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40 Contents Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine FEATURES Dire Diagnosis 24 Six Kansas 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 Orange Bowl 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, Jim Ryun, 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] 2 | KANSAS ALUMNI January 2008 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 Basketball: 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; Gale Sayers updates his life story. 76 OREAD ENCORE The view from On the Hill ISSUE 1, 2008 | 3 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 Miami. 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 Mark Mangino 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.

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