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20 3 FIRST WORD The editor’s turn $42 Million! 4 LIFT THE CHORUS The Hall Family Foundation’s June gift Letters from readers is the largest ever at KU. 6 ON THE BOULEVARD By Jennifer Jackson Sanner Schedules of KU events and scenes from Commencement. 24 8 JAYHAWK WALK Page 20 A modest proposal, an Hail Fellow odd rock, a galloping Scholar Matt Haug made history this spring by Jayhawk and more winning three of academe’s most esteemed 10 HILLTOPICS graduate prizes. What will he do next? According News and notes: to those who know him, just about anything he Meet KU’s new image sets his exceptional mind to. maker 14 SPORTS By Chris Lazzarino Softball’s surprising Cover photograph by Wally Emerson season, football forecast and Ralph Miller remembered 28 18 OREAD READER Thomas Fox Averill dishes up an appetizing Castle on the Hill first novel Mezzo-soprano Joyce Castle has spent the last OREAD WRITER 40 years singing in the world’s most prestigious Page 24 19 Is civility overrated in opera houses. Now she returns to Murphy Hall politics? Burdett Loomis to share what she’s learned. thinks so. By Steven Hill 36 ASSOCIATION NEWS Board of Directors 32 election results and more 40 CLASS NOTES Vintage King Profiles of Hizzoner, an honorary admiral, an They said it couldn’t be done, but Ed King III’s honored doc and more Oregon winery is taking the wine world by storm. 54 IN MEMORY By Jerri Niebaum Clark Deaths in the KU family 56 HAIL TO OLD KU Weather Jay flies the coop

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s bleak skies signal rain outside, the steamy temperature pal hollers, “Hey, you finally got your graduation!” I feel down- rises inside Strong Hall, where two dozen professors in right giddy. Aacademic regalia try not to sweat as they prepare for the And damp. The rain pours as we approach the stadium. My University’s 129th Commencement. These are the marshals who streak holds: Storms drenched my high-school and college com- escort the procession of graduates down the Hill. Mapping their mencements; now even my makeup graduation is all wet. routes and assignments, of course, is a cartographer, George After trodding through the slick turf on the football field, McCleary Jr., professor of geography and a veteran associate Catts and I arrive at our assigned sections, 31 and 32. There we marshal. He begins his instructions to the assembled academics stand, underneath a golf umbrella, watching the festivities. Mor- with a menacing forecast: “We’re supposed to have a dry spell tarboard adornments and balloons file by. This year’s trendy until 3 or 3:10,” he says. “That should motivate us to keep accessory? The cell phone, carried by grads who talk incessantly, moving.” tracking seating locations and confirming party plans. Grim chuckles sputter from the faculty and one interloper, a McCleary, walkie-talkie in hand, stops by to alert us that edu- sentimental editor. Amid the brilliant hoods signifying assorted cation grads, blue-tasseled and trailing matching balloons, are graduate degrees, my robe stands out as hoodless solid black. headed our way. No problem. Sure, we’ll take those architecture The three velvet faculty stripes on my billowing sleeves are and social welfare grads, too. counterfeit, as I confess to colleagues who innocently ask where By 3:30 the few umbrellas still bobbing now shield spectators I teach. The University has graciously issued me the robe in from the sun, and the ceremony, always a swift finale to the pro- thanks for my volunteering to direct traffic in Memorial Stadium. cession, proceeds apace: Award-winners and dignitaries receive More important than the fancy robe, however, is the walk ovations, then Hemenway bids farewell to the Class of 2001. He down the Hill, which for me is a rain-delayed celebration. This lauds academe’s shared traditions: the costumes, music, solemn year’s Commencement marks 20 years since my own KU gradua- invocations and intonations. Then he delivers the line the rest- tion, when torrents of rain forced the Class less crowd longs to hear: “But only KU has of 1981 into the sauna of Allen Field the walk!” House. The tradition that began in 1924 is a

But May 20, 2001, dawns dark and EMERSON WALLY native tribal custom, Hemenway tells the stormy. My husband, still mystified by my crowd, alluding to TV’s “Survivor.” He reverence for various kinds of anniversaries, explains that, unlike its prime-time coun- can’t resist a comment as he gazes out the terparts, the Kansas tribe sends Jayhawks window. “This is all your fault,” he pro- into the world with degrees worth more nounces. than a fortune over a lifetime, especially in Thankfully, Chancellor Robert E. their potential to help others. By sending Hemenway remains unaware of the curse new alumni out each year in its time-hon- that clouds the day. At noon he defies the ored custom, he says, the University grows weather, decreeing that at 2:30 p.m. the stronger, binding generations to one Class of 2001 will march, soggy or dry. another and the KU culture they revere. At precisely 2:30 the trumpets sound Moments later, Hemenway confers the from the Spencer Library terrace, and the degrees. Arranged by their schools, stu- marshals begin the walk. First down the dents stand en masse, wave to their deans, east sidewalk is University Marshal Stephen receive the chancellor’s blessing and Grabow, professor of architecture, who car- scream for all they’re worth. ries the chancellor’s gleaming, silver-topped mace. In a few short To complete my personal ceremony, I seek one hand to shake. steps we’re at the Campanile. As we walk through, I gaze Chancellor Emeritus Del Shankel conferred my degree 20 years upward briefly in silent thanks for a graduation long past. On ago. He grins as I explain my nostalgic mission. Grasping my the other side, I’m awed by the smiling faces, in rows six or hand warmly, he assures me, “I remember. I remember.” eight deep, that line the walk. Hundreds of spectators beam con- After taking part in the KU family’s most cherished tradition, gratulations, aiming cameras in our direction. I can’t help but I understand its value more clearly. Like the best family celebra- smile back. This is fun. tions, it’s quirky, even unruly, but it is distinctly ours. Jayhawks As we make our way down the Hill, my marching partner, who have prevailed through quiet toil on challenging academic Hugh Catts, professor of speech-language-hearing, describes the paths know it makes perfect sense to hurry down a hill toward thrill. “It’s like walking the 18th fairway at the Masters,” he says. the finish line. After grueling work, the celebration should be “Well, at least it’s the closest I’ll ever come.” simple, joyous and, yes, raucous. As Catts strides toward the green, I walk the red carpet at My walk was worth the wait. Next time, I swear, I’ll wear the Oscars. A friend calls my name and snaps a photo; another a hood.

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KANSASJULY 2001 ALUMNI KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Recognition appreciated Publisher Chair Fred B.Williams Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Port Ludlow, I’ve been wanting, for some time now, Editor Washington to tell you how much I enjoyed and Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Executive Vice Chair appreciated the profile on Kenton Keith Art Director Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Mission Woods in the recent issue of Kansas Alumni Susan Younger, f’91 [“Former Ambassador Pursues World Managing Editor Executive Committee Chris Lazzarino, j’86 Jim Adam, e’56, Overland Park, Kansas Peace,” issue No. 2]. Staff Writer Robert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Mission Woods Your mention of Mr. Keith’s recogni- Steven Hill Reid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, Overland Park tion of my late husband’s [Professor Cliff Editorial Assistants Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Port Ludlow, Karen Goodell;Andrea Hoag, c’94 Washington Ketzel] influence on his choice of careers Photographer Cordell D. Meeks Jr., c’64, l’67, Kansas City was truly satisfying. I quickly collected Wally Emerson, j’76 Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g’80, EdD’95, three copies of the article from friends Kansas City Graphic Designer and shipped them off to our three sons, Valerie Spicher, j’94 Carol Swanson Ritchie, d’54,Wichita Linda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, Hanover in Bellevue, Wash.; Austin, Texas; and Editorial Office Kansas Alumni Association Sunnyvale, Calif. They, too, were gen- 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 Vice Chairs uinely pleased to read Mr. Keith’s story. 785-864-4760 Gary Bender, g’64, Scottsdale,Arizona, and Weeks later I heard from a friend in Advertising Office Colorado Springs, Colorado Sarah Lober,Advertising Manager Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, b’83, London, McLean, Va., who has participiated in a Knight Enterprises, 4840 W. 15th St., Suite 1000 England couple of Flying Jayhawks trips with me. Lawrence, KS 66049 Tim S. Dibble, d’74, Issaquah,Washington She wrote that she’d read and loved your 785-843-5511 or 1-800-844-3781 Patricia Weems Gaston, j’81,Annandale, fax 785-843-7555 Virginia article on Mr. Keith. e-mail: [email protected] I’ve long admired [Chris Lazzarino’s] Kansas Alumni Magazine (ISSN 0745-3345) is published Directors to July 2002 writing skills (“Old Bones to Pick,” No. by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times a year in January, March, May, July, September Lewis D. Gregory, c’75, Leawood 2, 1999, for example) and will follow and November. $40 annual subscription includes mem- Lynwood H. Smith, b’51, m’60, Lawrence [his] career with even greater interest bership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: Linda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, Hanover 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Peri- henceforth. odicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. Directors to July 2003 Thank you for the great job you do. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Sidney Ashton Garrett, c’68, d’70, Lawrence Lesley T. Ketzel, g’70 Kansas Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Deloris Strickland Pinkard, g’80, EdD’95, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 © 2001 by Kansas Kansas City Lawrence Alumni Magazine.Non-member issue price:$7 David R. Rankin, p’63, Phillipsburg KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Short and sweet The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for Directors to July 2004 the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, Leawood commitment, and communication among all gradu- Mary Kay Paige McPhee, d’49, Kansas City, What a terrific issue! I hope millions ates, former and current students, parents, faculty, Missouri staff and all other friends of The University of John W. Mize, c’72, Salina of people see [issue No. 3], especially in Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa- Kansas, but also everywhere else. tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve Directors to July 2005 the best interests of The University and its con- Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, Pinehurst, Congratulations and thanks. stituencies. The Association is organized exclusively North Carolina John S. Brushwood, assoc. for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Sydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c’65, Lawrence Fred B.Williams, President and CEO; Kay Naperville, Illinois Henry, Senior Vice President for Administration and Craig B. Swenson, e’59, Lee’s Summit, Human Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81, Missouri Fun not shared by all Senior Vice President for Communications; Dwight Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea- Directors to July 2006 surer; William S. Green, Senior Vice President for Jill Sadowsky Docking, c’78, g’84,Wichita I shook my head “no” as I read page Information Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f’69, g’84, Senior Vice President for Membership; Kirk Marvin R. Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, Leawood 35 of the May issue of Kansas Alumni Cerny, c’92, g’98, Senior Vice President for Member- David B.Wescoe, c’76, Mequon,Wisconsin magazine, regarding the Class of ’51 ship Services; Nancy Peine,Vice President for Alumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner, Honorary Members reunion. ‘76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c‘86, Gene A. Budig, EdD, Princeton, New Jersey One prominent Association member Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center Facility E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., PhD, San Antonio, quotes, “We were a fun class … Every- Manager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni Center Texas Services and Jayhawk Society Membership; Chris Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Goodlettsville, body knew each other. We all mixed Lazzarino, j’86, Managing Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine; Susan Younger, f’91, Art Director; Tennessee well.” Carolyn Barnes, c’80, Kansas Honors Program; Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Lawrence, Kansas That fact might have been true of Kelly Kidwell, c’01, Chapter and Constituent Pro- W. Clarke Wescoe, MD, Mission grams; Jennifer Mueller, g’99, Student Programs. majority students. For minority students, however, there was little or no mixing

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outside the classrooms with the “fun class.” Huston usually came with us. When her of English. “This is our opportunity to rec- Nevertheless, my husband, Richard income was the $8 per month pension she ognize him, his work and his childhood in McClain c’51, g’56, and I still chant, “Rock received as the widow of a veteran of the Lawrence.” Chalk, Jayhawk, KU.” Indian wars, she would have me drop a Organizers are seeking financial support Gladys Harrison McClain, d’51 dollar into the tin cup of street beggars in so all events will be free for the public. Gaithersburg, Md. Junction City. Anyone who wants to support the sympo- Fort Riley played a part in my life. One sium is asked to call Heather Hoy, c’93, Comanche’s bright aura summer a battery of small artillery was g’99, of Continuing Education, at 785-864- positioned on one of my father’s fields that 5823 or [email protected]. Even before I read the article on had been leased by the army for summer Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Comanche [“The Veteran’s Day,” issue No. maneuvers after the crops were harvested. Walker will launch the celebration with an 3], I began thinking of my grandfather, A strange aircraft appeared and actually evening of readings and commentary Jan. Edward Bevins Huston, late of the 7th Cav- landed adjacent to the artillery. It was an 31 at the Lied Center. The University’s Feb- alry. No, not of the Battle of Little Bighorn, autogyro. As I learned many years later, it ruary symposium will include actors but of the Battle of Wounded Knee. My was the only rotary-wing aircraft in the Danny Glover, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee grandfather was proud of what he did at army inventory at that date. With 100 per- and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pin- Wounded Knee and, after I read history, I cent of the army’s rotary-wing assets sky, as well as scholars, authors and biogra- wondered why. parked on our farm, what other field of phers. I grew up “knowing” that he was enterprise could I seek to enter! Complete information is available at wounded at Wounded Knee, but I was Eventually I became a NASA research www.kuce.org/hughes. wrong. Only when my sister-in-law engineer focused on finding ways to obtained his records did I began to piece improve rotary-wing aircraft. Calling volunteers together the truth of his battle action. His When we moved to Lawrence I entered “wound” was actually an injury sustained the sixth grade. I would go “on the Hill” to The University swings opens its doors when his sergeant hit him in the head with look at Comanche. He was a direct connec- Oct. 6 when it hosts the first University a rifle butt for refusing an order. The order tion to my grandfather. While I have no Open House. The festive day will include was to chase after and kill fleeing women record that Edward actually took care of free parking and shuttle buses to scores of and children. Those few soldiers who the old warhorse, I believe that he must events for adults and children of all ages. demurred were punished on the spot and have done so. When Edward was writing Alumni are encouraged to attend with told they would be shot if they did not to Zada, he spoke of his duty to keep the their families and get the word out to comply. horses “showed.” (Besides being a soldier, friends and neighbors. Recently I was given a copy of “The he was a blacksmith.) The University also invites alumni to Bloodshed at Wounded Knee,” a 1997 his- Today, the latest rotary-wing design to help host this important event as volun- torical paper written by Jonathan Reside be ordered into production for the U.S. teers. If you would like to help welcome for the U.S. Cavalry Museum at Fort Riley. Army is the Comanche (Boeing-Sikorsky folks to your alma mater, contact Margey The focus of the paper is the exchange of RAH-66). Each time I hear the name Frederick, j’69, g’78, at the KU Visitor letters between a veteran soldier (my “Comanche,” I imagine my grandfather Center. She can be reached at 785-864- grandfather) and his 15-year-old girlfriend, bending over the old warhorse, driving 2341 or [email protected]. A Web site Zada Ariel Estes. In her last letter before nails into his latest set of steel shoes. with more information is www.open- the battle, she captures the failures of the Robert J. Huston, e’57, g’61 house.ku.edu. government Indian policy in this pithy sen- Yorktown, Va. tence: “If rations was all they wanted I Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the would give them plenty (I mean if I was Help Hughes celebration editor. If you would like to comment on boss).” a story, please write us. Our address is After the battle, Edward Huston left the History and literature will be celebrated Kansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue, army and married Zada Ariel Estes shortly and examined at a Langston Hughes cen- Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. after her 17th birthday. Edward was 28. tennial celebration planned for Jan. 31 and They had seven children, bunches of Feb. 7-10. Hughes, born Feb. 1, 1902, in If you would like to respond via e-mail, grandchildren and uncounted greats and Joplin, Mo., lived in Lawrence from 1903 the Alumni Association’s address is great-greats. to 1915. [email protected], or visit As a child in the Depression, the high- “When he died in 1967, there wasn’t our web site at www.kualumni.org. light of my week was a trip to Junction much recognition of his Lawrence connec- Letters appearing in the magazine City to restock staples. Grandmother Zada tions,” says Maryemma Graham, professor may be edited for space and clarity.

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Lied Center events Special events AUGUST AUGUST WALLY EMERSON WALLY 24 BeauSoleil with Michael 20 Student Alumni Association’s Doucet, free outdoor concert Ice Cream Social, Adams Alumni Center Academic calendar SEPTEMBER AUGUST 28 Benefit gala for Spencer 23 Fall classes begin Museum of Art, featuring a preview of “Alberto Vargas: The OCTOBER Esquire Pinups.” Call 785-864- 18-21 Fall break 0141 for more information. NOVEMBER 21-25 Thanksgiving break RAIN AND SHINE: Umbrellas protected spectators DECEMBER against both showers and sun and added even more 13 Last day of classes color to the usual array of balloons and fanciful acces- 14 Stop Day sories at the University’s 129th Commencement May 20. For Gina Grad, c’01, Overland Park, and Alison Pre- 17-21 Final examinations ston, c’01, sombreros made a statement; for Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway, his signature straw hat comple- mented the traditional ceremonial collar. As always, the event was a family affair: Adrian Franks, e’01, Alexandria, Va., celebrated his walk with his niece, Maya Garcia.

Exhibitions “Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on WALLY EMERSON WALLY Paper,” Spencer Museum of Art, through Sept. 2 “Charles Marshall, Artist on Site,” Spencer Museum of Art, through Sept. 9 “Blackbear Bosin: Artist and Collector,” Museum of Anthropology, through Aug. 5 “Plains Indian Beadwork,” Museum of Anthropology, through Aug. 5 WALLY EMERSON WALLY CHRIS LAZZARINO

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REMEMBRANCE: As he described the ways in which KU Commencement connects countless CHRIS LAZZARINO families, Hemenway paid tribute to a family mem- ber lost: Shannon Martin, c’01,Topeka, who had planned to walk down the Hill with honors, was murdered a week before graduation in Golfito, Costa Rica (see story, p. 13). As Memorial Stadium’s video board highlighted Martin, the crowd honored her with a sustained ovation.

Football 12 Missouri 15 at Baylor SEPTEMBER 17 at Missouri-Kansas City 1 Southwest Missouri State 19 Iowa State 8 UCLA (Parents’ Day) 22 at Oklahoma N SO 15 Wyoming (Band Day) ER EM 26 at Texas LLY 22 at Colorado WA 29 Colorado OCTOBER 6 at Texas Tech Soccer 13 Oklahoma (Homecoming) 20 Missouri AUGUST 19 Southwest Missouri State 27 at Kansas State (exhibition) PHONE BOX NOVEMBER 25 Busch Soccer Club (exhibi- 3 Nebraska Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS tion) Murphy Hall ...... 864-3982 10 at Texas 31 North Texas Student Union Activities . . . .864-3477 17 Iowa State Spencer Museum of Art . . . . .864-4710 SEPTEMBER Spencer Research Library . . .864-4334 2 Illinois Museum of Anthropology . . .864-4245 Volleyball 7 vs. Nevada-Las Vegas at San Natural History Museum . . . .864-4540 AUGUST Diego State Invitational Hall Center for Humanities .864-4798 University libraries ...... 864-3956 25 Alumni game 9 vs. San Diego State at San Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 31 vs. Providence College at Diego State Invitational Adams Alumni Center ...... 864-4760 Charlotte, N.C., Tournament 14 St. Louis KU Information ...... 864-3506 16 Drury Directory assistance ...... 864-2700 SEPTEMBER KU main number ...... 864-2700 1 at Charlotte, N.C., Tournament 21 vs. Florida State at FSU Athletics ...... 1-800-34-HAWKS 5 Wichita State Tournament 7 vs. Georgia Southern and Mon- 23 vs. Central Florida at FSU tana, Hampton Inn/Jayhawk Tournament Classic 28 Oklahoma 8 vs. Portland, Hampton Inn/ 30 at Oklahoma State Jayhawk Classic

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Java jones

ranted, Joseph R. Pearson Hall’s trans- Gformation from drafty dorm to whiz- bang classroom building is impressive, but that hasn’t stopped education students from finding at least one nit to pick with their new home’s vaunted technology:The food stand, which opened in January serving Tazo tea, Starbucks coffee and every Coke product known to man, lacked some crucial gear. “They wish we had cappuccinos and lattes,” a food stand employee reported soon after the grand opening,“but there’s not enough room for a machine.” By spring, discriminating caffeine fiends got Rockchalk Jayhawk, The Wilsons say they chose the name to their wish. Sort of.While the stand’s man- giddyup KU encourage their son, Clark, b’01, in his own agers didn’t find room for a real espresso blossoming interest in racing. Clark, the first maker, they did install a machine that dis- he fastest Jayhawk ever? Nope, it’s not member of his family to attend KU, concedes penses frothy java drinks in two flavors (Eng- TJim Ryun. Nor would it be Glenn Cun- the ploy worked. lish Toffee and French Vanilla) using a ningham, Billy Mills, Nolan Cromwell or Gale One sure wager, though, is that when powdered mix.Though the steamy beverage Sayers. Our fleetest friend of the feather is a Rockchalk Jayhawk retires to stallion duty, resembles the continental coffee in question, chestnut thoroughbred with a dashing name: future runners named in honor of their the compromise has not been entirely satis- Rockchalk Jayhawk. daddy will carry on the proud tradition. factory.“Most people complain about the True to his heritage, Rockchalk Jayhawk is Wouldn’t a four-legged Baby Jay look high sugar content,” says one employee. a champion. He won the $133,450 Reming- splended draped in a blanket of roses? Yes, life can be too sweet. ton Park Futurity as a 2-year-old last Novem- ber, boosting his record to three wins, a second and a third in five starts. He hasn’t hit quite the same stride this spring, running Stairwell to heaven third in his 3-year-old debut at Lone Star hat’s the rush? Slow Park in Texas, then finishing out of the money EMERSON WALLY Wdown. Pause and ponder in a $200,000 stakes race, but Stan Wilson, the Wakarusa Valley, or anything of Coffeyville, who owns “Rock” with his else in need of inspection. wife, Corrina, is confident the colt will soon That’s our take on the gentle be back in the winner’s circle.The mar- commentary offered by a small velously monikered miler has spirit. plaque affixed to a stairwell win- “Boy, he fits that name, that’s for sure,” dow in Stauffer-Flint Hall:“View Wilson says.“He’s a handful. He’s just got From The Landing On Loan.” more energy ... He can go forever.” The almost-anonymous fac- ulty member responsible for the ethereal lesson reminds us all to appre- ciate our delicate Mount Oread bless- ings—including wise teachers who don’t end their lessons when they leave the classroom.

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ike a hitter waiting on a fastball, Courtney Wright knew her pitch would Lcome.Wright, the shortstop and leading slugger for the women’s softball team, was raking the field after a heartbreaking, 2-1 loss to defending national Prof presents champ Oklahoma in April when longtime boyfriend Mike Castoro requested a petrified parts conference at home plate. There he threw her a curve by dropping to one knee, unpocketing a ring and popping the question. The Tucson,Ariz., junior fielded the pop-up proposal like a pro: She buried WALLY EMERSON WALLY her head in Castoro’s shoulder, started crying and said yes. “I knew it was going to come, but I was surprised it came then,” Wright says of getting her diamond on the diamond. “It was the perfect place, but I think any- place he asked would have been perfect.” any professors claim they pour Castoro, a Tucson firefighter, traveled Mheart and soul into their teaching, to Lawrence with only the sketchiest of but only one can rightly say he’s given game plans.“I knew I would do it; I just his gallstone. didn’t know how,” he says.“When I found Don Steeples, Dean A. McGee distin- out they were playing, it kind of popped into guished professor of applied geophysics, my head. I wanted to keep it on the field, in late April had his gallbladder removed. because softball is such an important part That’s when surgeons discovered a geol- of her life. Everything timed out perfect, ogist’s pearl: a peach-pit-sized rock of SUSAN YOUNGER just as I imagined it.” cholesterol and calcium.When he saw Steeples’ stone, Roger Kaesler, a profes- sor of geology blessed with a bilious sense of humor, didn’t hesitate to feature One last byline the calendar) as much as for his passion for the “pseudo-rock” in his Rock of the politics, Morgan had plenty to report. His Week display case in Lindley Hall. uring a 50-year career that started in summing-up ran nearly 200 lines. Kaesler has also featured kidney and D1945, while he was studying journalism “Dad always needed an editor, and this bladder stones, proving that geology is, in at KU, esteemed reporter and columnist Ray was no exception,” says Morgan, who recalls fact, a painful body of knowledge. And Morgan Jr. covered every Kansas governor in that in childhood the day’s “significant by having the gall to exhibit surgical dis- the latter half of the 20th century, reported moment” came at the breakfast table. “For cards, Kaesler and Steeples demonstrate on 30 legislative sessions and chronicled Bob Ray, there was no hiding his emotions. yet again that geology professors will Dole’s rise from county attorney to U.S. sen- When he’d pick up the morning leave no stone unturned in ator. In February the 78-year-old journalist paper to see what a their quest to died of complications from asthma, but not copy editor had done motivate the next before filing one last dispatch for his old to his story, we’d shud- generation of newspaper, the Kansas City Star. Morgan, ’46, der.”Was it with some rock hunters. entered KU Medical Center on Friday, Feb. trepidation, then, that 18, wrote his own obituary Saturday and Scott and his siblings died peacefully in his sleep Tuesday. trimmed their father’s “Classic Dad,” says Scott Morgan, j’79, one final story? of five Morgan children who followed their “We figured for father’s lead by attending J-school on the Hill. once he wouldn’t have “He wrote his own obituary to make sure anything to say about everything got in.” it,” Morgan says.“At Known for his love of circuses (and his least not presently—maybe on penchant for celebrating every holiday on down the road he will.”

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [9 HILLTOPICS BY STEVEN HILL To serve and promote DISCOVERY Alumna and Kansas City native Janet Murguia comes BEING THERE, ONLINE home to lead the University’s public relations efforts IN A FAMOUS NEW YORKER car- toon of the early ’90s, a dog seated at a n a move intended to “usher in a new computer enlightens a cat on the brave era in the public outreach and public new world of chat rooms and e-mail. relations for the University of Kansas,” “On the Internet,” confides the shrewd I canine,“no one knows you’re a dog.” Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway in May Behind the humor lurks a serious appointed former White House aide Janet idea that intrigues Tracy Russo, assistant Murguia as KU’s first executive vice chan- professor of communication studies: cellor for university relations. how we create and perceive “presence” Murguia, c’82, j’82, l’85, served as online. deputy assistant to President Bill Clinton Russo, PhD’95, recently won one of and later was his administration’s director 30 PEW National Fellowships for of legislative affairs. She also served as Carnegie Scholars for her research into deputy campaign manager of Vice Presi- how students in online classes grasp dent Al Gore’s 2000 bid for the presidency. what is, she admits, an elusive concept. In her new job, which started July 1, “We Murguia will oversee all aspects of the don’t really University’s external relations, including understand governmental and public affairs. She will the notion

WALLY EMERSON WALLY help coordinate KU’s planning and mar- of pres- keting efforts with those of the Alumni ence, Association and the Athletics Corpora- IMAGE MAKER: As the first executive vice chan- except to tion, and will also work closely with the cellor for university relations, Janet Murguia will have say that Endowment Association. chief responsibility for improving KU’s image around most peo- As the chief architect of the Univer- the state and nation.“I look forward to coming home ple will and telling KU’s story,” says Murguia, who grew up in sity’s attempts to recruit students and gen- Kansas City, Kan. recount erate publicity, she is expected to bring that some- unity to a public relations effort that “Her abilities as a strategist and a manager times in an recently has drawn criticism from some are nothing less than superb.” online context—a group meeting or an quarters for its effectiveness in telling the As President Clinton’s director of leg- online class—some people seem to be University’s story. islative affairs, Murguia served as the chief more there, more immediate or “There might be the feeling that the liaison between the White House and salient,” Russo says.“Some people just full message of KU is not getting out,” Congress. She advised the president on come across as more real or human online.” Murguia says. “We need to be more strate- strategy and legislation and managed a Using transcripts of an online class gic and do a better job of coordinating staff of 25 from her office in the West she teaches at KU, Russo will study that information.” Wing. As deputy director of the Gore- how people form judgments about Murguia will also be charged with Lieberman campaign, Murguia served as another’s character based on their smoothing the rocky relationship between campaign spokesperson, handling inter- experiences with them online. She KU and the Kansas Legislature. It’s a role views with radio, print and TV media hopes to eventually create a scale to she seems ideally suited for, according to outlets. She also directed constituency quantify presence.That in turn could Hemenway. outreach, serving as the primary liaison lead to more effective online communi- “Few people bring to the table the between Gore and national interest cation, by identifying specific communi- combination of communications exper- groups. cation behaviors that people can adopt tise, governmental relations experience, At KU, Murguia completed a bachelor’s to boost their own presence online. and knowledge of Kansas and higher edu- degree in journalism in addition to cation that Janet Murguia has,” he said. degrees in Spanish and law.

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The state’s political leaders have been Gilmete’s multiple convictions had : unanimous in their enthusiasm for the earned him a five-year prison sentence in appointment: Gov. Bill Graves, Sen. Pat 1999, but he spent less than six months Roberts and Sen. Sam Brownback all in jail. At the time of the crash, he was praised Murguia and the restructuring, serving the remainder of his five-year sen- which creates a new executive vice chan- tence on probation. His license was REPORT CARD cellor position on the same organizational revoked until 2009. None of that kept NEW LIFE SPAN LEADER level as the provost of the Lawrence cam- him from getting behind the wheel that STEVE WARREN, a researcher and pus and the executive vice chancellor of night, when, according to Beaver’s family, educator in early childhood develop- KU Medical Center. That approach to Gilmete’s blood alcohol level was .268, ment, will become director of the managing the University’s public image nearly three times the legal threshold for Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span was first suggested in 1996 by a task force intoxication. Studies Aug. 1. on re-engineering the University. “You try to imagine why someone like Warren, c’74, g’75, PhD’77, is a Murguia grew up in Kansas City, Kan., that is even free, let alone on the road,” national leader in developmental disabil- as one of seven children. (Two siblings, says Nichols, who declined Beaver’s invi- ities; in June he started a yearlong term her brother Carlos Murguia, j’79, l’82, tation to join the trip because of a prior as president of the and her twin sister, Mary Murguia, j’82, engagement. “It hurts even more to know American Associa- c’82, l’85, are the nation’s first brother-sis- the problem could have been eradicated tion on Mental ter duo to become federal judges.) She long ago. There are good laws out there

Retardation. He EMERSON WALLY said she is “especially happy” to be return- that need to be enforced. I mean, how came to KU from ing home. “I believe strongly in the mis- many chances do you get?” Vanderbilt Universi- sion of higher education, and I am very Now Nichols, e’01, and another child- ty in 1999 to direct excited about the opportunity to serve hood friend of Beaver’s, David Dearth, the institute’s Men- and promote a nationally known institu- Parsons senior, are making a trip of their tal Retardation tion like KU.” own to honor their friend’s memory. The Research Center. He will continue that two are bicycling from Eugene, Ore., to role when he begins his new job. The Life Span Institute conducts Cross-country trek research, service and training programs honors grad killed by that take an interdisciplinary approach to human developmental problems. Last drunk driver EMERSON WALLY year it generated $14.4 million in research income, more than any other n Aug. 4, 2000, just 10 days KU center or institute. Obefore he was to begin studying “My two predecessors, Dick at the Illinois College of Optometry Schiefelbusch and Steve Schroeder, have in Chicago, Casey Beaver helped built an exceptional organization and I am steward of that,” says Warren. boyhood friend and former room- While he will continue Life Span’s mate Bobby Nichols move into a traditional mission, he also sees the house near Memorial Stadium. Then growing collaboration among Beaver, c’99, headed off with two researchers in the social and life sci- other KU friends to float the Elk ences as a golden opportunity for the River in southwestern Missouri. institute, which routinely links scientists They never made it. As Beaver from diverse fields. He plans to empha- drove south on U.S. Highway 71 size the institute’s strength in bio- near Neosho, Mo., Vencen Gilmete, behavioral research and development. a local man cited at least six times “The future of human developmental for drunk driving, sped north in research is in the marriage of biology Beaver’s lane, sideswiping a van and and behavior,” he says. “We have a running two cars off the road before good chance to be a major player colliding with Beaver. Both drivers and make a big-time contribution in BIKE MESSENGERS: David Dearth and Bobby Nichols were killed. Beaver’s passengers, are bicycling cross-country to raise awareness about the that area.” John Paul Greenwood, c’99, and tragic consequences of drunk driving.Their KU roommate, Kahn Dulohery, j’00, were injured. Casey Beaver, was killed by a drunk driver on Aug. 4, 2000.

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vehicle immobilization law designed to make it harder

WALLY EMERSON WALLY for people with multiple DWI’s to keep driving after their licenses have been CLASS CREDIT revoked. The Beavers have FULBRIGHT FELLOWS asked Nichols and Dearth to encourage local communities THE FULBRIGHT EXCHANGE to adopt the law and work program rewarded three KU students for better enforcement of this spring, granting fellowships for existing penal- European study to two graduating ties. They also seniors and funding the final project ROAD RALLY: David Dearth and Bridget plan to attend of an Ethiopian exchange student who

Morrisey, Ottawa sophomore, review a map EMERSON WALLY the pair’s final used his Fulbright Fellowship to tracing the cyclists' route as Lawrence support- stop, at the attend KU. ers sign a petition for Casey’s Law. Below:“I’ve White House, Genetics major Sean Patrick Gor- got the rest of my life to work on this,” Dennis July 9. There don, c’01, and psychology major Nikki Beaver told about 100 people gathered at Renee Horne, c’01, received grants for South Park.“I’m not going to go away.” they hope to travel, tuition and living expenses for outline Casey’s the 2001-’02 academic year. Gordon Washington, D.C., to raise awareness Law for Presi- will study in a new international molec- of the tragic consequences of drink- dent Bush. ular biology program sponsored by Max ing and driving. They will speak at “Simply Planck Institute for Biophysical Chem- rallies organized by Mothers Against taking a istry and the Drunk Driving in large cities on their drunk driver’s Georg- route, and to anyone who will listen license does August Uni- in the many small towns along the absolutely versity in way. nothing,” says Dennis Beaver. “If we get WALLY EMERSON WALLY Goettingen, “When people hear Casey’s story, they the vehicle out of their hands, I think we Germany. ask why this has to happen,” says Dearth. have a lot better chance of accomplishing Horne will “I want to tell them it doesn’t have to, that something.” conduct we can change this. We can live in a time The bicyclists raised $16,000 for their neuropsy- when there’s no drinking and driving.” trip through private donations, and local chological The three friends, who grew up play- and national retailers have chipped in to research on ing baseball in Parsons and renewed their donate bikes, equipment, food and a sup- multiple friendships at KU, had planned to take a port van that will accompany the pair. All HORNE, GORDON sclerosis bicycle trip together when they finished leftover funds will be donated to MADD. treatment and rehabilitation at the Cen- college. Now the trip has become a The Beavers hope that by spreading tre de Neuropsychologie et du Langage in memorial with a higher purpose: To the word about their son, Nichols and Paris. remind people that drunk driving takes a Dearth will help save lives. “We’re hoping KU graduate student Pelle Danabo, a human toll. that when someone gets in their car after Fulbright Fellow in his last year of U.S. “We want to show that Casey was not they’ve been drinking, they’ll remember study, was one of four students nation- a statistic, that he was a human being Casey’s story and they won’t make that ally to receive the Kenneth Holland with a bright future, a bright young man fatal decision to drive,” says Dennis Award, which grants $2,500 to help fel- who was going to optometry school, had Beaver. “If we help just one family it’s lows conduct innovative projects once a girlfriend, liked to play baseball,” worth it.” they return home. Danabo will open a Nichols says. Adds Dearth, “We’re trying Nichols agrees. cybercafe to help Ethiopian students and scholars gain fuller access to the to make something positive out of some- “We’re just going to come through World Wide Web as they prepare to thing negative.” and speak from our hearts,” he says. study in the U.S. His project will also Casey’s parents, Dennis and Linda “We’re not trying to lecture them, we’re connect Fulbright candidates, alumni Beaver, this year lobbied the Kansas Legis- trying to challenge them: ‘Hey, this is and participants in Ethiopia and provide lature for more stringent drunk driving something you can choose not to do.’ If links to Fulbright Web sites. laws; they hope the bicycle tour will help one kid listens, then we’ve accomplished rally national support for Casey’s Law, a something.”

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ROCK CHALK REVIEW REPORT MILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS STUDENT REMEMBERED WHEN THE LONGEST WRAP-UP SESSION in history was gaveled to a close At the Com- May 8, the Legislature delivered better-than-expected funding news to the state’s six mencement cere- Regents universities. Despite a projected $206 million shortfall in state revenues, KU mony where earned a 4.02 percent budget increase for fiscal 2002. Lawmakers preserved a SHANNON promised a 6 percent faculty pay raise and restored cuts to the University’s base bud- MARTIN had get earlier proposed by Gov. Bill Graves to help fund the salary hike.The popular two- planned to cele- for-one technology fee, given up for dead more than once during the contentious brate the com- session, survived with reduced state support. Instead of matching every $1 collected pletion of a from student technology fees with $2, the state will now contribute a straight dollar- distinguished for-dollar match.“On balance, I believe higher education fared well,” Chancellor Robert undergraduate career, the Topeka E. Hemenway said.“I was pleased to see the governor and the leadership of both the senior was instead remembered with a House and Senate join together to invest in KU and higher education.” moment of silence as her picture appeared briefly on Memorial Stadium’s A $5.35 MILLION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH GRANT will video screen. Martin, set to graduate support research in reproductive biology at KU Medical Center, underwriting four May 20 with honors in biodiversity, research projects at the Center for Reproductive Sciences.This is the second five-year ecology and evolutionary biology, was grant for the center, which was founded with a $2 million NIH grant in 1996 to con- murdered a week earlier while on a duct research relating to fertility, pregnancy and cancer of the reproductive organs. research trip to Golfito, Costa Rica. She was 23. THREE ART STUDENTS RECEIVED COMMENDATIONS from the Univer- Martin had finished her final exams sity for their courageous attempt to rescue a man from the Kansas River in April. in time to schedule a weeklong trip to Andrew Baumann,Adrian, Mo., sophomore; Nick Erker,Wellington freshman; and Jason Costa Rica to collect fern samples for Hoffman,Vassar sophomore, were sketching near the Bowersock dam with classmates a research study she hoped to publish. in “Introduction to Drawing” when a surge of water from the dam tumbled fisherman She was stabbed while walking home George Weber into the river. Hoffman swam to Weber and returned him to shore, from a discotheque near her host with Erker’s help. Erker and Hoffman performed CPR until emergency crews arrived. family’s home. Weber was rescuscitated but died later that night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. One of about 45 KU students who studied in Golfito last year as part of THE WILLIAM T.KEMPER FOUNDATION PLEDGED $690,000 to support KU’s study-abroad program, Martin was five KU programs: $300,000 will buy computers and other electronic equipment for researching photosynthesis in a little- the recently opened Theo and Alfred M. Landon Center on Aging at KU Medical Cen- studied fern, a promising line of inquiry ter; $250,000 will renew for five years the William T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching that marked her as “a rising star” in Excellence.The School of Business Multicultural Scholars Program, the Hall Center for evolutionary biology, according to Pro- the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art will share the remaining funds. fessor Craig Martin, her adviser. While Martin was not enrolled in THE FIFTH ANNUAL WHEAT STATE WHIRLWIND introduced 43 faculty the study-abroad program at the time and staff to more than 20 Kansas communities in May. Stops included the Wolf Creek of her visit, her death—the first homi- Nuclear Plant in Burlington and the Kansas Oil Museum.“We’re focusing on resources cide of a student on University busi- in Kansas this year,” said Linda Robinson, tour director.“We try to visit with people in ness—raised questions about the safety sites that may not be typical tour stops, but that do give us a picture of the state’s rich of KU’s Golfito program, begun in heritage and diversity.” 1992. University officials promised a full review of KU’s study-abroad operation THE SELF FACULTY SCHOLARS for 2001-’04 are Kenneth R. Peterson, associ- there, while also announcing that the ate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Teruna J.Siahaan, associate upcoming summer program would con- professor of pharmaceutical chemistry. Each will receive $50,000 annually for three tinue as planned. years to finance their research.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [13 SPORTS BY CHRIS LAZZARINO A big hit Despite dire predictions, softball team rallies behind WHEN HE HEARD the Rock Chalk a new pitcher, revitalized hitting and unwavering belief Chant at the 1993 Final Four,Al Bohl, then athletics director at Toledo, became a secret Jayhawk. ure, preseason pre- “When the Jayhawk fans start into dictions that the that chant,” Bohl says,“their pride just SKU softball team JEFF JACOBSEN moves you. I had a feeling of envy.” would finish near the Bohl need hide his Rock Chalk spirit bottom of the Big 12 no longer, since he was named June 28 stung. But coach Tracy as the University’s 13th athletics direc- Bunge admits that even tor (his hiring came as Kansas Alumni she had no sense of was going to press; complete coverage what she might see in will follow in issue No. 5). 2001. Not only did her Bohl replaces Jayhawks have a disap- Bob Frederick, pointing season in 2000, d’62, g’64, going 5-13 in the con- EdD’84, who ference and 30-32 over- resigned in April all, but they lost their following a top two pitchers. tumultuous year “Honestly, I don’t that included think I had any expecta- the elimination tions for the year,” says of two men’s Bunge, ’87. “We feared varsity sports. we didn’t have enough BOHL He comes to pitching. That was the KU from Fresno State, where the foot- big question. I was opti- SOFTBALL SURPRISE: KU’s softball team was picked to finish ninth ball team made consecutive bowl mistic, but we really among 10 teams in the Big 12. But the Jayhawks proved to be tougher than appearances and all football games but didn’t know. I also knew expected, ending the season tied for third in the conference and nearly land- one were sold out last season. ing a spot in the NCAA Tournament. He wants the same for KU. we were better batters “We have another 20,000 seats we than we had shown last need to fill at football games,” Bohl says. year, and they would benefit from another we came back to win,” says junior center “We’re going to build an environment year, but again, you never know for sure.” fielder Shelly Musser, one of four Jay- where those will go to the first people But Bunge and assistant coaches Julie hawks to bat over .300 for the season. who get in line to buy them. Only Wright and Aaron Clopton, d’00, didn’t “We believed in ourselves. We had a lot of 51,000 can get in.That’s the attitude we let on about their doubts, and were enthusiasm. But that win did something have to create.” rewarded with a memorable season. The more. It really made the belief we had in Bohl pledged his support for football softball team proved to be the most pleas- ourselves real.” coach Terry Allen and said he was ant surprise of KU’s spring sports season, The Jayhawks raised their team batting “extremely proud” to be working with finishing tied for third in the Big 12 with average to .280, after hitting .228 in men’s basketball coach Roy Williams. a 10-8 conference record, and 32-27 2000. As for pitching, freshman sensation Yet Bohl also emphasized the impor- overall. And KU only narrowly missed out Kara Pierce, of Mesa, Ariz., went 22-11 tance of success in all sports, as well as on an invitation to the NCAA Tourna- with a 1.91 ERA and was named the Big his “tremendous commitment” to fiscal ment. Texas Tech, which KU tied for third 12 freshman of the year. management, academics and diversity. in the conference, was one of three Big 12 Pierce was never even the No. 1 starter “I really believe,” Chancellor Robert teams invited. in high school, but Bunge, herself an All- E. Hemenway says,“that we’re starting a Regardless, the season was sweet. America KU pitcher in 1986, saw an new and exciting era in KU athletics.” “In our second game, at a tournament angle that every other coach and recruiter in New Mexico, we were down 6-0 and had missed. Pierce’s pitches lacked speed

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but had good movement. And with the proof that anybody can be beaten by any- college pitching rubber 3 feet farther from body on any given Saturday. It was an the plate, she might flourish. exciting game. A good game. We hit hard, Bunge’s insight was perfect. made big plays, stuffed ’em when we had “Kara always had a good drop ball,” to. That was a great day for us, and our Bunge says, “but with that extra 3 feet, it home crowd was a big part of that.” BOHL CAN BE CERTAIN that soft- drops off the table. And her rise ball rises When the Bruins return this season, ball coach Tracy Bunge will come above the batter. There’s a lot of things they’ll be facing a new-look KU team that knocking on the door. She might even you can teach, but you can’t teach good could be unexpectedly tough. knock it down. ball movement. Kara has that.” The first question for coach Terry Allen “The need for a stadium is critical,” KU loses only one senior, outfielder to answer during fall practice: Who will Bunge says.“We have the worst facility Erin Garvey, who had her best season. be the starting quarterback? in the conference.” She hit .308 and played every game. Moments after the final scrimmage of Bunge says she was assured when “Erin saw a real need for someone to spring practice, Allen said sophomore she took over as KU’s softball coach step up and say, ‘Follow me.’ She did that, that a new stadium would be in place and they listened,” Bunge says. “This team within five years. She just finished her had great chemistry. It was so much fun, fifth season and is no closer to seeing a and it can be even better. Third place is new field. KU’s softball diamond, south of Allen Field House, is situated with probably as good as we could have hoped EARL RICHARDSON for this year. Third place isn’t going to be the batter facing west—an extreme good enough next year.” rarity in softball and baseball. Batters face the afternoon sun and hit into the constant southwest wind. Allen hopes changes in “If you go sit in our stands, you get players, coaches add to dirt blown in your face the whole time,” Bunge says.“We need to turn lore of memorable upsets the field to put home plate where cen- ter field is now, and we need to build a enter Mike Wellman, captain of the stadium that is fan-friendly.” Bunge estimates a new stadium 1978 KU football team, had just C would cost $3 to $4 million. tasted one of the biggest victories of his college career: Kansas 28, UCLA 24. What impressed Wellman even more than the score, though, was the crowd in Memorial Stadium, a lively 35,362. “Hey, I wish you’d say something about the crowd support,” Wellman told the THE MAUI INVITATIONAL, one Lawrence Journal-World after the Sept. of the country’s prominent early-sea- 28, 1978, upset of the No. 8-ranked Bru- son men’s basketball tournaments, will ins. “It was very, very inspiring. The feature KU, Duke and UCLA, as well as crowd was a big factor. It was a great lift Seton Hall, South Carolina, Ball State, for the team.” Houston and host Chaminade. Twenty-three years later, UCLA, and The three-day, eight-team tourna- KU’s home football crowds, are on Well- ment is scheduled for Nov. 19-21. KU man’s mind again. last played in the tropical tourney in Wellman, c’86, the Association’s direc- November 1996, beating LSU, Califor- tor of special projects and Adams Alumni nia and Virginia on its way to a 34-2 Center facility manager, now has his eye record.The Jayhawks also played in on Sept. 8. That’s when UCLA returns to Maui in 1987, going 1-2 to begin the GIVE ME THE BALL: Redshirt freshman Mario Lawrence for the first time since KU’s Kinsey is the strongest passer among KU quarterbacks, dream season that ended with the 83- biggest (and only) victory of 1978. but sophomore Zach Dyer enters fall practice as the 79 victory over Oklahoma for the “You know, I look at that kind of favorite to be named the starter for KU’s Sept. 1 NCAA Tournament championship. game,” Wellman says, “and I see it as opener against Southwest Missouri.

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Zach Dyer had gained a slight edge on (tight ends), Travis Jones (defensive line) redshirt freshman Mario Kinsey. and Johnny Barr (linebackers). The only “Mario has the strongest arm in the two assistants returning from last season group,” Allen says. “He just has to have a are quarterbacks coach Jay Johnson and little more experience. He maybe tries to Tim Burke, who moves from the sec- PITCHER PETE SMART and volley- make too many things happen.” ondary to coaching defensive ends. And ball outside hitter Amy Myatt were Whether Dyer or Kinsey wins the job, even Allen’s role is changing, as he named the senior scholar-athletes of or there’s a surprising challenger such as promises call his own plays as he did dur- the year. redshirt freshman Kevin Long, Allen said ing his successful tenure at Northern Smart, a 6-7 left-hander, was 9-4 for spring drills eased his concerns about Iowa. the baseball team while pursuing his replacing Dylen Smith. Though UCLA looms Sept. 8, the master’s in business administration with “The success of our football team cor- Jayhawks will focus on Sept. 1, when a 3.62 GPA. He was twice named Big 12 relates to the success we have at quarter- they host Southwest Missouri State. It is pitcher of the week and signed a profes- back,” Allen says. “And there is definitely certain that last year’s season-opening loss sional contract with the Milwaukee hope at the quarterback position.” to Southern Methodist, which set the Brewers. The receivers are KU’s strength: Harri- tone for a frustrating season, will not be Smart, b’00, reported to his Class A son Hill, Termaine Fulton, Roger Ross, forgotten. assignment in Beloit,Wis., the day after Byron Gasaway, J.T. Thompson and Derik “To lose [to SMU] the way we did Commencement. He finished his career Mills combined for 107 receptions and kind of set us up for failure,” Allen says. ranked in the top 10 in all-time Kansas 1,545 yards last season. Sophomore Reg- “I think there’s a sense of urgency out career victories, strikeouts and innings gie Duncan will replace David Winbush there for all of us. Going through four los- pitched. as the featured running back, and he has ing seasons, there’s definitely a sense of Myatt, d’01, a four-year letterwinner, displayed flashes of talent that make him urgency, for coaches and players.” had a 3.82 GPA. She set the school an exciting prospect. Should KU get past Southwest Mis- record last season by averaging 4.57 kills Like the quarterback position, though, souri, the UCLA game could be a thriller. a game, and was the first player in there is much to be decided on special And Wellman won’t be alone in hoping school history to record more than 400 teams and defense. that fans contribute to a spirited environ- kills in back-to-back seasons. The kicking game, though troubled ment, just as they did on that memorable throughout last season, lost the starting September afternoon 23 years ago. kicker and punter. Redshirt freshman “I’m hoping we put it to them like we Chris Tyrrell is the current favorite to did back then,” Wellman says. “We need punt, and as many as four newcomers some big wins this year, and a good will compete for the kicking job. crowd absolutely helps the players KU BASEBALL had another disap- The defense returns plenty of stars— achieve that. No doubt the crowd was pointing season at 26-30, but found inclucing tackle Nate Dwyer, linebackers a big part of it last time we beat UCLA hope for next season by finishing on a Algie Atkinson and Marcus Rogers, and here.” five-game winning streak. KU beat Texas- cornerback Quincy Roe, but new defen- Pan American, 6-4, to win seven of its sive coordinator and assistant head coach last eight games. Tom Hayes promises many changes. Not Hall of Fame coach Miller “It was a tough win because of all only are some newcomers going to chal- remembered as final link the emotion,” coach Bobby Randall said, lenge returning starters at some positions, “and it was a good way to finish off the but Hayes also instituted a new scheme to basketball’s origins season.” with four down linemen and three line- Shortstop John Nelson, who had 31 backers, called the “43.” alph Miller, d’42, a two-sport KU star steals, was drafted in the eighth round “We’ve come a long way since day Rwho went on to become a Hall of by the St. Louis Cardinals. Pitcher Doug one,” Hayes said after spring practice. Fame college basketball coach, died May Lantz was taken in the 14th round by “The overall intensity was really good. But 15 at his Black Butte Ranch, Ore., home. the Cleveland Indians and catcher Brent are we there yet? I don’t think so.” He was 82. Del Chiaro was taken in the 41st round Seven new assistant coaches joined Hailed by the New York Times as “one by the Anaheim Angels. Four of KU’s Allen’s staff, including Hayes, Rip Scherer of the final active links between college signees were also drafted. Smart signed (running backs, co-offensive coordinator), basketball and its roots,” Miller played for before the baseball draft. Sam Pittman (offensive line), Clarence coach Forrest C. “Phog” Allen in the late James (wide receivers), Clint Bowen, d’96, 1930s and early ’40s, lettering three times

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Pac 10 Conference championships and made eight trips to the NCAA Tournament. His 1981 Oregon State

UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES team was ranked No. 1 for nine weeks. In all, Miller coached five teams JUNIOR ANDREA BULAT won the that reached the top 10; won titles Big 12 javelin championship with a 158- in the Missouri Valley Conference, foot throw. Senior Andy Tate finished the Big 10 and Pac 10; went to the third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. NCAA Tournament nine times and Sophomore T.J. Hackler, a walk-on foot- to the National Inivitational Tourna- ball receiver who joined the track team ment six times. He was voted less than a month before the conference national Coach of the Year in 1981 meet, placed fourth in the men’s high and 1982. jump. Hackler won the state high-jump “He was really a good guy,” title while at Olathe East H.S. ... recalled George Wine, Iowa’s sports Center Eric Chenowith was selected information director during Miller’s in the second round of the NBA draft last two years at the school. “He by the New York Knicks. Guard Kenny loved to play bridge, he loved to Gregory, who had hoped to go in the play golf. He loved to drink scotch second round, was not drafted. ... and talk basketball. He had an Juniors Rodrigo Echagaray and RALPH MILLER open-door policy. You could walk in Quentin Blakeney were named Big 12 off the street and talk to him as long champions at No. 2 and 3 singles, and and serving as a starter on the 1940 as you talked basketball. Of course, he four teammates were named runners- NCAA Tournament runner-up team. A did most of the talking.” up.The honors were bittersweet, as the dedicated student of the game, he was Interviewed toward the end of his men’s tennis program was discontinued known to discuss strategy with James Nai- coaching career, Miller said, “There really because of financial problems, along with smith, the inventor of basketball, when hasn’t been time to become nostalgic, but men’s swimming. ... the retired professor visited the athletics I suppose it will be the end of an era. I’m Freshman guard Michael Lee will wear No. 25.The last men’s basketball department. the oldest guy still coaching among a player to wear No. 25 was Danny Man- Miller also lettered three times in foot- group of us who went to college in the ning, c’92.Though Manning’s jersey is ball, where he started three seasons at ’30s, when the game of basketball as we retired, the number, in accordance with quarterback. know it today evolved. KU policy, is not. ... Manning’s KU coach, Miller began his coaching career at “If I had to sum up my career, I’d say I Larry Brown, who guided the Philadel- Wichita East High School, and in 1951 was a pretty good teacher. It was more phia 76ers to the NBA Finals, was launched his long college career at enjoyable years ago because there was a named the league’s Coach of the Year. Wichita State. He became head coach at purity to the game.” When he accepted the award in a Iowa in 1964, and moved on to Oregon The Chanute native starred in high- packed Philadelphia ballroom, Brown State in 1970. He retired in 1989 with the school athletics, too, earning 12 letters in cited his coach at North Carolina, Dean best record among active coaches; his 657 five sports at Chanute High School. “Any- Smith, d’53, when he said,“Coach Smith victories then ranked seventh among time conversations turn to the greatest would never accept an award like this in major-college coaches, placing Miller in high school athlete in Kansas history, you this kind of setting. He would never the elite company of Adolph Rupp, c’23; have to include Ralph Miller,” said Bill bring attention to himself.” Minutes Henry Iba; Ed Diddle; Phog Allen, ’09; Mayer, j’49, contributing editor for the later, Smith surprised Brown by appear- Ray Meyer; and John Wooden. In his 38- Lawrence Journal-World. “He was brilliant ing at his side ... Brown’s 76ers will face year career Miller posted only three losing in football, basketball, tennis, golf and the Utah Jazz in an exhibition game Oct. seasons. was a tremendous track performer. 18 in Allen Field House ... His teams, many of them small but “He was a widely admired and respect- Former KU QB Dylen Smith signed quick, were remembered for pressure ed individual as a family man and citizen. with Saskatchewan of the CFL ... Sept. 8 defense and crisp passing. His 1969-’70 When they talk about ‘the greatest’ in this and Sept. 15 football games against Iowa Hawkeyes went 14-0 in the Big 10 or that, Ralph Miller’s name leaps to the UCLA and Wyoming will be broadcast and averaged 102.9 points—still a league fore in many categories.” regionally with 11:30 a.m. kickoffs. record. His Oregon State teams won four —Steven Hill

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [17 OREAD READER BY STEVEN HILL A readable feast Thomas Fox Averill’s bold, spicy first novel affectionately details the lives, loves and meals of a boy and his quirky Kansas City clan

he Hopi Indians so increasingly discovers, for oth- use it to establish masculinity, revered the chile pepper ers—he struggles to carve woo lovers, and nurture chil- Tthat they incorporated it some private space for himself dren. Food tears them apart into their kachina rituals, in under the perpetual gaze of and draws them back together. which masked dancers who employees, customers and vis- The novel’s sumptuously embody the spirits of mythical iting relatives. As he begins to detailed fictive world is built ancestors dance or challenge unravel the secrets of the Tsil from the mouthwatering tastes bystanders to footraces. “The Café (which aren’t restricted and smells its abundantly tsil kachina,” writes Thomas entirely to ingredients and recounted meals evoke. The Fox Averill, c’71, g’74, in his culinary techniques), Wes Tsil Café menu and accompa- first novel, The Secrets of the works hard to keep a few nying recipes, detailing the Tsil Café, “is the one who stuffs secrets himself, running his preparation of exotic new- red pepper in the mouths of own race to establish an iden- world ingredients such as runners overtaken in a race.” tity outside the long shadow of quinoa, gooseberries, bison For Wes Hingler, the hero Secrets of the Tsil Café his volatile father. tongue and marigold honey, of Averill’s pungent coming-of- by Thomas Fox Averill Averill’s eventful plot fol- are poems in themselves. age tale, the tsil kachina also BlueHen/Putnam lows the basic recipe for com- That may ultimately be the seems the perfect totem for his $23.95 ing-of-age novels: Boy with most memorable aspect of The father, Robert Hingler, a quirky parents rebels against Secrets of the Tsil Café: This visionary, uncompromising Food is a uniting passion unconventional upbringing, bold feast of a book, a treat for cook “who loved spice and for Robert and Maria, but their then realizes he’s stronger adventurous readers and heat, and gladly stuffed pep- contrasting culinary styles because of it. But Averill spices adventurous eaters alike, pers into the mouths of son, highlight the tensions in the this old stew by investing food leaves one hungry and wishing wife, family, and customers.” household: new world vs. old, with a rich cultural context that such a place as the Tsil Growing up in the kitchen heat vs. warmth, rigorous ide- rarely found in fiction. Food is really existed on 39th Street in of the Tsil Café, his father’s alism vs. generous adaptability. the common currency by Kansas City, rather than only Kansas City restaurant, Wes As Wes grows up buffeted by which his characters honor in the superbly drawn fictional watches and learns as Robert his parents’ passions—for their cultural heritage and world of Thomas Fox cooks with the unyielding zeal food, for each other and, he build their social identity. They Averill. of a purist, using only new- world ingredients—those Excerpt from Secrets of the Tsil Café found in the Americas when The Habanero, a two-inch Chinese lantern, shines orange in the garden, a little bell that Columbus arrived—cooked in clangs in the mouth and vibrates the skull. In late summer and fall, my father kept a basket of the spicy style of his native home-grown habaneros on the bar of the Tsil Café. ... New Mexico. “How hot?” the uninitiated might ask. Upstairs, in the family “Not very,” he’d say, and he’d pluck one from the basket, hold it by the stem above his head, kitchen, Wes’ mother, Maria and lower it to his mouth. “How sweet it is,” he’d say, and bite off the bottom. Tito Hingler, runs her catering He never suffered from this macho display, or he never let a customer see his pain. His eyes business, Buen AppeTito. While would light up, his lips part in a smile, and he’d hand the habanero over. “Go ahead,” he’d say, Robert obeys his own uncon- “the next bite is yours.” ventional standards, expecting The guy might take it, the second third of it or so, and begin to chew, hesitate as the searing diners to adapt or else, Maria heat burned from tongue to throat. Finally, his sinuses would catch fire, and his nose might run. prides herself on delivering tra- Some sneezed in uncontrollable fits. Some spat the habanero on the bar. Some gasped for water, ditional Italian fare prepared the semi-aficionados begged for salt. But all of them, and everyone watching, would slap my exactly as customers want it. father on the back in admiration. In those moments, he forgot his irritation. He was the tsil hero.

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agreed on the core elements of the deal. Ironically, such deal-making in an open, For argument’s sake televised era does little to build trust in an already distrusted Congress. A legislative scholar studies whether true deliberation Two other contemporary culprits share blame: First is the enhanced ideological suffers amid partisan posturing in the U.S. Senate extremism of both parties in Congress. Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott is no icker, bicker, bicker. To most Amer- ball as they posture on principle, while Newt Gingrich, but many senators and icans, that’s precisely what most clinging to self-interest. Such conduct led representatives act in similar, highly parti- Bpoliticians do most of the time. the Pew Charitable Trusts to ask me to san, ways. At the same time, high levels of Especially in legislative bodies, whether in address the question of how civility (or its individualism encourage legislators to Topeka, St. Paul or Washington, D.C. To absence) affects the Senate in an era of press their own positions. WALLY EMERSON WALLY be fair, a lot of so-called partisan bicker- growing partisanship and continuing ing does occur, and in our C-SPAN soci- divided government. ety, we can observe it almost any hour of Helped immensely by Kansas senators the day or night. We yearn for some Sam Brownback, l’83, and Pat Roberts, as “golden age” of good will, when a few well as former Senate Majority Leader Bob bipartisan belts of bourbon in the evening Dole, ’45, I worked through KU’s Dole set right what might have been said in the Institute for Public Service and Public heat of battle a few hours earlier. Policy to assemble a topflight conference To be sure, Senate leaders Lyndon in July 1999 in Washington. Mixing lead- Johnson (D-Texas) and Everett Dirksen ing Senate scholars with veteran Capitol (R-Ill.) knocked back more than an occa- Hill staffers, the conference explored the sional bourbon and branch water in the importance of civility, especially as it U.S. Senate of the 1950s, then the most shaped the Senate’s ability to deliberate exclusive men’s club in the country. For effectively. all its surface civility, the Senate was often In January 2001, Esteemed Colleagues: ill-suited for representation or delibera- Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate tion, given its dominance by the leg- (Brookings Press) revealed the scholars’ endary Conservative Coalition of conclusion: Civility, although important Republicans and Southern Democrats. and useful for any legislature, scarcely The Senate is unique in American poli- determines whether productive delibera- tics. In a system that requires majorities to tion occurs. Likewise, the Senate’s capaci- BURDETT LOOMIS overcome many obstacles to work their ty to represent concerns of small states Even more important than partisanship will, the Senate is indisputably the least and minority interests may be as much a and individualism however, is a lack of majoritarian, least representative legisla- problem as a virtue. In sum, civility is not trust—both within the society and on tive body (state or national) in the United an end in itself. Capitol Hill. In a society that incarcerates States. All other bodies must conform to Highly contentious legislatures, such as more and more of its citizens, encourages the principle of “one-person, one vote.” the British House of Commons, can be litigation for resolving disputes, and But the Constitution dictates that each most effective. But the U.S. Senate, even builds increasing numbers of gated com- state—whether Wyoming or California— with elevated levels of partisan voting, munities, there is little sense that trust is entitled to two senators. finds it difficult to combine contentious- will grow much stronger. In recent years, neither Republicans ness with deliberation. Given the replace- As Walt Kelley, the creator of the Pogo nor Democrats have held large enough ment of deliberative centrists like John comic strip put it, “We have met the majorities to halt “extended debate” (fili- Chaffee (R-R.I.) by deal-making centrists enemy, and it is us.” As a representative busters) or to overcome a process that like John Breaux (D-La.), the Senate sends body of a diverse and divided nation, the works systematically to thwart the actions the message that deliberation born of Senate reflects the strains in society, and of a firm, if narrow, majority. Despite its civility is less possible than political com- creating trust requires more than a few self-proclaimed status as “the world’s promise among position-takers, which sips of bourbon and branch water. greatest deliberative body,” the Senate requires only a minimum of civil discus- —Loomis, professor of political science, often looks anything but. Senators feel sion. Indeed, staffers do much of the is working on his forthcoming book, free to obstruct the process and play hard- heavy lifting after the principals have The Industry of Politics.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [19 nticipation wafted through the air as crowds hugged balconies four stories high in the School of Nursing’s sparkling atrium. Neon red, blueA and gold balloons danced as a jazz combo grooved and University leaders grinned, eager to announce momentous news. Equally eager to hear the scoop were hundreds of KU Medical Center faculty and staff, some in hospital scrubs and booties. Finally, just after 2 p.m. June 19, amid fanfare befitting a historic moment, Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway and Donald J. Hall, chairman of the Hall Family Foundation and Hallmark Cards Inc., announced the foundation’s record- setting $42 million commitment to the University. The five-year grant is the largest private gift in the history of Kansas higher education and the most generous bestowed by the foundation, one of Kansas City’s most trusted bene- factors and a longtime KU donor. Programs on three KU campuses will benefit from the record gift (see sidebar): —$29.5 million for the life sciences, $27 million of which will fund a new research building at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan; —$7 million for the humanities, including $3 million to remodel the existing Hall Center for the Humanities or to construct a new home for the center; —$5 million toward a new building at KU’s Edwards Campus in Overland Park, the first phase of expansion on the grow- ing suburban campus; —$500,000 to the School of Business to establish a professorship in honor of Professor Emeritus O. Maurice Joy. The gift’s jaw-dropping size encour- ages leaders of KU’s upcoming fund-rais- ing campaign, to be announced this fall. Forrest Hoglund, e’56, former Jayhawk third baseman who is now an energy industry leader and chair of the KU cam- paign, clearly had his eye on numbers as he presided over the Hall ceremony.

20] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 BY JENNIFER JACKSON SANNER Photographs by Wally Emerson $42 million! THE HALL FAMILY FOUNDATION AFFIRMS KU’S MISSION WITH THE LARGEST GIFT IN THE HISTORY OF KANSAS HIGHER EDUCATION

Recalling the then-record $7 million pledge he and his wife, Sally Roney Hoglund, c’56, made to the Medical Center late last year, Hoglund teased the assembled faithful as he began the pro- gram. “Being an old baseball player, I know that records are made to be bro- ken,” he said. But Hoglund also marveled at the breadth of the Hall foundation’s pledge, hailing it as a “Renaissance gift” that would change the University. Hemenway, clearly heartened by such a resounding endorsement of KU and its role as Kansas City’s research university, said the gift “makes us humble and reminds us what we’re doing. This is not just about receiving and spending money. It affirms the value of what the University does. It touches so many areas of our Donald J. Hall, chairman of Kansas City’s Hall Family Foundation and Hallmark Cards Inc., with Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway. work to make lives better. “This serves as a challenge to us to broad programs across the humanities, he endowed professorships, he explained, continue to serve the people of Kansas said, evidenced the foundation’s belief will be matched by the state through the and the people of Kansas City.” that “the knowledge to fulfill the basic Kansas Partnership for Faculty of Distinc- In accepting KU’s thanks and praise, needs of the future must be provided by tion program established in 2000 by the Don Hall returned the compliments, higher education. We applaud Bob Kansas Legislature. recalling the leadership of past chancellors Hemenway and the University’s commit- Thanking the foundation on behalf of and the foundation’s long relationship ment toward this goal.” the Medical Center was Executive Vice with KU (see sidebar). “Since the days of The foundation’s private gift also trig- Chancellor Donald Hagen. As he gazed Franklin Murphy and Clarke Wescoe, KU gers public support—a partnership laud- up to the staff members lining the bal- chancellors have helped the Hall Family ed by Clay Blair, b’65, EdD’69, chair of conies in the atrium, the former U.S. Foundation understand the importance of Kansas Board of Regents, who thanked Navy surgeon general recalled ship decks higher education to our community and the Hall foundation for providing profes- full of cheering sailors. This moment was this region,” he said. The decision to sup- sorships in the life sciences, humanities no less joyous, he said. He celebrated the port research in the life sciences as well as and business. Income from these Hall foundation’s vote of confidence in the

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [21 praised the foundation’s support for pro- grams and professorships on the When they care enough Lawrence campus, particularly the busi- ness professorship named for Maurice Joy. he Hall family and its foundation have “The faculty who work for an institu- Tlong supported the University. Some tion make it great,” he said. “Maurice Joy of their gifts include: is respected for his outstanding teaching 1957: $180,000 to build the Hall ability and his years of service as a wise Laboratory of Mammalian Genetics at and trusted adviser.” Joy was the original Snow Hall and only recipient of the Joyce C. Hall 1980: $150,000 for an addition to Distinguished Professorship in Business, Summerfield Hall, home of the School established in 1980 by the Hall Family of Business Foundation. 1980: $374,000 for business Shulenburger also marveled at the Maurice Joy, professor emeritus of finance, and professorships “profound impact” of the Hall commit- William Fuerst, dean of business. ment to the Edwards Campus, which has 1984: $500,000 for humanities Medical Center by naming the many fac- grown to serve 2,100 students, mostly professorships and libraries ulty members past and present whose working professionals in the Kansas City 1985: $3 million for humanities landmark research in cancer, kidney dis- area. The $5 million from the foundation professorships and programs ease, Parkinson’s disease, liver disease, will help build the first structure in a 1994: $150,000 toward the construc- AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease and many other planned $71 million expansion toward tion of the new Edwards Campus in areas had led to such an investment. After the University’s goal of serving 6,000 stu- Overland Park, formerly the KU the ceremony, Hagen explained that he dents in Overland Park. “This gift will Regents Center felt compelled to publicly thank faculty make the term ‘Edwards Campus’ more of 1994 to 2000: $252,000 for programs because of the philosophy that has guided a reality,” Shulenburger said. in the Hall Center for the Humanities him in his six years at the Medical Cen- As the ceremony drew to a close, ter’s helm. “People ask, ‘How will we do before the jazz combo struck up again 1996: $2.6 million for a professorship this? Where will the money come from?’ and the crowds returned to the tempting in molecular medicine at KU And I tell them, ‘It’s not about the hors d’oeuvre tables, baseball stats man Medical Center money. It’s about the people. If you find Hoglund urged the KU faithful to heed 2001: $42 million for construction the best people, the money will come.’” the Hall challenge and notch more big and programs to serve the life sciences David Shulenburger, provost of the gifts in the record book. Clearly he and the arts on the Medical Center, Lawrence campus, echoed Hagen as he intends to preside over more parties. Edwards and Lawrence campuses. —JJS

22] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 $500,000 for a professorship in the $500,000 for the Joyce and Elizabeth ‘Renaissance gift’ Higuchi Biosciences Center on the Hall Distinguished Professorship in the in review Lawrence campus.The center anchors humanities. Interest earned on the profes- KU’s research in genomics, the study of sorship fund will be eligible for matching he Hall Family Foun- genes and chromosomes. support from the state of Kansas through Tdation pledge is Interest earned on both professorship the Kansas Partnership for Faculty of Dis- remarkable not only for funds will be eligible for matching support tinction Program. its size but also for its reach from the state of Kansas through the across numerous areas Kansas Partnership for Faculty of Distinc- $5 MILLION FOR THE EDWARDS within the arts and sciences. tion Program. CAMPUS The following summary describes how the gift bene- $7 MILLION This gift toward Phase I of the Edwards fits KU: FOR THE Campus expansion will support construc- HUMANITIES tion of a 55,000-square-foot building on $29.5 MILLION FOR THE the existing property at 126th Street and LIFE SCIENCES $3 million for Quivira Road in Overland Park.The $16 remodeling or million building will feature a 240-seat $27 million for a new research building construction of auditorium, 20 classrooms, 30 faculty at KU Medical Center to house the KU the Hall Center offices and Brain Research Institute, the Institute for for the Humani- HALL CENTER campus Genetic Medicine and the Center for Pro- ties.The center is housed in the former administra- teomics. Researchers will explore illnesses Watkins Home for Nurses, a 1930s-era tive offices. such as Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, residence hall just south of Watson Library. The campus epilepsy, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, some The building needs to be modernized to master plan forms of cancer, and numerous other dis- accommodate telecommunications equip- calls for orders. Scientists ment, more meeting space, three addi- also will study the wheel-chair accessibility and tional build- new science of additional faculty offices. ings and an protein structures The center was founded in investment EDWARDS CAMPUS and how these can 1976 and named for Joyce of $71 million to accommodate new acad- be used to predict and Elizabeth Hall in 1985. It emic programs, a new library and a pro- and treat serves the public, students and posed School of Information Technology. disease. educators through faculty As part of a enrichment programs, lecture mammoth, citywide series, seminars and fellow- $500,000 FOR THE O. MAURICE initiative, KU faculty KU MEDICAL CENTER ships in several disciplines, JOY PROFESSORSHIP will collaborate with other organizations as including art, art history, American history part of the Kansas City Life Sciences Initia- and literature. Joy, professor emeritus of finance, taught tive. Other partners include Midwest KU business classes for 30 years until his Research Institute, Children’s Mercy Hospi- $2.5 million for a challenge grant to retirement in 1998.The professorship will tal, the University of Missouri-Kansas City establish humanities professorships.The be awarded every three years to an out- and the Stowers Institute for Medical Hall Family Foundation will match dollar standing faculty member. Interest earned Research, funded by $1.1 billion in securi- for dollar other private contributions to on the professorship fund will be eligible ties committed by American Century attract and retain the most accomplished for matching support from the state of mutual funds founder Jim Stowers and his humanities professors. Kansas through the Kansas Partnership for wife,Virginia. Faculty of Distinction Program. $1 million to endow the center’s sym- —JJS $1.5 million for the Internal Pilot and posia, lectures or fellowships. Bridging Research Program, which provides The pledge will help the seed money for researchers to collect the center meet a $500,000 new data so vital to writing successful pro- challenge grant from the posals to the National Institutes of Health. National Endowment for the Humanities. $500,000 for a Lawrence campus pro- When fulfilled, the chal- fessorship in molecular biosciences, part lenge grant will endow of the department’s plan to hire 20 new $2.5 million for outreach professors over the next decade. programs.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [23 HailHail FellowFellow NO ONE HAS EVER WON THREE TOP GRADUATE PRIZES—UNTIL NOW. MEET MATT HAUG, ONE OF ACADEME’S BRIGHTEST RISING STARS.

tories need tension. Bad guys and broken Haug not only bagged three of the biggest graduate- dreams usually do the trick, as do, say, study prizes, his KU faculty mentors noted with glee, treachery and tragedy, mixed or straight but he did it in both the humanities and the sciences. up. Lacking a strong opposing force, the “It’s the combination,” says Jack Bricke, professor of trap from which our hero must emerge philosophy, “that’s so startling.” enlightened and triumphant, we face the Startling might be the word Haug would choose, too. peculiar challenges of a character piece, in Not for the accomplishment, but for the attention. As which the hero himself is everything. fame shoved its demanding, demeaning ways into his SWhich pretty much sums up Matt Haug. The hero. introspective life, the reluctant 23-year-old scrambled He has the boyishly lean frame of a young man who for cover. rides his bicycle everywhere and hasn’t developed a He acted too late. Seems our unblemished hero fondness for beer. He smiles easily, but his friendliness would face some complications after all. is not a silliness; much remains in reserve, which is also hinted at by a soft, whispered laugh that somehow says the humor or irony of the moment is both shared It was Aristotle who first outlined the framework of and private. drama’s three-act formula, but therein lies our complica- For the needs of our story, it’s good that Haug pre- tion. Aristotle doesn’t make his entrance yet. sents Paul Newman’s cool blue eyes and Gary Cooper’s After walking down the Hill in May 2000, Haug, an easy physicality, because, despite the fact that he is honors graduate in both philosophy and mathematics, unstained by the dark complications that would splen- put off his natural transition to graduate school, for rea- didly serve a dramatic structure, Matt Haug is going to sons romantic and realistic. carry the piece, and he’s not even going to emerge His girlfriend, Laurelin Evanhoe, c’01, herself an hon- enlightened. ors graduate in ecology and evolutionary biology, wasn’t He arrived enlightened. scheduled to graduate until this past May, and they As for triumphant, he’s got that one licked, too. hoped they could pursue graduate studies together—or This past spring, Topeka native Haug, c’00, c’00, nearly so. “We were aiming,” Evanhoe says, “for the completed an apparently unprecedented sweep of three same coast.” of the country’s most important graduate fellowships— Haug also planned to apply for important graduate the Mellon and Javits fellowships in the humanities, and fellowships that would provide financial support and the National Science Foundation fellowship in science, open doors. Applying for prestigious national fellow- worth a combined $213,500—and the triple thrill ships takes time, effort and thought. Last fall, he applied instantly launched him to academic stardom. for three: the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Human-

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istic Studies, the Jacob K. Javits Fel- lowship in humani- ties and social sciences, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for science. In early March he found out he won the Javits, worth about $18,000 annually for four years, plus annual $10,000 payments to the graduate school of his choice. Two weeks later, Haug was noti- fied that he won the National Sci- ence Foundation Fellowship, equally as rich as the Javits, though good for three years instead of four. Two weeks after that, the Mellon Fellowship, which pays a $17,500 stipend for nine months of study, gave the same reply: Yes. Barbara Schowen, professor of chemistry and director of the KU Honors Program, says no KU stu- dent has ever won all three. “And whether there’s ever been another student in the United States who fits the demands

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [25 that age, but I think I just sort of always grew up loving learning and loving the process. It was just sort of a given: This is what I have to do. This is who I am.” That’s exactly how his mother remem- bers it, too. Melissa Haug says she returned to Washburn University when Matt entered kindergarten, and she thinks he probably understood very early that his parents valued education. She is also careful to say that whatever inspiration came from them only intensified the pas- sions already within the boy. “He just loved to learn, from grade school on,” Melissa Haug says. “He is truly a gifted child, to me, because he wanted to learn everything about every- thing. He listened and learned.” Haug played golf almost every day in junior high, but found he didn’t have a taste for the competition and never joined his school team. He played soccer at Shawnee Heights High School, and he developed broad tastes in music. He made good friends, with whom he is still close. “When we’re studying, I’ll raise an idea to talk over, and he’ll do the same for me,” Evanhoe says.“Basically, He hikes and bikes and confesses a fond- we teach each other.” ness for the campy cartoon superhero Space Ghost. Melissa Haug says she can remember of all three,” she says, “well, I would find something like, ‘Here comes Aristotle.’ only one bad incident of her son being that probably rather doubtful.” You could see that he cringed.” teased for being so smart. It was in grade Says Stan Lombardo, professor of clas- A recent New York Times Magazine school, “just a little problem one year sics and Haug’s mentor in the prestigious article offered tips on “How to Raise a when the kids kind of made fun of him University Scholars program, “I have to Genius.” Avoid calling the child a genius, and turned on him,” but they talked it say, he’s the best I’ve seen. No kidding.” for one thing, but parents also should not through. Haug says “there were expect the child to be popular. “Combat- always a few people that ing social isolation,” the article stated, sort of gave me grief for Cue Aristotle. “may be the greatest challenge for raising being smart, but I just try to The Lawrence Journal-World on April exceptionally intelligent kids.” stay away from those people. I 9 hailed Haug as “Aristotle-like” in a Melissa Haug, Matt’s mother, says she didn’t really let it bother me.” headline. The story elaborated: “... Haug, never faced such unappealing tradeoffs But news of his fellowships sweep— described by some as a sort of Aristotle with her only child. He didn’t learn to and the accompanying references to Aris- and Isaac Newton combined, has won read particularly early, she says, and he totle and Newton—brought back the three of the nation’s most respected and was never a circus act. He didn’t play vir- childhood nonsense he thought he had sought-after fellowships.” tuoso piano before he could ride a skate- disposed of so long ago. So who compared Matt Haug, bright as board and he didn’t whip chess “I walked into my philosophy semi- he is, to Aristotle and Newton? We don’t grandmasters during recess. “He isn’t nar, and they had written Aristotle Jr. on know. The newspaper’s reference was nei- typical of what you might think of as an my nameplate,” Haug says. “It’s a little ther explained nor attributed, and nobody egghead kid,” she says. “He’s just so embarrassing.” has fessed up. Too bad, too. The role of normal.” bad guy has yet to be cast. It was Haug’s second-grade teacher “Matt didn’t remark on it, but I saw who first suggested that he be placed in That’s it. So much for complication. him get embarrassed,” says Bricke, who the gifted-student class. Yes, our story lacks tension. But isn’t it taught Haug in three courses, including a “I know I loved that,” Haug says. “I refreshing to spend a few minutes in the rigorous philosophy of mind seminar last don’t ever remember thinking, ‘Oh, wow, company of a delightful young man who spring. “He came into the seminar and this is my big break.’ Of course, you’re earns our attention not for antics, but for somebody made some remark. It was not going to think something like that at achievement, sincerity and humility?

26] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 Roll credits: to take special notice of Haug, and to even William Faulkner. Richard Cole, recently retired professor “draw Matt out.” He cautioned that Haug He dabbled in Zen, volunteered as a of philosophy: “Matt was in the top 1 per- would be “streets ahead” of most students math teacher for sixth-graders in Kansas cent of graduate students I’ve ever known. in the class, but might not offer his own City, Kan., organized health-awareness When he was an undergraduate.” insights. “He’ll let others talk, if they speakers (including sessions on alternative Mabel Rice, University distinguished please,” Bricke recalls advising the visit- medicines) for his scholarship hall, took professor of speech-language-hearing: “I ing scholars. 17 or 18 hours every semester for four would put Matt with that special kind of Bricke laughs gently as he describes years, never missed a summer-school ses- combination of intellectual talents that the result: sion, and won the Universitywide Philip one sees in the most outstanding students “The visitors to whom I recommended Whitcomb essay contest for a paper about at places like M.I.T. and Harvard. He is an this said it was good advice, because they the evolution debate raging in Kansas. extraordinarily capable young man in a were able to ask him for his views about “It wasn’t just sort of grousing about very low-key kind of fashion.” this, that or the other, and then, in a per- what the Board of Education said,” Bricke Stan Lombardo: “Matt can go to the fectly lucid way, no stammering or stutter- explains. “What he did was to take that as very top of his field. Matt can have an ing, he was able to set out the problems a sort of jumping off point to discuss the international reputation. He is sweet and he had seen in their work, the limitations nature of science, the character of truth in unassuming, but at the same time he he saw in this, that or the other argument. science, and what it means to say that doesn’t give away anything. He is very And these are world-class philosophers something is a matter of theory … the self-possessed. He’s definitely an old soul. he’s telling this to …” sort of stuff that those who were joining He’s been around the cycle a few times. Says Evanhoe flatly, “The boy’s mind is in the newspaper controversies would He’s getting to be very refined. It gives me phenomenal.” have done well to read.” great hope. It really does.” When Haug arrived at KU, he was a Roger Martin, g’73, a science and Girlfriend: “Phenomenally goofy.” physics major, a subject he had been research columnist based at the KU Cen- Mom: “He’s just this perfect child to drawn to in high school. “As a freshman, I ter for Research, where Haug works as a me. And he always was. He came to me guess I was interested in sort of the big student assistant, wrote in a column that blessed, I think. He knew I was new at picture, cosmology, how the universe was he once asked Haug, “Are you happy?” this, I knew he was new at this, and we formed, the big bang. And also quantum Haug replied, “I’d say so, but in many just grew up together.” physics. Toward the end of high school I ways, I don’t think that’s a very interesting did readings in the popular books on or important question.” that, and was just intrigued by the crazy The more interesting question, Haug While he was waiting to hear nature of it all, the paradoxes that are explained, would be: “Is happiness what news of his fellowship applications, involved. Then I kind of discovered that we should be striving for? Why not good- Haug wasn’t exactly sitting around my interests in physics actually were more ness? Or wisdom?” As for his own epi- watching Space Ghost. He filled philosophical.” taph, offered at Martin’s request, Haug responded, “Several words pop into my head. Seek. Doubt. Don’t know.” Haug and Evanhoe visited Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and quickly HAUG COMPLETED AN UNPRECEDENTED SWEEP agreed it would be their home. Haug was accepted warmly into one of the world’s OF THREE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST IMPORTANT most elite philosophy of science pro- grams, where he’ll first use the Mellon GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS—AND THE TRIPLE Fellowship, and then turn to the NSF Fel- THRILL INSTANTLY LAUNCHED HIM TO lowship, which won’t expire for five years. Evanhoe also found a home at Cornell, ACADEMIC STARDOM. where she will work as a research assis- tant in the department of applied ecology while preparing her own grad-school application. And, Haug was sure to note when he phoned home during their visit, his spring semester with a course on So he settled into a double major, hon- Ithaca is the home of Moosewood Cafe, a German readings and Bricke’s philosophy ors philosophy and honors mathematics. vegetarian restaurant whose cookbook has of mind seminar. Highlights of the semi- Along the way he also learned the funda- long been on Melissa Haug’s kitchen shelf. nar, Bricke says, were weeklong visits by mentals of translating Chinese and Greek She’ll visit soon. the three authors studied most closely into English, “sort of for fun.” He studied “He’s such a cute kid. I just think he’s by the group. linguistics, chaos theory, Spanish, Ger- a doll.” Bricke recalls advising two of them man, Eastern civilization, set theory and Hey, even Aristotle had a mother.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [27 Castleon the A NEW ROLE AS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE DRAWS ACCLAIMED OPERA STAR JOYCE CASTLE HOME

he has been here so many times: onstage. In an accomplishedHill career span- Kurt Ollman and pianist Scott Dunn, her stage center, arms outstretched, ning five decades, she has mastered the musical partners for a night devoted to the brilliant red hair and traditional repertoire for her voice while the concert music of Leonard Bernstein. turquoise gown glittering under also seeking American, German and Baldwin City has supported her since the lights, the smile as bright as French contemporary roles, always look- her father, George Malicky, a former base- Sthe Great White Way and growing ing for the next big role, she will tell ball player and oil pipeline worker who brighter as applause rains like flowers. you—always searching, studying, prepar- still calls the small town home, moved his She has been here at the Metropolitan ing—because the role is everything. family there in the 1950s, Castle tells her Opera and the New York City Opera. She But on a warm April night at the Lied audience. The same goes for KU, where has been here at Glimmerglass and Santa Center, the Kansas native seems a natural she began preparing for a life on the stage Fe and L’Opera de Montreal. At too many in a part seemingly written for this stage, with a theatre and voice major designed opera houses and concert halls to count, this audience: Local girl makes good. especially for her. across the United States, Europe, Israel “How many people are from Baldwin,” Then the classic tale takes a twist. and Canada, renowned mezzo-soprano she asks. Raucous applause answers. She “I was proud to be at KU, and I have Joyce Malicky Castle, f’61, has been here, casts an I-told-you-so look at baritone been a proud alum,” she announces,

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28] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 pausing a beat for effect. “And I am proud to be joining the faculty this fall.” Better yet: Local girl makes good, then comes home.

astle’s August debut in her new role as artist-in-residence (she will Cgive studio instruction as a tenured professor, with a reduced teaching load that leaves time for continued performing) comes at a time of significant change for the School of Fine Arts and its voice and opera programs. The recent $10 million renovation of Murphy Hall dedicates the Black Box The- atre for voice and opera students, estab- lishing much-needed rehearsal space. New hires in several key positions promise a new administrative look this fall. Tim Van Leer, executive director of El Camino Col- lege Center for the Arts in Torrance, Calif., becomes director of the Lied Center; Delores Ringer, associate professor of the- atre, takes over University Theatre; and Lawrence Mallett, interim dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Perform- ing Arts at the University of Nebraska, becomes chair of music and dance. In the opera program alone, three of the five fac- ulty members are new arrivals: soprano Pamela Hinchman, tenor Genaro Mendez and Castle. “We are enormously thrilled to be get- ting Joyce,” says Professor John Stephens, the voice division director who led the drive to bring Castle to KU. “She has sung with the finest opera houses in the world WALLY EMERSON WALLY

[29 and has had—still has—a major, major University to seize the career. She’s a big catch for us.” day. “I said to the But not the only catch, he’s quick provost, ‘Here’s an oppor- to add. tunity to hire a woman “We have five big catches. She may be who’s performed every- the biggest, but we have a group of five where in the world, an talented people who want to work to- alumna who’s ready to gether to build the program. I know that’s give back to students one reason Joyce wanted to come here.” while still performing.’ This diva is more craftsman than prima And I remember him say- donna, it seems. ing, ‘Are you talking “When I think back I’m just amazed at about the Joyce Castle? how easy this search was,” says Toni- We’ll work it out.’” Marie Montgomery, dean of fine arts. “We think of the diva stereotype, that nothing is good enough. But Joyce is very down- to-earth. She made no great demands.” “ t’s an interesting voy- Credit for landing such a high profile age, to come back full addition to the faculty goes to Stephens, Icircle to one’s starting who met Castle in 1984, when he starred point,” says Castle, who opposite her in Houston Grand Opera’s will split her time “Sweeney Todd.” between Lawrence and “It was really John who convinced her New York City—between that this could work and convinced her to the town that sent her on apply,” Montgomery says. Once that hap- her way and the city pened, the dean quickly challenged the where she finally arrived. She came to Mount Oread in 1957 already knowing she wanted Castle performs “Arias and Barcarolles,” the concert music of Leonard Bernstein, at the Lied Center in April (pp. 28 and 29). to sing and act. She’d always known it. “I really Above: In rehearsal for the Lied Center show with baritone Kurt never made a decision Ollmann and pianists Scott Dunn and Professor Jack Winerock. about what I wanted to do; I never knew anything Below, left to right: As Claire Zakanassian in "The Visit of the Old Lady"; Mrs. Lovett in “Sweeney Todd”; and Meg in “Brigadoon”. “I look for a else. I was always singing wonderful role," Castle says. "That’s what fires me.” and acting in little plays, making up things. It was just there.” Her mother, Ethel Reed Malicky, The result was the theatre and voice ’64, who died in March, encouraged degree, one of the first in the country to her theatrical aspirations. combine singing and acting, says “She was my first piano teacher, Stephens. “There was a division between and she was monumental,” Castle theatre types and singers: Those people says. “She wanted to teach music, act, we sing,” he says. “She wanted her but her parents considered that too training to be both. Even though she was iffy. But music was always her love.” still very young, she realized that it was Castle wanted to combine singing important to develop all her talents. It and acting, but no KU degree was prophetic.” offered that option. She changed After leaving KU, Castle earned a mas- that. ter’s degree at Eastman School of Music in “Lewin Goff, the head of Uni- Rochester, N.Y. She received grants to versity Theatre, got together travel and study, eventually landing a spot with Thomas Gorton, the fine in the Western Opera Theatre, San Fran- arts dean, and they created a cisco Opera’s traveling troupe. She moved new major with me in mind. I to Paris in 1976. “I was doing some won- was thrilled, of course.” derful roles there, but I hadn’t really hit

30] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 Through it all, Castle ented teachers, Stephens admits. But Cas- maintained her ties to tle, he says, can connect with students. WALLY EMERSON WALLY the University, returning He recalls a master class in which she from time to time to con- transfixed normally restless students by duct master classes and simply talking about what music means to serve on the Theatre and her. “What I remember is her amazing Film Professional Advi- ability to draw people to her, just by sory Board. “I always ask revealing where she’s coming from as a how the theatre and person and an artist. At a certain point voice major is doing,” you want to pass it on to the next genera- she says, “and I’m always tion, out of respect for the business and happy to hear it’s still love for the art form. Joyce has that desire going strong.” to give something back.” And growing stronger, For her part, Castle says she’s eager to now that Castle is back, enter a new phase of her career, where eager to share what she she can be more choosy about roles knows with young instead of filling a whole season with singers. “Since I’ve been engagements. The creative give-and-take in the business 30 years, of teaching appeals to her as well. “They one would hope I have say that when you teach you become a something to tell them,” student, too,” she says. “I know that when she says, laughing. I share my experiences with young singers Stephens agrees. “For I’ll learn a lot about my own performing someone to sustain such by watching their development. The life a high level of artistic of a singer is really one of studying, con-

my prime,” Castle recalls. ability they have to know something. But stantly studying.” Her big break came in 1983, when what will make her an excellent teacher is And she looks forward to coming she auditioned for Beverly Sills at the that she has worked so hard to become a home to a place to which she’s still New York City Opera. She got the job consummate artist. She has worked to devoted. Living and traveling in the and landed an agent. Two years later she improve her skills—voice, breath, focus, world’s great cities hasn’t changed that. was hired by the Metropolitan Opera, diction, languages, the panoply of things a “I’m still a Kansan,” she says. “I know perhaps the most visible opera company vocal artist must master.” there’s a lot more to this place than in the world. Talented artists don’t always make tal- tornadoes.”

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [31 Ed King III with the product and plush surroundings of his Oregon winery.

32] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 Vintage King A ROBUST ENDEAVOR WITH AN ACCENT ON QUALITY AND JUST A HINT OF KANSAS

s he nears his 80th birthday, multimillionaire Ed King Jr. regrets that his children missed one of his life’s rich- est experiences: riding a ponyA down a dusty Kansas farm road to a one-room grammar school near Dodge City. “I had an hour in the morning and another hour in the afternoon to medi- tate,” says King, whose well-spent think time ultimately led to a lucrative trade in aircraft electronics. Now King Jr. and his eldest son, Ed King III, c’72, have replanted the family fortune into a farming industry that is rich in every sense. On a fertile hillside in southwestern Oregon—about 22 miles down a winding road from Eugene—they have built a winery fit for, well, a King. The crown of their 820-acre property suspenders walking through the wheat. to stay small. “A lot of people think you is a chateau that spans the hilltop, dip- He was probably seeing his 65th crop … sacrifice quality for size,” she says. “From ping underground to supply a perfect cli- He’d been through the dust bowl and the the start they did size and quality at the mate for aging wines and rising into twin grasshopper plagues. These were people same time.” turrets that offer stunning views of the who had a sense of dignity and humor Lorane Valley. Begun in 1992, the and decency, and they treated each other 110,000-square-foot winery houses a with respect.” ing Estate wines have won compli- state-of-the-art bottling line that turns out King III has blended all of the above at ments from the pickiest palates. 100,000 cases a year, making King Estate his winery, where he mixes the feel of an KTasters from Food & Wine, Epi- a top Oregon producer. old family farm with sparkling equipment curean, Bon Appétit, The New York As president of King Estate, King III and the newest technologies. Christine Times and The Wall Street Journal have likes the notion of bringing his family Pascal Roth, executive director of the heartily recommended wines from King back to the farm. “I remember my grand- Oregon Wine Advisory Board, says the Estate and its other label, Lorane Valley. father (Edd King the first, with an old- Kings have set an industry standard by The Quarterly Review of Wines in spring style spelling) as a ramrod-straight man in showing that the good stuff doesn’t have 1997 called King Estate “the Robert Mon-

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Photographs by John Anthony Rizzo

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [33 Native Kansan Ed King Jr. joined his son in building the innovative King Estate winery in Oregon. davi and E. & J. Gallo of Oregon” and packed his books and boots for Alaska. For the audacious Kings, picking a few proclaimed its Pinot Gris “the best in the “It was far away,” he explains, “and it was grapes from an old orchard wasn’t country … rivaling its Alsace [in France] different from anything I had done.” enough. Much more fun was establishing brethren.” The Taster’s Guild in February To heighten the adventure, he and his a world-class winery where critics said it named King Estate its “winery of the wife built a log cabin north of Anchorage. wouldn’t work. Director of Viticulture year,” and Wine Spectator magazine in “I could catch salmon from the neighbor- Brad Biehl joined the project at the start, March gave two King Estate vintages hood stream,” he recalls. In town he when King III found some south-facing scores above 90 on its elite 100-point worked as assistant municipal attorney for slopes for sale by a tired cattle farmer. scale. the Matanuska-Susitna borough. The Trouble was, the land was too high; Ore- King III anticipates more accolades. work made him wish for a business gon planters preferred the lower eleva- “The winemakers believe our 2000s are degree; the cabin made him wish for tions in valleys farther north. “Everybody going to be off the charts,” he says. warmer winters. In 1979 Eugene, Ore., said you can’t do this down here,” recalls This is exactly what he and his dad filled both wishes. He earned an MBA at Biehl, a viticulture graduate of the Univer- had in mind. the University of Oregon and bought a sity of California-Davis who interned in country home on 180 acres. Now France for five years. “Well, when some- divorced, King still lives on the property one said it wouldn’t work, Ed said, ‘We’ll heir venture into viticulture began with the youngest of his three sons. show them.’ That’s their family character. over dinner about 10 years ago, His father, meanwhile, retired in 1985 If somebody says it can’t be done, they Twhen son mentioned to dad that when he sold his firm, King Radio, to the do it.” he’d bought some land with grapevines Bendix Division of Allied Signal. Begun in And they do it fast—and big. Con- on it. The purchase was part of the 1959, King Radio had become a world- struction and planting began together. younger King’s other industry: His timber wide supplier of aircraft radar equipment, King III recalls the 1993 harvest, when company, Frontier Resources, owns about autopilots and other electronics. A pilot the grapes ripened before the building 40,000 acres and mills pine lumber near himself for 40 years, King Jr. provided the had its roof —and before he had approval Pendleton, in Oregon’s northeastern navigation, flight control and communica- from the U.S. government. “I had signed quarter. tions equipment that in 1986 helped the contracts for a quarter-million dollars’ A country boy at heart—like his Rutan Brothers circle the globe without worth of fruit,” King says. “We were grandpa and six generations of farmers refueling: Their Voyager aircraft at the hooking up tanks and still didn’t have a before him—King III had long sought Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in license from ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and outdoor occupations. After earning his Washington, D.C., bears the King name. Firearms).” English degree at KU in 1972, he started So it was with an entrepreneurial ear He smiles; of course the triumph was law school but took a semester break to that the old engineer heard his son speak a thrill. “We made it, and we had wine. build stone walls and chop wood in the of grapes: “I said, ‘Let’s start a winery so If we had waited it would have been Ozarks. He finished his law degree at the we can pick the grapes and use them,’” another year before we were anything University of Missouri, married, then recalls King Jr. but an office and some empty tanks.”

34] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 King Estate wasted no time expanding, Resulting were cookbooks that paired Bellando, tasting room manager, “but Ed building sales from about 400 cases the King Estate wines with fare by culinary and Carolyn drive their minivan up to the first year to 5,000 the next, then quadru- artists such as Alice Waters of Berkeley, cottage bringing weed killer and a rake, pling, tripling and doubling until settling Calif.; Charlie Trotter of Chicago; and ready for some yard work ... at about 100,000 cases. “I don’t think we Dick Cingolani of Florida. The cookbook “They are the most humble, generous need to be any bigger,” King III says, “but inspired a PBS television series called New and giving people.” we still have a lot of work to do in mar- American Cuisine, underwritten by the Such comments echo through the keting. We’re not a household word yet.” King family. company and inevitably bring the The winery’s primary products are its The Kings also spared no expense younger King’s memories back to Kansas. red Pinot Noir, a rising favorite among spreading the word online. Their Web In fact, shaking hands with a fellow Jay- Northwestern vintners, and Pinot Gris, a site, www.kingestate.com, is a virtual hawk, King III is eager to reminisce about dry white wine more popular in Europe excursion to King Estate, with interactive Elizabeth Schultz, Chancellors Club than the United States. Oregon shares its maps and tours, recipes, reviews, scads of teaching professor of English, and Huckle- latitude with pinot-popular France, and historical information and, of course, a berry Finn—his favorite teacher and his since the 1980s a few Oregon vintages of shopping cart. favorite book. He wants to talk about his Pinot Gris have raised tasters’ eyebrows. The wines now sell in 50 states and law professors and his business professors King III sampled some himself a decade are consumed on cruise lines, airlines and and the ethics they taught. And that topic ago and liked the crisp, lemony-cool taste. in parts of Europe. “King Estate is wine connects his past to his present. But he couldn’t stock his cellar. “I went rich and fully capitalized,” The Quarterly “It isn’t just about profits,” he says. “It’s back to the store for more and the guy Review of Wines reported, “and no win- also about having a product you can be said, ‘Sorry, that was our case for the ery has done more promotionally for proud of and about doing the right thing year,’” he recalls. Oregon.” by the people you’re selling to and the Indeed, as King Estate rose to promi- people you’re working with. I think being nence, so did all of Oregon’s wineries. The a just company is something of great hen the Kings began building, state now licenses 167 wineries, more value. And I think that’s a Kansas thing.” most Oregon wineries pro- than twice the number in 1990. Sales He never rode a pony to school, but Wduced a few thousand cases. have grown 250 percent in a decade and King III learned his father’s lessons Sales were small and regional, and many are quickly approaching a million cases well. of the cottage industries were struggling sold annually. Oregon is the nation’s —Niebaum Clark, j’88, former assistant to survive. Biting into profits was a pest fourth largest U.S. producer of wine— editor of Kansas Alumni, lives in called phylloxera, a wood louse on the after California, Washington and New Vancouver, Wash. loose. Phylloxera-resistant vines can be York—but is second only to California in grafted from separate roots and stems, number of wineries. About half of Ore- but when he first broke ground King III gon’s wineries bottle Pinot Gris. “For Ore- couldn’t find good grafts. “Almost all gon,” King III predicts, “Pinot Gris may of Oregon is planted on its own roots,” become known as our white wine.” he says. King III has recruited So King grew a grafting lab, Lorane advice and sup- Grapevines, where trial and error pro- port from numer- duced a rootstock better than anything he ous relatives, could buy. Vines from the 10,000-square- among them his sis- foot greenhouse have spread through Ore- ter, Mary Michelle gon and beyond. “I just sent enough Pinot Thies, c’76, and his Gris bud wood to California for 500,000 brother, William. Their plants,” King III says. “You can look for a mother died in 1978, lot more Pinot Gris in the future.” and their father remar- King Estate also rooted itself firmly ried; step-siblings, into the business with a rapid-growth cousins, aunts, uncles and sales plan. Its first market was restau- others make the board of rants—expensive ones with sparkling directors a virtual plank glasses, fancy food and well-ironed linens. from their family tree. “You’re less inclined to buy a new wine off King Jr., chairman of the board, and the shelf,” King III says, “than when his wife, Carolyn, built a summer house somebody presents it on a restaurant wine on the estate: In winter they live in Care- list and says, ‘This is good. Try it.’” free, Ariz. At home on the farm, the cou- A sales team dispersed to pop corks ple are known for rolling up their sleeves. with some of the nation’s best chefs. “They have their own jet,” notes Mary

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president of human resources operations supporting the Sprint global markets Alumni leadership group. Wescoe, c’76, is vice president and an Members select new directors for Association’s board, executive officer of Northwestern Mutual Life in Milwaukee, and president of while new officers prepare for 2001-2002 terms Northwestern Mutual Investment Ser- vices. he Alumni Association’s McKinney, c’74, recently national Board of Directors retired from her position as pres- will welcome three new ident of Martin Tractor Co. of

T EMERSON WALLY members July 1, based on the Topeka, her hometown. outcome of spring balloting by Holbrook, c’64, l’66, is a part- dues-paying Association mem- ner in the Kansas City, Kan., law bers. The three are Jill Sadowsky firm of Holbrook, Heaven & Docking, Wichita; Marvin R. Mot- Osborn. ley, Leawood; and David B. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, is a part- Wescoe, Mequon, Wis. ner in the Kansas City, Mo., law Election results were firm of Stinson, Mag & Fizzell. announced at the Board’s May 18- Bender, g’64, is a sports 19 meeting, during which the broadcaster for the St. Louis directors elected officers for the Rams and the Phoenix Suns. 2001-02 year. De Fonseca, b’83, is vice Janet Martin McKinney, Port president of business develop- Ludlow, Wash., will chair the ment for Hostmark. Association. After serving this year Dibble, d’74, manages com- as executive vice chair, McKinney puting services for The Boeing succeeds Reid F. Holbrook, Over- Co. land Park. The new Gaston, j’81, is national editor executive vice chair of the Washington Post. is Robert L. Driscoll, Garrett, c’68, d’70, is presi- Mission Woods. dent of Brown Cargo Van Inc. The Board also Hambleton, ’50, is a member re-elected four vice HOLBROOK, MCKINNEY of the Endacott Society, the chairs: Gary Bender, Association’s program for retired Scottsdale, Ariz.; Sidney Ashton Gar- KU faculty and staff. Michelle Senecal de rett, Lawrence, will con- Meeks, c’64, l’67, is a judge on the Fonseca, London, tinue in her second year Wyandotte County District Court. England; Tim S. Dib- as chair of the Board of Garrett, f’58, recently retired from her ble, Issaquah, Wash.; Governors. Elected to career as a senior designer with Hallmark and Patricia Weems their second five-year Cards Inc. Gaston, Annandale, terms on the board Va. Dibble begins his were Nancy Schnelli second one-year Hambleton, Lawrence, Kidwell is Association’s term; Bender, de and Cordell D. Meeks Kansas City connection Fonseca and Gaston DRISCOLL Jr., Kansas City, Kan. will serve their third The new alumni rep- elly Kidwell, the Association’s new and final years as vice chairs. resentative to the Union board is Sandra Kassistant director of chapter and con- Other alumni volunteers were elected Falwell Garrett, Eudora. stituent programs, graduated in May with to serve on the Board of Governors, Docking, c’78, g’84, is vice president of a degree in ancient history, but she is new which oversees the Adams Alumni Center, investments for A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. to neither the Association nor its mission and the board of the Kansas Memorial in Wichita. of reaching out to alumni. Union Corp. Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, is assistant vice Kidwell, c’01, worked at the Adams

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he Alumni Association’s national which oversees the Adams Alumni Center, Board of Directors will welcome and the board of the Kansas Memorial Kidwell is Association’s Tthree new members July 1, based Union Corp. on the outcome of spring balloting by Sidney Ashton Garrett, Lawrence, will Kansas City connection dues-paying Association members. The continue in her second year as chair of three are Jill Sadowsky Docking, Wichita; the Board of Governors. Elected to their elly Kidwell, the Association’s new Marvin R. Motley, Leawood; and David B. second five-year terms on the board were Kassistant director of chapter and con- Wescoe, Mequon, Wis. Nancy Schnelli Hambleton, Lawrence, stituent programs, graduated in May with Election results were announced at the and Cordell D. Meeks Jr., Kansas City, a degree in ancient history, but she is new Board’s May 18-19 meeting, during which Kan. to neither the Association nor its mission the directors elected officers for the 2001- The new alumni representative to the of reaching out to alumni. 02 year. Union board is Sandra Falwell Garrett, Kidwell, c’01, worked at the Adams Janet Martin McKinney, Port Ludlow, Eudora. Alumni Center for two years while attend- Wash., will chair the Association. After Docking, c’78, g’84, is vice president of ing KU, first in The Learned Club and serving this year as executive vice chair, investments for A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. later as a first-floor receptionist. Always McKinney succeeds Reid F. Holbrook, in Wichita. ready with a cheerful smile and kind Overland Park. The new executive vice Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, is assistant vice comment, Kidwell made a good impres- chair is Robert L. Driscoll, Mission president of human resources operations sion on countless alumni she encountered Woods. supporting the Sprint global markets in her part-time work in the Center. The Board also re-elected four vice group. Lucky for us, the good impression chairs: Gary Bender, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Wescoe, c’76, is vice president and an went both ways. Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, London, executive officer of Northwestern Mutual “I wanted to work here,” Kidwell says Life in Milwaukee, and president of of her career goals. “I didn’t know how Northwestern Mutual Investment Ser- that would ever be, but I wanted to work vices. here.” McKinney, c’74, recently retired from Kidwell assumes leadership of the her position as president of Martin Tractor Association’s critical mission in Kansas WALLY EMERSON WALLY Co. of Topeka, her hometown. City, by far the largest nest for Jayhawk Holbrook, c’64, l’66, is a partner in the alumni. She plans on helping the Associa- Kansas City, Kan., law firm of Holbrook, tion’s Kansas City chapter grow in Heaven & Osborn. strength and prominence, and she will Driscoll, c’61, l’64, is a partner in the help guide important events such as the Kansas City, Mo., law firm of Stinson, Rock Chalk Ball, Jayhawk Jog and annual Mag & Fizzell. football kickoff celebrations. Bender, g’64, is a sports broadcaster for And she plans to do even more. the St. Louis Rams and the Phoenix Suns. “We need to really take advantage of De Fonseca, b’83, is vice president of the KU population in Kansas City,” she business development for Hostmark. says. “About 25 percent of our degree- Dibble, d’74, manages computing ser- holders are there. There’s too much there vices for The Boeing Co. with not enough going on.” Gaston, j’81, is national editor of the Immediately after joining the Associa- Washington Post. tion (again) in May, Kidwell cloistered KIDWELL Garrett, c’68, d’70, is president of herself in her office amid piles of files. As Brown Cargo Van Inc. she sorted through the history, plans and England; Tim S. Dibble, Issaquah, Wash.; Hambleton, ’50, is a member of the dreams for alumni events in Kansas City, and Patricia Weems Gaston, Annandale, Endacott Society, the Association’s pro- she quickly realized that a busy summer Va. Dibble begins his second one-year gram for retired KU faculty and staff. awaited her. term; Bender, de Fonseca and Gaston will Meeks, c’64, l’67, is a judge on the The Jayhawk Jog is scheduled for Aug. serve their third and final years as vice Wyandotte County District Court. 4 in Shawnee Mission Park, followed chairs. Garrett, f’58, recently retired from her immediately by the Terry Allen Picnic Other alumni volunteers were elected career as a senior designer with Hallmark Aug. 5 at the Ritz Charles in Overland to serve on the Board of Governors, Cards Inc. Park. The Terry Allen Football Kickoff is

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Aug. 23 at Mill Creek Brewery in West- Though she is currently based at the plane tickets to Spain she won in a raffle port. Adams Alumni Center in Lawrence, Kid- while attending her first Big 12 alumni Even as the summer events demand well, a third-generation Jayhawk from staff conference at Baylor University in her constant attention, meetings already Horton who now lives in Overland Park, Waco, Texas. have begun for the annual Jayhawk black- will soon move to the Association’s new A sure sign of Jayhawk luck to tie bash, Rock Chalk Ball, set for Feb. 1. office near the Edwards Campus in Over- come. As she becomes settled in her role as land Park. The office is expected to be the Association’s Kansas City staff liaison, completed soon; until then, Kidwell can Kidwell will also assume national respon- be reached in Lawrence at 800-584-2957, Staff quarters get new look sibilities, helping to lighten the travel load or 785-864-4760. She is eager to hear befitting computer age for the administrative staff members who from any Kansas City-area alumni who visit chapters around the country, Fred B. want to participate in one of the sched- hree years after completing extensive Williams, Association president and CEO, uled events or would like to offer ideas Trenovations of the Adams Alumni and Kirk Cerny, c’92, g’98, senior vice about new ones. Center’s first and second floors, similar president for membership services. “Everything I’m being asked to do,” changes are underway for the third floor, “We know Kelly from the excellent ser- Kidwell says, “comes down to this: Make home to the Association’s staff offices. vice she has already given to the Associa- our ties in Kansas City stronger.” During the project, expected to be tion,” Williams says, “so we’re certain our Kidwell enjoys reading and playing completed in September, all Association Kansas City alumni are going to enjoy Trivial Pursuit, and she takes particular staff members will work in temporary getting to know her and working with her pleasure in discovering classic old movies offices created on the second floor. often. We have no doubt that she is going that she hasn’t yet seen. (Hint: Don’t get Although Association staff will use cell to make KU’s presence in Kansas City, and in a movie-trivia guessing game with her.) phones from the temporary workspace, all across the country, as strong as it possibly But she also has a taste for faster phone numbers and e-mail addresses will can be.” brands of adventure—such as the two remain unchanged. The renovations will leave almost no aspect of the third floor unchanged, except for the layout of some administra- tive offices lining the exterior walls. The Association’s staff offices were WALLY EMERSON WALLY designed before computers became an integral part of every employee’s duties; with desktop computing taking over, just as it has in almost every office in the country, it is important that the Associa- tion design work areas that reflect the changing times. “Our goals are for the offices to keep pace with the demands technology has placed upon us,” says Mike Wellman, c’86, director of special projects and Adams Alumni Center facility manager. “We need to make this organization as efficient as possible.” Changes will include a reconfigured reception area and a redesigned center portion of the floor, which will now house the Associaton’s records depart- ment. Records staff had worked in the northeast corner of the floor; that space READY FOR A WALK: Before marching in the Commencement procession, Distinguished Service has been redesigned to accommodate Citation honoree Henry Bloch (left), founder of H&R Block Inc., joined his wife, Marion, graduating grand- membership services staff, who had been son Brian, c’01, and Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway in Strong Hall. scattered in offices throughout the third floor.

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EARL RICHARDSON Alumni Events Chapters & Professional Societies 20 Lawrence: Student Alumni Assoc- For more information, contact Kirk Cerny iation Ice Cream Social at 800-584-2957, 785-864-4760 or [email protected]. 23 Kansas City Chapter: Terry Allen July Football Kickoff, Mill Creek Brewery 21 Dallas Chapter: Student Send-off GO LONG: Redshirt freshman Kevin Long, 6-5 and September 210 pounds, is a longshot to be KU’s starting quarter- back this season, but he is considered a talented 24 Chicago Chapter: Cubs outing 7-8 prospect. Lawrence: Chapter leaders conference Less glamorous but no less critical is a 26 Hutchinson Chapter: Terry Allen 22 project to replace heating, ventilation and Frontrange Chapter: KU at CU dinner air conditioning plumbing throughout the pregame rally, Regal Harvest House building. Aged pipes that distribute hot water for the heating system caused 28 extensive damage to some second-floor Los Angeles: Engineering Professional Kansas Honors Program meeting rooms last winter. Society with Dean Carl Locke The plumbing and third-floor renova- September tions will cost about $750,000, paid for 31 10 El Dorado Dodge City Chapter: Terry Allen with a mix of Alumni Association and 12 McPherson dinner Endowment Association funds. 17 Parsons “We need to be good stewards of this 18 Ottawa place,” Wellman says. “That was some- August 19 Wellington thing the Board directed us to do from the 24 Sedgwick Co. (Derby H.S.) beginning. We are proud of the Adams 4 26 Lawrence Alumni Center, and we need to continue Kansas City: Jayhawk Jog to be proud of it. Renovations are neces- Tampa Chapter: Tampa Bay Mutiny October sary to maintain a busy building.” 3 Arkansas City soccer game Wellman says his Adams Alumni Cen- 4 Hays ter staff have already endured a hectic 10 Southern Johnson Co. summer, overseeing the plumbing project 5 16 Salina Kansas City: Terry Allen Picnic while also planning to move 32 employ- 17 Hutchinson ees into temporary workspaces on the 23 Johnson County (Blue Valley) second floor. They also lugged every sin- 24 Shawnee Mission gle file, photograph and piece of KU 9 25 Topeka Wichita Chapter: Terry Allen dinner memorabilia into basement storage areas, 29 Manhattan and hauled out endless barrels of trash as 30 Wichita staff members cleaned out offices, desks 11 and file cabinets. Dallas Chapter: Rangers outing Building staff will continue to work long, hard hours during the third-floor renovation, but they, like the rest of the

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1920s Lyle von Riesen, c’48, g’50, PhD’55, lives in Norma Birzer Keenan, d’53, makes her Robert Woodbury, c’24, g’28, PhD’31, is a Fort Collins, Colo. He’s a professor emeritus at home in Victoria. professor emeritus of health sciences at the the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Ronald Krause, m’53, and his wife, Marjorie, University of Tennessee. He lives in Memphis. Omaha. continue to make their home in Wichita. 1949 Ronald Thomas, c’53, l’56, is a retired attor- 1930s ney in Baxter Springs. Marjorie Houston Banister, c’38, continues James Bouska, c’49, l’52, works as a resident to make her home in Portland, Ore. agent at Metcalf Marketing in Overland Park, William Turner, e’53, a retired engineer, where he and Doraen Lindquist Bouska, makes his home in Kansas City. Monti Belot Jr., c’35, g’38, m’40, is retired in c’47, s’59, make their home. Lawrence, where he practiced medicine for 1954 many years. Robert, e’49, and Anne Shaeffer Coshow, c’49, live in Tucson,Ariz. Kenneth Dam, b’54, recently was appointed Sol Bobrov, c’32, and his wife, Madolyn, cele- by President George W. Bush as deputy secre- William Myers, c’49, g’55, PhD’58, is a retired brated their 55th anniversary recently.They live tary of the treasury. Kenneth lives in Chicago, in Skokie, Ill. professor of microbiology in Bel Air, Md., where he and Barbara Johnson Myers, c’49, c’51, where he’s a professor of American and foreign Jane Marshall Campbell, c’37, lives in make their home. law at the University of Chicago. He served as Berryville,Va., where she’s retired. deputy secretary of state during the administra- Lawrence Geeslin, c’31, c’32, m’34, is retired 1950 tion of President Ronald Reagan. in Jacksonville, Fla. Glenn Anschutz, e’50, teaches civil engineer- Glen Davis, e’54, is retired from a career with Walter Howard, e’37, is retired in Monterey, ing at KU, and Margaret Gartner Anschutz, the Corps of Engineers. He and his wife, Calif. n’53, g’83, is a parish nurse at Faith Lutheran Catherine, ’78, live in Leawood. Church.They live in Topeka. Harold Knowles, PhD’32, is retired from the Donald McClelland, c’54, lives in San Marino, University of Florida, where he was chairman of Billy Bryant, p’50, retired after 36 years with Calif., with his wife, Donna. He’s working on the physical sciences for many years. S&S Drug in Beloit. He and his wife, Leone, design and page layout of two books about the enjoy traveling. culture of ancient Peru. Margaret Fogelberg McHugh, c’33, cele- brated her 90th birthday earlier this year with a James, c’50, g’54, g’77, and Sara Pringle Miriam Martin Meyer, g’54, a retired labora- family party in Wichita, where she lives. Fevurly, d’62, make their home in Leaven- tory coordinator and microbiologist, lives in worth. Bowling Green, Ohio, with her husband, Nor- Katherine Schiller Mulanax, n’36, makes man, PhD’56. her home in Manhattan. Lowell Hager, g’50, is CEO of Chirazyme in Urbana, Ill. Helmut Sauer, g’54, is a professor at Universi- Elizabeth Wiggins Sanders, c’38, is a resi- tat Dortmund in Dortmund, Germany. dent of Warrensburg, Mo. 1951 1940 Eugene Balloun, b’51, l’54, was honored 1955 recently by the Johnson County Bar Association Hal Berkley, b’55, a former banker, makes his J.W.“Bill” Greene, d’40, retired assistant with the Justinian Award in recognition of his home in Tescott. vice president of American States Insurance, “integrity, service to the community, service to Terry Fiske, c’55, l’60, recently conducted a makes his home in Satellite Beach, Fla.. the legal profession and warmth, friendliness and 13-week seminar for senior honor students at Vincent Rethman, e’40, and his wife, Rose- camaraderie.” He’s a partner in Shook, Hardy & the University of Denver law school. He lives in mary, divide their time between homes in Bacon in Overland Park. Venice, Fla., and Westlake, Ohio. Castle Rock and is a commercial arbitrator for John Forney, c’51, is a retired dentist in Engle- the American Arbitration Association. Grace DeTar Talkington, d’40, makes her wood, Colo., where he and Eleanor Kothe home in Dallas. Forney, c’57, make their home. Geraldine Walterscheid Liebert, p’55, works as a staff pharmacist at Plaza Pharmacy in Robert Strobel, e’51, former director of plant Coffeyville. 1942 services at St.Thomas Hospital, lives in Hender- Leo Martell, e’42, is president of Martell & sonville,Tenn., with Louise Hemphill Stro- Barbara Thomas, c’55, makes her home Associates in Kansas City. bel, d’52. in Houston. Hugh Mathewson, c’42, m’44, professor Lois Walker, c’51, d’54, works as an artist, emeritus of anesthesiology at KU Medical Cen- writer, teacher and sculptor in Amityville, N.Y. 1956 ter, also is medical director of respiratory care Lawrence Goudie, e’56, manages programs education and a member of the nurse anesthe- for Sverdrup Technology at Edwards AFB, Calif. 1952 He lives in San Bernardino. sia education faculty. He lives in Overland Park. Chloe Warner Childers, d’52, recently won a gold medal at the National Senior Olympics as Robert Wilson, e’56, g’86, lives in Roeland 1947 a member of the Colorado women’s softball Park, where he’s retired from a career with Maxine Johnson Ruhl, n’47, continues to team. She lives in Greeley. Black & Veatch. make her home in Fort Scott. Norman Marvin, p’52, m’56, is minister of teaching at Emmanuel Family Outreach Center 1957 1948 in Shawnee. James Carson, c’57, is retired in Pagosa Donald Dorge, c’48, and his wife, Bette, live Springs, Colo. in Lake Forest, Ill., where he’s retired. 1953 Richard Fanolio, f’57, retired from a 42-year Sibio Naccarato, e’48, a retired surety man- Donald Cooper, m’53, is emeritus director of career with Hallmark Cards, where he was a ager for Commercial Union Insurance, makes the health center at Oklahoma State University master artist and art director. He lives in his home in Chesterfield, Mo. in Stillwater. Shawnee Mission.

40] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 CLASS NOTES WHY WAIT? William Hurley, e’57, a retired geophysicist, Carol Garinger Mueller, c’59, makes her makes his home in Metairie, La. home in Escondido, Calif., with her husband, Jesse McNellis, c’57, g’59, lives in Lawrence Edward, ’59. with Frances Hara McNellis, d’59. Somasherkhar Munavalli, g’59, is senior sci- Mary Lou Petrie, ’57, a former special edu- entist at Geo Centers and an adjunct professor cation teacher, lives in Covina, Calif. She visited at Towson University. He lives in Bel Air, Md., the British Isles earlier this year. with his wife, Malati. Gary Rohrer, c’57, l’60, practices law in Lex- David Snavely, g’59, works as an industry ington, Ky., where he and Lee Ann Urban manager in Rosslyn,Va. He lives in Rockville, Md. Rohrer, j’56, make their home. Wendell Wiens, m’59, traveled to Costa Rica Edward Sarcione, PhD’57, is a professor last year with an ecology class from Bethel Col- emeritus at the State University of New York- Buffalo. He lives in Hamburg with Dolores lege in Newton, where he’s a retired surgeon. Commons Sarcione, d’53. 1960 Ann Templin, c’57, g’60, lives in Lawrence, Beverly Barr, e’60, makes his home in Sara- where she’s retired after a career as a research associate at the University of California- toga, Calif., where he’s retired from a career Berkeley. with TRW. Orley Lake, e’60, g’67, is chief engineer at 1958 Lockheed Martin in Evergreen, Colo. True Cousins, e’58, works for Central Texas Linda Winkle Lynch, d’60, makes her home Consulting in Huntsville. in Des Peres, Mo. John Dealy, e’58, is a professor of chemical randon Woods is more engineering at McGill University in Montreal. Larry McKown, j’60, is first vice president of B Stifel Nicolaus & Co. in Wichita. than a retirement community. Edward Fording Jr., e’58, is president of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Leon Miller, a’60, has an architecture practice It’s a neighborhood of friends. Association in Washington, D.C. He and his in Duncanville,Texas. He lives in Dallas. When you live in a Townhome wife, Jean, live in Alexandria,Va. Sarah Shaffer Peckham, j’60, coordinates Albert Steegmann Jr., c’58, lives in North alumni affairs and development for Rockhurst at Brandon Woods, home own- Tonawanda, N.Y., and is a professor of anthro- High School in Kansas City. ership is a joy! A monthly serv- pology at State Univeristy of New York-Buffalo. Elaine Johnson Tatham, g’60, EdD’71, owns ice fee covers all your mainte- Fred Williams, e’58, g’60, works as a techni- ETC Institute, a national marketing research firm nance concerns. Plus owning a cal manager for Alcoa. He and Anne Proctor in Olathe. Williams, d’58, live in Victoria,Texas. Townhome at Brandon Woods is James Westhoff, e’60, is president of Labora- an investment. You have an 1959 tory Environment Support Systems in Phoenix. appreciable asset that benefits He lives in Scottsdale. Alan Armstrong, c’59, g’63, PhD’66, is retired you and your heirs. in Seneca, S.C., where he and Barbara Bech- James Williams Jr., b’60, a retired lieutenant tel Armstrong, c’61, g’66, make their home. colonel in the U.S. Air Force, makes his home in Gordon Dickerson, m’59, retired two years Riverside, Calif. FEATURING: ago after a 35-year career in anesthesiology. He • TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS lives in Medford, Ore. 1961 • ASSISTED LIVING & HEALTH CARE Martha Friedmeyer, c’59, volunteers in Clin- Mary Martin Aldrich, c’61, g’64, works as a • ALZHEIMER’S CARE & REHAB ton, Mo., and recently traveled to Germany. microbiologist at the National Cancer Institute • NO ENTRANCE FEE Marcia Scott Groth, c’59, d’62, works as in Bethesda, Md. She lives in Takoma Park with chief data architect for the Kansas SRS in To- her husband, Charles, c’61. (785) 838-8000 peka, where she and her husband,William, live. Kent “Mike” Berkley, b’61, l’64, is president Derele Knepper, ’59, recently completed of Bennington State Bank in Salina, where 1-800-419-0254 a term as president of the Clay Center he lives. www.brandonwoods.com Lions Club. Nancy Topham Chadwick, c’61, recently Fred Lutz, e’59, e’60, works for Lutz, Daily was elected to the board of directors of the & Brain, a consulting engineering firm in Palomar College Foundation. She lives in Overland Park. Oceanside, Calif., with her husband, Lawson. James McLean, g’59, PhD’65, makes his home in Pittsboro, N.C. He’s former senior sci- Barbara Herzog Coupe, c’61, makes her entist at KU’s Bureau of Child Research. home in Bailey, Colo., with her husband, David, e’61, g’63. Jim Moore, p’59, c’62, m’66, received a Distin- RETIREMENT COMMUNITY guished Service Award last year from the Flori- Sandra Robertson Romer, c’61, is retired in 1501 INVERNESS DR. • LAWRENCE, KS 66047 da Society of Anesthesiologists. He lives in Overland Park from a career as a research LOCATED 1 1/2 MILES WEST OF THE KU CAMPUS Christmas. chemist with the Bayer Corp.

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1962 Cordell Meeks Jr., c’64, l’67, received the 1966 Joseph Fischer, e’62, manages corporate rela- 2001 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Robert Dixon, g’66, PhD’70, is a professor of tions for the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- KU School of Law last spring. He and Mary physics at Haskell Indian Nations University in ogy in Cambridge. Ann Sutherland Meeks, c’67, live in Lawrence. Kansas City. Phillip Frick, c’62, practices law with Foulston Roy Guenther, d’66, f’68, chairs the music & Siefkin in Wichita. Barbara Biel Nicholas, c’64, enjoys crochet- department at George Washington University in ing, reading, painting and drawing. She and her Washington, D.C. He and Eileen Morris Man Sik Kang, ’62, is a professor of physiol- husband, Paul, e’63, g’64, live in Arvada, Colo. Guenther, c’70, f’70, live in Vienna,Va. ogy and biophysics at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. Susan Whitley Peters, c’64, directs the Uni- Charles Metzler, c’66, PhD’71, is vice presi- versity of Maryland’s International Career Cen- dent of business operations at Becton Dickinson Jack Keim, c’62, works as a program assistant ter in Gmuend, Germany. Biosciences in San Jose, Calif. at KU. He and Karen Sue Keim, ’87, live in Lawrence. Scott Rodkey, c’64, PhD’68, is a professor of Donald Racy, g’66, a retired mathematics pathology at the University of Texas-Houston. teacher, makes his home in Lawrence. 1963 Caroline Logan Salaty, c’64, c’65, works as a Marilyn MontfoortRoelse, d’66, teaches Richard Currie, c’63, is a professor of medical technologist at Lawrence Memorial English at Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix. English at the College of Staten Island in Hospital. She and her husband, Tamerlan, e’63, Larry Simpson, c’66, g’69, PhD’71, directs Staten Island, N.Y. g’68, live in Lawrence. the radiation physics division at Hahnemann Dennis Goode, c’63, does research on insulin Harry Seelig, g’64, PhD’69, is an associate University Hospital in Philadelphia. He and secretion at the University of Maryland, where professor at the University of Massachusetts. He Sara Frandle Simpson, d’66, live in he’s a professor of biology. He and his wife, lives in Amherst. Cinnaminson, N.J. Judith, live in College Park. Karen Darby Sullivan, c’64, a retired medical Gerald Strohmeyer, g’66, practices medicine Charles Hammond, b’63, l’66, is an agent technologist and clinical microbiologist, makes with BroMenn Healthcare in Normal, Ill. with Pyro-Tron Inc. in Overland Park. her home in Yorktown, Ind. Harry Wilson, b’66, serves as mayor of Rita Wright Johnson, d’63, a retired teacher, Denise Storck Troyer, c’64, g’65, keeps busy Grandview, Mo., where he owns Harry Wilson makes her home in Heathsville,Va. in retirement with volunteer work. She and her Insurance Agency. Vaden McDonald, c’63, is retired in Stone husband, Glen, live in Lake Jackson,Texas. Larry Winn, c’66, l’68, is a shareholder in Polsinelli,White,Vardeman & Shalton in Over- Mountain, Ga., where he lives with Carol Janice Wheaton, c’64, is assistant dean of stu- land Park. Spickelmier McDonald, d’65. dents and director of campus information assis- Carolyn Christensen Wise, d’66, is a retired Ralph McGill, s’63, does mental health coun- tance and orientation at the University of teacher. She lives in Linwood. seling in Little Rock, Ark., where he and his wife, Wisconsin-Madison. Molly Lim, s’80, s’81, make their home. Robert Williams, l’64, practices law and is president of the law firm of Williams & Swee in 1967 Mary Warburton Norfleet, d’63, g’65, is a Kathleen Butterfield, g’67, l’86, practices Bloomington, Ill., where he and Mary McCam- clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral law with the U.S. Department of Labor in sciences at the Stanford University medical mon Williams, f’61, make their home. Kansas City. school. She lives in Palo Alto, Calif. Craig Beach, b’67, recently became chief Janice Jensen Reaster, n’63, recently 1965 Paul, d’65, and Marcia Hahn Anderson, financial officer at Friendly Works in Lenexa. became a nurse care manager in the workers’ d’63, make their home in Salina. He and Nancy Kubitzki Beach, d’67, live in compensation claim center of The Hartford in Laurie, Mo. James Barnes, g’65, PhD’68, is executive Over-land Park. Brian Beatty, c’67, a retired IBM systems director of the Medical Technology Manage- Roy Voth, s’63, is a self-employed clinical social and network engineer, makes his home in ment Institute in Milwaukee,Wis. He lives in worker in El Dorado. Spokane,Wash. Brookfield. John Woodward Sr., g’63, teaches at St. Mary Larry Borger, g’67, works as a real-estate Gloria Farha Flentje, c’65, joined Boeing last College Outfront in Leavenworth. He lives in agent for Coldwell Banker. He lives in year as chief counsel of the Wichita facility. Lansing. Littleton, Colo. Gary Gradinger, b’65, is CEO of Golden Star, Kenneth Derrington, c’67, m’71, practices 1964 an international producer of textile products medicine with Stone Castle Family Practice in Vicki Allen Barham, d’64, is director of and services. He lives in Fairway. Camdenton, Mo., where he and Olive, n’81, alumni and friends at UMKC. She and her hus- Michael Miner, c’65, m’69, PhD’75, chairs make their home. band, Peter, c’64, g’66, live in Fairway. the department of neurosurgery at The Ohio Michael Fearnow, b’67, is president of Finan- Gretchen Miller Buchanan, c’64, is a micro- State University in Columbus. He lives in cial Broker Relations in Montgomery,Texas. Worthington. biologist and an assistant supervisor at KU Med- James Huntington, j’67, g’70, recently ical Center. She and her husband, Robert, g’71, Bruce Smith, b’65, recently became vice pres- became president and CEO of Tasco World- PhD’72, live in Prairie Village. ident of manufacturing at Cooper Tire &Rubber. wide, a manufacturer of telescopes and other Larry McCallister, d’64, g’86, is a commodity He lives in Belden, Miss. optics. He and Terrie Webb Huntington, standardization specialist at the General Ser- Dean Testa, e’65, is chief of the bureau of c’71, live in Mission Hills. vices Administration in Kansas City. construction and maintenance at the Kansas Stephen Lake, c’67, is senior veterinary Stephen McCammon, c’64, recently joined Department of Transportation in Topeka. pathologist with Bayer in Stilwell. Community Bank in Prairie Village as executive Judy Voth, n’65, works as a nurse at St. Luke’s Paul Lee, c’67, practices medicine at the vice president. Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Osteopathic Center in Durango, Colo.

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Roderick McCallum, c’67, PhD’70, is associ- ate dean for research at Texas A&M College of YOUNG MAYOR REVERES ‘MAYBERRY’ MEMORIES Medicine in College Station. Ann Schroeder Porter, d’67, lives in Grand ennifer Hayes never liked her hus- Forks, N.D., where she’s principal of Lewis & band’s childhood nickname, but Clark Elementary School. when he ran for mayor in his home-

J EMERSON WALLY James Thompson, g’67, EdD’72, recently town last spring, it helped him win retired as superintendent of schools for the election. Many older residents didn’t Grapevine-Colleyville ISD in Colleyville,Texas. know Ken Hayes, the 34-year-old man Terry Wages, b’67, is executive vice president on their doorstep asking for their vote. of Freedom Family in Topeka. But they remembered when he reintro- Judith Hansen Walton, d’67, works as a duced himself as “Kenny.” counselor at Doherty High School in Colorado While Kenny became Ken in college, Springs, Colo. Baldwin City, the sleepy little community Hayes couldn’t wait to leave after high 1968 school, transformed into a burgeoning Charles Alfonso, j’68, directs purchasing and asset management for Digital Access in Lang- town with new homes sprouting in for- horne, Pa. mer farm fields and a host of fast-food Janice Brown, c’68, g’70, coordinates infection restaurants. control at Mission St. Joseph’s in Asheville, N.C. Hayes, c’89, hopes to find a balance Raymond Carter, c’68, is vice president between preserving the best of small- of investments at Robert Baird & Co. in town life and helping Baldwin reach its Rockford, Ill. economic potential. He describes it as a Jennifer Nilsson Erck, d’68, g’70, teaches city on the verge of becoming something When retired MR. MAYOR: 34-year-old third grade in Schaumburg, Ill. She and her hus- great. “It’s been discovered and it’s going teacher Mary Plank Ken Hayes led a youth band, Wayne, d’68, g’70, live in Elgin. He’s prin- to grow,” he says. “It’s still a wonderful heard her former movement in Baldwin poli- cipal of Lake Zurich High School. place to live and if we make the right social studies stu- tics, based on platforms of changes and involvement by Carolyn Hadley, c’68, directs maternal decisions, it will continue to be that.” dent was running younger citizens. and fetal medicine at Crozer Chester Medical His boyhood friends characterized life for mayor, she was Center in Upland, Pa. in Baldwin as a prison, but Hayes says he proud. He was her first student to be Robert Nelson, c’68, g’69, PhD’84, is senior always viewed it as Mayberry, a quiet elected to office. “I was just excited that technical adviser for the U.S. Department of town where nothing much happened. he wanted to run,” she says. ““He always Energy in Richland,Wash. He and Lois Adams Like most kids, he wanted to get out and seemed interested in what we were Nelson, c’78, also have a consulting business, see the world. “It never dawned on me doing. I guess the classes weren’t entirely Research Reactor Safety Analysis Services, in Kennewick, where they live. that I’d come back here,” he says. lost on him.” But memories of small-town life drew He faces challenges, from the city’s Paul Perez, c’68, is vice president and secre- tary of Lufkin Industries in Lufkin,Texas. Hayes back three years ago when he aging electric plant to complaints about decided to raise a family. Qualities that stray dogs. The most difficult aspect, Dennis Pruitt, j’68, recently became creative director of VML in Kansas City. made Baldwin boring to a teen suddenly however, is what Hayes calls “politics at a became selling points to a parent. personal level.” In most cases he knows Jack Salyer, c’68, l’75, is a senior administrative judge of the U.S. Merits Systems Protection Hayes never considered himself a the people his decisions will affect. “It Board in Denver. He lives in Littleton. politician, though he majored in political makes it 10 times more difficult. I think Mary Anne Totten, c’68, m’72, practices science at KU. He believed the older gen- I’m a good mayor because I can make medicine with Primary Health Care in Parkers- eration ran Baldwin. When he became decisions and still look people in the face burg, W.Va. upset over land-use issues, he decided to and say this is why we did this.” speak out by writing letters to the local Although his community is no longer 1969 newspaper. Eventually people urged him a sleepy Mayberry, Hayes says he would Vivian Williams Addam, c’69, recently to run. The result was the election of a still encourage new graduates to follow became a partner in Shook Hardy & Bacon’s new mayor and three new city council their passions outside Baldwin City. “I national products liability litigation divison in members—all younger candidates who, think they’ll have a much better apprecia- London. like Hayes, ran on platforms for change. tion for what they have here if they go Alan Alderson, b’69, a partner in the firm of “You can be a complainer and sit on out and see the world first.” Alderson, Alderson,Weiler, Conklin, Burghart & Crow, recently received the E. Newton Vickers the sidelines or you can get involved and —Cohen, j’91, is a free-lance writer Award for professionalism from the Topeka Bar do something,” Hayes says. in Baldwin City. Association.

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Carolyn Bauer Andrade, c’69, is an assistant Orville Kolterman, c’69, lives in Poway, Calif., Richard “Doug” Barrows, e’70, teaches director of clinical research at Quintiles in and is senior vice president of clinical affairs at naval science at Terry Parker High School in Kansas City. Amylin Pharmaceuticals in San Diego. Jacksonville, Fla. Arden Carr, e’69, makes his home in Lenexa. Stephen Lucas, c’69, g’73, is vice president Diane Bottorff, n’70, g’87, teaches nursing at William Coates Jr., c’69, l’72, practices law of Louis Dreyfus Corp. in Wilton, Conn. He Baker University’s Stormont-Vail campus in with Holman Hansen Colville & Coates in lives in Trumbull. Topeka. Overland Park. Jeffrey Stone, c’69, practices surgery with Jay Cooper, j’70, recently became an Internet Diana Thompson Dale, c’69, lives in Lowell Oral Surgery Associates in Lowell, Mass. sales specialist for Clear Channel Communica- Denver with her husband, Jack. She’s writing a He lives in North Andover. tions in Tampa, Fla. He lives in Riverview with his book about the search for her uncle, a fighter Ronald Strong, s’69, has a therapy and con- wife,Valerie. pilot who disappeared over Italy during World sultation practice in Topeka. Constance Finch, c’70, directs regulatory War II. Kyle Vann, e’69, is CEO of Entergy-Koch affairs for BD Diagnostic Systems in Mont- Connie Carney Erickson, d’69, g’71, owns in Houston. gomery Village, Md. Door County Realty in Fish Creek,Wis. She and Edward Flentje, PhD’70, is a professor and her husband, Robert, live in Egg Harbor. Brent Waldron, b’69, g’71, works as a manag- ing partner at Coates, Reid & Waldron, a real- director of the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Richard Grote, e’69, manages research and estate firm in Aspen, Colo. Public Affairs at Wichita State University. development for the home products division of Edna Brooks Hobbs, g’70, a retired teacher, Hewlett Packard in Cupertino, Calif. He lives in 1970 continues to make her home in Wichita. Palo Alto. Robert Axline Jr., e’70, g’72, PhD’74, manages Paula Hauser Leffel, f’70, a self-employed Robert Holder, e’69, leads a procurement radar analysis at Sandia National Laboratories, artist, makes her home in Mission Hills with her team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los and Terry Ryan Axline, d’70, g’73, coordinates husband, Russell, c’70, l’73. He practices law in Alamos, N.M. research and marketing at Albuquerque Biologi- Shawnee Mission. cal Park in Albuquerque, N.M. Jessica Shellman Kirk, d’69, g’70, teaches Edith Lord, c’70, is a professor of micro- school in Blue Valley. She lives in Roeland Park. Marilyn Baltz, c’70, is vice president of biology and immunology at the University of Camille Ebaugh Kluge, d’69, is president of research and development at Sigma Diagnostics Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. the Wichita Area Technical College. in St. Louis. She lives in Millstradt, Ill. James Oppy, l’70, lives in Oak Hill,Va., and is senior vice president of Corporate Risk Interna- tional in Fairfax. Leanne Benda Pike, d’70, teaches with USD 220 in Ashland, where she and her husband, Losson, l’71, make their home. He’s a self- employed attorney. Robert Ryan, c’70, m’74, is a captain for Con- tinental Airlines. He lives in Agana, Guam. Terry Satterlee, c’70, practices environmental law with Lathrop & Gage in Kansas City. Mark Scott, c’70, g’76, g’79, teaches history at Pepperdine University and California State University-Northridge. He lives in Ojai and wrote Bravo, Amerikanski!, a biography of United Press war correspondent Ann Stringer. June Mitchell Sexton, c’70, is a technical supervisor for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka. She lives in Tecumseh. Donald Williams, e’70, works as a communi- License Plate $11.95 (Plus $1 Shipping and Handling) cations engineer for the Federal Aviation Simple, bold graphics instantly identifies the Jayhawk Administration. He lives in Roanoke,Texas. fan. Made of clear, impact-resistant polycarbonate plas- tic, they won’t bend or chip like aluminum and look like they are under glass. 1971 Charlotte Hardy Andrezik, s’71, has a pri- BIG JAY Flag $39.29 (Plus $2 Shipping and Handling) vate psychiatric practice in Oklahoma City. 28” x 56”, flag grade nylon, reinforced with binding around all edges for long outdoor life. As used by the Linda Denton Baum, c’71, is an associate Marching Jayhawks. professor of immunology at the Chicago Med- ical School. She lives in Deerfield, Ill., with her Gasoline Alley L.L.C. husband, Robert, c’71. To Order Call 800-326-8372 or 785-822-1003 Pamela Miller Berg, f’71, serves as a region- P.O. Box 737, Salina, KS 67402 • FAX 785-827-9337 • www.gasolinealleyllc.com al field representative for Navajo Missions. She lives in Madison,Wis.

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Patrick Cantwell, d’71, directs preventative health care for Unicity in Wichita. SMALL-TOWN DOCTOR WINS BIG-TIME HONOR Alan Davis, c’71, is senior manager for Zim- merman & Associates in Hales Corners,Wis. hen it came time to He lives in Chillicothe, Ohio. nominate a Kansas Hugo Fernandez, PhD’71, lives in St. Peters- physician for the

W EMERSON WALLY burg, Fla., and is chief medical researcher and a American Medical Association’s professor of neurology, physiology and bio- new “Pride in the Profession physics at the University of South Florida in Awards,” the choices were many. Bay Pines. But Jerry Slaughter, executive Mark Grissom, c’71, works as an analyst for director of the Kansas Medical Jaycor in Colorado Springs. Society, says the choice also was Larson Hanson, d’71, lives in West Bloom- obvious: Linda Duston Warren, field, Mich. of Hanover. Mary MacKinnon Jepsen, c’71, j’71, works The AMA agreed, selecting as an occupational therapist at Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell, S.D. She lives in Huron. Warren, c’66, m’70, as one of six inaugural recipients of the Linda Loney, c’71, is chief of pediatrics at Massachusetts Hospital School in Canton. national award that honors Louise Ewing Poehlman, c’71, lives in physicians who bring pride to Tucson,Ariz., where she works for the school their profession and promote the district. art and science of medicine and Joachim Saffert, g’71, works for the Max- the betterment of public health. Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Garching, “She’s totally committed as a Germany. physician, she’s very humble and modest, I wanted to be,” DOCTOR MOM: Linda Neil Stempleman, j’71, is Washington copy she is a patient advocate from the ground she says. “Had Warren, Hanover’s busy chief for Bridge News in Washington, D.C. up and she’s got a great sense of humor,” I been living in physician, says small-town medicine allows her to tend Slaughter says. “I think she exemplifies a metropolitan 1972 both of her priorities—her the traits that we’d all like to see in area and attend- family and her patients. Mark Anderson, c’72, m’75, has a private neurosurgery practice in Irvine, Calif. our physicians.” ing my children’s Warren, a member of the Alumni events, I would not have been able to Anne Elder Coady, d’72, teaches third grade for USD 407 in Russell. Association’s Board of Directors and the practice full-time medicine. We are com- first woman president of the Kansas Med- mitted to going to all of our kids’ activi- Evan Douple, PhD’72, is a board director of the National Research Council in Washington, ical Society, is the only primary-care ties. If they looked up in the stands and D.C. He lives in Reston,Va. physician in Hanover, a north-central we weren’t there, they knew there was Michael Engel, e’72, lives in Hays, where he’s Kansas town with a population of 654. somebody who needed us more than vice president of operations at Midwest Energy. The Washington, D.C., ballroom where they did.” Amy Fulton, c’72, is a professor of pathology she accepted the honor, Warren told her Warren’s husband, Roger, c’54, m’57, and oncology at the University of Maryland- audience at the March ceremony, had a is Hanover’s surgeon, and she often Baltimore. bigger population than her hometown. serves as the anesthetist. The schedule Jackson Harrell, PhD’72, is president of Warren told her national colleagues can be frantic, but the Warrens have The Harrell Group in Dallas. that despite occasional struggles with the always made time for their family. The Wynne Jennings, b’72, g’74, serves as “fish-bowl phenomenon,” practicing youngest of their four children, Rachael, chairman of On Demand Technologies in medicine in a small Kansas town “pro- studied drama at Illinois Wesleyan Uni- Shawnee Mission. motes trust and understanding of not just versity, earned a master’s degree at Har- Gerald Johnson, e’72, is executive vice a physician and patient, but two human vard University and has since been acting president of Shafer, Kline & Warren in beings with feelings, loves, successes, fail- across the Northeast. Overland Park. ures, laughter and tears, all visible Her parents have missed only one Richard Kovich, e’72, lives in Wichita, where through the course of years.” show. he’s a group engineer for Learjet. Warren also told her colleagues that “Please don’t think I’m patting myself Michael Meredith, c’72, is an associate pro- her personal story is less about her deci- on the back, because I’m not,” Warren fessor at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, and Hannah Johnson Meredith, sion to return to Washington County to says. “Rachael brings our family a differ- d’72, is a dental hygienist at Lake Oswego Den- launch her practice in 1971, and more ent perspective, being in the arts. When tal Centre. about why she chose to stay. we leave we have to hire somebody to Kathleen Newlin Pyke, d’72, does substitute “Living in the rural area allowed me to cover our practice, but it’s worth it. It’s a teaching in Hays. be the type of physician, wife and mother hoot. It’s so much fun.”

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Jeanne Gorman Rau, c’72, l’78, practices John Wilson, c’73, m’78, practices medicine Christopher Zee-Cheng, m’78, make law with McAnany,Van Cleave & Phillips in with the Klamath Pediatric Clinic in Klamath their home. Kansas City. Falls, Ore. Doreen Wilhelm Northrup, c’74, c’75, p’91, Linda Greenwell Robinson, d’72, g’76, supervises the IV room at Cox Medical Center directs KU’s Wheat State Whirlwind Tour. She 1974 South in Springfield, Mo. She lives in Ozark. and her husband, Scott, c’79, m’83, live in Mary Centner Brothers, m’74, chairs the Kevin Nunnink, c’74, g’75, is president of Inte- Lawrence, where he’s president and CEO of department of family practice at Trinity Lutheran gra, which has offices in New York City,West- Lawrence Emergency Medicine Associates. Hospital. She lives in Lansing. wood and Chicago. He lives in Shawnee Jerry Shay, PhD’72, is a professor at the Uni- Deborah Davies, c’74, is CEO of the Arc of Mission. versity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Atlantic County in Somers Point, N.J. Lynn Smiley, c’74, lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., in Dallas. Dennis Fillmore, c’74, has a dental practice in with her husband, Peter Gilligan, PhD’78. Lawrence Tenopir, d’72, g’78, l’82, practices Albuquerque, N.M. She’s vice president of antiviral clinic research at law with Tenopir &Huerter in Topeka. Susan Geiss, c’74, d’77, teaches for USD 290 Glaxo Wellcome in Research Triangle. Kathryn Warren, c’72, wrote The Big Casino, in Ottawa. Dennis Woodling, e’74, is deputy director of engineering for the city of Alpharetta, Ga. which was published earlier this year. She lives Jon Jamison, c’74, c’75, manages marketing for in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Abbot Laboratories in Abbott Park, Ill. He and his wife,Vicki, live in Libertyville with their chil- 1975 Douglas Ballou, j’75, recently joined the man- 1973 dren, Allison, 13, and Joshua, 10. John Brazelton, j’73, is chief of the video agement team at Callahan Creek, an integrated Anthony Kam, a’74, is a principal at Anthony production branch of the U.S. Air Force in marketing firm in Lawrence. He commutes from K.S. Kam. He and Diana Javellana Kam, c’69, Los Angeles. Weatherby Lake, Mo. live in El Cajon, Calif., where she’s a teacher. David Dillon, b’73, lives in Cincinnati, where Patricia Grunder Berger, c’75, is a professor Robert Millay Jr., PhD’74, works as a systems he’s president of the Kroger Co. at the University of California-Davis. She lives in services representative for IBM in Dallas. Winters. Douglas Donor, c’73, works as a technical Barbara Nohinek, c’74, m’78, has a private advisor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Dennis Cantrell, e’75, a partner in the Wichi- practice with Infectious Disease Associates in Agency in Philadelphia. He lives in Marlton, N.J. ta firm of MKEC Engineering Consultants, makes Fort Wayne, Ind., where she and her husband, his home in Olathe. Roberta Skinner Gray, m’73, directs pedi- atric nephrology for the Carolinas Healthcare System in Charlotte, N.C. Lewis Heaven Jr., c’73, l’77, is vice president of Holbrook, Heaven & Osborn in Merriam. Gregory Justis, c’73, l’76, practices law in Petoskey, Mich., where he’s prosecuting attorney for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Andrew Masters Jr., c’73, manages real estate for Hines in New York City. He lives in Montclair, N.J. James Merrill, j’73, g’76, PhD’82, is president of Applied Marketing Research in Merriam. James Mixson, c’73, lives in Leawood and is a clinical associate professor of otorhinolaryn- gology at the KU Medical Center. Court Saunders, c’73, directs grain science for DuPont Specialty Grains in Johnston, Iowa. Eldon Schriock, c’73, practices medicine at San Francisco Fertility Centers. He and Eliza- beth Verchota Schriock, c’73, live in Mill Valley. Neil Shortlidge, c’73, l’76, practices law with Stinson, Mag & Fizzell in Leawood. Marilyn Smith, c’73, is a research assistant professor at KU Medical Center in Kansas City. She lives in Lawrence. Mary Ann Bowen Williams, d’73, works as an office specialist in the KU School of Educa- tion. She and her husband, John, ’80, live in Lawrence.

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David Decker, g’75, PhD’77, recently became dean of the management school at the New STOUT TAKES FESTIVAL HELM AS ADMIRAL SMITH York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury. Dennis Deen, PhD’75, is a professor at the ike Stout puts his pants University of California’s Brain Tumor Research on one leg at a time, just Center in San Francisco. He lives in Petaluma. Mlike everybody else. But David Elkouri, b’75, l’78, owns Express Petro- only 28 people have ever put on leum in Wichita. official Admiral Windwagon Craig Haines, j’75, lives in Wichita, where he Smith pants. owns Hainesey-Boy Inc. For 10 straight days in the mid- Brita Horowitz, s’75, is a social worker in dle of May, Stout, l’61, put on Kansas City. those pants—and the rest of the Paul King, f’75, manages graphic design for admiral’s uniform—to serve as the River City Studio in Kansas City. ambassador of Wichita’s River Fes- Martin McCool, b’75, is an inventory man- tival. The first River Festival was a ager for Russell Stover Candies in Kansas City. single-day event in 1972. Today’s Warren Meslch, e’75, lives in Fort Collins, 10-day festival features more than Colo., where he’s president of the Engineering 80 events, draws hundreds of Company. thousands of participants and gen- Verner Nellsch, c’75, m’78, owns the erates more than $17 million. Livingston Women’s Clinic in Livingston,Texas. “Mike was definitely one of the Charlotte Rublee, f’75, is an academic people who helped form the River adviser at Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Mass. Festival,” says Jim Remsberg, e’57, himself a former Admiral Wind- Jay Schukman, m’75, lives in Richmond,Va., where he’s medical director for Trigen Blue wagon Smith. “When choosing the Cross Blue Shield. Nancy Westphal Schuk- admiral this year, we had the desire to events, and I ADMIRABLE ADMIRAL: man, g’77, is a special education teacher for celebrate the 30th anniversary by recog- shook hands with Mike Stout’s years of service the Henrico County Public Schools. nizing someone like Mike.” a lot of 5-year- to the Wichita River Festival were recognized with his Franklin Taylor, l’75, practices law with Nor- Although it was the 30th year of the olds.” being named “Admiral Wind- ton, Hubbard, Ruzicka & Kreamer and is presi- festival, it was the 28th year organizers The admiral’s wagon Smith,” the festival’s dent and CEO of the Olathe Chamber of chose an Admiral Windwagon Smith, ornately decor- ceremonial leader. Commerce. who reigns over the festival and serves ated red coat, hat, John Whitehead, c’75, lives in Herington, throughout the year. Stout, 63, a partner pants and cow- where he’s a physician with Herington Family Practice. with Foulston & Siefkin, where he has boy boots, as well as the sword on his worked since 1963, remembers attending side, make him a popular attraction at Michael Wormington, c’75, g’79, directs RNA biology at PTC Therapeutics in South the first River Festival; a few years later the events. “Everyone wanted me to Plainfield, N.J. He lives in Bridgewater. he was asked to help the fledgling festival show them the sword,” Stout says. “I had Judith Zillner, n’75, is an investment executive get established as an annual event. As an to quit wearing it pretty early into the with Berthel Fisher & Co. in Overland Park. attorney, Stout helped establish the festival, though. It was awkward to wear, bylaws and create sponsor agreements. and it had a sharp point. But the kids still 1976 He remained active in organizing the liked pushing on the coat buttons and Warren Burge, p’76, directs pharmacy ser- festival for about 10 years, including a looking at the big belt buckle.” vices at Preferred Health Systems in Wichita, stint as board president and numerous Temperatures reached 90 degrees where he lives with his wife, Janelle. committee roles. He again got involved several times during the festival, and the Joel Colbert, g’76, EdD’77, is assistant dean of about four years ago, this time with long- red coat is heavy, the hat is wool and education at California State University-Carson. range planning. But none of those roles the boots hurt his feet. Despite the sweat, Garth Fromme, j’76, recently was promoted can compare with being Admiral Wind- Stout was a proud, albeit exhausted, to senior vice president of retail banking at Bannister Bank & Trust. He lives in Kansas City. wagon Smith. admiral. Stout attended 78 events in 10 days, “It was worth the time and the effort,” Jimmie Grassi Sr., e’76, works as a project engineer for Black & Veatch in Overland Park. ranging from the festival’s opening-day he says. “The festival is very weather- Diane DeFever Klingman, c’76, m’79, parade that drew a crowd of 150,000 to a dependent, and I was lucky to be admiral recently was elected to the board of Preferred sandcastle building contest. during such a great year for the Health Systems. She lives in Wichita. “It was a full-time job for 10 days,” festival.” Randy Kovach, d’76, is a senior account exec- Stout says. “It was every day and nearly —Schnyder is a free-lance writer utive with ALK Associates in Princeton, N.J. all day. I saw 20 minutes of a whole lot of in Wichita.

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John Lightfoot, c’76, m’79, practices medicine Greg Michels, p’77, is a pharmacist at Wal- Jeffrey DeGasperi, a’78, a’79, is vice president with N.W. Family Physicians in Arlington Mart in Emporia. of Rafael Architects in Kansas City. Heights, Ill. He lives in Schaumburg. Peter Ochs, b’77, lives in Wichita, where he’s Kent Erickson, c’78, m’83, practices medicine Debra Wenrich Macy, p’76, is a pharmacist president of Boggs Sign. with Clay Center Family Physicians in Clay at Via Christi-St. Francis in Wichita. Robbin Reynolds, j’77, is president of Sound Center. Kevin Preston, c’76, has a private practice in Products, an audio communications dealership Randall Fehdrau, c’78, manages the labora- gastroenterology in Sioux City, Iowa. in Lenexa. tory at Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Rhoads Stevens, c’76, is an ophthalmologist Laura Cook Stewart, d’77, serves as a spe- Steven Francesconi, p’78, directs govern- in Honolulu. cial agent in the U.S. Food & Drug Administra- ment affairs for Sangstat Medical Corp. in tion’s office of criminal investigations in Lenexa. Atlanta. 1977 She lives in Olathe. Alan Freund, g’78, is vice president and chief Joanne Schmidt Applegate, p’77, works as financial officer of ACN Energy in McLean,Va. a clinical pharmacist at Wesley Medical Center MARRIED Candice Hart, c’78, received a master’s in in Wichita. Deborah Kruskop, c’77, and Christopher library and information science last year from Chris Haller, c’77, m’80, is chief of surgical Brodbeck, ’78, Jan. 20.They live in Holton. Dominican University. She and her husband, services for the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care Craig Dunn, d’78, d’79, live in St. Paul, Minn., System in Leavenworth. 1978 and he’s executive director of Very Special Arts Jeffrey Jordan, c’77, g’79, lives in Littleton, Richard “Jeff” Ayesh, c’78, works as a sales- Minnesota in Minneapolis. Colo. He’s an environmental scientist with Pacif- man for Merck & Co. He and Patti Hobson Jan Davidson Helfer, d’78, g’80, recently ic Western Technologies in Denver. Ayesh, p’79, live in Wichita with their daughter, became president and CEO of VNAPlus, a home health company, in Kansas City. Richard Lockton, e’77, is general manager of Sara, 5. York International-Natkin Service in Riverside, Rick Chambers, b’78, is president of Multiple Deonarine Jaggernauth, e’78, g’79, is a Mo. He and his wife, Amy, live in Leawood. Services Equipment Co. in Mission. senior engineer and environmental specialist with Petrotrin in Trinidad,West Indies. Meredith Marden, d’77, teaches third grade Howard Collinson, c’78, directs the art at Peiffer Elementary School in Littleton, Colo. museum at the University of Iowa. He lives in Frank Komin, e’78, recently became general She lives in Lakewood. Iowa City. manager of Occidental Petroleum. He lives in Huntington Beach, Calif. Catherine Bodin Mackie, c’78, is a staff counselor at Care and Counseling. She lives in Chesterfield, Mo. Michael Sarras, g’78, lives in Kansas City, where he’s retired from Bank Midwest. 1979 Kenneth Cook, c’79, m’83, is a managing partner in Radiology Associates in Corpus Christi,Texas. Stephen Coon, c’79, m’83, practices medicine with Radiology & Nuclear Medicine in Topeka. Mark Mustoe, c’79, directs operations for Cox Communications in Atlanta. Lucynda Raben, c’79, owns a dental practice in Wichita. James White, c’79, is president and CEO of Entomos in Gainesville, Fla. 1980 Joel Alberts, c’80, is a geological adviser for Devon Energy Production in Edmond, Okla. Brian Bagby, b’80, lives in Plano,Texas, and works as vice president of sales and marketing for PMJ in Grand Prairie. Susan Owens Bloom, d’80, g’87, teaches reading and is a literacy coach for the Buhler school district. She and her husband, Jim, j’80, g’83, live in Hutchinson with their daughters, Ashley, 15;Whitney, 12; and Lindsey, 9. Jim is publisher of the Hutchinson News.

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Alma Isaacs Collins, n’80, suffered the loss of her husband, James, last year. She lives in McCORMICKc FINDS CAREER IN YELLOWSTONE Hutchinson. Su-Er Wu Huskey, PhD’80, is a senior his year, an anticipated 3 mil- research fellow for Merck Research Laboratory lion people will pack their bags in Rahway, N.J. She and her husband, William, and head to Yellowstone PhD’85, live in Westfield. T National Park, the oldest and most Cheri Jones Johnson, e’80, g’82, a retired popular of the nation’s parks. It’s esti- chemical engineer, makes her home in West- minster, Calif., with her husband, Mike, e’82. mated that one-third of all Americans will visit Yellowstone during their life- Ed Kuklenski, b’80, is senior vice president of Child Health Corp. of America. He lives in time, but a lifetime wouldn’t be long Prairie Village. enough to enjoy the beauty and Jeff Lindenbaum, c’80, chairs the radiology splendor of the park, according to department at Preakness Radiological Associ- Phyllis Riggs McCormick, f’45. ates in Wayne, N.J. He and his wife, Joan Nearly every year since 1985, Sorenson, c’80, live in Morris Plains with their McCormick has driven 1,350 miles sons, Benjamin, 10, and David, 6. from Kansas City to work in one of Mark Matese, c’80, directs juvenile affairs for 13 stores in Yellowstone. There she the U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Services in Washington, D.C. lives in a modest dormitory and Cathy Davis Matese, d’80, teaches eighth- works five days a week selling T- grade English at Benton Middle School in Man- shirts, jewelry and other souvenirs to assas,Va., where they live. tourists from around the world. Jason Meschke, b’80, g’82, recently became “It’s kind of a long way to drive for president and chief operating officer of EFL a minimum-wage job,” McCormick Associates, an executive search firm. He lives in says. It’s not the money that draws Overland Park. her, but the beauty of Yellowstone and brings TV to the WORKING VACATION: Gus Meyer, e’80, is president of Rau Con- A summer job in Yellowstone struction in Overland Park. the camaraderie of the nearly 1,000 col- park, but the lege students, retirees and others who dorms have no has been a tradition for Kirk Nelson, c’80, practices medicine at St. Phyllis Riggs McCormick since Anthony’s Hospital in St. Louis. He lives in work for Hamilton Stores, an 80-year-old Internet, most cel- the mid-1980s. Chesterfield. family business, one of only two conces- lular phones aren’t Winifred Pinet, c’80, g’82, works for sionaires in Yellowstone. in range and it’s 110 miles one way to the Sycamore Associates in Detroit, Mich. She lives McCormick first visited Yellowstone in nearest Wal-Mart in Boseman, Mont. in Grosse Pointe. 1975 with her sister, Patty Riggs Kost The women have seen Yellowstone at Charles Pugh, PhD’80, is a self-employed Lewallen, c’42, and their children. After its best and worst. For seven years, writer in Madison,Wis. retiring as an occupational therapist with McCormick arrived in April with as David Rebein, l’80, practices law with Foul- the Kansas City, Mo., school district, much as 22 feet of snow still on the ston & Siefkin in Dodge City. McCormick applied for jobs at Yellow- ground and only the roofline of her store Johnna Boothe Roberts, PhD’80, is an envi- stone, Alaska’s Denali National Park and visible. When fires consumed much of ronmental scientist with Jacobson Helgoth Con- the Grand Canyon, among other parks. the park’s 3,500 square miles in 1988, sultants in Omaha, Neb. Within minutes of mailing her acceptance the stores operated by flashlight after Michael Webb, c’80, lives in Wellesley, Mass., letter to Yellowstone, she had a telephone power lines were destroyed. For weeks, and is CEO of Epixmedical in Cambridge. job offer for Denali, but Yellowstone was the smoke and flames creeped closer to 1981 her first choice. the dormitories, until finally all employ- Robert Brown Jr., c’81, directs marketing at “I felt like I had died and gone to ees were evacuated. McCormick admits Daniel Measurement and Control in Houston. heaven, and still do each time I arrive out she was “scared spitless.” Harry Callicotte, e’81, practices law with there,” McCormick says. But she keeps going back because of HDC & Associates in Radcliff, Ky. McCormick’s sister first joined her in the beauty, because of her friends—and Sarah Smull Hatfield, b’81, g’83, works for 1986. On their days off, the two hike, because she still can. Commerce Bank in Kansas City. backpack, fish and look for bears in “The national parks are such a won- Melodie Funk Henderson, c’81, directs remote areas of the park most people derful gift to our society,” she says. “It’s intellectual property at Genaissance Pharma- never see. the one thing we get our money’s worth ceuticals in New Haven, Conn. She and her husband, Steven, c’80, live in Hamden. When they began their careers at Yel- out of when we pay our taxes.” George Pollock Jr., c’81, j’82, edits copy and lowstone, the two sisters had no radio or —Meyer is a free-lance writer designs pages for the Newport News Daily television in their quarters. Now satellite in Parkville, Mo. Press in Newport News,Va.

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Joaquin Santos, m’81, practices medicine at Timothy Davis, c’84, owns Unique Homes, a 1987 the Wichita Clinic. real estate, consumer escrow and title company Greg Ash, b’87, l’91, recently was elected a Karl Schletzbaum, e’81, g’86, is an aero- in Aurora, Colo. partner of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne. He space safety engineer for the Federal Aviation Jerri Flynn Hanus, e’84, is a principal engi- commutes to Overland Park from Lawrence. Administration. He lives in Overland Park. neer with Procter & Gamble in Mason, Ohio. Cristina Catt, f’87, sings professionally with Brian Torres, e’81, works for Samson She and her husband, Daniel, live in Cincinnati Tapestry, an ensemble based in Boston. She lives Resources in Perryton,Texas, where Janel Bul- with their children, Andrew, 5, and Zachary, 2. in Cambridge. lock Torres, d’81, teaches kindergarten at Vic- Robert Wilkin, b’84, lives in Lenexa and is Alison Hart Cirenza, j’87, works as a free- tory Christian Academy. general manager of Heritage Park Golf Course lance consultant in the magazine industry. She in Olathe. lives in Essex Falls, N.J. 1982 Jose, ’87, and Kelly Morgan Colomer, c’87, Clare Kyriacou Bodner, j’82, is an account live in Palos Verdes, Calif., with Zoe, 2, and executive with AOL/Time Warner. She lives in BORN TO: Nicolas, 1. Scottsdale, Ariz. Rick, p’84, and Gayle Newman Acheson, Rebecca Haddock Finn, j’87, lives in Roswell, Michael Boehm, b’82, lives in Lenexa, where p’94, son, Alec Richard, Feb. 24 in Overland Ga., with her husband,Timothy, and their chil- he’s vice president of the business banking Park.They live in Lecompton. dren, Jessica, Everett and Aidan. group at Commerce Bank. Lisa Vardeman O’Connor, c’84, j’84, and Laurian Casson Lytle, g’87, PhD’93, is a Edwin Cooley, e’82, is a market manager for Robert, daughter, Allison Kate, March 3 in Hous- stock analyst with Invista Capital Management. TXU Energy Services in Dallas. ton, where she joins a brother, Matthew, 5, and a She lives in Ankeny, Iowa. Robert LaGarde, PhD’82, is a psychologist sister, Megan, 2. Rebecca Hill Pollmiller, g’87, vice president with the Richland,Wash., school district. He lives of Brian Pollmiller & Associates, lives in Lenexa in Kennewick. 1985 with her husband, Brian. Karl Sieg, c’82, m’86, has a psychiatric practice Lori Elliott Bartle, j’85, teaches writing in in Naples, Fla. Creighton University’s journalism department. She lives in Omaha, Neb. MARRIED James Spencer, c’82, is a division vice presi- Clinton Robinson, e’85, g’92, a vice president Mark Henderson, b’87, and Susan dent at Waste Connections in Wichita, and Schmidt, j’96, Sept. 2 in Lawrence, where with Black & Veatch, makes his home in Over- Angela Nitcher Spencer, ’84, is a nurse at they both work for PackerWare. Wesley Hospital. land Park. Margaret Kremers Telthorst, c’82, makes Todd Thompson, b’85, is a division manager BORN TO: for Xpedx in Colorado Springs, Colo. her home in Auburn with her husband, Carey Craig, c’87, and Marilyn, daughter, Robert, c’83. He’s an attorney with Telthorst & Natalie Marie, March 18 in Cheney, where she Noll in Topeka. BORN TO: joins two brothers, Miles, 6, and Jared, 3. Carey Jon Gilchrist, b’85, l’88, and Linda, son, Jon manages recruitment for the human resources 1983 Patrick, Jan. 24 in Leawood, where he joins two department at Wesley Medical Center in Anton Andersen, b’83, is a director and sisters,Tate, 6, and Aubrey, 3. Jon works for Wichita. shareholder in McAnany,Van Cleave & Phillips in Kansas City. metal Warehouse in Overland Park. Margaret O’Rourke Nowak, j’85, and 1988 Bill Davis, b’83, manages solution sales for Paul Dietz, c’88, g’00, works as a financial risk Daniel, son, James Henry, Dec. 4 in Alplaus, N.Y., Digital Consulting and Software Services. He manager with Minnesota Power in Duluth. and Julie Jones Davis, j’84, live in Sugar Land, where he joins two brothers, Anthony, 5, and Robert Gronke, PhD’88, is senior scientist at Texas, with their children, Lindsey, 11, and Joseph, 2. Biogen in Cambridge, Mass. Michael, 9 Kathy Hagen, e’88, manages structural engi- Lisa McGlone, c’83, has a dental practice 1986 neering for Bibb & Associates. She lives in in Houston. Janet Arndt, l’86, is assistant director of cen- tral research for the Kansas Court of Appeals. Lenexa. Grace Willing Sadler, j’83, manages commu- She lives in Lawrence. Stephen Hughes, c’88, supervises accounts nications for the Greater Shreveport Chamber and is a vice president of the Hughes Group in of Commerce. She and her husband, Jim, live in Gerald Callejo, e’86, works for Jeppesen, St. Louis. Bossier City, La., with their daughter, Ellie, 1. where he’s product manager. He lives in Ann Kaplan, f’88, is a territory representative Steven Walton, l’83, is president of Cypress Littleton, Colo. for Hallmark Cards in Madison,Wis. Capital in Cypress,Texas. Richard Couch, PhD’86, a principal in Tobin- world 11, makes his home in Brentwood, Calif. Mark Klimiuk, c’88, lives in Monument, Colo., BORN TO: with Gwendolyn Glass Klimiuk, ’90, and Richard Ferraro, g’86, PhD’89, is an associate their sons, John, 2, and Andrew, 1. Mark is a divi- William, ’83, and Nika Jerkovich Cum- professor of psychology at the University of sion manager for Boeing/Autometric in Col- mings, c’86, l’90, son,William James, Aug. 30 in North Dakota-Grand Forks. orado Springs. Wichita, where he joins two brothers, Joseph, 7, Shawn Hunter, b’86, g’88, is president of the and Christopher, 2. Melissa Larson, c’88, m’94, works as a pedi- Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey atric anesthesiologist at Colorado Anesthesia 1984 League. Consultants in Denver. Devon Cadwell Bazata, j’84, edits publica- Clifford Leiker Jr., b’86, g’89, lives in Susan Auer Mitchell, c’88, l’94, practices tions for Princeton University’s McCarter The- Olathe, where he’s chief managing officer of law with the U.S. Army JAG Corps in Fort atre in Princeton, N.J. CJL Financial. Irwin, Calif.

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John Montgomery, j’88, g’91, edits and pub- Deborah Anderson, j’89, c’90, g’93, directs Derek, b’89, and Julie Chadwell Locke, lishes the Hays Daily News in Hays, where he the Kansas Film Commission in Topeka. s’93, s’97, daughter, Hope Christina, Sept. 13 in and Dia Noel Montgomery, j’91, c’91, make Daniel Houston, c’89, manages projects for Smyrna, Ga., where she joins a sister, Zoe, 2. their home. Angelou Economics. He lives in Austin,Texas. Bradley, ’89, and Renee Raychaudhuri Michael, l’88, and Susan Roffman Norton, Rettele, d’93, g’97, son, Mason David, Feb. 21 Susan Hull Hudson, g’89, and her daughter, l’89, live in Omaha, Neb., with their sons, Justin, in Lawrence, where he joins a sister, Delaney, 2. 4, and Seth, 1. Stacey, f’90, celebrated Susan’s 65th birthday Bradley owns M&M Baking, and Renee is a phys- earlier this year by walking more than 60 miles Timothy Shmidl, b’88, does financial planning ical therapist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. in the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day Challenge. with Prism Financial Group in Overland Park. Susan lives in Callao,Va., and Stacey lives in Krista Thacker, b’88, is a human resources 1990 Washington, D.C., where she’s an art director Sean Goodale, b’90, g’01, directs finances for business partner in Via Christie Health Systems. for Burson Marsteller. She lives in Wichita. Physician Resources of Kansas. He and Kim- Kim Keller Meeds, b’89, is a homemaker in berly Young Goodale, j’91, live in Overland BORN TO: Overland Park, where she lives with her hus- Park with their sons, Blake, 4, and Keaton, 1. band, Frank, ’90. He’s a pilot for TWA. Erin Hartshorn, b’90, is a controller at Charles Knapp, c’88, and Chelle, son, Joshua Resources Connection in Santa Ana, Calif. She Perry, Oct. 20 in Augusta, where he joins a Thomas Rietz, c’89, is president of Canterra lives in Irvine. brother, Michael, 2. Homes in Scottsdale, Ariz. Deborah Head Holinger, c’90, a captain in Sally Streff Buzbee, j’88, and John, c’89, Kristin Smith, c’89, coordinates graphics for the U.S. Air Force, serves at Robins AFB, Ga. She j’89, daughter, Margaret Ann, Jan. 8 in Riyadh, ACTV in Irving,Texas. She lives in Carrollton. lives in Kathleen. Saudi Arabia. John is a political officer in the U.S Larry West, PhD’89, chairs the department of Embassy, and the family will move to Washing- Patricia Walton Linhardt, c’90, m’96, prac- computer and math science at Columbia Col- ton, D.C., when his tour ends later this summer. tices medicine at the Wichita Clinic. lege in Columbia, Mo. Melanie Dick McMullen, l’90, recently joined 1989 BORN TO: the Overland Park law firm of Lathrop & Gage. Kimberly Casillo Anacona, b’89, makes her David Murphy, j’90, is a vice president and Carrie Mar Howard, c’89, and William, home in Overland Park with her husband, direct marketing director at ICON Promotional Michael, b’90. daughter, Emily Lena, Oct. 25 in Lewisville,Texas. Marketing in Clearwater, Fla. Daniel Redler, c’90, manages customer mar- keting for Coca-Cola in Atlanta. Michael Snell, p’90, and his wife,Tammy, own Cole Camp Pharmacy in Cole Camp, Mo., where they live with their children, Brianna, 11, and Cameron, 4. Kevin Toller, c’90, m’94, practices ophthamal- ogy at Grand Lake Eye Care in Grove, Okla. Shuping Ye, g’90, PhD’92, works as a software consultant for IBM Global Services in Atlanta. BORN TO: Patrick, b’90, and Kathleen Kurzak Kauf- man, assoc., son, Christian William, Nov. 3 in Overland Park, where he joins a brother, Brian, 4, and a sister, Emily, 3. 1991 John Gill, e’91, a’92, recently became secretary of CRS Engineering and Design Consultants in Birmingham, Ala. Kathryn Driscoll Hollrah, c’91, n’93, and her husband, Scott, m’94, live in Mission Hills with their son, Benjamin, 1. Jordan Lerner, e’91, recently joined Hender- son Engineers in Overland Park as a senior elec- trical engineer. He commutes from Lawrence. MARRIED Mark Lapoint, d’91, g’97, and Jill Hilton, d’92, Jan. 13 in Lawrence, where they live. Mark is vice president of sales for Security-Shred in

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Lenexa, and Jill teaches French and Spanish at MARRIED BORN TO: West Junior High School in Lawrence. Jeanne Melland, c’93, to Stephen Davison, Thomas, c’94, and Amy Sutherland Volini, c’94, daughter, Emma Louise, Dec. 20 in Over- BORN TO: Jan. 20 in Las Vegas. Jeanne is program manager for XO Communications in Reston,Va., and land Park, where he’s a vice president with Barry Moore, c’91, and Rhonda, son, Logan Stephen manages network planning for Quest Trammell Crow. Dayle, Oct. 30 in Redmond,Wash., where Barry in Arlington.They live in Reston. is a branch manager for Sprint. 1995 Nancy Anderson Sullivan, n’91, g’97, and BORN TO: Manuel Lopez, j’95, works as associate editor Patrick, son, Brody Patrick, March 16 in of the Business Journal in Kansas City. Christine Kaiser Chapo, c’93, and her Lawrence, where he joins a sister, Ella, 2. husband, Paul, daughter, Grace Elizabeth, Dec. 1 Cho In Ma, b’95, is a computer engineer for Matthew, j’91, and Paula Birbeck Taylor, in Kirkwood, Mo. Ernst & Young in Belleville, N.J. j’92, son, Ryan Patrick, Jan. 19 in Holton, where Stephanie Kieltyka Mohr, c’93, and Jason, Christine Manley, g’95, makes her home in Matthew and Paula work at Denison State Portland, Maine. Bank. c’94, son, Joseph Michael, Feb. 13 in Fairway, where he joins a sister, Hailey, 2. Barbara Gelb Novorr, s’95, is a medical Geoffrey, e’91, and Mary Heil Wehrman, social worker at Baptist Medical Center in Little Katherine Peterson Schellin, d’93, and e’92, son, Joshua, Sept. 11 in Minneapolis, where Rock, Ark., where she and her husband, Jeffrey, he joins two brothers, Andrew, 5, and Curtis, 3. Darrin, son, Ryan August, Sept. 8 in live with their sons, Benjamin and Jonathan. Chesterfield, Mo. 1992 Dana Roberts, g’95, works as a long-term William, b’93, and Keri Beightel Sifford, care specialist with Eli Lilly & Co. He and his Brad Berkley, b’92, is executive vice president ’95, daughter, Ryley Nicole, Feb. 17 in Overland of NovoLink in Dallas. wife, Susan Hickman, g’95, PhD’98, live in Port- Park.William is an e-business group manager land, Ore. Michael Peck Jr., e’92, is vice president of with Spring Products Group in New Century. USBX in Santa Monica, Calif. He and Laurie Daniel Staker, e’95, is a regional partner for Lance, e’93, g’84, and Jennifer Thompson Keplin Peck, d’93, live in Los Angeles with H.D.R. Management Consultants in Kansas City. their son, Nathaniel. Johnson, c’94, daughter, Emma Rebecca, Dec. He and his wife, Katherine, live in Fairway with 13 in Lawrence. Lance is president of the Peridi- their son, John, 1. William Singer, PhD’92, lives in Garland, an Group, and Jennifer coordinates events at Texas, and is a post-doctoral researcher in the Cisley Owen Thummel, c’95, and Rob, ’01, KU’s Kansas Union. pharmacology department at the University of celebrated their first anniversary April 15. She’s Texas Southwestern Medical Center. an online training developer for Sprint, and he’s 1994 assistant controller at KLT.They live in Olathe. David Staker, b’92, l’95, practices law and is Angela Carlton, b’94, h’96, is a medical tech- an investment adviser at Prairie Capital Manage- nologist at Health Midwest. She lives in Grain ment in Kansas City, where he and Christina MARRIED Valley, Mo. Dunn Staker, c’96, make their home. Timothy Calvert, b’95, and Melodi Wolf, Joseph Stark, c’92, is senior vice president of Patricia Borowitz Case, b’94, recently was j’97, Dec. 16 in Kansas City, where he works for Mixed Signals Technology in Culver City, Calif. promoted to assistant vice president of small Deloitte Consulting and she works for Sprint. business banking at Commerce Bank in Kansas BORN TO: City. She commutes from Lawrence. BORN TO: Kimberly Knoffloch Garrett, b’92, and Debra Churchill, c’94, diects consumer analy- Justin, b’95, and Jean Pinne Anderson, c’96, Sean, daughter, Katherine Elizabeth, Feb. 21 in sis services at Ruf Strategic Solutions in Olathe. son, Johnathon Falley, March 12 in Lawrence, Overland Park, where she joins a brother, Jor- Mary Jane Coplen, PHD’94, teaches psychol- where Justin is a dentist with Nossaman,Wilker- son & Associates. dan, 2. ogy at Hutchinson Community College. Scott, j’92, g’00, and Mendi Stauffer Hanna, Aaron Kropf, p’94, manages the pharmacy at j’94, son, Cole Scott, April 3 in Shawnee. 1996 Osco Drug in Sedalia, Mo., where he and his Philip Ast, b’96, manages industrial accounts Amy Mills Hoffman, d’92, and Patrick, son, wife, Lori, live with their son, Derek, 1. for Georgia Pacific. He lives in Castle Rock, Matthew Scott, March 3 in Arlington,Texas, Allison Lippert, j’94, edits copy for the Des Colo. where he joins two brothers, Reagan, 4, and Moines Register in Des Moines, Iowa. Bryce, 3. Jeremy Bezdek, b’96, and his wife, Emily, live Jeffrey Mayo, j’94, manages contracts for Voic- in Naperville, Ill. He’s an account manager at Laura Meriwether Kirk, j’92, and Donald, Koch Industries in Woodridge. son, Luke Joseph, March 31 in Columbus, where eStream Wireless in Bellevue,Wash. he joins a brother, Nate. Alan Michels, e’94, is a project manager at Lambro Bourodimos, PhD’96, works as a LHE in Lenexa. He lives in Olathe. German-French translator for ASMFA in Peseux, Switzerland. 1993 William Scantlin, a’94, works for Daley & Jal- Steele Brown, c’96, recently joined the Busi- Steven Ammerman, j’93, works as a boot Architects in Bryn Mawr, Pa. weekend anchor and reporter at WTEN in ness Journal in Kansas City as a telecommunica- Albany, N.Y. Annie Simonich, j’94, manages advertising tions reporter. sales for Cable One in Gulfport, Miss. Vincent Sollars, c’93, g’00, is a postdoctoral Robert Lewis, g’96, l’00, practices law with fellow at the Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadel- Sophie Xuefu Song, PhD’94, practices medi- Chelepis & Associates in Overland Park. phia. He lives in Berlin, N.J. cine at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Michelle Melnik, j’96, recently was promoted Mark Suckow, g’93, co-owns Batteries Plus. Lockhart Walker, c’94, coordinates accounts to senior account executive at Kilgannon He lives in Lenexa. at MMG Wordwide in Kansas City. McReynolds in Atlanta.

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Alan, j’96, g’99, and Maria Abatjoglou Kansas Speedway, and he teaches at Southwest Bourke Hutchinson, c’00, is a police officer Stearns, c’99, celebrated their first anniversary Junior High School. with the Ottawa Police Department. June 17.They live in Cambridge, Mass. Kristine Kuhn, c’00, studies medicine at the BORN TO: University of Colorado. She lives in Denver. MARRIED Douglas, g’98, and Tracy Hepler Ahrens, Shelley Box, c’96, and Dale Webb, Nov. 4 in c’98, daughter, Lillith Michelle, Dec. 30 in Middle- Jason Lukasek, g’00, manages accounts for Lawrence. She’s a child care specialist with the town, Del. Invitrogen. He lives in Cedar Hill, Mo. Johnson County Health Department in Olathe, Jackson Martin, c’00, directs policy and and he works for E&R Construction in 1999 research for the Virginia Democratic Caucus in Wellsville.They live in Baldwin. Hualin Chen, g’99, works as a software engi- Richmond,Va. neer for Black & Veatch in Overland Park. Jeffrey Starnes, ’00, is a national account 1997 Shannon, c’99, and Jeanne Grant Conner, Teresa Veazey Heying, j’97, recently became executive for AT&T Broadband Media Services ’01, celebrated their first anniversary June 30. in Los Angeles. He lives in Studio City. curator of education at Wichita State Univer- They live in Olathe. He’s a consultant with sity’s Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art. Applied Communications Group, and she teach- Elizabeth Traiger, c’00, studies statistics at Jo Anne Horton, f’97, teaches elementary es in the Turner School District. Oxford University in England. music for the Goddard school district. She lives Ashley Hock, c’99, j’00, directs business devel- Heather Woodson, j’00, coordinates in Wichita. opment for SearchHound.com in Kansas City. accounts at Kuhn and Wittenborn Advertising in Lolly Robinson Knopp, c’97, is an associate Kansas City. scientist at Midwest Research Institute in Stacey Harris Lamer, e’99, is an environ- Kansas City. mental engineer with Delich, Roth & Goodwillie in Kansas City. She commutes from Lawrence, 2001 Brit Laurent, b’97, works as a team leader at where she lives with her husband, Chad, c’01. Ahmad Khan, ’01, recently joined Delich Roth Cerner in Kansas City. Tracie Lewis, c’99, h’00, works as a medical & Goodwillie in Kansas City as a designer and BORN TO: technologist at KU Medical Center in Kansas detailer. City. Thomas, b’97, and Michelle Santoyo Bem- Tracie Mann, ’01, teaches at Century School berger, c’97, daughter, Maya Elizabeth, Feb. 25 Jennifer Mueller, g’99, the Alumni Associa- in Lawrence. tion’s director of student programs, received the in Cape Coral, Fla. Khemarat Suthiwan, c’01, works as a Web Outstanding Alumnae Service Award at the Ryan, g’97, and Cindy Paulino Kelly, g’97, 2001 Greek Recognition Night. developer for BMS Corp. in Denver. son,Thatcher Ryan, Feb. 15 in Tampa, Fla. Sarah Nichols, j’99, recently became an Associates account executive at Morningstar Communica- 1998 Archie Dykes, former KU chancellor, chairs tions in Kansas City. Andrew George, b’98, coordinates opera- the board of PepsiAmericas. He and Nancy tions for the Countrywide Tradition Golf tour- Stephen Oliva, PhD’99, has been promoted Haun Dykes, assoc., make their home in to positional director at Sprint in Irvine, Calif. He nament in Scottsdale, Ariz. Nashville,Tenn. Jessica Gibson, j’98, recently was promoted lives in Foothill Ranch. to annual fund officer at the Museum of the Amy Schmidt, c’99, recently became an early Arts in Boston. She lives in Hyde Park. intervention specialist with Morris County Arc. School Codes Letters that follow She lives in Whitehouse Station, N.J. names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school Sean Herrington, m’98, and his wife, Angie, from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers live in Salina with their children,Tyler, 10,Taite, 7, Marion Kincaid Wilson, s’99, is a social show their class years. Timeri, 5, and Trevor, 1. worker and case manager at the Kansas Rehabil- a School of Architecture and Urban Chris Howell, b’98, is a business banking itation Hospital in Topeka. Design officer for Emprise Bank in Wichita. b School of Business 2000 c College of Liberal Arts and Sara K. Jacobsen, b’98, g’00, scored second- Lindsay Borum, c’00, is an administrative Sciences highest in the state in the November 2000 sit- assistant with MMG Worldwide in Kansas City. d School of Education ting of the Kansas CPA exam. Sara lives in e School of Engineering Leawood, and works for lFFT and Associates in Kristel Cosner, e’00, works as an electrical f School of Fine Arts Overland Park. engineer at Intel in Chandler, Ariz. She lives in g Master’s Degree Phoenix. Nicole Mehring Schmidt, e’98, works as an h School of Allied Health implementation engineer in Coleville, Calif., Brian Friedman, d’00, lives in San Diego and j School of Journalism where she and her husband, Zachary, e’97, works for Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA in l School of Law make their home. He’s a captain in the U.S. Encinitas. m School of Medicine Marine Corps. Jennifer Harrell, e’00, recently became a n School of Nursing p School of Pharmacy Jason Simpson, a’98, recently became an staff engineer with Delich Roth & Goodwillie in s School of Social Welfare architectural intern at Ellerbe Becket in Bonner Springs. DE Doctor of Engineering Kansas City. Michael Henry, c’00, is global markets DMA Doctor of Musical Arts strategy manager for SBC Communications in EdD Doctor of Education MARRIED Des Plaines, Ill. He lives in Valley Park, Mo. PhD Doctor of Philosophy Kristel Thalmann, d’98, and Michael James Hicks, g’00, retired last fall after 20 (no letter) Former student Lewis, d’98, Dec. 16 in Lawrence, where they years with the U.S. Army Reserve. He’s a nurse assoc. Associate member of the live. She manages ticket operations at the practitioner in Manhattan. Alumni Association

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [53 IN MEMORY

1920s Howard Pankratz, e’35, 88, May 19 in Wanda Horosko Harper, d’41, g’70, 81, Constance Ingalls Barnes, c’25, 97, April Lawrence. He had been a senior projects engi- March 5 in Tonganoxie. She lived in Kansas City 25 in Pontiac, Mich. She lived in Waterford and neer for Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Okla., and was a retired job counselor with the Kansas was retired head librarian at Cranbrook Acade- and is survived by his wife, Dorothea Sanders Job Service.Two daughters, a sister, two grand- my of Art Library. She is survived by a daughter, Pankratz, ’36; a daughter, Mary Pankratz Nichols, children and two great-granddaughters survive. Jeannot Barnes Seymour, f’53; a son; two grand- c’72; a son, Howard, j’67; a brother; two grand- Mark Lesslie, c’48, April 28 in Overland Park, children; and a great-grandchild. children; and two great-grandchildren. where he worked in the real-estate business. He Edith Tobler Elam Franklin, ’27, 95, Virginia Bowers Ralston, c’30, g’32, 93, is survived by his wife, Charlotte; a son, Kevin, March 1 in Lawrence, were she was retired March 16 in Wichita, where she was a retired b’74; three daughters, Cheryl Lesslie Scott, c’75, after a retail career in Kansas City. She is sur- English teacher. She is survived by two sons; two Jennie Lesslie Newman, c’79, and Elizabeth vived by a daughter, Edith Elam Black, c’50, g’74; daughters, one of whom is Virginia Ralston Hat- Lesslie Koenig, b’86; a brother; and nine grand- seven grandchildren; and five great-grand- field, s’68; a sister; 13 grandchildren; and eight children. children. great-grandchildren. William McIntosh, b’47, 80, April 22 in Clay Dorothy Stone Haren, c’29, 93, March 6 Logan “Jack” Shuss, c’38, l’40, 85, April 14 Center, where he was retired president of Peo- in Overland Park. She is survived by her son, in Kansas City. He practiced law in Parsons for ples National Bank. He is survived by his wife, C.W.“Tod,” c’55; a daughter, Gail Haren more than 50 years. Surviving are his wife, Mari- Lavone; two daughters, one of whom is Heather McMichael, c’61; six grandchildren; and nine an Ruth Shuss, assoc.; two sons, John, c’72, m’75, McIntosh Dreith, j’78; a son, Laird, c’71 c’71; a sister; and three grandchildren. great-grandchildren. and David, c’76, m’79; a daughter, Melinda Shuss Prescott Ripley, ’44, 94, 78, April 30 in Dorothy Shaad, c’29, m’44, 91, April 3 in Hoffman, d’73; a sister, Althea Shuss Vratil, c’44; Lawrence, where he was a 20-year volunteer Kansas City, where she had practiced ophthal- and seven grandchildren. with Audio Reader. He is survived by his wife, mology at the KU Medical Center. She is sur- Janice Howe Ripley, c’55; three daughters; vived by three brothers, Paul, e’33; George, 1940s three stepdaughters; a stepson; and seven e’35; and David, e’44. William Buzick, c’42, 80, Dec. 28 in Fresno, Calif. He had owned Shasta Water Co., which grandchildren. 1930s was the first company to offer soft drinks in C.D. “Chuck” Robertson, ’49, 75, March 14 Collins Carlyle, b’37, 87, Feb. 25 in Kansas cans, and later he was CEO and board chairman in Atchison. He was retired president of Con- City, where he owned Carlyle Anderson Sales. of Sara Lee. He also had been dean of business rad-American, a manufacturer of grain storage He is survived by three daughters, Constance, at Fresno State University. He is survived by his facilities and ancilliary devices. He is survived by d’73, g’92; Kay, c’74; and Tandy Carlyle Leinwet- wife, Mary Lee, a son and a daughter. his wife, Donna, a daughter, two stepdaughters, a ter, d’77. Bailey Chaney, c’48, April 3 in Houston, stepson, four grandchildren and five stepgrand- children. Philip Cartmell, e’36, 86, Feb. 15 in Mission Texas, where he was a retired labor relations Viejo, Calif. He lived in Prairie Village, where he officer with NASA. He is survived by his wife, William Southern, ’41, 82, March 20 in had been a councilman and had worked for Virginia Foreman Chaney, ’49; a son; and a Wichita. He lived in Ellinwood and was an insur- Montgomery Ward, Gustin-Bacon Manu- grandson. ance agent for John Hancock and Transamerica insurance companies for more than 50 years. facutring and J.C. Nichols. Survivors include his John Crary, c’40, m’43, 82, April 30 in He is survived by his wife, Helen; a son,William wife, Alene Compton Cartmell, ’38; a daughter, Topeka, where he practiced medicine. He is Jr., e’68, g’70; two daughters, Nancy, f’70, s’78, Julianne Cartmell George, c’65; seven grandchil- survived by two sons; a daughter; three step- and Joan Southern Pivonka, c’70; four grandchil- dren; and eight great-grandchildren. daughters; a sister, Ruth Crary Mercer, d’39; dren; and two great-grandchildren. Mary Noyes Grovier, ’32, 91, Feb. 23 in nine grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. Donald Strohmeyer, d’48, g’49, 80, March Overland Park. She had lived in Hutchinson and Jo Ann Everett Douglas, ’46, 77, May 14 30 in Hanover. He lived in Axtell, where he had in Alexandria, La. Surviving are a son; a daughter, in Lawrence, where she worked in the KU been postmaster and principal of St. Michael’s Jayne Grovier Ireland, ’54; a brother, George Endowment Association’s loan department. A Catholic Grade School. He is survived by his memorial has been established with the KU Noyes Jr., ’34; seven grandchildren; four great- wife, Jackie Schafer Strohmeyer, ’48; four sons, Endowment Association. She is survived by her grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. two of whom are Donald, d’71, and Daniel, husband,William, e’46; two sons,William, e’78, Max Horn, ’36, 87, April 24 in Hays. He lived d’73, g’76; a daughter; and 14 grandchildren. in Russell, where he was president and director g’81, and Bruce, d’82; two daughters, Margaret, of Home State Bank. Surviving are his wife, e’94, and Nancy Douglas Wallace, b’82; two brothers; and a grandchild. 1950s Whilmetta, assoc.; and a son,William, d’77. John Domoney, ’50, 74, March 17 in Downs, John Huscher, ’36, 86, March 2 in Kansas Margaret Hagstrom Dunlap, ’41, Sept. 2 in where he co-owned Domoney Furniture and City. He had a long career with Park Lawn Dallas, where she was an artist. She is survived Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife, Melba Funeral Home and is survived by his wife, by two daughters, a son, 13 grandchildren and a Whiting Domoney, c’48; three sons, Darcy, b’75, Gladys, a son, three daughters, 12 grandchildren great-granddaughter. l’81, Duff, b’77, and Dewey, c’79; a brother; and six great-grandchildren. Edith Thompson Gray, ’41, 85, May 17 in seven grandchildren; and two stepgrandchildren. John Mize, c’30, 92, April 15 in Atchison, Albany, Calif. A memorial has been established Dean Hawley, e’50, 75, April 16 in Tulsa, where he was retired board chairman of with the KU Endowment Association. She is sur- Okla., where he was retired from Natkin & Co. Blish-Mize and was active in civic affairs. He is vived by a son, David, c’62, g’65, and two grand- Surviving are his wife, Gayle DeFord Hawley, ’53; survived by a son, John, c’61; a daughter, Court- children. three sons; his mother; two brothers, one of ney Mize Laurie, d’92; a stepson, David Arthurs, June Streeper Hardman, d’42, 81, May 17 whom is Dale, ’51; and 10 grandchildren. j’52; four grandchildren; nine stepgrandchildren; in Salina. She is survived by two sons, one of William Hoadley, c’53, m’56, 69, April 1 in 16 great-grandchildren; and a great-great- whom is Eric, e’76; a daughter, Judy Hardman Leawood. He practiced medicine at Research grandchild. Rapp, d’70; and six grandchildren. Medical Center and had taught at KU Medical

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Center. He is survived by his wife, Hazel, two Adams, d’91; a brother; two sisters; and six Anne O’Shea, s’85; two brothers, Randall, b’73, sons, a daughter, his parents, a sister and eight grandchildren. and Tim, j’77; and three sisters, two of whom grandchildren. Ethel Reed Malicky, ’64, 91, March 20 in are Karen O’Shea White, j’75, and Janine O’Shea Leland Keller, PhD’58, 78, March 10 in Pitts- Baldwin, where she was a retired teacher. She is Gilliam, c’78. burg, where he was a professor emeritus at survived by her husband, George; two daugh- Pittsburg State University. He is survived by his ters, Joyce Malicky Castle, f’61, and Georgann The University Community wife, Eileen Ebel Keller, ’54; two sons; a daugh- Malicky Raney, ’54; a son; five grandchildren; and Francis Gilgin, g’80, f’88, 78, Feb. 3 in ter; a brother; and three grandchildren. seven great-grandchildren. Tonganoxie, where he was founder and presi- Thomas McGrath, j’58, 64, April 30 in Ruth Irvin McLean, g’65, g’68, 88, March dent of the Tonganoxie Community Theatre. He Leawood. He was vice president of McGrath 2 in Lake Quivira, where she was a retired also had been a cockpit crew member for TWA Dental Supply and founder of the American teacher and school counselor. Surviving are and had taught philosophy and logic at KU and Dental Cooperative Association. Surviving are two daughters, one of whom is Sally McLean at Kansas City Kansas Community College. A three daughters, one of whom is Ann, c’91; Hart, d’60; a son, Robert, c’61; a brother; six memorial has been established with the KU and three brothers, one of whom is grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Endowment Association. He is survived by his Donald, c’51. Elwin Lee Miller, e’60, 68, April 15 in Topeka, wife, Patricia Lewin Gilgin, h’81, g’93; two daugh- ters, one of whom is Elizabeth Gilgin Menardi, Bonnie Vanskike McGowan, g’59, 78, April where he was a retired engineer. He is survived p’87, and a grandchild. 17 in Olathe, where she was a retired reading by his wife, Carolyn; three sons, two of whom teacher. Surviving are her husband, Charles; two are Bradley, b’85, and Dana, e’87, g’90; two Sydney Schroeder, m’44, 83, March 9 in sons; two stepsons, one of whom is Michael brothers; a sister, Dorothy, n’58; and seven Lawrence, where he had been director of stu- McGowan, d’79; a stepdaughter; a brother; and grandchildren. dent mental health at KU from 1963 until 1983. seven grandchildren. Robert Radcliffe, b’63, 61, April 12 in Kansas Earlier he had practiced medicine in Liberty, Mo. Vada Reida Nixon, d’53, 71, April 18. She City. A memorial has been established with the A memorial has been established with the KU lived in Salina, where she was a retired teacher. KU Endowment Association. He is survived by a Endowment Association. He is survived by his Surviving are a son; a daughter; a brother, Ellis son,William, c’94; and a brother, Dean, c’64. wife, Margaret Loomis Schroeder, assoc.; three daughters, Jane Schroeder DeSouza, f’73, Ann Reida, c’51, g’55; and a grandchild. Patricia Deam Stubbs, f’64, 59, April 29 Schroeder Porter, d’67, and Virginia Schroeder Vernon Pistora, ’51, 75, April 4 in Lawrence. in Overland Park, where she was an interior designer. She is survived by her husband, Dowell, n’76; a son; a brother; a sister; and He is survived by his wife, Carol Lindgren seven grandchildren. Anderson, assoc.; a daughter; three sons; a step- Gary, a’64; a son, Clifford, b’88, l’91; a daughter, son; four sisters; a brother; three grandchildren; Kari Stubbs Goheen, d’91, g’95; and four Miriam Stewart-Green, assoc., 85, Dec. 16 and two stepgrandchildren. grandchildren. in Lawrence, where she was a longtime KU pro- fessor of voice. A memorial has been estab- Norma Fenn White, c’55, 67, March 23 in Dorothy Spahr Zafer, d’68, g’70, 89, April 3 lished with the KU Endowment Association. Overland Park. She is survived by her husband, in Overland Park. She had taught at Easton High Survivors include her husband, Robert, assoc.; Thomas, b’51; two daughters, Brenda, c’87, and School and been a funeral director at Quisen- and two daughters. Sondra White Troup, c’89, g’92; a son, Bryan, berry Funeral Home in Tonganoxie. Surviving c’91, l’94; a sister; and four grandchildren. are a son, Calvin, c’71; four stepsons, one of Wade Stinson, b’51, 74, March 11 in Dia- whom is Ghany Zafer, c’93; two daughters; two Robert Zimmerman, e’52, 72, March 4 in mondhead, Miss. He had been director of ath- brothers, one of whom is Charles Spahr, e’34; a letics at KU from 1964 until 1972 and later was Gravois Mills, Mo. He was retired executive vice sister; and nine grandchildren. president with Wilcox and is survived by his president and CEO of United Missouri Bank of St. Louis. Among survivors are his wife,Virginia wife, Marion Lawson Zimmerman, assoc.; three 1970s sons; a daughter; nine grandchildren; and a Coppedge Stinson, j’50; two sons,Wade, c’76, Lloyd Otto Elliott, ’70, 52, April 27 in Tope- great-grandchild. m’79, and David, c’78; a daughter, Nancy Stinson ka, where he managed computer operations for Blue, c’80; a brother, Robert, b’56; and nine Henry Zoller, c’51, 72, March 12 in Long the Shawnee County Courthouse. He is sur- grandchildren. Beach, Calif. He lived in Denver and had vived by his wife, Linda; two sons, one of whom worked in the oil and gas industry. Surviving are is Brian, e’94; and a grandson. Paul Wilson, c’37, g’38, 87, April 22 in Lawrence, where he had been the John M. and three sons; two daughters; a brother, David, Michael Kokoruda, ’70, 56, April 7 in m’63; and seven grandchildren. John L. Kane Distinguished Professor of Law at Kansas City, where he worked at the Wyandotte KU. A law professorship was established in his County Courthouse. He is survived by his wife, name at KU in 1998, and a memorial has been 1960s Bridget; three sons; three brothers, two of established with the KU Endowment Associa- John Harrington, j’67, 56, March 21 of whom are Thomas, d’68, l’72, and Russell, d’74, tion. He is survived by his wife, Harriet Stephens injuries suffered in an automobile accident near g’81, g’97; and a sister, Deborah Kokoruda Wilson, c’40; three daughters, two of whom Lawrence. He lived in Kansas City and is sur- Nelson, g’86. vived by his wife, Patty Burrell, f’77; a son; a are Betsy Wilson Marvin, c’64, g’95, and Mary daughter; his mother; a brother, David, c’68; and Wilson Orbin, c’67; a son, David, c’76, g’86; a 1980s brother; eight grandchildren; and two great- a sister. Ruth McPeak James, ’87, 76, March 5 in grandchildren. Virginia Buttolph Jenks, c’67, Dec. 20 Leawood, where she was a homemaker. She is in Sun City, Ariz. Among survivors are her survived by her husband, Stephen, a daughter, Associates husband, Leon, ’55; a son; a daughter; and two sons, four grandchildren and two great- Paul Williams, 80, April 9 in Lawrence. He two grandsons. grandchildren. was a retired chief warrant officer in the U.S. John “Greg” Long, ’64, 59, April 21 in Jim O’Shea, ’85, 42, April 20 in Roeland Park, Army and later worked for McCord Corp. He is Wichita. He is survived by two sons, one of where he was a self-employed salesman. He is survived by his wife, Betty; a son, Fred, assoc.; whom is Jeffrey, c’85; a daughter, Jody Long survived by his wife, Mary; his parents, Jim and four brothers; two sisters; and a grandson.

KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 [55 HAIL TO OLD KU BY CHRIS LAZZARIN0

Bye, bye, Bi The Daily Kansan’s W rd eather J ie ay ge ts fi red. e’s been rained on, Aga chased by blowing leaves, bent at in. Hodd angles by the relentless prairie wind and frozen in blocks of ice. He napped under a shady tree on pleasant afternoons, donned skis and a stocking cap for snowy days and trudged through the summer heat dripping sweat. After 30 years of fearless forecasting, the University Daily found Kansan’s plucky prognosticator finally can mop his brow, fold up in the David Sokoloff’s original weather bird debuted his umbrella, pack away his parka and stop worrying about the Kansan morgue. Jan 19, 1971. weather—whether he likes it or not. He colorized the line The Daily Kansan rolled out a redesigned format in its sum- drawings and mixed and mer issues, and editors and designers weren’t keen on keeping a matched a few existing fea- cartoon bird on their clutter-free front page. tures to create a larger catalog. Weather Jay is out of work. Otherwise, the birds were true to He debuted Jan. 19, 1971, wearing skis and a smile. Created Sokoloff’s vision. by staff cartoonist David Sokoloff, f’74, who also had a popular “I loved Weather Jay from when I read the Kansan when I comic strip in the UDK called “Griff & the Unicorn,” Weather was young,” Musser says, “so I chose to be as historically accu- Jay was, from the start, cute as a button. But that didn’t count rate as possible.” for much in those days. Weather Jay lasted seven years after his reintroduction, but “It was the early ’70s,” Sokoloff says from his Chicago home. he’s now been replaced by “a seven-day forecast provided by the “We had things going on. The anti-war movement, things like KU Atmospheric Sciences Department.” Which sounds official that. The appearance of a strange little bird on the left-hand side and accurate and reliable. And the redesigned Kansan looks ter- of the paper was sort of taken for granted.” rific and proud and new, which in itself pays tribute to the tradi- Sokoloff retrieves a scrapbook tion of newspaper excellence at KU. and wanders down memory But ... well, we already miss Weather Jay, just like we miss the lane. He finds a sketch that local TV weather guy who picked up a few extra bucks by host- makes him laugh. ing the bowling show on Saturday. You know the guy. He was on “This one indicated the every station in every town in America. Now he’s been replaced weather was warm. Weather by “certified meteorologists” whose “live Doppler radar” can tell Jay is just sitting there … with us everything except when to take the roast out of the oven. those peculiar shoes with Maybe Weather Jay and Bowling-Show Guy are making the buckles on them, like he’s best of their retirements. Maybe they’re sipping piña coladas a pilgrim.” together, relaxing on a beach in a paradise where sameness is Weather Jay was blowing abhorred, quirkiness in the wind after the mid- is treasured and 1970s, appearing one umbrellas are un- semester and disappearing the necessary. next. He lost his gig, seemingly for good, in the early 1980s, but We just hope was rescued in fall 1994 by designer Noah Musser, f’97. they remembered Musser scanned Weather Jays from newspapers stored at Uni- to pack their pil- versity Archives because Sokoloff’s originals were nowhere to be grim shoes.

56] KANSAS ALUMNI NO. 4, 2001 The Kansas Alumni Association invites nominations for the University’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Citation.

Since 1941 the University of Kansas and its Alumni Association have bestowed the Distinguished Service Citation upon nearly 340 alumni and honorary alumni. Recipients are selected from nominations submitted to the Alumni Association and reviewed by a special Selection Committee. Distinguished Service Citation recipients are honored by the Alumni Association in the spring and participate in Commencement as honored guests.

Nominations may come from any source and should include a recent résumé of the candidate’s service history, including career, published works, previous honors and service to the world, nation, state, community and University. Letters of support may also be included. The deadline for nominations for the 2002 awards is Sept. 30, 2001.

Send nominations for the 2002 awards to Fred B. Williams at the Kansas Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044-3169.