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32 26 38 40 COVER STORY Man’s First Best Friend Protests Past Over Here Sweet Suite Music A professor and his student are Civil disobedience can take One hundred years ago, the challenging well-worn myths many forms—bold, quiet, entire campus community Wynton Marsalis and his jazz about the big, bad wolf. public, private—but the mobilized to ght a war on orchestra help the Lied Center perspective of time shows two fronts: in the trenches of celebrate a silver anniversary. By Chris Lazzarino resistance is not futile. France and the hospitals here at home. By Steven Hill By Robert Day By Evie Rapport Cover photograph by Steve Puppe

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8 ISSUE 6, 2018 | 3 Lift the Chorus I will forever be grateful to [“Tan Man Returns”] was spot my parents and family for the on. Chris Lazzarino did a great values they instilled and the job capturing the essence of opportunities they were able to Mr. Schneider and his meaning provide me with very limited and presence on campus. One of her comments struck economic resources. eir lives If you were on campus particularly close to home, that were very much like those of during the ’70s, you absolutely of being a student at KU and Sarah’s family as described in knew Tan Man—maybe not “moving between two dierent your article. ey were very personally, but of him. You worlds” when talking with her proud Kansas farm folks who could not pass Wescoe without parents and grandparents back valued and honored family and glancing to see if he was there. home. On many occasions what could be achieved by I don’t know whether we while a student at KU I visited hard work. adopted him or he adopted us. my parents on the farm and John W. Huey, b’69, l’72 Likely some combination. even worked the summer Lenexa Maybe at rst glance you wheat harvest, but frankly were intrigued or surprised those experiences served as I   reading (no mobile phones then, so we even more incentive for me to the story about Sarah Smarsh’s actually took in campus Shared stories succeed at KU. I too was the book, Heartland. Provocative atmosphere each day), but rst in my family to graduate comes to mind. I’d say she has fairly quickly you couldn’t help I   Steven with a university degree. rued a few feathers in our but become his fan. You Hill’s article on Sarah Smarsh I may have a bit dierent great state, but that’s what good worried if he wasn’t there, and [“Hard Stories,” issue No. 5] take, though, than Sarah on authors do! you smiled and felt reassured and her recently published the opportunity presented by Steven Dillman, c’81 when he was. book, Heartland: A Memoir of earning a university degree, Kansas City ere were no protest signs, Working Hard and Being Broke when combined with diligence no boisterous claims, no in the Richest Country on and eort in one’s career. I I    that I chanting, no agenda, and no Earth. continue to believe that those read—no, digested—Steven troublesome or unruly I suspect that her story, attributes oer perhaps the Hill’s article about Sarah behavior. Sometimes he would personal background and single greatest opportunity for Smarsh’s journey out of be approached by students, family history of being raised “escaping poverty” as Sarah poverty! I am a fellow son of and Tan Man always obliged. in a rural Kansas environment achieved. It seems to me that rural Kansas who also He was friendly, always polite, “below the poverty line” and is one reason why it is so “escaped” to KU, though some and had a simple, unfettered being rst exposed to the important that our institutions 34 years earlier. (ings don’t presence that simply said, “I broader social/economic and government must continue change!) I must rush out to am who I am.” We respected inuences at KU are not so to oer (rather than reduce, as purchase Sarah’s book and him for that, and he gave us all unique. While my own image seems to be the current state continue my own healing a great reminder each day— and perception of the KU and federal government process. amid exams, lectures, and student body, even aer stance) nancial assistance to In the meantime, I wish I deadlines—to be true to spending seven years at the low-income students in order could meet and thank her, and ourselves. Lawrence campus, is one to allow them the opportunity shake her hand, or oer a hug, ank you, Kansas Alumni, dominantly comprised of to obtain a university if she was so inclined! for revisiting a memory that suburban-raised (in Kansas or education. Pastor George Mathews, c’69 still lives for those of us who otherwise) students of middle- Palmer, Nebraska witnessed this man during or upper-class families, I am those years. I assure you Mr. certain that there was and is a Schneider’s presence for me is strong component of students still felt anytime I visit campus. from families much like those KUdos As I stroll by Wescoe, I can still of Smarsh and my own rural see him, reclining peacefully COURTESY SARAH SMARSH SARAH COURTESY Kansas farm family. And the I’     on one of those white concrete blunt language she oen used to issues, but the most recent benches with his old metal was quite familiar, I’m certain, one [issue No. 5] was fender bicycle propped nearby. to most of us who were raised exceptional. And I still can’t help but smile in rural Kansas. Smarsh with her father First, the article on Tan Man and recall fond memories of

4 | KANSAS ALUMNI Del-ightful former chancellor who Your impressed us, charmed us, and opinion counts I    articles made microbiology more Please email us a note on Del Shankel [“First Word” exciting than football. at [email protected] and “Farewell to Del,” Hilltop- is minor story is an to tell us what you think of ics, issue No. 5] go by without example of what Del Shankel your alumni magazine. comment. He is one of those did for his university on a daily

KU ARCHIVES/SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY RESEARCH ARCHIVES/SPENCER KU few KU gures who stand basis for nearly 60 years. He above the rest and make you was an amazing man. director of communications feel really good about your Carl McFarland, c’71, g’73, for the Higuchi Biosciences school. Had he not existed, KU PhD’75, Tucson, Arizona Center when I joined HBC in Schneider would be a dierent place. 1993. She set me on the right My son, Graeme, (high path so many times when I was school quarterback from in need of advice and consulta- him, and of the campus Alabama) was being heavily tion. I had no idea at that time STEVE PUPPE STEVE community that accepted and recruited by KU and made his that she had been KU Info’s embraced him. I wish Mr. ocial visit in 2001 during a rst director, and a dozen years Schneider the very best in his game against Oklahoma. e later I took the position as KU retirement, and if there’s ever oensive coordinator knew Info’s h director. an MFA project to put a that Graeme was even more In just over a year, we will commemorative statue of him interested in biology than celebrate KU Info’s 50th on one of those benches (in his football, so he managed to anniversary and we are so iconic “resting in the sun” set up a meeting for us with Domer proud that the program still pose) with a small plaque Del Shankel. functions within Shirley’s about his KU legacy, count me We met for an hour in his vision that she describes in this in on the funding drive! oce, and when he nished Thanks for quote from 1971: “Ultimately, Also, the article on Sarah talking about KU, microbiol- the Info the eectiveness of KU Info Smarsh by Steven Hill was ogy and football, my son was will depend on the degree of exceptional. Fantastic read and blown away. I had never seen I   to see trust the students have in us. excellent pro le of this him so excited. Dr. Shankel Shirley Gilham Domer is will develop slowly as amazing woman and her concluded the meeting by honored with the Pioneer trust always does, but we will various journalism accom- saying this: “Graeme, at this Award [“First KU Info director treat every call and every caller plishments. In some publica- point in my career, I no longer earns Pioneer award,” Class as legitimate and important.” tions this might have been a take on new students, but I Notes, issue No. 4]. Hurray for Shirley, and light one-paragraph yby on intend to become your I worked at KU Info and hurray for KU Info! her character and life, but the academic advisor. Is that okay will never forget the night the Curtis Marsh, j’92 writer took time to give us a with you?” Vietnam War ended and the Lawrence personal introduction to her “Yes, sir,” Graeme answered. switchboard lit up. “Is the war which had me from the rst “at would be great!” really over?” sentence. I’ve added Heartland “So, I have a few of my most I was so lucky as a young Mystery date to my “must reads.” recent scienti c publications I student to work under some- e photos were perfect for would like you to read,” Dr. one like Shirley! Her under- Editor’s Note: In “Mystery each article and the simple Shankel told him. standing of student needs and Solved” [Rock Chalk Review, issue black-and-white cover is Graeme read these on the student climate was encom- No. 5] we incorrectly stated that exquisite. plane to Birmingham and passing, and she is so right: Annetta Pelham, the subject of Kudos to Kansas Alumni understood enough to know “How hard it’s been to get Spencer Museum of Art’s “Mrs. sta and writers. Please what he would be doing for the where we are.” ank you, Thomas Pelham” painting, was continue to give us such next four years. Alas, Graeme Shirley, for your ght! the wife of a textile merchant in 1920s England. The correct time articles of substance and (now a professor of vascular Margaret Cook Strainer, j’74 Kalispell, Montana period is the 1720s. We regret insight—to both the past and surgery) turned down the KU the error. present parts of our rich KU oer when he didn’t think he heritage. would enjoy working with the I    to see the Dale Werth, c’76 incoming head coach. None- feature on Shirley Domer in Springfield, Virginia theless, we will never forget the Kansas Alumni. She was

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Lied Foundation of Omaha, Nebraska, helped the University begin construction of a long-awaited home for the performing arts. Aer lightning and re destroyed Hoch’s interior in 1991, the KUAA ARCHIVES KUAA September 1993 opening of the Lied Center could not come soon enough. Over the past quarter-century, the hall has become a vibrant community hub. Another hallowed hall, at the center of Jayhawk Boulevard, also looms large in this issue. From spring 1917 to the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, that ended World War I a century ago, the building that became Strong Hall—then only one-third nished and known as “East Ad”—was the headquarters for Chancellor Frank Strong and KU leaders who scrambled to respond to the nation’s desperate need for military training, research and homefront support of the war. Our story by Evie Masterson Rapport, d’70, basketball-themed birthday serenade for a performing g’78, who as a graduate student served as assistant editor of Aarts center? As Associate Editor Steven Hill explains in our Kansas Alumni, describes the creative ways in which KU made do cover story, the notion makes perfect sense, especially when amid the devastation of war and a deadly inuenza epidemic. the composers and performers are among the nation’s most Years later, in the 1960s, Strong Hall, including the basement esteemed jazz virtuosos, and the hallowed hall turning 25 is that as an unnished foundation in 1917 and ’18 had housed the University’s Lied Center of Kansas, on a campus where the wartime military drills, became the site of student protests. In nation’s most revered college basketball tradition began with another of his trademark essays, Robert Day, c’64, g’66, recalls one the game’s inventor. such upheaval and the implications of protests past and present. e Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis As the dust settles from the contentious 2018 election and the united two exquisite art forms Oct. 11 in the world premiere of state’s new leaders prepare for the Kansas Legislature’s 2019 “Rock Chalk Suite,” a joyous tribute to KU hoops legends that was session, the Kansas Board of Regents has proposed restoration of commissioned by Derek Kwan, Lied Center executive director, the state’s investment in the six Regents universities to 2008 levels. with the support of generous patrons. e two-year proposal also asks for a new infusion of $25 e incomparable performance highlighted the wondrous million—to be matched by the universities—for need-based improvisation that delights fans of both jazz and basketball. It also scholarships that would provide opportunities for Kansas students served as the triumphant nale of the orchestra’s three-day stay in who could help meet the state’s workforce needs. For KU, the Lawrence, featuring a free concert for middle-school students that restored base-budget funds would total about $33 million over doubled as jazz history classes led by Marsalis, whose rollicking two years. Over the past decade, KU’s state funding has fallen by spoken ris as one of the nation’s foremost jazz scholars rival his $30 million, or $70 million when adjusted for ination, but KU dazzling trumpet ourishes. has made do. For KU history acionados, the Lied Center debut of “Rock Jayhawks for Higher Education, the Alumni Association’s Chalk Suite” harked back to one of the quirkier aspects of our statewide legislative advocacy network, will urge leaders to past: From 1928 to 1955, Jayhawk basketball, prestigious visiting reinvest in the state’s vital universities. Visit kualumni.org/jhe to orchestras and other artists all took turns performing on a single add your voice to the chorus—and help Kansas move beyond stage in the Lied’s predecessor, Hoch Auditorium, an adored but merely making do to thriving once again. awkward venue woefully ill-suited for sporting or symphonic spec- tacles—as well as Rock Chalk Revues, holiday Vespers, visiting lecturers and the countless KU classes that called Hoch home.

ough stately on the outside, (2) LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH Hoch inside was a dreary echo chamber. But for generations, KU made do—until a landmark 1988 Dedicated in 1927, Hoch Auditorium provided performance space for a variety of events including gi of $10 million from the Ernst F. symphonies, lectures and basketball games. Built in several phases, Strong Hall was completed in 1923.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 7 On the Boulevard

Spirited Jayhawks flocked to Massachusetts Street for this year’s Home- coming Parade, which featured grand marshals Rich and Judy Billings, who returned for their 60th Homecoming celebration, and Howard and Debra Cohen as winners of the annual Rich and Judy Billings Spirit of 1912 Award. The theme for the University’s 106th Homecoming was “Home on the Hill.”

Exhibitions Lied Center events 31 KU Percussion Group 13 Ft. Leavenworth series: with special guest Andy e War of 1812 on the “Art in the Grove,” Marvin NOVEMBER Akiho Home Front Grove, through Nov. 25 19 Humanities Lecture Series: An Evening with Neil “Passage,” Spencer Museum of Dole Institute events Natural History Gaiman Art, through Nov. 25 Museum events 27 Jane Lynch: “A Swingin’ DECEMBER “Soundings,” Spencer Museum Little Christmas!” 5-6 2018 National NOVEMBER of Art, through Dec. 16 Post-Election Conference 27 Science on Tap: Forget DECEMBER “Larry Schwarm: Kansas Farm- Everything You ought You ers,” Spencer Museum of Art, 1, 5 Ashley Davis with Knew About Biology, Bier through Jan. 6 special guest Lúnasa Station, Kansas City 2 Holiday Vespers “ e Ties that Bind: Haiti, the DECEMBER United States and the Art of 3, 4 Vincent Herring Duo 2 Discovery Day: Wildlife Ulrick Jean-Pierre in Com- 6 KU Symphonic Band and Conservation, Dyche Hall parative Perspective,” Spencer University Band Museum of Art, through Jan. 6 4 Collections Up Close: 7 Jay Owenhouse, illusionist Parasites, Kansas Union “50 for 50: Celebrating Fiy 9 Canadian Brass Christmas Years of Kenneth Spencer Murphy Hall Research Library” Spencer JANUARY Research Library, through Jan. 7 20 Ovation! USD 497 Talent NOVEMBER Show “Presepio: An Expanded View,” 19 KU Trombone and Horn Spencer Museum of Art, Dec. 27 Russian National Ballet: Choirs 4 through Jan. 13 “ e Sleeping Beauty”

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25 Faculty Recital Series: Valley West High School, Steven Spooner, piano Overland Park 26 A Tribute to Delores Stevens Academic Calendar 27 Intergenerational Choir Concert NOVEMBER 27 Brass Chamber Music 21-25 anksgiving break

28 Viola Studio Recital DECEMBER 28 Flute Studio Recital 6 Last day of classes

DECEMBER 7 Stop Day 3 KU Tuba/Euphonium 10-14 Finals week Consort 3 KU Percussion Group Alumni Events 4 KU Choirs: Bales Chorale, NOVEMBER Bales Organ Recital hall 1-30 KU Cares Month of 6 Opera Workshop: Amahl Service (for complete and the Night Visitors, schedule, visit kualumni.org/ Baustian eatre monthofservice) 6 Collegium Musicum, Bales 21 KU vs. Marquette Organ Recital Hall basketball watch parties 21 KU vs. Marquette Performances basketball pregame party, Brooklyn, New York NOVEMBER 23 KU vs. Louisville/ 30 Vespers on the Road, Tennessee basketball watch 23 KU vs. Texas football DECEMBER Carlsen Center, JCCC parties watch parties 10 KU Day with the Tampa DECEMBER 23 KU vs. Texas, member 28 Kansas Honor Scholar Bay Lightning, Tampa, tailgate, Adams Alumni Program: Lawrence Florida 5 KU Wind Ensemble, Blue Center 14 Houston: Jayhawks & Java

JANUARY 2 KU Day with the Phoenix Suns, Phoenix 12 KU vs. Baylor pregame party, Waco, Texas

Events listed here are high- lights from the Association’s busy calendar. For complete listings of all events, watch for emails about programs in your area, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 9 Jayhawk Walk dropped by Aug. 15 to partake of coee and snacks (“legitimate brownies, not the other kind,” Lim jokes). A little surprising: Only one Woodstock partygoer actually made it to Woodstock. No matter, says Lim, whose 1969 plan to attend was foiled when his ride, a Harley- owning friend from Oliver Hall, didn’t show. “It was such a high point culturally for so many of us,” he says, “we like to think that spirit lives on.” Next year’s 50th anniversary, Lim says, will be even better. Plans call

RYAN WAGGONER/SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART (2) OF ART MUSEUM WAGGONER/SPENCER RYAN for “double the food, double the fun, double the people.” Heck, Jayhawk Boulevard might be closed, man.

Get your grove on

ometimes you just even a human sigh— Sgotta hug it out. gathered nearby. SOCIETY ENDACOTT COURTESY Outdoors, that is. “I thought about how to An art installation in work with the whole grove Marvin Grove called in an interactive way,” “CHIPKO” honors Levy told the University Carolyn and Fred Madaus environmental activists Daily Kansan, “so that and KU chancellor James students walking through Marvin, father of the could discover something A new Phog in town campus copse, while that aroused a curiosity giving students and and gave them opportu- KU’        passersby a reason to harvesting them. Their nity to pause, and think, recruit has received rave reviews: He linger in one of Mount movement was called to perhaps have some boasts a calm demeanor, gets along well Oread’s pleasanter nooks. Chipko, the Hindi word pleasure in the space and with others and projects professionalism Judith Levy, David for hugging. become emerged in that at all times—even in large crowds. In fact, Ross, and Jason Zeh, g’16, Phosphorescent paint environment.” Chris Keary, c’83, chief of police and designed five benches to makes the benches glow Not sure if there’s a director of public safety, showered him wrap around trees, a in the dark, and two have shortage of hugging in with the highest praise: “He’s a very tribute to Indian women built-in speakers that play the grove after dark, but, good boy.” in the 1970s who clasped a loop of nature sounds— hey, it’s art, people. You guessed it: e new cadet is of the trees to keep loggers from birdsongs, cricket chirps, Embrace it. oppy-eared, four-legged kind. On Aug. 24, the Oce of Public Safety took to social media to introduce its new By the time they got to members who could have been at the explosive-detection dog—a 2-year-old Woodstock 1960s’ seminal rock festival. yellow Labrador Retriever who will police “Our membership is of that age,” says athletic and other major events at KU and C   W’ 49th club president Paul Lim, c’70, g’74, retired in Douglas County with his handler, anniversary seems a natural for the professor of English. “e music of that Ocer John Haller. Endacott Society. A er all, the faculty and period is our music.” e department also sought help to sta retiree club that meets Wednesdays at No shock, then, that lots of tie-dyed, name him. “We like community involve- the Adams Alumni Center has many headbanded profs turned on, tuned in and ment in the things we do,” Keary says. “It’s

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI e Good Card’s popularity spurred treasured keepsakes for students, who Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel and students to display them prominently as reminders to nd another avenue for giving, so they serve others. devised coin banks shaped like an ark—or, “We want these kids to become the ARK, for Acts of Random Kindness—into movers and the shakers who will make this which students deposit spare change. world a better place,” Tiechtel says. “ is When each ark is full, its coins are given to campaign does exactly that. is campaign a person in need. e program launched gets kids excited about goodness.” good community policing principle, in August, and Chabad already has Big change from spare change, a formula letting people have that kind of input.” distributed more than 3,000. e coin to help all Jayhawks feel better about Fans pounced on the chance, submitting arks, available campuswide, became themselves and their world. more than 100 pup-worthy possibilities. Aer careful consideration, the depart- ment chose four names with strong KU

ties—Champ, Cheddar (a nod to KU PUPPE STEVE Dining’s legendary Crunchy Chicken Cheddar Wrap), Hawk and Phog—and again asked the public to weigh in. One week and more than 5,300 votes later, Phog was the clear favorite. No doubt KU’s popular pup gave his new name an enthusiastic paws-up.

Small boats, big hopes I O , to help students cope with their heartache following a triple homicide on Mass Street and the mass shooting in Las Vegas, the Rohr Symbolic Jayhawk flock Chabad Center for Jewish Life created “ e Good Card.” e handout instructed ancy Shirk Yonally’s forebears to the football jersey worn by Yonally’s that anyone holding the card had 10 Nhomesteaded the family property father, David Shirk, c’39, g’51, and Besco minutes “to do a Random Act of Kindness north of Lawrence in 1865—the year KU cut out a nook to insert a “Lawrence, to make someone’s day.” e card should was founded—so when a 200-year-old Kansas” brick that Mr. Shirk had saved then “perform its magic” by being passed white mulberry tree toppled two years from his days working construction at along to the recipient of the good deed, ago, she was inspired to find a creative the Allen Field House site. encouraging cycles of kind-hearted KU-themed solution for the stout trunk “Half of the tree fell down on a outreach. that remained. Saturday morning, about 5:30,” recalls Enter chainsaw artist Dan Besco, Yonally, ’65. “My mother went out whose carved Jayhawks last year there and said, ‘Well, the tree was first. became popular auction items at the I’m next.’”

STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE Association’s annual Rock Chalk Ball in The joyful KU spirit of Margaret Shirk, Kansas City and Jayhawk Roundup in c’39, lives on in the remains of her Wichita. Besco, the only o‹cially beloved mulberry. She died in September licensed Jayhawk chainsaw carver, in 2017 at 100. “She would have enjoyed late summer began carving every watching him at work,” Yonally says of iteration of our beloved bird into the Besco’s unusual artistry. old mulberry, topping the rooted trunk Yonally says the family welcomes with his stylized version of visitors who want to drop by for the current Jay. pictures with her family’s Jayhawk tree. The tree also If you don’t remember the way to the Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel includes a “55” Shirks’ old party barn, the farm is at and Daniel Shafton carving, in tribute 1359 North 1900 Road.

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rededication, “e Victory Eagle” was safely nesting in a new hilltop aerie. JAMIE ROPER JAMIE But as trees and shrubbery began to encroach in recent years, the vibrant “Victory Eagle” seemed to get lost in the hubbub of a busy campus byway, and planners began hatching ideas to place it on Memorial Drive. With three summers of work planned for reconstruction of Memorial Drive—in 2016, ’17 and ’18—it was hoped that a restored eagle could be placed and dedicated in time for the 100th anniver- sary of the World War I armistice, on Nov. 11, 2018. Once it became clear that various funding and materials-acquisition delays meant that goal could not be met, a new dedication target date was set: Memorial Day 2019. “‘e Victory Eagle’ has been probably the most exciting part of the project for me, learning all of the history of the eagle ‘Ready to fly again’ Funded by donations from local women’s and how it was part of a project that was clubs, the Douglas County statue of a bald supposed to span coast-to-coast,” Mohr Rebuilt Memorial Drive to be eagle defending her eaglets was thought at says. “It’s important that we give it crowned with ‘Victory Eagle’ the time to be the second in the country. proper display and proper location on Only three are known to remain in Memorial Drive.” he three-summer project to rebuild Kansas, and the Douglas County statue, Aer it was removed from Dyche Hall Tand recon gure Memorial Drive is which had been placed at the Leavenworth last summer, KU hired a bronze-statue now complete, awaiting one nal orna- County line, was nearly lost to neglect. specialist from Kansas City’s Nelson- ment: installation of “e Victory Eagle”— According to research by the Atkins Museum of Art to restore “e which since 1982 had been perched in Lecompton Historical Society, the late Victory Eagle.” Except for a minor crack in front of Dyche Hall—on a newly built site Tom Swearingen, f’60, the Natural History one leg, which was easily repaired, the overlooking Marvin Grove. Museum’s longtime director of exhibits, in statue was found to be in good overall “In front of Dyche, it was in a bunch of 1980 noticed a Kansas Department of condition despite a century of exposure trees and kind of overgrown, so it wasn’t Transportation truck hauling the eagle and, at times, abuse and neglect. really noticed as much it should have away aer it had been found in a ditch, “It’s restored,” Mohr says, “and ready to been,” says Facilities Planning and either toppled by vandals or dropped by y again.” Development project manager Gary Mohr. thieves who likely underestimated the he Alumni and friends of the University “And, from our perspective, it’s appropri- of a 4-foot-tall bronze statue with a interested in supporting the project, which ate for it to be on Memorial Drive, because wingspan of more than 7 feet. continues to be in need of private funds it’s a war memorial.” Swearingen followed the truck to a for installation, are encouraged to contact e bronze statue—part of an ambitious KDOT work yard and eventually led a KU Endowment’s Dale Slusser at project to place identical statues at every successful request for the statue to be [email protected] or county line along the transcontinental U.S. relocated to Mount Oread. A pedestal was 800-444-4201. Highway 40, known as the “Victory fashioned from limestone salvaged from As with Jayhawk Boulevard reconstruc- Highway”—was commissioned in the what had been a rock fence near Perry, tion that began in 2013, the new Memorial early 1920s as a memorial to Douglas according to the Lecompton Historical Drive sparkles as never before, and the Countians who were killed in World War I. Society, and by the time of its 1982 work ventured far beyond the cosmetic.

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI small parking lot between Smith and Spooner halls will be rebuilt and

SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN recon gured, and work will be completed on the new plaza installed last summer in front of the Kansas Union, nally completing the massive Jayhawk Boulevard master plan. —Chris Lazzarino

‘Transformative’ Hospital’s largest-ever gift will help ‘sickest of the sick’

longtime board member and stem- Acell transplant patient who credits the New retaining walls expanded available access and it wasn’t really inviting. Now, University of Kansas Hospital for saving parking space along the south side of the from my perspective, it’s a very inviting his life helped spearhead a $66 million drive, allowing for cars to be parked nose piece of campus. Parking and all that stu donation that is the largest gi ever to the rst, rather than parallel to the road. at, aside, for visitors to be able to stroll down University of Kansas Health System. in turn, allowed for the removal of all Memorial Drive, see Marvin Grove, the Charlie Sunderland, secretary and parking along the north side of Memorial war memorials and Potter Lake, with very treasurer of the Sunderland Family Drive and the long-overdue installation of nice, new vistas of all those, that, to me, Foundation of Kansas City and member of sidewalks, creating improved pedestrian added a lot to the campus aesthetic.” the Hospital Authority Board since 2000, access to the memorials and safer naviga- e nal phase of Jayhawk Boulevard’s announced the donation to a gathering of tion of a busy, winding road for pedestri- improvement, stretching from Danforth hospital sta in September. ans and bicyclists. Chapel to 13th Street, is scheduled to be “As you know, we’ve been supporters of “Memorial Drive was maybe a bit of a completed in summer 2019. Some curbing the Cambridge Tower over the years, sore thumb,” Mohr says. “It was lit, but it will be removed to improve bus access making an early grant,” Sunderland told wasn’t well lit. ere wasn’t any pedestrian around the Docking Family Gateway, the more than 400 people gathered in

UPDATE en Vo, g’04, a disability helped 15,000 people with “This award really rights advocate from disabilities with skill- and reažrms my belief that STEVE PUPPE STEVE Y Vietnam who attended KU capacity-building activities, everyone is born equal in on a Ford Foundation grant, scholarships, job place- dignity and worth, and that received the Ramon ments, assistive devices everyone is entitled—as a Magsaysay Award, widely and computers, and web human right—to live a life hailed as Asia’s counterpart resources on disability to the fullest extent of his or to the Nobel Prize. rights and accessible public her abilities,” Vo said at an Vo [“The Way of Yen infrastructure. August ceremony in Manila. Vo,” issue No. 6, 2008] co- The Magsaysay Award “It strengthens my hope founded Disability Research was established in 1957 to that we can have more and Capacity Development perpetuate the legacy of support and resources to (DRD), a center that boosts former Philippine president build a better society that participation in Vietnam- Ramon Magsaysay and addresses the needs and ese society for people with celebrate “greatness of well-being of people with disabilities. The Ho Chi spirit and transformative disabilities.” Minh City nonprofit has leadership in Asia.”

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will now have that opportunity: It’s estimated that the new center will be able ENROLLMENT RISE: Record highs in retention rates, to serve more than 2,500 patients over the military-aliated and minority student populations helped next 10 years. “It’s remarkable what the Sunderland increase enrollment for a fifth straight year. According to Foundation has done for this community 20th-day headcount released in September, 28,510 students with their gi ,” says Tammy Peterman, n’81, g’97, president of Kansas City are enrolled across all campuses, including a record 3,695 operations and executive vice president, at KU Medical Center and 24,815 on the Lawrence and chief operating ocer and chief nursing ocer of the University of Kansas Health Edwards campuses. System. “ey are visionaries. is gi is transformative because it will impact the lives of the sickest of the sick for genera- tions to come.” Battenfeld Auditorium, referring to a $2 education center; plans also call for million gi the foundation made in 2014, accommodating patients from the as the $100 million campaign to build the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and tower began. “You also know I’ve been on Cellular erapy (HMCT). Budget reset the board here at the University Health “Our medical teams and support sta Administration says deep cuts System upwards of 18 years now,” Sunder- have built world-class BMT/HMCT land continued, “and have also been a programs to treat patients,” Page says. needed to get KU back on track patient here.” “is enormous gi by the Sunderland e gi will allow the hospital to Foundation reects the condence $20 million budget cut announced in complete the remaining unoccupied three and faith Charlie, Kent and their A May and the subject of monthly oors of Cambridge Tower A into an family hold for the health system. It’s a budget conversations this fall may result in inpatient care unit for the Blood and great honor.” job losses sooner than expected, according Marrow Transplant program (BMT), e BMT program treats patients with to Carl Lejuez, interim provost and which has grown from 40 transplants a blood cancers and disorders, such as executive vice chancellor. year to more than 300, with patients leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma In a message to faculty, sta and currently housed in three separate units. and sickle cell disease. In the past 10 years, aliates May 28, Lejuez revealed that the e new space will allow all BMT the KU program has more than doubled Lawrence campus “faces substantial, but patients to stay in one unit, according to the number of stem cell transplants reparable, budget circumstances that Bob Page, president and CEO of the performed annually, earning recognition require our immediate attention and University of Kansas Health System, and as one of the nation’s most successful BMT action” and announced a 5.87 percent will leave room for expansion. e unit and Acute Leukemia programs. e across-the-board budget cut. will house a family center and patient HMCT program is at the center of cancer “e situation is the result of years of care, including the many long-term commitments and development of a investments that each year exceeded our Translational Science revenue, combined with institutional Research and budgeting practices inconsistent with the CAR-T/Cellular current challenges of higher-education erapy program. funding and a decade-long trend of

COURTESY KU MEDICAL CENTER KU COURTESY “Seven years ago, I declines in state funding.” did have a stem cell At an Oct. 6 information session, Lejuez transplant here at said that job cuts may come this scal year KU,” Sunderland told because some departments lack reserve the Kansas City Star. money to cover the budget decrease. “I’m fortunately a “I have said clearly most cuts would very healthy guy. come in the next year,” Lejuez said of the ey really saved potential for job losses, “but I am hearing my life.” from units and they can’t move forward Three unoccupied floors of the hospital’s recently completed Cambridge Many more because they don’t have enough cash.” Tower will house the growing Bone Marrow Transplant program. critically ill patients Lejuez and Chancellor Doug Girod

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI Milestones, money

JILL HUMMELS and other matters

n Rob Riggle, c’93, received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the YOUNGER SUSAN College of Liberal Arts & Sciences during “An Evening With Rob Riggle,” Riggle a free event Nov. 2 at the Burge Union. The theatre and film alumnus served in the U.S. Marine Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Carl Lejuez hosted open meetings across campus Corps before making his mark as a to discuss a proposed $20 million budget cut. The next campus budget conversation is Dec. 5. comedic actor in films and television, including stints on “The Daily Show say that quick action is needed to get context of a ve year projected budget with Jon Stewart” and “Saturday the Lawrence campus back on a strong including likely revenue and other Night Live.” scal footing. spending priorities.” “Staying the current course is not an KU Faculty Senate President Kirk n A challenge grant from the National option,” Lejuez wrote in his May message. McClure has called for Kansas Athletics Endowment for the Humanities could “If we make no changes in the coming year and KU Endowment each to take a 3 provide $406,542 for improvements we will have overspent our budget with no percent budget cut to help make up some to the Spencer Museum of Art. The remaining balances to support this of the $20 million de cit. “You are asking museum must raise $1.2 million to get overspending, and operations will be short faculty to make a 6 percent cut,” McClure the Infrastructure and Capacity Building a minimum of $50 million within ve told Lejuez during the October meeting. Challenge Grant, which would fund the years. Spreading the cut over several years “I just want them to come up with three renovation of two galleries, renovation also is not an option. is tactic costs us ways they can make cuts, and convince us of the museum’s primary collection more nancially; perpetuates a climate of that the pain of those plans are greater storage space for three-dimensional uncertainty about job security, raises, and than the pain of cutting the faculty works of art and paintings, and replace- tuition costs; and keeps us in a constant and sta.” ment of a freight elevator that dates state of want and need rather than Lejuez said that direct support from the back to the building’s 1977 construction. advancing us toward a position of stability University for athletics is only $1.5 that we all deserve.” million, and that 98 percent of gis that n David Toland, c’99, g’01, CEO of During an August town hall meeting on fund Endowment’s direct support of KU Thrive Allen County [“Thrive Where the topic, Girod said “taking the bull by are earmarked for speci c purposes by You’re Sown,” issue No. 3], was the horns” was the best solution. Acting donors, making large reductions unfea- awarded the first-ever Alumni Spotlight now “will get the University back on track sible. But he also expressed doubt that it Award from the Network of Schools much quicker and put us in charge of our would be right to ask them to make the of Public Policy, Aœairs and Administra- destiny,” Girod said. cuts even if they could. tion. NASPAA also bestowed the Leslie In addition to the $20 million cut to the “Just because we have this cut does not A. Whittington Teaching Award on base budget this scal year, Lejuez is necessarily mean that other corporations Professor Alfred Tat Kei Ho and the leading an eort to develop a new budget should absorb that cut,” he said of KU’s William Duncombe Excellence in model that balances growth with larger budget hole. “Maybe the Union should Doctoral Education Award on Profes- priorities. He has called for curbing new absorb that cut; maybe the Alumni sor Steven Maynard-Moody. Doctoral spending below revenue—a challenge over Association should absorb that cut. ere student Angela Park won the Staats the next few years given that considerable are multiple corporations here.” Emerging Scholar Award. NASPAA is spending already has been committed e next Campus Budget Conversation, the membership organization and across these years—and developing “a Dec. 5 in Budig Hall, will focus on eorts accreditor of graduate education balanced, scally responsible budget to develop and implement the new programs in public policy, public aœairs where spending is justi ed in the budget model. and public administration.

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address sexual harassment and violence in ooded social media with their own today’s world. e lecture was sponsored #MeToo experiences. by the Sexual Assault Prevention and ough Burke is pleased with the COURTESY SAPEC COURTESY Education Center, the Student Union progress made as a result of the move- Activities Board and KU School of Law. ment, she says there’s more to be done. Burke, a sexual assault survivor herself, “I need you to go out and talk about explained that several events led to the #MeToo dierently in order to shi the creation of #MeToo but one in particular narrative,” she told the crowd. “It’s about stands out. Aer graduating from college, supporting survivors. Don’t get distracted she was a camp counselor in Selma, by the rest of the stu.” Alabama, and met a 13-year-old girl who —Heather Biele had been sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend. When the girl opened up to FUNDRAISING Burke, she stopped her and told her to speak with another counselor. Strong giving helps Endowment “I was 21 and I was scared,” Burke said, provide record support pausing to compose herself. “She le and I was so, so sorry the moment she walked T .  donated in scal away. It was such an intense moment; I 2018 by alumni and friends of KU topped Burke just wanted it to be over.” the 2017 total by more than $100 million LECTURE Burke never saw the child again but and marked the second-highest annual used the experience as inspiration to help giving total in the University’s history. Founder of #MeToo movement other young girls who were dealing with Donors created 124 new endowed implores Jayhawks to speak out sexual assault and violence. In 2005, she funds, including six new professorships started a program called Me Too when she and 88 new scholarships and other T   B,  civil discovered how few resources were student support, according to the rights activist and founder of the #MeToo available for survivors. Endowment Association’s annual report, movement, spoke to a full-capacity crowd e decade-old movement gained new released in September. Oct. 23 at the Kansas Union Ballroom momentum last year, following sexual e strong showing also propelled about the creation of the survivor-centered misconduct allegations in Hollywood, as Endowment’s direct annual support to KU movement and the work that remains to sexual assault survivors came forward and to an all-time high: $191 million from

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WHERE: The Commons and ANECDOTE: Hinojosa has STORYTELLER ANN DEAN PHOTO the Hall Center reported on immigration In “Frontline: Latinos and detention for many years; she Immigration from a Woman’s BACKGROUND: The chafes at being branded an Perspective,” journalist Maria longtime anchor and executive activist, feeling that people Hinojosa recounted her producer of NPR’s “Latino USA” (fellow journalists included) experiences covering launched The Futuro Media incorrectly interpret her intent immigration for NPR and PBS, Group to produce community- in telling “real-life” histories. “I Hinojosa and her interest in how based journalism for stories think I empower people to ‘No, Robert, I’m not. I’m an immigration a„ects the mental overlooked or under-reported believe in their voice, and that is activist for the Constitution health of Latinas and their by traditional media. She has a core of democracy.” just like you are.’ Stop calling families. won four Emmys, a Studs Terkel me an activist, because it Award, a Robert F. Kennedy QUOTES: “Robert Siegel, of discredits me on a national WHEN: Sept. 25-26 Journalism Award, an Edward R. ‘All Things Considered,’ who I scale, and I’m not gonna allow Murrow Award from the love and adore, continually it, not when I have who knows SPONSOR: Hall Center for overseas press club and other called me an immigrant rights how many awards named after the Humanities top journalism honors. activist journalist. I was like, white men.”

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI expendable gi s and income from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith; Milestones, money endowed funds was used to support Tanya Hartman, associate professor of scholarships and fellowships for students, visual art, a multidisciplinary perfor- and other matters professorships and faculty awards, mance, “How To Leave Your Country,” academic program enhancements, that presents stories of documented and research, and new construction and undocumented immigrant and refugee n James Baker, former U.S. Secretary renovations. e funding surpassed the teenagers in Wichita; of State under President George H.W. 2017 total, $185.3 million, which was a Mechele Leon, associate professor of Bush, Secretary of the Treasury under record at the time. theatre, a book-length history of French President Ronald Reagan, and chief of e total market value of Endowment’s theatre artists who worked in the United sta to both Reagan and Bush, received long-term investments as of the end of the States from the 1910s to the 1960s; the Dole Leadership Prize from the Dole scal year on June 30, according to the Maki Kaneko, associate professor of art Institute of Politics Nov. 7. The prize is annual report, was $1.543 billion. history, a book project on the art of awarded annually to an individual or Japanese-American artist Jimmy Tsutomo group whose public service leadership SCHOLARSHIP Mirikitani, whose work examines the inspires others. World War II internment of Japanese- Hall Center appoints American citizens and the Hiroshima n An $8 million grant from the U.S. resident researchers bombing; Department of Health and Human Sara Gregg, associate professor of Services will fund a School of Social S   have been appointed history, a book manuscript, Free Land: Welfare initiative to prevent children Hall Center for the Humanities resident Homesteading the U.S. West, a revision being placed in foster care and increase fellows. Selected through a competitive of the role of homesteading in reunification and adoption rates for process, fellows are released from teaching American history. those children already in the system. and receive an oce in the Hall Center Resident fellows make presentations on Becci Akin, s’91, s’92, PhD’10, associate and a small research stipend to work on their works-in-progress in Resident professor of social welfare, is principal such projects as book manuscripts, Fellows Seminars. More information is investigator on the five-year project. large-scale works of art or dissertations. available at hallcenter.ku.edu/calendar. Resident fellows for the n Roy Jensen, director of the KU 2018-’19 academic year Cancer Center, has been named presi- and their projects are: dent of the Association of American Cancer Institutes, an organization of Darren Canady, STOREY DAN associate professor of 98 leading academic cancer centers in English, a new play, North America. Jensen plans to direct “March Madness,” about a development of a comprehensive successful men’s basketball clearinghouse of cancer-specific model team’s choice to go on legislation for AACI cancer centers to strike in response to share with state legislators. He began racism on campus; his two-year term in October. Brian Donovan, associate professor of n Lindsay Norris, oncology nurse at the sociology, an ongoing University of Kansas Hospital, received book project, American a National Magnet Nurse of the Year Gold Digger: Money, Award from the American Nurses Marriage and Law from Credentialing Center. ANCC honored Norris in the Structural Empowerment category for improving professional nursing certification at the hospital. She is the third University of Kansas Hospi- “American government-run or privately run tal nurse to receive the award, making detention facilities for immigrants are horrible it the only hospital in the region to earn three ANCC National Magnet Nurse of places. There will be books written and movies made the Year Awards in the past six years. {}that show the horror, and they are happening today.” —Maria Hinojosa

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drills, the quiet Nigerian lights up when he Lineup variety spices hoops season proudly announces that he is now a Even players eager to see how Self manages talent, depth chiseled 270 with a body-fat percentage under 8. “I’ve changed my body,” Azubuike says. icked as the country’s preseason No. 1 “With the versatility we have, it’s “My diet, training in the weight room, Pteam, men’s basketball on Nov. 6 de nitely going to be fun watching those running the oor, getting in great launched its bid for a return to the Final dierent lineups,” says sophomore guard shape … I’ve been putting in Four with a 92-87 victory over perennial K.J. Lawson. “And no one wants to play the work.” rival Michigan State. While some older their best ball on Nov. 1; Now that Azubuike has a stars struggled—preseason All-American we’ll be better on physical maturity that can Dedric Lawson, a junior, and senior guard Feb. 1 than we allow him to dominate Lagerald Vick were a combined 6-of-25 are n ow.” games, Self has even more from the eld and 7-foot junior center Self is relying on options for his lineups, Udoka Azubuike played just 20 minutes a dominant post including his beloved aer landing in early foul trouble—fresh- presence from high-low with three man guards Quentin Grimes and Devon Azubuike, who is in the guards rotating around Dotson combined for 37 points to steal the best shape of his life. When two bigs, or even a show in their collegiate debut. a sweat-and-ex locker room four-guard structure that And all of that means: Exactly nothing. photo hit social media before the One of the joys of closely following season, fans were oored by junior Kansas basketball is watching coach Bill forward Mitch Lightfoot’s pumped Freshmen Quentin Grimes Self tinker with lineups well into the Big biceps and deltoids; what many 12 season. When the Jayhawks are loaded overlooked was Azubuike’s (5), Devon Dotson (11) and with a variety of bigs, guards, experienced six-pack abs. David McCormack (33) in veterans, talented newcomers, shooters Considering he arrived at KU exhibition play; newly and long-armed defenders, tantalizing weighing more than 300 pounds, chiseled Udoka Azubuike combinations await Self’s tinkering. unable to nish Self’s boot camp STOREY DAN (35) poses at media day.

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI takes advantage of Dedric Lawson’s length and versatility to occasionally replace a big “I felt now was the time to let our fans know, let our man with a quick, hot-shooting guard. “It’s going to be unique to see what recruits know, let everyone know that we’re heading brings out the best in certain players,” in a dierent direction.” Dedric Lawson says. “It’s going to be very fun to watch for fans, and even for me, to {}—Athletics Director Jeff Long, on not retaining football coach David Beaty witness that.” Says Vick, the team’s lone senior, “We have a lot of di erent guys we can throw at I’m proud of them. ey deserve to have football’s dejected atmosphere, Athletics you. at makes the game more balanced success.” Director Je Long announced that Beaty’s and more spaced out. at puts a lot of Senior linebacker Joe Dineen Jr., who four-year KU career would end aer the pressure on other teams when you keep leads the country in solo tackles and is one Nov. 23 home game against Texas. switching your o ense and defense. It’s of 10 nalists for college football’s Senior “With the signing date looming,” Long going to be very interesting.” CLASS Award, beamed—a pleasant said, “I felt now was the time to let our e December highlight for KU will be postgame sight, rather than Dineen’s usual fans know, let our recruits know, let a Dec. 15 Allen Field House rematch with stoic demeanor in the wake of losses. everybody know that we’re heading in a Villanova, which clubbed KU in last “Games break one way or the other,” he di erent direction.” season’s NCAA Tournament seminal. Big said. “To be on the side that it breaks for is At the time of Long’s decision, KU was 12 play opens at home Jan. 2 against a bit of a change. It’s exciting.” 3-6 for the season and 6-39 under Beaty. Oklahoma, and the ’Hawks on Jan. 26 face What a di erence a week makes. When Aer a season-opening loss to Nicholls fellow blue-blood Kentucky in Dineen met reporters Nov. 3, immediately State, though, the Jayhawks had won Lexington. aer KU’s 27-3 loss to Iowa State—at back-to-back games (including a 55-14 which the announced attendance of 15,543 drubbing of Rutgers) for the rst time was heavy with Cyclones fans, especially as since 2011, recorded their rst road KU fans dried out aer halime—he for victory since 2009, and won three games Beaty era ends once dropped his mask of determined for the rst time since 2014, all streaks that optimism and spoke from the heart. predated Beaty’s 2015 hiring. A.D. Long allows football coach “It was denitely an Iowa State home In his defense, Beaty also cited unprec- to remain for final three games game,” Dineen said. “at’s pretty disap- edented levels of individual Big 12 honors pointing when we come out here at during his tenure and markedly improved hen time nally expired Oct. 27 on Memorial Stadium and there’s more Iowa academic honors as indicators of steady WKU’s 27-26 home victory over Big State fans than KU fans.” progress, yet he conceded that progress is 12 rival Texas Christian e next morning, with Dineen’s ultimately measured only one way. University—aer a atypical comments still lingering in KU “We haven’t won enough games,” Beaty riveting nal minute said. “at’s a measuring tool that included an that you can’t escape.” intentional safety In a notably candid news by the Jayhawks conference the evening of Nov. and an ensuing 4, Long told reporters that

S free kick that T once he made a nal decision E V E P harbored potential U on Beaty’s status that morning, P P for a last-second E he conferred with Chancellor TCU victory—jubilant Doug Girod, then met Jayhawks swarmed the eld, privately with Beaty—con- soon joined by happy fans ooding down rming, as Long expected, that from the stands. A 14-game Big 12 losing CHRIS LAZZARINO Beaty would accept an o er to streak, dating back to a 2016 upset over remain the Jayhawks’ head Texas, was over. coach for the season’s nal “What a great football game,” coach three games—before address- David Beaty said in Mrkonic Auditorium, ing players in a team meeting. as player celebrations one oor below still After KU’s victory over TCU, the south end-zone videoboard “e student-athletes have echoed throughout the Anderson Family captured both the score and on-field celebrations, including handled a dicult situation Football Complex. “Our guys persevered. coach David Beaty hugging his players. with class and dignity,” Long

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 19 Sports said, “and that gives me such con dence in head coach. It’s done with complaining, and the future of KU football.” a fan base coming back, that it was the reason Long said he hopes to make a hire either being passionately we lost. at wasn’t CHRIS LAZZARINO shortly aer the conclusion of the season supportive of the young my intent. … I know or perhaps even before. He strongly men in our program. We these fans are great. prefers candidates with previous head need our fans to come KU basketball has coaching experience, and he promised to out. I know they’ve been the best home-court maintain strict con dentiality during the waiting for a long time for advantage in all of “all-consuming” search process. a reason to believe, but all college basketball, so “e most dicult part,” Long said, “is I’m asking them to do is I know they’re there. trying to gure out who is really interested invest on the front end.” We just have to get in your job and who is just playing the In return for increased them out to the game. ere are many ways you try to fan support, Long pledged football stadium, discern that, but sometimes you never success not seen since the and we’ve got to put know until the ink is on the contract.” Mark Mangino era. a product on the In order to “break the cycle” of football “My expectation is that Dineen eld they can be futility, a mantra Long has repeated since the football program proud of.” he accepted Girod’s oer to lead Kansas should be a bowl-bound program on a Dineen, the team’s unquestioned Athletics, KU needs more than a new head regular basis,” Long said. “I believe that clubhouse leader, said few outsiders have coach, Long said. e football program with the players currently in our program appreciated “just how bad a place we were has from eight to 15 fewer coaching and and the recruits who will commit in the really in” when Beaty was hired. recruiting assistants than even “the Big 12 coming months, we will be close to annual “From where we were when I rst average,” let alone perennial title competi- bowl berths and long-term competitive- walked in the door to where we are now, tors; stadium renovation is on hold for ness in the Big 12.” it’s really night and day,” Dineen said. “I now, Long said, as he nds funds for When he met with reporters Nov. 6, really think KU football is headed on the personnel growth. Dineen backtracked from his comments right track, and whatever coach comes in “is isn’t done simply with dollars and critical of fan attendance at the Iowa State here is going to be blown away by how cents. It isn’t done simply with the right game: “I think it came o that I was close we really are.”

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26 | KANSAS ALUMNI Pay attention to Native tales, KU researchers say in new book, for fresh perspective on human-wolf ‘coevolution’

he normally speedy checkout line bearded guy in line behind me, with Riding Hood. ose bone-deep attitudes, at Sprouts Farmers Market briey whom I’d been discussing insect invasions they contend, were inevitably woven into Tslows, and a shopper’s gaze that muted his late-summer vegetable Western science. wanders: snacks, knickknacks, magazines. harvest, whistles soly. “You must really Along with re-examining much of the Our devolution into utterly predictable like dogs,” he says, to which I sheepishly underlying hard science that props up marketing targets is so complete that it’s explain that, yes, I do, but these are for popular notions of how and why some not the least bit surprising when my hand work. He arches an eyebrow and humors wolves evolved into domesticated dogs, reaches for two glossy magazines. me with a nod. and even the very denitions of wolf and Because, dogs. Cute dogs. It’s true. I do like dogs, and I never dog, Pierotti and Fogg also turn to From the publishers of Life, one features would have purchased these publications if traditions and tales that are foundations an adorable photo of a friendly yellow the $26.39 (Why Humans Do Silly ings) for indigenous people of North America, pooch against a white background, with wasn’t going on work’s tab, and even then Australia and Asia. Not only do no stark, declarative cover lines: Dogs: Why only because I’m in the midst of a deep indigenous people demonize wolves, but We Need em. Why ey Need Us. $13.99. dive into fascinating research about they also tend to hail wolf as a creator Scientic American’s “special collector’s “coevolution” of wolves and humans. gure that, with a generosity of spirit, edition” shows a big-eyed kitty snuggling In e First Domestication: How Wolves taught humans to hunt, survive and thrive. with a darling mutt, with a splash of and Humans Coevolved (Yale University “ ere was a period during the Ice Age high-minded messaging: e Science of Press), Associate Professor Raymond where the world population of humans Dogs & Cats, What Fido Really inks, Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg, c’10, g’13, lay outside of Africa fell to about 10,000 total. Help Science Learn about Pets, What Your out a passionate argument that Western ey came perilously close to extinction,” Pet Says about You, When Wildcats Became tradition and folk tales have for centuries Pierotti says. “One of the things they had House Cats, and, just for fun, Why Cats Do unfairly and ignorantly demonized wolves: to face was adapting to new climates where Silly ings. $9.99. Exhibit A, the blood-thirsty Big Bad Wolf they were the new large predator in the “$26.39,” reports the cashier. A bushy- stalking the sweet innocence of Little Red system. ey had a lot of intelligence and

Brandy Fogg and Ray Pierotti with Tosa, Ray’s border collie by Chris Lazzarino | portrait by Steve Puppe

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 27 ability to learn, but they had to have “When you look at the Native stories, somebody to learn from. “When you look at the Native stories, they all talked about learning to hunt from they all talked about learning to hunt from wolves ... about when they came to new wolves. It’s hard dating them because they’re set in a time before history, but lands, and especially to North America, they all talk about when they came to new they don’t think they could have survived lands, and especially to North America, without the wolves helping them.” they don’t think they could have survived without the wolves helping them.” —Ray Pierotti e First Domestication and its intrigu- ing theses are attracting attention. Marc Beko, professor emeritus of ecology and started to encroach on hunter-gatherer course at KU. A er spending the semester evolutionary biology at the University of camps to scavenge for le over food, taking studying perspectives found around the Colorado, last spring wrote in the Quar- advantage of resources humans had to world, students for their nal papers write terly Review of Biology that Pierotti and oe r.” lengthy examinations of how they came by Fogg’s “landmark” book “could well For $38—a mere $11.61 more than the their own world views. become a classic,” in part for how it de ly combined price of my checkout line “It doesn’t matter what culture they’re weaves “copious data and relevant stories” purchases—anyone intrigued by the spark from,” says Pierotti, whose academic into a “coherent and factual account of the of emotional connection we feel when appointment is in ecology and evolution- subject at hand.” gazing into a dog’s loving eyes can instead ary biology, along with a handshake Yet its message has not yet made the turn to e First Domestication for a agreement that allows him to also aliate leap from academic scrutiny to recogni- thoughtful examination of how humans with environmental studies. “All I want tion in the popular press. At least not in and wolves evolved not as competitors, but them to do is examine their relationship the overpriced glossies winking at dog as mutually reliant partners. with nature and the sources of the feelings lovers stuck in grocery checkout lines. that they have within that relationship.” “Humans have never had a particularly He grew up in Pennsylvania, nurtured amicable relationship with wolves,” Brian ay Pierotti came to KU in 1992, from by his mother and grandmother’s Coman- Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthro- Rthe University of Arkansas, attracted che traditions. In the wake of “unpleasant” pology at Duke University, states in the in part by the opportunity to work in family disagreements about their Native Scientic American puppy publication. partnership with Haskell Indian Nations heritage that arose a er his mother’s death, “e puzzle is how the big bad wolf was University. Although the anticipated 50-50 Pierotti says he no longer identies as tolerated around humans long enough to split appointment dissolved in a “bureau- Comanche, yet no amount of squabbling evolve into the mutt that now sleeps on the cratic nightmare,” Pierotti for years can erase the Native attitudes toward sofa.” Life’s glossy renews the Dumpster- devoted 25 percent of his labors to nature that Pierotti learned as a boy. diving-wolf thesis, telling its readers that coursework open to both Haskell and KU Whenever young Ray came to visit, domestication “began when wolves that students. He still teaches “Native and Grandmother Clara, conned to a would usually have to hunt on their own Western Views of Nature,” now a graduate wheelchair by her rheumatoid arthritis,

Peter and his aging grandmother Seren (l-r, left photo; Peter also on opposite page) were socialized “ambassador wolves” that Pieriotti brought to Kansas City schools. Nimma (above middle) and Nimma’s littermate sister Taba (l-r, right photo) were wolf-dog crosses Pierotti reared as family pets, closely studying their behaviors, interaction and emotional complexity from birth to death.

28 | KANSAS ALUMNI would ask him to tell her stories about things he had seen on his nature hikes or books he had read, and she, in turn, would share tales she learned as a girl about wolves and their importance to humans. “She said, ‘One of the things you might be able to do,’ in that subtle way that indigenous people sometimes use, ‘you might be able to speak up for wolf in the future,’” Pierotti recalls. “So this book is part of that. It is part of the fulllment of a promise I made to my grandmother when I was 7 or 8 years old.” Pierotti in 2011 published Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology—part of Routledge Press’ Indigenous Peoples and Politics series— by Pierotti’s interest in Western and Native which he began with ruminations on how ideas about wolves, dogs and humans. Enlightenment norms dictated that “only “During my time at KU, I was vice information provided by measurement president of Black Student Union, so I’d and experimentation could provide Pierotti’s guidance, Fogg created a doggy come across all of these di erent, alterna- understanding of phenomena, which day care at which she closely examined tive histories,” Fogg says from her Olathe implied that science, as dened by the pack behavior among seven dogs. She was home. Noting her intensifying grasp of an Western European intellectual tradition, invited to present her resulting research unsettling notion—“When you’re the one was the only legitimate interpreter of the paper at an undergraduate symposium in who is actually writing the history, you can natural world.” He noted that the Enlight- Wisconsin, then found herself intrigued frame it in any light that you like”—Fogg enment’s 16th- and 17th-century ourish- says she “did come into it with those eyes. ing coincided with many rst encounters When I was reading the research, there with indigenous peoples; because Europe- was a bit of suspicion, I would say, that ans saw themselves as dominant over the there may be another perspective. And it natural world, they were immediately in did surprise me that it ended up being conict with indigenous ideals of connec- indigenous groups.” tion with nature. Fogg’s Indigenous Nations Studies Pierotti long planned to expand upon master’s thesis on how indigenous North the ideas he published in 2011 with a book American people viewed wolves as focused on indigenous attitudes toward teachers and guides proved so thorough, wolves, but he hoped to make it a learning Pierotti says, that it essentially formed experience for a student: “I had a couple of entire chapters in their book. graduate students try it, and they never As noted in the glowing review by their really could get very far into it. ey University of Colorado colleague, e First focused more on dogs as biological Domestication is far too broad and deep to entities, and that was ne, but that’s not be quickly summarized, yet a few high- really what I wanted to achieve.” lights stand out: Brandy Fogg, the daughter of an Army According to Native tradition, humans family, came to KU from Junction City as learned to hunt large prey by watching an environmental studies major. She met wolf packs, and cooperative hunting Pierotti when he was assigned as her systems evolved that beneted all. Pierotti mentor in the McNair Scholars Program, and Fogg de-emphasize Western concepts which provides paid research opportuni- The First Domestication of competition and domination and ties and graduate-school preparation for, by Raymond Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg, instead focus on the natural world’s among other groups, underrepresented with cover art by Brent Learned, f’93 cooperative behaviors and social relation- minority undergraduates. ships—the opposite, Fogg notes, of graphic For a summer research project under Yale University Press, $38 images of “ghting and eating” that are

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 29 reliable staples of TV nature shows. hen Brandy Fogg received her “For some reason, that information is Wolves did not enter into human Wauthor’s copy of e First Domesti- being ignored by people in charge of contact by scavenging for remains from cation from Yale University Press, she monitoring wolf populations around the humans’ kills. “ e garbage-dump wolf is proudly propped it up on her desk, world,” she says. “ e fact that we were very unfair,” Pierotti says. “For one thing, befuddling her co-workers: “‘What is it able to show similarities between our the timing is completely wrong. Humans about? Oh, wolves?’ ey had no idea that family groups and a wolf pack should be didn’t live in settled communities and this was a whole other thing that I did.” used to teach ocials why this sort of essentially have garbage dumps until In yet another twist to the tale, Fogg management technique is not going to maybe 10,000 years ago, and everybody chose not to pursue a doctoral degree or w or k .” agrees that the rst association with academia. Instead she returned to the rst A delightful byproduct of explaining her wolves started a minimum of 15,000 years intellectual attachment she made at KU: research background to colleagues at her ago. And, I push it back considerably geographic information systems. She engineering rm is that they, in turn, have further than that.” works as an analyst for Bartlett & West, an opened up with their own unexpected Also according to Native traditions, engineering and technology rm, focusing stories. Who knew the computer program- humans learned from wolves’ social bonds, on asset management for railroads. mer down the hall studied art history? with an alpha female and an alpha “I got a taste of GIS as an undergradu- Turns out that when you take the time male—“ e better term,” Pierotti says, ate. at’s when I rst learned anything to look deeper, “when you nd out where “would be mom and dad”—living with about it,” Fogg says. “I ended up having they came from,” as Fogg says, unexpected multiple ospring of varying ages, a this [wolf] research that I was very stories and connections are revealed. relationship architecture unknown outside passionate about, that I used to help pay As with humans, so, too, with wolves. of humans and wolves. for school, and I wanted to pursue that, so “Anyone who has ever owned a dog, “No other primate has a social system that’s why I ended up doing the master’s, when you sit there and you’re looking at like that,” Pierotti says. “If you look at our but at the end of the day I continued to them, eventually you start to wonder, closest relatives, they all have highly pursue a dierent career eld.” ‘Why are we so close? Why is this consid- variable social systems, but none have With a full-time career, a ancé and her ered man’s best friend? Why are they so social systems like we do.” rst child, a girl born in June, Fogg has amazing, why do we work so well together Unlike many modern dog breeds, which little time for side projects on dog or wolf and how did this relationship start?’” can tend to remain in suspended states of research, although she hopes to one day Such contemplations about the creation puppyhood, wolves mature as they grow. help improve pit bulls’ damaged reputa- of domestic dogs seemingly become When living among Native people of tions. e work is stymied not just by her muddled in Western lore and science, North America, some would linger closer busy schedule, Fogg says, but also by the because before domestication, it has been to humans than others, but they could all pain of slogging through images and commonly assumed, positive and bene- come and go as they pleased, some stories of dog-ghting rings. cial human-canid interaction could not returning seasonally, some encircling As for e First Domestication, Fogg have existed. But that’s not the indigenous human encampments at night, some never fervently hopes that its insights can help perspective, which Pierotti and Fogg bring choosing to venture too close. alter wildlife management strategies. to the fore in e First Domestication. “ at independence probably was Alpha females regulate pack populations, Native peoples adhere strongly to their essential to the beginning of that relation- Fogg says, by preventing their daughters stories of wolves and humans working ship,” Fogg says. “[Native people] didn’t go from birthing litters during lean times; if together and helping each other; wolves out and steal puppies. ey didn’t tie them an alpha female is killed with the intention did not need to become what we think of up to keep them from leaving. It was a of derailing a wolf pack, as practiced by as domesticated dogs in order to form come and go.” wildlife managers around the world, strong bonds with humans. Unlike the tradition in Europe, where younger females, nally out from under “We were still nomads, we were moving, forests were denuded and turned into the matriarch’s control, breed freely. so you want strong dogs,” Fogg says. “You quasi-parks in part to remove cover for want dogs that you’re not going to have to wolves and bears thought to thirst for worry about. You wouldn’t want an human esh, early indigenous humans overgrown puppy just following you and wolves lived not in fear of each other, around. You would want a dog that could but instead circulated in varying arcs of be independent. social interaction. “And those were wolves.” “ ey were our companions,” Pierotti Wolves: Why We Need em. Why and Fogg write, “sharing both our hunts ey Need Us. Coming soon to a checkout and our kills and living with us in a more line near you. Maybe. One day. We can or less equal sort of reciprocity.” Nimma only hope.

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To purchase a gift membership, visit kualumni.org/join or call 800-584-2957 ISSUE 4, 2011 | 1 STEVE PUPPE (2) STEVE Sweet Suite Music

Lied Center celebrates 25 years with a tailor-made jazz homage to another great KU tradition

by Steven Hill

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI * 1 ÷÷ Sweet Suite Musicùù s stage hands check mikes and 15-movement suite, play two shows for run through light cues amid the Lawrence public school students, tour rattle and whir of equipment Allen Field House and meet the patrons dollies and hydraulic lis that who funded their work as well as some of Ajockey big lighting rigs into position on the basketball luminaries that the indi- the Lied Center stage, a horn blats and vidual movements honor. squelches from behind the long black But rst the players in what is arguably curtain that screens the hall’s cavernous the world’s pre-eminent jazz big band are backstage from the empty auditorium. jacking up a few shots on the Lied’s Soon another joins in, then another. backstage hoop—a goal on wheels tucked Between the warmup yowls and honks away upstage right—and, from the sounds another familiar chorus gradually makes of it, enjoying a little good-natured trash itself heard: the steady squeak of sneakers talk with the boss. and drumbeat tattoo of a basketball Just such an onstage shoot-around four pounding a wood oor. years ago inspired the ambitious, multidi- e jazz masters are getting loose. mensional piece the band is about to Aer four years of planning and nearly a rehearse. year of composing and rening, the Jazz at Before Kwan joined the Lied Center in From his time working for Marsalis, Lincoln Center Orchestra is almost set to 2014, succeeding executive director Kwan knew that the nine-time Grammy perform the world premiere of its “Rock emeritus Tim Van Leer, he was Jazz at winner takes his hoops almost as seriously Chalk Suite,” a collection of musical Lincoln Center’s vice president of concerts as his music. portraits celebrating 15 legends of KU and touring; one of his rst programming “ ere were times 15 or 20 years ago basketball. Commissioned by Derek Kwan, moves when he got the KU job was where we’d have to get Wynton to leave the executive director of the Lied Center, and convincing his old friend to bring the Jazz court to go play a show,” Kwan says. “He’d funded by gis from more than two dozen at Lincoln Center Orchestra to the Lied, be playing a pickup game somewhere, and donors, the suite is the centerpiece of the which Marsalis did in September 2014. we’re like, ‘Hey, hey, we gotta go! You’ve campus performing arts venue’s 25th “Just before they went on stage, Wynton got a gig!’” anniversary season. As part of their and Victor [Goines] and a couple other In fall 2014 an advisory committee was three-day visit in October, the Jazz at guys were playing HORSE on the side of brainstorming ideas to commemorate the Lincoln Center Orchestra—led by jazz the stage,” Kwan recalls with a laugh. “In Lied Center’s upcoming 25th anniversary. ambassador and legendary trumpeter their Brooks Brothers suits. Just shooting Shortly aer the Marsalis visit, Kwan Wynton Marsalis—will rehearse their around, playing HORSE.” pitched an idea.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 33 “I said, ‘You can laugh me out of the relevant aer the season ends. Chancellor Gene Budig kicked o a room, but what do you think about trying “In looking at the Lied Center and how fundraising drive in the early 1980s that to identify 15 of the most impactful it ts into the whole community, I went eventually secured a $10 million gi, players or coaches from KU basketball back to Christina Hixson’s vision for the announced in 1988, from the Ernst F. Lied history, and then commission a new work Lied: She wanted it to be a gi for not only Foundation of Omaha, Nebraska. Lied, based upon those 15?’ And the committee KU and Lawrence, but also for the state of ’27, attended KU from 1923 to ’25 before was like, ‘Heck yeah, go for it.’” Kansas,” Kwan explains. transferring to the University of Nebraska; Fieen basketball greats—one for each “And there is arguably nothing more by the time of his death, in 1980, he’d of the orchestra’s 15 musicians—serve as culturally signicant in the state of Kansas parlayed a successful career in Omaha car muse and model for one movement of the than basketball.” dealerships and Las Vegas real estate into a suite, which celebrates two great sources of $110-million estate, which he entrusted to KU pride: Its top-tier basketball tradition Hixson as executor. and its world-class performing arts center. hen the gleaming 2,000-seat Lied Aer two years of intense planning and “We wanted to commission a work that WCenter opened with a gala celebra- design work spearheaded by ne arts dean would be memorable,” Kwan says, noting tion on Sept. 28, 1993, it was considered a Peter ompson and founding executive that it can be challenging to create transformative moment for KU’s perform- director Jacqueline Davis, g’73, ocials something new that will thrill at the ing arts scene. Campus performances had broke ground in December 1990 on the premiere performance and remain for decades relied mostly on 1,188-seat $14 million project. Craon-Preyer eatre Six months later, lightning struck Hoch, (considered roomy when it ending its run as a performance venue and opened in 1957, when lending a heightened urgency and tighter enrollment hovered around deadlines to an already complicated 10,000) or the 3,000-plus- construction project. seat Hoch Auditorium, Decisions were needed on how the hall which o ered more seats would sound and what it would look but no orchestra pit and no like—all of which would a ect the way dressing rooms. each show was experienced by performers KU ARCHIVES/SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY RESEARCH ARCHIVES/SPENCER KU SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI onstage and patrons from the front rows to Marsalis and his band are conducting the high balconies. Davis recalls poring the rst of two morning sessions on the over colors for days before settling on the (3) STOREY DAN life of jazz pianist elonious Monk. He gray, burgundy and blue color scheme, and drills the students on the details of Monk’s traveling across the U.S., Canada and life—including the happy coincidence that Mexico to nd the right chairs and today is Monk’s birthday—explaining how orchestra li. Center and University sta the jazz legend was a musical genius sweated details large and small, Davis whose innovations were sometimes writes in the Lied’s 25th anniversary obscured by his unorthodox piano style commemorative booklet, but things also and quirky personality. “Monk said, ‘A had a way of just working out. genius is one who is most like himself,’” In what Davis recalls as her favorite Marsalis tells his young audience, drawing moment, Luci Tapahonso, the Navajo poet lessons about how it’s important to be and Native American studies scholar who yourself and to look beyond surface was then on the Lied Center board, asked impressions when judging others. He if members of the Haskell Indian Nations demonstrates the dierences between University community could bless the bebop and swing by scatting melodies the building. Inquiring when she might set a kids sing back to him, and, to illustrate the date for the ceremony, Davis was told that unique style Monk created by forging she would “just know.” swing rhythms and bebop’s melodic lines, “is worried me momentarily,” writes Marsalis leads the orchestra through Davis, now executive director of e New several Monk tunes. e whole exercise York Public Library for the Performing brings to mind a well-worn quote (attrib- Arts at Lincoln Center, “but I forged ahead uted variously to Elvis Costello, Steve with programming and had almost Martin, Martin Mull, Miles Davis, Frank forgotten the request completely. One day, Zappa and Monk himself) that’s supposed I returned early from lunch and, instead of to illustrate the futility of scholarly or going straight to my oce as I usually did, critical consideration of the melodic arts: I strolled into the theatre almost as if there “Talking (or writing) about music is like was a rope pulling me toward it. I looked dancing about architecture.” Maybe so. But up at the stage and saw about 20 people when you have a stage full of crack jazz had come with Ms. Tapahonso to the site. musicians behind you to illustrate your She turned to me and whispered, ‘We have points, talking about music seems to work been waiting for you.’ We formed a circle, pretty well indeed. and they wished the very best for the Lied e students think so: ey applaud Center, its sta, its patrons and its artists. I solos, raise hands to identify bridges, and cried throughout the entire ceremony sing along with main themes, and when because it was such a special moment. they leave the hall to sail their eet of “ese blessings seemed to have worked yellow buses back to school, it’s with and continue to do so.”

“ want everybody to say the word Middle-school students packed the Lied for

I‘epistrophy,’” Wynton Marsalis says YOUNGER SUSAN two Oct. 10 performances on the life and work from the Lied Center stage. of Thelonious Monk. Lied Center construction “Epistrophy” roars back at him from the was funded with private donations, including mouths of hundreds of sixth-, seventh- a $10 million gift from the Ernst F. Lied and eighth-graders from every middle Foundation. school in the Lawrence public school system and a few private and out-of-town schools as well. “Does anyone know what that word means?” he asks playfully. “No? Well that’s why they call this a class.”

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 35 RACHEL PINCUS (2) RACHEL

Marsalis’ rallying cry about Monk ringing performing arts access for youths barrier- Marsalis and his band, who’ve performed in in their heads: “Expect the unexpected.” free? Her whole philosophy is creating some of the world’s great halls, relished the e Lied Center’s school-only perfor- opportunities for those who otherwise chance to play in another during an Allen mance series annually provides free would not have them.” Field House tour that included meeting coach age-appropriate shows for every public Saxophonist Victor Goines can relate. Bill Self and shooting baskets on James school student in Lawrence. e program e Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Naismith Court. began with elementary school students in which he joined in 1993, also oers 1994 and during the 2015-’16 season programs for youths—“for young people expanded to include middle and high of all ages,” Goines prefers to say, “because school students. Gis from Jack and Jan we’re all as young as we want to feel”—in Tande Gaumnitz, g’74, and Sandra Gautt, New York City and on the road. luminaries and 10 others from the long assoc., provided “seed money” to fund the “e goal is just to really try to heighten lineage of KU’s basketball tradition get initial ve years of the Performing Arts awareness about what takes place in jazz,” their moment in the spotlight. Access Expansion program, and a subse- Goines says. “We’re not necessarily trying But rst, Brian Hanni, j’02, the voice of quent fundraising drive to make the to create the next Duke Ellington, but the Jayhawks, adds a little Allen Field program permanent received lead gis the next Duke Ellington will come out of House air to the game-night atmosphere, from the Dolph Simons Jr. Family Founda- some of that exposure to the music that calling thrilled band members onstage one tion, the Ethel and Raymond F. Rice takes place.” by one: a starting lineup introduction Foundation and the Kent and Donna Pondering that prospect for a moment, complete with heights, hometowns and a Saylor Performing Arts Fund. Net Goines reconsiders. “Or the next person bass, drum and piano accompaniment. proceeds from the “Rock Chalk Suite” who will follow in his footsteps,” he says, “Jazz and basketball: You may wonder commission represent the nal step in the “because there will never be another what in the world do they have to do with campaign: With a $500,000 endowment Duke Ellington.” one another,” Marsalis muses as he now secure, Lawrence students from K-12 launches his own introduction to the are assured of one free school-only evening. performance each year in perpetuity. here will never be another Wilt Jazz is America’s classical music, its “Literally every single student can TChamberlain either. Nor another original homegrown art form and the participate, regardless of their background, Lynette Woodard. Ditto for James Nai- soundtrack of the country’s emergence as and that to me is staying true to Chris smith, Phog Allen and Jo Jo White. a modern world power. Basketball is the Hixson’s vision,” Kwan says. “She wants When the curtain nally opens on the game that most closely echoes the genre’s the Lied Center to be a gi to Kansas much-anticipated Oct. 11 world premiere dedication to tradition and form and its and to the community, and what better of “Rock Chalk Suite” at the Lied Center— restless spirit of improvisation. e two way to make it a gi than to make still elegant but comfortable at 25—those means of playing—the sport and the

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI spirit—came of age together. explains. “My fascination with the performing arts and inspired by KU “Jazz and basketball have an organic changing perspectives in each given play basketball—wholly appropriate given the relationship on the most fundamental is presented by our transitioning back program’s status as the college birthplace level,” Marsalis tells the crowd before the and forth between four dierent groove of the game. band kicks into the rst piece, “Y’s Guy,” foundations: tango, waltz, swing and “I think it was a phenomenal idea, dedicated to—who else?—the game’s up-tempo.” because KU is one of the premiere inventor and KU’s rst basketball coach. Wesley, joined at the concert by former basketball programs in the country, bar “Both reward improvisation and split- longtime KU coach Ted Owens, called the none. e history of basketball begins with second decision-making against the program “an unbelievable evening for KU; no other school can claim that.” pressure of time and the restriction of a myself personally and for the rest of the Particularly poignant, for Wesley, are the clearly dened geometric form,” he people who were on it.” pieces inspired by old teammates and continues. “And both have produced a roll “ at someone gets a musical score in friends—particularly the skittering, call of greats whose individual styles and their name by one of the greatest musi- up-tempo movement composed by achievements expand and redene our cians of our time, Wynton Marsalis,” trumpeter Marcus Printup, “Jo Jo’s Mojo.” conception of the possible in our form.” Wesley says with a chuckle, “that’s not e title, Printup explains onstage, One of those greats, Walt Wesley, c’79, something that happens every day. You represents the “soul, grace, poise, re and has turned out to hear the piece dedicated kinda sit there and say, as I said to myself, coolness” that dened Jo Jo White’s game. to him, “Walt’s Waltz.” Composer Paul ‘Did this really happen?’ You’re kinda “Having known a lot of the participants, Nedzela describes how he was inspired by like on cloud nine and you don’t wanna and knowing a little bit about them, video of one particular play to write a come down.” that really struck a chord,” Wesley says. multi-layered piece that taps no less than Already a fan of jazz in general and “You sit there and you play with it in your four rhythmic traditions. Marsalis in particular, Wesley judged the mind: e pieces that they played and “Aer repeated viewings of the play, I uniqueness of the evening—an original how they came up with them, and you saw an intricate dance changing times, jazz suite composed in celebration of 25 think, ‘Yeah, that’s him. at’s Jo. direction and speed in an instant,” Nedzela years of community support for the at works for him.’”

A Season of Celebration YOUNGER SUSAN

n addition to the Oct. 11 world premiere of the “Rock Chalk ISuite,” the Lied Center is marking its 25th anniversary with a host of events and new features: In September, Lied Loves Lawrence, a two-day community arts and music festival, featured the KU Collage Concert and other live music, as well as kid-friendly activities and behind-the- scenes workshops in stage tech, movement and dance and theatrical makeup. The festival honored Lied patron Christina Hixson and featured two special 25th anniversary commissions: Lawrence sculptor Jan Tande Gaumnitz unveiled a new piece, “Bloom,” in front of the center, surrounded by a pollinator garden of mostly native plants designed and installed by Susan and Doug Rendall. Performance art collective Quixotic gave two The abundance of big-name acts such as Trevor Noah, Steve performances of a stunning “wall dance” on the outside of the Martin, Martin Short, Loudon Wainwright III, Jane Lynch, the stage house that incorporated pyrotechnics and historical photos Russian National Ballet, Parson’s Dance and the New York of the original building project. Philharmonic Quartet on this year’s calendar (lied.ku.edu/ A new hearing loop sponsored by Lawrence Otolaryngology calendar/) creates a sense that the Lied pulled out all stops for now delivers sound from the stage directly to telecoil-enabled the silver anniversary celebration. hearing aids, cochlear implants or headsets with loop receivers, “We had to,” Kwan says. “The committee wanted it to be greatly improving the performance experience for people with memorable. We hope that people feel that this is a celebration hearing loss. that is worthy of a place like the Lied Center.” —S.H.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 37 imagined (tables, chairs, books, talking and napping students) vanishes so that once again the basement is empty: sans étudiants, Protests et sans chien.

I      S  F, where I buy the daily New Past York Times to trade with my neighbor in advance payment for his Sunday Times. Because it is 2018 we are reading about the events of 1968; Across the years, small gestures of because I am older than him, I see this 50th anniversary as a dissent and solidarity loom large witness to events in which I am an accomplice. He must study it asSpring “history.” 2018, ere Santais more thanFe, Newa degree Mexico of dierence. Two pieces from the Times catch my attention: Both concern by Robert Day the riots at Columbia University, which brings back my memory of Strong Hall’s basement. It is 1965 and I have joined a sit-in with my friend Harris Flora. Along with more than a hundred other students we are protesting KU’s o-campus housing policy, which discriminates against I        of Strong Hall. Above is a African-Americans (who were not yet African-Americans in hive of administration o ces, including the Chancellor’s—all no Kansas, nor even Blacks, but Negroes or Colored. Among other doubt busy. However, the basement hallway is empty. Silent as nouns.) well. It was not always that way. Somehow someone has discovered that among the landlords When I was a student in the early ’60s Strong Hall’s basement and ladies oering student rooms for rent are some who write (in wasThursday, an informal June study 7, hall 2018, with Lawrencetables and chairs running the what is not yet politically incorrect language) that certain races length of the south wall. (and religions) are unacceptable. us the protest in Strong Hall, In my mind’s eye I see students working at those tables, populated by mostly the unacceptable, plus Bob Day and Harris sometimes reserving their spot by leaving a ball cap backward a la Flora. Holden Cauleld or a stack of books to mark their place. On a is was not my rst brush with “prejudice,” as we called few tables students stretch to nap: I am one of those, only to be racism in those days. At Shawnee Mission High School in prodded awake by my girlfriend, who tutors me for my Mission, there was one black student among a thousand or so French class later in the day. Unlike the “silence other (read white) students: Bob Canada. We shared a locker. My please” study tables at Watson Library, there is last name began with D, his with C. In some ways our sharing buzz and banter as students compare notes or that locker was a bar mitzvah of my political awareness—not that gossip about classes and professors. I knew that (nor the word) then, but I knew that while there was ere is also Sarge, a golden retriever who something dierent about me and Bob Canada, there was also belongs to a campus fraternity. He meanders something dierent about me and my fellow students who kept down the hall, tail wagging, begging doughnuts, asking me if Bob smelled. Or did my jacket and books smell when potato chips, beer nuts from the Gaslight Tavern I took them home? Had I told my parents? and most anything else students feed him. (I did I had not. watch him pass up a carrot.) My girlfriend observed Nor would I tell them later that as a KU athlete I was sharing a that Sarge had “all the qualities of a dog except loyalty.” dormitory room with a track star, a black track star. When he saw At some point the fraternity put a “Do Not Feed” sign around me at the Strong Hall sit-in, he nodded. I thought to get up and his neck because the vet had become alarmed about the dog’s greet him, but did not. What was that about? Instead, I nodded health. ereaer you could see Sarge walking the length of the back. Nor did we talk about the protest and our mutual nodding basement, tail still wagging, but getting mainly (however, not later. What was that about? Not even now am I sure of the always) just pats. It turns out he was loyal to aection. answers. It will be a few years later that the basement becomes the scene An hour into our protest, Harris and I got hungry and decided of a massive student protest against the University’s housing to go to the Gaslight Tavern for burgers, fries and bottled beer in policy. I was awake enough to be part of that, sitting on the oor brown paper bags. Before we le, I thought to ask my roommate and tables and chairs with other students (and a few faculty). It if he’d like us to bring him something, but at that moment a coach was a silent protest. More on this later. came by and he, and other black athletes who had been gathered Just as I am about to leave the basement a woman comes down together, were nodding to what the coach was saying. from the oors above and walks its length, and all that I have At the Gaslight, Harris and I ordered two burgers and fries

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI I     since I was in Strong Hall’s basement. Once again I am alone, this time typing on “the at screen of my lamp light” to paraphrase Nabokov. But of course I have time-traveled ve decades in the previous 21 days. Writers do that. For Proust it was the taste of madeleines that conjured up his search for six volumes of lost time. For me it is Thursday, June 28, 2018, northwestern Kansas DAN STOREY my mind’s eye. It can see where I have been (out of focus at times), but alas, it cannot see where I am going. I cannot be sure if the past is prologue—much less if it is real. apiece with the idea that I am thinking these days about the student protests in Law- we’d share with those we knew. We decided rence all through the ’60s, not only the one I was in, but others to skip the beers. When we got back to Strong Hall, the place was against the Vietnam War. And later my own protest against the deserted except for cops with nightsticks and guns. “You boys get war in Hays, when I was a very young teacher who joined out of here or we’ll book you as well,” one of them said to us. We students and faculty every Sunday for many months in standing understood later that the coaches had learned in advance of the silence. bust and got their athletes out of there. Where are those college students now? at is, what are they e rest of the demonstrators were now crowded into the protesting? I know high school students are protesting gun Lawrence jail. violence, and I know soon marches throughout the country will Feeling lucky, Harris and I went back to the Gaslight to eat our protest the policies on the United States-Mexico border. And of burgers, this time with red beers. Later we walked to the jail, course there were marches by women aer Donald Trump where we could see our classmates looking out of the holding became president. Also strikes by schoolteachers in various states. tank on the second oor. We waved; they did not. Am I alone in thinking that an essential aspect of our future as More than a decade later I learned that while my friend Harris a country belongs to our university students? at what they Flora and I had escaped jail in Lawrence, another friend (and KU protest via civil disobedience that is in their interest (and thus alumnus), Fred Whitehead, was also involved in a housing ours) will shape our future? How about the high cost of a univer- protest—this one at Columbia University in New York. But herein sity education, guns on campus, or high rates of student debt at lies a dierent tale with a dierent ending. graduation? Fred had also le the demonstration to eat lunch, with his wife, Imagine students sitting in administration buildings across the Carol. When he got home, Carol was exceptionally pleased to see country to protest these issues. Let us now imagine they are him: She had just heard on the radio that the Columbia protesters successful, and more than a few will one day look back and be were taken downtown to be jailed. When Fred learned this, he felt pleased at what they accomplished ... and tell the story. I know the compelled to join them in solidarity and be jailed as well. Which feeling. he did. And was. —Robert Day, c’64, g’66, is the author of e Last Cattle Drive I wonder if whatever moral or mantra is coded in Fred’s action and a frequent contributor to Kansas Alumni. informs who I have become over the years. I wonder had his story preceded mine, would I have followed suit? I wonder what compelled the black athletes to leave under the direction of their coaches.

A    (something I was bad at as a student) reveals not all the black athletes avoided arrest. And the date? Qui sait? en there is the matter of other protests that wound up in the Chancellor’s oce (of which neither Harris (2) LIBRARY RESEARCH ARCHIVES/SPENCER KU nor I were aware). Still, as Montaigne writes, I am in doubt. But not so much as to agreeWhat’s with True his other and aphorism: What’s INot would not have believed it had I seen it myself. It is also true that the full title of my memoir is Robert Day for Robert Day (top) revisits Strong Hall, the site of 1960s sit-ins and the President An Embellished Campaign Autobiography. one-time stomping grounds of Sarge the dog. Case settled? I am in doubt.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 39 40 | KANSAS ALUMNI Over Here MOUNT OREAD RESPONDS TO THE GREAT WAR’S CALL TO DUTY

By Evie Rapport

Editor’s note: In honor of the 100th anniver- hrough the winter of 1916-’17, as the tragic stalemate of the Great War sary of the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that continued in Europe, hopes that the United States could evade the chaos ended World War I, we are proud to publish dimmed. Germany renewed unrestricted submarine attacks, and the a history of the war at KU that has special Zimmerman telegram revealed the plot to draw Mexico to the German cause. signi cance for Kansas Alumni: Evie TWhat many knew was coming, and dreaded, cascaded down. When the U.S. Congress Masterson Rapport, d’70, g’78, based her declared war against Germany on April 6, 1917, the University of Kansas—like the rest of 1978 journalism master’s thesis on the war the country—threw itself into the hectic, grueling eort. coverage she found in our predecessor Chancellor Frank Strong immediately placed all KU resources—including its arable publication, e Graduate Magazine. land and his own formidable energies—at the disposal of the government. Rapport, a journalism and communications While the War Department swept through U.S. colleges and universities, vacuuming veteran in Kansas City and at KU, next up faculty to help train and lead the calamitously unprepared American Expeditionary spring will again present an Osher Lifelong Force into the trenches of France, an Emergency War Committee of top KU faculty and Learning Institute course about the administrators took control on campus. University’s vigorous response to the U.S. New courses were instituted, new teachers were hired to fulll government mandates, government’s dire need to prepare an army physical alterations necessary to accommodate trainees and training were made. By the for battle. end of America’s rst year in the Great War, academic responsibilities and patriotic duties were coming into balance.

Photographs courtesy Spencer Research Library

Student Army Training Corps headquarters sta (left) on the east steps of Old Snow Hall and Company M of the KU National Guard unit (above) at its camp on the construction site of what would become Strong Hall. Cadet companies used the site’s foundations as training trenches for the warfare they were preparing to encounter in France.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 41 U’s School of Military Instruction, Chancellor Strong and Graduate School Barracks for the SATC’s vocational unit under Ksta ed by National Guard ocers and dean F.W. Blackmar sat on the Kansas construction on Jayhawk Boulevard (clockwise faculty veterans, o ered practical courses Council of Defense. College of Liberal from above); compulsory drills for students, to support an army in the eld: engineer- Arts and Sciences dean Olin Templin, including future Alumni Association executive ing, mapmaking, explosives, signaling, c’1884, c’1886, g’1889, led the collegiate secretary Fred Ellsworth, c’22, second from telegraphy and regimental drilling. division of Herbert Hoover’s Federal Food right; National Guard chaplain James Naismith; Faculty, sta and students took Red Cross Administration in Washington, D.C.; signaling drills; and the SATC assembled on the and nursing classes. Vegetable gardens home economics chair Elizabeth Sprague lawn between Spooner and Old Fraser halls. were planted, the produce dried or canned joined that e ort for a year. and sold to raise funds. e Army took all three psychology Four student trainee companies had professors; the dean, superintendent of neither uniforms nor equipment and Fowler Shops and ve other engineering tors were in service, so two music profes- drilled with dummy wooden ries made faculty; three professors and four home sors who were uent were hired to help in Fowler Engineering Shops (now economics instructors; and four coaches meet the course responsibilities on campus Stau er-Flint Hall). A fully outtted and ve physical education professors. and at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley. Reserve Ocers Training Corps unit was eir colleague James Naismith was a (Enrollment in German dropped by more established in fall 1917. YMCA chaplain in France. than half, and half of that faculty had to be e foundations of the central and west e French department had the largest reassigned or let go.) portions of the Administration building, enrollment of the year: 459 students. e universal dra, enlistments and unnished since East Ad opened in 1911, Nearly half the 14 professors and instruc- volunteer service made deep inroads in all were “trenches” for drilling until, miracu- lously, the Kansas Legislature appropriated the long-promised funding and construc- tion resumed. National Army trainees posted to KU and sleeping on cots in Robinson Gymna- sium took eight-week training sessions in such desperately needed skills as automo- tive mechanics and maintenance, carpen- try, radiography and telegraphy, munitions and explosives. Strong Blackmar Templin Sprague

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI For more information about the author’s Osher course on World War I, visit kupce.ku.edu/osher-home, call 877-404-5823 or email [email protected]. Information about the $10 discount available to Alumni thousands of surgical dressings, rolled in the e ort. Some entries: bandages and collected salvage. Everyone Barnes, Arthur, Ottawa, Kansas, 110th Association members can be ate meatless, wheatless or sugarless meals Engineers, France found at kupce.ku.edu/ and conserved coal and gas. Farley, Frank, ’18, Kansas City, Kansas, osher-alumni-discount. In May 1918, Chancellor Strong ordinance corps, Stamford, Conn. reviewed the year’s e orts. “ere have Vernon, Harry, lieutenant, Blue Rapids, been diculties of detail to overcome. Kansas, 341st machine gun battalion, ere have been objections, some of them France reasonable … It is hoped and believed Bennett, Bernard H., l’10, Nashville, areas of the engineering, medical, sciences, that next year the whole scheme will Kansas, signal corps, Chicago, Illinois languages, law and history faculties. operate more smoothly and to better Cook, Hales S., ’14, captain, Kansas Enrollment likewise collapsed: More than advantage.” City, Missouri, Battery E, 76th eld 1,000 students le to enter service or take In June 1918, as the Germans mounted artillery, France up essential occupations through the their last great o ensive at Château- Men and women were stationed in school year, leaving about 1,800 on ierry and Belleau Wood, barely 300 Austin, San Antonio, El Paso; New York, campus. graduates attended an abbreviated Philadelphia, San Francisco, Memphis; in All students did military drill or Commencement. e Alumni Associa- Indiana, Rhode Island, Florida, Virginia, physical exercise. Women attended tion’s Graduate Magazine service record Alabama. compulsory lectures on food conservation that month comprised 27 pages listing ey were Red Cross nurses, dietitians, and knitted hundreds of sweaters and members of the KU community involved dentists, hospital visitors. ey worked

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 43 Trainees (left to right) in telegraphy and carpentry; Lt. Charles Seward, killed in April 1918, departs Lawrence in November 1917 after a visit with classmates before taking his pilot training with the Royal Flying Corps near Toronto; Red Cross student volunteers roll surgical dressings in Old Fraser Hall.

with the War and Labor departments and mander B.T. Scher and his sta were based 525 universities. e process was so the Bureau of Standards. ey did in Green Hall. rushed that the windows of the Mississippi gas-mask research and ordinance testing rough a chaotic September, KU Street barracks were covered only with and staed the quartermaster and ambu- struggled to accommodate the massive pastel-tinted mosquito netting. lance corps. inux. Most of collegiate unit went into e KU men who had died so far were Barracks had to be built: three for the engineering or the College, and about 170 seven alumni, including Lt. William T. vocational corps between Marvin and were sent to ocer training. Education Fitzsimons, c’1910, m’1912, a physician Haworth halls on Jayhawk Boulevard, and dean Frederick J. Kelly oversaw their who was the rst U.S. Army ocer killed nine on the west side of Mississippi Street courses in, among other subjects, astron- in France; three trainees; and one student: adjacent to McCook Field for the colle- omy, chemical warfare, French and Lt. Charles D. Seward, ’1919, died April 6 giate units. German, map reading, meteorology, when his airplane went into a tailspin Architecture professor Goldwyn physics, psychology and sanitation and and crashed. Goldsmith designed the barracks; engi- hygiene. A compulsory “Issues of the War” A new contingent of National Army neering professor C.C. Williams and course required 50 sections. About 30 trainees arrived in June for another Buildings and Grounds head John Shea temporary teachers were hired to help eight-week session. Before that ended in supervised construction. Carpentry crews carry the load. August, and crushing Strong’s hopes for a worked overtime to nish by Oct. 1, when Meals were served in mess rooms by less trying academic year, the War the oath of allegiance would be simultane- Brick’s cafe and the Eldridge House. e Department announced the formation ously administered to 200,000 trainees at home-ec department and the YWCA ran of the Student Army Training Corps, the SATC. Universities were to be reimbursed for housing, feeding and training high-school Faculty, sta, students, alumni and aliates in the graduates in collegiate and vocational units. KU inducted 1,753 men in infantry, military, the Red Cross or related services totaled 1,786 artillery, aviation, naval and ordinance in June 1918, including undergraduates. Of these, service and the quartermaster corps. e 818 450 men in the National Army detach- 1,595 were on active service (588 as ocers), ment and 200 in the Naval training camp were folded in. All received uniforms, and 191 were on allied service or in the reserves. tuition, board and $30 a month. Com-

44 | KANSAS ALUMNI a Hostess House in Myers Hall (on the site public gatherings were prohibited and of Smith Hall), serving cafeteria-style “strict compliance is a patriotic To see more meals. A lounge with desks and big duty,” Strong asserted. KU WWI era photographs, armchairs created a homey atmosphere, e University inrmary at 1300 visit kualumni.org/extras. and female students provided nightly Louisiana St. proved at once inadequate, musical programs. so ve Mississippi Street barracks Within days of the SATC swearing-in, were furnished as isolation wards and the Spanish in uenza began moving a pneumonia hospital was built through the barracks, the campus and the next to them. been infected and 32 had died. In the U.S., town. It has long been thought that this SATC corpsmen and medical students at least 675,000 died. Worldwide, the death highly contagious, deadly form of swine from Rosedale treated the ill, one of whom toll was at least 50 million. u originated that March at Fort Riley’s was Abilene sophomore Deane W. Malott, Deaths from war-related injuries, Camp Funston, ignited by burning c’21, with little more than aspirin and gassing or in uenza among Jayhawks in manure and pig carcasses. uids. Dozens of female students and service continued for months, eventually But early in 1918 a doctor in Haskell faculty became nurses, collected linens totaling 127 men and two women. e County, in southwest Kansas, had warned and supplies in town and maintained a University’s service ag bore more than the U.S. Public Health Service about a new, hospital kitchen. 3,500 stars. savage form of in uenza he was treating: Just as the disease seemed under e SATC was demobilized Dec. 21. e “Violent headache and body aches, high control, 400 vocational trainees were sent barracks, built at a cost of $120,000, were fever, non-productive cough … rapid in its to Lawrence, bringing new cases with dismantled in the spring and sold for progress … Soon dozens of patients— them. e quarantine was extended $11,000 in salvage. Strong pleaded for the strongest, the healthiest, the most through Nov. 11. months before KU received the promised robust people in the county—were being But in a stunningly precipitous end to reimbursement of $173,000 it had spent struck down as suddenly as if they had four years of hellish warfare—and only 19 on the SATC. been shot.” months aer the U.S. was pulled into the Just before Christmas, “West Ad” On Oct. 8, 92 KU students reported con ict—the armistice was signed in a opened, while construction continued symptoms; the next day, 130. Soon, 400 railroad carriage at Compiègne, France, at on the central section. Aer the wartime- were ill. Medical school dean Samuel J. 11 a.m. on that 11th day of that 11th chancellor’s death in 1934, the bu Crumbine, secretary of the state Board of month. e Great War was over. terra-cotta building at the center of Health, ordered the campus closed until When the epidemic waned at KU just campus was named in honor of Oct. 15. Nobody could leave town, before anksgiving, nearly 1,000 had Frank Strong.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 45 Association amount have a great impact on our programs and help engage students and alumni across the globe.” Visit kualumni.org/contribute or call 800-584-2957 to make a tax-deductible donation.

STEVE PUPPE STEVE In addition, the Association introduced the Path to Life Premium membership option, which replaces the Jayhawk Society. e new name more accurately describes the advantage of this member- ship level: Jayhawks receive 10 percent o the cost of Life membership for as many as ve consecutive years of Path to Life Premium membership. Other membership options include Annual, Life and Life installment. Stellar service Millie recipients honored Give back for longtime contributions to KU or their unwavering commitment to Members can now direct support to favorite Association programs Fthe University, Jay Craig, Gregory Ek, and Vaun and Sydnie Bowling Kamp- his fall, the Alumni Association works with the Oce of Admissions to schroeder are recipients of the 2018 Tlaunched a new Choice Giving bring students from KU families to the Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Award. program, which enables Jayhawks to target Hill. e “Millie” recognizes Jayhawks who annual, tax-deductible donations beyond • Alumni networks, which gather have volunteered in their local communi- their membership dues to specic Associa- Jayhawks worldwide through events that ties for 10 years or more and honors the tion programs, including: promote professional and personal memory of Clodfelter, b’41, for her 47 • e Jayhawk Career Network (JCN), a growth, KU academic programs, social years of service to KU, including 42 years new initiative that currently features KU networking, community service, watch working at the Association. Mentoring, an online campuswide parties and other activities. Jay Craig, b’85, g’87, has been involved platform to match students and alumni in • Kansas Alumni magazine and digital with KU alumni networks for decades. He mentorships based on specic industries, communications, which cover KU and attended watch parties and other events in interests, geographic locations and other Association news and events. San Francisco and San Diego before factors. e JCN also hosts local network • Jayhawks for Higher Education, which moving to Milwaukee, where he helped events that unite students with alumni communicates with the Kansas Legislature establish and now leads an alumni experts in various elds. Future phases will to encourage state funding for KU and network that has grown to include more include opportunities for students to Regents universities. than 800 Jayhawks. A longtime Life participate in job shadowing and intern- “We’re so excited to oer an opportunity member, he is vice president and senior ships and pursue employment with for alumni to give back in ways that are project executive at MSI General and lives alumni. meaningful to them,” says Angela Riey in Fox Point, Wisconsin, with his wife, • e Student Alumni Network, KU’s Storey, b’04, g’04, the Association’s vice Jenny, and their children, Garrett and largest student organization, which hosts president of donor relations. “Gis of any Halle. networking and social events for students Greg Ek, b’76, lives in Wichita and is a and helps develop future alumni members Life Member and Presidents Club donor. and network volunteer leaders. He was a board member for both the Jayhawks can also donate to other Kansas City and Wichita networks and he programs in greatest need, including: served on the Alumni Association’s • Legacy student recruitment, which national Board of Directors from 2012 to

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI support one of our programs, A NOTE FROM HEATH serve on a local alumni network DAN STOREY DAN Strengthen the Jayhawk Legacy board, help us advocate for KU in the Kansas Legislature as a member of Jayhawks for Higher believe a strong legacy starts with focusing on making a Education, recruit or refer a Idi”erence in the lives of others and giving back. For generations, prospective student to our legacy loyal Jayhawks have worked together to build upon KU’s legacy of relations oƒce, encourage a excellence through service, support and generosity to KU in current KU student to get personally meaningful ways. involved in the Student Alumni Those of you who responded to our 2018 alumni survey (and Network, join the Williams other surveys in recent years) have provided a clear roadmap to Education Fund or make a gift to help us continue to strengthen the Jayhawk legacy. For example, KU Endowment to support an you spoke loudly when you told us you want more career academic program, scholarship, networking opportunities and the ability to mentor students. In Peterson research, professorship, or capital response, we launched the Jayhawk Career Network, which will project. facilitate mentorships and career connections between students Our shared pride, tradition, connection and legacy make being and alumni around the world (mentoring.ku.edu). Jayhawks incredibly special. Thank you for paying it forward to Another way you can enhance the KU legacy is through the ensure that current and future Jayhawks enjoy the life-changing Alumni Association’s new Choice Giving program, which provides KU experiences that continue to unite generations of alumni and new ways for Jayhawks to contribute annually to specific friends. initiatives that are personally important them (see story, p. 46). Rock Chalk! There are many ways we can unite to advance our proud —Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09 University: Be a mentor, recruit a new member, make a gift to KU Alumni Association president

’17. He and his wife, Debby, are longtime Education Fund. He is a nancial adviser numerous students to KU. e Kamp- attendees of Kansas City’s Rock Chalk Ball and rst vice president at Morgan Stanley. schroeders are Life members and Presi- and Wichita’s Jayhawk Roundup, an event Vaun, c’63, g’65, and Sydnie Bowling dents Club donors and support Kansas they chaired in 2017. He received the Dick Kampschroeder, c’65, are retired and split Athletics through the Williams Education Wintermote Volunteer of the Year Award their time between Lawrence and Chicago. Fund. ey have attended KU Mini in 2011 and served on the Chancellor ey have served as board members for College for the past ve years and are Search Committee in 2017. He is a the Chicago Network and have organized members of KU Endowment’s Chancellors member of Jayhawks for Higher Education several network events for local Jayhawks. Club, the Dole Institute, the Spencer and donates to KU Endowment, the ey are members of Jayhawks for Higher Museum of Art, the Natural History School of Business and the Williams Education and have helped recruit Museum and the Lied Center. Sydnie also served on the Alumni Association’s national Board of Directors from 2000 to ’05, as well as advisory boards for the School of Business, the KU Memorial Union PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE RECIPIENTS (3) OF THE RECIPIENTS COURTESY PHOTOS Corporation and the Chancellors Club. She’s currently involved with Women Philanthro- Jay Craig Greg Ek Vaun and Sydnie Kampschroeder pists for KU.

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Participation The sample size provided a discounts: KU Bookstore (24 statistical reliability of +/-1.14 percent), national discounts (19 More than 7,100 alumni from at a confidence level of 95 percent), followed by watch all schools responded, with the percent. parties, mentoring and Kansas highest number representing Alumni magazine (17 percent). the College (36 percent). Membership Survey says Fifty-one percent were current Communications, programs Association members and 16 Members are more motivated and services Alumni responses will percent lapsed members. by loyalty and pride, while shape programs, Participation spanned all age non-members are more driven Alumni view Kansas Alumni communications groups, and 92 percent had by connecting to other alumni. magazine and email updates earned degrees. Seventy-six percent view about news, events and Association membership as programs highest in terms of he Association regularly Recent Grads (24-29): important to the University. importance and e†ectiveness. Tsurveys members and 13 percent Kansas Alumni magazine The majority of alumni across non-members to determine Young Professionals remains the most important all age groups still prefer to how best to serve the Jayhawk (30-25): 10 percent benefit of membership (59 read the magazine in print, community. After enlisting the Growing Career (36-50): percent), followed by the KU while younger alumni also rely help of a professional research 20 percent Bookstore discount (28 at higher rates on digital firm, the Association in June Mature Career (51-65): percent), the calendar (21 formats via their computers or sent an online survey to 24 percent percent) and local watch phones. All age groups rely on 130,000 alumni via email, and Semi/Fully Retired (>65): parties (20 percent). email; younger alumni rely less the results are in. Here are a 26 percent Meanwhile, non-members on the magazine and more on few key takeaways: Other: 7 percent are most interested in social media.

The KU Black Alumni Network he KU Black Alumni Network is proud to honor African-American alumni who have distin- Tguished themselves and made a dierence Mike and Joyce Shinn through demonstrated leadership and/or innovation to the University, their profession or society at large. The project acknowledges the contributions of indi- viduals who have made their mark in varied ways and highlights in photographs and text the accomplish- Leaders ments of our honorees. Recipients are selected from nominations submitted and to the KU Black Alumni Network Mike and Joyce Shinn Leaders and Innovators Award Committee. Innovators The committee will accept nominations for the 2019 awards through January 31, 2019. Award To nominate an individual, complete the nomination form online at kualumni.org/kublackalumni.

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI Alumni say the Association alumni and students. n College or school: 15 Save the dates! is most e™ective at strength- Among the Association’s percent ening the KU community by: network events, alumni are n Fraternity or sorority: most likely to attend watch 12 percent Don’t miss these premier events next April: 1. Promoting KU athletics parties (Crimson and Blue

2. Promoting KU Views, 60 percent) and live Student engagement remains Jayhawk Roundup achievements and sports or entertainment events the best predictor of lifelong Friday, April 12, 2019 priorities with fellow Jayhawks (Hawk alumni engagement. Involved Murfin Stables 3. Celebrating and Happenings, 56 percent). students are more likely to Wichita recognizing alumni remain involved as alumni, achievements Alumni engagement especially those who participated in: In addition to providing Eighty-eight percent said they feedback to the University were very satisfied with their 1. Student Alumni Network about alumni perceptions, KU academic experience, with 2. Student government Rock Chalk Ball alumni felt it was most 91 percent agreeing that 3. Rock Chalk Revue Saturday, April 27, 2019 important for the Association students at KU had good school 4. Greek organizations Grand Ballroom to provide career assistance spirit. Alumni also described at Bartle Hall and mentoring opportunities their greatest sense of Thank you to the more than Kansas City, Missouri for students, alumni and connection to: 7,100 alumni who responded to friends. The launch of the the summer 2018 online survey. Jayhawk Career Network and n KU overall: 33 percent KU Mentoring aims to address n Program of study: 16 this demand and serve all percent

Rex W. Henoch David W. Peterson Life Members Herbert H. Hickman Lucrezia E. Petigna e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Robin L. & Kimberly Kasick Michelle Stewart Reeck Life memberships Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. For information, Hicks Devon T. Reese & Felipe visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. John C. & Jamie Phipps Cisneros Johnson Craig R. & Julie Davis Richey Jan Josserand-Lindner Robert G. Rodriguez Brendon M. & Peony Freund James E. Davis Leslie Bagby Larsen Julie A. Schoeneck Allen Wesley M. Densmore Jessica P. Lemus Norma Davison Sedgwick Gregory F. & Allison Bryan J. & Jeremy Wilkins Melanie J. Lombardo Kevin P. Singer Gilhousen Alvine Didier Bruce R. MacGregor Nicholas J. & Tanya L. Spacek Linda B. Angotti Alisa A. Dinneen Mary C. Markowitz & Diane Jason W. Stopper Je™rey K. & Roberta J. Amen Leonard E. Dodson Jr. & C. Du™y Michio Suzuki Robert J. Bahr Jackie Jenkins Dodson Kim R. Martens Gaylord V. Swan Robert J. & Lisa Stocking Baird Scott A. Dold & Jean M. Karen E. Mayberry Marion O. Temple Paul M. Bennett Younger Donna L. McClain Earl D. Tjaden Shelley Ditus Biegel Bill H. & Julia Siress Duncan Luke S. McElwain & Jessica L. Bradley W. & Karen K. Trees Brian F. Brim & Sherrill R. Tim & Rachel A. Duncan Peterson Rodney J. Trent Morris Stephen D. Edwards Ruben & Jeanette T. Medina Monique Ramos van Eva K. Brown Kristopher S. Fisher Mark S. Merriman Loben Sels Sharon Burton Brown Stephen T. Franklin Lauren K. Miller Brady L. & Ti™any Clayton Way Robert A. Ca™arelli Kati Gallagher Rebecca E. Miller M. Kathryn Webb LaRisa R. Chambers Carolina M. Gahn John D. Musgrave Ronald G. Wells Nancy Frandle Clark Irvilene Gardner Brooke Nesmith Lee H. White Amanda B. Coleman Marjorie E. Grafke-Doby Roy S. O’Connor Paul D. White John R. Corbet Je™rey W. Halbgewachs Lisa M. O’Toole Timothy S. White Bonnie Brooks Cullum Janet C. Hamilton Brian M. Palermo Jeana R. Wilcox Jacqueline Z. Davis Safet O. Hatic II Melinda Eisenhour Parks

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 49 2017-’18 Dear Jayhawks, We are incredibly grateful for your generosity Annual as loyal alumni and friends. Your support enabled us to unite thousands of Jayhawks Report around the world, strengthen KU and add value to KU degrees. You played an important role in our achievements during the fiscal year that Peterson Carroll ended June 30, 2018. In addition to the high- lights summarized in these pages, the Associa- tion also made strides in the following areas, • Since June 30, 2017, the Student Alumni including important milestones since June 30: Network has grown from 1,881 to 4,322 mem- bers. Throughout the year, we attracted 11,860 • We established a plan to create the Jayhawk students to networking events. Healthy Career Network (JCN) based on feedback student participation and leadership are criti- and direction from the all-alumni survey. The cal as we work to develop the next generation JCN facilitates meaningful career connections of volunteers, advisers, mentors and donors. between students and alumni and among alumni around the globe. A generous seed gift • The Presidents Club grew at a record pace of $250,000 helped us hire a full-time sta“ by all metrics this past year. Presidents Club member in February and provided funding for donors continue to provide important an- the new digital platform for KU Mentoring, nual philanthropic support, which we invest which o•cially launched during Homecom- directly in programs and communications that ing week Sept. 22-29. In only one month, strengthen KU and connect Jayhawks to KU more than 2,700 alumni and 700 students and each other around the world. have joined the digital mentoring community! Future growth will create new opportunities for These milestones are critical to a strong, students to participate in job shadowing and vibrant association and our role in building internships. lifelong relationships as a trusted, strategic partner of the University. As responsible • Jayhawks for Higher Education advocates stewards of your resources, we are proud of helped win approval for partial restoration of our talented sta“ for executing our mission the dramatic cuts to state funding for Regents e“ectively within the confines of our estab- universities since 2008. As we prepare for the lished budget. We are fortunate to collaborate 2019 legislative session, the Kansas Board of with University leaders, KU Endowment, Regents is proposing the restoration of the Kansas Athletics and numerous academic remaining funds over the next two years: $50 partners to help the University continue to million for fiscal year 2020; and $35 million achieve greater heights. The University of for fiscal year 2021. KU’s share of these funds Kansas was built by generations of passion- would total about $33 million across all five ate Jayhawks like you who love this institution campuses. dearly. Your collective e“orts are game- changers for KU! • Our legacy relations team, working with the KU O•ce of Admissions, o“ered personal- We believe Jayhawks are stronger together! ized recruitment of students from KU families to help increase the number of undergradu- ate legacy students on campus from 4,478 to 4,592, or 23.5 percent of the entire undergrad- Heath Peterson, Kevin Carroll, assoc. uate population. d’04, g’09 National Chair President 2017-’18

50 | KANSAS ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR

LEGACY RELATIONS

4,592 Legacy Undergrads Legacy Undergrads as percentage of total undergradu- ate enrollment: 23.5% (out of a total of 19,576 undergrad students) Top five home states of legacy students are: 1. Kansas 2. Missouri 3. Texas 4. Illinois 5. Colorado Digital media mission Vision 1,154 broadcast emails reached combined total We build lifelong relation- The KU Alumni Associa- recipients of 6,001,917 ships that strengthen the tion is a trusted, strategic University of Kansas and partner in advancing the Mobile app downloads the legacy of excellence mission of the University Alumni 18,712 Jayhawks embodied by its students, of Kansas by uniting a for Higher Education 254 alumni, faculty, sta— global network of and friends. We believe Jayhawks and increasing Jayhawks are stronger the value of KU degrees. together! social presidents club media ADAMS 598 Presidents Club members donated 14,302 Facebook fans annual gifts of $1,000 or more. ALUMNI CENTER 23,631 LinkedIn group Visit kualumni.org/annual report to read members 37,347 guests the complete 2017-’18 annual report, featuring a list of donors and special profiles. Since 2007, donor support has 14,892 Twitter followers 1,083 events enabled the Association to dramatically expand its work to at 1266 Oread Avenue advocate for KU, communicate with Jayhawks in all media, 6,259 Instagram followers recruit students and volunteers, serve students and fellow alumni, and unite Jayhawks worldwide. Thank you!

Strategic Plan The Association’s national Board of Directors approved the following goals to guide the Association’s work through June 30, 2019, and beyond:

Enhance and build Build the single best, Implement new tech- Modernize the Adams 1 resources, creating 2 most e‡ective Student 3 nology, programs and 4 Alumni Center, creating future capacity to support Alumni Network in the coun- communications to engage, an unrivaled experience for programs and services that try to drive long-term loyalty inform, mobilize and unite alumni and friends with rel- benefit the University and to KU. Jayhawks around the world evant and welcoming space a growing KU community of and advance KU through for students. students, alumni and friends. lifelong involvement.

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 51 Networks Finances

Total 129 Revenues—$8,003,592 23 in Kansas 74 National 11% 27 International 14% 5% 5 Anity 8% The Association created new 13% guidelines for networks and volun- Volunteers 8% teers, including five distinct types of events to unite Jayhawks: 17% National Board of Directors 24 24% 49 Kansas City Network 45 Wichita Network I Membership Dues I Sales & Rock Chalk Connect 121 Kansas Networks I Royalties Commissions programs oer opportunities to I Contributions, I External Grants network with other professionals and 170 National Networks unrestricted I University Support exchange career tips 32 International Networks I Contributions, I Investment Income restricted 116 Kansas Honor Scholars Program Operating Expenses—$6,422,359

Rock Chalk Cultivate 43 Student Alumni 9% events create opportunities to acquire Leadership Board or develop qualities or skills with—and 18% sometimes from—fellow Jayhawks 8 Homecoming Steering Committee 58% 20 Gold Medal Club Reunion Committee 8% Crimson & Blue Views 42 Anity Networks 7% unite alumni and friends to watch 1,615 Jayhawks for Higher televised KU games with fellow Education Jayhawks I Sta I Printing & Postage I Occupancy, I Events & Total Alumni Association Volunteers Insurance & Hospitality 2,285 Depreciation I Other Hawk Happenings gather Jayhawks to enjoy live sports Operating Expense E ciency and entertainment events, including 4% KU games, professional sporting The Association is a careful steward 14% events or happy hours of donor resources, with 82 percent of spending going directly to programming. Highly e cient charities spend 75 percent or more of expenses on programming.* You can be confident that 82% your investment in the Alumni Associa- KU Cares Jayhawk volunteers who lend tion is being put to good use!

their time and talents to benefit *charitynavigator.org their communities.

I Programming I Management & 52 | KANSAS ALUMNI I Membership & General Fundraising HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR Finances MEMBERSHIP AND ALUMNI RECORDS

s of June 30, 2018, the Membership Five Alumni Records staˆ members Association included 43,743 made more than 113,158 updates to A 9,454 Annual members, with growing numbers of constituent records during 2,426 Premium Annual (formerly Life and Student memberships. FY 2018. Jayhawk Society) 21,439 Life Members Total Alumni Overall: 6,926 New Graduate Members Total Degreed Alumni: 250,422 4,016 Student Alumni Network Total Constituent Database (including donors and friends): 460,500

Alumni in the U.S. degreed and non-degreed

Alumni Records

I Less than 1,000 I 2,000-2,999 I 5,000-9,999 I 100,000 + I 1,000-1,999 I 3,000-4,999 I 10,000 +

ISSUE 6, 2018 | 53 KU Alumni n American Cancer Society n Je“erson’s Restaurant n Senior Resource Center for Douglas County Association n Andrew Wymore, Realtor n Josten’s n Spencer Museum of Art Corporate Partners: n Best Western Plus West n Kansas Athletics Lawrence n The Alumni Insurance n Kansas Public Radio Program Sponsors and n Bigg’s Grill & Bar n KU Admissions n The Bradford Exchange Advertisers n Bob Schumm, Developer n KU Bookstore n The Jayhawk Club n Boulevard Brewing Co. We thank our 2018 event and n KU Endowment You can make a dierence—you choose! n The University of Kansas program sponsors and our print n Charlie Hustle Clothing Co. n KU Libraries and digital advertisers. Health System n Church Hill Classics Their marketing investments n KU School of Business n Thomas Gibson Studio help the Association serve n Cottage Blooms Cards n Liberty Mutual n Thomas P. Gohagan & The Jayhawk Career Student Alumni Programs in greatest students and alumni through 3 3 3 n Crown Toyota, Volkswagen Company Network Network need, including: communications and activities n McAlister’s Deli n Everspring n Our multi-faceted central hub The largest KU student organization Legacy student recruitment, which that strengthen the n Meadowlark Estates Tickets For Less coordinates career connections and helps develop future alumni members works with the O
ce of Admissions Jayhawk network. n Frank Mason III n n Megh Knappenberger Art Truity Credit Union networking opportunities for students and volunteer leaders. to bring students from KU families to n Harvest Graphics n and alumni. the Hill n Nationwide University of Kansas n Hot Box Cookies Medical Center n Papa Keno’s Pizzeria n Alumni Networks, which unite n Hy-Vee (6th Street and University National Bank n Pop-A-Shot Jayhawks worldwide Clinton Parkway) n Williams Education Fund n Salty Iguana Mexican n INTRUST Bank Kansas Alumni magazine and Restaurant digital communications, which cover KU and Association news and events, including the stories of alumni, stu- dents and faculty

Jayhawks for Higher Education, which communicates with the Kansas The KU Alumni Association app Legislature, urging support for KU and puts KU in the palm of your hand! Regents universities

All Jayhawks can use the app to: • • • • • • • • • • We believe Jayhawks are stronger together! • • • • • • • • • • app • Join, renew or upgrade your membership • Receive breaking news notifications and watch live-stream broadcasts The KU Alumni Association app Choose to give today and receive a gift from us! • Refer a prospective student Hail to Old KU is for all alumni, students, friends To give: • Visit kualumni.org/contribute wooden wall art is and fans of KU. Rock Chalk! Plus these members-only features: • Mail your gift in the self-addressed, available with postage-paid envelope provided contributions of Join the KU Mentoring community $100 or more Network with Jayhawks • Call 800-584-2957 Receive special discounts • Via the KU Alumni Association app size 16” x 10.5” Read Kansas Alumni magazine Use your digital membership card Your contribution is 100% tax deductible.

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kualumni.org 54 | KANSAS ALUMNI You can make a dierence—you choose!

The Jayhawk Career Student Alumni Programs in greatest 3 Network 3 Network 3 need, including: Our multi-faceted central hub The largest KU student organization Legacy student recruitment, which coordinates career connections and helps develop future alumni members works with the O
ce of Admissions networking opportunities for students and volunteer leaders. to bring students from KU families to and alumni. the Hill

Alumni Networks, which unite Jayhawks worldwide

Kansas Alumni magazine and digital communications, which cover KU and Association news and events, including the stories of alumni, stu- dents and faculty

Jayhawks for Higher Education, which communicates with the Kansas Legislature, urging support for KU and Regents universities

• • • • • • • • • • We believe Jayhawks are stronger together! • • • • • • • • • •

Choose to give today and receive a gift from us! Hail to Old KU To give: • Visit kualumni.org/contribute wooden wall art is • Mail your gift in the self-addressed, available with postage-paid envelope provided contributions of $100 or more • Call 800-584-2957 • Via the KU Alumni Association app size 16” x 10.5”

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kualumni.org ISSUE 6, 2018 | 55 Andrew Wymore PROUD MEMBER. Realtor.

In cooperation with the KU Alumni Association, I am excited to participate in the Give Back Initiative.

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ANDREW WYMORE REALTOR Robert Kipp, e’52, g’56, was honored by Heather Biele Class Notes 52 in July with the establishment of the Robert Almy Kipp Professorship of Practice in city management at KU. e professorship was created by the Hall Family Foundation and recognizes Bob’s professionally in the NFL. He is a member Jan Karlin, c’75, l’80, lives in achievements in career, civic leadership of the Ring of Honor and Kansas Athletics 75 Lawrence, where she’s a retired and urban development. He retired in Hall of Fame and holds one of only three judge. 2006 as vice president of Hallmark Cards. KU football numbers to be retired. Susan Mahanna-Boden, d’75, is an associate professor of communication Martha Crosier Wood, j’59, was Ellis “Skip” Cave, e’69, is chief disorders at Eastern Kentucky University 59 awarded the 2018 Minuteman Cane 69 technology o cer at Cave Consult- in Richmond. for her contributions to the city of ing in Dallas. He lives in Parker, Texas. Judson Maillie, b’75, l’80, retired as Lexington, Massachusetts. She has served Dan Flanigan, j’69, a shareholder at managing partner at Business Owners on several boards and committees and Polsinelli in Kansas City, was named Advisory Group. He resides in Maryville, retired as director of the state’s Cancer Lawyer of the Year in bankruptcy and Tennessee. Prevention and Control Network. She’s a creditor rights and insolvency and columnist at the Lexington Minuteman. reorganization law by Best Lawyers in America. It’s his sixth time earning the Kerm Campbell, e’60, owns Black honor. School Codes Letters that follow names 60 Star Farms, a winery in Suttons indicate the school from which alumni earned Bay, Michigan. He’s collaborating with KU Lynne Horwitz Green, s’70, founder degrees. Numbers show their class years. engineering faculty to develop a device 70 of Van Go Inc., an arts-based social a School of Architecture that would lter sultes from wine. service and job-training agency for at-risk and Design Thomas Creel, e’60, is an arbitrator and teens in Lawrence, will retire in December b School of Business mediator at JAMS in New York City, where aer 23 years at the helm. c College of Liberal Arts he specializes in intellectual property and Virgil, d’70, and Connie Leveritt Ranker, and Sciences technology disputes. d’70, are retired and recently moved to d School of Education John McGrew, b’60, senior partner at Ellsworth from Colorado. ey are e School of Engineering McGrew Real Estate in Lawrence, was renovating a house and also enjoy f School of Fine Arts inducted in the 2018 Lawrence Business traveling. g Master’s Degree Hall of Fame. h School of Health Professions Mark Wendleton, e’71, is retired and j School of Journalism Bradford Sumner, b’65, retired as 71 lives in Cape Coral, Florida. l School of Law m School of Medicine vice president at Sprint. He lives in 65 n School of Nursing Patrick Williams, Leawood. c’72, was recently p School of Pharmacy 72 inducted in the inaugural Circle of PharmD School of Pharmacy Gary Russell, d’67, g’68, EdD’79, in Distinction for the International Coach s School of Social Welfare 67 August completed his second Grand Federation. He lives in Windsor, Colorado, u School of Music Canyon Rim-to-Rim hike. He and his wife, where he is an author and founder of the AUD Doctor of Audiology Kathy, make their home in Topeka. Institute for Life Coach Training. DE Doctor of Engineering William Taylor, b’67, g’69, is on the DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art board of David Dillon, b’73, in September was DNAP Doctor of Nursing Anethesia trustees. He is treasurer and chairs the 73 elected chair of KU Endowment Practice nance committee. board of trustees. He has served on the DNP Doctor of Nursing Practice DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy board since 1991. Dave is retired CEO and EdD Doctor of Education John Hadl, d’68, retired in October chairman of the Kroger Company. OTD Doctor of Occupational 68 from Kansas Athletics’ Williams William Docking, c’73, l’77, g’77, Therapy Education Fund, where he led facilities chairman of Union State Bank and PhD Doctor of Philosophy fundraising eorts for the past three president, chairman and CEO of Docking SJD Doctor of Juridical Science decades. He played football for the Bancshares in Arkansas City, in September (no letter) Former student Jayhawks in the early ’60s and returned in was elected vice chair of KU Endowment assoc Associate member of the 1977 as an assistant head coach and board of trustees. He has served on the Alumni Association oensive coordinator aer playing board since 1985.

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Teresa Bratton Peterson, d’80, lives in cancer geneticist and directs KU Cancer of Children’s Mercy in Kansas City. Lawrence, where she’s an administrative Center’s Biospecimen Repository. Garold Masoner, e’83, is global manager associate at KU Student Housing. Hiroyuki Kumagai, g’82, g’84, is founder of lighting, appearance and materials at of AerospaceComputing in Mountain BCS Automotive Interface Solutions in Kelly Knopp, e’81, is vice president of View, California. Winona, Minnesota. 81 business development at NOVA Scott Spangler, c’83, vice president of Chemicals Inc. in Houston. Kathy Booth, h’83, is a nuclear supply chain at Coronal Energy/Panasonic 83 medicine technologist at Santa Cruz Eco Solutions, recently joined the board of Keith Flanery, j’82, retired from the Regional Hospital. She lives in Tucson, advisers at Uncharted Power. He makes his 82 National Park Service aer 25 years Arizona. home in Mission Viejo, California. as a protection ranger. He lives in Tucson, Karen Cox, n’83, is president of Cham- Arizona. berlain University in Downers Grove, Jerry Green, j’84, is senior manager Andrew Godwin, c’82, received the 2018 Illinois. She previously served as executive 84 and community strategist for the Chancellors Club Research Award. He is a vice president and chief operating o cer YMCA of the USA in Chicago.

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Theatre alumnus living Neighborhood,” and reveled in the puppets’ larger-than-life personalities. dream as puppeteer Aer graduating from KU, Lott landed (2) SPENCER LOTT COURTESY y the time Spencer Lott arrived at a gig as a company puppeteer in Kansas BKU in 2006, the theatre major was City, but the experience was short-lived. “already on the puppetry track.” So much Sidelined by a non-compete clause that so that he skipped his rst week of classes kept him out of the local puppet scene for to attend a “Sesame Street” puppet a year, Lott was waiting tables on the workshop in New York City, thanks to an Country Club Plaza when a casting call “I’m a 5-foot-10, skinny pale guy who’s balding invitation from one of the show’s longtime in New York City caught his attention: and I wear glasses,” says Spencer Lott, a cast members, Martin Robinson, who Trusty Sidekick eater Company, an “Sesame Street” puppeteer. “But with puppetry brings life to characters like Mr. Snue- innovative group that creates interactive I can be anything.” upagus and Telly Monster. productions for children and their Playing hooky paid o for Lott, who in families, was seeking an actor with puppet October returned to the set of the popular experience to workshop a new play. Lott children’s show to lm its 50th season. He’s submitted his resume and received an directed several shows, including in his third year as an assistant puppeteer, invitation to perform. “Blossom,” an ambitious play that explores or right-hander, and helps create the “It was one of those moments where Alzheimer’s disease through puppets and wildly animated and lifelike movements you’re just in the right room at the right their human caretakers, and “Campre,” for several “Sesame Street” muppets, time,” says Lott, who spent all of his a sensory-rich production for children including Cookie Monster, that require a restaurant earnings for the ight to New on the autism spectrum. two-person team. York. “It was a fantastic group of young Lott recently signed on as a puppet “Working at ‘Sesame Street’ is just a artists, and we just clicked instantly.” builder and puppeteer for a lm starring dream,” says Lott, c’10, who lives in Lott continued to work with Trusty Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, which is Brooklyn, New York. “It’s such Sidekick whenever he could, scheduled for release in October 2019. It’s a fun place to be. And it’s one eventually moving to New the latest in a string of opportunities of the few cornerstones of the York City and becoming the conrming Lott’s belief that, with pup- puppetry scene.” company’s associate artistic petry, there’s always something exciting Lott traces his passion for director. In addition to his around the bend. puppets to his childhood. A work with “Sesame Street” and “at’s one of the things I love about it,” self-described PBS kid, he other side projects, which he says. “It’s an excuse to do a little bit of regularly tuned into children’s include TV commercials and everything: I get to direct, I get to write, I classics such as “Sesame the 2016 Macy’s anksgiving get to build, I get to perform. Artistically, Street” and “Mister Rogers’ Day Parade, he has written and that keeps me really satised.

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Jeanny Jackson Sharp, j’84, is associate Patrick McCurdy, a’89, works at Hoefer publisher and directs advertising sales for Wysocki in Leawood, where he’s vice the Emporia Gazette. She makes her home president and health care practice leader. in Hutchinson. Samantha Pipe Cook, b’90, man- Gary McElwain, c’85, is retired and Joseph, Hollander & Cra. She specializes 90 ages IT tech projects at Sprint 85 lives in Stilwell with Janette Bisang in health and hospital law in the rm’s in Overland Park. McElwain, b’88. Topeka o ce. Gene King, j’90, g’02, lives in Fort Mill, Bill Pope, d’88, is director of pro South Carolina, where he directs public David Gri„th, b’86, makes his personnel for the Orlando Magic. He was relations at Ally Financial. 86 home in Manhattan Beach, KU’s head student manager during the Eric Thompson, c’90, is an investigator California, where he’s vice president of Jayhawks’ 1988 NCAA championship for the U.S. O ce of Personnel Manage- nance at Lenny & Larry’s, a baked goods season. ment in Kansas City. company. John Rose, ’88, makes his home in Paul White, c’90, is assistant vice Rob Karwath, j’86, is general manager of Carlsbad, California, where he’s CEO of president and underwriter at Swiss the Kansan Media Group and oversees the TRAVYRS, a company that specializes in Reinsurance in Overland Park. He makes University Daily Kansan and other technology and marketing for the travel his home in Gardner. publications and websites. He also serves industry. as news adviser to the Kansan editorial Ernest Shaw, g’88, is retired director of Kimberly Young Goodale, j’91, lives sta and is an instructor in the School of Lawrence Parks & Recreation. He lives in 91 in Overland Park, where she owns Journalism. Lawrence with his wife, Joyce. Room-to-Room Transformations. Jon Mohatt, b’91, g’97, owns JCM Karen Maginn Burton, c’88, owns Burton Carriker, g’89, is CEO of Properties in Kalispell, Montana. 88 Coki Bijoux, a jewelry store in 89 Destiny Springs Healthcare, a Sherry Bowman Perkins, PhD’91, is Kansas City. behavioral health hospital in Surprise, president and CEO of University of Anne Kindling, c’88, is an attorney at Arizona. Maryland Capital Region Health in Hyattsville. She joined the hospital in 2016 as executive vice president and chief operating o cer. John Valasek, g’91, PhD’95, was inducted in the 2017-’18 KU Aerospace Engineering Honor Roll for his national contributions to Unmanned Air Systems. He is a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M and directs the university’s Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory.

Ulf Becker, c’92, makes his home in 92 e Woodlands, Texas, where he’s an enterprise GIS senior technical professional at ExxonMobil Global Service Company. Tricia Pfeifer Chitwood, c’92, is a manager and senior solution strategist at Cerner in Kansas City. She and Jonathan, c’00, live in Spring Hill and have four children. Penny Postoak Ferguson, b’92, g’94, is county manager of Johnson County. She has been on sta with the county since 2010. Sal Intagliata, c’92, l’95, was named Wichita Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America in the area of white-

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Passion for prairie plants Masterson will gather the leads alumna to her niche seeds and saplings for the native plants, shrubs and rt was Courtney Masterson’s rst love trees and supervise legions Aand the subject of her associate’s of volunteers who’ll clear degree; pursuing additional degrees in invasive species before science was initially a gambit to nd a planting. career that could help support her work as “It’s 90 percent poison ivy a photographer and multimedia artist. and we’re losing the big Soon enough, though, Masterson, g’17, trees,” she says of the North found that working on a larger canvas— Lawrence site of the 8th the great outdoors—inspired another Street boat ramp and a passion, one for using native plants to popular mountain biking “It’s addictive,” Masterson says of her “obsessive passion” for protect, preserve and restore natural and hiking trail. “ ere’s native plants and the services they provide. “Spreading woodland and prairie spaces. While several places you could fall wildflowers and grasses everywhere is just a great feeling.” earning a master’s degree in ecology and in, because the trail is evolutionary biology, she started the Kaw getting so close to the water Valley Native Plant Coalition, which due to rapid erosion.” coordinates the eorts of organizations to Meandering more than improve insect and wildlife diversity, ease promote use of native plant systems, and 170 miles from Junction City to Kansas trail maintenance and boost the beauty of Native Lands LLC, a landscape company City, the Kaw is among the nation’s longest a popular public greenspace. that helps people incorporate native plants prairie rivers. e riparian ecosystem of “It’s a drop in the bucket,” Masterson in their yards and elds. woodlands and grasses was long ago says. “But it’s our goal to do the very best “I do everything from helping people displaced as farmers row-cropped its rich we can as a pilot project to show Lawrence start container gardens on their patios,” oodplain and cities crowded its banks. and other cities the importance of having a Masterson says, “to managing several Pesticides, herbicides and stormwater native landscape against the river.” dozen acres of open grassland.” runo pollute the river, which provides Were similar projects to spring up all In July she landed her biggest project drinking water for 800,000 people. Erosion along the Kaw, water clarity and cleanli- yet: a partnership with Friends of the Kaw crumbles its banks and muddies its waters. ness would improve, potentially cutting on an ambitious eort to restore a mile- By replacing two dozen invasive species municipal treatment costs dramatically. long stretch of Kansas River shoreline with 50 to 60 deep-rooted native plants, “Financially it would be a great thing,” funded by a $78,000 Douglas County Native Lands and Friends of the Kaw hope she says, “but ecologically it would be a Natural and Cultural Heritage Grant. to stabilize the bank, mitigate ooding, wonderful thing.”

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Care, live in Lecompton. mann, j’03, son, William, March 29 in Fort Darby Miller, c’02, ’09, an ophthalmolo- Worth, Texas. He joins a brother, Andrew, gist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, 7, and a sister, Adalyn, 4. Florida, recently was elected president of the Florida Society of Ophthalmology. He Patrick Allen, d’04, lives in Over- and his wife, Gretchen, have three children 04 land Park, where he directs and live in Ponte Vedra Beach. development for Saint Luke’s Health Holly Hydeman Teeter, e’02, l’06, is a System. Meggan Leonard Krase, b’00, works at U.S. district court judge for the district of Alice Moore Arredondo, g’04, EdD’15, Garney Construction in Kansas City, Kansas. She and Derek, c’03, l’06, a was promoted to director of admissions at where she recently was promoted to vice partner at Husch Blackwell, live in the University of Missouri Kansas City. president. She has been with the company Shawnee. She had served as interim director since since 2006. February, in addition to her role as Ti‡nie Fernandez Mercado, c’00, m’05, MARRIED assistant dean of admissions and recruit- is an obstetrician and gynecologist at Michael Chavez, g’02, to Meredith ment at UMKC School of Medicine. Kaiser Permanente in Wailuku, Hawaii. Pushnik, May 12 in Denver, where they Zeinab Mohamad Baba, c’04, is an Terry Nooner, c’00, g’03, is player make their home. Michael manages city assistant professor in the department of development coach and assistant coach for and county public art. health at West Chester University in West the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was a guard at Christopher Wristen, j’02, g’03, to Chester, Pennsylvania. She previously KU from 1997 to 2000. Alexandra Brinkert, May 27 in Shawnee. worked as an epidemiologist with the Jake Smith, c’00, l’03, is a shareholder at ey live in Medford, Massachusetts, Delaware Division of Public Health. Greenberg Traurig in Phoenix, where he where Chris is a marketing specialist at George Ernst, c’04, lives in Little Rock, specializes in corporate and tax law. CDM Smith. He’s also the founder and Arkansas, where he practices law at Cross, Jessica Wachter Thompson, c’00, is editor of MassUltra, a news site that Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus. He senior manager of conference and reports on the state’s ultrarunning specializes in business immigration and tournament events at the Golf Course community. employment defense. Superintendents Association of America Derek Gates, b’04, c’04, g’17, g’18, is in Lawrence, where she lives with Chris, Tariq Ahmad, c’03, is a content senior vice president of nance and b’99, a professional golfer. 03 specialist at Newark element14, an business administration at Allen Press in Ryan Vermeer, ’00, is a professional electronic components distributor in Lawrence, where he lives with his wife, golfer and director of instruction at Happy Chicago. Katie. Hollow Club in Omaha, Nebraska. Ian Devlin, c’03, works at Conga in Linda Schellpeper Lowery, e’04, works at Superior, Colorado, where he’s a technical Cerner, where she’s an engineering Isac Lima, e’01, is a systems engineer business analyst. He and Elizabeth manager. She and her husband, Tim, live 01 at Gannett Fleming in Toronto. Kretzmeier Devlin, c’10, g’12, head of sales in Overland Park with their son, Oliver. Michael Mercer, e’01, works at Black- and support at Walkthrough, live in Patrick McCarty, f’04, g’14, is director more & Glunt in Lenexa, where he’s in Evergreen. of bands at Olathe North High School. He engineering sales. He and Renee Scholz Joe Forchtner, c’03, is head football lives in Lenexa. Mercer, e’01, reside in Overland Park. coach at New Mexico Military Institute in Nathan White, l’04, is executive vice Cory Starr, d’01, coordinates inventory Roswell. president at Sanford Health in Fargo, control at Hutchinson Clinic. Patrick Lytle, b’03, is senior director of North Dakota. nancial planning and analysis at SM Blake Hawley, g’02, is CEO of Energy Company in Denver. David Burkhart, e’05, directs central 02 Motega Health in Lawrence, where David Meall, b’03, lives in San Francisco, 05 pipe operations at Garney Con- he lives with his wife, Leslie, assoc. where he’s senior recruiting manager for struction in Wylie, Texas. Timothy Hollenhorst, l’02, was Uber. Luis Gomar, l’05, is an attorney at Baker appointed interim judge on the Superior Todd Smith, g’03, wrote Murder, McKenzie in Houston. Court of California, county of Riverside. Romance and Two Shootings, a memoir Lindsey Scott Goodman, j’05, is public He has served as the county’s deputy that was published in June by NineStar relations director at Shepherd, an advertis- district attorney since 2004. Press. He lives in Edwardsville, Illinois, ing agency. 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the problematic nature of that history—of Autry curator modernizes SCOTT AMY COURTESY storylines for Western art seeing the West only as this historical frontier experience. e implications of n the 1990s Harry Fonseca created a that perspective, and that narrative, are Iseries of paintings called “Stone Poems,” still playing out, and can still be felt in a reinterpreting rock art of the ancient lot of political moments and tensions. Native peoples of California and the Standing Rock became emblematic Southwest. e late Maidu artist addressed of that.” the subject in a modernist way, and Defying Western art’s “traditional” infused humor and warmth, which were trappings, Scott’s exhibitions oen pack a seldom associated with Native art. At the timely punch. She and Luis Garza curated Autry Museum of the American West, a 2017 Getty-funded exhibition of in Los Angeles, the “Stone Poems” photographs from La Raza, the inuential exhibition opening in May represents the bilingual newspaper published in Los latest push by chief curator Amy Scott to Angeles from 1967 to ’77. change the way we think about Native “Any curator gets excited about being Prior to the Autry, Amy Scott worked as and Western art. the rst to open the vault,” she says of the curatorial assistant at Kansas City’s Nelson- “So many people still think of the West archive’s 25,000 images. “But it was as a place that exists primarily in the 19th daunting to organize an exhibit that Atkins Museum of Art and as curator at the century,” says Scott, c’93. “ere’s a frames events to emphasize key points of Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. moment that is happening right now for the Chicano movement, as well as the Western art, especially contemporary basic argument that Mexican-Americans Native American art—a ourishing of are Americans. Yet because of long-stand- investment in the landscape. It’s both visually amazing and critical work that ing cultural racism and institutional biases sacred and vulnerable. We want to speak speaks to that problematic history and they’re still deprived of what that is in collaboration with tribal authorities the ramications today.” supposed to entail. ... It’s a really interest- about the cultural invasions of those Scott wastes no time getting right to that ing moment in Los Angeles history.” places. It’s something that has been moment in the introductory essay of her Likewise, “Stone Poems” o ers the stolen—a heist of some sort, as opposed to new book, Art of the West: Selected Works kind of complicated social narrative that just being this aesthetic object.” from the Autry Museum, aiming straight to initially drew Scott to Western art. —Kansas Alumni contributor Steven an artist’s work at Standing Rock, “because “We’re exploring ways to collaborate Biller is an arts writer and editor that work and that whole protest spoke to with tribal authorities, who have a cultural in Southern California.

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Survivors Arnold Weyand, b’48, 96, Aug. 4 in Norma Sue Boyd Co€ey, c’51, 88, March include two sons, one of whom is Michael, McPherson, where he was a retired 31 in Camarillo, California. She was a ’72; a daughter; and two grandsons. accountant. He is survived by two daugh- homemaker. Surviving are her husband, Jeanne Atkinson Foster, c’46, 93, Aug. ters, a sister, a granddaughter, two Curtis, b’51; two daughters, one of whom 22 in Kansas City, where she was a step-grandchildren, a great-grandson and is Mary Coey Peraza, ’75; ve grandchil- homemaker and volunteered in her eight step-great-grandchildren. dren; and seven great-grandchildren. community. She is survived by a son, Cli, Elmo Courville, c’58, 87, July 3 in ’71; a daughter, Nancy Foster Browne, Marilyn Pollom Adams, f’55, 86, Kansas City, where he retired aer a long d’74, g’81; three grandsons; and a 50sSept. 6 in Lawrence. She lived for career in real estate management. Survi- great-grandson. several years in Osage City, where she vors include his wife, Bobbi; three daugh- Dwight Geiger, b’42, 98, Sept. 4 in volunteered at a nursing home and ters, Susan Courville Black, b’86, Denise Crozet, Virginia. He spent his entire career directed children’s choir. She is survived by Courville McCarthy, b’87, and Barbara as a CPA at Arthur Young & Company. A her husband, Dwight, c’53, m’56; two sons, Courville O’Toole, n’89; two sons, one of memorial has been established with KU Alan, c’76, m’80, and Bryan, e’83, g’96, whom is Robert, ’95; a brother; a sister; Endowment. Surviving are two sons, g’03; two daughters, Laura Adams and 11 grandchildren. Larry, b’66, and Steven, b’77, g’90; four Shimabukuro, f’79, and Sara Adams Robert Creed, c’57, 84, Aug. 2 in grandchildren; and three great- Richard, c’81; six grandchildren; and two Madison, Alabama. He owned Comfort grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Temp Insulation Company. A memorial George MacCurdy Jr., e’48, 91, Sept. 3 Ronald Baker, b’59, 82, Aug. 17 in has been established with KU Endowment. in Overland Park, where he had a nearly Shawnee. He worked at Prudential Surviving are a stepdaughter, Holly Poe 40-year career as a chemical engineer at Insurance Company for 55 years. Surviv- Griggs, j’85; and a stepson. Bendix Corp. He is survived by his wife, ing are his wife, Barbara Watson Baker, George Francis, ’50, 90, Aug. 12 in Marianne Rogers MacCurdy, d’51; three ’59; three sons, Keith, j’82, Kenneth, ’84, Lawrence, where he owned Francis daughters, two of whom are Beth Mac- and Greg, b’86; and four grandchildren. Sporting Goods with his father and son. Curdy Wigner, d’78, and Lori MacCurdy Paul Bengtson, e’58, 91, July 30 in He also played trumpet with the Lawrence Rodgers, g’86; six grandchildren; and a Gilbert, Arizona. He had a long career in City band and other local performers. He great-grandson. civil engineering and started his own rm, is survived by two daughters, April Francis Barbara Neely McKinney, f’46, 94, Aug. Bengtson, DeBell, Elkin and Titus, in Dwyer, c’76, and Wendy Francis Clay, ’80; 17 in Potomac Falls, Virginia, where she Virginia. His wife, Joyce, a daughter, two two sons, Jon, c’85, and Jay, c’88; and ve was a homemaker. Survivors include her sons, two sisters and a granddaughter grandchildren. husband, Joe, ’45; a son; three daughters; a survive. Gerald Frieling, e’51, 88, Sept. 3 in brother, John Neely III, a’51; six grandchil- Robert Bruce, e’55, 86, Aug. 4 in Mishawaka, Indiana. His 62-year career dren; and ve great-grandchildren. Overland Park, where he had a 45-year included posts at Texas Instruments and Marilyn Carlson Simpson, c’47, 92, Dec. career at HNTB. He is survived by his National Standard, where he was CEO. He 26, 2017, in Kula, Hawaii. She was a wife, Helen; two sons, one of whom is also was an adjunct professor at Brown homemaker. A son, three daughters, three Charles, b’80; a daughter; a sister; ve University and the University of Notre grandchildren and two great-grandchil- grandchildren; and four great- Dame. In 1986, he received KU’s Distin- dren survive. grandchildren. guished Engineering Service Award. Two Ray Tomberlin, b’49, 92, Sept. 1 in Joan Squires Campbell, d’54, 86, Aug. 2 sons, a daughter, nine grandchildren and Olathe. He held several management in Emporia. She taught at several high three great-grandchildren survive. positions in the animal health and feed schools in Kansas. Survivors include her Ellen Hanes, d’50, 90, Aug. 9 in Aurora, industry before starting his own consult- husband, Ed, c’56, m’61; two sons, one of Colorado. She started a speech therapy ing and marketing company, Global Agri whom is Marc, b’86; two daughters, one of program for Hutchinson public schools Business Services. Surviving are two whom is Gretchen Campbell Meier, b’90; before moving to Colorado, where she daughters, Debra Tomberlin Ruggiero, ’72, and six grandchildren. became a librarian and worked at North- and Donna Tomberlin Fletcher, c’81; four Norma McKim Carper, d’57, 89, Aug. 2 east Junior High School in Northglenn. A sons, three of whom are Kenneth, b’79, in Westminster, Colorado, where she was a cousin survives.

76 | KANSAS ALUMNI James Hanson, e’54, l’57, 89, Aug. 14 in colonel and a consultant at Paci c Scien- Artists Coalition. A memorial has been Wichita. He was a retired attorney. A ti c. Survivors include his wife, JoAnn established with KU Endowment. Surviv- memorial has been established with KU Hurt Hoverder Muir, ’73; two sons, Steven, ing are two sons, Christopher, ’89, and Endowment. He is survived by his wife, c’76, and Kevin, d’81; a stepdaughter; David, ’93; a sister; two brothers; and six Mary Laird Hanson, c’58; two sons, one of seven grandchildren; and two great- grandchildren. whom is Robert, c’82, m’86; a brother; and grandchildren. Wesley Channell Jr., b’69, g’72, PhD’74, four grandchildren. R. Barry Robertson, b’58, 82, July 5 in 70, Aug. 6 in Sun City West, Arizona. He James Hardy, e’57, 83, Jan. 29 in Sun Coeyville, where he had a 30-year career served as an administrator at several City West, Arizona, where he retired aer at Condon National Bank. His wife, Pat, colleges and community colleges in the a long career with Bell Laboratories. His two sons, a sister, a brother, and several Midwest. Survivors include his wife, wife, Rosemarie, a daughter, a son and a step-grandchildren survive. Deborah; a daughter; a stepson; and two grandson survive. Constance Mock Robinson, ’57, 96, Aug. sisters, Ruth Channell French, d’75, and John Hedrick, b’51, 87, July 19 in Grand 3 in Lawrence, where she was a junior high Janet Channell Ritter, ’09. Rapids, Michigan. He had a long career in school teacher. She is survived by a James Clement, c’63, 76, June 19 in sales and owned Hedrick Associates, a daughter, Barry Robinson Cook, d’73, Dallas, where he had a 50-year career as an manufacturers’ representative rm. g’87, EdD’98; a son, Walter, c’75; and a attorney. Surviving are his partner, Kathie Survivors include his wife, Bernadine; two grandson. White; three daughters; two sisters, one of sons; two daughters; a brother, Clay, c’48; a Howard Vermillion, b’50, 91, June 15 in whom is Jean Clement Johnson, j’77; a sister, Georgia Hedrick Mercer, c’52; six Blue Springs, where he retired as rst brother; and three grandsons. grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Survivors George Dixon, e’61, 79, July 11 in Janice Lessor Hillyer, n’54, 86, Aug. 19, include a daughter, two sons, two step- Liberty, Missouri. He retired as manager in Milwaukie, Oregon, where she was a daughters, 11 grandchildren, six step- of the Kansas City division of Missouri pediatric nurse. Surviving are a son, Jon, grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, Gas Energy, where he worked for 33 years. m’92; a daughter; a sister; a brother; four 11 step-great-grandchildren and four His wife, Betty, a son, two daughters and grandchildren; and a great-grandson. step-great-great-grandchildren. seven grandchildren survive. Charles “Chuck” Jenney, c’57, 83, Aug. Dan Welchons, f’59, 81, Aug. 8 in Larry Fairchild, b’64, 76, Aug. 17 in 29 in Pueblo, Colorado. He lived for Hutchinson, where he managed the family Chester eld, Missouri, where he was several years in Wichita, where he was a ranch. He also had several businesses in corporate operations manager at Procter & surgeon with the Wichita Surgical Group. the area. He is survived by his wife, Gamble. A memorial has been established A memorial has been established with KU Jannene Foust-Welchons, ’59; a son; a with KU Endowment. He is survived by Endowment. Survivors include his wife, stepdaughter, Deana Mohlstrom Beard- his wife, Terry; two sons, Larry, b’93, and Lucia, assoc.; a son, Charles, ’90; two more, ’82; a sister, Jane Welchons Twibell, Derek, d’97; a stepson; and ve daughters; and ve grandchildren. d’66; and 11 grandchildren. grandchildren. Elizabeth Bluett Leifer, g’55, 88, May 8 Floyd Farha, PhD’65, 85, Aug. 12 in in Denver. She was an artist and taught John Berry, c’69, m’74, 70, Aug. Oklahoma City, where he was CEO of ne art and weaving at Suomi College, 60s 22 in Mission Hills, where he was Chemical Products Industries. Surviving which later became Finlandia University, a dermatologist and clinical instructor at are his wife, Janet; four daughters, one of in Hancock, Michigan. A son and two KU School of Medicine. A memorial has whom is Maryls Farha Bratton, ’87; and 12 grandchildren survive. been established with KU Endowment. grandchildren. Vera Smoots Lyons, d’52, 86, June 30 in Surviving are his wife, Susan Ellis Berry, Lawrence Fotovich, c’67, 78, Aug. 1 in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she taught c’74; two daughters; a brother, William, Olathe. He had a long career in human middle school music. She is survived by c’61; a sister, Barbara Berry Emerson, ’92; resources and worked for several compa- three sons and seven grandchildren. and a granddaughter. nies, including Western Electric and Saudi James Mason, c’51, g’52, 90, Aug. 25 in Elaine Greenock McMahan Bondonno, Arabian Airlines. He is survived by two Leawood, where he retired as director of d’69, 71, Aug. 3 in Los Gatos, California. daughters, Susan Fotovich McCabe, j’84, personnel at Marion Laboratories. A She led the language department at Emma and Sara Fotovich Beane, j’93; a son, Larry, memorial has been established with KU Willard School in New York before j’86; eight grandchildren; and a Endowment. Surviving are his wife, Alyce earning her law degree and becoming great-granddaughter. Fawkes Mason, f’52; two daughters, partner at Berry & Berry in Oakland, Clyne Foust, d’67, 72, March 13, 2017, in Cheryl Mason Morgan, f’76, and Suzanne California. Her husband, Franklin, and a Lawrence. He founded Foust Fleet Leasing Mason Kerley, c’83; and two grand- son survive. in Topeka. Survivors include his wife, children. Betsy O’Hara Cacioppo, d’62, 78, July Laura; two sons, Russell, ’97, and Owen, Donald Muir, d’54, 87, Aug. 7 in 27 in Parkville, Missouri, where she was an c’02; a sister, Jannene Foust-Welchons, ’59; Lawrence. He was a retired U.S. Air Force artist and president of the Kansas City and ve grandchildren.

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Nancy Copeland Halbgewachs, c’62, Statesboro, Georgia, where he was Fuller departments at San Francisco State g’66, 78, July 6 in Albuquerque, New E. Callaway professor emeritus of biology University. He is survived by his wife, Mexico, where she earned her PhD in and directed the Institute of Arthropodol- Minnie Kloehr Wilson, d’62; two daugh- sociology at the University of New Mexico ogy and Parasitology at Georgia Southern ters; two grandchildren; and a in 2011. She was an archivist for First University. Surviving are his wife, Susan great-grandson. Presbyterian Church and owner of Sacred Shuster Oliver, ’58; two sons; and three Patricia Cowan Wyka, c’65, g’67, 74, reads. She also established the Jack, l’34, granddaughters. July 19 in Plainville. She lived for several and Grace Copeland Scholarship Fund at Richard Preston, c’65, m’69, 76, Aug. 5 years in Colorado Springs, Colorado, KU. Survivors include her husband, in Great Bend. He practiced internal where she worked for the police depart- Ronald, e’63, g’66; three daughters; two medicine and also served as the high ment. Surviving are two sons, four sisters, sons; a brother, Stan Copeland, e’64; and school’s team physician for more than 20 four brothers and two grandchildren. eight grandchildren. years. Survivors include two daughters, H.W. “Knap” Knapheide III, b’67, 72, one of whom is Amy Preston Guthrie, Diane Mayer Darwin, e’79, 72, Aug. 28 in Quincy, Illinois. He was d’87; two brothers, one of whom is Kevin, 70sAug. 9 in Lawrence. She worked president of his family’s business, Knaphe- c’76; two stepbrothers; nine grandchildren; for Douglas County Public Works. A ide Manufacturing, and he served on and three great-grandchildren. memorial has been established with KU several boards in his community. He is John Simpson, a’68, 74, Sept. 1 in Endowment. She is survived by her survived by his wife, Ann; a son, H.W. Leawood, where he worked at Butler husband, David; a daughter, Lorraine “Bo” IV, ’01; a sister; and three Manufacturing Company. Surviving are Darwin Marroulis, d’94, g’99; a son; a grandchildren. his wife, elma; two sons, Chris, c’93, sister; and a brother. Larry McCallister, d’64, g’86, 78, and John Jr., c’97; a sister; a brother; and Harold “Hal” Dumler, c’75, 66, June 22 June 24 in Overland Park, where he was four grandchildren. in Los Angeles, where he was an adminis- a retired U.S. Air Force captain and William “Rick” Simpson, ’67, 73, May 28 trator at a drug and alcohol recovery worked at the General Services in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He started center. Surviving are a daughter, Jessica, Administration oces in Kansas City. his career in the banking industry and j’01; and two brothers, Earle, ’67, and Survivors include his wife, Cynthia, later became president of Belize Commu- Brian, d’75, g’79. and two daughters. nication & Security. He is survived by his Robert Hayes, c’72, 84, June 12 in Shirle Bridges McNeal, ’60, 81, July 9 in wife, Susan Higbee Simpson, d’66; two Higginsville, Missouri. He was a screen- Minnetonka, Minnesota. She was a sons; and four grandchildren. ink chemist at IMCO Container Company homemaker. Surviving are her husband, Melinda “Mindy” Williams Trummel, in Kansas City. A daughter, a son, a sister Jerry, b’58; four sons; a daughter; a c’60, 79, July 15 in Bloomeld, Connecti- and two granddaughters survive. brother; a sister; and a grandson. cut. She worked for the Connecticut Stanley House, d’73, 72, July 11 in Barbara Boots Miller, ’62, 77, Aug. 10 in Hazardous Waste Management Agency Merriam, where he was a manager at St. Louis, where she was a homemaker. and Whiting Lane Elementary School and Mosaic Inc. He is survived by his wife, Survivors include her husband, Fred, e’63, was active in her community. Survivors Erna; two sons; three brothers, two of g’69; two daughters; a son; a sister; a include her husband, Clarence, c’60; a whom are Ron, ’69, and Kent, ’84; and a brother; and two grandchildren. daughter, Sarah Trummel Hibbeler, c’89; sister, Nancy Cornelius, ’96. Alfred Mroczkowski, e’61, 85, June 22 two sons, one of whom is John, ’92; three Meridee Phillips Jordan, d’76, 70, Aug. in Altamonte Springs, Florida. He had sisters, one of whom is Jane Williams 13 in Leawood, where she was a home- a 25-year career as an electrical engineer Pettersen, c’69, g’70; and ve maker and active in several community at General Motors. His wife, Dora, a son, grandchildren. organizations. A memorial has been two daughters, a stepdaughter, two LaWalta “Wally” Heyde Turner, d’63, established with KU Endowment. Survi- grandchildren and two step-grand- 76, June 11 in Cottonwood, Arizona. She vors include her husband, Sam, c’69; a children survive. was an elementary school teacher. A daughter, Megan Jordan Arnold, c’99, j’99; David Norris, d’67, g’70, 74, Aug. 27 in daughter and sister survive. a son, Matthew, b’02; a sister, Natalie Augusta, where he cofounded DEN Steven Wells, c’65, 74, April 30 in Phillips Hagan, j’73; and four Management Company with his father. A Highlands Ranch, Colorado, where he was grandchildren. memorial has been established with KU a retired attorney. Surviving are a daugh- Judith Maynard, f’74, 66, July 7 in Endowment. He is survived by his wife, ter, Kelly Wells Becker, d’91; two sons; and Mission. She had a long career in mort- Clowie; four daughters, one of whom is six grandchildren. gage lending. Two daughters survive. Jill, ’91; a stepdaughter; a brother, Michael, Dan Wilson, ’68, 77, July 20, 2017, in Michael Montgomery, m’71, 72, July 25 b’68, l’70; a sister, Stephanie, d’76; and four Capitola, California, where he was a eld in Parkville, Missouri, where he was a grandchildren. engineer and serviced medical equipment. cardiologist and partner at Northland James Oliver, PhD’62, 87, July 18 in In retirement, he worked with the science Cardiology. He is survived by his wife,

78 | KANSAS ALUMNI Karen; two daughters, one of whom is John Bates, ’89, 67, July 18 in gynecology at Watkins Memorial Health Jeanette Fisk Davis, c’05; two sons; two 80sTopeka, where he taught elemen- Center from 1987 to 2005. He is survived brothers, one of whom is Daniel, ’79; three tary school band for more than 30 years. by his wife, Barbara Mallory Buck, ’74; a sisters; and nine grandchildren. He also taught private lessons at Midwest- daughter, Mallory Buck Bryan, c’91, g’98; a Donald Moritz, EdD’ 77, 88, Aug. 31 in ern Music. His wife, Rita, survives. son; a sister; Judith Buck Vogel, d’60; and Overland Park. He directed student Dorothy Van Buren, c’80, 60, July 6 in three grandchildren. services and research for the Kansas Çity St. Louis, where she was a retired Karl Rosen, assoc., 87, July 20 in Kansas School District. A memorial has researcher and clinical assistant professor Lawrence. He was professor of classics and been established with KU Endowment. A at Washington University School of linguistics. Surviving are his wife, DeAnne, brother and sister survive. Medicine. Survivors include her husband, assoc.; and two daughters, Nanette, c’85, Robert Morton, m’78, 67, Aug. 21 in Martin West, e’80; two daughters; two and Renee Rosen-Wakeford, c’95, f’96. San Antonio, where he was a retired brothers; and a sister. Gunther “Jack” Schlager, g’59, PhD’62, physician. A memorial has been estab- Robin Webb, c’86, l’95, 54, Aug. 19 in 85, Aug. 29 in Salina, where he was a lished with KU Endowment. Surviving are Nashville, Tennessee. She worked for the retired professor of biological sciences. his wife, Louisa; two daughters; a brother, Tennessee Human Rights Commission He is survived by a daughter, Karen Roscoe, m’76; and three grandchildren. and later practiced law, specializing in Schlager Stansberry, b’80; two sons, Lea Orth, f’71, 69, July 27 in Lawrence. veterans’ bene ts. Surviving are her Michael, c’82, and Patrick, c’82, c’86, She had a varied career in theatre, which partner, Chris Grin; her father, John g’89; four grandchildren; and four included jobs as a playwright, costumer, Webb, d’70; her mother, Joanne Piezonki, great-grandchildren. actor and director. A memorial has been ’81; and her stepmother. Beatrice Wright, 100, July 31 in Madi- established with KU Endowment. Survi- son, Wisconsin. She was known as a vors include her husband, Alan Storck; Kay Carder Jayaram, s’92, s’94, pioneer in psychology and became a two sons, one of whom is Aaron Storck, 90s74, Aug. 1 in Overland Park, professor at KU in 1963. In 1971, she was f’01; her mother; three sisters, Lois where she worked for Catholic Charities, a inducted in the KU Women’s Hall of Fame. Orth-Lopes, d’71, g’89, ’00, Carmen nonpro t organization. She is survived by A memorial has been established with Orth-Al e, f’87, and Sheila Orth, ’16; ve her husband, Jayu; two sons, Chris, c’94, KU Endowment. Two sons, a daughter, brothers, three of whom are Vincent, ’72, and Kiran, c’98, g’03; a daughter, Natalie, seven grandchildren and 14 great-grand- Nilus, e’84, g’89, PhD’92, and Fabian, e’87, m’08; a brother; three sisters; and ve children survive. PhD’93; and two grandchildren. grandchildren. Lee Young, g’68, 92, Aug. 30 in Law- Donald Selzer, j’74, 65, July 4 in Virginia Hampton Williams, ’92, 80, rence, where he was professor emeritus of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he was an Aug. 14 in Lawrence. She was an elemen- journalism. In the 1960s, he founded the attorney and also co-hosted a local radio tary school teacher. Survivors include her School of Journalism’s magazine sequence, show, on which he was known as “Brother husband, Jim, assoc.; two daughters, and he also served as associate dean and Tad.” Surviving are his wife, Kathy; a Jennifer Williams Tusten, c’84, and Ellen acting dean of the school. In 1985, he was stepdaughter; three sisters, J. Ann, c’78, Williams Chindamo, f’92; seven grand- named the school’s rst William Allen Claire Selzer Whiteman, g’80, m’82, children; and a great-granddaughter. White Professor of Journalism. Surviving PhD’84, and Kathryn “Kitty” Selzer Swan, are two daughters, one of whom is Leslie, c’84; and a brother, John, d’84, g’95, ’03. Mark Bradford, g’08, 58, July 26 c’75, s’77; a son, Kenneth, ’83; a sister; four Susan Schroeter Swan, c’71, 68, July 26 00s in Lawrence. He served as chief of grandchildren; and ve great- in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where she was the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire grandchildren. an archaeologist and an expert in the Medical Department for the past 13 years. preservation of historic buildings. She is His wife, Patricia; a son, Zachary, ’16; and ASSOCIATES survived by her husband, Van, c’70, m’74; a brother survive. Dennis Miller, assoc., 69, Aug. 16 in a son; a sister, Nancy Schroeter Smith, j’65, York Shane Johnson, h’01, 46, Aug. 5 in Kansas City. He was an obstetrician and d’68, g’89; a brother; and two Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was a gynecologist. Survivors include his son, grandchildren. registered nurse anesthetist. Surviving are Jared, assoc.; a sister; two brothers; and Charles “Chuck” Wiersch, c’79, 62, his wife, Elizabeth; his father, Darrell three grandchildren. March 5 in Spring eld, Missouri. He was a Johnson, e’76, b’76; his mother, Cassandra Nancy Young, assoc., 74, May 19 in partner at Youngblood Motors. Survivors Johnson, ’78; and a sister. Asheville, North Carolina, where she was a include a daughter; his mother; three member of the Children’s Welfare League sisters, two of whom are Jo Anne Wiersch UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY and P.E.O. Sisterhood. She is survived by Costello, ’71, and Linda Wiersch Sege- Henry Buck Jr., c’56, m’60, 83, March her husband, Harry, c’66, g’68; a daughter; brecht, d’73, g’75; and three 21 in Kansas City. He was an obstetrician a son; a sister; a brother; and ve grandchildren. and gynecologist and served as head of grandchildren.

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what was right at a time when it was most her research, writing and public outreach dicult,” says Executive Vice Chancellor about sickle cell anemia. Robert Simari, m’86. “It’s an honor to have Her con dent, no-nonsense manner is her name associated with one of our evident in one of her daughter’s favorite medical societies.” anecdotes: While still just an intern, Cates

COURTESY KU MEDICAL CENTER KU COURTESY Aer graduating from Sumner High was greeted by a gru patient who said he School in Kansas City, Kansas, Cates, did not want a black doctor or, for that m’58, earned a bachelor’s degree at Kansas matter, a female doctor: “My mom stood State University, then took pre-medicine her ground and told him, ‘I am the only coursework at the University of Minne- white, male doctor that you’re going to get sota. When she returned to Kansas in to see at this time.’” 1954—the year of the landmark Brown v. e School of Medicine was reminded Board of Education decision—Cates chose of Cates’ remarkable story thanks to a KU for her medical education. 2017 presentation by then-student Tequilla She was not the rst black woman Manning, m’18. Inspired, students who accepted by the School of Medicine: at were grappling with their school’s legacy of pioneer was Geraldine Mowbray, in 1937. segregation and discrimination resolved to But, as was the custom at the time, create an academic society in her honor. Mowbray was only allowed to complete “We are a family,” Manning says. “One two years of medical studies on the that celebrates its past and looks forward Lawrence campus before transferring to its future.” elsewhere to complete her degree. Ransome says that when she rst heard Cates was determined to change that. of plans to create an academic society in A doctor’s resolve “Sometimes in life you have to jump her mother’s name, “that meant the world o the cli not knowing if the to me. I was also reminded of her Cates Society honors medicine’s parachute is going to open,” Ransome struggle and what she went first black female graduate says. “My mom had in her mind that she wanted to attend medical school, otivated in part by the loss of her and that’s what she did, without Molder sister Minnie, who died at 21, hesitation. at’s not to say she didn’t Marjorie Cates decided she needed to encounter a great deal of resistance. become a physician. e fact that she was Just because it was a challenge did not an African-American woman at a time mean it was something that could not when race and gender would make her be overcome.” MEDICAL CENTER KU COURTESY quest all but unachievable did nothing to Aer her 1958 graduation, Cates’ deter her. distinguished career began with an “Resolve. at’s the word,” says her internship and residency in Washington, daughter, Lauren Cates Ransome, a D.C., followed by postdoctoral hematology technical and medical editor and writer in studies at the New England Medical Silver Spring, Maryland. “She had a Center, the Massachusetts Institute of mission. She had a goal. She wanted to be Technology and Harvard University. a physician.” She later taught hematology and served To honor the inspirational legacy of the as associate director of the Sickle Cell “‘You are going to struggle because of who you rst black woman to graduate from KU’s Center at Howard University. Cates also School of Medicine, the University in went on to become director of health are,’ meaning a woman, and a woman of color,” August announced the creation of the services for the U.S. Department of the Lauren Cates Ransome (above) recalls hearing Cates Society. Interior and chief medical ocer at the from her mother, Marjorie Cates (top left). “But “We owe a great debt to Dr. Cates for D.C. Health Department North Area she also taught me that anything worth having her courage and fortitude to stand up for Health Center, all the while continuing is worth the struggle.”

80 | KANSAS ALUMNI through in becoming a physician, as well as the fact that students are still going to STEVE PUPPE STEVE encounter obstacles.” Regardless of factors such as race, gender or religion, Ransome says, future Cates Society students who make the eort to learn about the namesake might nd a lasting source of inspiration and resolve. “My mother’s No. 1 goal was always to remember that there’s a person behind the disease. Mom always remembered that it was about the patient. at was key.” —Chris Lazzarino War everlasting A poet reckons with the battle that never ends H.C. Palmer .C. Palmer was in the midst of his Hinternship at KU Medical Center of his military service, which included when he was dra ed into the military in time at a rebase near Saigon, where April 1964. Medevac choppers ew “dustos” that Palmer, c’59, m’63, was one of 1,500 brought wounded soldiers for treatment. Feet of the doctors inducted from medical residency irty years a er the war the avid Messenger training programs across the country at a ysherman began writing shing stories. by H.C. Palmer time when the U.S. military escalation in He was surprised when a Vietnam veteran Vietnam under President Lyndon Johnson showed up in the rst. BkMk Press, $13.95 was just beginning. “None of us suspected “I needed someone to blow up a we would be going to war,” he writes in dam and kill a bunch of sh,” he recalls, Feet of the Messenger, his book of poems “and naturally it turned out to be a named a 2018 Kansas Notable Book by the Vietnam vet.” State Library of Kansas. “Four months e veterans kept turning up, and the later, Johnson and Defense Secretary stories—and starting a decade ago, the swanky roo op restaurant in Saigon that Robert McNamara contrived the Gulf of poems—kept coming. aords a distant view of “a progression of Tonkin Incident and ramped up what had “Writing things out helps you deal with ery billows,/ precise as garden rows—750 been a discreet but steady invasion and it,” says Palmer, who established the pound/ night blossoms planted from occupation of South Vietnam. By August Kansas City Veteran Writers Workshop, B-52s;” a dead baby’s scalp “peeling pulp” 1965, I was a battalion surgeon for the which helps other military veterans do the as doctors try to remove it from a Viet- First Infantry Division, treating wounded same. “It doesn’t make anything go away. namese woman’s womb—are presented and dying American soldiers and Viet- You never get well, but you can learn to with a kind clinical detachment that namese civilian casualties.” negotiate your brokenness. at’s why suggests combat’s numbing eect. More Palmer’s year in Vietnam is the rough writing and talking and being in groups emotionally raw are poems about the but rich seam from which three dozen with vets is really more productive than Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washing- poems—every last one a polished gem of talking to a psychiatrist, because you’re ton, D.C.—“is Wall/ is the dark knife-/ vivid language and imagery—are chiseled. talking to peers.” edge of my grief”—as if the true emotional Some are set in southeast Asia and some Shocking images from combat—a friend toll of war can be fully felt only with the in the Flint Hills not far from where the “vaporized by a satchel charge” that le perspective of time, when confronting Chanute native grew up, but all are to only his boots, “his socks, the inked memories of friends, fraternity brothers some extent about the war. initials, the splashes of blood, and jutting and comrades who never made it back. “It changed my whole life, how I look at above the socks, what was le of the sha s In his acknowledgments Palmer things and even the way I interpret of his tibias glistening like the whitest of recounts how he returned to KUMC in memories of my childhood,” Palmer says ivories;” a surreal lobster dinner at a 1966 to resume his residency training.

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Mahlon Delp, c’34, m’34, then chair of internal medicine, asked him to stop by his oce. Among the diplomas, certicates and photographs on the wall, Palmer noticed, was a photograph of Col. Delp in front of a military hospital tent at the Battle of the Bulge. Delp asked the young veteran fresh from war if he was OK.

Palmer brushed o what he now sees as TRANSIT AUTHORITY METROPOLITAN COURTESY a generous gesture. “I regret I never considered that he was giving me permission to tell him my story,” he writes, “and asking if I’d like to listen to his.” Feet of the Messenger takes its title from two nearly identical lines of scripture, one from the Hebrew bible and one from the “A testimony to the ideas and ideals” of America is how artist Ann Hamilton describes the large Christian bible: “How beautiful upon the mosaic she created for the new WTC Cortlandt Street subway station in New York City. The piece mountains are the feet of the messenger made of small marble tesserae includes text from the Declaration of Independence. who announces peace.” e implication is clear: We’ve been waging war and announcing peace for thousands of years. ing—not only in the psyches of the mosaic by artist Ann Hamilton, f’79. Palmer’s poems, which portray soldiers soldiers but also in the very bedrock of the e 4,350-square-foot “Chorus” uses from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, political and economic cultures that enlist small marble tesserae to create a white- reinforce the sense that the peace is what’s and command them. on-white surface that spells out text from temporary, and it’s the war that’s everlast- Consider Feet of the Messenger Palmer’s the Declaration of Independence and the own generous gesture, not only to his 1948 United Nations Universal Declara- brothers in arms, but also to the rest of us. tion of Human Rights. Bird-Hunting the Tall Grass “I think you just feel better when you get “Culture is built upon and with the it out and share. And when I go out and words and languages of people, their Shot at close range read, maybe people leave those readings aural and written documents, collectively the little hen has come with some small amount more revulsion produced and shared in common,” apart. Her feathers, for war than they came in with.” Hamilton said in a Metropolitan Transit wet with her blood, —Steven Hill Authority release. “‘Chorus’ is a testimony cling to my fingers. to the ideas and ideals these national and international documents embody I probe the femoral artery and demonstrate.” where fragments Many voices MTA commissioned the art as part of of the sergeant’s fatigues the $1.8 million project to restore a station penetrate the wound. Hamilton installation at 9/11 site wiped o the New York City subway map. After it’s over marks history, echoes ideals An arts panel said Hamilton’s design “gave and for a long time, context to the station’s place physically and I pick at my fingers— eventeen years aer a terrorist attack historically, and provided calm in an threads in congealed blood. Sbrought down the World Trade Center, emotionally charged space.” the subway station at Cortlandt Street, e MacArthur and Guggenheim On my knees, buried under the debris of the fallen Fellow is internationally recognized for beside the spring towers and closed since, once again her large-scale multimedia installations; creek, I wash opened to the public just days before the “Chorus” also shows the inuence of her the feathers away. 9/11 anniversary. KU training in textile design. Renamed WTC Cortlandt Street, the “ e woven text of her tactile walls —H.C. Palmer station whose unveiling e New York moves us through the WTC Cortlandt reprinted with permission from Times called “a pivotal moment for New station, acknowledging its historic Feet of the Messenger York—the last major piece in the city’s signicance and embracing the rights quest to rebuild what was lost” features a embodied in universally shared

82 | KANSAS ALUMNI declarations,” said Sandra Bloodworth, are currently constructing out of wood, really want to help people, they need to MTA director of arts & design. “Ann stands 16 feet tall and has an 8-by-16-foot become a doctor or a lawyer, but some- Hamilton creates a place that speaks to living area. Ideally the home will feature a times they don’t see how an engineer or a our highest ideals.” small kitchen with a pump sink, a bath- computer scientist can do things that can —Steven Hill room with a composting toilet, and lo positively impact society,” he says. “ at’s areas for sleeping and storage. Gjerde really the primary goal is to show students hopes that the nished product will be how they can use what they learn at Disaster relief easy to ship to disaster sites with “IKEA- KU—and even things they haven’t learned like” instructions, which the students will yet—to innovate for society.” Students engineer temporary develop as they build the nal structure e tiny house team members have house for hurricane survivors next semester. launched a campaign to raise funds for Andrew Williams, e’88, PhD’00, remaining construction supplies and to er hurricanes devastated parts of associate dean for engineering diversity, support students traveling to Puerto Rico ATexas, Florida and Puerto Rico in equity and inclusion, is the IHAWKe over winter break, where they will conduct 2017, Jayhawks in the School of Engineer- faculty adviser and has helped guide more research and request feedback on ing wanted to help in a big way—by the students during the creation of the their prototype from hurricane survivors. thinking small. tiny house, which he calls a “change the To make a donation or to learn more, visit Students in the school’s diversity and world” project. launchku.org. women’s programs, or IHAWKe, which “Usually young people think that if they —Heather Biele stands for Indigenous, Hispanic, African- American and Women KU engineers, last fall participated in a two-day, interdisci- plinary competition to design a product to ANDY WHITE ANDY help those aected by natural disasters. e winning idea was a tiny house, a small-scale home that could provide temporary relief for displaced families. “Houses are usually wiped out aer a big hurricane or disaster of any sort,” says project leader Jessica Gjerde, a senior in architectural engineering and president of KU’s Society of Women Engineers. “You don’t have anywhere to call your own. A tiny house is at least somewhere for a family to go to have their own space.” Students from several disciplines, including mechanical engineering, computer science, architectural engineer- ing, information technology and chemical MEG KUMIN MEG engineering, competed at a second KUMIN MEG IHAWKe-a-thon last spring, where they created a full-scale, low-tech prototype of a tiny house from cardboard and PVC. roughout the summer, a small team of students met weekly to research power and clean-water options and source low-cost, sustainable materials for the permanent structure. “One of the bigger challenges is that we’re trying to avoid the need for electric- A team of IHAWKe students, led by Jessica Gjerde, ity and running water,” Gjerde explains, a senior in architectural engineering, are constructing a citing solar energy and gravity-fed tanks as possibilities for the house. tiny house designed to provide relief for families e working prototype, which students displaced by natural disasters.

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A graceful crescent moon, the Campanile, a September sunset: a magical formula that forever fills Jayhawks’ hearts.

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