about ‘me.’ Is my performance exalted way of honoring what we do reliance on student opinion.” The student good? Are my PowerPoint slides pretty?” intellectually [as researchers], then what voice will still be heard, but in a way

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 43 that’s more in line with its expertise. “It always starts with, ‘What do you care about? What do you “Students are really good at telling us want students to understand?’” – Dan Bernstein if we’re accessible, respectful, available, clear, timely,” Bernstein says. “But they are really not the right people to ask if “What we try to offer is the opposite classroom, control of the students—that’s the right material is being taught, or if of teaching tips,” he says. Drop in on a not what I’m after. It should really be the material is too difficult. There’s even CTE session and you’re more likely to more student-centered, and that’s why good research suggesting that they are find faculty members grappling with big CTE is trying to focus people more on not particularly good at telling you how ideas than memorizing a top-ten list of student learning than on teaching.” much they’ve learned. classroom tactics. That’s not to say that In a recent class, for example, O’Lear “Our idea is that if you represent what CTE traffics only in skull sessions and showed students a CNN story about the your students are learning to your col- airy ideas: There is plenty of nuts-and- GAP clothing chain, which had found a leagues, then your colleagues can judge bolts advice to help teachers design contractor using child laborers in a whether or not students are learning ade- classes, but that design will be grounded sweatshop. A student questioned why

STEVE PUPPE the video clips she showed always made Americans look bad. “If we want cheap cloth- ing, why should we care if corporations use child labor?” the stu- dent asked. The question led to a charged discussion that veered far from the planned lecture mate- rial. And that was fine with O’Lear. Bernstein “It was a great class. They were thinking quately over time.” in a broader understanding of exactly about concepts we talked about in class, It’s a change of emphasis welcomed what it is they are trying to teach. but relating them to the world and how by many professors who are motivated to “It always starts with, ‘What do you they think about the world. And that’s improve their teaching. care about? What do you want students our job at the University—to reflect the “It’s easy to think of teaching as a to understand?’” Bernstein says. “And world of ideas.” popularity contest,” O’Lear says. “‘If my once you’ve identified that, the next Anderson says there’s nothing quite students like me I’m a good teacher.’ question is, ‘Do they? How many do and like walking into a classroom to find stu- That isn’t necessarily the best indicator.” how deeply?’ At a place like KU, there’s dents “already revved” before he starts. “CTE keeps bringing us back to not always room for improvement, because “I like sharing the knowledge I have am I doing fun, crazy things in class or not everyone who walks in the door is from my years of study and training how popular I am with the students, but dying to be your best student. There are myself as a scholar, but I also like seeing what are my students really learning?” many things you can do to engage them, students become engaged to discover to make it worth their time. Students will knowledge for themselves,” he says. “It ◆ ◆ ◆ work harder if you make it worth their really adds excitement to a class, and it while.” also means that as an instructor you can reat scholars do not necessar- This broader understanding also be surprised to discover how far you can ily make great teachers. But the allows professors to toss the lecture go with a discussion. In a class where principles that guide great notes out the window when circum- students leap in, you get a sense that you scholarship—inquiry, intellec- stances require. are covering much more material in Gtual rigor, peer review—can be applied to “What we’re really trying to unclench much more depth.” the craft of teaching. Of that, Dan Bern- people from is this idea that it’s all about And that’s good for all—students, stein is certain. control,” O’Lear says. “Control of the teachers and scholars alike.

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI Travel the world with the Flying Jayhawks

Celtic Lands Islands and Wildlife of the 2008 May 24–June 4 Pacific Northwest: Australia A Kayaking Adventure Village Life along the Sept. 23–29 March 5–16 Dalmatian Coast Baja: Among the Great May 27–June 4 Davos, Switzerland Whales and Salzburg, Austria Cruising the Baltic Sea and Sept. 26–Oct. 4 March 22–29 Norwegian Fjords Paradores & Pousadas June 4–16 Mandarin China Sept. 29–Oct.11 March 24–April 7 Provence South Africa Danube River Cruise and the Italy’s April 25–May 3 French Magnificent March 31–April 11 Riviera Lake District Copenhagen, Denmark and June 9–18 Sept. 30–Oct. 8 Italy’s Mountains & Lakes Stockholm, Sweden April 9–17 April 29–May 7 Cruise the Village Life Along Treasures of Japan Passage the Seine River Voyage of the Western of Peter the April 10–20 Oct. 3–11 Mediterranean Great Paris May 1-8 June 15–27 Village Life in Burgundy and Provence April 12–20 Andalucia The Great Journey Oct. 3–11 Saxony Cruise May 4–13 through Europe Italian Riviera and Tuscany April 18–26 June 23–July 3 Ireland: Dublin and Belfast Oct. 4–12 Cruising the Canary Islands May 9–17 Ukraine Tuscany April 23- May 1 July 2–15 Chianti Oct. 15–23 Holland & Belgium May 11–19 Village Life in the Dordogne Patagonian Frontiers April 22–30 July 31–Aug. 8 Island Life in Sicily and Malta Oct. 20–Nov. 4 May 14–22 Alpine Mountains and Lakes Aug. 14–22 Normandy and Brittany with Paris Cruise the Face of Europe Oct. 21–Nov. 1 Sept. 9–25 Holiday Markets of Vienna Croatia & Venetian Treasures and Salzburg Sept. 18–26 Nov. 28–Dec. 6

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Call for nominations Committee to consider candidates in spring before May vote by Board

wenty-one Jayhawks currently leaders and financial sup- represent their fellow alumni on port for the Association; the Alumni Association’s •make a charitable gift to national Board of Directors; the Association and/or Tthree will complete their service June 30. University annually. The Association invites all Nominees must meet the members to send nomina- following criteria: tions of those whose •Be a member of the KU loyalty, volunteer dedi- Hill, Ochoa and Moyer cation and talent qual- Alumni Association; ify them for national •attend three meetings tions picnics for new KU students, recep- alumni service. The of the Board of Directors annually at tions for graduates from various KU new directors will own expense; schools and departments, numerous begin their five-year •have a desire to advance KU. pregame events, and an alumni reception terms July 1. in London. Hill, a Lincon, Neb., native, In April, the Nomi- Nomination forms and additional majored in communications on the Hill nating Committee of details are available online at and played on the KU volleyball team for the Board will review all kualumni.org. To nominate, please four years. nominations completed by the March 1 download or fill out the form online and Katie Moyer, j’06, has begun her sec- deadline. This group will propose a slate send a personal letter of recommenda- ond year with the Association and in of at least four candidates to the entire tion to the KU Alumni Association, 1266 December was promoted to staff writer. Board, which will consider the slate for Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045.  A native of the southeast Kansas town of approval at its May 16 meeting. Tyro, she knows Kansas communities of Directors must fulfill the following ◆ ◆ ◆ all sizes through her online communica- duties: tions to the state’s 16 alumni chapters. • Attend three Board of Directors She also coordinates content and deliv- meetings annually—in the fall, 3 for the corps ery of the KU Connection e-mail newslet- spring and during Commencement ter, content for the Association’s Web Weekend; Staff members rally site, and e-mails for alumni events • serve on a standing Association to cause of expanding nationwide. For Kansas Alumni, she Committee (Alumni and Student Association’s reach assists in covering men’s basketball and Programs; Communications, Market- writes for various magazine departments. ing, and Records; or Membership); s the Association continues to Moyer is pursuing her master’s degree in recruit members and extend its business administration at KU’s Edwards • adhere to the Bylaws of the reach through communications Campus. Association; and events, three new staff After completing his KU football •represent the Association at KU Amembers are in the thick of the action. career, David Ochoa, j’06, a Houston events locally and nationally; Megan Hill, c’07, joined the staff last native, served as an Association intern •actively promote membership in summer as coordinator of alumni pro- before joining the staff last summer as the Association; grams, helping to organize numerous coordinator of member relations. He •identify and cultivate volunteer events, including the Jayhawk Genera- combines his new role with his graduate

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI studies in sports administration. For the ◆ ◆ ◆ Association he has helped create mem- bership events and campaigns, including the chapter membership challenges this Thank you, life members spring (see story). Last fall Ochoa helped launch the new Jayhawk Generations he following Jayhawks have committed to the KU Alumni Association as membership for children from birth to new life members. This list includes those who became life members begin- age 18.  ning July 1 through Dec. 31, 2007; the Association’s annual report, mailed to all members last November, included new life members who had joined in ◆ ◆ ◆ TFY 2007 (through June 30). Subsequent issues of Kansas Alumni will list life members who have joined in the two months preceding publication of each issue. Life member- ship dues are $1,000 single and $1,500 joint; 12-month installment plans are avail- Recruit fellow able. For more information, please visit www.kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.

Jayhawks James L. & Elaine Adkins Jane T. Gochis Holly K. Jelinek Eric J. & Steven J. Gordon Bryan C. Johnson Campaign urges chapters Martha Delaplain Alabanza Mitchell A. Graham Clifford D. Johnson & to meet membership goals Doug Anderson Dana M. Gunderson Karen Hall Johnson Christie L. Appelhanz Mary E. Hardwick David J. & he Association marks its 125- Timothy A. Barton Kurt A. Harper Heather Galbraith Johnson year anniversary in 2008. As part Thomas J. Baumann II A. Michael Herzmark & Laura A. Johnston of the celebration, staff and vol- Christopher E. Beal Melissa S. Wayne Kevin R. & unteers have resolved to increase Catherine Trujillo Becker & Samuel B. & M. Crystal Hill Nancy Hansen Jones Tmembership in the new year, enlisting Patrick W. Becker Braden & Ashley P. Hopkins Terrence D. Jones alumni chapter volunteers nationwide to Michael D. Bedell Julia R. Howard Brent D. & Melinda S. Kassing meet ambitious goals. Three campaigns Jonathan D. Berkley Scott Howard Tom L. & will strive to reach individual goals of Sean M. Birmingham Lori Majure Hutfles Julie Lienhard Kivisto 500 new and upgraded memberships. Amy Lucas Blankenbiller Akiko Imakawa The Jayhawk Nation Membership Jason H. Boots Jamie M. Jabara —continued on page 48 Challenge began in mid-January, as did Bradley C. Borlase the Paint the State KU Blue Membership Marriah S. Brown Judy Ruedlinger Award winners Campaign in Kansas. Both will conclude John A. Cary March 12. The Kansas City Chapter Leo H. Chan Challenge begins Feb. 18 and ends with D. J. Chance the Rock Chalk Ball April 12. Robert L. Choromanski National and state chapters will com- Joel S. & Lisa Sanderson Cox pete to gain the largest percentage Katherine M. Crowe increase in new and upgraded member- Jason M. & Erika L. Cundiff ships. The two winning groups will each Kathy Damron receive $500 to host a local watch party Timothy H. & Julie L. Degner and celebration. Michele A. Delaplain The prize is the same for the Greater Thomas C. Dillon Kansas City Chapter if it meets the goal Leslie R. Dye of 500. John J. Egan The campaigns aim to build on the Charles K. & success of last year’s chapter challenges, Cheryl Wilson Elvin which resulted in 612 new or upgraded Andrew J. & ■ Student Alumni Association members, from bottom, Ellen memberships nationwide. Terri Weimer Fetters Stolle, Prairie Village senior, Rachel Barnes, Hutchinson senior; Look for updates on the Web at Steven W. Fike and Aly Rodee, Wichita junior; are this year’s winners of the kualumni.org, where the Association will Michelle M. Freshwater Judy Ruedlinger Award for their leadership in SAA and other regularly report the state, national and Lisa Friel campus groups. The $1,000 prizes honor the work of former Kansas City standings. Please help the Jason D. Fry Alumni Association staff member and SAA founder Judy Association increase membership--and its John M. & Lisa Starcke Gilmer Ruedlinger. impact in strengthening KU. Shane Glazer

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 47 Continued from p.47 Charles & Sherri Saul Sarah R. Schmidt Kevin P. & Lee A. Schwartz Brooke Thompson Kopp Bill E. Self Jr. & Cindy L. Self Kenneth A. & Matthew B. Sheets The KU Alumni Association exists to strengthen the Marla Ames Kuiper Andrew C. Short by informing, engaging and Jennifer Leaf Bradley C. & Kelly K. Shoup mobilizing the KU community. Richard S. & Wayne A. Simien, Jr. Your membership in the Association is the single most Benita Bacon MacKenzie Phyllis E. Smith powerful way to make all of KU stronger, including the Douglas A. Marples & Mary A. Snyder value of your own degree. Jane Haigler Marples William J. Sollner Pamela J. Maughmer Jeff C. Stevens Board of Directors DIRECTORS UNTIL 2011 Michael W. Davis, d’84, Mary Hodge McCarthy Jon L. Stewart Jeffrey P. Briley, d’74, g’91, Sr VP for Alumni, Overland Park Student and Membership John M. McGrath & Francie Stoner CHAIR Howard E. Cohen, b’79, Programs M. Shannon Gallagher Lori A. Tawney-Fike Joe C. Morris, b’61, Leawood Heath Peterson, d’04 Leawood Cecilia Medrano Binh Q. Thai & Amy Y. Jay Howard, b’79, Director of Kansas Barbara Foley Meeker Wong-Thai Austin, Texas Programs CHAIR-ELECT Charles M. Metzler & Christopher D. & Bradley G. Korell, l’97, Jill Simpson Miller, d’01 Tedde Tasheff, c’78, Austin, Texas Director of Kansas City Mutsumi M. Metzler Jessica Wachter New York, New York Randall J. Morgan Thompson Curtis R. McClinton Jr., Programs d’62, Kansas City, Missouri Eric J. & EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Samuel C. Murray Winifred S. Pinet, COMMUNICATIONS Jay Howard, b’79, Mark M. Mustoe Kathleen M. Thompson c’80, g’82, Plymouth, David Johnston, j’94, g’06 Austin, Texas Christopher M. & Jeanne Waymire Tinberg Michigan Director of Internet Joe C. Morris, b’61, John A. Tuggle Services and Markeing Troy Thomas Neal Leawood DIRECTORS TO JULY 2012 Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Laura A. Neely Todd P. Vincent Marvin R. Motley, c’77, Bud” Burke, b’56, Paul “ Associate Editor, Max Volfson & l’80, g’81, Leawood Lawrence Kristen A. Nilsen Kansas Alumni Magazine Walter F. Riker III, c’70, Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Linda Ward O'Hara Lindsey A. Weinger Jennifer Sanner, j’81 j’78, Aurora, Illinois Prairie Village Hans M. Peter Tony Vyhanek Sr VP for Communications Tedde Tasheff, c’78, Karen M. Humphreys, Julia P. Wagman and Corporate Secretary Rebecca J. Pivonka New York, New York c’70, l’73, Wichita Susan Younger, f ’91 Jonas D. Pollack Dustin M. & Becky VanWyhe Thomas, James A. Trower, b’76, Creative Director Samuel C. Pratt Jessica Strathman e’86, Baldwin City Salina Paul W. Reeves Walters Sue Shields Watson, d’75, FINANCE Wichita Cathy A. Reinhardt Charles M. Weathers HONORARY MEMBERS Dwight Parman Gene A. Budig, EdD, Sr VP for Finance and Maj. Darrell L. & Eric M. & Jody M. Rhoades DIRECTORS TO JULY 2008 Princeton, New Jersey Human Resources and Kenneth G. Rivera Lisa Arnold Williams Carol Ann Adams Brown, E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., Treasurer Steven O. Ronsick Brian R. & Darci Winter c’72, Alexandria, Virginia PhD, San Antonio,Texas HOSPITALITY SERVICES Rebecca Bowers Rooker Lorie Walker Worner Tom H. Collinson, Archie R. Dykes, EdD, c’00, Pittsburg Bryan Greve Roseann Runte Kirk & Ann Worthington Leawood Tedde Tasheff, c’78, Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Sr VP for Hospitality Lt. Cmdr. Hsin-Fu Wu Alan J. Sack New York, New York Lawrence Guy G. & RECORDS Harriet Harris Salts DIRECTORS TO JULY 2009 Bill Green Robert T. Stephan, ’54, Administrative Staff Sr VP for Information Lenexa Services Becky VanWyhe Thomas, Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Stefanie Shackelford e’86, Baldwin City President Vice President for Alumni Sue Shields Watson, d’75, Records • ALUMNI CENTER Wichita Timothy E. Brandt, b’74 SPECIAL EVENTS Director of Adams Alumni DIRECTORS TO JULY 2010 Lora Stoppel ROCKCHALK Center • E. Grant Larkin, c’78, Vice President for Garden City ALUMNI, STUDENT Special Events BALL Melissa Rodgers Padgett, & MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS c’83, Lawrence Jennifer Alderdice, g’99 Saturday, April 12, 2008 Walter F. Riker III, c’70, Director of Student j’78, Aurora, Illinois www.kualumni.org Programs

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR

Since 1975 the Fred Ellsworth Medallion has honored individuals “who have provided unique and significant service to the University.”

Fred Ellsworth Medallion recipients are honored by the Associa- tion at a special dinner in conjunction with the fall Board of Directors meeting and introduced during the home football game that weekend.

Past winners of the medallion have been honored for their leadership in Kansas higher education, as chairs and members of University boards and committees, as consult- ants for special KU projects, and as donors to the University. If someone you know has continually shared time, talents and resources to benefit KU, submit a nomination today!

To submit a nomination, contact the KU Alumni Association at 800-584-5397 or visit www.kualumni.org. The deadline for nominations is March 31. Class Notes BY KAREN GOODELL

1940 Kathleen McKee Widick, c’55, Aug. 4 in from Interventional Cardiology and now Arnold, b’40, and Bertha Scott John- Cocoa Beach, Fla. They make their home works as a commercial bookbinder. He son, b’40, celebrated their 67th anniver- in New York City. lives in Corrales, N.M. sary in October. They live in Topeka. Lee Manney Nelson, c’57, c’58, is 1956 founding director of the travel program 1942 John Studdard, b’56, represents Dou- for the University of Texas Alumni Asso- Polly Roth Bales, ’42, moved recently glas County as a delegate in the Silver ciation. He lives in El Paso. from Logan to Lawrence. Haired Legislature, a unicameral legisla- ture supported by the Kansas Depart- 1958 1952 ment on Aging and the Kansas Agencies Robert Hartley, j’58, wrote Saving Yel- Shirley Grounds Duncan, ’52, recently on Aging. He lives in Lawrence. lowstone: The President Arthur Expedition received the Bear Down Award from the of 1883, which was published earlier this University of Arizona Alumni Associa- 1957 year. He lives in Westminster, Colo. tion. She and her husband, Clarke, live in Wallace Dunlap, c’57, m’61, recently Larry Welch, c’58, l’61, recently Tucson. was inducted into the Louisiana State became a congressional fellow in Kansas Medical Society Hall of Fame. He lives in Rep. Jerry Moran’s office, where he’s MARRIED Baton Rouge. working to help fight methamphetamine Charles Crawford, b’52, l’57, and Jerome Goss, c’57, retired recently abuse in the state. Former head of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, he lives in Lawrence.

1962 William Plested, m’62, is a clinical professor of surgery at UCLA. He makes his home in Los Angeles.

1963 Roger Brock, b’63, retired from a career with Westinghouse, makes his home in Aiken, S.C., with Mary Luskow Brock, d’64. Stanley Thurber, e’63, is a project manager for Knowledge Reservoir and a petroleum engineer with Thurber Petro- leum Advisory. He lives in Spring, Texas.

1964 Harold Burch, g’64, EdD’75, is a pro- fessor emeritus of curriculum and instruction at Minnesota State University in Mankato, where he makes his home.

1965 Lindsey Easton Benne, d’65, is pro- gram coordinator at DBH Consulting in . She lives in Decatur. Delbert Gerstenberger Jr., c’65, g’67, works as director of compliance-internal

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audit and privacy at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Barbara Antonello Mentz, c’65, practices law in New York City and is a member of the National Arbitration Forum.

MARRIED Ragene Aldrich, n’65, to Ben Moore, Oct. 7 in Wichita, where they live. She’s an ambulatory surgery nurse at Wesley Medical Center.

1966 John Butler, PhD’66, was named Dis- tinguished Veterinary Immunologist ear- lier this year by the American Association of Veterinary Immunologists. He is a pro- fessor of microbiology at the University of Iowa, and makes his home in Coralville. Scott Colby, c’66, works as a financial representative for New England Finan- cial/Met Life in Wichita. Alice Brummell Jenkins, d’66, g’76, has a CD titled Almost Christmas, which was released in December. She lives in Edwardsville.

1967 Virginia Lewis, c’67, g’69, recently became executive director of the Dia- betes Research Institute at the KU Med- ical Center in Kansas City. John “Nick” Nicholson, f’67, g’73, recently retired from Nicholson Kovac, an advertising agency he co-founded in 1981. Nick and his wife, Patty, live in Overland Park.

1968 Martin Grogan, e’68, g’71, recently was appointed to the advisory board of the Novum Institute. He’s chief technical officer and vice president of technical systems at Financial Pacific Leasing in Auburn, Wash. Frank Janzen, c’68, g’05, teaches Eng- lish at Shinas College of Technology in Shinas, Oman. Patrick Ruckh, b’68, is executive vice president of First Horizon National Corp. in Memphis, Tenn. Nancy Polson Schuetz, d’68, teaches

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI English as a second language in several elementary schools in Great Bend.

1969 1969 Marilyn Asklund, d’69, retired in May after a 38-year career teaching social studies in Topeka, where she lives. Robert Friesner, g’69, is chief financial officer at Darrell Julian Construction in Albuquerque, N.M.

1970 Joan Irvine, c’70, works as executive director of the Association of Sites Advo- cating Child Protection in Los Angeles. Barbara Musgrave Lawson, d’70, lives in Centennial, Colo., where she’s a clini- cal therapist at Centennial Therapy and Coaching Center. HEN GAIN Steven Smith, e’70, is managing direc- T A tor of Jefferies & Company in Houston. oach and his Jayhawks had plenty of student support at the 1969 COrange Bowl. The travel package sponsored by Student Union Activities and the 1971 All-Student Council included a roundtrip airline ticket, a game ticket, three days and Dennis Kraus, b’71, works as a sales four nights lodging, and transportation to and from the airport. Grand total–$165. representative for Alpha Shirt Company. He and Linda Saffell Kraus, d’71, make

ISSUE 1, 2008 | 53 Class Notes their home in Cypress, Texas.

1972 Nell Bly, c’72, is a psychotherapist at Center of Change in Littleton, Colo. James Malone, c’72, b’75, works as a CPA in San Antonio.

1973 Theodore, c’73, and Barbara Truskett Gradolf, n’77, g’83, make their home in Roswell, Ga. Margaret Lanoue, c’73, heads adult services at the Guilderland Public Library in Guilderland, N.Y. Robert Stukesbary, d’73, teaches at Topeka West High School’s Extended Learning Center.

1974 Nancy Foster Browne, d’74, g’81, teaches and directs athletics at Washing- ton High School in Kansas City. James Doepke, d’74, directs educa- tional outreach at Conn-Selmer. He lives in Waukesha, Wis. Robert Marsh, b’74, is an associate broker at ZipRealty. He lives in Mesa, Ariz.

1975 Janet Campbell Barber, g’75, g’80, PhD’83, is a professor of pharmacy at Florida A&M University. She lives in Tal- lahassee. Don, c’75, and Leslie Goldstein Not- tberg, ’78, own Elite Feet in Overland Park.

1976 Jeffrey Cox, c’76, g’78, works as a sys- tem analyst at Deloitte Consulting Out- sourcing in Tulsa, Okla. Saralyn Reece Hardy, c’76, g’94, direc- tor of the Spencer Museum of Art, was named “Best Museum Director” in Pitch featured on the cover of Best of America pleted a term as president of the board of magazine’s annual “Best of Kansas City” Mixed Media Artists, which was published the North Hennepin Community College issue. earlier this year. She lives in Santa Fe, Foundation. She lives in St. Louis Park, N.M. Minn. 1977 Gail McEnroe, b’77, lives in Chicago, David Limardi, g’78, is city manager of Sidney Bacon, c’77, g’79, is dean of where she’s regional director for AT&T. Highland Park, Ill. He’s also president- natural sciences at Arizona State Univer- elect of the International City/County sity in Tempe. He lives in Phoenix. 1978 Management Association. Laura Epler, c’77, g’83, had her work Karyn Gibson, j’78, recently com- Albert Peoples, d’78, directs informa-

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI tion technology for Houston on Wheels in Houston.

1979 Nancy Short Burger, c’79, is principal at Country View Elementary School in Winfield.

1980 Kristie Kohls Blaha, a’80, a’81, is a sen- ior associate at Forum Studio in St. Louis. Richard Konzem, b’80, is director of athletics at Rockhurst University in Kansas City. Cindy Harwell Miller, e’80, is a pro- duction engineer with Huntsman Corp. in Freeport, Texas. She lives in Lake Jack- son. Teresa Bratton Peterson, d’80, works as a secretary at Barton College in Wil- son, N.C., where she lives with her hus- band, Steve, and their children, Nathan, 14, and Katie, 12.

1981 Daniel Gleason, e’81, works as a facil- ity engineer for BP Exploration Alaska in Anchorage. Jeffry McGinnis, c’81, manages enhancement at Valleycrest Landscape Maintenance in Loveland, Colo. He lives David Viegra, c’83, works as a labor- adjunct professor at KU’s Dole Human in Fort Collins. relations specialist at the Bellagio hotel in Development Center. Edward Miller, ’81, is a senior techni- Las Vegas. Terry Mears, j’86, directs marketing cal analyst with TIAA-CREF. He lives in for Bushnell Performance Optics. He Iola. 1984 lives in Overland Park. Mary Horsch Tritsch, j’81, is associate Lawrence Leibson, b’84, works as a David O’Brien, j’86, covers sports for state director of communications for manager at Assurant Employee Benefits the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He AARP Kansas. She lives in Topeka. in Kansas City. recently was named Georgia Sportswriter Paul Trulove, c’84, is an associate pro- of the Year by the National Sportswriters 1982 fessor of chemistry at the U.S. Naval and Sportscasters Association. Jane Bryant, j’82, is a principal at Pro- Academy in Annapolis, Md. fessional PR Strategies in Potomac Falls, 1987 Va., where she and her husband, Freder- 1985 Patrice Brown, c’87, g’93, is a partner ick Coulter, b’82, live. Kenton Korsey, p’85, is a pharmacist in the labor and employment depart- Sheila Shumaker Prather, b’82, works at ESI. He lives in Higley, Ariz. ment at Blackwell Sanders in Kansas as a senior claims analyst at Principal City. She lives in Fairway. Financial Group. She lives in Derby. 1986 Carey Craig, c’87, directs human Liliana Mayo, g’86, PhD’96, recently resources at Nex-Tech Aerospace in 1983 was named to the Order El Sol de Peru, Wichita. He lives in Cheney. Bradley Daniels, c’83, is CEO of one of the highest decorations awarded Stuart Purdy, b’87, a partner in Lock- Windtrax in Mission. He and Patricia by the Peruvian government. Liliana is ton, makes his home in Palatine, Ill. Wilhelm Daniels, n’82, m’88, live in founder and director of the Anne Sulli- John Williams, c’87, co-owns Vermont Shawnee. van Center in Lima, Peru. She also is an Bird Place in Arlington, Vt.

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1988 1989 Julie West Edwards, j’88, works as a Richard Dunklee, f’89, is a product speech-language pathologist at Horizon manager at Saepio Technologies in Elementary School in De Soto. She lives Kansas City. He and Amy Barrett Dun- in Kansas City. klee, d’89, live in Stilwell with their chil- Richard Flory, e’88, g’90, is a senior dren, Jacob and Jordan. consultant with Analysts International. Sherri Fate Graham, d’89, works as He lives in Brentwood, Colo. assistant principal at Loggers’ Run Mid- Eric Love, b’88, l’93, practices law dle School in Boca Raton, Fla. She lives with Kingsbery, Johnson, Foster & Love in Delray Beach. in Boulder, Colo. He lives in Erie with his Matthew Hickam, c’89, is vice presi- wife, Jennifer, and their son, Joshua, 5. dent of Kensinger & Associates in Karen Rae, c’88, is chief of staff to the Topeka. commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Michael Parrish, e’89, directs electrical Winter on the Hill Artist Larry Leroy Pearson captures a Reclamation in Washington, D.C. She engineering for PSA-Dewberry in Peoria, charming winter scene on the Hill in this lives in Alexandria, Va. Ill. framed, limited-edition print. Wood Bryan Rose, c’88, recently became spe- Jon Sexton, m’89, practices medicine frame measures 11½ x 9½ inches. cial director of development at Colorado at Fayetteville Diagnostic Clinic in Fayet- Quantities are limited at this introductory price. State University in Fort Collins. teville, Ark. $25 - Non-member $23 - Member Derek Updegraff, b’88, works as a Yvette Whelan Stark, j’89, directs $20 - Jayhawk Society or Life Member clinical application analyst at Stormont- management at Saatchi & Saatchi Adver- www.kualumni.org • 800-584-2957 Vail HealthCare in Topeka. tising in Overland Park.

56 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1990 writer for the New York Post in New Stephanie Epting Parker, c’91, works Robert Biehunko, b’90, is plant York City. as program director for Rehab Care manager for McWane Inc. in Anniston, Michael Moore, e’90, manages engi- Group in Kansas City. Ala. neering for Altec Industries. He and Kim- Susan Younger, f’91, recently was Kendall Harris, c’90, is dean of the berly Moulden-Moore, c’91, live in St. elected to the board of the University College of Engineering at Prairie View Joseph, Mo. and College Designers Association. She’s A&M University. He lives in Cypress, creative director at the KU Alumni Asso- Texas. 1991 ciation, and she lives in Lawrence with Deborah Heard Holinger, c’90, serves Audrey Curtis Hane, c’91, g’93, her husband, Jerry, e’86, g’92. as a captain in the U.S. Air Force, where PhD’96, is director of arts and humani- she’s an admissions liasion officer in ties at Newman University in Wichita, 1992 Edmond, Okla. where she and her husband, Scott, Dennis Baginski, b’92, is chief Edward Hubbuch, j’90, is a sports- m’96, live. operating officer of Clarity Resource

Profile BY STEVEN HILL

Arts center leader ends for people of all types and STEVE PUPPE successful 33-year tenure ages to meet with a com- mon interest.” hen Ann Kaiser Evans Evans grew up in Paola, became director, in 1974, which offered limited arts the Lawrence Arts Center activities for youths. She was only a concept. joined the high school W“We started as an idea, and some band, but even then was thought it wouldn’t last, that it would be an arts administrator. a little ladies club,” says Evans, d’69. In When “Tonight Show” 1975 the center moved into its first bandleader Doc Severin- home, the Carnegie Library at Ninth and sen performed with the Vermont streets. Only part of the first students, Evans took floor was renovated. To host a chamber charge of tickets and pub- ■ orchestra concert, she hung temporary licity. The job consumed “I often wonder what my life would have been like had I not lights from extension cords. so much time she couldn’t had the opportunity to work here,” says Lawrence Arts Center By the time Evans retired at the end play in the concert. director Ann Evans, who retired in December. “Thank goodness of 2007, she and her staff had built the After KU, she worked I have, because having the arts as part of your life is just a joy.” Lawrence Arts Center into one of the three years at a private arts strongest in the state, with a sparkling center in Albany, N.Y., before returning to underserved,” says Judy Billings, director New Hampshire Street home that fea- Lawrence and taking the arts center job. of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors tures a theatre, two exhibition galleries, She oversaw renovations to the Carnegie Bureau. “She takes great pride in bring- 10 art and dance studios, and preschool Library and in 1992 leased an off-site ing the arts to people for whom it really classrooms. Performances, classes and studio, a move that jump-started the makes a difference.” exhibitions, which drew 4,000 that first center’s dance program. After plans to Evans’ contributions were recognized year, now attract more than 100,000 expand the Carnegie building fell with a Phoenix Award from the annual visits to a center that’s become a through, she moved quickly to secure the Lawrence Arts Commission in 1998 and hub of not only its downtown neighbor- center’s present site. She also worked to the Governor’s Arts Award in 2002. But hood, but also the city as a whole. export center programs to other groups, her greatest rewards come from chance “It brings together people from all such as the Boys & Girls Club of encounters. walks of life and all parts of town,” Evans Lawrence. “I meet so many people who have says of “A Place to Imagine,” the $7.25 “She’s shown total dedication to the some sort of connection to this place,” million building that opened in 2002. place, the community and most of all the she says. “That the arts are a part of so “That helps the community we live in, people she serves—most especially the many lives—that’s astounding.”

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Group in Austin, Texas. recently became an assistant city man- Group in Kansas City. Scott Gage, c’92, directs business ager in Lawrence. development at Children’s Mercy Hospi- 1993 tals & Clinic in Kansas City. BORN TO: Samuel Clark, ’93, is president of Margaret Poague, f’92, owns Pogo’s John Cain, b’92, and Jennifer, daugh- Clark Construction. He lives in Overland LLC in De Soto. ter, Lila, Aug. 18 in Valencia, Calif., where Park. Ron Roecker, j’92, is global vice presi- she joins two sisters, Charlotte, 5, and Marisa Morgan Dallman, c’93, works dent of Taylor Entertainment in Los Georgia, 2. John owns Crew Creative in as a real-estate broker for MMD. She and Angeles. He lives in Santa Monica. Los Angeles. her husband, Kurt, b’92, live in Lenexa. Christina Guilfoyle Stapleton, c’92, Gary Valentine, b’92, and Kenna, Chad Gunther, b’93, lives in Overland is a scientist at MRI. She lives in daughter, Jadyn, Aug. 28 in Lenexa, Park, where he’s an investment analyst Overland Park. where she joins a sister, Garyn, 2. with Waddell & Reed. Diane Cook Stoddard, c’92, g’95, Gary is a controller at Wolfe Automotive Leslie Letts, j’93, g’05, is vice presi-

Profile BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER STEVE PUPPE

Chuck Fischer explores rejection led Fischer down a new career design’s many dimensions path. “A representative came to my stu- dio, where I was working on 3-D s a young would-be actor in houses,” he says. “He saw that I could New York City, Chuck Fischer work in three dimensions and asked if needed to pay his bills while I’d ever considered doing a pop-up paying his dues in auditions book. Off the top of my head, I thought Aand bit parts. He also yearned to see of a theme on historic houses, and it has Europe and study the history of art led to so much more.” and architecture. Little, Brown and Co. last October Fischer, f’77, found a practical, albeit published his fourth pop-up, Christmas improbable, solution: He began painting Around the World, a richly illustrated murals. Friends in the interior design homage to varied holiday traditions. business asked him to create murals for Along with the eye candy of his standup ■ Fischer’s pop-ups reflect his taste for the their clients, and soon Fischer, who at artwork, Fischer offers unexpected classic. “I like contemporary design, and I like to KU had studied architecture before treats: Hidden tabs and panels reveal live with a bit of it; I don’t live in a museum” he switching to illustration and advertising lush prose vignettes. An avid researcher, says. “But my hand, I’m told, is very European, art, became known for his trompe l’oeil he outlines the text of each book and sort of old school.” works in elegant, stately homes. “I got a relies on writers to complement his lot of coverage in the press about my paintings. He also works with a paper Art of Genesis. One of his collaborators murals, and one of the fabric and wallpa- engineer, who envisions the elaborate will be writer and fellow Jayhawk Curtis per houses, Brunschwig & Fils, saw my folds, tabs and panels that pop up to Flowers, j’88, whom Fischer met when work in a designer showhouse in New delight readers. Each book is printed the two sat next to each other on a plane York,” he recalls. “They asked me to cre- and assembled in China. home to Kansas City. ate some designs for them, so I created Although many pop-ups are designed Fischer continues to create wallpaper my first collection. That was in 1995, for children, Fischer’s work also appeals and fabrics, along with dinnerware for and it’s still being sold today.” to parents who grew up with the genre. Lenox Inc. And though his products are Travels to Europe inspired his work, “When I’m creating a book,” he says, available via his Web site and he began to make detailed architec- “I’m not doing so with one person in (chuckfischer.com) and Amazon, he still tural renderings, using intricate, three- mind. I’m thinking of the family.” begins each project with pen and brush. dimensional paintings to propose Following two Christmas books and “I could draw on the computer,” he says, decorative ideas for homeowners. He other pop-ups on the White House and “but I like letting the ideas come from proposed a book of renderings to several Great American Houses and Gardens, his the hand to the paper to the product. It publishers, including Rizzoli, whose next project will be In the Beginning: The works for me.”

58 | KANSAS ALUMNI dent of Fleishman-Hillard in San Oct. 2 in Prairie Village, where she joins a son, Preston Arthur, May 7 in Birming- Francisco. brother, William, 1, and a sister, Ava, 3. ham, Ala., where he joins a sister, Lillian, Jeffrey Orr, c’93, manages accounts for Kristopher Weidling, c’94, and Jen- 4. Leslie is an assistant professor of bio- Smithsonian magazine in Chicago. nifer, daughter, Madison Elizabeth, statistics at the University of Alabama. Daryn Hare Schwartz, j’93, and her March 25 in Pleasant Hill, Calif. Kris is Jeffrey Nichols, c’95, l’99, and husband, Bart, live in Elmhurst, Ill., with senior human-resources business partner Meghan, daughter, Aubrey Ann, March their sons, Evan, 3, and Stuart, 1. at Bayer Healthcare in Berkeley. 14 in Lenexa, where she joins a brother, James, c’94, and Candice Eberle Nathan, 3. Jeff is a partner in the Over- 1994 Westphal, j’95, son, Joshua Thomas, Jan. land Park firm of Wallace Saunders Kimberly Kennedy Clement, c’94, is a 11 in Overland Park, where he joins a Austin Brown & Enochs. forensic scientist with the Texas Depart- brother, Joseph, 3. ment of Public Safety Crime Lab in 1996 Austin. 1995 Stephanie Glancey, c’96, works as a Rikki Drake Schreiber, e’94, manages Catherine Trujillo Becker, b’95, is sen- manager at Eagle Hill Consulting in product definition for Spirit AeroSystems ior manager at KPMG in Kansas City. McLean, Va. She lives in Arlington. in Wichita. She and her husband, Der- Mark Galus, c’95, practices law with Damian Glaze, b’96, is senior project rick, live in Derby. Halbrook Law in Kansas City. estimator at Kitchell CEM in Phoenix. Christopher Vine, c’94, e’99, works as Bree Enderle McMurray, c’95, com- Kendra Hopkins, c’96, edits copy for area superintendent of Hensel Phelps mutes from Columbia, Mo., to Jefferson the American Hospital Association’s Construction in Orlando, Fla. City, where she’s an endangered-species Health Forum in Chicago. biologist with the Missouri Department Christopher Ronan, j’96, directs com- of Transportation. munications for the Crown Center Rede- BORN TO: velopment Corporation in Kansas City. Rebecca Boresow Reardon, j’94, and BORN TO He and Rachel Casebolt Ronan, f’96, Timothy, ’95, daughter, Sarah Marie, Leslie Ain McClure, c’95, and Craig, live in Lenexa.

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To order, www.kualumni.org or 800-KU Hawks BORN TO: Nash, April 2 in Overland Park, where joins a sister, Isley, 2. Michael, e’96, and Meredith Bayles they join a sister, Kylie Jane, 3. Clayton is Jeffrey Wheeler, e’96, and Phaedra, Bell, c’96, n’99, son, Matthew Morgan, a principal with Apex Engineers in Mer- son, Gavin Thomas, May 30 in Prairie Feb. 10 in Shawnee, where he joins a riam. Village. Jeffrey is an electrical engineer brother, Drew, 5. Sherman Reeves, c’96, and Rebecca, with Henderson Engineers in Lenexa. Jennifer Kirchner Boehler, p’96, and son, Grant Alexander, Aug. 19 in Ply- Mike, daughter, Darby Marie, Aug. 22 in mouth, Minn., where he joins a sister, 1997 Laurel, Mont., where she joins a sister, Morgan, 3. Sherman is an opthalmologist Bill Frakes, ’97, is a marketing repre- Dakota, 8, and a brother, Dalton, 4. Jen- at Minnesota Eye Consultants in Min- sentative for Budget PrePay. He lives in nifer is a staff pharmacist at CVS Phar- neapolis. Lawrence. macy in Billings. Heather Hubert Steger, c’96, and Zachary Holland, e’97, works as a Clayton, e’96, and Bridget Mason Richard, daughter, Mollie Kennan, Aug. reservoir engineer at Devon Energy in Hess, j’98, sons, Mason James and Logan 27 in Broken Arrow, Okla., where she Oklahoma City.

Profile BY CATHY SHERMAN

Second career leads they healthy? Could their to far-flung assignments sponsors support them? Were they ineligible to immigrate n a moment she describes as because they’d lived illegally in DOLL ANITA COURTESY “serendipity,” Anita Knopp Doll saw the States or had committed an advertisement for the U.S. foreign crimes? service test. She was content in her Since July, Doll has been Icareer as communications director at the chief of American Citizen Serv- State University of New York at Bing- ices. “We Americans who hamton, but she’d always yearned to live travel or live here,” she says. in a foreign country. “We see them in the best of Five years later, she’s a vice consul times—we provide citizenship at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, papers to their children born Honduras. here—and in the worst of “My husband, Michael, was retiring times.” ■ A former journalist, Anita Doll works for the U.S. State soon, and our three kids were launched, Too often Doll has had to Department in Honduras—and soon, Australia. more or less,” explains Doll, j’73. step in after the death or injury “I was also inspired by 9/11. It struck of an American. In the past year, a num- duran husband had become abusive. me that my communication skills were a ber of missionaries were killed or injured Such incidents are the most gratifying, service I could give to my country.” in bus accidents, and several people were Doll says, because “I like the one on one In Washington, D.C., she completed a murdered. In one weekend, two Ameri- with people, representing my govern- year of intensive Spanish lessons and cans died while diving; another died in a ment in a good way.” diplomatic, consular and protocol stud- rafting accident. Learning the nuances of Spanish has ies. She and her husband moved to Hon- When a U.S. citizen dies, she and her been difficult, but her new post will elim- duras in April 2006. staff must find and notify the next of kin inate that challenge. In August, she Initially, she interviewed Hondurans within 24 hours, she explains, and com- begins work as the information officer at who wanted to visit the United States. municate with the family regarding the the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. “My job was to determine, usually in victim’s personal property and any ongo- “I worked for more than seven years 30 seconds or less, whether I thought ing investigation. in newspapers and 15 years in public the person was going to return to Hon- She also visits Americans in jail and relations, so this will allow me to draw duras,” she says. and helps other U.S. citizens whose pass- on that experience—and in a language Later, her job was to approve immi- ports have been lost or stolen. Recently, I’m comfortable with.” gration visas for Hondurans with family she helped a woman and her child return Sherman, j’73, is a free-lance writer members who were U.S. citizens. Were to the States after the woman’s Hon- in Leawood.

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Irvin Jerez, c’97, directs the informa- make their home in Kansas City. Redondo Beach, Calif., and Dana works as tion resources center at the U.S. Embassy a speech-language pathologist at the Eis- in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 1998 ner Pediatric and Family Medical Center. Joshua Meyer, b’97, is a partner and Erin Hubert, j’98, c’98, is Web site Karli Pigg, c’98, m’02, and Thomas chief financial officer at Jasper Stone Part- manager at HOK in Kansas City. Alderson, c’02, May 5 in Topeka. They ners in Omaha, Neb. Heather Whitney Sesma, c’98, lives live in Nashville, Tenn., where Karli is a Michelle Crecelius Skipton, c’97, and in Minneapolis, where she’s an assistant physician and Tom is a resident physi- her husband, Matt, live in Wildwood, professor of psychology at the University cian at Vanderbilt University. Mo., with their son, Tyler, 4, and their of Minnesota. Samuel Wendt, c’98, and Ta nya twin daughters, Payton and Amber, 1. Rodecker, l’05, Aug. 18 in Prairie Village. Brenda Daly Soto, s’97, s’03, and her MARRIED He works for Peterson & Associates, husband, Hector, c’98, g’99, celebrated Dana Briggeman, c’98, to Julian Cran, and she’s an associate attorney with their first anniversary Nov. 30. They July 21 in Garden City. They live in Deacy & Deacy.

Profile BY CAROL CRUPPER

Physician prescribes in Plainville, Salina, and at an indigent health care reform clinic in Wichita before joining KU Med. National leadership slots, he says, “just hile studying medicine in opened up. I’m probably as apolitical as Kansas City, Rick Keller- you can get, but I do have a strong belief

man, m’78, never imagined we can do better.” RICK KELLERMAN COURTESY starring in one of America’s He notes a fragmented health care Whottest debates. system, increased chronic illness and Today he’s working with national lead- uneven coverage. To make matters ers to change the ailing health care sys- worse, fewer than 8 percent of U.S. med- tem: testifying before Congress, fielding ical students entered family practice last media questions and forging coalitions. year. (The KU medical school, where 21 For someone who grew up in Greens- percent of graduates choose family prac- burg and Hays, this role seems unbeliev- tice residencies, leads the nation.) “We able. “I wasn’t even in student council,” have a system going the wrong direction Kellerman says. “I went to medical because it has devalued primary care,” school to be a small-town doc.” Kellerman says. Kellerman, a family physician and But, he believes, people are starting to chairman of the KU School of Medicine- get it. “We’re at a major transition point. ■ As chairman of the American Academy of Wichita, is the new chairman of the We are discovering that if our health Family Physicians, Rick Kellerman challenges American Academy of Family Physicians. care system is not based on primary policymakers and his family-practice peers to Last year, he served as president of the care, we have a system that is not going improve the U.S. health care system. 94,000-member organization and, before to be very good.” that, on its board of directors. Behind the His association prescribes a patient- scenes, he works with fellow physicians, centered medical home for all, one that insurance companies and business lead- allows patients to develop a strong rela- help, Kellerman says, and medical ers on issues such as access to health tionship with a physician who can offer schools need to focus on recruiting and care, medical liability reform and cost comprehensive and preventive care and training students willing to work in rural management. Out front, he argues for aid access to other professionals. Tech- and inner-city settings. measures such as expanding health care nology increases administrative effi- Implementing this model nationwide, coverage for millions of uninsured chil- ciency and improves patient scheduling. he says, “is the only thing that’s going to dren. To put this prescription into practice bring equity and fairness.” Before this, Kellerman was doing what would require cultivating many more Crupper, d’67, is a Lawrence he set out to do. He practiced medicine family physicians. Improved pay would free-lance writer.

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI ISSUE 1, 2008 | 63 Class Notes 1948 JAYHAWKER

THEN AGAIN bus loaded with KU students“rolls A to the bowl,” arriving in Miami for KU’s first appearance in a major college postseason game. The 1947 team, coached by featured co- captains Otto “Schnelly” Schnellbacher and Don Fambrough, and football All- American Ray Evans. Time ran out for the Jayhawks in the closely contested game — Georgia Tech eked out a 20-14 victory.

BORN TO: BORN TO: he’s a pilot with Continental Airlines. Aroop, c’98, m’02, and Julie Henning Brian, d’99, and Kara King Friedman, Pal, h’02, daughter, Maya Kate, Sept. 19 c’99, son, Nathan Dale, July 2 in San BORN TO: in Lenexa, where she joins two sisters, Diego. Kathleen Corry Parker, f’00, and Ava, 3, and Leah, 1. Aroop practices med- Kevin, daughter, Alaina Nicole, May 6 in icine at the KU Medical Center in Kansas 2000 Glendale, Mo. Kathleen is an associate City. Keith Bainbridge, c’00, directs Mid- with the Lawrence Group in St. Louis. Matthew, c’98, m’03, and Shelly west advertising for Kiplinger’s Personal Messeraull Stumpe, b’99, daughter, Finance magazine in Chicago. 2001 Amanda Grace, Aug. 3 in Memphis, Jill Sullivan Drucker, c’00, is a study Scott Bideau, e’01, g’03, is a senior Tenn., where she joins a brother, Joel, 3. coordinator at Washington University in consultant for eVergance Partners. He St. Louis, where she and her husband, and Shelley Prier Bideau, n’01, live in 1999 Charles, c’01, make their home. Steamboat Springs, Colo. Gerry Doyle, j’99, c’99, an editor at Trent Lickteig, e’00, does financial Jay Carter, d’01, works as a loan ana- the Chicago Tribune, wrote From the advising for Ameriprise Financial in lyst at Midland Loan Services. He and Depths, a novel that was published in Scottsdale, Ariz. He and Jennifer Roszell Jennifer Neumann Carter, b’02, l’04, November. Lickteig, j’00, live in Cave Creek. She’s live in Overland Park. She’s a real estate Kristen McNiel McFarren, c’99, and a real estate agent for John Hall & financing associate with Polsinelli Shal- her husband, Steve, e’00, make their Associates. ton Flanigan Suelthaus in Kansas City. home in Kansas City with Sophie, 1. Christopher Clemence, c’01, is a land Jamie Black McGinn, d’99, and her MARRIED acquistion specialist with Crown Castle husband, Ryan, live in Shawnee with Patricia Aenchbacher, b’00, and International in Houston. their daughter, Claire Kathleen, 1. Jamie Jarrod Ramsey, b’01, Sept. 29 in Kansas Chara Dillon Mock, f’01, teaches ballet is a culture consultant with Kansas City City, where they live. She’s a project and choreographs dance in Metairie, La., Power & Light. manager with American Century, and where her husband, Steven, ’96, owns

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Mock Construction. 2002 Agency in New York City. Rashad Spriggs, c’01, serves as a spe- Rosalie Eiesland Foster, ’02, is execu- cial agent with the U.S. Secret Service in tive director of the Strategic Education 2003 New York City. Center in Lawrence. Lindsey Karns Brees, b’03, is an enter- Marissa Mohr Vann, c’01, is a program Jehan Kamil, b’02, l’05, practices law prise risk analyst with Federal Home manager at Sprint Nextel in Overland with Lathrop & Gage in Overland Park. Loan Bank of Topeka. She and her hus- Park. She lives in Olathe. Katharine Milberger, c’02, b’02, l’05, band, Rory, have a daughter, Taylor, 1. recently became an associate at Blackwell Margaret Keel Buschelman, c’03, BORN TO: Sanders in Kansas City. d’04, and her husband, Eric, e’05, live in Noel, j’01, and Misha Smith Ander- Brenda Pryor, c’02, works as a super- Dayton, Ohio, with their son, Dominic, 1. son, c’01, son, Connor Lee, April 25 in visor at Chrysler Financial. She lives in Eric is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Bel Aire. Noel manages campaign De Soto. Force. accounts for United Way of the Plains in Michael Simonett, b’02, is a senior Alicia Green, d’03, does academic Wichita. account executive at Commerce Bank in advising at KU. She lives in Lawrence. Andrew, c’01, l’04, and Shannon Kansas City. Robyn Runft Liu, m’03, practices med- Lacey Braun, l’04, son, Aidan Lawrence, Marco Villa, g’02, g’05, g’06, works as icine at Greeley County Health Services. July 23 in Wichita, where Andy directs a mission operations engineer for She and her husband, Jonathan, live in property services for the Martens Com- SpaceX. He and Leslie Sphar Villa, g’05, Tribune with their daughters, Ridley, 4, panies and Shannon practices law with live in Redondo Beach, Calif. and Hania, 1. Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock and Sarah Morgan, d’03, directs special Kennedy. MARRIED events for Southern Methodist University Michael, e’01, and Angela Joy Randall, Ben Sosinski, b’02, to Michaele in Dallas. c’01, daughter, Breahna Kinzie, Sept. 30 Moretz, Sept. 1 in Big Sky, Mont. They Justin Mullins, c’03, is a state patrol in Lawrence, where she joins a sister, live in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Ben works corporal with the Colorado State Patrol Savannah, 3. as an interactive director at R/GA in Lamar. Joseph Munoz, c’03, works as an administrative assistant at KU. He and his wife, Theryn Spomer, ’00, make their home in Lawrence. Ryan Murphy, b’03, is a financial investment analyst at Fidelity Bank in Wichita. Sarah Osbern, c’03, h’04, g’06, works as an occupational therapist at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas. Charles Rhoades, c’03, is a financial adviser with Edward Jones in Denver. Emily Southard Romain, j’03, works as dietary manager at Sandalwood Manor in Denver. David Tarverdi, e’03, g’06, is an engi- neer at Huntsman. He lives in Goddard. Adam Wright, c’03, directs sales at the University of Phoenix office in Omaha, Neb. Shanda Wyatt, j’03, manages human resources for Winstead Marketing in Knoxville, Tenn.

MARRIED Sarah Schraeder, c’03, g’05, and Paul Mattson, c’05, June 9 in KU’s Danforth Chapel. They live in Clarkston, Wash. Kristy Straub, c’03, to Randy Rein,

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Sept. 22 in Great Bend, where she’s a Washington, D.C. school program at the Illinois Gymnas- sales administrator with Straub Interna- Scott Christie, g’04, works as manag- tics Institute in Chicago. tional. ing editor at Great American Publishing Courtney Grimwood, j’05, plans spe- in Sparta, Mich. cial events for Pembroke Hill School’s BORN TO: Diane Covington, g’04, serves as assis- Alumni House in Kansas City. Suzanne Holdgrafer Rice, d’03, and tant resident dean at the University of Corinne Hale, d’05, g’07, manages Mitchell, c’06, daughter, Jillian Kay, Aug. California-San Diego. She lives in La inventory for the Kansas City Chiefs 9 in Overland Park, where she joins a Jolla. Football Club. She lives in Shawnee. brother, Jordan, 2. Mitchell works for Melanie Hadley Griffiths, f’04, is a Alicia Heili, d’05, g’07, is an athletics Commercial Capital Co. recitalist and orchestral soloist in South trainer at the Marine Corps Base in Pasadena, Calif. She recently presented a Quantico, Va. She lives in Woodbridge. 2004 piano concert in Lawrence’s sister city, Stephanie Kroemer, b’05, works as an Erin Baby, c’04, is an account execu- Eutin, Germany, as part of Eutin’s 750th office claims representative with Farmers tive with Bureau Van Dijk Electronic Pub- anniversary celebration. Insurance in Olathe. lishing in Chicago. Matthew LeCover, j’04, works as an Alison Layne, c’05, f’07, is a graphic Brian Berg, a’04, is an architect at 360 advertising account executive for Star designer with Waddell & Reed in Mis- Architecture in Kansas City, and Laura Community Newspapers in Plano, Texas. sion. Carnoali Berg, c’05, is a family support Heather Ramaglia Stajduhar, d’04, James Lewis, c’05, manages regional worker at KVC Behavioral Healthcare. g’08, teaches eighth-grade math at Trail- accounts for Miele. He lives in Rich- They live in Bonner Springs. ridge Middle School in Shawnee. She and mond, Va. Robert Carlson, c’04, is an economist her husband, Tim, live in Gardner with Willliam McCollum, c’05, is a project with the Bureau of Economic Analysis in their daughter, Giovanna, 1. manager with DHL IT Services Europe in Jerome Wilhort, j’04, coordinates Prague, Czech Republic. home entertainment retail accounts for Kristen Novak, b’05, works as a finan- 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles. He cial analyst with Raytheon Co. She lives lives in Santa Monica. in Burlington, Mass. School Codes Letters that follow Aleta Wilmoth, Brandon Snook, names indicate the school from which alumni c’04, manages conven- f’05, is a earned degrees. Numbers show their class years. tion sales for Harrah’s Entertainment in contract/vendor manager with Ericsson Las Vegas. Mobility World in New York City. a School of Architecture and Elizabeth Winetroub, c’05, works as Urban Design MARRIED an account executive for Datacore Mar- b School of Business Carolyn Bridges, s’04, s’05, and Brent keting in Westwood. She lives in Prairie c College of Liberal Arts and Ruggles, c’04, Sept. 2. They live in Village. Sciences Wichita, and Carolyn is a specialized fos- d School of Education ter care worker with Youthville. MARRIED e School of Engineering Amber Heggestad, f’05, and Jason f School of Fine Arts BORN TO: Goodvin, c’07, Sept. 15 in Kansas City, g Master’s Degree Joanne Jansen Montgomery, j’04, and where they live. She’s a designer for Hall- h School of Allied Health Jeremy, daughter, Maggie, April 20 in mark Cards, and he works in the treas- j School of Journalism Overland Park. ury services office at Commerce l School of Law Bancshares. m School of Medicine 2005 Anne Ziegelmeyer, b’05, to Steven n School of Nursing Michelle Rodick Beracha, j’05, is a Farrar, Sept. 15 in Wichita. They live in p School of Pharmacy programs and marketing assistant at the Charlotte, N.C., and she’s a CPA recruit- PharmD School of Pharmacy East Carolina Alumni Association. She ing manager for Hunter Hollis. s School of Social Welfare and her husband, Eli, e’03, g’06, PhD’07, DE Doctor of Engineering live in Winterville, N.C. 2006 DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Marion Blackbourn, e’05, serves as Melinda Benavidez, c’06, is an under- EdD Doctor of Education county engineer for the Coffey County writing advocate for Farmers Insurance. PhD Doctor of Philosophy Highway Department in Burlington. He She lives in Olathe. (no letter) Former student lives in Waverly. Mindy Brissey, c’06, works as an ana- assoc. Associate member of the Laura Clark, j’05, is an interactive lyst for Bank of America. Her home is in Alumni Association media planner for Draftfcb in Chicago. Kansas City. Sarah Fennell, c’05, directs the pre- Rylan Howe, c’06, j’06, is a photogra-

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI pher for Iowa Information Publications in Sheldon. Amy Korbe, c’06, works as office coor- dinator for Indiana Perinatal Network. She lives in Indianapolis. Richard Mulhern, a’06, is an architec- tural intern with RNL in Denver. Justin Shobe, d’06, g’08, coordinates group sales for the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. Martha Wolf, n’06, works as a certified legal nurse consultant for the Accurso Law Firm in Kansas City.

MARRIED Arthur Jones, c’06, and Erin Collins, c’06, Aug. 11. They live in Durham, N.C., where she’s a development officer at Duke University.

2007 Ryan Brumbaugh, c’07, is a project geologist/geophysicist for Earth Explo- ration Inc. in Indianapolis. Ashley Buonasera, PhD’07, works as senior manager of workforce analytics at Marriott International in Washington, D.C. She lives in Fairfax, Va. Christopher Bystrom, j’07, is a part- nership sales specialist for Careerbuilder in Chicago. Cassandra Golden, f’07, teaches in Shawnee Mission. She lives in Lenexa. Paola Galaviz Ponce, p’07, works as a pharmacist at University Health Care in Salt Lake City, where she and her hus- band, Karlo, c’07, make their home. Lindsey Rood, c’07, coordinates events for Starlight Theatre in Kansas City. Sarah Schmidt, c’07, is a paralegal at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. She lives in Washington, D.C. Dana Starr, c’07, works as an account executive with CBS Radio. She lives in Long Grove, Ill. Valerie Thudlum, j’07, coordinates accounts for Breakthrough Marketing Design & Technology in Kansas City. She commutes from Lawrence. Lisa Tilson, j’07, c’07, works as an edi- torial assistant for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Kurt Weishaar, p’07, is a pharmacist at Dillons in Salina.

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1920s home economics in business for the tracts. Among survivors are a son; a Fred Jameson, c’29, 98, April 12 in American Home Economics Association daughter; and a brother; Richard, c’51. Topeka, where he was retired from a and home-economics supervisor for Bal- Betty Lou Childers Cook-Harms, ’44, career in magazine advertising. He is sur- timore Gas and Electric. Two grandsons 83, Sept. 27 in Oakland, Calif. She vived by a daughter; a stepdaughter, and three great-grandsons survive. owned ABBA Insta-Print and the Resume Jeanne Rustemeyer Kern, c’61, d’63; four Horace Mason, c’37, g’61, 91, Sept. 29 Bureau in San Francisco and is survived grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. in Winfield, where he was a retired guid- by a daughter, three sons, nine grandchil- ance counselor. He is survived by his dren and 15 great-grandchildren. 1930s wife, Mary; a son, Randy, j’77; a daugh- Charles Davis, m’48, 84, May 2 in George Allen, b’35, l’38, 93, Sept. 5 in ter, Kathleen, c’80, g’92; a brother; and Galena, where he was a retired physician. Lawrence, where he was a retired lawyer four grandchildren. A son, a daughter and a sister survive. and farmer. He is survived by two daugh- Edwin Phelps Jr., e’36, 92, Oct. 19 in Darrell “Duke” Donnelly, d’41, 90, ters, one of whom is Deborah Allen Nel- Leawood. He was retired president and Aug. 25 in Neodesha, where he was a son, c’67; two sons, Jeffrey, c’74, b’79, CEO of Peabody Coal in St Louis. A retired teacher. Several nieces and and Stephen, ’79; seven grandchildren; memorial has been established with the nephews survive. and four great-grandchildren. KU Endowment Association. He is sur- Edward Downard Jr., b’49, 84, Oct. 28 Glen Ashley, c’38, m’43, 91, Oct. 15 in vived by two sons; a daughter, Janet in Wichita, where he owned the account- Chanute, where he was a retired physi- Phelps Karr, ’66; seven grandchildren; ing firm of Downard & King. He is sur- cian. He is survived by a son, Michael, and 10 great-grandchildren. vived by his wife, Claire Grothusen c’70; five daughters, one of whom is Lucile Libel Ulrich, c’34, 94, Aug. 27 Downard, c’50; a daughter, Karen Dow- Linda, d’71; 13 grandchildren; and three in Leawood. Survivors include a daugh- nard Haley, d’76; two sons, Edward, c’79, great-grandchildren. ter, Susan Ulrich Loncar, d’77; three and James, c’83, h’84, m’88; a sister; and Leonard Detlor, e’36, 95, Aug. 20 in grandchildren; and six great-grandchil- seven grandchildren. Millsboro, Del. He had been a mechani- dren. Ruth Garvey Fink, ’41, 90, Sept. 18 in cal engineer for Exxon-Mobile and is sur- Topeka, where she was president of Free- vived by his wife, Ann Wiszneauckas 1940s dom Family LC. Survivors include a son, Detlor, c’45; a son; three daughters; Everett Bell, c’46, l’48, 88, Aug. 30 in Bruce Cochener, b’69; two daughters, seven grandchildren; and three great- Houston. He was former president of one of whom is Caroline Cochener Bon- grandchildren. Texas Southern University, where the esteel, c’72; two stepdaughters, one of Emma Harbert Graff, n’31, 99, Aug. 9 student services building is named for whom is Marcia Fink Anderson, n’60; 13 in Beloit, where she was a retired nurse. him. Three brothers survive. grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchil- A son, a daughter, seven grandchildren R.E. “Bill” Bowlby, c’49, 81, Sept. 11 in dren. and 15 great-grandchildren survive. Springfield, where he was retired cus- Elizabeth “Betty” Griffith Green, James Haughey, l’39, 93, Sept. 13 in tomer-service manager for Central Illinois f’43, 87, Oct. 6 in Lawrence. A memorial Billings, Mont., where he was a retired Public Service. He is survived by his wife, has been established with the KU partner in the law firm of Crowley, Marietta Higley Bowlby, f’50; a daughter; Endowment Association. Survivors Haughey, Hanson, Toole and Dietrich. two sons; two stepsons; two stepdaugh- include two sons, Leon, c’71, and Joel, He also served in the Montana Legisla- ters; and four stepgrandchildren. c’75; a daughter, Julia Green Rombough, ture, founded the Rocky Mountain Min- Thomas Cadden, c’47, 83, Nov. 2 in c’80; seven grandchildren; and a great- eral Law Foundation and was a recipient Glenville, Ill. During his career in adver- grandchild. of the KU School of Law’s distinguished tising, he wrote the musical jingle for Mr. Eleanor Brown Griswold, f’47, 82, alumni award. Suvivors include a daugh- Clean liquid cleaner. He is survived by Sept. 26 in Newton. She is survived by ter, Katherine Haughey Loo, c’61; two his wife, Loretta; two sons, Thomas Jr., her husband, Dale, c’51, m’53; a son; a sons; seven grandchildren; and three c’77, j’78, and Timothy, j’84; a daughter, sister, Louine Brown Herman, ’48; and great-grandchildren. Holly Cadden Soptick, j’80; a brother, three grandchildren. Helen Jedlicka Mandigo, c’35, 92, Oct. John, e’41; and six grandchildren. Marion Haynes, b’48, 85, March 24 2 in Prairie Village. She had been presi- William Conroy, c’49, l’52, 82, Oct. 29 in Tucson, Ariz. He is survived by his dent of the Women’s Chamber of Com- in Houston, where he had been a con- wife, Doris Kenton Haynes, d’49; three merce of Kansas City, national chair of sultant with W.J. Conroy Oil & Gas Con- daughters; a brother, Eugene, b’40;

68 | KANSAS ALUMNI and three grandchildren. and two grandchildren. Donald Porter, b’53, 77, Oct. 5 in Charles Johnson Jr., c’49, 85, Aug. 25 Elaine Walker Walker, d’47, 81, Aug. Beloit, where he owned Porter Hotel. He in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Surviving are 13 in Fort Worth, Texas. She is survived is survived by his wife, Carol Shoemaker two daughters; a sister, Barbara Johnson by her husband, Bill, e’48; a daughter, Porter, assoc.; a son, David, c’92, g’98; a Myers, c’49, c’51; and three grandchil- Carol Walker Searcy, c’76; a son, Craig, daughter, Pamela Porter Wessling, ’78; a dren. p’74; a brother, William, ’51; and four sister, June Porter Rittenhouse, d’53; and Charles “Jack” Kennedy, c’49, l’52, 81, grandchildren. two grandchildren. Oct. 11 in Houston, where he was a Thomas Scott Jr., e’51, 84, Oct. 29 in retired attorney. He is survived by his 1950s Bastrop, Texas. He owned Product Engi- wife, Frances; three daughters, one of Richard Bennett, d’50, 80, Sept. 1 in neering in Richardson, and while at KU whom is Laura, ’78; a son; and four Overland Park, where he had a career in he played football with the Jayhawk team grandchildren. music. He is survived by a son, Rick, ’76; that went to the 1948 Orange Bowl. Burt Larson, e’43, 86, Oct. 18 in Hays. three daughters, one of whom is Cather- Three sons, a daughter, 17 grandchildren He is survived by a daughter, Jane Larson ine Bennett Binder, ’78; two stepsons; a and 10 great-grandchildren survive. Lee, j’66, and two granddaughters. brother; and 13 grandchildren. Lawrence Tretbar, c’55, m’60, 74, Oct. Dorothy Harkness Martin, ’44, 84, Margaret Rives Duckworth, d’52, 77, 14 in Prairie Village, where he was a sur- Oct. 17 in Ottawa. She taught school and Oct. 20 in Elkhart. Survivors include a geon and a phlebologist. He is survived farmed. She was active in the “Kitchen 8” daughter, Meg Duckworth Byrd, ’85; a by his wife, Kathleen; a son; a daughter; alumni women of Watkins Hall and a son, Michael, c’91, d’91, g’96; a brother, and a brother, Harold, m’56. founding member of the Committee for William Rives, p’56; a sister; and four Fritz Widick, e’54, 76, Sept. 28 in the Preservation of Watkins and Miller grandchildren. Cocoa Beach, Fla., where he was a retired Halls. Surviving are a daughter, Roxanne John Gagel, ’54, 76, Aug. 21 in Green NASA mission control engineer at Martin Mettenburg, g’94, g’00; a son; Valley, Ariz. He owned Machinery & Sup- Kennedy Space Center. Two sons, two eight grandchildren; and eight great- plies Co. and is survived by his wife, daughters, a sister and nine grandchil- grandchildren. Shirley, two daughters, a son, five grand- dren survive. Belfour McMillen, c’49, 84, Sept. 4 in children and two great-grandsons. Fort Worth, where he was retired from Mary Ann Pappas Hicklin, f’53, 75, 1960s the publishing industry. Surviving are his Aug. 6 in Lawrence. She is survived by Sally Liggett Brown, c’62, g’66, 67, wife, Betty Joe Lorbeer McMillen, ’49; her husband, Wallace, ’54; three daugh- Oct. 17 in Houston, where she worked two daughters, one of whom is Alexan- ters, one of whom is Miriam Hicklin for Challenger Minerals. She is survived dra McMillen Dillon, j’86; a brother, Lietz, ’76; a son, Wallace III, ’83; and six by her husband, Larry, e’64, g’67; three John, ’59; and two grandchildren. grandchildren. daughters, one of whom is Stacey Brown Jean Perry Merritt, c’40, 88, March 20 Ross Keeling Jr., e’51, 78, Oct. 12 in Garza, d’96; a son; and five grandchil- in Leavenworth. Among survivors are a Los Angeles, where he had a 39-year dren. daughter, Jan, d’70; and two sons. career with Cal-Tran. He is survived by Darrell Call, e’61, 69, Oct. 6 in Scotts- Dorus Munsinger, e’42, 88, July 27 in his wife, Juanita, a son, two daughters, a dale, where he was retired from a career Enid, Okla., where he co-founded Kemp- sister and six grandchildren. in engineering and space science. He is Munsinger Co. He is survived by his wife, Helen Beatson Kirk, c’54, 81, Sept. 4 survived by his wife, Shirley, two daugh- Betty, and a son, Roger, c’70. in Wichita. She is survived by a son, ters, a son, a stepson, a brother, a sister Norman Smith, b’47, 91, June 11 in Lance, ’82; a daughter, Allyson Kirk Hat- and five grandchildren. Tacoma, Wash., where he had owned a field, m’93; and two granddaughters. Linda Harrington Capstick, c’69, 59, men’s clothing store. A brother survives. Marshall Martin, b’51, 82, Oct. 9 in Aug. 20 in Annapolis, Md. She is sur- Harvey Snapp, l’49, 86, Oct. 28 in Overland Park, where he retired from a vived by her husband, Arnold; three Wichita, where he practiced law until his 33-year career with General Motors sons; two daughters; her mother; two death. He is survived by his wife, Mar- Acceptance. He is survived by his wife, brothers, Jack Harrington, b’58, and Rick guerite; three sons, two of whom are Betty; three sons; a brother, James, b’52; Harrington, c’67; two sisters, Mary Har- David, l’80, and Randall, c’81, l’85; two and four grandchildren. rington, c’72, n’74, and Michele Harring- daughters, Mary, j’75, and Joanne Snapp James McFarlane, e’55, 78, Sept. 28 in ton, c’75 ; and seven grandchildren. Ruggiero, b’82, g’83; and 11 grandchil- Southampton, Pa., where he retired from Sally Brown Crank, d’61, 67, Aug. 10 dren. a career in research and development in Denver. She is survived by a son; two Helen Manka Storbeck, c’49, 80, with General Electric. He is survived by daughters; a sister; and three brothers, Oct. 1 in Wichita. She lived in Winfield two sons, one of whom is Michael, m’78; one of whom is George Brown, c’69. and is survived by two sons, Chris, c’76, three daughters; two brothers; 17 grand- Robert Hill, c’64, m’67, 66, Sept. 14 in and Scott, c’80; two sisters; a brother; children; and a great-grandson. Topeka, where he was a partner in the

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Cotton-O’Neil Clinic. A daughter and a Trotter, j’91; a son; and four grandchil- in Kansas City, where she was a group brother, Ronald, c’67, survive. dren. manager for the consumer markets divi- Arlabel Stewart Hornbaker, g’68, 88, Richard Norman, b’65, 65, Sept. 16 in sion of EMBARQ. A sister, Jane Larson Oct. 23 in Wheat Ridge, Colo. She taught Overland Park, where he was retired Lee, j’66, survives. elementary school in Lawrence and had from Hallmark Cards. He is survived by Richard Burgen, g’71, 68, Sept. 7 in been active in music education. Surviving his wife, Carolyn Elaine Linley Norman, Kansas City, where he owned and oper- are two daughters, one of whom is Ann d’64; a daughter; a sister; and a grand- ated Burgen Accounting and Tax Serv- Hornbaker Feinberg, c’68, g’76; a son, daughter. ices. He is survived by his wife, Maria, Thomas, c’73, g’75; a sister; six grand- Hortense “Tensie” Casady Oldfather, two daughters, two sisters, a brother and children; and a great-grandson. ’64, 88, Oct. 2 in Kansas City. She lived four grandchildren. Maurice “Poncho” King, d’64, 72, in Lawrence, where she was a well- Dennis Casey, PhD’79, 65, June 19 in Sept. 17 in Kansas City, where he was known philanthropist and community New Braunfels, Texas, where he was a retired from Hallmark Cards. While at volunteer. Surviviors include five sons, U.S. Air Force military historian. Sur- KU, he played on the 1956-57 team that four of whom are Timothy, c’67, m’71, vivors include his wife, Suzy, a son and a lost to North Carolina in triple overtime Stephen, ’72, William, f’81, and Jonathan, grandson. in the NCAA championship game. He ’82; two daughters, one of whom is Rebecca Crowley, n’72, m’80, 58, later played for the Boston Celtics and Melanie Oldfather Robinson, f’73; 17 Sept. 14 in Kansas City, where she was a for the Kansas City Steers. Survivors grandchildren; and five great-grandchil- physician. A memorial has been estab- include his wife, Jelena; a daughter, Kim- dren. lished with the KU Endowment Associa- berly King Crawford, c’89; a son, Mau- Larry O’Neal, c’69, l’72, 60, Sept. 26 tion. She is survived by her mother, rice, ’88; a brother; and three in Leawood. He had been a partner in Elaine Carlson Thurn, c’48, g’52; her grandchildren. the Kansas City law firm of Shook, father, Robert Crowley, ’50; three step- Virginia Horton King, c’60, 68, Oct. 4 Hardy and Bacon. A memorial has been sons, Phillip Hof, ’01, Nathan Hof, c’02, in Kerrville, Texas. She is survived by her established with the KU Endowment and Jonathan, c’04, j’04; and a sister, husband, Tom, a’59; two sons; a daugh- Association. He is survived by his wife, Marta Crowley Sanor, h’86. ter; and five grandchildren. Janet; two sons, one of whom is Corey, Edward “Marsh” Douthat, c’71, 60, Perry Klaassen, m’66, 68, Oct. 15 in ’08; and a sister. Oct. 5 in Atlanta. He is survived by his Edmond, Okla. He had been clinical Ralph Osborne, g’64, 68, Oct. 1 in wife, Cynthia, four daughters, three sons, director of Mary Mahoney Memorial Sunset Beach, N.C., where he was retired two brothers and five grandchildren. Medical Center in Oklahoma City and for from a career with Westinghouse. He is Cheryl Bowlan Eakin, j’72, 57, Sept. 17 Central Oklahoma Integrated Network survived by his wife, Betty, three sons, a in Abilene, Texas. She is survived by her Services. Surviving are his wife, Jeanie, sister and four grandchildren. husband, Dary, c’73; four sons; her two sons, two brothers and three grand- Donald “Dick” Shearer, f’64, 65, Dec. mother; and a sister. children. 30, 2006 in Sacramento, Calif., where he Beverly Glaze Frazier, d’70, 79, Sept. David “Brevo” Latinis, b’64, 65, Aug. was a retired colonel in the U.S. Air 21 in Overland Park, where she was a 23 in Overland Park, where he was a tax Force. He also had been vice president sculptor. She is survived by a daughter, accountant and an independent busi- and managing director for resource Arvella Frazier Spease, d’80, g’86, g’91; nessman. A memorial has been estab- development at United Way. He is sur- two sons, Bernard, b’76, and Malcolm, lished with the KU Endowment vived by his wife, Judy Gorham Shearer, ’73; a brother, David Glaze, c’64; and five Association. He is survived by a daugh- d’63; two sons; and a brother. grandchildren. ter, Carie Latinis-Yeo, c’91; two sons, one Stephen Singer, j’67, 62, Sept. 18 in Dorothy Oberkrom Hirsch, d’71, 87, of whom is Kevin, c’92; and eight grand- Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he had Sept. 14 in Kansas City, where she was a children. been president of Mutual Display Manu- retired teacher. She is survived by her James Lyons, c’64, l’67, 65, Sept. 1 in facturing. He is survived by his wife, husband, John, ’75; a son, John Jr., c’69, Overland Park. He lived in Albuquerque, Amy, two sons and a brother. l’76; two daughters, Dorothy, c’72, and where he was retired head of the New Dorothy Detter Southard, n’61, 68, Patricia, c’75, l’79, s’98; a brother; and Mexico child abuse prosecuting division. Oct. 22 in Haviland. She is survived by three grandchildren. He is suvived by his mother and two her husband, Charles Jr., assoc.; a son; Sara McClenaghan Lowes, d’77, 51, brothers, one of whom is Daniel, c’71, two brothers, one of whom is James Det- Aug. 5 in San Francisco. She lived in l’77. ter, c’55, m’62; and a sister, Rose Detter Houston, where she owned a private tax Richard Nall Jr., ’66, 63, April 6 in Alderson, s’86. practice. She is survived by her husband, Overland Park. He is survived by his Mark, c’77; a son; a daughter; her par- wife, Patricia Meyer Nall, c’65; two 1970s ents; a sister; and a brother, Christopher daughters, one of whom is Julie Nall Nancy Larson Allen, j’71, 58, Oct. 12 McClenaghan, c’76, g’85.

70 | KANSAS ALUMNI Jackson Mitchell, j’73, 57, Aug. 17 in Williamson Brown, p’99; a daughter; his 12 in Lawrence, where he had been Lawrence, where he was president of Ser- parents, Myron, assoc., and Nancy director of University relations and assis- viceMaster Cleansweep. He is survived Brown, ’84; and a brother, Derek, c’94, tant to KU chancellors Larry Chalmers, by his wife, Julie Motley Mitchell, d’73; a l’97. Raymond Nichols and Archie Dykes. He daughter, Juliann, d’01, g’04; two sons, Norine Kerr, PhD’92, 62, Sept. 1 in also was former executive director of the one of whom is Jack III, ’03; his father, Fort Smith, Ark., where she was a psychi- Kansas Board of Regents and president Jack Sr., assoc., and stepmother; and a atric nurse practitioner and a nursing of the Higher Education Loan Program brother, Judson, c’77. educator. A sister and a brother survive. of Kansas. Survivors include his wife, Vir- Eldon Puett, e’72, 58, Nov. 9 in Joyce Reece, g’92, 63, Oct. 14 in ginia Powell Conard, c’48; three sons, Shawnee. He worked for the Santa Fe Topeka. She lived in Oskaloosa and was James, c’77, l’85, g’85, Spencer, e’83, l’86, and Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail- a special-education teacher for the North- and John Jr., e’86, g’95; a sister, Violet, roads for many years. While at KU, he eastern Kansas Education Center at d’46; and eight grandchildren. performed as the Jayhawk mascot and Perry-Lecompton Elementary School. Anita Younger Dixon, m’78, 59, Sept. helped introduce Baby Jay in 1971. Sur- Among survivors are her partner, Sharon 8 in Kansas City, where she taught pul- vivors include his wife, Connie Estes Laverentz, four sisters and two brothers. monary pathology at the KU Medical Puett, d’72; a son, Jason, b’97; a daugh- Shannon Tauscher, s’97, s’99, l’01, 39, Center. Her husband, William, and a sis- ter, Lindsay Puett Peattie, b’01; his par- Sept. 1 in Kansas City, where she lived. ter survive. ents; a brother; a sister; and two She was a volunteer at the Community Keith Gallehugh, d’53, m’57, 75, Oct. grandchildren. Drop-In Center and the Bert Nash Com- 27 in Overland Park, where he was on munity Mental Health Center in the clinical faculty at the KU School of 1980s Lawrence. Survivors include her partner, Medicine and retired chief of radiology at June Isaacs Horwitz, s’80, 84, Aug. 19 Jules Kellogg, her mother, a sister and a the Overland Park Regional Medical Cen- in Kansas City, where she had been a bal- brother. ter. A memorial has been established let choreographer and a social worker. with the KU Endowment Association. He Surviving are her husband, Leonard; two 2000s is survived by his wife, Lois; two sons, daughters, Marjorie Horwitz Murray, Aaron Caldwell, ’08, 22, Nov. 10 in one of whom is Kurt, ’83; a daughter, d’67, and Lynne Horwitz Green, s’70; a Lawrence, where he was majoring in eco- Cam, d’80; a stepbrother; a stepsister; son, Robert, ’79; two sisters; three grand- nomics at KU. He is survived by his and three grandsons. children; and two great-grandchildren. mother, his father, two sisters and his Wallace Johnson Jr., 74, Oct. 23 in Janna Jones, m’89, 45, Sept. 20 in grandmothers. Lawrence, where he was a professor in Kansas City. She lived in Leavenworth, Melissa “Spike” Evans, c’07, 21, Sept. KU’s department of East Asian languages where she had a private practice and was 8 in Kansas City. She lived in Lawrence. and cultures. He is survived by his wife, a medical consultant for the Leaven- Surviving are her parents; a sister, Emily Diantha, and a son. worth Federal Prison. She is survived by Evans Schnee, d’00; a brother; and her Anne Haruda Nielsen, PhD’69, 93, her husband, Robert, a son, two step- grandmother. Sept. 16 in Columbia, Mo. She was a sons, two stepdaughters, her mother and Matthew Murphy, c’07, 25, Sept. 10 in nurse and had done cancer research at stepfather and two brothers. Oklahoma City, where he was a second- the KU Medical Center until she retired Ed Randels, l’82, 53, Sept. 12 in year law student. He is survived by his in 1982. A daughter, six grandchildren Wichita, where he was an attorney for wife, Kristina, a daughter, his parents, a and 12 great-grandchildren survive. the Sedgwick County Counselor’s Office. brother and his grandmother. Margaret Erickson Oros, 95, Nov. 5 in Surviving are his wife, Kathy, a son, a Blan “Maury” Stout Jr., g’08, 49, Nov. New Rockford, N.D. She was an associate daughter, his mother, a brother and a 11 in Leavenworth, where he was a U.S. scientist emeritus at KU, where she granddaughter. Army chaplain. He is survived by his headed the oil and gas division of the Brian Scott, e’88, 42, Aug. 14 in wife, Jeressa, four daughters, a son and a Kansas Geological Survey. A sister sur- Kansas City, where he was a professional sister. vives. engineer. He is survived by his parents, Glenda Bailey Stevens, 69, Nov. 4 in Bill and Sherri, a brother, a sister and his The University Community Lawrence, where she had been an grandmothers. John Carter, 90, Aug. 26 in archivist at KU’s Dole Institute. She is Willoughby, Ohio. He was a professor survived by her husband, Paul; a son; a 1990s and chair of pathology and oncology at daughter, Pippa Stevens Loupe, PhD’96; Jason Brown, c’98, g’01, 33, Aug. 23 in the KU Medical Center. Surviving are his a brother; and six grandchildren. Kansas City, where he was district man- wife, Adelaide, two daughters and a ager with Performance Matters Associ- granddaughter. ates. He is survived by his wife, Lynn John Conard Sr., c’43, g’47, 86, Oct.

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Takaishi) decided the extra effort was worth it. “Where some people are studying

STEVE PUPPE mathematical equations or economics, we were talking to kids and watching Disney movies,” Fiechtner says. They interviewed elementary schoolchildren to come up with ideas for the ride, and discovered that spies were a universally popular topic. They dreamed up two characters, the Spy Twins, and created a back story and a chase-based adventure around which to build their ride: a roller-coaster pursuit of a villain through the narrow, twisting streets of an international city. Their Spy Twins design won them a trip to Glendale, Calif., in July, where they presented their project to judges, interviewed for Disney internships and visited with “imagineers” who design rides, hotels and other attractions at the company’s theme parks. ■ Design students Lauren They joined U.S. teams from Carnegie Mellon Daly and Hannah Fiechtner Thrill ride University, Destination Imagination, Hampton reached the finals of a Students’ coaster design takes them University, Pratt Institute, the University of Miami national competition and the University of Southern California, and from Exeter University in England, Universidade sponsored by Walt Disney all the way to Disneyland Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and the Imagineering. hen senior design students Lauren University of British Columbia and the University Daly and Hannah Fiechtner of Waterloo in Canada. decided to enter Walt Disney “The purpose of the competition is to find a Imagineering’s 16th ImagiNations way to bring new thinking, new perspectives into designW competition, some of their biggest our organization,” says Marilyn Walters, director supporters were a little skeptical. of media relations for Walt Disney Imagineering. “Our teachers laughed at us and told us we She notes that Disney doesn’t build any of the were crazy,” Fiechtner says. “We had some projects the finalists design. The company is doubters.” more interested in seeing how the students Maybe that’s because their professors knew approach the design process. what the pair were in for. The Disney contest asks “We get to see how they think, what their teams to design a ride or other theme-park attrac- approach is, how they come up with these ideas,” tion, and because entertainment design is not Walters says. part of the KU design curriculum, the months- In turn, the students get to spend time with long project required Daly, of Olathe, and Fiecht- the people whose full-time job is to come up ner, of Sioux Falls, S.D., to spend 20-hour with new rides. It’s a chance to see the best in workdays on an extracurricular activity—while the business at work. still taking a full load of classes. “They were really accepting and trusting with Even before being named one of 11 us,” Daly says. “They let us into their culture, and international finalists, the team (which also we got to see all kinds of things they are working enlisted help from fellow KU student Justin on.” Eakes, a Lawrence senior in design, and Univer- By making the finals, Walters says, the KU sity of Missouri-Kansas City student Tammy team distinguished themselves as being among

72 | KANSAS ALUMNI the best of the best young designers. The potion works—but on the “Once you get brought out to California, wrong woman—and the lines that you’re in the top tier. You get interviewed get drawn thereafter reveal serious for an internship, you get in our recruit- divisions between the town’s old- ment database and you get to put on line citizens and its immigrant your resume that you were a finalist in a (and previously invisible) His- Welcome to Eudora Disney competition. It really is a huge panic population. honor to make it that far.” Thebo’s clever, folksy narrative By Mimi Thebo —Steven Hill voice takes the point of view of an Ballantine Books anonymous citizen of Eudora. The $13.95 ◆ ◆ ◆ first-person plural perspective makes the town itself a character OREAD READER in the novel, with all its quirks and foibles closely observed, and Eudora, we hardly that is what makes Welcome To Eudora more than a trifling small-town Eudora—a town fighting extinction “in knew you picaresque. Thebo, c’85, deftly explores the middle of wheat, oil and cattle the social strains as she looks with great country”—bears little resemblance to the Thebo’s comic novel takes affection and good humor at the grim booming Douglas County town. loving look at small town life struggle for survival that’s all too real for But if Mimi Thebo’s Eudora seems many towns across the Midwest. more vivid, dramatic and comically otty Dougal is a woman of mys- Thebo is a Lawrence native who lives insular than the real thing, maybe that’s a tery, and that’s no small feat in a in Somerset, England, where she is a testament to her bold imaginative town where even the most Senior Teaching Fellow in Creative powers. Or maybe the rest of us just innocuous daily doings are Writing at Bath Spa University. Careful haven’t been paying attention. notedL and passed down the gossip wire readers will note that her fictional —Steven Hill at double time. The mercurial, auburn-haired, Irish- Catholic heroine of Mimi Thebo’s cheeky novel, Welcome to Eudora, is a familiar enough type: She’s the rebel who flees to ‘Grace’ breaks through the city only to return, bringing back urban flash that doesn’t always sit well yan Jones’ film “Fall From Grace” (“Bully with her sedate neighbors. RPulpit,” Rock Chalk Review, issue No. 3, JAMIE ROPER Not that she cares. As Thebo puts it, 2007) debuted on the Showtime cable network “In a town such as Eudora, where every- Dec. 4. Made while Jones, c’07, was a film one knows you from birth to death, it studies student, the 75-minute documentary takes a brave woman to color her hair.” provides an unprecedented inside look at pastor Of course, Lotty does just that, “great Fred Phelps of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church. flashes of red that made her curls glow Phelps was in the news most recently when the like the neon sign at Chuck’s Beer family of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq won an $11 million and Bowl.” judgement against the church for picketing their son’s funeral. But Lotty also hails from a family with Showtime viewers can see the film at scheduled times over the next 18 months or a deep distrust in medicine, and a flair on demand. In addition, Netflix purchased the DVD rights to the film and will make it for herbal remedies. So when Eudora’s available for download at www.netflix.com in March. only doctor, a newcomer, takes a shine to “It’s almost better than theatrical distribution for a documentary, because it’s her, Eudorans (“watching the courting reaching a wider audience,” says Jones, who recently moved to New York City to behavior of the pair much as a zookeeper pursue a career in film. “It’s an amazing deal. To go from being a class project two years would watch the courting behavior of ago to being shown on Showtime and released as a DVD is almost beyond my giant pandas”) are not terribly surprised comprehension.” when his failure to propose at the town’s “Fall From Grace” now features an updated soundtrack that includes an original big winter social, the Snow Ball, moves score by Kip Haaheim, associate professor of music and dance, and improved sound Lotty to nudge things along with a mixing by Robert Hurst, assistant professor of theatre and film. —Steven Hill love potion.

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◆ ◆ ◆ Mitchell, is as might be expected from a sports memoir. It most OREAD READER assuredly is not a saccharine homage to NFL glory days. The Comet’s trail In fact, Sayers opens his book with a lurid recounting of the Sayers: My Life and Times In a new memoir, Gale Sayers injury he suffered in 1968: “My By Gale Sayers reveals much about life knee buckled as my leg remained with Fred Mitchell planted awkwardly in the Wrigley Triumph Books before and after football Field turf. Nowhere to go, no $24.95 place for it to give. I screamed in “ ot a day goes by that I don’t pain at the moment of impact.” think about Brian.” Sayers later showed a season high- In his new autobiography, light reel during a gathering at his Hall of Fame running back home of family and teammates; GaleN Sayers, the beloved “Kansas though some tried to make light of the Sayers concedes, for the first time Comet,” shares touching details about awkward moment when the injury was publicly, that he came to crave powerful the brief, bittersweet friendship he projected for all to see, Sayers was sick- painkillers given to him after his second shared with teammate ened and vowed “that I would never knee injury, in 1970. “The shots would Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in again look at that film.” put me to sleep for about five minutes or 1970 and was immortalized in Say- Sayers, d’75, g’77, relates in his so, and I must confess that I really ers’ first book, I am Third, and the introduction that he intends his started looking forward to getting them,” heart-wrenching movie “Brian’s book to be an inspirational story Sayers writes. “Was I becoming addicted Song.” about “preparing to quit.” Athletes to the painkillers? I feared I was at the Sayers writes that mired in their own leg- time.” Sayers says “that feeling of lost Piccolo’s widow, ends, Sayers argues, too control” was a factor in his decision to Joy, recently told often become aging, retire after only 68 NFL games. him about the time empty shells of their And yet, Sayers pines for football’s her late husband, former greatness; other old habits: he and other stars troubled by pre- driven to be as great pulling dangerous duty returning kicks; mature bald- away from the game dressing in shoddy locker rooms and ness, had briefly as he was within it, showering in cold water; scrapping man- taken to wearing a Sayers returned to to-man, without agents or lawyers, in toupee; during a visit to KU to finish his contract negotiations with coach and a hospital, he met a undergraduate team owner George Halas. “Fact is,” child whose own hair degree, then com- Sayers writes, “I made a grand total of had been lost to pleted a master’s. $275,000 during my seven years in chemotheraphy. He had a success- the NFL.” Piccolo threw the ful run as an assistant He writes movingly about visiting toupee in the athletics director at KU and as ath- American military personnel around the garbage and letics director at Southern Illinois, world in 2005 with Gen. Richard Myers, lamented, “How yet when he wrote to all 28 NFL teams former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of could I be so to inquire about a front-office job, only Staff. And he shares intimate details vain?” Al Davis of the Oakland Raiders offered about the difficult years of his childhood, Surprisingly, him the courtesy of a reply. Sayers left when his parents found solace in alcohol and perhaps football behind for good and in 1983 as they moved from Wichita to a north- refreshingly, launched an innovative computer west Kansas farm and finally to an little else company that has since made him an Omaha, Neb., housing project. about admired businessman in Chicago. “Little did I realize that our BB guns Sayers: My Life In this season of renewal for KU foot- would come in handy when it came to and Times, ball, it is fitting that KU fans take time to snaring some food when we were hungry co-authored with read this honest—at times, blisteringly in those lean years,” Sayers writes. “My Chicago Tribune so—personal accounting by the greatest mother did her best to feed us, but there columnist Fred living Jayhawk athlete of them all. just wasn’t much to go around.” For 50

74 | KANSAS ALUMNI cents, Bernice Sayers could buy 100 two colorful abstract paintings near dry STEVE PUPPE (2) chicken feet, which she would fry or technical charts affixed on a stark white make into a stew. wall, and Carol Ann Carter, professor of Sayers writes that on a recruiting trip expanded media, displays a series of to Nebraska, he was hassled by players intriguing multimedia digital images for wearing his high-school letterman’s throughout the administration suite and jacket, and he was put up for the night in conference room. a basement room with exposed pipes. “Though we tend to think of artists When coach Jack Mitchell brought him and scientists as having very different to Mount Oread, “I fell in love with the motivations, different activities and campus right away. ... I was certain I had different outcomes, in fact, scientists and made the right choice for me.” artists have so much in common,” says —Chris Lazzarino Dawn Marie Guernsey, chair of the department of art. “Both work with ◆ ◆ ◆ observation and inspiration. Both are concerned with knowing the world and building a culture. Arts and sciences “The exhibition at MRB is a wonderful opportunity for cross-discipline under- Fine arts faculty splash color, standing.” imagination through halls The exhibition, which will remain through the end of the school year, is the of research hub second installment in what is hoped will be an annual collaboration between fine ith its brushed aluminum arts faculty and MRB researchers. and glass walls, and a —Chris Lazzarino pervasive air of scien- tificW seriousness, the Multidisciplinary Research Building on West Campus recently got an infusion of color and spirit, thanks to exhibitions by three School of Fine Arts fac- ulty members. “The work that is happening in this build- ing seems magical, mysterious and very experimental,” assistant professor of sculpture Alison Louma writes on a placard near her fabric- and-glass installation suspended in the sun- splash of floor-to-ceiling windows. “I wanted to design a sculpture that had these same qualities.” Gerald Lubensky, ■ A fabric-and-glass installation by Alison Louma, assistant professor of sculpture, is among three sets of artworks by professor of painting, has KU professors now exhibited at the Multidisciplinary Research Building on West Campus.

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1960s to create a new archive within the research library to be built north of Strong Hall. Outside of such obvious items as year- books and alumni maga- zines, the University had never before kept a full COURTESY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS (3) COURTESY record of itself. So Nugent crawled through attics and base- ments, insisted everyone send him documents and photographs, and in 1969 University Archives opened. Nugent retired in 1993 and passed away in 2003; the organiza- tional system he created For old time’s sake is still in use at Univer- sity Archives. Latest edition of photographic KU history reminds “When it came to us of those who make KU storytelling possible telling the story of the University, I think he saw himself, and I see ike others of my 1980s vintage, I received myself, as facilitating somebody else telling the the first edition of On the Hill as a gradua- story,” says archivist Barry Bunch, c’80, who tion gift. I took it with me to my first job, joined Nugent’s staff in 1979 and retires this in Florida, where it helped a Lawrence spring. “A book like this helps create the mys- kidL and loyal Jayhawk sometimes feel not so far tique that helps people feel connected to some- ■ On the Hill from all that was familiar and beloved. thing that goes back a long ways, and that does (third edition, revised) The book’s authors and its publisher, Univer- engender an extra sense of pride.” sity Press of Kansas, recently issued the book’s Compiled by Virginia revised third edition, bringing the Mount Oread Adams, Katie Armitage, story into the 21st century. Viewed now from the Donna Butler, perspective of 13 years at Kansas Alumni, I no Carol Shankel and longer cherish the book as a salve for occasional Barbara Watkins bouts of homesickness, but rather as a tour of University Press of Kansas the treasures tucked away in University Archives. $34.95 On the top floor of the Spencer Research Library, University Archives feels like the sort of ancient institutional safebox where accounts of KU life must always have been secreted. In fact, University Archives, both in place and purpose, is a relatively recent creation. John Nugent, who came to KU as a rookie librarian in the early 1950s, was asked in the late

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