Tell It to the Judge Parking Gripes Get Their Day in Student-Run Court

No. 2, 2003

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Tell it to the Judge Parking gripes get their day in student-run court

Melanie Dill's kiddie hit parade Mapping the world's menagerie First Find

The shock of a new idea. With research comes understanding. Support KU's $500 million campaign.

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O f\ Beyond the Hokey Pokey

Songs that wow kids and their parents are what musician Melanie Dill is all about.

BY STEVEN HILL 30 The Facts of Life With computers as guides, the Natural History COVER Museum's ambitious Lifemapper project plots the present and future homes of wildlife worldwide. ~\ A Traffic Jams BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Student lawyers and judges unsnarl their fair share of KU's perennial parking woes.

BY CHRIS LAZZARINO Cover photo by Aaron Delesie; Art direction by Susan Younger

Volume 101, No. 2, 2003 A Debt of Gratitude

Willis L. Beller, M.D., felt he owed the University of Kansas a debt of gratitude for the education he received here. He graduated from KU with a liberal arts and sciences degree in 1937 and a medical degree in 1941. So he established a charitable remainder trust of $300,000 to provide unrestricted

The Elizabeth M. Watkins Society, funds for the School of Medicine. The trust will formed in 1995, commemorates her provide Dr. Beller with a life income until his contributions and honors those who, like her, have developed deferred death, when it will be added to the Dr. Willis L. & gift plans that ultimately will benefit Rose O. Riblet Beller Fund. In appreciation, the KU. A deferred gift provision of any amount qualifies and the donor's School of Medicine will name a room for the spouse may hold joint membership. Bellers in the new biomedical research building, Elizabeth Miller Watkins' gifts and bequests have helped generations expected to open in September 2006. of KU students and faculty, and today, funds developed from those gifts continue to provide support for 1891 Constant Ave. the University. KANSAS UNIVERSITY Lawrence, KS 66004-0928 ENDOWMENT TO 332-7400 Toll Free: 1-888-444-4201 March 2003 KANSAS ALUMNI

Publisher Fred B.Williams 56 Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j'8l Art Director DEPARTMENTS Susan Younger, f 91 Managing Editor Chris Lazzarino, j'86 5 FIRST WORD The editor's turn Staff Writer Steven Hill 5 ON THE BOULEVARD Editorial Assistants KU & Alumni Association events Karen Goodell; Andrea E. Hoag, c'94 Photographer 8 JAYHAWKWALK Aaron Delesie Arizona team's sweet tooth, whistle blasts off, Graphic Designer and more Valerie Spicher, j'94 Advertising Sales 10 HILLTOPICS Representative News and notes: Online security is on students' Katie Glatz, '03 minds as new services follow hacking scare; KU seeks more homegrown scholars Editorial and Advertising Office Kansas Alumni Association 1266 Oread Ave., Lawrence, KS 66044-3169 16 SPORTS 785-864-4760 • 800-584-2957 Another Big 12 championship for men's hoops www.kualumni.org e-mail: [email protected] 34 ASSOCIATION NEWS The 2003 Distinguished Service Citations KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas six times 38 CLASS NOTES a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. Profiles of an enterprising baker, a Western $40 annual subscription includes membership in the Alumni Association. Office of Publication: 1266 Oread Avenue, novelist, a cinematic set designer and the firm Lawrence, KS 66044-3169. Periodicals postage paid at that makes Cobalts float Lawrence, KS. IN POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kansas 52 MEMORY Alumni Magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS Deaths in the KU family 66044-3169 © 2003 by Kansas Alumni Magazine. Non- member issue price: $7 56 ROCK CHALK REVIEW KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The Alumni Association What if the South had risen again?; an alumna was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, commitment, and communication among all enchants kids with her new book; prospects for graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff the purple coneflower; and more and all other friends of The University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests of The University and 60 OREAD ENCORE its constituencies. The Association is organized exclusively for Daisy Hill perch charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

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dancers near the finale of had to ask the folks for more money at their one-hour, once- semester's end so you could pay your weekly class. All smiles, overdue tickets? 5-year-old Claire takes her Even steeper are the stakes for law turn leaping over carpet students, nervously trying to look and squares and curtsying to sound the parts of prosecutors and the mirror. After class, she defense attorneys. Can snappy repartee pronounces a new word, and a special-occasion coat and tie mask port de bras, with relish as a specious argument? Not likely. Yet her jerky arms match each even a lost court battle, when accompa- halting syllable. Grace nied by the student judges' gracious might come with time. pointers on decorum, can help slow For now, sheer glee is starters fare better next time. And if luck, reward enough. talent and timing align, someday they Through two windows might get to practice their courtroom my two daughters express savvy for a living opposite ends of the prac- Talent and timing have converged to tice spectrum. For the eld- place singer and composer Melanie Dill est, practice means work. in an ideal professional niche for a child To improve, she must at heart. In our second feature, Steven practice; as she improves, Hill tells the story of Dill, who performs she practices more. If luck and records music that elicits smiles, and talent combine at the laughter and applause not only from right place and time, children but also from parents, delighted Rachel might practice as a to hear songs for their kids that sing to professional. them too. When Dill plays, her young For the youngest, prac- fans play, practicing rhythm, rhyme and tice simply means play. mime without care for consequence. Words like "practice" and Only Dill, the beaming parents who sing "work," plucked from along, and the University faculty and realms of older siblings alumni who collaborate on her projects and parents, sound exotic know how far such play can propel n Saturday mornings, for a to Claire. How lucky she is. young minds. few blissful moments, 1 sip tea Such opposing expressions of prac- As adults, we often ache for the care- and peer through two adja- tice are evident in this issue of Kansas less practice that is child's play, but we Ocent windows, watching my Alumni. In our cover story, Chris also treasure those milestones that signal daughters practice ballet. Lazzarino describes the trials of first-year the payoff of careful practice. Both kinds In one studio, the advanced dancers, law students, practicing in KU Parking of learning enrich us. including 16-year-old Rachel, begin their Court, where the cases, witnesses and When each Saturday morning ballet class at the barre. Concentration clouds evidence are real, as are the decisions- class ends, Claire dances happily into my Rachel's face. A T-shirt and sloppy sweat- dispensed by black-robed student arms. As we leave, I sneak another look pants hide her elegant leotard, and judges, no less. For college students at Rachel, who still has work to do. She scuffed, mangled slippers offer small strapped for cash, parking fines are saves her smiles for the stage, where, on comfort to her bruised, misshapen feet. deadly serious. Remember when you a few precious nights each year, she Four or more weekly lessons plus wedged your car into an illegal, precari- dances—no, plays—with joyous abandon. rehearsals exact a price, but they pay ously parallel space on Memorial Drive, After the bows, she heads straight into back in pride. only to chase after the tow truck that my arms. For a moment, at least, prac- Next door, the Intro to Ballet I hauled it away? Remember when you tice makes perfect. -'""'

ISSUE 2. 2003 On the Boulevard

• Lied Center MARCH 29 Peking Opera

APRIL

• Students in 3 KU Symphony Orchestra Professor Dan 5 Twyla Tharp Rockhill's 6 Cantus Introductory 9 KU Symphonic Band Graduate Design 12 Brown Butterfly Studio created this 13 Sweet Honey in the Rock sphere by draping lead triangles 14 University Band around a plywood 16 Concert Band core. University 24-25 University Dance Company Architect Warren 27 Jazz I Corman, e'50, says the huge orb in MAY front of Marvin Hall 7 KU Symphony Orchestra Choral reminds him of a Concert floating battleship mine; Rockhill • Academic Calendar laughs, and agrees. MAY "It does have that naval architecture 8 Last day of classes quality to it." 12-16 Final examinations 18 Commencement

JUNE 3 First day of summer classes Exhibitions "Inspired by Japan" Spencer Museum of Art, April 19-June 29 "Spencer Museum of Art Celebrates • Lectures 25 Years," through March 30 APRIL "Contemporary Art from the • University Theatre 3 "Shakespeare in the Closet," David Collection," Spencer Museum of Art, Bergeron, Conger-Gabel Teaching through April 30 APRIL Professor of English, Hall Center for "Defining Craft I: Collecting in the I -6 The 10-Minute Play Festival, the Humanities Lecture, Kansas New Millennium," Spencer Museum Inge Theatre Union Ballroom of Art, April 12-July 6 24-27 Alums Come Home IV 26-27, May I -4 "The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

KANSAS ALUMNI 14 Greensburg Honor Roll: Bill Marshall, 620-723-2554 22 Oberlin: Kurt Vollertsen, 785-475-2285 • Alumni events 23 Scott City: Jerry and Marsha Edwards, 620-872-2237 APRIL 11-12 Gold Medal Weekend, For more information Reunions of the Class of 1953 and about Association events, the Gold Medal Club, Adams Alumni call 800-584-2957 or see the Center Association's Web site, • An architectural vision of the Robert J. Dole 13 Los Angeles: School of www.kualumni.org. Engineering Professional Society Institute of Politics on Campus West.The building, currently under construction, will be dedi- 14 Oakland/Santa Clara: School of cated July 20-22. Engineering Professional Society 24 Denver: School of Engineering • Jayhawks on Parade Professional Society MARCH 27-OCTOBER 2 p.m.: 1940s fashion show, Crafton- Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall MAY On the Hill and throughout Lawrence, 5-foot tall fiberglass 8 p.m.: "Salute to Heroes: An Evening 4 Sunnyvale, Calif.: Graduate School Jayhawks, sponsored by area busi- to Remember." Recreated USO-style and Study Abroad Professional nesses or individuals and decorated show and star-studded salute to Sen. Society by area artists, will roost outdoors as Dole, '45, and all veterans, as well as 6 KU Official Class Ring Ceremony, a celebration of the Jayhawk and the those who supported them at home. Adams Alumni Center city it calls home. For details visit $35 per ticket, see information below. 9 Kansas City: School of Business www.jayhawksonparade.com. Professional Society luncheon TUESDAY, JULY 22 10 a.m.: Outdoor military band JUNE concert, 312th Army Band, Dole 10 Emporia Chapter: Dinner • Dole Institute Dedication Institute 11 a.m.: Formal Dedication and meeting JULY 20-22 Ceremony "The Greatest Generation's Greatest Celebration," a reunion of World War • Kansas Honors Program II veterans, plus tours, displays and Tickets for the Glenn Miller the dedication of the Robert J. Dole and Salute to Heroes shows go MARCH Institute of Politics. Events include: on sale April 1. 785-864-ARTS. 26 Liberal: Al and For information, visit www. Donna Shank, SUNDAY, JULY 20 doleinstitute.org 620-624-2559 2 p.m.: "KU Goes to War." Faculty 31 Pittsburg: Nancy and other members of the KU family Hoff Scott, share their personal recollections, Lied Center 864-ARTS 620-231-7029 Lied Center University Theatre tickets ... 864-3982 7 p.m.: An Evening of Dancing with Spencer Museum of Art 864-4710 APRIL the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Holiday Natural History Museum 864-4540 2 Neodesha: Dennis Depew, Inn Holidome, $40 per ticket, see Hall Center for Humanities . 864-4798 620-325-2626 information below. Kansas Union 864-4596 9 Kingman: Debra Meisenheimer, 620-663-1313 MONDAY, JULY 21 Adams Alumni Center 864-4760 10 Logan: Polly Bales, 10 a.m.: World War II air show above KU main number 864-2700 785-689-4328 the Dole Institute Athletics 1 -800-34-HAWKS

ISSUE 2, 2003 Jayhawk Walk

Sometimes What's crimson no more? you feel like a nut

hose spangled, spirited artists formerly known as The niversity of Arizona's athletics director TCrimson Girls are still shaking their pompoms at KU Usaid the school had "taken action" games, but under a new moniker: The University of Kansas after investigating allegations that three Dance Team. men's basketball players stole coins and Several factors led to changing the name, which dates to 1985. candy bars from a vending machine during "Unless you're familiar with KU, you don't recognize them as the team's January stay in Lawrence. being associated with the University," says Cathy Jarzemkoski, A guest at Spring Hill Suites alleged that Spirit Squad coordinator. "The new name will make them more two Arizona players tampered with an identifiable with KU—instead of, 'Crimson who?'" open machine while a third stood lookout The name also better distinguishes the dancers from the the night before the Wildcats' Jan. 25 game cheerleaders, Jarzemkoski says. "And," she adds, "girls is not with KU. The next morning hotel staff dis- really politically correct." covered candy missing and the coin box While some Crimson Girl alumnae object to the change, empty. Lawrence police contacted team Jarzemkoski prefers to focus on how the team represents KU. representatives, and an Arizona assistant "These are not only great dancers; they're great girls," she coach returned to the hotel after the No. I says. "I mean young women." Wildcats' 91 -74 victory and paid for the spoils. No charges were filed. The witness, a KU graduate, reportedly identified two of the 3 Musketeers as Arizona starters. Citing a federal law that protects student privacy, UA officials would Synchronicity not say what action was taken. The Kit Kats' alleged Spree will no 'referring home-team talent (or relief from the effusive wall of sound that is doubt draw Snickers from many quarters, Dickie V) many fans tune out TV telecasts and turn up radio vet- but might it also explain Arizona's tP erans Bob Davis and Max Falkenstien to follow the Jayhawks. Nutrageous comeback from a 20-point But recently the multimedia crowd faced a lagging prob- first-half deficit? Teams everywhere—won- lem: Due to delays caused by satellite dering how they, too, can Skor at Crunch links and digital signal processing, time—might want to put a little more the radio call was beating the Krackel in their pregame meals. TV picture downcourt. "When people would ask me about it, I used to tell them that Bob Davis is so good he knows the ball is going in the basket before it gets there," says Bob Newton, producer and engineer for the jayhawk Radio Network. But the gap bothered so many fans that broadcasters installed a digital device that matches radio and TV signals seamlessly. There's one delay of game that's sound strategy.

8 KANSAS ALUMNI Whistle a happy tune

n the frigid morning of Jan. O22, the campus whistle became a missile, hurtling 25 feet from its perch atop the power plant as it emitted 300-degree steam under 175 pounds of ear-splitting pressure. Amid budget woes and replacement cost estimates near $2,000, Talos man sentimentalists sounded the alarm: The blast could be a thing of the past. nowing firsthand the pain of stitches But anonymous donors—not interested Kfrom kitchen mishaps, Nathan Colgate in blowing their own horns—contacted Clark created Talos, a two-fingered glove the Endowment Association and offered to guard against gashes. to pay for the piper. So a new whistle Made of flexible plastic, Talos (named will soon succeed the famous steam for the protector of Crete in Greek sentry that since 1912 has heralded the mythology), conforms to the shape of the end of class periods. thumb and index finger of the noncutting Time is once again on our side. hand. For his digit-defending design, Clark, a Topeka senior, in January won second place at the International Housewares Show in Chicago, where only seven of 215 Encore performance student entries earned prizes. Now slicing through the red tape of fter inductions "We weren't licensing procedures, Clark hopes Talos Athe past few thinking in those will become a favorite kitchen aid "for kids years at Iowa and terms, but it's who want to help cook, for someone Nebraska rock 'n' starting to dawn on whose hands shake, for those who have roll halls of fame, us," Loewen says. arthritis—or for klutzes like me who just The Fabulous Ahleen Sebeli "All night long, peo- cut themselves more often." Flippers swore they Kansas is& ple were coming up had played their last to us, telling us so gig. But Gov. many touching sto- Kathleen Sebelius, ries. It was fascinat- g'80, and her hus- ing. Puzzling. band, Gary, are both fans of the legendary Flattering. Some kind of nerve was hit back Lawrence band from the 1960s, so the then, and it still has some feeling in it." gang reunited yet again to play the gover- Loewen says a reunion next fall at "the nor's inaugural gala Jan. 13. old Red Dog Inn" (now Liberty Hall) is in Singer and guitarist Dennis Loewen, '68, the works, but after that: says the eight Flippers have tuned in to "No more. Each time we say it's the last their place in the state's cultural history. time—and this time, no kidding."

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The personal, financial and academic information on international students and their dependents is intended to bolster homeland security by keeping tabs on foreign citizens who enter the country on student visas. But after a hacker downloaded from a • The security breach KU computer the files of compromised the personal 1,450 students on Jan. 17, files of nearly 1,500 stu- many were left feeling that dents and warranted the their security, not the FBI's highest priority:"Due nation's, was at risk. to the sensitivity of the "It is alarming," said information, it's at the top Arun Agarwal, a Bombay, of the list right now as far India, graduate student as computer crime investi- whose personal file was gations" said FBI Special among those stolen. "It's Agent Jeff Lanza. every bit of information needed to make a new identity. This could affect me for the next 10 or 15 years. It could affect me for the rest of my life." FBI investigators de- Computer insecurity scended on campus, the INS alerted U.S. ports of Hacker's theft of sensitive student files entry and the University reminds the University community scrambled to deal with a public relations headache: that online presence has a price The reported cause of the breach was a previously ith a Jan. 30 deadline then 19 days patched hole in a University computer server that away, Joe Potts, g'88, director of was reopened during a security upgrade. The International Student and Scholar hole left the server vulnerable to attack from W Services, was upbeat about the what Marilu Goodyear, vice provost for informa- readiness of his office to meet a homeland secu- tion services, called a "medium-expert hacker." rity mandate requiring colleges and universities At a press conference Jan. 23, two days after to gather data on all international students and the hacking was discovered, Goodyear was asked submit it to the federal government. whether students could feel confident that the "We're just about good to go, and feeling good same thing won't happen again. about it," Potts said in a news report detailing "We get security protocols every single hour of KU's progress compiling its Student and every single day. We are doing everything we Exchange Visitor Information System database possibly can to keep our systems as secure as for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization possible, but we know that there is a community Service. out there that is constantly hacking.

10 KANSAS ALUMN! "We feel like our computer systems are very, ease the country's national security concerns very secure, but we certainly hope students rewarded with a breach in personal security. understand that all personal information that's in "We're basically trying to communicate to stu- electronic form does have a certain amount of dents that we really do care about them," Potts danger to it." says. "International students are a valued part of As the University begins to rely more and our community and they bring a dimension to more on Internet-based technology, security con- the University that no else can bring. Without cerns can only grow. Perhaps no new initiative them we can't be the kind of university we want has been more eagerly awaited by students than to be." online enrollment. The Web-based system, which His office has put together a list of actions that begins rolling out this March for fall enrollment, affected students can take to prevent identity is just apart of a planned online student portal theft. called K-you. The Web portal will allow students It's on to download grades, check e-mail, monitor financial aid status and even vote online in student "Despite feeling elections. Those charged with protecting the University's powerless, it's computer resources will be challenged to make important for sure the portal doesn't offer one-stop shopping Give peace a chance for hackers, as well—all while protecting academic the academic freedom. Professor travels to community to "We do worry about it every day," says Allison Baghdad as part of U.S. address this Rose Lopez, j'96, external relations coordinator "academic airlift" for information services. "It's delicate, because issue, and for we're working to enhance security without limit- cott Harding, assistant professor of social people to act on ing the free flow of information that makes the welfare, had never been to Iraq before University the kind of place it is. Academia is just kjanuary, when he accompanied a delega- their beliefs and a different universe." tion of American academics who traveled consciences." Recent break-ins at KU and the University of tso the country at the invitation of the president Texas highlight the damage that hackers can do. of the University of Baghdad. — Harding In March, hackers preying on a UT computer net- Like most of his colleagues on the trip, which work that was under reconstruction were able to was organized by the Atlanta-based humanitarian gain access to names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers of 55,000 current and former students, faculty, staff, job applicants and retirees. Agarwal, president of the Cultural India Club, believes international students are satisfied so far with KU's efforts to help them cope with the January incident. But that goodwill will continue only as long as the University shows it is doing all it can to protect students. "The only thing we know for sure is that the information hasn't been used against anyone yet," Agarwal says. "But all it would take is a single incident to set off a big uproar." • Scott Harding, assistant professor of social welfare, traveled to Joe Potts and the Office of Iraq in January with a delegation of students and professors from International Students and Scholars are 28 universities in 21 states.The humanitarian fact-finding mission working to help students cope with the was intended to open an ongoing dialogue between academics in ironic sting of having their own efforts to Iraq and the U.S.

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aid organization Conscience International, Harding didn't know what to expect when he got off the plane. He and about 30 other professors and graduate students were met by a cheering crowd of University of Baghdad professors who thanked them for coming. Over the next five days they attended an aca- With flying colors demic conference at the University and toured cultural and other sites, including The School of Business a children's hospital and a bomb shelter ranks among the top 10 that was destroyed in the first Gulf War. Despite the almost continuous pres- public universities for pass ence of Iraqi government minders, they rates on the difficult even found time to engage their hosts Certified Management and people on the street in candid con- Accountant examination. versation. "We were all looking for a way to find KU ranks seventh in the out about the situation on the ground," percentage of graduates says Harding, who, like many people he passing the exam and has talked to since returning from Iraq, • Gail Sherron, associate director of admissions and scholarships, ninth for those passing felt frustrated by the lack of information coming from the U.S. government and says her office will do all it can to award scholarships to Kansas' on the first try. The media. "What I found is that Iraqi people best and brightest students. rankings are published are aware of the oppression they by the Institute of encounter from their own government, Certified Management but even so, no one welcomes an invasion. Most a decade of sanctions that have crippled the aver- favor an end to sanctions as a starting point to age citizens' ability to protect their children's Accountants, which com- opening the country up." health and feed their families. But although many piled information from The chance to meet with fellow academics detest U.S. policy, they warmly welcomed their more than 1, 100 schools from both the U.S. and Iraq convinced Harding American visitors. with students sitting that the fact-finding humanitarian mission would "Before I went, I didn't know what to expect. be worthwhile. People asked if I was afraid, and warned me to be for the exam. "The idea is that educators can play a key role careful. But I found the people of Iraq have a in dialogue, and dialogue seems to be what's great fondness and admiration for the U.S. They missing in this situation." are angry at the prospect of war, but they were Since his return, he has spent much of his not angry with us."^*""* time telling others what he learned. "People are thirsty for knowledge. It's clear that a lot of people don't think they are getting a clear picture from what the president and others in the Bush administration are saying." He has spoken at churches, schools and com- Near focus munity groups in Lawrence, Kansas City and Austin, Texas. Shift in recruiting strategy "I think the biggest lesson I learned is that we to put more emphasis on are talking about people's lives, and that's what's state's best and brightest at stake here," Harding says. "The government tends to dehumanize our enemies, and it 2002-'03 academic year marked the becomes easy to forget that we're talking about fourth consecutive year that KU placed children, the elderly. It's easy to forget that that's among the top 10 universities for the who will bear the brunt of the war, just as they've T:number of National Merit Scholars borne the brunt of economic sanctions." enrolled. In Iraq, Harding saw a country devastated by But it will likely be the last, because of a shift

12 KANSAS ALUMNI in focus that will put more emphasis on attracting top Kansas students. "We will drop out of the top 10," says Gail Sherron, g'97, g'99, associate director of admissions and scholarships. Money previously earmarked for attracting Visitor nonresident National Merit Scholars will now be used to attract good students in general. That Revolutionary means nonresident National Merit winners will no longer automatically receive full scholarships; loria Steinem,a founder they will be evaluated through the regular schol- Gof the women's move- arship award process. ment and its voice, Ms. mag- But due to cutbacks in KU Endowment azine, visited campus as part Association funding brought on by three consec- of the Student Lecture utive down years in the stock market (see Mile- Series, coordinated by stones, Money and Other Matters), the shift in Student Union Activities and focus doesn't translate to more money for Student Senate. Kansas students. "Unfortunately, due to the loss of funding WHEN: Feb. 10 from Endowment, there is not any additional funding that we can say is just for Kansas stu- WHERE: Lied Center dents," Sherron says. In others words, resident students are getting BACKGROUND: a bigger slice of the pie, but the pie has shrunk. Steinem first won fame for her Esquire maga- The National Merit scholarship is widely zine expose on Playboy clubs. She later wrote regarded as the most prestigious for New York magazine and in 1972 founded Young women national award Ms. She has studied the impact of feminism on are critical to bestowed upon grad- political theory as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar uating high school at the Smithsonian Institution, and she created the movement seniors. several political action groups. Ever the activist, because "you Attracting more Steinem called the question-and-answer session of the scholars following her speech "organizing time." won't put up has been a Audience members, including several young with what we goal of women in high school, responded by announc- Chancellor ing meetings for various causes and seeking put up with. We Robert E. advice on rallying support. need your high Hemenway hopes to raise since he arrived ANECDOTE: After 15 years, the still- at KU in 1995. struggling Ms. took the unprecedented step of our standards, And it's a goal that eliminating all advertising.The magazine became because we Sherron's office has been financially viable for the first time in its history, able to meet five of the past six Steinem said, proving the benefits of not fol- remember when years. With 100 National Merit Scholars enrolled lowing the popular wisdom. it was worse. We this year, KU ranks eighth among public univer- suffer from ter- sities, attracting more of the scholars than all QUOTE: Women have made strides in the other public universities in Kansas and Missouri workplace only to find themselves with two minal gratitude." combined. full-time jobs, Steinem said, because our society But desperate times call for—well, different has failed to attribute fair value to the job of measures. caregiving, be it for children or other family "It is disappointing that we cannot continue members. "We have raised our daughters more one of the earliest goals the chancellor set forth," like our sons in the past 30 years, but many Sherron says. "But there are times when you have fewer people have had the courage to raise to take a look at what you're doing and decide if their sons like daughters." it is hurting or helping the institution. It's time to try something different."--""•••

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ECOLOGY Last-minute donations send Monarch Watch to Mexico For years, Monarch Watch (www. Update monarchwatch.org), a group that tags and tracks Monarch butterflies on their ary Harkey Hall's regard for native plants and conservation inspired son Ben migration to Mexico, has made its own MHall, c'54, to pursue a career in natural sciences. Now he and his wife, pilgrimage south in January, delivering Margaret Black Hall, c'54, have given $ 100,000 to the KU Endowment Association donated supplies to schools near the to establish the Mary Harkey Hall Award in Plant Biology. Monarch's wintering sites. "She was a major force in our family, bringing up her three sons and incorporat- Funding shortfalls canceled this ing her values," says Ben Hall, a botany professor at the University of Washington. year's trip, leaving Monarch Watch "She might well have had an important career in science, but she gave that up to founder Chip Taylor, professor of ecolo- raise children and be involved in the community.This award recognizes those con- gy and evolutionary biology, with a semi- tributions." trailer full of donated school supplies. Mary Harkey Hall, c'24, was married to E. Raymond Hall, c'24, former director "We were sitting on 14 pallets of of the Natural History Museum. She died in 1988. materials, and I knew I had to find some The gift, which will benefit outstanding way to get them delivered," Taylor said. students in plant biology, counts toward An eleventh-hour appeal raised the $500 million goal of KU First: Invest in money to transport the supplies during Excellence, the largest fund-raising cam- Taylor's annual March trip to Mexico to paign in University history. By February, buy tags. $404 million had been raised. ku first INVEST EXCELLENCE The tags, applied by North Americans along the migration route and collected by Mexicans who live near the wintering sites, help researchers learn more about EDUCATION Teaching, a project that trains college the Monarch's annual journey. graduates with strong math and science "We're getting wonderful data that's KU and KCK schools vow skills to teach. A five-year, $1.9 million really telling us how this migration to cut teacher shortage grant from the U.S. Department of works," Taylor says. "Every year we learn Education will fund the effort, which something new." School administrators in Kansas City, aims to put 160 new teachers into the Kan., have a problem: Like many district by 2008. urban districts, the KCK schools "We want to be part of the solution," find it hard to attract qualified says Angela Lumpkin, dean of the people to teach challenging School of Education. "KU has an excel- math and science courses. lent traditional education program pri- Teaching vacancies in the sub- marily geared for 18- to 23-year-old stu- jects have more than doubled dents. Our new program will be since 2000, to 90. designed for adults who already have a The School of Education has bachelor's degree and who want to help a problem, too: Every week, the students from challenging backgrounds school receives phone calls from achieve their academic potential." college graduates pondering a Beginning in 2004, candidates will career change. Family and job undergo two months of intensive sum- commitments lead many to con- mer training at KU before entering KCK clude that neither the school's classrooms in the fall. They will get certi- traditional five-year teacher edu- fication and graduate credit for their cation program nor the shorter studies, which include teacher-training graduate certification program fit classes throughout the school year. In their needs. all, participants undergo two years of on- • Chip Taylor with Lawrence schoolchildren: His To address those concerns, the-job training and classroom work and Monarch Watch annually transports donated school KU and the KCK schools will commit to teaching a third year in the supplies to Mexico. team up to offer Transition to KCK schools.

14 KANSAS ALUMNI Milestones, money and other matters

• BUDGET NEWS WORSENED FOR KU this spring. Already hindered by dwindling state support, the University learned in February that the Endowment Association would reduce its contribution (a record $68.9 million in fiscal 2002) as much as 20 percent due to poor investment returns. Since June 2000, Endowment's portfolio has declined 20 percent, to $683 million. Relief from the state looks unlikely. In February, the House budget committee gave preliminary approval to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' education budget, which would fund the Regents Universities at 2002 levels—$16 million less than KU needs to maintain current services.To help save money, administrators propose to eliminate red-tape in pur- chasing and four other key areas. "If you can't provide funds, we'd ask you give us flexibility to make our funds go further," Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway told legislators.

• KU RANKS THIRD among U.S. public universities for the percentage of students studying abroad, says a survey compiled by the Institute of International Education. In 2000- • New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger '01, 1,141 KU students (23 percent of 2001 graduates) enrolled in study abroad programs. Jr. received the 2003 William Allen White citation. Noting White's reputation for tough jour- • WAYNE OSNESS, School of Education professor emeritus and former chair of nalism, Sulzberger said, "Part of the job descrip- health, sport and exercise sciences, received the American Alliance for Health, Physical tion is to be rude, as long as the truth is Education, Recreation and Dance's highest honor.The Luther Halsey Gulick Medal recog- served." nizes a "noteworthy leader whose contributions inspire youth to live vigorously, coura- geously and freely as citizens of a free society." JOURNALISM New York Times publisher gets • 2002 WAS ANOTHER RECORD YEAR FOR RESEARCH. KU attracted $243 million for research projects last year, an 8-percent increase from 2001. Research expendi- William Allen White citation tures have increased six consecutive years and have nearly doubled since 1995.

The man who brought "the gray lady" • A $50,0000 GIFT from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation will pay for a 14-foot replica into the Internet age visited campus in of the Kansas state seal at the Robert J. Dole Institute.The seal will join a stained-glass February to accept the William Allen American flag paid for by a $200,000 gift from Forrest, e'56, and Sally Hoglund, c'56.The White Foundation's highest award for $ 10-million, 28,000-square foot institute will journalistic excellence. be dedicated on Dole's 80th birthday in July. Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times, noted that his • A NEW MULTICULTURAL father, Arthur O. Sulzberger, likely stood RESOURCE CENTER got a boost in on the same Woodruff Auditorium stage January, when KU and Endowment when he accepted the William Allen Association officials endorsed a student pro- White citation in 1974. "Receiving the posal to build a $2.5 million, 7,000-square- citation in his footsteps is particularly foot facility.The MRC is now located in a satisfying," he said. World War ll-era "temporary" building. Publisher of the Times since 1992 and chairman of the New York Times • RALPH R. PRESTON, m'44, started a Co. since 1997, Sulzberger repositioned family tradition that continued for nearly 50 the once-stodgy paper as a global leader Multicultural Resource Center years when he introduced his son to KU bas- in online, print and broadcast journal- ketball in I955.TO honor the memory of his late father, R. Steven Preston, h'78, and his wife, ism. NYTimes.com is now the world's Martha, pledged $100,000 to the Williams Fund, which supports scholarships for student- No. 1 newspaper-owned Web site. athletes. "Journalism's values can be trans- ferred to any medium," he said. "The • ROD BREMBY, c'82, g'84, assistant research professor in the Schiefelbusch Institute newsprint newspaper won't always be for Life Span Studies, has joined Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' cabinet as secretary of health and around. Reading it on the screen is not environment. as fulfilling, but over time our appetites will shift, and that's a good thing."

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emotional toll on a team already battered by broken noses and bad backs. But with a thrilling 79-74 victory over border rival Missouri March 1, KU clinched its second straight Big 12 championship, setting up a shot at a No. 1 NCAA tournament seed and another run toward Final Four glory. • Aaron Miles dueled And if this season of highs on with his talented Texas the heels of lows needs a human counterpart,T.J. Ford, face—a poster boy for strength in during the thrilling, three- the face of adversity, if you will— point KU victory in Allen no one makes a better choice Field House. "In a lot of than point guard Aaron Miles. ways," coach Roy Williams Against Texas in January, says of the trying season, Miles posted 15 points, nine "this year is even better assists, five rebounds and only because of how satisfying one turnover in 30 minutes, help- it is to overcome some ing the Jayhawks beat the No. 3 things." Williams won his Longhorns, 90-87, and bounce back from the painful loss to second-consecutive Arizona. His tough defense on Big 12 coach of the year star point guard T. J. Ford in the award for his efforts. final seconds pressured Ford into rushing a three that could have sent the game into overtime. A week later, when Missouri came to town, Miles played only High-low game 19 minutes and drew his coach's ire. "I don't give a blankety-blank Point guard Aaron Miles' defense, about shooting the daggum basketball," Williams said after the enthusiasm help smooth bumpy season Jayhawks prevailed, 76-70. "You can't have six frickin' turnovers f last season was a joy ride for KU basket- in a game like that. You can't have six turnovers ball, this year has been more like a roller- and be a quarterback. I told [Aaron] that. He had coaster: Up and down and up again. a bad day." I "It hasn't been as much fun [as last year] Then came the "lucky" three that sank because we've had more problems and we've had Missouri in Columbia. With one desperation line- more losses," coach Roy Williams says. "It hasn't drive ("a two-handed sinkerball," Williams been the smoothest ride, emotionally and men- dubbed it), Miles, the target of criticism from tally, with everything that has gone on." chat room to chat radio this year, was up. Again. A 3-3 start after high preseason expectations Through it all he has kept an even keel—even had many hoops pundits ready to write off the when a caller to the University Daily Kansan's Jayhawks in December. The loss of Wayne Free for All line threatened to "go Ninja" on him. Simien to a shoulder injury in February took an Miles' message to the critics who diss his out-

16 KANSAS ALUMNI side shot or downplay his leadership role on the team: I hear you knocking, "His attitude is always positive. I think that carries a long way but you can't come in. "Sure, I notice it. I mean, it's written and shows a side of him that a lot of people don't really see." in the papers. I see it. I hear it," he says. — Keith Langford "I don't really care about what people say; the only thing I care about is my teammates and this program. That's all and his stats are awfully nice." to play good defense, try to knock down that matters." Indeed, on the eve of postseason play, the open J, take care of the rock. I think The pressure Miles feels is self- Miles ranked among the top 10 nation- everybody on this team has found their imposed, says his former high school wide for assists, averaging 6.7 per game. role; now that we know Wayne is not teammate and current roommate That puts him in the select company of coming back, we know we've definitely Michael Lee. "He just wants to perform Ford (7.2 per game), Maryland's Steve got to step up for the rest of the season." so well, do so well, at times he doesn't Blake (7.1) and Duke's Chris Duhon With that thought in mind, Miles and live up to his own standards. I think that (6.7). Miles ranked 17th nationally and his mates hope to ride their rollercoaster hurts him more than fan criticism. I first in the Big 12 with 2.6 steals per back to the Final Four and, if all goes think he does a pretty good job of not game. His nine steals against Iowa State well, a national championship. letting that kind of stuff get to him. He Feb. 16 set a school record. And though You can't get any more up than deals with it." he's only a sophomore, he already ranks that.--"1"' Lee says Miles' support kept him eighth on the KU career list with 454 -Steven Hill going through a slow freshman start; assists. At this rate, Jacque Vaughn's now that he's become KU's sixth man, record 804 looks within his range. he counts Miles as his biggest fan. And on a team that gets ample leader- Fellow sophomore Keith Langford ship from its senior stars, Miles feels sounds a similar note. comfortable being a point guard who's a Victories V us "He's meant a lot to this team. role player. Even at times when he hasn't shot well, "I look at this as Nick Collison and Baseball's hot start shows he's real good at disrupting the other Kirk Hinrich's team," he says. "My job is no rebuilding year required team's offense and putting pressure on their point guard. His atti- fter finishing the 2002 baseball tude is always positive, and I season 22-29 overall and 5-21 think that carries a long way and (good for last place, for the sec- shows a side of him that a lot of ,ond-consecutive year) in the Big people don't really see." 12, it seemed unrealistic to believe 2003 When the Portland native got could be anything better than a so-called down on himself after shooting 1- rebuilding year. But coach Ritch Price, for-11 in front of a hometown hired in August from Cal Poly-San Luis crowd in KU's 84-78 loss to Obispo, where his teams won at least 30 Oregon, Williams had a talk with games three seasons in a row, refused to his point guard. let his players think that way. "For us, Aaron Miles just has to He gathered them together before the be Aaron Miles," Williams said at season began and made his rule crystal the time. "He doesn't have to try clear: The "r" word was not to be to be TJ. Ford or anybody else. He uttered. Besides, why bother rebuilding doesn't have to try to play the per- when you can jump straight to winning? fect game. He's a great leader and Buoyed by their new coach's enthusi- a winner and a kid who makes asm—as well as timely hitting and strong other people better. That's what pitching—the Jayhawks vaulted to their he needs to continue doing. first national ranking since joining the "Aaron has probably gotten Big 12. At 16-4 after winning five straight more criticism than anyone who's (and 11 of 12), the Jayhawks were been here in the last two or three • Coach Ritch Price has his first Jayhawks baseball ranked No. 17. years. But since the Oregon game team flying high with a No. 17 national ranking and a If they quietly believed in themselves he's done some good things for us sweep over Louisiana State in Baton Rouge. all along, their fans took notice Feb. 16,

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when KU completed a three-game sweep • Former Missouri coach Norm at Louisiana State—the first time LSU Stewart finally took KU fans' advice had ever been swept at home by a non- and sat down, during a ceremony in conference opponent. his honor at Allen Field House. After the LSU sweep, sophomore third baseman Travis Metcalf was named the NCAA's national hitter of the week. resumed its time-honored chant, Metcalf was the second Jayhawk to win imploring Norm to take his new the honor in three weeks, following jun- seat. "I mean it from the bottom ior first baseman Ryan Baty. of my heart." By mid-March, when the Jayhawks Stewart last coached in Allen had lost just one game by more than one Field House in 1999—a game the run, others were making headlines, as Tigers won, he points out. well: senior left fielder Casey Spanish Although the KU-Mizzou basket- was leading the team with a .434 aver- ball rivalry is as hot as ever, age, and junior right fielder Matt Tribble coach Roy Williams thought it (.405) broke the school record with a important to show Stewart he is 20-game hitting streak. In all, seven among friends in Lawrence. Jayhawks were over .300. "I'm proud of Another honored foe, Kansas how the team is playing," Tribble said, State coaching legend Jack "and I am proud to be a part of it." Hartman, received a set of golf When junior Ryan Knippschild com- clubs after his final game here in pleted his first complete game with 12 Which is exactly what Stewart did 1986."We do appreciate great competi- strikeouts, in a 8-1 victory over Western Jan. 27 during a ceremony before the tors," Williams says. "That's not to say I Michigan March 6, he was named the KU-Texas game in Allen Field House. liked [Stewart] during any game I Big 12 pitcher of the week-the same He sat down, in his new chair from the coached against him, but our fans and honor earned earlier in the season by Kansas Alumni Association's collection. myself included did have a great deal of senior Kevin Wheeler. "This is a very meaningful moment," respect for the job that he did."-"*" "It's been fun to watch," Price says. Stewart said as the crowd lovingly -Chris Lazzarino "The bar for this team has definitely been raised." Says Spanish: "It's a different mental- ity. We don't whine, we don't complain. We just play hard." And win.-"""•• Updates -Chris Lazzarino omen's basketball saved its best for last, toppling Iowa State, 63-60, in the first Wround of the Big 12 tournament. "We have some good talent, and they are all going to be back next season, which is very encouraging," coach Marian Washington said.... Softball won 14 of its first 18 games, its best start since 1992."This team is finding a way to win close games," coach Tracy Bunge said after the Jayhawks won Alabama's Crimson Classic.... Coach Mark Mangino's football recruiting class included Norm sits down 14 junior-college transfers, considered the best such group in the country by some recruiting experts. Among Mangino's in-state high-school signees were running After decades of chants, back/defensive back John Randle, of Wichita Southeast, and linebacker/running back Mizzou's Stewart complies at Brandon McAnderson, of Lawrence. Mangino hired 19-year veteran Ed Warinner, Allen Field House ceremony most recently of Air Force, to coach the offensive line, and Earnest Collins, of Northern Colorado, to coach cornerbacks. Former running backs coach Clint Bowen •y orm Stewart stormed the side- will now coach the safeties (his former position as a player), and former defensive line for 32 years as Missouri's secondary coach Pat Henderson will coach running backs. Chris Dawson, Minnesota's . men's basketball coach. Now strength coach the past two seasons, replaces Mark Smith, who left for the ^ N that he's retired, it's time to Washington Redskins.... Seven of 16 varsity teams posted fall grade-point averages take a load off. Rock away the hours. of 3.0 or better, led by men's golf at 3.35; 22 student-athletes had perfect 4.0 GPA's. Another way to put it: "Sit down, Norm!"

18 KANSAS ALUMNI MAY Sports Calendar 3 KU hosts Big 12 • Men's golf • Softball MAY MARCH 2-4 Texas 24-25 at Stevinson Ranch MARCH 6 Washburn Invitational, Stevinson, Calif. 29-30 at Iowa State 9-11 at Texas A&M APRIL 16 at Kansas State APRIL 7-8 at 57th Western Intercollegiate, 17-18 Kansas State 2 at Wichita State Santa Cruz, Calif. 21 -25 at Big 12, Oklahoma City 5-6 at Texas Tech 12-13 Intercollegiate 2003, Chapel 9 at Creighton Hill, N.C. 10 at Nebraska • Track & field 28-29 at Big 12, Hutchinson 12-13 Texas A&M Women's golf 16 Arkansas MARCH 19 at Texas MARCH 27 at Emporia State Twilight 21 Missouri 24-26 at Betsy Rawls Classic, Austin, Texas 23 UMKC APRIL 3-5 at Texas Relays 25 Nebraska APRIL 5 at Emporia State Relays 26-27 Baylor 12 at John McDonnell Invitational, 7-8 at Susie Maxwell Berning Invitational, Norman, Okla. MAY Fayetteville, Ark. 19-21 at Big 12, Columbia, Mo. I -4 at Big 12, Oklahoma City 16-19 Kansas Relays 24-26 at Drake Relays 26 at UMKC Invitational • Tennis • Baseball MAY MARCH MARCH 3 at Ward Haylett Invitational, 28 at Texas Tech Manhattan, Kan. 28-30 Oklahoma State 29 at Baylor 10 at Emporia State Qualifier APRIL 17-19 at Big 12, Austin, Texas APRIL I Southwest Missouri State 5 Tulsa 4-6 Nebraska 6 Colorado 9 Creighton • Rowing 12 Kansas State 11-13 at Texas Tech MARCH 19 Texas A&M 15 Avila 29 at Texas 24-27 at Big 12, Kansas City, Mo. 18-20 at Oklahoma 23 at Wichita State APRIL 25-27 Baylor 12-13 at Knecht Cup, Camden, NJ. 29 Wichita State 19 at Kansas State 26 at Cincinnati

ISSUE 2, 2003 19 eason ticket holders at Carnegie I Hall they're not. No snooty I Simons sit in judgment here. But ^m the music fans singer and song- writer Melanie Dill faces are a tough crowd nonetheless. Preschool kids and their parents, mostly moms, pack Oread Books for one of nine music hours for children that Dill is conducting at the Kansas Union store this spring. Her performances, which feature original songs from two CDs as well as children's classics, are also regular attractions at other bookstores and in Lawrence preschools. Equipped with only an acoustic gui- tar, a plastic tub full of props and a voice that rings with Natalie Merchant-like sweetness, Dill sets out to lasso the kids' brief attention spans and boundless enthusiasm. Ignoring the shelves of Dr. Seuss books and a panorama of jack- hammers and construction cranes outside the window, they join Dill as she sings of butterflies and pupae, unripe tomatoes and macaroni and cheese. They say their hellos in Japanese. They hop like frogs, crawl like caterpillars and Beyond the Hokey MELANIE DILL'S HIP DITTIES FOR COOL KIDDIES HAVE PARENTS SINGING HER PRAISES. SHE'S JUST GLAD THEY'RE SINGING.

20 KANSAS ALUMNI sing like birds. They giggle and guffaw at common goal: to encourage interaction If the parent doesn't appreciate what the every goofy line in Dill's irrepressibly by making music that appeals not only child is into, they aren't going to hang goofy songbook. to kids, but also to their parents. A tough out with each other." Her 1999 CD, "Alphabet Parade," challenge, as any adult who's spent time More and more adults and kids are showcases Dill's conviction that music with a certain purple dinosaur and his tuning in and hanging out to Dill's for children needn't be cloying, senti- grating theme song can attest. endearing mix of silly lyrics and sly mental or dumbed-down. Mixing foreign "Most kids like just about anything, humor. Buzz from delighted parents has words and nursery rhymes, teaching which explains Barney," Dill says with a made "Alphabet Parade" and "Rainbow tunes and lullabies, the disc celebrates laugh. "That's great for the kids, but it's Lemonade" surprise hits in Lawrence childhood's simple wonders with music not always great for the parents who and Kansas City. Her singalongs are the that is far from simple-minded. have to listen to it day after day." hottest kiddie tickets in town. The 32- "Rainbow Lemonade," released last Childhood should not be associated year-old grad student and mother of one fall, proves just how sophisticated music with things that drive adults crazy, she has become the Norah Jones of the for children can be. Jazz, bluegrass, punk believes. Parents should enjoy, not swingset set. rock, classical, calypso, pop and folk endure, the music their children hear. styles combine to form an impressive "It matters because it range of sounds. More musically com- affects their eople who recommend Dill's discs plex than "Alphabet Parade," interaction. to friends often sound the same "Rainbow Lemonade" features 30 Prefrain: These are not your typical KU students and faculty mem- kids' CDs. bers, many from the depart- "I find that flattering," she says. ment of music and dance. "That's exactly what I set out to do, Guest appearances by to make a children's CD that wasn't Lawrence schoolchildren, typical." Dill family members and It wasn't easy. With no record com- campus luminaries give pany to back her, Dill produced and both CDs a communal recorded "Alphabet Parade" on her own feel. Both also share a dime. That meant hiring musicians and Pokey BY STEVEN HLL

ISSUE 2, 2003 21 arrangers, booking studio time and even distributing finished CDs to stores and via her Web site, www.learningfor music.org. What's more, she did it her way. When it came time to record the title song on "Alphabet Parade," an arranger she'd contacted wanted to use a computerized synthesizer to mimic the tubas, trombones, trumpets, clarinets, saxo- phones and piccolos of a marching band. Dill insisted on real instruments played by real musicians. "He didn't understand why I wanted live musicians," Dill recalls. "He said, 'That's going to cost so much money, and you're gonna end up with a box of CDs in your closet. You'll spend pitfall in working with children. thousands of dollars and get nothing "Adults think you have to talk out of it.' down to young people because "It's like people think, 'Hey, it's just they won't get sophisticated for kids; it's good enough.' Well, candy melodies or rhythms, or won't and McDonald's appeal to kids, but that be able to transfer their ideas doesn't mean it's good for them. Why into really cool artistic images. not expose them to something better, But it's not true." something genuine?" What sets Dill apart, he says, The stand illustrates is an ability to make sophisti- Dill's principled cated, interesting music with approach to making children that conveys their way "ditties for kiddies," of looking at the world. "I think as she calls her that's what adults really hook songs. It's the into when they hear it; the integrity of a music is as good as anything out true artist, there, and the fact that it's about says friend kids is really beside the point." and muralist Jesse Krebs, f'96, co-produced David "Rainbow Lemonade" with Dill Loewenstein, and arranged many songs on '93. the disc, which was recorded at "If she had Lawrence's Z,gwon,th Studios. done it on the "The thing that is remarkable computer, it and unique about Melanie is would sound just she's committed to bringing like a hundred other together a variety of styles that kids' CDs. She's a real are more sophisticated than artist: She hears it a certain you'd expect for kids," Krebs says. "And • Dill's performances at Oread Books (top way, and she doesn't want to yet at the same time, the lyrics and left, right) use classics and "everyday" songs dilute it. She's heard the mediocre stuff, melodies are really accessible." inspired by her daughter, Siel, (above with Dill) and she's striving for something greater. Krebs tapped his connections in the to encourage participation. "I'm not trying to These CDs are a testament to her hard Lawrence music scene and at KU to line make kids sit still and learn, though many of work and her determination." up musicians, giving the CD a distinctly the songs are educational. I'm saying that what Loewenstein, who often visits schools Lawrence stamp. But Dill's lyrics are the you're doing right now is great." to help children plan and paint collabo- heart and soul of the enterprise. rative murals, says Dill avoids a common "She's able to come up with these lyri

22 KANSAS ALUMNI PHOTOGRAPHS BY AARON DELESIE

rec department to let who is always turning daily life into her run a summer music," Loewenstein says. "It's pretty drama camp, where amazing to watch." kids performed musical plays she wrote. At KU, Dill says, she was ome parents take pictures and known to scholarship shoot video to preserve their hallmates as someone S kid's childhood. Melanie Dill who "hardly ever talks, makes music. but is always singing." "I don't have that many pictures of Two songs from her my daughter, I'm ashamed to say. What I college days, "Seaside" do have are songs that were inspired or and "Baiba's created by her. That's how we interact." Bungalow," are on When Siel, now 6, began listening to "Rainbow Lemonade." children's recordings, Dill decided she Neither was written could do better. Now her CDs have for children. Both illus- become a kind of family album preserv- trate how her music ing moments from Siel's childhood. cal constructions on the spur of the works on different levels for grown-ups An example is "The Orange and moment that are really effective," Krebs and kids. Yellow Monster," a track on "Rainbow says. "I think she takes it for granted, Take the delightful tale of Baiba and Lemonade" that pairs Victor Bailey, but it's really remarkable. It's really the William, a couple Dill met while working director of the Hall Center for the core of her music." as a dishwasher in the Kansas Union. Humanities, and Siel's kindergarten Parents hear a sweet song of college class. romance, of motor scooters and movies "The kids invented their own words come up with little ditties, just at Liberty Hall, and (if they're old to The Itsy-bitsy Spider,'" Dill explains. goofy little songs," Dill says non- enough) echoes of a young Joni Mitchell "I wanted to put that on the album not I chalantly. "It's just something I've in Dill's joyful scatting. Kids just dig the because it's cute, but because it captures always done." alliteration and repetition of the infec- a moment with her classmates." Growing up in Atwood, in the state's tiously bouncy chorus: Opening parents' eyes to such northwestern corner, she was constantly moments is important to Dill. writing songs for friends, for younger Baiba goes back to her bungalow "I had the hardest time walking a kids. The knack earned her a rep as "the block with Siel, because she had to stop Baiba, bye-bye-bye-bye world's greatest baby sitter," she says. "I and look at every crack in the sidewalk, really liked kids and had a lot of fun William is waiting to take her every bug. For parents, that constant with them." to the show wonder can get frustrating. We're She fell asleep nights to the sound of focused on getting things done, and Baiba, bye-bye-bye her brother practicing piano. But the we forget what really makes life worth- strongest influence was her mother, Gay And it's on the scooter, on the while." Dill, a jazz and classical fan who's now scooter they'll go For Dill, the highest compliment president-elect of the Kansas Federation comes from parents who begin to see Baiba, bye-bye-bye-bye of Music Clubs, a group that promotes the world through their child's eyes. music education and performance. To see a foreign flick in a language "That's the ultimate, when parents get "She always seemed to be playing they don't know into it not because of the clever humor some record or another," Dill says. "I still only adults can understand, but because Baiba, bye-bye-bye think that some of the best music to play they are seeing things from their kids' for kids is the music you like. If parents angle, with the same sense of wonder." enjoy it, the child will almost naturally "I always wonder where her next tune That's the point at which adults truly enjoy it, and when they're adults you'll is going to come from," Loewenstein interact with children, Dill believes. have that bond. A lot of the music I like marvels, "but I never have to look far." "In our quest to turn our kids into is the stuff my parents played when I Walks with daughter Siel, messy meals, the smartest, the most athletic, some- was a kid." rainstorms, learning to count or cross times something reminds us what it is In her sophomore year of high school, the street have all inspired Dill songs. that really makes them wonderful: The she convinced her hometown parks and "Melanie is just the kind of person fact that they are children, I guess."--•••

ISSUE 2, 2003 23 • Chief Justice Kimberly Ireland (center) and Court of Parking Appeals officers (left to right) Beth Caskey, Cassie Pfannenstiel, Mary Goedeke and Katie Ambler Traffic Jwns

hree black-robed judges sit on court's next case by insisting, "They tick- telling the truth here today?" high. Yes, your honors, the pros- eted me for a spot I wasn't in." As evi- High drama for small matters, ecutor is ready, as are defense dence, he calmly produces his time- wrapped in synthetic seriousness: While Tcounsel and the appellant. stamped receipt. The University, repre- the Court of Parking Appeals sometimes The University of Kansas Court of sented by first-year law student Jesse has a kitschy air of students playing Parking Appeals is now in session. Oehlert, c'02, contends Dubin's car court with over-the-top zeal, everyone On this February evening in Green occupied a space that had not been paid involved recognizes that parking frustra- Hall's Frank L. Snell Court Room, $20 is for, and the parking officer was justified tions are one of the few universal experi- at stake as freshman Danny Zaslavsky in writing him up. A righteous bust. ences on car-choked Mount Oread. And argues that his "teal blue" park-and-ride "You are admonished to tell the this is, in fact, a court whose decisions sticker (marked as exhibit No. 6) led truth," Oehlert says solemnly, guarding are binding. him to think he could legally park his his allotted five minutes with a pocket "We're students, too, so we know car in a blue faculty lot. Defense attorney watch, a Christmas gift from his parents, parking on campus is a pain, at times," and first-year law student Carlos that he's carefully arranged on the says law student Beth Caskey, the court's Urquilla hands his client a Parking lectern near his right hand. "Are you chief defense attorney. "We're also poor, Department brochure and asks him to point out the regulations for park-and- ride permits. Zaslavsky says he can't because they aren't there. "Let me ask you," Urquilla prods with LAW STUDENTS DISPENSE RELIEF rhetorical flourish, "are you a ipsychicT The determined barrister-to-be then uses FOR MOUNT OREAD'S ETERNAL his closing argument to plea for sympa- thy: "It's his first year here. He's young. HEADACHE: PARKING He's pre-med. He's confused." Jerome Dubin, a senior dressed smartly in coat and tie, begins the By Chris Lazzarino

ISSUE 2, 2003 25 Towers. And it was late. And drizzling. And the closest parking spot he could find with his powerless yellow sticker was across the street in the Burge Union lot. And he didn't have anyone to help unload his 27-inch, 85-pound television. Besides, he says hopefully, his car occupied the handicapped space for less than five minutes. "The officer wrote the ticket," Williamson tells the judges of his near escape, "while I was standing there." His beleaguered counsel argues that the lack of a Towers loading zone is "bad public policy," and one attorney or the other rambles on about, "... and at the end of the day, we are left wondering ...," but let's be honest: Nobody's wondering anything except, How much is this kid gonna pay? Exactly $100 ... should the judges rule against him.

• Law student and defense attorney Carlos Urquilla (left), an infantry officer in the Army National Guard, lofted lofty arguments on behalf of freshman pre-med student Danny Zaslavsky. The verdict: Guilty as ticketed, with an invitation to appeal. so we understand $20 is actually impor- infraction. Notification should be simul- tant to the students." taneous." Parking got you down? Don't get As Shamrock waits in a quiet hallway mad ... tell it to the judge! Not only will for the judges to finish their secret delib- the law-student jurists listen to your erations, the scope of the proceedings excuse, they'll do their best not to seems outsized. She whispers conspira- snicker audibly. torially, "It feels like I did something real "I was parked in a fire lane," ceramics bad." She also admits that when student student Erica Shamrock admits when prosecutor Ben Fields lurched for the Jesse Oehlert her appeal is called before the court. Gregory Peck high ground, accusing her "But I saw them coming so 1 moved my of a "brazen" and "blatant" attempt to Williamson breezily shrugs off the car to avoid getting another ticket." avoid a $65 fire-lane citation, she long odds while waiting for his verdict. That's her argument, and she's stick- seethed with ill will for her earnest "They'll probably go the other way, but ing to it. Her student attorney, Lauren adversary: "I hope," she hexed silently, at least this is all run by students. That Fletcher, tells the judges that since "you get a ticket." makes it a little easier to deal with. In Shamrock's car was not ticketed until And then there's Nick Williamson, a fact, it makes it kind of fun." after she moved it from the fire lane sophomore who turns sad eyes to the Good thing he thinks so, because behind the Art and Design Building, the wise law students behind the bench and since he didn't bring much of a case, he ticket must be voided. "According to explains that he parked in a handi- might just as well have brought his public policy," Fletcher argues forcefully, capped spot only because there was no checkbook. "it is wrong to ticket for a previous loading zone to be found at Jayhawk Cha-ching. Next!

26 KANSAS ALUMNI ike the other four court officers, nations, closing arguments. A few obvi- Chief Justice Kimberly Ireland is ous differences: There are no juries and a second-year law student. She no opening arguments, and judges have Lhas a husband, Kevin, as well as responsibilities not borne by their real- a 9-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old world counterparts. son. The Irelands sold their Wichita "Judges should observe the hearing house and moved to Lawrence so Mom with a judge's eye and as a teacher," could enroll in KU's School of Law, and according to the court's own rules. she is determined to make the most of "Judges are encouraged to establish a the opportunity. helpful tone in the courtroom, rather She is a teaching assistant in "lawyer- than being cruel and negative." ing" classes required of all first-year stu- That's the aspect Ireland most rel- dents. She earned her way onto Law ishes. After watching Lauren Fletcher Review, and, for the current academic gamely defend the ceramics student who year, she's the undisputed leader of the admitted to parking in a fire lane and Court of Parking Appeals. the Jayhawk Towers resident who knows precisely how much his TV weighs, Lauren Fletcher Ireland tells her, "It's good experience to learn you can make an argument out of was an invitation for her to anything ... and you did, Lauren." park in a handicapped space. The judges also gently chide the attor- "IT'S HIS FIRST YEAR HERE. "She had an SUV," Caskey neys to stand up—all the way up-when- recalls, "and an SUV is kind ever they address the court. Both first- HE'S YOUNG. HE'S PRE-MED. of like a van ..." year students listen closely, because they There is more to all this will soon make similar courtroom HE'S CONFUSED." than the offbeat. The court's appearances for class. Other common "Rules of Practice and problems include bouncing pencils ^^^ Procedure" runs 23 pages, not against the desk, tapping feet, poor eye including a four-page table of contact and timid speaking voices. contents. Precedent- "A lot of my classmates might spend setting cases decided by the 24 hours a day in the library, but I just court's final authority, the nine- PARKING APPEALS, don't do that," she says. "I can't." judge "En Bane" panel, date to BYTHE NUMBERS She fell under the spell of the parking 1977 and are thoroughly cross- court when she signed up to argue cases indexed on the court's Web site Total Fiscal Total as a first-year student. Ireland says her and in the law library. They are Tickets Year Issued Appeals Granted Denied experience was typical: "The most valu- cited during closing arguments able lesson it taught me was that I could by most of the student attor- 2002 54,678 963 373 590 get a total stinker of a case, no way I neys. "One L's [first-year law stu- 2001 43,978 951 231 720 could win, but I could still make an dents] are so terrified of screw- 2000 47,223 1,241 267 974 argument. You learn how to use the law, ing up," Ireland says, "that they and how to apply it." obsess for weeks." Caskey, the chief defense attorney, The Court of Parking Appeals says, "You learn how to be an advocate. thrusts student attorneys and You may not agree with your client, you judges into a simulated process may not think that what they did is with realistic elements: clients right, but you represent them, and you with real parking tickets, rules have to take their position in the court- of evidence, a tightly scripted room." "sequence of events" Yes, there is humor in what they do. for each hear- Caskey's favorite argument was made ing, objections, by a nonhandicapped student who direct and protested that a "van accessible" sign cross exami- "When you're hearing it from three Among the nearly 50 indexed topics in about varying hues of blue), but the people in robes," Ireland says, "it tends the court's file of precedents, case law judges also encourage attorney Carlos to make an impression on you. So when already covers ambiguous signs, arbi- Urquilla to appeal their ruling to estab- you go to do your oral arguments for trary enforcement, financial hardship, lish En Bane case law on publication of grades in your lawyering class, you good-faith efforts, dorm parking and park-and-ride regulations. remember." mechanical failure. "They do take it pretty seriously," The Court of Parking Appeals is a But it is possible to use the system to says Donna Connolly Hultine, c'80, "court of equity," which means it must beat the system. Citing their stature as a director of the Parking Department. weigh interests of both sides in "promot- court of equity, where subjective stan- "For me, I'm just happy to have an ing safe, orderly, and effective traffic dards of fairness are paramount, the avenue to direct people to if they need operations against any mitigating circum- judges tell senior Jerome Dubin they to air their case, because I'm too close stances surrounding the appellant's vio- unanimously support his argument; to it to be impartial." lation." In short: Anything goes. essentially, they believed him when he Hultine has worked at the Parking "Nothing prevents you from making said he thought he had paid for his park- Department for 21 years and admits any argument," Ireland says. "There are ing space. They rule against freshman she's "probably a little bit cynical" about points for creativity." To which Caskey Danny Zaslavsky (a photograph in evi- most of the excuses raised in parking adds, "If you come up with a novel argu- dence clearly shows a "staff permit disputes. Yet she and her staff members ment, by all means, make it." required" sign posted at the lot in ques- work tirelessly—and by all accounts, Chances of that, however, are slim. tion, thereby dispatching his argument cheerfully—to assist the law students and their clients. A department secretary serves as the court clerk, and Field Supervisor Rita Jordan, '90, logs endless hours helping attorneys prepare their BEST-SPACE SCENARIO: PARK LEGALLY complex cases. While defending the University's side he hottest topic faced by the court and Parking Department this year is a new in Jerome Dubin's appeal, which hinged T$50 fine tacked on for "excessive violators"—illegal parkers with three or more on Urquilla's argument that stall num- unpaid tickets who now face towing charges, ticket fines and the new $50 surcharge. bering in the Kansas Union garage was "And you have to pay everything to get your car back," Chief Justice Kimberly baffling, prosecutor Jesse Oehlert pro- Ireland says. "It's very controversial. I say controversial, but we're mired in this stuff. duced a chart of every space in the It's important to us." Kansas Union garage. When Urquilla Other fines: basic ticket, $20; expired meter, $5; fire lane, $65; handicapped stall, asked the court to throw the evidence $100. "We will very, very rarely excuse somebody who is parked in a handicapped out because he had not had a chance to or fire zone," Ireland says. "That's just a safety thing." review it, Oehlert countered that Jordan One excuse that can work: long doctor's visits that had spent the entire day compiling it, at his request. result in an expired meter atWatkins Health Center, so The University of Kansas long as the violator paid for the maximum available NOTICE OF PARKING INFRACTION The judges excluded it time. One excuse that doesn't work: flashing hazard 1501 Irving Hill Road, Lawrence, KS 66045-0590 anyway. 785-864-PARK (7275) "You can't just tell a stu- lights. "If your car is stopped and you're out of it," Crt. # Date Time Officer* Ireland says, "you're parked." 0746 3-\i-°> ID Hi. dent, 'Sorry, there's nothing In an attempt to abate annual conflicts between bas- License # State Veh. Make Model' Body Type you can do,'" Hultine says. Ki/HAvlK* C\V»C ketball games and campus access, the Computer Center "We help both sides, the The vehicle described hereon was parked in violation of the parking lot is now reserved for faculty, staff and student regulation checked below. defense and the prosecu- Location ,. VIN # Permit # tion. Whenever we're asked, permits. "It generates a lot of calls," parking director pi t» [f ( fjt^cfA Donna Hultine says. "It's just so amazing to people that GROUP 1 • FEE: $20.00 6R0UPIV - FEE: $65.00 we'll do whatever we can to (vehicle will be towed) we can pre-empt parking for basketball at the expense 01. No permit y help attorneys make the 02. Wrong zone a 12. Display of forged, altered. best case they can for their of academics." 03. Not within lines 0 lost or stolen parking The Parking Department's Web site is 04. Non-designated area a permit D client." OS. Restricted area T, 13. Parked in designated fire www.ku.edu/~parking. Precedents set by the court's 06. Wrong direction D lane or adjacent to a fire Anyone who wants to En Bane panel can be read at 07. Incorrect Vehicle hydrant • appeal a parking ticket has Registration 6ROUP V - FEE: $50.00 www.ku.edu/~parking/trafct.-"*"""* 10 days to do so. With 6R0UPII - FEE: $35.00 14. Excessive violator O (vehicle may be wheel locked (Assessed only if vehicle is forms now easily available or towed from campus) impounded by wheel lock or online, court officers have 08. Blocking drive, roadway oi towed) legally parked vehicles GROUP VI -FEE: $100.00 09. Restricting flow of traffic 15. Illegally parked in or 28 KANSAS ALUMNI 10. Unauthorized storage of blocking space, accessible vehicle aisle, or marked ADA compliant ramp designated GROUP III • FEE: $50.00 accessible for the PHOTOGRAPHS BY AARON DELESIE

"I have just enough time," he says at his early March appearance in Green Hall, "to come to traffic court on a cold winter's night." Prosecutor Katrina Hull, j'00, is not swayed when Hernandez tells the court that the fortuitous game-day parking spot had "saved another long country block for an old man like me," nor does she buy the argument that a lack of signage made it a legal parking space. "Did you see anything that indicated it was a parking spot?" she asks Hernandez sharply. "Yes or no?" Hernandez sits forward in the witness chair. His eyes widen. Answer yes or no? A deliberate pause creates a rare moment of courtroom tension that is very much real. Hull stands her ground. "Yes or no." "Yes," Hernandez finally replies. As the judges deliberate and participants linger outside the courtroom, Hernandez extends a hand to both Hull • In Green Hall's courtroom (above), judges (left to right) Michael Kinder, Suzy Penny and Eric and his defense attorney, Heath Hawk. "I Aufdengarten consider arguments made by defense attorney Brandon Kane as prosecutor Patrick commend both of you for putting a lot Broxterman makes notes. Defense attorney Heath Hawk (below) listens as his client, Ascension of work into this case." Hernandez, discusses evidence supporting their case. Hull smiles and drops the prosecutor's aura. Sort of. decided about a thousand "ex parte" "I think you have a very good argu- appeals—cases that rely only on written ment," she tells him. "We should leave it testimony—this school year. Those who at that." want a hearing before the Court of But as the appellant and prosecutor Parking Appeals are assigned a student continue chatting, the talk turns to bas- attorney and their case proceeds quickly. ketball—How about that Texas game!— "Sometimes people do make very and, naturally, parking. "I've had my car heartfelt and understandable appeals," towed before," Hull says gently. "I know Ireland says. "That's doesn't mean you it's frustrating." are going to get your ticket dismissed." When they return to the courtroom, the judges announce their verdict: 3-0 in favor of Hernandez. Not because of the scension Hernandez, a KU bas- alleged absence of signage or curb paint, ketball fan from Shawnee, left but because they don't believe the Jan. 25 game against Hernandez's car blocked the street, AArizona with a heavy heart. His which was the reason cited for calling beloved Jayhawks had lost. "And then I the tow truck. walked to where my car was supposed "I wanted to see what this traffic court to be, and my day got worse." was all about," the victor says as he Hernandez's car was ticketed for ille- that he was absolutely certain no signs heads back out into the cold winter's gal parking and towed for blocking a or curb paint prevented him from park- night. "I didn't have a good feeling when side street north of Sunnyside Avenue. ing there, and the 65-year-old retiree is my car was towed, but at least now I Although he had never before parked on willing to trek in from Kansas City to know I was in the right." that street, Hernandez tells the judges stand up for himself. Case closed. Court is adjourned.-^""*

ISSUE 2, 2003 29 LIFEMAPPERTRACKS AND PREDICTS EARTH'S NATURAL HISTORY

here's a cavelike office Beach not only invites you along for the near the entrance to adventure, he asks that you chart the Dyche Hall's north course. Many courses. Go. Find life. Map wing. Quick right, sharp life. Predict life. left, down a long ramp; The power awaits only your curiosity. at the end of the sloped And your desktop computer. hall, a heavy door opens onto a jury-rigged office that throbs with computers. This is Jim Beach's temporary quarters, and as long as the t's called Lifemapper, and its evolu- densely stacked racks of electronic tionary roots trace to a very differ- wizardry whir along, the wired grotto ent search for life. SETI, the Search suits him fine. for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, in Beach, the Natural History 1999 launched fantastic software that Museum's assistant director for infor- allowed volunteer collaborators to matics, does not need a window view donate time on their personal comput- to see world. From his electrified den, ers. With Internet links to many thou- he crosses the globe and back again in sands of computers that would other- slivers of seconds. Here he charts elec- wise sit idle, SETI@Home crunched tronic maps that might be to biology through reams of data snared from inter- what pen-and-ink velum drawings stellar obscurity by radio telescopes. were to continental explorations. Now similar technology is employed These are voyages of discovery, each on a search for life that is very much ter- and every one, and they happen by restrial. And in too many cases, nearly as the thousands, at his command. obscure as SETI's elusive aliens. They find life, they map life, and they "What we're trying to do is create soft- ponder where life might go next. ware tools to automate collection data, He does the kind of work that makes and more importantly, make those data- hard-to-impress PhD's say "cool" a lot. bases accessible over the Internet," And here's the coolest part of all: Jim Beach says. "Anybody in the world can BY CHRIS LAZZARI N O Facts

query multiple museums at the same time, with a single Web interface." That Web interface is Lifemapper.org, based at KU's Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center. Lifemapper is the result of a variety of "informatics" projects that, over the past five years, have automated museum collection management tasks that had been man- ually compiled since the advent of natural- history sciences hundreds of years ago. As worldwide collections come online- thanks in large part to the inexpensive software tools developed at KU with support from the National Science Foundation-their specimens sud- denly return, in a way, to the cycle of life. What had been stashed away and forgotten is now part of the domain of modern biological research. "Researchers had to literally travel to a museum to see what they had in their collection, go through cabinet after cabinet," Beach says. To study a species commonly found in Douglas County, Beach says by example, a researcher might have to travel to museums throughout Kansas and the Midwest. Which is difficult enough. Expand that to a national or worldwide scale and the logistics become overwhelming, expensive and perhaps impossible. For his ongoing research on Mexico's red jungle fowl, for instance, Associate Professor A. Townsend Peterson, curator of ornithology, spent about a year researching 750 specimen records in 53 museums. Had those museum records been online at the time, Lifemapper might have finished the job than a minute." But so far we've only taken a test drive. To really get the engine screaming, ask Lifemapper to race ahead in time. It will comply. Not only can it tell you where life has been, it can also tell you where to look next.

nformatics" is an emerging discipline that seeks new ways to man- age and use information within a base science. At its heart, Beach saysI, informatics is "interdisciplinary." It reaches out. It does not respect artifi- cial barriers. It is a boon to all of the sciences and engineering, and simply requires that computer scientists and software engineers also become experts in another field—or, in Beach's case, the • The brains behind Lifemapper at the Natural History Museum's Biodiversity Research Center other way around. (from left): Ricardo Scachetti Pereira.Aimee Stewart, Scott Downie, GregVorontsov and Jim If the nascent field of informatics Beach. Not pictured is software expert David Vieglais, credited by Beach as the architect of advanced the cause no further—which is Lifemapper's "Species Analyst" program. an impossibility—it will have been more than justified. In a sense, it has forced faster than Peterson could have counted Latin America. With more NSF funding, long overdue introspection on the sci- pocket change for a vending-machine Beach expects that number to quickly ences, which have been locked in blind soda. double or triple. dashes to collect and gather. With the When asked to map a species distri- Professor Ed Wiley, senior curator of power of supercomputing, it's time to bution, Lifemapper quickly returns with fishes, recalls a project from the 1970s, start considering the information itself. a freshly-created global chart that when "fish people decided they needed "It's unfathomable, really, to think of sparkles with bright dots, representing an atlas of North American fish distribu- the investment that's been made in a col- sites where the species in question has tions." That meant scientists had to sign lection that's a hundred years old, the been found. All the user has to do to up to catalog individual launch such a query is type in the com- species, then trek around to mon or scientific name and hit the "find" museums, find records, plot button. records on maps, make master Global research has never been more maps ... accessible. "It was a big deal," Wiley "Lifemapper is sort of an encyclope- says. "A really big deal." dia of life, with a strong emphasis on And now? geographic distribution," Beach says. "So "I can hit a button on my the first thing we do with Lifemapper is computer," Wiley says, "and go and knock on the door of all these have all those records in less databases and say, 'What do you have of this species?' Lifemapper is attempting to take the data that has been buried in cabinets and make them visually inter- Make maps-and history esting. ... That's its heart and soul." Lifemapper currently accesses about a o test Lifemapper's species mapping skills or to sign your computer up to help hundred collections. Most are in North TEpredict species distributions, visit Lifemapper.org. America, but some are from Africa and

32 KANSAS ALUMNI investment by all of the collectors and and related databases—such as HerpNet Lifemapper dispatches the job log, students and explorers that have con- and FishNet—can do. which your computer works on from the tributed to that," Beach says. "The cost of "We might have asked these ques- peace of your warm home or quiet getting to these places, the human costs, tions before," she says, "but it was office. When it's done, it sends the infor- the costs of bringing the specimens back impossible to find the answer. Now a mation back to Lawrence, and one and getting them prepared and skinned schoolchild can sit down at her com- species has just been cataloged, from the and dissected and dried out, and then puter and do a prediction: If the climate past all the way through to the future. storing them and protecting them ... I'd changes by one degree, where would And when one museum adds one like to see a number of how much it this frog occur where it doesn't now?" new specimen to that species, the whole would cost. I think it would be blow Or, where might this frog become process starts again. people away." extinct? At a perilous time of global "This," Ed Wiley says, "is pretty cool That investment, to Beach's way of warming and other environmental dis- stuff." thinking, is "a gold mine of information ruptions, scientists are eager for clues to And it gets even cooler. Or one day that is still relevant to modern-day sci- what might happen next. "Amphibians will. Lifemapper is already, in a sense, ence and social issues, about under- are our canary in the coal mine," she old news for the informatics experts. standing species diversity and conserva- says. "Frogs in the pond are the first to What Beach calls his "Holy Grail" is tion." pick up all the anomalies that are clearly "SEEK" (Science Environment for To harness the true power of related to environmental conditions. Ecological Knowledge), a $12 million, Lifemapper, KU researchers reached out They become the poster children of envi- NSF-funded project that includes KU, to the San Diego Supercomputer Center ronmental change." the San Diego Supercomputer Center and asked for—and received—the source Ed Wiley, the fishes curator, cites the and two ecological research institutions. code for intelligent software called GARP invasion of North American smallmouth "The basic idea," Beach says, "is to let (Genetic Algorithm for Rule-set bass into Japan. To fight the problem, he a scientist or a student walk up to any Production). Armed with the original can study native habitats and distribu- Web browser and type in a question like codes for a program powerful and cre- tion, including stream profiles, annual this: 'I want to know the relationship ative enough to analyze relationships precipitation and temperature, then between biological diversity and climate.' between species distribution and global apply to them to Japan. "When you Or, 'I want to know the relationship environmental variables, KU researchers apply the rules set to Japan," he says, between biological diversity and the U.S. created a desktop version that could be "GARP will light up the landscape in highway system.' What this architecture utilized by Lifemapper. Japan where that smallmouth bass can do is go out and find any existing Once Lifemapper finds where a should be found. It gives you a threat data that are relevant to that question." species has been, GARP kicks in and prediction, how far the smallmouth bass The prediction: "It's a five-year proj- asks, What are the common environ- might spread if given the chance." ect. I think think we'll be lucky mental features at these places? Once Running these predictive if we get there in five years." that question is answered, GARP crashes models might look easy, but it Our guess: Five years through its massive, worldwide tables to requires loads of computing will seem like a lifetime, find places in the world where similar power. When taken on the and they'll pass in conditions exist—in other words, where scale of global species predic- a sliver of a the species might next be found. tions, it is impossible for one second.-""'•* "That's a very interesting new way of institution's computers to even looking at museum data," Beach says. consider the task. That's where "GARP sort of fills in the gaps." "distributed computing"—your Professor Linda Trueb, senior curator desktop PC—picks up the heavy of herpetology and the principal investi- lifting. gator on a $2.5 million NSF-funded Lifemapper's computers reach out grant to bring 36 herpetological collec- to all of its online collections and tions online, cautions that while such pull down information for a given computerized information is vastly supe- species, then gather up a job log. rior to most other "facts" that can be When your Screensaver is running gleaned from the Internet, each search and your computer is not other- and prediction must still be thoroughly wise occupied, it calls vetted before it can be firmly accepted home to Lifemapper in as verified science. Still, she's equally Lawrence and says, excited about how much Lifemapper "Send me work." Association

Highest accolades Brown in 1979 was hired as senior vice president of Grumman Corporation, overseeing the Leaders in service to receive firm's worldwide regional offices. He has also honors at Commencement weekend served as director of Prudential Securities' Washington Public Finance office and was a banker for Greenwich Partners, a Connecticut our individuals who have excelled in public finance firm. public service, special education, research Throughout his career, Brown has dedicated and teaching in economics, and varied himself to community service. He is a trustee for Fphilanthropic causes will receive the widely acclaimed Boys and Girls Choir of Distinguished Service Citations May 16 at the All- Harlem, as well as the Joint Center for Political University Supper, during the University's and Economic Studies. Brown has received the Commencement Weekend celebration. The DSC, Adam Clayton Powell Award from the which recognizes outstanding professional and Congressional Black Caucus and the Metro The DSC, which community service, is the highest honor given by Denver Man of the Year award, and the George the University and the Alumni Association. Since Brown Urban Journalism Scholarship was estab- since 1941 has 1941, it has been presented to men and women lished in 1976 at the University's School of recognized whose lives and careers have helped benefit Journalism. A veteran of World War II, he was a humanity. member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen fighter outstanding This year's three alumni recipients are George pilots. professional and L. Brown, j'50, Arlington, Va.; Liliana Mayo, g'89, For Adele Hall, civic service, is PhD'96, La Punta-Callao, Peru; Vernon L. Smith, helping those in need g'52, Arlington, Va. The fourth recipient, Adele has long been a way of the highest Hall, of Mission Hills, a 1953 graduate of the life. She has spent honor given by University of Nebraska, will also be designated decades involved in an honorary KU alumna. The four have been philanthropic efforts the University invited to march in the Commencement proces- that have made her and the Alumni sion May 18 and be recognized during the cere- family name synony- monies. mous with charity. Association. George Brown After being named began working as a the first female presi- journalist with the dent of the Heart of America United Way in Denver Post, but he Kansas City, Hall went on to found the Women's soon became a public Public Service Network to provide a forum for servant. Elected to the social issues. Colorado House of Her dedication to public service earned her Representatives in the title Kansas City Philanthropist of the Year in 1955, he later 1993, and she has received an Image Award from completed five consec- the Urban League and the Junior League utive terms in the Volunteer of the Year Award. Colorado State Senate, Guided by an enduring interest in children's where he was the first African-American to serve welfare, Hall currently serves as a board member in that body. As former director of the Denver for the American Academy of Pediatrics Housing Authority, Brown developed senior citi- Partnership for Children and Children's Mercy zen health programs, youth recreation activities Hospital; she is also an advisory board member and oversaw the construction of family housing for De La Salle School and Genesis School. Hall developments and community centers. displays her commitment to higher learning

34 KANSAS ALUMNI through membership on the KU School of Nursing Advisory Board and as a member of both the Alumni Association's Jayhawks for Higher Education and KU Endowment Association's Chancellors Club. Thousands of Peruvian families struggling with autism have benefited from the life's work of Liliana Mayo, the founder and ^B driving force ..•-I behind the tit • M Centro Ann WL A Sullivan del Peru, a school for children with autism in Lima. After receiving her master's and doctoral degrees from KU, Mayo returned to her Celebrate good times home country, where she has led a local movement to involve the families of 'Jayhawk Fever' theme helps draw record crowd autistic children in the educational to Rock Chalk Ball 2003 process. Mayo now teaches at the University Cayetano Heredia and the Catholic Pontificate University in Lima, and has been an honorary associate professor in KU's department of human development and family life since 1996. For her dedication to community health issues, Mayo has received the Peruvian Professional Excellence award, the Cuban Medal of Honor and the Queen Sofia of Spain International award. Vernon Smith, long hailed as the father of experimental economics, won the coveted Nobel Prize in his discipline in 2002. After • Leading the Kansas City alumni volunteers for Rock Chalk Ball 2003 were Dennis, c'81, l'84, receiving his master's from KU in 1952, and Cindy Campbell Reynolds, j'82, and Jenny Lynch Housley, c'93, and her husband, Casey, c'92, he went on to earn his doctorate from l'96. More than 1,200 alumni and friends attended the annual event, a Kansas City tradition since Harvard University. He recently accepted 1996. a one-year appointment as Rasmuson continued on page 37

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• Among the revelers at the Overland Park Convention Center & Sheraton Hotel were the Alumni Association's Chris Lazzarino, j'86, (above, left) who reunited with Flying Jayhawks travelers Gloria McShann Blue, h'60, and her husband, Lester. Local retro sensation Disco Dick set the '70s mood for the evening, tempting decorations co-chair Laurie Dolleck Morrissey, j'93, and her husband, Rob, b'92, to take to the dance floor. Among the University leaders at the celebration were (below, left to right) Donald and Karen Hagen, KU Chancellor Robert and Leah Hemenway, and Sherry and Al Bohl. Don Hagen is executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center, and Al Bohl is KU athletics director.

36 KANSAS ALUMNI continued from page 35 professor of economics at the University Alaska in Anchorage. He also is a professor of law and economics at «*^^ Kansas Alumni Association George Mason University, where he is a research scholar in the Interdisciplinary The Alumni Association was established in 1883 for the purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship, com- Center for Economic Science and a fel- mitment and communication among graduates, former and current students, parents, faculty, staff and all low of the Mercatus Center. His work other friends ofThe University of Kansas. Its members hereby unite into an Association to achieve unity of purpose and action to serve the best interests ofThe University and its constituencies.The Association is has been funded in part by the Koch organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. Foundation of Wichita. For his innovative research, Smith Board of Directors Mary Kay Paige McPhee, ALUMNI CENTER was elected to membership in the d'49, Kansas City, Missouri Bryan Greve National Academy of Sciences, and he is JohnW. Mize, c'72, Salina Director of AAC and LnnIK Jayhawk Society Membership a distinguished fellow of the American Robert L. Driscoll, c'6l, l'64, Economic Association and a Ford DIRECTORS TO JULY 2005 MikeWellman Kansas City, Missouri Nancy Borel Ellis, d 63, Director of Internet Services Foundation fellow. Long dedicated to EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIR Pinehurst, North Carolina and Special Projects the success of future economists, Smith Sydnie Bowling earlier in his career taught at the Linda Duston Warren, Kampschroeder, c'65, FINANCE University of Arizona, Purdue University c'66, m'70, Hanover Naperville, Illinois Dwight Parman Craig B. Swenson, e'59, Sr VP for Finance and Human and Brown. He serves on the board of EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Lee's Summit, Missouri Resources & Treasurer editors for the American Economic Jim Adam, e'56. Review, Science and The Journal of Risk Overland Park DIRECTORS TO JULY 2006 COMMUNICATIONS and Uncertainty.-^•"* Tim S. Dibble, d 74, Jill Sadowsky Docking, Chris Lazzarino Issaquah, Washington c'78, g'84, Wichita Managing Editor, Robert L. Driscoll, c'6l, l'64, Marvin R. Motley, Kansas Alumni Magazine Kansas City, Missouri c'77,1'8O, g'8l, Leawood Jennifer Sanner Reid Holbrook, c'64, 1*66. David B. Wescoe, c'76, Sr VP for Communications Judy Ruedlinger Award Overland Park Mequon, Wisconsin and Editor, Kansas Alumni Janet Martin McKinney, c'74, Magazine Port Ludlow, Washington DIRECTORS TO JULY 2007 Susan Younger Deloris Strickland Pinkard, Con Keating, c'63, Lincoln, Art Director g'80, EdD'95, Kansas City Nebraska Carol Swanson Ritchie, Joe Morris, b'61, Leawood MEMBERSHIP d>54,Wichita Allyn Risley, e'72, Sheila M. Immel Linda Duston Warren, Bartlesville, Oklahoma Sr VP for Membership c'66, m'70, Hanover Jennifer Mueller HONORARY MEMBERS Director of Student VICE CHAIRS Gene A. Budig, EdD, Programs Larry J. Borden, b'62, g'67, Princeton, New Jersey Colorado Springs, Colorado E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., MEMBERSHIP SERVICES Tim S. Dibble, d'74, PhD, San Antonio, Texas Carolyn Barnes Issaquah, Washington Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Director Kansas Honors John P. Hanna, c'65, d'66, g'67, Nashville, Tennessee Program PhD73, St. Petersburg,Florida Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Kirk Cerny Delano E. Lewis, c'60, Mesilla, Lawrence Sr VP for Membership New Mexico W. Clarke Wescoe, MD, Services Mission Kelly Kidwell • Three members of the Student Alumni DIRECTORS TO JULY 2003 Asst. Director of Chapter and Constituent Programs Association are winners of the 2003 Judy Sidney Ashton Garrett, Administrative Staff Donna Neuner Ruedlinger Award for outstanding leader- c'68, d'70, Lawrence Deloris Strickland Pinkard, Director of Membership ship. They are SAA past president Marcie ADMINISTRATION Services g'80, EdD'95, Kansas City Rohleder, Plainville junior; current presi- Lora Farmer Stoppel David R. Rankin, p'63. Executive Assistant RECORDS dent Sara Gillispie, Overland Park junior; Phillipsburg Fred B.Williams Bill Green and Melissa Nguyen, Aurora, III., senior. President and CEO Sr VP for Information DIRECTORS TO JULY 2004 The annual award honors SAA founder A. Drue Jennings, d'68,172, Services and former Association staff member Leawood Nancy Peine Vice President for Records Judy Ruedlinger.

ISSUE 2, 2003 37 33 11 11 il I Class Notes BY KAREN GOODELL

1920s 1955 Village, and he's a control manager with Richard Becker, 1'27, has retired from Joe Engle, e'55, does aerospace con- American Airlines. practicing law in Coffeyville and moved sulting in Colorado Springs, where he to Seattle. and Mary Lawrence Engle, f 56, make I960 their home. Janet Cameron Laing, d'60, retired 1930s Terry Fiske, c'55, l'6O, was honored last year from a career in human Lucile Bluford, c'32, was honored last year by the Colorado Association of resources. She continues to make her last year as the Kansas Citian of the Year Partners in Education as the state's top home in Phoenix. by the Chamber of Commerce. She's public-school volunteer. He's a retired publisher of the Call, a Kansas City attorney in Castle Rock. 1961 newspaper. Edward Setzler, c'55, was included in Bruce Barrett, c'61, chairs the Eleanor Grandstaff, c 31, g 33, m'37, a recent edition of Best Lawyers in American Physical Society's Committe continues to make her home in America. He lives in Kansas City, where on International Scientific Affairs. He's a Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. he works in the tax and estate planning professor at the University of Arizona, Fanny FoxYarmo, b'31, recently was practice group of Husch & Eppenberger. and he lives in Tucson. included in the 23rd edition of Who's Hugh Lybarger, e'61, makes his home Who of American Women. She lives in 1958 in Olathe. He works for Goodyear Tire Kansas City. Warren Schmidt, c'58, recently com- and Rubber. pleted a trip through Nebraska, Kansas 1940s and Colorado in his 35-foot motor 1962 Jean Dooley Curry, c 41, a retired home. He lives in Omaha, Neb., where Michael Carvan, e'62, works as a proj- teacher, lives in Pine Bluff, Ark. he is retired as an actuary from the ect engineer for HNTB Companies in Claudine Scott Lingelbach, b 44, Woodmen of the World Insurance Kansas City. was honored last year by the Kansas Company. City Kansas Community College's 1963 International Council Center. She lives 1959 Sandra Plaskett Gifford, d'63, makes in Lawrence. Derele Knepper, '59, is commander of her home in San Francisco, where she Warren Snyder, e'43, was honored the Clay Center American Legion Post. works for Brobeck. last fall by the American Society of Nancy Vogel, d'63, c'63, g'65, PhD71, Mechanical Engineers. He's a prof- MARRIED is a professor emerita of English at Fort essor emeritus at Milwaukee School Doyle Bontrager, b'59, and Ann Hays State University. She lives in of Engineering, and he lives in Holmes, c'63, Oct. 5. They live in Prairie Lawrence. Oklahoma City.

1952 Margaret "Peggy" Olson Harrison, d'52, is CEO/CFO of Pride Electric in Then Again Denver. Howard Kisling, b'52, lives in Highlands Ranch, Colo., where he's \ A #hen Ike and Tina Turner retired from Ohio Casualty Insurance. V V brought their road show to Allen Field House in 1954 September 1972, more than Richard, a'54, and Kathy Denney Peters, '57, celebrated their 50th 6,000 fans shimmied along anniversary last December. They live in with the Ike-ettes. Lawrence.

38 KANSAS ALUMNI 1964 Kathlyn Reed, c'64, received the 2002 Roster of Merit Award last fall from the Texas Occupational Therapy Association. She lives in Houston. 1965 Caryl Wilen Herman, n'65, lives in Overland Park, where she's a retired school nurse. Peter Jenkins, e'65, recently was appointed to the board of Emission Controls Corp. He lives in West Point, N.Y. Dennis Klein, d'65, g'67, was writer- in-residence last summer at the Julia and David White Artists' Colony in A WELCOME CHOICE Costa Rica. He's a professor of Spanish at the University of South Dakota- The area's best choice in retirement living Vermillion. Helen Jorgenson Sutherland, d'65, is Brandon Woods. g'68, is retired in Worthington, Ohio. James Welsh, g'65, PhD'97, lives in Within our warm and inviting community you'll find first-class amenities Salisbury, Md., where he's an associate such as our Woodlands Restaurant and indoor swimming pool with fitness professor at Salisbury University. center, along with the convenience of an attentive staff who takes care of Larry Wolgast, g'65, EdD'69, directs the housekeeping and home maintenance. Special privileges such as a social development and is a corporate vice president at the Capper Foundation in membership at the Alvamar Country Club and access to on-site health care Topeka. ensure Brandon Woods offers you even greater value.

1966 For the best of retirement living in our hometown, call Jan today at Robert Gernon, b'66, recently was (785) 838-8000 to find out more. appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court. He lives in Lawrence. Christopher Pinet, c'66, is editor in chief of the French Review at Montana State University in Bozeman. Mike Robe, j'66, g'68, owns Mike Robe Productions in Studio City, Calif. RRANDON WOODS He wrote and directed The Junction Boys, 1501 Inverness Drive • Lawrence, Kansas 66047 a movie that aired recently on ESPN. (785) 838-8000 • (800) 419-0254

1967 Managed by 4J Life Care Services LLC David Hall, c'67, is senior vice president of Hitchcock Automotive Resources. He lives in San Dimas, Calif. Ronald Girotto, g'68, recently became included in a recent edition of Best Peter Shepard, c'67, makes his home president and CEO of the Methodist Lawyers in America. He practices with in Reston, Va., and is CEO of Shepard Health Care System. He lives in Husch & Eppenberger in Kansas City. Group Inc. Houston. Norman Scheffner, e'68, g'69, Tom Mai, b'68, is vice president of retired in December as senior research 1968 sales and marketing at Mid-America hydraulic engineer at the U.S. Army Charles Bishop Jr., g'68, g'89, is a pro- Merchandising. He lives in Overland Corps of Engineers' Coastal and fessor of history at Johnson County Park. Hydraulics Laboratory in Vicksburg, Community College in Overland Park. Christopher Redmond, c'68,171, was Miss.

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Cynthia Vertin Lee, f71, owns Art Restoration in Atchison. Ramon Powers, PhD71, retired recently as executive director of the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka.

1972 Douglas Crotty, j 72, practices law with Crotty Law Office in Garden City. Michael Pandzik, g'72, is president and CEO of National Cable Television Cooperative in Lenexa.

1973 Mark Ashcraft, g'73, PhD75, chairs the psychology department at Cleveland State University in Cleveland. Deborah Barr, f 73, is a self-employed artist in Wilmington, Del. Randall Bauer, a'73, lives in Dallas, where he's a principal at MPI Architects & Engineers. Alan Braun, c'73, m'76, practices medicine at Mercy Clinics. He lives in Norwalk, Iowa. Robert Chudy, g73, does advising in the international affairs office at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He lives in Tolland. Sally Corlis Spooner, d'68, teaches at Student Housing Department. Patti Bennett Glass, s 73, s 74, is a Eastside Elementary School in Cody, James Hower, b'70, works for senior vice president and managing Wyo. Northrop Grumman. He lives in St. director at UMB Bank in Kansas City. Phillip Stratemeier, c'68, m'72, prac- Joseph, Mo. She lives in Stilwell. tices medicine with the Oklahoma Peter Kovac, j'70, is president and Lewis Heaven Jr., c'73,177, recently Radiology Group in Oklahoma City. CEO of NKH&W in Kansas City. He joined the Overland Park law firm of lives in Parkville, Mo. Lathrop & Gage. 1969 John Lieurance, e'70, works as pro- Jane Sutton Metcalf, n'73, is a nurse Walter Broadnax, g'69, is president gram manager for Lockheed Martin. He practitioner at Cox Hospital in Monett, of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. lives in West Sussex, England. Mo. She lives in Springfield. Bruce Parker, b'69, g'71, recently was Raylene Hinz Penner, d'70, g'72, is Steven Perkins, b'73, g75, retired appointed to the board of AirNet president of the Kansas Independent last year as CEO of the Wichita Clinic. Systems. He lives in Coral Gables, Fla. Colleges Association in Topeka. He and his wife, Pamela, live in Charles Peffer, b'69, retired recently Cuchara, Colo. after a 32-year career with KPMG 1971 Deborah Herd VanSaun, d 73, g'92, is International. He lives in Fairway. Lynn Bretz, c'71, directs university assistant city manager of Lawrence. Nancy Hurley Smith, c 69, g'75, relations at KU. She lives in Lawrence. Ronald Worth, a'73, makes his home recently became editor of Farm Collector Dee Burrows Clifford, c'71, is director in Olney, Md. He's CEO of SMPS in magazine in Topeka. She lives in of information technology at North Washington, D.C. Lawrence. Kansas City Hospital. She lives in Kansas City. BORN TO: 1970 Linda Hammer-Brown, d'71, teaches Douglas Westerhaus, b73,176, and Paula Connett Crouse, d'70, lives in for the Madera County Office of Victoria, son, David Burton, Sept. 26 in Lawrence, where she works in KU's Education. She lives in Fresno, Calif. Overland Park.

40 KANSAS ALUMNI 1974 Group in Independence, Mo. He lives in Grand Forks, where she's interim dean Kay Crider, c'74, m'77, practices medi- Overland Park. of law at the University of North Dakota. cine with Emergency Physicians of Phillip McElhaney, b'74, is senior vice Topeka. She lives in Lecompton. president of Gold Bank. He lives in 1975 Mary Ann Genova Diorio, g 74, Prairie Village. Sven Alstrom, c'75, works at PhD'77, owns Life Coaching Consultants Perry Perkins, g'74, EdD'81, lives in Ecological Architecture in Lawrence. in Millville, NJ. Arkansas City, where he's superintend- Janie Brown Crane, c'75, directs the Daryl Hartter, d'74, works as a tech- ent of schools. Kauai Dance Theatre in Kalaheo, Hawaii. nical leader in immunology at Battelle Bruce Re, c'74, is CEO of Wilson William Drees, e'75, is an associate Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Chapman Re in Leawood. He lives in with Shafer Kline & Warren in Shawnee Stephen Kunz, m'74, practices medi- Overland Park. Mission. He lives in Overland Park. cine with Western Missouri Radiology Candace Zierdt, c'74,1'77, lives in Ronald Johnson, c'75, works as an

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARI NO

From freezer to oven to magazine, and she said, 'You know, maybe there's a career in food, too.' big time, scones are a hit That was my first clue." After returning to Chicago, arilyn Pollack Naron arrives Naron left her job in trade publica- at Milton's cafe in downtown tions to attend culinary school. Lawrence and boldly bran- Fully trained as a chef, she found M dishes two scrumptious her niche in pastries and desserts. scones, warm out of the oven. Nearby She and her husband, attorney patrons notice the amazing aroma, as do Greg Naron, c'88, whom she met employees who are stationed behind a on her first day at KU, both tired of pastry case and don't seem thrilled that the Chicago grind and in the mid- the competition has crept so close. 1990s returned to Lawrence, where They shouldn't worry. Naron no she launched a dessert catering longer sells her scones in Lawrence's hip business and made pastries for cafes and restaurants; now carrying the Lawrence restaurants and cafes. brand name "Scone on the Range," While planning a much-needed • Marilyn Pollack Naron turned her home bakery Naron's scones have gone big time. vacation, she hit on the idea of into a national source for home-baked scones, thanks "What's unique about them is that freezing her scone dough and hav- in part to magazine mentor Sharon Bass: they go directly from the freezer to the ing Borders Cafe employees heat "Sometimes," Bass says,"y°u iust have to do these oven," she says. "There's no thawing, the scones to order in a cookie things while you are young and see if they'll work." and the house smells wonderful." oven. The idea worked perfectly, Naron, j'90, hails from a "big, food- and Naron found the single-product time on the business side of baking, loving family" in Chicago, and she came focus she had been searching for. which, for now, is a treat. to KU to study journalism. While creat- Now her company, Windowsill Foods, "After years of baking professionally, I ing a prototype magazine on Asian cui- uses a California baker to produce the loved it, but it was a chore," she says. "So sine for Associate Professor Sharon Bass' scones, under Naron's close supervision. I have the opportunity to do more bak- seminar, Naron inadvertently shaped an Packaged four to a box, the frozen ing for my family and friends than I used unexpected future for herself. scones are sold in better supermarkets to, which is great. "I was just obsessed with food maga- and gourmet shops in the Midwest and "Being a pastry chef has got to be one zines," Naron says. "[Bass] would find West Coast, with wider distribution and of the most gratifying jobs in the world, me with my X-acto blade and stacks of Internet sales (www.sconeontherange because everyone is happy to see you." food magazines around me, drawing the .com) imminent. Unless, of course, they hope to sell food illustrations, writing recipes for the Success means Naron spends more scones of their

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accountant and bursar at Teikyo Loretto Rodney May, e'76, g'77, manages solid Mark Buhler, c'77, is vice president of Heights University in Denver. mechanics at Sandia National Stephens Real Estate in Lawrence. Thomas Wiggans, p'75, is president Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M. John Siler, g'77, PhD'78, g'80, works and CEO of Connectics Corp. in Palo Priscilla Jordan Wood I iff, h 76, is a as an assistant principal at the Los Alto, Calif. He lives in Atherton. nurse anesthetist at Anesthesiology Angeles County Office of Education in Chartered. She lives in Lawrence. Hacienda Heights, Calif. He lives in 1976 Walnut. Robert Goodwillie, e'76, is president 1977 of Delich Roth & Goodwillie in Bonner Robert Brown, b'77, g'79, works as 1978 Springs. He lives in Lenexa. vice president of sales and marketing at James Beck, c'78, is vice president of Carol Frantz Lett, f'76, owns the Emerson Appliance Solutions in St. sales for Dean Realty in Kansas City. He Movement Center in Overland Park. Louis. lives in Shawnee.

Profile BY M ELI N DA SCHNYDER

Kansas boatbuilder wins to try building boats. worldwide reputation "We started from scratch, built two or three models and went to our first ecreational boating is a great national trade show," he says. "We way for families to spend time didn't sell a single boat." together. Apparently, so is But St. Clair and his partner did find R building boats. Pack St. Clair, their niche. "There were a lot of well- d'63, founded Cobalt Boats in 1968 and financed companies building boats in today serves as chief executive officer, the midrange, Ford and Chevrolet part while his son, Paxson, c'88, is president, of the boating business. We decided to and his wife, daughter and daughter-in- go after the high-end market." law sell the Cobalt line of clothing That insight created waves of enthusi- through boat dealers and the Internet. asm for St. Clair's boats. Typical cus- That's not to mention his extended tomers are upgrading after owning less- family: 600 associates at the Neodesha- expensive brands, and their new based company who will make about Cobalts are shipped all over the world 2,200 boats this year. from this landlocked town in southeast Cobalt boats are considered the most Kansas. prestigious and luxurious in their "There are two things that will keep respective classes. "It's like the difference me here for the rest of my life," St. Clair • Pack St. Clair caters to luxury boaters on between a Ford and a Mercedes," St. says. "The first is the people we have both coasts from his factory in the middle of Clair says, and consumers seem to here. We have two and three generations Kansas—which he says is an advantage, rather agree. For the past two years, Cobalt of families working for us. The second is than a drawback, for Cobalt Boats. boats ranked highest in customer satis- the distribution system. Being in the faction in the large runabout (boats middle of the country allows us to have ship of his local workers, in Kansas, is a measuring 20 to 29 feet) segment of J.D. an effective distribution process to our core competitive advantage," says Bill Power and Associates studies. two largest markets on the East and Smith, executive director of the KBHF Not bad for a boat builder who at West coasts." when St. Clair was inducted. "Many first knew nothing about building boats. Throughout his career, St. Clair has would be swayed to move, perhaps to a After four years at his family's lumber been active in the boating industry and coast or nearer a big city. Pack sees his business, he wanted to try something Kansas business organizations; in 2002 current location as ideal for the quality new; he remembered enjoying family he was inducted into the Kansas production of his boats, for his workers, boating trips on Grand Lake in Business Hall of Fame. his family and their families."^•^ Oklahoma, so in 1968 St. Clair decided "He believes the quality workman- -Schnyder is a free-lance writer in Wichita.

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI 1979 Patricia Voider Adams, e 79, g'93, is a senior project manager for Harris Construction in Lawrence. She lives in Topeka. Dale Bell, 179, g'80, participated last your memories year in the Leadership Kansas program. He's senior vice president and chief financial officer of The Farm, a behav- ioral health and child welfare agency in Lawrence. Kathryn Potter Crask, d 79, f 79, performs with the Quintessence Piano Quintet and teaches in Yorba Linda, Calif. Sarah Toevs Sullivan, j 79,1'84, is a (oma Qracebt partner in the Overland Park law firm $99 of Shook Hardy & Bacon. She lives in Lenexa.

1980 Paul Wilbur, b'80, g'82, is president and CEO of ASC Inc. in Southgate, Mich. 1M He lives in Bloomfield Hills. yhall 1981 Ted Otto, b'81, works for Scientific See more and order at 303-888-3551 Metal Finishing in Santa Clara, Calif. He lives in San Ramon. www.ivyhallstyle.com Mark Stallard, c'81, wrote Tales from the Jayhawks' Hardwood, which was published last year. He lives in Elizabeth Nacrelli, July 5 in Kansas City. Houston, where he's finance director of Overland Park. They both work for Hallmark Cards, Waste Management. where he's a senior retail designer and BORN TO: she's a regional account executive. 1988 Clifton Wilson, j'81, and Mary Ellen, Malinda Bryan-Smith, d 88, g'94, son, Troy Gabriel, June 5 in Oak Park, 1983 works as a consultant in the Small 111., where he joins two brothers, Jacob, Catherine Powers, m'83, works for Business Development Center at 12, and Michael, 7. Clifton is general the Anesthesiology Society of Kansas Johnson County Community College in sales manager for WTMX radio in City. She lives in Leawood. Overland Park. Chicago. Michael Frakes, c'88, is a flight nurse 1984 with Hartford Hospital Life Star. He lives 1982 Gerald Dennon, c'84, a major in the in Rocky Hill, Conn. Kenneth Lickteig, b'82, is senior vice U.S. Air Force, lives in Waikiki, Hawaii. president of the Bank of Commerce in 1989 Chanute. 1985 Allan Fountanilla, e'89, manages proj- Carol Marinovich, g'82, serves as Mark Keeny, c'85, is president of ects for Rummel, Klepper & Kahl in mayor of Kansas City, Kan. Citizens Bank in Kingman. Baltimore, Md. He lives in Monrovia. Joseph Schlageck, m'82, practices Kerry Gideon Munsey, b'85, lives in Scott Rosenthal, c'89, and his wife, medicine with West Wichita Family Topeka, where she's executive vice presi- Melissa, live in San Antonio with their Physicians. He lives in Manhattan. dent of Silver Lake Bank. daughter, Skylar, 1. Scott is a catastrophe adjuster for Young Adjustment. MARRIED 1987 Ravi Shanker, PhD'89, received a Brian Palmer, f 82, and Mary David Boersma, b'87, lives in 2002 Achievement Award from Pfizer

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To qualify, borrowers must be in repayment or in the grace period with a combined total of at least $7,500 in qualified student loan debt, and less than 90 days delinquent. Global Research and Development. He is and chief finance officer of Elecsys Corp. brothers, Jackson, 4, and Evan, 2. Robert the first person in the company's depart- in Shawnee Mission. is a manufacturer representative for ment of pharmaceutical research and Dennis Hedge, p'91, lives in Sioux Mullen & Associates. development to have received the award Falls, where he's a professor of pharma- Thomas Osowski, s'91, and Jane, son, twice. Ravi lives in Groton, Conn. cy at South Dakota State University. Garrett Mark, Sept. 19 in Brookings, Matthew Taylor, j'91, is assistant vice S.D., where he joins a sister, Hannah, 6, 1990 president and marketing officer at and a brother, Gavin, 2. Tom studies for Jack Del Rio, c'90, is head coach of Denison State Bank in Holton. a doctorate in sociology at South Dakota the Jacksonville Jaguars in the National State University. Football League. MARRIED Jeffrey Bartlett, e'91, and Sarah 1992 MARRIED Morrisett, July 20 in Houston, where Romona Ewing, c'92, is associate Scott Eudaly, e 90, and Karen Willey, he's a director at Enron North America. director of adult admission at the c'98, Nov. 23 in Lawrence. He's an engi- International Academy of Design neer with Custom Mobile Equipment in BORN TO: Technology in Chicago. Baldwin, where they live. She's studying Jill Schwarz Berkley, s 91, s 93, and Larry Lawson, m'92, works as a for a doctorate in geography at KU. Travis, c'94, e'94, son, Ethan Thomas, pathologist at Litton Laboratories in Nov. 6 in Lawrence, where he joins a Wichita. 1991 brother, Kyle, 6. Dana Barton, p'91, owns Dana's Rx Robert, b'91, and Theresa Rudy BORN TO: Shoppe in Sedan, where she lives. Mullen, '94, daughter, Jenna, Oct. 28 in Matthew Otto, b'92, and Pam Todd Daniels, b'91, is vice president Shawnee Mission, where she joins two Lambeck, daughter, Katherine Olivia,

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46 KANSAS ALUMNI PhD'95, and P.J., son, Kyle Peter Kansas City, where Aaron is an attorney and Sarah, 1. Chad works for SBC Hoffman, July 30 in San Antonio. for the U.S. Department of Labor. Communications, and Jennifer is a staff Carolyn is a sports psychologist with the Richard, c'94, m'98, and Kelly Brown pharmacist at NCS Healthcare. Olympic Club. Ruiz, d'94, daughter, Gabriela Maria, Mark, e'94, and Jessica Jones Johnson, July 11 in Shawnee. Richard practices MARRIED j'93, son, Jett Michael, Oct. 16 in medicine at the Overland Park Medical Andrea Brener, f 95, to Chad Brose, Wichita, where Mark is vice president of Center. Oct. 19 in Chattanooga, Tenn. They live E.W.Johnson Construction and Jessica in St. Paul, Minn., where she's senior directs marketing services for the city of 1995 benefits representative and a stock plan Wichita. Chad, j'95, and Jennifer Wagerle analyst for Lawson Software. Aaron Rittmaster, c'94, and Miriam, Howard, p'96, make their home in Jonathan Waynick, a'95, and daughter, Mikaela Rachel, Oct. 7 in Wichita with their children, Luke, 3, Katherine Brune, a'99, Sept. 21. They

Profile BY STEVEN

Marketer puts his own what really happened is far more excit- ing than that old stuff. It's an amazing brand on Western novels period." otton Smith's heroes have Critics praise Smith's historical accu- always been cowboys. racy and psychological realism. Yet fans Growing up in Johnson of a genre known for action want to be CCounty, Smith was enthralled entertained. Smith is happy to oblige. by the adventures of singing cowboys "My number one goal for the reader such as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and is enjoyment," he says. "It's escape. It's Hopalong Cassidy. He learned horse- the same reason you read Robert manship at Boy Scout camp, even mas- Ludlum or Tom Clancy. tering some of the flashy riding skills of "At the same time, if I can give a his movie idols. sense of what life was really like, then As he built a successful career in they're in it and they learn something. strategic marketing-first at his own firm, I think that's very important." then as vice president of Corporate This year publisher Simon & Communications Inc.—Smith, j'62, Schuster signed Smith to develop a became a more serious student of serial character, Irish Texas Ranger Time Western history. In the great cattle Carlow. The three-book deal could lead • Marketer Cotton Smith has parlayed a fasci- drives of the post-Civil War era he saw to a genre writer's dream: a loyal follow- nation with Western history into a second action and drama that rivaled dime ing of fans who snap up each new career writing novels.The first installment of novel Westerns and Hollywood movies. installment in a hero's continuing his Time Carlow series, Blood Stone, debuts He wrote a novel set during the period, adventures. in November. Dark Trail to Dodge, published in 1998. He will also continue to write for Since then Smith has published four Dorcester, publisher of his first five things at once." more books: Pray For Texas, Behold a Red novels. With commitments to write two Indeed, as he marvels at his windfall Horse, Brothers oj the Gun and Spirit books a year, Smith will spend less time second career as the creator of cowboy Rider. Though set during the "classic at his firm's Corporate Woods office, heroes, he savors a particularly delicious era" of Western fiction, they don't follow where mockups of his book covers share irony. the classic formula: The focus is on his- space with a marketing position map. "I have spent my professional life tory, not Hollywood. He has cut his marketing work to half- helping clients market their brands," "When people think of Westerns they time, but he's not stepping down. Smith says, "and now all of a sudden think of the old shoot-'em-ups or the "I'm not retiring," Smith says. "I love I am becoming a brand that's being Western movies," Smith says. "I find that this business. I'm just trying to do two marketed. "---"•*

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live in Kansas City, where he's a project Diego, where Jay is assistant news editor works for DPR. architect for Schaughness, Fickel & of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Lori Noto, PhD'96, is an assistant pro- Scott and she's an intern with Devine John, e'95, and Ashley Rane Sparks, fessor at the University of Bridgeport. Deflon Yaeger. c'97, daughter, Jordan Danforth, July 19 She lives in Torrington, Conn. in Tustin, Calif., where she joins two sis- Isabella Anselmi Zane, c'96, lives in BORN TO: ters, Bailey and Hamilton. John manages London with her husband, Omar, Grace Paloyan Halm, c'95, and Kevin, financial services for Beckman Coulter. PhD'95, and their children, Genevieve, 9; daughter, Jillian Sue, July 13 in Western Alexander, 5; and Sebastiano, 3. Springs, 111., where she joins a brother, 1996 Mason, 2. KristaWendt Murphy, e'96, lives in BORN TO: Jay Koester, j 95, and Martha, daugh- San Francisco, where she's an associate John Herrman, c'96, and Angela, son, ter, Mia Lucinda-Marie, Oct. 7 in San at Flack and Kurtz. Her husband, Zach, Hunter Anthony, April 11 in Lawton,

Profile BY CHRIS LAZZARINO

Film and comic fantasies there, and doors slammed in my face," are artist's real world she says. "I couldn't get a job to save my life. I applied to Disney three times. I oy Scheider and his futuristic just didn't have it." submarine might have been Brown found regular work as a film slim, escapist entertainment, and TV production assistant, "just to R but for Dawn Brown, "Sea- keep the rent paid," and finally a friend Quest DSV" was the ultimate reality: landed her the "SeaQuest" gig-where It launched her fast-paced career as a Brown discovered a nurturing atmos- Hollywood set designer, which has since phere that encouraged her curiosity. branched into her personal creative pas- While operating the set designer's blue- sion, comic books. print machine, Brown started paying Brown, f 91, is the creator of the attention: What does this symbol mean? "Little Red Hot" comic series, featuring What does this line mean? What are a supernatural female bounty hunter these notes? named Chane. Two sets of three-issue With a series of small assignments miniseries, published by Image Comics, to draft and model minor aspects of have sold well and generated strong the show's set, Brown built a portfolio reviews, worldwide fans and yet another that landed her in the set designer's career arc for Brown, who was hired to Hollywood union. Then her big break • Set designer and comic-book creator Dawn be the free-lance illustrator for Harris came when she was hired as a set Brown returned in January as the Hallmark Comics' iconic "Vampirella" series. designer for none other than "Batman Symposium's featured speaker. She offered "The comic stuff is definitely per- & Robin," directed by Tim Burton. She design and illustration students advice on pur- sonal," Brown says. "And then the film has since worked on visually rich films suing unusual careers. industry—that's a great way to make a such as "Planet of the Apes," "A.I.," "The living. That's the paycheck." X-Files" and "Ocean's Eleven." Her most she also finds plenty of challenges in her Brown, reared in Prairie Village, has recent film, "Big Fish," is also directed film work. When she is told to create a long been a fan of Batman and Spider- by Burton. gorilla general's war room, for instance, Man, for the stories and artwork. After "He's my favorite director to work she can't outfit it with a couple of trips earning her degree in the KU design for," she says. "He's a fantastic artist to Office Depot. program's illustration track, she headed himself, so he really works closely with "No one can really be an expert on to Los Angeles, where she intended to the art department." alien spaceships or gorilla furniture," she work in animation. Though Brown cherishes the creative says. "Those are the fun ones, where you "I applied to every studio in town out independence of her comic creations, really have to rack your brains."--4"""*

48 KANSAS ALUMNI Then Again

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Okla., where he joins a brother, Jacob, 2. MARRIED SILVER John is a captain in the U.S. Army. Sara Diserio, d'97, and Brett WORKS KimberlyTrevithick Lorbacher, f'96, Lukert, c'97, Aug. 3 in Kansas City. and Scott, son, Austin James, July 25 in She coordinates marketing and and more Apex, N.C. Kimberly is an accountant member services for Sprint Campus a gallery of fine gold and silver with Dixon Odom in Sanford. Fitness Center, and he works for jewelry/contemporary crafts Jason, c'96, g'01, and Serena Stein Harding and Associates Chiropractic O'Connor, assoc, son, Tanner John, Center. They make their home in Dec. 13. They live in DeSoto, and Jason Sabetha. does academic advising at KU. Tanya Tippeconnic Shaw, c'96, and 1998 Curtis, b'95, son, Tynan David, June 3 Suzanne Esau Regier, a'98, g'02, in Tulsa, Okla., where Tanya teaches works as a drafter at Rosemann & kindergarten. Associates in Kansas City.

1997 MARRIED Teresa Veazey Heying, j'97, coordi- Russell Caldwell, b'98, and Kristen nates publicity and outreach for Wichita Spiewak, b'98, Sept. 14. They live in State University's Edwin A. Ulrich Herndon, Va. Museum of Art. Kristin Dehoff, c'98, tojeremia Ross, James Hughes, f'97, is Web content Sept. 3 in Okinawa, Japan. administrator for the Gambrinus Co. in Cheryl Funke, b'98, and Brian San Antonio. Milligan, e'99,July 13 in Lawrence. Michele Jeter Park, c'97, coordinates They live in Los Altos, Calif. clinical research data for U.S. Oncology. Casey Guilfoyle, d'98, g'02, and She lives in Olathe. Carrie Mullen, d'99, g'01, Oct. 12 Robert Sinclair Jr., j 97, covers sports in Lee's Summit, Mo., where they live. for the Lawrence Journal-World. He's a teacher and coach, and she's a Stephanie Ortiz Wolvington, b'97, physical therapist. 715 Massachusetts g'98, is an information systems auditor Jason Stubbs, c 98, m 02, and Amy Lawrence, Kansas 66044 for Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka. Parish, student, May 25 in Wichita. 785-842-1460 She commutes from Lawrence. They live in Prairie Village.

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BORN TO: William Nicks, b'98, and Morgan, son, Cooper William, Oct. 6 in Olathe. William is an accountant with Baird Kurtz & Dobson in Kansas City. 1999 Jessica Perkins Powell, c'99, does financial aid counseling at North Central University in Minneapolis, Minn. She lives in Blaine.

MARRIED Sara Giles, b'99, and Jeremy Smartt, e'02, Aug. 31 in Leawood. They live in Kansas City, where Sara coordinates recruiting for Spencer Fane Britt & Brown. Jeremy is a software engineer with the IQ Group in Merriam. JillTwogood, b'99, g'02, to David Christian, Oct. 26 in Kansas City. They live in Chicago.

BORN TO: Sommer DietzVanPelt, n 99, and Vance, '99, daughter, Keegan, Aug. 2. Sommer is a nurse at Hutchinson Hospital. Vance teaches at Hutchinson High School.

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50 KANSAS ALUMNI live in Ann Arbor, where he studies law KU. They live in Lenexa. at the University of Michigan. Nicole Spangenberg, n'02, to Kevin Eric Westervelt, n'01, to Alisha Oehme, July 20 in El Dorado. She's a Then Again Gaston, Oct. 5. They live in Spring Hill, nurse at Shawnee Mission Medical and Eric is a nurse at the KU Medical Center, and he's a student teacher at Center. Blue Valley High School. They live in vant-garde composer John Olathe. ACage visited campus in 1980 BORN TO: to give a master class to music stu- Brian, e'01, and Lisa Logan Anderson, 2003 dents in the School of Fine Arts.The d'01, son, Connor James, Oct. 16 in Craig Jones, PhD'03, is academic chair internationally acclaimed composer Olathe. Brian develops computer appli- of the business administration degree was best known for his post-modern cations at Cerner in Kansas City. program at Jones International approach exemplified by his now University in Englewood, Colo. He lives infamous piece,"4 minutes, 33 sec- 2002 in Littleton. onds," which is not an actual per- Amy Augustine, c'02, works for Keely Roberts, c'03, works for formance, but the incidental sounds Calvert in Bethesda, Md. She lives in Premier Sports Management in that fill a recital hall. Silver Spring. Henderson, Nev. She lives in Las Vegas. Jana Craig, g'02, coordinates educa- Matt Somerman, c'03, is a financial tional thechnology for the Olathe school representative with Northwestern district. Mutual Financial Network in Chicago. Kathryn Grindberg, g'02, studies for a master's in divinity at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. She lives in Berkeley, Calif. Matthew Kossmann, g'02, recently SchOOl Codes Letters that follow joined the Kansas City engineering firm names in Kansas Alumni indicate the school of Delich Roth & Goodwillie. He lives in from which alumni earned degrees. Numbers Olathe. show their class years. Susan Wang Moss, c'02, coordinates personal wellness for Clinical Reference a School of Architecture and Urban Laboratory in Lenexa. She and her hus- Design band, Mick, '01, live in Olathe. b School of Business c College of Liberal Arts and MARRIED Sciences Sally Carey, c'02, and Brett d School of Education Hathaway, c'02, Aug. 10 in Lawrence, e School of Engineering where they live. She's an account man- f School of Fine Arts ager for Allen Press, and he's an admis- g Master's Degree sions counselor at KU. h School of Allied Health MARRIED Kevin Couture, p'02, to Jaime Downs, j School of Journalism Amy Luiso, e'01, to Joseph Stadler, Aug. 24 in Lawrence. They live in 1 School of Law Sept. 21 in Smith Center. They live in Belleville, where he's a pharmacist at m School of Medicine Topeka, where she works for Bartlett and Arbuthnots. She's office manager at n School of Nursing West. He works for the Douglas County NCK Feed in Scandia. P School of Pharmacy Department of Public Works. Kelly Felts, j'02, to Michael Smasal, s School of Social Welfare Andrew Mitchell, c'01, to Sandra June 1 in Coffeyville. She's an underwrit- DE Doctor of Engineering VanDyne, March 16 in Topeka, where ing clerk at Universal Underwriters in DMA Doctor of Musical Arts he's a youth ministry assistant at Overland Park and he works in the tech- EdD Doctor of Education Highland Park United Methodist nical support division of NCS-Pearson. PhD Doctor of Philosophy Church. She teaches kindergarten at They live in Baldwin City. (no letter) Former student Shawnee Heights Elementary School in Cody McMahan, 02, and Megan assoc Associate member of the Tecumseh. Their home is in Topeka. Sears, d'02, Aug. 3 in Erie. He works as Alumni Association Justin Nichols, c'01, and Kelli a lineman for Capital Electric in Kansas Olberding, b'02, July 27 in Topeka. They City, and she studies for a master's at

ISSUE 2, 2003 51 In Memory

The Early Years in Lawrence. A son, a brother and four children; and five great-grandchildren. Judith Stapleton Bolze, c'25, g'27, grandchildren survive. Waldo Miller, d'30, g'46, 94, Dec 13 97, Jan. 9 in Lawrence, where she was Ralph Bunn,c'30, 93, Dec 8 in in Seattle, where he was a retired physi- retired from a career teaching Spanish. Winter Haven, Fla., where he was a cal education teacher. He earlier had Surviving are a stepdaughter; a sister, retired U.S. Army colonel. Two sons, taught and coached in Sabetha. Elizabeth Stapleton Marteney, c'33; and six grandchildren and three great- Loretta Moran, d'33, 92, Oct. 7 in La a brother, Jack Stapleton, b'48. grandchildren survive. Crosse, where she taught music and was Marvel White Judy, c'29, 95, Oct. George Clasen Jr., c'39, 86, Nov 26 past president of the Nekoma State 26 in Mankato, where she was a former in Garnett, where he co-owned Anderson Bank. A brother and a sister survive. English teacher. She is survived by a County Publishing Co. He is survived Jean Noel, c'36, April 28 in Lakewood, son, Richard, c'54, g'55; a daughter, by his wife, Margaret; two sons, one of Colo. He was president of First National Susan Judy Harper, c'68; a brother; whom is David, c'72; five grandchildren; Bank in Glasco for 38 years and later seven grandchildren; and 10 great- and eight great-grandchildren. was the bank's chair. He is survived by grandchildren. John Coleman, c'37, 88, Nov. 11 in his wife, Ethel; two sons, David, b'74, Dorothy Leibengood Koch, c'26, 100, Minneapolis, where he was a radiologist and Jean Jr., j'67; a daughter; a sister, Nov. 26 in Lawrence. She taught school, and an associate professor of radiology Elizabeth Noel Chestnut, c'38; seven worked for Standard Life Insurance and at the University of Minnesota. A memo- grandchildren; and three great-grand- had worked in KU's Division of rial has been established with the KU children. Continuing Education. Several nieces Endowment Association. He is survived Herbert Reed, c'30, 94, Nov 9 in and nephews survive. by two daughters, one of whom is Janet, Houston. He had been a research Dorothy Dowers Martin, '27, 98, '68; a son; and two brothers, James, c'38, chemist for several paint companies and Jan. 1 in O'Fallon, Mo. She had been and Jean, b'40. is survived by a daughter, Kathlyn, P64. a school secretary in Lawrence and is Marguerite Bowers Cooley, c'31, 93, Alberta Weber Roller, c'38, 85, Oct. survived by a daughter; a son, Edward Dec. 12 in Wichita. She had been library 19 in Detroit Lakes, Minn. She is sur- Jr., e'58; five grandchildren; and six director at Arizona State University and vived by two daughters, one of whom is great-grandchildren. is survived by several nieces and Margaret Roller Scott, c'68; and four Curtis Starr, c'25, 99, Nov. 22 in nephews. grandchildren. Mount Vernon, 111., where he was an Margaret Shrum Cornner, c'37, Nov. Donald Rose, c'30, 94, Oct 14 in independent landman. A nephew 27 in Wichita, where she was a retired Laguna Beach, Calif. He had a career in survives. teacher. A niece and five nephews are real estate and was postmaster of among survivors. Laguna Beach and Laguna Niguel. 1930s Elinor Anderson Elliott, c'37, 86, Dec. Survivors include his wife, Roma Funk Miriam Pfuetze Arnold,'39, 85, Nov. 17 in Beloit. She lived in Clay Center, Rose, c'29; a son; a daughter; and four 7 in Overland Park. She is survived by where she was a retired teacher. grandchildren. two sons, Karl, c'62, m'66, and Bruce, Surviving are two daughters, Kari, c'72, Bernice Lach Scofield, '33, 90, March c'64, m'68; a daughter, Rogene Arnold j'82, and Ann Elliott Leipold, c'65, g'68; 10, 2002, in Ponca City, Okla. She is sur- McCormick, '70; three stepdaughters; a son, Henry, c'68, d'72, g'92; a sister; vived by her husband, George, b'30; a two brothers; five grandchildren; and and three grandchildren. daughter; three grandchildren; and four three great-grandchildren. Harry Feingold, c'32, l'34, 91, Jan 11 great-grandchildren. Helen Wilson Baker, c'39, 85, Oct. 20 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He lived in Lucena Glover Sills, c'33, 91, Nov 25 in Bloomington, 111., where she was a Kansas City, where he was longtime in Newton. She is survived by a son, retired civil-service employee. She is sur- president of Superior Distributing Co. Theron, c'57, m'62; a daughter, Diana vived by her husband, Olin, a daughter and had chaired the board of Gateway Sills Rieger, d'64; a brother, Richard and a grandson. Sporting Goods. A son and a sister are Glover, m'53; three grandchildren; and Nora Crawford Blachly,f 30, 95, among survivors. a great-grandson. Jan. 10 in Salina, where she was a home- Margery Dalton Hurst, c'37, 86, Oct. Ralph Varnum, '38, 85, Nov. 10 in maker and a teacher. A nephew survives. 31 in Wichita. Surviving are a son; a Lake Quivira. He worked for the Greater Audra Courier Brand, '34, 90, Nov. 6 brother, Curtis Dalton, '42; four grand- Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and

52 KANSAS ALUMNI is survived by a son, Ralph, b'58; two by his wife, Beulah Talbot Duncan, c'41; University and later had a career in daughters, one of whom is Jane Varnum two sons, Craig, c'80, and Kirk, m'78; banking. He is survived by two daugh- Hall, '62; seven grandchildren; and three and three grandchildren. ters; a son; and a brother, Robert, grandchildren. Robert Gunn, b'48, 79, Nov. 4 in c'49, g'50. William Veitch, c'36, 88, Dec 28 in Wichita. He was a farmer and real-estate Dorothy Chapin Smith, c'45, 79, Salina, where he was a retired sheetmetal broker in Great Bend. Surviving are his Nov. 30 in Overland Park. She had worker for General Air. He is survived by wife, Gwennyd Gup ton Gunn, f49, d'51; been a homemaker and is survived by his wife, Frances; a son; two grandchil- three sons, two of whom are Robert, '77, three sons, one of whom is Ted, '80; six dren; and a great-granddaughter. and Bradley, 79; a daughter, Gena Gunn grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Dean Ward, e'36, 89, Sept. 10 in Dillard, 77; two sisters; nine grandchil- Joseph Tihen, c'40, Nov. 12 in Fort Maryville, Mo. He had worked for power dren; and two great-grandchildren. Myers, Fla. He had directed graduate companies in Missouri, Iowa and Ohio. Frank Haas, e'49, Dec. 1 in Sun City studies at the University of Notre Dame, Surviving are his wife, Lois Winger West, Ariz., where he was retired from a where he was a professor emeritus of Ward, assoc.; a daughter; a son; a sister; career in oil exploration and construc- biology. He is survived by his wife, five grandchildren; and three great- tion. An aunt, three nephews and a niece Frances; four daughters; three sons, one grandchildren. survive. of whom is John, c'84; nine grandchil- Bill Hough, b'47, g'49, 80, Nov. 23 in dren; and four great-grandchildren. 1940s Keswick, Va. He owned Corpus Christi William Wetz, e'49, 81, Nov 6 in Russell Baker, b'42, 82, Dec 14 in Gasket and Fastener and Corpus Christi Tukwila, Wash., where he was retired Kansas City, where he was an attorney Equipment and was a partner in from a career with Boeing. He is survived with Slagle, Bernard & Gorman. He is Distribution International. Surviving are by two sons, a daughter, three grandchil- survived by his wife, Joanne Johnson his wife, Jeanne, assoc; two sons; and dren and a great-granddaughter. Baker, '44; a son; a daughter; a sister, five grandchildren. Elizabeth Baker Brandt, c'45; and five Albert Kistner, e'48, 81, Nov. 30 in 1950s grandchildren. Summerfield, Mo. He lived in Marysville, Ernest Albright, c'55, p'55, 71, Oct. Ray Coleman, b'48, May 2 in and was chief operating officer for Hall 27 in Hutchinson, where he was a Lakewood, Colo. He was a professor Brothers Construction and had owned retired pharmacist. Surviving are his of business and marketing at Kansas Marysville Ready Mix. A son, a daughter, wife, Donna Davis Albright, c'54; a son, State University in Manhattan for 28 four grandchildren and a great-grand- Alan, e'82, g'84; two daughters, one of years and had created the International child survive. whom is Cynthia Albright Peterson, Trade Institute of Mid-America and the MaryYingling Lamar, '49, 76, Nov. 15 h'79; a sister, Anna Jones, j'50; and five International Trade Council. His wife, in Scottsdale, Ariz. She is survived by a grandchildren. Katherine Dietrich Coleman, c'48, daughter; a sister, Martha Yingling Louisa Hall Bartsch,f'55, 69, Dec survives. Gartung, '48; a granddaughter; and a 18 in Kansas City, where she was retired Dean Conard, '43, 83, May 19 in great-granddaughter. from a career in real estate. She is sur- Hemet, Calif., where he was a retired William Larsen, m'46, Oct. 23 in vived by her husband, Paul, b'60; four lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Kansas City, where he chaired the hema- daughters, Ellen, s'80, PhD'97, Sheryl He is survived by his wife, Hedy; a son; tology department at KU Medical Center Bartsch Bunce, n'81, g'01, Amy Bartsch two daughters; two brothers, one of and was a partner in Trinity Lutheran Sayler, c'87, g'94, and Debra Bartsch whom is John, c'43, g'47; a sister, Violet, Hospital's Cancer Treatment Center. He Templeton, d'82; a son; and 11 grand- d'46; and several grandchildren. is survived by his wife, Mary, assoc; two children. Donald Dicker,'40, 84, Jan. 1 in sons; a daughter; a sister; and nine Linda Farmer Clark, c'59, d'60, 65, Lawrence, where he worked at First grandchildren. Jan. 9 in Lawrence, where she taught National Bank. He is survived by two Robert McFarlane, '41, 83, Dec 9 Spanish at Lawrence High School. She daughters, Carol Dicker Greenfield, in Wichita, where he was a retired is survived by four daughters, two of '69, and Donna Dicker Johnson, d'72, New England Life Insurance agent. He whom are Laura Clark Rogers, b'89, and g'74; three grandsons; and three great- is survived by his wife, Fern; three sons, Lynn Clark Shoemaker, c'96; a brother; grandchildren. Robert, b'64,1'67, Theodore, e71,176, a sister; and two grandsons. William Duncan, e'49,g'62, 84, and William, e'69; a daughter, Joyce, 78; Jean DeLord, PhD'5l, 82, Oct 22 in Nov. 5 in Eudora. He lived in Lawrence, six grandchildren; and three great- Portland, Ore., where he taught physics where he was a retired structural and grandchildren. at Reed College for many years. He is architectural engineer. A memorial Ira Scott, c'40, g'41, 83, March 24, survived by his wife, Natalie, two daugh- has been established with the KU 2002, in Long Island, N.Y.,where he was ters, two sisters and five grandchildren. Endowment Association. He is survived former dean of business at Long Island Hale Dougherty, c'54, m'59, 71, Dec

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28 in Laguna Niguel, Calif., where he Robert Hughes, c'50, m'54, 75, Nov. daughters; a brother; two sisters, one of was a retired physician. During the 21 in Lawrence, where he was a retired whom is Betty Turner Clodfelter, '56; 1970s, he developed and marketed a physician and had served on the and 12 grandchildren. Spiro Agnew watch that became a popu- Lawrence City Commission. He is sur- lar cultural novelty. Among survivors are vived by his wife, Diane "Denni" Wade 1960s his wife, Pat, three daughters, five sons Hughes, c'53; two daughters, Sharon John Bateman, d'64, g'68, PhD'70, 61, and 13 grandchildren. Hughes Gordon, '85, and Janice, '82; a Nov. 5 in Wichita, where he was a psy- Janet Walberg Faidley, '55, 69, Dec son, Patrick, c'77, m'80; and two grand- chologist. He is survived by his wife, 10 in Overland Park. She lived in daughters. Beth Eby Bateman, '69; a son; and a Raymore, Mo., and is survived by her Phyllis Jones Johnson, j'51, 73, Jan. 17 daughter. husband, David; three daughters, one of in Pittsburg, where she was a librarian Porter Brown, c'61, 63, Nov. 8 in whom is Cheryl, c'81, m'85; and three for the Crawford County Genealogical Hutchinson, where he was a former granddaughters. Society. She is survived by her husband, county attorney, district court judge and Dale Ferguson, j'50, Nov. 19 in Windell, e'50; a son; a daughter; her city attorney. He is survived by his wife, Kansas City, where he had been an mother; two sisters, Marian Jones Abegg, Kathleen; and a brother, Charles, '58. insurance underwriter and later a '77, and Susan Jones McClintic, '69; a Marjorie Burnett Candlin, d'63, 87, Christian Science teacher. He is survived brother; and six grandchildren. Dec. 28 in Lawrence, where she was a by his wife, Janice Horn Ferguson, d'52; Henry LaRue, b'50, 75, Dec 4 in retired teacher. A memorial has been a daughter; a son, Scott, e'83; and five Bell Acres, Calif., where he was president established with the KU Endowment grandchildren. of research and development at Pacific Association. She is survived by her hus- Thomas Fitch, '59, 68, Oct. 20 in Gulf Oil. He is survived by his wife, band, Robert, assoc; three daughters, Chicago. He was president of Kansas Marion; a sister, Virginia LaRue Nolan, two of whom are Karen Candlin City Structural Steel and of steel compa- b'51; and two brothers, one of whom is Thompson, g'92, and Roberta Candlin nies in Albuquerque, N.M., and El Paso, William, c'57. Wollard, d'75; seven grandchildren; Texas. He is survived by a daughter; Dean Lintecum, a'55, 71, Jan. 20 in and five great-grandchildren. three sons, one of whom is Alexander, Prairie Village, where he established Roger Cantril, g'66, 68, Nov. 3 in c'88; and two grandsons. Lintecum Architects. He had served as Olathe. He had a private counseling Jack Frost, e'55, 69, Dec. 10 in Kansas president of the Greater Kansas City practice in Kansas City for more than City, where he had a long career in real alumni chapter. He is survived by his 30 years and was an ordained Pres- estate. Among survivors are his wife, wife, Frances Henningson Lintecum, byterian minister. He is survived by Jane; four daughters, one of whom is d'55; a daughter, Ann Lintecum, c'82; his wife, Peggy; two daughters; a son; Laura, f 80, g'98; a son; eight grandchil- and a son, Neal, m'90. a brother; nine grandchildren; and a dren; and a great-granddaughter. John McGrath,l'5l, 79, June 19 in great-grandchild. Earl Gadbery, e'50, 76, Nov. 9 in Stockton Springs, Maine. He worked for Julia Tinney Danforth, n'65, 80, Sewickley, Pa., where he was retired pres- DuPont and Berg Electronics. Surviving June 4 in Kansas City. A son, a daughter, ident of the Alcoa Foundation. He is sur- are his wife, Margaret; two daughters; four granddaughters and three grand- vived by two daughters, one of whom is two brothers, one of whom is Donald, children survive. Laura, c'76; a son; a brother; four grand- c'51; and five grandchildren. James Dresser Jr.,'61, 80, Oct. 19 in children; and a great-grandchild. Graydon Sharpe, b'55, 72, Oct. 30 in Wichita, where he was a tool and die Harry Gray, e'58, Dec. 8 while on a Wichita, where he was a retired banker. designer for Boeing, Cessna and Caribbean cruise. He lived in Olathe He is survived by his wife, Jeanette Beechcraft. Survivors include a daughter; and worked for Energy Masters Corp. Morris Sharpe, d'55; two sons, one of a brother, Calvin, e'47; a sister, Mary He is survived by his wife, Lillie; three whom is Charles, f 93; a daughter, Anne Dresser Burchill, c'62; and a granddaughters, one of whom is Debra Gray Sharpe Melia, c'85, g'87; a sister; and daughter. Ford, a'84, a'85; a son; and eight four grandchildren. Peter Flusser, g'60, 72, Nov. 25 in grandchildren. Patricia Clem Shepard, d'54, 70, Jan. Salina, where he was a retired math Larry Hannah, c'57, d'63, g'67, 67, 4 in Lakewood, Colo., where she was a professor at Kansas Wesleyan University. Dec. 23 in Emporia, where he had retired teacher. She is survived by a son; He is survived by his wife, Virginia; a been placement director at Emporia a daughter; and a brother, Michael, b'63. son; three daughters; a sister and five State University. He is survived by his H. Lee Turner, c'51, l'52, 75, Dec 10 grandchildren. wife, Sally; two sons, one of whom is in Boulder, Colo., where he was a retired William Koehn, '65, 60, Dec 30 in Scott, '95; six daughters, two of whom lawyer. He had practiced in Great Bend Jibla, Yemen, where he was administrator are Sarah, c'92, g'00, and Susan, b'01; for many years. Surviving are his wife, of Jibla Baptist Hospital. He was shot by and a sister. Elizabeth Dillon Turner, c'51; a son; five a gunman in an attack that also killed

54 KANSAS ALUMNI two other Americans. Surviving are his Mary Higgins Craven, c'78, 46, 1990s wife, Martha Walker Koehn, '66; two Nov. 5 in Overland Park. She is survived Christine Bader Freeman, c'97, 60, daughters; and five grandchildren. by a daughter; two sons; her father; a Oct. 25 in Emporia, where she was a Edythe Hamlin Marshall, d'61, g'66, brother, Robert Higgins, b'82; and two writer and a musician. She is survived by 86, Dec. 24 in Lawrence, where she sisters, one of whom is Maureen Higgins her husband, Steve; two daughters; her taught third grade at Sunset Elementary Mahr, c'85. father and stepmother, Mildred Bader, School for many years. She is survived Michael Dix,j'7l, 64, Dec 17 in d'33; two sisters; and five grandchildren. by a daughter, a son and a grandson. Spokane, Wash., where he worked for Rose Mary Linneman, 1*92, 47, Nov. John "Jack" McFarlane, b'63, 63, Dec D.A. Davidson and Co. He is survived by 25 in Yuma, Ariz. She had been a trauma 9 in Wichita, where he worked for his wife, Connie, three daughters, two nurse, an emergency medical technician Beechcraft and Raytheon. A memorial sisters, a stepbrother, a stepsister and a and an attorney. Four sisters and four has been established with the KU granddaughter. brothers survive. Endowment Association. He is survived Kim Hupp, d'77, 47, Dec 14 in Stephanie Gamble Swait, '91, 35, by his wife, Donna; a son; two brothers; Topeka. He had been a musician in Nov. 1 in Kansas City, where she was and three sisters. Houston for the past 23 years and is sur- assistant manager at Jones Memorial George Mertz, e'68, Sept. 14 in vived by a sister and a brother. Chapel. Survivors include her husband, Jacksonville, Fla. He had directed aca- Lyle Newton, '70, 68, Oct. 21 in James, c'95; two daughters; her mother; demic affairs at Vistakon and was a fel- Richmond, Va. He had worked more a brother; and a sister. low in the American Academy of than 40 years in federal, state and local Optometry. Surviving are his wife, Jill; a law enforcement. Among survivors are The University Community brother, Jim, c'69, m'73; and a sister. his wife, Susan, and a son. Ralph Adams, 78, Nov. 28 in Kansas Susan Woodside Oestreicher, d'69, Kevin Van Sickel, c'73, g'76, g'78, 50, City. He lived in Lawrence and was a dis- g'72, 56, Dec. 6 in Overland Park, Nov. 24 in Topeka. He had been a radar tinguished professor emeritus of chem- where she was a teacher. She is survived systems analyst for Texas Instruments in istry. He is survived by his wife, Virginia; by her husband, Randall, PhD'82; her Dallas for many years. He is survived by three daughters, two of whom are mother; and a sister, Patricia Woodside his wife, Delene Hafner Van Sickel, f 76; Kristin, c'90, and Moira Adams Steele, Knabe, 76. a son; two daughters; his mother, 77; and four grandchildren. Jacob Rast Jr.,g'62, July 18, 2001, in Patricia Stickney Van Sickel, g'74, g'80, William Scott, 94, Dec 14 in St. Charles, Mo.,where he was a retired PhD'84; five brothers, four of whom are Methuen, Mass. He was a professor Federal Aviation Administration safety Christopher, d'77, Gregory, e'75, emeritus at KU, where he taught pro- inspector. Survivors include his wife, Matthew, 79, and Stephen, '82; and a perty law from 1947 until 1979. Rita; a daughter; two sons; and three granddaughter. Surviving are a daughter, Susan Scott stepdaughters. Wilner, c'71; and two granddaughters. Robert Schaff, j'67, l'70, Dec 22 in 1980s Frank Starkey, g'72, 63, Sept. 14 in Leawood. He was a financial adviser Mary Turner Davis, s'80, Oct. 21 in Lawrence, where he was former assistant for Morgan Stanley and is survived by Laguna Hills, Calif., where she was a vice chancellor for research, graduate his wife, Pamela Harness Schaff, d'78, retired social worker. A son, a sister and studies and public service. A memorial 1'81; a daughter, Jennifer Schaff Lussow, a granddaughter survive. has been established with the KU c'00; a son; a stepdaughter; a stepson; Stuart Lowrey, c'84, 42, Nov. 28 in Endowment Association. A brother and two grandchildren; and two stepgrand- Wichita, where he was an industrial two sisters survive. children. engineer at Boeing. He is survived by his Arthur Wolf, c'39, 85, Nov. 20 in parents; a brother; and a sister, Lori Lawrence, where he had co-founded 1970s Lowrey Harris, n'82. Centron and taught journalism part time Lawrence Beyer, g'75, 65, Nov. 16 in Dannette Strand Schmidt, '80, 71, at KU. He is survived by his wife, Lighthouse Point, Fla. He had a career in Nov. 7 in Salina, where she taught vocal Catherine; two daughters; a son, Grant, the U.S. Army and later practiced law. music and had been a library/media spe- 77; a stepdaughter, Jean Gurtler Turvey, Survivors include his wife, Barbara; a cialist at Grace Stewart Elementary n'76; 10 grandchildren; and two stepson; and two daughters. School. She is survived by her husband, grandchildren. Max Craig, g'77, 48, Oct. 19 in Leonard; a son; a daughter; a brother, Eatontown, N.J., where he was chief Paul Strand, b'50; and a grandson. Associates financial officer for New World B.J. Cooley Schultz, '81, 59, Dec 20 Betty Jane Crosby Davis, 82, Dec. 19 Restaurant Group. Among survivors in Oklahoma City. She lived in Edmond. in Lawrence. She is survived by her hus- are his wife, Diana; a son; and two Her husband, Paul, and her mother band, Jed, a daughter, a son and three daughters. survive. grandchildren.

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Willmott, assistant professor of theatre and film, wrote and directed the feature-length movie, which is framed as a documentary made by the fictitious British Broadcasting Service. Initially banned in the closed, Orwellian society that is the 21st-century C.S.A., the controversial film is airing for the first time on Confederate TV. This inventive frame allows Willmott to juxtapose past and present to startling effect: The BBS's Ken Burns-style documentary chronicling the South's Civil War triumph is interrupted by commercials that give a glimpse of a modern slave society. One ad touts a Lojack-type security device for tracking runaway slaves. • Kevin Willmott's Another implores viewers, "Use your satirical "C.S.A." ignores Massa Card or Confederate Express!" Civil War battles to focus "C.S.A." invents history where it must: on the larger cultural war With help from British and French troops, between North and South. we learn, the Confederate Army wins the battle of Gettysburg. Within weeks the "What we're dealing with South captures the White House. Abra- in this movie is the history ham Lincoln flees, disguised in black face. America doesn't like to When captured, Lincoln is exiled to talk about much." Canada, where he lives lonely and de- feated, remembered only as "the man who lost the war of Northern aggression." The C.S.A., meanwhile, develops into a domi- Southern living neering world power, extending its slave What if the South had won? empire into Mexico and South America. While the faux documentary format In many ways, contends filmmaker will be familiar to moviegoers who've seen Kevin Willmott, it did "Spinal Tap" or "Lisa Picard is Famous," Willmott does more than poke fun at the ad the Confederacy won the Civil War, prospect of a modern slave-based empire. He also slavery would still thrive in America. makes pointed reference to this country's real "Dixie," not "The Star-Spangled history. H Banner," would be our national In fact, one of the more disturbing elements of anthem. The Slave Shopping Network would "C.S.A." is how much real American history—from peddle human bondage on TV, and the wall sep- Reconstruction-era lynchings to the urban riots arating sworn Cold War enemies would have of the 1960s—fits so easily into the premise. risen not in Berlin, but along the border of "I think part of the point of the film for me is Canada and the Confederate States of America. that in many ways the South did win," Willmott That's the premise of Kevin Willmott's new says. "Certainly from the African-American point film, "C.S.A.," a sometimes hilarious, sometimes of view they won. An example is Lawrence: The chilling exercise in what-if history. city was founded in abolitionism and after the

56 I KANSAS ALUMNI war it became segregated. In many ways ons the two to follow his tunes to a swell the South continued to hold onto a form soiree that will take them away. of their past way of life, and the North "The story originated in a childhood changed." belief," Schneider says. "I used to think Safe harvest Thus the idea that slavery could still there were people inside the radio. I've exist today if the South had won is a always been intrigued by the idea, and it Researcher studies popular provocative, but not unbelievable prem- turned into a song." herb's sustainability ise, Willmott says. As Schneider's lyrics reveal more "Look at how difficult it was in this clues with each turn of a page, the erbal medicines may be good country to end Jim Crow segregation. vibrant jazz club scenes spill into the for you, but are they good for The Confederacy wins the bloodiest story, engulfing Drew and Sue—and the herbs? That question is war in American history, and now that awestruck readers. "I was really trying to Hthe focus of a study address- it's over they're going to give it up? I get across the feverish excitement from ing concerns that the popularity of natu- can't see that. The example of history music," Schneider says. "I wanted a lot of ral remedies may lead to overharvesting has been that once you've fought for energy in the illustrations." of wild herbs. something you hold onto it and even The lively tale follows the rhythmic tone Kelly Kindscher, c'79, PhD'92, an expand it."--"-" set by Schneider's first book, Picky Mrs. associate scientist at the Kansas -Steven Hill Pickle, which first lady Laura Bush chose to Biological Survey, studied the effect of read at the dedication of the expanded harvesting on echinacea, a common public library in Topeka (Kansas Alumni, Great Plains wildflower sometimes called No. 2, 2002). A second work, Horace P. purple coneflower or Kansas snakeroot. OREAD READER Tuttle, Magician Extraordinaire, favors prose His conclusion: Harvesting is not hurt- over poetry, but Schneider says verse takes ing echinacea, at least for now. Sam I Am her back to her own Dr. Seuss days, which The U.S. Forest Service funded she now revisits as she reads to her 18- Kindscher's work because coneflower Jazzy bandleader enlivens month-old daughter, Emmaline. populations on national parkland are musical adventure for kids In Seussian style, Sam's joyous strains increasingly under attack from both legal could play for quite a long while.-^*^ and illegal harvesters. -Jennifer Jackson Sanner In 1998, officials caught commercial f your child thinks rhyme is sub- harvesters who had poached 5,000 cone- lime, then Sam and his band have the job well in hand. I That's Saxophone Sam and His Snazzy Jazz Band, the latest children's book from Lawrence author and illustrator Christine Dersch Schneider, f 93. With lilting verse and lush images, Schneider tells the tale of a brother and sister, Drew and Sue, at a loss for things to do on a rainy afternoon. Enter Sam, a bandleader who beck-

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The trend is so strong that the National c'37, g'46, often touched on Kansas in Institutes of Health established a his work and in family stories, says his National Center for Complementary and son and literary executor, Kim Stafford. Alternative Medicine in 1998. Reading from his new memoir, Early That trend worried the Forest Service Morning: Remembering My Father, and Kindscher. They feared increasing William Stafford, during a campus visit in demand was spurring poaching and February, Stafford explained how the legal harvests to unsustainable levels. state—and the University—figured into Echinacea is vulnerable to over-har- the late poet's world view. vesting because the root is the part "For my father, the prone memory of people want. Luckily, the pen- Kansas was a kind of magnificent flat cil-thick root that makes mountain, a quiet paragon. Plain, it was echinacea so desirable the source of abundance. Distant, it was may also be its salvation. the standard for comparison in all Harvesters collect the dimensions. ... It wasn't just a good place roots two ways. Some that laced through our childhood like a drive a pick into the thread of gold; it was the one and only ground and pop out the good life." flowers from Custer National Forest plant like a carpenter remov- William Stafford wrote more than 60 in Montana. Kindscher's task was to find ing a bent nail. Others use a modi- books of poetry and prose. His major out if incidents like these threaten to fied spade with a long tongue sticking collection, Traveling Through the Dark, wipe out coneflowers. out like a finger from a fist. Either way, won the National Book Award in 1963. "Our message is, 'Probably not,'" diggers get only the top foot of the root, He served as the poetry consultant to Kindscher says. "The coneflowers can which can extend 5 feet. the Library of Congress (the position tolerate current harvest levels, but if the When Kindscher surveyed coneflower now known as the poet laureate) and price doubled and doubled again, there fields several years after a harvest, he was also the poet laureate of Oregon. could be a problem." found that about one in five harvested When he died, in 1993, he ranked The use of echinacea as medicine may roots had resprouted. He also found among the most prominent American seem new, Kindscher says, but it actually mature plants that diggers skipped poets of the 20th century. has a long history. Native Americans because they were too small at the time Despite his love for Kansas, Stafford used the plant as an anesthetic and to of harvest, and plants growing in rocky never returned after completing his mas- treat ailments ranging from coughs to locations that diggers avoided. ter's degree at KU. A pacifist who snakebites. Echinacea was also a stan- "Digging is pretty hard work, so flow- refused to be drafted into the U.S. Army, dard feature of the pioneer's medicine ers growing in hard to reach places he spent four years in conscientious chest. should be safe," Kindscher says.-"""' objector camps during World War II. Now it is on the comeback trail. -Michael Campbell People have started taking echinacea as an immune system stimulant to fight off colds and flu, and they are taking it in significant numbers. About 70 percent, OREAD READER by weight, of all medicinal herbs sold in the United States are echinacea, accord- Once a Kansan ing to graduate student Rebecca Wittenberg, a former herbalist who Son's intimate memoir shows works with Kindscher. poet William Stafford drew That 70 percent might not be a big deal if herbal remedies were still on the on deep Kansas roots medical fringe, but recent studies have documented their increasing popularity. ven as he lived in self-im- One survey found that the use of herbal posed exile out West, prolific, medicines in northern California tripled plain-spoken poet William between 1996 and 1999, while another EStafford looked homeward for reported that 60 percent of Minneapolis inspiration. residents used herbal medicines in 2001. Born in Hutchinson in 1914, Stafford, Stafford

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nake biologist Joe Slowinski, c'84, had a knack for identifying new • To honor the intrepid Sspecies. In I I expeditions to Myanmar, the assistant curator of herpetologist Joe Slowinski Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences found and classi- (right), a colleague named fied 18 new species of reptiles and amphibians, including a cobra he America's newest snake first spied at a wholesale snake market. species for him (below). Fitting, then, that the man remembered as a brilliant biologist and bold explorer should be memorialized by having named for him North America's first snake discovery in decades. Slowinski's corn snake, Elaphe slowinski, was discovered by Frank T. Burbrink, assistant professor of biology at City University of New York's Staten Island campus. He was a close friend and colleague of the 38-year-old Slowinski, who died In July, the Center for North Sept. 12, 2001, a day after he was bitten by a krait, a cobra-like American Herpetology will choose poisonous snake, while doing field research in Myanmar. the first recipient of the Joseph B. For Burbrink, there was no question that his mentor's name Slowinski Award for Excellence in Snake Systematics, which will would be attached to the find. Slowinski first accompanied him to annually recognize the greatest contribution to snake systematics | the corn snake's range, which encompasses parts of Louisiana and worldwide. Texas, and stood by as he caught his first specimen. Burbrink made his decision before Slowinski's death; the circum- ~ "Joe loved snakes," Burbrink says. "The only thing that would < have made it better is if I'd found and named a venomous snake for stances of his friend's passing made the choice more poignant, but him." no less appealing. 1 At KU, Slowinski cataloged fossil specimens for the Natural "He was so passionate about field work, especially with poison- History Museum. In his free time, he caught and studied rattlesnakes ous snakes.To not study them would have been a fate worse than £ and searched for fossils along the Kansas River. His discerning eye death. He said to me once that after we're gone, not much is left of earned him the nickname "King of the Kaw," and many of the muse- us on this earth but our legacy of published research. Now this is 1 um's local fossil finds bear Slowinski's name. part of his legacy."^" ** —Steven Hill

"His pacifism in the war cut him off honored him in some way that gave him his father's custom of rising before dawn from home," Kim Stafford writes. "He the confidence to think of himself as a to write) because no biographer had couldn't go back; he could only go on." writer," he says. "The few letters I have of chronicled William Stafford's life. He still Stafford's master's thesis, an account his from that time speak of exhilaration." hopes a biographer will step forward. of his time in the camps, was published Early Morning came alive after "A person with much better training in 1947 as Down In My Heart. Kim Stafford visited Lawrence, where he than mine could set my father's life in Stafford believes his father's college haunted Watson Library and walked the historical context. What I can contribute experience helped him become a poet. campus, imagining his father's life on is intimate conversations with him, spe- "I think he must have had some Mount Oread. In the stacks, he pulled cific memories of him as a writer, a teachers here at KU who heard him, who his father's thesis from the shelf. In the teacher, a citizen, a parent. I see my book archives, he read his first published as a source for someone wiser and more poems in the Jayhawker. visionary than I." "If you've lost a parent, to hold those He hopes to complete an oral history • Early Morning: things in your hands is a kind of magic. project, interviewing William Stafford's Remembering My You almost know the person better than contemporaries, including friends from Father, William when they were alive. You know things his days on the Hill. It would be as Stafford you couldn't have known." much a history of the era as of the man. By Kim Stafford Founder of the Northwest Writing "When I walk this hill I feel good Institute at Lewis and Clark College in hauntings of the seekers who've been Graywolf Press, $26 Portland, Ore., and author of a dozen here, teachers and students. It feels like— books of poetry and prose, Kim Stafford is it too much to say?—holy ground."^""* wrote Early Morning (the title refers to -Steven Hill

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lodge, to be perched in front of McCollum, the southernmost and largest of Daisy Hill's five halls. The idea immediately took flight. "We always have all these birds around here," recalls McCollum's president at the time, Josh Burdette, e'00, "so we thought it would be a great idea. But instead of making it look like a birdhouse, we made it look like McCollum." O'Reilly interviewed biology professors and scoured the Internet; once O'Reilly determined ideal • The birdhouse that dimensions to house wrens and pur- parrots McCollum's ple martins, Burdette, a civil-engi- exterior began with neering major, drafted the plans. Josh Burdette's computer- Fashioned by KU carpenters out aided designs. of stout plywood, the aerie checked in at a less-than-featherweight 75 pounds—which made pole-reinforce- ment the most crucial step of all. Rooms with a view But Burdette's engineering paid off, as did enthusiastic support from McCollum Hall invites its friends the departments of student housing of a feather to feel right at home and facilities operations. Not that everyone gets goose- erhaps it was a Jayhawk's natural avian bumps ... empathies. Or, simply, a surge of youth- "Some people notice, some ful exuberance. Whatever the don't," says McCollum's Preason, when residents current director, of McCollum Hall decided in Jason Amezcua. fall 1997 to build a birdhouse, "I guess some peo- they designed, drafted and con- ple never actually structed a roost to remember. look up." The hall improvements chair, Which could be then-freshman Kevin O'Reilly, a mistake made '03, first proposed the lofty only

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