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Whaling expedition Ahoy, landlubbers! Permission granted to come aboard for an offbeat cruise On the coven Lightning struck Hoch through a public reading Auditorium June 75, igniting a fire that of Moby-Dick. gutted the structure and caused $13 million damage—the most costly fire 26 in modern Lawrence history.

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Established in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine Fred B. Williams, Publisher Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, Editor Bill Woodard, j'85, Assistant Editor Jerri Niebaum, j'88, Staff Writer Christine Mercer, Art Director Karen Goodell, Editorial Assistant Wally Emerson, j'76, Photographer or celebrating the season (and the end of fall classes) at Vespers. Many will see KANSAS ALUMNI academic performers like Professor Clark Bricker, who ASSOCIATION

lectured with a dramatic flair BOARD OF DIRECTORS befitting the grand setting.

I also see Andre Previn President Sandra Garver Remsberg, '59, pouting and Tom Wolfe Glee S. Smith Jr., c'43.1*47 Wichita preening. I hear Billy Taylor's Lamed Virginia Child Shackelford. c'58, Prairie Village cascading jazz piano. And, try Executive Vice President as I might to blot out the William H. Hougland, b'52, Directors to July 1994 vision, I can still see myself Wichita Daniel P. Bolen, c'81. Alexandria, Va. singing and dancing in a silly Executive Committee Larry J. Borden, b'62, g'67, Rock Chalk Revue skit. Glee S. Smith Jr.. c'43,1*47 Colorado Springs, Colo. Larned, chairman Marvin R. Motley, c'77, l'8o, g'81, Such memories will have John C. Dicus, b'55, Overland Park I drove by my grandmother's old house to sustain us as we await the rebuilding of Topeka William M. Hougland, b'52, Hoch. In our cover story, Bill Woodard and Directors to July 199; one day and discovered to my horror that Wichita R. Bruce Patty, a's8 it was gone. A nearby hospital had paved my Jerri Niebaum reconstruct the tragedy and John F. Kane, e'56, Fairway childhood paradise and put up a parking lot. the history of Hoch. They explain how the Bartlesville, Okla. Bette Jo Jones Roberts, C50 John H. Robinson, e'49. Garden City Several successive owners had bruised the University plans to protect the shell and Shawnee Mission F.R. Talbott, c'6j, g'65 place since my grandmother sold it; the last how officials have moved classes and con- DeanellReeceTacha, c'68, Darien, Conn. one couldn't pass up the hospital's offer. certs. Lawrence Directors to July 1996 Years later 1 still drive by. But I don't The University sustains another loss this Vice Presidents Calvin C. Cormack, c'59, EdD/74 see the assorted cars aligned neatly between summer with the departure of Frances Victor J. Barry, c'68, Kansas City, Mo. Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, Seattle, Wash. Steven A. Hawley, c'73 yellow stripes. I see the home that nurtured Gerald D. Blatherwick, j'58, Campbell, Calif. three generations: three stories of red graduate studies and public service. She St. Louis, Mo. Kathryn H. Vratil, 071,175, brick, the sprawling side porch (I proudly moves home to New York to become presi- Linda S. Ellis, e'79 Prairie Village Houston, Texas called it the "veranda" when I was young) dent of the graduate programs at City DonnanStephenson, b'41,148. Honorary Members and the backyard domain of Don, the ram- University of New York. Santa Fe, N.M. E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., bunctious Irish setter. Inside I see Grandpa's After hours of conversation with San Antonio, Texas Directors to July 1992 Archie R. Dykes, H'77, sacred den, Granny's treasure-laden dress- Horowitz and those who know her best, William PBunyan III, c'6i, Nashville, Tenn. ing table and the attic where my brother Judith Galas has drawn a vivid portrait of Dodge City Deane W. Malott, cr2i, the gracious, gutsy woman who, as both Sue Harper Ice, d'56, Newton Ithaca, NY. flew Dad's old model planes. Michael T. McCoy, e'72, m'75, Franklin D. Murphy, c'36, In June the University family lost its scholar and administrator, helped set the Topeka Beverly Hills, Calif. own prized gathering place, Hoch course for research at the University. In Raymond F. Nichols, c'26, g'28, Directors to July 1993 Lawrence Auditorium. As I walked down Jayhawk August Horowitz begins her new roles as a Jerry M. Nossaman, d'6o, W. Clarke Wescoe, H'41, '64, '69, '79, Boulevard after the fire, I braced myself for CUNY leader and a grandmother. We con- Lawrence Spicer, Minn. the sight, but it still hurt. The front stood gratulate her on both milestones. eerily intact, but the flames and wind had This issue could use a little levity, so we've added Moby-Dick. No, we haven't the torn off the top and tossed the crumbs in a Fred B. Williams, Executive Director and Secretary heap. The back and much of the sides gaped budget and you haven't the patience for the John Sanders, Finance Director and Treasurer open to reveal the mess within. whole thing. So relax and enjoy Roger Jodi Breckinridge, d'90, Student Programs Director KU family members are lucky that the Martin's slightly bizarre account of a 24- Brett Fuller, c'89, Constituent Programs Director Bryan Greve, Adams Alumni Center Club Manager fire spared lives and the structure's facade. hour reading of Melville's masterpiece on Pat Head, Kansas City Office Director But we are unlucky-. The state doesn't see Wescoe Beach. Martin mixes the best of the Kay Henry, Administrative and Personnel Services Director novel with the good, the bad and the ugly of Jeff Johnson, External Affairs and Membership Development Director fit to insure its buildings, and there are no Nancy Peine, Alumni Records Director funds to rebuild. The remains of Nichols University life. You'll see assorted scholars Donna Neuner, '76, Membership Services Director Hall at stood 15 years and a sordid sideshow. B.J. O'Neal Pattee, c'46, Special Projects and Member Assistance Director Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'8i, Communications Director before rebuilding began. No one knows how The readathon may not rank with Hoch's Mike Wellman, c'86, Adams Alumni Center Facility Manager long the ruins of Hoch will languish. best performances, but it's certainly one for As you gaze at the photos in this issue the family album. We hope you'll find many Kansas Alumni (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in February, April, June. or drive by Hoch on your next visit, past stories to keep. August, October, December. $35 annual subscription includes member- ship in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread moments will surge forth. Most of us can Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045. Second class postage paid ai Lawrence, KS POSTMASTER: Send address changes to see ourselves standing in registration lines -Jennifer Jackson Sanner Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045. ® 1991 by Kansas Alumni. Non-member issue price: $6. 4 JULY/AUGUST 1991 other debate organization, the National AJay,Jay,Jayhawk Debate Tournament (NDT), is the national On leaving organization for policy debate. K-State does aidos for the tremendous May/June not participate in policy debate. CEDA is the Paul Borel, recently retired area vice issue. I particularly enjoyed Bill Woodard's larger of the two debate organizations, but president and a longtime volunteer for "On a Kansas Gale" article. Years from now, it is still a new activity. The CEDA National the Alumni Association, made the following I will pull out this issue and recapture the Tournament is only six years old. By con- remarks at the April iggi meeting of the glorious journey of Roy's Boys from trast, this year marked the 46th National Board of Directors. Louisville through Charlotte and on to Indy. Debate Tournament. Many of the nation's The picture on page 19 captures the essence most prestigious schools (Harvard, Dear friends, I could not leave this place of competitiveness...the fire that burns in Dartmouth, Georgetown, Northwestern, without expressing to you my profound the belly of the little guy from Carolina. I Michigan) debate only NDT. gratitude for the pleasure of our association have framed it and hung it on my wall. KU participates in both forms of debate. and your generosity of spirit. Thanks again for a great issue. I'm Both activities have merit. We do both in During meetings, the point has been already looking forward to the next one. order to provide our students with the best made that the University has special attrac- Bernie Kich competitive and educational options. KU tion for those who have spent time on the Lawrence traditionally puts most of its best debaters Hill. And indeed, I have found this to be so. into NDT, where K-State does not compete. Having spent four flourishing years on the Both NDT and CEDA do rankings based campus as student, and then, very briefly Sis-boom, hip hoorah on total points earned during the season. In as a member of the faculty, I returned later, CEDA, K-State finished first with 179 points, first as a parent and then as a grandparent lour article "On a Kansas Gale" captured while KU had 94 points. of students here. all of the excitement, anticipation and dis- But if you add KU's points in the two What I found here are gifted individuals appointment that all Jayhawk basketball activities together, Kansas had 372, dwarfing in meaningful activities designed to make fans experienced this spring. To us diehard K-State. Of all the teams in the nation, only this great University greater still. I cannot fans (especially those of us who cannot be Emory finished ahead of KU in total points speak too highly of Chancellor Gene A. there) the impressions you relate in print in the two activities, with 385. Budig and the University administration, nor are colorful reminders of past games and But our aim at KU is not to win the of the impressive performance of the Alumni tournaments attended. Even though we national rankings. If it were, we would put Association staff under the able leadership didn't win the big one this time, I wouldn't all our good students in one activity. Our of Fred Williams. trade the experience for anything else. aim is to train skilled advocates, who can I leave you with these lines that 1 wrote After all, what DO Missouri Tiger fans do in apply their debate training in their lives. for the 50th reunion of the Class of 1934: the spring, anyway? Debate is not just about competition; it is Come, climb again the Hill, where once Jim Obermeyer, j'8o about education. we shared Saint Peters, Mo. We congratulate K-State. We are very In golden days of youth, the shining dreams happy for the team. After all, their coach is Of victory over self to gain, and dared one of our graduate students. To test if truth be other than it seems. Robert Rowland Imperfect earth leads us to paths unseen Debate debate Associate Professor of Communication Studies And battles fought yield scars we cannot hide; Fx.ecently, K-State has been getting a Yet, echoes sound in halls of years between great deal of publicity by claiming to be Doing the right thing Bid courage take till faith and hope abide Number 1 in debate. And K-State did win the The gathering swell of Rock Chalk's national tournament in one of the two lour editor's response to that dreadful old refrain, major forms of debate. What may have letter of Winston Mann [May/June] was per- Mid ringing peals of Crimson and Blue, been missed is that KU, unlike K-State, par- fect. I commend the University's anti-dis- Stirs heart and hand to reach and ticipates in both forms of debate and ended crimination policy and Chancellor Budig's touch again the year as the second-ranked program efforts to persuade the defense department Remembered friends we knew before overall in the United States. K-State, to reverse its policies. Your coverage has time flew. because it only participated in one form of been fair, even-handed and a source of Road's end brings now and a parting debate, was not eligible for that ranking. pride for this alumnus. Keep up your good the way; K-State won the Cross Examination work! I likewise commend you for printing Beyond, the glow of what we shared Debate Association (CEDA) national tourna- the Mann diatribe, offensive as I found it. shall stay. ment. CEDA is an organization for colleges Dean Ostrum, c'47 Paul Borel, e'34 debating the national value resolution. The New York City Great Falls, Va.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 5 traditional lineup of Hawk Week events lets new students meet their professors, mingle on the chancellor's lawn, learn about KU's history, get a scoop of advice and ice cream at the Adams Alumni Center and boogie on the boule- vard. For a complete schedule, contact the Office of New Student Orientation, 864-4270. August l8 — 2. "7 August: 30 at New Mexico, 7 p.m. 31-Sept. 1 at Texas-El Paso Classes begin. September: 6-7 Kansas Invitational August 2. (> 13-14 Jayhawk Classic 21-22 at University of Iowa 28 at Oklahoma, 730 p.m. Iwo Cranes," left, by Yang Cheng-hsin, is 29 atTulsa, 2 p.m. among "Modern Chinese Paintings" October: 2 Nebraska, 7:30 p.m. on display at the . 5 Iowa State, 7:30 p.m. Through September c3 9 Kansas State, 7:30 p.m. [i NE Illinois, 7:30 p.m. 15 at Missouri, 7:30 p.m. 18 Colorado, 8 p.m. lis brillig and the "Slithy Toves: 25 Oklahoma, 8 p.m. Reptiles and Amphibians at Kansas" are 29 at Nebraska, 7:30 p.m. on display at the Kenneth Spencer Research Football Library. Featured creatures from herpeto- The Association will sponsor pre-game logical books, 1588-1878, are exotic, extinct events at all away games. Call (913) 864-4760 for and imaginary. Illustration, above, from more information. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. September: 7 at Toledo, 6:30 p.m. Through September 3 ^* i4Tulsa, 1 p.m. 21 New Mexico State (Band Day), 1 p.m. Ihe Third Annual Lawrence Indian Arts October: Show features a national juried competition 5 at Virginia, TBA [2 at Kansas State, I:IO p.m. at the Museum of Anthropology, an Indian 19 Iowa State Market, a retrospective of works by (Homecoming/Parents Day), 1 p.m. Yanktonai Sioux artist Oscar Howe and 26 at Oklahoma, i p.m. November: more. A benefit opening is Sept. 13. Call 2 at Oklahoma State, 3 p.m. 864-4245 for reservations and information. 9 Nebraska, i p.m. 16 at Colorado, 1 p.m. September 14-October 23 Missouri, 1 p.m. 6 JULY/AUGUST 1991 when it [sells] vodka, there's a problem with the validity of the other pieces you're doing." Herd admits he agreed to deal with Absolut to support his highly visible habit. He has stood out in his field since 1981, when he trac- tor-sketched a 160-acre portrait of the 19th-century Kiowa Indian chief Satanta. In 1986, he planted sunflowers, soybean and clover to create his first field "paint- ing"—a vase of three sunflowers on a quilt. His work has earned him attention from The New York His field work Times and numerous other publi- earns notice cations. In fall 1989, he plowed soybean "Amber Waves of Dave" from high places for The David Letterman Show. Now he's planting a pasture ^tan Herd, '86, is making it big near Salina to portray Carol in the art world. In fact, one of Cadue, a Lawrence High School his latest works is 20 acres big. student whose father is chairman It's also big business. Herd, who of the Kickapoo Indian tribe. lives in Lawrence, plowed a near- "Most people think of the by field into a 1,100-foot-tall Earth as dirt," he says, "instead of Absolut Vodka bottle for the com- as a living organism. And the way pany's advertising campaign. we treat the land is a reflection Now readers of national maga- on us. That's why I've chosen to zines such as Newsweek and depict Native American people-. Esquire are drinking in the They have a very strong ethic "Absolut Landmark." based on nature and on cultivat- Despite the intoxicating expo- ing the land with love rather than sure, Herd keeps a level head. using it like something we can "Art is supposed to be in the ser- throw away." vice of something," he says, "and That's an idea that can grow.

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1 hey have arrived. African "killer" bees touched down last fall in Texas and soon will fly to other southern destinations. At least 50 colonies had been confirmed by mid-June, and two stinging incidents had been reported. The bees' targets survived. Orley "Chip" Taylor Jr., professor of entomology, says the unpredictable swarms, stars of B bee flicks that made Hitchcock's birds look tame, were right on schedule. In fact, Taylor, an expert on the African bee, had long predicted their 1990 arrival. He hopes cities and towns will organize systems to report bee sightings. He also wants to head off hyste- ria. "Most swarms are not dangerous if you leave them alone," he says. "But if you do inadvertently disturb them, head for a building or a car or try to run downwind. Don't flail around. You can easily outrun them." Most victims in Mexico, he says, have been small children or elderly people who could not run. Although the bees' preference for warm climates will confine them to the South, Kansans can view the infamous immigrants through Sept. 15 in a Museum of Natural History exhibit. Rest assured the subjects will be under glass. KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 7 Knick knack paddywhack: Give the dog a $110,000 bone Koch's Jayhawk is the real thing John Swift's dog has had his day—twice. This spring, Stubby, e already believe Jayhawks and Stripes group for the right to a Jack Russell terrier and former can fly. Now, in his quest for the defend the America's Cup next pound puppy, starred in a home 1992 America's Cup, Bill Koch is May. movie that first fetched a $10,000 proving that the mythical mascot Although he earned three weekly prize and then the is seaworthy. degrees in chemical engineering $100,000 grand prize on ABC's hit Koch, president and skipper from the Massachusetts Institute television series "America's of the America^ yachting syndi- of Technology, Koch is a Jayhawk Funniest Home Videos." cate and a Wichita native, chris- by bloodline: His great-grandfa- "Adopting him turned out to tened his ship Jayhawk to honor ther was David H. Robinson, one be the best $25 we ever spent," his Kansas heritage. Then in April of the University's first three pro- says Swift, d'68, executive direc- he steered the $22 million boat to fessors. tor of the San Pedro, Calif., YMCA. victory in the third race of the "It would have been hard to The top-dog video features International America's Cup Class name my boat Beaver," he Stubby in the family hot tub. "His World Championship in San Diego. admits, referring to MIT's mascot. hearing is very sensitive," Swift "A number of people asked If he had, we wouldn't havens • explains, "and when we turn on me what a Jayhawk was, and I given a dam. the hot tub, the air-intakes pop told them it was a mythical bird and snap. He doesn't like it, so he that flies very fast," Koch says. dives underwater and bites at the "I also discovered there are all jets. When that doesn't work, he sorts of Kansans out here. I re- gets out, runs full tilt at the wall, ceived a lot of cards and letters." leaps and grabs hold of the air Jayhawk, which first set sail pipe and tries to rip it off the wall. only two days before the compe- "The video people did a voice- tition began, was plagued by over; it's pretty hilarious." breakdowns and finished fifth Now Swift and his wife, Vicki, overall. "It was like test-driving assoc, are laughing all the way to and racing a car at the same the bank and Stubby has a new time," Koch says. "But we did find companion, Bambi, a female Jack out that it was fast." Russell terrier. Koch was tuning up for next The University already has winter, when his crew will race benefited from the funny money: eainst Dennis Conner's Stars A longstanding benefactor of the Spencer Research Library, Swift purchased and donated a rare falconry text that virtually com- pletes an important area of the ornithological collection. In August, Swift becomes executive director of the Tulsa, Okla., YMCA, and the remainder of the post-tax video winnings will put a healthy down payment on a new home. We bet the plans include one luxurious dog house. Winning designs fit teams to a T

1 hey may not make fashion statements in Vogue or GQ, but several KU students are drawing valuable experience—and cash stipends—as designers of official championship T-shirts for the NCAA. "We're excited about it," says Lois Greene, associate professor of design, who coordinates the project. "We even saw one of our basketball shirts on national tele- vision during the tournament." Students create shirts for fall, winter and spring sports. Greene says they come up with 50 to 60 designs for each set, of which the NCAA chooses about half. In exchange, students receive J300 stipends as members of the team; they also get $50 for each design selected. Greene limits the group to four or five outstanding upperclassmen. "When students work directly with clients, it prepares them bet- ter for the real world," Greene says. "I get to watch them change and grow. At first, they were a lit- tle timid and conservative with this, but now they have confi- KU's firstcomplet e pass of the season dence in their ideas." And that will never go out of Last October, following a 34-0 The switch pleases Mason and style. KU football loss at Miami, Coach the 30 'Hawks who hail from Ohio, Glen Mason joked that "at least I and it is a savvy financial play for can tell recruits that we've been Athletic Director Bob Frederick: to the Orange Bowl. KU won't have to pay Miami a "1 just won't say when." $150,000 guarantee, and a lower- Mason wasn't kidding, howev- priced five-game home package er, when he said he didn't think may boost season-ticket sales. his Jayhawks should schedule But KU doesn't swap a power- elite non-conference foes like the house for a patsy. Last year, the Hurricanes when they already Toledo Rockets were 9-2 and co- played Colorado, Nebraska and champions of the Mid-American Oklahoma in the Big Eight. Conference; they compiled a 5-1 So Kansas withdrew its invita- home record in the 26,200-seat tion to Miami to visit Memorial Glass Bowl (no fooling) stadium. Stadium Sept. 28. Instead the Even so, we think the Jayhawks will open the 1991 sea- Jayhawks will make the Rockets son Sept. 7 at Toledo. wish they'd scrubbed this mission. says the freeze will send shivers through Solbach, '73, D-Lawrence. "I think she will the College if it doesn't thaw before fall: use her persuasive and administrative pow- He needs to fill about 30 positions. Before ers to get agencies to save wherever they the freeze, he says, the College had planned can." Agencies that help the state save for a grim budget by leaving six positions money without a rescission, he says, may open. Those jobs get top priority now, he receive kinder treatment when Finney says, but with the freeze "we're building submits a revised '92 budget during the another backlog." next session. Max Lucas, dean of architecture and At that time, Solbach says, legislators urban design, says his school also feels the and Finney must resolve their differences chill. "We had a retirement this year," he so they can put the state back on its feet says, "and we had a resignation by a faculty with a FY93 tax package. Finney's original member who was offered a substantial raise plan last fall called for $664 million in tax to go to another institution. We need to fill increases. "I have wracked my brain trying those positions to meet students' needs." to figure out why the governor's veto makes The Legislature in May passed a budget any public-policy sense," Solbach says. that provided KU with $148.9 million; the "The conclusion that I've come to is this...if Medical Center received $182.6 million. The she had signed this $138 million revenue MAKING A POINT: Budig donated $4,962 of his Legislature passed a separate bill that pro- measure, it probably would have been the salary raise to Campaign Kansas for professorships. vided on average 2.5 percent raises for last tax measure she would have achieved His gift limits his increase to 2.4 percent—slightly faculty and staff. KU had requested 7.8 during her term." less than the faculty's average raise. percent raises. The University requested By vetoing the Legislature's bill, he says, but did not get a 4 percent increase for Finney wanted to "deepen the crisis and operating expenses, $1.27 million in enroll- come back and see if we can get it right the University squares off ment-adjustment funds, a 16 percent raise second time....If she is successful in getting in student salaries to cover a higher mini- the Legislature to more adequately address to take budget blows mum wage or graduate student assistant the long-term structural deficit in the gen- fee waivers. eral fund, we will see that the '91 veto made raced with a possible Fiscal Year 1992 So the budget wasn't plump in the first sense. If she is not successful, we're going budget rescission, the University has place. "Some budget-cutters say they just to have some very difficult years." imposed a hiring freeze and has begun the want to trim the fat," Chancellor Gene A. Meanwhile, the University has chosen painful process of selecting which programs Budig said June 27 in a meeting with the places to scrimp in case Finney does opt could withstand cuts. Kansas Board of Regents. "Well, if there for a rescission. The summer-school budget The freeze, which began June 4, came was ever real fat at the University of Kansas, would be reduced by 22 percent, eliminating in response to Gov. Joan Finney's veto of we trimmed it off long ago. We continue to nearly all master's courses in business. a legislative tax increase that would have do more with less: We receive only 88.8 Library hours and services would be trimmed, helped finance a modest KU budget (see percent of what our cost-study peers get for and $25,000 would be erased from the law Kansas Alumni, May/June 1991). Analysts faculty salaries. We receive only 64 percent library's acquisitions budget. Equipment have predicted that, without the added tax as much for [Other Operating Expenses 1" purchases would be limited in several revenue, Finney this fall will need to ask for If KU doesn't catch up soon, administra- schools, and operating funds for various a statewide rescission of about 2 percent to tors fear that times will only get tougher. administrative offices would be reduced. maintain a mandated $100 million balance "Last year," Budig says, "the Legislature, in The costs would be high, says Shankel. in the state's general fund. the final hours, cut the KU budget 1.75 per- "Some students won't get the courses they During the hiring freeze, departments cent. This year, the possibility of an even need," he told the Regents June 27. "Some and deans must request permission from greater rescission is staring us in the face." will have trouble completing their degrees the chancellor or executive vice chancellor Howard Mossberg, dean of pharmacy, in the normal time. And faculty will begin to to fill any open position. "If the department sees a frighteningly familiar pattern. "The look elsewhere. We will lose our best— makes a case that the position is essential trend of the '80s," he says, "except for the those whose research and teaching records to the mission of the University, we are two years of the Margin, was exactly as make them attractive to other schools." granting those exceptions," says Del Shankel, we're beginning the '90s. While KU loses ground, some competi- acting executive vice chancellor. But in "It has to have a cumulative effect." tors are speeding forward. In his address to order to reserve enough resources to absorb But some legislators say this year's the Regents, Budig pointed out that while looming cuts, he says, "a number of posi- rescission won't become reality. "I don't many state legislators faced tight budgets tions cannot be filled." think the governor is going to ask for last year, they still treated education kindly. James Muyskens, dean of liberal arts, across-the-board cuts," says Rep. John The , he said, will

10 JULY/AUGUST 1991 who has taught at KU for at least seven years. Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching, which carry a $1,000 stipend, were granted to Cheng T. Cho, professor of pediatrics at the Medical Center; Winifred Dunn, professor and chairman of the occu- pational therapy at the Med Center; and Donna Sweet, professor of internal medicine at the School of Medicine-Wichita. Evans, who came to KU in 1981 as a PROFESSORIATE: I to r, Evans, Cho, Fourny, Wright, Dunn and Sweet. Goldstein was in New Mexico on a research associate in the Bureau of Child student study trip; Mikkelson was presenting a paper in the Soviet Union. Research, is well-known for his ability to integrate student involvement into his raise faculty salaries 6.4 percent in FY92; Executive Director Stanley D. Koplik, admits introductory sociology class of nearly 800 the University of Nebraska is managing 4.25 "we're all prepared to bring the curtain students. He studies mental retardation and percent average raises. "What these down on the Margin of Excellence. It was how the families of people with retardation increases should tell us," Budig said, "is an exceptional chapter in Kansas higher make adjustments; and he wrote The Lives that, in spite of the conventional wisdom, education history [although] it's unfortunate of Mentally Retarded People. it is not the hour for Kansas to cut back on we weren't able to finish the effort in a Mikkelson has taught at KU since 1967 higher education. It is, in fact, the time for resounding manner.... and chaired the department of Slavic lan- investing more in our Regents institutions." "The challenge for us is to continue to guages and literatures from 1976 to 1986. This year's backslide has especially meet the public's expectations—and to do He studies and teaches about the life and affected the Medical Center, which com- more with less."o works of Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin. petes against institutions that annually This spring, Mikkelson was among four provide healthy raises. "While many states American scholars invited by the Soviet and their universities are undergoing KU gives thank-yous Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Cultural limited faculty salary increases," D. Kay Fund to participate in an international con- Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the to top-notch teachers ference in Leningrad and Mikhailovskow, Medical Center, told Regents, "that is not Pushkin's burial site. generally true for academic health cen- 1 he University recognized the teaching Wright, g'67, PhD'69, has been professor ters....With our ability to give a 3 percent talents of eight faculty members during and artistic director of theatre since 1976 average increase in FY91 and only a 2.5 Commencement weekend. and became director of University Theatre percent average increase in FY92, we have Burlington Northern Foundation in 1989. In addition to teaching theatre pro- lost ground for our faculty by at least 10 Achievement Awards, which carry a $2,500 duction, Wright has directed more than 50 percent against national indices." stipend, were granted to Daryl Evans, asso- KU plays. A former national chair of the Clawson, too, is preparing cuts in case ciate professor of sociology; Gerald American College Theatre Festival, he in 1987 of a rescission. Area Health Education Mikkelson, professor of Slavic languages received the John F. Kennedy Center for the Centers, which provide continuing educa- and literature and of Soviet and East Performing Arts Medallion of Excellence for tion for professionals throughout the state, European studies; and Jack B. Wright, pro- his work with the theatre festival. would take trimming and in turn charge fessor of theatre and film and director of Fourny, who came to KU in 1988, teaches higher fees. The Medical Center would University Theatre. The awards were estab- undergraduate courses in French and 17th-, delete some support for residency pro- lished in 1986 by Burlington Northern to 18th- and 19th-century French literature. grams in Salina, Topeka and Wichita, recognize outstanding teaching and faculty- She recently received a grant from the Hall requiring community hospitals to pay more. scholar excellence. Center for the Humanities to develop And KU would virtually end a statewide The H. Bernerd Fink Award, which car- a spring 1992 course on women, literature perinatal program begun 10 years ago with ries a $2,000 stipend, was granted to Diane and the society of ancient France. federal funds to help provide care for high- Fourny, assistant professor of French and Goldstein, who came to KU in 1985, risk infants. Italian. The award was established in 1961 teaches varied courses to geology students Regents institutions have seen better by H. Bernerd and Ruth Fink of Topeka. at all levels. Among student favorites is a days. Hopes were high after the Legislature The Silver Anniversary Teaching Award, senior course in stratigraphy, the study of funded most of the first two years of the which carries a $1,000 stipend, was granted rock distribution, deposition and age. The Margin of Excellence, the three-year plan to to Robert H. Goldstein, assistant professor class features a four-day field trip during raise faculty salaries and program funding of geology. The award was established by which the students conduct independent to peer-institution averages. But after two members of the KU Class of i960 during research and make reports as they would failed attempts to finish the job, Regents their 25-year reunion to recognize someone for a journal. Goldstein also researches

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 11 diagenesis, the chemical and physical pro- longer and features more faculty and stu- When Tonya Sanchez, Brooklyn, N.Y., cess that converts sediment to rock. dents than KU's first try of a year ago. It junior, brightens the screen, she elicits Cho, m'68, g'70, m'70, a faculty member tackles sensitive issues in a straightforward laughter—and embodies KU's diversity: since 1970, serves as chief of the pediatric manner, balancing seriousness with humor "I think the fact that I'm black, Hispanic, a department's infectious-diseases section. but never veering from its message that woman, Catholic and from Brooklyn kind Students gave him the outstanding pediatric although problems do exist here, intoler- of gives me a different outlook on life," she teaching award in 1975 and 1983 and this ance, discrimination and bigotry are not says. "When I first got here, it was really year named him for honors in education in tolerated on Mount Oread. weird for me because I didn't understand the Student Voice, a publication of the The video offers perspectives from the mentality of the people down here. But School of Medicine. He studies the herpes white, black, Native American, Hispanic, now, I mean, it's nice. I feel much more virus and infectious diseases in children. Asian, gay, Jewish, blind and wheelchair- comfortable." Dunn, PhD'84, who joined the faculty as bound students. International students Following the video, student orientation chairman of occupational therapy in 1986, from South Africa, Singapore and Peru also assistants play roles. First they spurn one teaches and researches ways to better diag- appear. Robert Shelton, University ombuds- another because of differences like foreign nose and develop activities for children man; David Ambler, vice chancellor for stu- accents, clothing or haircuts, but they ulti- with attention deficits and other behavioral dent affairs; and Adrienne Rivers, assistant mately find common ground. The final and neurological problems. She recently professor of journalism, share faculty and speaker reminds the audience that they completed a textbook on pediatric occupa- administrative perspectives. all share at least one thing: They're KU stu- tional therapy. In one telling scene, Cory Anderson, dents, here to learn, to live, to grow. The Sweet, m'79, m'82, a KU faculty member Omaha senior, recalls that when he was a freshmen are encouraged to "look past first since 1982, also is on the medical staff of freshman, fellow students on the bus would impressions and you'll be rewarded with St. Francis Regional Medical Center and not sit next to him or his roommate, who knowledge, understanding and friendship." the HCA Wesley Medical Center, both in was also black. "When we'd ride the bus The orientation assistants then sing the Wichita. She is a member of the Governor's together, we'd take seats across from each "Crimson and the Blue," and Kretschmer Task Force on AIDS and is an AIDS referral other with two seats in between us," he closes on a cautionary but hopeful note: physician for the Kansas Department of says. "Invariably, we'd realize that people "I think we all realize that attitudes don't Health and Environment.O would rather stand up than sit in the seats change quite that quickly," she says, "but at between us. least perhaps we can start to look at some "It was kind of disconcerting at first but of these differences and appreciate and Film shows freshmen it became a joke later on. I think in two value them in ourselves and in others." years, things have gotten a little better— Then she sends the Class of 1995 out to many faces of campus there's more communication now." Jayhawk Boulevard.O

Early one June morning, incoming fresh- men and their parents pack Woodruff Aud- The Ryan Gray Playground itorium for the introductory message of one for All Children of KU's 19 summer orientation sessions. Hillcrest Elementary School On the dais is Kathryn Kretschmer, Lawrence, Kansas director of new student orientation, who delivers a message to begin the college education of these freshmen. "We have our differences, but we also have our similarities," she tells the yawning youngsters. "Sometimes we tend to focus on the differences so much that we forget the common values and goals that we do share." To emphasize her point, Kretschmer cues a nine-minute video: "Valuing Differences: Building Diversity." In fast- paced segments, faculty members, adminis- trators and 22 students representing a wide array of interests and backgrounds share their views about life on KU's multicultural campus. The video, produced by the Office of

University Relations, runs three minutes HIGHLAND STREET

12 JULY/AUGUST 1991 of their physical abilities. trusty steeds for children. Jody Anderson, c'75, g'76, The Grays were especially enthusiastic g'86, began the project about about the playground's basketball shape, four years ago, long before a scheme dreamed up by Landplan Gray's name became involved. Engineering's Jay Gordon, '89. "We fell in Anderson and her husband, Jim love with the idea," says Kitty Gray. "It will McGovern, c'76, m'79, a immortalize that whole era of KU basket- Lawrence physician, have a son, ball, which was very special for Ryan and Jeff, who has spina bifida and for us. It's as much a tribute to the 1988 must use a wheelchair. "There Jayhawks as it is to our son."0 wasn't any place for Jeff or kids like him to play," McGovern explains. "We could lift him onto swings and that sort of The CASE is closed: thing, but he couldn't use the equipment independently." Kansas is a winner So when Anderson read about a handicapped-accessible Ihe Alumni Association and the University playground in Oak Park, III., she gained national acclaim as award-winners wrote for more information and in the 1991 Recognition Program sponsored assembled a committee. In by the Council for the Advancement and February 1990, local radio-sta- Support of Education (CASE). tion owner Hank Booth, '70, As we reported last month, Kansas FAMOUS FRIENDS: Gray, I, and Brown celebrated KU's national pitched the idea to the Lawrence Alumni and Bucknell University's Bucknell championship in a 1988 victory parade School Board; that June, the board World shared the Grand Gold Medal for the approved Hillcrest as the site. nation's best alumni tabloid. The Chronicle Playground champions When Gray died, Hillcrest principal of Higher Education judges the category, Bill Armstrong suggested making the play- and it marked the sixth time in nine years access for all children ground a memorial to him. Gray's parents, that KU's tabloid was so honored. The Captain and Kitty Gray, agreed to the idea tabloid ceased publication at the beginning : 1 he story of the late Ryan Gray adds and now serve as honorary chairpersons. of the year, when Kansas Alumni shifted to luster to the legend of the 1988 national- So far, organizers have raised about a bimonthly color magazine. champion basketball team. Through his $22,000. The committee hopes Brown can More good news arrived in June: Kansas friendship with neighbor and former Kansas persuade Nike, Spaulding or some other Alumni editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'81, coach Larry Brown, Gray became known as athletic-goods company to purchase the assistant editor Bill Woodard, j'85, and staff the unofficial mascot of the 1988 team, and playground surface, estimated to cost writer Jerri Niebaum, j'88, also garnered a his lucky key ring and smile remain as mem- $80,000. There also will be a fund-raising silver medal for Periodical Staff Writing orable as Danny Manning's baby hook and event involving Brown, the 1988 Jayhawks Excellence. And Niebaum won a bronze Brown's sideline stomp. and the current coaching staff and team. medal in the Best Articles of the Year cate- Gray, who was born with an inoperable The playground's entrance will feature gory for her June 1990 cover story on KU's brain tumor, died last September at age 17 six 15-foot-tall metal arches that represent rain forest research. following complications from neurosurgery. Kansas' six 1988 NCAA tournament oppo- In the category for Special Program Now a group of community leaders hopes to nents: Xavier, Murray State, Vanderbilt, Publications Packages, Office of University pay tribute to him through the Ryan Gray Kansas State, Duke and Oklahoma. Relations graphic designer Jeremy Pilkington, Playground for All Children. The project, The main play structure features 4-foot- editor Julie Swords and photographers estimated to cost between $250,000 and wide ramps leading to large platforms, Doug Koch and Steve Dick won a gold medal $300,000, will be financed through private tunnels, big tic-tac-toe boards and large for a brochure for the Higuchi Biosciences contributions, community fund-raisers, and bubbled windows in different colors. Center. foundation and corporate sponsorships. Innovative play equipment will include Explore magazine, published by the The unusual playground will rise on the slides that recess into hills so children can- Office of Research, Graduate Studies and grounds of Hillcrest Elementary School, not fall and swings resembling small ham- Public Service, won a silver medal in Special Gray's school. Shaped like a basketball, with mocks, also designed to prevent falls. The Interest Magazines. Roger Martin, g'73, edits a shock-absorbant synthetic surface that elevated, cantilevered sandbox will allow Explore; Jan Morris Nitcher, d'74, f'74, of the even recalls the texture of a basketball, it children in wheelchairs to roll up to it. Near Office of University Relations, is the graphic will welcome all children to play, regardless the slides, a pair of springy Jayhawks will offer designer.O

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 13 But Bunnel says the Univer- Bunnels' gift restores sity prepared him for the finer things in life as well. He sang in A ring to carillon's bells Capella choir and played trumpet TUNE-UP: Thanks to the Bunnels, the carillon will play in key. in Russell Wiley's orchestra. "My h Bunnel, b'46, heard the Campanile degree was in business," he says, "but my couldn't even go to the hour dance," he cry for help in January, after KU carilloneur fondest memories of school are really in recalls. Albert Gerken canceled plans to host the music." "Now it seems kind of peculiar, doesn't it?" 1991 conference of the Guild of Carilloneurs The carillon sounded its dedication song Clark, a retired electrical engineer in in North America because the carillon May 27,1951, years after Bunnel had left the Dayton, Ohio, will provide future minority wasn't fit to be played (see Kansas Alumni, University, but its message still rings true to students with the opportunities he and his January/February 1991). him. "Our hope is that the carillon will con- friends missed. He has committed $300,000 Bunnel and his wife, Joan, Pittsburgh, tinue to bring a sense of peace to all those from his estate to establish the Arthur D. answered with a $425,000 gift to restore who hear it over the years," he says, "and Clark Engineering Scholarship Fund and, in the 1951 instrument and begin the Keith and that they will remember those to whom it is honor of his late wife, the Lillian F. Clark Joan Bunnel Restoration Fund for future dedicated. "O Fine Arts Scholarship Fund. repairs. "The Campanile is the symbol of the To earn the scholarship, a minority stu- school to us," Keith Bunnel says, "and it Clark endows funds dent must show financial need and be at bothered me very much that it should not least a sophomore with a 3.0 grade-point be in the best possible condition." for minority scholars average or better. The World War II Memorial Campanile Chancellor Gene A. Budig says gifts for holds special meaning for Bunnel because . Clark, e'42, watched friend minority scholarships are extremely impor- he served on the 1945 committee that chose after friend drop out of school while he was tant for the diversity of the University, espe- a memorial for the 276 students and faculty at the University. They left not because cially as the costs of education increase. who died in the war. they couldn't make the grade but because Clark worked his own way through KU Gerken, professor of music who has they couldn't afford to feed their bodies as head waiter for a sorority—one of the served as KU's carilloneur since 1953, says and their minds. Jobs were scarce, especial- few jobs open to minorities. He helped his the tower's 53 exquisite bronze bells, which ly if you were a minority. wife, Lillian French Clark, f'42, by hiring her weigh from 10 pounds to 7 tons, make the "All over the country it was difficult for to assist. "We worked 5 and 6 hours a day," carillon one of the world's best. But the African-Americans to get jobs," Clark he recalls. "That's quite a load when you're clappers have flattened, the mechanical recalls. "The U.S. government didn't start in school." keyboards have slipped out of sync and the hiring African-American men or women With their hard-earned diplomas, the wooden bearings and bolts have deteriorated. until after about 1940, except for maids or Clarks built distinguished careers. During The Bunnels' gift will fund replacement of elevator operators or men who would push the war, Arthur Clark was an engineer for the clappers and bolts and both the main the broom or mop." the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He then became keyboard and a practice keyboard. All of Prejudice also prevailed at KU. "We a radio engineer at the Wright Air the tower's beams will be cleaned and Development Center in Dayton, refurbished, and the entire playing mecha- where he led a team of specialists nism will be overhauled. The IT. Verdin Co. in Greenland during the Korean of Cincinatti, which specializes in clock and War. He later returned to the bell repair, will do the work. Wright center, where he worked "I am simply elated," Gerken says. "I've until he retired in 1973. been waiting for a very long time to do this, Lillian Clark, who died in 1988, nearly 10 years... I am deeply grateful to the in 1946 began work as an artist Bunnels for their sincere interest in and with the Air Force Logistic dedication to restoring the KU carillon to a Command in Dayton and in 1957 first-rate, world-class instrument." He plans became art editor at the Defense to bid for the University to host a future Electronic Supply Agency in carillon conference. Kettering. She retired in 1975. Bunnel began his career as an accoun- Providing the scholarships tant for Westinghouse Air Brake Co., which completes a lifelong plan, Clark merged with American Standard Inc. in says. "My wife and I agreed while 1968. He moved up through the ranks, work- we were still in school," he says, ing as head of the European division and PROMISE FULFILLED: As students, Clark and his wife vowed to "tnat if we were ever able, that's retiring as vice chairman of the firm in 1985. one day provide scholarships. one of the things we wanted to do."0

/ 4 JULY/AUGUST iggi Jayhawks lift hopes for strong showing

I_X)ug Terry predicts that Memorial Stadium will look different this football season. You'll see more boisterous fans and fewer silver slivers of empty bleachers. STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: Captains Terry, Imwalle and Robben lead more than go Jayhawks—the largest He promises the Kansas schedule will be team in five years—toward goals of a winning season and a bowl game. longer. Pencil in a bowl game sometime after the annual showdown with Missouri. nation's toughest schedules—including "Sometimes I get so pumped up I want Terry, senior defensive back from bowl-bound non-conference foes Louisville, to put on the pads right now and go out and Liberal, says the Jayhawks will prove him Miami of Florida and Virginia—the Jayhawks get on with it," Terry says, "I can't wait."O right because they're hungry for the admi- managed a 3-7-1 showing. ration so familiar to Jayhawk basketball Last year's Jayhawks often operated players. "I want [fans] to say, It's so great to smoothly outside their opponents' 20-yard- Kansas athletes set go out and watch KU football; I really like line, then stalled once they neared the end the way they work," he says. zone. Despite averaging 370 yards a game new record for GPA "I want to feel appreciated for spending offensively, KU averaged only 19.4 points. those summer hours lifting and all that run- The defensive curtain was more gauze than Student-athletes this spring scored a ning and all that sacrifice. And because we steel; opponents waltzed through to amass combined 2.81 grade-point average, sur- have so many guys who want that same 415.3 yards and 33.2 points a game. passing spring 1990's 2.77 mark as the feeling, 1 think we have a great chance to Mason emphasizes that "we absolutely highest GPA ever recorded by Jayhawk be successful this year." must establish ourselves as a defensive scholarship squads. Six sports posted com- Terry, 1991 co-captain with Scott football team. We're an attacking defense, bined GPAs above 3.0, led by volleyball at 3.2. Imwalle and Roger Robben, knows he must and the number one thing I hope you see is back up his words with action, as does more turnovers. In a two-year period, we Others were men's (3.16), women's Coach Glen Mason, who enters his fourth only had 25 combined, and that's unbeliev- swimming (3.12), women's (3.03), season at Kansas with similar expectations. able. Most teams get 25 or 30 in a season." men's swimming (3.01) and (3.01). "For the first time since I've been here," Indeed, Kansas last year was dead-last Eleven student-athletes achieved 4.0 Mason says, "I came out of spring practice in the league and 99th in the nation with averages and 145 others reached 3.0 or bet- feeling we have the makings of a legitimate a -1.18 turnover margin. ter. Three football players—Smith Holland, football team." Imwalle thinks a little good luck is due. Curtis Moore and Paul Zaffaroni—and three Since taking charge Dec. 30, 1987, the "In the past, everything seemed to go track athletes—Kenyon Holmes, Vince 41-year-old Mason has stressed long-term against us," says the junior offensive guard Labosky and Melissa Hart—had perfect success over short-term remedies. He and from Vandalia, Ohio. "Like last year against averages. The five remaining flawless per- his staff now have assembled three consec- Iowa State, we fumble and they kick a field formances belonged to Danielle Shareef, utive recruiting classes ranked among the goal to tie us. I think things will start basketball; David Lewis and Kevin Wagner, nation's top 30 by major recruiting services. bouncing our way for a change, because to swimming; and Kristine Kleinschmidt and He has avoided the quick fix of junior-college a certain extent you make your luck." Julie Woodruff, volleyball. athletes, who often can bring more grief Imwalle is one of 10 returning offensive According to Athletic Director Bob than growth, and instead has instituted a starters; nine starters return on defense. Frederick, 73.3 percent of KU football and redshirt program that at last has swelled And punter/placekicker Dan Eichloff, who basketball players who completed their the Kansas roster to competitive numbers. won All-Big Eight honors as a freshman last eligibility during the 1990-91 season have And he has stressed academics. Last fall, 11 year, is back on the job. graduated or will graduate after next fall's Jayhawks made all-academic Big Eight; this "I've got the perspective of having seen semester. spring, the team compiled a 2.64 GPA. the worst," says Robben, a senior fullback The rebuilding process hasn't been from Wichita. "We've worked long and hard And, in a recent report by the Chronicle much fun to watch. Kansas stumbled to a for this season. Everybody wants a bowl of Higher Education, Kansas ranks first in [-10 record his first year, its lone victory game and believes we can get there." the Big Eight Conference in student-athletes over equally lowly Kansas State. In 1989, The three co-captains are among 65 who entered as freshmen in 1984 and grad- the Jayhawks improved to 4-7, beating KSU Jayhawks who stayed in Lawrence this uated within five years. KU has graduated and Missouri in the Big Eight and finishing summer and stuck with strength coach Fred 54.4 percent; Colorado is second at 53.7 sixth. Last year, faced with one of the Roll's weight-and-conditioning program. percent. Oklahoma is last at 27.1 percent.O

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE is ikkun h'olam. Roughly translated from elsewhere. During the next few years, newspa- started to cry," says Huston, whose sentiments Hebrew, this Talmudic concept means to pers made it clear she was interviewing for echoed many of those who spoke of Horowitz's T heal, repair, transform the world. top spots—the University of Iowa in December departure. "Frances is an anchor for us, and we'll Frances Degen Horowitz understands tikkun 1987, the University of Colorado two years personally feel cast adrift when she's gone." h'olam. Under the glass of this Judaic compass, later. Fresh out of graduate school, Huston first she discovered the arrow that guides her life. Hurt feelings, Horowitz says, had little to do saw Horowitz at a small conference. Huston She urges others to this course. As KU's vice with those interviews. Her long-standing desire remembers she had heard some speaker make chancellor for research, graduate studies and for a more influential role in higher education a stupid comment about behavioral theory. public service, she has addressed hundreds of lured her away. "During the question period this woman stood PhD candidates at their hooding ceremonies "She wanted a presidency, and she wasn't up and politely but ruthlessly ripped him to and graduate luncheons. From year to year, her going to get it here," says Aletha Huston, pro- shreds, and I wondered, Who is that woman? message holds—go forward, repay your debt, fessor of human development. "I knew if she "Frances still doesn't brook any incompe- be benevolent. Tikkun h'olam. didn't get it this year, she wasn't going to be in tence," Huston says. "She's always fair and sup- This May Horowitz gave her last hooding the market again." portive, but she's also tough." address at KU. She leaves Lawrence in Horowitz says her age set her time line. "I'm Horowitz's people skills and productivity August for New York City and the presidency 59. You need to have about 10 years to make an quickly moved her through KU's academic and of the Graduate School and University Center impact on a system, and I want to have an administrative ranks. In 1961 she arrived as a of the City University of New York. After 30 impact, to make a difference." research assistant in the Bureau of Child years, almost one-quarter of KU's life, her So, this action-packed woman with a warm Research. By 1964 she was acting chair of the work here has ended. Many say they saw the smile and even hotter talent for being able to department of human development and family break coming. spot and nurture competent people leaves life, which she helped form. Five years later she In 1987 she applied for KU's vice chancellor empty an administrative post many feel will was a full professor; by 1978 she had reached for academic affairs. The post went to Del never again see as much energy, ethics and Strong Hall. Brinkman, and some of those close to Horowitz sensitivity. She showed by example that research, ser- believe her disappointment pushed her to look "When 1 first heard she was going to leave, I vice and teaching were not incompatible with A brilliant mind & a benevolent spirit have made

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New York City. administration. Her productivity leaves many energies to a multitude of efforts. She lives out "Horowitz, however, says she did support gasping. "She's widely respected as a researcher," her unswerving conviction that people working the applied programs. "Not all the professional Huston says, "and continues to publish more together for good can always achieve it. schools saw me as a weak link. Certainly not than her colleagues in the department." Her energy, compassion and commitment pharmacy, engineering or nursing. I voted consistent grant-getter, Horowitz's most to high standards and scholarship are widely tenure when the record supported that decision." recent NIH grant earned the highest score known, says Ed Meyen, dean of education and hen she examines her own weaknesses, A among this year's applications. She is for eight years a member of her Strong Hall Horowitz pinpoints her ability to toler- widely published in the field of infant research, team. "But what stands out about Frances, Wate ambiguity. "I don't like to bring particularly in at-risk infants, and lists among what makes her unique is her institutional per- things to closure if that will hurt people," she her contributions her work with pediatrician spective and her optimism." says, "and when I don't come to a decision, T. Berry Brazelton on the widely used neo- While other administrators myopically others can't proceed." Having colleagues who natal assessment scale. attend to their own interests and responsibili- think differently than she does helps her over- Horowitz demurs. "It's really not fair to say ties, she takes a broad look at higher educa- come her weaknesses, she says. I carried a research load. I don't want to be tion. When others get caught up in daily Bob Bearse willingly identifies himself as a dishonestly modest. 1 did make important demands, Meyen says she identifies what's different-thinking colleague. As an associate contributions, but if I hadn't had colleagues hopeful, the reasons for working through vice chancellor, Bearse has worked with and graduate students, I couldn't have done today's problems. Horowitz for the past 13 years. He leaves no all this." "Others can step in and administer," Meyen doubt that the woman he describes "as the iron Horowitz, without hesitation, says she's says. "The University will find that person. But fist in the velvet glove" has captured his also been fortunate to have been professional- her perspective, her optimism are rare." respect and friendship. ly helped by three special KU colleagues: Some have affectionately listed Horowitz's "Frances' major strength is her ability to Richard Schiefelbusch, longtime director of the unflagging optimism and her penchant for give people a chance to work at their strengths Bureau of Child Research; Robert Cobb, former wearing rose-colored glasses as her major while diminishing their weaknesses," he says. executive vice chancellor; and Chancellor Gene flaws. Beverly Rosenfeld, her friend of 30 "Her high set of standards made her a success- A. Budig. "I've had stellar teachers and I've years, insists Horowitz doesn't just wear rose- ful vice chancellor. Her skill with people would worked with people who have taught me a colored glasses; she works to make things rose- have made her a good director of a shoe factory." great deal," she says. colored. Horowitz, she says, doesn't complain Bearse, a self-described straight shooter, "Frances," Budig says, "has been a special because her do-something attitude keeps her says he hasn't hesitated to tell Horowitz when friend and close counselor. We will miss her. from feeling helpless. he thought she was wrong. "She still always She leaves a significant void, but KU is better "Frances is supportive," says Rosenfeld, makes me feel like I'm contributing. She's made today for having had her." "and she gives that support without expecting a a silk purse out of a sow's ear." He pauses Through the years she found financial, pro- pay-back. You don't find that in many people. and then chuckles. "Or what others see as a fessional and personal support in Schiefel- Frances isn't perfect, but she's as close to per- sow's ear." busch, now a senior research scientist at fect as anyone I know." Bearse's close-up, day-to-day impressions Topeka's Veterans Administration hospital. It University scuttlebutt suggests some in of Horowitz capture a tireless worker. She was Schiefelbusch who hired her and scraped KU's professional schools found her flaws. often works in the quiet of her home and then together a desk and 5ioo a month—enough to Her close colleagues say a raw dislike for her arrives at Strong Hall armed with several com- pay her baby sitter. high standards and jealousy of her scholarly puter disks. Those disks, Bearse says, will have "Her personal Zeitgeist was research and achievement prompted some to thwart, even a chapter for a book, an article, maybe a academic excellence," he says. "She was a malign her. speech to an association of the Chamber of major asset as a scientist." The financial sup- In the early '80s, rumors circulated in the Commerce, a research proposal and letters to port, he admits with a smile, took some doing, School of Journalism that Horowitz had never friends—each task a reflection of her many particularly when Horowitz's roles as adminis- voted tenure for the J-school's faculty. activities and interests. trator and researcher put him in a fiscal Horowitz visibly winces at the memory. The Horowitz says keeping her plate full is her squeeze. As an administrator, she would rumor, she says firmly, was destructive. way of insuring success at something at any decrease his departmental allowance for decade later, journalism dean Mike given moment. Bearse says he remains in awe salaries when positions unexpectedly opened Kautsch says he has felt Horowitz's of her ability to juggle a variety of roles- up; in budgetary jargon, these funds are A encouragement and support. He believes researcher, administrator, teacher, colleague, known as "shrinkage." she has high regard for his colleagues' work. "In woman, wife, mother, friend, Jew—without "I'd say, Frances, you can't have it both the past, rightly or wrongly, she was perceived seeming to miss a toss. While others compart- § ways. You can't take my shrinkage and then as someone who only appreciated convention- mentalize their lives, Horowitz, he says, has come ask me for money for an assistant." The al or pure, scholarly research," he says. "I can't created a seamless whole. § smile lines deepen in his long, thin face as he say whether the perceptions squared with reality." Bearse says he loves those moments when remembers these conversations. He leans for- What he will say is that time has softened the seam splits just a little and he can catch a ward as if to share a secret. "I always found her the disagreements between academics and glimpse of the woman within the whole. the money. She used it well." practitioners. Even within journalism, the Horowitz, he recalled, accompanied by her hus- i Horowitz calls Schiefelbusch her mentor. He debate between the chi-squares and green eye band, was attending a University function. only admits to being her tutee. He says he will shades is less intense. "If Frances ever had Band music lured the couple to the dance floor. feel her absence deeply. "I will miss having doubts about professional schools, she's gained "She loves to dance," Bearse says, "and there someone to go to the well with. I will miss my an appreciation." Or, he says, maybe the national on the dance floor 1 caught a glimpse of a wife covenant with Frances." trend toward valuing professional experience in love with her husband. You can just tell they Covenant. Religious in tone, it's weighted has made the schools less sensitive. "Maybe," are two people who are still in love." with the obligation of promise. It suits he says, "they aren't looking for a symbol to Horowitz, a believer in the repayment of Horowitz, a woman who willingly binds her represent their lack of support." debt, quickly acknowledges her huge debt to Floyd Horowitz, her husband of 38 years. Schiefelbusch sighs when he thinks of his ters Horowitz will direct the "jewel in CUNY's Floyd, she will tell you, has been her friend old friend in New York. "It'll be a hell of a crown." He believes Horowitz will be seen as a since she was 12 and literally remained her transition," he says. But if he can't quite pic- major academician presiding over the coun- friend up until the day they decided to get ture Horowitz in New York City, he has no try's largest graduate system and its distin- married. She was barely 21. doubts about why she finds the city and the guished faculty. In these times of marital contracts, care- job irresistible. "She wants the challenge, the ew York is vibrant," Muyskens says. "It's fully devised 50-50 work splits, the Horowitzes opportunity to contribute." not the down-and-out, wounded place have created a mutual support system without Schiefelbusch, an academic war horse who Nmany people imagine." The Horowitzes, ever posting their jobs on the refrigerator. at 72 personally sees no benefit to retiring, he says, will adjust readily to the city. "We never sat down and talked about it; it understands what it means to continually It's clear the adjustment will be harder for just happened," she says. "Floyd, in fact, really strive to demonstrate personal and profes- those she leaves behind. "1 am afraid we will does 80 percent." The smile flashes. "Nothing sional excellence. "There's no way to get it be stricken," says Susan Elkins, coordinator of could have been possible without him. He is but the hard way because you've never got it KU Information and twice president of the more than my other half." made. All your life, you've got to be a game Lawrence Jewish Community Center- Seated in the gazebo just off the front player, you've got to enjoy the trip." Frances, Horowitz's spiritual and social home. porch of their grand red-brick home, Floyd he says, is a game player. She enjoys the trip. Horowitz tackled the difficult task of Horowitz sits quietly learning to read and stares off into and chant Torah so the greenery. He's she could con- watching the June tribute to the cen- butterflies while he ter's high holidays. searches for the Elkins says she will words, the ideas, miss the yearly the just-right phrase gathering at the that might capture Horowitzes' home his partnership with on the second day Frances. of Rosh Hashana. "She's an excep- "Floydand Frances tionally likeable per- prepare a spread son," he says slowly, and open their carefully. "She's an home to all mem- honest person and a bers of the Jewish good friend to many community." people. Those are Horowitz, Elkins winning qualities for says, has provided a human being." quiet, consistent oes he give 80 leadership, and her percent? Well, departure forced Deven if he did, Elkins to think it wouldn't deplete through what her him, he says. The absence will mean mechanical things—cooking, sewing, garden- Horowitz says she has no illusions about for everyone. "I realized that Frances' greatest ing, building—they're easily done. While some returning to the Big Apple. "You can't go gift is that she empowers people; she makes may find his heavy contribution to the home- home," says this daughter of the Bronx. But them believe in their own abilities. Those of making odd, he simply sees it as a practical she believes her one-way ticket to New York us who will miss her will go on to fill in the solution to their busy lives. leads to much more than a harassing job at gaps she has left." Those lives, he agrees, will soon change a desk laden with unsolvable problems. It's In June, Horowitz still sat behind her drastically. "I wasn't hankering to go back to a ticket to a more prominent podium and Strong Hall desk. A mottled seashell peeked New York." But, he says, as he turned a realis- her chance to tackle critical, national issues. out from under her many papers. A large red tic eye to the challenge of the job, the rich- New York, she says, is America's challenge. "Speak Up for Children" button rested on a ness of the city experience, he got excited, Its issues—crime, poverty, drugs, racism— shelf filled with brightly bound books and particularly about watching Frances. aren't isolated to New York; they're just big- journals. "To put Frances in the New York scene is ger there. "The public university in New York "Judaism imparts a sense of responsibili- to advance her to an arena where she will has a role to play in addressing those issues," ty," she said softly. "There's not much stress play real ball. It will open up her strengths." she says. As the president of the graduate on an afterworld, because your responsibility His gaze wanders into the yard. His thoughts school she will work to ensure minorities is to this world." coax out a smile. "I'm very interested in see- have access to graduate education. "Access "Your practice is more important than ing that." and education," she says firmly, "are not your beliefs. What you believe, that's up to Some friends and colleagues admit they're incompatible." you. But your obligation to do, that's not left puzzled the Horowitzes are excited about a James Muyskens, dean of the College of up to you." Tikkun h'olam. O move to New York—so different from Liberal Arts and Sciences, agrees the CUNY job Lawrence—and about a job that outwardly is both significant and influential. Muyskens, looks like a lateral leap into an administrative who left an academic post in New York to —Judith Galas, g'82, is a free-lance writer quagmire. come to KU in 1988, called the graduate cen- and associate director ofKU's Writing Center. FIERY FINALE A SUMMER SQUALL BROUGHT DISASTER TO HISTORIC HOCH AUDITORIUM

BY BILL WOODARD

LIGHTNING STRUCK HOCH AUDITORIUM repair of a stone barn used by the department June 15, igniting an inferno that decimated the of facilities operations. 64-year-old campus landmark and caused an On June 21, Chancellor Gene A. Budig had estimated $13 million in damage. The academic briefed Gov. Finney on the fire's impact to aca- and cultural matriarch of the University family, demic and arts activities, then accompanied her Hoch for years had welcomed new students in on an inspection of the smoldering shell. Finney Opening Convocation, hosted countless class expressed shock and sadness at what she called lectures and made company feel at home dur- "a heartbreaking sight," but she was reluctant ing many memorable cultural events. to promise any state money beyond her per- No one was injured in the fire, which start- sonal support for KU's emergency fund request. ed after lightning hit the roof on a Saturday "As far as replacing the building, the answer afternoon, then burned out of control for more at this time is there is no answer," Finney said. than 3 V2 hours, destroying the roof and gut- "The situation in the state is very difficult. This ting the interior. Lawrence firefighters battled is a year of reckoning, so we'll have to see the blaze with the help of crews from several where the future takes us economically." area communities. An engineering report released June 26 said Lightning of another kind struck on June 28, KU could save the Indiana limestone facade when the State Finance Council denied KU's and parts of the east and west walls of the $197,000 disaster-aid request, which was to auditorium, which opened in 1927 as a 3,000- cover demolition, cleanup, stabilization and seat, multi-purpose facility. security costs for Hoch. The state emergency "The south brick wall and the brick portions fund balance is $330,000. of the east and west walls were severely dam- The nine-member council, composed of aged by fire, but the Indiana limestone portions Gov. Joan Finney and eight legislators, voted held up pretty well," Shankel said. 8-1 in favor of allocating money from the Shankel said Finney G Tumipseed, the state emergency fund, but tapping the account Topeka engineering firm that conducted the requires a unanimous vote. Rep. Gus Bogina, inspection, recommended demolition of the R-Shawnee, objected. south wall and the south portions of the east Bogina said KU should use money from its and west walls. Engineers also advised that the repair and maintenance account, which holds building be winterproofed: some minimal heat- a balance of $360,000. KU already had 200 pro- ing and ventilation should be installed to pro- jects with a total estimated cost of $13 million tect the building from temperature shifts; in line for those funds. That didn't sway Bogina. waterproof caps should be installed on top of "This fire is a tragedy," Bogina said. "But I the limestone walls; the faces of the walls don't believe it would be prudent and proper to should be waterproofed; a temporary partition cut the emergency fund in half...[KU] should not should replace the demolished south wall; and attack the emergency fund." a temporary roof should be installed. Del Shankel, acting executive vice chancel- The fire forced administrators to relocate 15 lor, called the council's action "very disap- large lecture classes scheduled for fall and a pointing" and said the request was "appropriate like number for spring 1992. It also displaced and reasonable." the development department of public-radio "The [fund] exists specifically for responding station KANU-FM, administration for house- to 'acts of God' and unforeseeable emergencies keeping and 20 graduate teaching assistants in such as the Hoch fire," Shankel said. "This event the department of Spanish and Portuguese, and was certainly unforeseeable in the regular bud- left homeless several cultural events planned get process...[and the work isl absolutely essen- for the upcoming year. tial to protect public health and safety." Emotionally, "we have witnessed the pass- The University has sought permission from ing of an old and dependable friend," said the Kansas Board of Regents to use repair and Budig, who noted the generations of alumni improvement funds for the demolition and and friends who had witnessed academic, arts cleanup, Shankel said, adding that "these are and athletic events in the building. funds that should be used for other repair and More importantly, he said, maintenance projects." The Regents approved the loss of Hoch as a lecture the use of $58,850 previously earmarked for the facility illustrated the urgent

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 21 need for academic space on campus. "[Hoch's next fiscal year-about $100 million short of loss! underscores the magnitude of the prob- the state law requirement—legislators were lems we face," Budig said. "That facility provid- pessimistic about allocating renovation funds ed roughly four to five for Hoch anytime soon. percent of our aca- During a June 28 tour of Hoch with five demic space. It is used other legislators on the Joint Committee on heavily for undergrad- State Building Construction, Sen. Joseph uate classes [and] Harder, R-Moundridge, said, "I think we have impacts disciplines an obligation to do something, but it's going such as chemistry, to be years." physics, sociology, psy- Allen Wiechert, director of facilities plan- chology, history and ning, said Hoch's value was estimated at $12.8 biology.... million in 1990, not including contents. The "We believe Hoch destruction far surpasses losses from the 1970 deserves early and Kansas Union arson fire, which totaled $991,877. special consideration The fire started around 3:20 p.m. June 15, [for rebuilding]. This is shortly after a violent thunderstorm began a unique situation. The pelting the Lawrence area with heavy rain and state is self-insured; it pea-sized hail. is the state's responsi- Initially, six firefighters tried to tame the Right: bility to replace." blaze; most of Lawrence's engines were on the About 70 firefight- Budig emphasized north side of town, responding to a fire at ers from Lawrence that the University Packer Plastics. Eventually, the firefighting and area towns already had filed plans force swelled to several trucks and approxi- doused the flames. with the Board of mately 70 men and women from Lawrence, Regents to renovate Lenexa, Overland Park and Shawnee and sever- Below: Hoch in the next five al area small towns and townships. By 7 p.m., About 600 looked to seven years, reorga- the fire was under control. on as Hoch nizing it to include a A crowd of about 600 surrounded the burn- burned. 1,000-seat lecture hall, ing building, filling sidewalks and lawns. Some smaller classrooms, witnesses took photographs, others recalled faculty offices and memories of the building and many shed tears. additional library Hoch's demise was as spectacular as it was stacks for the neighboring Anschutz Science sad. When the roof collapsed at 3:55 p.m., the Library and Watson Library. He said the reno- center crumbled inward and flames roared sky- vation plan devoted approximately two-thirds ward, belching ashes, intense heat and thick of Hoch to academics and one-third to libraries. brown smoke; the fire could be seen for miles. Budig also stressed that although construc- John Cooley, b'84, was behind Snow Hall on tion remained on schedule for the 2,020-seat Memorial Drive when the roof caved in. "I Lied Center for the Performing Arts to open in could feel the blast of heat through my car fall 1993, "the Lied Center does not solve our windshield," he said. "The ashes covered my car academic space problem [and] does not solve and blew clear down past Potter Lake." our library problem." As part of a Kansas State Historical Society Stanley Koplik, Regents executive director meeting, Betty Alderson, p'46, and Sandra who also toured the ruins with the governor's Wiechert, '80, wife of facilities planning direc- contingent, said he thought there would be "a tor Allen Wiechert, were leading a walking tour strong rally around the idea of renovation." along Jayhawk Boulevard when the storm Koplik reiterated Budig's assertion that broke. They took cover in Wescoe Hall, Hoch's Hoch was clearly an academic priority. "You eastern neighbor, when the lightning struck. can't just lose a building of this size with its "We heard the bolt of lightning," Sandra capacity for seating for lectures and not do Wiechert told reporters. "It was very strong. anything," he said. The ground shook, the buildings shook, and we "People probably think of Hoch Auditorium knew it had struck very close." in terms of cultural events, but its academic According to Lawrence Fire Department responsibilities [must be emphasized]. And the officials, Hoch's roof ignited quickly because of good news in addressing those is that we're not the petroleum-based sealer used to adhere the talking about an institution with a fast-growing roof tiles. Below the roof was a 15-foot attic enrollment; KU is not anticipating a fall class of constructed of heavy wood. The lumber burned 500 or 1,000 greater than last fall. The enroll- hot and fast, releasing heat in excess of 1,500 ment stability policy of the past few years will degrees, which caused the collapse of the 300 help in this situation." tons of steel trusses that supported the roof. However, with educational building fund Hoch was not equipped with lightning rods, monies committed for the next three fiscal Allen Wiechert said. The roof was being years and the balance in the state general fund restored this summer, and installation of rods projected to be $46 million at the end of the was planned as part of that work.O

22 JULY/AUGUST 1991 COUNTING THE LOSSES collection," says station manager Howard Hill. CLASSES FIND ROOM "Perhaps alumni have some things they could SOMEWHERE AMID THE RUBBLE THAT USED share with us: memorabilia, recordings, pho- NONE OF THE FALL CLASSES SCHEDULED FOR to be Hoch Auditorium are the ashes of an tographs, old program guides. A lot of that is Hoch will be canceled or rescheduled, thanks 1863 Harper's magazine cover. The framed gone, and we were planning to use it for our to some fast shuffling by the KU fire-recovery illustration used to hang on Marcia Cooper's 40th anniversary celebration in 1992." task force. office wall. Other Hoch office space was occupied by In all, 15 large lecture classes and music "Ironically," Cooper says, "it pictured the administrative staff of University house- classes were reassigned. Crafton-Preyer Lawrence in ruins after Quantrill's raid. We all keeping and by 20 graduate teaching assistants Theatre, Swarthout Recital Hall, Woodruff lost a lot of personal memorabilia-family pho- from the department of Spanish and Auditorium and the Military Science Building tos, that kind of thing—that we kept in our Portuguese. Damage in those offices, which will now house the displaced sections of offices. But those are things, not lives. were at the front of the building, was largely band, chemistry, psychology, sociology, "We're all saddened by the destruction, from smoke and water, and tenants were able physics, history and American studies. but we feel fortunate that no one was even to salvage most of their papers, books and The Military Science Building also will pro- injured." other belongings. Housekeeping officials tem- vide space for the Concert Wind Ensemble and Cooper, KANU-FM membership coordina- porarily shared space with facilities operations Marching Band, which had scheduled tor, shivers at how close she was to being in officials in Memorial Stadium; the graduate rehearsal and recording times in Hoch. Hoch when the lightning struck. She and her students temporarily squeezed into their Brenda Selman, assistant registrar, says husband had planned to install a new comput- department's Wescoe Hall offices. the task force is still working to reschedule er program around 3 p.m. that Saturday. But The music and dance department also suf- fall midterm and final examinations that just before leaving home, she swung a 4.30 fered losses. Department Chairman Stephen would have been conducted in Hoch; distribu- appointment with her hair stylist, and the cou- Anderson says losses included approximately tion of fall registration forms, meanwhile, will ple delayed their computer work until 400 robes, valued at about $16,000, that were move to Fraser Hall.—BW evening. used for Vespers, KU's annual holiday choral "It was," Cooper says with a wry smile and and orchestral concert; a Steinway grand a flip of her short brunette locks, "the best piano valued at about $40,000; and the parts haircut of my life." of an old organ once used in the auditorium But it came, she says, on the worst of days that the department had planned to restore. for Hoch tenants. The University's public-radio But Charla Jenkins, public-relations direc- station, which broadcasts from a building just tor for performing arts and University Theatre, west of Hoch, housed its six-person develop- notes the losses could have been much worse. ment department, archives and some equip- The department stored its percussion instru- ment in two large second-floor offices directly ments—valued at around $100,000—under above Hoch's stage. In all, the fast-moving Hoch's stage. The night before the fire, those flames consumed $63,000 in property, includ- instruments were removed for a summer ing computers, audio equipment and tape, band-camp concert the next day. "It would subscriber premium gifts, office equipment— have been devastating to lose that equipment," and priceless memorabilia. Fortunately, Jenkins says, "because we offer a degree in per- KANU's computer records were all stored on cussion." backup disks, so none were lost. In addition, the auditorium's basement and By the beginning of July, listeners had sub-basement served as a warehouse for given more than $27,000 in cash and another office furniture and equipment and part of the $10,000 in donated equipment and services to general paper supply. KANU's fire-relief fund—a good start toward According to Del Shankel, acting executive rebuilding. But the development department, vice chancellor, officials cannot determine the which temporarily moved into one of the sta- extent of damage in those areas until the tion's recording studios, was still searching for cleanup is complete.— BW a new home. And archival records, such as audio tapes of the station's first broadcast and Above: years of program guides, were irreplaceable. Six days after the "While this is a significant monetary blow disaster, Finney, for us, the most difficult loss is the archival I, toured the site with Budig and Koplik.

Left: The 300 tons of structural steel that supported Hoch's frame col- lapsed from the fire's heat.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 23 HOCH HOSTED THE BEST

BY JERRI NIEBAUM

our candles," recalls Ralston, who has con- ON WITH THE SHOWS ducted Vespers since he came to KU in 1966, WHEN HOCH AUDITORIUM BURNED, MANY "but kids were smok- performing arts patrons wondered whether ing pot during rock part of KU's 1991-92 Concert and New concerts so they Directions Series schedule had also gone up banned all live flames in smoke. The historic building was supposed in Hoch." The new to host seven events. HOCH AUDITORIUM WASN'T EASY TO LOVE. electric candles flickered out during their debut But series director Jackie Davis never Water had leaked through the ceiling. Remem- performance, Ralston recalls, and he bowed to doubted that the shows would go on. "From ber the yellow stains? You had to choose your students who begged to use the real thing that the start," Davis says, "we had tremendous seats carefully depending on which section of night. "Of course," he says, chuckling, "we got support from the artists and from the people the orchestra you wanted to hear loudest. If in real trouble for that." Electric candles have at alternate venues." you sat too close, you couldn't see a ballerina's been standard since. The events will now be held as scheduled, pointe shoes. You always wondered if that A 1945 Sunday afternoon Vespers concert but at three different sites: one on campus, huge chandelier would fall someday. burns brightly in the mind of Kansas Rep. Betty another across town at Haskell Indian Junior Backstage, Hoch was as accommodating as Jo Canning Charlton, c'70, g'76, D- Lawrence. College and the third in Topeka. an alley. The dressing room was a janitor's That evening her Vespers date asked for her Crafton-Preyer Theatre will host the Sept. closet, and performers had to cross through the hand in marriage. "Maybe it set him in the 28 opening Concert Series performance by basement to get to the other side of the stage. mood," she teases. "I don't know. Maybe he felt mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and A sound delay made it nearly impossible for an like he'd been to church." But she said yes to tenor Jerry Hadley. Also in Crafton-Preyer orchestra off-stage to hear a chorus on-stage, Robert Charlton, '40. will be the Jan. 24 concert by the Northern but if you stood in just the right spot you could Other memories that echo through Hoch Sinfonia, conducted by Barry Tuckwell and hear someone talking anywhere in the auditorium. history are of major works concerts, which featuring Yung Uck Kim, violinist. Early basketball rivals despised Hoch, which Ralston began a year after coming to KU. The A Concert Series special event, a perfor- served as the Jayhawks' home court from 1927 first, Mozart's "Mass in C Minor, K.427," was mance of "Treasure Island," by the National to 1955. They complained that the hall echoed January 15, 1967—the day the Kansas City Chiefs Theatre of the Deaf, will be held Feb. 18 in piercingly, and the curved walls behind the played the in the Superbowl. Haskell's auditorium. baskets played tricks on the player's percep- "We have a picture of me in Hoch waving away Four events will move to the newly reno- tions. Visiting teams coined nicknames: at the podium," Ralston says, "and a guy in the vated, 2,600-seat Topeka Performing Arts Horrendous Hoch, the Hostile Opera House, KU first balcony looking at a portable TV." Center; Davis is trying to arrange transporta- Chamber of Horrors, the Music Hall Madhouse Clark Bricker, professor emeritus of chem- tion from Lawrence—perhaps bus service or and the Batting Cage. istry, for 17 years worked to keep the attention car pools—to ease attendance for senior citi- But no matter how blemished and uncom- of 700-900 students in his chemistry classes in zens, students and other patrons who don't fortable, Hoch has welcomed some of the Hoch. With a portable laboratory table, over- have automobiles. University's most significant events and visitors sized gauges and lucite containers that he fash- The performances set for Topeka are: since its dedication Nov. 16, 1927. As classroom, ioned to project experiments onto a screen, Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, Oct. 15; New concert hall, basketball court and multi-pur- Bricker performed his magic for all to see. York City Opera National Company, perform- pose building, Hoch is stitched into the memo- Bricker, three-time winner of the Honor for ing "Tosca," March 2; the Bulgarian State ries of nearly every KU student. And most are an Outstanding Progressive Educator (HOPE) Female Vocal Choir, March 19; and Garth sad to see the old quilt torn apart. award, learned to distribute 900 quizzes in 45 Fagan Dance, April 8. "It never was right," says James Ralston, seconds and trekked down Hoch's aisles to In addition, Vespers, KU's annual holiday professor and chairman of choral music, "but call on students by name (he took a photo of concert, will be performed in Allen Field there were a lot of things that went on in that each during the first few weeks of class). His House at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8. —BW hall that were a viable part of the fabric of the microphone had some dead spots, and until University....It was a venerable old building." he demanded new florescent lighting some Tightly woven into Hoch memories is seats weren't bright enough to take a test in; Vespers, which has bestowed holiday spirit but Bricker grew accustomed to his cavernous with candlelight and caroling each year since classroom. "In many ways," he says, "it was a the auditorium opened. Live candles, used for barn...but over the years you grew to appreci- the processional and recessional, were banned ate the place." about 10 years ago. "It wasn't really because of Another Hoch regular was Rock Chalk

24 JULY/AUGUST 1991 Revue, the fund-raising variety show that has Nichols, c'26, g'28, "Hoch is a treasure house of couldn't finance both. With $350,000 from the tickled audiences since Roy Wonder, b'50, history." Nichols, who worked 36 years as exec- Legislature, the University settled on a perfor- began the tradition during his senior year. In utive secretary and seven years as vice chan- mance hall with a partially flat floor that 1956, Pultizer-prize winning playwright William cellor for finance before serving as chancellor would suffice for basketball and could be Inge, c'53, gave KU a glowing red "Rock Chalk from 1972 to 1973, for 20 years managed an furnished with movable chairs—guaranteed Revue" that became a signature over Hoch's international lecture series in Hoch. After that, not to rattle—for concerts. front doors. he says, Hoch was a venue for foreign films. Collegiate Gothic in style, the 3,500-seat Hoch's spotlight shone on many stars. In 1928, Nichols attended his rained-out auditorium was patterned after one at the Italian soprano Amelita Galli Curci sang to a Commencement in Hoch. Nearly a decade later, University of Michigan. "It is said," Chancellor nearly full house at Hoch's debut. In its youth, he was on the job for another indoor ceremony Emeritus Nichols says, "that the plans of the Hoch hosted pianists Myra Hess and Ignace when a steam line broke and the lights went Michigan building were too extensive for KU Paderewski, author Will Durant, the Don out for about 45 minutes. "Everybody just so they just cut out the middle section and Cossack Chorus, Nobel-prize-winning physicist stayed in their seats," he recalls. "What else pushed the two ends together." Arthur Compton, violinist Jascha Heifetz, the could they do?" Hoch was called simply "the Auditorium" Shan-Kar Hindu Dancers, the original New York Hoch was left in the dark again in 1954 dur- until 1937, when the Kansas Legislature man- company in "Green Pastures" and the Ballet ing the KU-Colorado basketball game, but the dated that it be named for former Gov. Edward Russe de Monte Carlo. crowd wasn't as well-behaved. The 1954 W. Hoch. Hoch, who served as governor from A 1950 "Jazz at the Philharmonic" festival Jayhawker yearbook reported that the blackout 1905 to 1909 and died in 1925, had been a mem- attracted musical greats Ella Fitzgerald, "produced a melee" with students dancing in ber of the Board of Administration, the fore- Coleman Hawkins and Oscar Peterson to Hoch. their seats. runner of the Board of Regents. Ironically, In 1957, Sen. John F. Kennedy gathered one of Basketball dribbles throughout Hoch's early Hoch was not well liked by educators, and the largest fall convocation crowds ever for a history. The 1952 national-champion team many in the administration fought to keep his lecture, "Politics-. Career or Curse." played in Hoch under Coach Forrest C. "Phog" name off their new auditorium. In the 1960s, Hoch welcomed crooner Harry Allen. The makeshift court, which ran east to It is fitting, then, that the building should Belafonte. In 1967, Student Union Activities west in front of the stage, had been intended have some problems. But now that all its stains brought pianist Bill Evans, guitarist Rey de la as a temporary place to play while the and groans are gone, many realize how much Torre, author Edward Albee, the Count Basie University raised funds for a field house. The they came to love that grand old place. "Hoch Orchestra and others together for a Festival of Jayhawks played there nearly 30 years. had some idiosyncrasies," James Ralston says. the Arts. In 1969, Walter Cronkite delivered the Hoch was home for many basketball high- "Bless its heart."O 20th Annual William Allen White Lecture to a lights. The first televised local game was in full crowd. On April 4, 1968, Bill Cosby ended 1952, when KU tripped Kansas State, 78-61. his routine early when he got news that Martin Lawrence's Granada Theatre packed in nearly Luther King, Jr., had been shot. 1,000 screaming fans to watch the game after In the '70s, Hoch featured the Preservation they were turned away from an overflowing Hall Jazz Band, Truman Capote and George Hoch, the 1952 Jayhawker reported. Carlin. In 1976, Baba Ram Dass made Hoch's Basketball fans never did fit well in Hoch. walls reverberate with "Om." Comedian Steve Students could buy tickets only to squeeze into Martin donned his bunny ears and implored a every other game. And as Betty Jo Charlton sell-out '78 crowd to "Excuuuuuuse me." recalls, "It was like you were almost on the September shows always were a gamble in court and they were playing in your lap." But unairconditioned Hoch, but KU nonetheless the building wasn't intended for basketball. brought world-renowned conductor Andre Actually, Hoch was built on a compromise. Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra to Coach Allen had been vying for a field house Hoch in September 1974. Four performers fainted. for years, but the University sorely needed a Previn gave Hoch another chance in spring home for large lectures and concerts and 1981, when he brought the Pittsburgh Symphony to campus. Because Hoch's backstage accom- Far left: modations were so primitive, the music depart- Many Jayhawks ment set up dressing rooms for the orchestra in remember Hoch as Murphy Hall. Furious that they would have to the place they regis- hike to Hoch in formal attire, Previn and his tered for classes and crew performed in jeans. paid parking fines. In recent years Philip Glass, the Vienna Above: Choir Boys, Leontyne Price, the New York Bricker and Hoch had Opera National Co. and violinists Itzhak Perlman special chemistry for and Isaac Stern contended with Hoch. Writers ij years. Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., spoke there, and the Bill T. Jones and Alvin Left: Ailey dance companies leaped across its stage. Jayhawks waved the Hoch hosted reggae artists Bob Marley and the wheat in Hoch from Wailers and Third World, activists Angela Davis 1927 to 1955. and Louis Farrakhan; performance-artist Laurie Anderson, consumer-advocate Ralph Nader and many other notable guests. "To me," says Chancellor Emeritus Raymond

KANSAS AL UMNI MA GAZINE 25 26 JULY/AUGUST 1991 You've never read Moby-Dick. But you'll love the adventures of the motley crew who wade through the masterpiece during a readathon on Wescoe Beach. The action veers off course when the invisible Dr. Joke takes the helm.

Dr. Joke hangs around the edges of life's Wescoe Hall, inevitably drew the notice of Dr. reading, while other students read their course solemn moments. He'll tickle one of the pewed Joke, who found numerous ways to diddle with schedules and plotted next semester's classes. faithful into a hacking cough that disrupts a its high seriousness. He sent buses dieseling He dropped in facilities and operations people reverend's recitation. Solemn occasions are past on Jayhawk Boulevard, which caused the to plant and water evergreen shrubs and pho- a pheromohe to him; when he catches a whiff, chairman of Yale's department of English, read- tographers to scurry for alternate photo oppor- he's there to upend them. ing a killer chapter, "Cetology," to stop reading tunities because the promised sailboat didn't A public reading of the 469 pages of Moby- and make good-natured moan: "Why doesn't show up. He dispatched a student to ask, "Is Dick, involving more than 70 people and requir- someone stop those buses? I'll start again the author around?" ing 22 hours, 27 minutes April 24 and 25 on the tomorrow." Dr. Joke perched idling students In short, around the solemn few who came Lawrence campus, was just such an occasion. upon the lips of concrete planters, whose trees for the reading were arrayed the indifferent The reading, which proceeded on Wescoe had been mutilated during recent celebrations many. Even the most spellbinding readers Beach, that agora for students in front of of the basketball team's success, to ignore the could hardly command the attention of more

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 27 the meaning finally breaks into the open. Reading a sentence may demand more than two lungsful of air. Hearing the book read aloud, then, demands more concentration than most can muster. Schultz thinks "it's wonderful read out loud." Its prose is, by turns, epical, dramatic, lyrical, she says, modes of expression meant to be voiced. Well, maybe if you've read the book, at least once, silently. Or, as she has, many, many, many times. Beyond the devotion to Schultz by students, ex-students, friends, and colleagues—she is a distinguished teaching professor who cares about what she teaches and those she teach- es—there was the draw of the events sheer eventness. It recalled a 1968 honors class at the University of Missouri, the "Beginnings of Modern Thought"; we stayed up 24 hours, bringing in a fresh professor every few to lead us in discussion. No doubt about the '60s flavor of 1991's Moby-Dick readathon.

RLigh, t now in Lawrence, it's 44," the radio announces. It's 7:20 a.m., and students are chalking the outlines of a whale on the side- than a thin crescent of listeners at any walk in front of Wescoe. Schultz has said it will moment—fewer, certainly, than some peri- be 100 feet long, the length of the sperm whale, patetic Brother Jed, thumping a Bible, would but nobody has brought a tape measure or a have attracted. commitment to verisimilitude, so the whale is And how many of those few who listened to oddly elongated. It has a round, red eye the the reading of Moby-Dick did so without hearing? size of a tin can's bottom, and when Lawrence Indifference notwithstanding, all lapses in poet Ken Irby sees it, he will call it "small, red, attention forgiven, this book's readers and lis- lean." Schultz oversees the erasure of the jaw- teners nevertheless formed, for a day, a con- too short for this overlong leviathan—and its gregation. The object of their devotion is a upsizing. Two runners, one in blue pants, one question. Many were probably more warmly in red, trot unconsciously over the thing. Two loyal to the event's organizer, English professor kids walk by: "It's a huge one. Are they doing Beth Schultz, than to Melville's massive book. this to save the whales?" More precisely, they love her love for the book. No. They're doing this because this year is Schultz doesn't buy this analysis. Pointed to as the 100th anniversary of Melville's death. And the charismatic center of the event, as some- they're doing this because 10 friends pitched in one whose slightly-smaller-than-the-ocean to give Schultz a taped version of this book for devotion to Moby-Dick has moved many for her 55th birthday—that was March—and, in lis- years, she might respond, Read the Book. tening to it, she has heard things she had She speaks of total strangers calling to ask never, in reading the book silently, noticed. for a chance to read. She doesn't want to use Meanwhile, across the street in Strong Hall, the banal word "inspires" so she coins a neolo- an administrator peers out a window at the gism: "1 believe that this book inspirits." Moby- chalkers. "One of the great things about the Dick is the most ensyllabused book in her long book is that it's accessible on so many levels," life as a teacher. Researching its appearances he says. "I just read it again as a Great Sea in popular culture, its connections to visual art Story. To hell with all that metaphysical..." He and more has occupied years of her life. does not finish. "I'm afraid I've just been quoted." For many who participated, it surely has A few minutes later, he's out with this early- not. A respected book, an admired book, it is. morning crew. "Now this is the book that starts, But loved? That's a different kettle. As the Yale 7777S Is the best of times, the worst of times, chairman, Richard Broadhead, says, "It's one of isn't it?" Everybody cracks up. the great verbose novels." Something in me hears that word "verbose." "It's a book in love with words." Schultz frets because the sailboat has not Many are long words, and they are ham- arrived. (It won't.) mered together to make long, long sentences. Twenty-two people are gathered when And a good many of those sentences seem con- Schultz begins reading the etymological notes trived to puzzle the reader until, near their end, and the first of the 80 "Extracts," or whale-

28 JULY/AUGUST 1991 related quotes, that begin with the words from Channel. Should have been a biologist. "I know Genesis: "And God created great whales." The nothing about Moby-Dick, really. But this event sky has been washed dark blue by a spring of 1 rairie Village senior Mark Hansen, who's is interesting. It confirms the strangeness of frequent rains and the University, a city of per- never read the book and who's staying the full people in English departments." petual youth, is sauntering to class. But among 24 hours, is camped out in the lawn chair he Moby-Dick's listeners, only minds are moving. brought. Parked beside him is a soiled yellow The chancellor's secretary is here for a bit. cooler housing a gallon of sun tea, a peanut ^Jchultz comes over, excited, to say that a kid Later, on the perils of lingering, she'll say, butter and jelly sandwich, shortbread cookies. on a bicycle in a football jersey has crossed "What if you started listening and got caught up His girlfriend will bring Chinese food to him. from the Frisbee-throwing green in front of in the story? How could you leave?" I sit on the edge of a planter and chat with a Strong Hall and said, "We thought college was When Haskell Springer, a KU English profes- freckled sophomore. Full lips, bright red. Make throwing Frisbees. But it's really happening sor on leave who has flown back from Chicago a great flapper girl. She's not here for the read- over here." after Schultz's promise that he'd get Chapter i, ing; she's waiting for her roommate. Never read A history professor strolls by, heading west starts us down the slope with "Call me the book: "1 saw the movie though. It was pret- to pluck a University Daily Kansan from a dis- Ishmael," the book's first words, there is spon- ty good." tribution box. He doesn't turn his head. For taneous applause. His voice arcs higher as he Will she ever read the book? him, it's not really happening here. competes with riding mowers across the street. "Probably not. Too long." As he reads the fabled line "Surely all this is What was the last novel she read? not without meaning," Schultz pulls a Charlie "One by Danielle Steele. About two months 1 ast lunch now, it's the Yale chairman's turn. Chaplin, sidling up and mugging and pointing ago. Literature is fun, but I'm too busy reading for Broadhead announces he has "never been part to his T-shirt, which carries those words. More classes." of an all-day, outdoor reading of Moby-Dick." applause. Major? All day is right. The sun is broiling Schultz, who "Education. I'm doing K through 12." will soon jump ship to head home for a hat. Tall and toothpicky, shoulders sloping, a Ledia love this event. Hey, it's fun. Kids light brown mustache penciled above the doing something constructive and professors It's 10:50. Frank Doden, a tall, curly assistant mouth, Broadhead plays to the crowd: "I com- acting like, well, professors. instructor in English who holds erect a har- pliment you on your exotic tastes." "Thar She Blows..." begins an Office of poon, upon whose thin coat largemouth bass He is the only reader daring enough to quip University Relations news-release headline- leap at flies, is reading Page 65. The poor ship his way through the reading. But that's forgiv- rather more giddy than the ordinary press- Pequod, we learn, was named after a "celebrat- able: He is also the only one to read Chapter 32, office head. The event announcement claims a ed tribe of Massachusetts...now extinct." The "Cetology," which is "thought to be one of the front page box in the local paper. And, on the last word looms menacingly— if you've Read dead valleys in Moby-DickXo the common read- day itself, Randy Miller, a radio DJ with Q104, the Book. "A noble craft," Doden continues, er," he tells the crowd, swollen in size by his Kansas City, Mo., contacts the department of "but somehow a most melancholy! All noble celebrity. If you had to read "Cetology," you'd English to talk to a spokesman for what he calls things are touched by that." quip too. "Porpoise meat is good eating, you the "Dickathon." Mary Jane Dunlap of universi- I realize that my ear is attuned to the book's know," is one of the chapter's liveliest lines. ty relations rushes onto Wescoe Beach to find a great lines, which manage to jump out of the Despite the turnout, never has so distin- spokesman. She sees me. Would 1 talk with thick brush of Melville's language and out of guished a scholar been so ignored by so many. Miller? the background of bus noise and student buzz. But Dr. Joke doesn't bother Broadhead. As Why not? This reading is great for the epigram-stalker. classes change and students shout over his Twenty-four hours seems awfully long to Doden finishes, and I approach. "I'm a head, he says, "Did they see a whale?" Even the him. "Will you read it over and over?" he asks. medievalist, so I do swords, not harpoons," he elements conspire against him. When the wind At 469 pages, 1 don't think so. After all, it says. He likes "chapters that others don't." The whistles insultingly into his microphone, he took a New York group 23 hours, 35 minutes to whale lore. He says he's a fan of the Discovery cries, "Storm [be] still!" read it, I say, and everybody knows Easterners talk fast. So well probably have to go some to beat that. He brightens. "Oh, so it's a contest?!" Radio- land loves a contest. I disappoint him with my answer. So, hey, what's the occasion? 1 forget, but someone prompts him that it's been 100 years since Melville died. Media love anniversaries. What'll you do when Dr. Seuss dies? he asks. It's a think-fast question, and 1 can't. Probably nothing, I say. Well, since it's Secretaries Week, let's do a little thing here. You read a passage out loud, and the first secretary to fax me what you read will get—you guessed it—104 big ones. "Call me Ishmael" I begin. When I finish, three people in the studio applaud. Hey, that was OK.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 29 a punful soul who has enclosed a card reading "From Her Man," has sworn the shop to secrecy. English professor Tom O'Donnell comes up. "Are you reading in the Dickathon?" he asks. I am. A little boy and a mother seat themselves behind the podium. She tells me that she's to read at 5:20, and when I ask her whether that's a stuffed dolphin her boy's carrying, it's hard, because of her British accent, to make out that it's actually an "orca whale." Call it Oliver the Orca. Near 5, the crowd is down to 7. Many have been so distracted by Melville's neologisms and syntax that their readings have lacked zip, so I'm reading with gusto, lucky to have drawn a whale-chase chapter. Then comes a meditative chapter, 49, "The Nearby, a woman grooms her dog with word "little" to many of the novels of late 20th- Hyena," which opens, "There are certain queer baby powder, just before Broadhead says that century America, her tone is much as it might times and occasions in this strange mixed affair until 1930, Moby-Dick was in the "cetology" be if, for example, she were saying that she had we call life when a man takes this whole uni- subject category in the Yale Library, not under just stepped into something awful. verse for a vast practical joke, though the wit "literature." Yet when she attacks contemporary fiction, thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than He reaches the climaxing line of the chap- I find myself defending it. It does not reflect suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense ter, "God keep me from ever completing any- every patch and seam of the social quilt, as the but his own." About now, a string of cars thing," and two sentences later, he finishes his great panoramic novels of the 19th century did, freighting university-age adolescents passes stint. no. But it is our novel. It is our world. Even if it down Jayhawk Boulevard, horns 'a honking. I After, he says of the event, "1 love the idea is full of cheap ironies and crude jokes. carry on. of this taking place. We once had an Edgar On the cavalcade's return trip to harass us Allen Poe evening, but never a marathon. I'll go further, there are two additions. A naked man home and start one." Ii, he sky is hazing over with spindrifty clouds, sprints on the sidewalk, and now there are and it's about 2:40 when Schultz runs up to shouts from the cars alluding to the swimming Kelley Hayden, assistant to the executive vice mammal at the heart of our voyage: "Where's A voice overheard, that of poet lrby as he chancellor. "Why are they washing off the the Dick?!!!" and "Did you see that Dick?!" breaks away from the reading for a moment: "I whale?!" Fiction? one wonders. Who needs fiction? just caught Ahab's great line there: I'd strike A facilities operations truck snails along the We got a DJ who wants secretaries to fax him a the sun if it insulted me!" sidewalk, trying to spray away the chalked paragraph of Melville and a kid who wonders It's the day to catch great lines. But whale. It has rinsed away the jaw and is bound whether the author's around and FO guys nobody's catching them all. for the spout when Hayden runs into his office washing the whale off the sidewalk and threat- Not even Hansen, the 24-hour listener, who and someone calls facilities and operations, ening to charge the English department for the thinks "this is a good book to read aloud and FO says it'll turn off the tap—though no cleanup. The readathon seems to be blessing because you can get distracted for a while and one asked the University Events Committee for this little chunk of Jayhawk Boulevard with then return without losing the thread." He permission to stage this event. highly fictional contours. Not high art, mind turns toward the reader a moment, then back Hayden runs back out. The day's first read- you, but fiction fit for the late 20th century, fic- to me. "Whatever he's reading about now isn't er, Springer, reports to Hayden he's been told tion full of crude jokes and cheap ironies. furthering the plot." that chalking the whale violated University pol- Bobbie Ann Mason would feel right at home. It's a book full of digressions, isn't it? I'm icy and that the English department will have working toward shaking a confession out of to pay for the cleanup. him, that Melville might have needed an editor, But the truck stops. I,. his is not to say that touching things can't when he takes the wind out of my sails. happen, even in a rude, crude world, because "Yes, but if you took those away, it'd just be they can and they did. Especially around mid- a cheap novel, a potboiler." Lnglish professor Jim Carothers cracks, "Now night. Suddenly I'm thinking of a novel I've been this is the story where everybody dies except By 11:30, the show had moved out of the reading by Bobbie Ann Mason, In Country, in the one guy, right?" I tell him about the FO drizzle and beneath the canopy of Wescoe. Two which everyday people with common thoughts truck. "They could be forgiven for not recogniz- English department graduate students arrive and common aspirations watch MTV and old ing the whale. It looked as if it had been drink- with a trash can. They light charcoal in the M*A*S*H reruns and try to get over the trauma ing Ultra Slim-Fast." bottom of it. This is an emblem of the chapter of Vietnam. I can warm to that fictional world A delivery girl will arrive at 4 p.m. with a "The Try-Works," try-works being the blubber- in a way that I can't to Moby-Dick. It is a famil- basket that anchors some helium-filled fish bal- processing furnace and pots aboard the iar world, containing the same lack of epic loons. Nestled in it is a celebratory bottle of Pequod. A bottle of white wine makes its way sweep, the same absence of grandeur, as that sparkling grape juice. Schultz has gone into around the circle. of Wescoe Beach. Wescoe to attend a talk by Broadhead, and the At 11:40, Carothers, in his cap and gown and Schultz and I have talked about the basket is taken to her there. The gathered doctoral hood— "because I was professing liter- American novels of this and the last century— applaud. A couple of weeks later, she is still ature, and we were having a ceremony that was and she has read thousands more of both than I stalking the sender. She is going to call the bal- supposed to call attention to our reason for have, by the way—and when she applies the loon shop. She does not know that the sender, being at the University, and I thought that

30 JULY/AUGUST 1991 regalia was appropriate, and I didn't think that reciting it from heart—not from memory but "If I were to get fancy about it, I think we reading Moby-Dick at midnight called for sweat from heart. I asked him what his name was and felt that by the time we came to Squeeze, we'd pants or the indestructible blue blazer"—read- how long he'd been in Lawrence and he said, collectively been into that experience for a ing from an edition of the book given him by I've been in Lawrence as long as my life can long time, so that what was going on in that his grandfather and inscribed "This version is remember. He had come out of the darkness- chapter was a kind of articulation of what we for James Barrett Carothers on his 14th birth- sprung out of the darkness, as it were, since he were all aiming at in taking part in the reading." day," presents three chapters with such never sat down, really. I subsequently heard exquisite attention to tone that, for the first that he was a night janitor, but you'd better time all day, I find myself listening to sentence check that." fas the reading a stunt? after sentence, forgetting my notebook. It doesn't seem important. Carothers says, "When I think about the He is mournful as he reads the dramatic She wants to talk about something that took reasons that groups of people gather on "Castaway" chapter, about a waif named Pip her by surprise, about a sense of community Wescoe Beach for other events, it strikes me who's thrown overboard and floats like a cork that took root in her as the hours passed, a that what we were doing was a celebration." until rescued, but whose long wait for rescue sense that grew stronger as the night grew To participate in it was to risk. Everyone reduces him to madness. It is a fable about the colder and damper and "those of us who stayed involved risked looking silly or affected or pre- perils of feeling apart from humanity. got closer and warmer and more committed to tentious. Then Carothers reads the counterpointing seeing the quest of Ishmael and Ahab to the end." Hey, did you see that Dick? "Squeeze of the Hand." Here, our hero, Ishmael, She had thought that her undergraduate "I believe that one of the problems of the describes how, up to one's elbows in sperma- students would stand watch in the weemost modern is that we're taught to be suspicious or ceti, squeezing it as part of one's shipboard hours and that she would slip off to snooze. ashamed of our positive emotions. We're duty, one feels connected to all humanity. "But 1 couldn't leave because of a sense that defensive and apologetic about what we do." "Squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long," we had become a group committed to a certain Dr. Joke sneers. He thinks that's pretty Carothers reads, squeezing hard on his articula- kind of magic. Leaving would have broken the funny. tion of every single "squeeze." spell. There was a spell over it all. But nobody else is laughing. O "I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost "You'd be amazed at how many letters I've melted into it....till a strange sort of insanity received. —Roger Martin, g'73, edits came over me; and 1 found myself unwittingly "I just thought we were going to sit down KU's award-winning Explore magazine. squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistak- and read a book out loud together, as people ing their hands for the gentle globules." used to sit down and tell stories aloud to each Something possesses him as he reads, and that other." sense of his being possessed wrings a feeling from me that is just below the surface. Just shy of midnight, now, and 16 hours into the event, DL*ays later, I asked Carothers what had made I'm no longer separate from it, no longer his reading so magical. watching myself watch and listen. "I think the hour had something to do with His reading closes to applause. Afterward, the magic. We'd been anticipating midnight and his eyes are big. "I've been wondering all day wondering what our textual destiny would be." what we would hit at midnight." There's an He began to feel his audience as he read his assertion hidden in his question "Why don't first chapter, "Ambergris," but it was in more people major in English?" "Squeeze of the Hand," when he emphasized For a moment, Dr. Joke disappears. the word "squeeze" in reading the text that could feel the audience's reaction, which was that of taking playful pleasure in the word, B"ac. k home, I nap for an hour and a half. I which is the tone of that section of the book. return about 3. Someone Schultz has never met, a fellow named Tom, has asked if he might read for five minutes. The 3 a.m. reader doesn't show, and Tom substitutes. Days later, Schultz will describe his reading as "incantatory," one of the event's high points. "He read as if the book had been on his heart." In fact, it took a couple of gentle reminders to get him to stop. At last he returned to his place, which was not a folding chair, as other sat in, but a crouch, his knees pressed against the cold concrete. In that position, rapping his pipe against the Wescoe deck to clear the ashes, he mumbled the text along with the reader who came after him. His eagerness seemed to bring him to such single-pointed concentration that I felt relieved when he slipped away at the approach of the hour of the wolf. "He clearly had memorized the book," Schultz says, "as others do the Bible. He was Honors Program, which recognizes Board names alumni the academic achievements of the top 10 percent of Kansas high- for '91-'92 positions school seniors. "Even though 1 wasn't away that 1 he Association's Board of Directors in long, it's good to be back home," he May chose three alumni to serve as vice says. "1 love Lawrence and I love presidents and several others to sit on KU, so this job is perfect for me." University boards. With Jeff Johnson, director of The Board elected two alumni to one- external affairs and membership year terms as vice presidents and extended development, Fuller this summer is the term of another for one year. Newly creating new strategies for con- elected were: Vic Barry, c'68, a Seattle stituent programs. dentist; and Gerald Blatherwick, j'58, vice "Brett is a bright guy and a hard chairman of Southwestern Bell Corp. in St. worker who brings a special dimen- Louis. The board reappointed Linda Ellis, sion to the Association," Johnson e'79, an executive at Exxon Company U.S.A., says. "Not only is he a KU graduate, in Houston. but he also is a longtime Lawrence Barry has long participated in KU's resident. Coming from Southern Seattle alumni chapter and now leads the Mississippi, I'm trying to learn group. Blatherwick serves on the North everything I can about KU, and it Central Regional Committee for Campaign helps to have someone like Brett Kansas. Ellis is Houston chapter leader and who makes me aware of the tradi- serves on the School of Engineering Profes- tions, personalities and legacies. sional Advisory Board and the South Central I'm excited to have Brett on board." Regional Committee for Campaign Kansas. One of Fuller's first priorities, For the Adams Alumni Center Board of he says, is planning professional- FULLER: He hopes to set the pace for professional societies Governors, the Board named Harry Craig, society events outside big cities. "I c'61, I64, Topeka, president of Martin know we can't hit every little Tractor Co. Inc.; Don Johnston, b'56, l'66, Fuller is off and running town," Fuller says, "but there's no reason Lawrence, corporate general manager of why we should target only, for example, Maupintour and former alumni Board mem- in Association post Dallas and Houston in Texas, or Chicago in ber; Jerry Nossaman, d'6o, a Lawrence Illinois. So I'd like to broaden that area, and dentist and an alumni Board member; and Some of Brett Fuller's favorite memories we are working with our alumni leadership Jack Robinson, e'49, Kansas City, Mo., man- are of Strong Hall, where he often played as in various cities to accomplish that." aging partner of Black S Veatch Engineers a toddler while his father, Max, worked as The staff also hopes to better coordinate and immediate past president of the Alumni director of admissions. various events in large metropolitan areas. Association. "I spent a lot of time there," Fuller says. Fuller points to Houston as a model. With Serving as Alumni Association represen- "I especially remember the ice-cream the help of chapter leader and national tatives to the KU Athletic Corp. Board will machine on the first floor and running up Board vice president Linda Ellis, e'79, be Dick Cummings and Drue Jennings. and down those long hallways." Johnson and Fuller are establishing an Cummings, c'54, m'57, is a physician at the Years later, as a student on Mount alumni committee that will divide activities Wichita Ear Clinic and replaces Kurt Watson, Oread, Fuller, c'89, confined his running to into specific areas. "We don't want to bury d'75, as Wichita-area representative. more conventional routes, lettering for KU's the chapter leaders with work and make it a Jennings, d'68, 1*72, Prairie Village, is presi- track and cross-country teams. After earn- part-time job," Fuller says. "So we're dele- dent and CEO of Kansas City Power and ing his degree in economics, he worked two gating more among the other volunteers. Light Co., and replaces Galen Fiss, d'53, Over- years as a stockbroker in Kansas City, but Someone will be in charge of professional land Park, as Kansas City-area representative. Lawrence—and KU—beckoned. societies, someone will handle athletic Elected to the World War I Memorial Now Fuller is back on the Hill. As the events and someone will coordinate an Union Corp. Board was Judy Morris, c'6o, Alumni Association's new director of con- annual chapter meeting. Lawrence. Morris, residential leasing man- stituent programs and the Kansas Honors "When we talk about changing some ager for Master Plan Management, succeeds Program, he oversees professional soci- things, it might sound like things were bro- William Taylor, b'67, g'69, Overland Park, eties, which support activities for graduates ken, which is not the case at all. But a who will remain on the Union board as an of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences breath of fresh air may help improve some- ex-officio member.O and other academic schools, and the Kansas thing that's already good."0

32 JULY/AUGUST iggi the Learned Club a much larg- Alumni Center loses er operation than ever envi- sioned by the building's Carroll to St. Louis job original planners," he says. "This expansion has en-abled ^^r hen Kevin Carroll became general the Association to serve more manager of the soon-to-open Adams Center of its members as well as the and The Learned Club, the center's planners University community." told him to expect hearty lunch crowds. Don Johnston, a member Business would dwindle after the salad- and immediate past chairman and-sandwich hours, they predicted, of the Adams Center Board of because the faculty and staff retreat to Governors, says Carroll's high their homes each evening. standards are evident in the That was in February 1983. By summer, staff he has assembled. "He the center and club had generated $100,000 leaves behind an extremely in food sales, the goal for the entire first talented and well-trained staff year. And by November, the center's Board who share his insistence on GRACIOUS HOST: Carroll and his staff have helped thousands of of Governors had approved $100,000 to excellence," Johnston says. alumni and friends feel at home in the center. beef up the kitchen equipment and the staff. "Kevin is one of those special Since then, the center has welcomed people who brings a great sense of dedica- ment of the center has helped the building thousands of Alumni Association members tion and top-notch class to every operation become known as the gateway to the for academic gatherings, awards dinners he comes in contact with. We are fortunate University. "Everyone who has used the and game-day celebrations. Carroll has to have worked with him." club," Smith says, "has appreciated his overseen a business that has grown to $1.3 Glee Smith, national president of the excellent management and his warm million in annual revenue. The Learned Alumni Association, says Carroll's manage- personality."0 Club currently has 2,700 members. Now he will take his talents to the 1,100- ALUIMNI EVENTS CALENDAR member University Club of St. Louis, where he will become general manager Aug. 1. The AUGUST OCTOBER club was founded in 1982 and is now in 1-14 Flying Jayhawks: Soviet Union trip 2 Ottawa: Kansas Honors Program Clayton, Mo. Carroll, 33, is a native of St. 7 Wichita: chapter event, dinner with 3 Kansas City: School of Social Welfare Joseph, Mo., and a graduate of the Culinary Glen Mason reception Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. 24 Atlanta: chapter event, Braves v. Phillies 5 Charlottesville, Va.-. football pre-game, In mid-July, Fred B. Williams, Alumni 30-3 Student Alumni Association National KU v. Virginia Association executive director, announced Convention, UCLA 8 Winfield: Kansas Honors Program a restructuring of the Adams Alumni Center 9 Hays: Kansas Honors Program management: Bryan Greve, Carroll's associ- 12 Manhattan: football bus trip/pregame, ate manager, will now manage club opera- KU v. K-State SEPTEMBER Hutchinson: Kansas Honors Program tions; Mike Wellman, c'86, formerly building 14 1-2 Student Alumni Association National 16 Salina: Kansas Honors Program operation director, will manage the center. Convention, UCLA •7 Wichita-. Kansas Honors Program Carroll says his new job will give him the 4 Chicago: chapter event, (Sedgewick County) opportunity to supervise a staff twice the White Sox v. Royals 18-19 Lawrence-. Alumni Association size of his current staff and to oversee a 7 Toledo, Ohio: football pre-game, board meeting larger banquet and dining business. "The KU v. Toledo 21 Overland Park: Kansas Honors Program challenge is there and the time is right for 8 Hutchinson: KU Day/Kansas Teachers' (Johnson County) me," he says. "My experience here has pre- Day at state fair, Roy Williams at 24 Wichita: Kansas Honors Program pared me well, and I will miss the KU booth (Wichita) University, the community and the friends 18 McPherson: Kansas Honors Program 26 Norman, Okla.: football pregame, I've made, both personal and professional. •9 Wellington: Kansas Honors Program KU v. Oklahoma 21 Lawrence: annual volunteers 30 junction City. Kansas Honors Program "We have a great staff in place and conference, Kansas Honors Program things will continue to operate efficiently. 24 Parsons: Kansas Honors Program They won't miss a beat." Boston: KU City Managers professional Williams credits Carroll for the success society meeting of the club and the center. "Through his 26 El Dorado: Kansas Honors Program expertise and knowledge, Kevin has made Washington D.C.: chapter meeting * Calendar reflects events scheduled as of July 10.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE33 Exhibit spells out Nate Fors' talent 1921

A. train of Nate Fors' thought pulls around the slippery turn of Ethel Clark Starrett, c, g'39, con- a phrase and glides toward a new idea. tinues to make her home in Indi- anapolis. For "Object Dart," he glued the stopper from an organ pipe into the center of a target and scribed "Object d'art" onto the 1925 canvas. In "Blind," he spelled blind in braille—but the dots aren't raised. He scattered the words a, an and theox\ a piece titled "Article John Starr, c, an honorary life Theory." member of the American Associa- "If I'm trying to do something," says Fors, c'78, "it's first of all tion of Petroleum Landmen, lives in to make a painting that is visually intriguing. If people don't want Mount Vernon, III., with his wife, to look at it, you're lost." Louise. Visitors to Kansas City's Nel- son-Atkins Museum of Art in 1929 Kansas City had the chance to study 31 of Fors' puzzling works Arthur Hodgson, c, received an during an exhibition May 15- Outstanding Service Award from the July 14 in the Horizons gallery, Kansas Bar Association last year. He practices law in Lyons, where he which has featured well-known lives with Annie Green Hodgson, contemporary artists such as c'36. She's president of the Ameri- Jim Dine. can Legion Auxiliary in Little River. Fors found his vocation after traveling a circuitous 1932 route. A Hutchinson native, he came to KU to study journalism Bartlett Hess, g, PhD'34, is found- but gave up his scholarships ing pastor of Ward Evangelical because he didn't like what he Church, which recently hosted the calls a regimented curriculum. General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He lives in He was naturally drawn to the art school: Since grammar-school Livonia, Mich. days, he says, "I always had more doodles than notes." But he shrank from the requirements in art school, too. Virginia Rice, g, directs the Village So he studied English literature, which he both enjoyed and Players at John Knox Village in Lee's loathed: "Here you are reading books by people who have been Summit, Mo. dead three or four hundred years," he says, "and this teacher is telling you what they were thinking when they wrote. There's 1933 something preposterous about that." During his senior year, an artist friend drew him again to the Merrill Mattes, g, a resident of Lit- art school, and, just for fun, he claimed some abandoned projects tleton, Colo., recently donated his and started painting over them. "Sometimes friends would gang collection of books about overland up with me on one painting," he recalls, "and we'd just kind of migration on the Oregon, California and Santa Fe trails to the Oregon- have a party on it." California Trails Association. The Now he celebrates with collages of paint, junk, press type, collection, which includes about Words and images book pages and other elements, through which he layers meaning 2,000 volumes, will be on perma- 2 collide on Fors' and ambiguity. In "I.E. • MC ," for instance, he plays on Albert nent loan to the National Frontier canvases, such as Einstein's equation by joining a picture of the scientist with a Trails Center in Independence, Mo. Period Piece *2. bomb shelter sign that he decorates with the title of Allen Gins- berg's poem "Howl." Along one curve are the words "alive in their 1934 innocent flannel suits on mad." In Ginsberg's poem, Fors explains, the line continued with "...ison Avenue." Cutting it Paul Black, c, lives in Bath, Maine, short, he says,"suggests the powers that be that make wars hap- where he enjoys woodcarving, pen and also the idea that it's mad to flirt with [nuclear warfare]." painting and photography. Fors works days in the graphics department at ATST. He hopes eventually to work full time on art, and he's on his way. In 1989, MARRIED he earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and in 1988 he was a Top Ten Award Winner in the National Small Works Robert Slater, d, to Marguerite Schabel Rash, Nov. 2. They live in Exhibition juried by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Colorado Springs. A July 6 fire that destroyed Fors' studio and $20,000 of his fin- ished work threatened to set him back. But Fors will start fresh 1936 and undoubtedly will decorate his new studio with the yellow sticky notes that contain the puns and mixed-up words that wait DeLoss, c, g'39, PhD'41, and Evan- for a turn on his canvas. geline Clark Winkler, c, celebrat- Each word is worth at least a thousand of his pictures.o ed their 50th anniversary in June. They live in Orinda, Calif., and spent —Jerri Niebaum three weeks in Australia earlier this year.

34 JULY/AUGUST 1991 1939 1944 Spaun Martin, '69, live in Bren- retirement as director of curriculum ham, Texas. for the Salina public schools. Herman Janzen, e, g'54, serves in Betty Austin Hensley, c, took a the California Senior Legislature. He three-week trip earlier this year to Robert Mathews, c, and his wife, Sam Moore, b, practices law with lives in San Jose. Bolivia and Peru. She lives in Wichita. Patty, make their home in Kansas the firm of Scott, Hulse, Marshall, City. He helps accredit hospitals for Feuille, Finger G Thurmond in El Alice Russell Mullen, f, recently I946 the Joint Commission for the Paso, Texas. He also chairs the was named an honorary trustee of Accreditation of Healthcare Organi- Texas Committee for the Humanities. the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Symphony Barbara Johnson Bishop, c, c'48, zations. Society board. She and her hus- recently published a cookbook Inez Boyle Owens, d, serves on the history committee of the band, C.H., c, live in Kalamazoo, called "Grand Slam," and one of her Harold Reddoch, j, recently Wamego Methodist Church. She where Alice has played piano with recipes was featured on the helped design the curriculum to recently was honored by the Order the symphony for 36 years. September 1990 cover of Bon convert Westport High School to a of Eastern Star for 50 years of service. Appetit magazine. She lives in magnet school in communications. Col. Arthur Poindexter, c, serves Longview, Wash. Naomi Oaks Reddoch, j, is a team on the Environmental Board in captain of volunteer ushers at the 1954 Huntington Beach, Calif., and also is 1947 Folly Theatre in Kansas City. active in the Orange County Repub- James Fee, c, serves on the City lican Central Committee. Commission in Hutchinson, where Ronald Herd, c, g'49, won the 1991 Ray Tomberlin, b, owns Global he and Martha Johnson Fee, c'55, Outstanding Alumni Award from Agri Business Services in Joplin, make their home. Walter Yost, f, g'58, an artist, con- Pratt Community College. He's Mo., where he and his wife, Lea, tinues to live in Cummings with his retired president and board chair- make their home. John Golden, c, recently was wife, Mary. Their farm has been in man of Applied Sciences Group and elected to the Goodland City Com- his family for 99 years. lives in Gloucester, Va., with Jean 1950 mission. Marcia Laing Golden, Davis Herd, c'49. assoc, serves on the advisory board 1940 Jack Davis Jr., c, retired earlier of the KU School of Fine Arts. Richard Schiefelbusch, g, recent- this year as president and chairman Oren "John" Baptist, e, recently ly was named senior scientist at of the board of HCA Wesley Medical Charles Kirkpatrick, c, m'58, is a completed a genealogical survey Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center Center in Wichita. professor of medicine at the Univer- tracing his family back to the late in Topeka. He lives in Lawrence, sity of Colorado in Denver, and Jan- 1400s. He lives in San Rafael, Calif. where he's acting director of KU's 1951 ice Fosha Kirkpatrick, '56, is a Gerontology Center and of KU's nurse at the Hospice of Metro Denver. Martha Irwin Garrard, c, retired Advanced Study Center. Zelina Higginbottom Hickox, d, earlier this year after 35 years with serves as president of Westminster 1955 the Bradley Co. and the Bradley Harold Voth, m, retired earlier this Retired School Employees. She and Center Hospital in Columbus, Ga., year from the faculty of the Men- Peggy Hughes Glazzard, d, her husband, Max, '56, live in Arva- where she lives with her husband, ninger School of Psychiatry 0 Men- EdD'75,185, practices law with the da, Colo. Leonard. tal Health Services and from firm of Courtney S Peebles in Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center, Springfield, Mo. Charles King, c, an independent Virginia Griffin Hickey was hon- where he was chief of staff. He con- ored last spring with the Joplin tinues to live in Topeka. oil explorer, lives in Wichita with Robert Lamb, e, president of the (Mo.) Outstanding Citizen Award. his wife, Irene. Empire District Electric Co. in Her husband, Lawrence, b'43, won Donald Woolpert, e, is a volun- Joplin, Mo., recently was named an the award last year, making them teer at the Dallas Arboretum and George McNeish, e, received the Outstanding Community Economic the only couple named Joplin's out- enjoys playing tennis. 1991 Outstanding Community Ser- Development Leader by Gov. John standing citizens. vice Award from the Winfield Area Ashcroft. 1948 Chamber of Commerce for his civic, Arnold, b, and Bertha "Scottie" service, cultural and economic con- Robert Worcester, b, taught a Scott Johnson, b, will celebrate Robert Stoffer, m, retired from tributions to the community. graduate seminar earlier this year their 51st anniversary Oct. 9. They practicing internal medicine last on reporting British public opinion live in Topeka, where Arnold chairs spring at the Hertzler Clinic in Dee Roy, c, a dentist, now spends at City University in London. He the board of C.R. Scott Mortgage. Wichita. much of his time marketing his recently published a book, British invention, the SteriSleeve, which is Public Opinion: A Guide to the His- tory and Methodology of Political Gene Vignery, j, has retired as dis- used to disinfect dental handpieces. 1941 Opinion Polling in Great Britain. trict manager of Southwestern Bell's He lives in Kansas City. Robert Hampel, e, serves as presi- employee communications. He and 1956 dent of the Williamsburg Crown his wife, Claudine, live in St. Louis. Lois V. Walker, c, d'54, received Colony Club, a men's social club in honorable mention earlier this year Francis Bowers Jr., g, teaches Williamsburg, Va., where he lives for an acrylic work titled "Habit" at James Yoxall, c, recently celebrat- math in Punahou School in Honolu- with his wife, Jean. ed his 40th year of practicing law. the 36th Annual Long Island Artists lu, where he and his wife, Mary, He's a partner in the Liberal firm of Exhibition. She lives in Amityville, N.Y. make their home. 1942 Yoxall, Antrim and Yoxall. 1952 Robert Dockhorn, c, m'6o, serves Russell Cartwright, g, longtime 1949 as president of the American Asso- Coffeyville educator and civic lead- George Hassard, m, retired last ciation of Certified Allergists. He's er, was honored earlier this year William Cornwell, d, g'51, lives in year as chief of physical medicine also president of International when city officials announced plans Durango, Colo., where he's active in and rehabilitation at Veterans Medical Technical Consultants, a to name a new city park for him. an archaeological society. Administration Medical Center in pharmaceutical research company Hot Springs, S.D. in Lenexa. Hal McLean, m, retired recently Ralph Martin, b, g'70, is a district from his practice in thoracic representative for Sentry Insurance Willis "Bill" Mercer, d, g'56, Bob Murray, d, is clinic adminis- surgery. He lives in Sylvania, Ohio. in Houston. He and Theon "Toni" EdD'74, recently announced his trator for Northeast Georgia 0B-

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE35 GYN Associated in Gainesville, in Wichita. He and his wife, Betty, also chief executive officer. He lives St. John, has been a district judge where he and his wife, Mary Ellen, live in Newton. in San Francisco. since 1980. live. Robert Edmonds, b, l'6i, serves as Lola Ann Perkins, d, g'65, teaches William Gordon, b, g'73, serves as John Nanninga, b, serves as presi- president of the Topeka Zoological English at Kamehameha School in president of the Fort Worth City dent of the Kansas Motor Car Deal- Foundation and as a trustee of the Honolulu, Hawaii. Credit Union, and Patricia Ross ers Association. He's also president Mulvane Art Center. Gordon, d'64, teaches fifth- and of Western Motor Co. in Garden Thomas Van Dyke, c, recently sixth-grade science at Oakridge School. City, where he and Pat Branson George Harp, c, is president of the became a partner in the Kansas City Nanninga, s'8o, make their home. law firm of Bryan, Cave, McPheeters Dragonfly Society of America. He G McRoberts. lives in Jonesboro, Ark., with his Bobby Jean Greenlee Greene, d, Edward Wall, c, 1*65, is an employ- wife, Phoebe Ann, and is a profes- is president of the Retired Officers ee-relations counsel for Kimberly- sor of zoology at Arkansas State I961 Wives Club in Santa Rosa, Calif., Clark Corp. in Neenah, Wis. He and University. where she and her husband, Tom, Marilyn Fuller Wall, c, live in John "Jack" Dunbar, c, 1*67, is a '55, make their home. He's president Appleton. partner in the law firm of Husch, of the Retired Officers Association. Sharron Dye Hoffmans, b, who Eppenberger, Donohue, Comfeld G teaches accounting at the Universi- Jenkins. He lives in Kansas City. Herbert Hohn, manages regulato- 1957 ty of Texas-El Paso, recently com- ry affairs for Ocean Spray Cranber- pleted a doctorate in accounting. Walter Dyck, m, was a visiting ries Inc. in Lakeville, Maine. He and Rae Youmans Bird, n, is a nurse at Her husband. Cornelius "Connie," professor last fall at Charles Univer- his wife, Mary, live in Marion with the Hospice of Metro Denver. g'62, is a manager at W. Silver Inc. sity in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He's their daughter, Sara, 17. on the faculty at Texas AGM Univer- Thor Bogren Jr., c, received a doc- MARRIED sity and lives in Temple, Texas. tor of ministry degree from Margaret Nelson, c, c'64, recently McCormick Seminary in Chicago last was promoted to chemistry quality- year. He's pastor of First Presbyteri- Sylvia Mahon, d, to Donald All- Marvin McDougal recently was control supervisor at AM Diagnos- an Church of Greensburg, Ind., gaier, March 16. They live in named president of Allied Dealer tics in Indianapolis. where he and his wife, Shirley Ann, Richardson, Texas. Insurance Services. He lives in make their home. Stockton, Calif. William Nichols Jr., c, m'68, 1959 directs the coagulation laboratory Janet Opdyke, c, volunteers at the Juanita Jarvis Farnen, n, is a radi- at the Mayo Clinic, where he's also a city library in Basking Ridge, N.J. ation therapy nurse specialist at Robert Farris, e, 1*64, practices staff consultant in hematology and Trinity Lutheran Hospital in Kansas patent, trademark and copyright internal medicine. He and Sharon Lola Murrison Scheuerman, d, a City. law with Reising, Ethington, Moore Nichols, c, g'68, live in reading teacher in Shawnee Mis- Barnard, Perry G Milton in Troy, Rochester, Minn, where she teaches sion, is listed in the 1991-92 edition French and English at Rochester Larry Gutsch, b, moved recently Mich. He and Mary Ann Clark Far- of Who's Who in American Women. Community College. from Tuxedo Park, N.Y., to Scotts- ris, d, live in West Des Moines, dale, Ariz., where he's senior vice Iowa. president and resident manager of I962 I964 Dean Witter Reynolds. Marilyn Rogge Greathouse, d, is Martha Barnes Badger, n, studies Robert Boley, b, directs assess- Southwest Central regional director for a master's in nursing at Vander- ment for Jackson County in Kansas Jerry Hess, c, a retired archivist at of AAUW and a member of the USD bilt University. She lives in Brent- City, Mo. the National Archives in Washing- 315 Board of Education. She and her wood, Tenn. ton, D.C., lives in Sarasota, Fla., husband, James, live in Colby. with his wife, Barbara, assoc. Jim Dumas, e, g'71, serves on the Ronald Leslie, b, 1*65, serves as Morris Board of Education. He and Don Kallos, c, commutes from mayor of Hutchinson, where he's his wife, Lillian, live in Convent Sta- Lee Johnson, e, and his wife, Judy, Lawrence to Topeka, where he's a also a partner in the law firm of tion, N.J. live on Roi-Namur Kwajelam Atoll property coordinator for KPL Gas Hess, Leslie G Brown. Joleen Miller in the Republic of the Marshall Service. Leslie, d'64, is an agent with Islands, where he's superintendent Hutchinson Travel. Donald Goodwin, m, a professor of engineering services for the of psychiatry at the KU Medical Donald Slenn, a, is an architect Department of Defense. Center in Kansas City, recently won and vice president of Black G Patricia Getto Plumlee, d, is a the 1991 William C. Menninger Veatch in Kansas City. substitute teacher in Cupertino, Kay Westrup Suddath, d, serves Calif., where she and her husband, Memorial Award from the American as president of the Fresno Area College of Physicians for his contri- John Wertzberger, p, c'6o, m'63, Donald, make their home. He's a Reading Council. She's project senior engineer with General Elec- butions to the science of mental recently was selected for member- director of state and federal pro- tric in San Jose. health. grams for the American Union ship in the American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians. He school district and lives in Clovis, MARRIED John Grothusen is a sales territory Calif., with her husband, James, '59. practices medicine in Lawrence. manager for Golden Plains Agricul- Robert Welch, c, g'84, to Mary Lee tural Technologies. He and his wife, Galen Wahlmeier, d, retired last i960 Burnett, Sept. 7. They live in Elaine, live in Fremont, Neb. year after 31 years of teaching. He Edmond, Okla., where he's an inde- lives in Estevan, Canada, and Rael Amos, j, serves as a trustee of pendent petroleum geologist. Franklin Shobe, c, g'77, teaches recently was recognized by the the Kemper Military School and Col- calculator-enhanced calculus at provincial government for his vol- lege Alumni Association in I963 Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. unteer work in recreation projects. Booneville, Mo. He's a free-lance writer and broadcaster in Oswego. Barry Bennington, b, 167, was I965 1958 one of three judges to research and James Duff, b, g'61, has been elect- critique a national project evaluat- Ray Borth, d, a partner in the Donald Angood, p, works as a ed chairman of the board of U.S. ing performances of court-appoint- Overland Park law firm of Borth G pharmacist at Cummings Pharmacy Leasing International, where he is ed guardians. Barry, a resident of Borth, also serves as a Leawood

36 JULY/AUGUST 1991 municipal judge and as president of Gray makes talk show an art forum the Johnson County Bar Foundation. Bettina Bentrup Gray remembers being lost as a little girl in Lance Burr, c, l'68, recently was named attorney general of the Kick- the Kansas City train station. After a few anxious moments, she apoo Indian tribe. He practices law found help from a friendly woman attendant. She grew in Lawrence. curious about her rescuer; through six years of life in Garden City, she rarely had encountered a black person. Mike Hubbard, c, directs Christian By the time her mother retrieved her, Gray recalls, "1 education at Christ Church United Methodist in Denver. He also stud- found out that one of her daughters had the same birth- ies for a master's at the Ilif School day as I did. I kept asking her questions and finding sim- of Theology. ilarities to my own life. It was my first realization that aside from skin color, we shared a lot in common. I Clifford Jeffries, b, is a systems remember being thrilled." engineer for Alliant Techsystems in San Diego. He and Sujean Classen Many years later, Gray, '71, joins the seemingly dis- Jeffries, c'66, live in Bonita. similar through her music. A composer and teacher in the San Francisco area for more than 20 years, Gray jux- William Livingston, c, continues taposes instruments and styles from different cultures. to make his home in Colorado And, ever curious, she questions other artists about Springs, where he's active in the the shared instincts that helped them shake off stereo- Colorado Prohibition Party. types. This summer, she enlightens "The Creative Mind," Nancy Marcy, d, g'76, recently was a 15-part series produced by San Francisco public-televi- named Best Actress in a Supporting sion station KQED that airs Wednesday nights through Role by the Kansas City Theatre October. In half-hour sessions, Gray converses with each Association for her performance in of a dozen Bay Area artists who work in dance, theater, the play, "Shear Madness." She and film, literature, music and visual arts. her husband, John Selzer, d'84, live in Kansas City. If a common note sounds throughout the series, it is that cre- Gray, a music ativity isn't neatly packaged. "It comes in so many shapes," she composer and Carolyn Kruse Stearns, c, directs says. "These artists use their creativity to explode myths. All of teacher, has added physical therapy at Fishermen's them took steps against the stereotypes that held [them back]." interviewing to her repertoire. Hospital in Marathon, Fla., where For example, Luis Valdez, a nationally known playwright and she lives with her husband, Charles Miles. director, began life as a migrant fruitpicker in California's vine- yards. When he was young, a teacher turned him toward theater, I966 and he now is one of the first Chicanos to author a Broadway play. Jazz pianist Jon Jang grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown; Fred Black, j, and his wife, Norma now he weaves Asian and African influences into unusual tunes. Jean, live in Brunswick, Maine. In choosing classical composition, Gray herself invaded a tra- ditionally male domain. She has written scores for string quartet, Merlin Dresher, g, has been pro- moted to vice president of support synthesizer, boys chorus, kazoo and washtub bass. She is proud- services at Alliance Insurance Com- est of her score for an award-winning educational film, "Birth and panies in Canton. Bonding," and her choral setting of e.e. cummings' poem "in just," commissioned by the San Francisco Boys Chorus and performed Kay Sloan Block Miller, f, g'70, last summer at an international festival in British Columbia. studies for a master's in education at Rollins College in Winter Park, Gray had finished three years of her KU degree in vocal music Fla. She lives in Fern Park. when she married her husband, David, c'62, g'65, a life member of the Alumni Association. They moved to California and she com- Gary Mitchell, c, g'72, directed pleted her degree at California State University-Hayward in 1972. "Woman in Mind" last year at Inde- She lives in Berkeley with David, a regional sales manager for pendence Community College, a nutritional-products firm, and their two sons, Daniel, 9, and where he teaches English and theater. Walter, 4. She teaches voice, piano and music theory and is advis- Elizabeth Elsham Osborn, d, er to several music training programs. teaches handicapped students in Meanwhile, "The Creative Mind" may be syndicated nationally. the Jefferson County public schools. She says the collaborators want "to see if we can't find a way not She lives in Littleton, Colo. only to inspire other artists but also to inspire people from any walk of life. We all need creativity in our lives." Terry Shockley, g, president of Shockley Communications, was fea- The case of one crew member attests to their potential suc- tured on the cover of a recent issue cess. "Cameramen are notoriously indifferent to what they are of In Business magazine. He lives in filming," she says. "But in filming these interviews, one camera- Madison, Wis. man, 50 years old, was reminded of his own longing to play piano." By the time the series wrapped, he had purchased a piano and Mimi Frink Wickliff, c, studies for started lessons.o a master's in counseling in Denver, Colo. -Bill Woodard

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE37 Hensley collects legion of foreign flutes Bud Yazel, d, and his wife, Jene, celebrated their 25th anniversary last spring. They live in Liberty, Mo., High in the mountains of Peru, atop Taquile Island on Lake and Bud is head track and field Titicaca, Betty Austin Hensley last spring found a kindred spirit. coach at Fort Osage High School in His name was Pedro Huilly. They couldn't speak the same lan- Independence. guage, but it didn't matter. They understood each other perfectly when they played their I967 flutes. Gary Gribben, c, g'70, serves as "I played 'Home on the Range' for him on my fife," Hensley president of Financial Center Bank's recalls, "and he in turn brought out his collection and played for me." banking division in San Francisco. Earlier that day, Hensley, c'44, had climbed to the island's He and his wife, Virginia, live in 13,100-foot summit to visit a fertility altar. After Piedmont. she and Pedro concluded their impromptu con- cert, he gave her his ceremonial "quena," the Larry Friesen, c, works for Lock- heed at the Johnson Space Center in flute used in fertility rituals. Houston, where he studies prob- Hensley's three-day stay on the island, lems that man-made orbital debris where inhabitants live as they did 300 years creates for spacecraft. ago, was part of a three-week tour of Bolivia and Peru that included jungle hikes, mountain Kay Orth Kendall, c, moved to climbs and a ride on a narrow-gauge railroad Houston recently after living in Canada for 20 years. She's vice pres- that chugged to the world's highest rail sta- ident of Hill and Knowlton, an tion—nearly 16,000 feet above sea level. international public-relations firm. But adventure alone doesn't call Hensley to high places; she follows the song of flutes. For I968 more than 20 years, she has tracked flutes Caroline Bowdish Stewart, f, around the globe, amassing her "Flutes of the teaches French at Pasco High School World" collection, which now comprises 400 and plays the English horn in the instruments. On her recent South American Mid-Columbia Symphony in Ken- swing, she picked up four more flutes—and more newick, Wash. She and her sons, great tales like that of her friendship with Pedro. Cameron, 9, and Colin, 12, live in Don't call Hensley's collection a hobby. A Pasco. professional flutist living in Wichita, she has Wes, b, g'72, PhD'74, and Susan performed around the United States, Canada, Duggins Channell, d, g'71, live in Central and South America and in Europe, the St. Clairsville, Ohio, with their Soviet Union, Taiwan, India and Liberia. She daughter, Erin, 15. Wes is president also teaches privately, presents educational programs as a tour- of Belmont Technical College, and ing performer for the Kansas Arts Commission and consults for Susan is a substitute teacher. the Library of Congress. A chemistry major at KU who earned Rex Culp, c, g'71, Phd'73,1'84, heads first-chair status in symphonic band and orchestra, she has the department of family relations returned occasionally to campus to lecture and perform. She is and child development at Oklahoma an annual member of the Alumni Association. State University, where Anne Her flute collection, while not the world's largest, is certainly McDonald Culp, PhD 89, is a human development specialist. among the most diverse. She specializes in Baroque, Native- They live in Stillwater. American and Chinese jade flutes, but her prizes range from tiny one-note instruments to a 5-foot-long puberty-ritual flute 1970 from New Guinea. Some represent cultures dating back thou- sands of years. Ronald Carpenter, e, retired as a U.S. Navy commander last year and Hensley has Hensley painstakingly catalogs the collection, considering the works as the facilities director for gathered a formidable history, musicology, anthropology and, in some cases, archaeolo- the Bremerton (Wash.) school dis- woodwind section. gy, of each piece. "When one plays that flute, one is figuratively trict. He and Judith Pankratz Car- blowing a musical message through the ancient god," Hensley penter, d, live in Silverdale with says. "To me, there is a great deal of mystery and mythology in Alison, 14, and Sara, 9. that particular flute. It's like a detective story." As a young girl growing up in Kansas City, Mo., Hensley paged Larry Cates, j, g'72, and his wife, Helen, moved recently to London, through her father's National Geographies, dreaming of exotic England, where he's chief executive travel. Now she has visited every destination on her wish list officer of Pizza Hut, U.K. except Australia and, she says, "one never knows what might come next." Marjorie Hill Raney, d, is active But chances are a flute will call the tune.o in the Leavenworth Area Retired Teachers Association, volunteers in -Bill Woodard several elementary schools and is

38 JULY/AUGUST 1991 organist for the Pilgrim United 1974 1977 1979 Church of Christ. She lives in Lansing. James Doepke, d, is band director Michael Anderson, c, directs Joe Iniguez, a, is architectural 1971 at Waukesha North High School in planned giving for the Rutgers Uni- administrator at Dallas-Fort Worth Waukesha, Wis. He recently versity Foundation in New International Airport. He lives in Irving. Linda Jones Loubert, c, works as received a grant from the Herbert Brunswick, N.J. He lives in Hoboken. a membership executive for the Texas Kohl Educational Foundation in Girl Scout Council in Richardson. recognition of his teaching abilities. Dwight Custer, j, is an account Bradley Marples, c, m'83, and his executive with Sealed Air Corp. in wife, Aileen McCarthy, live in Daryl Hartter, d, senior research Topeka with their children, Ian, 3, Jerry Percy, j, practices law with Tulsa, where he lives with his wife, biochemist for Abbott Laboratories, and Kirsten, who'll be 1 Aug. 14. the firm of McKenna S Cuneo, and Nancy. Cathy Kunze Percy, 73, recently lives in Mundelein, 111. completed a term as president of Allen Kaufman, c, m'8i, recently MARRIED the Denver chapter of the Indepen- Bruce Jones, g, m'77, recently was inducted into fellowship by the dent Insurance Agences of America. became chief of occupational American College of Physicians. He William Pollard Jr., g, to Angelica medicine at the Army Institute of and Katherine Mastio Kaufman, Cozo, Feb. 14 in Topeka, where they Environmental Medicine in Natick, live. Cynthia Shrewsbury Stasevich d, live in West Des Moines, Iowa, Mass. He and his wife, Tanya, live in with Emmy, 7, Molly, 5, and Anna, 3. has joined the staff of Olathe Medi- Maynard with their son, Ian. Allen practices medicine with Diag- BORN TO: cal Center. She recently was certi- nostic Gastroenterology Associates. fied as a testamur by the North American Society for Pacing and Rick Kimbrough, c, has been pro- Janet Sommer Campbell, d, and Electrophysiology. moted to vice president of Leaven- John Works Jr., c, serves as chan- Richard, b'87, son, Max Somer, worth National Bank. cellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Jan. 13. They live in Eudora with 1972 Long Island. He and his wife, Kelly, 6, and Samuel, 8. MARRIED Angela, live in Locust Valley with their son, Christian. LaDonna Hale Curzon, j, and Larry Balentine, p, m'77, practices Joseph "Jes" Santaularia Jr., b, Elliott, daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, rheumatology at the Bend (Ore.) Feb. 3 in Alexandria, Va., where she b'85, to Donna Hanson, Feb. 14. MARRIED Memorial Clinic. joins a sister, Rachel, who's almost 2. They live in Lawrence, and Jes is the chief operating officer of Advanced Arthur Weiss, j, to Laura Schutter, David Pittaway, c, is chief finan- Diagnostic Center Inc. in Topeka. Dec. 1 in Topeka. They live in Glad- Michael, b, and Lisa Ibenthal cial officer for Branford Chain in stone, Mo., and he's an assistant Peterson, c, son, Mitchell Michael, New York City, where he lives. Jan. 14 in Long Beach, Calif., where BORN TO: attorney general in Kansas City, Mo. he joins a brother, R.C., 7, and a sis- Lisa Greenwell Robinson, d, ter, Lexie, 3. Robert Fletcher, c, g'76, and Fritz, BORN TO: teaches and is a counselor at son, Brandon Joshua, Jan. n. They Modesto Junior College, and Scott, Philip, e, g'81, and Stephanie San- live in Branson, Mo., with their son, c'79, m'83, is an emergency physi- James Barker, c, m'8o, and Kath- ford Struble, d'81, daughter, Eliza- Zachary, 2. Robert is vice president cian and Mediflight medical director leen, son, Nathan William, Aug. 29, beth Paige, Feb. 3 in Lawrence, of distribution for Venture Stores at Memorial Hospital. They live in 1990, in Omaha, Neb., where he where she joins a brother, Andrew, Inc. Modesto, Calif., with their daughter, joins a brother, Clifton, 7. James has 6, and two sisters, Aarynne, 4, and Erin, who's almost 1. a pulmonary medicine practice. Adrienne, 2. Philip is executive vice 1975 president of Landplan Engineering. Gordon, b, l'8o, and Katherine 1973 Althea Aschmann, f, is technical Lindeman Wells, d, son, Curtis I98O services director at Xavier Universi- Lindeman, July 30, 1990. They live in Rebecca Heidlage, g, is a coun- ty Library in New Orleans. Leawood, and their family includes Derenda Mitchell, c, recently selor at O'Hara High School in Robert, 9, and Jay, 8. Kansas City. became a partner in the Topeka law Susan Cates Kronenberger, f, firm, Sloan, Listrom, Eisenbarth, practices occupational therapy with 1978 Sloan and Glassman. Harry Zecy, b, recently joined the Comprehensive Therapy Chil- Computer Systems/Graphics Inc. dren's Center and with Cherokee Cynthia Coe Allen, c, and Jeffrey MARRIED in Overland Park. He and his wife, County schools. She and her hus- Allen, p, live in Hutchinson with Wendy, live in Kansas City with band, Donald, live in Atlanta with Daniel Coe, I, and Rachel, 3. Douglas Brown, j'8o, and Joan their sons, Kit, Conner and Kurt, 18, Sara, 13, Kerry, 11, and John, 3. Cameron. Somer, '87, Dec. 29 in Lawrence. Jack Chappelle, e, oversees solid- Karen Purre, c, studies at Bond waste management work for Camp William Kanaga, b, and Joan Tru- MARRIED University in Queensland, Australia. Dresser G McKee, an enviornmental cano, g'91, Aug. II, 1990, in Over- engineering firm. He lives in Albu- land Park, where they live. Roger Twibell, j, to Michelle 1976 querque, N.M. Maguire, April 20 in Greenwich, BORN TO: Conn. They live in Carefree, Ariz. Gary Johnson, c, has his own law Nolan Cromwell, b, was inducted practice in Denver. He specializes in last spring into the National High Vickie Rofkahr Hilpert, c, and BORN TO: tax, real estate, general business School Sports Hall of Fame in San Layne, son, Thomas, Sept. 2. They and entertainment law. Diego. He lives in Anaheim. live in Broken Arrow, Okla. Patricia Wacht Benker, j, and John, daughter, Kayla Mackenzie, Sheree Johnson, j, serves on a Charles Wilson, j, is editorial Luanne O'Dell Stamp, j, and Burl, Nov. 2 in Omaha, Neb., where she national committee of the American director of Refrigerated Trans- son, Benjamin Chase, July 3,1990, in joins a sister, Meghan Brozanic, 8. Association of Advertising Agencies. porter, a trucking trade magazine in St. Louis, where Luanne is an Patti manages client services for the She's vice president and director of Houston, and Janet Apitz Wilson, account supervisor with D'Arcy direct-marketing division of Central media services for NKHGW Market- e, serves on the board of Christian Masius Benton and Bowles Adver- States of Omaha. ing Communications in Kansas City. Helping Hands. tising and Burl directs marketing

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE39 and strategic planning for St. Louis for the Arizona State Bar. He and his Marsha Kindrachuk, j, to Willis athletics at the University of Min- Children's Hospital. wife, April, live in Tempe. Boyd Jr., April 6 in Atlanta. She's a nesota-Minneapolis. news producer at WX1A-TV, and MARRIED I98l BORN TO: he's a TV news photographer. They live in Decatur. Craig Howes and Caren Wallace, The Class of '81 will celebrate its Margaret Kremers Telthorst, c, s'88, s'90, Dec. 24. She's a therapist 10-year reunion during Home- and Robert, c'83, daughter, Anna BORN TO: at Hutchinson (Minn.) Community coming, Oct. 18-19. Plan to gath- Louise, Jan. 24 in Topeka, where she Hospital. er with classmates for a cocktail joins a brother, Michael, 2. Robert is Brian, c, b, and Teresa Benz reception at 6:30 p.m. Friday at a partner in the law firm of Bibler Keefer, c, daughter, Kelly Chris- I987 the Adams Alumni Center, and and Telthorst. tine, Feb. 4 in Charlotte, N.C., where attend Homecoming activities Brian's a marketing representative Michael Connoly, c, a Manhattan Saturday. Call the Alumni Asso- I983 with Koch Chemical. resident, served as a U.S. Army 1st ciation, 913-864-4760, for more lieutenant in Saudi Arabia during information. Jeff Funk, e, is a program manage- Dee Gingerich Smyth, a, and Operation Desert Storm. ment engineer for the California Brian, daughter, Kelly Elaine, Feb. 11 Susan Davis, f, designs jewelry for Department of Transportation in in Gaithersburg, Md., where she Thomas Miller, a, works on the Ed Levin Jewelry in Cambridge, N.Y. San Diego. joins a brother, Kiam, 2. architectural staff of the Hollis G She and her husband, Don, live in Miller Group. He lives in Roeland Greenwich. Patricia Hitchcock Turner, b, I985 Park. manages finance for Mercy Alterna- MARRIED Deb Stilgenbauer Miller, f, tive HMO in Hazel Park, Mich. Her Thomas Berger, g, PhD'85, associ- husband, Robert, c, works for Hitch- recently became a principal and ate director of Affirmative Action at David Baker, c, g'88, and Eliza- cock Real Estate Inc. partner in Bachman Design Group KU, has been planning a welcome- beth White, a'88. Aug. 23,1990, in in Dublin, Ohio. She has a daughter, MARRIED home celebration in Lawrence for Montego Bay, Jamaica. She's an Jamie, who'll be 1 in October. veterans of the Persian Gulf War. intern architect for Corporate David Robinett, c, to Pilar Jacob- Design Group in Ann Arbor, Mich., MARRIED son, Sept. 15. They live in Shawnee, Diane Yetter, recently was pro- and they live in Pinckney. and David is a market research ana- moted to tax manager at Arthur lyst for US Sprint. Sarah Adams and Kent Guinn, e, Andersen G Co. in Chicago, where Robert Boepple, b, and Andrea Nov. 24 in Kansas City. She's a semi- she also studies for a master's in Byrne, j'89, July 7, 1990, in Kansas nar leader and a business consul- David Stoll, c, 1*85. to Dina Davies, taxation at DePaul University. City. tant for Fred Pryor Seminars, and Oct. 20 in Phoenix, where David practices law with Tower, Byrne and he directs development services at MARRIED Kurt Meininger, c, and Kimberly Beaugureau. They live in Scottsdale. Executive Hills. Kilventon, d'88, Dec. 28 in Over- Tracy Coburn and Lois Castillo, land Park, where they live. He's BORN TO: Anita Sauerwein, n, g'90, to Gre- c'86, Sept. 22. They live in Overland general manager of Olson Indus- gory Davis, Feb. 16 in Newton, Park, and Lois is a claims adjuster tries, and she teaches fourth grade where she teaches at Hesston Col- James Jr. and Heidi Hemmingsen for Allstate Insurance. at Gardner Elementary School. lege and is a nurse for USD 373. He's Nelson, c, daughter, Samantha Christine, March 19 in Memphis, an assistant supervisor at Mid Con- Elyse Gundersen, e, to Thomas Dana Smith, j, to Shane Garrison, Tenn., where she joins a sister, tinent Cabinetry. McBride, Oct. 6 in St. Louis. She's a Alexandra, 2. Jay directs marketing Sept. 29 in Kansas City. project engineer for Landmark Con- for True Temper Sports, and Heidi tract Management, and he's a patent BORN TO: operates a children's-clothing Eileen Howsley, c, to Charles attorney for Monsanto Agriculture. design business. Olson, Aug. 25, 1990. She's an Patricia Comens Keller, g, escrow assistant for Transamerica PhD'84, and Bradley, PhD'83, son, I984 John Rau, b, to Alyson Miller, Oct. Title Insurance in Bellevue, Wash., Stephen Bradley, Nov. 7 in St. Louis, 27 in New Orleans. They live in and they live in Kirkland. Mo., where Pat and Brad are Chicago. Cathy Paddock Barnett is a sales BORN TO: research specialists for Monsanto. representative for Theatreworks USA, which produces shows for chil- BORN TO: Guy, b, and Rebecca Conner Brian, p, and Stacy Stock Smith, dren. She lives in Kansas City. Blasco, d'88, daughter, Hannah p, daughter, Courtney Lynne, March Anne Wagner Dewitz, d, and Rose, Dec. 28. They live in New- 2 in Dallas, where she joins a broth- Martha Peterson, I, recently Brent, '86, son, Kyle Patrick, Dec. town, Pa., and Guy is an indepen- er, Andrew, 3. Brian is a sales repre- became a partner in the Topeka law 24 in Toledo, Ohio, where Ann dent claims adjuster for EDS sentative for Marion Laboratories, firm of Sloan, Listrom, Eisenbarth, teaches school and Brent works for Adjuster. and Stacy is a pharmacist for Tom Sloan and Glassman. Marion-Merrell Dow. Thumb-Page Drug. Grey, c, and Robin Arbuckle Alice Forester Wood, c, currently I986 Jones, '88, daughter, Hannah 1982 is on a one-year leave of absence Rebecca, Jan. 28. They live in Great from her job as systems engineer Roger Graham Jr., b, is a district Falls, Mont. James Barada, c, m'85, is an assis- and project manager for IBM so that manager for Schering Laboratories tant professor of surgery at Albany she can care for son, Timothy Ryan, in Tampa, Fla. He and his wife, Mary Julie Lucas Manning, c, and (N.Y.) Medical College. He lives in 1. Her husband, Edward, manages Ann, live in Temple Terrace. Danny, '88, daughter, Taylor Eliza- Delmar. Wood's Florist Shop in College Park, beth, Sept. 7 in Hermosa Beach, Md., and they live in Silver Spring. Jeanine Howe, j, studies for a Calif. Danny plays basketball for the Matthew Boxberger, e, manages teaching certificate from the Uni- Los Angeles Clippers. marketing for Computervision in MARRIED versity of Colorado-Denver. She San Diego. lives in Arvada. I988 Kevin Friedl, b, c'85, to Darla Robert Swartz, c, j, began working Blackwell, Jan. 5 in Kansas City, Shawn Hunter, b, g'88, recently Darren Hensley, 1, g, practices law earlier this year as staff bar counsel where they live. was named assistant director of in the Denver office of Kirkland S

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Ellis. He and his wife, Linda, live in Kuwait and Iraq during Operation social worker at the Crawford Coun- to study tropical ecology at the Uni- Littleton. Desert Storm. ty Mental Health Center. versity of Miami.

MARRIED Selina Jackson, c, left her job ear- Douglas Sikkel, s, is executive Ross Franken, g, is a staff accoun- lier this year in the office of former director of the Douglas Group in Gina DeFeo, n, to Brian Kastner, tant for Arthur Andersen S Co. in President Ronald Reagan and Overland Park, where he lives with Dec. 29 in Kansas City. Kansas City. moved from Manhattan Beach, his wife, Lyne. Calif., to Boston, where she studies Catherine Mariani, d, and Troy at Tufts University's Fletcher School Daniel Grossman, c, reports for Elisa Sneegas, f, works as a graphic Bettis, '90, Dec. 29 in Olathe, of Law and Diplomacy. the Colorado Statesman, a weekly designer at Pyramid Life Insurance where she teaches at Heritage Ele- political and business journal. He in Mission. mentary School. Troy works at James Lida, c, coordinates public also studies law at the University of Brotherhood Bank and Trust, and relations for Royal Caribbean Cruise Denver. Timothy Schantz, I, practices law they live in Overland Park. Line. He lives in Plantation, Fla. with Latham C Watkins. He lives in Corona Del Mar, Calif. John Pavelcik, e, is a liaison engi- 1990 Jeffrey Holgerson, b, is a market- ing representative for John Hancock neer with Boeing Commercial Air- Christian Scharlau, g, works as an Financial Services in Overland Park. architect with Murphy/Jahn Archi- plane in Everett, Wash. He lives in Scott Achelpohl, j, is assistant tects in Chicago. Lynwood. managing editor for the Bayside Times/Little Neck Ledger in New BORN TO: Alan Morgan, j, serves as a legisla- Robert Sheffer, e, lives in Dallas, York City. He lives in Cliffside Park, tive assistant for Rep. Dick Nichols N.j. where he's an electrical engineer James, c, and Katherine Gorsky in the U.S. House of Representatives with Texas Instruments. Muir, '90, son, Gordon Joseph II, in Washington, D.C. He lives in Jeffrey Bartlett lives in Midland, Sept. 10. They live in Fairport, N.Y. Arlington, Va. Kyle Tipton, m, has begun his Texas, where he's an operations internal-medicine residency at the and analytical engineer for Arco Oil. I989 Joanne Osburn, j, works as a gen- KU School of Medicine in Wichita. eral assignment reporter for the Julie Carries, b, works as an Brian Bartlett, b, works as an Independence Daily Reporter. David White, j, c, edits sports copy auditor at the Defense Contract administrative assistant at Applied at the Arkansas Gazette in Little Audit Agency in Sunnyvale, Calif. Resources in Overland Park. Rock. 2nd Lt. Robert Stayton, c, a Man- John Pascarella, c, recently hattan resident, served with the 1st Ellen Foshag, s, lives in Pittsburg received a National Science Foun- Patrick Zeka, b, a loan officer for Infantry Division in Saudi Arabia, with her husband, Fred. She's a dation Graduate Fellowship Award Farm Credit Bank, lives in Wichita.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 41 THE EARLY YEARS years. A daughter, a sister, three three sisters, two of whom are Har- al Science Foundation. Two sons, grandchildren and four great-grand- riett Cowles Dyer, c'29, and Frieda two brothers and three grandchil- Katrina Baldwin, c'19, 94, April 18 children survive. Cowles, c'40, g'48; and a brother. dren survive. in Kansas City, where she was a retired teacher. Several cousins sur- Wallace Armstrong Ogg, c'20, Kenneth E. Cox, c'32, m'34, 80, Marvin H. Rosene, b'30, d'33, g'25, 92, March 3 in Richmond, Mo., March 5 in Lee's Summit, Mo., where Feb. 25 in Wichita. A son, Brian, where she was a retired teacher. he was a retired obstetrician and e'73, is among survivors. I92OS She is survived by a son, Harry, gynecologist. He is survived by his a'56; nine grandchildren; and six wife, Dorothy Allen Cox, a'34; a son, Margaret Spalsbury, f 31, 81, Verna Swenson Bass, c'22, 90, great-grandchildren. Allen, '64; a daughter, Carol Cox March 20 in Lawrence, where she Feb. 1 in Rock Hill, S.C., where she Mattina, c'64; a sister; and a grand- was a retired teacher. A brother, taught at the Winthrop Business Curtis H. Sehon, '26, 87, Jan. 11 in daughter. William, c'54, survives. College. She is survived by a sister, Tacoma, Wash. He is survived by his Mildred Swenson Bowersock, '26; wife, Barbara, a daughter, a sister John L. Endacott, c'37, g'4°> 76. Marie Roberts Bartlett Varner, and two cousins. and two grandchildren. Feb. 28 in Silver Spring, Md. He had '35. 77. March 11 in Marshall, Texas, been a psychologist with the Veter- where she was a retired nurse. Sur- Helene White Batchelor, c'22, Margaret Reed Tolle, c'22, 91, ans Administration and was an viving are her husband, William, a 90, April 7 in Maryville, Tenn., April 3 in El Dorado, where she adjunct professor of psychology at daughter, five stepsons, a brother, a where she was a retired home-eco- owned Tolle Furniture Store. She is American University. Among sur- sister, five grandchildren, five step- nomics teacher. A daughter and two survived by two daughters, Mar- vivors are his wife, Norma, a daugh- grandchildren and a great-grandchild. grandchildren survive. garet Tolle Spotts, d'6o, and Virginia ter, a stepson, his stepmother, two Tolle Zebold, '49; four grandchil- brothers, a granddaughter and six Clinton J.T. Young, c'32, 79, Ralph G. Beckett Sr., c'28, 83, dren; and four great-grandchildren. stepgrandchildren. March 30 in Alexandria, Va., where March 11 in Naples, Fla. He is sur- he was founder and president of vived by his wife, Patricia, two sons, 1930S Rosaria "Sadia" DiGiovanni Epp- Outlook Engineering. He is survived four stepsons and five grandchildren. stein, c'34, Oct. 29 in Boca Raton, by his wife, Mary, a daughter, two Ruth Warrington Bauder, c'30, Fla. She was a retired obstetrician sons and two grandchildren. Valdemar Carlson, c'24, 91, March March 20 in Pinole, Calif. She was a and gynecologist and is survived by 11 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he retired Latin teacher and is survived her husband, Robert, a daughter Joe Zvolanek, c'34, 82, March 14 in was a retired college teacher. He is by a daughter; a brother, Harry and a son. Hays. He worked for the Soil Con- survived by his wife, Lillian, a son, Warrington, '38; a granddaughter; servation Service and is survived by two granddaughters and two great- and two great-grandchildren. Harold G. Etchen, e'38, Feb. 15 in his wife, Josephine, a brother, two grandchildren. Villanova, Pa. His wife, Mary Eliza- half brothers and four half sisters. Clyde W. Becker, c'37, 75, Sept. beth, survives. Clarence I. Frieze Sr., 1'26, 91, 22, 1990, in Fort Worth, Texas, 1940S March 24 in Shawnee Mission, where he was a retired materials Elisabeth Bryan Haggard, d'32, where he had been an attorney for engineer for General Dynamics. He 81, April 24 in Gresham, Ore. She Howard V. Bair, c'40, m'43, 72, Travelers Insurance and for Yellow is survived by his wife, Isabelle, a was a retired teacher and is sur- April 13 in Colorado Springs. He had Cab. Survivors include two sons, son, two daughters, a brother, 10 vived by two sons; a sister, Martha been superintendent and medical Clarence Jr., a'53, and Thomas, d'62; grandchildren and a great-grand- Bryan Myers, c'29; and f°ur grand- director of Parsons State Hospital seven grandchildren; and four daughter. children. and Training Center. Among sur- great- grandchildren. vivors are his wife, Violette James H. Bicket, c'37, 75. March Ralph T. Hiller, '33, Nov. 20 in Grossardt Bair, d'39; two sons, Jef- Melvin F. Griffin, c'24, S31- 9' 26 in Normal, 111. He lived in Bloom- Prescott, Ariz. frey, g'70, PhD'71, and Jack, m'82; April 13 in Riverside, Calif. He taught ington and was a retired farm man- two daughters; and five grandchildren. and coached at Long Beach City Col- ager. Among survivors are his wife, Frank L. Johnson, e'33, Jan. 7 in lege for 36 years and is survived by Florence; a son; two daughters; a Tryon, N.C. His wife, Virginia, and a Hollis R. Been, g'40, 74, Nov. 16 in a daughter and two grandchildren. brother, Marion, '33; and five grand- son survive. Colorado Springs. He was a retired children. chemical engineer for Dow Chemi- Rilla V. Hammat, c'20, 93, March August M. McCollom, c'35, 81, cal and is survived by his wife, Eve- 21 in Kansas City, where she was a Justine Toler Brown, c'30, Jan. 12 March 31 in Topeka. He was the sec- lyn; a daughter; a son; two brothers, retired medical technician. Two in Merriam of leukemia. She is sur- ond person in the United States to Stuart, c'48, and Julian, c'49; a sis- nieces survive. vived by her husband, Wash; two obtain a commercial radio opera- ter; and a granddaughter. daughters, Denise Brown Blake, tor's license, established radio sta- August E. Kramer, 1*24, 89, April b'59, and Susan Brown Hollinger, tion KGNO in Dodge City and served B. Earle Brickey, m'40, 88, March 10 in Hugoton, where he was a c'56; six grandchildren; and three as an SRS employment placement 9 in Long Beach, Calif., where he lawyer for 38 years. Survivors great-grandsons. counselor for many years. Survivors had practiced medicine for 40 include three sons, Richard, b'56, include a daughter; a son, Bruce, years. A son, a daughter and four Kenneth, e'67, g'69, and James, '64; Margaret Bushong, d'32, 81, e'67, g'7°. EdD'72; two sisters; and grandchildren survive 10 grandchildren; and three great- March 21 in Lawrence, where she four grandchildren. grandchildren. taught music, ran a preschool and Dick Dickey, e'49, 66, March 5 in staged marionette shows. She also Howard K. Nason, c'34, 76, May Lake Lotawana, Mo., where he was Loren L. Locke, '27, 85, April 6 in hand-lettered students' names on 30,1990, in St. Louis, Mo. He was a retired president and chief execu- Shawnee Mission. He lived in Spring every KU diploma issued from 1942 former executive at Monsanto and tive officer of Hughes Machinery. Hill, where he owned and operated until i960. is survived by his wife, Phyllis, and He is survived by his wife, Caroline, Locke's Pharmacy for 42 years. Sur- a sister. a son, a daughter, a sister and six viving are his wife, Eva Hines Locke, Paul B. Clark, c'37, Jan-l0 'n grandchildren. '26; a daughter; two grandchildren; Springfield, Mo. He managed Pro- Hersey E. Riley, c'31, 84, of Miami, and two great-grandchildren. fessional Shoe Store and had been Fla., Feb. 28 in Chester. He worked Denzel R. Gibbens, b'42, g'47, 70, postmaster for Silver Dollar City. A for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statis- April 12 in Lawrence, where he was John H. Merridith, c'27, 89, April son and a daughter survive. tics and had been chief economist retired vice president of Linquist G 18 in Fort Collins, Colo. He had been for the International Labor Organi- Craig Hotels S Resorts. Among sur- branch manager for Monroe Calcu- M. Gladys Cowles, '31, 89, March zation in Geneva, Switzerland, and vivors are his wife, Warrene Spauld- lating Machine Co. in Topeka for 35 21 in Lawrence. She is survived by the chief statistician for the Nation- ing Gibbens, '43; two sons, one of

42 JULY/AUGUST 1991 whom is Michael, '76; a brother, ing. He is survived by his wife, Mar- whom is Juliet, c'83; two stepchil- attack. He is survived by three Chester Jr., b'41; a sister; and seven jorie; a son, Glenn Jr., c'74, g'76; dren; and two grandchildren. daughters; a sister, Eve Stevenson grandchildren. four daughters, two of whom are Phoenix, d'59; and a brother, Mac, c'57. Stephanie Sheppard Wells, s'72, and Robert D. Martin, c'52, 60, Jan. 27 Henry A. Hoffman Jr., c'41, g'48, Mary, f'78; and seven grandchildren. in Kansas City, where he was a bond Sarah "Sally" Colladay Syler, June 6,1990, in Waynesboro, Va., of salesman with Commerce Trust Co. d'62, 50, April 21 in Wichita, where cancer. Among survivors are his Maxine Snow Thompson, '47, 73, and Stepp Investments. He is sur- she was a self-employed interior wife, Betty, a daughter, three sons March 20 in Russell, where she had vived by a son; two brothers, one of decorator. She is survived by a son, and five grandchildren. worked with the county office of whom is Ward Jr., '40; and a sister. John, c'89; a daughter; her parents; the Agricultural Stabilization and three sisters, one of whom is Martha Albert B. Hyer, '41, 71, Jan. 29 in Conservation Committee. She is sur- Virginia Gard Mastio, c'50, 62, Colladay Quy, '75; and a grandchild. Kansas City. He lived in Leaven- vived by her husband, Marvin, c'44, April 6 in Wichita. She is survived worth and had owned and operated 1'46; a son; a daughter; a brother; by her husband, George, c'49, m'52; 1970S the Olathe Coin Shop. He is survived two sisters; and nine grandchildren. a son, John, b'75; two daughters, by a daughter; a son; a brother, Ann Mastio Bauer, c'73, d'75; and Michael S. Murphy, '71, 48, March Dean, '40; two sisters, Mildred Hyer Katie Mastio Kaufman, d'77; her Mary Lou Noble Winchell, c'42, 19 in Des Moines, Iowa, of injuries Naff, '48, and Nanette Hyer Bohl, father, Raymond Gard, c'25, m'27; 70, March 27 in Van Meter, Iowa. suffered in an auto accident. He '51; two grandsons; and four great- her mother; a brother, Howard Gard, She was a retired legal secretary in lived in Tonganoxie and was a sales grandchildren. c'53. m'57; and nine grandchildren. Lawrence and is survived by her engineer for Solar Tool and Die. husband, Arthur, '72; a son, Robert, Surviving are his wife, Julie; two William R.Jackson Jr., c'48, 63, Dolores DeFries Potter, b'50, 63, c'71; a daughter, Kathryn Winchell daughters, one of whom is Erin Feb. 23 in Playa Dominical, Costa April 21 in Kansas City, where she Molamphy, '73; and four grandchil- Murphy Lutz, '88; two brothers, one Rica. He lived in Kansas City and co-owned and operated Southwest dren. of whom is Donald, j'73; and a was the Costa Rica consul of the Con- Marine Co. She is survived by her grandson. husband, Dudley, b'50; two sons, sular Corps of Greater Kansas City. Del Woolworth, e'48, 69, Jan. 10 Steven, '76, and Robert, '72; two in Midwest City, Okla., where he daughters, Nancy, c'74, and Jane Jack B. Rader, b'72, g'73, 64, Feb. Bernice "Bunny" Jenkins Koch, was a retired electrical engineer. Potter Mitchell, '79; her parents; 2 in Kansas City. He lived in '41, April 2 in San Jose, Calif., where Two daughters and a sister survive. she had lived since 1980. She is sur- three brothers; and six grandchildren. Lawrence, where he was a vice president and senior trust officer vived by three daughters; a sister, 1950S Jeanette Jenkins Younger, '37; and Caroline Moreland Wolfe, d'59, for Lawrence National Bank. Surviv- five grandchildren. g'67, 53, Feb. 2 in Shawnee, where ing are his wife, Lawrene; a son; two Orlan W. Bair, '56, 82, April 20 in she taught school and had owned daughters, Lee, c'76; and Melissa Lenexa, where he was a retired Horace Malin, g'48, Nov. 10 in Generations Antiques. She is sur- Rader Little, j'82; his mother; and real-estate developer. Among sur- Liberal. vived by her husband, David, g'69; a two sisters, Marian Rader Alderman, vivors are his wife, Jean, a stepson son; her mother; and a sister. '62, and Virginia Rader Loyd, c'45. two brothers, a sister and two step- Carl M. Meyer, c'47, 69, Nov. 14 in grandchildren. Banning, Calif. He had been an Richard J. Wood, e'51, Dec. 10 in ASSOCIATES appraiser for Los Angeles County Chicago. He lived in Wichita and Carl L. Baker, '51, 65, April 3 in and is survived by a daughter, a son managed business development for Margaret Sinclair, 75, March 14 in Lawrence. He is survived by his and two grandchildren. Beechcraft's missile systems pro- Lawrence. She is survived by her wife, Joan, a son, a daughter, two grams. He is survived by his wife, husband, Paul, '43; a son, Samuel, sisters, four grandchildren and four Elton H. Pugh, '45, 70, March 23 in Mary Jo, three daughters and a son. '81; two daughters, Cynthia, d'7O, stepgrandchildren. Norman, Okla. He lived in Topeka and Sandra Sinclair Murphy, '66; and was a retired laboratory techni- I96OS and a grandchild. cian for Goodyear Tire and Rubber. Ada French Bolyard, s'51, 87, Jan. 24 in Topeka, where she had been a Among survivors are his wife, Shirley Bryant Broyles, '63, July psychiatric social worker for the Helen; a daughter, Elizabeth Pugh 8, 1990, in Lakeland, Colo. Her hus- SCHOOL CODES Menninger Foundation and the Schiller, d'78; a son, William, c'76; band, Robert, is among survivors. Letters that follow names in Kansas and a brother, Richard, b'37, ['42. Topeka State Hospital Out-Patient Alumni indicate the school from Clinic. Surviving are her husband, Herald R. Holding, a'6o, 57, which alumni graduated, and num- Herbert, a son, two granddaughters Steve Renko Sr., d'49, 71, April 1 March 3 in an airplane crash in bers show the year of graduation. and three great- grandchildren. in Kansas City, where he was retired Widefield. He owned an architec- a School of Architecture and vice president of North Hills Bank. tural firm in Colorado Springs. A Urban Design He is survived by his wife, Nettie; William A. Chance, b'54, g'59, memorial has been established with b School of Business three sons, Steve Jr., '67, Richard, PhD'64, 60, April 17 in Kansas City, the KU Endowment Association. c College of Liberal Arts '72, and John, d'79; two daughters, where he was a statistics professor Among survivors are his wife, and Sciences at UMKC. He is survived by his wife, one of whom is Janet Renko Ras- Shirley, a son, two daughters, a d School of Education Barbara Gilbert Chance, b'54; three mussen, d'69; two brothers; a sister; brother and two grandchildren. e School of Engineering sons, one of whom is Craig, c'8o; a and 12 grandchildren. f School of Fine Arts daughter; a brother; a sister; and six Barbara A. Phillips, '67, 45, g Master's Degree, Glenn E. Russell, b'40, 74, Feb. 22 grandchildren. March 28 in Sarasota, Fla. She had Graduate School in Wichita, where he had been been a reporter and an editor in h School of Allied Health senior vice president of Bank IV Billy L. Demmon, e'57, Nov. 2 in Salina and in Goleta, Calif. A sister j School of Journalism Wichita. He is survived by his wife, Gainesville, Fla., after undergoing is among survivors. 1 School of Law Mary; a son, Dennis, b'71; four heart surgery. He lived in Marianna m School of Medicine daughters, two of whom are Alice and was vice president of Florida Wayne E. Smith, c'62, 50, March n School of Nursing p School of Pharmacy Russell Bloom, '79, and Glenda Rus- Public Utilities. Among survivors are 27 of a heart attack. He lived in Fed- S School of Social Welfare sell Flanagan, d'81, g'87; a sister; his wife, Betty, and six daughters. eral Way, Wash., and is survived by DE Doctor of Engineering and 17 grandchildren. his wife, Lois, two daughters, and DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Thomas H. Graber, c'58, Feb. 10 two brothers. EdD Doctor of Education Glenn E. Sheppard, g'41, 73, Nov. in Sarasota, Fla. He is survived by PhD Doctor of Philosopy 21 in Wichita, where he was a his wife, Judith Withroder Graber, Dan G. Stevenson, b'63, 50, Nov, (no letter) Former student retired engineer-physicist for Boe- d'65; a son; two daughters, one of 17 in Key West, Fla., of a heart assoc. Associate member

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 43 benefit from individual attention, says Nan ARCHITECTURE Harper, graduate student in education and program coordinator. "A lot of them are The Association of Collegiate Schools of very, very smart," she says, "but they might Architecture this spring presented its 1991 have family problems." Design Award to Dan Rockhill, associate The students studied math, science and professor. The award recognizes outstand- reading through programs designed by the ing work in architecture and related fields KU Institute for Learning Disabilities. as a theoretical endeavor. Meanwhile, their teachers, who will follow Rockhill considers himself an through as mentors when the students go architect/craftsman: An experienced con- back to school this fall, earned two hours of crete worker, brick mason and carpenter, graduate credit for learning to use the insti- he not only designs but also builds his pro- tute's Strategies Intervention Model (SIM), HEALTH ALLY: As dean, Cooney stressed AIDS jects, which include restorations of histori- which emphasizes independent thinking education and expanded KU's degree offerings. cal buildings, low-cost homes, home and problem solving. additions, sculptures, and office, commer- The students and mentors worked ALLIED HEALTH cial and warehouse buildings. together on projects that put SIM to the "His abilities and experience in combin- test. For instance, they designed a four- ing both the principles of design and the page newsletter about the environment. James Cooney, dean since late 1984, will practical knowledge of construction make They figured out how rising or falling leave Sept. 1 to become dean of the College him a valued member of our faculty," says stocks might affect the environment and of Health Sciences at Georgia State Max Lucas, dean of architecture. marked their findings on a computer- University in Atlanta. A national search Rockhill thinks too many architects have generated graph. committee has formed to fill the vacancy; in lost touch with the hands-on aspects of "We will stay in close touch with these the interim, John Ferraro, associate dean, building. "Everything we do is custom, par- students and teachers so that we know becomes acting dean. ticularly the details," he says. "We use very whether these strategies were really effec- In his seven years at KU, Cooney led the unusual materials that the average observer tive," Harper says. "But unquestionably, school through tremendous growth, dou- may not be familiar with." individual confidence among these students bling enrollment and adding master's pro- For example, to build a two-story home is much higher. They're learning a lot of dis- grams in nurse anesthesia, physical therapy for a young couple with a limited budget of cipline and some good study habits." and occupational therapy $50,000, Rockhill and his associate, David He also served as director of the Kansas Sain, used salvaged materials, including the AIDS Education and Training Center, a trusses, corrugated metal, Virginia green- three-year federally funded program that stone, railings, stairs, bathroom fixtures GRADUATE SCHOOL has educated more than 10,000 healthcare and a pole the children slide down from the professionals and nearly 15,000 members of parents' loft to their play area. Four students have been awarded the general public about AIDS and the "Instead of completed projects that fellowships totaling $44,000 plus tuition human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reach their zenith on the drawing board," he and fees to pursue doctoral degrees. believed to cause AIDS. Cooney recently says, "we aim for a rigorous dialogue between Christine L. Cameron of Silver Springs, won renewal of the grant for another three architecture and technical thought. I believe Md., and Michael G. Handley of Eugene, years; Donna Sweet, m'79, m'82, professor the art of architecture and the technique of Ore., are the first recipients of Madison of internal medicine on the Wichita cam- building are inextricably united." and Lila Self Graduate Honors Fellowships, pus, will now lead the center. which provide $12,000 a year for four years. Cooney says Georgia State, which has a Philip Huxtable of Prairie Village and considerably larger school of allied health, Cory Hall of Zierenberg, Germany, will receive presents a professional challenge he could EDUCATION Graduate Honors Fellowships, which provide not pass up. "It's difficult to leave KU $10,000 a year for three years. though," he says. "I've been at several uni- Twenty-six Kansas high-school juniors Cameron earned her bachelor's degree versities, and the people here—at all lev- lived in a residence hall and attended class in psychology from the University of els—are remarkable....When a challenge with 15 teachers from their hometowns dur- Colorado and will study clinical psychology. arises, there's a willingness to experiment ing the school's first Kansas Governor's Handley earned his bachelor's degree in and change and a positive attitude of How Academy June 9 through July 3. The pro- geography from the University of Oregon can we make it happen? I feel certain that gram was funded by $50,000 from the and will study geography. improved me as a person, and I'll always Kansas Department of Education. Huxtable graduated in May from the feel special about KU because of that." The teachers chose students who would University of Missouri-Kansas City and will 44 JULY/AUGUST 1991 received the nation's highest award in hos- Edna Hamera, g'74, PhD'77, associate pital pharmacy, the Harvey A.K. Whitney professor of nursing, has received a two- Lecture Award, from the American Society year, $100,000 grant from the National of Hospital Pharmacists. Institutes of Mental Health to research drug Godwin, who joined KU's faculty in and alcohol abuse among persons with 1969, also is chairman of the department of schizophrenia. Thirty to 60 percent of pharmacy practice for the pharmacy school schizophrenics use drugs and alcohol, she on the Kansas City and Lawrence campuses. says, because they feel temporary relief. In his acceptance lecture June 5 at the Hamera will examine this idea of self-medi- society's San Diego conference, Godwin cation in her research. spoke about the need for pharmacists to She also is interested in the long-term accept the clinical roles of instructing effects of drug use among schizophrenics. patients on use of their prescriptions and While marijuana has shown in some clinical monitoring side effects. Practicing what he tests that it could offer some relief, she MASTER BUILDER: Rockhill carries his work preaches, he recently set up a Med Center says, most illicit drugs and alcohol make the from the drawing board to the finished project. office for patients to bring in their medica- disease worse. tions for explanation. study political science. Hall earned a bache- lor's degree in music from the University of California-Sacramento and a master's degree PHARMACY in music from the Eastman School in NURSING Rochester, N.Y. He will study music. Ronald Borchardt, PhD'70, chairman of The Madison and Lila Self Fellowship The school proudly presents its first pharmaceutical chemistry, becomes acting Fund, KU's first major endowed graduate father-son student team this fall, when dean Aug. 1, while Dean Howard Mossberg fellowship program, was established last Wayne and David Deines, Olathe, will fills in as acting vice chancellor of research, summer through the Hinsdale, 111., couple's report for class. Wayne Deines, 40, a graduate studies and public service in place $i million gift to Campaign Kansas. paramedic with Johnson County Med-Act of Frances Horowitz. Horowitz on Sept. 1 for 15 years, has decided to forgo the sirens will become president of graduate programs and screeching tires. And David Deines, 20, at City University of New York (See story, has always wanted to follow his father's page 16). MEDICINE lead into medicine: "All through high Borchardt, a KU faculty member since school," he says, "I rode with the ambu- 1971, in 1981 became Summerfield distin- Hercules slew the many-headed Hydra lance." He had been attending Johnson guished professor of pharmaceutical chem- in Greek mythology, but in Michael Sarras' County Community College in preparation istry. He is a renowned researcher of drug laboratory tiny hydras are the heroes. for dentistry school but has traded the delivery systems and hypertension. Sarras, professor of anatomy and cell biolo- required eight years for four in nursing. gy, has received a three-year, $560,000 Rita Clifford, assistant dean, says the National Institutes of Health grant to learn nursing school is catching the eyes of many Christopher Riley, professor of pharma- more about human cells by studying the men lately. Since the first man came to the ceutical chemistry and pharmacy practice, 3-millimeter-long polyps. school in the early 1960s, she says, classes has been named the new director of the Sarras wants to better understand how have admitted only seven to 12 males each Center for BioAnalytical Research. Riley has certain cell membranes affect human year. But 25 men joined the entering class been a faculty member at the center since embryo development and how damaged in fall 1990, and 22 have been admitted for 1986 and has served as associate director membranes can lead to birth defects or this year. Clifford attributes the rise to since 1989. diseases like diabetes. Because the hydra increased publicity about nursing as a Riley replaces Richard S. Givens, chair- is composed primarily of a cell wall and viable profession. "There are a lot of jobs man of chemistry, who served as the cen- this membrane, it is an ideal specimen for available," she says, "and salaries are get- ter's director during the past two years Sarras' study. And because the hydra regen- ting better." and had been associate director since the erates its parts quickly—thus the legend The Deineses don't think much of their center's founding in 1983. Givens will con- about the hydra with many heads—Sarras rare situation, but they do look forward to tinue to serve as a CBAR faculty member. can in four days complete an experiment the convenience. They'll be great study Riley edits the Journal of Pharmaceutical that would take up to six months with rats. partners, says David, who plans to get an and Biomedical Analysis and researches apartment near the Med Center. "If we have ways to measure chemotherapy levels in Harold Godwin, professor and director a late study session," he says, "Dad can stay cancer patients to more precisely prescribe of pharmacy at the Medical Center, has with me." individual doses.

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE 45 ASPIRATION: Research in the I private sector on high-speed aerodynamics and supersonic combustion. WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION: Completed design of turboshaft engine (with four other students) for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics competition; re- searched combustion and fluid dynamics in a U.S. government lab. JOHN BEACOM NEXT STOP: Will pursue a PhD in HOMETOWN: Lenexa high-speed combustion engineer- AGE: 22 ing.;still considering schools. LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: I'M MOST CURIOUS ABOUT: "High- National Science Foundation speed propulsion—whether it's graduate research fellowship really going to be possible to fly that totals $42,000 plus tuition people into space on a regular and fees over three years; May basis. Obviously, it would revolu- 1991 KU graduate in mathematics tionize the way we live." and physics. WHY I DO WHAT I DO: "I've been ASPIRATION: University teaching fascinated by space flight since and research in particle physics. the third grade." WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION: Assisted researchers in the operation of a cold-neu- JOHN WIENS tron beam at the Institut Laue- HOMETOWN: Lakewood, Colo. Langevin, Grenoble, France. AGE: 23 NEXT STOP: University of LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Wisconsin-Madison, to pursue National Science Foundation a PhD in particle physics. graduate research fellowship that I'M MOST CURIOUS ABOUT: "The totals $42,000 plus tuition and really tiny stuff inside the stuff fees over three years; May 1991 that's inside the atom: breaking KU graduate in biology. up what's inside the nucleus." ASPIRATION: University teaching WHY I DO WHAT 1 DO: "These and research or museum work in questions have come up through- herpetology. out the centuries. You can just WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER see Plato and Socrates and those VACATION: Completed guys sitting around getting drunk manuscript on the high Andean and saying, If we cut this piece frog, a research project that of wood in half, and cut it in required three trips to South half again and keep cutting it America in the past two years. in half, how far can we go before NEXT STOP: University of Texas- we can't cut it in half anymore? Austin, to pursue a PhD in her- Can it go on forever?" petology. I'M MOST CURIOUS ABOUT: The evolutionary relationships among KYLE WETZEL venomous snakes such as cobras, HOMETOWN: Lawrence coral snakes and black mambas. AGE: 12 "1 want to investigate the idea LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: U.S. that most non-venemous snakes Office of Naval Research graduate that exist today have venomous research fellowship that totals ancestors. It hasn't been thor- $48,000 plus tuition and fees over oughly explored." three years (he turned down NSF WHY I DO WHAT 1 DO: "When I and Phi Kappa Phi offers); May was 5 or 6, my stepfather brought 1991 KU graduate in aerospace home some lizards for me. I've engineering. been hooked ever since."

46 MAY JUNE iqi)i THE FLYING JAYHAWKS AND INTRAV PRESENT SOUTH PACIFIC FEBRUARY 17 to MARCH 4, 1992 17-day Air/Sea Cruise aboard the Island Princess There is simply no finer way to experience the great Lands Down Under than by ship. These harbors and ports are meant to be approached from the sea. Begin sailing from Auckland down the eastern coast of New Zealand's North and South islands. After cruising Milford Sound, cross the Tasman Sea to the Island of Tasmania, Australia. Continue to Melbourne and sail north to Sydney. Pre- and post-extensions in Sydney and Auckland are available. Starting at $3,839 per person from Los Angeles including round-trip international airfare.

WINGS OVER KENYA* FEBRUARY 21 to MARCH 6, 1992 15-day air safari England and Kenya Tour the great game parks and reserves of Kenya by private chartered aircraft and save more than 30 hours of long, dusty bus rides. This efficiently planned itinerary has it all. Amboseli Game Reserve, Samburu Game Reserve, Masai-Mara Game Reserve plus stays at the Mount Kenya Safari Club and the famous "tree hotel," the Ark. Starting at $4,999 per person from New York, or $5,425 from Chicago, including international airfare.

THE DANUBE RIVER AUGUST 18 to SEPTEMBER 1, 1992 15-day adventure from Istanbul to Vienna including a cruise on the Black Sea ... • • • Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria I .1 I III The Danube spans half the continent of Europe and offers an unequalled breadth of experiences. This travel classic, operated continually since 1979, delivers value and education. The privately chartered river vessel is perhaps the most relaxing way to see so much of Europe. Two nights in both Istanbul and Vienna complement the nine- night cruise. Starting at $3,699 per person from New York, or $4,049 from Chicago, including international airfare. ^ NECKAR AND RHINE RIVER CRUISE JULY 16 to 29, 1992 14-day Adventure featuring a six-night cruise Switzerland, Germany, and Holland There is something magnificently extravagant about floating along the Neckar and Rhine rivers past cathedrals, castles and rich vineyards. It's a welcome change from the usual rush through Europe. Three nights in Lucerne, Switzerland are followed by the six-night cruise from Stuttgart to Cologne. The program concludes with three nights in Amsterdam. Starting at $3,799 per person from New York, or $4,075 from Chicago, including international airfare. For further information, please contact: The University of Kansas Alumni Association 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, Phone: (913) 8644760 Be a Card-Carrying Member

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